Readers should know- contains dark vocabulary and thoughts.-

As Chris got of the motorbike, Lorelai froze. He was here. She'd not seen him in 10 years and every time he came to visit Rory, she made sure she wasn't anywhere near town. But he was here, right in front of her, the one thing she'd hope would never happen again. Forcing a smile on her face, she smiled at her daughters unwanted father.

"Lor, you're a hard woman to track down." Chris said, and Lorelai cringed at the way he spoke to her. She couldn't think of any words to say, so she just nodded, forcing a laugh.

"Mom? You okay?" Rory said, pulling out of her dads hug and walking to her mother, knowing that she was acting strange.

"What? Yeah I'm fine. You go with your dad, I'm off to Luke's." Lorelai smiled and gave her daughter a quick hug before leaving the scene, not turning back.

"Luke?" Chris questioned to Rory. Jealously filling him.

"Moms boyfriend, they've been dating for as long as I can remember." Rory said with a smile.

"But he doesn't live with you?" Chris asked.

"What? Yeah of course he does? In that town house over there." Rory said confused and pointed to it.

"She said she was going to Luke's? Making me think he had his own place?" Chris asked her, and Rory laughed.

"No, he owns the diner over the road, that's what she meant." Rory filled him in, and Chris nodded, hiding his jealousy.

Lorelai walked into Luke's and up to the counter, placing her head in her arms.

"You okay?" Luke asked her as he came over to her, and she sat up.

"Chris is here." Lorelai told him.

"He is?" Luke asked, and Lorelai nodded.

"Why?" Luke questioned.

"You tell me." Lorelai said and placed her head in her hands. Lorelai looked up at Luke and tears began to form in her eyes as she realised she'd never told Luke what happened. That she's been lying to him forever, and so she looked down.

"Hey, what's up?" Luke asked her, grabbing her hands, and tears prickled her eyes as she looked at him.

"Lorelai? What's happened?" Luke asked, beginning to worry. Lorelai shook her head as she looked down.

"Nothing, it's just a shock that's all." She lied, and Luke knew it.

"Cesar I've got to do something could you run the place for a bit?" Luke asked behind the wall into the kitchen.

"Sure thing." He replied,

"Come on." Luke said, and Lorelai stood up and began to walk to their old apartment upstairs, and Luke headed up the stairs to his old apartment behind a clearly upset Lorelai.

Lorelai sat on the couch in their old apartment, looking around. It had been so long since they'd been in here. The last time she was in here must have been about 2 years ago when they were grabbing the last of their things to move into the town house across the road, close enough to his diner, but away from prying eyes. Even though Lorelai is a loved citizen of Stars Hallows now, she wasn't always, and Luke was this towns pride and joy as the whole Danes family tree lived here. So when Luke brought a 20 year old into Stars Hallow with a 4 year old, who he'd met at the Independence Inn 6 months ago at a meeting, the town weren't exactly welcoming. Things quieted down once Lorelai had been there around 2 years, and then Luke and Lorelai began to date around 4 years after he brought her to town, but when people began to find out that her and Luke were dating, she got called everything from a "gold digging run away" to a "selfish whore." And this went bad to worse when they found out that she was a 'Gilmore', the fifth rich family in Harvard. That was when things got really bad, calling her names from a 'con artist' to a 'fake little princess.'

Lorelai had then decided that staying here was a bad idea, and that she would go and live back in the inn, but Luke refused to accept that, and at the next town meeting he explained Lorelais story, and her background, and people began to see her as Lorelai, instead of Lorelai Gilmore.

She smiled at the memory of the old times, and how much they'd changed. Luke and Lorelai now had a little girl, Elizabeth- Liz for short, after Luke's sister. They decided to call her 'Elizabeth' Instead of just 'Liz' because they knew that Richard and Emily would want a posh name for their second grandchild, even though when she announced she was pregnant at Friday Night Dinner, she honestly thought they were going to have a heart attack. They didn't approve of Luke, and so her telling them she was pregnant was like telling them she'd killed a person and buried them in their loft. Then of course, when Luke proposed to her, her parents soon came to love the idea of a new grandchild, and began to set up a play area and bedroom in one of their spare bedrooms, which is where Elizabeth was right now, and just as Christopher showed up, her and Rory were about to pick her up.

Luke brought Lorelai out of her thoughts when she handed her a coffee.

"Thanks." She smiled at him, and he sat next to her.

"Are you going to tell me what's wrong?" Luke asked her.

"It's nothing." Lorelai said, before taking a sip of her coffee.

"Lorelai, something is bothering you. And you need to tell me what it is." Luke said, and watched her, as she played with her engagement ring nervously.

"You'll look at me differently. I've never told anyone, because they'll look at me different. I don't want you to look at me the way my parents did when I told them. I mean they tried to be supportive when I yelled it at them by accident, but it got to much and I had to leave. I don't want you to look at me differently." Lorelai started to waffle on, and Luke grabbed her hands and she looked at him.

"Tell me." He said to her, as worry began to fill his gut.

"I was 16 when I got pregnant." Lorelai started.

"I know." Luke said.

"Just listen." Lorelai said, and Luke nodded, and Lorelai looked down, not being able to look at him.

"I was 16, and Chris was 18. He had this power at school, I don't know how to explain it but anyway. I was 16, and he decided that he liked me, and so he asked me out on a date and then we dated for a few months. Then we were at my parents house one night and he told me he wanted to take me somewhere. He said it was a surprise, obviously I agreed because it was away from my parents. He took me to a hotel, and at first it was perfect, he got room service, it was great. Then he just started getting handsy, touching my thighs and my waist." Lorelai said, and Luke pressed his lips together, closing his eyes, praying that this story was going to go where he thought. He was wrong.

"I said no and he didn't listen, and the next I knew he was holding me down on the bed with one hand and pulling my skirt down with the other. I was 16, everyone always thought that I was just a whore that was sleeping with a senior but I was 16 who wasn't ready to sleep with someone and got forced to, and was then got pregnant." Lorelai said, a Luke sat there, he had no words. He didn't know what to say. What do you say? He watched as Lorelai wiped her tears and began to fiddle with her engagement ring again, Luke didn't know what to say, so he just sat closer to her and pulled her in, she rested her head on his chest, and smiled. Happy that he didn't ask any questions. But also relieved that she no longer had this big secret from him, and that after 8 years, he finally knew the one thing she'd ever kept from him.