7A/N: I just decided to make this a series of little events in Lorelai and Rory's life, so now Rory is four... And another phonecall...
"Mommy!" Lorelai woke up and saw her daughter standing next to her bed. The little girl was sobbing.
"Don't cry honey, it was just a nightmare." She wrapped her arms around her daughter.
The crying stopped. "Do you want mommy to put you back in bed?" Lorelai asked the four-year-old, while drying her tears with a handkerchief.
"Can Rory sleep with Mommy?" The little girl was fiddling with Lorelai's hair, which made Lorelai smile.
"Of course you can." She took her daughter with her and put the blanket over the both of them.
"Mommy?"
"What is it, honey?"
"Why does daddy live somewhere else?" Lorelai pulled her daughter a bit closer.
"Because mommy and daddy were really young when you were born." She explained to her little girl.
"All the other daddies pick the other kids up." Lorelai couldn't believe this. She knew she was going to have this conversation with Rory someday, but not when she was four, and certainly not at two a.m. "You know what. We're going to ask daddy to pick you up one day."
"Thank you mommy." The little voice said quietly.
"Goodnight, munchkin." Rory had already fallen asleep.
Lorelai listened her daughter sleep for a while and then snuck out of bed. She walked into the living room/dining room and took the phone and dialled a familiar number.
She let the phone ring for a while until someone picked up. "Hello?" A sleepy voice answered. "Chris?" Lorelai was almost crying.
"Lore? What's the matter? It's four a.m."
"Can you pick up Rory tomorrow after school?"
Chris frowned on the other side of the telephone. "Pick up Rory? Why?"
"She asked me why you didn't live with us?" She admitted.
"What did you tell her?"
"That we were really young when she was born."
"I'm sorry, Lore."
"For what?"
"That I'm not there."
Lorelai sighed. "Can you be there tomorrow?"
"What time do I have to be there?" Chris asked. He had no idea how he was going to do this, but he needed to do this, for Rory and for Lorelai.
"Three thirty."
"I'll be there."
"Thanks."
"Goodnight Lore."
"Goodnight Chris." Lorelai hung up her phone and went back to bed.