Lorelai called Rory to tell her it was okay to come to the diner.
Rory was laughing at something Jess said when they walked through the door.
"Hey Grandma, Grandpa."
"Rory." Emily said.
"You've met Jess before, albeit abbreviatedly. Jess, you remember my grandparents."
"Nice to see you again Mr and Mrs Gilmore." Jess said. Lorelai smiled at how polite Jess was being.
"Jess." Richard said. "Rory, you look well, you're positively…"
Jess put his hands over her ears.
"Don't use the g word, last time someone said it she yelled at him for ten minutes."
"Poor Kirk." Lorelai said.
Jess removed his hands.
"Do you want a drink?" Jess offered Rory.
"Juice would be good."
"Hey Jess." Lorelai said.
"I know, you want more coffee."
"Very good grasshopper." Lorelai said.
Jess rolled his eyes and went to get the drinks.
"Your grandparents reconciled." Lorelai told Rory.
"That's great news." Rory smiled.
"We received your letter." Emily said.
"The new maid said she was going to give it to you." Rory acknowledged.
"New maid?" Lorelai questioned.
"Lucia." Emily supplied.
"Wasn't there a Lucia before?" Lorelai asked.
"Before Amelie the French one and after Daisy the English one." Rory supplied.
"That's right, are you rehiring old maids?" Lorelai inquired.
"This is a different Lucia I believe." Richard responded.
"Here you go." Jess set the drinks on the table.
"Aren't you joining us?" Lorelai inquired.
"I'm going to take the cranes upstairs."
"Cranes?" Richard questioned.
"Jess was teaching me to make paper cranes." Rory explained. "We thought we'd start off with ten and work our way up to the thousand."
"Interesting story and book." Richard recalled. "Sadako & The Thousand Paper Cranes, have you read it?"
"Several times when I was a kid." Jess replied. "Excuse me."
Luke shot Jess a sympathetic look before he went upstairs.
"Rory, we read your letter and we realised that we didn't want miss out on our great-granddaughter's life the way we missed out on yours." Emily said.
"I'd like that." Rory agreed.
"We'd like to help out financially too." Richard added. "Babies are expensive."
"That's very generous." Rory said glancing at Lorelai. "But we'll manage."
"Why just manage when you don't have to?" Richard asked. "Let us help you."
"I'll think about." Rory told them.
"And we'd like you both to come back to Friday night dinners."
"I think we can manage that." Lorelai agreed.
"And bring Jess." Emily added.
"Jess?" Rory said. "He works Friday nights here."
"I'm sure Luke will let him out for a few hours." Emily stated. "We want to get to know the father of our great-granddaughter."
"I'll have to talk to Jess." Rory said.
"I'm sure dinner once a week won't hurt him."
"I'll ask."
"Do that."
"Excuse me I need to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back." Rory said getting up and went upstairs.
"The sign says the bathrooms are that way." Richard remarked.
"Why use the public restrooms when you can use the private one upstairs?" Lorelai shrugged.
TBC