New Beginnings

Act 3 ch 4

"So, I think I'm in touch with the other side" Lorelai says to her daughters one night at Luke's.

"The other side of..." Victoria says. "The other side" Lorelai repeats.

"With republicans?" Rory asks her. "No, lately, I've been having these dark premonitions" Lorelai explains. "About what?" Victoria asks as Luke walks over.

"Dead cow, dead cow, and yet another dead cow" Luke says handing them their burgers before walking away.

"That's weird" Lorelai gasps. "He's always weird" Rory says.

"No, I mean, my premonitions have been about death. About my death" Lorelai explains. "I don't want to hear this" Victoria shakes her head. "And the thing is they're all silly" Lorelai continues.

"What do you mean silly?" Rory asks her.

"In one, I slip on a banana peel and fall into whipped cream" Lorelai answers. "Silly and fattening" Victoria says taking a bite.

"In another, a turtle eats me" Lorelai says. "A turtle? How?" Rory asks. "Very slowly. There's lots of chewing" Lorelai replies.

"And in your premonition you didn't run away from what is perhaps the slowest land animal on earth?" Victoria asks her mother.

"His first bite injected me with immobilizing poison" she answers. "Well you left that part out" Victoria responds.

"Now this last one's a little more gory. I'm out hunting-" Lorelai starts. "A favorite Lorelai Gilmore pastime" Rory says sarcastically. "And my shotgun backfires. My whole face spins around a bunch of times and winds up in the back of my head like daffy duck" Lorelai finishes.

"That's the silliest one yet" Victoria laughs.

"Now if that's how I go you girls better promise me one of you will move my face back to the front of my head like Daffy did with his beak" Lorelai insists. "I should be writing this down" Rory says.

"You can remember to move my face to the front of my head" Lorelai tells her. "It depends on what I have going on that week" Rory shrugs. "Hello, Stars Hollow? Are you ready to rock?" Lane says coming in.

"Let me guess, band practice tonight?" Victoria asks her best friend.

"Yes, we're going to learn our fourth song. That's practically a set" Lane says sitting down with the Gilmores. "I'm impressed" Lorelai says.

"Once we have a set, we'll get a gig, and then once we get a gig, we'll get a record deal. And the. after we get a record deal, we'll get really famous and then we'll have to give all of these interviews about how horrible it is to be really famous and how all we care about is the music, and fame is gonna tear us apart. It's gonna be great" Lane gets way ahead of herself. "And rehearsing in the music shop's been working out?" Lorelai asks. "Perfectly, it's totally time efficient. Being a thirty second commute from my house, we practice for two hours, I'm home in time to watch reruns of Johnny Tune's talk show with my mom, who thinks I hooked up with you guys, which I did, which I did, so I'm not even lying" Lane answers.

"Well you're kinda lying" Victoria says.

"I'm fibbing, but a fib is not a lie" Lane insists. "I'd say it's a fib slash lie" Lorelai replies.

"No, no, it's not a lie, I can always tell because the few times that I've fully lied to my mother I get this feeling in my gut like a wild animal is burrowing into it and I'm not getting that" Lane explains. "Wild animals burrowing into my stomach, another one of my premonitions" Lorelai says. "Pretty spooky" Victoria comments.

"I've gotta go. I'm single handedly improving the reputation of drummers everywhere by being on time for every rehearsal" Lane says before leaving.

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