Title: Another Round
Chapter 6, WIP
Rating: PG/PG-13
Parings: Rory/Logan, Rory/Jess, Lorelai/Luke
Spoilers: Nov 8th's episode
Disclaimer: We forgot to mention no profit is being made from this story. All rights and characters are owned by the genius mind of Amy Sherman-Palladino and her writers and the WB. If you want to sue me, I'm in debt…so I'm not sure, but perhaps that would mean you could pay part of my debt for me. LOL

"Oh God!" Logan threw his hands up in the air, "one minute we're breaking up, the next minute we're friends, then we're pausing." he huffed. He saw her face and was afraid she was going to call the pause off again, he grabbed her hand. "Look, I will try to deal with this, I'll pause, but call me, talk to me, let me know what you want, what you're doing. If you need anything." he looked up at her, "I really do have to go now, but can I," he paused unsure of if he should even ask this, "can I kiss you goodbye?"

Rory nodded, and kissed him gently. "Oh wait! Wait, wait, wait. I have to go get something, again." She laughed. "One second!" She rushed back into his house, back into his room, and dug the note out from under his pillow and ripped it up. She proceeded to walk back out of the house and walked over to his car, waving her hand in the air. "Minor detail." She lowered herself to his car window and bent down. "I'm sorry I'm such a pain. Thanks for understanding."

"I've never even pretended to," he said and half-smiled as her. "If you need anything...call." he said and turned the ignition and waited for Rory to get in her car and pull out.

Rory laughed, and walked over to her car. She got in and started it, before pulling out, with a wave. She mentally put a check next to 'Logan', on the list in her head. Next stop: Stars Hollow. She smiled as she drove in that direction.

Lorelai was sitting at a stool in the diner waiting for Luke to come out from the kitchen. "Luke!" She yelled, "I'm not getting any younger and I have errands to run, and the men, they need their donuts, and if they don't have their donuts, they can't work, and if they can't work, then they'll be here forever fixing the house. And you said you wanted them gone soon...so bring out the donuts...or else, I'll have to go behind the counter and get them myself and I'm not going to use the donut-grabber-thing either. And you hate it when I don't use the donut-grabber-thing." Lorelai took a sip of her coffee, it's fun to date the diner man, she thought happily.

"Don't you come behind my counter!" Luke yelled. "I'll be there in one second!" He grinned to himself, as he grabbed a plate containing a grilled cheese sandwich, and walked out of the swinging door. He delivered the food to the squat woman sitting in the far right corner, and walked back behind the counter. He saw her chewing and looked at her suspiciously. "You took a donut!"

"Wha?" Lorelai gasped and looked all around her, "you must be kidding. Lil' ol' me...taking a donut...from all the way over there?" She exaggerated her movements and attempted to reach the donut container from her stool, unsuccessfully, "why that's pure madness. How could you think such a thing of me, Lukey-wukey?"

"I could think that because I know how conniving you become around food, but it's a good thing I love you, or you'd be leaving without your donuts," he said firmly, adding a nod to the end.

"But they aren't for me!" Lorelai whined, "there for the guys, the fix-it guys." She took another sip of coffee and then added, "and they need coffee, lots and lots of coffee to go with their donuts."

"And they want that coffee as black as it comes, correct?" He asked, looking at her, as he started to put a bunch of donuts into a bag.

"Well I do have cream and sugar at the house," she said definitely, "because you know Joe likes his with cream, although I have no clue how he can drink it like that. And Steve likes it with sugar and half and half, and Bob, or was it Mike," she looked up at him and smiled, "just give it to me black, Butch," she pretended to draw a pistol like in the old western movies "and no one gets hurt."

He handed her a huge jug of coffee, and kissed her over the counter. "Dinner tonight?"

"Only if you're cooking," she smiled slyly at him, and got up from her stool, grabbed the coffee and bag of donuts and walked toward the door, "Oh, and make sure you wear the cute apron." And with that she walked out of the diner and headed back toward her house.

He shook his head, as he wiped the counter, and watched her walk away.

Meanwhile...

Rory approached Stars Hollow, and wondered whether her mom would be at the Inn, or at the house, or at Luke's, or where... She decided she'd just cruise around until she found her. She didn't want to call. She wanted it to be a surprise.

Lorelai was almost home when she saw a familiar silver car driving down an opposite street. "Rory?" she asked the air in front of her. She glanced back toward the street but the car had driven off, "I'm losing my mind." She thought sadly as she continued toward her house.

Rory decided to just drive around to those different places, until she found Lorelai. She stopped at the Inn first. Rory saw no sign of her mother's car anywhere. She pulled away and drove towards her house.

She pulled into the driveway just as she saw the front door closing. Well she's obviously home. Here goes nothing... Maybe I should call first? Nah, I want it to be a suprise. She got out of her car, and quietly closed the door. She walked across the grass, and over to the front door. She took a deep breathe before knocking.

"Okay boys, we've got the coffee, we've got the cream over there, the sugar right here," Lorelai said pointing, "and some donuts, but Luke stiffed us so there might not be enough for everyone." she said smirking. She heard a knocking. "Oh come on Pete, we've been through this, you can come in without knocking." she yelled to the door.

"Do you have any extra hard hats?" Rory yelled back. "Do I need one of those?" She silently added, maybe an umbrella.

Lorelai stopped what she was doing and stood there. "Rory," she whispered and headed for the front door. "Rory." she called. "ROOORRRYYYY!" she yelled as she approached the front door and saw her daughter standing there. "You're home?" Lorelai asked confused and unsure of what to do.

"Mom!" Rory waved her hands around. "I'm hooooome!" She paused. "Now, I'm serious about the hard hat. Am I allowed in?"

Lorelai rushed to her daughter and hugged her. "You're home!" she squealed and jumped up and down. "And no you don't need a hard hat, this isn't a construction zone...well it is, but not that kind of construction zone. We have coffee." she said proudly as she slowly pulled away. "I want to hear everything. How are you? Have you eaten? Do you need us to unpack? Do you have your books? More importantly are you going back to Yale?"

"Ooh, coffee! And the house? Wow..." She looked around in amazement. "I'm good. I quit DAR. I haven't eaten since this morning. I don't think unpacking is quite necessary. I dont' have my books, and yes, I'm definitely going back to Yale! I got a job, too!" She hugged her tightly. "I'm so sorry. I've been so stupid," She said quietly. "It's all my fault. I can't believe we were apart for so long!"

Lorelai hugged her again, "it was my fault too." She said sadly, "let's never be apart like that again." Lorelai felt something hitting against the back of her leg, and turned around to look, "oh and this is Paul Anka." Lorelai said. "Paul Anka, this is Rory."

"Oh my gosh!" Rory exclaimed. "You got a dog? Luke let you get a dog!" She bent down to the dog. "Has she been feeding you?"

"Of course I've been feeding him. I'm very responsible, I have a whole list of things he's afraid of and likes and dislikes. I let him play with my shoes too...he lines them up, but then won't put them back. We're still working on that one, aren't we Paul Anka?" Lorelai said sitting down next to Rory and the dog.

"Wow...so many things have changed. And the house looks so different. And the Inn? How is the Inn? How's Sookie? The baby? Luke? Tell me everything!" Rory told her, and patted the dog on the head.

"The inn's good, Sookie's good, the baby's good, godmother, Luke is very good," Lorelai smiled, "so want to go to Luke's?" she asked trying to get them out of the mess.

"Ooooh, Luke's! Coffee! Fries! It's been so long!" Rory exclaimed dramatically.

"Guys, do you need anything before we go?" Lorelai called toward the kitchen. She didn't get a response so she shrugged, "ok, Paul Anka, keep guard on the donuts, we'll be back soon." She grabbed her purse and the two girls headed back out the door. She's back! Lorelai kept squealing in her mind.

Rory linked her arm through her mothers as they walked in the direction of Lukes. "So, I know you don't like him, but you should be glad to hear that Logan and I are on a break... and I moved out of Grandma and Grandpa's."

"Really. I would have loved to see my mother's face when you told her. 'How can you leave? Whatever will you do?'" Lorelai mocked her mother's voice.

Rory laughed in spite of it. "She got the two of us confused. She tried to ground me, and said 'wait til your father hear's about this'."

Lorelai gasped, "Oh my god, she actually said that. Tell me that you have that on tape, we can use it to get her admitted to an old folks home." Lorelai said gleefully.

Rory laughed. "It was... wow... I felt so liberated, standing up for the both of us."

"Aww, I'm sorry you had to see her like that hun," Lorelai said as they walked. "So you are moving back home, right? Like into your room? I'll have to move Paul Anka out, but I'm sure he'll be okay with that."

"I'm moving home!" Rory grinned. "As long as it's okay? Is it okay? Because if it's not okay I can just live in the backyard... or um... somewhere... in my car? That could be interesting..."

"Of course you can move back in!" Lorelai squealed, "I've missed you so much! I've been suffering from lack of movie nights and having my best friend around."

"Aww," Rory said. "I have too. Never. Leaving. Ever. Again," Rory said, drawing out the words. "Not unless I am physically detached from your hip."

"That's my emotionally stable girl," Lorelai said and squeezed her arm. "So," she said as they walked into the almost completely empty diner, "you broke up with Logan?"

"Uh, well, we're on a 'pause', whatever that means. I don't know what I want... I, uh..." Rory wondered whether or not she should tell her mom about Jess. She decided not to, for the time being, and trailed off.

"Well one day at a time," Lorelai said, even trying to sound supportive, "hang on a sec, I'm gonna see where that diner man has gone to." She went into the kitchen to find Luke taking inventory of some supplies.

"Luke!" she exclaimed and hugged him, causing him to drop his clipboard. "She's back! Rory's back." Lorelai kissed him. "She's out front," she said breathless.