Thanks again for the reviews.
to Izzpuppy: I know what you mean and I thought long about putting this in, but I just think that they both changed (in my story of course, but maybe alsoI the series, but well hopefully see that soon!) and that it´s not fair that Rory can do whatever she wants and be selfish, while Lorelai cant enjoy what she has. But I don´t think that this is really replacing, I would say it´s accepting. I hope you will like this chapter better!
Chapter15: Aliens
"Hi Mom, it´s me!"
"Oh hi, kiddo!" Lorelai said and sat down on the edge of her desk.
"Mom, please promise that you won´t kill me! Whatever I say now, promise!" Rory said in an unsure tone.
"Ooookaaayyy!" Lorelai said and preparing herself that she would have to bail her daughter out again, or anything comparable.
"My professor in literature decided suddenly to write an exam on Tuesday, which means I have to learn the whole weekend, which means I can´t look after Will! I´m sooo sorry , Mom!" Rory said.
"Oh noooo! Rory. Tell me that that´s a joke! And it´s a very bad one!"
"No, mom, it´s not a joke. I also thought so at first, but it´s not. But I know that you are really looking forward to your first wedding day with Luke and I feel so miserable. But Logan said he would look after Will."
"Logan? Would like to look after your 3 and a half months old baby-brother!" Lorelai had to laugh.
"He likes him! And Will likes Logan!" Rory defended her boyfriend.
"I know that he does and I really appreciate the offer, but I don´t think that he can handle him the whole weekend. I have to think of something else."
"But if you don´t find somebody then tell me and I will help Logan. I will bring my books and I will learn at home." Lorelai smiled when she heard that Rory was speaking of "home". She had finally accepted the former Twickham-house as her home.
"No, sweets it´s fine. And thank Logan for the offer. But I´m sure we will find someone. And now start learning!"
"Okay, bye mom. And I´m really sorry. Tell Luke how sorry I am!"
"I will! Bye!" Lorelai said and hung up the phone. This was a disaster. It was Thursday evening, she and Luke wanted to leave Friday morning for romantic weekend in an hotel. And now Rory called and said she couln´t look after Will. Lorelai wasn´t angry, it wasn´t Rory´s fault, but she knew they had to find a solution. She grabbed her purse and walked over to the diner. He looked after Will today, it was part of their new arrangement. Two days Luke would look after him and would bring him over to the Inn when he needed to be fed and two days she would look after him. Then Luke again and so on.
"Luuuke...Where are youuuuu?" she screamed when she entered the diner and he was nowhere to be seen.
"Luuuke...I neeeed you... we have problem!" she screamed and walked behind the counter.
"Would you stop screaming!This is a diner not a football stadium!" he said grumpily when he emerged from the storeroom, Will in one arm, a pack of napkins in the other hand.
"And what are you doing behind the counter? Go, go get!" he told her and waved with the napkins in his hands in the direction he wanted her to go. She walked around the counter and plopped down on a stool. When Luke turned his head to lay down the napkins beside the coffee-machine she stuck out her tongue.
"I know exactly what you are doing!" Luke told her with raised eye-brows and faced her again.
"And what were you babbling about? What problem do we have?"he asked then.
"Well to make a long story short: Rory can´t look after Will this week-end" she told him.
"What! Why?" he asked confused.
"I don´t know how to answer the what-question, but the answer to your why-question would be the long story. She has something to do for Yale. Not her fault. She is terribly sorry and even Logan said that he would after our little boy here"
"Not an option! I can´t believe she lets us down again.! Maybe it´s not her fault this time, but what´s with the two dinners she just never showed up to? This girl is so not Rory anymore!" Luke shook his head and then grinned, when he thought of Logan handling a baby a whole weekend.
"I know what you mean. But what can we do. I got kind of used to it. Maybe that´s the new Rory and I just have to deal with it. Any ideas for a babsitter?" Lorelai asked.
"What about...Sookie?" Luke said
"She has two kids at home and an Inn to handle this weekend. Next!"
"I´m out. Do you have any ideas?"
"No, not really. There was this idea for not more than a second that maybe, just maybe we could ask my parents!" she looked at him, waiting what he might say. She wasn´t sure about his reaction.
"Or we could take him with us.." she went on when he stayed quiet.
"No, I also thought about your parents, but I was sure you didn´t want them to look after him. But I mean, they are crazy about him, especially your father, I think they know the basics about handling a baby... why not? Call them and ask! The sooner the better!"
"Thank you!" she said and gave him a quick kiss before she took Will and walked upstairs to call them.
"Emily Gilmore" her mother answered the phone.
"Hello, mum, it´s me, your daughter, Lorelai." she stammered.
"As far as I remember you are the only daughter that I have, and I remember your name!" Emily told her in her typical Emily Gilmore manner and Lorelai had to smile at that, because her mother seemed to be her old self again.
"I´m glad you do!" Lorelai laughed
"So am I" Emily said and joined her laughing.
""Well, mom, um, I wanted to ask you something, I mean me , Luke and I wanted to ask you something..."
"Yes?"
" You know that we are going on this weekend trip to celebrate our first wedding day...?"
"Yes I remember that!"
"And Rory wanted to look after Will...?"
"Yes!"
"But now she has an exam next week and can´t look after him..."
"Yes"
"And then Logan offered that he would look after him..."
"I see!"
"No, mum, I´m sure you don´t, because we don´t trust him to look after Will for a whole week-end. Maybe for an hour or two yes. Maybe an evening if Rory helps him, or if we would be in the next room..."
"Lorelai stop ranting and come to the point! Do you want us to organise a nanny or that we should keep an eye on Logan?" Emily interrupted her.
"No, that´s not what we thought. We thought that maybe, just if you don´t have any other plans, you and dad could...?"
"Oh, really? Lorelai! We would love to!" Emily nearly screamed into the phone and Lorelai held the phone away from her ear.
"I´m glad you think so, mum. When can we bring him over tomorrow?"
"Whenever you like. We will be at home!" Emily said and Lorelai could hear that she was still smiling.
"Well, then see you tomorrow!" Lorelai said.
"See you tomorrow!"
"And?" Luke asked when Lorelai re-entered the diner.
"They do it! Don´t be shocked if my mother will greet you with a hug and a kiss tomorrow. She sounded so happy, that I think that might be an option!" She said on a stool in front of the counter and sat Will in her lap.
"I think I could live with that!" Luke said and smirked. He knew there would be some reaction to that statement immediately. He was right.
"What? You could live with that? If my mother would kiss you? Full on the mouth with everything!" she made a disgusted face.
"Nobody said anything about a kiss on the mouth. As innocent as I am, I thought you are talking about a kiss on the cheek"
"Ha, innocent...you? No way! I think the last three months caused some amnesia! But I´m sure by tomorrow evening you will remember pretty well!" she said and tried to wink at him.
He leaned forward, placed his elbows on the counter, so that he was eye-to-eye with her.
"You´re sure you´re ready? We don´t have to... you know. Not because it´s our wedding-day. I don´t want to hurt you just because you think it would be a nice present or I would expect it." he whispered, so that only she could hear.
" You are the sweetest husband ever!" she smiled and kissed him.
"But don´t worry. I really want it. Actually I can´t wait. It´s been more than three months. I really miss it." she said and kissed him again, a little longer this time.
"Uuuuh, can´t wait till tomorrow! Seems like you´re celebrating your wedding day a bit earlier!" they heard Miss Patty´s voice and broke apart. Luke immediately took Will and fled into the kitchen.
Lorelai just smiled and was sure that Patty would call Babette the second she would have the opportunity to and tell her what ever it was that she was imagining right now.
The next morning around nine Lorelai rang the bell at the Gilmore´s house.
The door flewopen and both Emily and Richard stood there.
"Oh my god, they truly exist! Aliens!" Lorelai said aloud and Luke had to laugh. Emily and Richard both just shook their heads, to express how inappropriate the comment was, and then greeted their daughter and her husband, before they took Williams car-seat with the baby in it and hurried over into the living-room.
"Stop them! Police! Help! Luke do something! They are kidnapping our baby!" Lorelai yelled, but Luke placed one hand over her mouth to silence her.
When he took it of he gave her a look and she started to giggle.
"I like your other way of shutting me up a lot more!" she told him and then watched how her parents took Will out of his seat and took his little jeans-jacket off.
While Richard started to play with his grandson, Lorelai and Luke explained to Emily how to feed Will, when to feed him, what he liked and what not...
In the end Richard and Emily needed to throw Luke and Lorelai out, because they couldn´t separate from their son. Because Lorelai had hugged her baby so hard he had got scared and had started to cry. Then Luke had to calm him and it was nearly noon when they left.
"I already miss him!" Lorelai pouted when they walked over to their car.
"Me, too! But I´m sure he will have a good time. And if there are any problems they will call us."
"Oh yes, they will!" Lorelai stated. She had let them promise it first and then swear it and then she was thrown out before she could think of another possibility. Then she started to smile.
"One weekend just you and me!" she said and sighed contently. This would be their first wedding-day and everything would be perfect. How could it not, she had Luke to herself all weekend, without a diner or the Inn, a crying baby, nosy neighbours or a daughter with a crazy boyfriend.
"Hey Luke! Do you think the next year will be as eventful as this?" she asked him after they drove for about one hour.
"With you as my wife? Sure!" he smiled.
"How long till we arrive?"
" Five minutes less then when you asked the last time" he grumbled.
"Uuuh, I know. I want to listen to the reggae-fever CD!" she said two minutes later.
"Lorelai...!" he warned her.
TBC review please!