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Thank you all for the wondeful reviews. Now, because of popular demand, here is chapter 54!

Previously… Diiiing DooongLuke rang the doorbell and listened to the pungent sound. A moment later, a maid opened the door. "May I help you?" She asked him in an accent he hadn't heard before.

"Um, yes, is Mrs. Gilmore here?"

Just Can't Help It

Chapter 54

"Yes she is. Would you like to speak with her?"

Luke thought about answering with a sarcastic remark but decided to save it for Emily. "Yes please. Can I come in?"

"Yes, sir." She stepped aside and motioned for him to go in.

"Thank you."

She nodded. "I will go get Mrs. Gilmore for you."

"Okay."

Luke stood in the lobby nervously waiting for Emily's arrival. He had no idea what he was doing there, but he presumed he would figure it out one he saw her. He heard the clicking of heels on the hardwood floors and looked up to see a shocked Emily Gilmore staring at him. "Luke."

"Hello, Mrs. Gilmore."

"Hello." She said snottily. "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to talk to you… about Lorelai."

"No."

"Mrs. Gilmore, come on. Give me a chance to try and change your mind."

"Luke! I do not want to talk about this. Not now, not ever!"

"Emily? What's going on? I heard shouting?" Richard walked in from another hallway.

"It's nothing, Richard. Everything's fine."

"Mr. Gilmore, I was just trying to get Emily to change her mind."

"Yes well I've tried that many time, but she is as stubborn as a mule, so you might as well spare yourself the trouble and give up now."

"Mr. Gilmore-"

"Please, call me Richard."

"Oh. Okay… Richard, I am not giving up on this. I love Lorelai, and I want her to be happy, but this whole thing with Emily and Christopher has been blown way out of proportion. It's got her really upset."

"What thing with me and Christopher? Richard, did you tell Lorelai that I was siding with him?"

"Yes I did, Emily. It only seemed fair."

"Fair? How on earth does that seem fair?"

"Well, she keeps getting blindsided by her own mother; the least I could do was warn her about the next attack."

"Oh please! You think that is being blindsided. How about when she got pregnant? She blindsided us. How about when she told everyone else in the world about her and Max's engagement before she even thought to tell her own mother?"

"Mrs. Gilmore, the only reason she told everyone else before she told you was because she was afraid of what you would say. She was afraid that you would disapprove, and that, whether she admitted it or not, would have upset her a lot. She really does care what you think, Emily. I don't know why given that most of the stuff the flies out of your mouth is rubbish anyways, but she does. She needed to feel happy before it all got taken away by your stupid opinion. That is why she told you last."

"Do not interrupt me, young man, and do not call me Emily."

"Well I'd call you something else, but I'm trying to keep some composure." She scoffed. "What is wrong with you? Aren't you proud of her? How could you not be? Look at all that she's accomplished."

"What? What has she accomplished? She had a child when she was sixteen. She sleeps around drifting from man to man every few weeks. It's ridiculous! What kind of an example has she been setting for Rory?"

"A pretty damn good one! Yes, she had Rory when she was sixteen, but as soon as they moved out of here, away from you, their lives started to get together. She owns and inn with her best friend now. Sure, she had a few problems with the men in her life, mainly Christopher, but she has me now, and I'm not letting her go. She raised Rory to be a healthy, intelligent young lady. She's never been arrested. Hell, she never even got into any trouble at school… well except for that one time, but the headmaster was being unfair. She got a great education and is going to Yale and is going to have a very bright future. Lorelai has been a perfect role model for her kid, and nothing you can say will change that."

"Emily, listen to this man. He loves our daughter. He knows what he's talking about. If you can't believe that Lorelai has been a great influence on Rory, than something really is wrong with you."

"Listen to this man? The diner man. The man that both of us don't like?"

"You know what, Emily? I suddenly had a change in heart."

"Thank you, Richard." Richard nodded.

"Oh please! He works in a dirty old diner. He doesn't shave, and look at his clothes! He looks like a lumberjack or a mineworker."

"Emily, please…"

"No! He doesn't come from the right family. He obviously has no money, and he is a bad role model too. Remember his nephew Jess and what he did to Rory?"

"That wasn't his fault."

"What? So Rory let him do it?"

"Does this sound familiar to you, Richard?"

"As a matter of fact, Luke, it does."

"Hmm…"

"Don't give me that. It was your fault. You should have taught him better. You should have been there for him."

"Yeah, just like you were there for Lorelai? No offense, but you were always off to some other country, some other continent and leaving Lorelai home with the maids and a nanny. That doesn't sound much like being there for her. Maybe if you were there to keep an eye on her, she never would have gotten pregnant. Have you ever thought about that? Maybe none of this would have happened if you had stuck around a bit more. Maybe that's why she left. She felt like she didn't need you when you were there trying to 'take care' of Rory because she was afraid Rory would get attached and then, one day, you'd just leave. Maybe she wanted to give Rory a different life. She wanted Rory to have a real mother and not just some woman who shares the same genes to come and see her every once in a while. Did you ever think of that?"

Richard was speechless as was Emily. Both of them gaped at Luke as if they were kids in a candy store. With a final nod, Luke turned around, opened the door, and left the mansion in a huff. Richard glanced at Emily, whose mouth was still hanging open. Then, he walked away slowly, silently, and back to his study. Emily was standing in the lobby, all alone, just staring at the door in amazement, like it just popped up out of nowhere. Then, slowly, she turned around and went up the stairs to her room.

When Luke got back to Stars Hollow, he was filled with different emotions. He was extremely proud yet extremely terrified about what he had just done. He thought maybe Emily not only has listened to what he had said but really heard and understood it. He hoped she did. He was also worried that Lorelai might get upset with him if she found out what he did. He knows that she yells at her mother all the time, but she does not like it when somebody outside of the family does it, no matter what the cause. When he got to the diner, he decided to just put it all out of his head for the time being and just get his work done. When Lorelai went into the diner for lunch, they spoke their usual banter and talked about how excited she was about Rory coming home. She also said she had a great idea for a present for a present for Luke, but she wouldn't tell him what. She filled him in with the goings-on at the inn so far that day, and he told her about the strange Kirk encounter. When she left, Luke let out a big sigh of relief. She hadn't found out yet. He just hoped he'd get to tell her about it before somebody else did.

A/N: Ha! I finished it really early! I guess chapter 55 will be here tomorrow (or later today depending on what part of the world you live on). This chapter was really easy to write. It all just kind of flowed out of me. Review PLEASE!