Chapter 1

A/N: Hello my spankalicious friends! This is my third Gilmore Girls fic, and WOAH is it AU! Before I get started I think we should cover the facts:

Luke and Lorelai are married. They met when Rory was 9, and married when she was 10. They had their first child Daniel (Dan) a year later, then twin girls Jayne (Jay) and Amelia (Amie) three years later. They planned to stop at that, but then they were surprised with Matthew (Hew) an additional four years after that. Yes, it's complex! Rory is now 30 and married to Marty (I love him!) They have a 2 year old daughter, Lorelai (or as she is better known, Lori), Dan is 19 and about to go into his sophomore year at college, Jay and Amie 16, and Hew 12.

This chapter doesn't explain much, granted, it's just a little test chapter and a snapshot into their lives. Please let me know what you think, and if I should continue!

3 months after the birthday

Lorelai sat in the diner, quietly sipping her cup of coffee. She glanced at her watch. Ugh. Late again. She sat for a few more minutes before Rory came bursting through the door.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" she called as she rushed over to the table and sat down quickly.

"Well you certainly took your time," Lorelai commented, with a hint of playfulness in her voice.

"Sorry, Marty was home late, and Lori wouldn't go to bed," Rory said, letting out a deep breath and relaxing.

"Ah, living up to her name I see," Lorelai replied with a smile.

"Yeah, she's a true Lorelai."

"What'll it be tonight?" Dan asked as he approached his mother and sister, ordering pad in hand.

"Burgers, fries," Lorelai said.

"Coffee," Rory added.

"Oh yes and pie," Lorelai continued with a smile.

"Oooh pie, good idea," Rory commented. Dan just shook his head.

"Do you have any idea what all that crap is going to do to you?" he said disapprovingly, writing it all down. Lorelai touched his arm with a loving smile.

"Oh, so like his father," she said in a playfully mesmerised voice. Dan slipped his arm out of her grip.

"Yeah, it'll be ready in a sec," he replied before walking off into the kitchen.

"So, how's things?" Lorelai said, trying to initiate conversation.

"Um… fine. You?" Rory replied, generically.

"Pretty good. Luke finally sold the old truck, Dan's back at college in three weeks, and Amie and Jay are doing fine… and Hew… well, he's just Hew," Lorelai said with a chuckle.

"Speak of the devil," Rory mumbled as Matthew (or rather 'Hew' as he was known to his family) came bursting through the diner door disrupting all the customers. Luke saw this from the kitchen and sighed angrily.

"Hew!" he yelled in aggravation.

"What? Yeah, sorry, sorry," Hew said distractedly before rushing over and sitting down next to Lorelai. She chuckled at his slightly irrational, yet Hewish behaviour.

"What's the rush for matey?" she said, playfully screwing up his hair. He quickly fixed it.

"Kirk Jr. just dropped Kirk's video camera, and he's crying," Hew said with a huge smile across his face.

"Kirk Jr's crying?" Rory asked.

"No, Kirk," Hew replied. He craned his neck to try and see them through the window.

"Aww, I wanna see!" Rory complained.

"Nah, they're gone now," Hew replied, as Luke approached the table with Lorelai and Rory's burgers.

"Two burgers," Luke said, placing them down on the table.

"Thanks Luke," Rory said with a smile.

"Coffee?" Lorelai prompted.

"Yeah, it's coming, it's coming hold your horses," Luke replied, gesturing towards Dan who was standing at the counter. He quickly came over and poured the girls their coffee. Hew looked up at Luke expectantly.

"Can I have some coffee dad?" he asked hopefully.

"No."

"Oh! Why not?!"

"Because you're only 12," Luke replied.

"What! That's not fair! Rory had her first cup at eight!" Hew protested.

"That's only because I wasn't around to prevent it," Luke replied.

"And because coffee is sooooo good," Lorelai said, rubbing it in Hew's face. Hew pouted. She sipped her cup slowly and made yum noises.

"Lorelai, you can stop teasing him now," Luke said, standing with his arms crossed. It was now Lorelai's turn to pout.

"Oh, but it's so much fun!"

"I'm going back to the kitchen," Dan said, quickly trying to head away from this situation.

"Yeah… I think I need to get away from these crazy ladies," Luke said, rolling his eyes slightly. Hew coughed, demanding acknowledgement. "Oh yeah, and Hew," he added before walking back to the kitchen.

"Yes… some recognition might be nice," Hew mumbled under his breath. Before another word could be said at the table, Amie and Jay came silently through the door, Jay heading straight for the kitchen and Amie walking over to the table. Amie immediately grabbed Rory's coffee and took a big long sip.

"Ahhh…" she sighed, "good stuff."

"Where were you two guys?" Lorelai asked.

"Jay was at Gypsy's and I was at Kate's house," Amie replied, still happily downing Rory's coffee. "Is it alright if I sleepover there tonight?"

"Yeah sure, knock yourself out," Lorelai replied, taking Rory's coffee out of Amie's grasp and handing it back to it's rightful owner.

"Can I stay over at Robbo's?" Hew asked hopefully.

"Ah, no," Lorelai replied.

"Why not?" Hew pouted.

"Because 'Robbo' needs to get a new name," Lorelai said with a smile. "And besides you have softball tomorrow morning, you need to be up early."

"Early?"

"Earli…er than when we usually wake," Lorelai relpied awkwardly. "Ah… I dunno when you're meant to wake up for these things, dad'll get you up."

Luke came out of the kitchen briskly and walked directly over to Lorelai, with Jay lagging not far behind.

"She wants a car," he said, arms crossed and obviously strongly disagreeing with this notion.

"What?" Lorelai asked, confused.

"Jayne wants a car for her birthday," Luke said, his jaw jutting out in disapproval.

"Ooh she's in trouble, you can always tell she's in trouble when dad calls her Jayne," Amie whispered across the table to her brother.

"Jay, sweetie, as much as we love you and your obsession with cars, you're not getting one for your birthday," Lorelai replied.

"Why not?!" she probed.

"Well, because number one; you haven't got your license yet, and number two; you're not getting a car," Lorelai said quickly. Jay just folded her arms across her chest, not unlike Luke, and stared at the ground.

"Well maybe if Amie hadn't have broken my leg, I would have my licence by now," she muttered under her breath. This did not go unnoticed by Amie.

"Hey!" she said, swivelling around on her chair, "it was an accident, okay? And your leg's healed now anyway, why don't you just go out and get your licence now?! No need to get all snappy and bitchy with me!"

"Okay, we're in the diner here, do you want to save this fiasco until we get home?" Luke said in an angry whisper, trying to turn down the volume of the conversation. Jay just turned on her heel and stormed out of the dinner.

"Jay, wait!" Luke called after her, but she had already run halfway across the town square. "Dammit why does she have to run so fast?"

A/N: Well, that was chapter one. Short, I know, but… yeah. lol! Please review and let me know what you think, I'm not sure whether I should continue this story! Come on, do it! Hit that review button! You know I love it when you do ;)