Reunions Pt.3

(Lorelai, Christoper, and Jess)

A/N: SO sorry for the delay I had to get a new laptop, my other one over heated and I couldn't get it to turn on. This is also the last chapter, I tried to think of a way to extend it but my muse left me. Thank you for waiting, now on to the story.

Stars Hollow- The Hayden House.

"Mmm coffee." Lorelai grumbled as she walked into the kitchen. Paul Anka was standing guard outside the door that held her daughters childhood. "Aww Paul Anka, why are you doing this now?" To Lorelai, it seemed like he was trying to tell her something. At that moment Chris entered the kitchen, "Good morning Lore. What's up with Paul Anka.?"

"I don't know, he's just sitting there who knows, maybe he will move later." She left to go up stairs to get ready for work. They had a wedding at the Dragonfly and with the menu changes that kept coming Sookie was bound to murder someone. More than likely it would be Michel who had become more annoying as this had progressed. As she was getting ready to leave the phone rang, figuring it was her mother who'd been calling once a day since Rory had disappeared to ask her a hundred questions, she let the machine get it.

Rory had been awake since 5 AM working on what she was gonna say to her parents, and how she was gonna thank Jess. After watching Elena sleep for an hour, then showering, dressing, getting coffee, and checking her email, she decided she had put it off long enough. She dialed the number that had been the same since she could remember. As Rory sat with the phone ringing in her ear, Finn entered the kitchen and gave her a kiss and went to pour a cup of coffee. Rory for the machine, "Hey you have reached Lorelai and Christoper Hayden leave a message and we will get back to you." Sighing she left a message, "Hey Mom, I have some news and want to see you I will be in town for the weekend. Please call me back." She let her number and hung up. She looked and Finn with tears in her eyes. "I'm scared Finn."

Finn looked at her, "Kitten it will be ok. I know your mom, she loves you and she will forgive you, especially when she sees her beautiful granddaughter.

"I hope so Finn, I hope so." Rory said as she went to pack for a weekend in Stars Hollow.

Jess was writing at his desk when his phone rang. "This is Jess."

"Hey Jess it's Rory. Finn, Elena, and I are going to be in town this weekend, can we bunk in your spare room?" Rory held her breath waiting for him to tell her to jump off a bridge.

Jess sat there shocked he was stunned but quickly spoke up, "Yes sure. I'd love to see Elena again and catch up with you and Finn. How is she anyway?" Jess wanted to ask her so many questions but refrained because he really wanted to see her and didn't want to make her wary about coming.

"Thank you Jess, we should be there in a couple of hours. Thank you again Jess."

Jess hung up and left for Luke's. He walking into the diner and headed for the counter, as he sat down Luke came out of the back, and upon seeing Jess got a cup of coffee and took it to him. Jess looked around, looking for the town gossips trying to avoid them, and motioned for him to lean closer. "Rory's coming back this weekend."

Luke shot up and in an elavated voice questioned,"Rory's coming home? For good?" Right at that moment Lorelai walked into Luke's for a cup of coffee and heard what Luke had practically yelled.

In a loud upset tone Lorelai asked, "What? Rory? She's coming home? How did you find that out?"

Jess looked up from the coffee he was trying to melt into and said, " She called me about half an hour ago saying she was gonna be he in a couple of hours."

Lorelai pulled out her cell and called the house to check her messages. Luke saw the look on her face and didnt even point at the sign like normally would have. Lorelai's face paled at as she listened to the message that Rory was coming home. Her first thought was that she had to tell Chris that their baby was coming home. As she hung up she looked at Luke and Jess with a shine in her eyes that they hadn't seen in a year, and said "She's coming home." She turned and left forgetting the coffee she had come in for and went straight to the Dragonfly to tell Chris the news.

Jess paid Luke for the coffee with a promise to keep him posted and went to his house to await the arrival for his best friend and her family.

At the Dragonfly Inn Lorelai ran into the lobby, "Michel have you seen Chris?"

Michel looked up from the computer he was typing on, "You mean have I seen the man who pretends to do things around here but doesnt really do anything?"

Lorelai looked pointedly at Michel, "I DON'T HAVE TIME WHERE IS CHRIS?"

Michel who was slightly taken aback said, " He came in about a half hour ago, he went to kitchen with Sookie."

"Thank you," Lorelai said running into the kitchen, "Chris, I just checked the messages and and heard one from Rory she is coming for the weekend. She says she has something to show us. I don't care what it is. Our baby is coming home Chris."

Chris stood there the shock evident on his face, just taking it all in. It had been a year since they had seen her. He was going to see his daughter. "Lore what are we gonna do? What are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know I guess we just see." Lorelai said thinking about when she would see her daughter and what the news was.

Half an hour outside of Stars Hollow Rory was panicking what has possessed her to call her mother? She had been fine for a year but she had missed her. Finn spared her a look and saw the look on her face. Smiling to himself he asked, "Need some water Dear?"

Rory gave a strained laugh, "No but coffee sounds great right now." She pulled out her phone and texted Jess,

Going to Luke's for coffee, wanna meet us there?- Rory

Jess felt his phone vibrate alerting him to a message. He read it and answered,

Sure I'll tell Luke that we are gonna borrow the apartment. - Jess

Finn crossed into Stars Hollow shortly after getting the reply and they headed to the diner. They got lucky as the only patron was Kirk, who thankfully was to worried about his food to pay attention to anything else. They made it upstairs without anyone seeing a miracle in this little town.

Jess listened to them walk up the stairs and down the hall. He got up after the first knock. "Hey Rory, Finn." He nodded to each as he spoke their name. "Hey Princess." He said to Elena, "Back so soon?" Jess held his arms out and Laughed when her arms tightened around her fathers neck. "She knows her daddy doesn't she?"

Rory watched the interaction between her best friend and her boyfriend and realized she missed living in Stars Hollow. She walk over to Jess and hugged him. As she held the hug she whispered in his ear, "Thank you for taking carte of Elena, you are a great man and I am grateful you are in our lives."

Finn watched the interaction and know that he wanted to bring her home. "Rory can I ask you a question?" Finn asked after the two friends had come apart.

"Yea what is wrong Finn?" Rory asked scared of what he was gonna ask.

"Would you like to move back to Stars Hollow?" He looked at her with all sincerity. She was looking at her with tears in her eyes and nodded, happy she had another piece of good news to share with her parents.

Sitting at home Lorelai Hayden was slowly talking herself into calling her daughter when there was a knock at the door. "I got it Lore." Christoper said as he walked to the door. As he opened it and lookeed at who was there he was momentarily speechless. "Lore I think you need to come here."

Lorelai got up and walked into the hallway and stopped. There in the doorway was her daughter holding a sleeping little girl with pigtails and was accompanied by a very exotic looking man. She was shocked to say the least. Then the emotional floos gates opened and she felt anger at her leaving, fear for what was to come, but the one that she felt the strongest was love for her one and only child. Then as all the questions started to fill her mind and spill out of her mouth unfiltered, the words that Rory said next silenced her.

"Mom I've missed you, I am so sorry for everything and I will anser all your questions I promise. But first can I just have a hug?" She passed Elena to Finn, stepped inside her childhood home and was enveloped by the arms of the one woman who meant the most to her.

As Lorelai wrapped her arms around her daughter she started to cry. "God Rory I have missed you so much."

Chris watched with tears in his eyes thinking how much he had missed his little girl when a whimper from behind him brought him back to the present. As he turned to take in Finn and Elena he asked, " Um Rory, I hate to interrupt this moment but who are they?"

After the hugs and introductions of Finn were complete they sat in the living room silence had settled over them and they could hear Elena's little snores as she slept oblivious to her surroundings. Rory was the first to speak, "Mom and Dad I know that this past year has been hard on you both but it was necessary in order for me to get myself put back together. In that time I had a lot to think about and to do." She paused to take a drink and a breath. "Mom, Dad, Elena is my daughter, and Finn is her father." She waited for them to respond, while holding her breath.

"I'm a grandma? But I am to young, to beautiful." Lorelai said with a smile on her face. "May I hold her?"

Chris was speechless for a moment. Then he spoke, "She's beautiful. One question, why would you hide from us?"

" I didn't want you to be disappointed in me." She answered in a small voice.

Chris looked at her, "Never honey. I hope you never feel that way again."

"But mom had me young and I just didn't want to seem like a disappointment. I couldn't have dealt with it if I had thought that you both were upset with me." Rory finished on one breath looking at her parents then turned to Finn grabbing his hand.

"Aw baby you are so naieve even in your smarts. I love you for that. You still did things I never did, graduating high school and college, and you went to Europe twice. Baby girl you could never have disappoint me." Lorelai said bouncing Elena on her lap.

Finn watched family display and was glad she had this here. He was glad to bring her back to this. Which is what prompted him to speak for the first time since the initial introductions, "Lorelai, Christoper I have something I would like to tell you. I have been looking at places in Stars Hollow and with your blessing I would love to bring my family here."

The Hayden's looked at Finn with grins on their faces, Chris was the first to speak. "Absolutely. I will help you find a good place."

Rory looked at her mother, "What do you think Mom?"

Lorelai looked at them, "Of course I would love to have you close by."

Finn and Rory looked at each other and knew everything would be ok.

Thank You for reading I hope you enjoyed it.