Every time Luke looked at that little girl, he felt this unexplainable love fill through him. The only other person he had ever felt that sort of love for had been Lorelai, he fell sad at the thought of her.

He missed her so much, and he was scared out of his mind of facing his world and his new role as a father by himself, but he looked at that baby girl and knew he would have to find a way to get through it. If only for her sake.

"Hey" said Rory as she entered the hospital room. They're bags were on the bed, packed and ready to go. Rory crossed the room and gave her sister a kiss on the forehead.

"Hey" Luke replied

"So you ready to go?" she asked facing Luke.

"Yep, reading as I'll ever be" he said, walking to his daughters crib and gently picking her up. He walked to the bed where her car capsule was sitting waiting for her. He placed her inside and buckled her up, she wined a little at being disturbed but soon settled down again.

Rory picked up the bags and Luke took Rosey and they walked out of their hospital room, into the wide world that was waiting for them. Luke was slightly nervous, he had had nurses to help him in the hospital, but now just him and Rory… it didn't want to do anything wrong.

The car drove past the familiar sign welcoming them to Stars Hollow, they drove almost in silence, pulling up in front of the Gilmore house in record time.

The three walked into the empty house. With the exceptions of the colour on the walls and the photos around, the house felt empty, quiet and all of a sudden too big for those three people.

"Welcome home sis" said Rory closing the door behind them. No sooner had she done this they heard a knock at the door.

"Oh no nosy towns people" said Rory panicked.

"Here you take Rosey and ill deal with them" said Luke walking back towards the door. Rory hurriedly picked up her sister and made her way to the nursery.

Luke opened the door hesitantly.

"Oh Luke honey, I'm so sorry to hear the news" Babbette started talking. " Lorelai was such a great girl, it just breaks your heart. Oh and the baby, can I see her!" asked Babbette eagerly.

"Um she's actually asleep right now, but thanks for calling by" Luke lied and quickly shut the door.

He suddenly had a great idea, he walked into the lounge room and found a pen and paper. Quickly wrote a note and stuck it on the front of the door.

Towns People

We appreciate your concern but we need sometime to ourselves for the next couple of days. Please respect our wishes.

-Luke, Rory and Rosey

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Rory felt awkward in her own house. She didn't know how to act, how to feel. Everything in this house reminded her of her mother. Even the plates in the kitchen, the Charles Angels collectable plates they had worked so hard to collect.

She lay in bed that night and cried. She had never felt so alone or scared.

It was past 12 and Luke had just got Rosey to sleep when he heard the door to his and…. Lorelai's bedroom creep open. He had been wide-awake and couldn't sleep.

"Luke?" Rory asked quietly through the dark. He turned on the lamp next to the bed. Rory stood at the door tears streaming down her face.

"Come here" he said, pulling the covers back on the bed to let her in. She lay down next to Luke, he held her right and she just cried and cried. After a little while he leaned up and turned off the lamp.

"Luke…" she started

"Just sleep" he said hugging her close. He could hear her quiet sobs, tears filled silently in his eyes. Both of them loving and missing her and feeling nothing in the world could ever make them happy again.

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Rosey had woken up every couple of hours last night. He had gotten tired of walking up and down the stairs so he had decided he would sleep in the nursery instead that night. He would also be closer to Rory so she wouldn't feel so alone. He also had trouble being in Lorelai's room, so many memories, even the memories of his daughter's conception.

He sat at the kitchen table eating his cereal slowly, mostly just pushing it around the bowl. Rory came in sleepily, and headed straight for the coffee machine. Luke had always said Lorelai's coffee drinking habits would kill her someday, I guess he was wrong.

"Hey Rory?"

"Yeah" she answered filling the machine with coffee grounds.

"I've got to go to into the Diner today, do you think you could look after Rosey?" he asked.

"Yeah sure" she said as the coffee machine starting working.

"Really? Thanks"

"Yeah. Oh as long as you go to Doose's for me. There's no food here"

"Deal"

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Luke felt weird walking into town with no baby. It had only been 5 days and he was already so attached to her. Though she was a good and very welcome distraction, distracting him from his 'Lorelai' thoughts, which most of the time made him want to cry. The town's people seemed to have listened to Luke's plea to be left alone, because no one had called round at the house. But now walking through the towns square Luke was open to attack.

Caesar had been running the Diner all on his own since the accident and Luke knew he would have to hire some help, at least until Rosey was older. The familiar sound of the bell jingled overhead as Luke entered the Diner.

All the heads in the place turned, self-consciously Luke walked towards the counter but we stoped by a large'ish lady standing him in his path.

"Luke darling, such terrible news" said Miss Patty, a little teary.

"Yeah" Luke answered trying to get past her.

Patty continued un-deterred by Luke's attempts to get away.

"Lorelai gone and you left you raise that little girl all by yourself"

"Yep" said Luke finally getting past her and walking quickly upstairs to his familiar apartment. He had only been back once since the accident, to get some clothes. He grabbed a bag out of his cupboard and started putting clothes in, along with the account books for the Diner. He made a quick phone call before he left, asking a couple of his part-timers to come in and work.

He managed to escape the Diner reasonably un-scaved and headed for the market. Pulling out the list Rory had made for him he searched through the isle, his basket soon filling up. He found the last item on his list and headed for the checkout. And who else would be on registers today, none other than Taylor Doose.

"Luke, good to see you" he said smiling happily. He started checking items through.

"Hey Taylor" said Luke hurriedly.

"Myself and the rest of the town committee wish you and Rory our deepest condolences"

"Yeah thanks Taylor" replied Luke dryly.

"Ah that's $82.50" said Taylor. Luke quickly payed gathering up his bags he rushed out the door. In doing so he almost knocked over a lady who had been standing outside.

"Oh I'm sorry" he said, not really paying attention to who it was he had bumped into to.

"Lucas?" at the sound of that familiar voice he looked up.

"Mia?"

He dropped his bags and enveloped her in a big hug. They pulled back and she looked him in the eyes.

"Lucas, our girls gone" she said tears starting to form in the corners of her eyes. He looked down at the ground, and then up again at her.

"Come on Mia, I want you to meet someone"