New Beginnings

Act 6 ch 7

"Oh, my god. Look who's back, I believe it's those adorable Gilmore Girls" Victoria says walking into Luke's with her mother and sisters.

"My, how we missed them" Lorelai says. "I hear they're different now-a little sad" Rory takes over.

"A little broke" Victoria adds. "Don't you three believe in jet lag?" Luke walks over to them. "No way, we're still flying in the Atlantic City buzz" Lorelai insists.

"Hey, handsome. Were you bad while I was gone?" she asks.

"I was. I went to bed every night at 10:15" Luke answers. "Grandpa, what are we gonna do with you?" Victoria sighs.

"Did you have a good trip?" Luke asks as the girls sit down. "I believe it was the best belated 21st birthday part on record. Still a little disappointed I had two 21st birthday parties and couldn't drink at either of them though" Victoria tells him. "Which reminds me, sorry about all the drunken late night phone calls" Lorelai apologizes to Luke.

"What drunken late night phone calls?" he asks confused.

"Uh, so, um, do you want to what about all the things we can tell you about our trip?" Lorelai avoids the question. "I'm not sure" Luke answers honestly.

"Okay, well first of all video poker is my calling. I think I'm totally gonna dedicate my life to it, especially the third machine in the second row of machines as you hit the entrance of Trump Taj Mahal" Victoria starts causing Luke to sit down. "I'm more of a roulette girl myself" Rory tells him. "And we did the whole thing up right you know, two out of three of us did the martinis at the blackjack table" Lorelai says.

"And we pretended we were turning 21 while we were playing 21, and we actually won and bought our 21 items" Victoria adds.

"Shot glasses, glow in the dark coasters, salt and pepper shakers, pasties" Rory lists. "Oh, and look" Lorelai pulls out a list.

"What's that?" Luke asks. "21 guys' phone numbers, I must say I'm feeling myself with how many I was able to get while pregnant" Victoria says proudly. "Uh-huh, so tell me, how was Paul Anka- the person, not the dog" Luke asks them.

"We didn't get to see him" Lorelai says sadly.

"Why not? That's all you talked about" Luke asks confused. "The billboard was old and his show actually closed a week before we got there" Rory explains.

"So, who'd you end up seeing?" Luke asks. "Well, it came down to Journey without their original lead singer, INXS without their original lead singer, Queen without their original lead singer, The Supremes without Diana, and, weirdly, the James Brown band without James Brown, but we wound up seeing Tony Danza, who was sublime" Victoria answers. "Oh, the tap dancing" Lorelai reminisces.

"Why Taxi never utilized his musical comedy skills is astonishing" Rory says.

"Sounds great" Luke replies. "Oh, we snagged you a Paul Anka T-shirt. They had some left over" Victoria pulls the shirt out of a bag tossing it to him.

"Okay. I'm making you burgers" Luke starts to get up. "Wait, wait. You haven't seen the best part yet" Lorelai stops him. She gives her daughters a look, both of them instantly knowing what she's talking about.

"Oh, we were walking down the street and we see this guy-" Rory starts.

"And, Luke, my hand to God, it's you, it's totally you. Luke 2.0" Victoria puts her hand up. "We came face to face with your doppelgänger, my friend" Lorelai confirms.

"So we followed him" Rory continues. "Yeah, cause we had to, and he went into this nightclub, so we followed him, cause we're now stalkers and obsessed with getting his picture" Victoria adds. "So we follow him through this kind of grungy place, and he goes backstage" Lorelai takes over.