All I Want

All In

Coming back into the house, from the cold night, Lorelai, slipped her boots off before heading into the living room. It was about to be the moment of truth for Christopher. If he came clean, she thought, deep in her heart she might find a way to forgive him, but if he continued to uphold the charade of a single man, well...there would most definitely be a world of hurt coming his way.

Hearing Lorelai, come in, Christopher looked up from his texting and quickly pocketed his phone. It was an action that made her realize that there had been signs - signs she'd missed or maybe subconsciously chose to ignore.

"You were out there a long time, any luck swinging Rory over to your side of the fence?"

She'd heard the question, but all Lorelai could think about at that moment was that he had most likely been texting his girlfriend the whole time she was out there with Rory. A part of her dying to say those very words out loud, but she didn't, she held them in, instead finally answering the question he had posed to her.

"No such luck, she has headed out to make the biggest mistake of her life," Lorelai said as she sat down on the couch and tucked her feet underneath her.

" You don't know that," Christopher replied as he inched closer to Lorelai on the couch.

"He's not exactly a one-woman man Chris." It was an attempt by Lorelai to goad Chris or better yet force a guilty confession from him, but it was quickly apparent it wasn't going to be that easy, as Chris chose instead to defend Tristan. An act of pure sacrilege in Lorelai's mind.

"He's in high school. Very few of us boys were exactly faithful back then," Chris said, followed up by a smirk on his face that Lorelai was itching to smack off, her anger at him growing every minute he didn't fess up to having a girlfriend.

"Back then?" Lorelai had meant the statement to sound a little less accusatory, but she had Chris' full attention now.

"Okay, I know that face and that tone...you're mad at me for something. What did I do?"

Lorelai didn't want to crumble; she needed to maintain her firm resolve, to show him she was a big girl and could take care of herself. She'd been hurt by him so many times before it should have been easy, but when Chris reached out for her hand and brought it into his, the tears started anyway.

"Lor, honey...what's wrong?"

"I'm an idiot," Lorelai said, unable to keep her tears from falling.

"Okay, did I miss something? Are you really this upset about Rory dating Tristan or is there something else going on here that I'm not understanding?"

Lorelai sighed a heavy sigh."I promised myself that I would never let you do this to me again, yet here I am back in the same spot I was sixteen years ago."

It was far too vague a statement to clear anything up, but it did move the conversation forward, and Lorelai still harbored a vague hope that Chris would come clean and reveal all before she had to confront him with it and make him the bad guy.

"I don't understand what spot were you in sixteen years ago that..." Chris' jaw visibly dropped as his mind began to work backward.

"OH MY GOD! Lor are you pregnant?

The shock of that statement/question was enough to stop Lorelai's tears.

"What?! NO!!"

Okay good... whew you kind of scared me there. I mean obviously, you wouldn't have known this soon for us anyway...but wait that would suggest that you were sleeping with someone else. Are you?" The look on Chris' face said it all; he did not want her to answer anything other than no to the question.