Kylie thanks for everything.
PLEASE o PLEASE give it a chance, you know me and how LL oriented I am. Please read the whole way through
Alyssa1120 this is for you and your request.
Enjoy and PLEASE give it a chance (when have I let you down before? On LL)
SuNdAy FeBrUaRy 21 ThE MaStEr BeDrOoM
"Why do you insist on this?" Luke asked, he sounded annoyed.
"Because it's fun to have memories like this" Lorelai was taping Luke changing the twin's diapers after their baths, so they were lying naked in their little robes on Luke and Lorelai's bed.
"Naked memories are never fun"
"How do you know? Do you have some of those memories?"
"I'll never tell, and there is no way for you to find out" she said with a smirk.
"You're evil. Now, get to dressing them or they'll get cold"
"Are you still gonna tape this?"
"Yes" Lorelai stated and Luke sighed, he grabbed Ricky and placed him right in front of him and next to the clothes and diaper stuff. "Smile, Ricky. Come on smile for Mommy" Lorelai said, camera focused on Ricky's face, on the other side of the bed Sean gurgled.
"I think he wants some attention also" Luke motioned with his head to Sean.
"Hi Sean, you wanna do that again so Mommy can get it on tape?" Lorelai asked and Sean just looked directly to the camera.
"Do you wanna focus that thing over here so we can get this over with?" Luke asked, he had stopped putting on Ricky's diaper because Lorelai had said she wanted it on tape, so right now Ricky was lying with his diaper opened and his tushy powdered.
"Fine" Lorelai turned the camera and Sean gurgled again. "Hey" Lorelai whined and turned the camera back to Sean, he only stared at her.
"Lorelai?"
"Ok, ok" she turned the camera back just as Ricky passed air and made the powder on his tushy seem like it exploded. "Oh my God!" Lorelai said laughing making the camera shake. "I got it on tape, I got it on tape!"
"Hey baby, you don't gurgle but you have your own way of calling for attention huh?" Luke asked Ricky who squirmed a little at the sound of his father's voice.
"Aw that's so cute" Lorelai cooed and Luke gave her a pointed look. "Not cute, handsome, masculine but not cute" Lorelai clarified. Sean gurgled again. "You better hurry up because he's getting impatient"
"Then put the camera down and help me"
"Nah, you've got it covered" Lorelai teased and kept taping everything.
"Thanks" Luke replied sarcastically.
ThE AtTiC
"Sam! Sam! Where are you?" Jess entered from the door that went directly to the backyard and he ran all over the living room without looking around.
"Jess?" Sam asked from the couch where she was reading one of the books Lorelai had given her about pregnancy and what to expect.
"Where have you been?" he frowned and Sam couldn't help but laugh.
"Sorry I had my invisibility cape on, I just took it off so don't worry" she teased.
"Huh?"
"Never mind, why were you looking for me?" she out the book down and focused on Jess.
"It's here" he waved a letter in the air.
"What's here? What's that?" she frowned at the letter.
"Lane just handed it to me"
"She handed what?"
"The letter, pay attention, Sam" he went over and sat in front of her on the coffee table. "Look, it has the Dragonfly's address on it"
"Oh my God!" Sam now knew what it was. She had sent in her plate over with a resume with a fake name and address, which Jess and Lane helped with, Jess made the resume and Lane let her use her apartment address.
"I know and here you were playing around with invisibility cape" Jess snickered.
"What does it say?" Sam asked nervously.
"I haven't opened it yet, it's against the law to open mail that's not yours"
"Jess! There's no time for jokes, open the damn letter and tell me what it says"
"Why do I have to open it?"
"Because I'm too nervous right now and… because I'm pregnant with your kid and I said you should open it" Sam added with a firm nod.
"Lorelai told you to use that against me, didn't she?" he narrowed his eyes at her.
"Maybe, I'll never admit to anything" she crossed her arms over her chest.
"You know that just proved me right" he raised and eyebrow.
"Jess, the letter!"
"Right, right" he snapped out of it and opened the envelope. Jess was reading everything carefully as Sam ate her fingernails, she really wanted this job.
"So?" Samantha asked in a small shaking voice.
"Umm…" Jess had a straight face. "It says you have to go to the Inn on Friday to meet with Sookie and the other person whom you'll be working with!" he started serious and ended all excited.
"Are you serious?" she was shocked.
"You did it, you amazed Sookie, and you got the job"
"Ah!" Sam shrieked and leaned forwards to hug him tight. "I got the job, I got the job, I got the job" she moved from side to said still hugging Jess.
"I heard, are you glad?"
"I'm more than glad" she assured him.
DoWnStAiRs
"Mom, we're here!" Rory called, her and Julian were walking upstairs.
"We're making a video" Lorelai's voice came from hers and Luke's room.
"Gross Mom! Not to mention dirty and highly inappropriate to yell to your daughter"
"Ha-ha, smile for Mommy" Lorelai opened the door and still had the video camera with her.
"Mom" Rory whined.
"Hi Julian"
"Hey" Julian did a little wave
"Is dinner ready?" Rory asked, that's the reason they were there, Lorelai had wanted a family dinner.
"Not quite, it'll be like 2 or 3 more hours" Lorelai told her still taping everything. "Do something for the camera, honey" Rory made a weird face and Julian smirked.
"Dad?" Rory called to the ceiling.
"Leave them alone, Lorelai" Luke's voice came from the bedroom.
"Cry baby" Lorelai mumbled while turning off the camera.
"Speaking of which, where are the boys?"
"Their cribs" Lorelai pointed to the nursery's door before walking back into the bedroom where Luke was lying on the bed. Lorelai told him that he was to take at least one weekend off of the Diner a month to spend with the family, and in those weekends Lorelai liked having Rory there also.
"Oh! Come on" Rory grabbed Julian's hand and they went over to the nursery.
"They've gotten so big" Julian whispered looking at the boys sleeping.
"I know, every time I see them, they look bigger" Rory said in awe, she reached into a crib and carefully lifted Ricky. "You wanna hold him?"
"Sure" Julian put his hands like Lorelai had told him so a while back, Rory carefully placed Ricky on his arms and Julian cuddled the baby to his chest. Rory went over and picked up Sean.
"Hi guys" she whispered. "Is it true you're heavy sleepers and noise doesn't affect you?" Rory asked and the boys kept sleeping.
"They still breathe fast" Julian noted.
"That's how babies breathe, their lungs are way smaller" Rory explained, at first it also freaked her out so she investigated it.
"I know, but it's still fast"
"You should listen to their heart beats" Ricky whimpered.
"Umm Rory?" he sounded freaked out.
"He's ok, aren't you Ricky?" Rory cooed and the whimpering stopped.
"Wow, you're good at that"
"Yep, can you believe I used get freaked out by babies"
"You do great with babies" he told her.
"Find a new topic or I'll have to hurt you" Luke said walking into the nursery.
"Luke…" Lorelai warned.
"Sorry sir, no more baby related topics" Julian said with a nod after he gulped.
"Don't listen to him, Julian" Lorelai told him. "And you might want to stop calling him sir, just a friendly advice"
"Yes, Lorelai; Sorry, Luke" Julian said, he had started sweating.
"Are you ok?" Luke asked him.
"He's fine" Rory waved it off.
"I think you should go start dinner" Lorelai told Luke.
"Right. Good to have you here guys, but no baby talk" he narrowed his eyes at Julian before walking out of the nursery.
"He's weird" Rory commented.
"He's overprotective that's what he is" Lorelai mumbled. "Are you ok here or did the boys already annoy you?"
"We're good; you can go downstairs and annoy Luke"
"Thanks Hon" Lorelai smiled and left the nursery.
"Follow me please" Rory told Julian and the both walked out of the nursery and over to her room. They placed the boys in the center of her bed so they could keep an eye on them.
StAiRwAy To ThE AtTiC
"Are you going to tell them now?" Jess asked Sam, they were walking downstairs to the family dinner Lorelai wanted.
"I don't know, probably just Rory since she already knows I applied for it" Sam was thinking about tell them at dinner, all of them, but then she just wanted to avoid getting bombarded by questions in the middle of dinner. "What do you think I should do?"
"Sorry but it's your decision" Jess lifted his hands.
"Great, I was fearing you'd say that"
"Come on…" he opened the door that led to the second floor hallway. "... It can't be tougher than telling them we're pregnant"
"True" Sam nodded.
"Sam" Rory's head popped from her bedroom's door, Julian had told her never to leave him alone with the twins because he got too nervous.
"Rory" Sam brighten up considerably Rory will know what to do.
"Come here so I can look at you" with that Rory went back into her room.
"She is very odd" Sam noted and Jess nodded.
"I'll go see if Luke needs help" Jess told her, gave her a quick kiss and went downstairs, Sam went over to Rory's room.
"Hey, Julian" Sam gave him a little wave. "Hey guys" she whispered, the boys were still sleeping.
"Hi Sam, you look great" Julian said shyly, Rory and Luke once told him he needed to compliment every pregnant woman, no matter what.
"Umm thanks" Sam giggled and Rory laughed knowing why Julian had done that. "Hey Rory, guess what?"
"You got Jess to wear pink?"
"Hahaha no, but God knows I try every day" Sam laughed. "I got a letter form the Inn today"
"Oh my God! And, what did it say?" Rory asked anxiously.
"I got to go there Friday, I got the job" Sam had a big smile plastered on her face.
"Eek" Rory shrieked quietly, so not to wake the twins.
"I know" Sam jumped a little and Rory went over to hug her.
"Am I missing something here?" Julian frowned.
DiNnEr
"I'm going to tell them" Sam whispered to Jess.
"You're sure about this?" he whispered back.
"Positive" she nodded trying to convince herself.
"Ok"
"Umm… Lorelai? Luke?" Sam asked tentatively.
"Yeah?" Lorelai raised her eyebrows and Luke just turned to look at her.
"I have an… announcement" she stuttered a little.
"Are you pregnant?" Lorelai teased and Sam smirked.
"Umm, yes but I meant something else"
"I figured as much" Lorelai nodded.
"Ok then…" she took a deep breath why am I making such a big deal about this? Sam wondered. "I got a job"
"What? No, you're not going to work, you don't need to work" Luke told her.
"Luke…" Lorelai warned. "What kind of job?"
"I'll be working for… umm, for Sookie"
"For Sookie?" Lorelai frowned. "She didn't mention you had applied"
"She doesn't know" Jess told Lorelai, this was the part Sam didn't want to tell, she thought they'd take the whole lying thing badly. "We applied under a fake name and with Lane's address"
"Why? Sookie would've given you the job, she knows how much you like to cook" Lorelai said frowning.
"I know, and that's why we did it this way. If I got the job I wanted it to be because I deserved it and not because I knew the owners of the Inn" Sam explained.
"That's a very high risk you took there" Luke told her.
"I know" Sam said shyly.
"And I bet it made you feel way better to know you got it because you deserved it" Luke added with a smirk, Sam smiled.
"It felt awesome, still does" she said giddily.
"Good" Luke told her. "I'm sure Sookie won't work you too hard"
"So you're ok with the job?" that made Sam feel way better, even thought they were all adults there, except the twins, having Luke's approval was like having a fathers seal of approval; it felt great.
"Yeah, but you're still going to work at the Diner" Luke pointed to Jess who rolled his eyes.
After dinner, dessert, and a few minutes spent in the living room all together, Rory and Julian left because they had school the next day. Luke and Lorelai took the twins upstairs after Rory had left. Jess and Sam stayed in the living room watching TV for a while before going to the attic. Yeah they had a TV in their apartment but watching it downstairs gave them that being home for the weekend feeling college students had.
MoNdAy MaRcH 1 ThE DiNeR
There was a lull going so Luke decided to use this time to talk to his employees about a few changes he wanted to make on the menu.
"I'm not gonna make burgers with two pieces of meet, that's gluttony" Luke said, again.
"But people are asking for them" Lane argued. "Right Clara?"
"Yeah, just on Saturday there were three different tourists who asked for them" Clara said shyly, Luke still intimidated her a little.
"Fine…" Luke blew out a breath. "I'll think about it but if I do add it, and that's a big if, I'll add two more salads"
"Fine by me, nobody orders salads anyways" Caesar piped in.
"Don't help" Luke scowled at him, the bell above the door jingled.
"Is Luke here?" a little girl asked.
"I'm Luke; do you need help with something? Did Lulu sent you because I already told her I can't help her with the sets in busy with…" he began rambling.
"I don't know who Lulu is"
"Ok, then what do you need? Wait, if you're gonna order first I need to know if you have cash"
"Luke…" Lane used that warning tone of voice Rory and Lorelai used. "Hi, I'm Lane, what's your name?"
"Could I talk to you in private?" the girl asked.
"Umm, sure" Luke frowned. "Stop thinking about disgusting things you want to add to the menu" he told 'his crew' before walking over to the other side of the Diner. "What can I help you with?" Luke asked looking intently at the girl.
ThE HoUsE
Samantha was at the house, Sookie had to take the kids to the doctor so she didn't have to go to work today. Right now she was making lunch for her and Lorelai who was upstairs napping.
Damn it! Sam scoffed hearing the door bell they'll wake Lorelai and the twins she hurried to the door.
"Stop with the ringing" she said opening the door fast. "There's people sleeping"
"Sorry, I didn't know" a man said. "Is there a…" he looked down at his clip board. "… Samantha Wyatt here?"
"Yes, I'm her, she's me, I mean…"
"I get what you mean…" the guy rolled his eyes. "Here, I need your signature" he handed her the clipboard. "Here you go…" he took the clipboard from her and handed her an envelope. "Wait here or I'll ring the door bell again"
"What is this about?"
"How should I know, I'm just a delivery guy, read the letter" he walked over to his truck, another guy got off and walked to the back of it. Sam kept her eyes on the guys who were unloading boxes and moving them over to the living room, since she was the only one up she needed to see they didn't break or take anything.
"Is there anything else?" Sam asked sarcastically looking at all the boxes in the living room.
"Nope, that's it. Enjoy" and with that they left. Sam drew a deep breath and walked over to the living room; she sat on the couch and opened the envelope.
"What?" she whispered quietly almost in tears.
The letter explained that in those boxes were all of Samantha's old stuff that wasn't welcomed at her parent's house anymore, in a small note with her father's writing it said it took him a lot to get her mother to send it over instead of just throwing it out. After the boxes explanation came the worst part of the letter, which basically told her they were getting rid of her trust fund and taking her out of the will if she insisted on keeping her relationship with Jess and the baby. She had until March 10th, if by then they didn't hear from her and her ending this 'shameful lifestyle' they'd go right ahead. According to her mother she was a disgrace to the Wyatt's name.
Sam crushed the letter on her fists before throwing it against one of the boxes. She was breathing hard trying to hold back the angry tears it's their grandkid for Pete's sake! Sam had actually thought that if Emily and Richard had come to love and accept Rory then her parents could also, but apparently her parents were way worst than the Gilmore's.
She finally started crying when she opened one of the boxes and inside she found her old baby album. It used to say 'Samantha Wyatt' across the top but apparently the Wyatt part had been crossed off as of lately. That was it; that was her mothers way of telling her she was serious about kicking her out of the family.
ThE DiNeR
"I'll try a different approach with you" the girl said with a firm nod. "Because I went straight to it with the other to guys and they both almost had a stroke and I can't afford that… well I can but I don't want to be the cause of a stroke"
"What are you talking about…? What's your name?"
"Sorry, where are my manners, I'm April" she stuck out her hand for Luke to shake it.
"Ok, April, what are you talking about?"
"Ok… see there's this science fair and I really want to win and in order to do so I needed to find something scientific but with a human side also, I took me a long time but I finally knew what to do. I am going to do a paternity test; it's scientific and it has that human side to it all you know. Are breathing?"
"Yes. But… why are you telling me this?" Luke frowned.
"Oh! Sorry, I thought it was obvious"
"What was?"
At ThE HoUsE
"Sam?" Lorelai was walking downstairs and went over to the kitchen. "I thought you…" she trailed off when she saw the empty kitchen. "Huh" she was gonna go upstairs when she heard sobbing from the living room. "Sam, are you…? What's all this?" Lorelai looked at all the boxes. "What's wrong?" Sam kept crying. "Hey, hey" Lorelai went over and hugged her.
"Look" Sam pointed the letter; Lorelai went over to pick it up before she skimped over it fast.
"Oh…" Lorelai whispered. How could they act that way towards their daughter? Not even my parents did that. "What are you going to do?" she asked thumbing Sam's tears away.
"Nothing, there's nothing to do. They made up their minds" Sam said quietly between sobs. "I knew they didn't approve, but I had a tiny hope that with time…" Sam trailed off.
"I know"
"But I guess this kills that hope, doesn't it?" now it was Sam who whipped her own tears away.
"Well, maybe…" Lorelai started and Sam showed her the baby album.
"It used to say Wyatt there, I guess I'm not part of the family anymore" Sam said the last part quietly.
"Aw sweetie. Just because this happened doesn't mean you're without family; you have Jess and the baby, and also us, the twins, Luke, Rory, and me, we're your family now"
"Thanks"
"So… what's in the rest of the boxes?"
"I don't know, and I don't think I want to"
"But…?"
"I'll go get him" Sam said getting up and going upstairs, one of the twins was crying. Lorelai stayed in the living room looking at all the boxes. Her parents didn't seem so bad now; yes they had been mad but they never threatened to take her out of the family. Lorelai blew out a breath before also going upstairs to the nursery.
ThE DiNeR
"I came here to take a hair sample so I can test you" April stated.
"Test me? Test me for what?" Luke was starting to panic; if he had heard her correctly then this was taking a bad turn.
"To see if you're my father" she said that like if it was the most common thing in the world.
"You're father?" Luke chocked out.
"Yes, didn't I explain what my experiment was about? I thought I had" April made a thinking face.
"I-I can't be your father" Luke said and his voice broke like if he was scared. Luckily for him Lane and Caesar were discussing something so they weren't paying attention to what was going on.
"According to my research is between three guys, and Luke Danes is one of those guys, you're Luke Danes right?" Luke nodded. "Then yes, you can be my father. So, can I get some hair? It needs to have the root"
"But… I-I don't even know who you're Mom is… or how old you are"
"I'm twelve and my Mom is Anna" April said getting tired of Luke's evasiveness, I really should've done this like I did the other two; drop the bomb and yank the hair out myself.
"Nardini?"
"Yep, that's my last name. So… hair?"
"And you're twelve?" Luke was turning pale; he was doing the math in his head.
"Yes" she rolled her eyes. Luke seemed to be out of it so she took this moment to yank the hair out just like she had done twice before.
"Hey!" Luke's hand flew to where the hair pull sting a little. That's when April took a picture of him.
"Thanks" she put the hair in a plastic baggie and put her camera away.
"Wait" Luke called when April was opening the door.
"When's the science fair?"
"March 10th" she had forgotten to tell Luke, weird because she didn't forget with the other guys.
"Ok…" Luke nodded still not fully on this planet.
"It's Martin Van Buren Middle School, over in Woodbridge, there's signs everywhere for the fair, so it'll be easy to find" and with that April left.
"Luke?" Lane asked. "Lorelai's on the phone, she says she needs to talk to you" at that Luke snapped out of it, that April girl occupying 60 percent of his concentration.
"Hello?" Luke asked monotone.
"Luke, it's Sam" Lorelai said with a worried voice. Now April occupied 30 percent of his concentration.
"What happened?"
"She got a letter from her parents; they basically kicked her out of the family"
"What?"
"And they sent all her stuff over. They sent her her baby album but the crossed off the last name. She locked herself up in their bedroom up in the attic"
"How could they do that? It's their daughter" Luke said and that brought April back in his mind.
"I know. Anyways, I was wondering if you could bring something over for us to eat. I don't want to give her food poisoning on top of everything else"
"Yeah, sure, I'll be right there"
"Thanks Hon" they hung up, Luke stared at the phone for a while.
"Luke?" Clara asked quietly.
"Huh?" he turned to look at her.
"I asked if we were done because I need to go home" she repeated.
"Umm... yeah, yeah" he nodded remembering what he had been doing before that girl walked into the Diner, and probably into his life.
YaLE
"Jess?" Paris frowned opening the door.
"Hey Paris, is Rory here?" he asked walking in.
"No, she's in class"
"Good, don't tell her I came by" he walked over to Rory's room, Paris soon followed.
"What are you doing?"
"She conveniently got one of my CD's mixed up in one of her boxes and she always forgets to bring it over when she goes to Stars Hollow"
"So?"
"So, I came here to get it. Where the hell did she put it?" Jess asked frustrated.
"Maybe Julian has it" Paris suggested.
"Great, now I'll never get it back" Jess mumbled. "Do you know where he lives?"
"Not really, it's not like I'm the one who's dating him"
"Right, tell Rory I want my CD back" Jess said walking over to the door.
"I thought you said not to tell her you were here"
"Oh yeah… tell her I called" and he opened the door.
"You called when?" Rory asked from the other side of the door.
"Geez!" Jess jumped a little and Rory laughed. "What are you doing here?"
"Umm, I live here" Rory said in a 'duh' voice walking into the dorm room. "What are you doing here?"
"I came for my CD"
"Oh, Julian has it" Rory waved it off.
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to listen to it but we were going out so it's in his car"
"But it's my CD"
"Huh, I didn't see a 'property of Jess' anywhere on it" Rory mocked.
"That's because you didn't give me time to write it on the CD. I bought it and you took"
"You really write that on your stuff?" Paris asked frowning.
"No, but I'm starting to think I should"
"I'd love to continue this stimulating conversation but… I've got class" Rory said grabbing a couple of books after taking some out of her book bag.
"I have to anyways, bring the CD next time you go to the Hollow" Jess said walking out of the dorm room.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah" Rory waved him off before walking in a different direction.
"I mean it!"
"Ok"
ThE HoUsE
"Where's the food?" Lorelai asked twenty minutes later when Luke walked into the house.
"What food?" Luke turned to look at her.
"The one you were bringing for us to eat" Lorelai stated. "You took forever to get here I assumed you were cooking it"
"Sorry, I forgot, I'll go make you something"
"Are you ok?" Lorelai frowned.
"Yeah" Luke said after a deep breath.
"Hey…" Lorelai walked over to him and hugged him. "Don't worry, Sam will be ok" she said and gave him a sweet kiss. Sam, what's wrong with Sam… oh right! Luke thought. Should I tell Lorelai about April? She's already worrying about Sam; maybe I shouldn't give her more to worry about.
"I'll go make lunch" he unwrapped himself from her and went to the kitchen. Lorelai walked upstairs to the attic where she found Sam in the living room watching Soap Operas, Spanish Soap Operas.
"What are you watching?" Lorelai asked holding back laughter.
"I don't know, but she just slapped him"
"Oh, he's been naughty" Lorelai said knowingly and sat next to Sam.
"I'm ok, you don't need to baby-sit me" Sam said after a little silence. "I admit it felt awful to be kicked out of your own family… but it's for the best; for me and the baby"
"Sam…"
"I'll have Jess get rid of the boxes when he gets here"
"You're not gonna look in them?" Lorelai frowned and Sam shook her head. "There might be something there you might want to have"
"I doubt it"
"A toy, or clothes, or a picture or something"
"My parents didn't keep my old toys, I don't fit into my old clothes, and I don't feel like looking at pictures right now"
"Ok" Lorelai nodded. "But think about it, the boxes are ok there for a while, maybe you and Jess and look through them and then toss whatever you don't want. You'll fit back into your old clothes eventually, you're young unlike me" Lorelai added and made Sam smile a little.
"You'll fit into your old stuff also. You're not that old"
"Gee thanks" Lorelai rolled her eyes. "I'll be downstairs ok?"
"Ok" Sam nodded.
"Please watch something else, preferably in English"
"I'm changing the channel right now" Sam assured and Lorelai walked down and went over to the nursery. Sean was gurgling, and Ricky was kicking his legs.
"Hey guys, you're up and didn't cry you're maturing" she cooed. "You're Daddy doesn't like when you do that baby" Lorelai said pulling Ricky's fist away from his mouth, which cause him to whimper. "Don't cry" she rubbing his tummy. "Do you want your funky beaver-teeth pacifier?' he kept whimpering. "I'll take that as a whining yes" Lorelai laughed and went to get the pacifier. "Did you get tired of talking?" Lorelai asked Sean but he was asleep again. "Let's go downstairs with Daddy so we won't wake up your brother" she gave Ricky the pacifier before picking him up.
ThE KiTcHeN
"Hey Daddy" Lorelai said in a baby voice and Luke's head snapped up.
"What?" Luke asked a little scared.
"We were just saying hi, why are you so jumpy?"
"Umm, you just startled me, my mind was wondering and I didn't hear you coming down" Luke said and only stuttered a little.
"Relax, Luke, you seemed tense" she walked to where he was and, balancing Ricky in one arm, she rubbed her hand up and down his back. "You really are tense" she noted.
"Yeah, I got something running around in my head" Luke admitted.
"Oh, what?"
"I made you a turkey sandwich, ok? I forgot we don't have groceries" he changed the subject.
"A turkey sandwich is ok Luke" he nodded and took Ricky from her.
"Hey there buddy… Lorelai, what's that?" he took the pacifier out. "I don't them sucking on this all day long"
"It was either that or his fist" Lorelai told him while grabbing. "Now that you have changed the subject can we go back to it… what's in your mind?" please don't ask me Luke begged in his head.
"Why don't we go upstairs and watch a movie in our room, we can have the boys there also, have a lazy day"
"Luke…?" but he was already on his way upstairs, by the time Lorelai got there both boys were on they bed and Luke was looking through some movies. "Stop" she said placing her plate on the bedside table. "Get over here please" Luke's chin dropped to his chest.
"Is there something wrong with your sandwich?" Luke asked once he was standing in front of Lorelai.
"No, and stop changing the subject, what's wrong? Are you sick?" she asked with fear.
"No, I'm not sick" Luke said taking a deep breath and sitting on the edge of the bed. "Please don't hate me" this is it, I'm gonna tell her, please take this well Luke begged.
"Why would I hate you?" Lorelai frowned and took a seat next to him.
"This… girl came to the Diner today"
"A girl?" Lorelai asked fearing what Luke could have done to have him act this way I knew it was a matter of time before he met someone better, after all I'm still looking bad.
"She's twelve" he clarified knowing where her mind had taken her.
"Oh"
"Long story short, she said I might be her father" he said quietly looking at the floor and after a few seconds he turned to look at her.
"Her…?"
"Father" Luke finished for her. Lorelai said quietly processing.
"And could you? I mean, her Mom and…"
"Yeah it's possible" Luke interrupted her and Lorelai nodded. "I swear I didn't know"
"It's… ok, Luke" Lorelai struggled a little to say that. "I'm not a hypocrite, I can't get mad over this and I know if you knew before you would've done something"
"God, you're great" Luke sighed in relief.
"So... this girl…"
"April"
"April, right" Lorelai nodded. "Ok then, April came to the Diner today?"
"Yeah"
"You wanna fill in the blanks from when she walked in to when she told you?"
"Yes"
"Ok then, let's get comfortable here"
"Thanks" Luke smiled and gave her a kiss.
A CoUpLe MiNuTeS LaTeR
Luke had told the whole story while playing with Sean's legs and feet, it gave him something else to focus on.
"We should go" Lorelai said once Luke finished the story.
"What?"
"To the science fair, we should go" Lorelai stated.
"Are you serious" Luke sounded scared.
"Luke, there's a girl out there who could be your daughter and that's where you'll find out if she is or not, don't you want to know?"
"Lorelai, this could change everything, and I don't deal well with change"
"Luke, you don't want to be like Christopher, do you? Do you want to have a daughter out there whom you ignore just because you have a family?" Lorelai knew that would get to him more than anything else she could have said. Luke took a deep breath and let it our loudly.
"You had to use that approach?"
"I knew it'd work" Lorelai smiled. "So…?"
"March 10th, but you're coming with me, there's no way I can handle this alone"
"I wouldn't miss it" she told him seriously.
"Can we watch the movie now?"
"Sure, go put it in" Lorelai pointed to the TV and then turned her attention to the boys, her mind kept thinking on how things would change if in fact Luke was the father and how it'll affect her and the twins' life. March is looking up to be very dramatic for everybody who lives here Lorelai thought.
ThAt NiGhT
After Jess got there and Lorelai informed him about the letter and the boxes, he convinced Sam that everything was going to be ok and that they should look through the boxes just so he could mock her. Lorelai and Luke agreed on not saying anything about April until they knew what the verdict was.
UpStAiRs
"How are you feeling?" Lorelai asked walking into their bedroom from the nursery carrying Sean, Luke was sitting on the bed with Ricky lying on his lap.
"I don't know. I kinda want to forget the whole thing until we have to go there, but something tells me I won't be able to do that"
"It's kind of a big deal to just put in the back burner like that"
"Yeah a know" Luke turned to look down at the boy on his lap and he couldn't help but smile because that's exactly what Ricky was doing, he was smiling for the first time ever. "Look" Luke whispered to Lorelai in awe, she turned to see Ricky and he was still smiling.
"You're smiling baby, you look so cute" Lorelai cooed. Sean gurgled so they would also coo at him. "Are you jealous?" Lorelai asked the baby in her arms, he gurgled again.
FrIdAy MaRcH 5th
Luke had opened the Diner that morning and left just after breakfast rush, he was going to go close up after dinner rush, the rest of the time he was spending at home with Lorelai and the twins.
"Ok guys it's exercise time, we don't want you getting beer guts now, do we?" Lorelai asked the twins who were lying on the couch; she was sitting on the floor, Luke sitting next to her.
"They don't drink beer" Luke said amusedly.
"Ok then, milk guts" Lorelai said rolling her eyes and Luke chuckled. "Ready Daddy?"
"Sure"
"Ok, and one… and two… and one… and two"
"That's all the numbers you know?" Luke asked teasingly.
"Yes, now keep up" Lorelai was with Ricky and Luke with Sean, they had the babies hands in theirs and they would lift them above the boy's head and then bring them down to their tummy's. "And one… and two… and one…" Luke couldn't help but chuckle. "Stop that"
"Three comes after two, incase you were wondering" he teased. Somehow they had managed to put the April thing in the back burner, most of the time.
"We are not amused by you, right boys?" Lorelai asked and Sean smiled up at Luke.
"I think he's amused by me"
"Shut up, dork" Lorelai teased before laughing. "And now… some leg exercise, and we to the bicycle" Lorelai grabbed Ricky's feet and began moving them like if he was pedaling a bike.
"You are beyond crazy"
"This is good for them, the book said so"
"Well, if the book said so" Luke teased.
"You're getting really close to being celibate again you know" the door bell rang. "Go get that" she ordered.
"But we're exercising and it is very important" Luke said sarcastically while getting up.
"Consider yourself celibate from now till further notice" she yelled once he was out of the living room. Luke opened the door chuckling and shaking his head.
"What are you doing here?" Luke asked, smile disappearing from his face.
"Whoa man, what's with the tude?" Jake asked while pushing his way inside the house.
"I didn't say you could come in" Luke was still pissed at Jake ever since New Years, this was the first time Luke saw him since that day.
"Seriously, what crawled up you ass?" Jake walked over to the kitchen. "Do you want a beer?"
"Is that Jake?" Lorelai asked when Luke walked over to the living room.
"Yes"
"Great" Lorelai mumbled.
"Hey Luke you don't have any beer" Jake went to the living room. "Hi gorgeous" he nodded to Lorelai.
"Jake" she acknowledged.
"What happened to the beer?" and he was back to the important issue.
"There's no beer, we have more important things to buy than beer" Luke told him, truth is that now Luke kept the beer in the fridge that was in the garage, he didn't know why but he felt better that way, no beer inside the house where his boys were.
"Blasphemy, there's nothing more important than beer" Jake took a seat on the lazy boyz. "Hey the boys are on the couch"
"Nothing gets by you Jake" Lorelai mocked.
"Are you two having issues or something?" Jake frowned.
"Mom, Dad, I'm here for the weekend, Julian went out of town and I don't want to be with Paris the whole weekend. I'll be upstairs" Rory went inside and headed for the stairs without even wondering if they had heard.
"Oh Rory's home" Jake acknowledged.
"I'll go put the boys in their cribs" Lorelai said picking them up, Luke kept and eye on her and so did Jake, only he did it with a smirk.
"So… this Julian guy?" Jake asked.
"Don't"
"What?" Jake asked innocently. "I didn't do anything… yet"
"Jake, after you left things last time I don't know how you came back here and how you're acting the way you are"
"Last time, I didn't do anything last time I was here. I think you're getting old and are staring to imagine things"
"Just leave Lorelai and Rory alone"
"I will but let's go buy some beer first"
"Jake…"
"Come on man, or does Lorelai have you on a short leash?"
"You never know when to shut up do you?"
"Mmm nope, I also never know when I've crossed boundaries until it's too late"
"You know, that's not a quality, quite the opposite actually" Luke said annoyed, Jake was getting to him more than he cared to admit.
"Hey, tell Mom at the Diner" Rory walked into the living room.
"Ok" Luke said a little relieved she was getting out of the house.
"Hi Rory" Jake smiled.
"Hi. Bye Dad" and with that Rory ran out of the house.
"She's always so energetic" Jake noted. "So… let's go for a ride or something"
"A ride?" Luke narrowed his eyes at Jake.
"We can go hit a bar, you can be my wingman like old times, what do you say?"
"I have two boys upstairs"
"So?"
"And it's three in the afternoon" Jake gave Luke a 'so?' look. "I'm not going to a bar"
"Fine. Oh, we should go to a club and you can be my wingman"
"Enough with the wingman, and no"
"Dude, what's gotten into you?"
"I'm still pissed at you for what you pulled at New Years Eve and by the fact that you act like your twenty, no wait, scratch that like you're eighteen because I have twenty year olds living here and they don't act like that!"
"First off I have no idea what you mean by New Years Eve. And get off my back! It's not my fault you're bitter or that you got your girlfriend pregnant and now are tied down!" Luke was breathing hard trying to control himself. "Stop acting all high and mighty cause your not!" Jake got up and left with a door slam. Luke stayed in the living room calming himself down.
SaTuRdAy MaTcH 6th
"Well this is a nice surprise" Emily said opening the door finding Luke, Lorelai, Rory, and the twins. After Jake left Lorelai tried to cheer Luke up by telling him they should go out somewhere the next day, Luke agreed but he told her they should take the twins to see Emily because she hadn't seen them in months unlike Richard.
"Hi, Mom, can we come in?" Lorelai asked 'politely'.
"Of course, come in, come in" she moved aside. "Richard we have company!" luckily the twins were awake otherwise Emily's shriek would've woken them up. "Oh my, they have grown so much" she looked into one of the car seats, Luke had one and Lorelai had the other, Rory carried the big diaper bag.
"If we ever get to the living room you can hold one" Lorelai bargained.
"Right" Emily was way too excited with this visit that her manners had flown right out the door. "Richard!" Lorelai was giggling at Emily's behavior.
"Told you we should've brought the camera" Lorelai whispered to Luke. Emily led them to the living room where they took theirs and the twins' coats.
"Oh, would you look at those blue eyes" Emily said in awe.
"Their pediatrician thinks the color will stay" Lorelai told Emily.
"Well let's hope so. For God's sake, Richard!"
"What is so important that you'd…?" Richard trailed off walking into the living room.
"Hi grandpa" Rory said brightly.
"Rory" Richard acknowledged surprised. "Lorelai, Luke, this is…"
"A surprise?" Lorelai guessed.
"That it is…" Richard nodded. "And you brought the twins" he said happily walking over to the two car seats.
"Well since they can't change their own diapers yet we needed to bring them with us" Lorelai teased.
"Aha" Richard said absentmindedly while staring at the boys.
"You can pick them up, Richard" Luke told him almost laughing at how both him and Emily looked, it was like the twins were a display in a museum and they would get arrested if they touched the twins or their car seats.
"Ok, I guess I'm getting our drinks" Lorelai said getting up after she saw both her parents picking up one boy each.
"Richard, he's smiling" Emily said amazed
"Then you have Ricky" Luke said. "And that is Sean's way of asking for attention" he added when Sean cooed at his grandfather.
"They are so smart" Emily was still in awe, Lorelai was happy with just looking at her mother interact with the boys. Rory felt a little jealous because only Lorelai had ever done that with her when she was a baby, but she was ok with it.
Luke was happy, Jake's nastiness forgotten this is what matters he told himself and depending on Wednesday's outcome, our family could grow a little more. He was nervous as hell, Wednesday was approaching fast, that was another reason why they were here; Lorelai was going to find some time alone with Richard and let him know that nobody was going to be home on Wednesday. Luke was snapped out of his thoughts by Richard's chuckled followed by the girls' giggles; Sean had popped a spit bubble. Ricky started sucking on his little fist.
"No sucking" Lorelai said pulling Ricky's fist out of his mouth, he whimpered and put the fist back in. "No sucking" she pulled the fist back out.
"Lorelai, let the poor boy be" Emily scowled at Lorelai.
"Fine" Lorelai lifted her hands in surrender and sat back again. It wasn't long before the boys fell asleep and Emily invited the family for some brunch.
StArS HoLlOw
"I'll make you something for lunch" Jess was in a charming mood. He went over to their fridge and opened the door. "Huh, let's go downstairs and I'll make you some lunch there" he rephrase and Sam giggled, she had been feeling better over the whole letter-boxes fiasco, but the deadline was approaching and that put a little damper on her usually bright and happy mood.
"Let's go" she linked her arm through his and they went downstairs.
"Ok then, like I was saying: I'll make you something for lunch" he opened the fridge and it was just like the one upstairs if not worst; they were going to shop for groceries over at Hartford on their way back. "What do you say we order a pizza?"
"No onion please" Sam said and left the kitchen and skipped over to the living room.
LaTeR At HaRtFoRd
"We're glad you came" Emily said seeing them out, Lorelai had told Richard, she didn't tell him the reason though, he didn't ask just agreed and told her he'd see them next weekend.
"And we're glad you didn't scowled because we didn't call beforehand" Lorelai teased.
"That's true…" Emily said thinking back and it looked like she was about to sermon them.
"We really have to go now, Mom, save that for next time" Lorelai said not even noticing what came out of her mouth.
"Very well then" Emily smiled proudly as if she had won some type of argument.
"The boys are strapped in" Luke informed; he and Rory had gone to the car and were now back.
"Now, we really have to go" Lorelai turned to Emily.
"It was good seeing you" Richard told them.
"You too sir" Luke said and Richard let the sir pass. "We have to go" he told Lorelai and they left after Rory hugged her grandparents goodbye.
At ThE GrOcErY StOrE
"Please try to keep the junk food to a minimal" Luke asked, because he doesn't beg. Lorelai had Sean in his kangaroo bag, and Rory had Ricky; Luke was going to be in charge of the actual food-buying so he needed to be free of distractions.
"And what would the minimal be?" Rory asked.
"I would say zero, but you two can't do that"
"No we can't, we need some junk" Lorelai told him.
"Try half, or less, of what you normally get" Luke said and both girls gasped. "Stop being such drama queens" he rolled his eyes.
"I'm gonna go to the junk isle and decide what to take and what to leave" Rory said and began to walk away. "You coming?" she asked Lorelai.
"In a minute, I want to annoy Luke a little more" Lorelai said rubbing Luke's back now the he was leaning on his forearms on the basket.
"Thanks for including me" Luke mumbled.
"Ok" Rory walked away murmuring stuff to Ricky.
"Come on, teach us how to properly shop for groceries" Lorelai teased.
"Let's go then" Luke straightened up and they began walking, Lorelai was talking and pointing to stuff claiming she was showing Sean all the 'good parts' of grocery shopping.
ThE JuNk IsLe
"You have a kid?" a voice asked Rory and she turned around to see who it was.
"Louise? What are you doing in Hartford?"
"My Mom went ballistic when she found out I had dropped out of college so she told my Dad and the both went ballistic so here I am. So… not so much 'Mary' anymore huh?" Louise moved a little to get a better look at Ricky.
"Actually he's my brother" Rory said and Louise gave her a look. "Seriously, he's my brother and my Mom is around here showing his twin the store"
"Twins? You're so not a 'Mary' anymore" Louise said with a smirk.
"They're my brothers" Rory insisted.
"Right"
"Fine, don't believe what do I care" Rory turned back to her 'junk-picking'.
"Huh, so they really are your brothers" she finally got it, how? Who knows but she got it. "He's cute, call me when he's 18 and maybe I'll pull a Demi-Ashton thing" Louise smiled and walked away, Rory's mouth opened.
On the drive back in order to have a quiet drive Luke had to buy Lorelai and Rory, each, a both of caramel popcorn and he gave both boys a pacifier. The only sounds were of the girls munching and the boys sucking, which was better than the girl yapping and the boys crying.
When they got home Lorelai and Rory took the boys and their stuff and left Luke alone to get all the grocery bags, because that's the men's job. Jess and Sam had gone to the Diner so Luke didn't have any help.
WeDnEsDaY MaRcH 10th
Since it was the deadline for Sam she refused to leave the attic because she felt a tad depressed, no matter what your relationship was, being kicked out of your family still hurt. Jess decided to stay with her, missing a day of classes wouldn't do anybody any harm, on the contrary It would help Sam out.
Downstairs Luke was a nervous wreck and he didn't know why of course I know why! I can be the father of a twelve year old girl! Luke thought. Lorelai was getting the boys ready for the day and making their diaper bag.
"One down" Lorelai said taking Ricky into their room. "You ok?" Luke was standing in front of the mirror just staring at himself.
"What if I am the father?"
"What do you mean?" she place Ricky on the middle of their bed and his fist flew to his mouth.
"I can't be a father to a twelve year old girl"
"Yes you can"
"I know nothing about twelve year old girls" Luke was stressing out.
"There's nothing to know, and what ever you do need to know I'll help you, I'm great with little girls" Lorelai said with a smile.
"You don't have to do that"
"I know I don't have too. Just relax Luke; it's between you and two other guys, your chances aren't that high"
"Right" he said and turned his eyes to the bed. "I think you forgot one" he mocked to show her he was feeling better.
"I knew there was something odd in that picture" she teased and walked back to the nursery to finish up Sean.
ThE AtTiC
"How much of this is pregnancy hormones?" Jess wondered when Sam was sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Jess!"
"Sorry" he lifted his hands in defense. "What are you watching?"
"The Brady Bunch" she sniffled.
"Sam, pick something else, how about Mommy Dearest?" Jess suggested as a joke but was hit on the head with a cushion. "Sorry bad joke"
"Why couldn't my parents be like that?" she asked sad.
"Like Mommy Dearest?"
"Stop that!" she snapped, oh yeah mood swings brought up by stress; lovely.
"Sorry, and that's a TV show, nobody is like that"
"Lorelai and Luke are" she whispered.
"No they're not, have you ever seen them mad, like really pissed off?" Jess asked and Sam shook her head. "Consider yourself lucky then, because that's not a pretty sight" silence.
"Our kid has no grandparents" Sam suddenly said out of nowhere. "My parents disowned me, Liz and TJ hate me, and Jimmy…? God knows how he'll react"
"Our daughter has grandparents" Jess said and Sam smiled, if Jess was something he was stubborn.
"Well yeah she has them, they just don't want her… or me"
"There's Luke and once he's married there's Lorelai"
"Luke is you uncle not your Dad"
"So? If Luke and Lorelai are considering having the twins call Buddy grandpa why can our girl call Luke grandpa?"
"They want the boys to call Buddy Grandpa?" Sam asked in awe and Jess nodded. "I think Luke would make a very good Grandpa. Sam finally said with a smile. "I doubt Lorelai would like the title of 'Grandma' though"
"Because of Rory?" Jess frowned.
"No, because she'll say she's way too young to be a Grandma" Sam was laughing and Jess had to smile because, for now, her parents and their problems were forgotten.
DoWnStAiRs
"You ready?" Lorelai asked Luke who was on the bed talking with the boys while she got ready.
"No" Luke said not taking his eyes off of the boys.
"How about now?"
"Almost"
"And now?" Lorelai asked with a smile.
"Yeah, lets go" he got up and went to get the boys coats and car seats.
"Ok, you guys behave you hear me? No crying a lot, or fussing a lot, and now oozing a lot" Lorelai told the twins.
"Oozing?" Luke smirked at that.
"Yeah…" Lorelai nodded, they were putting the twins' coats on. "Like spit, or drool, or snot, or the white sticky milky thing"
"Gross" Luke mumbled.
"Hence the 'no oozing' rule" Lorelai said and placed Sean on his car seat strapping him in, Luke did the same with Ricky.
OuTsIdE
"Want me to drive?" Lorelai asked looking over at Luke who was just staring ahead.
"No, I'm good" Luke said and turned on the car.
"Sure?"
"Yeah" and he backs out the car and is on his way to Woodbridge.
ThE AtTiC
"You know what the bright side of this is?" Sam asked.
"Just one? Cause I could think of a few" Jess answered, he was sitting on the couch while Sam was lying on it with her head on his lap. She smiled up at him.
"Just one… no matter what happens I'll have this baby as family" Sam said dreamily placing her hand on her tummy.
"You have me too Sam, I swear you do" he looked down at her seriously.
"Come on, Jess, we're college students living together. Face it, the odds are against us" she got sadder.
"Sam no, the odds aren't against us"
"If it weren't for Luke and Lorelai, we'd have nowhere to live, nothing to eat, and nowhere to work. They're what's making us work, not us"
"They're not what's making us work; they have nothing to do with it. Are they making things a bit easier because they know how hard life is? Yeah. Are they babying us and shielding us? Hell no, they don't get in the way with us; they just help when they know we're getting over our heads. If they didn't think we could make it, we wouldn't be living here, they wouldn't be helping us" Sam started crying.
"You really think we can work out"
"No… I know we'll work out. I'm not saying it'll be easy, but we'll make it work"
"Even though we're not married?"
MaRtIn VaN BuReN MiDdLe ScHoOl
"Umm Luke?" Lorelai asked after a couple of minutes of just being parked there.
"I need a minute" he's voice was gruff from not having talked since they left the house.
"Ok. Umm, I'm gonna go get the stroller from the back" Lorelai got out of the car and walked over to the back, she opened it and she could see Luke hadn't moved an inch, she pulled out the stroller and popped it open by the side of the car. "Do I take the boys out or do you need another minute?" this is it, in a couple of minutes my life could change forever, Lorelai's life could change forever, and twins' life and even Rory's life… Jess and Sam also. Damn this could screw up a lot of people. He was lost in thought. "Luke?"
"Huh?" he turned startle to look at Lorelai.
"Do I take the boys out of the car or of you need another minute?"
"No, no, let's go, I'll help you" he got off the car and opened the back door; Lorelai opened the other back door.
ThE AtTiC
"So you're saying that if we were married and not living here we could still make it on our own?" Sam asked, the conversation had gotten more heated.
"We wouldn't even have to be married" Jess assured her.
"Then why don't we do it?" Sam asked a little too excited.
"Do what?" Jess frowned.
MaRtIn VaN BuReN MiDdLe ScHoOl
"Wow, these are some smart kids" Lorelai said walking besides Luke who was pushing the double stroller through the little hallways between experiments.
"Yeah" Luke said absentmindedly, he was scanning all the kids faces looking for that girl.
"I didn't know a potato could do so many different things, to me it's just a French fry, or a chili fry at most" Lorelai kept talking to distract him a big.
"I'll get you one when we get back" Luke mumbled.
"Oh my God" Lorelai ignored what Luke said, she stopped dead in her tracks and grabbed Luke to stop him also, once he turned to see what was wrong Lorelai pointed to the distance. There were three big pictures hanged.
"Oh God" Luke said.
ThE HoUsE
"Mom, are you guys still here or did you already leave?" Rory walked into the house, they didn't tell her what they were doing just that they were going out; Rory's journalist side kicked in and she knew they were hiding something big, something very big. "Mom? Dad?" Rory went upstairs but found no one. As long as I'm here Rory thought and went up to the attic, she knew about the letter-boxes thing. "Sam? Jess?" Rory frown. She called then a little louder and waited for a response, any type of response. Maybe they followed Mom Rory figured.
Rory went along to see what other CD she could steal from Jess and that when she found it.
Sorry Uncle Luke, but we had to do it
-Jess & Sam.
Had to do what? Rory frowned and kept looking at the letter.
For those of you who read the whole thing through you will be rewarded, I am not AMY so please hang in there the continuation is already being worked on so the wait to know if he's the father or not, and what exactly did Jess and Sam do won't be that long.
Tell me what you thought about my take on things. (and no torches if possible please)(Also this chapther was put together in les than 24 hours)