Hehe, so here is the next chapter. I told a few of you that I would update in two weeks or so…well, here it is. I lied. I'm a liar, so sue me. Oh, and I think that this is my last fic because school starts in a couple weeks for me and I can't be continuing this. I have to focus on ONLY school. Sorry. Well here it is! Smile and be happy! Or not…

Disclaimer: Don't sue me, please! Pity the little ducky with now arms or legs, just some wings and webbed feet! Doth though not love me?

Chapter 14: I Lost It! I Mean Him!

"Come on Rory, pick up." jess said as he waited for Rory to pick up her phone.

"Hello?" Rory answered.

"Hey it's Jess."

"Oh…hey. How are you?" Rory asked hesitantly.

"Oh, you know, I'm good. So hey, I was wondering how your mom's doing? Is she ok?" Jess asked concernedly.

"Uh…yeah." Rory asked. Jess was being really strange. She had only talked to him once in the past week or so, but she had always called him since the kiss, as if he was afraid she would hang up on him. "But it's weird, because she's just all cheery and she's not really wallowing or depressed or anything, it's as if this Luke thing means nothing to her." Rory added.

"yeah, well, Luke' the exact opposite." jess said.

"You've seen Luke?"

"Well I'm in town for the weekend…didn't your mom tell you I was staying at her inn for the weekend?"

"No, she didn't. She doesn't really remember anymore, she's got other things on her mind and those are the kinds of things that get forgotten in the jumbled up mess of a memory she has." Rory joked.

"Really? I always thought she had a pretty good memory." jess said.

"Only when it came to what the hell wrong you had done to her town and daughter." Rory said.

"And Luke."

"And Luke." Rory agreed.

"So anyways, I'm in town, and I just had a little talk with Luke, and he's a little mad now so I was wondering--"

"What did you do to him?" Rory asked.

"What?"

"What did you do to him? Luke only truly gets angry if someone does something to him first, so what did you do to him?" Rory asked again.

"Well I kind of pushed him off the bridge…"

"Into the water?" Rory asked for clarifications.

"Yeah…"

"Hold on a sec." Rory said. She put her hand to the phone so Jess couldn't hear what she was saying and walked into the kitchen. Her mother heard and quickly changed the page she was on. Rory noticed this but decided to let it go.

"Hey sweets, what's up?" Lorelai asked. She saw the phone. "Who's on the phone?"

"Oh, it's Jess. I was just wondering about the time that you said Luke," Rory paused for a second, "pushed Jess off the bridge and into the pond." Rory finished.

Lorelai looked at her surprised.

"Oh, that. Yeah, jess was being a stupid punk and stealing stuff and Luke just lost it. I can't say I blame him. Jess deserved it." Lorelai said.

"Thanks." Rory said. She walked back into the living room and removed her hand from the phone. "Ok, I'm back."

"Ok…if you don't mind me asking, what was that about?" Jess asked.

"Oh, I was just refreshing my memory about when you got pushed off the bridge by Luke."

"Luke told you about that?" jess asked in disbelief.

"No, but he ranted to my mom who then told me." Rory said.

"Of course, you tell one Gilmore girl something, the other one will soon find out." jess joked.

"And you should expect nothing less." Rory said.

"Yeah, so your mom is fine with the Luke thing?"

"Well I don't know. On the outside, she seems like it, but I think she might be bottling it up or maybe just ignoring it. How's Luke?"

"well he's just burning food, not cooking it enough, breaking things, yelling at people more than usual, it's not right. So I had a little talk with him, and then pushed him in the pond and now he's probably looking for an axe to use to cut my head off." Jess joked.

"Well if you deserve it…"

"Hey!"

"Just kidding. So I have to go, my mom is freaking out about something in the kitchen and I'll talk to you later about this, ok?" Rory said.

"Yeah sure, either call Liz, the inn, room number 9, or my cell phone number. Good luck trying to get anything out of Lorelai. Bye." Jess said.

"bye." and then they both hung up.

"Mom? Mom! What's wrong?" Rory said when she saw Lorelai running around the house looking panicked.

"I can't find him!"

"What?"

"I can't find him!" Lorelai repeated. She was panicking and looking through all of the cupboards, under the sink, and even in the refrigerator.

"Who are you looking for?" Rory asked, confused as to why her mother was freaking out.

"Paul Anka! I can't find Paul Anka! No, no, no! This can't be happening. It's like that time he wouldn't eat, and that time he ignored me because I wouldn't let him have my cookie! I'm a bad person Rory! I've neglected my dog! And now I can't find him!" she freaked out as tears started to come streaming down her face.

"Mom--"

"What if he's stuck under the bed?" Lorelai said as she raced towards the stairs.

"mom--" Rory tried to get her attention again.

"And I didn't feed him last night…oh my god! Maybe he's starving stuck under the bed!"

"Mom! Calm down!" Rory yelled at her mother.

"No! I can't! I'm a horrible person and I can't find my dog! I can't find the one thing that would eat my disgusting brownies that I made for thanksgiving last! No person or animal would touch them, but he did! And now I've failed him!" she panicked.

"Well maybe he got outside." Rory suggested.

"But how? I didn't leave the front door--oh my god! I left the kitchen door open! Maybe he got out that way!" Lorelai said.

"Ok, so all we have to do is go and find him. Is there anyway to get him to come to you without putting sugar on my toe?" Rory asked.

"Yes! He liked the meatballs I made last night, I have some left over! We can give him those." Lorelai said.

"Ok, I'm going to go searching in the woods, you go through town, ok?"

"Ok, but Rory, what if we don't find him?" Lorelai said, panic in her voice.

"We will find him, now just get some of the meatballs and go look for him, ok?" Rory said.

"Ok, yeah, sure." Lorelai said.

Rory grabbed her half of the meatballs and left out the kitchen door, and went into the woods.

Just as Lorelai was about to leave she remembered she forgot what was upstairs. She remembered why she had been just a bit preoccupied this morning, not enough to be noticed by anyone but herself though.

She ran up the stairs and came down with a ghost white face. This was not good. But she had to put the Paul Anka situation first.

She slowly grabbed the meatballs left over, and left the house with a look of horror on her face. This could not be happening to her all at once.

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"Lane! Have you seen Jess?" Luke said, just a bit calmer this time. He seemed in a hurry and in no time to fool around.

"Uh…no, but Miss Patty mentioned him walking extremely fast out back of her studio." Lane told him.

"Ok, thanks. You still able to cover for me?" Luke asked.

"Yeah, I've got everything covered. Don't worry." she told him. Luke nodded and left, headed towards Miss Patty's studio, no matter how dangerous that would be for the life span of his sanity.

He was about half way there when he saw Lorelai walking away from Patty. Lorelai was on the verge of tears and looked as if she was panicking more than ever. It scared Luke. It scared him so much that he finally realized that he had been standing in the same spot for the previous three and a half minutes.

"Luke, dear, can I help you?" Patty said as she tore his eyes away from Lorelai.

"Uh, yeah. I heard you saw Jess. Do you know which way he was headed?" Luke asked.

"He was headed towards the Book store the last time I saw." she said. She then got an idea. "Luke, if you don't mind, could you tell me more about this situation between Lorelai and yourself?" she asked curiously. She still wanted to know more. Luke looked at her in disgust.

"No." he said plainly and headed for the book store. When he got there, he saw a familiar brunette in the store talking to Andrew.

"Please Andrew! Have you seen him?" she asked.

"No, I've told you already." Andrew answered in frustration.

"But are you sure?" she begged.

"Yes, I'm sure!"

"Andrew--" Lorelai started to ask again.

"Luke, can you get her out of here? You were engaged so I'm guessing she wouldn't mind so much if you had to physically remove her from here." Andrew said. Luke looked at him as if he was crazy, but he did it anyways.

"Lorelai." Luke said quietly as he lightly touched her arm. She flinched and turned to him. She looked surprised that he was there. She stood in a stupor for a few seconds but when she regained her sense of reality, she quickly made a line to the door. "Hey, Lorelai." Luke said as he walked after her.

"What?" she asked, almost on the verge of tears. It was then that Luke looked down and noticed the bag of meatballs she was holding in her hand.

"hey." he said, trying to calm her down while stroking her cheek. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"I lost him." she cried.

"You lost who?"

"I lost Paul Anka." she sobbed.

"And the meatballs are for…?"

"I made them a couple nights ago and he liked them, so me and Rory figured that he would be lured to us by the meatballs, but they haven't worked so far. He's very good at smelling but I guess he's just decided that I'm not a good of enough person and you figured it out, so why not him?" she sobbed even harder. Luke pulled her into a hesitant hug and let her cry into his shoulder while he retained the look of confusion on his face. Was he supposed to be doing this? Shouldn't he be telling her to go to hell?

"Hey, it's not your fault. He's a dog, and he doesn't know any better." this only caused her to sob more. "And you'll find him." Luke added. Lorelai looked up at him. She then realized what she was doing. She broke away from him and slowly turned away from him.

"Luke…thanks…I'll just go and find him then." She said distantly as she dried her tears.

Luke was silent. He watched her slowly walk away, and then when she had gotten at least twenty yards away from him, she started to run towards Kirk. Of course towards Kirk, who else was crazy enough to drop what they were doing and help Lorelai with her search?

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Luke cursed himself for letting her go. Even though he disliked Jess greatly, he still had to admit that Jess was right. Luke had to stop waiting for Lorelai and be the first to step up.

He put his hands over his face and sighed. He threw his arms up in the air and went back into the book store to see if Andrew had seen Jess.

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So what do you think? Good bad? Icky? Blah? Tomato-y? Blueberry-ish? Just some suggestions. So please tell me, you know you want to!To Robin: I changed a bit around…see if you can figure it out! There are actually two parts different! And here is my quote which is actually the beginning apart of "Sparkle Me" by The Buffseeds:

"Her eyes were made of sequins, Lined up just like penguins, To flap their wings and then kiss her feet."

I think it's kind of funny in a way, but I like it…because of the penguin eyes of course. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!