Lorelai finally realizes that she has feelings for Luke, but is it too late?

It should have been me

I took in a big gulp of air, but I couldn't breath. I tried to talk, but I couldn't. I screamed out lowed, no one heard me. I saw a figure run towards me. He had a baseball cap. Luke ran over and started talking to me. "I'm here Lorelai, I'm here everything will be okay." He picked me up and held me in a tight hug then kissed my forehead. I smiled. Then I saw someone reach out and grab him. He was gone. Where did he go

Whoa. I looked around my room. That was a weird dream. Luke? Luke was so not my type. He kissed me, he held me, and he saved me. Maybe I did have feelings for him if I dreamed of him that way- no! Absolutely not. I do not have feelings for Luke. Luke, town Luke. I cannot have feelings for him. But what if I did? I shrugged and got up.

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I went on my day the same as I normally did, just with one difference. Luke never left my mind. I looked outside the Inn's window. It was snowing. Yah! I love snow. Although Luke hates it. Again! Why am I thinking of him? I woke up from my daydream when I saw Sookie waving her hands in front of me.

"Whoa, what?" She looked at me again.

"What-cha thinking about?" Sookie gave me a look, the Sookie look. The look that say I know exactly what you were thinking about don't lie to me.

"Nothing." I replied looking down at my work.

"Liar, I know when your lying even with out the gigantic smile across your face." I noticed I was smiling, why was I smiling? Not about Luke. Well I was just thinking about him. No not Luke.

"I had this dream last night." I confessed, I couldn't hide it from her, she always knew.

"About what?" She asked looking at me with one eyebrow rose.

"It was weird, it was, well." I couldn't finish.

"About Luke?" I looked up at her. How did she know that?

"Get out of my head!" That slipped out. Now she knows.

"It was, oh my god! Lorelai what happened, details, details! Was he naked?"

"What? No he wasn't, he was just there. He was there for me, he always is." I was still processing the dream I didn't think I could talk about it yet.

"Like it always is?" She asked snatching the papers away from me so she could get my full attention.

"Like it always is, yah. Whenever he can he's there for me, not only me but he's there for Rory too." I knew that came out wrong. It sounded like I had feelings for Luke. Which…I don't, no I can't like Luke.

"You know… if I didn't know so myself it sounds like you have a thing for Luke." I looked at her. I was going to deny it. I was going to, but I couldn't I knew I liked Luke as more than a friend. But I couldn't tell anyone. It was hard to say I had a crush on my best friend. I hadn't said that since high school, no before high school. Michel's voice cut into my thoughts.

"Lorelai, Sookie. Honestly we're working can you guys stop the chit chat and get back to work?" What a Michel thing to say, how annoying.

"We will stop talking in a minute! Now get back to work!" Sookie turned around and gave me a look.

"What Sookie?" Sookie gave me back me work and turned around

"I knew everyone was right." What did she say?

"What did you say?" I asked repeating my thought. Sookie looked at me and said

"Go get him, everyone already knows you like him. Everyone also knows he likes you, so go to the diner, go tell him you like him" She smiled at me and gestured towards the door.

"I don't like him." I said looking out the window.

"Liar! You just went on talking about how you like him-"

"I love him" I said that, I didn't need to convince myself, or re-think it. I love him. I love Luke Danes. She smiled and gave me a hug.

"It's about time"

The phone rang.

"Okay I'm going to get back to cooking"

"Bye Sookie" How could I have told Sookie before Rory? I have to tell her soon, before the whole town knows.

"So now you not only talk, you also stopped answering the phone!" Michel gave me a look and I remembered the phone ringing.

"Sorry Michel" I picked up the hone. "Hello Independence Inn, Lorelai speaking"

"Hi, Lorelai Gilmore?" The person on the other line sounded familiar.

"Yes this is she."

"I have some bad news"

"Wha…what? Is everything okay?" What could be wrong? Oh my gosh… it's Liz!

"Lorelai, Luke was… well, Luke was in an accident."

"Liz, what are you talking about?"

"Oh you knew it was me? I didn't think you would know who this was. Luke was in a car accident" Luke? The Luke I love? He's hurt. Luke is hurt?

"So… does he want me to come over to the hospital?"

"Yah Lorelai, can you? That would be great thanks"

"Okay bye Liz"

I hung up the phone and ran through the Inn. "Sookie, Michel I have to go bye."

Sookie came running up to me while I was walking and throwing on my jacket. "What happened Lorelai?"

"Nothing, well something. Sookie I just have to go bye." I knew that sounded bad but I had to go, I had to go see Luke.

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My phone rang, so I sneaked out of class.

"Hello?"

"Rory, Rory, Oh my god, come to the hospital, Luke was in an accident." It was my Mom on the other line

"What? Luke? How, why?" How was Luke in an accident, nothing ever happened to Luke how could he be in an accident?

"Rory, just please come" Mom needed me, I knew she like Luke, well actually I knew she loved Luke but she wouldn't tell him. I needed to comfort her. I hung up the phone, got into my car and drove, fast.

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Traffic! How could there be traffic? There's never traffic, yet there is when Luke is hurt. Oh my gosh! Luke was hurt. What if something happens to him, I haven't told him that I love him. How am I going to live! "MOVE YOU STUPID CARS!" I yelled out my rolled down window. I laid my hand down on the horn, and then I broke down. I cried I couldn't handle this. How was I going to live without Luke? I looked outside and took big sigh of relief in, Liz didn't seam to upset, maybe Luke was okay. I slowly approached the hospital and as soon as I pulled in I ran up through the door and strait to the front desk. The receptionist was on the phone. "Hello?" No reply unless she was telling me that she needs a wet towel to room 43, which I'm guessing she doesn't. "HELLO!" I screamed in her face.

"May I help you?" She asked in a rude tone.

"I need the room Luke Danes is in." I snapped

"Are you a family member?"

"I'm… I'm his wife" I wish

"Okay then, room 235"

I walked away without even saying thank you. I got into the elevator and ran down the hall. All the doors said Intensive Care. Why did they say intensive care! Oh my gosh this is bad. I went into the waiting room and saw Liz and Rory sitting there.

"Mom!" Rory ran over to me and hugged me really tight; I pushed her way and looked at her red puffy eyes.

"Rory? Don't cry, please don't cry." She hugged me again; she wasn't going to let go.

"Luke is in the hospital, how is Luke in the hospital, nothing ever happens to Luke."

"I know hunny, we have to be here for him."

I went over and sat next to Liz. She looked just as upset as Rory.

"Liz how is he?" I didn't want her to tell me, I wanted her to tell me everything was okay, and Luke was okay and nothings going to happen. But she didn't

"He… he wants you."

"What?" That's not what I asked; I wanted to know was Luke going to… is he okay?

"The doctors said that he is drifting in and out of conciseness, it's messing up his whole system, that's why he's in intensive care because they don't think he's going to… well, one of the doctors said when he was awake he said Lorelai, the doctor asked what that would mean to him, and I told him, he wants the girl he loves." She gave me a hug and said she was going to get coffee. Luke loves me? I was happy, but not about where I was, why I was here. Rory interrupted me

"I'm going to go with her, you want coffee?"

"No" I couldn't have coffee, I couldn't do anything except sit still, stunned looking at his door.

"Okay, I'll be back mom, are you sure you're okay?"

"No, but go" I wasn't okay, I needed Luke, I needed him here with me right now. Why wasn't he here, why wasn't it me in there?

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I starred at the door until a nurse came out.

"Are you Lorelai?"

"Yes"

"Okay I'm Nurse Brooke, Luke just went back to sleep, but he is stable for now, so we are going to let him be for now, but right before he went to sleep he said your name, do you want to go in?" He said my name?

"Yes, please, thank-you."

"No problem." Before she walked down the all I asked her the question.

"Is he going to die?"

"I don't know, I'm sorry."

"Oh okay." I looked away from her, why couldn't she have lied? Why couldn't she have said, he's fine, he will be okay. I put my hand on the doorknob and just stood there, paralyzed in my spot. I could here the heart rate monitor from inside, it was more then I could handle, I knew it wasn't a normal heart rate. It was slow; it was the heart rate of someone in a hospital. Slowly I slid the door open and looked at all the interesting machines. I looked at a seat and went to go sit in it. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the shape of a body on the bed but I didn't look completely because I knew what I would see. Luke. I sat down and took in three deep breaths before looking at him and when I did I couldn't handle it. His head was rapped thickly in white bandages, one of his eyes was black and he had a deep gash down his cheek. His lips were swollen and cut up; there were tubes coming out of his nose, his mouth and his wrist. One arm was in a sling and the other completely rapped up. One knee was in a cast and on the same leg his foot was in a walking cast. I rested my hand on his bruised hand ad I cried, for at least 20 minutes, I cried while 4 different doctors came in to check his condition.

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Mom didn't know that I was standing at the door; she didn't know that Grandma and grandpa were standing at the door either. I had to call them to tell them about Mom, and they came. I watched Mom cry, she kept crying, I kept trying to go in the room to comfort her but Grandma kept pulling me back. I looked at the ground because looking at Luke's condition was just too much to bear. But my head jerked up when Mom started talking.

"Luke, Luke? Luke come on, you have to wake up. Luke please wake up. Luke how could you be in here? I'm the one who is supposed to mess up, I should be in here. How could you have hit black ice? That's not like you. I've never seen you screw up on anything. I'm the screw-up, remember? Don't do this to me Luke. I'm not good when I'm all alone… I know you're in there but it's like you're not really here. You're not talking but I know you're here. So I'm just gonna talk, you can listen." I looked over at Grandma and Grandpa who were both in tears, so was I, Mom loves Luke so much, but she was crying the most. "Luke, even when I'm being stupid, and you hate me, it's all the things you say to me that helps me find my way again. You and Rory are the only ones who really care for me, so don't blow me off, Luke! (Looks up) Don't blow me off God! I never asked you for anything before and I never wanted to come to you like this, but don't take Luke away from me. God you're not talking but I know you're here, so I'm gonna talk, you can listen. God please, please, don't take Luke away from me (she looks down at Luke) Luke, please don't leave, I can't let anyone take away the man I love. Luke, I love you, please don't go." She wipes her tear away and lays her head on Luke's bed. I looked at Grandpa who was crying and Grandma went over to Mom. Mom's head jerked up when she felt Grandma's hands on her solder, and Grandpa rapped his arm around me and help me. I slowly walked over to the opposite side of Luke's bed.

"Luke, don't go. You're there for my Mom, and me all the time. Don't go. We need you Mom needs you. You're a better father then mine ever was; I don't want to loose you. Please don't go Luke."

"Luke, I need my coffee man." Mom smiled faintly and holds his hand while laying her head on his chest.

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