Over the next few weeks this seemed to only go downhill. Lorelai and Rory were still barely on speaking terms. Rory would answer when she had to and Lorelai would only ask questions when necessary. William, luke's father, avoided Lorelai at all cost and Katherine was polite yet cold. Christopher and Lorelai began to date, in reality he would come to the house pick Lorelai up, they would go to dinner in almost complete silence and after an argument he would drive her home. Rory only made an appearance when Christopher demanded to see her. Rory went to luke's everyday like nothing had changed.

One night as Lorelai sits on the front porch, with her favorite hello kitty coffee cup, rory decides to join her. "Hi" rory said while gently closing the front door startling Lorelai.

"Hey kid, what are you still doing up?" Lorelai asked

"I couldn't sleep. My stomach hurts and Luke isn't here to make me mashed potatoes"

"Oh honey, come sit" As rory sits down and leans her head on Lorelai's shoulder she begins to cry "Angel Face what's wrong"

"Nothing, yet everything. I miss waking up to the smell of coffee, I miss those amazing breakfast burritos, I miss you, I miss mashed potatoes when I'm sick, I miss Wednesday night dinner with will and Kate, I miss blueberry chocolate chip pancakes, I miss luke, I just wish dad was never around and you and luke would go back to normal and everything would be the same as it was" At this point rory was hysterical and Lorelai was right along with her.

"Honey I know that this is hard, just know that you will never lose me and as far as luke goes, he will always be there for you" Lorelai comforted her the best she could.

"I know that I just don't understand why this happened, I mean one day everything is going great with you and luke and the next your breaking up with him and everything is changing. I don't like that dad is around, I hate that he thinks he hasn't hurt us, I don't forgive him for always forgetting my birthday or never calling or always blowing me off for some girl, or better yet when he bothered show up he would have some girl with him, sometimes that girls kid. Everyone was always more important and there was always somewhere he would have rather been. Now that he doesn't have anyone were okay, and he is going to use you again, and for the life of me I cant understand why you would let him" As rory was going off into a rant that would make luke very proud Lorelai decided to tell her what had been going on. She couldn't stand to see rory so upset.

"Honey I have something to tell you, and I'm not sure is this is the right thing or if it going to cause more harm but I have to do this because keeping it from you isn't fair and you should know what's going on"

"Mom your making me nervous, just tell me what's going on"

" Okay, well remember that day a few weeks ago when your dad showed up?" when rory rolled her eyes Lorelai continued "He came to me wanting to get back together, to make is short, he said that with his parents money and influence to buy off social workers to make it look like you were abused, not physically because there would be no way to prove that but emotionally. He was going to drag luke into it and take you from me. I didn't have a choice but to leave luke and do what he wanted because I don't know how to fix this any other way. I couldn't think of a way to get out of it and make it go away"

After what felt like a lifetime she began again "I know that doing this to you and luke isn't right and it isn't fair but I couldn't risk losing you to him. I talked to grandma and grandpa and they are helping me find a way to fix this"

"I think we need to tell luke about this. He misses you and he is angry that you did this. I know he still loves you and I now know that you didn't want this. Why cant we just tell him. He can help us find a way to stop dad from doing this"

"Its not that easy rory. If he knows that this is going on he is going to want to fix it and he cant it will only complicate things. He isn't going to give up if he knows that we are bring forced into this. I had to end it and I had to be cold and heartless, he needed to be so angry with me he wouldn't even want to come around and work It out. He needs to hate me right now so I can get through this."

"But maybe he would know someone or know a way to fix this"

"Rory, honey, for me just let it go and leave luke out of it okay?"

"Yeah" Rory said, even though she was already plotting how she could tell luke and make this go away.

The girls sat in silence both lost in there own thoughts. When the sun disappeared behind the trees they both gathered there things and made there way into the house. As rory opens her bedroom door she turns to Lorelai and says "I'm so sorry Mom, I didn't know what was going on and I was angry because of they way you were with luke. Please forgive me"

"Oh honey of course I forgive you, you didn't know and you had every right to be mad." she envelopes her in a big hug and kisses her forehead.

"Goodnight mom, I love you"

"I love you too angel face" Lorelai shuts the kitchen light off and locks the front door. She makes her way upstairs, and as she enter her room she picks up luke's flannel shirt he left behind and walks into the bathroom to get ready for bed.