Plans of Reunion

Summary: The S.H.B.A., S.H.T.B., S.H.N.W.O., S.H.C.C.S.H.C., aka Taylor, want the town sweethearts together again. When he mentions it at a town meeting, everyone starts plotting, and Miss Patty has a plan that just might work. Narco future fic.

Pairing: Rory/Dean with mentioned Luke/Lorelai.

Disclaimer: If I were Amy Sherman-Palladino I'd have better things to do than write fan fiction. And you'd be seeing this story unfold onscreen soon. Well, actually you wouldn't, because Rory and Dean would never have broken up in the first place, so the town wouldn't need to plot to get them back together.

AN: Heh, I realized halfway through this chapter that I had Rory and Dean locked in Miss Patty's, and a town meeting going on (which takes place at Miss Patty's), so I decided that the town meetings were moved to the Old Twickham House after the museum closed, and Luke decided he didn't want to buy the place.

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"Patty, you can't just lock them in your studio!" Taylor yelled, exasperated, at the town meeting."That's kidnapping!"

"They're both over 18, and they entered willingly."

"Then it's a hostage situation. Patty, you cannot hold hostages, it will reflect poorly on the Stars Hollow Business Association, the Stars Hollow Tourist Board, the Stars Hollow Neighborhood Watch Organization, and the Stars Hollow Citizens for a Clean Stars Hollow Council!"

"You mean you, Taylor?"

"I'm warning you, Patty, there will be some very unhappy people at the next meetings of the S.H.B.A., the S.H.T.B., the S.H.N.W.O. and the S.H.C.C.S.H.C. who will no doubt reprimand you for your abuse of their good names."

"Taylor, no one is in any of those societies except for you!" The doorswung open and Lorelai and Luke walked in.

"Lorelai, you're late," Taylor reprimanded. It was always best to keep up pretenses.

"I am not late, I'm just...delayed."

"Delayed..."

"Timely challenged," she tried again.

"Timely challenged...That all adds up to the same thing, Lorelai. You are late. And you have french fries!"

"These are not french fries, they're, they're..."

"You must think I'm really stupid. Maybe I used to fall for that, but I've learned my lesson. You're breaking two rules, Lorelai. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to ask you and your husband to leave."

"What!" she exclaimed.

"Come on, Lorelai," Luke said, taking her hand and leading her from the building.

"What? No, we're not letting him kick us out! We have every right to be here," Lorelai said defiantly. "Patty, Babette, tell him we have every right to be here!"

"Lorelai, honey, before you got here, we voted on whether we should be able to kick people out of meetings if they break at least two rules. It was unanimous," Miss Patty lied.

"Sorry, sugar," Babette added. Lorelai glared at the trio, but they refused to back down. She turned on her heel and stalked out, Luke close behind her. Once they were a couple blocks away, Lorelai stopped.

"What?" Luke asked.

"I'm going back."

"They're not going to let you back in."

"I'm going to listen on the other side of the door."

"I'm not coming with you."

"I don't want you to."

"I'll see you at home. Be back soon."

"Okay," Lorelai agreed amiably, before she turned back. She ran all the way back to the Twickham House, and slipped in the back door, creeping through the hallways until she got to the door separating the large room that was being used for the town meetings from the rest of the house.

"Taylor's right, you can't keep Rory and Dean locked up in your studio forever, Patty," Andrew was saying. Lorelai stuck her fist in her mouth to keep from yelling out. "They'll need to get out to eat, and to drink, and to go to the bathroom."

"I gave them bread, and there's a water fountain and bathroom there, and I'm not planning on keeping them there forever."

"I think Patty's idea is a good one," Gypsy piped up. "We can just leave them there until they get back together. Knowing Rory and Dean, it shouldn't take too long. In fact, they'd probably be okay even if they didn't have a water fountain and a bathroom." Lorelai didn't wait to hear anymore. She crept back out so that they wouldn't notice that she had been there and try to stop her, and then she ran to the dance studio as fast as her heels would carry her.

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Rory and Dean were playing charades. It didn't work very well with only two people, but it was fun when there was nothing else to do, since Rory, much to Dean's shock, hadn't brought any reading material with her. "Help me up," Rory said, holding out her hands, "we can do one together."

"Who would guess?"

"It's not like we're really guessing, anyways," she said, waving her hands around. He laughed, and took them, pulling her to her feet a little harder than he needed to. She fell forward onto his chest, and time seemed to stop for them. Her hands slid slowly up to his face, while his slid down to her hips. She tilted her head back, and he leaned his forward slightly. Their lips were inches away.

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Lorelai ran up to Miss Patty's and started fiddling with the lock. She quickly saw that it was a chain wrapped around the handles, with a padlock holding it closed. With much clattering, she managed to open the door enough to peek in. Rory and Dean were standing in the middle of the room, completely oblivious to the racket she had made, staring into each others eyes as they leaned their faces forward. Their noses touched, and they both tilted their heads, and closed the small gap between them. Lorelai pulled back, and slid the door shut as quietly as she could. It clearly hadn't happened fast, they had time to think about what they were doing. And that was good enough for Lorelai. She wouldn't tell Luke about any of it.