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Dr. O'heary is a family counselor and licensed psychologist who helps families reconnect. She has started seeing both Luke and Jess for individual sessions, at the end of which she asks both of them about their past with each other. I.E. their relationship up to the point when Jess was sent to stay with Luke. I.E., the Luke & Jess Chronicles.
Also Jess is figuring out a new relationship with Rory, Luke and Lorelai are doing what they always do, and typical Stars Hallow shenanigans go on in the background, as is life in the Gilmore Girls universe.
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The Path We Walk by sandy_s for Nangala, TheresALoveLover
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
24 Jan 2026
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Jess thinks he knows Rory better than anyone, but when she confides in him in bits at a time, what will he learn about himself? In London, Logan is confronted with his father’s choices and is forced to reckon with who he is becoming. What path will he choose to follow? Post-AYITL, Jess and Logan POV
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Rosemary Gillian expected to die at 18 when she protected her little sister from a robber. Rosemary was fine with that, her little sister was her world. Rosemary accepted her death and expected to enter the afterlife to watch her sister grow up.
Rosemary did not expect to be met by death and given the chance to live again. She definitely didn't expect to wake up as Rosemary Gilmore, the older twin sister of Rory Gilmore. And did she mention the soulmate thing? No. Apparently they have soulmates in this world.
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Picking up immediately after the final scene of A Year in the Life, Rory finds herself pregnant with Logan's child and searching for solid ground, all while circling back to the one constant she's never been able to shake: Jess, the love she never could truly let go of.
Told across seven years in a traditional seven-season style, this is the story of navigating motherhood, co-parenting with Logan, and finding each other again when everything else is falling apart. But it's also about the patterns we inherit and whether two people can finally break toxic cycles, learning to let each other in and trusting that this time might actually be different.
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Jess Mariano has learned not to count on anyone. Growing up with a mother whose love is as unreliable as her boyfriends, Jess survives by staying sharp, silent, and detached. Panic attacks come and go. So do the adults in his life.
Until Luke.
This is the story of a boy who expects to be abandoned and the man who refuses to leave. A story of reluctant caretakers, and the slow, painful work of learning how to trust someone who means it.
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What if Tristin never asked Paris out? What if he properly pursued a newly single Rory instead?
“I’ve never dated anyone like you before,” Tristin remarked. “And you just said it yourself. I should date someone with substance.”
“I wasn’t talking about me!”
“Why not? I’m single and you’re single.”
“Because we can’t,” I said.
“You’ve never dated anyone like me before either,” he grinned. “This could be good for both of us.”
“Someone like you?” I said, fighting not to scoff.
“Someone with my amazing looks, who knows how to have a good time.” -
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Loneliness can make you do great things, or stupid things like getting drunk and sleeping with your best friend.
And like everything in Lorelai Gilmore's life, all she needed was one night. One night to possibly change her life completely. One night for her to see history repeating itself once again and ending with her and her offspring alone in the Crap Shack.
But was that really it? Was it the same story? After all, it was Luke Danes.
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Lorelai and Christopher accidentally become pregnant during one of their rendezvous. The original plan was for the two to get married and live with the Gilmores, but Lorelai proposed something else... Emily and Richard would take the baby, and raise them as their child.
Fifteen years later, Aurora--Rory--Gilmore is getting ready for her sophomore year at Chilton. Breakfast with her parents, Emily and Richard, early studying with her best friend Paris, running into her on-again-off-again boyfriend, and having to prepare for her weekly dinner with her older sister, Lorelai. Everything in her life is perfect. Until it's not...
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When Jess Mariano gets paired with Dean Forester for a major school project, they both expect disaster. What neither of them expect is the slow unraveling of old tensions, new understandings, and feelings neither of them have the words for yet.
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Okay so I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but there should be more Jess and Dean fics. Tags will change, so may the rating. They will be fucking... I just can't write it yet.
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[ON HOLD, until January 2026] When Rory got invited to Liz's wedding, she had no idea she would see Jess there. It's been two years since they parted ways at a bus station in New York City and she had started to believe she would never see him again, but now, Jess is back in Stars Hollow, it means he and Rory can pick up where they left off... doesn't it?
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Everything was perfect. Luke and Lorelai were engaged and begining to plan their wedding; Jess was settling into Stars Hollw; Rory was on the fastrack to Harvard, about to get the father and family she'd always dreamed of.
But with the holidays comes some unexpected consequenses that shake up the entire household and leave nothing guaranteed. How will Luke and Lorelai cope with these changes? And how will relationships be affected, not just between those within the house, but those closest to them also?
Picks up at the end of Better Timing and will follow through the end of season 2/start of season 3.
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- Part 2 of All About the Timing
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Ellie gathered every bit of courage she had, her little chest rising and falling fast, and finally cracked her eyes open. She blinked hard, adjusting to the light. Her gaze darted around her room. Her rug was scattered with crayons, blocks, Barbie dolls, and a heap of clothes from when Mommy had rushed to change her. On her nightstand sat her water bottle, the book Mommy read to her last night, and a framed photo of her birthday, her with Mommy and Wory, all smiling.
Finally, her gaze lifted to the woman holding her, and the world steadied. Her mommy. Her beautiful, sleepy-eyed mommy, looking down at her with eyes the brightest blue, filled with love so big it made Ellie’s chest ache. Her hair was messy from sleep, curls falling every which way, and freckles dotted her cheeks and neck like little stars Ellie liked to count. Lorelai’s lips curved into a small, patient smile as she waited.
Ellie let out a shaky breath, her little hands rubbing at her eyes. She was home.
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- Part 2 of safe and sound - gilmore girls
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Lane Kim and the Call of the Thunderbird by lanekimsfairygodmother (starvingsnout)
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
16 Jan 2026
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Lane Kim and her best friend Rory turn sixteen and start their studies at Ilvermorny. Finally beyond the scope of her proud pureblood mother's watchful eye, Lane throws herself into her newfound freedom, doing all the things she has only ever dreamed of: playing loud music, making friends outside her mother’s carefully curated circle, and exploring the magical world on her own terms.
While Rory throws herself into her studies, Lane finds it increasingly difficult to juggle her mother’s expectations and the life she wants to build for herself. Together, the girls navigate friendship, first loves, and the exhilarating possibilities of magic.
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- Part 1 of Lane Kim goes to Ilvermorny
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“At the still point of the turning world… there the dance is.”
Burnt Norton, by T.S. EliotThey didn’t mean to end up here again—caught between who they were and who they’ve become.
Somewhere in all the noise and the silence, they keep circling the same still point.
Stillness was never really their thing. -
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rory and jess throughout their lives, as a collection short fics
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Wherever You Go, I’ll Always Be Here by tessmarie9
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
14 Jan 2026
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In a world where Hermione’s parents were too busy establishing a wealthy business to care for their daughter, they send her away to a prestigious school in New York City. Growing up bullied and without friends, she meets a troubled young boy determined to go through life alone. The unlikely pair become best friends, practically siblings, as they bond through their love of books, shitty parents, and their oddities.
When Hermione turns 11 and transfers to a school in Scotland, Jess loses the only person that’s ever cared about him. However, Hermione doesn’t love by halves. Through countless letters and summer visits they manage to keep in touch. Until the young woman braves a war. After the victory at Hogwarts all she wants is to see her little brother. To ensure he is safe and protected after a year apart.
Injured and exhausted, Hermione portkeys to the small town of Stars Hollow. Upon her arrival a previously unseen version of Jess startles the town’s residents. A baffled Uncle Luke, unsure how else to keep his nephew happy, allows her to stay. It’s crazy how one person can change everything.
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"The girls that I like don't give a damn about me..." yes, he had said that in the plural form. Rory Gilmore was certainly not the first one and probably wouldn't be the last. (Posted originally on ff.net)
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Book 2 of the Good Enough series • Seasons: 4 - 7 • While starting college, Theodosia finds herself struggling to manage Weston's Bakery and the Dragonfly Inn while trying to balance her studies. Worst of all, she finds herself falling for a third guy, despite having two boyfriends. At least, her friends are there to catch her if she falls.
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- Part 3 of You Are Good Enough
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I Am The Only Being Whose Doom by Continuing_the_Story1
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000), Gilmore Girls RPF, Gilmore Gir
12 Jan 2026
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It never sat right with me how A Year in the Life ended.
The idea of Rory’s pregnancy reveal was compelling — but ending there robbed her of the chance to grow, reflect, and redeem herself. This story picks up where the revival left off, giving Rory that opportunity.
Here, she finally faces the consequences of her choices, the weight of generational patterns, and what it truly means to become her mother’s daughter.
Expect angst, humor, and bittersweet romance. Canon details from A Year in the Life remain intact for context, but the story diverges into a new future: one where Rory Gilmore earns her happy ending — realistically, painfully, and beautifully.