Tomboy

By Emily Carol

Summary: AU - Richard and Emily forced Lorelai and Christopher to put Rory up for adoption after she was born. Now Rory's 16 and living in a family full of boys on the outskirts of New York City. A search for her actual mother on her 16th birthday throws her into a life she never expected. Can a tomboy like her stand it?

Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls (and I didn't last chapter either... life can be so unfair)

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Chapter 11

"Luke!" Lorelai yelled as her and Rory entered Luke's Diner.

"What now?" A man in a flannel shirt and backwards baseball cap asked Lorelai.

"Look who I've got!" Lorelai asked putting her hands on Rory's shoulders.

"Luke, I'd like you to meet Lorelai Leigh Gilmore, a.k.a. Rory," Lorelai said. "Rory, I'd like you to meet Luke Danes a.k.a grumpy diner guy who refuses to give me coffee until I beg for twenty minutes straight."

Rory smiled, "Hi Luke."

"This is Rory?" Luke asked looking at Lorelai.

"Yep," Lorelai said with a smile.

"She looks just like you," Luke said. "Not that I didn't expect her to, but I expected some Christopher in her."

Lorelai made a slashing motion at her throat.

"Christopher?" Rory asked.

Lorelai sighed. "Your dad honey," she said.

Rory nodded. She didn't know whether or not to keep pressing the matter. Lorelai seemed upset that Luke had mentioned him. Was there something Rory didn't know about Christopher? Was he dead?

"How about coffee Luke?" Lorelai said.

"No," Luke said walking behind the counter.

"Please Luke? Please please please?" Lorelai begged. Rory watched in amazement. Her mother seemed a lot different than Elizabeth had been.

"You told me you'd had three cups when you came in this morning and I gave you two more and I bet you've still had more than that," Luke said.

"Nuh uh," Lorelai said making a face.

Rory laughed. Her mom was a lot like a child. She teased and joked and seemed to be happy. She was a happy go lucky kind of person.

Luke looked at her in disbelief.

"So maybe I have," Lorelai said. "But I just spent the evening with my parents for God's sake. Let me have some coffee, please?"

Luke sighed and poured her a cup.

"Thank you Coffee God," Lorelai said with a large grin as she sat at the counter and took a gulp of her coffee.

"You want something Rory?" Luke asked.

"Um..." Rory looked at the menu in front of her and then at her mother. "I'll have coffee."

Luke grabbed another pot of coffee and poured it for Rory while Lorelai set down her empty cup.

"Nice," she said. "But give me the caffeine stuff now."

Luke sighed and poured her coffee from the same pot he'd just filled Rory's with.

"Can't fool the junkie," Luke said to Rory.

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Author's Note: Hope you like it! I"ve got most of it written and I'm just gonna post when I have time. Please review!

~Emily Carol