AN: Just a filler chapter that doesn't reveal too much new stuff, but clarifies some thoughts that the adults are having...well, not even real deep thoughts...hell, it just came into my head...I make no excuse for it... You might think it is moving kind of slow now...but it is about to fast forward several years in the next couple of chapters...I hope there are no spelling mistakes, I apologize in advance..I am uploading this pretty quickly...

Christopher

Thirty minutes to Stars Hollow. Where on earth is this place that you blink if you miss it? Christopher had been driving an hour and a half and still no town of Stars Hollow. Thinking back to the last stop he made at the truck stop on I-84, he figured he must have made a wrong turn somewhere. Looking around he could see no sight of any street signs. He had left the highway a long time ago. He drove past a familiar storefront. Too familiar. Great. Now he was just going in circles. Where is this town?

Luke

Luke Danes stood in his diner wondering if Kirk would ever leave. He had been sitting at the counter for two hours nursing a very cold cup of coffee. Luke just shook his head as he turned to his next customer sitting by the window. He glanced up to see the same white Honda drive by. He wouldn't have given it a second thought except that he could have sworn that the same car had just driven by three times in the past half hour. Not only that but he could have sworn that he had seen that car before.

Lorelai

Lorelai was just walking out of her house when she saw a familar car drive by. This wouldn't have been a problem except that her street was not one that usually got stray travelers. Also, no one in town that she could think of owned a white Honda. This is a very small and very strange town. She had always thought so, anyway. Shaking her head she was about to rush back into the house to retrieve a forgotten item when she suddenly froze to the spot. White Honda. Christopher! Of course! She had seen the same car parked in front of his house yesterday. What the hell was he doing here, in Stars Hollow? She marched out onto her lawn and waited for him to see her and stop.

Christopher again...

After realizing that driving by the same storefront and the same gazebo was getting him nowhere, Christopher decided to try a different route. This one was taking him down a street that very nearly may have been luring him into some very abandoned pasture. Also, he was quite sure that he could die out here and no one would know where he was. He kept driving a little further and passed a small house with a dirt driveway. 'Geez. Who lives out here', he thought. The moment the thought passed through his brainwaves, a familiar brunette standing in the front of that same house caught his attention. His breath caught in his throat. Her. She lived here.

And Lorelai again...

"Christpher Hayden. What ever are you doing here?" Lorelai called out as the white Honda was slowing down in front of her house.

Chris slowed to a stop in front of her house.

"Lorelai...actually I was looking for you. Don't they name these streets?"

"Oh yeah. They do. This one is called Old Monty after that big rooster that sits on the corner of the intersection you just passed. If you had called ahead of time I would have given you the Monty directions. Unless you have enjoyed randomly driving around this town with no street signs." Lorelai sighed, exasperated that Chris would travel all the way out here for god only knows what reason.

"Lor, Could we talk for a minute? Preferably inside? It is freezing out here. I'd hate to die of exposure in a car."

"It's not that cold, but come on in. I just made some coffee..." Lorelai gestured for him to pull his car into her driveway. She then started to make her way up to the porch while reaching into her pocket to call Luke. She was going to have to be late for their lunch date.

Luke's Diner

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"Hi, you've reached the diner palace of Luke Danes. He can't answer the phone right now but leave a message because you know how much he wants to return your call. ... Lorelai! (Luke's voice could be heard in the background) You can't keep changing my messages!" BEEP!

Lorelai smiled from the other end of the phone as she remembered the day she had changed his answering machine message, just to be funny of course. She had meant to change it but other things got in the way...and both she and Luke forgot all about the message.

"Hello?" Luke's gruff voice, obviously busy, answered the phone.

"Hey, it's me, I'm going to be late. Something came up at the house...save me some pie?"

"Oh...okay, sure... It's pretty busy here anyway. Take your time."

And that was that. The end of a phone call with Luke. He wasn't much for phones, that was for sure.

Lorelai's House

"Chris, what is this about?" Lorelai questioned the man standing in her living room.

"I think you know what this is about, Lor. I want to talk to you about Rory and Chris. What were you trying to do yesterday afternoon?"

"Chris, please, I don't want to uproot them or anything. I just want to be in their lives again. I thought we had already talked this one out. Do we really have rehash this over and over again?"

"Lorelai, you can't just expect any of us to just drop everything and come running just because you all of a sudden have your act together. I want to know what your real intentions are. Who will get custody, huh? What about visitation? And what about their school? We can't just yank them from their school. Did you even think of the long term complications this could cause?"

"Long term complications? You mean the kids never having their mom in their lives even after she has gotten on a track that is keeping her healthy? You mean that I should continue to stay away for longer than these past several years? No way. They deserve to at least know me. And I them. Go home, Christopher. I'll see you and the kids tonight at my parents. And, we can discuss this next week in mediation. Now, I have lunch plans. This conversation is over."

"Lor, that's not what I mean...please..."

But Lorelai was already holding the door open for Christopher. When he left, Lorelai shut the door and collapsed against the protective shielding of the wooden frame.