Even Good Girls
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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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In the Margins is a companion piece to Even Good Girls—a collection of brief, disconnected moments from Jess Mariano’s life, before and between the pages of the main story.
From restless nights in New York to half-silent days in Stars Hollow, these fragments trace the quiet turning points—the choices, the hesitations, the things he can never say.
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- Part 2 of Even Good Girls