DISCLAIMER: I am only borrowing the characters and will return them in one piece after I have my way with them ;)

Takes place in the 4th season episode 4.11 but obviously strays from there.

This is the first time I am writing where each chapter is not planned out. Wish me luck. It will eventually get smutty as all my fanfics do, so sit back (grab some GG approved junk food) and enjoy!

Dedicated to a friendship that once rivaled Luke and Lorelai's.

"Three weeks ago you moved to Litchfield?"
 How could she have missed this? Luke moved and he hadn't told her. How could she not have noticed?

"Yes," Luke answered, getting frustrated at where this conversation was going. He knew she was hurt. He would have been hurt if the shoe was on the other foot, but what could he do.

"Litchfield is another county." She was bewildered at the thought.

"Yes." It was all he could say.

"Well," she sighs as she turns again and he goes behind the counter. "Three weeks ago you moved to another county?"

"Yes." Damn it why was she making things so hard? Why did it matter to her, but he knew, he knew it would, that is why he hadn't told her.

"Well, were you gonna mention this to me anytime soon?" Her voice was loud. She was angry and hurt. Why was this hurting so much? It felt like she had been kicked in the stomach. She thought she meant more to him than this.

"Sure." But he knew it wasn't true. He hadn't wanted her to know. He didn't want her to know they were to this point, he wasn't sure that Nicole and him were at this point. He had agreed because he had nothing better. He didn't want to be alone anymore, but he knew it wasn't working.

"When?" She yelled at him. She was yelling in his diner. People were looking. He hated that she was doing this here.

"When it came up." He was hoping it would never have come up. He was angry with her for making him feel like this. He was a grown mad, and didn't have to explain everything to Lorelai Gilmore.

"When it came up." She didn't believe him. She didn't think he was ever going to tell her. She felt betrayed by him not telling her. It hurt that he was living with her. A feeling she was suddenly very aware of. 
He was sharing everything with HER. It made Lorelai angrier.

"Yeah."

"Okay, so if I hadn't asked for the next twenty or thirty years and I sent you a nice fruit basket upstairs you just never would have gotten it." She was staring at him. Those blue eyes drilling into him.

"It's not that big a deal." But he knew it was, or he would not have kept it from her.

"Okay"

"I mean it's not like we tell each other everything." He regretted the words as soon as they were said. He saw the affect they had on her instantly. They did tell each other everything; he was closer to her than anyone.

"No! Of course we don't! I mean, I tore a pair of panty hose this morning and I didn't tell you about it. Oh wait, I guess I just did." Her voice shook. the look in her eyes told him how much he had hurt her.

"Hey, you know now, right?" He was trying to make this right. He was trying, why couldn't she see that. Nothing had changed.

"Yeah, Right."

"Look, nothing's changed." But he knew it had. He knew it had during this conversation. 
He had sensed it.

"Yeah nothing's changed, except you don't live here!" Why is he so dense? Can't he see it? She needed him.

"So what?"

"So? I don't even have your phone number." The thought that she could no longer call him and have him come over in an instant hurt. No more Bert calls, no one to look for escapee chicks with. No more movie nights, because he had somewhere to go. He couldn't have moved.

"I'll give you my phone number." He knew it wasn't what she wanted, and she would never use it.

"I don't even know what you live in! An apartment, a trailer, a bat cave -
" she said. Her eyes were wild with anger and hurt. He couldn't look at them.

"A townhouse." Luke could barely get it out.

"A townhouse? Sure, 'cause when I look at you I think "common driveway". She didn't care what he thought of what she was saying anymore.

"It's fine, you'll come over and see it eventually." Again, he knew it would never happen. Nicole made no qualms about how she felt about Lorelai; he knew she would never see the place.

"Will I? Will I come over, because me coming over implies we're friends! 
" She knew she wouldn't. She hoped her words hurt him, but she knew he would never show her the place.

"We are friends!" and so much more or this would not be happening. He couldn't let Lorelai think they were not friends. He couldn't loose their friendship.

"No, we're not! We're not friends! Friends tell each other at least the most basic things like where you live and when you moved away. I thought we were friends but I guess we're not!" She really believed her words. How could he do this to her? She never thought that their relationship was going to get to this. Her words cut him, and he knew he deserved them. She was right, he should have told her.

"Where are you going?" She couldn't leave like this. He wasn't going to let her leave like this.

"I can't stay! It hurts to much!" She starts to put on her coat to leave. She didn't want him to see her cry.

Luke reaches for her and pulls her behind the curtain quickly.

"What is wrong? Why are you so mad?" There isn't much room behind the curtain and they are nose to nose. He can feel her trembling.

"You didn't tell me. You moved!" She yells at him.

"Why is that making you upset? What do you care where I live? I'll still be here to pour your coffee!" He was looking down at her, and she for the life of him looked like a trapped animal. Her eyes were darting wildly avoiding his stare.

"Because," she said barely in a whisper.

"Because what, Lorelai?" he hisses angrily. He stares into her eyes and then he realize for the first time why. The anger suddenly seeps right out of him. What he sees stuns him.

"Because I want you. Because I can't bear that you are with her." She says what seconds before he had seen in her eyes. Before he can say anything, she bolts for the door. Last things he hears is the bells over the door.

Lorelai can't believe she told him. She is embarrassed that after all this time, all the wondering, the flirting and innuendos she tells him now. Now when he is married. She had no right to do this. She runs home and throws herself on her bed. She has to think.

Luke is left standing behind the curtain. He is stunned. His mind has gone blank and he can't move.

Luke by nature is not a man of fast action. He usually takes a long time to make decisions and always weighs his options, but today he has no time. Today, the one woman who has always made his heart skip a beat, the one who he thought of first thing in the morning and last thing at night, had told him she wanted him, then had run off. Worse was that he belonged to someone else.

Nicole, and him were trying to make the marriage work, they had stopped the divorce proceedings, but he knew he was not in it. Even with this condo, they had it three weeks and he had slept in it twice. He ran after Lorelai he had to make this right somehow.