As I promised, next chapter at the weekend: Here it is!
! I also started a new "tradition": The first one who reviews (and not just "review" or "good", will get a preview or a spoiler on the next chapter, if he wants to. And to make it fair, because it´s not your fault when you don´t turn on your PC at the right time, one of you, which I will decide all alone, will also get it. Let´s call it for the "special-review". It´s not about that you tell me how much you liked it. Flatery will get you no-where. Just think of something! And write under you review "preview " or "spoiler" or just nothing, so that I know what you want!
I just came up with this because I love the new way how to reply to the reviews and I thought I could play with that a bit!
Chapter 15: Take him!
The next day was Sunday already and after the usual 11 o'clock breakfast, Chris was standing in front of the door.
"Hi Chris, wow you're early!" Lorelai greeted him.
"I see nothing has changed. You just stood up" Chris grinned when he saw that she was still in a bathrobe.
"I wouldn't say that, but come in." Lorelai said uncomfortably and stepped aside.
"Sit down, I will look where Gigi is." she told him and then ran up the stairs, dressed herself and then walked to Williams room to tell Gigi that her father was there to pick her up.
When she came back downstairs, Chris was wandering around in the living-room looking at the pictures at the wall.
"Laila was six months old when she got the flu. She couldn't sleep because her nose was clogged and she had a high fever. She was crying the whole time and I could hardly nurse her, because she couldn't breathe. I was so exhausted and then Luke decided he would stay at home until she would be better. Here he tried to feed her with the bottle and over there, on this pic, they both fell asleep. I just had to take those pictures." Lorelai explained to Chris.
"Wow you are fat on this one!" Chris just said and pointed to another one where Lorelai was in the last weeks of her pregnancy with the twins.
"Oh thanks!" she said sarcastically.
"Lorelai, please take your daughter, she is eating the rest of the pancake-dough." Luke said when he entered the living room with a furious Sara in his arms.
"Oh, now she is my daughter?" she grinned and took Sara from him.
"Chris, hey, you're here to pick up Gigi?" Luke said when he saw Chris.
"Yes, kind of" he answered.
"Kind of?" Luke raised his eyebrows, but Chris couldn't answer because the phone rang.
"Danes" Lorelai answered the phone and Chris flinched visibly.
"Yeah, Caesar hold on. Luke for you" she said and handed Luke the phone and repositioned Sara, so that the girl was sitting on her hip, playing with her mothers loose curls now.
"Yes. What?... Why?...But how could he...okay...yeah, I'm coming...!" Luke sighed. He looked at Lorelai who grinned.
"Don't say it! I'm not in the mood for your "dirty" comments right now. Kirk, this stupid idiot, ran into the storage room and locked the door and won't let Caesar in. He wants me to come. This loon wants to talk to me! It's my day off, damn it! And why do we have to live here again? Did we ever talk about moving? I mean, why don't they just built a roof over this god-damn town and change the sign "Stars Hollow" to "Attention, free loons! Do not enter if you don't want to get insane!"" Luke ranted.
"Oooooh, ranting Luke!" Lorelai cooed.
"I have to go" he just said.
"Damn it!" Sara said with a serious expression, imitating her father. Luke looked shocked, then angry, while Lorelai laughed so hard that she had tears in her eyes.
"I'm gonna kill him!" Luke muttered and left for the diner.
"Wow, he sure was angry! I hope this Kirk guy is able to defend himself" Chris said and looked irritated because Lorelai was still laughing.
"Don't worry about Kirk. He will be fine!" Lorelai was still laughing and sat down on the couch.
"Well, hello my baby. I didn't had the time to talk to you. Did you sleep well?" Lorelai said in a baby voice to Sara, who sat on her lap, facing her mother.
"Uhuh!" Sara nodded.
"Kiss mummy!" she said then and crushed her face to Lorelai's.
"Wow, slow down, sweetie. Now again: Kiss!" Lorelai grinned and this time Sara gave her a gentle kiss.
"I love you sweetie!" Lorelai said, suddenly touched and hugged her daughter.
"Now look at you!" Chris grinned and sat down beside her.
"What?" Lorelai asked confused.
"I'm sure that if someone told you this would be your life when we were sixteen, you would have jumped off the next bridge!" Chris grinned.
"What are you talking about?" Lorelai asked him in a harsh-tone. She knew that this was nothing positive.
"You know, all this: This big house with a pool, your husband who owns a diner and spends more time there than here, three little children all under four... this wasn't exactly your dream."
"No it wasn't then. But it is now. And I'm happy. But tell me what you meant with that "kind of" comment before?" she asked him angrily.
"Muuuuummmmyyy! Bathrooom!" Laila yelled from upstairs. They had decided that they would try to let the twins run around without diapers and that they should call whenever they needed to go to the bathroom. It worked during the day so far.
"You too, Sara?" Lorelai asked her. Sara shook her head no, but Lorelai took her with her nevertheless.
"You wait here! I want an answer when I'm back!" she said to Chris before she walked upstairs.
When she came back, she was alone.
"Where is your clone?" Chris asked.
"Playing with Gigi and Will. I hope the room will still stand when I will check on them, but first I want your answer."
"See, this business meeting was pretty successful and now we will have another meeting in New York in three days. But I don't want to drive back to Boston today, and then back to New York on Wednesday. I mean, this whole traveling freaks Gig´ out sometimes. She doesn't like it and then is moody and not behaving and I have to yell at her..."
"Uhuh, and?" Lorelai asked with raised eyebrows.
"and I thought that it would be better if I would just stay here till Wednesday. I would take a room at the Inn, but you told me that you would be booked on Monday. I'm sure you don't mind if I share Rory's room with Gigi till Wednesday. Thanks Lor´!" he said and kissed her on the cheek.
"What?" Lorelai asked and couldn't believe what he just said.
"I mean, if it is a problem for you I will take Gigi and drive back to Boston and then back to New York on Wednesday..." he said.
"No, no it's okay, I guess. Could you watch the kids for some minutes. I'll be right back!" she said, stood up, grabbed her keys and walked to the diner.
"Luke! Luuuke!" she yelled the second she entered the diner. "What have I done?" she was asking herself over and over again.
"He is still trying to get Kirk out of the storage room" Cesar told her and she went behind the curtain.
"Kirk I say it for the last time now: Get the hell out of my storage room!" Luke said when she reached him. Another time she would have enjoyed the show, but not today.
"Luke, I need to talk to you!" she said and tugged on his hand.
"Not now. I need to get this freak out of the room before he contaminates the food and I need to re-order everything!"
"I heard that contaminating-comment Luke! I started to trust you, but now everything is ruined again! I can't come out!" Kirk whined from inside.
"Kirk!" Luke yelled annoyed.
"Luke! Please!" Lorelai said to Luke, louder this time and Luke noticed the urge in her voice. Something was wrong.
Lorelai led him upstairs and closed the door behind them. The office still looked like Luke's apartment, except the bed was missing and there were three little beds now for the kids and there were toys everywhere.
"Sit down!" Lorelai told him and pushed him down in the arm-chair.
"Uhoh!" Luke thought.
"I just allowed Christopher to live at our house until Wednesday!" she told him as fast as she could, hoping he wouldn't understand her. But of course he did.
"What?" he yelled and jumped out of the arm-chair.
"He wanted a room at the Inn, but knows that we're booked and then he said he would just share a room with Gigi because he doesn't want to go to Boston and back to New York on Wednesday! I just couldn't say no!" Lorelai said trying to make it sound reasonable.
"I don't care what he wants, or if he has to drive to China and then back to New York: I don't want this guy in our house!"
"But Gigi has to drive with him and she doesn't like it. And we're really booked at the Inn!"
"I highly doubt that he ever wanted to get a room at the Inn or that there is a meeting in New York! But it really doesn't matter: I don't want him in my house!"
"So now it is your house?" Lorelai yelled back.
"I don't want him there, whether it is my house, your house or our house!"
"Oh, so it is my house?" she tried to lighten the mood and grinned at him.
"He is not staying!"
"Gigi, Luke! Gigi!" she tried it again.
"No!" he yelled for real this time. Lorelai looked a bit shocked and he took a deep breath.
"You know what? You want him there, then do it. Allow him to sleep in Rory's bed, on the couch, in the guestroom or in our bed with you: I don't care! You want him? Take him! That's what he's been waiting for, for years. But he will not come near my kids or I will kill him!" Luke said with such a cold voice that Lorelai shuddered and tears came to her eyes.
"I can't believe you just said that!" she whispered defeated. He knew exactly what she meant.
"Where are they?" he asked in the same tone.
"Still at home" she said, her eyes fixating the floor.
"With him? You're really glad that he is back when you let him take the daddy-role already!" he hissed then rushed past her and outside and slammed the door behind him.
TBC