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Lorelai walked into the diner and scanned the area for Luke. She went up to the empty counter and took a seat next to Kirk. "Hey Kirk," she said with a beaming smile.
"Hello Lorelai," he said formally with a nod. "There has been a matter that I would like to discuss with you." Lorelai glanced over as Luke appeared and turned to listen to Kirk as he continued, "While you may find this a questionable proposal--"
"Aw, I'm taken Kirk, but thanks," Lorelai interjected with a laugh then looked at Kirk who remained silent and as lacking of a real expression as ever. "Eh, kidding…go on"
"Concerning the wedding of you two," he gestured to both Luke and Lorelai. Lorelei looked at him with curiosity, and Luke heaved a sigh and looked at him with impatience. "You would of course need a independent officiant, minister, etcetera… "
"Kirk--" Luke started.
"I am an independent officiant, minister, and or etcetera" Kirk said flatly. He looked from Lorelai who seemed to have a bemused smile stretch across her face to Luke who sighed once more. "I don't want to let my superior powers go to waste so this seems like a good time to test my powers to wed."
"Legally?" Lorelai questioned with a grin so wide it was clear the amount of laughter she was holding back.
"Yes, legally," Kirk answered, still blankly staring.
"I think you can field this one," Luke muttered to Lorelai.
There was a moment of silence then Lorelei looked from Luke who was slumped against the counter to Kirk who seemed to be awaiting the verdict. "Okay!"
"What!?!" Luke burst out in bewilderment.
"Sidebar," Lorelai said as she pulled Luke away a couple feet and lowered her voice. "I know the idea of Kirk marry us is dancing between the lines of slightly odd and 'I see the dead people', and hey maybe it should hardly even be legal."
"And having realized this…"
"Wouldn't it be cool!"
"Many adjectives come to mind, but cool is not one of them."
"Come on what makes a better wedding anecdote than 'Kirk married us'! I mean imagine this, bunch of people talking 'oh my groom left me for the best man', 'well my best man turned out to be the best transexual'. Pah! 'Kirk married us' and bam! The Trump Card of wedding anecdotes my friend."
Luke admitted defeat, "You are a loon."
Lorelai quickly kissed Luke and ran over to Kirk, "That would be super Kirk, March 20h."
"Okay. I will be practicing. Consider it my gift to the both of you," Kirk stated in a monotone with his fixed expression. He got up and silently walked out the door of the diner.
"Oh wow, do you think he's gonna be doing that happy dance now or later," Luke said sarcastically as he put a cup of coffee in front of her, "What a subliminal way of saying he's too broke to buy us an actual gift."
Luke walked towards the ringing phone on the wall and picked it up "Hello?"
He heard a relentlessly sarcastic voice on the other end, "Well congratulations…Mr. Gilmore."
"You called so I will consider that a victory on my part. You got the invite?"
"Obviously."
"And…"
"Sure," Jess said simply.
"Sure as in sure you'll come?" Luke confirmed in a slight confusion at the answer. Lorelai gestured wildly at Luke trying to get his attention. He heard Jess confirm that he's coming one more time before Luke told him to hold on as he switched his attention to Lorelai.
"I'm going over to Sookie's to make sure she can be a matron of honor. You're allowed to have a maid and matron of honor right?" Lorelai questioned as she put down her cup and picked up her purse.
Luke gruffly answered as he watched Kirk running after Lulu across the street, how Kirk ever got such a sweet girl to marry him he will never know "I think we're getting married by Kirk which puts us far past the point of worrying about wedding regularity anyway."
"Touche," she said brightly as she leaned over the counter, kissed him, and made her way out.
"Heard something along the lines of…married by Kirk?" questioned a baffled Jess.
"The world is a crazy place where any psychopath with a computer can be told they have the power to conduct a marriage," Luke raved. "Not my idea."
"Well at least you got your way on the invitations. The pink glitter was just lovely Lucas."
"Yeah well I pride myself on my taste," Luke said sarcastically as he exhaustedly plopped down on a barstool. "I wanted run something by you."
"Feel free to run, but I already feel like I don't like it," Jess said knowing this probably wouldn't be a request up his alley.
"Well Lorelai has her matron of honor, Sookie, and her maid of honor, Rory."
Jess subconsciously took a small recognition of a matron and a maid instead of two matrons and pushed forward not sure where this was going, "And…"
"And Jackson is…something, not entirely sure, but he walks Sookie down the aisle. Their kid, Martha is the flower girl, but April needs to carry her because well she's still a bit wobbly on the walk.
"And…"
"Lane is our usher, which we appreciate but could've done without really but she actually wanted to do it, imagine that. Their other kid Davey is the ring bearer, and of course we won't be giving him the real ring. We would give the real ring to the best man, which brings me to what I wanted to ask you."
"Ah," Jess said now understanding where this is going. "If you're all shy about asking Taylor, I'll ask him for you, because I would do that for you Luke," Jess said feigning ignorance to what he knew Luke was really getting at.
"Would you do it?"
"Ask Taylor? Sure"
"Jess."
"Luke."
"Listen--"
"You might just need a vice-best man in the event of bride murdering the first one"
"A promising plan I'll take into consideration. Jess it's a simple enough job, I'm not the bachelor party type so you don't have to worry about that. It's an easy job. But, believe it or not, I do want you to do it."
"Best man has to make a toast."
"Correct."
"I am a man of few words."
"Hey, a few words are all you need then pass it off to Rory, simple enough."
"…How is she?" Jess asked absent-mindedly, quickly wanted to not have asked.
"Rory?" There was pause. "She hasn't been in town, lots of traveling for a campaign trail she's part of…she loves it though."
"Good."
Silence; Luke awaited an answer out of Jess about being best man. Jess assumed as much and quickly mulled it over.
A few things bothered him about being best man, but he didn't say anything. Did he want to do this? Not really. Is it because he resented the job in itself? No, it's not a bad feeling to be asked. Though he didn't want to say why he was so keen on keeping profile during this wedding. That would inevitably plunge into a whole different conversation. He became slightly irate with himself for letting that get in the way, as always. Was he still the guy who needed to be dragged from New York for his mother's wedding because he was so terrifyingly in love? He wouldn't let himself be that guy. "I'll do it because it seems to be you want me to for some reason or another, God knows why. Though if you want me to do it, I want to do it," Jess said earnestly.
"Good, that's…good. I'm glad." Luke said
"Good."
"I should probably tell Lorelai," Luke said as in his mind he ran through a spectrum of reactions and scenarios of how Lorelai might react to this news.
"Bravery. Remember to stand a good arm-swinging distance away."
