A/N: Warning: Not for Emily haters… I like Emily, she reminds me of my late grandmother and I feel sorry for her. So I'm making her a bit nicer… I don't know if I portray Piper a bit strange, but I just write the characters as they flow out of my fingers, without thinking too much like: what would Piper say? So… I hope you guys like this new chapter.
CUT TO – Gilmore Living Room – night
(LORELAI and EMILY are sitting in the couch, half of the junk food has been eaten, there are empty bowls everywhere, watching the tv)
LORELAI: The Oompa Loompa's!
EMILY: Excuse me?
LORELAI: Those adorable singing creatures, mom!
EMILY: This movie is just ridiculous.
LORELAI: That's why it's such a masterpiece.
EMILY: It's a miracle Rory turned out so well.
LORELAI: Well thanks mom. (sarcastically)
EMILY: I'm sorry Lorelai.
LORELAI: I could get used to you apologising.
EMILY: (frowning) Don't get all smart on me.
LORELAI: There she is!
EMILY: (sighing) What happened to us Lorelai?
LORELAI: What do you mean, what happened?
EMILY: We used to get along so well.
LORELAI: Really? When?
EMILY: When you were a little girl. I remember when you were five or six years old you wouldn't go to sleep until I told you a story. You never heard the entire story and would fall asleep on my lap. I used to watch you sleep, I was afraid that if I left you would wake up.
LORELAI: I forgot about that. (is silent for a while). I did the same thing with Rory when she was little.
EMILY: How did we become enemies?
LORELAI: I don't know. I just didn't fit in, the whole lifestyle. (pauses and looks at her feet) I didn't want to become you.
EMILY: Neither did I.
LORELAI: What?
EMILY: I hate, hated it as much as you did. We are more alike than you think.
LORELAI: Don't overdo it.
EMILY: I was in love with Richard. I had to fight for us. Your grandmother didn't want us to get married, but I fought and I became the perfect society woman I was expected to be.
(LORELAI is staring at her mother)
EMILY: I was so happy when you were born. And they took you from me and you got the name of the woman I so despised. I wanted to name you Hannah but Richard wouldn't have that, well, his mother wouldn't have that.
LORELAI: Hannah? I like that.
EMILY: (continues her story) You were sent to the best schools and were treated like a princess and I turned into my own worst nightmare. (she's crying) I love you Lorelai, you know that right? I'm sorry.
LORELAI: I love you too mom. (surprised by her own words)
EMILY: And then you ran from me and the world and in my heart I was so happy that you escaped, but in those last few years I had lost you and I was so angry at myself for letting that happen. I screwed up.
LORELAI: Screwed, mom?
EMILY: (smiles through her tears) You can't help it, can you?
LORELAI: I'm sorry.
(they hug)
LORELAI: This is weird.
EMILY: What?
LORELAI: Me, you hugging.
EMILY: It's been over thirty years, what did you expect?
LORELAI: I was expecting a fight tonight.
EMILY: Wasn't everybody?
LORELAI: I'm sorry too, mom.
EMILY: Thank you.
LORELAI: (takes a bowl) Popcorn?
EMILY: Yes please.
CUT TO – Halliwell House Living Room – night
PHOEBE: Can you please explain Lorelai's family?
LEO: (grinning) How long have you got?
PIPER: (hits her husband in the stomach, playfully) I'll give you the cliff notes version, but it's only what she told me and I'm still not completely sure about it.
PAIGE: Is it that complicated?
LEO: She's worse than you guys.
PHOEBE: That's impossible.
LEO: You'd be surprised.
PIPER: She actually had very rich parents in Hartford and fights with her mother all the time, so when she got pregnant at sixteen, they weren't to happy. When Rory was born she didn't want to marry Chris
PAIGE: Rory's dad?
PIPER: Yeah. So she moved here, to Stars Hollow and got a job as a maid at the local Inn.
PHOEBE: The Dragonfly thing that we drove by earlier?
PIPER: No, she used to be a in another one. And then she Max, Rory's English teacher and they got engaged but she broke the engagement for Christopher. When they finally got back together his almost ex-girlfriend discovered that she was pregnant.
PHOEBE: Fertile man, that Christopher.
PIPER: Phoebe!
PHOEBE: What?
PIPER: Anyway, two years or so later she and Luke finally started dating.
PAIGE: Finally?
PIPER: According to Miss Patty they'd been flirting for years. But then Luke got married and divorced again or something.
PAIGE: So they were together?
PIPER: They got married a year ago. And Rory and Jess, well, they were dating long before Luke and Lorelai. Apparently they broke up for a while and had this huge fight or something. But now they're both in college and together.
PHOEBE: And what happened to the Chris guy?
PIPER: He's living with his wife and new daughter.
PAIGE: Rory's half sister.
PIPER: Indeed.
PHOEBE: Wow.
LEO: I told you so.
PAIGE: Are you sure that was the cliff note version?
PIPER: If you want details, maybe you should stop by Miss Patty's or Babette, she lives next to Lorelai.
PHOEBE: You have a speaking tabloid. Not bad.
PIPER: It's so weird to be greeted by everyone you meet on the street. You can't do anything without having the town know about it.
PAIGE: How do you meet a guy here?
LEO: (rolls his eyes) You escape or get married to someone new or someone you've known all your life. (mocking)
PAIGE: When did you become so mean?
PIPER: Unfortunately when they clipped his wings, he stopped being a pacifist.
PAIGE: I liked him better when he was still a whitelighter.
PHOEBE: Me too.
LEO: I'm still sitting here, you know!
PIPER: We know, we're just ignoring you until you become nice again.
LEO: You girls are hopeless.
PAIGE: Why did you marry him again?
PIPER: He was an angel.
PHOEBE: Ever though of divorce.
LEO: That's it, I'm going upstairs. Goodnight ladies.
(they grin)
PIPER: (kisses LEO) I love you.
LEO: I love you too. I'm really going to bed, I'm exhausted.
PIPER: Goodnight honey.
LEO: Goodnight (kisses her forehead and then bows to her belly) Goodnight baby.
PHOEBE: (nudges Paige) This is why I want kids.
PAIGE: You want someone to talk to your stomach.
PHOEBE: (puts out her tongue to her younger sister) I want a baby!
PAIGE: I can't magic one for you.
PHOEBE: Would you do it if you could?
PAIGE: No.
PIPER: No fighting in my house! I would magic you a baby if I could.
PHOEBE: Can I have one of yours?
LEO: Stay of my children, you evil woman.
PHOEBE: Go to bed, evil man!
LEO: (leaving) I'm already going. Goodnight guys.
