The ride home seemed like a long one as Lorelai was in panic mode about the minor detail that she and Luke left out of the planning. Pulling up to the diner, she threw the jeep into park and opened her door, high-tailing it inside.

"Luke!"

Running from behind the counter and putting a hand on her shoulder, "What's wrong? Are you okay? Is Rory okay?"

"What about the honeymoon?"

"What? What are you talking about? Lorelai, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, but what about the honeymoon?"

"What honeymoon?"

"Exactly…" she says, finding a seat at the counter and putting her head in her hands with a frustrated sigh.

Getting quite the amused look on his face, after realizing what her panic was about, Luke goes behind the counter to get her some coffee. "You mean our honeymoon?"

"Or lack thereof!" she says, looking up at him through her fingers and then throwing her hands up in the air.

Meanwhile, Rory and Mia stood outside, watching the events unfold inside the diner.

"So, do you think that he'll tell her?"

"Probably. He won't want her to have a melt down."

"He might leave out the part about Grandma and Grandpa paying for it until the wedding, but he'll tell her that he's got it under control. I'm surprised it took her this long to realize that she's forgotten about it."

"Your mother has had a lot on her mind recently, I can see why she's a bit scatterbrained." Mia says, putting an arm around Rory.

"Yeah, the wedding among other life changing thoughts has had mom a little bit stressed, but she seems to be okay."

"Other life changing thoughts?"

"I'll let mom tell you about that one… we'll just say that we had an incident a few weeks ago, but all should be okay now."

"She is lucky to have had you around for these past months little one."

"Well, Luke has been there too… he really is great for mom." she says, while casting a glance inside the diner yet again.

"I would have to agree with you on that."

"ooh! Look!" she says, pointing into the diner where she sees Lorelai practically climbing on the counter to kiss her fiancé.

"Do you think it's safe to go in?" Mia asks.

"Yeah, I think it's safe." she says nodding and starting to walk into the diner, where her mom and Luke are still caught up in quite the kiss. "ahem… excuse me, daughter in the diner… keep it PG up in here folks."

Breaking off their kiss, Lorelai jumps away from Luke and starts jumping up and down, "Rory, guess what, guess what!"

"Luke has the honeymoon planned and you didn't have to do anything for it?" replies her daughter with an uncharacteristic monotone only paralleled by the diner man himself.

Lorelai stops jumping and narrows her eyes, looking from her daughter to Luke slowly and then back to her daughter. "You are evil!"

"Well, call me Lucifer. You're happy aren't you?"

"How long have the two of you been in cahoots with this little scheme of yours?"

"There was no cahooting... Luke had it all planned out, and told me to tell him if you mentioned starting to plan for a honeymoon, so that he could tell you what he was doing before you booked an airline."

"And when was this clandestine exchange of information?"

"Well… a few months ago, wasn't it Luke?" she says with an amused expression.

Leaning on the back counter with a similar expression and arms folded casually, he responds, "yeah, I would say around there."

"You've known about this for months and you didn't tell me!"

"Well, like I said, my instructions were to wait until you mentioned the honeymoon, and that wasn't really until today when you had your little freak out. You were obviously a bit distracted, considering you didn't really think about it until a week before the wedding!"

"hmmph" she sighs as she sits back down at the counter pouting.

"Lorelai, your husband to be and your daughter did a good thing, because you didn't have to worry about planning it. You should be happy!" Mia interjects.

"yeah, well, it still would have been cool to know about it."

After a few minutes and Luke coming out with their order of food, Lorelai realized that she hadn't asked the important questions that she needed to ask regarding their little honeymoon.

"Wait… Luke?"

"yeah?"

"Where are we going?"

"You'll see when we get there."

"Oh no no no friend, it doesn't work like that. I need to know what to pack, is it sunny, rainy, snowy, cold, humid, hot, tropical, arctic…"

"Lorelai, do you really think that I would send us packing to somewhere cold, snowy, or arctic for our honeymoon?"

"Well, I don't know… you're Mr. outdoor man… guy… you could think that an igloo is romantic."

"Count on warm weather, possibly hot, limited amount of clothing needed."

"I was counting on that anyway." she says with a wink.

"OH my God, MOM! That was extremely dirty… ugh… ewww."

Mia, turning to Rory, placing a hand on hers replies in the gentlest of tones, "Rory, honey, how do you think you got here?"

Ladies and gentleman, a pin could drop around them and you could hear it. Lorelai and Luke's eyes went wide, and Rory's mouth dropped open at the comment.

Turning to look and Luke and Lorelai, she questioned, "What, can't an old woman make a joke every now and then?"

At this, Lorelai proceeded to laugh, which was slowly followed by Rory, who couldn't keep it in any more. Even Luke had to smirk at the uncharacteristic comment she made.

As a few days went by and the wedding got closer and closer, surprisingly the stress was at a low. With Mia coming in for the occasion and Emily seeming to be in the Hallow every two seconds to check on something, it all seemed organized and ready to go off without a hitch.

Sookie had the cooking down to a precise art, knowing exactly what needed to be done before she walked down the aisle in the wedding party, exactly how much time it took for the ceremony, and then approximately how long it would take her to greet people before heading back to the kitchen.

Luke was ready to go, with deciding on Jackson as his best man, and his tux ready and hanging up in his soon to be old apartment. Jess was coming as a groomsman, and Liz and TJ said that they were going to make an appearance as well, so his excitement was the sarcastic type.

Rory seemed to be attached to Lorelai more so than ever, which Lorelai couldn't place, but didn't want to turn her away.

"So are you okay with everything? The dress is good and our dresses are good?"

"The dresses are perfect. Everything is set."

"Yeah, and how are you?"

"I am fabulously stress free thanks to you and Mia and Sookie, and even my mother." she says, pulling Rory down to sit on the couch beside her.

They sat for a moment in silent company, looking around at the house and the years of memories that came with it.

"So….you're good?"

Finally, breaking, Lorelai patted her on the knee and turned to talk to her. "Rory! Are you trying to tell me you're pregnant or leaving me to join a cult or something, cause you're concern for my well being and calmness was cute until about fifteen 'how are yous' ago."

Rory bit her lip, contemplating what exactly to say next.

"I'm freaking out a little bit."

"What? Rory… why?"

"You'll think it's stupid" she says, shaking her head and looking down at her lap.

Trying to get their eyes to meet, Lorelai puts and hand under her chin and looks her straight in the eye. "Never…"

Silence filled the room yet again.

"Rory… come on… what's up? Are you freaking out about the wedding?"

Without a response to go off of, Lorelai asked her again. "Are you freaking about me marrying Luke?"

"No… yes… No… well… I'm freaking, but I'm at least not freaking in the way that you're thinking that I am freaking out about you marrying Luke."

"woah… you've got to back that train up and explain that whole jumble, kid, cause I couldn't keep up." she says, smoothing Rory's hair back from her face.

"It's kind of about Max and all that happened with that…"

"Okay, what about Max?"

"This is about the time that you bailed when you and Max were getting married… and I know that you keep saying that you aren't freaking, and that you're happy, and that you're fine, but you said the same thing with Max, and then you left… well, we left, but none the less, there was no meeting at the end of the aisle for you two, and it's freaking me out. I loved Max. At least I thought that I loved Max, which I know isn't true because I know that I love Luke. I'm just freaking out, and now, by me freaking out, it's going to freak you out and then… hello road trip to California for the girls!" she said, seeming to say it in all one breath and letting some out still in a huff while falling back onto the couch.

Lorelai stopped for a moment to think about what she just said. She was right about the timing and everything, but Luke really was different. This really was meant to be, and she knew that it was.

"Rory, can I tell you something?"

"oh no… you are having second thoughts and this totally – "

"No! Woah, Rory! Calm down, I'm not bailing."

"No?"

"Hell no! Rory, you are missing a very important part about this time… I love Luke. I am fully head over heals in love with Luke, and nothing could ever change that. I am so far from bailing that if you wanted me to bail I'd probably handcuff myself to the stairs so you couldn't force me to do it!"

"That's pretty solid"

"Yeah, you're tellin me!…I know from personal experience that the banister can –"

"You can stop right there and save me the year of therapy thank you very much."

"Yeah, sorry about that. But, you know that I love Luke, and I want nothing more than to marry him, don't you?"

"I do, I just had a minor freak out, and I'm sorry."

Pulling her daughter close, she stroked her hair as they grew quiet again, Lorelai seeming to be quite deep in thought for sometime.

"Rory?"

"Yeah?"

"Change in plans! Get up!" Lorelai screams, getting up and half throwing Rory off of her in the process of it all.

"What?" You could see Rory's eyes practically bugging out at this declaration.

"I don't want to get married on Saturday…"

"Mom? You can't do this… you can't do this to Luke… or to yourself…" she starts in on convincing her mother out of it when she notices a glimmer in her eye "what? Oh my God, are you joking with me, cause that totally sucks!"

"No, I'm not joking. I don't want to get married on Saturday, I want to get married today."

"Mom? What?"

"Just get into a cute outfit and meet me in the living room in ten minutes!" she says, grabbing her cell phone and running upstairs to call who Rory assumes is Luke.

Realizing that her mother wasn't kidding, she ran to her room to change.

As Rory was changing, Luke was on the phone with Lorelai.

"Luke, do you love me?"

"No, not at all… which is why I'm marrying you. Lorelai what kind –"

"Do you love me enough to do something with no questions?"

"Coming from you, I don't know… but I guess so."

"Put on a suit and call Lane to come fill in for you. Be ready, at the diner in fifteen minutes."

"What? Lorelai, why?"

"Obviously you missed the whole no questions part of the conversation… just do it, please!"

"Fifteen minutes"

She pushed a button on the phone to end her call and pushed a few more to call the Dragonfly, where Sookie was no doubt freaking out about Saturday still.

"Dragonfly Inn, Michel speaking, how can I help you?"

"Michel, it's me, can I talk to Sookie?"

"I don't know… are you capable of speech?"

"Michel, shut up and go give the phone to Sookie."

"Fine, I will. However, I'm only doing this because you control my paycheck."

"Well, at least we're clear that no altruistic motivation was involved in this decision."

After a few minutes, Sookie gets on the line and Lorelai tells her the same thing that she told Luke, to be ready in fifteen minutes looking presentable. Sookie, always up for a surprise was ready and willing to go.

The calls having been made, Lorelai proceeds to fight through her closet clutter and find a simple springy dress to wear with some strappy sandals to go with it. Running down the stairs, she finds Rory sitting on the couch, ready to go, but with a confused look on her face.

"Now that I've done what you have asked me to do, are you going to explain to me what is happening?"

"I don't want to wait."

"Mom, you only have to wait like 4 days, and then you'll be married."

"Rory, you of all people who have known me all of your life, know that I have the patience of a five year old, and when I was talking to you about all of this, I realized that this really is what I want. I want my middle, I want to have more kids, I want to grow old with one guy by my side, and I want to be happy. All of this, I want to start right now."

Smiling, Rory stands up from the couch and links her arm through Lorelai's. "Then let's go get Luke."

"I know that this was said last time when I was bailing, but it seems appropriate in this situation as well. You are totally crazy, and I love that about you."

"Well, chip off the o—" with this she starts to get a glare from Lorelai and then continues "o—verly beautiful and stunning block!"

"Good save!"

"I learn from the best!"

Okay, so that's it for this chapter! I hope that you enjoyed it. I've been pretty bogged down with stuff, so sorry that it took so long to update it! Thanks to those of you who e-mailed me and stuff, cause that was cool. Read/Review! Hopefully soon!