Sooo, because I was able to finish chapter 13 yesterday, I will give you chapter 12 today. I update so fast, because I feel bad about this stupid last chapter! I like this one a lot better, I hope you, too!

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Chapter 12: We won

Two weeks later, on a Saturday, Lorelai was busy at the Inn. They had had a marriage this morning and so she was allowed to go against the usual "no-work at the weekend" agreement she and Luke had made.

While she was working Luke was looking after the kids. Lorelai still couldn´t believe how much could change in just two weeks.

Luke was not a strict father, but in this short time the kids had already understood that there was no way that their father would go against their mother anymore. Of course, they were still screaming and kicking sometimes, but much less than before, because now there were some consequences inevitably following.

William was just having half of his toys in his room, because everything he threw around was brought into the cellar. The same thing with Sara. Most of her dolls were gone. They would be back in a month, what had caused Luke and Lorelai to make a plan when to bring back which toy. While her siblings had less toys now, Laila had made the experience that she would miss a lot if she wouldn´t react anymore. More than once she had to go to bed without dinner, because she wanted something different and had refused eating what was on the table. Lorelai had decided that she would eat if she would be hungry, and was right. And she had also missed two bedtime-stories and several playtimes with her parents.

Everytime they had to be consequent it hurt Luke and Lorelai more than their children, but they knew that there was no other way. Especially at the beginning when Sara had screamed so hard and long that her nose had started bleeding and they had taken her to the doctor, asking for help. But since she knew that her screaming was getting her nowhere, she stopped at some point and it had never gone this far anymore.

Luke would stop by with the kids in some minutes to have lunch together. At the moment he was with the girls at Williams soccer game from the kindergarten. William loved to play any kind of sport: baseball, soccer, basketball...

"Hey Lor´ " Lorelai was interrupted in her thoughts by a voice which sounded somehow familiar. She looked up from the reservation book which she was checking at the moment.

And there he was, smiling at her like he always had. He was wearing jeans and a dress-shirt. He looked thinner than she remembered him. In front of him stood a blond girl in a pink dress.

"Chris?" she couldn´t believe it.

"Hi, Lor´. So, wow, I can make you speechless. I think that´s a first!" He grinned, walked behind the desk and hugged her for some seconds. Lorelai was the one who stepped back and still stared at him.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him.

"Well, I was on my way back from Virginia and was just in the area. So I thought I stop by and stay for the weekend. Gigi is pretty tired because we´ve been on the road for so long. Do you have a room for us?"

"Yes, some guests just left for the honeymoon. So it´s no problem. But we will need the room again on Monday. Wow, and you are Gigi, huh?" Lorelai turned to the girl who was still standing at the same place watching Lorelai and her father with an expression between curiosity and shyness.

"Yes, Mam" she answered politely and Lorelai wouldn´t have been surprised if she would have bobbed a curtsey.

"The last time I saw you you were sitting over there in an high-chair while I had dinner with your father and Rory." Lorelai smiled at her .

"Is Rory here?" Gigi asked shyly and barely audible.

"Not yet. But she will be over in an hour or so for dinner."

"Oh, really? That´s great. Haven´t seen her for two months or so" Chris said exitedly.

"I know. She will bring Logan along."

"Would you mind if we would join you three?" Chris asked with the same self-confident smile he always wore.

"Well, you know Chris. A lot has changed. I mean, it´s been what? Five years since we saw us the last time?" Lorelai said unsure. She didn´t wanted Chris to be there at the hotel, desturbing the time with her family. But at the same time he still was Rory´s father, what made him somehow a part of the family and then there was Gigi. She seemed exited about meeting Rory.

"I know. Five years. Rory told me you wanted to get married some time ago. And did you get married?" the question surprised Lorelai.

"Rory didn´t tell you anything?" she asked.

"Well, no. She just said you wanted to get married but told me afterwards that she doesn´t want to talk about you with me. That it wouldn´t be any of my business. She just told me that you are fine. That´s pretty much all information I had about you for the last five years. I don´t even know who it was you wanted to marry. So did you...?" he asked and Lorelai noticed hope in his eyes. Even after five years he was like an open book for her. But Lorelai also noticed that she was feeling absolutely nothing for him. Like she would meet any other person from her past.

She held up her hand and showed him her wedding-ring.

"Oh, wow. So you really got married. And still are." his last sentence was more a question than a statement.

"Yes, I´m still married and I hope I´ll be for the rest of my life" she smiled, because she had to think of Luke and their dinner the evening before. They´re first real date for what seemed like forever. Luke had taken her to a fancy restaurant and after dinner they had walked around a lake, near the restaurant, until it had gotten too cold. Lorelai had felt as nervous as on their first date and her smile hadn´t left her face the whole evening. When they had come back home, Lane had slept on the couch, while the kids had still been asleep in their beds, where they had put them before leaving. They had woken up Lane and send her home after paying her ( what she didn´t wanted) and then their evening had found an end after some sensual lovemaking.

"It maybe sound stupid, but who are you married to? Do I know him?" Chris brought her back to reality.

"Yes, you know him. Actually you yelled at him the last time you met and told him that we weren´t meant to be and that I would break up with him." Lorelai said, suddenly angry and sad when she remembered the night of her parents vow-renewal and the break-up afterwards.

"So it´s Luke? You are married to Luke?" Chris asked and shook his head in disbelieve.

"Chris,I have to go to the bathroom" Gigi said quietly.

"Oh, Gigi, not yet. Damn! How often do I have to tell you that you shouldn´t interrupt when adults are talking!" Chris told her harshly.

"Sorry, Christopher!" the girl whispered and looked to the ground. Her lower lip trembled and the seven-year old looked like she was going to cry.

"Gigi-darling. Look the bathroom is over there. This door. Do you see it? Now, go and when you are back you can tell me what you wanna eat, ok?" Lorelai asked the girl and stroked over her head. Gigi nodded and walked to the bathrrom.

"So?" Chris asked when his daughter was gone.

"So what?" Lorelai asked angrily.

"You are married to Luke?" he asked again.

"Yes I am" Lorelai stated.

"I can´t believe it!" Chris muttered and Lorelai heard it.

"Look, Chris. If you don´t.." Lorelai started but was interrupted.

"We won! We won!" William yelled when he ran towards his mother, she leaned over and he jumped into her arms.

"I told you so! And I see you have already had abath!" she smiled and kissed his cheek.

"Daddy forced me! Urgh!" Will made a face and Lorelai had to laugh.

"We won 2:0 in our kindergarten soccer game! And I made a goal!" William smiled proudly at Chris.

"Wow, that´s great. Your parents must be proud!" Chris told William.

"Where are his parents?" he asked Lorelai then. But before she could answer Sara and Laila ran into the room. Also yelling "We won!", followed by Luke. Lorelai smiled when she saw her exitedly jumping girls and kneeled down, with William still in her arms.

"Mummy, mummy we won! We won!" both Laila and Sara yelled.

"Yeah, I know. Will told me. See, you have such a sportive big brother!" the girls also fell in her arms. Luke watched the scene, oblivious to the fact that Chris was standing next to him. He hadn´t looked at him and just assumed it would be another guest.

Chris was also watching and couldn´t believe what he saw. This just couldn´t be true. Lorelai had three little kids with the diner-man? This just had to be a joke.

Lorelai stood up and started to jump up and down, just like her children. Together they shouted "We won, we won!" and giggled.

"Ah jeez! Stop that yelling. The whole town knows that we won by now." Luke said, but smiled.

"But we won, Luke! We won!" Lorelai said with a huge smile and hugged him. When she pulled back and looked at him smiling, her hand hands still around his neck.

"I know. I´ve been there!" he grinned and kissed her.

"And he really shot a goal?" she asked excitedly and kissed him again.

"Yes, he did." he smiled and they kissed again.

When they broke the kiss Luke felt someone staring in his back and he turned around and looked at Chris for the first time.

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