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[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

Rory walks into the bar, looking a little tired but glad.

Classes were back in and they were going decently so far.

Now if there was someone here who would buy her a sorely needed drink.

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[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

Indy smiles warmly at her from his stool. "Hullo dear... you look like you could use an alcohol patron."

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

She smiles and nods.

" Please? My first week back was tiring. "

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"I remember it well," he admits. "How about a white russian? Death seems to rate them very highly."

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

She shrugs, not really answering.

" What's in those again? "

A pause.

" Death? "

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

He rubs his chin as he considers. "Um... let's see... cream, kahlua, vodka, and nutmeg if I recall correctly."

"Heh. Yeah... Death's a regular here. She's seeing Raph... Mike's brother... except you might not recognize him as such because he isn't a turtle anymore." It all seems so matter of fact.

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

" mmm, Kahlua....that'll work I guess. "

Those names were familar...

" Wait, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? " She looks surprised. Still can't get over that aspect of the bar.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

"Ummm... I don't know if they're teenage... or mutant. But they seem to have pretty decent ninja skills. Mikey was showin' off with his nunchucks the other night. Pretty impressive."

He orders the drink and slides the resulting old fashioned glass down the counter.

"So... apart from the first week hell, how's life treatin' you?"

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

Right, 1940's, he wouldn't have known anyway.

" Alright, it's cold but that's normal. "

She takesa sip of the White Russian and smiles.

"Yummy. "

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

He casts an idle glance around the bar. "Mom not coming in tonight?"

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

Rory unconsciously echoes his searching when she asks.

" I don't know...haven't had the chance to talk to her tonight. "

There was a bit of concern in her voice, she really hadn't had a chance to talk to her mom privately for a while.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

He seems a little disappointed. "Ah well... guess she has responsibilities outside here. I shouldn't be so needy," he smirks.

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

" Well, she does run an entire inn. But she'll pop in whenever she can. "

She smiles.

" When I was sick and at home she would do that, anytime she could. "

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

He nods a little ruefully and tosse sback the rest of his drink. The glass is quickly refilled once it's returned to the counter.

"Um... I guess it's kinda wierd to talk to your mom's boyfriend without her being here?"

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

Speak of the Devil. . .

Except if Lorelai's the Devil, hell is gonna be a pretty fun place.


"What's new, Daughter-of-mine?"

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

Rory grins.

" Mom! Not much, classes this week were fun. I hate the first week, so hard to get back into gear. "

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

She smiles reassuringly at her daughter. They've had this conversation before.

"Awww. You'll do fine, Hon. You're the Catch-up Queen, remember?"

She notices the almost empty White Russian in front of her daughter and smirks. "Who'd you work over this time?"

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

She smiles smugly.

" Indy. "

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

She looks proud and nods eagerly. "That's my girl. Use the resources God gave you."

She sits down beside her daughter and sips her martini, before asking the Bar for a Mudslide Milkshake. She slides it over to her daughter. "Here. It's like a White Russian, but it has ice cream, which makes it better."

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

" Ice cream makes things infinitely better. "

She takes a sip and sigh yummingly.

" So what's been going on? "

And she means Indy and the lack of mentioning Luke's.

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

"Hmm, not much. Indy, you know. Inn's crazier than normal. Took care of Davey yesterday so Sookie and Jackson could go to the movies. Michel got chased across the lawn by one of the horses."

She laughs at the imagery in her head. "You should've seen him, Hon. He ran right into the lake to get away, but first he stopped to pull off his expenzive Italian loafehs. He was hopping around on one foot and the horse was slowly creeping up on him. Sookie took pictures."

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

She laughs at that being fully capable of picturing Michel in the lake with his shoes higher than his own head.

" Well, I guess I'll have to look at those when I see her. "

A sip fo the Mudslide.

" So why the not mentioning of anything remotely Luke around Indy?"

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

She looks startled for a moment there, but quickly covers it with feigned innocence. "Hmm? Oh, you know. He doesn't really know about Luke, and uh, I haven't seen Luke since we, uh, and ya know I just didn't want Indy to worry. . ."

She gulps some of her martini.

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

" You've been avoiding Luke's ? How can you do that? "

She looks genuinely surprised.

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

"Do you mean the diner or the man? Because it's very easy to avoid the diner. I just don't. Go. I, uh, go other places." She looks around the room pointedly. "And as for the man, that's pretty easy too, since he doesn't want to see me."

And what the hell would I say if I saw him anyway?

[lorelai-rory.livejournal.com]

" But- you can't....mom."

She sputters then takes a sip of the drink.

" What exactly happened to make you avoid the place and the person owning said place that we have been going to nearly every day since you moved to Stars Hollow? "