"You were supposed to be back an hour and half ago." Jess stated when Luke came through the door.

"I had things to do."

"You said you'd be about three hours which is why I told Rory to leave Libby with me since I was only going to be here for another twenty minutes." Jess pointed out.

"I had to take care of a few things."

"Well we got packed and I had to leave Libby with Miss Patty and Babette. They saw my ring and as soon as there was a slight break I got interrogated about getting married and you buying a house."

"Sorry." Luke apologised. "Did Libby go home with Rory?"

"Lib?" Jess called.

Libby ran out from where she was hiding behind the coat stand.

"Say goodbye to Grandpa Luke, we're going home."

"Bye bye." Libby smiled.

Jess picked her up.

"Bye." Jess added before leaving.

GG

"Mommy." Libby said when she ran through the door Jess had opened.

"Hey baby." Rory swept Libby up off her feet and sat her on the between her and Lorelai.

"Hey kiddo." Lorelai added.

"Grandma." Libby smiled.

"Buy Luke a decent watch." Jess sat down in the chair. "His three hours is very different to everyone elses."

"I left him a couple of hours ago he was heading back to the diner." Lorelai replied.

"Apparently he had things to do, so I got interrogated by Miss Patty and Babette. By the way they know we got married and Luke bought the house."

"Sounds like fun." Lorelai replied.

"It was a riot."

"Mom and Luke want to give us our house as a wedding present."

"I know Luke mentioned it yesterday when he was telling me about the meeting with the town elders."

"He told you yesterday?" Lorelai questioned.

"We ran out of small talk after the whole eloping thing."

"So you knew Luke was buying the house yesterday and you didn't tell me?" Rory questioned.

"He told me that he was going to meet with the town elders and that Kirk has a lot of money in the bank. For guy who still lives with his mother and has had more jobs than every other person in the town combined he's not doing badly."

"See Kirk turned out to be a catch." Rory smiled. "You should have said yes when he asked you out."

"I wasn't that desperate."

"And it would have screwed up the whole pinning for Luke thing." Rory winked at her.

"Five." Libby announced as she held out her hand.

"That's right Lib, five fingers." Rory smiled.

"One, two, three, or, five." Libby said proudly.

"Good girl."

"And they say TV isn't educational." Jess replied.

"Counting to five at her age is pretty impressive. But then again." Lorelai said.

"She can sing along with alphabet on her tape too." Rory informed her mother proudly.

"She has a problem with the L M N O P part it tends to get combined." Jess explained.

Libby climbed down off the couch and ran to her room.

"Where are you going Lib?" Jess called after her.

"You're not going after her?" Lorelai asked.

"If she's not back in a minute." Jess replied.

Libby returned a minute later with two books.

"What have you got there?" Jess asked.

"Daddy read." Libby handed him two books. One was about numbers, the other the alphabet.

"Why don't we take them to your room and read them." Jess suggested.

TBC