"Dean I never said that I didn't want to marry you."
"Yes you did, about fifteen minutes ago."
Rory thought for a moment trying to figure out what Dean was referring to. When she realized how he got the impression she felt horrible.
"You mistook what I said. Grandpa was asking if we had plans to get married, which I wasn't expecting from him by the way, and after he said that it just felt like the right time to clarify that our news was the baby not a marriage. I didn't mean that I didn't want to marry you, it's just that we haven't really talked about it yet."
"Well then maybe we should talk about it."
"Okay…we can talk about it." Rory said a little nervous.
"Well from the sound of your voice it seems I will be going first. I love you and I'm pretty sure you know that, you also know that I would do anything for you and there is nothing I want more then to spend the rest of our lives together raising a family…"
"Yes." Rory said out of nowhere.
"What?"
"Yes I will marry you."
Dean laughed. "Well that's wonderful to hear but I haven't asked you to marry me yet."
"Oh." Rory said realizing she had jumped ahead in the conversation.
"What I was going to say was I'm ready when you are but I don't want to rush into getting married just because of the baby. So if that's the only reason behind you wanting to get married I don't think we should."
"Dean I would never just marry you because I got pregnant. I'm in love with you. Until you came back in my life recently I stayed up at night thinking about you, wondering where you were, who you were with, if you were thinking about me. I've always known that you were the one for me and I'm so glad I now have another chance to make up for the mistakes I've made in the past."
Dean reached for her hand to hold. "I think we will both know when the time is right."
"Yeah, I think we will too."
Rory's cell phone began to light up the console.
"Now I notice it ringing." She said annoyed as she picked it up. "Hello."
"I'm sure you've figured it out by now but your grandparents are full of it. Everything they told you two…lies."
"Actually I fell for it, believe it or not, but Dean filled me in with what was really happening once we were on the road."
"So how did they know before you told them?"
"I don't know, I didn't say anything until you got there. You heard the whole conversation. You think they knew ahead of time?"
"Emily and Richard do not think that well on their feet. They had to have known what you were going to tell them, they were just way too prepared. Did you and Dean mention the baby while you were upstairs?"
"Well…yeah I guess we did. That is the reason why we were up there in the first place."
"And their hand is finally revealed."
"You think Grandma was spying on us?"
"No I don't think, I know she was. If only you could have heard some of the things they said after the two of you left."
"Like what?"
"No Rory, you really don't want to hear that kind of stuff."
"No, I want to know. Just tell me."
"Well I told them that the two of you were going to be moving in together soon and they completely disapproved. They asked once again when the two of you started dating again and I told them. They didn't like the answer I gave…because it happened right away they think that you are staying with Dean out of pity."
"Mom you know that's not true."
"Yes I do but that's not even the worst of it."
"Geez what else did they say?"
"Well if I remember correctly I will do my best to quote them exactly…You are her mother Lorelai, you have to fix this. That boy has no future, at least when you got pregnant it was with someone worthy of marrying."
"Its worse then I thought it would be."
"Yeah, I know it hurts to know how they really feel but I wanted you to know the truth. You're an adult now and there is no reason why they shouldn't treat you like one."
"I'm glad I know how they really feel. It makes a big difference."
"Alright well I'm sure Dean is sitting next to you dying to know what is going on so I will see you tomorrow?"
"Yeah, we can stop by tomorrow. Mom, you do know that I'm spending the whole weekend at Dean's place?"
"Yeah I do. And about that… I was going to tell you if you are ready to move in with Dean now, you can. You don't have to stay the extra few weeks; I can tell the two of you are ready. I don't want to hold you back."
"Thanks mom. We can talk more about it tomorrow."
"Alright, well don't do anything I wouldn't do. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye."
"Bye."
Just as Rory hung up the phone they were pulling into his driveway. She could feel the tears coming but tried to hold them back, she was unsuccessful."
"Rory, what's wrong?"
"It's over. You got what you wished for."
"What's over?"
"My relationship with my grandparents, they said horrible things about us to mom after we left. They don't want me to be with you."
"Rory I didn't want this to happen but I had a pretty good idea how they were going to take the news. When I said that we would be better off without them…I really meant me. If you still want to have a relationship with them, that's fine with me."
"No, I don't want a relationship with them. If they can't accept you as being the person I want to spend the rest of my life with then I don't need them."
"Hey, you got to cheer up. You are letting them have too much of an effect on you. Don't let them ruin our first night back together for what seems like forever."
"You're right, let's go inside. All of this stays here in the car and tomorrow it will be gone completely."
They began their walk to the front door and Rory realized she hadn't told Dean the good news after the bad.
"I do have something positive to tell you…"
"Yeah, what's that?"
"Mom said she doesn't mind if I move in with you right away."
Dean smiled. "Well then we have something to celebrate." He said picking her up and carrying her through the doorway. "Welcome home."
