I'm back.

I don't know howmany people read the note that I wrote in my profile about a week or two back, but it explained my hiatius from writing for these past couple of months. I know that I've posted somethings for my 21 JUMPSTREET series, but that's a script which does not take the same sort of finese that an actual piece of writing does. For those of you who have not read by profile, I'll summarize:

These past few months have been extremely stressful both emotionally and mentally, which are two entirely different things and when you go through both at the same time you'll understand. So writing took a back seat so that I could put back together a semblance of mental health.

And I don't care much for the people that write reviews stating how much time it has been since I have last updated. That does not make the writing process any faster or the aforementioned stress any less of a problem. So, with all due love and respect for my readers, please do not send me those kinds of reviews. Please do not confuse this with the traditional "update soon" that many people post at the end of thier comments, that is completely all right in my book.

LukeNLorelai637: My, my, somebody's invested in my storyline. Well, you read late enough and got your wish about fast updating (to you anyways, to everyone else...it's been awhile). Thanks for the reivew.

Lorelai 35 Gilmore: I know I said it would be a strictly fluff piece, and it started out that way, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I had to create a problem bigger then keeping their romance a secret, hence the introduction of Chris and Rachel, it's like a love square kind of deal. Thanks for the reviews.

LukelovesLorelai: How can you hate "The Tell-Tale Heart"! It's a classic! I love Egar Allen Poe because he's so creepy and so out there. Seriously, he is like a ray of sunshine in an otherwise completely dull educational landscape of classical literature. Thanks for the review.

Ultimate Gilmore Girl: Well, you've got yourself quite an imagination, missy. I bet you just loved the season six finale, didn't you? Thanks for the review, I see if I can work in any death scenes.

Muffin is Injured: Ah, my favorite person in the Gilmore Girls section! (I really have to start reading again, I've been out of the game for awhile, you got anything new?) (heh...besides the one you told me about in your review and I never got to because this is the first time I'm reading this review...heh...remember the stress I talked about and take pity on me, I'm just a poor, poor mentally unhealthy teenager who has taken on yet another unbearable class load this year and is currently counting down the days until her death thanks to the educational system).

The Dean/Lorelai fics creep me out. Along with the Luke/Rory fics. I'm not even going to comment on the Lorelai/Rory fics, those are just disgusting. I mean at least the Luke/Rory and Dean/Lorelai fics take place when the kids are older and it's like a Demi/Ashton kind of thing, but it's always wrong to date your daughter. And I do think that Dean had a thing for Lorelai in a very Mrs. Robinson kind of way, just the infacutation, y'know?

Of course I know who Andy Gibb is. Shame about the sucidice thing though, he was the only good looking one. And haivng somebody that was considered good looking in the 70s actually be good looking is a rarity. They liked hair in the 70s. We don't like hair now. So, take that! I'm a bigger pop culture dork! Ha! Send me on that Vh1 World Series of Pop Culture and I'd seriously kick some couch-patato ass! (Not that I sit on my couch and play along or anything...heh)

And I would be jealous of your chicken, but I'm eating pizza and pizza always tops chicken, bitch.

And I know what you mean about the radio. Every time I turn it on it's that "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" song which I liked at first (yea, I'll admit it! I like some mainstream music and I'm not afraid to admit it...anymore!) but now everytime I hear it I feel like ripping the radio out of my car (which would be a real travisty because without my radio what would I sing to? And if I can't sing, how can I prepare to win American Idol and take the country by a storm of quirkiness, lovability, and drop-dead good looks?).

Thanks for the review, babe, and I will sciddale over to your profile and review ALL of your new fics when I'm finished up here!

Wendy: Yeah, I know it was a lot of filler, but I needed to really develop the main problem, which is continuing to have a new secret relationship with a parade of ex's flying through. Thanks for the honesty and for the reivew. I really do appricate it (and if you ever got a review from me, you'll understand that I really do mean that).

LukeAndLorelaiAlways: I think you're right Will Robinson, and I'm glad to have another Dead Head along for the ride! Thanks for the review.

Hamlet's Pirate: Well, it's always good to rock. And I'm sorry again, Chris, but it looks like I might have teetered a little bit there again. (And since it's been such a long time since you wrote a review...you might want to go check yours out again if that didn't make any sense to you). Well I hope you had a good Easter and such, and I'm sorry about the Troy comment, but I couldn't resisit. So, I said, screw you timeline, I will not forgo the opportunity to make a Brad Pitt butt reference just for you! Thanks for the review.

Another huge round of thanks also go out to: Luke-n-LorelaiLuva6292, Leh2007, Kitty12345, Normallywierdm, Christi06, LUKE N LORELAI 4 EVER... (they didn't finish out your name, sorry), Stephanie, LLfreak8285, Orangesherbet7, Gilmoregrl519, Ronata, ProFfeSseR, RougeHoney, Susie02, Baby Girl Geller-Green, Chmelms, andxxAllyxx.

She could see how Luke would be attracted to Rachel. In a sick sorta twisted way, Rachel kinda reminded her of Luke. Just with more fashion options. And longer hair. And then the girl thing to consider, so more like his female counter part. And she had to admit that all in all, Rachel wasn't a bad person. Actually, Lorelai kinda liked her.

Dammit.

"So, Lorelai, what do you do?" Rachel smiled pleasantly, not and in a smug sort of way. In that kind of genuine, I'm a nice person, Bambi sort of way. Which successfully ruined any chances of Lorelai ever hating her, because how can you hate Bambi? Only people like Donnie Darko would hate Bambi, and until she started befriending crazy bunny rabbits named Fred, she would never be a Donnie Darko.

She forced a smile back, "I work at the Independence Inn."

"Oh? How did you get into inn work?"

Lorelai shrugged, "Well, mainly it was the need for a job, and the Independence Inn needed maids." She paused for a second, then put on one of her famous Lorelai smirks, "Not to mention the irony in the name Independence. I couldn't pass it up."

Rachel furrowed her brow, "What irony?"

"I was independent."

"Ah. Should have figured that." Rachel took a sip of her coffee, "So, are you still working as a maid?"

Lorelai shook her head, "Nope, I'm the General Manager now."

"Oh, well, good for you!"

"So, how'd you get into photography? I mean, Luke's told me you're a photographer, at least I think he did. Hell, you might be a lawyer for all I know!" Lorelai gave a nervous laugh, "But I don't think Luke would date a lawyer. Granted you weren't anything when you two were dating. Not to say that you weren't in existence, or your life had no meaning, you just didn't have a job. Like a real job. A nine to five kind of job. A job job."

Luke gave her a look, "Lorelai."

"What?"

"I think she's got the point."

Lorelai shrugged, "Just wanted to make sure that there was no confusion. You never know." Mental head slap.

Rachel shook her head quickly, "Oh no, it was no problem at all. Luke's just being, well Luke," she chuckled slightly, "But, I've always loved to travel and to take pictures. Which, to my benefit, go together really well. And seeing as how I didn't exactly do my best in high school, the photography thing just kinda kicked in."

"I can second that not doing well in high school. I'm sensing it had to do with a distraction of the male gender," Lorelai smiled brightly. If she couldn't win as a conversationalist, she'd win on her pearly whites alone. Nobody could beat Lorelai's smile. It had gotten her in and out of trouble on more than one occasion.

"Let me guess, tall, dark, and handsome."

"And a really great car."

"Well, Luke had full access to his father's truck, which was comparable to a Ferrari during those times in Stars Hallow. It was before we had a stop sign. In fact, any car in Stars Hallow was sort of a status symbol."

Lorelai shook her head, "Nope, it was Ferrari or nothing in Hartford."

"You grew up in Hartford?"

Lorelai shrugged, "Give or take. I lived there until I was sixteen, then I moved out here."

Rachel paused, "Oh, then you would have been around the same time that I was in Stars Hallow High," she furrowed her brow, "I really don't remember you at all from school. Is that bad?" She winced slightly, "I would feel so terrible if we were like lab partners or something and I didn't remember you. God, this is why I have decided to boycott any class reunions our class plans on having."

"I never went to Stars Hallow High, and I don't think we ever met, so you're good on the class reunions thing," Lorelai forced a chuckle, "And I really didn't meet anyone outside of the inn workers until my daughter started kindergarten, and that's only because she became friends with Lane, which meant that I made daily trips to the Kim household to rescue my child from the evils of Tofu Surprise, a Mrs. Kim snack specialty."

Rachel took another sip of her coffee, "You have a daughter?" She asked in surprise, "I would have never guessed, not to say that you seem like are a bad mother or something terrible like that, I just mean, you don't look like mom."

Luke intervened before Lorelai could respond, "Lorelai had Rory when she was younger."

"Rory? That's a cute name."

"It's her nickname, if you're really interested in some family history here. Lorelai is her actual name, but I figured it would be weird calling her Lorelai because I'm Lorelai, and it'd be really confusing and sort of a weird out of body experience in a sort of way, if you know what I mean!"

Mental head slap number two.

She hated coming off like such a bimbo. Rachel probably thought she didn't have a brain in her skull. Hell, Luke was probably comparing the two of them and thinking 'what the hell was I thinking' when it came down to Lorelai.

"So, Rachel, how long are you going to be in town?" Lorelai took another sip of her coffee. She just had to calm down. Focus less on being chipper and non-offensive.

Rachel shrugged, "Ah, I don't know actually. I mean, I didn't even know I was going to be in town." She looked over at Luke, "I hope it's okay that I dropped in. I mean, I hope I'm not imposing on you or anything."

Luke darted his eyes at Lorelai, "Oh, no, not at all."

Lorelai cocked her head slightly, "Imposing how?"

Rachel smiled brilliantly, "Oh, I'm staying with him. Minor problem with being a photographer, I don't have money to spend on hotel rooms."

Lorelai swore she felt fire come out of her ears.

Luke practically lunged for Lorelai's hand, and practically dragged her around the counter, "Hey, Lorelai, can you come upstairs for a second? You left your CD here the other day, and I've been meaning to return it to you, but every time I see you I forget, so now while I remember, I want to give it back to you."

"Umm," Lorelai mumbled out, mid-sip.

"We'll be just a second, sorry, Rachel," Luke said before pulling both him and Lorelai up the stairs and into the apartment.

"Take your time!" Rachel called back to them.

Not that Lorelai was really listening too well at that point. And Luke was probably too busy saying his last rites to really listen too intently either.

Lorelai marched straight up to the apartment, opened the door, dragged Luke inside, and slammed it in seemingly one motion. At least in her mind. It probably came off less graceful in real life. But that took rationality, which was something that she did not possess at that particular moment.

"Rachel's staying with me!" Luke announced as he closed the door to his apartment, "Surprise!" He offered weakly.

"Yeah, I kinda got that from downstairs when she said that she was staying with you."

"And?"

"She's staying with you!"

Luke shrugged, "She kinda surprised with me with it. And I couldn't send her packing to the Inn, I mean every other time she's stayed with me."

"Yeah, but every other time you haven't had a crazy jealous girlfriend to consider," Lorelai attempted to keep her voice down. She and the rest of Stars Hallow had listened to enough arguments between Luke and various people from down in the diner on enough occasions to realize that noise traveled very easily through his walls.

"Chris is staying with you."

"On my couch! In a house! With his daughter staying just feet away from him making it near to impossible for anything remotely dirty to happen!" Lorelai raised her voice slightly, "You, however, live in an office barely large enough for one person let alone two former lovers."

Luke raised an eyebrow, "Lovers?"

"Well," Lorelai shrugged, "That's what you are."

He blinked, "Okay."

"Is that an 'okay, Lorelai, I'll explain the situation to her and you can get her a room at the Independence Inn' kind of okay?"

"No, just an 'okay' to the idea of us being former lovers."

Lorelai raised up her hands, "Wait, like you and me us, or you and Rachel us."

"Me and Rachel us."

"Okay, good, just checking. Continue."

Luke sighed, "Look, there's nothing between me and Rachel anymore. All right?"

Lorelai sighed, "I know! And I trust you! And I shouldn't even be going this crazy because let's face it, it doesn't even make any sense, it's just the idea of it in my head makes me go a little coo-coo."

He looked at her, "You really think you where that sane before Rachel showed up?"

"Luke, I'm being serious here!"

"Sorry," he mumbled, "But I just don't see the problem here. I know I've said this before, but Chris is staying with you. Why can't Rachel stay with me?"

"I never said she couldn't stay with you!"

He blinked again, "Then what are we talking about?"

"The fact that I don't like the idea of her staying with you, but I'm not going to stop you or her, so I will expect proper compensation or for you to get a room at the Inn."

Luke smiled slightly and inched towards her, "What kind of compensation?"

She breathed out angrily, "I expect to be wined, and dined, and perhaps, otherwise detained." Now, that would have sounded sexy had she not still been a little on the insane jealously thing.

He continued to inch towards her, "You know, you went from pissed off to this in under a minute?" He pointed out, "I should have seen it coming."

"Yes, well, my ability to keep men on their toes is admirable." She wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head on his shoulder. They stood there for a moment in quiet, Lorelai attempting to regroup and gather a semblance of rational thought and Luke busy attempting to figure out how they went from arguing to hugging with an apology on his part.

"Now you swear nothing will happen between you and Rachel. Nothing at all?"

He sighed, "I thought you were past this. You know, with the whole compensation bit."

"I know, it's just,"

"Just what?"

She thought about confessing right there. He probably wouldn't even care. It wasn't like she said yes or anything. But instead of admitting the truth, she found herself blabbering on about how small his apartment was and what small spaces do to people, Single White Female style.

All the while knowing that somehow, someway, the universe would find her commitment to the cowards way to come back and bite her in the ass.

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