A/N: Wow! I can't stop writing! Thanks to all who reviewed. I was thinking that the last chapter was getting kind of AU so; I'll try my best to make them back on track! Well, on with the story!
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Lorelai woke up reluctantly at six in the morning. She groggily got up and took a shower. She came out of the bathroom wearing a robe and realized that she felt much better than she did last night. During her twenty minute shower, she finally figured out a way to help Rory. She walked over to her overnight bag and pulled out the clothes she was going to be wearing that day. It was a black spaghetti strap dress with a pink striped button down shirt.
She walked downstairs to find that no guests were up yet and hear Sookie pulling out pots and pans to get breakfast ready. As she walked through the waiting room, she heard someone coming down the stairs behind her. She quickly turned around and saw Luke in his usually flannel shirt and backwards baseball cap. Lorelai smiled at him when he walked up to her.
"Oh, hey, Teddy, you scared me."
He rolled his eyes. "You are not calling me that."
Lorelai nodded with a grin. "Oh, yes I am. It suits you."
He gave her a small smile. "You seem better today."
"I am, it must have been my lack of sleep, or maybe it was that amazing shower. The water pressure here is great! I think I'll take one of the showers home with me."
"Or maybe you could get a better shower head to get better pressure."
She pretended to contemplate his decision. "Nah, I think I'll just take Rupert home."
"Ah, jeez, you named the shower in your room?" Luke asked.
"Not just that one, I named all of them. Have I not told you how if you name something and you don't name his or her buddies, their buddies could get really jealous?"
"Yes, I believe you have told me that. But I believe chose not to hear it."
She gasped. "You don't listen to what I say?"
"Not when you're rambling on about who knows what."
Lorelai pouted. "You're mean. What kind of person doesn't listen to their friend?"
"The kind who would rather work than fill their head with useless information."
"So, I give useless information."
"Yes, when you're rambling, did you not get that?"
"Nope, I don't listen to people who argue with my thinking and speaking functions," she said. She then stuck out her tongue.
"You're being really childish, you know that, right?"
Suddenly there was a loud crash in the kitchen. Lorelai drew herself up to her full height and said with a professional manner, "Excuse me, I have to take my chef to the hospital." With that Lorelai left Luke standing in the waiting room.
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The kitchen was covered in stainless steel pots, pans, and cookie sheets with Sookie in the middle of the mess.
"Sookie! What happened?" Lorelai exclaimed as she walked into the kitchen.
"Oh, I'm fine, I was just trying to get one of the cookie sheets from the top shelf and I lost my balance."
Lorelai walked over to help Sookie up. "Why would you put stuff you need so high up?"
Sookie slightly grunted as she was pulled up. "I didn't put the cookie sheets up there, Mark did."
Lorelai sighed. "So do you think he should be one of the people to be fired?"
"Oh, I forgot about that."
"Sookie!"
"I'm sorry, I just love all this help, and they're all so good at their jobs, I can't choose, Lorelai!" Sookie said as she started picking up the mess on the floor.
"Fine, then I'll have to do it."
"No!" She yelled as she dropped the pots she was holding. "Can't we just get rid of some of the maids, instead?"
"Sook, we need those maids, there's enough to everything just right."
"But, I can't fire two of these amazing helpers; they're all, well...amazing!"
Lorelai put her arm around Sookie's shoulders. "I know, but you're going to have to choose. If you won't by tomorrow, I will sweetie, I'm sorry."
Sookie sighed and looked at her feet. "I know, I'll try, honey, I promise."
Lorelai smiled and squeezed Sookie's arm. "Thanks, now let's clean up this mess so you can start breakfast."
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At eight o'clock, the guests started coming downstairs for breakfast. Kirk and Lulu came in arm and arm, Taylor entered with his comment cards and a pen, while Patty and Babette walked into the dining room wearing the yellow robes they were wearing the other night. When Luke noticed them, he looked down at his plate, so they wouldn't notice him, but before Patty and Babette could get to his table, Kirk and Lulu sat down next to him.
"Hey Luke," Kirk said with a smile.
"Hello Kirk," Luke mumbled.
"Look, I just want to thank you for helping me out last night. After I got back to the room, I told Lulu everything, and s-"
"And I'm going to help him out from now on." Lulu smiled at Luke. "We stayed up all night so Kirk didn't have anymore of his night terrors."
Luke nodded uncomfortably. "Yeah, I know."
Kirk blushed. "I guess we were a little loud, huh? Sorry about that, man."
"Who was loud, when?" Lorelai asked walking up next to Luke.
"Lorelai, I would just like to apologize for you having seen my nude bottom," Kirk said standing up.
"Uh, how did you kn-"
"Luke told me, and I'm very sorry if I frightened you in any way."
"Oh, well, it was new, but I don't think I'm scarred," Lorelai said with a smile. "So, Lulu, are you ok?"
Lulu looked at Kirk lovingly. "Yeah, he did knock me off the bed, but I now know why, these night terrors are no funny business."
Lorelai nodded. "Ok. Um, what are night terrors?"
Luke looked up at her. "You don't want to know."
Lorelai took the last empty seat by Luke. "Uh, yes, I think I do, considering that I had to see Kirk's naked butt."
"Night terrors are where you are half asleep and half awake and in this state, everything poses as a threat to you. But not every one ends up naked, it's just something I do in that state," Kirk explained.
"Wow that is some serious stuff."
"You're telling me. After that, I can't get back to sleep so I only get about one hour of sleep every night."
"And you still function every day? Jeez, I'm barely awake after eight hours of sleep," Lorelai said.
"That's because you rely on caffeine too much," Luke said.
Lorelai looked at Luke and noticed the bags under his eyes. "Did you get any sleep last night?"
"Not really."
"I'm sorry Luke; sometimes Lulu and I just get carried away..." Kirk stated.
Lorelai let out a laugh. She quickly covered her mouth with her hand. "Sorry." She stood up. "Ok, I'm going to go finish my rounds, enjoy your breakfast." She gave Luke a sympathetic smile and walked over towards Patty and Babette's table.
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Around two Lorelai walked into her house. Everything was eerily quiet. "Hello?" she called. She didn't receive an answer so she set down her things in the foyer and walked over towards Rory's room. It was just how she saw it the last night when Dean left. The thought of Dean in her daughter's bed made her blood boil. She took a deep breath and walked over to the living room.
The living room was just as empty as the kitchen and bedroom. There was only one place left so she walked upstairs. She found the door to her bedroom closed and didn't hear a single sound coming from it. She opened the door and found nothing looking remotely like Rory. "Rory?" she called out. "Where are you?" Lorelai ran downstairs and grabbed the phone. She had almost finished dialing the number when she found a note on the desk. She picked it up and read it.
Dear Mom,
I'm sorry I'm not home; I just needed to get out of the house. I'm at Lane's if there's anything important you need to tell me. I'll be back later, but I don't want to talk, so please don't ask. I'm thinking about taking Grandma's offer of going to Europe. I'll talk to you about it when I get back. I'm sorry I didn't go back to the inn with you; I just can't stand the fact that I would have seen HIM there the morning after. Lane has to go to work at six, so maybe we can have dinner at Luke's. I'll see you later.
Rory
Lorelai read the letter a few times more before grabbing her purse and walking out the door.
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The bell above the door jingled, and Luke didn't look up because he knew it was her. He walked into the kitchen without gazing at her. When he came out of the kitchen, there she was sitting at the counter with an empty cup in front of her. She looked up at him and with a small smile said, "This place has lousy service."
"I don't serve coffee anymore, just tea or cocoa."
She lightly gasped. "Mean. You're not supposed to hit a person when they're already down."
Luke poured her coffee cup to the brim. "Why are you down?"
"Rory hates me."
He sighed as he put the coffee pot next to them and put his hands on the counter. "First of all, she doesn't hate you, you're her mother. Second of all, why do you think that?"
"She ran away last night."
"What?!" he exclaimed.
"Sh! She's coming back later today," Lorelai said looking around and then back to him.
"Damn it, Lorelai, tell the whole story first before you give someone a heart attack."
"I need to talk to her really bad. She said she's not coming back till after six, but I remembered about our..." she looked around, "date."
"Well, we didn't set a time."
"I know, and that made me think of when we were going."
"I don't know, seven?"
"Luke, she wants to have dinner here, do you think I'd have time to get ready?"
"Did you want to cancel?" Luke asked.
She noticed the hurt look in his eyes. "Oh, no, Luke, I don't want to cancel. I just want to kick Rory's butt for doing this." She sighed. "Maybe I'll just force her to go home so we can talk. And then make her help me get ready."
"I don't think you should make her go home, it might just make her upset."
"Luke, she screwed up and I'm trying to fix it, she's going to have to listen to me because I am her mother," Lorelai said as she grabbed her purse and pulled out a few dollar bills.
Luke held up his hand. "It's on the house. You're on a mission, so, go."
She smiled at Luke. "I'll see you a quarter after seven."
Her rolled his eyes but gave her a slight smirk. "Goodbye."
"Bye, Teddy." She smiled as she turned around and walked out the door.
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A/N: Ok, I guess there's going to be a chapter on Lorelai and Rory. My mind works in weird ways. Anywho, please review. I tried my best to make them seem more in character. How did I do? Ok, well, next is the confrontation of Lorelai and Rory and maybe Lorelai getting ready for the date. But who knows. Au revoir for now!
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Lorelai woke up reluctantly at six in the morning. She groggily got up and took a shower. She came out of the bathroom wearing a robe and realized that she felt much better than she did last night. During her twenty minute shower, she finally figured out a way to help Rory. She walked over to her overnight bag and pulled out the clothes she was going to be wearing that day. It was a black spaghetti strap dress with a pink striped button down shirt.
She walked downstairs to find that no guests were up yet and hear Sookie pulling out pots and pans to get breakfast ready. As she walked through the waiting room, she heard someone coming down the stairs behind her. She quickly turned around and saw Luke in his usually flannel shirt and backwards baseball cap. Lorelai smiled at him when he walked up to her.
"Oh, hey, Teddy, you scared me."
He rolled his eyes. "You are not calling me that."
Lorelai nodded with a grin. "Oh, yes I am. It suits you."
He gave her a small smile. "You seem better today."
"I am, it must have been my lack of sleep, or maybe it was that amazing shower. The water pressure here is great! I think I'll take one of the showers home with me."
"Or maybe you could get a better shower head to get better pressure."
She pretended to contemplate his decision. "Nah, I think I'll just take Rupert home."
"Ah, jeez, you named the shower in your room?" Luke asked.
"Not just that one, I named all of them. Have I not told you how if you name something and you don't name his or her buddies, their buddies could get really jealous?"
"Yes, I believe you have told me that. But I believe chose not to hear it."
She gasped. "You don't listen to what I say?"
"Not when you're rambling on about who knows what."
Lorelai pouted. "You're mean. What kind of person doesn't listen to their friend?"
"The kind who would rather work than fill their head with useless information."
"So, I give useless information."
"Yes, when you're rambling, did you not get that?"
"Nope, I don't listen to people who argue with my thinking and speaking functions," she said. She then stuck out her tongue.
"You're being really childish, you know that, right?"
Suddenly there was a loud crash in the kitchen. Lorelai drew herself up to her full height and said with a professional manner, "Excuse me, I have to take my chef to the hospital." With that Lorelai left Luke standing in the waiting room.
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The kitchen was covered in stainless steel pots, pans, and cookie sheets with Sookie in the middle of the mess.
"Sookie! What happened?" Lorelai exclaimed as she walked into the kitchen.
"Oh, I'm fine, I was just trying to get one of the cookie sheets from the top shelf and I lost my balance."
Lorelai walked over to help Sookie up. "Why would you put stuff you need so high up?"
Sookie slightly grunted as she was pulled up. "I didn't put the cookie sheets up there, Mark did."
Lorelai sighed. "So do you think he should be one of the people to be fired?"
"Oh, I forgot about that."
"Sookie!"
"I'm sorry, I just love all this help, and they're all so good at their jobs, I can't choose, Lorelai!" Sookie said as she started picking up the mess on the floor.
"Fine, then I'll have to do it."
"No!" She yelled as she dropped the pots she was holding. "Can't we just get rid of some of the maids, instead?"
"Sook, we need those maids, there's enough to everything just right."
"But, I can't fire two of these amazing helpers; they're all, well...amazing!"
Lorelai put her arm around Sookie's shoulders. "I know, but you're going to have to choose. If you won't by tomorrow, I will sweetie, I'm sorry."
Sookie sighed and looked at her feet. "I know, I'll try, honey, I promise."
Lorelai smiled and squeezed Sookie's arm. "Thanks, now let's clean up this mess so you can start breakfast."
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At eight o'clock, the guests started coming downstairs for breakfast. Kirk and Lulu came in arm and arm, Taylor entered with his comment cards and a pen, while Patty and Babette walked into the dining room wearing the yellow robes they were wearing the other night. When Luke noticed them, he looked down at his plate, so they wouldn't notice him, but before Patty and Babette could get to his table, Kirk and Lulu sat down next to him.
"Hey Luke," Kirk said with a smile.
"Hello Kirk," Luke mumbled.
"Look, I just want to thank you for helping me out last night. After I got back to the room, I told Lulu everything, and s-"
"And I'm going to help him out from now on." Lulu smiled at Luke. "We stayed up all night so Kirk didn't have anymore of his night terrors."
Luke nodded uncomfortably. "Yeah, I know."
Kirk blushed. "I guess we were a little loud, huh? Sorry about that, man."
"Who was loud, when?" Lorelai asked walking up next to Luke.
"Lorelai, I would just like to apologize for you having seen my nude bottom," Kirk said standing up.
"Uh, how did you kn-"
"Luke told me, and I'm very sorry if I frightened you in any way."
"Oh, well, it was new, but I don't think I'm scarred," Lorelai said with a smile. "So, Lulu, are you ok?"
Lulu looked at Kirk lovingly. "Yeah, he did knock me off the bed, but I now know why, these night terrors are no funny business."
Lorelai nodded. "Ok. Um, what are night terrors?"
Luke looked up at her. "You don't want to know."
Lorelai took the last empty seat by Luke. "Uh, yes, I think I do, considering that I had to see Kirk's naked butt."
"Night terrors are where you are half asleep and half awake and in this state, everything poses as a threat to you. But not every one ends up naked, it's just something I do in that state," Kirk explained.
"Wow that is some serious stuff."
"You're telling me. After that, I can't get back to sleep so I only get about one hour of sleep every night."
"And you still function every day? Jeez, I'm barely awake after eight hours of sleep," Lorelai said.
"That's because you rely on caffeine too much," Luke said.
Lorelai looked at Luke and noticed the bags under his eyes. "Did you get any sleep last night?"
"Not really."
"I'm sorry Luke; sometimes Lulu and I just get carried away..." Kirk stated.
Lorelai let out a laugh. She quickly covered her mouth with her hand. "Sorry." She stood up. "Ok, I'm going to go finish my rounds, enjoy your breakfast." She gave Luke a sympathetic smile and walked over towards Patty and Babette's table.
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Around two Lorelai walked into her house. Everything was eerily quiet. "Hello?" she called. She didn't receive an answer so she set down her things in the foyer and walked over towards Rory's room. It was just how she saw it the last night when Dean left. The thought of Dean in her daughter's bed made her blood boil. She took a deep breath and walked over to the living room.
The living room was just as empty as the kitchen and bedroom. There was only one place left so she walked upstairs. She found the door to her bedroom closed and didn't hear a single sound coming from it. She opened the door and found nothing looking remotely like Rory. "Rory?" she called out. "Where are you?" Lorelai ran downstairs and grabbed the phone. She had almost finished dialing the number when she found a note on the desk. She picked it up and read it.
Dear Mom,
I'm sorry I'm not home; I just needed to get out of the house. I'm at Lane's if there's anything important you need to tell me. I'll be back later, but I don't want to talk, so please don't ask. I'm thinking about taking Grandma's offer of going to Europe. I'll talk to you about it when I get back. I'm sorry I didn't go back to the inn with you; I just can't stand the fact that I would have seen HIM there the morning after. Lane has to go to work at six, so maybe we can have dinner at Luke's. I'll see you later.
Rory
Lorelai read the letter a few times more before grabbing her purse and walking out the door.
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The bell above the door jingled, and Luke didn't look up because he knew it was her. He walked into the kitchen without gazing at her. When he came out of the kitchen, there she was sitting at the counter with an empty cup in front of her. She looked up at him and with a small smile said, "This place has lousy service."
"I don't serve coffee anymore, just tea or cocoa."
She lightly gasped. "Mean. You're not supposed to hit a person when they're already down."
Luke poured her coffee cup to the brim. "Why are you down?"
"Rory hates me."
He sighed as he put the coffee pot next to them and put his hands on the counter. "First of all, she doesn't hate you, you're her mother. Second of all, why do you think that?"
"She ran away last night."
"What?!" he exclaimed.
"Sh! She's coming back later today," Lorelai said looking around and then back to him.
"Damn it, Lorelai, tell the whole story first before you give someone a heart attack."
"I need to talk to her really bad. She said she's not coming back till after six, but I remembered about our..." she looked around, "date."
"Well, we didn't set a time."
"I know, and that made me think of when we were going."
"I don't know, seven?"
"Luke, she wants to have dinner here, do you think I'd have time to get ready?"
"Did you want to cancel?" Luke asked.
She noticed the hurt look in his eyes. "Oh, no, Luke, I don't want to cancel. I just want to kick Rory's butt for doing this." She sighed. "Maybe I'll just force her to go home so we can talk. And then make her help me get ready."
"I don't think you should make her go home, it might just make her upset."
"Luke, she screwed up and I'm trying to fix it, she's going to have to listen to me because I am her mother," Lorelai said as she grabbed her purse and pulled out a few dollar bills.
Luke held up his hand. "It's on the house. You're on a mission, so, go."
She smiled at Luke. "I'll see you a quarter after seven."
Her rolled his eyes but gave her a slight smirk. "Goodbye."
"Bye, Teddy." She smiled as she turned around and walked out the door.
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A/N: Ok, I guess there's going to be a chapter on Lorelai and Rory. My mind works in weird ways. Anywho, please review. I tried my best to make them seem more in character. How did I do? Ok, well, next is the confrontation of Lorelai and Rory and maybe Lorelai getting ready for the date. But who knows. Au revoir for now!