Luke looked at Lorelai questionably. She just ignored him.

"Yes of course, we are going to South Africa for a story and photoshoot. It shouldn't take us longer than three weeks." Rachel explained

"Rachel, honey, I think we really should be leaving now if we want to catch our plane in time." Andrew looked at his watch.

"Oh ok, so this isn't a problem?" she asked looking between Luke and Lorelai.

"Uh no I guess not" said Luke.

"Thanks so much guys" she said looking at the two and turned her head to Andrew.

"Honey, can you get his bags."

"Ok, here can you take Jack" Andrew gave the car seat to Rachel.

"I'll help you unload" Luke followed Andrew out to his car

"You'll help him, won't you?" Rachel looked at Lorelai with a little concern in her eyes.

"Of course I'll help him" she reassured her."Now go before you miss your plane"

"Thank again, " Rachel looked a Jack " bye little guy, I'll miss you"

She kissed the sleeping baby on his forehead.

"If he has trouble sleeping just sing him a lullaby or dance a little with him. That normally does the trick".

"Rachel, we really need to leave, come on…" Andrew took her hand and led her out the door to his car.

"Bye Luke, bye Lorelai, bye Jack"

And so they drove off… and left their baby with Lorelai and a very confused Luke.

Luke went back in the diner and looked very confused at Lorelai ,who was holding baby Jack.

"Why…why…just why?" He looked at her from his side of the counter.

"How could we say no? She was so looking forward to that trip. I couldn't let you say no to her. Besides it won't be so bad…"

Luke just looked at her with a implausable look. "Ok, no more coffee..."

"What… Luke.. " Lorelai looked at him.

"If you think that me babysitting a baby for three weeks, I repeat three WHOLE weeks, is not going to be so bad, than you're clearly not thinking straight. And I blame it on the caffeine."

"Oh, Luke, don't be such a baby. It won't be that bad. And it's not like you have to do this all by yourself. I'm here to help you."

"Oh great, instead of one baby I'll have two baby's to look after. And one of them will be buggin me for coffee all the time." Luke smirked

Lorelai just stuck her tongue out at him.

"Nice to hear you appreciate my company."

Just at that moment Jack started to cry…

Luke looked at Lorelai in horror. "Well what am I supposed to be do now?"

"You pick the little guy up." Lorelai laughed a little.

"Oh no, I don't, I'm not picking it up." Luke started shaking his head.

"Luke, first of all it's not an It, he hasn't got enough hair for that." Luke looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"and secondly you will have to pick him up at some given time. Here I'll give him to you."

Lorelai went over to the car seat to lift Jack out of it and started walking over to Luke.

"Lorelai, I'm not sure this is a good idea"

"Luke, stop whining, and do as I tell you. Just watch out for his head and support his neck"

She handed Jack over to him. He took the baby from her and held it about a feet away from him.

'This is not going to be much harder than I thought it would be' she thought to herself.