AN: So here we go, chapter 2. Questions you didn't even know you had will be answered.

"I need another drink! Live for the day baby!" Lorelai smiles, forced and angry. "Am I fixed?"

Sookie gives in and smiles sadly. "You look beautiful."

Lorelai leads the way out of the bathroom. She takes a deep breath, smiles, and exits. As soon as the music returns to the unmuffled normalcy, Lorelai notices that the crowd has thickened significantly. She sighs relief and then sees Sam approaching her.

"Well there you guys are! We were wondering where you ran off to!"

"Well here we are. Where'd everyone else go?"

"Back to the table. Chelsea was starting to see stars!" She laughs and Lorelai follows suit. Sookie steps up from her position behind Lorelai. "I see stars every time I give birth!" Sam looks at her bewildered and Lorelai grins knowingly.

"How many times have you given birth?" Sam asks.

"Well only once, but I swear David Spade was checking my vaginal dilation!" They all laugh.

"Now that I can officially never have sex again, let's join the others!" Sam snorts and smiles slightly disgusted. Lorelai laughs and puts her arm around Sookie as they begin to walk after Sam, "David Spade?" Sookie looks at Lorelai's sympathetic face. "Yeah, you have no idea! Scarred I tell you!" Lorelai laughs and they catch up to the group.

Chelsea's face lies on the table with a grin as darts her eyes around the table, unable to focus her eyes. Lorelai sits beside her and begins rubbing her back. "You okay down there?"

"Uh huhhh, this has been the best birthday, like, ever!" Her friends grin proudly. Lorelai smiles and then notices someone walking towards the table. Broad shoulders, she notes. He walks confident, strong with swift movements through the crowd. Muscular hands grip a dainty martini glass gingerly. Finally, she braves his face. His eyes are watching her, a small smile on his lips. Handsome. Well this is it. She takes a deep breath and Sookie follows her gaze. Worried, she reaches for Lorelai's hand, but Lorelai is on her feet to meet the man before any questions could be asked.

"For me?" Lorelai asks him innocently placing her hands over her heart. The girls watch the interaction. While Sookie looks slightly nervous, the others watch her as if she's about to demonstrate the art of bull-riding. Dirty.

He stops in front of her coyly smiling, handing her the glass, letting go a few seconds later than needed, hands on hands. "You left this at the bar. I couldn't just let my favorite customer's dirty martini go to waste." She smiles at him, and puts her hand to his chest gently, sliding down his frame, "Well however can I thank you?" His eyes glow arousal. Sookie watches, slightly horrified. They needed to get out of there. Lorelai maintains eye contact, gently lifting the glass to her mouth to take a sip. Her hands at his wasteband; tension grows thick. Sookie clears her throat and abruptly makes a decision. "Lorelai, your daughter's here to pick us up!" All eyes snap to Sookie and she sinks ever so subtly in her seat. Lorelai's face burns of embarrassment, and with one last seething glance in Sookie's direction, pulls her martini up to her mouth, finishing it in one fail swoop moving to get her purse. With a fleeting glance to Handsome Bartender, her glance not able to make his face, "Thanks for the drink." She flees for the door.

Handsome bartender's face grows cautious and he follows her with his eyes. He turns and walks back to the bar. Sookie raises her head from her hands and grabs her phone from her purse, standing. "I'm sorry girls. It's been fun."

"Is she okay?"

"She'll be fine. Happy birthday Chelsea!"

Oblivious, "Thanks Sookums! Ughh, I think I'm going to be sick..."

Sookie is already making her way to the door and knocks into a woman. She spills her drink and turns to see Sookie running out of the door.

"Hey!"

"Here's a napkin Carrie." Her male companion offers her a napkin.

Crazy Carrie takes it and wipes her shirt, "Damn." She smiles up at him. "Guess we'll have to get me out of these wet clothes." His eyes turn wide and they scamper towards the back of the bar. She turns to him, "What's your name again?"

Sookie scrambles to dial a number as she reaches the exterior. She looks down the sidewalk to see Lorelai sitting with her head in her hands on a stoop down the block. The phone begins to ring.

"Hello?"

"Hi sweetie, it's Sookie."

Rory immediately wakes, "Is Mom okay?"

"Yeah, she's okay. We just need a ride. Are you in Star's Hollow or New Haven?"

"Star's Hollow. Where are you guys?"

"Girl's night out, gone sour. We're in Woodbury. I'm sorry to call you, I just didn't know who else to call. We're outside of "The Black Bear" on Main St."

"It's no problem. I'll be right there."

The phone line goes dead and Sookie places her phone back in her purse and begins her cautious walk towards Lorelai.

Rory runs out of the house and turns to lock the door as she starts towards her car she stops dead in her tracks.

"Hi."

As Sookie approaches Lorelai she hears sniffling. She sits down next to Lorelai shamefully. "I'm sorry I did that."

Lorelai looks up with a smile. Sookie looks astonished. She was laughing. Lorelai's giggles start again. They are laced with sadness.

"She's not even here is she? I mean of course she's not! It was ploy. You were trying to stop me from embarrassing myself." She looked back at her shoes, shaking her head. "At least he'll start carding everyone now. He almost made out with a mom. No, not just any mom, a mother of a child at least old enough to drive." She laughs more, clearly drunk. "I could be his mom!"

Sookie decides to step in and lamely states, "You couldn't be his mom."

Her laughter fades and she looks at Sookie hard. "It just felt good, you know? To know that I could feasibly," she struggles with the next part, "m-move on. If I wanted to."

Sookie relaxes slightly. Eyeballs in place. Well for now. She looks at Lorelai's fingernails tentatively.

"Any man would be crazy to not want you." Lorelai scoffs.

"Right...tell that to Luke." Venom raises in her throat as she says his name.

"Luke?" Rory asks as he stands in the yard, staring at his shoes.

"I'm sorry, I was just leaving, I just-" He builds his resolve and clears the cloudiness from his voice. "I'm sorry I startled you. See you around." He turns and walks away faster than Rory can recover enough from her shock to say anything. She watches him go and then remembers her purpose and runs towards her car.

They sit on the stoop in silence for a few minutes.

"Rory's coming to pick us up. Just a heads up."

"Guess I should sober up a little." A pause. "Sorry I wasn't much fun tonight."

"I had a great time...well not counting the bathroom or the whole past five minutes." Lorelai attempts a laugh. And stops.

With great resolve, "Maybe I should just do it. End the craziness." She stands.

Sookie looks hopeful, "Yeah, I mean maybe if you just tried to talk to him again..."

Lorelai smiles big and starts to walk back towards the bar. Sookie starts to follow cautiously. "Well he's not in there!"

"Oh, yes he is." She walks faster and swings the door open. Sookie follows her into the bar and speaks loudly over the music, "What are you doing?"

Lorelai ignores her. Maybe its the booze, maybe its the music but she walks up to the bar. The Handsome Bartender see her coming and smiles at her. Lorelai stops across from him at the bar. He looks at her mysteriously. She grins. He's not running. Well that's a good start. "I want to thank you now."

"Lorelai-" Lorelai ignores Sookie and reaches across the bar and grabs his collar. She pulls him in and kisses him ferociously and the bar go-ers start to uproar.

Carrie turns to see the commotion. Her friend runs and grabs her arm, pulling her to the bar. "She's upstaging your craziness!" Carrie gets as close as she can and squints to see the figures.

Lorelai pulls away and wipes lipstick off of his lips and then squeezes his cheek like a grandma might. "Thanks." And she turns and walks away. He looks equally shocked and pleased. Lorelai makes for the door, walking right past Crazy Carrie, who's jaw is on the floor. Sookie, shocked, returns to moment now and runs after her.

"Well, well, well, break-ups agree with her too." Carrie grabs her drink and walks back towards her group.

Thanks for reading and reviewing. Now why do I get the feeling that's not the last we'll see of Crazy Carrie? Oh yeah, thats right! Because I'm omniscient.