A couple of notes to my reviewers before this chapter gets started. First: Yes, the story will most likely stay ROGAN mostly because I think Rory should have to go through the same thing almost every young girl has had to go through at some point: a long distance relationship. So no, Logan will not be returning to CT.

And second (to bballman): In Lorelai's mind, the breakup occured when Luke wouldn't marry her, not when she slept with Christopher. Hence the comment about it not being her fault. If she meant everything that she said in the street that night (which I claim that she did) then the question remains, if she hadn't slept with Christopher, would she have gone straight back to Luke? She was not happy as she was, and Lorelai is not a woman of half-actions. If she felt that something needed to change, then she would have changed it.

So here it is...Enjoy!

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Lorelai is at home on her couch, covered by a blanket, watching a movie. She has several open containers of Chinese food spread out on the table in front of her and she's eating out of another. When the phone rings, she pauses her movie and answers with a mouth full of food. "Hello?" The word is muffled by the green beans in her mouth.

"You should learn not to speak with your mouth full. Perhaps it is your awful manners that scares the men away…" Rory jokes on the other end of the line.

"Maybe," Lorelai smiles somewhat ruefully. "That or when I sleep with my ex-boyfriends."

"Uhh…" Rory doesn't know quite what to say.

"Too soon?" Lorelai asks.

"Much."

"Right. So. What's up?"

"Not much. Bored."

"Bored? You're young; you have five hundred channels! You can't be bored."

"Can too!" Rory pouts. "Campus is empty, classes are over and my boyfriend moved to London."

"Gilmore, pity party of one. Your table is ready."

"Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you glamorous evening with ramblings about my pathetic life."

"Not so glamorous, just left over Chinese and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights."

Rory laughs and we finally see her looking very much like her mother, sitting on her couch wrapped in a blanket, an open pizza box on the table in front of her.

"I've got pizza and the original," she laughs, grabbing a slice.

Lorelai laughs. "Patrick Swayze looks so much better in yours!" she says, mocking jealousy.

"I know," Rory says happily.

"But I've got Diego Luna, who is gorgeous and exotic," Lorelai gloats.

"True. But ever since I saw Y tu Mama Tambien, I can't quite look at him the same way…"

"Ehhh. He still makes me want to go to Cuba."

"You know, I'd bet that he actually lives in the U.S."

Lorelai's eyebrows shoot up. "Really? That makes me glad to live in America!" She laughs.

Rory laughs with her mother and then tries to casually ask, "So…what's up?"

Lorelai laughs again, but this time it is cynical and knowing. "Nothing since the last time you called which was…" Lorelai looks at the clock, "Five hours ago. Almost to the minute. I really don't need a baby-sitter, hon."

"I'm not trying to-" Rory protests.

"Yeah you are." Lorelai is smiling. "And the thought is very much appreciated. But I really am going to be fine. It will just take some getting used to, is all."

"Ok," Rory concedes, trying to sound cheerful. "Well, then I am going to get back to my very exciting evening. But I want you to remember one thing."

"What's that, kiddo?"

"Nobody puts Baby in the corner," Rory answers, very seriously.

"I carried a watermelon!" Lorelai happily screams in response.

"G'night, mom."

"Bye, sweetie."

Lorelai unpauses the movie and watches for a moment and then picks up the telephone and dials a number. After a few moments she says tentatively, "Hi. It's me." She waits as someone answers. "Well, I really didn't expect to be calling so soon. But you know how it is…bad dance movies can only keep me entertained for so long."

"That was different!" Lorelai protests, laughing. She stops, listening. "Well, obviously. It is one of the greatest movies of all time." She answers and waits for the response. "I take offense to that comment, but I just…I just wanted to thank you." Pause. "Yeah. Everything is kind of a mess right now, and it's all my fault, but I'm glad I have you around. I don't think I'd be able to get through it if you weren't so good to me."

Another pause as Lorelai waits for a response.

"No, really. It's great to have someone around who knows me so well," she says.

"I know the feeling, Lor." Only now can we see who Lorelai is talking to. "But you'd have done the same for me," Chris says sincerely. "In fact, you have."

"Well…" Lorelai can't think of anything else to say, so after a long pause, Chris starts to talk.

"So, how have you been?" he asks, surprisingly cheerfully.

"Ummm…it's actually been a rough couple of days," Lorelai tries to match his tone, as if nothing had happened and they hadn't spoken in weeks.

"Really? I can't imagine. But I bet you're ready for a change of subject?"

"Absolutely," Lorelai actually looks cheerful at the prospect.

"Great!" Chris smiles and changes to a whisper. "I think my boss is sleeping with the UPS guy."

Lorelai giggles and starts asking questions. We start to zoom way out, so that we are seeing her on the phone through the window, and through the closing music we can hear her ask, "And does David's wife know about it?" And then she laughs again at the response.

(Black screen: Written by DaliaFlower)

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And there ends the first episode of Daliaflower's Season 7. A horrible spot for a story that is supposed to be Luke & Lorelai themed. But, alas. I do have two or three more episodes floating around in my head. And if there is some demand, then I will allow them to float around on the internet instead. Tell me what you thought. And I do promise that L&L will get themselves together...eventually.