A FEW WEEKS LATER

THE DRAGONFLY INN

The inn was off at lightning speed, and reservations were pouring in for the summer months ahead. Filling in for Michele, Lorelai was busy on the phone with a guest when a familiar face walked through the door, surveying their surroundings. Engrossed in the phone call and placing all the information in the computer, Lorelai didn't notice as this person approached the front desk. Placing the phone back on the hook, and typing in the last of what she needed, her thoughts were interrupted.

"I'm sure that a classy place like this is booked solid for years to come, but you wouldn't happen to have a room for an old lady to stay in for a few days, would you?"

"Oh my God, MIA!" Lorelai screams with wide eyes, coming around the counter to hug the woman who was like a second mother to her.

"Oh, Lorelai! It has been so long!"

"When the Independence closed, I didn't know if we were going to see you again."

"Well, I'm glad that things happened the way they did, because if we were still open, I'm sure that you would have run us out of business." she says, looking around the inn.

"Oh Mia! I've missed you so much!"

"I've missed you too Lorelai, so much." she answers, pulling in for another hug. "Where's my other girl?"

"School, but she's not too far away, and I'm sure that she'll be here as quick as she can when she hears that you're here!"

"Well, Boston's a few hours, isn't it?"

"Yes, but New Haven is only a half hour away."

"New Haven? No Harvard?"

"She decided to go to Yale!"

"Oh my, I really have missed a lot!"

With a smile of agreement, she grasps onto Mia's hand in a gesture of love. As Mia looks down, she smoothes her finger over the engagement ring.

"Obviously!"

Lorelai blushes, and again admires her ring.

"Who is the lucky man?"

"Well, if you give me a minute, I'll get someone to cover the front desk, and we can go meet him?"

"I don't think that you could stop me!"

After getting the front desk covered, Lorelai and Mia make their way across town, strolling slowly on the sidewalk toward Luke's.

When they enter the diner, Luke glances up to meet the eyes of his fiancé, and then glances to her side to see another love of his life, Mia.

"Mia! What are you doing here?" he says, embracing the woman.

"Lucas! I came to see how you kids are all doing! I miss the town so much!"

"Well, we're glad to have you back!"

"Supposedly we've also come here to meet the one who has tamed this crazy one…" she says gesturing to Lorelai.

"I see…"

"So, where is he?" she pulls Lorelai into a tight hug, scanning the diner for potential men.

"Oh, he's here... Let's see, I'll describe him for you. He's wearing an outfit similar to a lumberjack, a scowling expression, and a trademark that has landed me the nickname of Mrs. Backwards Baseball Cap."

Mia scans the diner, the description sounding familiar to her, but not sinking in as to who it was. Her face dropping into a frown at not being able to pick out Lorelai's love, she turns to the two before her, quickly noticing their close proximity to one another.

"Lucas!"

"Yeah, Mia, we're getting married…" Luke says in a relaxed tone.

"Oh this is WONDERFUL!"

"I thought you would think so." Says Lorelai, guiding them to a table, and sneaking a kiss from Luke before sitting down.

"So what do you want?"

"Aside from you, a million dollars, and about a hundred pairs of Jimmy Choos?"

"Yeah, well, you've already got me, the inn's on its way, and what the hell are Jimmy Choos?"

Lorelai gasps, clutching her chest. "That's it! The engagement is off! Jimmy Choos are only the BEST boots like ever Luke!"

"My mistake… can you please order something? I've got other people waiting here."

"I'll have the usual. Mia?"

"Oh, I don't know, can I get the Monte Cristo sandwhich?"

"HA!"

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

"No, Mia, you didn't say anything wrong. I'm just in for a big I told you so sometime soon."

"Oh… okay?" Mia says, with a look of uncertainty, turning to Lorelai.

"Don't worry about it, he just took it of the menu when he made new ones, and we lectured him about how it should still be on there, and how we never ordered it, but there was comfort in knowing that we could order it…long story."

Mia laughs as she places her hands atop Lorelai's. "I did miss you over these past few years! I should have called or come seen you when the Independence burnt down."

"I was surprised that you didn't, actually."

"So… are you going to tell me how this…" she gestures between Lorelai's hand and Luke at the counter. "got started?"

"Well, talk about long stories!"

"I'm sure it's a good one"

"Oh, and that is true! Well, he invited me to his sister's wedding, and I was utterly clueless as to his true intentions, and certainly didn't think that it was a date of any sort. And we talked, and we laughed, and we even DANCED!"

"Well, Lucas was always good on his feet! I remember the young gentleman that would always invite me on the dance floor at all the town shindigs."

"Luke, you were SO holding out on me!" she yells across the diner at him, which gets her a glare and a smile all in the same few seconds.

"But anyways, he walked me home, and then asked me out to a movie, and still being an idiot, and not understanding what he really meant, I said yes."

"You would have said no if you knew that it was meant to be a date?"

"No… yes… I don't know. It freaked me out! And then I started thinking about the town, and how they all said-"

"That he's always had a spark for you… yes, I know."

"See, now if you would have told me that, I might have listened!"

"No, you wouldn't have, you are always so stubborn with things like this!" she laughs, still intrigued by the story.

"Yeah, well… I freaked out because I didn't know if I was actually dating Luke, and I asked Rory, and she freaked out too, because it was Luke, and it was big and crazy, and he kept us in caffeine. Then, the inn had a test run that weekend, and he came, and he brought me flowers, and then things got all messed up, and my ex boyfriend showed up telling him that he and I were still together…then… out of nowhere, but certainly a long time coming, we kissed!" she says quickly in true Lorelai fashion, with hand flying everywhere, aiding her in telling the story.

"So dramatic and so…"

"Days of our Lives? Yeah, that's what I thought, but hey, a kiss is a kiss, and Luke is Luke!"

"That I am." Luke says, carrying the two orders to the table, and placing them in front of Lorelai and Mia. "You two having fun catching up?"

"Certainly! Lorelai has been telling me about how this lovely romance came to be…"

"Lorelai…"

"Man! I was just getting to telling her about that thing that you…"

He shoots her a glare, and gets instantly red and the insinuation.

"Awww, don't worry Luke, I'm giving her the PG rated version."

With that, he walks away from the table in a huff.

"And then he flips me over, and he…" she says loudly so she knows that Luke can hear.

"LORELAI!"

"Just kidding!" She screams back at him.

"You two certainly are meant to be… So, go on, tell me more…"

"Well, we went out for about five months, and all was going well, and then Emily had to interfere."

"Oh no."

"Yeah, you can say that again. She and my father decided to have a renewal of their vows after a small separation, and of course we were invited. What we didn't know, is that my mother invited Christopher as well, in an attempt to break up mine and Luke's relationship."

"Well, she obviously didn't succeed, thank goodness!"

"No, she did. We broke up for awhile, and I took it pretty hard. I completely ignored my mother, and Rory shut her out, and she knew that she had messed up big time, so she went to Luke and told him that she didn't know why, but I chose him, and she wouldn't stand in the way of that anymore."

"That certainly doesn't sound like your mother to me."

"Oh, apologizing and trying to fix her mistake, not caring about the damage that has already been done, and only thinking about what she lost out of the deal… yes, that certainly sounds like Emily Gilmore!"

"In that kind of light, I guess it does."

"He came over that night, and I opened the door, and found myself instantly in his arms, and from there on out, we've gotten here! He proposed two weeks ago under the stars after asking Rory for her permission, and I said yes, and you see us now."

"Well, that certainly is a wonderful story!"

"I think so too."

"What did Emily say?"

"What do you mean?"

"About the engagement."

Lorelai visibly flinched. Telling Emily was something that she has thought about, but doesn't really want to do right now. After all the pain that her mother has caused with this relationship, she didn't want to give her another thing to try to destroy.

"I see."

"I just don't want her to ruin it Mia."

"I understand that, but she is your mother Lorelai, and she will be happy for you, I'm sure."

Lorelai scoffs, putting her hands in her lap, playing nervously with her fingers. "Mia, you were always more like a mother to me than she was. In my eyes, my family already knows."

"She cares Lorelai, you have to know that."

"Yeah, well, if she does care, she sure doesn't show it."

Stopping for a moment to consider what Lorelai was saying, Mia recalled the last time she was in town. "Did I ever tell you that I finally did meet your mother?"

"What? When?"

"Last time I was in town, nearly 4 years ago. Your mother came to the Independence, wanting to meet me."

"She never told me… you never told me about that."

"I know. She asked me not to."

"Well, what did she say?"

"I believe that she said that she wanted to meet the woman that raised you. I explained why I helped you all those years ago, when you came to the front door with Rory in tow asking for a job, and she wondered why I never sent you back home. To that I had no answer. Before she left, she asked me if I had any pictures from back then, and told me to not tell you that I came."

Lorelai was still in her seat, stunned that her mother made that effort so long ago.

"She does care about you. I just think that she's hurt too."

"She's hurt?"

"Think about it Lorelai…"

Glancing at her watch, Mia remembers that she is meeting an old friend in Litchfield, and assures Lorelai that she will be seeing her soon. Bending down, she gives her a quick hug, and again tells her to reconsider telling her mother about the engagement.

"Mia, are you leaving already?" Luke says, coming around the counter to hug her.

"I have to meet a friend, but I'll be here for a few days, so I'm sure that you will see me again before I leave." She says returning the hug.

"We'll be seeing you then!"

"You certainly will… oh, and Lucas… I really am so happy that you two found each other. You are both like children to me, and that means so much."

Grabbing her in another quick hug, he whispers thank you in her ear and let's her go, turning then to where Lorelai remained sitting. She sat in a daze at the table alone, not noticing him coming to sit beside her.

"Lorelai?"

Snapping out of it, she replies, "Huh? What?"

"What are you thinking about?"

"Oh, um… nothing… just something that Mia said."

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I just have to figure something out…actually I think that I just did."

"And?"

"I'm going to go see my mother." She says with a determined look on her face.

"What?… okay?"

"I'll see you later tonight, okay?"

Giving him a quick kiss, she flies out of the diner and hurries to the Dragonfly to pick up her car for the trip to Hartford.

All right… so what do you think so far? Is it okay? I don't know what I'm going to have happen with Emily yet, but I definitely want this fic to have Mia in it! I think only one episode with her in it totally wasn't enough, because I LOVED her character and wished that they could have had more with her. That's why I'm doing this fic, for more Mia! Anyways… throw me any suggestions, and let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!