A/N: I kind of imagine this chapter like episode 6 13 Friday Night's Alright for Fighting

Lorelai inhaled deeply and chucked her coffee cup in the nearest flower pot where it would remain with his other two friends until the beginning of next month when the gardener would find them and throw them out. Lorelai had been through this routine far too many times. She inhaled again and then pressed her finger on the button. The door swung open. A timid maid stood behind it. "Hi I'm Lorelai."

"I thought you were already here," the maid spoke to the floor.

"No. No I'm here now though."

"But I just did this. A girl with a boy."

"It was probably my daughter." The maid didn't say anything. "Ok I'm in now, feel free to go do whatever." The maid nodded and ran off. Lorelai shut the door, shaking her head.

"Lorelai hello!" Emily came into the foyer, arms spread.

"Hi mom." Emily looked past Lorelai. "Nope I didn't bring anyone with me. It's just me."

"Oh." Emily seemed a bit disappointed. "Well Darcy didn't take your coat." Emily pointed to the coat in Lorelai's arms.

"Oh I wouldn't call her back in here if I were you. She might get confused."

"But Lorelai it's her job to answer the door and receive the guests. That includes taking coats."

"It's ok mom, see." Lorelai hung her coat on the rack. "And without a maid. How does she do it?"

"All right then, but I swear that maid is one of the most skittish that I have ever had. Everyone's already here. You're the last one to arrive. Unless you are expecting someone to meet you here perhaps." Emily sounded a bit hopeful.

"No mom. No one's coming." The two of them walked into the living room. Rory was sitting on the couch next to a very nervous looking Marty.

"Look who's here Rory," Emily said as if it was a shock that Lorelai was there. Rory gave a curt nod and Marty smiled politely. "Oh come one girls. You're not going to be like this all night are you?"

"Well mom I did tell you that we weren't talking."

"Tonight you are. I won't have a silent dinner. Richard!" Emily walked out of the living room to go look for her husband. Lorelai walked over and poured herself a drink. She sipped it.

"So when did the two of you start dating?" Lorelai asked casually.

"Soon after she and Logan broke up," Marty offered. Rory shot him a contemptuous look.

"Rory I don't think there's going to be a way to avoid each other all night, so let's try to play nice for your grandmother's sake. And then after tonight you can go back to throwing darts at my picture."

"Whatever." Rory crossed her arms.

"Wow I must have been a really bad mother to have raised such a brat."

"What happened to playing nice?" Lorelai just shook her head. "So where is Logan tonight? You two haven't broken up already have you?"

"No we haven't. But mom doesn't know that the two of us are dating unless of course you told her."

"Nope I left the honors to you."

"So I told Logan not to come, thinking mom might figure something out."

"Good plan." The only sound in the room was the tinkle of music.

"So, Marty, what are you majoring in?"

"Umm is bartending a major?"

"I guess if they offer classes in it."

"No I'm kidding. I'm actually majoring in psychology, but it seems to me like I spend more time bar tending than I do in class."

"Oh right Logan mentioned that you bartended for him once." Rory opened her mouth to speak, but she was cut off when Emily and Richard walked into the living room.

"Rory!" Richard walked over and enveloped Rory in a hug. "Lorelai." He nodded to his daughter.

"Hi dad." Lorelai noted the difference in the greetings.

"And you must be the young man that has stolen my angel's heart." Richard held his hand out to Marty.

"Marty."

"Mr. Gilmore. Don't you break her heart, son. She's very special to us."

"I won't sir."

"Oh Richard, give the boy a break." Emily placed her hand on Richard's shoulder. "Shall we eat?" They all nodded in agreement. Lorelai drained the final portion of her drink and then followed the others into the dining room. Richard pulled Emily's chair out for her and Marty followed suite with Rory's. Lorelai sighed and pulled her own chair out. Emily picked up her fork and prepared to start her salad when the doorbell rang. "Darcy will you get that?! Darcy!" Emily waited but there was no response. "Darcy! I swear I don't know where that girl has gone to but when I find her..." But Emily didn't finish her threat. She stood up and walked to the door. "Oh my, what are you doing here?" Richard gave Rory a look. The four remaining stood up and walked to the door.

"Logan! What are you doing here?" Lorelai called to him when she caught sight of him standing in the doorway.

"I came here to talk to your parents. I know you don't think we should tell them, but I disagree."

"Tell us what?" Emily looked from a scared Lorelai to a determined Logan. Richard only looked mildly interested.

"You asked Lorelai to bring her boyfriend tonight." It wasn't a question but a statement.

"Logan don't," Lorelai pleaded.

"Well here he is." There was silence for a moment and then Richard started laughing.

"Good prank boy, but if you don't mind I think we should be getting back to dinner." Richard turned to go to the dining room, but Emily stared at Lorelai's face.

"It's not a joke Richard." Richard turned around.

"Well of course it is. The idea that these two would be dating is preposterous."

"I would have thought so too, but clearly not." Emily was talking to Richard, but looking at Lorelai. Marty had shrunk back against a wall and Rory was beginning to do the same. She knew what was coming. "Lorelai Victoria Gilmore! How could you! This boy is young enough to be your son. Not to mention he used to date your daughter. How long after the two of them broke up did you wait before you pounced?" She looked at Lorelai and then Logan and finally Rory. "Oh my god. You dated your daughter's boyfriend while she was still with him. How could you do that Lorelai? Do you even have a conscious? This is wrong and sick and…ugh…This will destroy me. I'll never live this down at the club if they find out. My daughter with her daughter's boyfriend. Why it's practically incest! I knew you were quite capable of disappointing and embarrassing me Lorelai, you showed that clearly by getting pregnant at sixteen, but you corrected that. Rory turned out better than we could have even imagined. And then I chalked the whole thing up to teenage rebellion yet you continue to shock and disgust me. But this…this takes the cake!" Lorelai shook her head, she wasn't scared anymore. Now she was angry.

"Well thanks for that extemporaneous speech mom, but I need to get going." She grabbed her coat off the coat rack. "And by the way I don't blame your maid for being skittish. I would too if I had to work for you!" Lorelai pulled the door open and slammed it shut behind her.

"Sorry for ruining your evening," Logan tried to apologize. Emily looked at him, tight lipped, and Richard's eyes narrowed. Logan gave what might have been a bow and then followed Lorelai out. Rory and Marty stepped away from the wall.

"Now we have to get the whole meal warmed up again. Damn it!" Emily stomped into the kitchen.

"Why did you not tell me this?" Richard directed at Rory.

"It wasn't my news to tell." Richard nodded. "You know what Grandpa, tell Grandma that we had to go. I think it's best if we adjourn for the night. Maybe next week." Rory grabbed her coat with one hand and Marty's hand with the other.

"Just what the hell do you think you were doing in there?" Lorelai demanded of Logan.

"I was just telling your parents something that they needed to know."

"And when I told you that I would tell them when I was ready you just totally disregarded that?"

"I didn't think that you would tell them. I thought it was better to let them know now."

"At least he had a backbone mom," Rory interjected.

"You're defending him? He cheated on you Rory!"

"Yeah with you!"

"Look he had no right to tell them. Like you said I deserved the honors tell!"

"I didn't think you would ever tell them. I don't want to be hiding this forever," Logan didn't seem to be very angry.

"Did you have to ruin our whole evening though?" Rory asked him angrily.

"Wait, a minute ago you were defending him," Lorelai was very confused.

"No I was saying that it was good that someone finally told them, but I do think he should have done it with a little more tact."

"Well thank you for agreeing with me," Logan smiled.

"Oh shut up! Don't talk to her!" Marty finally jumped in on the conversation.

"What are you her great defender?"

"Yeah kind of like you were Lorelai's."

"So great defender why can't I talk to her?"

"After what you did to her you don't have a right to!"

"But Lorelai does?"

"Hey what I did to her was different," Lorelai defended herself.

"Yeah you are my mother so it was even worse for you," Rory pointed out.

"No I'm your mother and that gives me the right to do pretty much whatever I want. Have you ever seen Mommie Dearest?"

"Yes I watched it with you and by the way I think that that is an excellent comparison for you."

"No metal coat hangers ever!" Lorelai quoted.

"Mom, do you really think now is the time for your flippant comments?"

"I think now is as good a time as any."

"You are so opaque."

"Wow college is really doing wonders for your vocabulary."

"Yeah it is."

"Good comeback."

"Speaking of college I should be getting back there. Bye mom. Logan. Come on Marty." Rory stormed to the car and Marty got in. He backed carefully down the driveway as Rory sat in the passenger's seat with her arms crossed.

"I don't want to go into it with you right now Logan." Lorelai brushed past him and got in her car. She started it and was about to back up when she stopped. She rolled down the window and Logan thought that she might be willing to talk after all but her words were sadly disappointing. "Will you move your car, you're blocking me in." Logan was going to say something, but thought better of it and closed his mouth. He shook his head and then went to his car.