What Could Have Happened if Season 8 Happened?
Episode 1
'Good things definitely do not come is small brown paper packages' Part 1.
Roughly 9 weeks after Rory left for the Obama tour...
Lorelai is in a hospital gown lay down on a gurney, as she passes through a series of swinging doors fear starts to set in as she has no idea what is going on. There is commotion in the corridor ahead, Luke is arguing with Taylor (who is dressed as a candy striper) about Paul Anker being in a hospital, as she passed them, they stop and look at her, they start commanding her to breath, breath, breath. Michelle walks out of a side room dressed in a nurses outfit, he smiles at Lorelai "welcome to the Dragonfly Inn, here is your key, its room 6." Michelle gives Lorelai a pacifier. Lorelai is wheeled into a room and it becomes increasing apparent that she is in labour, a doctor walks in with a surgical mask covering his face. "Now Miss Gilmore, it is time to push!" Lorelai looks down towards the doctor and proceeds to push. The doctor positions himself ready "That's it, puuush" as he prepares for the arrival he removes his surgical mask, revealing his identity. The doctor is Kirk!
Lorelai awakes and sits bolt upright. Getting caught in her bed sheet she gets up to check her clothing and then to check the end of the bed. With no hospital gown or Doctor Kirk in sight she quietly goes downstairs.
Lorelai is stood at her kitchen sink staring out of the window, the water is over flowing from the coffee maker jug she is holding, but this does not register with her until she feels a hand slip around her waist.
Lorelai suddenly comes out of her trance. "Shoot!" she stumbles with the contents in her hand and quickly turns off the tap and reaches for a dish cloth.
Luke brings her in close and smells her hair "Morning, you're up early" he squints and looks at his watch. "It's not yet 5am, everything ok?"
Lorelai turns to face him and nestles up to the crease of his neck. "I'm fine, I'm crabby, I didn't sleep well, but I'm fine." She concludes with a weak smile.
Luke moves the hair from her face and takes a moment before he kisses her. "Ok, how about you go on and sit over there and I'll make you some coffee, then you can tell me the truth." He leads her in the direction of the kitchen table.
Lorelai reluctantly sits at the table where Paul Anker lays his head in her lap reflecting the mood she is in. "Luke I'm fine." She sits up with a sudden realisation. "What day is it? Is today Friday? No! It can't be, I can't face Emily today! Ooooh Luke it's Friday!" she puts her head on the table and makes mumbling sounds under her breath.
Luke finishes up making the coffee and places a rather large cup of coffee in front of Lorelai. He pulls up a chair and takes her hand. " Aaah Friday night dinner. Why don't you cancel? It's not like you are obligated to go anymore and Rory is away. You should call Sookie and have some girl time; I bet she needs a break, with the new baby and all. I'm sure Jackson can cope; after all, it is his fault!"
Lorelai looks up at Luke and smiles "Sookie? Yeah, that would be nice" she says wearily. She gets up and pulls Luke to his feet. They embrace and she kisses him, a bit more passionately than Luke expected which took him by surprise. "I love you Luke Danes, you know that?"
Luke smiles, it was always so good to hear her say that. "I know" he said softly "I love you too." He kisses her forehead "I have to go open up the diner, see you in there a little later?"
Lorelai nods her head playfully and Luke exits through the back door. Lorelai flops down on the chair and stares into her coffee. A single tear falls down her cheek and distorts her reflection in the black coffee.
...
Luke's Diner
Its mid morning rush and it's loud. Luke is in his normal frenzy and is increasingly getting more and more frustrated with Kirk.
All flustered Luke barks at Kirk. "KIRK! Will you just make up your mind?"
Kirk is not fazed by Luke's outburst and continues his monologue "I had bacon yesterday Luke, I don't want to have too much of a good thing, now, if I have eggs that will leave sufficient room for a muffin before lunch, but that also increases the risk that I might get hungry before lunch and I might not have time to eat a muffin." Kirk carries on but Luke's attention is elsewhere.
From the diner window Luke sees Lorelai walking past the Gazebo, she looks weak and pauses to lean on a bench. She sits on the bench and puts her head between her knees. Luke runs out to her.
"LORELAI! Are you ok? What's wrong?" he sits beside her on the bench and stares at her concerned. "Hey answer me"
Lorelai lifts her head and holds her forehead, "I just came over all dizzy all of a sudden. I feel better now though." She stands up and places her handbag on her shoulder and smiles. "Look at you all worried, aw sweetie, I'm fine. Too much coffee and not enough pop tarts!"
Luke's face is overcome with concern "you didn't look fine to me!"
Lorelai shoots him a look "way to cheer a girl up mister!"
Luke stutters "c,c,come on inside ill fix you some pancakes."
Lorelai laughs "It's ok ill grab something at the Inn, I'm running late. Lunch?" They kiss goodbye and Luke watches her walk away.
...
The Dragonfly
Sookie is in the kitchen preparing for the lunch time rush. There are trays of fresh fish displayed all over the worktop.
Sookie bends down to a tray of fish "Well hello there fishy! Aren't you a pretty little fishy!" She leans too hard on a tray of neatly chopped vegetables and they fly into the air. Sookie tries to protect herself from a vegetable strafing with the wooden spoon she was holding. As the drama subsides the door swings open.
Lorelai bursts in "Sooooookiiiiiiie?"
Lorelai enters the kitchen takes one look at the fish, puts her hand to her mouth and runs out of the kitchen.
Sookie looks puzzled, that was odd "Lorelai?" laughs "Lorelai hunny?" Sookie follows Lorelai to the restroom where she finds Lorelai seated by the toilet, post vomit. "Was it the smell, 'caus I always found the smell of fish to be, well, y'know...fishy." she looks at Lorelai "Hunny, you ok? You don't look so good!"
Lorelai gets to her feet and walks over to the basin, runs the tap and drinks some water. She looks at Sookie through the mirror. "I think I'm pregnant" she says softly and sadly.
As soon as the words leave her mouth Sookie shrieks with delight and proceeds to dance around Lorelai, arms flailing, whilst rapidly talking. "Oh, this is great! Ooooh you and Luke! Oh your baby and my baby can have play dates. Ooh I have lots of baby clothes you can have!" Lorelai starts to sob which stops Sookie in her tracks. Lorelai's tears start to fall heavy in to the sink. Sookie looks at Lorelai hard. "Sweetie, what's wrong? Is this not a good thing? This is not a good thing..."
Lorelai struggles to speak "I think I've messed up Sookie. I'm not sure or anything, I haven't taken a test or anything, I just know, y'know." She composes herself. "If I am pregnant, I ...don't... I don't think its Luke's."
Sookie looks relieved "What are you on about? Of course it's Luke's. Who else's could it be? You and Luke have been back together for..." a wave of realisation falls over her "Christopher" she says slowly.
Lorelai starts to speak but her cell phone rings. With everything she has Lorelai steadies her voice and puts on smile.
Lorelai answers the phone "Rory, hey hon, how are you?" (The sounds of muffled Rory can be heard from the phone) "That sounds amazing...really? Aw hun, sounds exciting, look, can I call you back? There is this whole big thing going down at the Inn, it involves Michelle. Ok... Bye" Lorelai hangs up the phone and runs to the toilet and vomits violently.
The Gilmores
Emily is sat at a table reading through a pile of postcards from Rory, Richard is reading the paper. A maid puts a fresh pot of coffee on the table alongside Emily.
"Thank you Martha" the maid bows and quickly leaves the room. Emily pours herself her third cup of coffee of the day, "Richard we have the D.A.R Charity Function to attend next week, it's at that ghastly hotel again, I am fed up of looking at that dreadful green carpet in their lobby, what on earth possessed Beth to hold it there I do not know."
Richard lowers his head behind his paper "Yes Emily"
Emily appears vexed, "Richard? Did you hear me? You are to wear the grey suite with the blue tie, which reminds me, I must call Lorelai and make sure she has the correct attire for such an event, if I leave it to her, she will wear that awful dress, the one that would make Hugh Hefner blush!"
Emily gets up and heads towards the phone, Richard, still hiding behind his paper simply replies with "very well, Emily." Emily rolls her eyes and dials Lorelai's number.
Emily: "Lorelai?"
Lorelai: "No I'm sorry you have the wrong number, I do not know a Lorelai."
Emily: "Lorelai, you and your jokes, honestly, you would think you would know the correct manner in which to answer the phone by now."
Lorelai: "I blame my mother; she never used the right sort of discipline, always the stick, never the carrot." Lorelai's mind wonders and she shakes away the imagery that sentence created.
Emily: "Charming, I'm sure."
Lorelai: "What do you want mother?"
Emily: "Don't say mother like that, I just wanted to know what you are wearing to the D.A.R Function next week."
Lorelai: (sighs) "Mom do I have to go? I don't think I can handle all that sophistication right now?"
Emily: "Why what's a matter with you? Are you sick? You don't sound sick? You promised me Lorelai, you promised me that you will be there."
Lorelai: "But I have a frat party to go to that night..."
Emily: "Lorelai!"
Lorelai: "I'm washing my hair?"
Emily: "Lorelai, you will be there and you will wear something appropriate, I will get you up to speed at dinner tonight."
Lorelai: "Actually mum, about tonight, I'm going to have to cancel. Something has come up at work and I can't get away. It's terrible it really is, I'm sorry, why don't you fax me the dress code and I'll, I, I'll see you next week. Ok. Bye now."
Lorelai hangs up leaving Emily bewildered and slightly bruised.
Stars Hollow Gazebo
Its dark
Lorelai and Sookie are sat on the bench, Luke comes over and hands Lorelai a brown paper bag. "Here you go; 2 hamburgers, 2 curly fries, 1 ham on Rye extra mayo, 1 cherry pie, one apple and 2 cherry cokes."
Lorelai claps her hands in delight "Sookie isn't my man just the best, I mean he is just so dreamy, right? The way he holds that paper bag, just makes me wanna..."
Luke cuts the sentence short "ok, (looks at Sookie) hey Sookie. Enjoy the food, I'm going to sleep at the diner tonight and give you two some girl time, plat each other's hair, paint your toenails or whatever it is you girls do."
Lorelai looks surprised "Luke, I never knew you had such experience in this field." Luke hangs his head, kisses Lorelai goodnight and returns to the diner.
Sookie starts to get the food out "Hey, if the baby comes out angry and wearing a baseball cap you know its Luke's."
Lorelai looks at her feet "I guess I have to take a test huh?"
Sookie passes Lorelai a Cherry Coke "Yeah hunny, you do. Or visit the doctor?"
Lorelai absently slurps her drink through a straw "I could kill Chris and his bad timing extra fertile sperm!"
Sookie looked up from the paper bag and at Lorelai. "Speaking of killing Chris, are you going to tell Luke?"
Lorelai puts her hands over her face, "I really want to, when Luke kept April from me, it tore us apart, but if I am having Chris' baby it will be the end of me and Luke forever! Sookie what am I going to do? What will I tell Rory? This is driving me all kinds of 'pulp fiction' type crazy, I need to know. I'm going to make an appointment with the Doctor tomorrow." Lorelai takes a big bite of her burger "God, I love meat!"
Sookie passed Lorelai some fries "I know sweets, that's how you got into this mess!"
Stars Hollow, the crap shack.
The next day.
It was early but Luke wanted to check on Lorelai before he opened the diner, he walked up the pathway and onto the porch, the door was open. "Typical! How many times do I have to remind her to lock the god damn door?" Mutters Luke, under his breath.
As he opens the door he notices the TV is on, but it's on pause (Where the Heart is, a film starring Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman is frozen on the screen) he hears a shuffling sound and finds Lorelai jumping backwards across the living room, she is completely un aware of Luke standing there, it startles her when he finally speaks and she loses her balance and falls to the floor.
Luke walks over to Lorelai and goes to help her to her feet "What are you doing?"
"Hi! I um, I didn't see you there." She tries to distract him with a kiss.
"Well no you wouldn't, you were busy jumping backwards there" he says looking at her curiously, trying to search for an answer in her face.
Lorelai looks over to the TV screen "I was just trying something that Ashley Judd advised Natalie Portman to do and y'know they are both so pretty, look at their pretty faces Luke"
Luke stares at Lorelai "What was the advice on? How to turn back time?
Lorelai avoided Luke's eye contact and says dismissively "Something like that" It was time to divert the situation. Lorelai gets close to Luke and looks up at him "Hey you" she kisses him and then grabs his shoulders "I forgot to tell you, we have a thing to go to on Tuesday, for the D.A.R. It's an Emily thing and I said we would go."
Luke gets mad and steps away from their embrace "Lorelai! Really? Do I have to? You know how much I hate these things. Today is Saturday, how long have you known, argh do I have to wear a suit?"
He began to rant and Lorelai smiled, mission completed, she leads ranting Luke into the kitchen. Luke sits down at the table and holds his head in his hands. Lorelai doesn't mean to laugh at him but he is so funny when he is mad.
"Luke, don't be mad, it's just a dinner, a few drinks, a few how's your fathers and that's it." Lorelai tries to locate Luke's face "Lukey?"
Luke lifts his head sharply "Lukey? Please don't call me that again"
Lorelai turns on her playful voice "oh I'm sorry Lukey, do you not like being called Lukey? Is Lukey mad?"
Luke stands up from the chair "I mean it!"
Lorelai puts on a serious face "Ok, ok, ok I'll stop... sorry Lukey"
Luke pounces at Lorelai "That's it!" She doesn't have time to run away, he picks her up and puts her over his shoulder and walks out into the yard.
Amongst the laughing Lorelai is screaming and putting up a fight "Put me down! Luke Danes let me down!" As she wriggles Luke misses the plant pot in front of him and they come crashing down in a heap on to the floor. There is screaming and laughter then Lorelai looks up at Luke and looses herself for the briefest of moments.
"Wow, twice in one day!"
Luke looks down at Lorelai looking up at him "What?"
Lorelai smiles slowly "Twice today you have swept me off my feet!"
Luke smiles back "yeah?" Luke then kisses Lorelai and just as they lose themselves in the moment, a screech from next door can be heard.
"Lorelai? Sugar! Are you ok, me and Morey heard you a screaming."
Lorelai and Luke break from their kiss and begin to laugh; Lorelai turns her head and shouts "Yes Babette, I'm fine!"
Luke helps Lorelai to her feet and fixes her hair. "Can I come by tonight?"
"hmmm hmmm, see you tonight then" replies Lorelai smiling as she picks grass off his shirt.
Luke kisses her forehead and returns to the diner.
Lorelai watches Luke disappear, she holds herself as the realisation of the situation she is in, hits her. That niggling feeling just won't subside, over and over again she re traces her steps in her mind. When was her last period? Why did she have this overwhelming dread that she was having Chris' baby and not Luke's? Maybe because she had felt like this before, she remembers this feeling all too well. But in the back of her mind she couldn't help thinking about how amazing it would be to have a child with Luke; she couldn't have 'the dream', could she? First thing first, she had to find out if she was pregnant. It was settled, she would take a test today!
...
It's late afternoon, Lorelai is sat in her jeep outside her house. She looks at the small brown paper bag sat on the passenger seat. Of course she had to drive to Woodbridge to buy the test, the last thing she needed was somebody from the town catching her buying a pregnancy test.
Lorelai takes a deep breath as she picks up her phone. "Sookie, can you meet me at mine?...Great! Bye" Lorelai makes her way to her kitchen.
Sookie enters to Lorelai pacing around the kitchen table
"Sookie, I'm freaking out! This is worse than the time Stella escaped, y'know that chick Rory brought home to study, it's worse than when Grandma died and my mother temporarily turned into Dillon Thomas and it's definitely way worse than the time I came home to find that Rory had lost her virginity to Dean. This is a whole different type of freaking out; it's on par with that crazy Sarah Goldfarb and her fricking refrigerator, I'll be shopping for a red dress any minute now, hell I have the gold shoes already!"
Sookie proceeds to follow Lorelai around the table in attempt to calm her down "Ok hunny, you need to sit, I'm starting to get motion sickness." They sit. "Now Lorelai, I've heard you speak a mile a minute the whole time I've known you, but you just broke some sort of speed record, what is going on? Why the freak out?"
Lorelai gestures to the brown paper bag sat on the table as she gets up to pour them some coffee.
Sookie looks at the bag "you made me lunch?"
"No Sookie I got a pregnancy test. I had to drive all the way to Hartford to get the courage to buy on in Woodbridge." Sookie acknowledges this with a simple "ooooooh" Lorelai sits back down. "Why am I so scared? I've done this before, at 16 no less (a pause as Lorelai comes over all emotional) I don't want to do this on my own again Sookie, I want to have Luke's baby, have Luke change the diapers and make Luke play the bad cop so I can be the cool mum, y'know? I want what you and Jackson have, a family. The whole package."
Sookie puts her hand on Lorelai's hand "and you will have that hunny, right now we need to deal with whether you are pregnant or not, because all this heartbreak could be for nothing. Then we will deal with the other stuff, together, ok?" Sookie hands her the brown paper bag "now go, go pee, I'll make some popcorn and order pizza, I know how much you love pizza!"
Lorelai agrees with a nod of the head and wipes the tears from her face with the back of her hand before she takes herself and the brown paper bag to the bathroom.