Chapter Seven: Lorelai is Always Right.

Author Responses:

Bianca89- You can thank LukeLorAlways for the title! (and yes, Christopher is Dopey) She's quite inspiring sometimes, much like yourself. Actually, Babbette and Patty aren't sure of exactly what's going on. Lorelai is going to let them know and they're going to have a lot of fun with it too! I'm glad you asked that ("is Christopher going to have any visitation rights, and how is Rory dealing with the twins?") because this chapter deals with all of that. I didn't mention the twins keeping Rory up because I figured if she was downstairs she wouldn't have heard them, but if you think about it, it would've kept her up. Thank you for that!

TrueLovex3LL- Amen sister-friend!

Thank you to everyone who reviewed!

A/N: I tried not to get too dirty with this – but I couldn't help it. I did rate it T for safety. ;) I promise it's nothing too detailed. It's really not that bad, just more than I would normally do

Supersized shout out to my best friend & beta Mika! It's always appreciated, hon!!

The ride home went quickly. Luke drove in silence as he always did but Lorelai and Rory smiled, giggled and sang along with the radio, not very well of course, but hey, it was a good try.

"Thank you, mom." Rory said when they reached The Crap Shack. She hugged her mother like she'd never hugged her before.

Lorelai naturally embraced her daughter as well. "For what, babe?" She asked, pulling back a little so she could look into her little girls' deep blue eyes.

"Not letting him take me to live with him." Rory replied bluntly.

"I would never let that happen, honey." Rory smiled up at her and walked inside to join Luke in the house.

"I'm gonna go inside, kay?"

"Sure – Luke's probably making lunch. Tell him I'm gonna go pick up the twins, please?" Lorelai asked putting her fingers through her daughters hair.

"Yup," Rory said, jogging inside the house to help Luke with lunch.

Lorelai walked back toward the jeep taking her set of keys out of her purse. As she sat down, she let out a breath she wasn't aware she was holding. As she drove the short distance to Sookie's house Lorelai evaluated her life so far, she was not yet twenty-five years old and she already had three beautiful children, a perfect husband, and a loving sister. Although her life wasn't one-hundred percent completely perfect she was pretty lucky. There weren't many things she would change so far, Being closer to my parents would be nice… she thought taking a left turn onto Sookie's street. No, that could be bad, too. She concluded pulling onto the street in front of Sookie's house.

"Sookie…" Lorelai called, knocking on her friend's front door.

"Hey, hon. Will's sleeping and Lauren's sitting in the basinet. She's fussy and persistent. She's going to be a fun teenager!" Sookie said leading Lorelai deeper into her house.

"Yeah, that'll be fun. So they were good for you? Besides Lauren's whining."

"They were angels. Perfect angels. I'd watch them again at the drop of a hat. How did you get so lucky?"

"Well, good to know." Lorelai laughed.

"So, you wanna tell me what was going on earlier? You were vague about where you three were heading. You were dressed up… I don't know, seems a little fishy to me."

"Uh, sure." Lorelai set her keys down on the coffee table as she sat down across from Sookie, who sat on the recliner chair. "Christopher-"

"Rory's Dad?"

"Yes. Christopher came into town when the twins were born, we were both angry, we said some things and I let it slip that Luke was going to adopt Rory. So if, god forbid, anything happened to me, Luke would get custody of Rory. So, a couple days ago we get a letter from a lawyer saying that he was going to try for sole custody of Rory. Today, we went to court to fight it." Sookie took in a deep breath, "We won, of course because Christopher is incapable of taking care of himself, let alone an eight year old girl."

"Okay. Well, wow. Everything's fine now? You're fine, Rory's good…and Luke is still…there?"

"Jeez Sookie! Yes, Luke is still there! He's not going to leave over a small case. Everyone is fine. I'm good, relieved...yeah, just glad it's over."

"You probably want to get home then, right?"

"Yeah, thanks for watching the twins. I really appreciate it, more than you know, hon."

"Anytime. Need help getting them in the car?" Sookie asked, as Lorelai got up and walked toward her babies.

"Sure, you grab Will?" Sookie nodded and picked up the little boy and brought him outside to Lorelai's Jeep.

Yale – Saturday Night – 7:15pm

(on the phone)

"So you're really gonna go out with him?" Lorelai asked bluntly.

"Lorelai, I really, really like this guy. He's nice, and he's attractive, plus he's Luke's friend so we know he's safe- he's not leather-face or anything…" Ann replied, somewhat uncomfortably.

"Right, 'cause that would be not… very good." Lorelai smiled at her sister's obvious nervousness. "What time is he coming to get you?"

"7:30."

"Do you know what you're doing? Dinner…movie, both?"

"I think dinner. I'm not sure, he seems like the kind of guy to plan a whole big thing without letting anything slip, you know? Kind of like Luke. Spontaneous. Unpredictable…"

"Two adjectives I wouldn't normally associate with my husband, but sure, sometimes he can be unpredictable." Lorelai laughed.

"I never know what he's gonna do." Ann defended.

"You don't live with him."

"Fine, you win."

"I always do." Lorelai told her sister, who sighed in defeat. "I have to go feed the twins, call me after your date?"

"Give them a kiss for me,"

"Of course, talk to you later Ann,"

"Bye," When Ann hung up the phone she got up off her couch and went into the bathroom to check her hair and make-up, which was done exceptionally well. No matter how much she told herself that she shouldn't be nervous, she was. She wasn't even sure why, there wasn't a specific reason for her being nervous, she just was. When she heard a knock on the door her jitters got even worse. The butterflies in her stomach seemed to multiply.

"Hi," She said almost inaudibly, as she opened the door.

"Hey, you look gorgeous." Bryan said, handing her a bouquet of yellow roses.

"Thank you! and thank you!" She replied, taking the roses from him, "Why don't you come on in while I put these in water."

"Sure," He walked in behind her, closing the heavy dorm door behind him. "Nice place."

"It's kinda small, but it works for me," She said getting a vase out of one of her cabinets.

"No roommates?" Bryan asked, taking a seat on her couch.

"Nope. Just me."

"Nice. Nice…"

"Okay, we can go now, flowers are all set."

"Alright- let's go."

Stars Hollow

Lorelai and Luke sat in the twins' room, feeding them both bottles.

"Was that Ann?" Luke asked, gently rocking his baby daughter in his arms after she sucked down the whole bottle.

"Yeah, she's going out with Bryan tonight…"

"She's going out with Bryan? My friend Bryan? She's a little young for him, no?"

"That's what I said to her! Then, she called me mom."

"Ouch,"

"Yeah, well. I guess I deserved it; I was being a little protective. We know him, he's a good guy – won't hurt her or anything. But- he's eight years older than she is. I just went into big sister mode and forgot about friend mode, which has almost always been first for us. I just… I don't want anything to happen to her. Apparently she looks up to me, I'm not a very good role model, if you know what I mean. I just – I don't want that to happen to her. She's got so much going for her, she shouldn't have to sacrifice it all." Lorelai ranted, putting the bottle she was feeding her son on the table beside her. Lifting him up to 'burp' him.

"Lorelai, your sister is smart. Bryan can hold his own, too. They've both seen the Trojan commercials. They'll be fine. And if, god forbid, something did happen, I would personally hunt down Bryan and kill him. I love Ann as if she were my own sister. Hell, I see her more than I see my own sister. They are going to be fine. Don't worry about it."

"Okay, I won't. I'm just saying – she's my baby sister. As much as I want to believe that she's grown up and can handle it on her own, I still think of her as that sweet little twelve year old sitting with me on my bedroom floor, screaming at Christopher for not wanting to be there." Lorelai stood up and put her sleeping son in his crib. Luke did the same with Lauren. They both walked out of the room, being sure to grab the baby monitor before leaving the door slightly ajar, and walking down stairs to collapse on the couch.

"She screamed at Christopher?"

"It's a long story. Very talk-show-host. Told it like it was, then hung up on him." Lorelai smiled at the memory.

New Haven

Bryan took Ann to one of the best Italian Restaurants in New Haven; he had planned the whole evening. Called ahead to reserve the best table, ordered for her and bought the restaurants most expensive bottle of champagne to finish off a perfect date. The conversation flowed smoothly, much like they had known each other for years.

"That guy you were with at Luke and Lorelai's wedding…what happened to him?" Bryan asked bluntly.

"Um, we broke up. I broke up with him, actually. It just wasn't right."

"Understandable." Bryan replied taking the last sip of champagne from his glass. After Bryan paid the bill, the short ride back to Yale was intimately quiet.

When they reached Ann's dorm door, neither one wanted to part, giving him a slow kiss Ann said, "You wanna come in?" Bryan replied by kissing her back, slowly. Bringing his hands to her face, resting one on her cheek and the other behind her head. Inching closer to her, filling the unwanted gap between them.

I know it's short but I have a plan. Have faith. My updates may come a little slower the next few weeks, only because we have big tests this week as well as next week. Then my mostly undivided attention will be here!

Keep a look out for:

Could it Be Something More? Chapter three!

And a new story: Tales of Another Broken Home (inspired by a segment of the Green Day song Jesus of Suburbia) Not a song fic. An interesting idea – inspired by Jenna ;)