THE FIRST SIGNS

Lorelai paced back and forth rocking a crying Rory as she had been for the last hour and a half. Lorelai knew the second that she saw him that it was a bad idea to invite Chris to come and see Rory. All he did was upset Lorelai and it was pretty obvious that Rory was more like her mother than Lorelai thought.

An hour and a half earlier.

Lorelai was sitting on the floor of their makeshift apartment/potting shed with a 10 month old Rory playing with a rag doll that she had made for her when she was a newborn. Rory seemed quite content just to lye there while Lorelai made the doll dance before Rory's little face. She knew what was coming and all she could do was smile down at her little angel that seemed to make it al worth while. She hadnt seen him in over a year and now all of a sunden he wanted to see Rory.

Lorelai was lost in the bright blue of her daughters eyes until she heard a knock at the door. Lorelai jumped up from the floor and jogged the three metre gap to the door that most certainly would unleash all hell for her emotions. She took a deep breath and released it slowly before she plastered a fake smile on and went to open the door but before she could, she realised that this was Chris that she was fake smiling at, he knew her, most better than anyone so she did all that she could do to make a real smile apear at that moment, she turned around and looked at her little girl looking back at her, gurgling and smiling.

Lorelai eventually built up the courage to swing the door open and when she did it all came back, the heartache, the tears, the pain in every aspect that this boy had caused. Chris was standing there looking just as he did the last time that she saw him. He had on a leather jacket and a led zepplin shirt with his bad boy hair do and black jeans, you could just tell by looking at him that he was a heartbreaker. He smiled and went to kiss her cheek but as he did she pulled back, she could not forgive him for what he had done to them. He had abandoned them. Chris looked at her with that hurt puppy dog look, like someone hadnt given him the toy he wanted, in some ways he hadnt. Lorelai was that toy, the toy he always wanted but the only thing he coud really find to play with was her emotions.

"whats wrong Lor?" Chris kept looking at her with those eyes that she sure as hell could have given in to years before, but not now, now was aboutsomeone else.

"Today's about Rory, not you and me, you wanted to see her so, there she is." Lorelai pointed at Rory, lying on the floor still looking at her mother but no smile was there anymore.

Chris stare on with a disbelieving look on his face, like he couldn't believe that she was actually there, his daughter, his flesh and blood was lying on the floor. Close enough to touch. Chris slowly made his way over to her and bent downand rubbed his large hand over her onesie covered stomach. With this touch he was a gonner, lost on this little angel. Rory on the other hand was a different story, her face screwed up into a little disfigured mess as she turned beet red and began to scream bloody murder. Lorelai wanted no more than to run to her and yank her away from chris but she had told herself that Chris could deal with her while he was here and she would just mediate.

When Chris saw Rory and heard her, he looked up at Lorelai and begged her with his eyes to help him but she just glanced a Rory and then back at him, her look saying "you made this mess, you clean it up."

Chris scooped Rory up and put her head on his shoulder and started to pace, slowly bouncing herand cooing to her but it only seemed to make matters worse. He spent roughly five minutes doing this until her told her "Daddy's here, see your okay."

This seemed to really rile Rory up as she screamed harder and tears sprung to her eyes. Chris heard this and pulled Rory away from his body and looked at her. When he saw that her eyes were closed and she wa still screaming her quickly handed her to Lorelai and ran as fast as he could away from thet 'Noise' as he called it.

Loreai took Rory into her arms and started bouncing her and making calming noises but nothing helped. Lorelai needed help and she could only think of one person she wanted to talk to. She knew he probaly didn't want to have a screaming baby around his workplace but SHE needed him.

Present

Lorelai continued to pace and rock Rory nut it still did nothing, she had been in Luke's apartment for an hour now and he said that if all else failed that he would come up and make Rory a bottle and he still hadnt, Luke had been amasing with Rory for the couple of months that Lorelai had known him and was one of the few people other than Mia and the new chief at the inn, Sookie who she trusted Rory with. She had only left her with Luke a couple times for about an hour each but the baby seemed to like him so it all worked out in the end.

Luke came bounding up the stairs and into his apartment with the supplies that he had, had to go get to make this bottle. He had tried to make it in the diner but couldn't understand the formula to water ratio instructions on the tin of formula he bought. He looked at Lorelai like he was lost so she just asked him if he could hold Rory while she made the bottle up. Luke quickly put down the supplies on the table and put his hands out for the baby. He looked down at Rory and his heart broke when he saw her face all contorted and her eyes clamped shut as they were. He quickly brout her head to rest on his shoulder and rocked her, Rory soon quieted when she felt the comforting feel of flannel on her face. Luke could still hear whimpers coming from her so he patted her back and started talking to her, he had heard from the doctor Liz went to with Jess that it was always comfoting for Baby's just to hear voices. So luke just told her about what he knew, the diner.

"you see.." Luke began, " when you own a bussiness you nee to have responsible employes so that's why when I interview someone, I don't just interview them about their past jobs but their personality too.." Luke now had Rory down to hiccups so he turned to a seat and sat down, he lay he on his legs and started rubbing her stomach to relieve her of them. When Lorelai heard her baby stop cring she was shocked because it was just aftr Luke had started talking and when she or Chris were talking it only seemed that Rory got more upset.

As Luke rubbed her stomach Rory looked up at him with those big blue eyes and smiled as he made faces at her. When Rory's hiccups were gone he started tickling her stomach which made her wiggle around and giggle. Luke was a gonner a long time ago, probably the first time he saw her being carried in by her mum. Now all he could do was smile and laugh along, he had never really been one for kids but this one was it, she was the turning point so he thought but then he saw another baby and was right around the roundabout until he saw her again.

When Lorelai heard Rory laughing she looked up from her bottle making and was shocked to see Cool Hand Luke (as she called him) laughing along with the baby and tickling her. Lorelai abandoned her bottle making and wen over to them and smiled with everything she had. A minute later she felt something erupt in her, what was it? Was it lust or nausea? NO! she realised it was love, she Loved this man. No one had been able to make her baby laugh like that exept her. It was something that she would smile at someone else but to stop crying and laugh with this man, that was something incredible. She realised that THAT! Was the first sign of Fatherhood and obviously her baby wanted a daddy. It was the first sign.