Disclaimer: Sadly I still don't own Gilmore Girls. working on it though ;) hehe just kidding, I have no chance of ever owning Gilmore Girls.

THIS IS CHAPTER 9.B (read the note on chapter 9.A)

"No." The one word shattered everything Dean had hoped and planned for. But what could he do? That was it.

"Lorelai Gilmore, the doctor will see you now." And with her cue, she exited stage left, right out of his life.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Lorelai was sitting at the counter in Luke's Diner.

"Luke, did you know Rory's pregnant," Lorelai inquired out of no where.

"I knew something was wrong - no coffee is a bad sign - but. I'll kill Jess for this! Would you prefer him medium-rare or well down when I cook him alive?!"

"Woah! Slow down butcher boy! Jess isn't the father. Dean is."

"Oh." Luke took a moment to process this information, during which Lorelai thought he looked stupidly cute. "Are they getting married?" he asked.

"She turned him down. And she won't say anything about it or him or the baby. She's hardly said anything at all since the proposal yesterday. And I don't wanna push her because her because it'll make me feel too much like my mother." Lorelai stuck her tongue out and made a gagging noise at the possibility that she might actually do something like her mother.

Luke laughed at the time too, but the entire Rory being pregnant thought, or rather, reality, scared him.