New Beginnings

Act 4 ch 4

Victoria and Rory turn to look at each other before walking into their house for the first time in weeks.

"What the hell" Victoria says shocked when an alarm goes off. "Oh, crap" Lorelai runs to try turning the alarm off.

"What is that? Is it the smoke detector, are we on fire?" Rory asks. "It's not the smoke detector, it's the alarm" Lorelai answers. "What alarm?" Victoria asks confused.

"Our alarm" Lorelai replies still struggling to turn it off.

"We don't have an alarm" Rory says. "Well, then we have really angry rats" Lorelai jokes.

"Did you cut your hair?" she asked turning to see Rory. "Well, I just trimmed it" Rory answers. "You didn't tell me you were cutting your hair" Lorelai pouts.

"It was a spur of the moment thing" Rory says.

"A spur of the moment, let's not tell my mother I'm pulling a GI Jane?" Lorelai asks. "Are you two seriously gonna have this conversation right now? During the air raid?" Victoria asks annoyed that the alarms still going off.

"You're right, come on" Lorelai leads her daughters away. "What're we doing?" Rory asks. "I figured out that there was a motion detector and if you stand over here, it can't see you and it calms down" Lorelai explains walking them into a corner.

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"Umm" Rory walks out of her room the next morning.

"Follow the post its" Victoria yells to her from the front room. "Does our life seem at all ridiculous to you?" Rory asks.

"We spent all morning carefully tracking that motion detector" Lorelai tells her. "What an excellent use of your time" Rory says. "We're good as long as we stay on the path" Victoria chimes in.

"So I should follow the yellow stick road?" Rory asks.

"We'll be here all week ladies and gentlemen" Lorelai fake laughs. "Stop" Victoria yells.

"What?" Rory asks confused. "Read" Victoria explains. "Crouch down and hop. Oh, come on" Rory says.

"The motion detector beam at the top of the staircase dips very low over there" Lorelai tells her.

"You seriously want me to crouch down and hop?" Rory asks. "Like a little hunchbacked bunny" Victoria jokes.

"Oh" Rory groans before crouching and hopping. "You know, I had decided that if I ever went to therapy you'd both be left out of it but now-" Rory tells them. "Okay you can stand up" Lorelai says

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Victoria's walking down the street later that afternoon when she sees Lindsay sitting j her car with her head on her steering wheel.

Victoria walks over and knocks on the drivers window, Lindsay looks up with tears in her eyes and rolls down the window. "Hey, you okay?" Victoria asks softly.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine" Lindsay sniffles and quickly wipes her eyes. "What's wrong?" Victoria asks. "Nothing" Lindsay insists.

"Lindsay, come on. Your weddings tomorrow, I kinda assumed you'd be having a bachelorette party or at least some kind of partying" Victoria says.

"None of my friends have really been supportive about the engagement, they think the whole wedding's a mistake. Now he's out at his bachelor party and I'm here being pathetic" Lindsay admits. "What does Dean think about all that?" Victoria asks her.

"I don't like to bother him about this type of stuff" Lindsay replies. "Your feelings?" Victoria asks. "I guess" Lindsay sighs.

"Alright, get in the passenger seat" Victoria opens Lindsay's door.