I'm Baaaaaaack
So far this year sucks in the worse possible way!
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-if you aint smiling, you aint living-
"Look, Dad, I got Aladdin" Sky yelled from the couch when Lorelai opened the door.
"Wow that's…" Luke didn't know how to finish that, especially because Lorelai rolled her eyes at the mention of the movie.
"Not good" Lorelai whispered, finishing his sentence. "Hi!"
"Hi" he leaned closer and kissed.
"Ew!" Sky called from the couch.
"Watch your movie kid" Lorelai told him.
"Hey, Luke" Rory said walking from the kitchen to her room.
"Hi, Rory" he called back. "I'm just gonna…" he motioned to Lorelai's room.
"Go ahead Hon" she closed the front door.
That night they stayed in, Rory was in her room reading a book, Sky was watching his movie while Luke and Lorelai were in the kitchen making dinner; well, Luke was making dinner Lorelai was just telling him about her week. Most of their stuff was packed and ready to go since they were going to move to Stars Hollow in about two weeks. During dinner they all sat together like every picture perfect family had. After dinner, though, they were going to have a movie marathon like they always did but after much argument, a few tears and tantrums, they all ended up watching.… Aladdin.
"I've already seen this three times, so I'll be in my room" Rory told them; she kissed their cheeks and offered a goodnight before going to her room.
"I told you all that reading you did was bad for her" Lorelai teased.
"Mommy, shh, it's starting" Sky said a little angry
"Sorry" Lorelai lifted her arms in mock surrender and Luke just chuckled; he got more comfortable and swung his arm over her shoulder, Lorelai cuddled closer to him. Sky was asleep before Aladdin was chased by the guards; first he was slightly leaning against his parents, but by the time he was fully asleep, Sky was lying on top of them.
"Luke?"
"Yeah?" she just looked down at Sky. "I'll get him to bed" easier said then done since he had to get up from under Lorelai and Sky, without waking him up.
A few minutes later Luke walked out of the kids room, closing the door behind him, Rory had been asleep when he went in to put Sky down.
"They are both asleep" Luke announced while letting himself fall on the couch next to Lorelai who was surfing the channels for something to watch that wasn't a cartoon genie.
"I'm looking for a movie" she informed him, Luke just scooted closer; his left arm over her shoulders and his right hand landed on her thigh. "Or a late night show" he leaned forwards and placed butterfly kisses on her neck. "Or something that's not G rated" he moved his lips towards her ear. "That's not G rated Hon" Lorelai told him giggling.
"Uh-Huh" he kept with his ministrations.
(For the continuation of this, go to the spin-off)
The next morning they all woke up to the sound of… Aladdin. Sky had woken up early, like always, and popped his movie in. In order to have a peaceful, Aladdin-less, breakfast Luke took them all out; sky spent the whole morning talking about Aladdin.
Unfortunately for them, as soon as they got back to the apartment Sky ran to the TV and turned on the movie.
"You're kidding me" Rory groaned and went straight to her room, the door closing behind her. Lorelai sighed, she walked passed the living room and towards her room. Luke just figured he could convince Sky to watch something different.
"Hey buddy, aren't you tired of that movie?"
"Nope"
"You know, if you only watch that movie then you'll never get to see all those other cool movies out there"
"It's ok" he shrugged. "Aladdin's cool"
"If you watch it too many times you'll ruin the tape though"
"Mommy will buy me another"
"Sky, come on, enough with this movie"
"No" Sky took the remote and hugged it. "I'm watching!"
"Sky…"Luke started.
"No! Mommy!"
"What's going on here?" Lorelai asked rushing out of the room.
"Luke's being mean" Sky got up and ran to hug Lorelai around her waist.
"I'm just trying to get Sky to watch something else" Luke defended getting up.
"Luke…" Lorelai scowled. "It's ok Sky, go watch your movie"
"Thank you, Mommy" he smiled at Lorelai, shot Luke a glare and went to sit down.
"Lorelai" Luke groaned a little and pointed to the TV. She gave him a look and walked over to her room, Luke followed her.
"You were going to turn off his video?" she asked closing the door behind her.
"I haven't been here twenty four hours and I've already seen it three times"
"You're nowhere near the record"
"I'm tired of the stupid genie"
"So am I but I'm not going to make him cry for it"
"He was not crying"
"Luke, he's six, kids his age get traumatized with movies everyday, we just have to wait it out"
"It can't be good for him"
"It can't be bad either, every kid does it"
"How do you know"
"Rory did it, you just never got to see it"
"And who's fault was that?" Luke shot back and Lorelai was speechless.
"Low blow, Luke" she whispered before leaving him standing in the middle of the room.
"Lorelai, wait" by the time Luke followed her she was already out the apartment door; knowing he couldn't leave the kids there alone he just sat on the couch and watched the movie.
"She's mad" Sky told him without looking away from the TV.
"Hey Sky, I'm sorry for trying to turn your movie off"
"Really?" Sky finally turned to look at Luke.
"Really" Luke nodded; Sky got up and walked over to Luke.
"It's ok" Sky assured and gave Luke a hug, afterwards Sky turned off the movie.
"Why did you do that?"
"You wanted to watch TV" Sky shrugged. "I'm gonna go finish my book" his coloring book.
"Is the movie over?" Rory's head asked from the doorway.
"The TV's all yours" Luke told her. "Hey Sky?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you want to help me make some cookies for when your Mom comes back?"
"Cookies always make her happy" Sky thought about it. "Ok, but only because you're in trouble when she gets back"
"Thanks" Luke smiled and got everything out for chocolate chip cookies.
Lorelai came back about ten minutes after the cookies were done; Rory was watching TV, Luke and Sky were on the kitchen table coloring; yes Sky had gotten Luke to color. Lorelai saw it all and just went straight to her room.
"She's still mad" Sky pointed out.
"Yeah, I know. I kinda messed up big time, buddy"
"But I already said it was ok"
"I also did something bad to your Mom"
"Then go say you're sorry" Sky said in a 'duh' voice.
"I should huh?" Sky nodded. "Ok then…" he stood up. "… you'll behave?"
"Yup"
"Rory" Luke gave her a knowing nod and she nodded back; she was going to keep an eye on Sky.
.o0 Lorelai's room 0o.
When Luke walked in she was on the bed reading a magazine. He closed the door quietly and walked over to her.
"Hey" he said quietly.
"You can't keep bringing that up"
"I'm s…"
"This is not going to work if you keep throwing that in my face all the time"
"I'm very sorry, Lorelai. I swear I didn't mean it"
"I know it's not something you can forgive but…"
"No, I do, I do forgive you"
"Then…"
"I didn't mean it. The movie got to me and then you started telling me all this stuff that I should've known but had no way of knowing and I just… I'm very sorry Lorelai. We baked you cookies" she stayed quiet. "I apologized to Sky, he's ok" nothing. "Lorelai, please say something. Look, I'll go back home right now if you want me too… ok then, umm, I'll just grab my stuff and I'll say 'bye' to the kids"
"We can't keep running" was all Lorelai said. "If we're going to make this work, and we're going to live in the same house, we can't keep running"
"So I'm staying then?"
"I'm not kicking you out"
"I'm very sorry for what I said, and I swear I'll never do it again" Lorelai looked at him a few seconds.
"You made cookies?" he nodded. "You got Sky to stop his movie?" he nodded again, this time with a smile. "Kiss?" she pouted and just like that Luke knew he was off the hook.
.o0 Starts Hollow, at the House 0o.
"Hello?" Sky answered slightly out of breath. He and Lorelai were watching a movie and had argued for three or four rings before Lorelai played the pregnancy card and Sky answered the phone; with Lorelai making faces at him the whole time.
"Lucas?"
"Grandma?" he asked surprised.
"Well of course it's me, is your mother home?"
"My Mom?" he asked again and turned to look at Lorelai, she was moving her head from side to side, her arms too. "Uh… uh… she was…"
"I know she's there because I called that place she calls work and that weird French man told me she was off today, I called the Diner and a guy with a weird accent said she wasn't there either; so either two strangers lied to me or you're stalling because she's right there. Lucas?"
"Uh…" he had a trapped look on his face; he's never liked Emily, ever since he met her when he was younger.
.o0 Stars Hollow, Luke's Apartment, 1994 0o.
"A clip-on? Lorelai, get him a real tie" Luke grumbled. Somehow Luke had convinced Lorelai to call her parents and let them know something about her whereabouts; the phone call didn't go well since it ended with all of them forced to dinner. Yeah they knew about Sky, well, they knew she had been pregnant again when she moved away from that stupid little town she liked so much; and they knew she had a boy, but that was all they had known for several years, hence Luke making her call them.
"He has a real tie, he just doesn't know how to tie it yet"
"Of course not, he's six; you tie it for him"
"He squirms too much" she argued while putting her make-up on.
"Fine…" Luke sighed. "Sky, come here, and stay still"
"I don't wanna go, I don't like wearing this" he pulled at his dress pants. "Can I wear jeans?"
"We already went through that, Sky" Lorelai reminded him.
"But…"
"Hold still" Luke told him, he was tying Sky's tie
"I'm not gonna be happy"
"No one is, kid" Lorelai told him. "But you will be polite"
"But…"
"Sky" Luke gave him that father look he had come to perfect.
"Yes, Ma'am" Sky said obediently.
"Wow where did that come from?" Lorelai stopped doing her make-up and turned to look at her boy; Sky just pointed to Luke. "Tell me your trick later?"
"I'll tell you that one, and a few others I have up my sleeve" he winked at her while finishing Sky's tie.
"Ooh" she giggled and kept getting ready.
.o0 Hartford, Gilmore Manor 0o.
"Mommy, I'm scared" Sky admitted.
"So am I kid" she teased.
"Lorelai… Sky, it's ok, they're your Grandparents" Luke assured.
"I have Grandparents?" he was surprised and eager.
"Umm… yeah" Luke frowned.
"Rory, did you know we had Grandparents?" Luke shot Lorelai a dirty look.
"Everybody does, Sky" she answered; Rory was also a little scared, she didn't remember anything of her Grandparents seeing as how she had met them before Sky was even born.
"Cool"
"Can we ring the doorbell now?" Luke asked annoyed.
"Why are you so eager? You never like my parents before"
"I still don't but unlike you, I learned that if we make them wait its worse"
"What is?" Rory asked.
"The…" Lorelai started.
"The food…" Luke interrupted her. "The food gets cold and that makes it worse"
"Oh, ok" suddenly the maid opened the door; Sky had rang the doorbell eager to meet his grandparents now that he knew he had them.
The maid had escorted them to the living room; apparently Emily wanted to make an entrance.
Luke and Lorelai were sitting on the middle of the couch, Luke had Rory next to him and Lorelai had Sky; who was bouncing anxiously.
"Sky, I mean it, stop bouncing" Lorelai said annoyed, she too was anxious, but not like Sky.
"But…"
"I'm serious"
"Hello, Lorelai" Emily and Richard made their entrances.
"Mother"
"Luke" Emily said in the same tone Lorelai had.
"Emily" he acknowledged. "Richard"
"Luke, how've you been?"
"Good sir"
"Mommy" Sky tugged at her dress, he wanted to meet his grandparents and didn't feel like waiting anymore.
"Mom, Dad, you remember Rory"
"Of course we do; Rory, how are you?" Richard asked politely while Emily just stared at Sky.
"I'm good, thank you" she said quietly, still scared of them because of the stories Lorelai had told them.
"And who are you?" Emily asked.
"I'm Sky and you're my grandparents" Sky said with a big smile
"Sky? Lorelai, what were you thinking?" Emily asked with a face.
"Honey, tell them your real name" Lorelai told Sky but her eyes were still on Emily.
"But I don't want people to know my real name, I like Sky" he argued.
"Sky is a nickname, you don't introduce yourself to people with your nickname you know that" Lorelai told him.
"Fine" he sighed. "My name is Lucas" he grumbled the name out.
"Well Lucas is a fine name, why don't you like it?" Richard asked sensing the tension in the air and feeling bad for his grandkids.
"I do like it, but I like Sky more" Emily didn't say anything to that, and Lorelai was happy because it couldn't have been nice.
"Why?" Richard asked.
"Just like Skywalker, but my Mommy said she wouldn't call me that so she calls me Sky" his eyes were shinning all through the story.
"Star Wars?"
"Yes! It's awesome!"
"Use your inside voice, seriously Lorelai, doesn't he have manners?" Emily scowled.
"Sorry, he's excited to meet his grandparents, Mom" Emily just rolled her eyes. Once they were all seated again, and had drinks, Sky kept bouncing a little on his seat; annoying not only Emily but Lorelai too since she was sitting next to him.
"Stop that, you'll ruin the cushions" Emily said sternly.
"I can't, I'm happy" Sky smiled at her.
"Lucas, stop" she said in a firm voice, effectively stopping Sky mid bounce.
"Don't call me Lucas"
"I will call you Lucas because that's your name; besides, Sky is a bad nickname"
"No its not!" Sky got really sad. "Mommy, I want to go home"
"You can't leave, you need to have dinner, that's what happens when people invite you over to dinner; and it's very rude to leave without eating" Emily told him.
"I don't care, I want to go" he was ready to cry.
"Lorelai, you will not leave" Emily stressed.
"We're sorry Emily, but Sky's not comfortable here; we're leaving" Luke said in an even tone.
"Still lacking manners I see"
"I don't care how rude it is to leave without eating; to me it's even ruder to make your Grandson cry" Luke shot back. "Let's go"
.o0 Back to the Living room, Sky on the Phone with Emily 0o.
"Never mind, I'm almost there" Emily dismissed him.
"What? Almost where?" he panicked.
"Bye, Lucas, see you soon" and with that she hung up.
"What? Grandma? Grandma?" he hung up also.
"What did she want?" Lorelai asked eagerly.
"I don't know, she asked for you then she said she knew you were here because she called the Inn and the Diner, and then she said she was almost there"
"Almost where?" she frowned.
"She didn't say"
"You don't think…" Lorelai didn't get a chance to finish her thought because there was a knock at the door. "Oh God" she panicked.
"Mom?"
"Oh my God" she got up and looked all around her as if trying to find a way out.
"What are you doing?" he frowned, Emily knocked again. "I need to go get that, she knows we're here"
"She knows that, but she doesn't know I'm pregnant"
"What?" Sky looked at his mothers slight baby bump. "Well, maybe you can get away with it; you don't look pregnant"
"Sky…" she pointed to her stomach, and Emily knocked again.
"Ok, maybe you do. Mom, I have to let her in"
"Oh my God she's going to freak" Lorelai whispered when Sky walked over to open the door.
"My God, did you get lost?" Lorelai heard Emily scowled at Sky.
"Sorry Grandma I was upstairs when you called and…"
"Do not lie to me, Lucas. Now, where's your Mother?"
"I'm not lying Grandma" he put his innocent face on but Emily was still not buying it.
"Lorelai?" Emily pushed past Sky and went into the living room.
"Mom, hi!" Lorelai had a trapped look.
Ok so, give me a day or two to finish the spinoff section
Tell me what you thunk of this chapter, and if you want to see something happen in it let me know and I'll try to work it in.