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A/N: Okay this is going to be a little weird just read the A/N when your done.
This chapter re-accounts the events that happened for Lorelai Gilmore between 1985 and 2000
October 28,1985
Lorelai was awake. She was in a nice room in a warm place out of the cold and snow. The sun was just beginning to rise and the light began to slowly creep in through the window. Tears slid from the corners of her eyes and strait down to the pillow. She was alone in the strange town surrounded by kind, but strange people and she missed her baby. She wanted Rory to be there calling out for her but she knew this was no life for a child. Lorelai had no idea where she would stay tonight or any other night from now on. She still had a little money left for food but not diapers or wipes or toys or clothes or any of the other things that babies need. She closed her eyes and thought about last night. She remembered that her bag wasn't very heavy but how cold it was walking the how ever many miles it was to the bus.
By the time she made it to Stars Hollow her body was completely numb from the ever dropping temperature. She got off the bus and looked around the town was very lit up. Halloween was everywhere it was festive and fun. She walked around a corner and saw a sign.: WESTENS BAKERY: it seemed to be the only place still open so she walked in.
"Hello, young lady" an old woman behind the counter said greeting Lorelai.
"Hi."
"Are you hungry, you look hungry, would you like me to make you something."
"Uhh…no thank you. Just a cup of coffee please."
"Well okay if your sure."
Lorelai sat down at a table and put her bag down beside her.
"You must be new around here," the old lady said. "I know everyone around here and I would defiantly never forget eyes like yours.
"Yes ma'am. And thank you."
"Well what's your name dear?" the lady asked handing Lorelai her coffee.
"Umm…Lorelai…Lorelai Gilmore."
"Well, welcome to Stars Hollow Lorelai. I'm Fran."
"Nice to meet you Fran."
"You too dear."
About twenty minutes later Lorelai was ready to leave.
"Thank you so much." Lorelai said handing Fran the tree dollars for the coffee.
"No problem, you come by any time you want."
"I will. Umm be back…soon." Lorelai added.
Fran flashed her a smile and Lorelai turned to leave. But then she remembered she had no where to go.
"Uhh…Fran," She asked "There were some guys talking about a Inn somewhere around here and I was just wondering if you could maybe point me in that direction."
"Oh sure" she said.
Fran took Lorelai outside and described to her the way to the Independence Inn. She thanked the old lady once again and with her bag that was starting to feel heavier she walked to the Independence Inn.
Once she got there she stood outside for a good ten minute amazed at how beautiful it was. She would have continued to stand there observing the snow fall around this beautiful place. But she saw the lights in the rooms upstairs begin to go off and this alarmed her. Maybe they would lock the doors. she thought to her self and hurried inside. The smell inside was heavenly. It was warm and inviting. It reminded her of the home she'd always wanted. She walked over to the front desk to see a woman. She had peach colored akin a auburn hair she looked to be around 40ish.
"Hello," she said looking up at the young girl.
"Hi," Lorelai said with a smile.
"My name is Mia, welcome to the Independence Inn."
"I'm Lorelai."
"Would you like a room?" Mia asked.
"Huh?"
"A room?"
" A yes that would be great. Thank you."
Mia handed Lorelai a key and she hurried upstairs, she took a shower and stood in there until the water ran cold and in fear of her body going numb again she got out. Lorelai remembered digging through her bag forever to find something proper to wear to bed. Even after she realized that she wasn't in her mothers house and could sleep in jeans if she wanted to but she didn't. she found something more 'appropriate'.
The sun was shining brightly through now. It yelled at Lorelai to wake up. She obeyed by flipping the covers back and wiping the tears from her eyes.
November 3rd 1985
Lorelai had been spending a lot of time with Mia this past week. Last night they sat down together and Lorelai told Mia her whole entire story about life with the Gilmore's and baby Rory. There was a lot of crying from Lorelai and Mia held her like a mother would. She'd offered Lorelai a job as a maid at the Inn, and Lorelai happily accepted. This included being able to stay and eat at the Inn. Mia also talked with her about getting her GED. They also talked about calling Emily and decided to do that this morning. Mia said that she'd sit with Lorelai while she called. Lorelai picked up the phone and dialed the number before she lost her nerve. She heard the dull buzz trying to connect her to her past.
"Gilmore Residence." The maid answered.
"Hello, is Emily there?" Lorelai asked the maid.
"Yes ma'am please hold"
Lorelai patiently waited on the other end.
"Emily Gilmore." she heard through the receiver.
"Hi mom." Lorelai somehow managed to pull together.
"Lorelai?" Her mother sounded surprised.
"No some other person who call s you mom." she said sarcastically.
Emily didn't reply. This angered Lorelai.
"You Know what I'm just calling because I said I would. And if you care then I'm okay and..." Lorelai stopped because she heard Rory laughing in the background.
"…Can I talk to her." Lorelai picked back up.
"No," Emily said. "I don't think that's a good idea right now. We will talk to you later goodbye Lorelai."
With that Emily hung up the phone. It was at that moment that Lorelai realized she would never have Rory back. She was fine without her laughing and playing like Lorelai had never been there at all.
January 1989
Lorelai Gilmore was on her lunch break. She wasn't really hungry but she desperately wanted coffee. On any other day she would have gone to Westens but Fran was out of town for the weekend. She only had 25 minutes left so she decided to try something new. She'd worked at the Inn for four years now and she'd never been late or missed a day not once and she wasn't about to start now.
She walked into this new place. A diner called Luke's. she'd seen it before but had never been inside. She walked through the door and the place was packed. There was a gruff man wearing a flannel shirt and a backwards baseball cap. He was walking around with a pot of coffee in one hand and two plates of food in another. Jackpot! Lorelai thought to herself. She stood over by the counter in a caffeine frenzy waiting for coffee. But no came over there so she decided to go over to the gruff man. He was with a customer.
"yeah um…could I get some coffee please." she said to the gruff man.
"hey, wait your turn lady." he snapped.
she didn't listen she just kept following him around the diner talking a mile a minute although he wasn't quite sure what he was saying. Fed up Luke finally turned around to her.
"you know what…your being annoying, sit down shut up and I'll get to you when I get to you."
There was a dramatic pause and after a moment it was shattered by the sound of Lorelai talking again.
"When's your birthday?" she asked him?
He wouldn't tell her, so she didn't stop talking and he gave in and told her his birthday. Lorelai was delighted by this information. She quickly opened up the newspaper and turned to the horoscope page, wrote something down and handed it to the man. He looked at it and under Scorpio it said: YOU WILL MEET AN ANNOYING WOMAN TODAY GIVE HER COFFEE AND SHE'LL GO AWAY.
He gave her coffee but she didn't go away. She told him to hold on to it and maybe it would bring him luck one day.
Lorelai continued to come back to Luke's everyday. She liked him and the diner and he liked her being there. They became friends fast and soon much more than that by the end of 1989 Lorelai couldn't see herself spending her life with anybody else.
1992
Luke Danes fell in love with Lorelai Gilmore the day he met her. He knew that when he proposed. He knew her past and her background and he was proud of what she'd accomplished.
He wanted her to be the one he came home to everyday. He wanted her to be the mother of his children and he wanted her's to be the first person he saw in the morning and the last person he saw before he went to sleep. With all this in mind he got up his nerve and asked a most permanent question. To his delight she said yes and on June 3rd, 1990 they were married. He had never seen her more beautiful than on that day in her gown, and she had never been more nervous then the day she married the love of her life. The ceremony was quiet and small. Mia was there and that was really all that mattered to Lorelai. She would never tell anyone but she secretly wished that when she walked down that aisle she could turn around and see Emily and Richard there supporting her, proud of her but when she looked up she saw Luke and forgot all about her disappointments. He bought them a beautiful house near town. They had lots of nice neighbors including Babette and Murray. Lorelai continued to work at the Dragonfly Inn and in December of 1992 was promoted to assisted manager. They were happy together. But Lorelai couldn't help but wonder how Rory was, what she was doing, What she looked like?, so many questions that she feared would never be answered. She considered going back. She thought about nothing else for three days and came to the conclusion that you cant leave a child behind and then come back and take them from the only home they'd ever known she decided that she would have to wait if just for a little while just until she was a little older.
1993
Luke and Lorelai always planned on having kids but Lorelai had no idea it would come this soon.
They conceived on February 14th, 1993.
May 15th
Lorelai was asleep upstairs and Luke was down stairs cooking breakfast. It was still early but Luke liked to get a jump start on the day. Everything was quiet in the house until a Hello Kitty alarm clock went off. Lorelai still half unconscious hit the top to make it stop. No sooner had her hand hit then another one went off and another and another until the room was filled with the chimes of at least 18 alarm clocks. She sat up and looked around at all the noise.
"You are hilarious!" she yelled to her husband who she assumed was down stair laughing at her expense. She climbed out of bed turned off all the clocks and headed down stairs.
"Okay see last night when I said tomorrow make sure I wake up at 7:00 no matter what I really meant, tomorrow make sure I have the option of getting up at 7:00 in case when 7:00 comes I actually want to get up which it happened I didn't. Therefore you are currently responsible for the great alarm clock slaughter of 1993." she said walking into the kitchen.
" No survivors?" he asked
"one shaped like a bunny, escaped with mild decapitation." she replied smelling her coffee.
" This is decaf." she stated after a second.
"What are you talking about?"
"you switched my coffee again."
" I'm a busy man I don't have time to run around switching your coffee. I have a diner to run, I have shipments to order, I have things to flip and fry." he defended.
Lorelai continued to franticly search for his coffee
"would you stop that?" he asked.
Lorelai looked under the sink and found a plastic baggie with what appears to be coffee inside.
"Ha ha ha ha ha, under the sink, very cleaver but not cleaver enough BUCKO." she mocked.
"Alright, you know what…I give up."
"Woohoo!"
"Go one day without coffee" he said.
"-that's not giving up." she cut him off.
"I'll put a toy in your cereal."
"Dirty!" she joked.
"Fine here you go," he said handing her a plate of food. "You win."
"Ah thank you."
"Your welcome now your up, your fed, I'm leaving."
"Oh hey wait we need Q-tips."
"I'll alert the media." he sounded sarcastic.
"Yeah…See that goes much better with the accent."
"The reference is good enough you learn that one day. I'll be home early. We need anything else besides Q-tips?"
"Umm cotton balls, world peace, Connie Chung's original face back."
Luke kissed his wife.
"Goodbye crazy lady," he bent down to her stomach area and puts his hand on it. "Goodbye Sid and Nancy."
"Leopold and Lobe." she corrected.
"What?"
"I changed my mind please don't tell Sookie."
Luke shook his head. He honestly didn't understand half the word that came out of that women's mouth sometimes but he loved every single one of them.
"Declaf" he tried one more time.
"Never" she laughed.
"They'll both have two heads." he complained.
"More to love."
Luke kissed his wife one more time and then headed out the door. Lorelai put her hands o her belly and smiled. She really was excited. She hurried and ate her breakfast, got dressed and headed off to work. She had just turned twenty-five and all the towns-folk of stars hollow bought her a nice badge jeep.
Late night November 2nd
Luke had a long day at the diner and he couldn't wait to get home to Lorelai.
He locked the door got into his truck and began his journey home. He pulled into the drive way behind Lorelai's jeep. It hadn't moved since she insisted last week that they take her car to her doctors appointment. The only time she was able to get out of the house or even out of the bed except to go to the bathroom was to go to her doctors appointments once a week. The stairs creaked as he walked up the front porch. I'll have to fix that. he thought to himself and turned the key to walk in.
The house was completely dark from the down stairs. He went into the kitchen turning on every light he passed in the process. He put the bags with Lorelai's food in them on the counter and threw his keys in the bowl.
"Lorelai," he called up the stairs. "I'm home."
No reply.
He decided to just go up there himself. Before he left the kitchen he looked at the door. The door that would lead into his daughters' or sons' or daughter and son's room. Lorelai made it a point to find out the sex of their babies as soon as they could tell her, but Luke on the other hand decided to wait. After that day Lorelai had spent all her time that wasn't spent at the Inn decorating that room for whatever that doctor had written down for her on a sheet of paper that day. He turned his attention back to the stairs and went up to greet his very beautiful very pregnant wife.
Lorelai wasn't asleep but she was laying in the dark. She didn't want him to see her the way she'd been all afternoon. Completely hysterical. She heard him come in and she heard him call for her but she thought that even if she tried to call back she would have no voice so she didn't even try. She thought maybe if he came up stairs that he would think she was sleeping and leave her to her tears. He opened the door letting in the bright light from the hall run into the room.
"Lorelai." he whispered.
She didn't move, she laid perfectly still.
He thought she was asleep. He turned around and started down stairs when he heard a shriek.
Lorelai had been taken by surprise, she recognized this feeling but her doctor assured her she wouldn't be feeling it for another week. She didn't mean to alarm Luke but he sprang up from out of no where to tend to her.
…
Her water broke soon after the contractions started and Luke rushed her to the hospital. She waited in the hospital bed for her twin to arrive.
"What's wrong?" Luke asked her.
"Nothing." she choked out.
"Your lying."
"No I'm not." she lied.
"Lorelai?!"
"okay…It's just Rory."
"What about her?"
"I miss her. And I don't know I just feel like I'm betraying her by having another baby. And you know I just feel like the world's worst mom!"
Lorelai had another contraction at that moment and cringed. Luke held on to her hand and whispered in her ear.
"You did what you thought was best for her. You left her for her benefit not yours and that makes you the worlds best mom." he said in his most supportive tone.
She looked in his eyes with tears in her own and smiled at him.
The doctor walked in ruining the moment.
"Are you two kids Ready to have a couple of kids of your own?" the doctor asked.
…
Early morning November 3rd 1993
It didn't take long before Luke and Lorelai had two beautiful identical twin girls. They named them Lauren Helen and Alexis Kimberly Danes.
1999
Lauren and Alexis were up for the morning. Luke had to get to the diner in a hurry so he didn't get to see them before he left but Lorelai was still up stairs asleep. The two five year olds tip-towed up stair to their parents bedroom and eased onto the bed before they went crazy and began to jump up and down on top of their mother.
"Mommy mommy wake up it's the first day of school." they sang.
Lorelai opened her eyes.
"Hey girlies" she said sheepishly.
"Mommy come on we got to go to school." Alexis said.
"Lexis its 6 o'clock." she said.
"come on we can get their early." Lauren said pulling her mother to get out of bed.
She did as her daughters wanted and climbed out of bed.
"Here mommy wear this," Lauren said handing Lorelai he blue flippy skirt.
"Okay, you guys go down stairs and let me get dressed and then we will go have breakfast with daddy before school."
They both ran excitedly down the stairs to wait for her. She couldn't believe time had gone by so fast. It made her think about Rory. Rory was fourteen years old today would be her first day of high school. Lorelai thought. She couldn't let her broken memories of her oldest child ruin the day. The took a glance at the picture on the night stand it was taken two weeks before Rory's first birthday. Lorelai sighed and went into the bathroom to avoid the disappointment of two other little girls.
-2000
A/N: Okay I hope you liked that because I had a great time writing it. I know the story is a little short right now but it will get longer as the chapters go on. Umm...If your wondering about the twins...Im sorry I had to do it please dont get mad it will all work out for the best you'll see. I got their names from Lauren Grahm and Alexis Bledel. Did you know that Alexis' real name is Kimberly. Anyway please review I am super excited about where this is going and I hope you are too.
xoxo Jacey