Aaaand I'm back. Not too many reveiws but that's okay. Well here goes yo.
A/N: Takes place during season 4 after Nicole comes back into Luke's life. Jason and Lorelai aren't together…well as of now. I might change my mind.
Disclaimer: I don't frekin own Gilmore girls.
The next morning Lorelai walked into the diner and saw a very surprising person sitting at the counter. Nicole. Then she was reminded of the previous evening's events. She turned on her heel in her tracks but before she could make her escape…
"Hey, Lorelai! Come here!" Luke yelled from the counter. She slowly turned around and plastered a smile on her face.
"What is it Luke?" Lorelai asked through her plastered smile as she approached the counter avoiding eye contact with Nicole.
"You remember Nicole?" Luke said gesturing towards the blonde from the previous night who was sipping her coffee.
"Of course." Lorelai said still smiling. How could I forget the woman who I completely humiliated myself in front of?
"Hello Lorelai. Nice to see you again so soon." Nicole said smiling but if her eyes could've been daggers…
"You too." Lorelai said returning the gesture.
"Well Luke, I should get going," Nicole said slowly getting up and making her way over to Luke and place her hands on the side of his face. Luke's expression changed and he quickly leaned in and pecked her on the cheek trying to avoid any public display of affection. Nicole's expression also changed to humiliation as her plans to 'claim her territory' had failed.
"Bye Nicole. See ya later." Luke said returning to his post behind the counter.
"Um…bye." Said a still slightly shocked Nicole, and she walked out of the diner door with a jingle from the bell.
"So what was that about?" Lorelai asked raising her eyebrows at Luke.
"What are you talking about?" Luke asked clueless.
"You didn't let her kiss you." Lorelai putting much emphasis on the kiss.
"I didn't want to make a scene. That would be embarrassing for us both." Luke said wiping the counter avoiding eye contact with Lorelai.
"Mmhm…" Lorelai said suddenly realizing that she hadn't had coffee yet. As if reading her thoughts Luke quickly pulled out a mug and poured the liquid into it.
"So what did she mean by 'so soon'" Luke asked questioningly.
"Um…what do you mean?" It was Lorelai's turn to act clueless now.
"She said 'Good to see you again so soon,' when did you run into her?" Luke asked staring intently at Lorelai with raised eyebrows.
"Um…last night…" Lorelai said quickly taking a swig of her coffee.
"Why did you see her last night? Where did you see her at last night?" Luke asked putting down the cloth balancing on his forearms against the counter.
"Um…in front of the diner…" Lorelai trailed off finishing off her coffee.
"Why were you…" Luke was cut off by Lorelai's gasp.
"Oh my gosh! I am so late! I have to go…I'll see you later Luke." Lorelai said quickly grabbing her purse and making her exit.
"Lorelai!" Luke yelled but she was already half way down the sidewalk. She never moved that fast. That must've been something she really didn't want to talk about.
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"…And then I made a run for it…" Lorelai said finishing off telling this story to Rory over the phone.
"Wow…he didn't let her kiss him? Weird." Rory said from the other end.
"I know! I mean I know Luke is total anti-PDA or and DA for that matter but you would think with his wife at least…" Lorelai trailed off.
"Well maybe he really just didn't want to make a scene." Rory said reasonably.
"Or maybe she has really bad breath and doesn't ever kiss her…hah that would make my day." Lorelai scoffed.
"Mom…" Rory slightly whispered into the phone.
"What honey? Why did you suddenly start whispering? Are you being followed? Pull out your kung-fu on em and show him what you got! Oh it is a him right?" Lorelai also whispered even though she had no reason to.
"No mom, but why is that Jason guy here?" Rory again whispered.
"Where? Rory where are you?" Lorelai whispered, "And why are we whispering?"
"I don't know, I just saw a car in the drive way and you know there are never cars in the drive way so I went up to…investigate…"
"Or snoop." Lorelai chimed in.
"Anyways and J.S. is engraved in the cupholder…what kind of obnoxious guy engraves his initials in a cupholder? Anyways and he was the only one I could think of with those initials…but why is he here. I thought grandma hated him!" Rory stopped whispering.
"You're at my parents house?" Lorelai asked in a serious tone.
"Um yes…" Rory trailed off not wanting her mom to know that she had come here to get some business class help in one of her classes from her grandfather, she didn't want Lorelai to be angry that she hadn't gone to her.
"Why?" Lorelai drug it out.
"Just wanted to get a book from Grandpa." She didn't lie only slightly, she would get a book from Richard but that wasn't all she was going to be doing.
"What kind of book?" Lorelai asked suspiciously.
"You never answered me, why is Jason here?" Rory said avoiding her mother's question.
"I don't know, he is Dad's business partner so it kind of makes sense that he would be over at the house."
"Hm…okay…well I have to go talk to you later!" Rory said and quickly hung up the phone so her mother wouldn't ask any more questions.
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The bells above the door jingled and Luke didn't even look up to know who it was who was on her 7:00 p.m. coffee run.
"Coffee?" Luke asked turning around and grabbing a mug and the coffee pot.
"You know it." Lorelai said taking a seat at the counter. Lorelai said sighing heavily getting Luke's attention.
"Hard day?" Luke glance up at her to see the look on her face which read exhaustion.
"I believe that is an understatement my friend." Lorelai said sipping at her hot coffee.
"What happened?" Luke asked in an all-knowing matter.
"Well Jason, my father's business partner, made my mom angry by convincing her to instead of having a fancy lunch party to take all of their clients to Alantic City instead. So now my mom's all upset and so I went over there to talk to the man and try to be supportive of my mom but all it results in is the guy working up the nerve to ask me out." Lorelai sighed again taking a drink of her coffee. Luke's expression hardened and he straightened his back.
"Oh. What did you say?" Luke asked trying not to sound to curious.
"No of course. I've known him since I was a kid. He's always been obnoxious." Lorelai said like everyone knew that.
"Oh. I see."
Lorelai put her forehead in her hands apparently she was really tired out from all the stress she was going through, Rory away, her and Sookie buying the new inn, and now the new stress her mother had brough on her. Luke comfortingly rubbed her back and in a soft voice said "Everything's going to be okay."
At the feel of his breath on her ear Lorelai shuddered. Chills ran through her body and she looked into his deep blue eyes. The moment was soon broken as the bells above the door rang again and none other than the famous Nicole walked in.
"Hey Nicole." Luke said quickly pulling his hand away from Luke's back and standing up straight again. Nicole approached the counter and shot Lorelai a death glare and leaned in to kiss Luke on the lips determined not to let him get away this time. Her lips embraced his and Luke's eyes quickly opened and he pulled away as non-chalantly as possible making sure not to offend Nicole.
"Hey baby." She said smiling her hand still on his cheek. "So what are you doing tonight?" Nicole asked stealing a glance from Lorelai out of the corner out of her eye who was looking more than a little uncomfortable.
"Luke, I think I'm gonna go… I'll see you tomorrow." Lorelai said quickly getting up and grabbing her purse and walking out of the diner.
"So what was that all about?" Luke asked after Lorelai had left the diner.
"I should be asking you the same thing." Nicole said pointedly.
"What are you talking about? Luke asked stepping back behind the counter grabbing the cloth to wipe down the counter which was clearly clean except for Lorelai's empty mug left.
"What are you talking about?" Nicole asked frowning and taking a seat at the counter.
"I'm talking about that kiss! I would appreciate if you didn't do that in public." Luke said not making eye contact.
"More like not at all…" Nicole said picking at her nails.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing… anyways you never answered my question." Nicole said cocking her head to the side.
"What?" Luke asked still not making eye contact.
"That!" She said gesturing between the coffee mug and Luke, "That whole 'whispering in her ear and rubbing her back' I don't think I'm comfortable with that. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that slut at all."
"What." Luke said not as a question more like a demand for her to dare and repeat what she just said. He had now put down the cloth and had an angry expression on his face and was leaning against the counter on his forearms.
"I don't think I'm comfortable with you and her being so close!" Nicole said honestly.
"No, what did you say after that. What did you call her." Luke again said, not as a question.
"Well Luke she did had a kid at 16!" Nicole raised her voice to the volume of his.
"She is not…that…and you wont call her…that because she is my friend and you will not tell me who I can and cannot talk to, I don't care if you do feel uncomfortable around her, she's my friend and you're going to have to get used to that." Luke said walking over to the diner door and opening it telling her to go.
"Sorry Luke. See you tomorrow." Nicole said as she walked out of the diner.
"Tomorrow." Luke said closing the door behind her.
TBC!
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