It's been a really long time since I have done anything with this story but I already had most of this chapter written, so after getting a recent Favorite story alert I figured I could finish this chapter and post it. The actual Gilmore characters are becoming more and more OOC so I am not sure if I will continue with it, but here' what I have for now. Ejoy.

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Luke walked perplexedly back to his diner, muttering to himself. "Alright think Danes, you were angry about finding your daughter-" he shuddered at the mere thought of the position he had found his baby girl in just days before; he was so not ready for this. "Alright back to our yelling match, I was angry, she's young and stupid she's gonna get wait-I couldn't have been that stupid could I?" Luke practically yelled gaining the attention of a few passers-by.

Changing direction Luke began walking back toward his house; he called Caesar and told him he wouldn't be coming back today.

"What's wrong Suga? You're not usually home this time of day." Luke was greeted by Babette as he entered his house.

"Jeez Babette you scared me, what are you doing here?"

"Sorry Kitten, just borrowing some suga. I'm makin Morey some cookies and the first two batches didn't work out." Babette explained, although Luke was hardly listening, he needed to figure out how to get on his wife's good side. "Something wrong Luke?"

That pulled Luke out of his thoughts, Babette rarely called him by his name, "Ah, no Babette, did you find the sugar?"

"Yup, and I'll be on my way. I'll be home if you need anything." Babette offered as she left.

Luke needed to figure out how to apologize to his wife and quick.

Davey woke up around 10am, slightly confused when he felt the weight of someone else in his bed. He smiled instantly realizing that Emerson had come to him for comfort again.

"Emma, wake up." Davey gently shook Emerson awake.

"Don't want to." Came her reply as she pulled a pillow over her head.

"I'll get you coffee." Davey bribed.

"Coffee's not a bribe, shoes are a bribe." Was the muffled response Davey got from under the pillow. Davey laughed and was please to see that she seemed to be in a good mood.

"Alright I'll make the coffee and then you can tell me what caused you to sneak into my bed this morning, not that I really mind. Wait, why has this always been okay with our parents?" Davey asked suddenly confused.

"You ask that every morning you find me here." Emerson giggled back.

"Ah, yes but the actual conversation of it gets lost in the reason why you came, which is normally quite dramatic." Davey teased, Emerson threw a pillow at him as he walked out of the room. "Meet me downstairs in ten." He called back over his shoulder.

Ten minutes later Davey was making breakfast for himself and Emerson and she was sitting quietly at the table. They sat in comfortable silence as they normally did, Davey immersed in his cooking and Emerson lost in her thoughts.

"So, we gonna talk about this or not? I'm betting it was a fight with your oh so friendly dad." Davey approached the topic lightly hoping that today would be one of the days that Emerson would just open up and not be one of the days where she sat quietly all day by his side, watching movies and cuddling on the couch.

"Yup, he's such an ass sometimes." Davey was relieved to hear her say this; this would be one of the days she would open up to him. Although a little concerned about the way she was talking about her dad-that was new.

"What happened Ed?" Emerson just rolled her eyes at the use of the old nickname Davey had given her years ago, which he now only used to make her laugh.

"You are so lame Davey, no one but you thinks that's funny." He stuck his tongue out at her in a playful way and went back to cooking. As he finished he set a plate in front of Emerson and went back to their conversation.

"Spill Emerson."

"Ooh Emerson, I don't hear that from you very often." She joked, prolonging the discussion of details of the fight with her father.

Davey was a little thrown off by her avoidance tactics. Rarely did it take this much to get her to open up to him, normally if she wanted to talk it just came out. He could only assume his name had come up in their argument and that was why she was avoiding.

"Alright Em, you'll feel better if you get it off your chest." Davey was worried about pushing too hard; Emerson was a lot like her mother and sister, you could only push so hard before she retreated.

"Alright fine. He was so mad at me this morning D. I was actually a little scared of him. I know he's harmless but he was just so angry, I've never heard him yell like that before."

"Not even when he yells at Taylor or Kirk?" Davey tried to joke, but when he saw she was serious he changed his approach. "That is pretty bad, but he'll get over it. Things may be rough for a little bit Em, but it'll all work out." Davey tried to reassure her.

"You know D, it's not even that. I know we'll get passed that, but as he was yelling he said some really stupid things."

"Like what Em?"

"He said I was naïve like my mom was and I was going to end up just like her."

"Successful and happy?" Davey asked confused as to where this was going much like Emerson had originally been, that part of Lorelai's life had been so long ago they rarely heard about it.

"I was confused at first too. I'm apparently too much like my mom. I'm 'young and stupid just like she was' and I'm 'going to end up pregnant with a loser boyfriend that everyone thought was a good guy until I told him and he walked away'." Saying them now made her just as angry as she had been when he said them, and they had just been reverberating in her head ever since. Davey was surprised to hear that, Luke was hardly a stupid man.

"Wait he seriously said that? I have a lot of respect for your dad, but that was just plain stupid."

"I know, and what's worse was the look on my mom's face when he said it. It was like she was sixteen again and hearing about how she ruined everyone's life. I couldn't even look at him, I told him to go to hell and I can only imagine that is not going to work for me in anyway."

"Wow Em, I don't know what to say. I've never seen you so protective of your mom. You are a Daddy's Girl through and through and I'm betting that's why this is killing you so much, you found a flaw in your perfect dad. Everyone's parents have flaws Em, it just took you a while to be able to see your dad's." Davey was treading carefully here, knowing how important Emerson's dad was in her life, claiming he wasn't perfect put him in dangerous territory.

"Davey, I know he's not perfect." Emerson countered a little annoyed at the suggestion. "But he's my dad and he disrespected my mother, my mother who is the most amazing woman in the world. Sure, she made had a lapse in judgment years ago, but she worked her tail off to rectify it and make something of herself and forty years later it's still being thrown in her face." Davey had never seen Emerson so angry with her father, although he had always known that she was a fiercely loyal person, he had never seen it used against someone in her family, let alone her father, whom she idolized.

"Em, he was angry, he wasn't thinking."

"Even if he wasn't thinking, it's clearly been on his mind if it just slipped out. Can he really think so lowly of his wife?"

"He's not perfect Em, no one is. And he loves your mom more than most men love their wives. He idolizes her, but having a kid turn up in that situation freaks any parent out." Davey pointed out trying to get her to focus on the fact that everyone makes mistakes.

"He's not perfect, but you don't treat your wife like that."

Luke was pacing around the house trying to figure out exactly what to say to his wife.

"Dammit Danes, you could not have seriously been that stupid." All thoughts about his daughter doing what she was doing were on the back burner now. He had said some pretty stupid things to his wife in all the time that he had known her, but this one took the cake. He remembered the look of shock on his daughter's face when he said it and could only imagine what his wife had looked like.

"Ok, you need a plan, you've had to apologize before, how did you do it then? Rory, call Rory. Wait Rory won't talk to you if she's heard, she'll be just as mad. I've got to apologize to all of them." Luke continued pacing, cursing himself every so often. He rarely talked to himself, but he needed to talk through this, hear any ideas he could come up with to determine their effectiveness.

As he was pacing around the living room the front door flew open.

"Lorelai?" He said quickly almost panicking, he wasn't ready for this- he hadn't formulated a plan.

"Yup." Her answer was short and had a bite to it.

"Lorelai I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that."

"Well how did you mean it? What is the positive way to spin that my daughter is young and stupid like I was?" She spit her words out, there was venom loaded behind every word.

"God, did I really say that? I wasn't thinking Lorelai. Yeah, it happened to you but you got through it, you made a life for yourself and Rory and a damn good one at that." Luke asked defeated, praying those weren't his words.

"But you did say it Luke, it's gotta be something you think about if it just slips out like that."

"I'm sorry Lorelai. I don't know why I said it or where it came from, I have never thought anything less of you for having a child at sixteen. If anything I respect you more for how you rose to the challenge and raised that little girl into the amazing woman she is without any help. I just don't want that for Emerson." Luke was pleading with Lorelai to forgive him, but trying to make her understand.

"And I don't want it for her either and she certainly doesn't want it for herself Luke. She's an adult, she's allowed to make mistakes. I made my mistakes Luke and I don't deserve to have them thrown in my face. Everyone makes mistakes but you have to move on Luke. And I don't consider Rory a mistake, she is one of the best things that has ever happened to me and she led to all the other amazing things that happened to me." Lorelai's voice still had a bite to it, but it was a little softer now.

"I know Lorelai and I'm sorry." Luke's voice was desperate.

"I have to get back to work." And with that she walked out the door.

"Lorelai, where were you?" Sookie asked as Lorelai entered the Dragonfly for the second time that day.

"I ran home to get some paperwork, which I forgot." Lorelai cursed herself for getting so caught up in her argument with Luke. "Luke was home. We had a little argument. He said some stupid things to Em this morning about her turning out like me."

"Oh, Cookie I'm sorry. How are you doing?"

"He apologized, and I don't know where I stand. I don't want her pregnant either, but for one split second I questioned whether my husband has ever respected me to say something so awful. I've heard that comment from all over for all my life, but my husband Sook, my husband belittled me in front of my kid about it." Sookie couldn't figure out if Lorelai was about to cry or if she was angry, she just looked defeated.

"Lorelai, you know he loves and respects you, he was just worried about Em, and said something stupid." Sookie tried to be the voice of reason, but she had to admit her friend didn't deserve that from her husband. "Come on I'll make you some coffee."

"Thanks Sookie."

"Oh hey, Lorelai!" Lorelai's attention was caught by Davey as he entered the Dragonfly. Lorelai waited for him to catch up and then they all made their way to the kitchen.

"What's up Davey? You have the day off today."

"Yeah, I know, I just wanted to let you know Emerson went to New York to stay with Rory for a few days." Davey explained, Emerson had left shortly after breakfast and was still pretty upset. She had said she needed to get away for awhile and had decided to go visit Rory.

"What? Why didn't she tell me she was leaving?"

"I don't know, but I figured she hadn't told you so I though I'd make sure you knew."

"Thanks Davey, I appreciate that. How was she this morning?" Lorelai asked.

"Angry. I've never seen her so mad at Luke."

"Wait, she's angry? I would have thought she was upset about their argument." Lorelai was a little confused by this.

"She was upset about it, she was angry about something he had said. She's ridiculously loyal Lorelai and you know that. I've never heard her speak like that about Luke, and she didn't want to say anything she'd regret so she went to New York." Davey explained.

Lorelai couldn't help but feel a little bit of proud of her daughter. Everyone knew she was feisty, but this was new. Lorelai couldn't ever remember Emerson being angry with her father, let alone so angry she wouldn't come home.

Emerson showed up on Rory's doorstep around 4pm, she was still visibly upset when Logan answered the door. He raised and eyebrow at her and ushered her in without saying a word.

"Rory, I think that maybe you should deal with this one." Logan yelled over his shoulder into the house.

"Logan, I was helping Eli with her homework. Oh, Emma, what are you doing here? Logan can you go help Eli and Ez while I deal with this?" He nodded and walked towards the study. "What's up Emma? What are you doing here?"

"He's such a jerk sometimes Rory, I can't believe him." Was all that Emerson said back.

"Who? Davey? What'd he do?" Rory was thoroughly confused.

"No. Dad." Rory was shocked.

"What do you mean he's a jerk? Emma, that's your dad, he deserves a little respect." Emerson rolled her eyes, Rory could be such a mom sometimes.

"Not after what he said he doesn't."

"Alright kid, you are not making any sense. Let's go talk in the kitchen, I'll make some coffee and you can tell me what you're talking about." Rory said as she ushered Emerson further into the house.

"Alright what the world is going on Em?" Rory asked as they sat down at the table with their coffee.

"Luke-"

"Emerson." Rory sent out a warning.

"Fine. Dad found me and Davey in a relatively compromising position and kind blew a gasket." Rory nodded in understanding, failing to see where Luke's jerkiness came into play. "Well he wouldn't even talk to me, he was so angry. Finally this morning I make him talk to me, and he was such a d-"

"Emerson!" Rory was not happy with where that sentence seemed to be heading.

Emerson just rolled her eyes. "Anyways we were arguing and he told me I would end up like mom. I was young and stupid and would end up pregnant." Rory was taken aback by this, she could not imagine Luke saying anything like that about her mother, he had always been so supportive.

"Em, maybe you misunderstood, what were his exact words?" Rory asked, hoping that Emerson really did just misunderstand.

"His exact words?" Emerson asked, Rory nodded. "You are young and stupid just like she was! You are going to end up pregnant with a loser boyfriend that everyone thought was a good guy until you told him and he walked away!"

"Seriously?" That did not sound like Luke.

"I told you I had never seen him so angry, he was swearing, which is so unlike Dad, and screaming."

"Wow. Is mom ok?"

"I don't know, I doubt it, she looked so hurt Rory." Emerson looked like she was about to cry at the memory of her mother's face as Luke said what he said.

"What do you mean you don't know? Didn't you talk to mom to tell her you were here?" Rory asked confused.

"No, I just came from Davey's; I figured he'd tell her."

"Em, you need to call her." At the look Emerson was giving her, Rory conceded, "fine, I'll call her. You can put your stuff in the guest room." Emerson thanked Rory and promised she wouldn't stick around too long. "You are going to have to talk to him eventually." Rory called after her little sister as she walked away.

Rory called her mom and the two talked for almost an hour about what had happened and how Lorelai was doing. Lorelai told her things were fine, she knew Luke didn't mean what he had said, but it was still a little hurtful.

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Around six Rory went to find Emerson for dinner, she found her in the library looking through old photos.

"You were a cute kid." Rory commented coming into the room looking at the picture Emerson was looking at. It was the picture Luke had given her years ago of her and Emerson sleeping. She had had it framed and it still hung on the wall, among all of Rory's other favorite family photos.

"I barely remember this, the time we had BL."

"BL huh? There was never a really before Logan in your life kid. But, you are right, those were good times."

"I think that they only reason I remember is because of that story you told me that every time you stayed with me."

"You act as though I bored you with the story! You begged to hear that story every time I was there! I apparently told it better than anyone in the world."

"Well yes and we all know how accurate the opinion of a three year old that idolizes her sister is." Emerson said in all seriousness with a gleam in her eye.

"Hey! I told that story pretty darn well." Rory defended her storytelling skills. There was a slight pause before she continued, "I miss how we used to spend so much time together."

"Well you just had to go and get married and start a family and be all happy." Emerson teased her sister.

"I know, how terribly selfish of me." Rory teased back. "Grab your purse we're gonna get dinner, just the two of us." Rory said quickly before leaving the room.

"I don't need a purse. Since I am certainly not paying!" Emerson called happily after her. Yup a few days with her sister was exactly what she needed.

Six days later Emerson was still at Rory and Logan's she knew she needed to get back to the Hollow, she needed to finish getting ready for school and wanted to spend time with her family. She was a lot less angry with Luke at this point, Lorelai having talked to her and calmed her down, she had also received a few calls from Luke, all of them had gone unanswered though. The first night she had received six, apparently Lorlai did not pass along the info that she was at Rory's to Luke, who had been banished to the couch.

Even though she had calmed down, she was reluctant to go back because of the fun she and Rory were having. She got to spend every day with her niece and nephew and every night after they went to bed and Logan finished up some work she and Rory stayed up and talked for awhile. They talked about anything and everything, and when Logan had completed his maximum of one hour of work at home he would join them and they would all chat until they couldn't stay awake anymore. Emerson knew eventually she would need to leave this family, but she was strengthening the relationships she had with all the people in this house-her niece and nephew who she rarely saw anymore and the brother-in-law it seemed like she saw only on special occasions.

Emerson was getting ready to leave Rory and Logan's and face the consequences there would definitely be for running away. She had been gone for a week and had only sent a few texts Lorelai's way to make sure her mom knew she was okay, although she suspected Rory had been in contact with both Lorelai and Luke.

"Almost packed?" Rory asked from the doorway.

"I came here spontaneously, how do I have so much stuff here?"

"Well, we did do an awful lot of shopping, especially since you had no clothes here." Rory teased.

"Thank you so much for letting me stay Ror."

"Hey what are ridiculously older big sisters for if they can't give you a place to stay for a few days when you run away from home."

"I'm eighteen I'm pretty sure it's not running away anymore." Emerson replied sticking out her tongue.

"Go home, give mom a hug for me and talk to Dad." Rory advised as she helped Emerson carry her bags to her car. "Seriously where did you get so much stuff? There better not be anything I own in there!"

"You're old, why would I borrow any of your stuff?" Emerson countered as she got in the car, before Rory could respond Emerson was driving away.

"You're home! You are moving in a few weeks and you just abandon mommy without so much as a word for eight days!" Lorelai called dramatically as Emerson entered the house. Emerson threw down her bags and gave Lorelai a big hug.

"Nothing was stopping you from visiting us in New York." Emerson laughed as Lorelai continued to hug her.

"Hey kid." Luke said cautiously as he entered the hallway from the kitchen.

"Hi." Was the short response he got back.

"Be nice," Lorelai whispered softly. "Well now that my baby girl is back we need candy for a movie night!" She left knowing that Luke and Emma needed to be alone.

"Sit down with me Em, I think we need to have a little chat." Luke said walking over to the couch. Emerson reluctantly sat down next to him. "Alright, first off we are going to talk about me hurting your feelings. I am sorry for that and I definitely shouldn't have brought that up. You know how much I love and respect your mom. What happened when she was sixteen has never been an issue for me, it brought me your mom and sister and turned me into a dad, and I am really thankful for being given that opportunity." Emerson leaned her head onto Luke's shoulder to let him know she was listening and accepting his apology. "Well before you forgive me kid, we need to talk a little bit about what else happened."

"I was really hoping we could skip over that." Emerson replied taking her head off of Luke's shoulder.

"Nice try. Now you get to try to understand what led me to that breaking point. You my darling are my baby, my princess, my little girl. You will forever in my mind be the little girl who waited at the window for her best friend in the whole world to show up and babysit you, the little girl who begged me not to leave her at school because she missed her sister so much, and the little girl who spent the day with my at my diner with her head on my shoulder and thumb in her mouth. Coming home from work the other day to what I did is pretty much any parent's worst nightmare. And of course the first thing that popped into my mind was what would happen to your life if you got pregnant."

"Dad, you and mom have been having that talk with me for as long as I can remember. Mom has regaled me with stories, which I don't think are even true, to highlight how hard being a teenage mom can be." Emerson reminded him.

"I know Em, I just don't want that for you. I want you to go to college and travel Europe and be a kid." Luke said as he put an arm around Emerson's shoulders.

"And those are the exact things I want for me. Thank you for looking up for me, but I'm not six anymore. I have to make my own decisions. And those decisions involve boys sometimes." Em responded leaning into her dad.

"I know I know, just please Em, remember you are incredibly young. You need to act like a grown up if you are going to be making such grown up decisions."

"I love you Daddy. And I promise I will confer on grown up decisions with you and mom or Rory." Emerson smiled at him and instantly she was transformed before his eyes to the seven year old girl who was yelling at him at bedtime saying just wait 'til she grows up she'll never have to listen to him again.

"Alright kid, I just want to make sure you are being smart. But why did it have to be the one guy in Stars Hollow I actually like Em? It'd be so much easier to hate him if I didn't know how much he loves and respects you." Luke said with a slight smile. "Tell him I will be on my best behavior when he is here, we won't even have to bring out Bop It."

Emerson giggled and gave Luke a kiss on the cheek before getting up to go call Davey.