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Hours later, paperwork complete and thoughts still in process, she left the inn and headed to Luke's.

She entered the diner and sat at the counter. Luke poured her a cup of coffee.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Why are you asking?"

"You look… preoccupied."

Lorelai sighed. "I want to talk to Rory."

"Then go."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to rush her. I don't want to make her talk. Look what happened when I did that to you."

"I still think you should go. I think talking to her best friend would do Rory some good."

She considered this for a minute. "You really think I should go?"

"I really think you should go."

"Well, I guess I'm going then." She drained her coffee, kissed Luke over the counter, and headed for the door.

"Hey Lorelai." He called.

She turned. "Yeah?"

"I'm coming with you."

She smiled. "Thanks."

"Caesar, I'm going out." He called over his shoulder. Without waiting for a reply, they walked out the door and climbed into Luke's truck.

Rory, like her mother, had spent the day doing some serious thinking of her own. She had spent the day in bed, not really having the energy to do much besides think. And, again like her mother, she'd come up with nothing.

The half hour drive to Hartford was silent. Neither knew what to say to the other or what they were going to say to Rory. They were just going to have to see what happened.

Luke pulled into the drive and they immediately walked to the pool house. Lorelai knocked on the glass door.

A minute later it opened, revealing to them a shocked Rory in an I-just-got-out-of-bed outfit, complete with no makeup, pajamas, slippers, and tousled hair.

"Mom, Luke… Hey." She said, trying to smile and act as if this was normal.

"Hey." Lorelai replied. "Can we come in?"

"Oh, sorry. Sure, come on in." She opened the door wider and they walked into the much smaller version of the Gilmore mansion.

"Have a seat." Rory gestured to the clearly expensive couch. Luke and Lorelai sat uncomfortably.

Lorelai took a deep breath. "Rory, let's just skip the small talk. I'm not going to beat around the bush here. You need to go back to Yale."

"I can't, mom, I can't. I'm not going to be a journalist. I can't be there, in a college full of focused, goal-oriented people, while I wander aimlessly trying to figure out what to do with my life."

"Then go to another college and figure out what you want to do with your life. Or, better yet, forget what that bastard Mitchum Huntzburger said and be a journalist anyway. I didn't think I raised a daughter who would just give up when one person said she couldn't do it. The Rory I know would go out and prove him wrong."

"Mom, didn't we go over this? Mitchum Huntzburger is an extremely important man in the newspaper business. If he says I don't have it, I don't have it."

Luke finally spoke up. "You do have it, Rory. I've seen your writing. If you really put your mind to it, you'd be an amazing journalist. I've watched you work towards this for so long, and I'm not letting you give up now."

Rory was somewhat shocked by this display of fatherly concern.

"Rory, have you told Logan about this?" Lorelai interjected.

Rory looked at her feet. "No."

"You should, you know. Because if you won't listen to us, maybe you'll listen to him." She told her daughter. As an afterthought, she added, "Talk to Paris, too."

Rory sighed. "I will."

Lorelai stood, and Luke followed her lead. She walked over to her daughter and hugged her. "Whatever you do, make sure you're happy." Lorelai whispered in her ear.

"I will." Rory whispered back.

"Love you."

"Love you too."

They parted. Luke stepped up and hugged Rory also. She was slightly taken aback.

"I love you too, you know." He told her.

"I know. Thanks. And I love you."

He patted her on the back before pulling away. Rory waved goodbye and Luke and Lorelai left the pool house, feeling just a little better than before.

I think this chapter had a little of one of the only things of which Gilmore Girls is severely lacking: Luke/Rory father/daughter action!

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