A/N: Okay so in this chapter I will explain Alexis a little. Next chapter will be a little Finn in the beginning and then the Halloween party.
Chapter title is from Crossfade.
Sooner Or Later
"Alexis, sweetie, we have to get you dressed." Finn sighed as he chased his little sister around the house.
"No daddy." A look of pain crossed his face. He picked the little girl up and sat her on his lap.
"I'm not your daddy Alexis." Though I feel like I am. "I'm just your big brother."
"Kids, I'm home!" The voice of Sasha Morgan was slurred. She was drunk yet again.
Finn stood up with Alexis and settled her on his hip. He picked up her diaper bag and his backpack. Making his way into the front room where his mother was he stopped. "I'm taking her to daycare then I'm going to school. Try not to kill yourself." He felt a sharp pain on his left cheek. She had slapped him. He just pushed past her and walked out to his car.
"Alexis sweetie we're going to go see one of my friends. Will you be a good girl?" He placed her in the car seat in the back seat of his car. After buckling her in he placed the diaper bag and his backpack on the floor.
"Yeah." He got into the drivers seat and started the car.
"Thank you."
BA
Finn stood in front of the Gilmore-Danes door. Alexis was standing beside him holding onto his hand as tightly as she could. "Go home?" She looked up at him.
"No Lexis, we're not going home." He rang the doorbell and knelt down to her level. "I'm going to try to get you away from mom."
"Mommy's mean." Alexis buried her head in his shoulder.
"I know. That's why I'm going to get us a new place to stay." The door opened. He picked Alexis up and looked up to see Lorelai standing in the doorway. "I'm sorry to bother you but I have no where else to go."
"Um it's fine." Lorelai looked at Alexis then opened the door further for them to come in. "Is she..?"
"No. She's my sister. I feel like she's mine though." He closed the door behind him and smiled apologetically at her.
"Whats the problem hon?" She walked towards the kitchen and motioned for him to follow.
"My mom is always drunk and can't take care of Alexis. If I take her to her daycare then she'll go and get her. I'm worried she'll hurt her."
"I see." She knocked on Rory's door then opened it and stuck her head in. "Get up kid." She then walked over to Caleb's door then Jess' door and proceeded to do the same thing to each of them. "Leave Alexis with me and go to school. Come back here straight after and we'll see what we can do."
"Thank you so much." He handed Alexis over to Lorelai. "I'm sorry to bother you with this."
"It's no problem."
Rory walked out of her bedroom in her Chilton uniform. She walked over to the coffee pot and got herself a cup of coffee. She then looked at Lorelai who was holding Alexis then at Finn. "Is she..?"
"She's my sister."
"Okay." Rory walked into Caleb's room without knocking. The two in the kitchen heard a loud thump then Caleb yelling something unintelligible. Rory walked out of the room and sat down at the table.
"What did you do?" Lorelai asked.
"She flipped my mattress." Caleb walked into the kitchen in a pair of boxers and a white wife beater. He fixed himself a cup of coffee. "I don't want to go to school today."
"If you don't go to school you can't go to the Halloween party."
"Dammit."
"Watch it. Your dads home." Lorelai stated.
"Sorry." He walked into his room mumbling something about school being unfair. He came out ten minutes later dressed in his uniform. Jess was standing in the background waiting on everyone to be ready to leave.
BA
School was uneventful. Everyone was talking about the party that night and what they were wearing. The group had detention for the stunt they pulled in Rory's class the day before. Rory didn't find it very fair seeing as how she had nothing to do with it but the teacher wouldn't listen. Tristan was leaving her alone for now. She was happy about that. Dean was a different story though, he kept trying to flirt with her. Colin had been able to save her from the most of it.
"Hey Rory."
"Leave me alone Dean."
"I just want to talk."
"I don't want to talk to you."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't like you."
"Why don't you like me?"
"Finny!" Rory ran over to Finn who had just walked into the detention room. She dropped her voice so only he could hear. "Save me. Dean won't stop flirting and Colin isn't here."
"Okay." He wrapped an arm around her waist and lead her to a desk at the back of the room. Rory's back was to Dean. He dipped his head down and captured her lips with his own. The kiss was simple and soft but it was enough to take Rory's breath away. Finn looked over at Dean and smirked.
Someone in the front of the classroom cleared their throat. Rory turned around and turned bright red.
"Didn't know you had it in you Rory."
"Shut up Colin." Rory blushed. She forgot that Dean was in the room at the moment.
"Don't worry you're secrets safe with me." Rory rolled her eyes. "Come on Ror. You can't keep pretending you don't have feelings."
"You're not helping." She walked past Colin and out of the room. Screw detention. She would deal with it some other time.
BA
"When will you be eighteen?" Lorelai sat down at the kitchen table across from Finn who was holding Alexis.
"In about a month."
"You can take her to court and try to get custody of Alexis." She took a sip of her coffee. "You just have to get your own place, prove you can provide for yourself and your sister. You have to still go to school and you have to prove your mother unfit."
"I think I can do all of that. Thank you so much."
She smiled softly. "Not a problem kiddo."
