New Beginnings

Act 2 ch 15

"It still hurts" Lorelai complains walking down the street with her daughters.

"Do you need stitches?" Victoria asks her. "Probably" Lorelai answers.

"Then we should go to a doctor" Rory says. "No, no doctors. You go into a hospital you don't come out again" Lorelai replies. "Well said, Ida Morgenstern" Victoria mocks her.

"I'm starving. I need pancakes" Lorelai complains.

"Can I just ask-" Rory starts. "No" Lorelai cuts her off.

"What on Earth you thought you were doing?" Rory finishes. "I thought I was being a self sufficient woman" Lorelai answers. "You hate ladders" Victoria points out.

"And heights" Rory adds.

"We needed our rain gutters cleaned" Lorelai explains. "Yeah, well, hire somebody" Victoria suggests.

"Oh well aren't we suddenly a Rockefeller" Lorelai says. "Well it's better than you killing yourself" Victoria insists.

"I'm fine, I'm just being dramatic. It's what I do" Lorelai sighs. "No more ladders" Rory says. "I promise" Lorelai promises.

"Okay" Rory nods.

"I think I have gangrene" Lorelai says. "You do not" Victoria disagrees.

"And vertigo" Lorelai adds. "Oh, boy" Rory replies. "One leg suddenly feels shorter than the other" Lorelai keeps going.

"This is gonna be the vanity fair paper cut incident all over again, isn't it?" Victoria sighs.

"Wow" Lorelai says peeling back her bandage. "Leave you bandage alone" Rory tells her.

"Look, it's turning purple, but a really glowy purple. Look" Lorelai says putting her hand in Victoria's face. "No thanks" Victoria says pushing her hand away. "Maybe our rain gutters are radioactive or made out of some kind of alien metal so that when I cut my hand I got infected with and extraterrestrial substance which is altering my internal makeup. Maybe I'll turn into a superhero" Lorelai overthinks.

"Maybe" Rory replies.

"Maybe tomorrow, I'll wake up and be able to shower really fast" Lorelai says. "We'll go pick out your cake after breakfast" Victoria says walking into Luke's.

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"God, I'm starving" Lorelai says sitting down.

"Must be from the loss of blood" Victoria jokes. "I'm getting pancakes with a side of pancakes" Lorelai says.

"Where's Luke?" Victoria asks. "I don't know, storage room?" Rory suggests. "Oh, no" Lorelai sighs.

"Cesar's cooking" Victoria notices.

"Why is Cesar cooking?" Lorelai asks. "I don't know" Rory answers.

"That's bad, his pancakes stink" Victoria says. "They do stink" Lorelai agrees. "Well, what do we do, resort to doughnuts?" Rory asks.

"Wait here" Lorelai says before going upstairs to get Luke.

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"Well, I think I'm finally ready to get a tattoo" Lorelai says as they walk home at night.

"Oh please" Victoria says. "I am" Lorelai insists.

"You've been saying that for the last five years" Rory reminds her. "I know, but I mean it this time" Lorelai says. "Fine, what are you getting?" Victoria asks.

"Mel Brooks" Lorelai answers.

"Why?" Rory asks her. "What do you mean why? The 2,000 year old man, young frankenstein, silent movie, you don't think Mel has earned the right to have his face on my butt?" Lorelai replies.