Hi again everyone! I got a pretty good response for my first chapter, but I want to hear MORE! (puts ear to screen) Come on, let me hear it! (Clears throat in embarrassment) Anyway, if you guess what episode I referenced you get a plane ticket to Stars Hollow! (Whispers are heard) What's that? Star's Hollow's not real? Oops. Well, you will get a recommendation of your choice. Anything you want me to write- this story or a one-shot. I will let announce who wins next chapter. Enjoy!

Warning: There are no Literati interactions in this chapter. It's an important event leading up to Literati interaction.

"What!" Lorelai gaped at her boyfriend, wondering what the hell kind of planet he was from.

"What?" Luke said while shrugging and taking down an order.

"Luke Danes, you mean to tell me- and I quote accurately, so that the snow gods know just why they must smite you- that you have never: sledded, caroled, run around aimlessly with your tongue out to catch snowflakes, or tasted the almighty power of Miss Patty's eggnog?" Lorelai counted the offences on her fingers, so that she could punish him later for each and every one.

"Nope." Luke continued on around the counter, filling coffee cups as he went.

However, very few things can stop Lorelai; things that would need to include some form of extreme weather, coffee shrine, or her mother. Since this included none of those things, she just got up and followed him.

"That-That's just wrong!"

Luke spun around. "Yeah well, I'm not into all that Christmas, good will towards men stuff. Every damn year I have Taylor telling me to put up decorations- not asking me, telling me! - Then, there's the snow. It hinders"- Lorelai butted in "Ooh fancy word!" but Luke just continued. - "It hinders the road so you can't get anywhere! And, while yeah maybe it looks nice at first, within three days it just turns into dirty slush. Santa's not real, Hallmark is cheesy crap, the decorating is overboard, eggnog is disgusting, caroling to strangers is dangerous, and I can Bah Humbug whoever I want!" By this time he was breathless from his rant.

Lorelai just stood there with her mouth hanging open. Finally, she said, "First of all, Mister Danes, I will have you know that there is no such thing as overboard when it comes to decorating- there is tacky and silly and oh-dear-God-I-will-regret-that-in-the-pictures, but there is no overboard. Second, you have to understand – there's something magical about this time of year; endings and beginnings and snow and mocha's – dear God, Luke, but I have got to introduce you to the sheer joy that is chocolate and coffee in the cold, and look – I told you it would start snowing – I am never wrong about these sort of things." She pointed out the window, dashed outside, and danced and twirled her way through the snow to work.

And Luke was struck with an idea- perhaps from the snow gods.

"That's it, Luke's cheating on me." Was Lorelai's opening line as she walked into The Dragonfly's kitchen, causing Sookie to throw her knife- she was chopping vegetables- behind her. Luckily, everyone in the kitchen was used to Sookie's sudden bursts of energy by now, so no one lost an eye.

"What!" Sookie cried in disbelief.

Lorelai continued, "Well, I think so! This morning he was being extremely nervous and fidgety. Then, last night, I came home a little early"- "Because the Wendells' son got sick and they had to go home. Poor kid. I told Jackson…"-

"Sookie!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"Sorry, continue." Sookie said, making a gesture with her hand to dismiss her not paying absolute attention.

"I came home a little early, and I walked upstairs. You know how Luke fixed the stairs so they don't creak anymore. Well, that backfired on him, because I heard him talking to someone on the phone. And he was being nice!" Lorelai made a "see?" gesture with her hands, as if she was Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune.

"So… because he was nice… you assumed he was cheating?"

"He's not nice to anyone Sookie! He's gruff and semi-polite and yeah, he likes some people, but he's only nice to April, Rory, and me! April's at some winter break science camp with no phone reception and she doesn't come back for another two weeks, Rory's on the campaign trail and unless I suddenly have a twin or something- very Days of Our Lives of me by the way- that certainly wasn't me on the phone!" Lorelai heaved in and out of her mouth. "I think I'm hyperventilating!"

"Look sweetie, I think you're jumping to conclusions. Just wait for the right time tonight and let him try to explain. He might even be planning to tell you already."

"Yeah, you're right. I just gotta calm down. Take deep breaths. Make it through the day. Inhale… Exhale…"

Michel suddenly burst into the kitchen.

"The dirty, unshaven man in flannel is here." He said in his annoying French accent. "Do you want me to get the hose? Or perhaps a razor? I hear they're just wonderful new inventions that can just take the hair off of anything! Revolutionary, no?"

"Sookie!" Lorelai screamed, ignoring Michel.

Sookie just helped her up, patted her on the back, pushed her toward the door, and told her "Inhale… exhale…"

"Luke what are you doing? If you wanted to make me an eye patch you're supposed to cover one of my eyes, not both. Besides, I don't think I'd be very attractive with an eye patch. I'd have to say things like "Shiver me Timbers!" and "Aye Matey", and plus the pirate patch wouldn't be complete without a hook for a hand and I don't think that would work out very well, since Taylor will probably tell me I need a permit for it or something. Luke? Luke!"

Luke then proceeded to take off Lorelai's blindfold, where she could see a hill covered with snow, and atop that hill was perhaps the prettiest sled she had ever seen.

"Luke!" she gasped.

"I don't think right now is the time to mention Taylor."

"Taylor is the last thing on my mind right now! Oh my God!"

"Yeah well, Home Depot was having a sale so…

"Remind me to send Hope Demo a fruit basket tomorrow! Come on!" she said, taking his hand and pulling him toward the sled.

"First of all, it's Home Depot. Second of all, why a fruit basket? You hate fruit. Third of all, hold on!" Luke had his arms around Lorelai and proceeded to get the sled started down the hill.

Lorelai threw her arms up into the air, yelled out "Wheeeeeee!", and forgot everything except the snow, the hill, the sled, and Luke.

"That was so much fun!"

"Yeah it was." Luke said with a smile.

Lorelai gasped. "You admitted you were wrong! I was right and you were wrong! Nah nah nah nah nah!" Lorelai stuck her tongue out after she was done taunting.

"Jeez. What are you, six?"

"We represent the Lollipop guild, the Lollipop guild, the Lollipop guild. And in the name of the Lollipop guild, we welcome you to munchkin land!" Lorelai sang off key.

"And it looks like they sent their biggest nut."

"And proud" Lorelai said, sticking out her chin.

"Well, it's good you're warming up your vocal cords, because we're at our next stop." Luke stopped in front of the gazebo. Inside, was a karaoke machine all set up to Christmas songs.

Lorelai sniffled. "You know, if you keep surprising me with moments like these, I won't be able to call you the Grinch anymore."

Luke passed her the microphone. "I think I'll live."

Lorelai grinned evilly. "Oh, you are so going to regret this."

"Lorelai Gilmore, one more verse of Jingle Bells, and I swear I will replace your coffee with herbal tea for a month – do you hear me?"

"Yay! I can still call you the Grinch!"

"Oh, what a relief." Luke deadpanned.

However, Lorelai ignored him. She sniffed the air around her, gave a giant smile, and then dashed outside- just in time to see the snowflakes begin to fall.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" she asked Luke.

He supposes that Lorelai's unnatural attachment to something as silly as frozen precipitation was worth it when her joy gives her eyes a glow that nothing else could quite counter . . . . . . But then again, it wasn't just the joy of the snow. It was also being able to share this blessed experience with someone she loved more and more each day, trusted with her life, and made her so unnaturally happy that she felt like she should be studied along with her unhealthy eating habits- damn it he was rubbing off on her too! Luke pulled Lorelai closer to the diner.

"Lorelai?"

"Hmm?"

"Oh! Here, it would probably be best to give you this first." Luke said, taking out a thermos of hot coffee.

"Yes! Oh my elixir of life how I've missed you!" Lorelai kissed the thermos, and then downed the whole thing in a manner of two seconds. "Ahhh… that was good."

Luke smiled and went on with what he was planning to say. "Lorelai Victoria Gilmore. Right here in this very establishment that I'm standing in front of, a grumpy diner owner and a java junkie-a mad and spinning thing desperate for caffeine- began to get to know each other. That woman had a daughter…" At these words, as if on cue, a pair of headlights went around the town square and parked right in front of them. The door of the car opened and a young woman got out of the driver's seat.

"Rory! What are you doing here?"

"Mom! I don't know! Luke called me this morning and told me that it was an emergency but that no one was hurt!"

The two women hugged each other close and Luke gave them a moment. However, he was getting even more nervous, sweaty, and fidgety as time went on, so he had to interrupt them and get this over with before he was a sweaty thing of mush- not very romantic.

"Lorelai…" Lorelai turned around and faced him and he continued. "As I was saying, that woman had a daughter. A smart, sweet, competent, all around amazing daughter, whom the woman raised all on her own. The grumpy diner owner grew close to them and eventually began to consider them his family." Luke got down on one knee and Lorelai and Rory gasped in surprise. "Lorelai, you are that caffeine crazed lovable maniac and I am the grumpy diner owner. We have a rocky past, but I am positive that we can now get through anything and everything that life throws at us, including this. I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I want to be able to propose to you this time. Make it more traditional I guess, because God knows we need a lot more of that." Lorelai giggled a little hysterically with tears in her eyes, while Luke took a velvet box out of his pocket, opened it, and said, "Will you marry me?"

"Yes, you crazy, grumpy, diner owner!" Lorelai threw herself at Luke and kissed him. When they were done, Luke put the ring on her finger and said, "This time, it's my mom's ring. I want to prove to you how serious I am… and I don't think there's any better way."

"Oh, Luke! It's beautiful!" she said, admiring the ring. She thought to herself, "much better than that old mismatched cherub furniture." She then felt a little guilty and focused her attention back on the ring.

In the meantime, Rory, with tears in her eyes as well, went up to Luke and asked, "You're going to be my new daddy?"

Luke wasn't exactly dried eyed either. "Yeah," he said, smiling. "I'm going to be your new daddy."

A/N- So? What do you think? A lot longer than the prologue, huh? (Cuts off) Let me know in the reviews! The whole cheating thing was just something I could see Lorelai talking to Sookie about if and when a relationship is getting really serious. She still has that tendency in relationships to jump to conclusions, you know? Luke/ Lorelai and Rory/ Jess will definitely end up together, but the fun is all in the ride! A picture of Luke's mom's ring is in my profile if you want to see it. Don't forget to try and figure out what episode I'm referencing! (Says in Porky Pig voice) Till next time folks! (Blackness engulfs the screen)