A/N Thanks for all your reviews! Here's a new chapter, hope you like it... and just in case you were wondering about magic, this is the answer...

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CUT TO: Independence Inn – Dining Room – Night

PIPER: Phoebe is butting in Paige's life again. I'm gone for one day and they're a mess.

LEO: They'll survive, honey.

PIPER: I know, it's just, I'm not used to being away from them. This whole, no magic thing is so strange.

LEO: (looks around) I know, I sort of miss my charges a little.

PIPER: You'll always have me, won't you.

(they kiss)

LEO: At least we'll be getting that normal life you've always wanted.

PIPER: Yeah. No more demons. (smiles)

LORELAI: (comes in) Everything at wish?

PIPER: Absolutely. You must tell me who your chef is. This risotto is perfect; I haven't tasted that in a long time.

LORELAI: Sooky will be glad to hear that. Hey Sook!

SOOKY: (comes out of kitchen) You rang?

LORELAI: Piper and Leo Halliwell, Sooky StJames

PIPER: Nice to meet you.

SOOKY: Likewise

PIPER: I just wanted to compliment you on your risotto, is it your recipe?

SOOKY: (blushes) I just threw some stuff in the pot.

PIPER: (grins) It's the only way to cook.

SOOKY: I know!

LEO: (to LORELAI and SOOKY) Why don't you sit down, we are the only ones still here anyway.

(LORELAI and SOOKY take up his offer)

LORELAI: So, what brings you to Connecticut?

PIPER: We needed a change.

LORELAI: Well, it'll definitely be a culture shock if you're used to San Fransisco.

LEO: She is, I actually grew up in a little town like Stars Hollow myself.

LORELAI: Oh really? You just left your jobs and your family to move here? What were your jobs by the way?

SOOKY: Lorelai: just making sure she knows everything about you before miss Patty and Babette start spreading rumors.

PIPER: (frowns) Small town gossip? (changes looks with LEO)

LEO: Piper owns a night club, I'm a doctor.

LORELAI: A night club?

PIPER: My life's work, but my sister is taking over, it was already getting a bit too much work with the kids anyway. I'm thinking of going back to cooking.

LORELAI: Wow, did you like, have famous bands?

PIPER: Quite a lot actually, we had The Cranberries and Pat Benatar and the Flaming Lips.

LORELAI: (impressed) Maybe I should start a nightclub. I'm so jealous right now. You MET The Cranberries?

PIPER: (smiling) It was great.

(the babyphone goes on and they hear WYATT and CHRIS crying. PIPER makes motion to stand up, but Le stops her.)

LEO: I'll go, you just chat some more.

PIPER: (gives him a kiss) Thanks.

LORELAI: (follows LEO with her eyes) He's a dedicated dad, isn't he?

PIPER: He's amazing.

SOOKY: I wish Jackson was more like that.

LORELAI: Come on Sook, you won't let him.

SOOKY: (looks at her feet) But I can't just let my baby cry

PIPER: I had a hard time at first, but you learn after the second.

LORELAI: I never really had any problem with letting other people handle Rory, I was kind of glad when they took her off my hands.

SOOKY: You called her three times the first hour she was at Yale.

(PIPER grins)

LORELAI: It just came later with me, I guess. You think differently when you're sixteen. Besides, I didn't have a husband to help me.

SOOKY: You didn't want to marry Chris. I rest my case.

(LORELAI: and SOOKY laugh)

PIPER: Chris?

LORELAI: Rory's dad. He's the one who knocked me up at sixteen, but I refused to marry him. So, I moved here and took Rory with me. For some strange reason, my parents still like him better than me.

PIPER: Are they both alive and together?

LORELAI: Yeah

PIPER: Count your blessings. My parents broke up when I was three and my mother died when I was four, I was raised by my grandmother.

LORELAI: Now that would be my biggest nightmare.

PIPER: I think she did a nice job raising us.

LORELAI: Us?

PIPER: Me and my sisters.

LORELAI: Sisters, huh? You have more than one.

PIPER: I was raised with two of them, and we only found out about my third sister three years ago.

MICHEL: (comes in) Sooky, those idiots are messing up ze kitchen.

SOOKY: Excuse me. It was nice meeting you.

PIPER: Likewise.

(SOOKY hurries off to the kitchen)

LORELAI: Your family sounds really complicated.

PIPER: Believe me, you haven't heard nothing yet.

(LORELAI grins)

LORELAI I'm starting to think the same thing about my life.

PIPER: Why, it doesn't sound too complicated

LORELAI: That's because I haven't started about Christopher. He knocked somebody else up again last year, he found out just after WE had decided to try again. And before Chris, there was Max Medina, better known as Rory's English teacher, I dumped him just when we were engaged, for Chris.

PIPER: Don't you just love men?

(they laugh)

LORELAI: Talking about men, where is your husband staying?

PIPER: He probably fell asleep. He always does when he goes to calm the kids down.

LORELAI: That is so cute! I wonder if Luke will do that?

(PIPER looks at her suspiciously)

LORELAI: I mean, would do that if we were to have children.

PIPER: And I'm the pope. You're pregnant, aren't you?

LORELAI: (blushes) For someone I have just met, you seem to have a pretty good sight in who I am. I just found out today actually.

PIPER: Congratulation (gives LORELAI a kiss)

LORELAI: Thanks. But keep it down, I still have to tell Luke, tonight. Worse than that, Rory would kill me if she knew I didn't tell her first.

PIPER: You are pretty close with her, aren't you?

LORELAI: She's an amazing kid.

PIPER: I hope that I will have such a good relationship with my children.

LORELAI: I'm sure you will.

PIPER: I'm not, but I can hope for it.

(MICHEL comes in)

MICHEL: Lorelai, I am going ome, now.

LORELAI: Bye Michel! (mocking) Say hi to your dogs.

MICHEL: Do not moque me!

LORELAI: Bye Michel.

MICHEL: (mumbling) merde. (he leaves)

PIPER: Nice guy. (smiles)

LORELAI: Yeah. Well, I should get going as well, I have big news to report to my husband and child. I'll see you tomorrow?

PIPER: I think so, yes. We're going to look at some other houses tomorrow and we might take a drive to Hartford.

LORELAI: Enjoy yourselves.