Here is my  7th installment of the on-going saga of .....The Past Always 
Returns. Please enjoy. Other installments are on FanFiction.Net- The Past 
Always Returns and at yahoogroups.com, and maybe some other places. I 
would really enjoy feedback on this story, and as you may know by now 
I'm not a creator, writer, nor anything else dealing with Gilmore Girls, 
except for being an avid fan.


The Past Always Returns- Part Seven
Curlsue24
curlsue24@aol.com



    The dining table in the Gilmore's home was decorated with a floral center 
piece and the arrangement of that night's dinner. It would be the last 
peaceful, and normal, dining experience for a long time. Lorelai sensed this 
as she sat down at the table with her parents. They ate their dinner somewhat 
quietly, and then Emily started up some after dinner conversation.

    "Lorelai, it will only be a few days until you come out as Hartford's 
newest debutante. Aren't you excited?" Emily asked with the sound of 
excitement in her voice.

    " Mom, I don't think we should have the party, in fact, I don't want to 
be announced as a debutante."

    "Lorelai, Why? Your mother has been planning this party for forever 
practically." Her father asked seeing shock in Emily's eyes.

    "That's what I need to talk to you about...Hmm...Uhhnn.." Lorelai tried 
to laugh it off, but tears welded up in her eyes when she couldn't, 
"..Uhh...You see...Well,I.."

    "Lorelai, get on with it!!" Her mother yelled.

    With Emily voice jolting her, Lorelai rambled it out. 

    "I'm pregnant. I'm going to have a kid."

    The rest of that night is somewhat of a blur. Her parents had a look of 
shellshock on their faces when Lorelai told them. Her father got up, and left 
the room; Emily followed him.

    "Richard, Richard, we've got to talk about this." Richard ignored her, 
shut the door to his study, and took a bottle of Jack Daniels out of his 
"dealing with beyond difficult clients cabinet." But instead of just drinking 
his one shot glass of the whiskey, he took off the top and started to drink 
from the bottle.


    Lorelai ran after them. "Mom, Dad, we've got to talk about this. It's not 
going away."

    "I need a drink." Emily said, as she collapsed into a chair, and started 
to rub her temples. "I knew he was wrong for you, I told you not to date him, 
but I never, never, never expected THIS to happen." She got up and poured 
herself a drink. "What are we going to do? I know, we'll send you to France 
to live with Hopi, and you can put the baby up for adoption. No one will ever 
know. We'll say you wanted to go to boarding school and experience Europe..."
    
    Lorelai interrupted her mother's rambling, "What?! I'm not moving to 
Europe!!"

    "Fine, then, we'll pay for an abortion. No one would know if you went to 
Bridgeport."

    "What the hell is wrong with you? I'm keeping this baby, mom, I'm going 
to raise it. I'm not getting rid of my child."

    "And what are you and Christopher going to do? Get married and raise this 
baby?" Emily began to sound more delirious by the minute.

    "We're not getting married. I don't know where I'm going to raise it."

    A somewhat drunk Richard, overhearing the conversation, burst out from 
his study, with a now half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels. He stared 
discustingly at his daughter for a moment, grabbed his coat and car keys, and 
walked out of the door. Emily followed him, trying to stop him. Lorelai burst 
into tears. She decided to leave before her mom came back. She grabbed her 
own coat, and walked out of the backdoor.

    Emily came back in with tears on her face, noticing the house empty, she 
screamed, "LORELAI."
    

End Part 7

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