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And thank you so much for helping me with Ror's birthday. Since 'Gilmore Girls' kind of changed that, there isn't an accurate date, but I decided that it'll be October the 8th in this fic.
Anyway, the chapter is kind of a filler, really, but I hope you like it anyway.
More background stuff: After Chris and Lorelai had Jason, they stayed together and tried to get things to work. A year after Lorelai was pregnant again, but this time Chris couldn't handle it, so he left. Lorelai never really blamed him, but they don't have a close relationship, neither does Chris with the children.
Disclaimer: In case you missed it the other times, I don't own a thing! Seriously!
Chapter 4: The cookies
The clock was exactly seven minutes past two later that same day, when Jason opened the door to his dorm, surprised to hear one of his best friends and his sister fighting.
Hesitating he walked inside and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Rory and Finn in the kitchen with their backs to him, while Logan laid comfortable on the couch grinning. He quickly nodded at Jason before turning his attention to the twosome.
"Stop screaming at me, love!"
"I am not freakin' screaming at you!" Rory protested, hands in the air.
"Yes, you are!"
"That is crazy, you are crazy! Why would I be screaming at you when I'm hung-over?"
"Because you are a lunatic," Finn mumbled irritated.
Rory glared at him. "Let's just relax and take a look at the paper, okay?"
Both of them looked closely at the paper in Rory's hand, seeming deathly concentrated. After a few seconds, Finn smiled widely while Rory narrowed her eyes.
"I told you we needed milk!"
"You are just so fuckin' fabulous, huh?"
"What the hell are you doing?"
Finn, of course with sunglasses, and Rory, standing with a spoon in her hand, turned around when they heard Jason's voice. Both were completely covered in flower, innocent expression on their faces as they looked questioning at him.
Rory gave her brother a sweet smile. "Baking cookies."
He sent her an unbelieving look. "Why the hell would you do that?"
Finn and Rory looked at each other before Finn jerked his shoulders. "We were hungry."
Jason shook his head and resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Instead he walked over to Logan and dumped himself on the couch next to him.
"So," Logan began. "Where were you this morning? I kind of expected you to beat my ass when you saw me and Rory sleeping together."
"I had it all planned out too," Jason played along, a smile on his face. "Unfortunately I had a morning-date that just couldn't wait." He paused and smirked. "Wow, I rhyme."
Logan gave his friend an unbelieving look. "So, anyone I know?"
"Maybe," Jason simply said.
"Ah, so secretive. Fine, I'll figure it out by myself."
"You do that," the brunette said smiling. "So what-"
"-Damn Finn, the milk is supposed to be in the bowl, not on the kitchen table!"
"Stop yelling at me! I don't like to be yelled at! Say you are sorry."
"What? You are crazy!"
"You are!"
"No, you are definitely crazier than me!"
Jason and Logan looked at each other and shook their heads at their weird friends.
"I know I am obligated to hang out with my sister, but Finn? And why the hell do you hang out with any of them?"
Logan smiled at his friend. "Well, your sister because she is hot, and Finn? You are saying that like he is acting crazier than usual."
Jason slapped his friend playfully. "Do not talk about my sister, got it? Great."
"I was joking, you know that," the blonde said grinning. "She is hot though."
Jason narrowed his eyes, but then smiled immediately after. "So tell me, why the hell are they doing this anyway? Don't they know that you can actually buy food?"
"Apparently neither of them wanted to go out, they were too lazy." Logan shrugged.
"That is my sister. What I don't get though, is how she got the coffee." His eyes fell on the two empty plastic-cups and then raised an eyebrow at his friend.
"She might have tricked me into buying it for her," Logan said slowly.
Jason sighed deeply. "First Colin, then Finn," he said as he looked at him and his sister, who were mixing the dough. "And now you. She already got all of you rapped around her little-finger, doesn't she?"
"Dude, I bought her coffee," Logan said simply. "That doesn't mean she's got me rapped around anything."
"Well, Rory has a gift. If she wants something, she'll get it one way or the other."
"Now, brother, you are making me sound like a bitch who won't let friends or family stand in my way," Rory said as she sat down on her brother's lap and Finn said down on the floor.
"You do realize that you are completely covered in flower and by sitting on me, I'll be completely covered in flower, right?" Jason asked.
"Oh yeah."
Jason sighed frustrated and pushed his sister of his lap. "See, the devil herself."
"A damn gorgeous one, then," Finn said and winked at Rory. "And feisty, definitely feisty."
"I second that," Logan said grinning.
"You know, if I didn't trust you guys, I would be real worried right now," Jason said dryly. "Oh, wait, I don't trust you!"
"You started this Jase, by saying I was a bitch. I'm not a bitch, right?" she asked as she turned to Logan and Finn.
"Well, kind of."
Rory narrowed her eyes at Logan. "And for that, you aren't getting any cookies."
"Consider yourself lucky," Jason whispered to Logan. "Remember what happened when you and mom tried to make a birthday cake for Luke?"
Rory winced at the memory. "I blame mom for my bad cooking abilities."
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Twenty minutes later the clock rang and Finn and Rory both hurried to the oven. They had been looking forward to seeing and tasting their homemade cookies. Excited they took the cookies out, but the smiles on their faces faded quickly and were replaced with frowns as they saw the cookies.
"It is me or don't they look anything alike those on the picture?" Rory asked as she looked down at her burned cookies.
Finn quickly grabbed the recipe with the picture and took a close look at it, then back at the cookies. "It's not just you."
Logan and Jason joined them and looked disgusted at the cookies.
"Don't ever bake again, promise me that?" Jason said to his sister.
"They are a little burned, so what?" she said defensibly.
Jason raised an eyebrow and snatched one of the black cookies. Holding it up closely to his sister's eyes, he asked, "A little burned?"
"Fine, they suck."
"What are we suppose to eat?" Finn pouted and held a hand to his stomach. "I need food."
"Well, you could get that ass of yours in gear and actually go out and buy something, that doesn't look like it was made in hell?" Logan suggested.
"Or," the Australian began with a smile. "You could go out and buy us something."
"That'll happen," he answered sarcastic.
Rory groaned frustrated and put the cookies on the table. She looked at Finn and sighed. "Come on, Finn, we are going food-shopping."
His eyes widened. "Are you serious?"
"Finn, I am starved."
He let out a frustrated noise and glared quickly at Logan and Jason, then grabbed her hand and let her out the door.
"I'm telling you, when they get back they'll have enough food for a year. Trust me when I say that my sister loves food."
"And yet she is so tiny," Logan said.
"Good genes, the only good qualify we got from our mom."
Logan shook his head laughing. "I don't know, she seems kind of cool to me. Are you telling me all that is from your dad? The infamous dad?"
"You think she is cool?" Jason asked slowly, ignoring his original question.
Logan rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I think she is cool. That doesn't mean that I'm going to jump her, Jase."
"I know, she isn't that type of girl anyway. You know, she has relationship, boyfriends. She might seem casual and flirty, but she doesn't do casual relationship. That just isn't her. She has always-"
"-Jason, man, you are rambling," Logan cut him off.
"What I am trying to say is that you are not her type," Jason said. "And she's not your type either. Right?"
Logan paused for a short moment, then opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by the door opening and Rory and Finn coming in.
"So you obviously got superpowers or something 'cause that was incredible fast," Jason said to the two.
Finn shook his head grinning and grabbed an arm around the brunette's waist. "No, the brilliant and beautiful Rory here used her womanly charms and got some guy to buy it for us." His voice was filled with excitement and, if Jason weren't mistaking, pride.
"You got some stranger to buy your food?" Logan asked.
Rory nodded her head eagerly. "A cute stranger."
Finn smiled proudly and dragged her by the waist over to a chair, where the two quickly sat down and leaned back. Logan looked over at them, a strange feeling spreading in his stomach.
"I am telling you, it was amazing! She flirted, she winked, she smiled. Hell, she even did that thing with the hair and the finger!" Finn said as he tried to curl his hair around his finger. "I'm telling you, she deserved an Oscar."
"First of all, I want to thank my mother who taught me everything I know, without her I would have been lost. Then I want to thank Jason for being a complete loser. That was what made me think: 'God, I don't what to be like that!' Thank you, thank you all!"
Jason narrowed his eyes at his sister. "D.E.V.I.L."
Rory mocked him and glared back. "L.O.S.E.R!" she said as she made an L with her fingers and held it to her forehead.
"Only losers do that Rory," Logan said grinning.
She shot him a mean look. "You know, you were much sweeter when I was drunk."
"They always are," Finn said and sighed dramatically.
Logan simply grinned.
"Well, that must be awesome for you then Finn… Since you are always drunk," Jason teased.
Finn pouted cutely and hugged Rory close to him. "Tell your brother to stop teasing me."
"Sorry Finny," she said and patted his head. "But I do think my brother is right for once. You are a drunk. Deal."
Finn pouted even more and released his hold on Rory. "You are-" The opening of the door interrupted him, but he didn't care as he saw Rosemary coming in. "Rosemary, my saviour! I love you!"
"Hi Finn," she answered nonchalant and closed the door behind her. "Hi Ror, guys."
"Hi Rose, grab a cookie."
Rosemary's face lit up. "There are cookies?" she asked excitedly, looking like a little child on Christmas. "Where?"
"Kitchen."
The redhead hurried to the kitchen squealing, but stopped brutally when she saw the cookies. "Um, guys?" she called as she picked up a cookie.
"What?" Rory asked.
"You do know that when it says that the cookies have to be nice brown, they don't mean black. They actually mean brown," Rosemary explained and dropped the over-burned cookie again.
"We know."
She drew her eyebrows together. "So why-"
"-Don't even bother," Jason cut her off. "Just blame my mother."