Part 4 'The Moment'

Rory entered Stars Hollow in her car, driving slowly, she looked around at all the places she grew up knowing and took them all in. She drove past Miss Patty's and saw no one was there, Luke's was empty, dark and cold. Doose's window was boarded up and all of the lights were switched off. The town looked empty and cold, a bit like the city, her home, New York. She drove through the dark and cold streets, seeing all the houses of the people she had known and loved for such a long time in her life, she saw Taylor sitting in front of his computer, in his house. She saw Kirk and Lulu sitting in Kirk's back garden. Miss patty was putting music into her CD player and Lane was curled up on her sofa cuddling Zach's arm. They were all still here, nothing, no one had changed but her.

(I thought that when I came back, if I came back, that everybody would be different, things would look strange and the whole town would have left, moved on. I figured that they would all have their own lives away from the town now, just like me. But they, unlike me, wanted this town all of theirs lives and now they all have it, what they wanted and I, I can't even remember what I wanted.)

Rory continued to drive slowly to her house, passing Sookie's, Gypsy's and several other people she knew homes until she saw Babette's and knew that the next house was her moms.

(What is that huge limo doing outside of my moms, why would she have a limo, whose is It.)?

Rory was surprised to see the limo, but yet she still had no idea whose it could be and why it was there. Rory stopped her car at the end of the street and got out. She slowly walked along the street passing Babette's place, seeing her and Maury asleep together on the sofa, she passed the house completely and stood still at the sight of her house, her home, the only place she ever really called home. She slowly walked up to the house, glancing back at the limo, watching the driver as he read his paper. Rory stood on the porch and listened to the sounds coming from inside of the house. She could hear her mom crying and Luke was using all of the words he could find to comfort her. Rory turned around and began to walk along the path away from the house, when the front door opened; Luke pushed open the door, pulling Lorelai out of the house with him, away from Logan and Skye inside.

Luke stopped suddenly, still and Lorelai stopped crying to see what it was that had made Luke so scared. There she stood. Rory, there Rory, right there in front of them, after 4 years, 3 months and 4 days, she was there, in front of them. Lorelai eyes shot straight at Rory's and they looked each other directly in the yes, for the first time in a very, very long time, Rory and Lorelai were both happy.

Right then, right there at that moment, snow began to lightly fall from the sky. It was the middle of November and the snow, fell softly landing on Lorelai and Rory's face. Luke turned on the step and whispered in Lorelai's ears "Good things happen when it snows" Lorelai smiled and Luke returned to the house.

Lorelai and Rory both stood still looking at each other as the snow fell, around, and between them. Neither one of them wanted to go first, they both had so much to say, but knew that they couldn't say it now, for now was one of those times, where words weren't used, not only because they weren't needed but because they were too UN holy for this type of moment.

"So I, um guess congratulations are in order" Lorelai was brought back down to earth by the reality of hearing Skye laugh from inside the house

"What for?" Rory was puzzled by Lorelai's words

"Your wedding, I hear it was beautiful, and your baby, what was her name again?" Lorelai asked coldly

"I think congratulations are in order for you too" Rory snapped back

"What for?" Lorelai asked back innocently mocking Rory

"Your wedding, to Luke" Rory said in a matter of factly tone

"No, because in case you hadn't heard, I aren't married to Luke, I was waiting, for you." Lorelai started to cry followed by Rory.

They both stood, as the snow began to fall heavily around them, stared at each other and cried.

The sky began to get lighter as they stood, Luke and Logan would look out of the window every now and then but neither Lorelai nor Rory saw them.

(That's it, I wanna know, how did she know I was married, how did she know about the baby.)

"How did you know, about the wedding the baby, have you talked to them?" Rory broke the silence and shouted angrily at Lorelai

"No, I didn't talk to them and I haven talked to them for over 4 years, same with you, a bit of a coincidence you think. And I know about the wedding and the baby as you call her because YOU don't even know her name! Because the night she was born, I believe that was the same night you left the hospital, and Logan, your husband with a tiny new born baby to care for at 21. I get that you were scared but don't you think I was, I was 16, and I had no husband or anybody. But you, you had so many people you could of turned to, your grandparents, Logan, his family, Lane, Paris, Me, Luke even your Dad if you really had to but no. You chose to run away. Anyway that's all beside the point, I know about the wedding and the baby, because that night after you left, Logan came here, to me and Luke, crying with the baby in his hands. He told me about the wedding and the baby, what you'd said to your grandparents and that this was your baby, for a minute I was so proud, until, I got the shock of my life, you had left. Now you have done some stupid things in your life, but that, that had to be the worst and most stupid thing you ever did. I felt sorry for Logan, being left with a baby, no money and no job, his parents had said if you married and had the baby, he would get a job and a house, you and the baby would never ever be in want. But when you left they took that all away and Logan couldn't do it alone, so he came here and we took the baby off him, and she, sorry I keep saying she, her names SKYE, is right inside now with her father who has been searching for you for months, so he can get a divorce, because guess what he's getting married, yeah married and now, now he wants to take Skye away from me and Luke, we knew one day he would come but we didn't think it would be like this. And now the one person in the world I hate the most, you, Is for once, the only person in the whole world who can help me" Lorelai screamed at Rory, so loud that Logan and Luke had appeared on the porch. Logan, who was carrying Skye who had hold of the tiny puppy, looked angrily at Rory who had began to cry as Lorelai shouted at her.

"You think I wanted to leave, you say it like everything is my fault, I left because I didn't want what I had and I knew that somewhere there was what I wanted. That sounds selfish but I knew that Logan would give HER to you, he had no where else to go but you and Luke, because he knew you would take her in. I got what I wanted, Logan got what he wanted, Skye got what she needed and you and Luke got what you needed and now, I'm gonna keep it that way." Rory answered back to Lorelai's screaming with a proud speech "I want you and Luke to get married, then you'll get what you wanted and then you can have Skye, which means she'll get what she wanted. There everybody is happy" Rory was screaming hard and neighbours were beginning to flick their blinds open to look at the scene that was developing outside in the snow.

"Rory, no" Logan begged desperately

"Logan, you messed with my life and you're probably messing with whoever your marrying, but I WILL NOT allow you to mess with that little girls, she may not be mine anymore but legally I have all of the rights and I'm giving them to the people who looked after her, her whole life, and you can say I don't know because I wasn't here but I know you. I know you Logan, you probably visit once every 3 or 4 months and bring her a big gift and she loves you for it, but you, you can't take care of her. No way can YOU take care of a 4-year-old, take her to school, feed her and play with her, your too self-centred. I want her to go to someone who can take care of her. I came here and got all I wanted, nearly, the satisfaction I needed, you may go away without what you came for but when you get home, you'll realise you have what you want. And then when I leave, my mom and Luke will have what they wanted." Rory cried throughout out the speech but kept going for everybody sake. When she finished she walked along the path and towards her car. Lorelai shouted after her, "Rory, wait"

"I'm coming back, I have something for you all"

Rory came back to the scene she left, Logan stood with Skye in his arms, Lorelai standing at the end of the drive and Luke standing on the porch talking to Skye.

"I have here 3 things. 1 is the divorce papers, I've signed them and my lawyer has looked over them, 2 is the adoption papers, I signed them and it doesn't need Logan's signature, I've had them for months, it says you and Luke are her legal guardians, you just have to take them to your Lawyer and the court will grant it. And 3 is a picture of my family now, I want you to have it Mom, you can do what you like with it, I just thought you should see it" Rory handed out the 3 items, to Logan, Luke and Lorelai. They all looked at them silently and all cried, even Logan and Luke. Skye laughed, she sat in Logan's arms and laughed, she was laughing at them all crying, she didn't understand why they were crying if they were all happy.