A/N: Alright, my baby brother that I'm baby sitting had to go to the hospital, so I only have an hour to write this. I should say that I did a pretty good job. I hope. So, it may be short, but I'm on a schedule here.


Marty immediately ran up to Rory's apartment.

"Hey, I just dropped off some stuff, I need to get back to-"

"Call your dad." said Marty, breathless.

"What?"

"Call your dad now."

"Why?"

"Christopher's on his way to Stars Hollow."

Her eyes went wide. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah. He ran past me. He said he's going to Stars Hollow. I tried to stop him but he got away. You better call your dad quick."

Rory didn't even let him finish his sentence. She immediately plunged for the phone.

"Hello." came Luke's voice after a few rings.

"Dad, hey." smiled Rory, trying to sound calm.

"Hey Rory. How are you?" Rory could tell that Luke was smiling.

"Uh. Everything's good dad. Um…dad, listen-"

"Hold on Rory. Put that down." he yelled.

"But I wanna cook!" Rory heard her mother's distant voice. She smiled.

"Lorelai. You remember the last time you wanted to cook?"

"Yes. But I wanna make you something."

"I appreciate that. But unless you want the house to burn down, I suggest you leave the cooking to me."

Rory giggled at her parents. She can't ruin their moment. "Sorry about that hun. You're mother's being impossible."

"Am not." she heard Lorelai, now close by.

"What did you want?" asked Luke.

"Oh…um…uh…hey, remember that thing you were gonna do today?"

"Yeah. I remember." smiled Luke.

"Well, why don't you do the thing at the cabin, near the lake? And you could show mom the boat."

"That's a good I idea Rory. Thanks."

"Welcome."

"Is that all."

"Yeah. You guys better go now."

"Well, I'd thought maybe we could leave after lunch."

"No." Rory screamed. Panicked a little. "leave now. I want you guys to enjoy the day at the lake."

"Ok?"

"Good. So leave now. Alright?"

"Ok. We'll leave. Is everything alright?"

"Yeah. Just, be sure to leave now. Bye." Rory clicked off the phone. She sighed.

"Why didn't you tell your dad about Chris?" asked Marty.

"I just couldn't. they sounded so happy."

"So, what are we gonna do now?"

"Well, I convinced mom and dad to go to the lake for the rest of the day. Hopefully they leave now. And by the time Christopher gets there, they're long gone."

"Ok? And then what?"

"And then, I'm gonna go to Stars Hollow and talk to Chris. I just, ugh, I just can't believe he's doing this."

"You're going back to Stars Hollow?"

"Yeah. I need to talk to him. And I need him to leave, for good."

"I'll go with you."

"Marty no."

"Why?"

"You have classes. I'm probably gonna be spending the whole day in the Hollow anyway. Who knows how long Chris is gonna last."

"But I want to help you."

"Thank you for that. But I'm not gonna let you miss your class."

"Well, is there anything else I can do. I can't just let you do all this by yourself."

"Actually, yeah. Um, can you go down to the paper and tell Paris she's in charge today?"

"Ok?"

"And then when you're not busy with class and your assignments, can you go back to the paper and just check up on them? Just make sure Paris didn't turn the news room into the Andersville Prison."

"I will."

"Great. Marty. Thanks." Rory said, gathering her things. And without thinking, she gave Marty a kiss on the cheeks and left.

"Your welcome." he said to no one, still a bliss by Rory's kiss.


"What was that about?" asked Lorelai, once Luke was off the phone with Rory. "What did Rory want?"

"Oh she just suggested that we should go to the lake today."

Lorelai smiled. "Really? The lake? Why the lake?"

"So you could see the cabin."

"You mean the family cabin we went to that weekend after your dark day?"

"Yeah. That one. Rory and I usually go there once, sometimes twice a month."

"Really? You do?"

"Yeah. Ever since I finished the boat, we keep going to the lake. She really loves it there. We go fishing sometimes."

"My daughter went fishing?" Luke nodded. "My daughter? Rory? My Rory? Our Rory? Lorelai the third? She went fishing?"

"Yeah.She's pretty good.caught a few fishes. But she always puts them back or keeps them as a pet. She said they were just too cute."

"That's what I said the last time I went fishing."

"Yeah. I remembered the fish in your bathtub two years ago."

Lorelai smiled. "So the boat's finished?"

"Yeah. It is."

"What does it look like?"

"Well we can find out today. We're gonna go there anyway."

"Yay. Let's go."


A/N: So, what did you think? Good? Bad? In between? Remember, only an hour to write this. So go easy on me. I'm fragile.