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Lorelai stumbled up stairs in her dark house. Now her plan for tonight had be changed and not in a good way. Christopher showed up and it made Lorelai feel dirty. She just didn't want to deal with whatever trouble he was about to start.
She entered her bathroom and tripped over the trashcan. That's what she gets for not turning on the light. All she wanted to do was take a shower and get some rest since she never got any dinner.
Thinking of a nice warm shower, she got up, turned on the light, and went to clean up the mess she had made. It had been weeks since she had empted out the bathroom garbage. As she started to pick up the trash and return in to its home, something caught her attention. The old pregnancy test she had taken after everything had happened.
It was the third test she had taken just to make sure. At least Luke and she wouldn't have to deal with a baby since all three had been negative. Bringing Luke back into her brain she had to wonder how Luke would feel about Chris being here and staying in her house. Would he be mad? Would this change how he felt, which she didn't understand.
"Mom" She heard her daughters' voice yell from downstairs. Relief rushed over body because Rory was home. She didn't trust Chris on his bike. This was the man who crashed his car just hours after getting it.
"I'm up here, in the bathroom" Lorelai called back trying to finishing her job and hiding the test.
"Hey, why are you hiding up here?" Chris said walking into the room.
"Not hiding just picking up a mess." Lorelai answered getting up.
"Well Rory said I could take a shower if I wanted, if that's ok with you," Chris said catching on that she was not to happy. "What's up Lore?"
"Why are you here?"
"I told you, I was on my way to see my parents and I thought I would stop and see you and Rory." Chris explained again.
"You thought you could stop and see your daughter and me. Your first thought should be your daughter not me, not your parents but your daughter. Do you even remember what she looks like?"
"I was just with her."
"Whatever the towels are in the closet and the shower is easy to work." Lorelai said leaving the room.
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Lorelai came downstairs to see her daughter covering the couch in blankets. Trying to make their lumpy couch comfortable. "Was the couch cold?" Lorelai asked trying to act normal.
"I just can't believe he's here. He looks good doesn't he?" Rory said excited.
"He looks good." Christopher always looked good but he wasn't what she wanted anymore.
"I like his hair shorter."
"Short is nice." Lorelai said trying to follow the rule if you have noting nice to say, say noting at all.
"Do you think he'll stay long?" Rory said hoping that he had finally changed.
"Wouldn't bet a lot of money on it." She had failed at her quest but how could she let Rory get her hopes up.
"Maybe we can get him to stay for a couple of weeks."
"Absolutely… by weighting him down with blankets." Lorelai new this wasn't going to last long. He was here but there had to be a reason behind it.
"I just want him to be comfortable." Rory said still fixing the couch.
"He's gonna come and go as he pleases babe, you know that." Lorelai had spent years trying to change Chris. It just wasn't going too happened.
"Yeah, I know." Rory sad that her mother and father could never work it out. In the back of her head, she always wanted her mom and dad together, just like every other kid.
"And no amount of bedding is gonna change that." Lorelai said trying to get Rory prepared for what was bond to happen.
"Yeah, but he's never been to Stars Hollow before." Rory said trying to get her mother to have hope. At this point Rory had forgotten the diner owner her mother was head over heals in love with.
"I know."
"Well that means something's got to be different right?"
"Why don't you just enjoy the time you've got ok?" Lorelai said knowing there was no debating with Rory. She was excessively good at any subject.
"Yeah, ok. I still think something is different though." Rory said heading into the kitchen.
"That is the worst shower I have ever had. Water pressure keeps changing every two seconds. I'm fixing it tomorrow." Chris said coming downstairs. His hair was still wet from the shower.
"Hey you stay away from my shower." Only Luke was allowed to fix her shower, which she needed to remember to ask him.
"We ordered Chinese food. It should be here any minute." Rory said
"Good, I'm starving."
"Here" Lorelai said handing him a cup of coffee
"Hey, how's Diane?" Rory asked remembering her dad's last girlfriend.
"Uh, Diane is ancient history." Rory didn't need to know of the many other girls after Diane.
"When I met her at Easter you said she could be the one."
"The one to be gone by Memorial Day." Chris thinking of her, she was nothing like Lorelai.
"You're worse than mom." Rory said knowing that her mother had had trouble in her love life as well.
"Low blow" Lorelai had found the man she wanted.
"Can't keep a feller happy?" Chris asked knowing very well that she could.
"Oh I keep them happy. I keep them very happy."
"Ok, now. Don't get gross." Rory said not wanting to think of that.
"Yeah you're upsetting us." Chris said. He had missed Lorelai so much.
"I'm gonna go study before the food gets here." Rory said heading to her bedroom. Maybe if her parents had, a chance to talk thing could change and he wouldn't leave.
"What? Tomorrow's Saturday."
"I know, I like to get my weekend homework done and out of the way by Saturday night so then I can do extra-credit stuff on Sunday," Rory said getting to work.
"Don't look at me." Lorelai never studied like Rory did. She didn't even remembering studying at all.
"She's a great kid Lore. I wish I could say I see more of myself in her other than we have similar left ear lobes, but she's all you, chip off the old...perfect block." Chris said looking into her eyes.
"Why the hell are you here?" Not like how he was hitting her.
"Behold the queen of the subtle transition." Christopher thought he had already answered her question.
"Why are you here?"
"You're gonna force me to lawyer up officer." Chris said trying to get Lorelai to calm down.
"Christopher." Lorelai was not in the mood.
"Ok look. I've been making some changes; especially my career and I think I finally have all my ducks lined up in a row."
"You're opening a shooting gallery." Lorelai said trying to make since of what he was saying.
"I've been tying up loose ends in my life."
"Do they make that much string?"
"You know you've always had that verbal thing, quick mind - it's annoying." Chris said trying to get her to listen to him.
"So you've been tying up loose ends."
"I don't know how much your dad has told you but I'm on the verge of kind of a big success, its for real this time. I've got a company with an actual cash flow, I've got employees, I've got an accountant for God's sake. He wears a tie and says words like 'fiduciary' and 'ironically'. I mean it's for real this time Lore." Chris said trying to make her believe him.
"I would love to believe it is." Lorelai said knowing that she can't. He had made to many mistakes.
"Why does your dad have more faith in my than you." Chris said with a sigh.
"My father hit his head surfing Rincon a couple of years ago. His judgment is a little off." Not understanding why her father had faith in him. He didn't have faith in him when she got pregnant.
"So you have zero faith?" Chris said not ready to hear the answer.
"I've known you since I was six Chris. You're the guy that crashed his Porsche two hours after his parents gave it to him for his 16th birthday." Lorelai telling him what she had thought earlier.
"And you were the girl in the Pinky Atascadero t-shirt sitting right next to me." He could always remember what she had on.
"Horrified"
"Think again." Chris said seeing past her lie.
"Alright, having a blast then horrified."
"Just listen to me will you?"
"I'm listening to you. Your life is back on track, I think that's great. And I appreciate you coming all the way out here, for the very first time might I add, to tell us that."
"I didn't come out here just to tell you that."
"No?" Lorelai said not surprised. She knew something was coming.
"There's some things I need to do...to take care of." He said with another sigh.
"Like?" Lorelai was ready for everything.
"I haven't been enough a part of Rory's life. So I want to be around more, to be a pal she can depend on. I mean I'm not crazy, I know there's already a life going on here and God knows she doesn't need anyone besides you but...if you give me a chance..."
"I've always had the door to Rory open for you." Christopher had to know that. Lorelai would never take his daughter away.
"I know."
"You've hardly ever used it." Lorelai said knowing she had hit his spot
"Well I want to use it now. Is that ok?"
"Of course it is." Lorelai said almost happy that he had come.
"Good." Chris said that now was his chance to not only get Rory but her mother too.
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Since Rory had asked Chris to Dean's softball game, she did not have to deal with him. So she just went on with her day of work. She went to talk to Sookie about the whole thing. It was Christopher and he wasn't going to change. There had to be something he wasn't telling her. That's when it hit her.
LUKE!
Luke was pitching for the other team. He was at the softball game and so was Christopher. What would Luke think?
"Lorelai, Looooreliaaaaaa" Sookie said trying to get her attention.
"Oh my god I have to go." Lorelai said running out of the kitchen.
"Ok that was weird and this will make Michel mad and I don't want to have to deal with that." Sookie said calling after her.
Lorelai got to the park as fast as she could. When she got there, Dean was talking to Rory and Chris, which gave her time to talk to Luke. She waved him over from the pitchers mound making his team mad that they had to wait for another player. Dean was already wasting time.
"Hey" He said after telling his team to shut up.
"Hey, how are you?" Lorelai asked trying to act normal.
"Aren't you supposed to be at work?" Knowing very well, she was.
"Well everyone needs a day off." Lorelai said.
"Uh huh, Lorelai what's going on?"
Lorelai knew she couldn't lie to Luke because he knew her way to well. She just didn't want it to be weird.
"Well you know Rory's here"
"Yeah she is almost every weekend. Here to support the bagboy I guess"
"Well you see the guy with her"
"Yeah" Luke said unsure were this was going.
"That's her dad and he just showed up her last night so I didn't invite him or anything it was a big surprise and really big surprise and I didn't want you to think it was something that it wasn't because it's not a something. It's a big nothing not even a little something. So I…"
"Lorelai" Luke said cutting Lorelai off. She had to be running out of breath for that rant. "I get that it's nothing," he said almost laughing.
"Are you sure, because I know you wanted to talk and I didn't want anything to change that."
"So that's the guy," Luke said sizing him up. He looked like Lorelai's type. Luke did not like him here but he would act cool for Lorelai.
"Yep that's the guy who impregnated me." Lorelai said now teasing him.
"Well he did a good job." Luke said without thinking.
"Impregnating me" Lorelai said trying not to laugh.
"Uh this is a conversation I don't want to get into." Luke said nervously.
"Speaking of impregnating I don't think I ever told you nothing was made that night"
"Oh…well that's good…I-I mean I figured but its good to hear it…I j-just thought we would talk about it…you know Friday but…now I know"
Lorelai couldn't help to think he sounded disappointed, but that could not be. They weren't even dating he couldn't want to have a baby with. He wasn't disappointed she told herself, just like she told herself after her third test.
"Luke you're holding up the game." One of Luke's teammates yelled. That's when they realized Dean was had stopped talking to Rory.
"We'll talk later" Luke said running back to the game.
"Yes we will" Lorelai said going back to work.
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When Lorelai was talking to Luke, it was the best part of the day. After that, she got a call from her mother, half the town had told her Christopher could not buy her daughter a book and she had yet to go to Luke's. This was just not the day to mess with her.
Finally, when Friday arrived she couldn't wait to help paint with Luke. She started rushing through her day and messing up, finally Michel sent her home muttering something in French. She just couldn't get work down with Luke on her mind.
That night when Christopher, Rory and she stood outside the elder Gilmore's house, she had to prepare herself. She knew what her mother was going to hint at. Her mother just could not understand she wasn't meant to be with Chris. She didn't love him and she didn't think she ever did. When she was younger, she thought she might of but…it was just a teenage crush.
Finally, Lorelai let them with the key her parents gave her last week. She didn't know why but it felt like a trap.
"Hello I didn't hear the doorbell," Emily said when they entered.
"We didn't, we used the key you gave me."
"You didn't knock?"
"No we used the key"
"That key is for emergencies Lorelai not just for to walk into our house. You don't live here any more remember."
"Yes mother" Lorelai said, "I knew it was a trap"
"Well let's not just stand around, take a seat. So Christopher what have you been up to"
"Well I've…"
The doorbell cut him off.
"I'll go get it because they rung the doorbell." Emily said looking at her daughter.
"Ha it's your turn." Lorelai said knowing it was Christopher parents. Emily had told her she had invited them when she called her.
"I haven't seen your parents in quite a number of years. We were practically inseparable for a while." Richard said
"I remember that." Chris said remembering how bad it was then.
"This is weird. These are my other grandparents. I don't even know them. What do I call them?" Rory was nervous what if they didn't like her.
"Call'em what I call'em – ass" Chris said not looking forward to this.
"Chris..." Lorelai said warning him.
"Sorry, my tie's too tight." He said trying to make an excuse.
"Just, uh, call them Straub and Francine. Call them Mr. and Mrs. Hayden. Sir and Ma'am? Why don't you just avoid calling them anything?" Lorelai said trying to make her daughter less nervous.
"Look who's here." Emily said coming back into the living room.
"Hello mother, pop." Chris said
"Christopher." His father returned.
"Christopher, hello." His mother sounded more pleasant then Straub but she could have just taken a happy pill.
"Mr. and Mrs. Hayden, long time no see." Lorelai said
"Lorelai. You look well." Francine replayed
"I am thanks. You remember Rory. You haven't seen her in quite a while."
"No we haven't." Straub replayed snotty
"I think she was just beginning to speak in complete sentences." Francine remembering her only grandchild.
"So not for two years then." Lorelai said trying to make a joke. "She's obviously been talking a long time so I was making a humorous comment sometimes referred to as a 'joke'."
"I see you haven't changed Lorelai."
"No, not at all."
"Rory, hello." Francine said trying to know her granddaughter.
"Hi." Rory said nervously. She curtsied to make a good impression.
"Did you just curtsy?" Lorelai asked in a whispered.
"Shut up." Rory replayed
"Sorry, milady"
"Uh, Straub, Francine, how about a martini?" Richard asked talking to his old friends
"Please." Straub replayed for him and his wife.
"Well Straub, how is retirement treating you?" Richard said trying to start a conversation.
"Yes do tell us about the Bahamas." Emily said joining in.
"You can get an entire island there for the cost of a decent house here." Straub said
"Really?" Richard said interested.
"How about you Richard, any thoughts of retirement crossing your mind?" Straub had to wonder if Richard would ever stop working.
"Oh Straub, if only you could talk him into it. I've given up." Emily thought it would be nice to have her husband home but she didn't see that ever happening.
"We're very pleased about Christopher's business success out in California." Richard said trying to shift the focus off him and retirement.
"Yes, it's taken a while but it seems to be finally coming together. Seems to be." Straub deciding to brag
"Christopher your tie, please." Francine said after Christopher had loosened it.
"Straub and Fran" Rory said starting to clear her throat. "Mr. and Mrs. um...are you enjoying your time here, um...you...two?"
"That she got from you." Christopher said to Lorelai.
"How old are you young lady?" Straub asked ignoring Rory's question.
"16." Was Rory's only replay.
"Dangerous age for girls" Straub said looking at Lorelai.
"Straub" Francine warned her husband.
"Rory is a very special child - excellent student, very bright." Emily said defending her granddaughter.
"You should have a talk with her Straub; she could give you a run for your money." Richard chimed in.
"Is that so?" Straub said looking at Rory.
"That's right."
"Well I think my money's safe." Straub said after he got no replay from Rory.
"I hate President Bush." Lorelai said trying to get the focus off her offspring.
"What?" Straub said
"Lorelai..." Emily warned Lorelai
"Oh boy." Christopher this was going to bad.
"He's stupid and his face is too tiny for his head and I just want to toss him out." Lorelai continued.
"That is the leader of our country young lady." Straub was offended he had voted for him.
"Ignore her." Richard said
"His face is too tiny for his head, what kind of thing is that to say?" Francine didn't understand.
"I see your daughter is just as out of control as ever." Straub said angered.
"Pop please. Let's try and keep it civil." Chris really didn't want a fight.
"Tell me Lorelai, what have you been doing with your life anyway, besides hating successful businessmen. I'm just curious." Straub asked
"Why don't we all go into the dining room?" Emily wasn't ready for a fight. They were supposed to be family.
"Well uh, Straub, I run an inn near Stars Hollow." Lorelai replayed happily.
"Really?" Straub said in a tone that made Lorelai's job seem like crap.
"Yes really." Lorelai said saying strong. She was proud of her job, she was proud of her house and her car and the life she made for Rory and Straub's words were not going to change that.
"Dad come on." Christopher didn't want this to happen
"Nice to see you found your calling."
"Dinner is ready." Emily said.
"Christopher your tie." Francine repeated
"Mom please." His tie was least of their worries
"And is your life everything you hoped it would be?" Straub asked trying to make Lorelai feel bad.
"Yes it is." Lorelai was not going to be upset at his words.
"Because it seems to me you might not want to take such a haughty tone when you announce to the world that you work in a hotel."
"Well there's nothing wrong with where I work." Lorelai said not listening to his low blows.
"Straub please. I'm getting a headache." Francine said her happy pills had to be wearing off.
"Come on Richard; lead us into the dining room, now." Emily said she was not going to have her perfectly planed night ruined.
"If you had attended a university as your parents had planned and as we planned in vain for Christopher, you might have aspired to something more than a blue collared position" Straub once again tried to make Lorelai feel bad. "And I wouldn't give a damn about you derailing your life if you hadn't swept my son along with you."
"Honey go into the next room. Go, go." Lorelai knew her daughter didn't need to hear this.
"I'm going to have to echo Christopher's call for civility here. A mutual mistake was make many years ago by these two, but they have come a long way since." Richard said standing up for his daughter.
"A mutual mistake Richard? This whole evening is ridiculous. We're supposed to sit here like one big happy family and pretend that the damage that was done is over, gone. I don't care about how good a student you say that girl is..." Straub yelled
"Hey!" Straub could say anything about her but not her daughter.
"Our son was bound for Princeton. Every Hayden male attended Princeton including myself, but it all stopped with Christopher. It's a humiliation we've had to live with every day, all because you seduced him into ruining his life. She had that baby and ended his future." Straub yelled and Lorelai knew Rory could hear.
"You recant that Straub!" Richard said grabbing Straub's arm.
"You're spilling my drink." Straub said surprised at Richard's actions.
"You owe my daughter an apology." He yelled
"An apology, that's rich." Straub spat back
"How dare you?" he yelled, "How dare you?"
"Richard what are you doing?" Emily was scared at what Richard might do.
"How dare you come into my house and insult my daughter!"
"Let go of me!"
"Whoa, whoa, what is going on here?" Christopher said breaking them apart.
All Lorelai could do is watch what was happening. She could not believe her father was defending her.
"Shame on you Straub, shame on you for opening all this up again."
"Get your purse Francine." Straub said ready to go.
"My daughter is very successful at what she does." Lorelai was shocked to hear her father say this. It sounded like he was proud of her.
"We're leaving." Straub said heading to the door.
"You're not leaving. I'm kicking you out." Richard said going to his office, leaving Lorelai and Christopher standing the middle of the room.
"And you brought up Bush because?" Christopher asked
"It seemed like a good idea at the time. Wow." Lorelai not realizing what had just happened.
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Lorelai was out on the balcony think of what had just happened. First the fight with Straub then the fight with her dad. For a moment, she thought he was proud of her but that changed quickly.
"Hey you hiding again." Chris said coming onto the balcony
"Nope just thinking" Lorelai replayed "How did everything get so screwed up?"
"Well I think you know"
"Hey I know" Lorelai said and looked at Chris. He was closer than he was before. Then he got closer and closer until he kissed her. It was a good kiss but something was wrong, something was missing.
Chris started to kiss harder and it was about to lead to something that Lorelai didn't want. That's when she remembered, she was late. She was suppose to talk to Luke. She pushed Chris off of her and jumped into the room.
"Lorelai what's up" he said following her
"I'm late" she yelled and went to get Rory.
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"Lorelai what is going on, you're speeding." Chris asked as she went towards her house.
"I told you, I'm late," she said pulling into her driveway.
Rory and Chris jumped out of the car and waited for Lorelai but she didn't get out.
"I'll be home late," Lorelai said speeding off not even getting her painting clothes.
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When she got to the diner, it was dark. Luke had to be upstairs.
"Luke" she yelled pounding on the door "I'm sorry"
Luke came downstairs when he heard her yelling. He unlocked the door and looked at her.
"Luke I am so sorry it was an accident I…"
He cut her off. "Was it him? Was it Christopher?"
"Luke…" she couldn't say anything.
"Ok" he nodded "Good-bye" and Luke closed the door and locked it.
"Luke" this was the only time the diner was not opened to her.
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