Disclaimer: Amy owns everything but my season one, two, and three DVDs.
A/N: This is not AU, but its alternate-everything else that happens in the show. This takes place beginning of season three. Lorelai knows that Sherry is pregnant, but Chris never came to dinner like in "Haunted Leg"
P.S. I have to admit, I'm definitely not a Chris fan.
Summary: What if speed dial rescue worked both ways (only early in season three)?
Chapter Two:
Lorelai sat on the couch. Had there been a gold medal awarded for multi-tasking, she would have won it, as she was talking to her daughter on the phone, watching a movie, eating a pint of ive cream, and painting her toenails. And boy, was she proud of it.
"So, do you think the beast was really that big? Or did they just use fancy camera angles and stuff?" Lorelai pondered the movie as she painted her big toe a dark shade of pink.
"Mom, I gotta say, we've had some pretty random conversations in the past but, what?"
"Sandlot, Rory! Geez, stay with me here!"
"You're right, sorry. I'm the crazy one…" Rory laughed to herself at her mother scattered brain.
"Damn right you are…"
"Mom!" Rory gasped.
"Oh, right, I'm sorry. You've probably spent so much time in Washington that you're too uptight for profanity now…" Lorelai sighed.
"No, mom I just meant that you and your baseball stealing giant dog related ramblings have taken us totally off topic here," Rory reminded her.
"Oh, right, sorry. What were we talking about again?" Lorelai had honestly forgotten.
Rory sighed, not liking where she knew this was going…"We were talking about dad."
Lorelei tried to play dumb. "Why were we talking about that? I have nothing to say."
"Yes you do mom, you know, you can't avoid him forever," Rory loved her mother, but sometimes she just didn't understand her.
"Sure I can! I'll do to him exactly what he did to us, just cut him out completely!" Lorelei added a big flourish at the end, which Rory obviously couldn't see.
"Mom, you know that won't work. Once this baby…" Rory ignored Lorelai's groan at the mention of the offspring. "…is born, I'm gonna see Dad a lot more. And you know that what is a part of my life is a part of yours too."
Lorelei sighed in surrender. She was tired of talking about Chris. She was tired of thinking about Chris. She was tired of dealing with the part of her life that had spun so wildly out of control in so little time. "Don't worry, hon. I'll figure something out okay? Don't worry about it."
Rory's tone of voice was that of genuine concern. She didn't want her mother to be broken-hearted, especially if she wasn't there to comfort her. "Mom, are you sure?"
But the wall had gone up already. "Yes. I'm positive. Now you go to sleep, and worry about Washington. I'll see you soon."
Rory knew talking was futile at this point. "Alright, goodnight Mom."
"Night sweets."
Lorelei sighed as she hung up the phone, picked up the carton of ice cream, and had just turned her attention back to the movie, when there came a knock at the front door. No, not knock, pounding was more like it. She paused the movie and made her way to the door. Who she saw when she opened it made her heart sink into her stomach and a gasp escape her throat.
A/N: Sorry about the screw-up. Hope you liked the (full) chapter!