They laid quietly together on the couch. Luke taking most of the space, with Lorelai's comfortable weight pressing into him as she laid on her side. Her head rested in the dip of his collarbone as the movie played.
It was a rare moment that she fell asleep during a movie, but Luke knew she was exhausted, especially if Lorelai had fallen asleep during a movie like Funny Girl.
It had been one of those days when the town referred to her as the Blur. She had several meetings with financial advisors, potential investors, and one tiresome meeting with Taylor Doose on some technicality Lorelai had overlooked while running her inn. Not to mention the daily complaints from Michel and Sookie's clumsiness in the kitchen.
Luke had suggested she go to bed, he could tell she was about dead on her feet when Lorelai got home. Lorelai, however, insisted that they have their movie night together, as planned. She had lasted only the first half of the movie before Luke noticed that she was far too quiet.
Luke loved her erratic energy and the warmth she filled in his life. But he found it a small treat to catch her in a rare moment of stillness. He loved the feel of her against him, the slack in her jaw as she breathed.
He had loved her for so long, even when he knew she was someone else's, and still, he had waited for her. Even when he thought he had moved on, when he had convinced himself they were just friends, still, he had waited and hoped for a chance to know all of her vulnerabilities the way he had come to know all of her neuroses.
His fingers ran up and down Lorelai's back with ease as the movie continued. His other hand came to rest where pregnancy had finally revealed itself to the world. Luke was still as amazed as the day Lorelai told him he was going to be a father again. Somehow they had managed to keep the first three and a half months mostly just between them, Rory being the exception. He still didn't know how they were able to keep it quiet with Miss Patty and Babette's keen eye for snooping into their business. It wasn't a secret anymore, once Lorelai had told Sookie and Jackson. The town had been insufferable after that. In six more months, there would be a new person in the world. A little boy or girl who was half him, half her. He loved the idea.
Lorelai stirred a little in his arms and cracked an eye open.
"Luke?" she murmured tiredly, having been so deep in sleep that she was disoriented.
"Yes?"
She didn't answer immediately, just cuddled deeper into him.
"Mmm, comfy," she mumbled as she curled up her legs closer to her chest, noticing as she did Luke's hand on her stomach. Lorelai smiled and joined his calloused hand with her own smooth and manicured hand.
"You are so predictable," she said and kissed his shoulder that was near her head.
"Hey, one day he or she is going to kick. And when they do, I'm going to feel it." She was too tired to move, but she lifted her chin up to ask for a kiss, which Luke readily gave out. She adjusted Luke's hand to where, just now, she could feel their baby kicking and he froze.
"Wait, Lorelai, is that . . . ?" he asked in disbelief. The excitement in his voice woke her up and she sat up a little.
"You can feel it?" she grinned as she pressed his hand into her stomach.
"I think I can, wow," he whispered. He went still and quiet as he felt the faint tapping under his fingers.
"Neat, huh?" she whispered, beaming at him.
"Yeah," he said absently, his mouth twitched in a smile. Lorelai smiled to herself and settled back against Luke once more, attention going back to the movie playing. But soon, the screen blurred again and Lorelai lost the fight again as she drifted off into sleep.