The Doodle Bops! Sorry, just one of my random thoughts. So, has anyone seen the new Superman movie? I think it's one of the greatest movies ever, and no offense to Robin or myself, but I think that Superman could kick Batman and Robin's asses anytime he wanted. My 5 year old brother seems to disagree, but his reasoning never is very logical. Now I would like to make the announcement that I might not post another chapter for a few weeks, due to my issue with writing write now. It seems that my writing seems to be rushed a bit, so I am going to take a little tiny itsy bitsy (…yellow polka dot bikini…) break from writing, and I hope to recover from my writing sickness soon!

So back to the reason you are reading this. Here is my new chapter. I think it's so pretty! What about you? It's the longest chapter I've posted of this story (je pense) and I hope you all really like it. This chapter will answer the question "Whom did Luke talk to that wouldn't let him get a word in edgewise?" from the bottom of the last chapter. Well, without further babbling or talking or talkativeness, or Superman rants or...Ooo! Puppies, I give you, chapter 10!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, please don't sue. Oh wait, I lied. I own a few books.

Chapter 10: Sickness Is Quite Common in This Family

"Hi Grandma!" Rory said as she entered the Gilmore home. She had come a bit early, knowing her mother wouldn't be there for another half hour because that would go against the 'Always Be Late rule' her mother had put into effect the night these dinners were started. Of course, Lorelai was now the only one who lived by the 'Rules to Dining With the Gilmore's' list Lorelai had made, but Rory still thought about trying them out every once in a while.

"Hello Rory! How lovely to see you so early! What a lovely dress you're wearing tonight! Is it new?" her grandmother asked.

"Uh…no." Rory thought for a moment. "I washed all of my laundry and this was at the bottom of the pile, so I didn't recognize it either." Rory said. Emily laughed a bit.

"Well come in, I would have had your drink made, but the maid didn't hear the door so I had to come answer it instead of make your drink. Stupid imbecile. Got her just yesterday and already proving to be incompetent of her job. Where do they get these people? 'Stupidity-is-us'?" she asked. Rory decided to take that as a rhetorical question.

"So I was wondering if I could leave early tonight Grandma." Rory asked.

"Of course! May I ask what for?" Emily asked curiously.

"Logan has dinner reservations or something. All he told me was that dinner would be involved." she said.

"Well then I guess you won't be having dinner here." Emily concluded sadly.

"Oh, no, Grandma. I'll eat here. You know how much I eat. Plus it gives me more time to spend with you, Grandpa and Mom." Rory said. Little did Rory know that Lorelai was going to be a bit preoccupied during dinner.

"Well that sounds wonderful." Emily said. Just then the doorbell rang.

"I've got it! I've got it!" yelled the maid as she rushed to the door. Emily closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead.

"Grandma, are you ok?" Rory asked.

"Just a headache." Emily answered.

"Hello Lorelai." Emily said as she opened the door.

"Mom? What are you doing answering the door? And how did you know I was here? I didn't ring the bell." Lorelai asked.

"The maid has no intelligence whatsoever so I've taken over the duty as door opener tonight. And I figured by now you'd be waiting outside wondering if it was worth coming inside." Emily answered.

"Ok." Lorelai said confusedly.

"Come on in then, don't wait outside in the cold." Emily commanded. Lorelai moved into the foyer.

"Mom, it's 70 degrees out, it's not cold out." Lorelai informed Emily.

"Lorelai." her mother warned.

"Ok, fine. It's like Antarctica outside. Thanks for letting me in mom. I wouldn't want to lose a foot due to severe frost bite." Lorelai said sarcastically.

"What would you like for a drink?" Emily asked as she walked into the living room.

"The usual is fine Mo--" Lorelai stopped mid-sentence when she saw who was sitting next to Rory. Why would her mother invite him? Was she stupid? Had she not heard her the other day?

"Hi mom!" Rory said, getting up off the couch and going to hug her mother. She hadn't seen her in about a week and that long was an eternity for a Gilmore Girl.

Lorelai stood still and speechless as she stared at Luke, who was staring right back.

"Lorelai?" her mother interrupted their staring contest. "Lorelai." Emily demanded the attention again.

"Yeah?" Lorelai asked.

"I asked how much ice you wanted." she said.

"Uh…I don't…I…" Lorelai was trying to process everything at that moment, but she couldn't have an argument with her mother about the unexpected guest in front of said guest.

"Yes?" Emily asked.

"Can I speak to you in the other room?" Lorelai asked.

"Yes, I suppose." Emily said hesitantly. She thought she knew what this was about, but she could have sworn that she had been told that…oh well.

They both walked into Richard's office, leaving Rory and Luke alone together to wonder what the hell was going on.

"Mom, why is Luke out in your living room?" Lorelai asked the second the door had shut.

"Well after your little break down a week or so ago, I thought that you and Luke were done, but then I called the inn up to talk to you the other day and Sookie answered. She said you weren't there but you said you were going to the diner to fix things. I figured since there wasn't a call that you and Luke weren't together and was assured by Sookie that you had fixed it all. Now whether I was misinformed or not, he is our guest now and is waiting. So we must make due with the situation we have." Emily said.

"Crap, see this is what happens when you lie to your best friend." Lorelai told herself.

"What?" Emily asked her.

"Nothing. It's nothing. So, ok. We'll go out there and be…pleasant." Lorelai said. She never thought that those words would ever come out of her mouth, especially at her mother's house.

"Yes. Now let's go." Emily said as she pushed Lorelai out of the room and towards the living room.

"Sorry about that." Emily apologized to Rory and Luke.

"Grandma, when is Grandpa going to get here?" Rory asked.

"Oh, in thirty minutes or so. He had a late meeting. I swear, if he keeps coming home late, I'm going to have to push dinner back to eight." Emily sighed. She didn't like having to eat dinner without her husband, even if it was for only 15 minutes.

"Ma'am, dinner's ready." the maid said.

"Took long enough." Emily said as she walked into the dining room. The other three were wondering about the seating arrangement now. Lorelai had been silent and made no jokes whatsoever while they were having their drinks and now everyone was starting to wonder if she was dying or something. Luke had just sat next to her, keep as far away as possible, speaking only when asked a question.

Emily saw that Rory, Lorelai and Luke were just standing in the doorway, wondering where to sit.

"Well, take your regular places." Emily said forcefully. "Luke, you can sit next to Rory." she said, knowing that Rory would be leaving in a few minutes anyway.

"Grandma, I have to leave anyway. I'm sorry I wasn't able to eat dinner, but I'll see you next week. Bye grandma." Rory said. She gave her grandmother a quick kiss on the cheek and left, but not before shooting her mother a sympathetic look. Lorelai gave her daughter a weak smile and sat down in her normal seat.

"So, why don't we sit down?" Emily said as she took her usual place. The other two sat down slowly.

Why the hell didn't I just not show up! Luke thought. I have no damn obligation to this woman, OR LORELAI! If she wants to live alone, then fine! She can! But why did I have to be stupid and come? God, what the hell is wrong with me! Luke yelled at himself in his head.

Why did I do that? Why couldn't I just have accepted his help last night? Am I that stupid? Am I that damaged and unworthy? Do I not deserve Luke's love? Why? Is it my fault, or have I always been like this? Ah! I wish I could just die! Maybe I'll get a chance to talk to him after dinner. Maybe I'll be able to tell him I'm the idiot and I want him back. It was my entire fault, that's what I'll tell him. Lorelai told herself.

"Mom, what is this?" Lorelai asked, referring to the food in front of her.

"It's lamb. I thought you liked lamb." Emily said.

"I do…it's just…well, I'm not feeling good right now. But I'm fine. Don't worry." Lorelai said. She felt the need to vomit at that moment.

"Are sure, you're looking a bit pale." Emily said, truly concerned.

"No, I'm fine, I promise. It's just a bug or something." Lorelai said.

"But you never get sick." Emily pointed out.

"That's not true!" Lorelai said, offended that her mother would say such things! "I had the chicken pox once!" Lorelai defended childishly.

"Lorelai." her mother said sternly.

"Mother." Lorelai said in mock seriousness.

"Lorelai, are you sure you're fine?" Emily asked again. It felt like the twentieth time in the previous five minutes.

"Yes I'm fi--can I use the bathroom?" Lorelai asked quickly. She didn't even wait for an answer before running into the bathroom where she vomited up her lunch and the small amount of alcohol she had drunk.

She was in there for about five minutes, leaving Luke and Emily alone for enough time for a potential fight to arise.

"So Luke, how's the diner?" Emily asked him. She was being abnormally nice that night, and it was beginning to freak Luke out. Never in all his time of knowing of Mrs. Emily Gilmore did he remember a nice story or moment about her. Not one. But here she was acting as if she was a saint. Had their lives really turned this far upside down?

"Oh…uh, it's fine." he answered truthfully.

"And you're daughter…"

"April." he finished for her.

"April, yes, how is she?" Emily asked.

"She's fine."

"And in school?"

"She's the top of her class." Luke said.

"Reminds me of Rory." Emily answered. She didn't know why she was being nice. Maybe she was finally beginning to see that Luke and Lorelai should be together, and was trying to get them back together. Either way, she didn't even have the answer.

"Yep." Luke said. It was silent for a few more moments.

"So you and Lorelai…?"

"We're just having some issues." Luke answered.

"And are you going to work through them?" Emily asked. Luke didn't have the answer. He wanted to last night, but she had turned him away, so now she could go and marry any other man right that moment and he wouldn't care. He thought.

Just as Emily was about to ask her question again, Lorelai walked back in.

"Sorry about that." Lorelai apologized.

"Have you thought about seeing a doctor?" Emily asked. She had her suspicions as to why Lorelai was feeing this way.

"Mom, it's fine, it'll go away." Lorelai tried to reassure her mother as she took a tiny sip of water.

"Well what if it doesn't?" Emily asked.

"It will, mom."

"Lorelai?" Luke asked. He also had the same thing on his mind as Emily did. Maybe she could be…is that why she asked if I wanted to have a baby?

"What?" she asked him, annoyed now. Luke just looked at her, waiting for an answer to his unspoken question. "What?" she said, raising her voice ever so slightly.

"Lorelai, can I talk to you in the other room?" Luke asked.

"Luke, we're in the middle of dinner. We're guests. It's rude." Lorelai said coldly.

"Lorelai. We. Need. To. Talk." Luke said. Lorelai couldn't ignore him now, because with her knowledge of their fights, Luke's next move would probably to yell if Lorelai didn't listen.

"Mom?" Lorelai asked.

"Go ahead. I have to call your father and see what's taking him anyway." Emily said as she removed herself from the table to use the phone.

Luke got up quickly while Lorelai tried to take her time, wanting to avoid being in a conversation like the one she knew her and Luke were going to have. It was absurd. Why would they think that? Luke, of all people should know it wasn't possible. This conversation would kill her, or leave her heart in little tiny bits on the floor. She didn't want to remember how she had been the one to ruin it, and how she was at fault for making her dreams disappear.

They both walked into her father's study, where they knew that they wouldn't be interrupted.

Lorelai shut the door slowly; Luke had his back to her. He quickly spun around when he heard the door click.

"Lorelai, why are you sick?" he asked.

"Luke, I told you, it's just a bug." she said.

"Really? And why don't I believe you?" he asked. He wasn't mean, or rude, it was just a simple question.

"Because you're you and you never trust what I say." she half spat.

"Lorelai…are you pregnant?" he asked.

"No!" she yelled.

"Well that's not very convincing." he told her, he was now the overly annoyed one.

"And why not, Luke?" she asked him.

"Because your mother is right, you never get sick in your life, and…Oh my god!" he exclaimed. "Is the reason for last night?" he asked.

"Luke! I. am not. Pregnant." she told him.

"But how do you know?" he asked. "Have you seen a doctor, taken a test?" he asked.

"Luke! It's impossible to be pregnant when we haven't had sex in three or four months! Don't you think I would have noticed it by now? Did you really feel the need to push that hard to get the answer Luke? When I said no, I meant no!" she said, crying just a little bit. She could feel the pain from the previous night coming over her again. "Now if you don't mind we have to get back out there before my mother thinks we've killed each other." she said. Just as she reached for the door, Luke spoke.

"How does she know about us fighting?" he asked.

"I told her. She's my mother and she deserves to know." Lorelai said. She never thought she would hear herself say that. Never. But she did, and she wasn't lying. Her mother had been willing to buy a house for them, why shouldn't she know that at that moment, the two weren't really planning on getting married?

"Wonderful." Luke retorted.

"Shut up." Lorelai told him as she went towards the dining room, only her putting on her happy face.

"Well that was a good meal. It was wonderful to have you over Luke; I hope to see you again." Richard said. He had finally gotten to dinner but he hadn't been informed of the fact that Luke and Lorelai weren't getting along.

"Nice seeing you too Richard." Luke said back. "May I use your bathroom?" he asked.

"Sure." Richard said as he went to say goodbye to Lorelai.

"Bye dad." Lorelai said, giving him a quick hug and then moving on to her mother. "Bye mom. See you next week." she said, oddly enough, also giving her mother hug.

"Bye Lorelai." her mother said pleasantly.

Lorelai grabbed her purse and left. She went outside and just stood staring at the ground. There was still some light in the sky, but not much. She heard the door open behind her. She turned around to face Luke. He saw her and then walked over to his truck.

"Luke, wait." Lorelai said as she chased after him.

"What?" he asked bitterly.

"Luke, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've been acting the way I have been, and I'm sorry about tonight, and I'm just sorry." she said. She looked exhausted, but Luke did want to deal with her.

"Well, that makes one of us." he said as he opened the driver's side of the vehicle and got in.

"Luke, please." she begged. "Please, I've been living miserably for the past week or so, and it's because you're not there. Luke, please, just let me back in." she begged.

"no." he said as he turned on the engine.

"What?" she asked. She had expected him to be bitter and angry, but not like this.

"I said 'no'. Last night was the last time. It was the last time I would even think of you and I." he answered.

"Luke, I'm sorry for last night." she said.

"I'm tired of you being sorry for everything!" he yelled. "I've always forgiven you! Always! And anytime I do the same, you refuse to let me back in until I get down and worship the ground you walk on! No more! I'm done! A relationship is supposed to be equal, but you seem to get more out of it that I do! I am done trying to make things better and letting you back in so easily! Now it's your turn! You find a way to make everything all better! Until then, I'm done!" he ranted to her. He pulled his truck out of the driveway, and left a shocked Lorelai standing there.

Lorelai had somehow made it home without getting into a car accident. She had stood in the driveway and cried for at least 10 minutes.

Now she just wanted to let it all go. Luke had rejected her. And even though she knew she deserved it, she just wanted to die. She wanted it all to be over, and not even the fact that she had a daughter, parents, and town that loved her could change her mind. The only problem was that she didn't have enough strength to do it. She just wanted it to be over, but she could never truly kill herself.

She had found herself on the couch watching the lights from the cars passing by enter the window and run along the wall. Not that many cars were going through, but it didn't matter. It was something to focus her mind on other than her issues with Luke.

She fell asleep that way. She did realize that she forgot to feed the dog. She also didn't realize that she left the kitchen door open. Lastly, she didn't realize that even if Paul Anka was terrified of everything in sight, he would run outside in order to find something to eat. Too bad she didn't realize that.

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So here it is, suck up all the unhappiness while you still can! Our sale ends tomorrow! Please review, it is greatly appreciated, and my penguins will be your best friend if you do! Here is my quote of the chapter: "It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses." - Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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