Rory walked through the aisles searching for what she wanted. "Ok so are you going to tell me what we're doing here?" her mother asked.
"I'm telling you something that I think you're a little too depressed to realize." Rory stopped.
"What are we doing here?" Lorelai laughed. Rory shoved a box into her mother's hands.
"A pregnancy test? Rory. Oh my gosh I'm pregnant."
"Well we won't know until you take the test, but all signs point to yes. There were apple cores in your bedroom and you were throwing up probably in the morning. And you're really cranky about Burn After Reading which was honestly, not that bad."
Rory put the box on the counter. "A pregnancy test?" Taylor asked. First he eyed Rory and then Lorelai.
"It's for me Taylor. An experiment for school to test how frequently one can get false pregnancies with these tests." Rory explained.
"Well shouldn't you have more?" he asked.
"Well I'm doing this thing where I buy them one at a time. I feel like it'll give me better results." Rory handed over the money. The two brunettes left the market with a curious Taylor watching them.
Rory and Lorelai stood in the bathroom when a timer pinged. Rory picked up the stick. "A little pink cross that means…"
"That Jesus died for our sins."
"Mom."
"I know I'm pregnant." Rory put her arms around her mother.
"So don't take this the wrong way, but whose…"
"I don't know."
"Mom!" Rory pulled back and noted the tears in her mother's eyes.
"Don't 'mom' me, it's not like I have a huge crowd of men that are possibilities. It's your dad or Luke."
"And it's equally likely to be either of them?" Lorelai nodded.
"And neither of them are in my life anymore."
"Wow." The two sunk down to the tile and Rory held her mother as she cried.
Lorelai took a deep breath. It had been a long time since she had opened this door and the current circumstances weren't exactly the best. With another deep breath she walked into the diner. "Sit anywhere," Luke grumbled looking down at his order pad.
"Luke can we talk?" At the familiar voice, Luke looked up, shocked.
"Lorelai? What…"
"Can we talk?"
"Um yeah I mean sure. Outside?"
"Yeah this seems more like an outside kind of conversation though I don't think it's going to go well in any location." A confused looking Luke followed Lorelai out the door to stand on the sidewalk out front. "Ok there's really no point in me beating around the bush and you know me, I'm always the one with the good blunt comment. I don't go about anything circuitously…"
"Lorelai what is it?"
"I'm pregnant." Silence followed as the cold air broke around them. Finally Luke spoke.
"So you and Christopher are having another baby?"
"Well maybe…" Lorelai looked down at the ground as she hit Luke with the second wave "or you and I are having our first."
"What?
"There could be a little backwards baseball hat and flannel shirt floating around in there."
"Are you serious?" Tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, Lorelai smiled.
"No. I mean I know you don't know much about babies, but believe it or not they don't pop out with clothing on."
"No I know that, but I mean are you serious about it possibly being mine."
"I estimate about three weeks. I know it was a terrible time for you, but if you think back I think you'll remember that we were together in that long ago time."
"Wow." Slowly, Luke settled himself on the curb. Lorelai stood in front of him, praying that his head wouldn't explode.
"Yeah it was a long time ago. I believe there were dinosaurs and Helen Hayes and Peter Ustinov were there. And there were nannies…"
"What the hell are you babbling about?"
"One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. I don't blame you for not realizing what I'm talking about, Rory and I are probably the only two people in the world that have seen it because quite frankly we'll watch anything. Actually that's a lie. I refuse to see the remake of The Omen because you can't just remake a classic like that."
"You're nervous," Luke mumbled, still looking at the ground.
"What?"
"You babble when you're nervous, well actually you babble quite often but when you're nervous you're babbling becomes a bit more frequent."
"Well yeah I'm nervous. I'm telling a man that doesn't want anything to do with me anymore that I'm possibly pregnant with his child."
"You're wrong."
"Oh so I just imagined us in your room, naked…"
"No! I mean that part happened, but before when you said that it was a terrible time for me..i-it wasn't. Those were good times for me." Lorelai smiled.
"Me too."
"And I don't don't want anything to do with you."
"Two negatives make a positive right?"
"Yeah."
"So you do want something to do with me?" Lorelai sat down next to Luke.
"Well yeah I mean if this baby's mine I want to be in its life."
"Oh s…so you want to be in the baby's life."
"And yours." His eyes finally met hers.
"Oh. Wow. Well I want you to be in my life too."
"Really?" Lorelai grinned.
"Oh yeah. If I chose anyone to be in my life, it would be you." Luke leaned towards her but before their lips met he stopped.
"What about Christopher," he spit the name like it left a bad taste in his mouth.
"He's gone. Out of my life."
"What if the baby's his?" Luke touched her stomach.
"Well I wasn't going to tell you this before, but earlier I had a feeling that this baby is going to wear a lot of plaid and since Chris doesn't really wear plaid and I'm pretty sure a preference for plaid comes from genes, then the baby got it from you. As in it's your baby." The two kissed.
"Well to be on the safe side we'll get a paternity test done." Lorelai leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Whatever you want."
"I remember the last time we were out here with each other."
"Ah don't remind me. It wasn't one of my proudest moments." Luke kissed the top of her head.
"So does the ultimatum still stand? Now or never?"
"N..no I mean..."
"Because if it is I choose now." Lorelai looked up.
"Well I would like to be married before I look like I'm smuggling especially round bags of cocaine across the state line so…"
"You're car or mine?" Luke asked. Lorelai grinned.
"I'll call Rory." Immediately she pulled out her phone. Luke kissed the back of her neck. "Rory, you'll never guess what's happening." Lorelai smiled as she talked to her daughter and held the hand of the only man she'd ever loved.