The explosion came too quickly and was too strong. Lorelai had no chance as the explosion ripped through her kitchen. Morey and Babette came thundering out of their home as the Crapshack crumbled down "NO LORELAI HUNEY" Babette yelled as tears streaked down her face. Luke in the diner heard the explosion in fact the town heard it and they all rushed there Taylor, Michel, Liz, Patty, Sookie and Jackson, and finally Luke. As Luke arrived so did the Fire Department with the sirens screaming and lights flashing as Luke ran towards the Crapshack it took Taylor, Liz, TJ, Michel and Kirk to hold him back "No please Lorelai please please LORELAI PLEASE please Lorelai" now totally destroyed he sank to the ground as the Crapshack finally collapsed. Sookie was being hold by Jackson crying into his shoulder Michel was on the brink of tears and Liz was trying to comfort Luke with April. Taylor was commanding the Fire Department and others they were crowded round sobbing quietly. Eventually when the blaze was out Luke climbed slowly over the wreckage to where her body broken and badly burned unrecognisable to even her closest friend lay. Soon the crowd had mostly dispersed and only Luke, Sookie, Michel, April and Liz remained "She loved ya Luke she always did from that day 12 years ago when you first met I knew all along she loved ya" Sookie's voice cracked as she finished the sentence and she subsided into silence. And slowly she and Michel slipped away. So now only the Danes stood there slowly hesitantly Liz and April moved to either side of Luke and pulled him into a hug.
"Dring, dring, dring, dring" The telephone rang loudly as Emily walked quickly and quietly to answer. "Hello Gilmore Residence" she rolled off as she had done for more than three decades now. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT"! "RICHARD, RICHARD DAMN IT RICHARD PLEASE"! Emily broke her heart cracking as did her voice as she shouted for her husband cradling the phone in her hands as she sank to the floor utterly defeated. "Emily my dear I was in the middle of an important conversation to Japan, EMILY! What's the matter Emily" after wrestling the phone from his destroyed wife's grip he answered the telephone. "Hello who is this, Taylor who? WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAVE YOU SAID TO MY WIFE TO DO THIS TO HER YOU BASTARD! What Lorelai's what she's, she's dead gas explosion she's really dead, oh well um ARE YOU SURE BECAUSE IF YOUR A PRANKSTER YOU WILL BE HUNTED DOWN BY ME PERSONALLY! Your sure then well Goodbye" Richard puts down the speaker struggling to hold back his emotions. "Come on Emily please let me pick you up and put you to bed." He said gently. "You know if she was here she would just say dirty right. " Yes I know, I know, come on up you come." Slowly he picked her up and carried her to their bedroom As they drifted off for possibly the last time they embraced crying into each others shoulders. As other people all over Connecticut cried themselves to sleep Luke, April, Liz and TJ, Patty, Babette and Morey, Kirk and Lulu, Lane and Zac. Mrs Kim was praying for Lorelai's soul the entire night. Paris at Harvard Medical was booking flights for her and her Husband of Two years.
Was Richard's reaction to Lorelai's Death a bit out of character but I always thought he would be roaring mad if he thought that someone was pranking him. Thanks for reading Rory may be introduced in a later chapter if this is more of a one-shot