The night before they left for the cabin Lorelai was packing her stuff as Luke wanted it all ready to go so they could leave early in the morning. Eventually she was finished and started lugging her luggage downstairs.

"What's all this?" Luke asked walking into the hallway where Lorelai had left her stuff.

"My stuff, you said you wanted me packed tonight."

"No."

"What do you mean no?" Lorelai asked confused.

"I mean no way. We are going for two weeks there is no way you need this much stuff, how do you even own this much stuff, I honestly don't think I own this much stuff."

"Luke we are driving we can bring as much as we want."

"Not that much, half it at least."

"Half? Do you want me to walk around naked?" She asked outraged then saw his smile, "don't answer that."

"Half at least, half will still be far to much. You know it's going to be really warm there, that's why we go in the summer."

"I know. So?"

"So you only need clothes for warm weather, maybe one normal set of clothes but you can wear them up. And you don't need 14 outfits, you can rewear outfits. Even 14 outfits wouldn't take up that much space, how much have you packed?"

"I wanted to have options." Lorelai mumbled.

"Seriously? No, go fix it."

"Luke it won't do any harm."

"We won't have room to store it and you won't touch half of it and it will just make the car cramped and heavy."

"Luke come on."

"That one and that one." Luke said pointing at the biggest one and a medium-small one, "and that in generous."

Lorelai frowned but an hour later she was back with the luggage he had suggested and another small bag, all stuffed with clothes.

They left early the next morning and arrived at the cabin early that evening, it was a trip that neither Lorelai or Luke would suggestion should be taken with toddlers.

They went inside and Lorelai was really impressed, it was a lot bigger than she was expecting it to be.

Luke was giving the three of them a tour. He showed them the downstairs that was really nice and spacious and then showed them upstairs where there were 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. He showed them the twin room Rory and Jess would be sleeping in first.

"This is going to be where you two sleep." Luke said sitting their bags inside the door, "this is wear I used to sleep when I was a little boy and I came here." He explained as they each jumped on a bed. Luke was thankful that there were no arguments about who got Which bed.

"This was the room my mum and dad would sleep in." Luke said leading them into the room next door, "I guess that's were we will be." He smiled at Lorelai.

"If you would rather take another room Luke that's ok." She smile back.

"Nah this is the only one with a double bed in it." He said.

"We can squeeze onto a little bed, it will be nice and cosy." Lorelai smiled at him.

"No we will stay here." Luke said.

"Only if you are sure."

The next morning they all got up early and after breakfast they went outside and drove 5 minutes to a place where you can rent a boat for the day.

"Let's get the little swan pedalos they are so cute." Lorelai said pointing off to the side.

"You want to pedal all day or you want to sit on a boat all day?" Luke asked.

"Good point."

20 minutes later they all had life jackets on and they where being brought out to their small boat. Luke who had done this every year with his dad knew exactly what he was doing.

Before they knew it they were out on the water.

"Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow, missy." Lorelai said grabbing Rory as she ran to the edge of the boat, "don't run, if you fall you might fall into the water and you could get hurt." She told her gently with one arm around her stomach. With the other arm she reached out to Jess, "Come here mister, I don't trust you for a second." She looked at him and saw the mischievous look she was expecting.

"Hey Luke," she shouted up at him, "come sit with us."

They sat together on the boat on the water for hours, playing silly games or trying to explain silly games that where just to complicated so they went back to the easier silly games.

"I guess eye spy is just too hard when you don't know your alphabet." Lorelai concluded after trying to explain it.

"We could do it with colours," Luke suggested, "I spy something red."

"Yeah!" Lorelai smiled, "ok guys, someone says I spy something and then the colour it is and then everyone else has to guess what they are hinting at and you can't change it when someone guesses what you meant."

"For example," Luke said seeing the confused looks as they tried to process that, "if I said I spy something blue I could mean the sky or the water or that bucket." Luke said pointing at the blue bucket over to the side.

"I spy something red!" Jess said.

"Now we have to guess what Jess is looking at that is red and if we get it we get a go." Lorelai said.

"A crab." Lorelai guessed, Jess shook his head.

"A buoy." Luke guess and at the three confused faces he got he added "the thing floating in the water." Jess shook his head.

"Luke that isn't a boy you idiot," Lorelai laughed, "it's just a piece of plastic."

"Yeah I know, a sea buoy, not like a little boy, b u o y."

"Oh."

"Daddy's T-shirt?" Rory guessed and Jess shook his head.

The guessing went on for a while until Lorelai had to guess it correctly, Jess had been staring at a piece of red rope the whole time and Lorelai and Luke had been running out of red things to guess. Somehow Rory always seemed to find something else that was red to guess.

"Is it that rope?" Lorelai asked innocently pointing at the rope Jess had been staring at.

"Yeah!" Jess said impressed that she got it.

"Ok my turn , I spy with my little eye something that is yellow."

"The sun." Rory got it in one.

"Good job sweetie! Your turn."

The game went on until lunch time when they ate their preprepared lunches they brought with them.

After lunch Luke got his fishing stuff out and Rory and Jess sat either side of him watching him intently as he to,d them about fishing and they waited for a fish to bite, something that they were both certain would happen despite Luke telling them it wasn't too likely.

Lorelai who had no interest in fishing lay on the deck, sunbathing, happy that the kids where safe.

By dinner time and the time they had to return the boat they had miraculously caught not one but two fish that Luke had decided would be dinner.

Just because Jess and Rory are amazing fishers," Lorelai said as they all got in the car, Rory and Jess swelled with pride, "doesn't mean you have to punish me by making me eat fish."

"I'm not making you do anything." Luke countered.

"Oh good, I was hoping you were joking what are we doing instead."

"No I'm making fish, you are welcome to eat it or not."

"Luke!"

Luke just smirked at her.

Lorelai leaned close and whispered so that only Luke could hear, "if you aren't careful, I'll tell her that the food you want to make is her little friend from earlier on."

"Don't." Luke said louder, "fish is good for her, unlike all that red meat you eat."

"Fine but can we at least get a good sauce?"

"Sure we can stop at the store on our way back."

Later that night Luke and Lorelai walked down the stairs after putting Jess and Rory to sleep. Luke walked over to a draw and started looking through it.

"What are you looking for?" Lorelai asked walking over behind him.

Luke kept looking and pulled out a deck of cards, "5 card draw?" He asked.

"Oh," Lorelai gapsed running over to the arm chairs next to the small coffee table, "you're on!"

Luke walked over and took the other seat and felt out the card.

Lorelai fumbled through them, "hmmmmm," she considered, "give me four." She said flowing four onto the table.

Luke dealt out four more. Lorelai picked them up and made a face, "four more." She threw them back.

"You can't have four more. Those are the four I dealt you."

"Well those don't help me and I have vowed to remove all negativity from my life. Like the lettuce from dinner and now these four cards."

Luke rolled his eyes but gave her four more anyway.

"Oh much better, thankyou!" She smiled at him and he just rolled his eyes.

Many games latter Lorelai groaned, "how are you so much better at this than me? Why are I the lucky one?"

"It's not luck," Luke chuckled, "You are just really really bad."

"Hey that's mean!"

"A few hands ago you got a really good hand and told me what it was."

"I was excited ok?"

"Last one, it's getting late." Luke said as he went on to win the hand.

"Do we have monopoly here?" Lorelai asked as they walked up to bed.

"Yeah, we've got loads of board games."

"Well tomorrow night we are playing monopoly because I am really good at monopoly and I want to beat you."

"Ok," Luke laughed, "but I must remind you I own my own business and I'm not too bad at it myself."

"I am going to win." Lorelai replied.

"I'm not going to let you win."

"You better not. My victory will be righteous."

"Ok crazy lady." Luke yawned getting into bed.

The next day they spent the whole day at the cabin or rather the area just outside the cabin next to the lake. There was a small sandy bit round to the side where they used buckets to build a huge sand castle.

"Can I jump on it?" Jess asked in the late afternoon.

"Nooo!" Rory cried out, "You can't ruin it, it has to stay forever."

"It won't stay forever, it might stay for a few days, but not forever." Luke told her.

"No."

"Yes Rory," Lorelai said gently, "but that's ok."

"No." Rory crossed her arms.

"Can I jump on it?" Jess asked again.

Rory started to cry. "No Jess, don't ruin it." Lorelai said putting her arms around Rory.

"It's ok sweetie. How about this, how about everyday that we are here we come out and fix it up, we can make it a little better every day until we go home." She suggested to them.

Rory nodded and Jess said, "then we can jump on it."

"Just before we go home." Rory said to Jess and he nodded in agreement.

"Good girl." Lorelai kissed her cheek.

On the way back inside Luke whispered in her ear, "we are doing the stupid sand castle everyday now are we? And getting sand everywhere?"

"Yep." She grinned at him turning around and walking backwards, "isn't that fun?"

"Loads of it." He said sarcastically and then did a weird dance, "it's everywhere." Lorelai laughed at him and then went inside.

That evening they did play monopoly, it was a long game and a close game but Luke just about best her.

"No fair, you were cheating!" She accused him as they went up to bed.

"No I wasn't."

"You were the banker, the banker has it easiest to cheat he has all the money."

"I was the banker because when I asked you if you wanted to be the banker you said and I quote, 'the banker? Ewww, no.'"

"So you admit that you were over eager to be the banker?" Lorelai asked him.

"Liz is coming tomorrow." He changed the subject.

"I know."

"Are you ok with it still?"

"It's a bit late not to be."

"Lorelai..."

"I'll be fine Luke, I promise." She kissed him softly.

The next day shortly before lunch Liz did in fact show up.

"Hey big brother." She said walking into the house and seeing them all sat in the kitchen.

"Hey Liz." Luke said standing up to help her with her bag.

"See Lorelai only one bag." He pointed out.

"Well She is only staying for a few days we are staying for to weeks in proportion she has more than me." She said to him and then turned to Liz, "Hi Liz." She said civilly.

"Hey." Liz said looking at the floor.

"As I've told you before, we have a magically thing called washing stuff, that means you don't need new clothes for each day."Luke said as he disappeared up stairs with Liz following him.

"Mummy?" Jess asked looking slightly uneasy, "who's that?"

"That's daddys sister, sweetie." Lorelai explained, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah mummy." Jess said coming over to her and climbing onto her lap.

"You sure? What's up?" Lorelai asked him kissing his head.

"Dunno." He said leaning against her.

"Ok. Well you are ok. Daddy and I are just here, ok?" She asked him and he nodded, "Good boy!" She kissed his head one more time.

"Mummy can we have lunch now?" Rory asked.

"In a minute sweets, daddy will make it not me, he'll be back in a second with Liz then we can all have lunch."

Luke and Liz came back downstairs and Luke made them all some lunch.

"Liz?" Rory asked once she finished eating catching everyone's attention, "Are you really daddy's sister?"

"Yeah."

"Why?" Rory asked her looking confused.

"Why am I his sister?" Liz asked looking equally confused.

"That question doesn't really have an answer sweetie." Lorelai told her.

"Oh." Rory said, "daddy?"

"Yes sweetie."

"Can I have a banana?"

"Sure you can." He said and went and got her one, "Jess do you want one too?"

"No." He said then when Luke sat down said, "daddy?"

"Yeah buddy?" Luke replied half expecting to be asked for a banana.

"Can I draw a picture."

"Sure you can, Lorelai did we bring any paper or anything?"

"Yeah I did, I'll go get it." She ran off up the stairs and came back with a wad of paper and a pencil case that held colouring pens.

"Here you go," she said setting them down in front of him on the now cleared table, "now remember, on the paper and nothing else." She told him running her hands through his hair.

"Rory?" She asked, "do you want to draw too?"

"Finish puzzle." She said pointing to the jigsaw puzzle they had started that morning, "Come on then." She held out her hand towards her.

"What are you drawing?" Liz asked Jess and Lorelai froze but didn't say anything.

"Secret." Jess said as he didn't look up from where he was concentrating on the page.

"Ok." Liz laughed a little. She stood up from the table, "I'm going to go unpack."

Luke walked over and sat next to Lorelai, "you alright?" He asked her quietly.

"I'm fine Luke." She smiled at him, "and you don't need to ask me every two seconds either, trust me if I have a problem you will be the first to know."

"I know, I was just checking. And I only asked you once."

"I know, just thinking about the near future."

"Ok crazy lady," he kissed the side of her head and went to sit back up with Jess.

Liz came back down when Rory had finished her jigsaw puzzle.

"Dinosaurs." She said looking at the puzzle.

"It was all in little bits and I put it together to make a picture!" Rory told her proudly.

"Yeah, a jigsaw." Liz said sitting down.

"Mummy, i drew my picture." Jess said excitedly running over to her.

"What is it?" She asked him as he ran straight into her.

"It's you." He said giving it to her.

"Couldn't you tell?" Luke asked smirking.

"Oh yeah of course! Thankyou babe I love it." She gave him a hug and a kiss, "very well done."

"I love you mummy." Jess said.

"I love you too baby." Lorelai hugged him again.

"Can we go fix our castle?" Rory asked.

"Yeah of course we can." Lorelai said.

"Go get your shoes." Luke told her sitting down next to Liz. "We are going to go outside, you know to the mini beach, if you want to come." He offered.

"I would hardly call it a beach." She said, "but sure I'll come."

"I didn't call it a beach, I called it a mini beach." Luke said as Rory returned with her shoes and he put them on her feet.

"Still a bit generous."

Luke just didn't respond but threw Rory up in the air slightly and caught her to make her laugh.

"Come on." And they all went outside to the small sandy area.

"The side fell down!" Rory said pointing looking shocked.

"That's alright sweets we'll just build it up again." Lorelai reminded her as Lorelai, Jess and Rory got to building the castle back up again Liz and Luke sat to the side slightly watching them.

"Is she always like this?" Liz asked Luke quietly so that the others couldn't hear.

"Lorelai."

"What do you mean like this?"

"So energetic, so... motherly."

"Yeah, Lorelai is an amazing Mum." Luke smiled as he looked at them playing, "the best."

"Oh." Liz said then added, "That's good."

"It is." Luke agreed then turned to look at her, "you know I meant what I said before, she doesn't have it in her to hate. She's already coming around, trust me."

"Ok."

They went back to watching the three of them play until eventually Jess ran over to them, "daddy, come see, it's really cooler than before." He grabbed his hands and tried to drag him towards the castle.

"Alright, Jess I'm coming." Luke got up and walked over to the castle with Jess, "and it's more cool not cooler."

"Wow!" He said when he got there, "good job."

Jess and Rory beam with pride, "come on," he said, "let's go inside, it's getting late and you should have a bath before dinner, you are all sandy." He held out his hands and the two of them took one each and they all went back to the cabin.

When they got to the door Luke got Jess and Rory to jump so that they shook off the worst of the sand that was still on them.

They went upstairs where there were two bathrooms. Liz went into the smaller one and Luke started running the bath in the bigger one for Rory and Jess.

After they were finished in the bath Luke took them to their room while Lorelai showered and then they swapped and Lorelai stayed with them while Luke showered.

After a tense dinner and evening Luke and Lorelai put Rory and Jess to bed with a story. After they were asleep Luke and Lorelai remained sitting on the floor for a few minutes.

"How is it going for you?" Luke asked her in a whisper.

"It's ok." She whispered back, "a little tense but to be expected. I never asked you how you felt about this?"

"She's my sister."

"I know that but how do you feel about it."

"I have to look after her. I'm all she's got."

"I know." Lorelai said and then sat silently, letting Luke carry on.

"I guess you are right, it is a bit tense but it is ok. Sometimes I just want to yell at her but I can see she is trying. She's not a very bright girl, not her fault just fact, it can take her a while more to catch on than is normal." Then after a brief pause, "it's a miracle that Jess is as smart as he is. He is only two I know but you can see it in both of them they're bright. They're switched on. Jimmy was about as stupid as Liz was."

"Come on let's go downstairs, it would be good for Jess when he is older and he understands what happened to make us his mum and dad that we be on good terms."

"Yeah." Luke stood up and took her hand and they walked downstairs.

"Hey Liz?" Lorelai got the attention of the girl sitting on the sofa reading a trashy magazine, "want to play scrabble with us? The last two nights we have been playing games and by some stroke of luck Luke has managed to win both nights, but he has no chance with scrabble my vocabulary is way better than his." She rambled slightly and Liz shrugged and said, "sure."

They set up the game and started playing, it became pretty obvious fairly quickly that Liz was going to be coming last and throughout most of the game Lorelai held a small lead.

"No Lorelai." Luke said as she laid out a word about half way through the game.

"That is a word!" Lorelai said in outrage, "you just don't want me to get triple points." She accused.

"Chutzpah is not a word, take it off." He replied.

"Get a dictionary." Lorelai said.

"It's not a word, you can't just make words up.

"Get a dictionary." Lorelai repeated.

"Use it in a sentence."

"Get a dictionary."

"We don't have a dictionary." Luke smirked, "so unless you can use it in a sentence..."

"We do have a dictionary." Liz smirked at him and walked over to the book case and returned with one handing it to Lorelai.

"Ha! Chutzpah, extreme self confidence or audacity!"

"Let me see that." Luke snatched the dictionary from her hands.

"Uh Luke I heard you tell Jess just a few hours ago no snatching, I'm going to have to put hypocrite on this board." Lorelai said and Liz giggled.

"Extreme self confidence or audacity, how appropriate." Luke said sarcastically setting the dictionary aside and holding out the bag of letters for Lorelai to pick from.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." Lorelai smirked at him and he winked at her.

At the end of the game Liz, predictable came last and Luke beat Lorelai by one point.

"No! How?" Lorelai said looking at the scores.

"You beat me by quite a lot." Liz said trying to be comforting.

"Yeah but I wanted to beat him. He must of cheated."

"He just got lucky." Liz said.

"Yeah I was more skilled he just had a few lucky draws, it could happen to anyone."

"You keep telling yourself that." Luke smirked at her.

"What other games do we have here, there has to be something I can beat you at. Do you have risk?"

"Whats risk?" Luke asked her tidying up the board, "we don't have many other games."

"Risk is amazing. We are buying it at the shops tomorrow we need to go anyway. You have armies of different colour and you have to take over the world. I'll explain it better when you can see the board."

"Maybe I'll just read the rule book." He suggested, "you know before I beat you." He smirked at her.

"I'm going to win." Lorelai said with a yawn standing up.

"Maybe." Luke said putting his arm around her shoulder and kissing her head, "maybe not."

"Night Liz." He said as they walked upstairs.

"Night." She replied.

When Luke and Lorelai walked into the room Luke closed the door and pushed Lorelai up against it gently and started kissing her. After a few minutes he pulled away.

"What was that for?" Lorelai asked him as they stayed in the position against the wall.

"Wasn't for anything." Luke said shaking his head, "just wanted to kiss me wife." He said leaning in towards her.

"Well whenever you feel the need, let me know." She smiled and then closed the gap between then again.

The better part of an hour later they pulled on their pyjamas just in time for Jess to come in, "Can I sleep with you?" He asked already climbing onto the bed.

"Course you can buddy." Luke said helping him up.

"You alright?" Lorelai asked him running a hand through his hair as he settled down against her side.

Jess nodded, "just woke up and wanted to sleep with you."

"Alright, go to sleep then, it's late." Lorelai kissed the side of his head.

The next day at the end of lunch Lorelai gasped catching everyone's attention.

"Luke." She said grabbing his arm and dragging him out of the kitchen, leaving Jess and Rory a long with Liz for the first time.

"What is it?" Luke asked her once she finally stopped walking.

"I was thinking about last night." She said as if that explained something.

"Ok. And..."

"And about what we did after we went to bed."

"Ok. And..." Luke repeated smirking slightly.

"And you didn't use a condom." She whispered at him.

"I'm sure I did."

"You didn't, think about it."

"No I definitely did." He said then paused and ran upstairs. He came back down to were Lorelai still stood and shook is head.

"Yeah..."

"Now what?" He asked her.

"I guess we wait." She said leaning against him.

"How could I forget?" He asked.

"I guess I'm just that irresistible." Lorelai joked.

"Yeah that's it." He kissed the side of her neck gently.

"Hey, that's what got us here in the first place." She joked, "Come on let's go back in, act natural."

They returned to the kitchen to see it as it was before.

"Sorry," Luke said, "Lorelai wanted to errrr.." he tried to think of something, cursing himself for not being prepared, "tell me something." He said, well that was the actual truth.

Lorelai rolled her eyes at him acting natural and Liz gave him a weird look but said, "ok."

That night after a game of risk that Liz almost won because Lorelai and Luke where so distracted, but Lorelai got the victory, something she was very happy about, Luke and Lorelai went to bed.

They lay in the dark facing one another.

"So when do we find out if..."

"I'll take a test when we go back home, any sooner and it wouldn't say anyway."

"When are you suppose to you know.."

"You can say period Luke. And end of next week, so about the same time."

"Right."

"Will you be disappointed?" She asked.

"If it's not..?" Luke responded, "a little." He admitted.

"I don't know which one I want." Lorelai admitted. "On the one hand it's our little baby." She smiled, "on the other hand it's too soon."

"I know, but we would be ok." Luke put his hand on her side and she scooted closer.