While Luke and Jess were at the hospital Lorelai and Rory were aback home getting the guest room ready for its new owner.
"So are you ok with this?" Lorelai asked Rory while the put the sheets on the bed.
"Yeah I guess so"
"You guess so?"
"Yeah, sure its gonna be weird having him here 24/7, but he needs help right now and besides I'm leaving in a few days so it won't be so bad" Rory said while straightening the sheets.
"Well yeah you're leaving, but, you're coming back right?" Lorelai asked afraid of the answer.
"Yes mom, the fact that Jess will be here wont make me leave my growing mother"
"Hey don't mock!" Lorelai threw a pillow at her daughter.
Later that night, when they were back from the hospital and Luke had made dinner for his family Luke took Lorelai to bed even when she swore she wasn't tired. It was one am when Lorelai had the urge to pee, she got up and went to the bathroom, when she came back out she heard voices coming from Jess's room she walked up to the door and heard Jess and Rory mumble.
"Jess?" Lorelai peeped her head into the room.
"Mom what are you doing up" Rory got up from the bed and walked towards her mom.
"Had to pee" Lorelai said rubbing her stomach, she was wearing some baggy shorts, Luke's, and the blue flannel shirt with the last few buttons undone, also Luke's.
"Thanks for shearing" Jess mumbled, he was with his back to the door and his head down.
"You're welcome" Lorelai shot back.
"Mom?"
"I was walking out of the bathroom and heard voices…"
"I thought you were used to hearing voices" Rory mocked.
"Hey! My voices sleep in with me" Lorelai answered back, Jess just chuckled quietly.
"Right" said Rory.
"Ok, so I'm gonna go to bed now…" Lorelai kissed Rory's forehead "Don't stay up to late"
"We wont" Jess answered back and Lorelai left the room. "does she always wear that to bed?"
"She like the flannel, what can we do?" Rory answered and sat back in front of Jess.
"Right" Jess said with a little laugh, then turned serious. "So we ok here right?"
"Yeah, the talk helped"
"Good. So if you don't mind, my body aches and the drugs are making me droopy"
"Meaning you want to go to sleep?" Rory asked.
"Yeah sort of" he said shyly.
"Fine, good night cousin" Rory mocked.
"Night" Jess said and laid down, Rory turned the light out, close the door and went to bed.
In LoReLaI's RoOm
"Luke" she nudged him and he didn't wake. "Luke!" she said louder and nudged harder.
"Mmm" was his grunt response.
"You have to go to the bathroom"
"No I don't, now go back to sleep" he mumbled.
"Yes you do and when you're walking back from the bathroom listen into Jess's room please" Lorelai said while pushing him off the bed.
"Lorelai!" if it wasn't for his fast thinking he would be on the floor now "What's your problem?" he said sitting back on the bed.
"I went to the bathroom and when I came back I heard voice's…"
"So what's new?" he asked still half asleep.
"It was Rory and Jess's voices coming from Jess's room"
"What!" Luke was wide awake now.
"I went in and they were just talking…" Luke let out a breath he didn't know he was holding "But now I want you to go and check again. Please" she stretched the word out.
"Fine" Luke mumbled walked to the still slightly close door and listened:
"So we ok here right?"
"Yeah, the talk helped"
"Good. So if you don't mind, my body aches and the drugs are making me droopy"
"Meaning you want to go to sleep?" Rory asked.
"Yeah sort of" he said shyly.
"Fine, good night cousin" Rory mocked.
"Night" Jess said and laid down. Luke heard this and hurried to his room.
"What happened?" asked Lorelai when Luke ran in.
"Shh" he put a finger on her mouth until h heard Rory's door shut. Once he took his finger away.
"Luke?" asked Lorelai as he started to lay down next to her.
"I heard them talking about a talk they had tonight and how it helped, and then Jess told her he was droopy and Rory said 'good night cousin' and left" Luke explained.
"That's it?" Luke nodded "So cousin huh?"
"Yep"
"Well they are" Lorelai smiled, Luke just nodded kissed her lightly then hugged her and they both fell asleep.
Lorelai was still asleep and Luke was taking a bath. Down stairs Jess and Rory were in the kitchen.
"Jess give it back!" Rory whined.
"No! now get out of here"
"Give it!"
"Get away!" Lorelai woke up from the yelling and walked into the bathroom where Luke was just standing under the shower when he heard the door open.
"Hey! Taking a bath here!" he just yelled.
"Relax its not like I haven't seen it before" Lorelai said a little annoyed.
"Lorelai what are you doing here?" Luke asked while poking his head out of the shower.
"You're kidding right! All that screaming downstairs woke us all up!"
"Yeah" he said a little annoyed.
"Hey! Are you just standing in there waiting for the screaming to stop" busted! Thought Luke.
"Umm…I was just…uh"
"Mr. Stutter shows its face again" Lorelai mocked.
"You mad?" Luke asked afraid of the answer.
"Just mad that you left me alone there all unprotected and not just me, your unborn children also" say hello to over-dramatic Lorelai.
"Ok, ok I'm sorry, what can I do to make it all better" he said playing along.
"Make the shouting stop?" she said with a pout, with that Luke turn the water of got dressed and walked downstairs, Lorelai took a shower.
"What the hell is going on here!" Luke said walking into the kitchen where Rory was sitting down with a pout and Jess was next to the sink. "You're acting like little kids"
"Am not!" said Rory as her defense.
"Are too!" Jess told her.
"Not!" Rory threw her napkin towards Jess.
"Too!" Jess said throwing back the napkin.
"Ok that's enough!" Luke yelled and startled them.
"Jeez what's wrong with you?" Jess asked all innocent.
"What's wrong with me? what's wrong with me! I'm freaking tired of all your yelling! You made me take a 30 minute bath that was cut short because Lorelai barged in mad because your yelling woke her up, and she doesn't have the best mood in the morning especially when she was woken up by two yelling teenagers that act like three year olds!"
"Luke breath" Rory told him, he took a deep breath. "Good, now we're sorry for waking mom up, but he wouldn't let me help" she said pointing towards Jess.
"I didn't want you to burn down the house!"
"I would never do that!"
"You burned all of the hairs on my left arm when I let you help me earlier!"
"It was an accident and I already apologized!"
"That doesn't bring back the hairs now does it?"
"Enough!" Luke yelled again. "Both of you to your rooms. And no buts!" Luke said, both Rory and Jess gave each other deadly stares and walked in different directions Rory slammed the door first the Jess did. "Just for that you are to stay in there until further notice!" he yelled at both of them then sat down on the nearest chair. Just then 2 different songs started blaring thru their doors. "Great" Luke mumbled to himself.
"At least they are not yelling anymore" Lorelai tried.
"Whatever" Luke said with his head on top of his folded arms that were on the table.
"Aw honey" Lorelai rubbed his back.
"I don't think I can do this" Luke mumbled to the table.
"Do what honey" Lorelai said sitting down.
"Stand this, all of this everyday" he said standing up and started to pace.
"What's this?"
"Screaming kids! Fighting for every little thing, I mean I'm not good with kids I have no patience, and they don't seem to respect me…" he started to babble but was cut off.
"Luke! You're kidding right?" he stopped and looked her in the eye.
"No, I mean it I…"
"Luke, you have more patience than anybody I know"
"What?" he sat down again.
"You've stand me if you have enough patience for me, you have patience for any and everything"
"Well yeah that's true"
"And what do you mean they don't respect you? you just got two twenty-something year olds to stop yelling and made them go and stay in their rooms"
"Lorelai the stereo's are blaring!"
"So?"
"So, so!"
"Yes, so. The stereos are blaring but they are not yelling and they're in their rooms. You got them to do what you wanted them to do" Lorelai explained.
"Yeah?" Luke asked feeling a little better.
"Yes, you can so handle. Just look at what you did to Jess" Lorelai said with a smile.
"Guess you're right. Hey you wanna hear something funny?"
"Do I ever!"
"Rory burned Jess's left arm hairs off" Luke said chuckling. Lorelai just burst into laughter.
"What!"
"Looks like the Gilmore women like to burn those who cook for you"
"Hey! I resent that, I only burned you that one…two…"
"Try four"
"Wow four times?..." he nodded "You don't learn a lesson huh? Never let me cook!" Lorelai burst into laughter.
"Funny" Luke said annoyed. "Wanna go get some breakfast?"
"God yes!"
"Ok then I'll go get Jess and you get Rory" Luke said getting up.
"Wait…" Luke stopped on his tracks "I'll go get Jess you take care of Rory"
"You sure?" Luke asked walking to Rory's room.
"Yes" she got up and walked upstairs to Jess's room. She knocked and no answer so she knocked harder the music stopped and Jess opened the door.
"Yeah?"
"Just want to know how your arm is doing"
"Well…" he looked at it "It's gonna be ok, the hairs will grow back eventually. But I learned my lesson, I'll never let Rory near a stove if I'm in the room"
"Well I guess you're smarter than Luke then" Lorelai teased.
"Ok, why?"
"It took him four burns to learn not to let me near a stove or any form of fire for that matter" Jess just laughed.
"He let you near a stove four times?" he said while laughing.
"Yeah well he learned his lesson, anyway the reason I came up here Luke said we are leaving for the diner in like five minutes"
"Ok I'll be right down" with that Lorelai went downstairs and Jess took one of the two shirt's he had left in Luke's apartment the last time he was in town. When Lorelai got downstairs Rory and Luke were talking and laughing a bit.
"He said he'd be down in a minute"
"Ok" said Luke.
"Ready" said Jess as he entered the kitchen Rory greeted him by sticking her tongue out. "Hey I saw that!"
"Saw what?" Rory asked with an innocent voice.
"And magically they turned into four year olds" Luke told Lorelai.
"Alright you two no more fighting, we'll go to the diner eat breakfast Jess will help Luke and I will go to the inn for a while, Rory you can do anything you want except fight with Jess…" Jess made a face towards Rory, he was standing behind Lorelai. "I saw that" Lorelai told him. "There will be no more fighting do I make my self clear?..." silence "I said 'do I make my self clear!'" Lorelai turned from one to the other.
"Yes" they both said and looked towards the floor.
"Good, now lets go because I'm extremely hungry and when I get extremely hungry I get really pissed of!" the three of them nodded, the got into the 'pathfinder' and headed for Luke's. after a while they were waiting for Luke at the counter, Lorelai was in the middle with Rory to her left and Jess to her right.
"Is this necessary?" Jess asked "It embarrassing"
"Well you two refuse to listen to my rules" Lorelai explained.
"What?" Rory asked.
"We saw you two pinching and pocking each other all the drive here" Lorelai told them. They both looked down like two little punished kindergarteners. After they ate Lorelai took Rory to the inn because Rory was gonna drop her off then go shopping, Jess was helping Luke at the diner.
"Oh my! It's true!" exclaimed Patty as she entered the diner and saw Jess cleaning the counter.
"What?" asked an annoyed Jess.
"I hear you and Rory got into a fight, but I never thought she would do all that to you" Patty said pointing to the cuts and bruises on Jess.
"Rory didn't do this! I got mugged yesterday" Jess told her more annoyed.
"Whatever makes your ego feel better darling"
"It's true! Ask Luke!"
"Ask me what?" Luke asked while walking out of the kitchen.
"Why is Jess all beat up dear?" Patty asked Luke.
"He got mugged yesterday" he said simply and returned to work.
"Oh" Patty said a little disappointed. Jess just smiled and walked away.
At ThE InN
"Sookie!" Lorelai yelled once she entered the inn's kitchen, which made Sookie drop the pan and all the contents in it.
"What's wrong!" Sookie was concerned.
"What? Why?" she sat on one of the stools they had in the kitchen.
"Well because you come here and scare me half to death, so there better be a reason you just made one of my arteries stop functioning"
"Sorry, no reason. Well no real reason. Just exasperated"
"Why?" Sookie sat next to her
"Well yesterday we had the doctor's appointment…" Lorelai was cut off.
"Oh yeah how did that go?"
"Well she said everything is a-ok and that one of the twins is a boy!"
"Oh! A boy!" Lorelai nodded "Luke must be going crazy"
"Yeah he is" Lorelai said with a dreamy voice.
"That's why you were exasperated?"
"Nop"
"Then spill" Sookie made herself more comfortable.
"We talked to our parents and told them our decision and they were ok with it"
"That's great"
"Yeah I just hope this time we stay close and don't get into another funk" Lorelai admitted for the first time.
"Yeah" was all sookie could say.
"Anyway, last night Luke went to the diner and returned with a little surprise"
"Food?" Sookie guessed.
"Nop a person"
"A person? Who?
"Jess…"
"Jess!"
"Yes…"
"Hahaha you just rhymed" Sookie pointed out.
"Sookie let me finish…"
"Go ahead"
"They got home last night and Jess was all beaten up…" she heard Sookie gasp "He got mugged in Hartford they left him nothing. So Luke took him home he got cleaned up and then they went to the hospital…"
"Hospital!" Sookie was worried.
"Yeah we thought he had a broken rib…" she saw Sookie's eyes widen "It was ok, nothing broken, just his ego"
"Good" Sookie breath more normally. Lorelai kept telling Sookie about the gifts and the whole Rory deal that morning.
"Wow so they're really acting like cousins?"
"Yes and it's really annoying!" Lorelai said exasperated.
"Well it's better for them to fight over small insignificant stuff than them fighting over a relationship" Sookie told her.
"That's true. Anyway, I'm gonna go work a little before Rory gets here" Lorelai told her while getting up.
"Ok, don't work to hard" she also stood up.
"I wont" and she left. Lorelai had been working for a little more than two hours and Sookie went to check on her.
"Lorelai? What are you still doing here?" Sookie said when she noticed Lorelai working on the computer.
"What does it look like?" Lorelai was a little cranky.
"It looks like you need to go home and rest for a little while" Sookie said walking behind the front desk.
"You don't think that thought hasn't crossed my mind, I've been standing here for more than two hours so now my feet hurt like hell!"
"C'mon" Sookie told Lorelai and started pushing her towards the couch. "Sit here for a while, I'll go check something in the kitchen then I'll take you home" Sookie said walking away.
"You don't have to do this"
"I know" she said then disappeared thru the kitchen door. Lorelai sat back and relax a little while waiting for Sookie.
"Lets go" Sookie said pulling Lorelai out of her dream. Lorelai mumbled something and walked out with her friend.
"God I never thought Rory would take so long!" Lorelai complained on the drive to her house.
"Don't take it out on her Lorelai"
"Then on who?"
"No one, you're just cranky because you're tired. Just sleep it off and if you still want to yell at her after your nap then be my guest"
"I guess you're right"
"I am…" the got to her house "Now go take a nap and I'll call her and tell her to take her time now cuz' there's no use for her to hurry"
"Thanks Sookie" Lorelai said getting off and walking up to her house, Sookie drove of and Lorelai went in upstairs and plopped onto her bed instantly falling asleep.
"Hello…" Rory answered without looking at the ID.
"Take your time…"
"Who is this"
"Sookie" she said in a duh voice.
"Oh, hey… is my mom ok?" Rory immediately panicked.
"Yeah, she just looked tired so I drove her home to take a nap, so there's no reason for you to hurry home sweets" Sookie explained.
"Oh ok, well thanks… I guess"
"Sure no problem honey" Sookie said.
"Ok then bye"
"Mbye" Sookie hung up. Aw crap my mom is gonna be so pissed, its not like I've been here so long she looked at her watch ah crap! No wonder, God she's gonna be so pissed. She thought while walking thru the mall in Hartford.
"Luke's" Jess voice came on. "Hello?" he hung up. The phone rang again "Luke's" Jess said again a little more annoyed. "Look this is getting old just say something… fine!" and he slammed the phone down.
"Hey!" Luke said walking out of the kitchen noticing Jess's outburst.
"What!" Jess barked backed.
"What's your problem?" Luke asked annoyed.
"Someone's been calling here…"
"So?"
"So! The don't say anything they just sit there or stand there, who knows!"
"Breath and go get them coffee…" he said pointing to a table "I'll be getting the phone now" Jess obeyed and walked towards a table. After a little while Luke's cell begins to vibrate, he walks to the storage room and answers it.
"Yeah?" there's only 3 people who know his number.
"Luke Sookie called" Rory told him.
"What's wrong?" he was in insta-panick now.
"Nothing it's just that I took longer that I expected and she drove mom home, just thought you'd like to know"
"Oh, ok thanks Rory, and hey?"
"Yeah"
"Its not polite to stay quiet when your at the phone" he stated.
"What are you talking about?"
"The whole Jess thing"
"Oh yeah, sorry bout that…"
"Its ok, it was fun watching him squirm" Luke said laughing a little.
"Hey boss it three o'clock" Caesar yelled from the door.
"Ok thanks" hope she didn't catch that Luke thought to himself.
"What's at three?" Rory asked like a little kid.
"Nothing I've just been leaving at three for the past week" he explained and the regretted.
"And why?"
"Because I do, ok? Oh look at that I have to go, bye Rory"
"Bye" and he hung up. Luke walked back to the diner, told the guys he was gonna go out for a little while and left.
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