Ok, so, I know Lorelai's daughter can't really be long and lost because she's the woman, so she'd have to have given birth to her, which makes it a little hard to not know about her. But, let's just say that a few years before the show started, Lorelai and Rory went on a vacation or something, where she fell in love (or so she thought) with a guy named David. She ended up getting pregnant, so she and Rory just stayed on vacation til after the baby was born, and she left her daughter with David to be taken care of. This story takes place 3 years later, when something happens to David, meaning her "long lost" daughter has to come live in Stars Hollow with them. Let's pretend we live in a perfect world, so there's no legal matters or anything like that. Let the story begin!
Chapter One
"Bye, Max," Lorelai said, as her boyfriend made his way down her front porch steps and to his car at the early hour of 9 o'clock. Their evening would have been longer, but it was cut short by Lorelai's wandering mind. Seeing that his girlfriend was not all there that night, he had insisted that she get some rest, and they'd talk the next day. Lorelai eagerly took him up on his offer. She had some thinking to do.
She strolled into the kitchen and took out a piece of paper and pen to write a note to her daughter. "Rory, Went to bed early. Wake me up when you get home. I have something I need to talk to you about. It's kind of important. Love, Mom." She placed the note on Rory's door so she couldn't miss it, and headed to her room.
Lorelai lay in bed for what seemed like forever. She couldn't sleep. And why did she think she ever could? This was big. No, this was huge.
After awhile, she heard the front door open and close. Rory was home. Finally, she thought. Maybe I can get some sleep after I talk to her. Rory's footsteps could be heard walking through the living room, then the kitchen, towards her bedroom, and then, they stopped. She's probably reading the note. Mere seconds later, there were footsteps on the stairs, heading rapidly towards Lorelai's room.
"Mom? Mom, are you awake?" Rory said, sitting on the edge of the bed and facing her mother.
"Yeah, I'm awake all right. I can't get any sleep," Lorelai replied, sitting up.
"Why? What's wrong? You said you needed to talk to me about something," Rory said, referring to the note.
Lorelai nodded. "Yeah, I've definitely got something to talk to you about. Something big. No, something huge."
"What is it?" Rory asked, genuinely concerned.
"Well…" Lorelai began, looking down at her hands. "You remember three years ago, right? When we went on vacation?"
"Yeah. How could I forget?"
"And you remember how we left Isabelle with David?"
"Yeah… Mom, where are you going with this? Isabelle's okay, right? I mean, we just talked to her last week."
"No, that's not it. Isabelle's fine. She's great, even," Lorelai said, now looking Rory straight in the eye. "It's David that's not okay."
Rory gasped. "What happened to him?"
"I don't know. I just got a call yesterday saying that something happened to him, and now Isabelle is coming to live with us."
"Oh, wow," Rory whispered. "Everything changes with just one phone call."
"Yeah."
"Well, this is good, right? You get to know your daughter, and I get to know my sister. This should be great," Rory said, trying to cheer her mother up.
"Yeah, it should be great, but it's not. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with your sister, and I love her with all my heart, but things were just going good with everything. With me and Max, with the inn… I'm just afraid that this is going to mess everything up," Lorelai said, looking down again, ashamed to admit that she was thinking these things.
"Oh, Mom. If Max can't accept this, then he's not the guy you thought he was, which means he's not the guy for you. Some things just aren't meant to be, no matter how much you want them to be." Rory said, rubbing her mother's arms in comfort.
"Come here," Lorelai said, lunging towards Rory for a hug. Whispering in her ear, she said, "We're in this together, you and me."
"Us against the world," Rory said, with a smile. Lorelai laughed a bit, and pulled back, but still held onto Rory's hands.
"When does she get here?"
"Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? That's so soon. Do we have everything we need for her?"
"Most of it, yes. I figured we could pull out all of your old stuff from when you were three, and then go buy the rest of the stuff tomorrow before she gets here. Her plane gets in at 3."
"Okay, it's a plan. Where's she going to sleep?"
"I don't know."
"I don't mind sharing a room."
"No, I couldn't do that to you. She's only three, which means she still probably gets up a lot in the middle of the night because of monsters, or she's just gotta pee or something," Lorelai said, smiling a bit as she remembered the days when Rory was little. "If she slept in your room, you'd be up all the time, and that's not fair. You need your sleep."
"Where's she gonna sleep, then? In your room?"
"Well, I figured she would until we can come up with something else."
"Okay. So, we better get to sleep. We've got a big day tomorrow," Rory said, smiling. She was trying her best to get Lorelai excited about this. She knew that deep down, her mother was happy that Isabelle was coming. Lorelai hated three years ago when she had to leave her precious baby in the hands of someone she had only known for a little over nine months. Lorelai was the kind of person who did everything she could for her kids, so leaving Isabelle behind was the hardest thing she ever had to do.
"Yeah, big day," Lorelai said, with a sigh. She laid back down and fell asleep, having known that she had finally told someone and it went well.
Rory went back downstairs, and into her room. Once she was ready for bed, she laid down, and stared at the ceiling, not getting a bit of sleep. She was too busy planning all the things she was going to do with her little sister.
Tbc.
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Coming up…
After a long day of shopping, Lorelai and Rory pick Isabelle up from the airport. What does Luke think when they bring her to the diner to meet him?