There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying the stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying the stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying the stairway to heaven.

Stairway to heaven – Led Zeppelin

AN: HERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER

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Lorelai was in Hartford doing some shopping for the inn while she was on the phone with Sookie.

"Ok Sook. I've got all materials for the curtains anything else?" She asked.

"Yeah I need spices." Sookie said.

"Ok hold on." Lorelai said. She paid for her material and put it in her car.

"Ok what kinds do you need?" Lorelai asked.

Sookie named a bunch of spices Lorelai's never heard of. "Ok I have all but one." Lorelai said weaving through the supermarket.

"Which one?" Sookie asked.

"Um…" Lorelai said looking at the list she scribbled. "No wait found it." She said bending down to pick it up. When she got up she bumped right into a man's chest. "Whoa…I'm sorry." She said.

"It's ok." A mans voice said.

All of the sudden her blood ran cold. "Chris." Lorelai said looking up.

"No…Sookie." Sookie said giggling.

"Um, I've got to go. I'll talk to you later." Lorelai said flipping her phone shut. "Chris." She said to Chris again.

"In the living flesh." He quipped.

"Right…well I've got to go." Lorelai said putting her phone in her purse.

"Wait." He said grabbing her arm.

"What?" She asked desperately.

"I'm sorry." He said.

She nodded touched. "It's ok."

"Sherry's back." He said. "For good." He added.

"That's good." She said all of the sudden angry. So once Sherry comes back he forgets about me? See…if I went to him he would have dropped me like a hat again. "Great." She said. "Well I have to go." She said not bothering to ask why he is in Hartford when he lives in Boston.

"Bye." He sighed.

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"Ah you will never guess who I ran into." Lorelai said that afternoon walking into Luke's.

"Bono." Lane said.

"What is with your obsession with Bono woman?" Lorelai asked. "Luke?" She asked.

"In the kitchen." April offered.

Lorelai nodded. "Luke!" She called. He came out of the kitchen. "I saw Chris today." She said. "In Hartford. I was buying things for Sookie and I just bumped into him." She said frowning. "Sherry's back." Lorelai said shrugging. Luke nodded and poured her coffee. "Thanks." She said taking it.

"Doesn't he live in Boston?" Luke asked.

Lorelai shrugged. "I have no idea where he lives now." She said putting sugar in her coffee.

He nodded again and went into the kitchen. Five minutes later he came back with a burger.

"My savior." She said batting her eyelashes doing her best country accent. Luke rolls his eyes and Jess came down the stairs.

"You." He said pointing at Lorelai.

"What?" She asked.

"Your daughter stole my book." He said.

Lorelai rolled her eyes and feigned shock, "my innocent little Rory?" She asked putting her hands on her chest.

Jess rolled his eyes. "I want it back." He said.

"Hey, I didn't take it." Lorelai said turning towards her burger trying to hide giggles.

Jess sighed and his shoulders slumped. "What do I have to do?" He asked.

"Do the bunny hop!" Lorelai said excitedly.

"I don't want it back that badly." He said.

"You're no fun. Meet her by the gazebo tonight and she'll give it back to you." Lorelai said rolling her eyes.

"That's all I needed to know." He said retreating back upstairs.

Lorelai giggled. "You're just too bad for your own good." Luke said coming up behind her.

"Like I work to hard for my own good?" She said a sly smile on her face. She touched the skin just beneath her ear at the memory. It was fading but Luke would no doubt change that.

"Like that." He said rolling his eyes.

"Thought so." She said picking at her fries. She finished her food and tried to avoid any conversations with April by having some with Luke.

"What movies do you want to watch tonight?" Luke asked.

"I was going to get both Dirty Dancing's." Lorelai said on her third cup of coffee.

He nods. "I never saw the original." He said.

"You mean with Patrick Swazye?" She asked surprised.

He nodded, "yeah. Never saw it." He said.

"Well we'll have to see it tonight then won't we?" She asked.

"I guess we will." He replied looking into her eyes. She nodded slowly and stared into his eyes. The need for each other was growing so they both had to look down.

"I'll see you tonight." She said kissing him.

"Tonight." He repeated waving.

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Ten minutes into the movie Luke lets out a gasp.

"No, that's not my mother." Lorelai said rolling her eyes. "You see that woman is smiling. Emily Gilmore doesn't smile." Lorelai said leaning into him, tucking her feet under her butt.

Luke just smiled and put his chin on top of her head inhaling her scent. "Smell good." He said.

She smiled and closed her eyes for a second. "Thanks." Luke wrapped her in his arms and smiled being comforted by Luke. She always felt safe around him, no matter what the situation was she always felt safe. She aloud herself to be comfortable for a second but that second was gone and the phone rang. "Don't get it." She said.

"Lorelai." He said sternly.

She groaned and answered the phone. "Hello?" She asked yawning a bit. She sat up and Luke started rubbing her back.

"Don't yawn on the phone Lorelai it's rude." Emily said.

"Well it's late and I'm tired." She grumped leaning into Luke rolling her eyes.

"Then you should be in bed." Emily said.

"How do you know I wasn't?" She asked.

"Because I know you Lorelai. What are you doing?" She asked.

Lorelai pressed the pause button. "Movie." Lorelai said giggling at the feeling of Luke's fingers on her scalp.

Emily ignored her laughter. "Is Rory with you?" She asked.

"Luke." She said swatting his hand away.

"Luke." Emily said with distaste.

"Yeah my boyfriend. Not sure if you remember him? Tall…"

"Lorelai know who he is." Emily rolled her eyes.

"Just making sure." Lorelai said rolling her eyes also. "What do you need?" She asked playing with Luke's hand.

"I need for you to take your attention away from that boyfriend of yours for one second to talk to me." Emily said sighing.

"Hey…I can do that but you called and he's here." She said sitting up a bit. "I am too listening." She added a bit defensively.

"Great to know." Emily said her voice dripping sarcasm.

"What do you need?" She asked stifling a yawn the last thing she needed was another lecture on listening and sleeping.

"I wanted to thank you." Emily said softly.

Her mother thanking her? Lorelai said up right and banged into Luke's jaw. "Oh my God. I'm sorry!" She told Luke. He waved her off.

"Lorelai?" Emily asked.

"Sorry. Right. You're welcome." Lorelai said getting back to the phone. "Um, why are you thanking me?" She asked.

"You spoke to your father didn't you?" She asked.

"Yes." Lorelai said.

"We're having a vow renewal!" Emily said happily.

"Great. Mom can I call you back? I have to go to sleep." She said and then hung up. "My mom is getting re-married to my father." She told Luke rolling her eyes. "Nope couldn't just get back together like a normal person." She said leaning into him. "How's your mouth. Sorry bout that." She said rubbing it with her hand.

"No problem." He said his breath going shallow from her touching him.

"Hmm." She said her hand making its way over his mouth, then his nose, and back down to his mouth again. Her fingers were replaced with her mouth very quickly. She moaned softly and straddled him. "Up." She said into his ear. He nods and picks her up taking her upstairs.

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"Lorelai you will be my maid of honor." Emily said grabbing her hand taking her upstairs.

"Me?" She asked looking around. "Where's upstairs? Why me? Why not Rory?" My doom is upstairs. They walked in to a flurry of white. Every wedding dress you could ever think of was in there.

"Mom…what are you doing?" She asked as her mom picked out a wedding dress.

"Too much lace?" Emily asked.

"You can never have too much lace if it's Italian." Came an old ladies voice. Their stylist for the past 100 years. (TOTALLY BLANKING ON THE NAME?) "Oh Sabrina!" She squealed coming up to Lorelai. (I KNOW RORY WAS SABRINA BUT GO WITH IT HERE.)

"Oh hello." Lorelai said turning to face Celin(?).

"So deary are you married?" She asked.

"No. She just opened her own in!" Emily said proudly through the shut door.

Celina nodded. Lorelai picked up a plain wedding dress and held it up to herself She looked into the mirror and smiled. Emily walked out and her face went white. Her daughter was looking in the mirror with a wedding dress and smiling. Things are more serious then I thought. Emily mused.

"Oh too much lace!" She said. Emily numbly nodded.

"Oh take this mom." Lorelai said handing her the dress she was looking at trying to cover up the fact that she like it and that maybe if she where to have a wedding she might have wanted it.

"That's not really my style." Emily spit out.

Lorelai shrugged and placed it onto the bed. "I like it." She said turning to her mother. "Might be too simple for you. How about this one?" She asked handing her the same dress Emily was wearing with a bit less lace.

Lorelai called Luke because she was bored. "Lorelai?" Came the voice on the line.

"In the living flesh." She replied looking at the dresses, running her fingers of the fabric. "I'm helping my mom pick out dresses." She said sighing. "Everything is either to much or to little." She said soft enough so only Luke could hear.

"Lorelai how about this one?" Emily asked coming out.

"I don't think you should do long sleeve." Lorelai said putting her hand over the phone.

Emily glanced at her left ring finger. No ring. Emily sighed relieved but still her daughter was LOOKING at wedding dresses. She wouldn't even do that when she was engaged.

"Here." Lorelai handed her another dress and went back to her phone call.

"Sounds like Emily." Luke said smirking.

"You either sympathize with me or hang up." She pouted fingering the hem of a dress.

"I'm sorry." He rolled his eyes handing Caesar an order.

"Better." She said looking into the mirror fixing her hair.

"Are you doing your hair or talking to me?" He asked after a moment of silence.

"Would you be made if I said it was the former?" She giggled putting her hand onto her lap.

"Nah." He said sighing.

"How about this one?" Emily said coming out doing a sweep with her arm.

Lorelai wrinkled her nose and looked at it. "You look like a sack of potatoes."

"Thank you, Lorelai." Emily scoffed.

"Deary do you need breasts or do you need some?" Celine asked waving fake cups in the air.

"I'm fine." Emily said grabbing another dress.

"Have I mentioned of the lovely bridesmaid." She said rolling her eyes.

Luke smiled at that. "And I'm sure you'll look amazing." He said.

"Flattery will get you everywhere my friend." She giggled pulled her knees to her chest.

"I've heard that somewhere." He said leaning against the counter his back to the diner.

Lorelai giggled. "LORELAI DO YOU THINK YOU CAN GET OFF THE PHONE FOR ONE MINUTE SO YOU CAN HELP YOUR MOTHER?" Emily screamed.

"I'll see you later." She said flipping her phone shut.

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Emily knocked on the door unsure of what she was doing. She gripped the envelope so tight that her knuckles were white. Emily Gilmore was having second thoughts about ruining somebody's life…amazing right? The door opened and she knew she had to do this.

A disheveled and now confused Chris opened the door.

"Emily." He said. It seemed more like a question and Emily inwardly scoffed at that.

"Chris." She said coming inside. "May I come inside?" She asked already inside. "I see you have a maid." She nodded approvingly. This plan would work. It had to work.

"Yeah it's more of a nanny/maid combo." He rambled.

"I suppose GiGi's mother is still in Paris." Emily asked praying for a yes.

"Well she came back but she left again." Chris sighed.

"Well I'll skip straight to the point." She said not wanting to waste any more time. He nodded waiting for her to continue, he's learned never to interrupt Emily Gilmore. "I've never liked you." She said pointing her nose up. "You come from a nice family yes?" She asked not waiting for an answer. "You love my daughter. You would have married her if she said yes and you would have married her if that Sherry didn't have a baby." She said looking at GiGi. "She has a boyfriend now. They're serious. I don't like it. I like you better." She said putting the envelope on the table. "Here." She said walking out. "I know you love her." She said shutting the door.

An: DONE…with this chapter…spoilers suck ass…