A.N.: I've been debating author's notes, should they go at the beginning or the end? I always read them because well I'm an author and use author notes to connect with my audience and better help them understand my creative thought process, okay so that is b.s. I use them like everyone else to state my thanks and all the problems with the story so far, etc, etc, and so forth.

Anyway on with the actual A.N. this story started with a scene, then a picture, and then me screaming what about the end…for a week, and then I wrote it 14 pages in 24 hours (would have been faster but I had somewhere to go) …and then I screamed that doesn't make since for a day…and then the remaining eight pages just flowed out. So in summery the entire story is written, this short part is being posted to drive you nuts. What do you think about A.N. now?

Enjoy!

Friday

Rory sighed as she dug through her purse for her cell phone and attempted to walk into the country club simultaneously. "Hello, Rory Gilmore." She answered without looking at the caller id.

"Rory wonderful, so glad I caught you before dinner." Madeline said just a bit too excitedly.

"What's wrong Madeline?" Rory asked pausing in the front of the country club dining room. She was late and her grandparents were waiting at a table Richard talking to a couple next to them and Emily obviously annoyed.

"How do you know something is wrong? I could be calling with good news or to give you an update on sale numbers."

"Madeline you have been my literary agent for three years and friend for longer. You know it is Friday night and I have dinner with my grandparents. Also your voice goes about three octaves higher when you have bad news only two when it is good news."

"It does not," The agent said defensively.

Rory sighed, "I'm late can you please just tell me the news?"

"You are potentially getting sued for defamation," Madeline said quickly.

"What?"

"Well nothing is final yet but Colin contacted me trying to get some background information…"

Rory cut her off, "Okay does this need to be addressed immediately? Should I not go into dinner?"

"Oh no, no, go to dinner. Colin set up a meeting for Monday morning to meet with the other lawyer to see if there is any grounds, etc."

"Okay, so Monday morning?"

"I don't think you have to be there, but it will be at the Hartford office and seeing as you are already in town I am sure it will help your case if you can quickly give details and what not."

"Great, looking forward to it," Rory said with a roll of her eyes.

"It will be fine, have fun at dinner." Without a more definite goodbye Madeline hung up and left Rory to her dinner.

Rory looked at her phone and turned it to vibrate, one bad call always lead to more so no use turning it off. She took a deep breath, straighten her dress and walked into the dining hall.

Her grandparents spotted her immediately both standing to give her hugs.

"Rory dear so glad you could make it," Emily said with more than a hint of disapproval.

"Sorry I'm late grandma, I just received an emergency phone call about work. I will probably have another before dinner arrives," Rory said as she hugged her grandfather and took a seat. Her grandmother looked disapprovingly but her grandfather nodded in understanding.

"Are you going to have to leave earlier than Sunday morning?" Richard asked in curiosity.

"No, not that kind of emergency, something I wrote is being challenged and the editors want to make sure my sources were accurate. I will actually need to stay until Monday," Rory lied.

"Oh good your mother can't be mad that we stole your evening then if she will still have you tomorrow," Emily said with a happy smile.

"She wanted to come but Sookie was home with sick kids and Luke was filling in at the inn so mom had to help at the dinner. Well it was actually a typical crazy zoo when I stopped in this afternoon."

"We understand Rory, plus Lorelai, Luke and the kids are going to be joining us at the vineyard next weekend," Richard said genuinely seeming excited about the trip.

"That will be fun," Rory said mentally laughing at Luke back at Martha's Vineyards.

The waiter came and took their orders. Rory was told that the reason they couldn't have dinner at the Gilmore house was because Emily was redecorating and refused to eat were chemical smells over powered the meal. Before the dinner was served Rory's phone buzzed.

"Sorry but this is the call I was expecting, if you will excuse me." Rory walked back out to the entry way.

"Hello."

"Love, thank God I reached you. Maddie call you? Who am I kidding of course she called you, great. On a scale of one to fourteen how worried are we? I mean financially this could be hit, publically a disaster. So give me a rating.

"Seven."

"Seven? Really a seven? I was thinking more of five but then my scale was one to ten. So you must agree to the two previous stated dangers? Great how are we going to fix this?"

"By using the truth."

"Truth? Really the truth? I was thinking about cutting our loses and letting the loser win, but then again the truth might work better in our favor…"

"Phineas!"

"Yes love?"

"It's Friday."

"So…oh it's Friday and you are in Hartford, say high to Richard and Emily for me. I will see you at Colin's office Monday morning."

"You are coming?"

"I just boarded the plane. See you soon."

Rory sighed a sigh of relief. Having Finn there to back her would make dealing with Colin and whoever was claiming character slander much easier. Rory decided to leave her phone on vibrate, even though no one else should call she didn't want to miss Colin if he needed help or Finn again. The Ausie would just resort to calling her grandmother's phone if she didn't answer. She again straightened her dress and went back to her seat into the dining room, thankfully the food had arrived.