Thought we needed some fluff in our life.
Kylie, where are you kid? I told you to quit that job of yours hehehe weee)
.o0 Early next morning 0o.
"I want you to finish everything Grandpa made, ok?" Rory said strapping Jesse in his high chair. Jesse picked up a piece of banana out of his oatmeal and showed it to Rory. "Yes, even the fruit" Jesse made a face. "Be a big boy honey, for Mommy?" Jesse was almost convinced. "Please" Rory gave him the pouty big eyes and Jesse shoved the banana into his mouth. "Thank you baby"
"No baby" Jesse told her with a mad face.
"Oh, sorry, you're right, you're not a baby anymore" Rory apologized before walking into her old bedroom.
"Oh yeah, look at that, he already has a five o'clock shadow growing on him" Lorelai teased walking into the kitchen carrying Luka; both boys were still in their PJ's.
"Leave him alone, he's eating his fruit and that's more mature then I can say for you... or even me for that matter. Where's the rest of his stuff?" Rory answered from her room, she was trying to pack Jesse's bag but there was a lot of his clothes missing.
"They only eat that because Luke makes them" Lorelai was strapping Luka in his high chair.
"That never made us eat fruit"
"On contraire, it made us not want to eat them just to see Luke frustrated" Lorelai wondered into Rory's room and plopped down on the bed.
"That's mean"
"Mean and all but it's true" Lorelai looked around and saw the clothes Rory had picked out for Jesse. "Hon, why are you dressing him like that? He's going to a ball game not to dinner with my Mother" Rory had little black slacks, a blue button down shirt and black cress shoes all picked out and ready to be placed on Jesse.
"He needs to look good"
"Baseball players don't care what a little boy is wearing"
"Mom..."
"And Liz won't care what Jesse wears either"
"I want him to make a good impression" Rory said defeated pulling out a pair of jeans for Jesse instead of the slacks.
"She's his grandma, he doesn't need to make a good impression; besides, Liz already loves him and you know that"
"Yeah but..." Rory trailed off.
"You're nervous" Liz hadn't met Jesse yet, she knew about him and had seen countless pictures but she just had never met him. When everything with Jess first happened they thought it'd be better not to tell her right away but then TJ took her away on a trip so she'd get more ideas for the renaissance fair and to get her mind off of Jess that they hadn't told her. By the time they got back it was already renaissance time and they went fully into it. And ever since then, there just hadn't been time for a proper meeting; lots of pictures had been sent, along with stories but no meeting.
"I'm not nervous" Rory defended. "I'm apprehensive"
"Nice save"
"Girls come on! Eat now or you won't eat until we're in New York!" Luke's voice called from the kitchen. "You two should learn something from your sons; they are both eating quietly everything in their plates"
"They just don't have anything interesting to talk about" Lorelai answered back.
"You two…" Luke's head popped into the room. "…get your butt's out here or you're not going" with that his head popped back out.
"Do you think he's serious?" Rory asked.
"Probably…" Lorelai said getting up. "But even if he's not I still have to go pack Luka's bag"
"Let's go then" Rory said stopping what she was doing. "Hey Luke, do you have any idea what happened to all of Jesse's clothes?"
"Yeah, their in his bag by the door" Luke answer like if it was the most normal thing in the world.
"You packed his bag?" Rory said in awe.
"Before I made breakfast, I knew how long you'd take otherwise"
"Luke…?" Lorelai started.
"I also packed Luka's bag. Now hurry up and eat because I'm leaving in fifteen minutes with or without you" he warned before leaving the kitchen.
.o0 Ten minutes later 0o.
"One boy done one to go" Luke announced walking out of Rory's room with Jesse all dressed in Jeans, sneakers, and a blue t-shirt.
"Where's his hat?" Lorelai asked with a pout.
"Gama" Jesse walked over to Lorelai she lifted him and sat him on her lap.
"They're not wearing one. Hey, no, no, no you already had breakfast, that's grandmas" Luke told Jesse when he made a move to grab Lorelai's pop tart.
"Luke, they're going to a baseball game, they need to wear one" Lorelai protested.
"The only reason you want them wearing hats is to annoy me" Luke walked over to take Luka out of his high chair. "Don't let him get dirty" he pleaded a little.
"You have less than five minutes to get him ready or we're leaving without you!" Rory called teasingly.
"You have your mothers' sense of humor" Luke called back dryly.
.o0 Another ten minutes later 0o.
"I mean it this time!" Luke called into the house a little angry.
"Mom, he sounds serious this time" Rory said, she was keeping an eye out for Luke while Lorelai made coffee in the kitchen.
"He's not serious unless he gets out of the car" Lorelai answered back while mentally willing the coffee to brew faster.
"Nope, not getting out of the car but… oh no!" Rory quickly opened the front door and ran a little down the drive way. "Luke, wait!" she yelled to the back of the car as it drove off. "Mom, Luke left!" Rory yelled to the house.
"What?" Lorelai called calmly from the doorway thinking it was a ploy to get her to come out. "Oh my God, he actually did it" she didn't sound amazed, Luke always threatened to leave but he never had.
"Mom, what are we gonna do now?" Rory was panicking.
"You want some coffee?"
"Mom!"
"Rory relax, you know Luke"
"Yes, and I never thought he'd actually leave us. Now I don't know him anymore"
"Honey…" Lorelai motioned with her chin towards the end of the driveway. There in the distance they could make out the outline of the Jeep. "He was just trying to teach us a lesson. I'll be inside getting the coffee"
"Mom, did you learn nothing?!"
"Yes, I learnt something… he'll always come back" and with that Lorelai went back inside and Rory went towards the drivers door.
"What the heck were you thinking?!" Rory shrieked while opening Luke's door.
"Geez! Scare a guy half to death why don't you" Luke exaggerated, he had been talking with the boys and never saw Rory coming.
"You left! I thought you were in New York by now, and I was not gonna make it to Liz' and…"
"Relax, I just went to get gas and thought I'd teach you guys a lessons while doing so" Rory just narrowed her eyes at him. "Oh you're giving me the silent treatment huh" she narrowed her eyes even more so they were almost close now. "Ok then, that'll make this trip much more enjoyable" Luke teased.
"Hey!"
"Silent treatment over, now get in" he unlocked the doors and honked the horn to hurry Lorelai up.
.o0 A couple minutes later 0o.
They were out of Stars Hollow now, Luke had placed a video in the car's DVD for the boys to entertain themselves and that was the only sound; oddly enough Lorelai and Rory were quiet, Lorelai hadn't even turn on the radio.
"Ok, fine, I'm sorry I left but you two were taking forever" Luke suddenly broke the silence.
"What?" Lorelai asked, Rory was snapped out of her pensive state but said nothing.
"What's with the silent treatment?"
"There's no silent treatment" Lorelai assured him.
"Right" Luke said skeptically.
"Really, I left the radio off so the boys can hear their video and that's the reason why I wasn't talking too"
"Tsk, you're never silent for their videos"
"Ok, ok…" Lorelai admitted and gave a quick glance to the back seat. "Rory's nervous and I don't wanna add to it" she whispered towards Luke.
"Huh?" Luke lifted his eyes to the rearview mirror and saw Rory's trance face. "Oh" Lorelai gave Luke a knowing look before turning out the window again. "Hey, Rory?"
"Huh?"
"It's a long way to Liz' house, you don't want to spend the whole time worrying, do you?" Luke asked looking at here through the mirror, she was staring right back at him.
"Can't help it"
"She'll be fine, you'll be fine, and he'll be fine; it'll all be fine" he assured.
"You think so?" Rory asked hopefully.
"Yes"
"Ok" Rory took a deep claming breath.
"Hey, I told you it'd be ok a while back, how come it's ok when he says it?" Lorelai wondered although she already knew the answer.
"I don't know, its jut more reaffirming when Luke says it" Rory shrugged. It was the tone, the fatherly tone. The tone came to be when Jess first died and Luke had to be there for both his girls. Lorelai loved the tone, except in moments like these when it showed more soothing powers with Rory then her motherly one; Lorelai thought it was because Rory never had the fatherly tone and it felt good and safe to have Luke's now.
"Don't worry, we still love you" Luke teased Lorelai; he knew that it bothered her when the tone first overshadowed her motherly one, but now it didn't matter so they could joke about it.
"Yeah Mom, love you" Rory added.
"Wuv mama" Luka said now taking part in the conversation.
"Thank you, baby" Lorelai cooed.
"No baby" Jesse said mad, even if they didn't refer to him he answered.
"Sorry honey, no baby, big boy; our back seat is filled with big boys" Lorelai corrected.
"Hey!" Rory protested.
"I think you're making their love go away"
"Shut up" Lorelai nudged Luke a little. After that the ride went in comfortable silence; Luke not worried about silent treatments, and Rory not worrying about Liz… well, not worrying too much.
.o0 New York apartment 0o.
"Wait!" Rory said before Luke had a chance to knock on the door.
"They already know we're here, they buzzed us in" Lorelai reminded her.
"I just… I need a second" Rory said taking a couple deep breaths, the last time she saw Liz they were lowering Jess' casket into the ground. Luke wrapped an arm around Rory's shoulders, he had Luka on his other arm, and kissed her temple.
"It'll be ok, I promise" he whispered and Rory nodded taking one final deep breath.
"Come here" Rory took Jesse from Lorelai's arms.
"Ready?" Luke asked her and Rory nodded a second before Lorelai knocked on the
door.
"Brother!" TJ screeched as soon as the door slammed open; he launched for Luke and hugged him tight, hugging Luka at the same time.
"Geez" Luke grumbled still being squished by TJ, Luka started fussing. "Let go, TJ" Luka started crying. "TJ…"
"Lorelai!" he let go of Luke and lunged for Lorelai, Luka stopped crying as soon as TJ let go. "So glad to see you, we still need to clear those repopulating the world plans you know" he told her hugging her tightly.
"What plans?" Lorelai asked.
"Luke knows, right buddy?" TJ turned to Luke and he just shuddered remembering.
"TJ, was that them at the door?" Liz' voice asked form the inside, they were all still in the hallway.
"Yeah, we're just hugging out here"
"Well, bring em' in"
"Ok then" TJ let go of Lorelai. "Let me help you there Rory" TJ took the diaper bag from Rory; she had been carrying it since Lorelai had Jesse.
"Thanks, TJ" Rory smiled politely.
"Nice shirt there buddy" TJ said yanking the little blue T-shirt Jesse was wearing from the hem making him giggle a little. "Follow me" he said with a ceremonious hand wave and walked into the apartment. Lorelai followed in directly after TJ; Luke stood a little behind and swung and arm around Rory's shoulders, whispered a 'relax' and went after Lorelai leaving Rory in the hallway for a couple more seconds.
.o0 Inside 0o,
"Big brother!" Liz ran over to Luke and hugged him just like TJ had before; she didn't seem nervous even though she was unbelievably nervous on the inside. "Hi, Luka! You're such a handsome little boy" she cooed taking him from Luke and cuddled him for a few seconds before turning to Lorelai. "Lorelai! Oh my God, look at you, you look great!" she also hugged her, squishing Luka in the process.
"Thanks, you look good too" Lorelai said all giddy, Liz' mood was always contagious no matter what mood she was in. Lorelai took Luka from her and at that moment Rory walked into the apartment.
"Hi" Rory said shyly closing the door behind her, Jesse resting his head on her shoulder but his eyes were scanning the place. Liz looked awestricken the moment she laid her eyes on her grandson for the first time, in person. "Say 'hi', honey" Rory whispers to Jesse.
"Hi" Jesse said quietly, quickly opening and closing his little hand repeatedly, he never lifted his head from his Mommy's shoulder. Liz took in a breath through her nose at the cuteness of her grandson, and how much he looked like Jess.
"Here…" Rory closed the small space between her and Liz before handing Jesse over to her. Liz cuddled him and hugged him tight for a second taking everything in; she chocked up a little. Rory walked over to the couch where Luke and Lorelai were now sitting. TJ had left to take a shower.
"Hi there" Liz starts talking to Jesse, he just smiles. "You're a very handsome boy, aren't ya?" he nodded but only because she said boy and not baby. "He's adorable" she said loudly enough for everyone else to hear here.
"Jesse…" Luke called and the boy immediately turned to look at him. "Tell her how old you'll be" Jesse smiled and turned to look at Liz again holding up two little fingers.
"Well, aren't you a smart one" Liz said with a weird smile, there were tears forming in her eyes.
"No" Jesse whispered running a finger under her misty eye; he always did that when Rory cried and he was there; Luke had told him to. Rory bit her lip to stop from crying. Jesse's head suddenly snapped towards the couch. "Gampa…" he held up one finger towards Luke, who quickly stood up and went over to him. Luke took Jesse from Liz and then took him to the bathroom; they had started teaching Luka and decided they might as well give it a try with Jesse but instead of saying 'potty' they told him to lift a finger depending on what they wanted, it had proven to be very efficient without having to gross out the people surrounding them.
"Umm…" Liz seemed confused.
"We're potty training them" Lorelai said and cringed at the word 'potty' as did Rory.
"Oh" Liz nodded. "Oh my! I didn't even say hi, I'm sorry!" Liz realized and then lunged towards Rory to hug her.
"It's ok" Rory patted her back awkwardly. Liz didn't let go until Luke cleared his throat; Lorelai had just been laughing, Luka sitting next to her looking amused.
"Rory…" Luke said giving her that special look he had, Rory nodded and stood up.
"Jesse, come here, I wanna tell you something" Rory said and took him away from Luke, she stood him on the floor in front of her and she squatted down in front of him. "Do you remember Daddy?" she started. "Remember the picture Mommy has near her bed, and the one you have in your room?" Jesse nodded. "Remember I told you he was your Daddy?" Jesse nodded again. "Ok, see, your Daddy has a Mommy too, just like Grandma is my Mommy" Jesse just stared at her. "That lady over there…" Rory pointed to the couch where Liz was. "… she's your Daddy's Mommy" Jesse turned to look at her and waved a little making Liz choke up a little more, she wondered why she had waited so long to meet him. "She's your other grandma" Jesse looked more confused now.
Luka got impatient and started jumping on the couch holding on to its back. He wouldn't stop no matter if Lorelai or Luke told him to, so Luke picked him up and moved him over to the window and started talking to him. Luke was actually glad for the distraction; things were getting tense there with Rory trying to explain everything to Jesse.
Luka started laughing and that got Jesse's attention distracting him from Rory's explanation. He didn't pay attention to Rory anymore; he just stared with longing eyes at his grandpa.
"Honey? Hey, Jesse" Rory called after a moment and moved Jesse a little so he'd look at her and not Luke.
"No" he whined and pulled back.
"Jesse, come on" she pulled him back closer to her again.
"No" he fussed more, he didn't understand why he had to stand there listening to his Mommy while Luka got to be having fun. "Gampa" he fussed and pointed to Luke. Rory sighed; she didn't want Liz to think she couldn't do it because se could but when Jesse wanted Luke then he wanted Luke and nothing could change his mind. It seemed like Jesse was about to start crying.
"Hey, hey, hey" Luke said in a firm voice, effectively putting a halt to Jesse's whines. "What's wrong, that's not how you act around your Mom" Jesse put his stubborn face on but stopped fussing; he went over to hug Luke's leg.
"Luka, come here please" Rory called, she knew Luke would want to talk to Jesse; he always talked to the boys in the same voice as he would a normal adult, and that was probably why the boys always understood better than any other boy their age. Luka ran over to Rory and threw his arms around her, she exaggerated and fell backwards making Luka laugh uncontrollably.
The girls focused on Luka while Luke had a 'man to man' conversation with Jesse by the window
"Luka, tell Aunt Liz what you're doing today" Lorelai told her son.
"Bssball" Luka said with big eyes and an awe face.
"You're gonna go see a baseball game?" Liz played along. "Wow, that's so cool" Luka smiled more. "Only big boys go to baseball stadiums, that means you're a big boy" Liz told him and he turned with big eyes to look at Lorelai.
"That's true honey" Lorelai confirmed and he jumped a little with excitement. They all went quiet when Jesse climbed on Liz' lap and leaned against her getting comfortable.
"Damn Luke, what the hell do you tell them?" Lorelai asked amazed and Luke just smirked.
You've been LoVeLuKe-ized
Hope you liked it... still not the chapter i thought of. Tell me what you thunk.