So here it is: dinner part 2!

professer: There are some babies who need to be fed that often. my little brother was one of them and it drove my mother crazy! But it wasn´t for long!

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Chapter 11

The four of them sat around the round table in the dinning-room and Luke served the lasagne he made. It had been Lorelai´s wish, and of course he had followed it.

"Is Rory also coming?" Richard asked and started to eat his salad.

"No, she has a date with Logan. I don´t know what they are doing, I just hope they won´t steal any more yachts!" Lorelai said and laughed bitter. They hearing at the court had just been a few days ago and because of Logan´s lawyers, the punishment had just been a few hours of social work.

Luke shot his wife a warning look, because this topic was not the right one for a dinner conversation. He wanted this to be a nice evening, as far as this was possible with her parents in the house. He was just tired of arguing with them. And he could see that they were really trying this time.

"Hmhmm" Lorelai cleared her voice and changed the topic immediately when she saw Luke´s look.

"I hope you like lasagne, I graved it yesterday in the hospital and forced Luke to cook it today. I hope that´s okay" she said quickly before her parents could say anything about Rory.

"It tastes delicious. Don´t worry" Richard said to Luke.

"Uhm, well... Thank you." Luke said, feeling uncomfortable.

"Where do you have the baby monitor?" he asked after looking round.

"Here" Lorelai said and pointed to the chair next to her.

"Why is this thing lying on a chair?" Luke said and raised one eye-brow.

"Because... when Will starts to cry, I will have the feeling that he is here next to me and then when I turn this thing of and go and look after him, I will feel a lot better, than if it would just stand somewhere in the room." she explained.

"I think I don´t need to understand this, do I?" Luke asked and shook his head. He had no idea what she was talking about.

"No, you don´t need to. As long as it makes sense for me, that´s enough. But I hope you know that sooner or later my logic always turns out to be logic!"she told him with a smirk on her face.

"Ah yes? Do I really know that? I don´t think so!" Luke shot back.

"Well, remember when I told you, that you just should throw your clothes into the wardrobe, because sooner or later they end up that way anyway! I was soo right!" she smiled with a triumphing smile on her face.

"One point for me, mister!" she laughed and clapped her hands.

"How is that one point for you? I folded all of my clothes and hung up my shirts and then you come, looking for one of my shirts to sleep in and throw my whole stuff out of the closet and onto the floor." he said.

"Still, one point for me. It doesn´t matter who messed up your system, it´s just important that it happened!" she laughed.

Emily and Richard just sat there watching them interact, both suppressing a comment about what they had heard. This banter seemed to be normal and it was obvious that they both enjoyed it.

But there was more. Lorelai stole some lasagne from Luke´s plate and he ate the parts of her salad he knew she would not eat. It seemed like they were married for twenty years and not only for ten months.

And while Emil watched them she thought of some secure topics to talk about, but couldn´t find one.

Then they heard Wills voice through the baby-monitor. He was not crying, but seemed to whimper. Lorelai listened for some seconds and wanted to stand up, when he stopped.

"Seems like he has a bad dream." she said and looked at Luke.

"Why are you looking at me, I didn´t do anything!" he defended himself.

"Well, you gave Miss Patty our baby boy!" she teased him.

"She grabbed me! I just wanted to get away from her. And before I could react she took him out of my arms!" Luke said, making a face about the grabbing-part.

"She grabbed you?" Emily asked shocked.

"Yeah, Miss Patty seems to like my husbands butt!" Lorelai laughed.

"Aaah, geez... Lorelai!" Luke said and blushed.

"You say that a lot lately, husband of mine. I heard it about a thousand times this morning when Sookie, Babette and Miss Patty were here!" she giggled.

"Well what else can I say when you discuss stuff like that while innocent husbands and babies are in the room!"

"Stuff like what?" Richard asked, he had no idea what they were talking about.

"Dad, I really don´t think you´d like to know!" she laughed and used her napkin to dry her chin, because he had spit out the water she had been drinking when her father asked that question.

But he still didn´t get it.

"Why not, Lorelai?" he asked innocently.

"Well dad, let´s put it like this: If you are really interested what we did during our honeymoon and how often we did it and where..."

"Lorelai!" Luke tried to stop her.

"Or what we did and didn´t do during the pregnancy you´re welcome to join us the next time!" Lorelai said and laughed again when she saw her fathers shocked expression, before he also blushed and stared at his plate.

"Lorelai, really!" Emily said, but had to hide a smile.

"And back to you and what you did, Mister!" she said to Luke. " I think you, above all persons, after what happened during the test run of the Inn, should know that it might not be a pleasant experience to lye either in Babette´s or in Patty´s arms and have a certain "view"!" she teased him.

"Don´t EVER remind me of that again! EVER!" Luke said, but also had to laugh.

"Why what happened?" Emily asked curiously.

"Babettes bathrobe slipped open during dinner..." Lorelai began

"... and she wore nothing else!" Luke finished her sentence.

"And Luke was sitting next to her!" Lorelai completed the explanation.

"Oh!" Emily said, but also had to laugh this time. Richard was still staring at his plate, different shades of red visible on his face.

"Yeah, but in the end it was worth it!" Luke said and smiled at Lorelai.

"Yes, it definitely was!" she smiled back. Then she saw her parents curious looks.

"We kissed for the first time that evening." she told them.

"Ah, that explains your smile" Emily told Lorelai.

"It definitely does!" she said and leaned over to Luke, who was sitting next to her and kissed him.

"Does anybody want more, otherwise I´ll start to clean up!" Luke said some minutes later.

"No, thank you Luke." Both Emily and Richard said. Then there was silence.

"Why don´t you go over in the living room and I´ll join you when I finished here!" Luke asked and stood up.

"Yeah, ok. But leave the dishes in the sink, we can do that later, together." Lorelai said and stood up also. She walked into the living room and plopped down on the couch. Her parents followed her.

There was silence again, this time Emily broke it.

"This is really a beautiful house you have " she said.

Lorelai looked at her for some seconds to find out if this was honest or not. But it was.

"Yeah, Luke bought it, even before we got engaged. He had this dream of moving in here, starting a family. He was even friendly to Taylor to get it. And then when we got engaged and he wanted it back, Taylor gave him a tough time. But in the end we moved in here, we got married, now we have Will. Luke´s dream came true.!"

"But why did he had to get it back? I thought he bought it before you got engaged." Emily asked.

"Well, yes and no. He had bought it, but when I was mulling over Mike Armstrong´s job offer, or I told him I was mulling, he backed out of it, and then back in after we got engaged."

"So you were mulling about it?" Richard asked.

"Well, no, not really. I was flattered and Sookie told me that I could do it if I wanted. But then I thought about Luke and Rory and my home and the Inn and I knew that I couldnt do it."

"What did Luke say when you told him about it?" Richard wanted to know. He wanted to know if he was right about Luke.

"Well he said that I should talk to Mike Armstrong and think about it." Lorelai told him. And Richard knew that he was right. Luke would do everything to make his daughter happy.

Then they heard William again, really crying this time.

"Stay, I get him!" Luke screamed from the kitchen and walked upstairs.

"Hello, my son. What´s up with you? Why are you crying, sweety? You can´t be hungry. Are you bored? Do you want to join us downstairs? Come to daddy, son" Luke said and carried William downstairs then sat next to Lorelai on the couch. All six eyes were on him and at first he didn´t understand why they were staring at him.

But when Lorelai took his hand, squeezed it and then kissed his cheek, he knew that they had heard every word.

Emily smiled at Will, who had calmed down. Lorelai saw it.

She knew that her mother would have loved to hold him, but she couldn´t give her son to her mother yet. She knew that it maybe was unfair, but she couldn´t. She looked in Lukes eyes and she knew from the look he gave her that he understood her.

"Why don´t you show them the wedding pictures?" he asked to break the silence.

Before she stood up to get them she mouthed "Thank you" in Lukes direction and then stood up.

They watched the wedding pictures and after they had finished, it was time to feed Will again, which he made clear, by crying furiously.

Richard and Emily knew that it was time to go and they left, but not before inviting Luke and Lorelai to their Friday night dinners. Only if they would have time of course.

"Do you think we should go?" Lorelai asked Luke, while she lay on their bed, feeding William.

"Maybe, but not this week and not next week. Let´s not overdo it. Today was a beginning, but they are still your parents, if you know what I mean." Luke said and slipped in beside her.

"I know what you mean, believe me. And I totally agree with you!" she told him and took his left hand in her right hand and suddenly squeezed it hard.

"Hey, son be gentle! You can´t be that hungry!" she said to Will and turned him so that he could suck on her other breast.

Luke had to laugh.

"This is so your son. All greedy!" he laughed, even harder when she slapped him on the chest.

"You can´t deny it either! Or how would you explain it, that he wakes me up every two hours at night to be fed and then just isn´t tired anymore! If he keeps this up, I will be a mess in less then a week!"

"I never woke you up every two hours!" Luke tried to defend himself.

"Well, not to be fed...!" Lorelai grinned.

TBC: R+R