“I’m building a house,” he tells her when they bump into each other one day at the gas station.
“Oh!” she says, “that’s great.” So grown up, she thinks. And probably requiring lots of sweatiness and heavy lifting. How exactly was she so good when they were kids? He didn’t sport a tool belt back then, she remembers. That’s got to be it.
Source: Gilmore Girls Fic: “Good Girls Do” – Rory/Dean – R/NC17 – Modern Spinsterhood — LiveJournal
Canon-divergence. Rory comes back to Stars Hollow. Dean never left. Delicious!