Summary: Okay so I posted this before and some of y'all got a little confused with it all so here's a little summary.

Luke and Lorelai got married when Rory was 6 and they had their daughter; Scarlett, a year later. Its set in an AU so its not bound by season. Rory is now 20 and Scarlett is 13. Liza is Luke niece and Jess's sister. Although she and Jess do not have the same Dad. Jess is living in California and Liza lives with Liz and T.J in New York.

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A/N: Okay this is a joint effort between myself and my fellow Gilmore groupie LiteratiJavajunkie. As always we don't own anything...unfortunately. Not even one of Luke's baseball caps sobs. So please be kind and Read and Review!

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Chapter One - Everything But The Wine Baby

She had to say something. It was just tearing her apart inside sitting on the sidelines, watching from a distance. It wasn't right. This wasn't right. He was so great with her. He showed her how to cook, he showed her how to do the bills, and he showed her HIM. But it wasn't his right. It shouldn't have been him; she was someone else's daughter. And where was he now? God knows. Off parading around, he left.

"Hi." Luke approached her slowly, unnerved by her blank expression.

"Shouldn't you be bossing me around by now? Where's the "COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE gimme now"?"

"She's not your daughter Luke" Lorelai whispered, barely able to hear herself.

"Lorelai. What's this about?"

"She's not your daughter Luke."

"ww..what?"

"She's not yours. You shouldn't be doing this. It's not fair"

Luke was stood impatiently just outside of the kitchen his arms folded and tapping on the floor. "How much longer are you going to make me wait out here?"

"Just a few more seconds hon." Lorelai yelled back .

True to her word, a few seconds later she popped her head around the corner and pulled Luke into the kitchen.

He saw a nicely set table, complete with candles and everything. As he walked further in he could smell something, it almost smelt like actual food.

Luke glanced over at Lorelai. "What have you done?"

"Nothing." Lorelai grinned cheekily. "Now if you would like to take a seat." She pulled out a chair for him before heading towards the oven and pulling out some meatloaf. Placing it in the middle of the table she went back over to the counter and brought back dishes of vegetables. She placed them in the middle of the table, picking up a knife she cut up the meatloaf placing some on Luke's plate and some on her own.

Luke carefully studied her before watching her sit down.

"Help yourself to the vegetables."

Luke reached over and put some on his plate." Aren't you having any?"

"Of course, right after I've been for a run around the block." She snorted, digging into her meatloaf.

Luke cautiously looked his food over then looked up at Lorelai.

"There's nothing wrong with it." She laughed. "Yes I did prepare it, but I promise you I washed my hands before."

"Okay." Luke said slowly, before tucking into his dinner.

When they were both practically finished Lorelai set down her knife and fork and looked over at Luke. "So what did you think?"

Luke nodded in appreciation. "Yeah it was good considering your usually a terrible cook."

"Hah! I knew it!" Lorelai said grabbing her cell phone and dialing a number.

"Knew what?" Luke asked confused.

"Told you. I told you didn't I." Lorelai said on the phone. "No he couldn't tell the difference…Sookie St. James you owe me $5...Hang on I'll ask him just to prove you wrong." She turned her attention to her husband. "Honey could you tell that I cooked all of that in the microwave?"

Luke stared at Lorelai, then looked down at his plate.

"Nope he couldn't tell!" Lorelai laughed. "I'll speak to you later Sook!" Lorelai said as she hung up the phone.

"Microwave? All of it?" Luke questioned.

"Uh huh." Lorelai smiled nodding her head. "And you can't go back on what you said, you said it was good."

"Even the vegetables?" Luke totally ignored what she had just said.

"Everything but the wine baby!"

Luke stood up and put the last few bits he couldn't eat in the trash can. "If I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm in terrible pain. Please don't get up and think about taking me to the ER, its probably just the ingredients from that meal eating away at my insides."

Lorelai got closer to Like resting her arms on his shoulders. "Oh, so dramatic."

Luke gave a cheeky smile before leaning in and kissing her.

"Up, up, up!" Lorelai yelled as she opened her youngest daughters curtains, flooding the room with sunlight. "Come on lazy bones, get that tush of yours out of bed!"

Scarlett groaned and lifted her head out of the covers. "What time is it?"

"Around twelve…ish." Lorelai replied opening up the window.

"What!" Scarlett said jumping out of bed. "I was supposed to meet Hannah at ten."

"Yeah I know. I got inundated with the phone calls, so I told her that you weren't feeling to well."

"You lied to Hannah? She'll find out the truth and then she'll never let it go." Scarlett sighed as she fell back onto the bed and pulled the covers back over her head.

"Don't be so over dramatic!" Lorelai laughed pulling the covers completely off.

"With you as my guide how can I not be?" Scarlett smiled.

"Not funny." Lorelai replied, pulling the pillow from underneath Scarlett's head. "If I have to take the sheet off I will. I will even resort to flipping the mattress."

"Okay, I'm up!" Scarlett said getting out of bed ad throwing her hands up in defeat.

Satisfied Lorelai threw the bed clothes onto the bed before leaving the room,

Scarlett followed her Mother out into the living room.

"Rory!" Scarlett exclaimed throwing her arms around her big sister.

Rory was considerably a lot taller than she was, she followed after their mother. Whereas unfortunately Scarlett followed after the women on her fathers side. But she had those Gilmore eyes.

"Hey Scarlett."

"Mom said you weren't coming back until next week."

Rory had been in California for two weeks in the summer working with a small town newspaper.

"No I wasn't supposed to, but things changed. So I thought that I would come home early and spend some time with my family before going back to school." Rory handed her sister a gift bag with goodies and handed it to her sister.

"Look what I've got!" Lorelai said holding out her right index finger.

"Cool! I've got one too." Scarlett laughed placing the chunky ring on the same finger her Mom had hers on.

"Anyway. You go and get dressed, we're going to 'Luke's'." Lorelai said to Scarlett.

"When are you going to stop referring to 'Luke's' as 'Luke's'?" Rory asked. "I mean you've been married, what…" How old are you now Scarlett?" Rory yelled to her sister who had just made her way to her bedroom.

"Thirteen."

"Fourteen years now. Technically half of that place is yours."

"Because saying 'Lets go to my husbands', doesn't have a ring to it." Lorelai said rolling her eyes. "Plus what would I do with half a diner if I haven't got a Luke to cook in it,"

The bus station in New York was packed, hot and stuffy. The young girl forces her way through the crowed, cursing the other people under her breath, who just push her in return. Climbing up onto the bus, she stuffed her bag underneath her seat; pulling her Walkman out of one of her jacket pocket, her Oliver Twist out of the other. She placed the headphones in her ears, hit play, found her page and relaxed into her bumpy seat.

"But Mommy." Rory pouted. "You said I could."

"That is not what happened!" Scarlett said in her defense.

Lorelai raised her eyebrows and smiled. "And you think your memory of this event is somewhat clearer than mine? You were five."

Scarlett hid a smile but tried to keep a straight face. "I never did that."

"Yes you did, then you got up and did a spice girls medley in my old pumpkin Halloween costume." Rory laughed.

"Wasn't that Rory's twelfth birthday party?" Luke said as he caught the last part of that conversation.

"Oh my God!" Scarlett said throwing her hands up in the air. "What is it pick on Scarlett day today?"

"Well pick on Rory day is June 16th, and pick on Lorelai day is every Friday. So yeah I suppose that today could be pick on Scarlett day." Lorelai said.

"Thanks." Scarlett said as she stood up. "I'm going to go meet Dana. See you later." She kissed each of them in turn before leaving.

Lorelai turned to her eldest daughter. "So what are your plans before you go back to school?"

"Probably just hang around here. Catch up with Lane." Rory shrugged her shoulders. "Just stuff."

"Stuff?" Lorelai knew Rory was hiding something, she never usually just did stuff. Rory usually had an itinerary of things to do, a whole freaking list made up weeks before hand. But she wasn't going to ask. Rory would tell her in her own time. It was the sanctity of the Gilmore bond

Lorelai went to say something but was interrupted by Rory's cell phone.

Rory quickly jumped up and ran outside before answering it. Five minutes later she came back in.

"Who was that?"

"Oh…it was um…Tracy from that newspaper I was working on in California. She wanted to congratulate me on the last article I did." Rory lied.

Lorelai nodded her head. Rory knew her mother didn't believe her, but she wasn't ready to get into an argument with her Mom. And that's what there would have been if she'd had found out who really was on the other end of that phone call.

When the young girl arrived in Stars Hollow it was almost three. She had never been here on her own before, the last time she came here she was nine and was with her Mom and Step Dad.

She scanned her surroundings trying to find something familiar.

She spotted a store which looked slightly familiar and started to advance towards it. Then she saw the place she was looking for. She made her way over and entered, coming face to face with the person she came here to see.

"Uncle Luke!" She cried out, dropping her bag on the floor.

"Liza?" Lorelai said quietly to Rory.

Luke stood there for a moment, before placing his cloth over his shoulder and throwing his arm over his niece's shoulder.