A/N: Chapter 4: WEDDING TALK :) YAY!!
Oh yeah, this is not more of a Rory / Lorelai based fic…if my last chapter didn't prove that, well, I don't know what will.
Summary: This takes place before The Prodigal Daughter Returns, but after Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out. There is going to be no April, and Luke and Lorelai are actually going to act like themselves instead of how ASP made them act. Hello, their bodies didn't get taken over by some alien life form; they are still the same people. Personally, I believe ASP was on drugs when writing the seconds half of season six. So how about we read it as if she wrote it sober…
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It had been a few weeks since Rory and Lorelai had reconciled but Lorelai and Luke had still not talked wedding talk. Lorelai had every intention too, but she could never find the right moment to bring it up. After all, this was new to her. She had never been fully committed to anything, except raising Rory, and even that was more of a something that she had to do. This time it wasn't a necessity, she didn't have to marry Luke, or have more kids or buy more plants. She didn't have to spend months planning a wedding or money paying for it. She didn't have to fight her mother about Luke not being good enough for her, or explain her reason for wanting to be with him. She could easily give up and walk away from everything.
But she didn't want to.
Although it didn't come around very often, she wanted to do so something life changing that she didn't have to do. When she needed to provide for Rory, she did. When she needed to open a new inn because the old one burned down, she did. When she needed to make money, she did. She didn't need to marry Luke.
But actually, she did.
She needed him to be around. He was her rock. He was sitting next to her when everyone else was stabbing her in the back. He was there for Rory when Chris was nowhere to be found. He helped her with money and food and house work and anything else she needed. He loved her for her, regardless of her caffeine habits or junk food addicts. He wanted to be with her, and didn't give up. He's the one person who stuck with her for the longest amount of time, besides Rory. She needed to marry him, she wanted to marry him.
But this was so not like her.
Right now, she was supposed to be running. Running away from everything on a road trip with Rory sitting next to her. She was supposed to be staying at freaky inns with weird cats and nosey people. She was supposed to be eating her weight in ice cream, and crying. She was supposed to be making up fake identities when people asked her who she was. And she was supposed to be hiding from all those damn people from Stars Hollow.
But she didn't want any of those things, unless Luke was with her.
She had been playing a mental game of ping-pong. She was scaring herself because she wasn't running, nor did she have the urge to run. Her eyes along with her feelings were socked in there. She wasn't going anywhere. She wanted this, and she wanted this bad. Every time she asked herself why she wasn't running scared, all she had to do was look at Luke, and her questions were answered. She had never felt this way about a man before. She liked the feeling. He was her slack picker-upper. He was one third of her. But after they had gotten serious, she only put him as a third of her using tape.
But now she was ready to break out the super glue.
She walked into the diner, and looked up as the bells did not jingle over her head.
"Um, excuse me." She said to the diner. "Where are the bells?"
"He took them down" Kirk told her.
"Why would he do that?"
"Because of him" Luke said coming out of the back looking at Kirk.
"Kirk?" Lorelai asked.
"Yep."
"What did he do?"
"He suddenly had a weird fascination with them, and he wouldn't stop opening and closing the doors, so they kept going off, so I had to take them down."
"Wow, Kirk doing something weird. Never would have guessed that."
"Uh-huh. You want some coffee?"
"Is the Pope catholic?"
"That's a yes" he said turning around to pour it.
"You know, I miss the bells." She said as she watched a couple walk through the doors.
"Well, when certain people act their age, not their shoe size, the bells can come back."
"Kirk?"
"Yes Lorelai."
"What size shoe do you wear?"
"Lorelai!" Luke sneered. "Don't start with him."
She laughed and just stared at him for a minute.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Okay. You want something to eat?"
"Um cheeseburger, fries, and some pie."
"Coming up."
"Thanks doll!" she hollered to the kitchen.
"So, Kirk. Do you think you could maybe not annoy Luke with the bells?"
"I don't know, I could check my schedule."
"Uh, ohkay?"
"I thought I told you not to start with him." Luke said as he came back behind the counter.
"HEY! I was trying to help you out buddy!"
"Yeah well, it's not going to work."
"Ouch, where's the love."
"It left when Kirk walked in."
"Oh. Hey Kirk" she said looking back at him. "Can you leave, so Luke with love me again?"
"Lorelai" he warned. "And you know I will always love you." He said as he leaned in to whisper it in her ear.
"Aw the town should know about the lovey side of Luke Danes."
"Over my dead body." Luke said.
"Hey, I could get someone to arrange that." Kirk piped in from behind.
"Alright Kirk, you can leave now." Luke said as he walked over and opened the door waiting for him to leave.
"I'll never know what you see in him Lorelai" he told her as he walked out with his plate in his hand.
"That's good." She said. "Wouldn't want anyone to realize how good I've got it" she said smiling up at him.
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Luke opened the door and realized the Lorelai was on the phone. He came in quietly and put his coat on the rack and took his hat off to run his fingers through his hair. He walked around the corner to see Lorelai slam the phone down on the table.
"Who was that?" he asked her.
"My mother"
"I should have guessed." He said taking a seat next to her.
"Yeah, whatever I don't want to talk about her." She said leaning into him. "How was the rest of your day?"
"Crazy. Yours?" he asked before making his way to her neck.
"Uh same." She said a tad breathless. She loved that he still had that effect on her.
"Luke" she said with her eyes closed as she gritted her teeth.
"Mhmmm" he said, still kissing his way down her body.
"I think we should start making wedding plans." She said, and he stopped.
"Okay." he said looking her in the eye.
"So..?" she asked
"So..? What?"
"Any ideas about the wedding?" she asked him laughing.
"Uh, there should be one."
"Well, that's a start I guess" she said
"How about you."
"I don't want this to be all about me, it's our wedding."
"Yeah, but doesn't every girl dream about their wedding day?"
"I guess, in some way"
"Well, what was your dream? Getting married in some white castle to a handsome millionaire prince, then being driven away into the sunset on some white horse?"
"No, it was more like getting married in front of everyone I loved to a sexy diner owner and then spending the next two weeks in bed with him." She said smiling.
"You're crazy, you know that right?"
"Then you must be too, to be in love with me."
"That's fine with me, I'd be anything with you babe."
"You're so sappy." She said as she laughed at him.
"Way to ruin a moment." He said laughing as he hit her with a pillow.
"Wait!" she said laughing. "Let's talk about the wedding. I say we get married in the town."
"Aw jeez, in front of all those lunatics?"
"Yes."
"Is that what you really want?"
"Yes."
"Okay. As long as we actually get married, whatever you want is fine."
"Really?"
"Yes, really"
"I love you"
"I know"
"Hey!" she said hitting him with a pillow this time. "So we can check with Taylor tomorrow about the dates?"
"No." he said
"Why?"
"You can check with Taylor tomorrow. I don't want anything to do with him."
"Lukkkke" she said giving him the Gilmore pout.
"Fine." He said hesitantly.
"Yay!" she squealed.
"You owe me." He told her giving his attention back to her neck."
"Oh, I think I'll find someway to make it up to you." She told him with a seductive smile.
"Oh yeah, how?" he said pulling her shirt above her head, exposing her bra.
"I have a few ideas."
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"So what did your mother want?" Luke asked as he drew circles on her palms while they laid in bed.
"Ugh, don't ever bring up my mother in bed."
"Sorry. Next topic?"
"Please" she replied.
"How's Rory?"
"She's good, busy but good."
"That's good. How's Lincoln, or whatever his name is?"
She laughed "Logan?"
"Yeah him."
"He's good I guess."
"I don't like him."
"Why not?"
"He's bad news Lorelai."
"Yeah but Rory loves him."
"Something I'll never understand."
"Maybe, it's not for us to understand."
"What does that mean?"
"I don't know, I'm tired" Lorelai told him.
"Go to sleep." He told her.
"Mmkay." She said her eyes already closed.
He kissed her temple. "I love you."
"I love you too." She said almost asleep.
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The next day, Lorelai woke up earlier than normal and set out to find Taylor Doose. He was handing out ice cream already to the people in his Soda Shoppe.
"Taylor do you have a minute?"
"Ah, yes Lorelai, we need to talk about that grass of yours."
"Excuse me?"
"The grass, in your front lawn, its too high."
"I'm not here to talk about the grass Taylor. I was wondering if there was anyway Luke and I could use the town square to get married in."
"Well, yes I would have to check the dates."
"Well, could you?"
"Yes Lorelai, I can only move so fast." He said walking over to look at his calendar book.
"Let's see, we have March 22nd available."
"Taylor, that's like two months away!"
"Okay, let me see. Um, July 16th?"
"That could work."
"Would you like me to pencil you in?"
"You could pen it in." she told him
"I'm not sure that's so bright, considering you know your history."
"Taylor, I am getting married!"
"Okay."
"Put it in pen"
"Okay."
"Thank you for your time" she told him as she walked out of the store and went over to the diner.
"Do you know how much I love you?" she told Luke after she took a seat at the counter.
"What did you do?" he asked her.
"I just dealt with Taylor for you."
"Oh. You did?" he asked less than enthusiastically
"I thought you'd be happy about this?" she asked confused
"Oh, no I am. It's just; I want to be involved in the wedding stuff."
"I'm sorry Luke, I just assumed, well anyway, I promise, with everything else, you will be included."
"It's okay and thanks."
"I mean everything, you're going to wish you never asked" she told him jokingly.
"Okay."
"Just wait till we have to go pick out every single flower and the invitations. Or wait till we have to pick out the color of the bow in the flower girl's hair, or the shoe sizes for the wedding party. Oh boy, you're going to hate me before we even make it to the altar." She said laughing as she teased him.
"Well, I don't really need to be involved in everything" he told her.
"Oh no buddy, if I'm going through it, so are you." She told him.
"As long as you're there, I'll do anything with you babe." He told her again.
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A/N: So that's chapter four! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK :). Oh yeahh, I was watching my Gilmore girls dvd's and I noticed that Rory's court day, from back in season 5 was June 3rd (which was the same day as Luke and Lorelai's almost wedding) Yeah. I thought that was weird. Because that means they didn't stick with their original court date, because Rory has her court date in the first episode of season 6..and Lorelai and Luke were JUST engaged. So that's a mess up on their part! Haha, we anyways review!