Title: Taking a header or staying the course
Author: Joy
A/N: Hey guys. I am tickled at the number of reviews that mentioned my James Marsters / Spike from Buffy reference this weekend. I actually was pretty surprised no one said anything when the chapter came out but then this weekend it got mentioned. If you haven't guessed I am a huge James Marsters fan... If anyone is interested he has a made for TV movie on this next Saturday (March 19th) on USA. I was vegging on the sofa flipping between Angel on one station and Gilmore Girls on another and I caught sight of the ad. I had the most annoying girly response of butterflies in the stomach. I hate that! But hey, something new to see him in. (I got to meet him once...very nice, very funny, and very humble. I was kinda hoping he would be a jerk so I could go back to not being a huge 'fan' of any actor. But no such luck. And back to the GG segue I got to meet Danny Strong (Doyle on GG, Jonathan on Buffy) that day too. I swear he is the funniest man on the planet. He talked to my husband and I for a while.) Ya think they can find JM a part on Gilmore Girls...my world would be nearly perfect then.
Chapter 8: In the morning
Rory and Logan were dressed and out of the room at a fair clip to see Lorelai in comfy clothes, while the limo boys were looking as preppy as ever. Logan decided to wear the jeans he wore the night before but turtleneck his friends brought him, leaving the khaki in Rory's room.
"Are we ready?" Lorelai asked too chipper.
"Why are you even up at this hour?" Rory asked.
"Huh...lets see. My boyfriend had to go home and change before opening the diner or I would be the town hussy again. And since the diner opens at 6 a.m., you can see where this is going. I tried to get back to sleep and had mainly managed to until I heard noises that sounded like my daughter sick or in pain. Now naturally, being the wonderful mother that I am, I went on full alert...that is until I realized my daughter wasn't in pain. My daughter was just in the downstairs bathroom getting it on with her boyfriend... Now the one thing I must say is if there is not a decreased number of condoms in the drawer in the bathroom I am going to be pissed."
"How can you be talking...with no coffee," Rory whined.
Lorelai lifted Rory a mug, "Luke brought it last night remember?"
Rory seized the cup from her mother's hand and downed the hot, steamy liquid.
The limo boys watched the rapture on Rory's face as she savored the caffeine. "Jeez, you said she liked coffee. You never mentioned it being an orgasmic experience," Colin commented.
"I already had that this morning," Rory mumbled before spiting out the coffee. "I said that out loud...I actually said that out loud. What is wrong with me? First the 21 year old boy comment and now this."
"The judge needs clarification..." Lorelai began, "21 year old boy comment?"
"Last night we were talking about dancing and apparently Finn can swing dance. I mentioned the dance-a-thon thing and said something like..."
"After all what are twenty one year old boys good for if not for stamina," the three guys said in unison.
Lorelai spit out her coffee upon hearing that. "That's something I would say," she laughed.
"I think you did actually. I don't think I am good enough at the sexual innuendos to come up with that on my own," Rory stated refilling her cup.
"Who on earth could I have been talking about?"
"Dad maybe..."
"He was pretty good at stamina...he's no Luke but..."
Rory set her mug down and clapped her hands over her ears.
Lorelai yelled, "HE WAS ONLY A TEENAGER WHEN WE SLEPT TOGETHER REGULARLY."
Rory glared at her mother then slowly straightened her back and smirked a really wicked smirk, "What about the time that Dad came to visit when I was 16... You and dad did it then. Or a few years ago when you got together... Had he improved any?"
Lorelai sat gob-smacked and then turned to Logan, "This is your doing. I just know it."
"Me...you raised her," Logan countered.
"She never would have said that before you," Lorelai said thumping his shoulder.
"Well, was he any better with time?" Finn asked lounging on the counter in the kitchen.
Lorelai growled, "I am not having this conversation with the limo boys."
"Oh but we're cute and twenty one. My stamina must be pretty good," Finn flirted.
"I am going to pretend you didn't just say that so when you come back to my house for visits I won't feel the need to chain you to the bathtub."
"Never really got into bondage, personally."
"AHHH... Enough. We are going to Luke's for breakfast and this conversation will never have existed," Lorelai growled and headed out the door.
"I can't believe it...we actually wigged out my mom," Rory muttered before following after.
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On the way to the diner the Gilmore Girls walked ahead leading the way while the guys hung back.
Colin was the first to attack, "I cannot believe you had the audacity to play hide the weasel with Rory in the bathroom this morning! Lorelai woke us up tearing down the stairs and then wouldn't let us use her bathroom to relieve ourselves so we had to wait until you were done. I tell you that is just bad form."
Finn was laughing hysterically while Logan rolled his eyes. "I did not play 'hide the weasel' as you put it, this morning in the bathroom."
Finn looked at him oddly, "Well you did something to get her off."
"Well not hide the weasel!" Logan snapped.
"But you did play hide the weasel last night, didn't you?" Finn teased.
"Quit saying hide the weasel," Logan growled and joined his girlfriend for a second.
"Ach...back with the boys," Lorelai snipped, "I am getting the dirt on the debauchery of my daughter."
Rory gave him a quick kiss before he dropped back to the guys.
"Not welcome with the Gilmore Girls, I see," Colin teased.
Lorelai turned around and said, "We're talking about them playing hide the weasel."
Colin and Finn cracked up as Logan and Rory turned red and redder.
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The Gilmore girls and the limo boys piled into Luke's diner only got Rory to be greeted by an angry Korean girl. "HOW IS IT THAT I HAVEN'T MET HIM?"
"Lane...this is Logan. Logan, this is my best friend Lane," Rory said apologetically.
"Nice to meet you Lane. Rory tells me you are in a band."
"I play drums," she said off hand. She turned to Rory and whispered, "He's blond."
"I noticed," Rory whispered back.
"You don't do blonds," Lane reminded her.
"I am obviously not opposed to them."
"But he's blond," Lane whispered again. "Like Tristan blond."
"Thank you for the comparison. I have been trying to avoid it," Rory whispered back.
"Don't get me wrong. He doesn't seem as smarmy as Tristan its just...he's blond."
"Zach is blond," Rory fussed.
"Good point."
Logan wasn't entirely sure what was going on since there was so much whispering. He thought that this Lane girl might have a problem with his hair somehow by the way she kept eyeing it. He decided to draw the girls' attention back.
"Lane..." Logan turned to his friends, "These are my best friends, Colin and Finn."
"Hello," Colin said with a wave.
"Good day," Finn greeted.
"Accent...Like the accent," Lane whispered to Rory.
"Zach..." Rory reminded her.
"Zach... I need to serve people...and you in a minute."
Everyone ordered quickly wanting food as soon as possible.
Through the window there was a couple gesturing and yelling at one another. "Oh no..." Lane muttered.
"Who is...oh no," Rory replied looking out the window. "Luke," she called.
"Yeah..."
"Dean's still banned from this place right?"
"Yeah...why?"
"Just making sure he wasn't headed in here," Rory groaned.
Luke looked out the window. "I should have just told him not to marry the girl when I had the chance... It would have saved everyone the headache." He turned and looked at Logan, "I still can't believe I like a socialite over Dean, who lives here...then again I never liked Dean."
Luke turned to Lorelai, "This goes back even further... I should have let you attack him in the market for abusing the lemons."
"What?" Rory asked.
"A LONG time ago."
"Lemons?"
Lorelai rolled her eyes, "Back in the days when he was the bagboy kissing you in the market, with you shoplifting cornstarch and saying thank you."
"Bag boy?" Colin muttered.
"Kissing?" Logan said.
"Shoplifting?" Luke questioned.
"Cornstarch?" Finn asked.
"Thank you?" Lane murmured.
"Let's not discuss my first kiss anymore please," Rory said quickly.
"Sorry Ace, but with a set up like that I will want to hear the whole thing at some point."
Dean started to pass by the diner but then saw the occupants. "Oh no," Lorelai said this time as the former bag boy headed inside.
"They are still here?" he growled. "I figured it would be back to Ivy League after slumming it for the day."
Luke got out from behind the counter and met him at the door. "Don't do this kid," Luke warned.
"You can't like him either," Dean snapped.
"It immaterial my feelings."
"Like hell it is. You were always showing displeasure at whomever Rory dated...even when it was your nephew," he barked.
Luke looked Dean in the eye and murmured coldly, "When Rory was a teenager I was dad substitute and I know it. It was my job to take care of her in any way I could. Now I have to trust her judgment. I have more faith in him than I probably should but that's part of letting her grow up. You had your shot...three times. Don't waltz in here looking for a fight. You can do that just fine with Lindsay."
"Some time there won't be people around to run to your defense Accountant," Dean threatened.
Logan looked at Rory in confusion. "Don't worry about it," she whispered.
So Logan turned back to Dean, "I told you last night...I don't have a beef with you."
"And like I said last night...I have one with you."
Rory stood up and walked to the door, looked Dean in the eye, then kneed him in the groin. "LEAVE ME ALONE. LEAVE US ALONE. DON'T COME BACK," she said very deliberately shutting the door in his face.
"Wow," Logan said blinking rapidly quite impressed. "Ace...that was... Angry works for you. Have I mentioned that?"
"On occasion," she responded.
Finn smirked, "Learn that from you, Lorelai?"
"I am more of a grab and twist girl myself," she countered.
"That could be fun?" he stated wickedly.
Luke came from behind the counter and knocked Finn upside the head with his order pad, "Knock it off... Or I'll let her do it in full view of the public to mock and laugh...before sending you off to the hospital like the last guy she did that to."
"Oh but Lorelai...I will be your faithful twenty one year old swing dancing partner that is known for his stamina...You don't want to injure me," Finn pouted. Luke looked at Lorelai in confusion, who just shook her head.
"We all want to injure you right now Finn," Colin growled. "But not half as much as I wanted to injure Logan for hogging the bathroom to conduct amorous activities with Rory while the rest of us needed to take a leek from all the alcohol we drank the night before!" Luke looked at Lorelai again in aggravation this time, but she just shrugged.
Everyone received their food in short order, while Rory was still looking at Colin. "You let things fester," Rory observed.
"You don't want an ulcer," Lane stated. Colin raised an eyebrow. "Anything else? Pancakes...eggs..."
"Scrambled, thank you," Colin snipped.
"Someone is testy...do you need coffee?" Lorelai soothed.
"No...He needs to get laid," Finn stated.
"Shut up," Colin snarled.
Logan nudged his friend, "Just make it official when we get back."
"Official?" Rory asked.
"Nothing," Colin responded.
"His thing with Steph is getting out of hand... She is dating randomly," Logan stated.
"Oh...well... make it official. That will help," Rory advocated.
"There is no official to be made...there is no Steph thing... I just want scrambled eggs!"
Rory looked at Colin sadly, "Leave him be. He'll do what he needs to when he's ready to, until then...Luke, the man needs eggs." All three guys looked at her oddly. "Hey...I am the non-wallowing. list making, pro/con chart doing, freak that runs from every relationship...literally... I get up and leave... away... be gone. That's me. I can respect a man in need of eggs to hide behind." She proceeded to dig into her own breakfast with gusto.
"I am not hiding behind eggs," Colin snapped. "I swear you are the oddest girl Logan has ever been serious about...oh wait. You are the only girl that Logan has been serious about."
"Except for Sarah," Rory said off hand eating her pancakes. Colin and Finn stared at her with large eyes. She looked at Logan who had an unreadable expression. "I take it we don't mention her name?"
The boys looked at Logan for guidance on how to react. After a moment Logan cracked up, "No...They are just astounded I told you."
"Alright...well...I know nothing about any person named Sarah or anyone else associated with that situation either," she muttered stuffing her face with food.
"There's that old foot-in-mouth Gilmore trait we know and hate," Lorelai teased.
Logan was still chuckling softly while his friends just stared dumbfounded at the odd turn of events.
Shortly after finishing his breakfast, Logan hopped up out of his seat and headed for the counter. "Hey...no one is allowed back there except staff," Rory snipped.
"Fine," Logan smiled. "Luke, can I talk to you a minute?"
Luke looked at him mysteriously but said, "Yeah sure...come on back."
Logan flashed Rory his annoyingly perfect smile.
"What is he up to?" Rory asked.
The guys both shrugged as Lorelai tried to listen in.
"Sorry kid...all whispers."
"I hate it when Logan gets secretive," the younger Gilmore grumbled.
"It normally means there is a surprise on the horizon," Colin observed.
"A surprise?" Rory said with dismay.
"Worry not fair maiden...I will prevent the young Huntzberger from causing you any harm," Finn stated.
"And why is that Finn?"
"How else am I going to steal your mother away from Luke?"
"You won't be," Luke suddenly growled.
"What were you doing?" Rory questioned Logan.
"A surprise Ace," he responded.
She groaned, "This is just one of those commitment things right?"
"Huh?"
"I am not so good with surprises but you love them. Therefore I am going to have to learn to be more accepting of surprises because that is one of the ways I need to bend to your world," she said working on her pancakes.
Logan smirked, "You are very peculiar."
"Thank you," Rory said batting her eyes.
A slowly smile broke across his face, "Surprises are good. You will enjoy this surprise."
"Well when do I get this surprise?"
"Patience is a virtue," he murmured sagely.
"Patience is not a Gilmore virtue," Luke said as Lorelai grabbed at her newly refilled mug of coffee, "No matter the age."
Lorelai pouted, "But Luuukkkkeeee, I need my coffee to function." Luke held the mug back to kiss her lips then handed it over. "Gimme Gimme Gimme."
"You're dating the mature one," Luke told Logan.
Logan just smiled, "Yes but Lorelai is less reticent to take big risks."
"So hey...I date Logan and you date Luke," Lorelai said over her mug.
The faces of both Rory and Luke were priceless.
"No...If you are going to date young, date me!" Finn begged.
"Kid, you hit on my girlfriend again at this meal and I will throw you out," Luke growled.
Finn smirked. Rory looked at her Aussie friend, "He's not kidding. He has done it before... on numerous occasions of late."
Finn snagged Luke's arm and conspiratorially whispered to him while the girls kept talking. Luke dutifully wrote notes before he moved to Lane.
"Oh...don't even get me started on the scene he made in the street the day after Rory and Dean broke up the first time," Lorelai stated.
"In the street?" Logan asked.
"The flannel had to be restrained," Lorelai announced.
Colin looked at Rory and murmured, "Gilmore... Have you ever considered writing about the twilight zone you live in?"
The younger Gilmore grinned, "Of course...but who would believe it?"
TBC...
A/N: I'm not sure but next chapter may be the last. Then again I may get inspired.
Please REVIEW. Points to anyone who can identify the James Marsters / Spike reference in this chapter (put it in your REVIEW). Please REVIEW.
