3. Chapter:

"Hey Burger Boy. Hellooooo. Over here. Paying customers. Starving. Need food. Coffee. Sugar intravenous. Burgers, pies and chilli fries. Oohhhhh….that rhymed. "Lorelai's voice echoed through the little diner in Stars Hollow.

"Burger, pies and chilli fries. Burger, pies and chilli fries. Burger, pies and chilli fries." Lorelai and Rory sang in chorus through Luke's.

"Lorelai, stop that. You are irritating the customers," a gruffy sounding voice interrupted her strain of babbling.

"Burger, pies and chilli fries." She said in a pouting voice and a trembling lip. "Oohhhhh….oh my god Rory, you know what I'm thinking? She suddenly screamed with a high-pitched excited voice.

"That Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston should have never broken up?" Rory said laughing.

"Noooooo. Dummy." She said in a "duh" voice. "And by the way, Angelina is way cooler. I mean, hey haven't you seen Tomb Raider? This woman can kick ass. But that's not what I wanted to say and besides don't mock Mummy here, the person, who…."

"Gave you the gift of life," they said in unison and by now the whole diner had their full attention.

"So when I said Burger, pies and chilli fries before, you remember?" Lorelai said with sparkling blue eyes.

"Very vaguely" Rory answered sarcastically.

"You know, I had to think of this weird song. You know the one where they make this funny moves while singing." Lorelai cried excitedly.

"Mc Donald's. Mc Donalds. Kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut. Mc Donald's. Mc Donalds. Kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut. Dummmdidumm…." She sang in her most presentable voice. When she was finally done with her ittle performance, she recieved a roaring applause from Rory.

"Thank you. Thank you. You are too kind." Lorelai said over and over again, grinning from ear to ear.

"Well that was her mother. The dazzling woman from whom she received her name and blood. " Rory thought laughing, while she clapped her hands together.

"That's it, no coffee for you today." Luke said, who had watched the whole show from behind the counter.

"But…But...But…Luke." she cried shocked, throwing her hand to her forehead. "Pretty please Luke. I'll be very good."

He responded with a simple: "Nope"

"Well if that is so I have to take more drastic measures, Mr. Luke." She said mischievously.

"Drastic Measures? What does that mean? A confused Luke asked as he finally walked over to hers and Rory's table.

"You do know that my babbling is infinite? She smiled at him.

"I never noticed." Luke said sarcastically, giving her a small smile.

"Well if this is so, I can give you a little taste of my skills." She said grinning devilishly.

"Alright. All right. Here you get your coffee. But one day you will die of a heart attack because of this."

"Yes. Yes. Yes." She said as she took a sip. "Oh, come to me elixir of heaven."

"Rory, please don't drink that stuff, you still have a chance. Only a small one but there is hope for you." Luke said pleadingly.

"Sorry, Luke. It's too late for me. There is no return back for me anymore." Rory said truthfully to Luke, when Lorelai's mobile phone started to ring, with the melody of Olivia Newton-Johns "If you love me let me know."

"Oh, I definitely need a new ring tone." She said, while searching trough her bag.

"What about the Kentucky fried chicken song." Rory suggested smilingly.

"Very funny, Missy."

"No cell phones in here." Luke shot at her, pointing to the exit door.

"Yeah. Yeah." Lorelai said, not really caring about Luke's no cell phones rule in the diner.

"Hello?" she said as she finally found her phone in her mess of lip-glosses, CD's and magazines.

"Yes that's me." She said, listening now closely to the person on the other end of the line.

"My name is Barbara Stevens, I'm a nurse at Litchfield County. I'm not quite sure if you are the person we are looking for, but…the thing is, we have a young girl here, about sixteen years old. She is in really bad condition, and from her personal things we found out that her name is Avery Elizabeth Thompson. We phoned the police to find out about her parents or other relatives. Her adoptive mother is dead and the father is not reachable. So the police tried to find out where the real parents are. The odd thing is...it seems as if she doesn't really exist. No record about parents, brothers, sisters, etc. And…hello? You still there?

"Yes. Yes. I'm." Lorelai answered hoarsely, which made look Rory and Luke up from their conversation. She looked like as if she had seen a ghost, she was white as a sheet.

"Mom?" Rory mouthed worried.

"Good. So, I tipped in her first two names, plus the birth date in the hospital computer and ran a search. At first there was nothing. But then I extended my search to all hospitals in the vicinity of 30 km's and finally there was a hit. An Avery Elizabeth Gilmore, born on 8th October 1984. However the record showed that she died during birth. Is it possible by any means that she is your daughter? Hello? Hello? Ms. Gilmore?

The mobile dropped to the floor, which made everyone look up.

"Mom? What's the matter? Mom, talk to me!" a by now very worried Rory said, lying her hand on her mom's shaking body. Never before had she seen her mom like that. In one break of a second she seemed smaller and paler.

"Lorelai?" Luke asked, while he also put his hand on her shoulder to stable her.

"Av…Ave…Avery" was the only thing she could stutter.

"Your daughter? Luke asked perplexed, not knowing why she would talk about her dead daughter right now.

"Hospital…she…alive…" she stammered, while tears were streaming down her face. She sobbed uncontrollably by now.

"What do you mean mom?" Rory asked absolutely frightened. "She must have misunderstood her. Right!" she thought. "She can't be alive. I saw her grave. I…"

"Where?" Luke asked. "Where is she Lorelai"?

"Litch…Litchfield County." She sobbed clinging to Luke.