A Different Place - Chapter One
Lorelai bounced a tiny bundle in her arms as she let the soft cadence of her voice lull the baby to sleep. Gently she placed the infant back in the crib but not before kissing the soft brown curls that covering it's head.
On tip toe she quietly left the small room that had become a nursery, not six months ago.
"Is he asleep," asked an older gentleman sitting back in a well worn old armchair.
Lorelai looked up as she entered the cosy living room and nodded. "It didn't look like he would ever settle," she said tiredly, trying to stifle a yawn.
"Why don't you have a lie down sweetheart, you look exhausted," he said. "Thanks," Lorelai grumbled half heartedly.
"Sorry, but really you should take a break, I'll listen out for him."
Lorelai looked thoughtfully into his patient hazel eyes and reluctantly agreed. "Fine, I'll be in my bedroom, just shout out if he wakes."
Then she staggered back towards the nursery and into her bedroom that was next door. Snuggling under the covers she thought back to her arrival and just how grateful she was that Edward had met her.
She really couldn't have survived those early months without him. He was the person who had visited her everyday at the hospital and he had been the one to give her a place to stay.
Leaving Stars Hollow had been the hardest thing she had ever done, much harder than leaving home at seventeen. At seventeen her parents house had never felt like a home but Stars Hollow was different. She never thought she would ever leave until her heart was broken there. First by Rory her own precious daughter and then by Luke her lover and friend.
Her heart had broken the day she left and although her son had helped to keep it beating it had never healed.
Lorelai's heavy breaths soon filled the room as she drifted into a troubled sleep. Luke was a constant presence in her dreams, the silent figure in the landscape. He was always with her, occasionally joined by Rory or her parents. Sometimes the residents of Stars Hollow would make an appearance and always Lorelai would awake in sadness. Her friends only figments and her family so close yet so far away.