I read all of this fanfic in 2021-05. It has its high points and low points. I think I watched all of the "Gilmore Girls" episodes in 2021. I watched the Netflix limited series of the GG show in 2021.
Parts in order of appearance:
* â€| = mojibake of ellipsis … - see
https://archive.org/download/savefanfiction-11892034-What_Was_That_-DSLeo/What%20Was%20That_-ffnet_11892034.txt for a non-mojibaked experience
* AU = author universe I guess
* Summaries at the start: wasn't clear enough. It should've just said "This is part 3; part 1 and 2 are titled x and y."
* Romantic: "Luke cherished that living room. He'd made love with Lorelai on the couch, watched ESPN while she leaned against him reading her Kindle, seen his sons take first steps and first falls on the worn carpet. That living room was, even more than the kitchen, the _heart_ of the home."
* "Loin-fruit!" - reference to an episode of "Gilmore Girls"
* Hot/romantic/funny:
Lorelai yelled, "Babe!" and hurtled toward him, tearing off some sort of lab coat thing. Then Luke's vision was full of his wife's cleavage, his breath was knocked out of him by her legs wrapped around his middle, and he had to drop the bat or drop _her_. Since losing Lorelai wasn't an option, even to gravity, he held tight to his wife while she rained kisses on his forehead. Slime and all.
Eventually, she wriggled, her signal for _let me stand_.
He let her legs slide down along his, wishing desperately neither of them were wearing jeans, until he heard a meaningful "Ahem" from his wife.
"Oh yeah, the boys," said Luke belatedly. "And, uh, the girls."
"They know how babies are made," said Lorelai gravely, sapphire eyes sparkling, "but I don't think we should _show_ them."
* Interesting:
"What is all this?"
"That," corrected Rory,
** Is the word "that" really more correct than the word "this" in that situation?
* "For those unfamiliar with whiskey-tango-foxtrot… That's the radio shorthand for the letters W, T, and F." - I had a harder time thinking of what "AU" meant.
* So yeah this is part 3 as made clear by the following, but where can I read part 1 and part 2?:
AN [author note]: I had a vision of a very bad GG revival, and tried this. In case it will take wallowing, brownies and, possibly, a very MST3K [?]-style watching of _Titanic_ to recover. Hey, what can I say? For some, the love will go on. For me, it's the snark. Anyway, thus concludes the "That" trilogy I never intended: Who Does That?; That Again; and, What Was That?
Part 1:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11233783/1/Who-does-that
Part 2:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11572877/1/That-Again
Author:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4844923/DSLeo 
