Glitter Years

Richard in Stars Hollow

Lorelai, Anna, and Rory were let into Gilmore Manor by Emily. "Thanks, man, is it cold out there." Lorelai was glad to be in the house.

"I know, I'm freezing." Rory agrees.

"I hope we're having soup instead of salad tonight." Anna needed something to warm her up.

"Well, come on in and sit by the fire. I'll make you guys a drink and then we can talk." Emily walks ahead into the living room.

"About what?" Rory whispers to her mother.

"Antennas up," Lorelai advises.

"Aye aye, captain." Rory and Anna nod as they walk to the living room.

"So Lorelai, how are you?" Emily made the drinks.

"Um, I'm fine, Mom." Lorelai sat down on the couch.

"Rory?" Emily asks.

"I'm fine too, Grandma." Rory sat down on the couch across from her mother.

"Anna?" She asks.

"I'm great." She wonders what they were being buttered up for.

"How are you, Mom?" Lorelai kept up the small talk.

"Also fine." She answers.

"Oh, look at that. All four of us are fine, just like the Judds." She stares at her daughters with alert eyes waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"So Lorelai, are you dating?" Emily passes out the drinks.

"Uh, hm, no, I'm not dating." She shook her head.

"Really? There's no one at all?" She sat down next to her daughter.

"No, totally single." She smiled.

"Any chance you'd get back with Max?" Emily wonders.

"No Mom, there's no chance." She let out a small laugh.

"What about the man at the diner, the one who refuses to shave?" She named the next man she knew was in her daughter's life.

"Luke, he's just a friend, Mom." She put down her wine glass.

"Do you think you'll be single your entire life?" Emily asks in curiosity.

"Damn," Anna whispers to Rory, gigging under her breath. Rory stares at her grandmother with narrow eyes wondering where this was coming from.

"Excuse me?" Lorelai narrows her eyes as well.

"I mean, in terms of you finding someone, what do you think the odds are?" She leaned in to ask.

"Okay, what is going on?" She needs to know the point of this.

"Well, I visited the family mausoleum today." She picked up her drink to take a sip.

"Never what you think it's gonna be!" Lorelai turns to her daughters, who nodded in agreement.

"I just wanted to check on things, make sure they were keeping it up, changing the flowers, you know." She gave her reason for going. They nod their head for her to go on. "So, I went inside and looked around and it occurred to me that there's limited space. Now of course there's a slot open for me and Richard and you and Anna and Rory, but after the three of you, that's it. No more room for anyone else."

"Ah." Lorelai let out a sound at figuring out the point of the weird questions.

"Yes. So, if you do meet someone someday, I don't know where to put him." Emily had been trying to figure out what to do with this unknown man.