"Think you can do it?" Rory asked Lorelai the following morning as they were walking to the diner.

"Early. Need coffee." Lorelai answered in a monotone voice.
"I take that as a yes."

A caffeine-shot later Lorelai was able to spend some of her attention to other things, which resulted in some serious glaring.

"Okay, what's wrong?"

"How can she do that? In public no less!"

"Who what where?" Rory asked, while looking around crazy.

"Miss Slut over there of course. Look at her all googling over Luke like that. Why won't she immediately throw herself at him?"

Rory observed the situation in a bit different way: "I think she just wants a refill."

"Yeah sure, that's what she'll isay/i. But I know what she's really thinking."

The daughter remained a bit more skeptical. "I'm guessing it has nothing to do with her being thirsty."

Lorelai snorted. "Oh she's thirsty alright, but it ain't coffee that can satisfy her. And...oh now look!"
"What?!" Rory asked, hoping that the conversation would take a more normal turn...if such a thing was possible with her mother.

"He gives her a refill." Lorelai answered in a tone that indicated Luke had thrown himself right in front of the lions after marinating himself as well.

"Luke runs a diner, he gives people coffee for money. Strange as it may seem, it's actually a tradition around here."

"That's not giving her coffe, it's foreplay! And I need a refill too."

Rory got a slightly grossed look on her face: "Refill as in needing coffee and not as in foreplay...right?" she asked hopeful.

"I am appalled by the dirty thoughts that you youngsters have nowadays."

"Notice how you still haven't answered my question."

"I have the right to remain silent."

"No, that's only a theoretical possibility."

Lorelai faked another appaled look. Then she just gave up, sighed and said: "Why did I have to make you so smart?"

"So that later I'll make lots of many and give you a great pension...if I still love you by then."

"Fine, no more 'sex' and 'mother' in the same sentence."

"Who's having sex?" Luke asked as he came to the table with coffee and instantly refilled Lorelai's mug. Lorelai however quickly jumped up and yelled: "Don't you sneak up on me like that again. And we were having a private conversation, thank you very much."

"You really think that any conversation in a crowded public place can be considered to be private?" Luke asked with his typical cynical tone.

"It would be very civilized if they all put their fingers in their ears."
"You know, I really wonder on what planet you actually come from." was all Luke answered as he walked away to serve other customers.

Rory sighed a bit, relieved that the sex-talk was over and that her mother was still able to talk 'normally' to Luke despite her new discovered-feelies. Else the talks she'd had with her would probably be even worse. She picked up the remains of her food and wanted to say goodbye to her mother until she saw a big smug smile on Lorelai's face.

"Okay, what turned your mood around."

"He thinks I'm out of this world."

"Yeah, most people tend to think that after they met you." Rory answered, but her words obviously didn't came through Lorelai's pink pancer of love.

" And unlike certain people, I don't have to beg for a refill."

Rory realised that her mother was now officially a hopeless cost. "You have fun dreaming on and I'll go back to the real world. See you tonight mum."

"He thinks I'm special."