Disclaimer: I went on the WB tour once, but that is as close to Stars Hollow as I'll ever get.

A/N: This is my therapy of what I want to happen to Christopher. If you like Mr. Hayden, you may not like this.

She Always Takes Me Back

Ch. 1: A Brilliant Idea

Will you stop?

Get away from me, Christopher.

I just want to talk.

Get some coffee, Christopher!

This wasn't the way I wanted it to go down. I wanted to get you alone and – what are you doing?

I'm going after Luke!

Although she left after another man, Christopher Hayden now had a mission. He wanted Lorelai back. He wanted what he should have gotten when he was sixteen. He wanted Lorelai to be his wife.

So what if he was still married to Sherry. That was a small detail. So what if he had a kid to take care of. He could ship Gigi off to Paris. That kid was starting to freak him out. He was sure he woke up at 3 a.m. and saw her head spin around in her crib. Nah, that was crazy, he thought. Gigi's a perfectly lovely girl. She just needs a mother's love.

Hey, he thought, maybe Lorelai will want to be Gigi's new mommy. She did do a good job with Rory. Just imagine if he was there too. Gigi could be a super child who would one day take over the world. She already had scared away two nannies.

As he sat at the now empty reception table drinking lukewarm coffee so he could make the drive back to his mother's house, he knew he tried to formulate a plan to win Lorelai back. A shrill voice from behind him obliterated all thoughts from his foggy brain.

"What the hell did you do, Christopher," said Emily Gilmore, her contempt making each word a syllable longer.

"Hello to you too, Emily. It was a lovely wedding."

"Why did my daughter just tell me she was done with me? What happened?"

"Well, Luke and I got into a little disagreement about Rory, and I might have let it slip how you thought that Lorelai and I belong together."

"I swear, Christopher, you might be the stupidest man alive. I don't believe you and Lorelai belong together. I just don't believe that diner owner is a suitable mate. Do you really think Lorelai would really be happy with you? She'd be miserable because you aren't enough of a challenge. Why do you think she's slumming in Stars Hollow? I figured you would be a sore point with Luke and provide the necessary friction for an estrangement. It looks like I was right. I just wish you'd kept my name out of it."

"Well, I'm sorry, Emily, I didn't know my place in your master plan, but I want Lorelai back."

"Are you drunk, Christopher? She will never take you back after what you just did. Not in a million years. She'd have to have lost her mind to want to be with you again after the things you've done to her. And I hope my daughter is not that stupid. Well, good evening, Christopher. Richard and I have a plane to catch."

Emily walked away before he could give a proper goodbye.

She's wrong, he thought, Lorelai will take me back. She always takes me back. I just have to figure out the best way. How could he win Lorelai back? He'd have to get Rory on his side, but that would be easy. She was easy to persuade. She got that trait from him. Lorelai would be more difficult., especially being so far away.

Suddenly, the light went off in his brain. He'd move to Stars Hollow. If he was a presence in her life 24/7, she would see they were made for each other. How could she resist all his charm?

He'd win her back or die trying.

Lorelai was miserable. She had never been this miserable in her entire life. She and Luke had broken up. She had spent days in bed, embarrassed herself in front of Luke and the town, and was now alone again. Rory was gone back to Yale. Sookie was busy with her own family, and she could only take Michel in small doses.

But that wasn't the worse part. The worst was being cut off from all things Luke. His coffee, his food, his body. It sucked. She was forced to attempt banter with strangers at Weston's Bakery and eat more than a meal a week at Al's Pancake World. She had even resorted to taking the food that Sookie set aside for her for lunch.

Leaving the Dragonfly, she headed to Weston's for her afternoon coffee fix and a piece of cake. Walking the streets of Stars Hollow was still a painful experience, as many residents were still supporting their blue and pink ribbons. Why were these people so insane? Then she remembered, that she usually loved that insanity, just not when it was directed at her. She also ran a chance of seeing Luke, and it was still too hard. Just seeing his truck made her heart hurt.

As she walked along the town square, she heard a voice call her name. Great, another townie wants her to relieve the "Great Doose's Market Breakup of 2005," she thought. She was not in the mood.

"Look, you already know what happened, why are you -- Chris, what the hell are you doing here?"

"Lorelai, just listen. I need to talk to you."

"I have nothing to say to you, Christopher. What you did was unforgivable and I don't want to see you."

"Well, that's going to be hard because I just moved here."