Author's Note: This is one of my favorite story ideas that I've actually started to write down. Hope you like it, review please!

Generations

Chapter 1

"Come on, pick up!" This was the biggest news she had had to tell her daughter since the engagement, and she wasn't picking up her phone. She must be on the phone with someone else, otherwise it would have gone to voicemail by now, Lorelai thought. She had been letting the phone ring for ten minutes now, hoping to get her point across to Rory that what she had to say was more important than whoever else she might have been talking to. Lorelai hadn't bothered to call Rory on her cell phone, because she was obviously home if she was on the phone. She had to talk to Rory, and she had to talk to Rory now.

Who could she possibly be talking to? Lane? Logan? Lorelai would have bet on Logan, given the opportunity. "Your mother is more important than your boyfriend, little girl," Lorelai said aloud, in an impatient, yet sing-song tone of voice. Lorelai could hear an annoying beeping sound on her phone behind the ringing, like someone was trying to beep in, but she ignored it, both because she had to get through to Rory no matter what, and she wouldn't let anyone's calling lower her chances of getting through by talking to her for one minute with which she could be trying to get through to Rory, and because she couldn't risk the caller being Luke right now. She couldn't talk to him until she had talked to Rory. The beeping sound had been there since she had started calling, and she was getting used to it, anyway. She barely noticed it anymore.

"Rory, hang up, this is important!" Lorelai whined, as if Rory was in her bedroom at fourteen, refusing to hang up with Lane. Lorelai wondered how long she would have to let the phone ring, and vowed not to give in until Rory picked up.

"Mom, pick up, you have to pick up." Rory was getting panicky now, she needed to talk to her mother before Logan got home. He shouldn't have been getting home for another hour and a half, but at this rate, she was starting to foresee herself not getting through for quite awhile. It wasn't like her mother to ignore her call waiting like this, which was clearly what she was doing, otherwise it would have gone to voicemail by now. Should I try her cell phone? No, she has to be home, otherwise she couldn't be on the phone. It had been ten minutes since Rory had dialed. She was hoping to get across to her mother that what she had to tell her was more important than whoever else she was talking to, because it was. This was the most important thing that she could remember ever having to tell Lorelai.

It wasn't like Rory to ignore her call waiting either though, and she could hear someone beeping through. In fact, now that she thought of it, someone had been beeping through ever since she had been trying to call Lorelai. Should I answer it? No, what if it was Logan? She couldn't talk to Logan, at least not until she had talked to her mother. But what if it was Lorelai? What if the reason she hadn't picked up was that she was trying to call her? But what were the odds of that?

After a few moments, she convinced herself to answer. If it was Logan, she could see what he wanted, and act casually, not telling him any of what she was trying to tell Lorelai. She took a deep breath, recomposing herself in case it wasn't Lorelai. "Hello?"

"Rory, oh my God, you finally picked up."
"Mom! I was trying to call you!" Rory replied, thrilled that it was, in fact, Lorelai.

"So you were trying to call me, and I was trying to call you? Great. Figures. Anyway, it doesn't matter because I'm talking to you now and I have something really important to tell you."

"No, wait, mine's more important, let me tell you first."

"No, seriously, this is important."

Rory interrupted her mother, and Lorelai kept talking. At the exact same time, they said, "I'm pregnant." There was a brief pause, than a unison, "Oh my God."

"Hon, are you sure? With Logan?"

"I'm pretty sure. And yes, with Logan, I'm not sleeping with anybody else currently. That's like me asking you if you're having Luke's baby or someone else's." Rory added, as an afterthought, "It is Luke's, isn't it?"

"Yea Rory. Unless…"

"Unless? Rory said, panicky. "What? Who else did you sleep with?"

"Kidding," Lorelai said, laughing. "Chill out."

"When did you find out?"

"Fifteen minutes ago, right before I called you. You?"

"Same. Did you tell Luke yet?"

"Not yet, I wanted to tell you first. Have you told Logan?"

"Nope."

"So, this is great. We're both pregnant, neither of us is married, and neither of us has told our 'significant other' yet."

"Do you realize that my kid's aunt or uncle is going to be almost the exact same age as him or her? Isn't that a little strange?"

"I'm sure it's happened before."

"I'm going to have to tell Logan. What's he going to say?"

"I'm going to have to tell Luke. What's he going to say?"

"You win," Rory said. She knew that in all realism, Logan would probably take the news better than Luke would.

"Yea, I can see it now. 'Luke, you're gonna be a daddy. Whoops, now there's a big hole in the floor that happens to be the exact shape of your body. Where'd you go?'"

"That bad?"

"Maybe not. I hope not."

"Logan and I aren't even married yet. I can't believe this."

"Luke and I aren't married either, hon."

"You're engaged, though. You even have a date. June third. Lucky."

"Are you going to marry Logan now?"

"What? No. I don't know, maybe. I haven't even told him yet, so, I don't know. Maybe. Why are you asking me this now!" Rory was panicking a little at having been put on the spot.

"Sorry. You just made it sound like maybe, the way you were talking about how I'm getting married."

"Well that's not what I was thinking. I just… maybe I do want to marry him. Maybe I should, I'm having his baby."

"You don't have to though, hon. I didn't marry your dad. Don't marry him just because you're pregnant. That's a bad reason to get married."
"I know. I just… I think I'm in love with him, I just wanted to wait until after we graduated. I still have, like two more years."

"Alright sweetie, you know it's up to you. Just think about it first, that's all I ask. Now, Luke should be home soon. He's going to come home early tonight and we were going to go see a movie or something. I have to tell him soon, and I really don't want him to find out because he over-heard our conversation. I want to tell him myself. So I'm going to hang up with you, and you're going to tell Logan as soon as you get the chance."

"He should be home from class any minute."

"Okay. Well, bye."

"Wait. Mom?"

"What?"

"Just tell him soon, okay? Don't put it off. You don't want to wait until he figures it out himself from all the weight you suddenly start putting on."

"I won't. You won't either, right?"

"No. I won't."

"Okay. Bye, Rory. Good Luck."

"Bye. You too."