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"Mom…Mom…Mom!" Rory shouted. She leant over the bed and shook her mom hard. "Wake up"
"What time is it?" Lorelai grumbled from underneath the covers.
"Nine thirty" Rory replied, pushing Lorelai over so there was room to sit on the bed. Lorelai pushed the comforter away from her head and glared at her daughter.
"Why on earth would you wake me up at nine thirty?"
"We have packing to do remember?" Lorelai sighed, pulling the covers back over her head.
"Mom!"
"Where's Luke?" Lorelai mumbled.
"He's at the diner already; you think I would come in here if he was in bed with you?" The covers moved slightly as Lorelai shrugged.
"Did he make you breakfast?" her muffled voice asked.
"With extra bacon" Rory replied. She grabbed the covers off her mom and threw them across the room.
"Gah!" Lorelai cried out, feeling the cold. She jumped out of bed and locked herself in the bathroom. Rory followed her and knocked on the door.
"Be quick, I wanna be packed by lunchtime!" Rory heard another "Gah!" from inside the bathroom and laughed quietly to herself. Sometimes she wondered who was the mother and who was the daughter.
An hour later they arrived at the house. They quickly moved away from the front door and walked round through the back gate. Neither wanted to bump into Emily Gilmore. Rory knew she would have to talk to her eventually but she knew how things would turn out. Avoiding it until the last possible moment seemed like the best option.
"Okay, you pack the books cos I know I'll end up packing them all wrong, I'll start on your wardrobe"
"I'll be checking your closet later for anything that didn't make it into those boxes!"
"Duly noted, I'll hide them someone where else, ooh cute shoes when did you get these?" Lorelai noticed a pair of stilettos by the couch.
"In town the other day and no they won't fit in your handbag" Rory could easily read her mom's mind.
"No worries, I'll steal them at a later date"
"We'll co-ordinate our diaries and find an appropriate date for that then" Just then, there was a knock on the door. Through the glass door, they could easily see Emily waiting patiently for Rory. Rory put down the book she was holding and went over to the door to greet her grandmother.
"Where've you been Rory, me and your grandfather were worried about you" Emily looked beyond Rory and noticed her daughter standing there silently "Oh"
"Sorry Grandma I know I should have called, me and mom made up and I stayed the night back home"
"Yes you should have called, Logan was round here last night looking for you and I had no idea where you were" Again Emily stopped and had a proper look round the room, noticing the half-filled boxes.
"You still haven't finished unpacking? I'll get the maid to help you"
"No grandma, I'm moving out."
"She is letting you move back home?" Emily pointed to Lorelai who just rolled her eyes.
"There's a free apartment in Stars Hollow"
"And what's wrong with what you have here?"
"It's great here, and you and grandpa have done so such for me but I need to find my own place"
"Mmm, I suppose Lorelai has a lot to do with this, you can't stand your daughter living in the house you managed to escape from!" Emily spat at Lorelai.
"She's living in the pool house mom; I wouldn't want that for anyone and I haven't forced her to do anything. You of all people know that you can't force a Gilmore to do anything they don't want to do" Emily glanced up at the clock on the wall.
"We'll have to talk about this later. I only came out here to tell Rory her lawyer is here" Emily gave Lorelai a sour look before turning on her heel and marching back into the main house. Lorelai sighed, dropping the dress she was holding into a box. She walked up to Rory and linked their arms together.
"Come on" She pulled Rory through the door and then bravely stepped into the main house.
Lorelai and Rory moved through the large house, a maid ran off past them nervously. They walked in the direction the maid had come from and found Emily and the lawyer sitting down in the living room.
"What happened to Charlie?" Lorelai asked, shocked by the woman sitting on the sofa.
"He's ill can you believe it, just when you need him he has to go and have open heart surgery. But he recommended this bright young thing. Lorelai I'd like you to meet-"
"Nicole" Lorelai finished.
"Hi Lorelai" Nicole greeted nervously.
"You've met?" Emily asked.
"Nicole is Luke's ex wife" Lorelai explained. Rory squeezed Lorelai's hand gently, she knew it couldn't be easy to bump into your fiancé's ex-wife.
"Is this going to be difficult for you?" Nicole asked.
"Give us a minute will you?" Lorelai asked, pulling Rory out into the hallway for a quick chat.
"Is it going to be difficult for you?" Lorelai repeated.
"I don't know, She doesn't know, Grandma doesn't know and if they knew then it might be difficult but they don't know so I don't know but what if they found out?"
"I'm sorry could you speak English?"
"They don't know about you and Luke!"
"Ah! And if they knew then them knowing would make things difficult for you but they don't know"
"Exactly"
"So we don't tell them, Nicole's a good lawyer I know that much"
"Should Luke know what we know?"
"About Nicole being your lawyer?" Rory nodded.
"Then we'll know and my parents will know about Nicole but my parents and Nicole won't know about Luke"
"This won't end good"
"Unless we tell Luke what we know and we tell Nicole what we know but we don't tell my parents that we know anything"
"That might work" Lorelai nodded. Before they could carry on their conversation any further, Emily stalked into the hallway to join them.
"Are we bothering you Lorelai, this is an important meeting for Rory and I don't take pleasure in you rudely ignoring the guest to have a tête-à-tête"
"Sorry mom but me and Rory needed a private conversation, we'll be right in"
"Make it quick, I'm paying her by the hour" Emily snapped, returning to the living room.
"Secret signal?" Lorelai asked, slipping her arm round Rory's again.
"Choking loudly always does the trick" Rory replied despairingly.