Wow, so, thanks for the response. I'm glad people are actually liking my version of the consequences of Luke and Lorelai drinking lol. I've gotten myself a job - so, with that, a boyfriend, computer viruses, and friends turning 18, I have little free time. However, with that little free time, I love to write, so here we are with installment number four. I hope you likey like like (also remember that this weekend is Labor day (aussie holiday) and I am working like crazy - i'm also staying at a 'friends' house for a weekend so will have little time to write. I'll try and get another chapter out tomorrow (Saturday) or today I should say, 'cause it's 12.10am). LOVE KEZ :)
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Gilmoreintraining: I can't say this enough - thankyou thankyou thankyou for always always always reviewing. You rock! Hope you enjoy this chapter (it's the longest I've written hehe). Glad you liked chapter 3. :) Keep reading.
StarsHollow-er: Big fan of the sober sex myself too. I'm going to repeat what's in the minds of every single Luke/Lorelai lover in the world; MORE AFFECTION ON THE SHOW. That's what would've made it better. Lorelai only saying I love you in the last episode of season 6 is silly. I guess it made it a huge break up though - when she said 'But I love you Luke, I love you, and I've waited...' more dramatic. Lol. Enjoy. KEZ :)
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Penguinopus: I don't put much Rory in here. I know I should but I just love Lorelai and Luke so much - I focus most things around them. haha. I'm dying, I lent my season 7 to my friend and I don't see her often and I want it back!!! hehe.
Severien: Glad you liked. :)
Sarahb2007: Together we can pull Luke into the world of technology - starting with mobile phones and the internet.
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Gilmoregirls3916: Thanks a lot. Here's your much anticipated update.
Chapter four - This is going to work.
Luke and Lorelai were both asleep when Luke awoke feeling suddenly uneven on Lorelai's bed. He moved backwards slightly, only to almost fall off of the side of the bed. Lorelai was cuddled up next to him, effectively pushing him closer and closer to the edge of the bed throughout the night. Before falling off, he decided to wake Lorelai – a risky thing – in order to get more comfy, or at least back onto the bed. He looked at his girlfriend, she looked so peaceful to him, it was almost a shame to wake her up. She had her right arm on Luke's, which was resting over her abdomen, her right leg almost at the opposite side of the mattress and her left arm completely stretched out with her hand resting on her pillow. Luke brought his right hand up to her shoulder and gave it a small nudge.
"Lorelai," he whispered into her ear and nudging her a little harder.
"Mmm, Luke what the hell are you doing waking me up?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"I know, I'm sorry, one small thing will enable you to go back to your dream, if you'll just do that for me," he coaxed, nervously.
"Anything, just leave me alone," Lorelai snapped.
"Move over to your side of the bed," he told her.
Her eyes popped open and she realised that she'd backed herself so far up against Luke that it'd moved them further to his side. She shuffled over so that her head was resting completely on her own pillow.
"Thankyou," he said with a sigh, moving over to next to her again, cuddling her close.
Lorelai lifted Luke's arm slightly and turned over in his embrace. She was facing him and had a small smile playing at her lips. Luke watched as she dosed off to sleep in his arms. He couldn't believe where he was, it was like he needed someone to pinch him out of his dream.
Lorelai's tiny soft snores sent Luke back into dreamland. What seemed like minutes, but was in fact hours later, Luke was brought back to earth by the incessant ringing of the new alarm clock Lorelai had invested in. His eyes opened wide as he looked to see that Lorelai wasn't moving. He leaned over her and clicked it off, falling back to the bed with a sigh.
Lorelai and Luke hadn't had sex the night before. Lorelai was exhausted from her day at the inn and was already asleep when Luke had arrived home. Instead, Luke slid into the bed next to her, cuddled her close and fell asleep. Apart from the mid-sleep upset in the early hours of the morning, he had a good sleep.
Luke watched as Lorelai slept on. He could tell that she was almost conscious. She was awoken by the alarm, was aware that Luke had turned it off and she could sense that someone was looking at her. She opened her eyes slowly to be met with Luke's loving face, resting his eyes on the pillow in front of her.
"Morning," she said with a small yawn afterwards.
"Yes it is," he told her. He leaned across and planted a kiss on the top of her head before flopping back to his side and sighing.
"You tired?" Lorelai asked, running a hand over his chest.
"Only a little, mainly because the dinner rush last night didn't end because all the people that went to the town meeting, including you, came in at the last minute, sorry I didn't come over until late, you said I should come over though and I called, but no answer,"
"Luke, it's okay, I'm glad you came, I like waking up with you,"
"Me too," Luke replied, pulling Lorelai closer.
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Once they had both showered and gotten ready for their respective days at work, they walked to the diner together. They were walking hand in hand when Miss Patty and Babette ran up to them screeching.
"Lorelai, Luke…" Babette gasped when she realised they were holding hands.
"So it is true," Miss Patty said with a huge smile, the town gossips had been trying to figure out for two weeks whether they'd been hiding it or the rumours were really that - rumours.
"Yes, it is…" Lorelai told them, stealing a glance at Luke, making sure he wasn't feeling too uncomfortable with her divulging the information.
"Well, that's just great, I can't wait to tell Taylor," Babette screeched, tumbling over to hug Lorelai who in turn stumbled. Luke caught her back, helping her back to her feet and rejoining their hands. Luke raised his eyebrows at the three women.
"Okay, so we'd better go, got some of that famous coffee with my name on it," Lorelai told them, eagerly trying to get out of there.
"Alright sweetie, see you later," Miss Patty directed at Lorelai. They went to step away when Miss Patty did a double take and said, "And congratulations, this is just wonderful,"
Lorelai smiled.
Not one 'I told you so' amazing. Huh, maybe the town's going to finally get off of our backs about this.
Lorelai looked up at Luke who put his arm around her waist, pulling her to his side as they continued to walk. They arrived at the diner where Luke held the door open and Lorelai slid inside. When they entered, the local townies all let out a collective 'Oooh' and then continued on with their meals. Luke just shook his head and made his way around the corner.
"What tickles your fancy this morning?" Luke asked in a strange, chipper attitude.
"Wow, Whatsup with you?" Lorelai asked.
"What?" Luke asked, confused.
"Nothing, you're just so out of charactery, unusually happy, what's gotten into you?" Lorelai asked.
"I think you know the answer to that?" Luke asked her, winking.
Lorelai smirked and smiled that he believed her to be to sole purpose of the way he felt. She loved that she could make him this happy, and she was sure that the town was going to love that he was happy, that she was happy and that they were happy together.
"So seriously, what do you want?" Luke asked as he poured her some coffee.
"Bacon and cheese omelette with a side of you," Lorelai teased.
"A side of me you can have tonight when we come home from the ridiculous town meeting – second one in a row, who does Taylor think he is? Donald Trump?" Luke asked, beginning his rant.
"Ah well, you see, he is the selectman, which in his books means god," She smiled up at him. "And you know that god can do anything," she said as she put her hands under her chin.
Lorelai sipped at her coffee, admiring her boyfriend from afar. When she was out of coffee she decided to try her luck at going behind the counter. She didn't know what the rules were, in regards to the diner man having his girlfriend in his diner. At that point, Luke walked behind Lorelai and into the kitchen.
She got up extremely casual and walked around the edge of the table. She'd just arrived at the coffee pot when Luke came around the corner and spotted her.
"Lorelai!" he said loudly, causing the rest of the people eating there to look up and stare. Lorelai jumped almost a foot in the air before looking at him with a mock innocent expression as she continued to pour the coffee into her favourite mug. Luke walked over to her and rested a hand on the counter holding the coffee machine.
"Hi babe," Lorelai said sheepishly with a smile.
"Go back to your seat," he told her sternly, jerking his right thumb back to the counter.
"But…" she trailed off. This was one of the few times where Lorelai was having trouble coming up with a comeback or an excuse.
"Go, go get," Luke said.
"Fine," Lorelai scoffed as she put the coffee pot down and puttered back to her sleep. "Not fair though, I think I should have at least a little pull with you, considering we're sleeping together," Lorelai called, a little louder than she expected.
The patrons of the diner looked up briefly. Only one or two were really fixated on what Lorelai had said, others just wondering why she'd said it so loud.
"Why don't you go and borrow Kirk's megaphone and tell it to the whole world," Luke said in a soft but firm tone to Lorelai.
"Mainly because a megaphone, as big as kirks is-"
"Dirty," Luke laughed, he'd been friends with her too long.
"Thankyou,"
"Anyway mainly because a megaphone wouldn't reach the whole world, and also because I'm pretty sure everyone knows we've had sex already Luke," she whispered.
"Jeez Lorelai, I know they probably know, but it doesn't mean you have to confirm it!" Luke told her with concern.
"Oh crap, well, then you probably don't want to hear about my 'compare and contrast Luke's body parts in bed' conversation with Babette this morning, huh?" she asked him sarcastically.
"Are you serious?" Luke asked, placing his cloth down in front of her, leaning in.
"Of course not, god… what's with you?" Lorelai asked.
"Nothing, you know I don't like to talk about that part of my life… I don't understand why you want the whole town to know," he said casually.
"I don't, I was only making a joke," she assured him.
"Good, okay then, I'll see you later for your dinner?" he asked. Lorelai looked confused, she hadn't even made a move to leave yet but he'd assumed she was anyway. Huh, maybe he knows me more than I thought, to the point where he knows what time I'm gonna leave the diner.
She looked at the clock on the wall quickly and realized that if Luke hadn't said anything, she would've probably started to leave by now.
"Uh… yeah, okay, see you later babe," she said, stretching onto her tip toes to meet his lips. They exchanged an all too casual peck on the lips before Lorelai spun around and left for the inn.
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Ed walked into the diner that day, looking for Luke. Ceaser told him to wait in the diner while he went and fetched Luke for him. Luke descended the stairs to see Ed waiting in Lorelai's normal space.
"What can I do for you, Ed?" Luke asked, crossing his arms over his chest and looking slightly down at Ed.
"Luke, I was just wondering if you could do me a huge favour?" Ed asked.
"Depends on the favour," Luke said, casually looking at the pile of food stacking up. "Ceaser, you need to run some orders, Lane's not here so we don't have that extra set of hands,"
"Luke, I was wondering if you'd give my daughter a job," Ed asked patiently, nervously.
"A job?" Luke asked.
"She can't seem to get one anywhere at all," Ed pleaded.
Luke wanted to say no so desperately, but apart from Jackson, Ed was his closest friend. Well, closest friend meaning they'd been to a few baseball games together, hung out at the local pub and exchanged casual pleasantries when encountering each other when out and about.
"I can get her to send her resume to you," Ed said, hoping it'd get him thinking about it. Luke stood and thought for a moment. He needed some help, but he didn't know Ed's daughter. He hadn't seen her since she was four.
"Okay, get her to send her resume through and I'll have a look, I'm not making any promises," Luke told him.
"Oh god, thank you so much, I won't get her hopes up," Ed said, offering Luke a handshake which was readily accepted.
Luke wrote his email address on a napkin and gave it to Ed who folded it and placed it safely in his coat pocket. Luke went upstairs and opened up his emails. He thought he'd may as well get a few things done on the computer while he was up there waiting for Ed's kid's resume. He went through his list of emails, carefully choosing which ones to open.
"Sookie – try this recipe, delete," Luke mumbled to himself as he deleted Sookie's email. He liked Sookie but everyday it was a new recipe.
"Jess – more tax info, mark as unread," he mumbled as he came across one from Lorelai. He opened it only to find a hyperlink sending him to an instant messaging page. Lorelai explained in the email step by step instructions to enabling an MSN account. He lost track of time as he made up an email and all. He had no contacts so emailed Lorelai back.
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To: LG
From: LUKED
Subject: MSN.
Hey,
I did what you said, so I'll log in, and I guess you can add me, talk soon.
Luke.
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A couple of minutes after Luke sent that email, Lorelai returned from her lunch break. Going through her rosters and paychecks, she decided to take a break and see what's happening on the world wide web. She read Luke's email and laughed. He had no clue what to do on the internet. She added his email address and giggled when she saw that he was online. The opened a conversation and began typing.
Luke was startled when he heard the MSN sound ring, alerting him that someone was talking to him. He clicked on the orange flashing panel and saw that it was Lorelai.
Lorelai: Hey geek, you made it I see?
LD: If I'm a geek and I just figured this out, what does that make you?
Lorelai: A non-geek who's sleeping with a geek. Although I suppose I was already like that before you realized I had msn and email and all that.
LD: Right.
Lorelai: Wow, you have MSN, this is an historical day people.
LD: Tell anyone and die.
Lorelai: Die? You'd kill your own girlfriend?
LD: I sure would.
Lorelai: Good to know, not telling anyone. I guess this is better – we can have secret sex chat.
LD: What?
Lorelai: I was wondering, tonight – the red lacy underwear or the black satin ones.
LD: I'm not talking about this with you.
LD: The black satin ones.
Luke sighed and Lorelai laughed. She figured that Luke thought that other people could see their conversation, but in fact it was just the two of them.
Lorelai: Okay, well I better get back to the inn's work, a lot of people wanting to be paid tomorrow.
LD: Yeah I'm gonna go and reply to Jess's email.
Lorelai: Cool, see you tonight in my black satin's.
Lorelai contemplated sending a wink icon, but she hated them. Whenever Rory or Sookie would send them to her, she would dismiss it. She never got them, she thought they were useless.
LD: See you tonight, 8?
Lorelai: 8. Bye baby.
Luke sat back in his chair and laughed. He couldn't believe that Lorelai had convinced him to use this kind of technology. She was changing him – for the better he thought.
Lorelai sank into her office chair and smiled. She loved that they had a relationship on so many levels. They talked on the phone regularly, emailed regularly, now even instant messaged each other, they slept at each others houses, had sweet times, had fun times, it was working. She was crazy about him. She'd never thought that booze could lead to something this wonderful.
This is going to work.
Her mind finally admitted it to her. She got up from her chair and ran into the kitchen to find Sookie.
"Sookie,," Lorelai called to the apparently empty room. Lorelai looked around. Sookie jumped up from the floor behind the kitchen island.
"What?" Sookie asked with a huge smile on her face.
"I know, it's crazy, we've been together like two weeks, but I think I'm falling in love with Luke," she said to Sookie.
"Oh my god, oh my god, you may have only been together for two weeks, but you've got to remember that you've known him for years," Sookie told her.
"Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't see it for all these years," Lorelai said, pacing the kitchen and throwing her arms up in the air.
"Well, the important thing is that you know now, and you're finally going good." Sookie assured her.
"Oh my god, what if we get married?" Lorelai said excitedly.
"Wow, you're thinking forward," Sookie said, wide eyed.
"I know, I know, but I just can't help it, I can't, he's just there, and he's wonderful and he's always there for me, and my kid, Sookie," she tried to explain but Sookie cut her off by waving a spoon in her face.
"It's good," Sookie said defiantly.
"It's good," Lorelai repeated with a defiant nod and a huge smile.
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Luke entered Lorelai's house that night with a bottle of wine and some pie from the diner. He walked into the kitchen and found Lorelai cleaning out the fridge.
"So, interesting thing happened at the diner today," Luke said as he sat in one of the chairs at the table. He didn't continue so Lorelai stopped and looked at him, confused.
"Care to share?" Lorelai asked.
"What are you doing?" Luke asked, cocking an eyebrow and gesturing to the bin in front of her with pizza boxes and Chinese cartons bulging out of it.
"Cleaning out the fridge," she told him, leaning into the fridge to get to some of the stuff in the back.
"I was here not four days ago, there was no where near as much stuff in there that is in the bin," Luke told her, staring at the bin.
"Luke, that was four days ago," she said, as if Luke were to already know that the amount of junk food containers he saw in the bin were justified by it being four days.
"Anyway," Luke said, averting his eyes.
"So, the diner, what happened?" she asked.
"Ed wants me to give his daughter a job," he told her nonchalantly.
"So? You need some extra help, right? Could be perfect," she told him, throwing a single apple in the bin.
"Hey, that was mine," Luke said to her.
"Oops," she said, smiling at him.
Lorelai walked over to Luke and sat on his lap. She wrapped her arms around his neck and looked into his eyes.
"I think you should do it, if not Ed's daughter, then someone else, the diner makes you so stressed, which makes you grumpy which means less me and you time," she said, pointing from him to her.
"Well, he emailed me her resume today so I guess I'll look at interviewing her in the next few days," he said with a small smile.
Lorelai leaned down and kissed him gently. Luke's right hand immediately went to the small of her back. He remembered their MSN conversation and slipped his hand under the thin material that was her jeans. He felt the familiar fabric and smiled.
"Black satin," he whispered.
Lorelai got up off of his lap and grabbed his hand. Lorelai led them upstairs, leaving the contents of the fridge on the floor and in the bin whilst they were… pre-occupied.
I used Ed 'cause he was brought up repeatedly throughout the series, so yeah.
Did you like it? Please review. Give me ideas and I will possibly work them in. As I'm writing I don't think the stories exciting enough, so if you have anything to add, go for it.
LOVE KEZ.
(Chapter five soon babieees)