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Chapter 2

Luke was making breakfast in the kitchen of the Crap Shack the following morning when he heard movement behind him. He turned to see Rory emerging from her room. "Oh..hey..." He said awkwardly. "Sorry, did I wake you?" He asked.

"No. The smells did." Rory smiled.

Luke had to chuckle at that. "I thought I'd make pancakes." He said.

"Good choice." Rory nodded. She glanced at Luke for a moment. "Are you ok?" She asked.

"Me? Yeah I'm good." Luke nodded. He then saw Rory raise her eyebrows and he sighed. "Yeah ok, maybe I'm not good but...I'm trying." He said.

"I think it really sucks that she didn't tell you that you had a kid." Rory said quietly. "You would have been a great dad."

"Thanks Rory." Luke smiled softly at her. He then noticed that she hadn't moved from her spot and was obviously debating whether to say something or not. "Are you ok?" He asked.

"I..uh..I wanted to give these back to you..." Rory said nervously, taking the pearls he had given her for her birthday out of her pocket.

"What? No Rory, I gave them to you." Luke said surprised.

"I know and it was really sweet of you but...you have a daughter now. A biological daughter. Wouldn't your mom have wanted them to go to her?" She said quietly. "They should go to family..."

"You are family." Luke said.

"Luke..." Rory said.

"No." He said firmly. "I gave them to you because I wanted you to have them. I know my mom would have wanted you to have them as well despite what I've just found out. I've known you for years." He said. He then shrugged. "To me, you are family." He said.

"Are you sure?" Rory asked quietly.

Luke smiled at her. "I'm sure. They're yours. Besides, soon you will officially become family."

Rory smiled. "Yeah." She said softly. "Thanks."

Luke smiled at her and then plated up some pancakes. "Here, eat up." He smirked.

Rory grinned and sat down at the table, tucking into her pancakes. She glanced up at him. "Hey Luke?" She said.

"Yeah?" He said.

"I just thought you should know...the reason I'm going back to Yale, it's down to Jess." She said quietly.

"Jess?" Luke said surprised.

"Yeah he came and showed me his novel. And we went out for a meal, me, Logan and Jess and Logan and Jess got into a fight. Anyway I followed Jess out and he literally shouted at me asking what was going on with me. He told me how it wasn't me." She admitted. "I guess he talked or more like shouted some sense into me."

"Huh.." Luke said somewhat proud of Jess.

"I just thought you should know. You did right by Jess. Look how he turned out. You can and will be the same for April." Rory smiled softly at him.

Luke smiled and went to get his own breakfast when he noticed Lorelai standing by the entrance of the kitchen, watching him lovingly. Luke ducked his head, embarrassed, knowing she had heard the whole conversation.


"One more thing..." Lorelai told Rory as they left the inn after reuniting Rory with Sookie and Michel. "This one, I don't know whether it's good or bad."

"Ok..." Rory said.

"Your dad called." Lorelai said.

"Dad? Really? Why?" Rory asked surprised. "I'm assuming you haven't heard from him since the..."

"Since him teaming up with my mother and trying to break me and Luke up, yeah." She nodded.

"So what did he want?" Rory asked nervously.

"I don't know. He left a message just saying that he wanted to talk to me about something and that it was a good thing." Lorelai shrugged. "I haven't really thought about it since because Luke overheard some of the message and freaked out."

"Understandably..." Rory said.

"I know. But...I don't know what to do." Lorelai admitted.

"I could go see him if you want? See what he wants?" Rory suggested.

"No, that's not fair on you. He said specifically he wanted to talk to me." Lorelai sighed.

"Well then...maybe you should meet up with him?" Rory said hesitantly. "If it's just him being him again, you could just leave."

"True." Lorelai said.

"He might just keep calling otherwise." She said.

"Yeah..."

"Are you going to tell Luke?" Rory asked.

"Not until I know what he wants." Lorelai said.

"Ok...So where next?" Rory asked.

"The diner. I promised Luke I'd meet him there at 1 so that we can find out more about Anna and how we can contact her." Lorelai said.

"Diner it is then." Rory smiled. "I've missed that place."

Lorelai smiled at her daughter. "I've missed you."

"Ditto." Rory smiled softly.

They entered the diner and were greeted by Luke who showed them to a table. "So what would you like hon?" Lorelai asked Rory.

"No you don't need to order, I'm already having all your favourite food made." Luke said.

"Such service." Rory grinned.

While Luke headed to the kitchen to get the food, Lane came bounding up to the table. "Rory!" She exclaimed.

"Hi Lane!" Rory smiled at her best friend.

"It's so good to see you two back together." She smiled at them both. "Anyway, I don't have long but I wanted to let you know that the band's got a showcase Friday night and a really important label is going to be there. I'd love it if you could come." Lane smiled.

"Sorry but I'm working Friday." Lorelai said sympathetically.

"Don't worry. Rory?" Lane asked.

"I'll be there." Rory smiled.

"Cool! So you plus one right?" She asked.

"Plus one?"

"You plus Logan?" Lane said.

"Oh...No, it's just me." Rory said ignoring the look Lorelai gave her.

"Ok." Lane said. "I have to go but we'll catch up soon ok?"

"You got it." Rory smiled watching Lane continue working.


The following evening, Lorelai, Luke and Rory were at the inn for a Thanksgiving dinner prepared by Liz and Sookie for all Liz's renaissance fair friends. Rory was sat next to Luke watching one of Liz's friend stab a knife between all his fingers quickly.

"So when are you coming back to the renaissance circuit Luke?" One of the guys said.

"Maybe when I can learn to fly." Luke said sarcastically.

"Aw you were brilliant! Rory, you should have seen him. He was so popular. Everyone called him Yakof." Liz gushed.

"Please don't judge me by all this." Luke said to Rory.

"I won't. Yakof." Rory grinned.

Just then, Lorelai came up. "Hey, can you come help with carving?" She asked Luke.

"Sure." He said getting up.

"Can I talk to you for a minute first though?" Lorelai asked gesturing to the reception area of the inn.

"Ok.." Luke said following her.

"So..uh..you remember the phone call from Chris?" Lorelai said nervously.

"The infamous one...yeah..." Luke said.

"Well he said he wanted to talk to me about something. Something involving both me and Rory. So...I met up with him..." She said nervously.

"You met up with him?" Luke said his jaw tensing.

"Yeah...uh...anyway he said his grandfather had died and had left him some money and that he wanted to give some to me and Rory. He offered us lots of things, all we didn't want, but Rory took him up on his offer to pay for Yale..." She said quickly. "So he will be paying for this semester and then next year. So..uh...that's it..."

Luke was quiet for a moment. "Well...I think that's great." He finally said.

"You do?" Lorelai asked surprised.

Luke sighed. "Look, I know I don't like the guy and I don't think I ever will but he's Rory's dad. He has the right to pay for her schooling. To be honest, it's about damn time that he starts helping out." He said.

"Ok..." Lorelai said.

"Is that it?" Luke asked.

"Yeah that was everything." Lorelai said.

"Ok..well I'll go help Sookie carve then." Luke smiled going to head towards the kitchen.

"Luke?" Lorelai said.

"Yeah?" He asked turning round.

"Thanks." Lorelai said softly getting a smile from Luke in return. "And you're right. Dads should have the right to pay for their kid's schooling." She said softly knowing Luke was obviously thinking about April.

Luke gave her a small smile and a nod before disappearing to the kitchen.

Lorelai smiled and headed back to the table to wait for the food. She smirked when Luke reappeared after a few minutes. "She kick you out?"

"Yep." Luke said.

"Predictable!" Lorelai laughed.

"Yeah." Luke chuckled.

Lorelai then turned to see Rory returning to the table. "Hey, you ok?" She asked noticing her daughter looking distracted.

"What? Oh yeah, I'm fine." Rory said.

"You sure?" Lorelai asked.

"Yeah. I'm just hungry." She said forcing a smile on her face.

"Ok." Lorelai said.

The food was then brought out and they all enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving feast.

Hope you liked it! The next chapter will include Anna and April. I just had to build it up a bit first! Let me know what you think! :)