Disclaimer: Chapter 1

Thank you for all the reviews and feedback so far and a special thanks to javajunkieobsessed for the idea of flashbacks. I think I am definitely going to use them :)

Oh, I forgot to add at the beginning of chapter 2 that dialogue was borrowed from 'Partings' (a.k.a one of the worst GG episodes known to man).

Also, I narrowed it down to four stories that I am going to complete before I finish any other fics. So (hopefully) I will have an update for Going Back, New Beginning and A New Path of Life by next week. And I am going to try and keep up with the daily updates of this fic because I love the way it is coming together for me.

Chapter 4

Luke watched Lorelai march her way to the house before he started toward his truck again. He didn't feel like taking any boxes with him because as far as he's concerned, there will be no divorce. Luke thought he saw a petite figure running their way down the driveway but ignored it; if Babette heard the fight, there was no keeping it a secret now.

Caesar kept the floor as Luke bounded the stairs that led to the apartment. He had to admit that, yes, some of his things made their way back to the old apartment but he still didn't see that as big as a problem to cause a fight. There had to be a reason why Lorelai kept fighting with him this week. As Luke sat on the couch, a thought came to mind.

She couldn't be...could she? Luke wondered to himself as an old memory came to surface.

For the past week, Lorelai had kept losing her patience with Luke. It seemed as if any little thing he did wrong she would pick a fight about. Not knowing what was going on was killing Luke. He had not one idea what it could be that caused the suddens mood swings.

Later that day when Luke arrived home from the diner, he was greeted with Rory giving him a smile while patting his shoulder. Confusion immediately hit Luke as he went in search of Lorelai. He found her sitting at the table with something in her hand.

"I need to tell you something," she said quietly. They hadn't planned on any children yet even though they had been married for a few months, but Lorelai wanted to be married at least a year before they brought anymore kids into the mix. She looked up at him, handing him the plastic object that was once in her hand.

"Is this why you've been losing your temper lately?"

Lorelai shurgged it off. "Pregnancy hormones." Yes, that would be her answer for any problem she encountered, the pregnancy card.

"And this is why Rory just patted my shoulder?"

"She walked in the house as I was just coming out of the bathroom. She asked questions to I answered."

Lorelai was busy cleaning up the mess she had left in her heist to remove Luke's belongings from her house. She picked up random magazines that had found their way to the floor, straightened out the cushions and pillows on the couch and managed to put all of Lucy's stray toys away. Just as she finished cleaning, the phone rang. She slowly made her way over to it, slowly losing any engery she had gained in the last day or two.

"Hello?"

"Are you pregnant?"

Lorelai's eyes grew wide, fury quickly showing. "Excuse me? Is this your way of telling me I'm fat?"

"No. But the damn mood swings and irrational decisions can be explained by a pregnancy."

Lorelai shook her head. Of course he would try to find a way to spin it all on her. "Luke, in order for me to even be pregnant, I would of had to have slept with you. It's been quite sometime since we had sex, believe me, I should know. And FYI, it's not an irrational decision this is something that was bound to happen. The so called 'mood swings' you think I've been having aren't modd swings, it's everything I have bottled up inside of me exploding out! Who the hell are you calling me asking if I'm pregnant so we can spin the blame game to be Lorelai's fault. Original, Luke, real original. No, I'm not pregnant. And you have forty-eight hours to return your response with the divorce papers." With that, Lorelai hung up the phone.

She couldn't believe he had the courage to call her up and ask her if she's pregnant. That just adds to her list of disappointments of Luke.

Rory decided to take Lucy to Hartford for the day so Lorelai could begin to pack Luke's belongings up. Deciding that the mall would be boring, Rory took her sister to the playground. As she was swinging Lucy in the baby swing, Rory noticed her sister had a facial expression on that she had never seen before on Lucy.

"Got something on your mind, Lucy?"

"Why is Mommy so sad all the time? I never see her smile anymore."

Rory was at a loss of words. She certainly would not be the one explaining Luke's behavior. "She smiles. Whenever you or I are around she smiles."

"Not like she did before. It's just a tiny smile now. I just don't know why she's so sad."

"She's not sad," Rory lied to her sister only to save her the heartache she herself and Lorelai were going through.

Lucy shook her head. "That's not true. When I'm sleeping I hear her in her room. She's always crying. And when I go in there she pretends to be okay. And she always puts me on the bed next to her in my daddy's spot."

Rory already knew that, but to reassure her sister she simply said, "I'll talk to her."

Richard entered the living where Emily was sitting. "I just got off the phone with Lorelai. Poor girl is still falling apart. She said they got in a fight when he came to confront her about the divorce papers," Richard spoke to his wife but noticed she didn't even hear a word he said. "And so I told her she should just go back to the man," Richard continued, making up the last part to catch Emily's attention, but to no avail. That was when he noticed the book she was going through. Lorelai's wedding album. When he took a seat next to Emily, she jumped not noticing hre husband had entered the living room.

"Richard, she was so happy that day. I've never seen her so radiant before, other than when she told us about her pregnancy with Lucy. Do you know she almost walked out on him? I caught her trying to climb out the window in her wedding dress.

Rory had just left Lorelai alone in the bridal suite to go and retreive Emily. As she sat, waiting for Emily to come in, Lorelai questioned why she was doing this. Why did she say yes? All the thoughts that swam around her head convinced her that she shouldn't be doing this. So, before Emily got to the room, Lorelai held up the train of her dress and darted for the open window knowing that she would get caught if she left through the door. Just as she was about to break free, one leg out of the window the other half way, Emily walked in.

"Lorelai! What in God's name are you doing? You're getting married in less than twenty minutes!"

"Yeah...about that," before she could finish Rory ran in with Sookie close behind.

Rory rose an eyebrow when she saw Lorelai's body half way through the window. "Where were you planning to go? I was your transportation here."

Rory and I diffused that problem with a little alcohol. We told her that it was cold feet and Rory reminded her everything she loves about Luke. Lorelai thanked me later at the reception."

"No, I didn't know that."

"Well, she did. Rory is my witness. Oh, Richard, I just want my witty, inappropriate, happy daughter back."

"I know, Emily. I know. We all miss the old Lorelai."

Lorelai was cleaning out the fridge when she heard the front door open. She prayed it wasn't Luke coming back for another round of fighting. As she was about to go check it out, Rory entered the kitchen with a sleeping Lucy in her arms.

"Did you tire my child out?"

"Yes, yes I did because we need to talk."

Lorelai had a feeling it was about what was going on with Luke, so she just agreed rather than bickering over it. "Okay. Give me her, I'll go put her in her bed." Lorelai carried the sleeping form of Lucy up to the second floor and gently placed her on the bed, careful not to wake her. With a sigh, Lorelai returned downstairs. "Fine, what is it?"

"Lucy asked me why you're sad all the time. And why you don't smile anymore," Rory got right to the point wanting to save her mother from having to talk about the difficult situation for long.

Lorelai's face was blank. "What do you mean?" Rory then began to tell her mother about everything Lucy said at the park. "This is all Luke's fault. He's the reason why all of this is even happening! I wouldn't be breaking down whenever I think of happier times with us. I wouldn't of had to fill out divorce papers. I wouldn't be going through all of this if he had used a God damn condom when he slept with her."

The fury in Lorelai's eyes frightened Rory a bit. Not once in her life had she seen Lorelai this furious. And she was talking like Anna was the other woman. "Mom, it's not like she's the other woman..."

"Oh yes she is. If it wasn't for her keeping a kid from Luke for twelve years then Luke and I would be living in this house, together, happily. I wouldn't have just filed for a divorce. My life wouldn't be hell!"

"If you're looking at it that way, then April is the other woman."

"I can't say that because she's just a child! She didn't ask to be in this world."

Rory looked at her mother. There was something more to this than Lucy's questioning. "Mom, is there something else you might want to tell me?"

"I'm not pregnant, okay!"

"You and Luke were trying..."

"NO! And frankly, I'm glad I'm not pregnant. Don't want to drop another sucker into this world."

In confusion Rory looked at Lorelai. "Then where did the pregnant comment come from?"

"Luke! He called and asked me if I was pregnant because I've been fighting with him all this week. And that's how it was right before I found out I was pregnant with Lucy. But that was after he came over today..."

"Slow down, you're all over the place right now. You went from not being pregnant, to where that comment came from to Luke coming over here today."

Lorelai folded her arms on the table and placed her head on them. "Where did my happiness go?"

Rory could have answered with a witty comment but knew that it was too serious a conversation for that. Instead, she came up with a plan. "How about you and I go away for the weekend?"

"And where, exactly will Lucy be? I am not leaving her with Luke."

"I'll see of Grandma and Grandpa can be on Lucy duty for forty-eight hours."

For once in the past few months, Lorelai smiled a genuine smile. "You're my favorite twenty-one-year-old."

A/N: Working on chapter 5 as I finish posting this. For the last chapter, I meant to add at the end of the story that I just had to have Kirk involved somehow. At first he was going to be the one to serve Luke the papers but then I was like...no that's a state marshal's. So I have my friend watching the whole series and she totally blew up when they showed Lorelai at Christopher's apartment in 'Partings'. She's the one that gave me the idea of Lorelai slipping through the window. "You should just have her try to climb out the window since she's always bailing on the people she loves!" was her exact words to me (if you couldn't tell, that was after she watch all of season six with the whole ignoring Rory and sleeping with Christopher thing). I apologize for the super long author notes lately and for any spelling errors in the chapter as I wrote this at two o'clock in the morning.