A/N: More from the crazy, manic part of my brain…

Disclaimer: Anything I own is either cheap or lost somewhere in my room. Except for this idea…okie dokie?

Summary: Lily Tomoko left Stars Hollow eight years ago to be with her mom in Seattle, Washington. Now she's back in her quirky habitat to see that nothing's changed...Including the people she left behind.

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Just Like Bob Villa

Lily gathered the directions to Rory house, and right now was standing in front of it. She didn't really want to go in yet, and just stared at the house. It was different, bigger. She had missed a lot. Not even bothering to knock on the door like a normal person, she just let her self inside. This was Stars Hollow and the Gilmore's we were talking about. No one was downstairs, and Lily took it upon herself to close the door.

"Where's my lip gloss?!" Lily heard Lorelai scream from upstairs.

"What lip gloss?" Rory yelled back.

"My honey, vanilla, almond one!"

"Sounds more like a breakfast cereal." Lily smirked. At least everything hadn't changed. She took a seat on the couch. And to her side was the honey, vanilla lip gloss.

"Well it's not." Pause. "Have you seen it?!"

"No!" Rory yelled back again.

"I need lip gloss."

"There are more important things than lip gloss." Lily often thought it was funny how the whole mother and daughter roles got crossed between the two of them. Then again, when you have a freakishly close bond to your mother, it happens.

"Gasp. I can't believe you uttered those words out of your mouth little one." Lily remained on the couch, while Rory walked out of her room. Wondering how long it would take for her to notice, Lily didn't say a word, and after a trip into a kitchen Rory finally noticed a human body sitting on her couch.

"Lily? When did you get here?"

"Oh, five minutes ago. I just wanted to see if you would notice." Rory blushed. "Oh yeah, and you should lock your doors, you never know if Kirk's going to come in the middle of night and try to install something."

"Note to self."

"Ooh! I found it! No, wait that's not it…, ah!" And a few minutes later, Lorelai came hobbling down the stairs on one foot.

"Remind me, to get rid of that dresser…" She said shaking her foot. "Maybe I should give it to Luke- let him stub his toe every day." She said dramatically. Her eyes stopped on Lily.

"Lily." She turned towards Rory. "when did she get here?"

"Five minutes ago."

"My, oh, my, aren't we the younger versions of Emily and Richard Gilmore? Except with better hair." Lily noticed the lip gloss right next to her on the couch.

"Hey, anyone's lip gloss?" Lorelai noticed what she was talking about and picked it up.

"Dahling, you are truly a savior," She looked over at Rory, "Why can't you be more like her?" Ignoring her, Rory plopped down on the couch next to Lily. Lorelai went into the kitchen.

"Ow!" She yelled, mumbling a few more obscenities under her breath. "We need to get rid of a lot of things in this house!"

"Apparently!"

Lorelai came back in, wobbling on an alternate foot, with a can of sour cream and onion Pringles.

Rory mockingly scoffed, "And you forgot the Swedish fish?"

"Yes. I am not a fan of Swedish fish, thank you very much." Pretending to be disappointed, Rory went back into the kitchen, while Lorelai hobbled over towards the TV.

"Lily, look at our handy work." She said pointed at the silver DVD player.

"You guys got a DVD player." She felt stupid for not catching on.

"Yes! We did, and guess what girlie, I set it up all by myself, ha!"

"No you did not! I set it up, and all she did was sit there and read me the instructions!" Rory yelled from the kitchen.

"Well, I'm a damn good instruction reader…I could even put Bob Villa out of a job.."

"Bob Villa doesn't read instructions; he tells people how to put the tiles on their bathroom floors." Rory said, still in the kitchen.

"Same thing." Lorelai said like a four year old. Lily gave a weak smirk.

"You seem tense."

"I'm fine." Lily paused. " Ok, it's just awkward…"

"Yeah, I know, you haven't been here in a while. But you'll get used to the swing of things." She said sympathetically. She said smiling. Lily smiled back, hoping she was right.

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Now all three of them were on the couch, watching Jeepers Creepers, due mainly to Lorelai. Now, they were supposed to be at the scene where both main characters run into the cat lady, but with Lorelai's constant rewinding, all Lily got out of the film was when they ran over the creeper. Lorelai didn't seem to grasp that concept.

"Is he dead?"

"They never are."

"Of course he isn't! why would expect him to be dead after doing the wimpy stunt of running him over with a car! He's going to come back and kill you anyways…Ugh! I hate this, I officially hate this part, and this movie. I mean, who comes up with the concept of going on spring break and being killed by guy named creeper? Wasn't 'I know what you did last summer' enough?" She said dramatically, before flopping back into the couch.

"That's what you get for rewinding the scene five times." Rory said lazily.

"Thanks for being on my side."

"What? I'm not going to contribute anymore to your ranting." Right then, the phone rang. Lorelai decided to wait through three rings, before deciding not to screen the call. She sprang up and went towards the phone.

"Hello. Gilmore's brothel and waffle house speaking. How may I take your order…"

"Lorelai?! Was that a joke, because if it was, it wasn't the least bit funny."

"Oh, it's you. Hello, Mom. And yes, that was a joke."

"Well it wasn't funny."

"Just trying to keep up with the young, mom."

"What was that? A joke too?"

"No." Lorelai could hear Emily sighing through the phone.

"Well, Lorelai I just called to let you know that there wouldn't be a Friday night dinner this week." Jumping up and down, Lorelai turned towards Rory, and gestured something to her. All it looked like though, was her slitting her index finger across her throat. Rory mouthed a 'what', as Lorelai who was still jumpy, did the gesture. Rory didn't catch on. Lorelai mouthed, 'No Friday night dinner!' and Rory mouthed back a 'why'. Lily was just confused.

"Lorelai?" Emily said shrill.

"Ok, will that be all?" Lorelai said out of breath.

Lily crossed her legs.

"Hey, Rory, where's your bathroom?"

"Oh," She said, and stopped paying attention to Lorelai. "It's upstairs and to your right."

Lily got up from the couch and passed by Lorelai on her way, "And?"

"Lorelai Gilmore!"

Lily made her way upstairs and passed by what seemed to be Lorelai's room, and into the bathroom. Less than two minutes later, she was done, and flushed the toilet. Washing her hands lightly, she ventured back downstairs. Neither Lorelai nor Rory were in the living room, and the TV was on pause. Lily stopped in front of Rory's room, and looked at the Rabi. Intuitively, she snuck a peek in Rory's room, to see her rearranging something on her desk. She walked in.

"Cool room." Rory jumped, and turned around.

"Thanks. I do what I can."

"Better than the sea green walls." Lily said, remembering how's Rory old room used to look like. Instead of the calming effect that Lorelai was trying to go for, it just made them want to avoid the room altogether. Lily saw Rory's book case.

"Well, you're still a book worm." Lily said smirking, as Rory blushed, embarrassed again. Her eyes caught sight of Rory's blue, plaid Chilton uniform. She picked it up.

"Rory Gilmore, last time I knew you weren't catholic. But you may have been in a Brittany Spears video…" She said tauntingly. Rory tried to grab the uniform from her.

"No."

"Ha! So you were in a Brittany Spears video! I always knew the truth."

"No, it's my school uniform. I go to Chilton."

"Oh, prep school." Lily said flopping down on the bed. "You were always the smart one." Rory flopped down next to her.

"That's not true." Rory said gushing from the admiration. Lily looked up to see Rory's Harvard billboard. She wasn't surprised the least bit that Rory would choose Harvard. No other place was better.

"Harvard, huh?"

"What? Oh, yeah, that's what we're hoping…"

"We're?" Lily looked over from her side of the bed.

"Yeah. Me and my mom."

"Oh." Pause. "And what if you don't get in?"

Rory paused for a while, and looked up at the ceiling.

"I don't know."

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Jess Mariano was still walking around the streets of Stars Hollow, and had been doing this annoyed for hours. He knew that Luke was probably wondered where he was somewhat, but what did he care? He had a listening complex. Along with a truth complex. And any other thing that you could add a complex to. He walked along the side walk, with his hands stuffed in his leather jacket. It was the perfect, quaint small town, and that's why he hated it. Everyone had something in common; the only thing someone in New York would have in common was the desire not to be mugged. He passed by the gazebo, and kept walking. He wasn't going to like this place, and hell, probably he would learn to hate it. He passed by a house, whose lawn ornaments included a flamingo that was at least five feet, and two gnomes. Fucking freaks.

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"Come back now, ya hear?" Lorelai said, waving from the front porch. Lily had decided to go home, not on her own will, but because it was pretty dark outside as it was. And Rory was in the front yard, about to lead her out.

"Tonight was fun."

"Yeah, it was." Rory said in agreement. Then the two gave each other a quick, painless hug. It wasn't the kind that cut off your blood circulation, but it was a hug nonetheless.

"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Rory said, as Lily began to walk again.

"Ok."

"Wait, are you going to Luke's tomorrow?"

"Sure."

"Ok, I'll see you there."

"Ok, bye." Lily said, waving while walking away. Rory started to wave. Lily kept waving and looking back until Rory became small enough and not visible anymore. She kept on looking back though, afraid that if she didn't, then Rory would come out of focus forever.

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