Thea obviously chose Yale while Rory decided to make a Pros and Cons list despite dreaming of going to Harvard since she was little.

It made no sense to Thea, but she guessed that was Rory's business.

"You know, when Jess took me to go get apple juice, this old white lady was shaking her head at us," Georgia said. "I thought she was pissed because I got all this apple juice and I started mocking her over her can of chili. Then when Jess and I got outside, he told me that the lady was disgusted was because we're an interracial couple."

Thea was surprised, "Serious?"

"Yeah," Georgia said. "I couldn't believe that I was so excited over apple juice, that I forgot racism existed for a moment."

Thea asked, "Jess didn't say anything?"

"He said he thought I was adorable getting passionate over apple juice," Georgia said. 

Annette came into the living room, "Girls...why is there like ten bottles of apple juice in the fridge?"

"We're stocking up for our senior year prank," Georgia said.

Annette looked at them, "Okay then." She went inside the kitchen.

There was a Poe convention going on, so there was that. Todd wanted to go to it, so that's what they did. Young Chui, Lane's fake boyfriend, had come with them much to Lane's annoyance.

One Poe was reciting, "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, 'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven.'"

"Such riveting stuff, Todd," Aiden said to Todd.

Without looking, Todd smacked him.

Georgia hissed at them, "Would you two stop?"

"But they're more entertaining than what we came here for," Jess whispered.

Georgia made a face, because it was true.

"I might be high, which isn't possible, but I see a second Poe," Sage said.

Thea looked, "No, I see him too."

A blonde girl, Lindsay, who was sitting next to Thea, shifted in her seat and shushed them.

"Sorry," Thea muttered.

Luke and Rachel were sitting together, with Billie sitting on Luke's lap. Billie seemed to have fallen asleep.

Lorelai was bothering Luke about something, but Thea cracked up because the Poe gave Lorelai a dirty look for talking during his recital.

It looked like Rachel handed Lorelai a pen.

Eventually the first Poe finished and a second Poe got up on stage to recite, "Once upon a midnight dreary..."

Thea groaned. 

After the convention, Lindsay and Young Chui seemed to enjoy talking to each other about something, because apparently Young Chui had broken up with his girlfriend, Karen.

But at least Lane looked a bit glad that Young Chui had dropped interest in her.

Then Young Chui decided to walk Lindsay home and Lindsay seemed to be a bit happy about it. 

Thea was woken up by Sookie rushing into Sage's room at like five in the morning.

Aiden groaned and covered his head with a pillow.

"Honey, put your clothes on. Something happened at the Inn. Something about a fire alarm going off," Sookie told them. She left the room, making Aiden, Sage, and Thea to hastily get out of bed to put their clothes on.

After getting dressed, they all headed for the Inn.

When they got there, there was a firetruck and a cop car with it's lights on. Part of the Inn looked to be burnt and there were guests standing outside.

The fire chief spoke into a walkie-talkie.

Lorelai and Rory rushed up to them.

Sookie said, "Ah, Lorelai, thank God."

Lorelai said, "Hey, what's going on?"

Sookie told the firechief, "This is Lorelai Gilmore."

Lorelai asked, "What's going on?"

The fire chief said, "In a minute, ma'am."

"Isn't it obvious?" asked Thea, motioning to the Inn.

"Mom, let him do his thing," Rory said.

Lorelai said, "You're right." To Sookie and Michel, she said, "Sookie, Michel, um, is everyone out?"

Michel replied, "Yes."

"Are you sure?" asked Lorelai.

"Yes," replied Michel.

"Yes," Sookie said, "We're sure, the fire department's sure, we did a head count. Sage, Aiden, and Thea also did a head count."

"We need to double check, triple check," Lorelai said. "Julio! He doesn't start 'til six but sometimes he comes here early because his sister-in-law, Rita, gives him a ride on her way to work in Salisbury."

"Oh!" Sookie pointed at Julio, who was walking through the crowd, looking confused.

Lorelai went to hug him, "Ah, Julio, Julio. Ah, I'm so glad to see you, you beautiful man." She released him and went back to stand with Sookie.

The fire chief walked over to Lorelai, "Ma'am, I'm Chief Baker."

"Oh, I'm sorry I jumped on ya," Lorelai said.

"That's okay," Chief Baker said, "The good news is that this is almost out. The structure's stable, and you're probably gonna be able to get back in in about twenty-four hours."

"Excellent. Twenty-four hours, the structure's stable, thank you," Lorleai replied.

"That's okay," replied Chief Baker.

"The statue of you is going up just as soon as we get back in," Lorelai said. "Eighty feet tall."

"I'm looking forward to it," Chief Baker replied.

"Here we go guys, phase two," Lorelai said.

"Loving the pace here," Sookie said.

"Missing my bed here," Sage muttered.

Lorelai said, "Um, we need food, we need computers with Internet, we need phones. Michel, I need this on you stat. Hurry, hurry." She said, "Rory?"

"Yeah?" asked Rory.

Lorelai said, "Um, help the guests with the kids, make sure they're not freaked out. Gather them up and entertain them for awhile so the adults can catch their breath."

"Right," Rory said. "I have never entertained kids – how do I do that?"

Lorelai replied, "Uh, take your socks off and do a puppet show."

"You've clearly never entertained kids either," Rory said.

"Despite having two daughters," Aiden added.

"Just the one considering she ignored Thea for most of her life," Sage added.

Rory looked at Thea for help who shrugged.

Sage went over and said, "Hey kids, you want to have a sword fight?"

One kid, that was maybe nine pointed at him, "You have a bruise on your neck."

Sage chuckled darkly, "Oh, just you wait 'til you hit puberty, kid."

The kid looked confused at that.

Sage, Aiden, and Thea went to Luke's after 'entertaining' the kids in some large stick fight, before the parents decided that it was time to gather the kids.

"You're wearing each other's shirts," Luke pointed out when Sage, Aiden, and Thea took their seats at the counter.

"That's very nice of you to actually take the time to remember what clothes we wear," Aiden told Luke.

"Besides, we were in a rush because my mother woke us up," Sage said.

"For what?" asked Luke.

Lorelai, Sookie, and the inn's guests enter in the diner.

Sookie greeted, "Morning."

"What?" Luke asked, "What is this?"

"Phase two," Sookie said.

"Phase two?" asked Luke.

"Into the back, guys," Sookie said. "March!"

Sookie's cooking staff carried food and supplies into Luke's kitchen.

Luke said, "Hold on, those guys can't go back there."

Lorelai said, "Oh, we're in luck, lots of empty tables. Go on and take your seats, guys."

"Lorelai, what is this?" asked Luke.

"We had a fire," Lorelai said.

Luke asked, "Fire, where?"

Sookie said, "Weston's Bakery."

Luke said, "You're kidding."

Sookie said, "They'll have fresh blueberries."

Lorelai said, "Perfect. Um, Weston's, hurry."

"Where?" Luke looked at Thea concerned, "Weston's caught fire?"

"No, the Independence Inn did," Thea corrected.

Luke looked at Lorelai, "Your inn?"

Sookie was saying, "Just move all of Luke's stuff aside, we don't need it."

Luke seemed insulted, "Hey, wait a minute."

Lorelai replied, "Everyone's fine, the inn's still standing, we're into phase two."

Luke asked, "What is phase two?"

"Apparently taking over your diner," Aiden said.

"Just shove it aside," Sookie was saying as she put on an apron.

Luke asked, "What are you doing?"

"Making breakfast," Sookie replied.

Luke started taking the bags of groceries out of the kitchen, "You can't make breakfast here."

Sookie looked at a plate, "Got any plates that aren't cracked?"

Luke said, "You're the one that's cracked."

Sookie said, "Nice thing to say to a pregnant woman."

Luke sarcastically replied, "Oh, my mistake." He had heard Sage telling his friends about his mother's pregnancy.

Sookie said, "Yo, Caesar, help my guys and there's a twenty in it for you."

Luke explained, "We both can't be making different stuff at the same time."

"You know, you're right," Lorelai said. To the rest of the diner occupants, she said, "Listen, all you people who were here before we invaded, are you willing to cancel your current orders for Sookie's famous blueberry-lemon pancakes, Belgian waffles or bananas foster?"

A man said, "Sure."

A woman added, "Sounds good."

"I'm offended that bacon wasn't offered on the side," Thea muttered.

Aiden rubbed small circles on Thea's back, "Me too, babe, me too."

Sookie said, "Okay, pull all of Luke's stuff off the grill and let's get cooking!"

Luke said, "I'm an island."

Lorelai said, "Luke, I'm sorry about all this, but I'm not anticipating the inn catching fire ever again, so it's a one time only thing, okay?"

"Like I have a choice?" asked Luke.

Lorelai said, "You do. Say the word and we go."

Luke said, "Stay, cook, eat. I'll be upstairs, so I can tell Libby and Jess to go back to sleep."

Lorelai said, "You're a doll."

Thea felt bad for Luke.

Sookie was saying, "No, get rid of it! Dump it, dump it! I don't wanna see it!"

Thea gave Luke a sympathetic look, because not even he deserved to have his diner invaded by the hurricane that is called Lorelai Gilmore.

Lorelai had scattered the guests among other people's houses, at least those who opened up their houses to the guests; which meant that Lorelai opened up Rory's bed, Thea's bed, and Lorelai's bed as well.

Thea had stayed with Aiden for that.

The only good thing was seeing Sookie and Luke work together.

"Get the ricotta fritters started, guys. I wanna serve those first," Sookie said.

"Hey," Luke asked, "We making the Cajun Eggs Benedict again?"

Sookie said, "I don't know, we could."

"Let's do it," Luke said. "It was good."

Sookie pointed out, "Well, the Cajun was all your doing."

Luke said, "Only because I knocked the cayenne pepper into your hollandaise."

"Hey, how do you think they invented the Reese's cup and penicillin, my friend?" Sookie said, "We can win the Nobel here."