A/N Thanks for not being too mean about that last chapter lol… Well, this is hopefully not as much my weird wishful taking of the show as the last one. Read, enjoy and do not forget to review!

10. The Pouting Faces Of The Adorable Gilmore Girls

Luke was standing at the counter, fixing with the cashier as Rory walked up to him, a pretty nervous expression on her face. He noticed her presence but kept his head bowed down. He knew that face and he knew what came with it.

"Luke?" Rory asked him, innocently.

"Yes, Rory" he answered, still not looking up at her.

"Well, I was just wondering" she started.

"Yes?"

"If I could… ask you a small favour?"

He finally raised his head, meeting her pleading smile.

"How small?" he asked suspiciously.

"Teeny tiny" she assured him quickly.

He gave in, knowing there was no way he could get out of asking her this now. "What is it?"

"No way!" he stated after her explanation was finished.

"But, please Luke…" she whined.

"No" he declared again, trying to ignore the disappointment in her eyes. This he simply could not do for her. "Just forget it!"

"I know if you just talked to her you could make up and then you could somehow convince her that Jess isn't so bad after all… You know he isn't! She's got that idea stuck in her head and she is just being stubborn"

"Such a relief it doesn't run in the family" he grunted sarcastically.

"Please" she begged, pouting with her lip and giving him the biggest eyes she could possibly perform.

He looked at her a minute, then he sighed helplessly. "Oh all right, fine, I'll do it"

"Really?" she squeaked and gave him a large smile. "You'll do it, you'll talk to mom for me?"

"I guess I am" he grumbled.

She ran around the desk and hugged him tightly.

"Thanks Luke" she said, as she met his gaze happily.

"I can't believe all the crap the two of you make me do" he murmured, but he had to admit it felt nice having made her so happy.

As he stood on their porch, about to ring the bell, he regretted his agreement to this deeply. Why oh why did he always have to fall for their begging, pleading expressions? He really had to learn how to be able to reject them. He raised his hand to ring, but he couldn't make it all the way. He couldn't do this. She wouldn't want to see him. She had been so mad at him the last time they had encountered. He couldn't just expect her to forgive that. He had to apologize if he was going to talk to her. He wasn't very good at that, not very good at all. He always had trouble expressing feelings. Oh my God, he couldn't believe he had put himself in this position. He couldn't back out now, he couldn't let Rory down. He had to do this. And just when he finally put his hand on the bell to ring it, the door opened.

"Hi" Lorelai said, confused, as she found herself facing Luke. He didn't say anything, so she continued "Wh-what are you doing here?"

"Well… I…" Come on, you gotta say something more than that, okay? Anything, anything at all! "I just came by to…" All right, here we go "I'm sorry" he sighed, finally giving up his pride "I didn't mean to get all mad at you that night, I know you were just worried and scared cause your kid was hurt and I… I didn't mean to yell at you and make everything worse for you, it was just that, you know I care about Rory and I would never do anything to…"

She interrupted him. "I know"

She sighed too. "Of course I know. I'm sorry for all those accusations, I didn't mean any of it, I was just… upset"

"Understandable" he nodded.

"So… we okay?" she asked, a bit uncertainly, but almost smiling at him.

"Yeah" he confirmed, also grinning.

"Oh that makes me so happy!" she squealed, pulling him into a tight hug, very much reminding him of Rory's behaviour just a few minutes before.

"Wow, you two really are mother and daughter, huh?" he mumbled under his breath.

She looked up at him, frowning. "What do you mean?"

"Um… nothing" he said, banning himself for letting that comment slip.

"Luke…" she said warningly.

"She wouldn't want me to tell you" he sighed.

"Well I'm the mother, I decide what to be told and not to be told and this I decide… hmmm… you tell me!"

He hesitated, but as she pouted and gave him even bigger puppy eyes than Rory's before, he gave in, again. "Promise you won't tell her"

"Definitely, you know how great I am with keeping a secret" she smiled.

"I am afraid I do know and that is what worries me. You have to promise"

"Well…" she pretended to think the matter over for a second. "All right, I am going to ignore your insulting disbelief in my secret keeping abilities and I am going to prove you wrong" she stated.

"Okay. Well, she came to talk to me this morning, that was when she behaved similar to you. She wanted me to go talk to you, because… You don't like her boyfriend and…"

"Hey I never said that" she interrupted him, offended.

"Oh so you don't hate Jess now?" he asked her sceptically.

"Well, yeah, I do, but I didn't tell her that!"

"She knows" he told her.

"How?" Lorelai sighed.

"Well… no offence, but you can be pretty obvious… And Rory knows you, she can tell"

"I didn't want her to know that"

"But she does. And she is kind of upset about it. You really should try giving him a second chance, he actually isn't that bad…"

"Why does she have to care what I think?" she whined.

"Because you are her mother, of course it matters. Look, Jess is a good kid, you could just try not to hate him for a while. For Rory"

Lorelai was quiet for a while.

"Okay, okay. I'll try. For Rory"

"Good girl" he mocked her, patting her on the back, only half-teasing. At the same time a part of him just wanted to touch her.

"God, it would have been so much easier if she would have just stayed with Dean" she ranted.

"Are you kidding?" he said sceptically.

"No"

She looked honestly bewildered. Disbelieving, he asked "You don't know?"