Your friendly disclaimer: this is when I say I don't make money off of this and I don't own Gilmore Girls. Right, well if I did many things would be different TRUST me on that one.

A/N: ok so this is my second attempt at a fan fiction and I must say on behalf of everybody that read this before hand THANK YOU! Ok, right, sorry, on with the story. The only thing you need to know is Lorelai and Luke aren't together yet. Luke found out about April a week before this story. Rory goes to Yale and is going out with Logan. Luke never found out about the sock man but Luke and Nicole are in the middle of the divorce. Lorelai and Sookie own the inn. Ok I hate April but what if she's the one that got L/L together.

Enough of my rambling on with the story…..

"So, April?" Luke was really uncomfortable with his daughter April. He just found out about her and was trying to 'bond' with her.

April walked around the apartment surveying everything around it. She figured Luke has a girlfriend or something because the apartment looked like things have been placed in places that a man wouldn't put things. She walked over to the mantel and saw a picture of a woman about three years younger then him and another woman younger then her. Who was this a girlfriend? Who was the other girl? Not her daughter. To young, right?

"Um, who's this?" She asked. She didn't want to call him dad yet so she didn't call him by anything. "A girlfriend?"

"Who, her?" He asked pointing to Lorelai. April nodded. "A friend. I'm married. Actually almost divorced." April gave a sympathetic smile. "It was all a mistake. The whole marriage, I mean."

"Who's that next to Lorelai?" April pointed to the picture again.

"That's Rory her-" But he was cut off by a voice coming from downstairs.

"LUKE…COFFEE…NOW!" The voice demanded.

"And that's the drama queen herself," he smiled to himself. "She'll be up here in five, four, three, two-" The door burst open and Luke gave April a knowing smile.

"Luke. I need coffee! Seriously how do you think I felt when I walked in and saw the pot-" She stopped short noticing April. "Luke?" Lorelai gave him a curious glance but focused her eyes on April.

"Lorelai, over here?" He lead her to the kitchen. He explained everything to her and Lorelai nodded. She gave him a huge hug and when she pulled away he asked: what was that for?

"Luke, I've had a kid spring on me like this before. When the strip turned pink I felt like I needed a hug." She explained. He wrapped her in a hug and it was her turn to be surprised.

"For nineteen years ago." He smiled. A genuine smile. His Lorelai smile. April knew that her dad didn't smile much but around Lorelai you couldn't wipe it away.

"What about Nicole?" Lorelai asked.

"About that."

"Luke you're seriously not telling me you're divorcing her…again?" Lorelai asked. "Ok, Luke I know I've not been in the Nicole fan club but you're sure this is it?" He nodded. "OK." She said. "I can help you. You know if you want it?" She asked.

"Of course I mean you where a little girl." He paused. "Right?"

She slapped him in the chest playfully. "Very funny. Actually no I was born 13 where I met Chris. Three years later I was having his baby. Named her after me-" She started.

"I get the point Lorelai.

"Hey you make a joke I make a …. I make a …"

"Rant?" He suggested.

"Sure. Right. I'll let you get back to you're bonding." She said.

"Thanks I'll see you in a bit." He replied. She walked down the steps but went back up again.

"Luke?"

"Coffee. I know."

"Am I really that transparent?" She asked feigning shock. Luke just gave her a look. "Right you know me to well. Don't forget-"

"To make it strong. And I presume you want eggs and-"

"I get it! You know me. Jeez, chill." She wanted to stop him before he went on his healthy food rant scaring away his daughter.

"To well." He replied shaking his head.

"I'm going downstairs. Rory is coming soon. Make it extra strong for her."

"Right for her." He said dripping with sarcasm.

"Ok me too. I gotta bring it to her though. I'm meeting her at home."

"I'll be down in a second."

"Luke? Is it alright if I tell Rory about" she gestured towards April.

Luke nodded his head "You'll tell her anyways." He said. "I should stop hanging out with you." He sighed.

"Then when would you have fun?" Lorelai asked.

"I'll be down in a minute." Lorelai stuck her tongue out.

"I win."

"April, I'll be back just let me serve this CRAZY LADY and then I'll be right up." He explained. April nodded an amused smile on her face. Her dad was in love and he didn't know it.

April followed then down and sat on the steps concealed by the curtains.

Luke handed Lorelai something and she screamed.

"Luke what the hell is this?" She asked.

"Eat it."

"Right. This stuff looks and tastes like crap."

"Have you ever had it before."

"Go make me some food burger boy. March into that kitchen. That's it!" Lorelai turned to a huge woman dressed in bold colors. "Miss. Patty are you still on that diet of yours?" Lorelai asked.

"Why yes sweetie why?"

"Here." She hands her a bowl and Miss. Patty laughs.

"Thank you darlin'." She drawled.

Then the other girl from the picture came running in and Lorelai squealed with delight.

"Ahhh Luke guess who's here?" Lorelai asked.

"The man on the moon?" Luke quipped.

"Um, no. Nice try though. Drum role please?" Rory lightly patted the tables with her index finger and Lorelai began: "She's amazing, she attends Yale, she's in dire need of coffee, she looks like me, she's beautiful, she comes baring news from Paris because she has that expression, she is going out with a guy named Logan, she my only daughter-"

"That you know about." Rory chimed in.

"Yes. Here she is the most amazing woman ever. Besides me: RORY GILMORE!"

"Hey Rory." Luke said emerging from the kitchen.

"Luke. Please tell my mother she is crazy."

"I do that daily. Trust me."

"Oh my, my daughter and my best friend teaming up against me. What a joy." Luke loved being called her best friend because that was the farthest friend he was ever getting with her.

"Hey you said I was your best friend!" Rory said feigning disappointment.

"That was when you had twizlers." Lorelai smirked.

"Right, I forgot." Rory rolled her eyes.

April sat confused. She thought that mother and daughters were supposed to fight. Her and her mother sure did. These girls seemed like best friends. The age difference maybe? But these girls looked about 15 years apart and she couldn't imagine being best friends with somebody 15 years older. She sat perplexed. She called her daughter and that means that she's her daughter. Right?

"Anyways I told you I'd be your best friend if you gave me the twizlers and you gave me the red vines." Lorelai pouted.

"Just trying to provide the provider." Rory commented.

"True. Red vines are better aren't they?" Lorelai asked.

"Duh, that's why I gave them to you."

"Lorelai, are you seriously debating weather or not red vines are better then twizlers?" Luke asked.

"Um, duh?" Lorelai gave a smug smile.

"Rory, how did you get into Yale?" Luke asked.

"Are you telling me I didn't raise my daughter right?" Lorelai asked feigning being upset.

Luke took her coffee away and Lorelai pouted.

"Luke!" She groaned.

"Yes Lorelai?" Luke asked as if he wasn't holding her cup over the sink.

"My sacred coffee is about to go down the drain. If you EVER want to see the light of day again you better give it to me." She said very seriously.

"Or what?" He asked.

Is he flirting? "Or, I'll um, I'll pour this water all over you." She replied taking Miss. Patty's water and giving her an apologetic smile. This should get him to give it back to me. I can't believe he's flirting it's usually just me messing around with him. Keep your cool Gilmore.

"Try it?"

April, still hidden behind the curtain stifled a giggle. She heard her dad wasn't a laughing guy but seeing him with Lorelai made her think that he was not like that. Suddenly a ring came from Lorelai's pocketbook. Luke pointed to the no cell phones sign but she answered anyways. She pointed to his stairs and he sighed nodding. April ran upstairs and took a book and flipped to a random page.

"No…mom….today is not Friday…damn I thought I'd get away with it…"she rolled her eyes. "Yes that was my wit…I know a very crude sense of humor…I understand he's away…dad can go...no I wasn't going to say that mom….no…I was going to say dad can go, come back tomorrow….I understand it's not Friday tomorrow….yes…mom…I'll call you back…yes I will…fine you win I won't call you back." She and a smug smile on her face and then she sighed and flipped her phone shut.

Now that's how a mother daughter relationship is like in the movies. April thought.

"Sorry that was my mom." She gave April an apologetic smile. "A tad annoying. No very annoying." Then another ring came from her purse. Lorelai stared blankly at her pocketbook and picked up Sookie's phone. "How did this get in here?" She asked to nobody. "Hello...Hey Sook…I have no idea…Davy…I think he's old enough…ok…fine it was the magical person…no…ok...Sookie we've established that I have your phone…Luke's…I understand he doesn't like phones in his diner…upstairs…Sookie? I have to call you back my phone's ringing…ok hold on." Lorelai laughed at her situation she was talking to two people.

"Hello?" Lorelai answered her phone.

"Lorelai Victoria Gilmore you never hang up on me." Emily shrieked.

"Mom I didn't hang up on you I told you I'd call you back and you said no."

"Lorelai…" Emily said in a warning tone.

"Lorelai?" Sookie asked.

"Yes Sook." Lorelai answered.

"What the hell are you doing?" Sookie asked confused.

"Well speaking to my lovely mother-"

"Lorelai don't speak of me in that way." Emily sighed.

"Speak in what way? A praising way?" She asked.

"No in that sarcastic tone of yours." She exasperated.

"Oh, you mean the tone I grew up with?"

"FIRE!" Sookie yelled.

"What?" Lorelai panicked.

"I felt left out." Sookie giggled.

Then Luke came in and laughed. He took in the sight before him. He saw April pretending to read her book and Lorelai on two phones.

"Here." Luke said and placed her food in front of her.

"Please." Lorelai pouted. Luke gave in and picked up the Danish the fed her. "An angel baby, you've got wings." She winked and Luke blushed, shaking his head, and looking down. "Sookie, mom, I've got to go. Mom I'll see you tonight and Sookie I'll give you your phone back I have to eat breakfast." She hung up and smiled at Luke.

Luke rolled his eyes. "I see the future and it looks sad."

Lorelai gasps. "I am the future. My mom called and I tried to convince her it was Friday." She began.

"Friday night dinners." Luke said.

"It bugs me how you, like, know my whole schedule. Ok, right, anyways she was going on about my sense of humor which is totally amazing by the way."

"I know." He said.

"Ok and then she goes on and on about my dad and how he's away and then I said something about…whoa…ok I don't remember what I said," she sighs. "Ok then Sookie's phone ended up in my purse…and…coffee?" She asks with pleading eyes. He just nods and hands it to her. "Thanks. Where's Rory?"

"She went to Doose's for…what she put as: a chocolate…something? Can't remember." He says slightly smirking.

"What's that smirk for? You didn't say it right so you don't get a cookie." It was Lorelai's turn to smirk.

"Hey, I don't want a cookie. Forget?" He asks innocently.

"No. I'll force feed it to you." Her smirk gets wider.

"Ok I remember it I just feel stupid saying it." He says.

"Ok…what is it then?" She challenges.

"Chocolate-palooza?" He asks eyes wide.

"Liar, you know there's more. I should meet her at Doose's anyways. It's freezing I can't let her carry all those bags home alone!" She says.

"See you for dinner?" He asks hopefully.

"You still have the coffee right?"

"Of course."

"Ok, but Rory has to go back to Paris-"

"The crazy-there-are-hookers-in-small-town girl?"

"That's the one. She's the new editor. Fun, right? Rory needed to get away from her. Came here. I feel so special being her first choice and all." She says rolling her eyes. "She'll be gone for dinner though so I'll be alone." She pouts.

"Kirk'll be here." He smirks.

"By Luke." She scoffs. "Nice meeting you April." She says

"You too Lorelai." She smiles.

After Lorelai leaves April gives her dad the once over.

"What?" He asks.

"Nothing, it's just you have a picture of her and her kid on your mantle and your fridge, she sees you about twice a day, she's pretty, she flirts with you, and you flirt with her. Why don't you ask her out?" April asks. She was testing the waters because she had no idea if she could be this forward with the dad she met a week ago.

"I'm married remember? Plus, she'd never go out with me. She's a Gilmore." He says like it explained it all. "Insurance man?" He asks.

"Richard?" April asks.

"That's his daughter." He explains. "Everybody knows Richard."

"Isn't he…rich?" She asks

"He is." And she explained Lorelai's story with a glint in his eyes. April knew he was in love.

"Are you sure Paris needs you?" Lorelai asks.

"Yeah...she's called about-" just then Rory's phone goes off and she checks the caller ID. "Six times now."

"Be good don't do anything that mommy wouldn't do." Lorelai teases her daughter. "Scratch that. Do anything I wouldn't do." She winks.

"Want a ride to Luke's?" She asks her mom.

"Of course!"

"Coffee to go Luke!" Rory pleads.

"Just like your mother Rory." He sighs.

"But I have to back to Yale. You wouldn't want me to do that on an a stomach of coffee would you?" She asks pouting.

"Have I said just like your mother?" He said shaking his head as he hands her, her cup. Rory just smiled and walked out of the door. "You didn't tell her about April yet?"

"Didn't have time." She said "Movies and chocolate, and then Paris called." She explained.

"Where did she go?" Lorelai asked.

"Home, to her mom."

"Luke? Are you going to get back together with her mom?" Lorelai asks while blushing.

"That ship's long sailed." He sighed.

Lorelai nods slowly. "Ok." Lorelai looked down and then into his eyes. Wow, when did they become so blue? Have they always been this blue? Blue's a pretty color. SNAP out of it Gilmore its Luke. "Food?" She asks blushing. Those looks had become for frequent and they both had no idea what to do about them.

Luke nods numbly and goes into the kitchen to get her some food. Luke came back with food and they both recovered from there "moment" or whatever it was. The bells jingled and they both looked at the door. Lorelai waved at Babbette and offered a small smile. Babbette smiled widely and sat next to Lorelai's purse.

"How ya doin' shugga?" She asked.

"Rory left a few minutes ago." Lorelai replied. "Nothing else here. You?"

"I want some real food. That crap Patty makes me eat makes me sick!" Babbette was gesturing widely with her hands.

"Fry?" Lorelai offers. Babbette gives a thankful smile and grabs one off her plate. "Luke?"

"Yes?" He asks walking out from the kitchen which is where he went during Lorelai and Babbette's conversation.

"Refill?" She asks.

"Lemme see," he says looking at his watch. "Nope it's past seven no coffee."

"Fine. Babbette wants some coffee. Right?" She asks looking over at Babbette.

"Sure shugga." She said.

"Past seven Lorelai." He aid sternly.

"But look!" She exclaims pointing to the coffee pot. "You've made a pot in anticipation of me coming."

"No." He says blushing. Lorelai over looks the blushing but Babbette sees it.

"Ok, so it's not for me but somebody needs to drink the coffee and I sure as hell know you won't!" She said.

"You're to much work Lorelai." He sighed and got her a cup. Lorelai rolled her eyes and smirked. She got her way. Again.

"I'll see you two sugars later." Babbette said as she hopped off the stool.

"You didn't get any food though." Lorelai pointed out.

"Not hungry. See you later doll face." She winked and walked out.

"Here." He grunted and passed her the cup. She gulped it down and asked for more. "So much work." He exaggerated.

"Luke?"

"Yeah?"

"Talk to me. How's the Nicole thing?" Luke winced at her name.

"I don't know. She sent over the papers today. I sign them tomorrow. Divorce should be final by this time next week." He offered.

"How's April?" She asked.

"Smart. Like Rory. It's like having another Rory." He said.

"So maybe I won't miss Rory as much!" She clapped excitedly.

"Lorelai, she's 12 and Rory's, like, 21." He said.

"Oh, shush you!" She playfully swatted his chest across the counter. "I have to go." She said taking out her wallet. "See you tomorrow." She placed the money on the counter and walked out.

A/N I think I'll stop here. Should I go on?