CHAPTER ELEVEN

** Miracles Happen When You Least Expect Them **

Genre: Romance
Pairing: Lane/Dean
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: Lane, Dean, Mrs. Kim, Clara and all other recognizable "Gilmore Girls" characters belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino, Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, and the WB. There is no profit from the copyrighted characters or infringement intended.


This is the final chapter of "Miracles Happen When You Least Expect Them." I'd like to close out by thanking Jeremy Shane, 2Wingo and Defying Gravity23 for their feedback and encouragement to keep going with this story. I guess Lane actually had a "Dean" on the show when she dated Dave, but unfortunately (as with all the hot guys on GGs, except for Luke) we didn't get to enjoy him on the show as long as we should have. I also wanted to write this story to show Dean being with someone like Lane who I'm sure would have appreciated him and been a loyal girlfriend to him. We saw a glimpse of that with Lindsay, but we really didn't know her and so most of us really didn't care when her and Dean broke up.


As Mrs. Kim rose to read her list of dating rules, Dean's father folded his arms and stretched his legs out over his black, leather ottoman with a look of amusement written on his face. He was an avid fan of sitcoms, but since there weren't any more good ones on television, he was going to relish every minute of the live entertainment that was taking place in his very own living room today while it lasted.

"Wow, a list of dating rules. That's just like that show, Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. How many rules does your list have, Mrs. Kim?" Clara asked enthusiastically.

"My list has nine. It used to have ten, but Dean is not Korean, so I scratch that one off my list and the dating rules for my daughter are not simple," she declared.

"Ooh! Ooh! I bet I know the first rule. Can I guess it? Can I?" Clara called out, raising her hand and waving it around eagerly like she was Steven Urkel in an advanced math class trying to call out an answer to a problem.

"Yes, you may guess, but be quick child," Mrs. Kim agreed impatiently.

"The first rule is…. 'You break, you buy!' Am I right? Am I?" she asked excitedly.

"Good one, Clara… that was good!" Dean's father said to her before he erupted into a fit of hysterical laughter.

"Mama, this whole list idea of yours is ridiculous," Lane cried out. "You already know Dean is a nice boy and you can see he comes from a nice family. If you insist on reading this stupid list and embarrassing me, I'm just going to call the whole thing off. I'm really fond of Dean and I want to be with him, but it's not worth it if Dean and I have to be humiliated like this!" Lane declared before she broke down into tears and ran outside.

"Lane, wait!" Dean said as he ran after her.

"I'm so sorry, Dean," Lane apologized, clinging to an elm tree in Dean's front yard, with tears streaming down her face. "Maybe Rory's grandfather's right. Maybe you and she should get back together. Jess is out of the picture now, so it wouldn't be too difficult to pick up where you left off."

"Lane, I don't want Rory back and I don't care about your mother's list of rules. If it makes her happy to stand there and recite them, then let her do it. We're seventeen now. We only have to put up with her rules for another year. Even if we go back in there and says she's changed her mind about letting me see you, I'd wait for you 'til we're eighteen because you'd definitely be worth the wait, Lane."

"Oh, Dean, do you mean it?" Lane asked, not realizing the depths of how much Dean truly cared for her.

"You know I do," Dean answered as he sensuously took her into his arms and kissed her. "I got a feeling 'No Kissing' is the first rule on your mother's dating list," he quipped.

"Well… we're going to have to break that rule as much as possible," Lane laughed.

"As much as possible," he murmured in agreement as he drew her in for another kiss. "I love you, Lane."

"I love you, too, Dean," Lane said back to him. She could not believe she was standing here with Dean, a boy she'd had a crush on for so long, never thinking she'd be able to even kiss him, let alone hear him tell her he loved her. She'd once heard miracles happened when you least expected them and now she knew it was true.

**THE END **