Everything On Our Own
By Gilmoregirl1979 (the reigning Quote Queen)
Rating: PG-13
Hi this is your friendly disclaimer: I REJECT ASP's REALITY AND SUBSTITUE MY OWN! Once again, I don't own (DAMN IT! DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!), No Harm No Sue.
R/R: yes please I love reviews; I wanna marry them (as previously stated, I have strange passions.)
LUVZ: I miss you!
FEATURED BETA: Localizy, WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE
A/N: This has been on my computer since last summer. I sent it to Localizy for her opinion and well that is why I'm publishing it now.
Thanks to my spoiler pixie, LuvzAFUNEThing, whom we miss terribly, she helped make some of my ideas more clear and concrete. You all know what a stickler I am for quality. With out any sides this was my best guess for S6 premiere, as we know i was terribly wrong... but... ENJOY!
(Like Luke would say no … come on... he was thinking of it before she was!)
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Chapter 1:
Would You Lie With Me
In the middle of night, there was a tapping, a rat-tat tatting, a knocking on Sookie's front door.
Upon hearing the offending noise, Sookie reluctantly got out of bed. As she tied her robe and suppressed a yawn, she only hoped the commotion at the front door would not disturb her two sleeping children and her stressed Selectman husband. When Sookie opened the front door, she found a very smiley, happy Lorelai Gilmore.
"Lorelai? What is it? Is something wrong?"
"No, well yeah, something is wrong, but… right now … everything is perfect. Just perfect."
"Honey, you're not making much sense," Sookie was thinking back to her warm bed and sweet husband to cuddle up with. "Can this wait till morning? Maybe after you've had some coffee?"
"No coffee is needed today."
That got Sookie's attention. For as long as she's known Lorelai she's never once refused coffee, "This must be big … what's up?"
Lorelai could hardly contain herself, but took a deep breath to calmly state, "I'm getting married."
"What?"
"Luke and I are getting married tonight and you are going to be a witness."
"Is this a joke?" Sookie was never good at gauging when Lorelai was pulling her leg.
"No, no joke! We have Jess coming up from New York to be the best man. And I need a maid of honor."
Sookie lowered her voice, "This isn't a shot gun wedding is it?" implying that a little Danes may grace Stars Hollow in a few months.
"No, no shot guns, no ammo of any kind. It's just two people who can't, or shouldn't, be apart any longer."
Sookie still couldn't tell if she was dreaming, "What about Rory? Does she know about this spur of the moment wedding?"
That made Lorelai's smile fade for a moment, "I …" and Lorelai struggled for the words and looked as if she was trying to stop herself from bursting into tears. "We …She… I can't talk about Rory right now… besides having Jess and Rory in the same room," Lorelai took a moment to picture how that would go, "it's not such a good idea."
"But she's your daughter don't you think she'd want to be there … when you … get married?"
Lorelai took a deep breath, "Please Sookie, I don't want to talk about it right now… I'm offering you an invite to the wedding of the year… a spot anyone else in Stars Hollow would kill for, now do you want it or not."
Seeing how sensitive the Rory nerve was, "You and Luke are seriously going to do this? He's going to elope twice?"
"This is just for now, just for us … and eventually we will tell the town we are… you know engaged and let them have a big wedding for us later …"
"Oooo at the Dragonfly…" Sookie was already thinking of a menu.
"Of course at the Dragonfly. But … this is something we need to do now, for us … I need him now, more then ever…"
Seeing the sadness behind the veil of happiness Lorelai wore, "Aww, honey, please tell me what happened?"
"Sookie please… I promise I will explain everything later. Right now, I'm getting married and I need to know if my best friend will be there."
This is so crazy, but then if it wasn't, it wouldn't be Lorelai …"I'm in. Just let me throw something more …" looking at her bathrobe, "… elegant on okay?"
"Alright."
"Wait where is the … groom?"
"Oh your front lawn, He's giving Jess directions here, he got lost outside of Hartford. All that construction."
"Right…but how are you going to get married in the middle of the night?"
"The Justice of the Peace in Woodbury said he would marry at all hours."
They have thought this through… "Well I better…"
Lorelai perked up again at the thought of marrying Luke, "Yeah go, well be here. And Sookie… don't tell Jackson."
"I promise."
Sookie shut the door and took a minute to assess the situation. It looks like my house, okay, I feel the pinching, so this isn't a dream. This is real.
Sookie peaked out the window and observed the happy couple; both were smiling, both looked happy. Sookie wished she knew what sparked this decision, but if she was going to find out she had better get dressed.
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Lorelai walked back to her future husband. "Hey, how long till the best man gets here…"
"Another 15 minutes."
Lorelai just smiled at him, "Luke."
"Yeah?"
"We're getting married."
"Yeah we are…"
"Well, I've never done this before … any advise?"
"Don't run away."
"Not on your life, mister."
"Lorelai… I still think we should…"
"No…"
"Lorelai, she's your daughter…"
"I still say no..."
"You don't think she'd want to know?"
"I know she'd want to know… I know she'd want to be there ... but…" Lorelai was trying to suppress the emotions she felt toward her daughter at that moment. "Luke, she didn't discuss it with me when she dropped out of Yale. Why should I discuss it with her when I'm getting married?"
"Lorelai please, do you really want her to miss this?"
"Luke this is not what I want our first fight to be about."
"Lorelai, please…"
"No, now be happy with me, though if you ask me I'm getting the better part of the deal."
"Okay, now this is what our first fight will be about."
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Jess couldn't believe he was once again returning to Stars Hollow, willingly, only because Luke asked him to. The entire two hour drive, he recalled the short phone call with Luke.
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"Jess?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm getting married…"
"Again?"
Smart ass, "…to Lorelai."
"When?"
"How soon can you get to Stars Hollow?"
"Tonight?"
"Yeah."
"Why the rush? She isn't …you know… "
"JESS! This is just the night it's gonna happen, okay. Please Jess, I want you to be here."
It had once been said they had excellent communication. So here he was, as a favor to his uncle, to be his best man. Jess wondered if Rory was in on this little plot too, if he'd see her… his new … cousin in law, his ex-girlfriend.
How … incestuous.
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Now that they were family, Lorelai wanted to express her thanks to Jess, making by-gones be by-gones, putting the past behind them. "Thank you for driving up here. It was good practice for the big one…"
"Big one…?"
"Well talk about that later…" Luke chimed in, "Jess, I'm gonna stay with Lorelai if you wanna stay at the diner."
"Thanks… and ummm if you want I'll… open for you… since you two … you know…"
"Thanks."
The two exchanged a masculine hug and left it at that. Then Jess left the love birds alone to celebrate their elopement.
"Sooo husband … you gonna carry me over the threshold?"
"I've got a bad back."
"Really? In all of our love making you've never brought that up before"
"What if someone sees, then it defeats the point of a secret marriage."
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Luke knew this time would be different. Not only did Luke want to spend all his time with Lorelai, he was already thinking of living together, already thinking of children, but to top it off, he really was in love with her. He had been since the day she finally called him Luke after two years of tormenting him by calling him Duke.
Luke had snuck out of the house knowing Lorelai wasn't a morning person, and went to the center of town to check on the diner and to pick up some supplies to make the first breakfast for his wife. Luke left Doose's to head back to his wife, still unable to believe he had eloped… again. Although if he was honest with his heart, he had wished it was Lorelai he had married the first time around.
Suddenly, his honeymoon mentality was spoiled when Taylor's voice came behind him.
"Luke… could I have a moment."
"Not now Taylor I'm busy," and Luke sped up to loose the old man.
Taylor only continued to chase him down the street and tried to choose his words carefully. "Luke please… it's about … that little matter I've been helping you with…"
At that, Luke stopped in his tracks; he didn't want to think about it. Luke had lost his dream house because he thought Lorelai was going to leave him for her grand opportunity with Mike Armstrong and The Durham Group. It was that moment he realized they still didn't talk about that. They just up and jumped, spur of the moment and got married. She asked, he said okay, and before he knew it she was looking up a justice of the peace in the phone book, in the middle of the night saying they had to be married as soon as possible. Luke didn't want it to be this way. He had eloped once and look how that turned out. He didn't want Lorelai to resent him for taking away that opportunity, or worse, she'd leave him for the job and move to France. France of all places!
Even so, now that he was an old married man, he wishes he had the Twickham house. Maybe that would convince her to stay, further prove that he was all in. Hell, he'd even carry her over the threshold again, as nauseating at that tradition seemed to be to him. She wouldn't even have the chance to brow beat him into submission over the tradition like she did last night.
"Luke?" Taylor prodded again, seeming to have lost his attention.
"What Taylor?" Luke only wanted to get home to his wife and away from the bad news.
"About the house…"
"I know Taylor, I used the cooling off card and I lost it."
"Well see that's just it…see, you own it."
"What?"
"Well, see the other day when you told me you wanted out I could tell you were upset about something… so I figured that you and Lorelai just had a fight and you were just flying off the handle again and didn't mean it, so… I let the deal go through…"
"Wait? You let the deal go through?"
"You own it now… the house is yours. Now if you still don't want it I'm sure we can just put it on the market and get a fair market value, it will sell and you can make your money back…"
"No, no, Taylor I want it… I really do want it…" It was too perfect for words.
"See, now that's what I thought. It's lucky for you that I was looking out for your own best interest."
"Taylor," for a moment, years of animosity and conflict were forgotten. "Thank you."
"You're welcome Luke." Taylor nodded. "Now I've got the papers and the keys right here… shall I put them in one of your bags?"
A dopey grin was back on Luke's face "Oh yeah, sure thanks…" Luke put down the bags to genuinely shake Taylor's hand. Carefully he tucked the deed to his house in his pocket and hurried home. He couldn't wait to show Lorelai.
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His wife greeted him at the door with a bath robe and a kiss. "Hello Husband," she smiled, going on tip toes to meet his lips.
"Hello Wife." I like the sound of that.
"What have you been up to? I don't trust that smile."
"Get dressed and I'll show you."
"Well… see for what I had in mind you'd get undressed."
"Lorelai, please I really want to show you something."
"Okay?" Lorelai began to think. Maybe he called Rory. Maybe he's arranged a meeting for us against my wishes?
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Luke drove through the old familiar streets of Stars Hollow. Lorelai just stared out the window, trying to figure out where they were going and what he had planned.
He pulled the Jeep over and Lorelai waited for her surprise, secretly watching for Rory's appearance out of the corner of her eye.
"Since we are … you know … married now… and getting married again… soon… I think we should move in together…"
"That stands to reason… but with … Rory's and my…that is with all that girlie stuff, I don't think the crap shack can hold much more…" though Rory can move all her stuff to Hartford now, since she is Rich and Em's second chance at parenthood.
Luke could tell this was a sensitive time and issue, but maybe a new house, a fresh start with him, would help her mend the ties with Rory. "I think we should move here."
Lorelai turned her head to where he had pointed realizing for the first time they were parked in front of the Twickham house. "What?"
"Come on…" He got out of the car… while Lorelai was still speechless.
"Luke, what are you doing?"
"Come on," and he pulled her out of the jeep and lead her up the stairs. Discretely he opened the door while Lorelai was admiring the windows and the porch.
Lorelai resisted when Luke began to pull her inside. "Luke, we can't go inside…"
"Trust me."
Lorelai hadn't been in it since the diorama opened. It was so different when empty and way less creepy without the announcer's voice.
"Luke, are you seriously suggesting we move in here? That we buy a house?"
"I already did."
"What?"
"I bought the house … for us."
"How long was I asleep?" She was unable to believe they had gotten married last night and he already bought a house before breakfast. "I mean, don't these things usually take … I don't know…time?"
"This is what Taylor was helping me with."
"All this time you were buying a house behind my back?"
"Yeah… and I got a little nervous when you were talking about the Durham group…"
"The kids? You thought we wouldn't have kids," recalling his freak out at the inn.
"Yeah well, this house … was all I've wanted from this town, and now I have someone to share it with…"
"You bought me a house?"
"Yeah."
"You bought us a house?"
"Yeah."
"'Mr. One room is just fine for me' bought me a twelve room house?" her heart swelled up just as it did when she proposed. "Luke… I don't know what to say…"
"For once…" he teased, "well consider it an … elopement present."
"Well, how am I ever gonna top this?"
"Well, you did say that kids would be nice…" at that Lorelai blushed, smiling at all the "baby making" they did last night. Luke continued, "We own it now, so you can take your time… think about what you want to do … with the old house…" he looked down at his feet, "about Rory."
"I love you Luke."
"I love you, too."
Lorelai decided to distract herself with planning the layout of the house. Luke let her have her fun while he looked around and mentally made a list of what work needed to be done on the house.
Even though Lorelai seemed to be happy to be starting a new life with him, Luke could see the sadness in her eyes. She was still avoiding telling Rory about the marriage or even talking about Rory at all. It was as if now that Rory was in the Gilmore's power she was dead to Lorelai. Luke figured it still hurt Lorelai too much to even think about the possibility of reconciliation with her any of her family.
Luke knew eventually Lorelai would break and everything she felt and was upset about would come out, like it always had before. There was one thing different this time. They would figure out a solution together.
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Localizy's comments: I read it a long time ago and have been begging her to publish it. I finally won! WOOT!
Wonder twin powers activate!
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
A/N: BEGRUDGINGLY Purple Ribbon! For season 7 ugh! But I am NIAVE NO LONGER!
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"That was all God given talent..." why thank you NON POD Luke!
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R/R: PLEASE, I like to better myself. To quote The Princess Bride,
"...Remember this is for posterity, ... so be honest."
Please be specific with R/R; name one (or as many as you can think of or want to mention..…) At least one specific thing you liked
Please! It makes me feel good...inside (Dirty!)
Hence the Rant option below.
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