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Jess does not return to Stars Hollow after the car crash. Instead Luke goes to visit him during the summer, and finds out how his sister and his nephew have really been living. Liz is high, her apartment is a mess, and so is Jess. He takes a feverish Jess to the hospital and then back to Stars Hollow.
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Luke gets another attempt at being a parent, and this time around he decides to give Jess another attempt at being a teenager.
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27 Apr 2026
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"Spoken words are not better than written ones." A series of related vignettes exploring the various atypical ways Jess conveys his thoughts and emotions, as well as the events that shaped who he is. Begins with his life before Stars Hollow and will continue into and beyond canon.
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11 Apr 2026
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Set during Season 2’s Teach Me Tonight, this AU reimagines a key moment in Rory Gilmore’s life—the night she was meant to be tutoring Jess Mariano, the night that was supposed to end in a car accident.
Only… it doesn’t.
No crash. No hospital. Just a spring night that stretches longer than it should, a car ride that leads somewhere unexpected, and a quiet rebellion that begins to unfold.
Rory always thought she knew who she was: the responsible one, the good girl, the one who followed the plan. But as her connection with Jess deepens in ways she can’t quite name—or control—she starts to question the version of herself that Stars Hollow expects her to be.
Small choices that change everything, the ache of first desire, and the electric chaos of realizing that maybe being "good" was never the whole story.
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- Part 1 of Even Good Girls
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Set during/after Season 3, Episode 20 (Say Goodnight, Gracie) when Jess leaves Stars Hollow.
Jess Mariano knows how to run—he’s been doing it his whole life. From his mother’s broken promises, from the fights he couldn’t win, from every place that ever tried to hold him. Now, on a bus to California, the road stretches endlessly ahead, but the past lingers in the rearview mirror of his life. Memories of childhood ghosts, missed chances, and words left unsaid haunt him with every mile.
One-shot.
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It shouldn't be dangerous to be a kid, but not every kid is so lucky to exist in a world of safety.
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25 Feb 2026