Chapter Six
"This isn't right." Lorelai sighs in frustration.
"You look great Mom." Rory responds, "besides it's Luke, he's seen you at your best and your worst."
"It's not just Luke, Rory, it's my first date with Luke." Lorelai responds. "I have to go shopping."
"Mom you don't have time to go shopping," Rory responds, "besides you've been shopping three times in the last week trying to find the perfect outfit for this date, you couldn't find anything then."
"Maybe I'll find something this time."
"Maybe you can't find anything because you should be wearing something that's you. You don't have to impress Luke, he knows all of you." Rory states.
"You're right," Lorelai nods and she gently touches Rory's face, her daughter had been more withdrawn than she'd since the events of three years ago. "Are you all right?"
"I'm better." Rory responds.
"Good," Lorelai nods, "how was Georgia for you today?"
Rory groans, "I don't think I've ever known a kid to hold a grudge for so long."
"She still won't tell you why she's made at you?" Lorelai questions.
"Not a peep. I thought I'd sit down and try to pull it out of her with bribery, ice cream and a movie."
Lorelai smiles, "whatever works."
"So what are you and Luke doing tonight?" Rory asks.
"Just dinner I guess." Lorelai shrugs, "I don't know about this Rory."
"Mom, you heard everyone in the diner everyone has seen that you guys were in love with each other, it just took you guys the longest."
"You're sure."
Rory nods, "I'm positive, tonight will feel natural."
Lorelai takes a deep breath, "all right, but I'm changing."
"All right, I'm ready!" Lorelai calls down the stairs where Georgia and Rory are sitting on opposite ends of the couch waiting for her to finish getting ready for her date.
"Well come down and show us!" Rory calls back up the stairs.
Lorelai appears at the bottom of the stairs looking classically elegant, in a light blue button down cotton dress with a white ribbon for a belt around her waist, "how do I look."
"You look great," Rory responds, "amazing."
"What time is it?" Lorelai asks.
"Time for you to meet Luke." Rory urges, "you should get going."
Lorelai nods, "all right, if you need anything..."
"We'll be fine," Rory assures. "Have fun."
"All right." Lorelai kisses both Rory and Georgia, the later clings to Lorelai.
"Please don't leave me with *her*." Georgia glares at Rory.
Lorelai easily disentangles herself, "you and Rory will have fun tonight, I think I heard something about movie and ice cream, maybe even pizza." Lorelai winks at Rory over Georgia's head, "I'll be back later."
"So what kind of pizza should we order?" Rory inquires once Lorelai has left.
"I'm not hungry."
"Well you have to eat something, it might as well be pizza."
"I don't want it."
"Well you're going to eat it." Rory's patience is running thin with her sister, after a week of backtalk and trouble.
"I hate you!" Georgia's words are biting, "I hate you! You're not my Mommy and I hate you!" With her words Georgia runs out of the living room and let's the front door bang behind her.
Rory is immediately on her feet and takes off after her but by the time she is outside Georgia has disappeared completely, running back inside Rory slips on her shoes and slams the door shut after her. "Rory!" Lane calls to Rory from across the street, she's pushing a carriage with the baby and Teague has his arm wrapped around Lane's waist.
Rory jogs over to her friend and her family, "have you seen Georgia?"
"No? Why?" Lane asks.
"She kind of flipped out on me," Rory runs a hand through her hair, "started yelling about how I'm not her Mommy, how much she hates me and then she took off and she was gone before I could get to the door."
"Do you want us to help look for her?" Teague offers.
Rory smiles but shakes her head, "she's a little girl, she couldn't have gotten far, but thanks for the offer."
"Call us if you can't find her." Teague urges.
Lane nods, "you have my new cell number, right?"
Rory nods, "thank you guys, I'll see you around." Suddenly Rory is struck with an idea as to where she could be and Rory heads to Luke's despite the fact that she hadn't set food inside the diner since her argument with Jess a week before.
Jess is just coming out of the diner as Rory reaches it, and he has a kicking and screaming Georgia under one arm, "I believe she belongs to you."
"Georgia Grace!" Rory exclaims, "I can't believe you would do that."
"I hate all of you!" Georgia announces, "I wanna go home!"
"She's an angry one, isn't she?" Jess comments.
Rory glares at Jess, "just set her down, we're going home."
"That isn't my home! I want my Mommy and I want my Daddy!" Georgia is sobbing by now and Rory easily lifts her and begins the walk back to the house.
When they get to the house Rory drops Georgia on the couch and then informs, "you are going to tell me what is wrong. Right now."
"You wouldn't understand." Georgia states.
"How do you know?" Rory inquires.
"You're parents didn't die!" Georgia yells.
Rory's eyes fill with tears and she looks Georgia in the eyes, "Georgia my Dad died to, remember he was mine to."
Georgia's lip trembles, "I miss them."
Rory wraps her arms around Georgia, "I know sweetie, I miss them too."
"I just want them to be here." Georgia sobs into Rory's shoulder.
After Georgia's sobs have slowed down Rory asks, "is that what has been bothering you the last week?"
Georgia shrugs, "sort of."
"Well what else?"
"I don't know."
"Yes you do, what is it?" Rory asks.
"You have work." Georgia states.
"You mean with Taylor?"
Georgia nods, "yeah."
"What about my work?" Rory asks.
"I thought you were going to start working and forget about me like Mommy and Daddy used to do." Georgia's eyes fill with tears again.
"They never forgot about you, and I won't either." Rory assures, "I promise I'm not going anywhere, but I do have to work so I can make money so that we can go back to the city when school starts."
"I don't wanna go back to the city," Georgia sniffles, "I like it here."
"We have to go back into the city, Sweetie, I have a job and a life there."
"But everyone here knows you, and they know and like me now too." Georgia hiccups.
"Sweetie we have to go back to the city, I can't live here."
"How come?"
"Because there's bad things here." Rory has to hold back her own tears.
"Like Jess?"
Rory nods, "among other things."
"Like what?" Georgia pushes the question.
"Things I can't explain to you right now, because they are complicated."
"Because I'm to young, Mommy and Daddy always said I was to young to understand things."
"Not because you are to young, because I don't even understand some things myself."
Georgia's face scrunches up, "oh, I thought adults understood everything."
"That's just what we want you to think." Rory smiles at her sister, "how about that pizza now?"
Georgia smiles, "OK!"
"Do you want me to call Dean or Sookie to meet us and bring the kids?" Rory asks.
Georgia nods, uh-huh."
"Well who do you want to come with?"
"Donny's fun to play with, can you call them?" Georgia asks.
Rory nods, "let me go find Dean's number." Quickly thumbing through the phone book Rory finds Dean's number and within minutes she has made plans. "All right, they are going to meet us there, why don't we get your face cleaned up and we can leave."
Georgia nods and hurries off in the direction of the bathroom when she comes back her face is no longer tear streaked and she has pulled her hair into a messy ponytail. "Do you want me to fix your hair?" Rory asks.
Georgia nods, "if you don't mind." Rory sits back down on the couch and Georgia sits on the floor, "can you do the twisty things?"
Rory smiles, "sure." Quickly, easily, she twists the hair into several small twists on the top of Georgia's head and then pulls her hair into a ponytail, "all right, now are we ready?"
Georgia nods, "we're ready."
On the next Gilmore Girls:
Dean leans in and kisses Rory and as they pull apart Dean murmurs, "I've wondered for so many years what that would feel like?"
"And?"
"So you and Dean are what, back together? Because I saw you kissing him." Jess' voice sounds like a mixture between hurt and anger.
"That's none of your business!"
"So how was your date with Luke?" Georgia inquires.
Lorelai rolls her eyes, "it was a disaster, a mistake."
"This isn't right." Lorelai sighs in frustration.
"You look great Mom." Rory responds, "besides it's Luke, he's seen you at your best and your worst."
"It's not just Luke, Rory, it's my first date with Luke." Lorelai responds. "I have to go shopping."
"Mom you don't have time to go shopping," Rory responds, "besides you've been shopping three times in the last week trying to find the perfect outfit for this date, you couldn't find anything then."
"Maybe I'll find something this time."
"Maybe you can't find anything because you should be wearing something that's you. You don't have to impress Luke, he knows all of you." Rory states.
"You're right," Lorelai nods and she gently touches Rory's face, her daughter had been more withdrawn than she'd since the events of three years ago. "Are you all right?"
"I'm better." Rory responds.
"Good," Lorelai nods, "how was Georgia for you today?"
Rory groans, "I don't think I've ever known a kid to hold a grudge for so long."
"She still won't tell you why she's made at you?" Lorelai questions.
"Not a peep. I thought I'd sit down and try to pull it out of her with bribery, ice cream and a movie."
Lorelai smiles, "whatever works."
"So what are you and Luke doing tonight?" Rory asks.
"Just dinner I guess." Lorelai shrugs, "I don't know about this Rory."
"Mom, you heard everyone in the diner everyone has seen that you guys were in love with each other, it just took you guys the longest."
"You're sure."
Rory nods, "I'm positive, tonight will feel natural."
Lorelai takes a deep breath, "all right, but I'm changing."
"All right, I'm ready!" Lorelai calls down the stairs where Georgia and Rory are sitting on opposite ends of the couch waiting for her to finish getting ready for her date.
"Well come down and show us!" Rory calls back up the stairs.
Lorelai appears at the bottom of the stairs looking classically elegant, in a light blue button down cotton dress with a white ribbon for a belt around her waist, "how do I look."
"You look great," Rory responds, "amazing."
"What time is it?" Lorelai asks.
"Time for you to meet Luke." Rory urges, "you should get going."
Lorelai nods, "all right, if you need anything..."
"We'll be fine," Rory assures. "Have fun."
"All right." Lorelai kisses both Rory and Georgia, the later clings to Lorelai.
"Please don't leave me with *her*." Georgia glares at Rory.
Lorelai easily disentangles herself, "you and Rory will have fun tonight, I think I heard something about movie and ice cream, maybe even pizza." Lorelai winks at Rory over Georgia's head, "I'll be back later."
"So what kind of pizza should we order?" Rory inquires once Lorelai has left.
"I'm not hungry."
"Well you have to eat something, it might as well be pizza."
"I don't want it."
"Well you're going to eat it." Rory's patience is running thin with her sister, after a week of backtalk and trouble.
"I hate you!" Georgia's words are biting, "I hate you! You're not my Mommy and I hate you!" With her words Georgia runs out of the living room and let's the front door bang behind her.
Rory is immediately on her feet and takes off after her but by the time she is outside Georgia has disappeared completely, running back inside Rory slips on her shoes and slams the door shut after her. "Rory!" Lane calls to Rory from across the street, she's pushing a carriage with the baby and Teague has his arm wrapped around Lane's waist.
Rory jogs over to her friend and her family, "have you seen Georgia?"
"No? Why?" Lane asks.
"She kind of flipped out on me," Rory runs a hand through her hair, "started yelling about how I'm not her Mommy, how much she hates me and then she took off and she was gone before I could get to the door."
"Do you want us to help look for her?" Teague offers.
Rory smiles but shakes her head, "she's a little girl, she couldn't have gotten far, but thanks for the offer."
"Call us if you can't find her." Teague urges.
Lane nods, "you have my new cell number, right?"
Rory nods, "thank you guys, I'll see you around." Suddenly Rory is struck with an idea as to where she could be and Rory heads to Luke's despite the fact that she hadn't set food inside the diner since her argument with Jess a week before.
Jess is just coming out of the diner as Rory reaches it, and he has a kicking and screaming Georgia under one arm, "I believe she belongs to you."
"Georgia Grace!" Rory exclaims, "I can't believe you would do that."
"I hate all of you!" Georgia announces, "I wanna go home!"
"She's an angry one, isn't she?" Jess comments.
Rory glares at Jess, "just set her down, we're going home."
"That isn't my home! I want my Mommy and I want my Daddy!" Georgia is sobbing by now and Rory easily lifts her and begins the walk back to the house.
When they get to the house Rory drops Georgia on the couch and then informs, "you are going to tell me what is wrong. Right now."
"You wouldn't understand." Georgia states.
"How do you know?" Rory inquires.
"You're parents didn't die!" Georgia yells.
Rory's eyes fill with tears and she looks Georgia in the eyes, "Georgia my Dad died to, remember he was mine to."
Georgia's lip trembles, "I miss them."
Rory wraps her arms around Georgia, "I know sweetie, I miss them too."
"I just want them to be here." Georgia sobs into Rory's shoulder.
After Georgia's sobs have slowed down Rory asks, "is that what has been bothering you the last week?"
Georgia shrugs, "sort of."
"Well what else?"
"I don't know."
"Yes you do, what is it?" Rory asks.
"You have work." Georgia states.
"You mean with Taylor?"
Georgia nods, "yeah."
"What about my work?" Rory asks.
"I thought you were going to start working and forget about me like Mommy and Daddy used to do." Georgia's eyes fill with tears again.
"They never forgot about you, and I won't either." Rory assures, "I promise I'm not going anywhere, but I do have to work so I can make money so that we can go back to the city when school starts."
"I don't wanna go back to the city," Georgia sniffles, "I like it here."
"We have to go back into the city, Sweetie, I have a job and a life there."
"But everyone here knows you, and they know and like me now too." Georgia hiccups.
"Sweetie we have to go back to the city, I can't live here."
"How come?"
"Because there's bad things here." Rory has to hold back her own tears.
"Like Jess?"
Rory nods, "among other things."
"Like what?" Georgia pushes the question.
"Things I can't explain to you right now, because they are complicated."
"Because I'm to young, Mommy and Daddy always said I was to young to understand things."
"Not because you are to young, because I don't even understand some things myself."
Georgia's face scrunches up, "oh, I thought adults understood everything."
"That's just what we want you to think." Rory smiles at her sister, "how about that pizza now?"
Georgia smiles, "OK!"
"Do you want me to call Dean or Sookie to meet us and bring the kids?" Rory asks.
Georgia nods, uh-huh."
"Well who do you want to come with?"
"Donny's fun to play with, can you call them?" Georgia asks.
Rory nods, "let me go find Dean's number." Quickly thumbing through the phone book Rory finds Dean's number and within minutes she has made plans. "All right, they are going to meet us there, why don't we get your face cleaned up and we can leave."
Georgia nods and hurries off in the direction of the bathroom when she comes back her face is no longer tear streaked and she has pulled her hair into a messy ponytail. "Do you want me to fix your hair?" Rory asks.
Georgia nods, "if you don't mind." Rory sits back down on the couch and Georgia sits on the floor, "can you do the twisty things?"
Rory smiles, "sure." Quickly, easily, she twists the hair into several small twists on the top of Georgia's head and then pulls her hair into a ponytail, "all right, now are we ready?"
Georgia nods, "we're ready."
On the next Gilmore Girls:
Dean leans in and kisses Rory and as they pull apart Dean murmurs, "I've wondered for so many years what that would feel like?"
"And?"
"So you and Dean are what, back together? Because I saw you kissing him." Jess' voice sounds like a mixture between hurt and anger.
"That's none of your business!"
"So how was your date with Luke?" Georgia inquires.
Lorelai rolls her eyes, "it was a disaster, a mistake."
