AN: I know I've been kinda sucking lately with this whole updating thing. I was in AZ for 2 weeks (I live in NY) then when I got back there's been so much and I got a job. So anyway, I have lots of ideas for all my stories and hope everyone continues to read and review!

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After leaving her parents' house, the devastated, aggravated Lorelai headed over to the diner before going back to her house. She walked in to see Luke closing up, she realized how empty the diner was since Kirk was with Lulu – he had spent so much time in Luke's until Lulu came along. Luke looked up and Lorelai looked him in the eye the way she'd done only two nights before when everything was falling apart. He asked her what was going on, there was no use hiding that Lorelai still wasn't herself.

"Rory came home."

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"She finally saw why I left my parents' house. My mom saw Logan there this morning – now Logan's at the house."

"What did your mother do?"

"Started treating Rory like a child," Lorelai started crying, "I want her to be a child again, Luke. I don't like Logan. I don't trust Logan."

Lorelai then started to think about what Logan said to her, I'm just like you, she'd admitted he was right – what a mistake. She'd been so happy that Rory was coming home that she'd lost it for a second and admitted that. Logan was everything she was, but Lorelai only hoped that Rory would be smarter than she was. Rory couldn't make the same mistakes as Lorelai – Lorelai could only imagine the field day that Emily would have with that.

Luke could tell that there was more than that; it wasn't like Lorelai to fall apart like this. In the past few days he'd watched the woman he loves fall into almost nothing – she was disintegrating before his very eyes and he wanted…no needed to do something about it.

"Did you ask Rory about the Twickam house?"

"I told her about the idea and she looked around the house that we live in now – the house that holds all of our memories. She's as lost as I am about it. I can't give you an answer now, Luke. My life is in that little house – that house shows everything that I've worked for since I left my parents' house all those years ago."

"I understand, but this is our future, Lorelai. I want more than anything for us to have a future together and start our lives. We've been through so much where we're living now – a new beginning, a new house."

Lorelai listened as Luke was pushing this on her, she really didn't know what to do. She tried to explain that she wasn't saying no, she just needed to think about it still. There was so much going on at once that it was overwhelming. Lorelai had done everything herself for so many years and she was given another challenge. It shouldn't be harder than having a baby at 16; decided to start her life over with the man she loved wouldn't necessarily mean losing all that she had. She wouldn't be leaving Stars Hollow, but it was still not the house where she and Rory had lived since Rory was a small child. Luke wasn't understanding that it was about more than just a house – more than a place to live. It was about leaving behind so much of her life to start over again. Lorelai didn't know if she was ready to start over and leave everything behind. She didn't want to think that she had to leave everything behind just to be with Luke and to be Mrs. Luke Danes.

"But what about the kids," Luke asked for the second time that week.

Finally Lorelai realized what he meant the first time. When they were arguing in the inn before her lunch with Rory that started the breakdown…Luke meant their kids; the kids that they would have when they started a family. He didn't want her traveling so that they could start a family.

"Our kids…" Lorelai said softly. The two just looked at each other, neither one knew what was going to come of their lives together. A wedding wasn't even discussed. Lorelai looked down at her finger and Luke smiled in his flannel shirt and blue baseball cap – the cap that Lorelai had bought him years before.

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Rory woke up on the couch in her living room with Logan by her side the next morning. It was the first time he'd been in the house and only the second time he'd ever been to Stars Hollow – the first time he was too drunk to know where he was anyway…not that Rory was in a much better state of mind. Rory watched as Logan's eyes wandered around the house that she grew up in. It was most likely nothing like Logan had ever seen before. Even his apartment at Yale was fancier than the modest home Lorelai had self sufficiently bought.

"Do you want me to show you around the house?" Rory interrupted Logan's thoughts.

He smiled and stood up taking Rory's hand. She told him the stories about when she broke up with Dean the first time and decided to move all the furniture in the living room and the spot where her Chilton formal dress "made a pass" at Lorelai. Rory told Logan the story about the first time her grandparents were there on her 16th birthday and the time a couple of years later when Lorelai the first visited. She took him to the kitchen and explained the dust on everything but the coffee pot was from lack of use. Every room had so much life in it and so many stories; Logan had to admit that he was jealous. He couldn't even figure out what to call half the rooms in his house.

After the tour of the house, Rory took Logan around Stars Hollow. Babette was outside in her garden, Taylor was dictating some kind of town renovation project, and Miss Patty was standing in the doorway to her studio. These were all familiar and that sense of belonging made Rory once again question everything about Yale and about what she felt at her grandparents'. Stars Hollow was where she belonged even without the opportunities – it would be a place to figure out what she wanted…but Lorelai wouldn't let her stay to think.

The next stop on the tour was for breakfast and coffee at Luke's. They went over and sat at the counter waiting for Luke to take care of all the customers. Rory noticed the same thing as Lorelai – the diner was very quiet without Kirk there. But for Rory and Logan the silence was even greater because Luke already took a strong dislike towards Logan. This was the boy that was in that room with Rory at Emily and Richard's wedding and the reason that Rory had spent time in jail.

"Hi, Rory," Luke said.

"Luke, you remember Logan."

"Yes, I believe we met at the wedding."

"I think we did, that wasn't my greatest moment," Logan said with a blush.

"No, you much prefer the time in jail."

"Luke!" Rory raised her voice.

Logan could tell that he wasn't going to be welcomed with open arms in Stars Hollow, but when it came to Rory he didn't care about acceptance. If he was willing to change everything in his life for her then the people who cared about her should learn to respect him. He knew that he was nothing like Dean and nothing like the life Rory had lived in years before – but he was the only one who saw that smile when he put his arms around her. Everyone else was just going to have to get used to it.

After Luke took their orders and gave them coffee, he walked away leaving Rory and Logan by themselves.

"He really doesn't like me…"

"Well think of the position we were in when he met you, and that led to everything breaking loose with my dad and Luke and my mom broke up. It was pretty bad and even though none of it was your fault…"

"I know Rory, but I want them to like me. I know how important they are to you and like I told you, I can't stop seeing you."

Rory smiled, she knew Logan was being sincere and hoped that people…especially Lorelai and Luke would warm up to him.

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Logan left that afternoon leaving Rory by herself until Lorelai got home from the Inn. She thought about what Lorelai said about leaving the house. She thought about all the good times in the house that she'd been telling Logan about earlier that morning and she thought about all of the bad details she left out. It wasn't hard for Rory to remember what happened in the bed she still sleeps in sometimes though the pink sheets are no longer in existence thanks to Lorelai. Rory's thoughts were interrupted by the opening of the door and Lorelai yelling that it was time for dinner.

Rory looked at her mother sternly and said that she wanted to talk before they headed over to the diner. Lorelai had no idea what it was about but she could tell that it was serious. To break the mood a little Lorelai said, "should we go to Weston's?"
Rory faked a smile and led her mother to the couch. She looked her in the eye and told her that she didn't want her to sell the house. There were too many memories that would be left behind – there were too many things that happened that only could've happened between those walls.

"Rory, honey, I know what you mean, but maybe it's time to start over. You need somewhere to think and to figure out what you want with your life. Luke and I have been talking about expanding the family."

"Wow – another little sibling? I hope to be more in their life than I am in Gigi's."

"It's too soon for anything to really happen – but Luke bought the house."

"Mom, you know we're not going to be able to pack everything away."

The two looked around the house and both of them had tears forming in their eyes. They couldn't think about it any longer so they walked out of the house and headed over to Luke's for their dinner. The diner owner saw the tears in the girls' eyes when they walked in and immediately brought them coffee and took their orders waiting for the information to be volunteered.

As the girls were eating slowly, picking at their food, Luke knew that something was definitely wrong. It was not like Rory and Lorelai at all to not have a hearty appetite.

"Are you two okay?"

"Luke, can I talk to you in the store room for a minute?"

Luke took Lorelai's hand and led her away yelling to Caesar and Lane to take care of the diner. When they reached the store room Luke leaned in to kiss Lorelai, but she backed away.

"I can't move," She finally blurted out.

"What?"

"The house. Rory and I have spent so much time there…our lives are in that house. With Rory moved out her bedroom can be used – or maybe the garage since the band isn't using it, we can turn it into a bedroom. I just…"

"But the papers are signed – I've been getting along with Taylor. Lorelai, I did this for us – I did this because I don't want to make another mistake like with Nicole. I lost her and I'm not going to lose you."

"You're not going to lose me, just that house. The Twickam house is amazing and I know about Kirk's competitive bid – how did you get it anyway?"

"You don't want to know."

"Luke…"

"I went to the town elders…in a sauna."

Lorelai let out a giggle, "you went in a sauna just to get this house…it means a lot to you doesn't it?"

"Yes."