Title: A Perfect, and Somewhat Dysfunctional, Family

By: bokayjunkie

Summary: Luke and Rory has always had a special father/daughter bond that no one can break. But what happens when someone comes along to ruin that bond. Set in Season 1. Luke and Lorelai are not together…YET. A little RD also.

Disclaimer: I'm out.

-Sorry if this chapter will be too short for you. I'll try and make longer chapters.

A/N: From the episode 1.07 (Kiss and Tell). Some scenes and dialogues will be altered for story benefits.

CHAPTER : Double Date...Kind Of Part 2

He saw Dean on the floor, his focus intently on the TV. Luke sat down next to him, startling him when he saw that it wasn't Rory.

"Hi." he said a bit nervous. "Where's Rory and Lorelai?"

"Bathroom." was all Luke said and focused on the TV. A minute later, Luke turned off the TV and faced Dean. "Dean…" he started, "I don't know how exactly to say this, but, this is a very different kind of household you've walked into." God he really sucked at this.

"I know." Dean replied a bit nervously.

"Now…Rory may not be my daughter," it broke his heart to say that. "but I love her as if she were my own."

"Here comes the talk." he mumbled.

"I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't mumble. Cause I don't understand you if you do." Luke said sternly. Dean straightened up and looked at Luke. "Now how bout I talk, you listen. Rory's a smart kid. She's never been much for guys, so the fact that she likes you means a lot. I don't believe she'd waste her time around some looser."

"But you're watching me." Dean said knowingly.

"Kid, the whole town's watching you. Rory is very loved around here. You hurt her, there's not a safe place within a hundred miles for you to hide. And If you run, I will personally track you down and kill you myself." he said seriously. And he is very serious about this. Dean knows. Thinking about what Jeff had said to him about that boy who harassed Rory. "This is a very small, weird, town you've stumbled upon to."

"I've noticed."

"So, remember that all eyes are on you." Dean nodded. "And she's not going on your motorcycle."

Dean looked at him confused. "I don't have a motorcycle."

"She's not going on your motorcycle." Luke insisted.

He knew better than to argue further, even if what he's saying was weird. "She's not going on to my motorcycle."

Luke continued. "Curfew will be enforced. You will not distract Rory from her schoolwork. Lorelai and I reserve the right to change, alter, tweak, or add to the list of rules at any given time without any written notice. Am I clear?"

"You're clear."

"Good."

"Permission to speak now?"

"Permission granted."

Dean took in a deep breath. "You and Lorelai can lay all the rules you want, you can have the whole town spy on me, you can chase me through the streets-"

"I like that idea." Luke interrupted.

"But I'm not going anywhere.' Dean said as confident as ever.

"Well then it's gonna be a short chase then?" he smirked.

"I need for you and Lorelai not to hate me." Dean said almost pleading. "if you and Lorelai hate me, then I don't have a shot in hell with Rory."

"Rory has her own mind." Luke said simply.

"Yeah, but you're like a father to her. And lorelai's her best friend. And what you both think means a lot to her."

"I don't hate you. But I don't like you either. And Lorelai will probably want to like you, cause Rory like's you."

"But she doesn't." Dean said knowingly.

"Well she wants to, and Lorelai always gets what she wants."

Dean nodded. "How bout you?"

"I'll try and not to kill you."

"Fair enough." they both shook on it and Luke tunred the TV back on. "They're taking a long time in there." Dean commented after a long silence.

"Yeah, well, they're perfectionist."

"Tell your mom thanks for inviting me." Dean smiled, as Rory led him out into the porch.

"I'm sorry if this was totally weird." Rory apologized. "I mean, with my mom inviting you over, and Luke being here and-"

"Hey," Dean smiled at how flustered she was being. "It was good. Great actually. I like hanging out with them. They're very…entertaining."

Rory giggled. "Really?"

"Yeah." he smiled shyly then kissed her. "Thank you." he smirked. Rory blushed, and he kissed her once more then left.

Rory entered the house with a dreamy expression, which Lorelai and Luke noticed. Who were in the living room, already finished cleaning up.

"Hey, Dean already left?" asked Lorelai as she sat down on the couch with Luke next to her. Rory nodded and sat down next to Luke, resting her head against his shoulders. "Well that went well, didn't it?" Lorelai said.

"Yeah, not bad." Rory smiled, which was really contagious cause Luke and Lorelai were smiling too.

"We didn't humiliate you, did we?" Luke asked almost teasingly.

"I don't know, what did you say to him while mom and I were gone."

"That I'm gonna kill him." Luke smirked. Lorelai and Rory smirked as well.

"No, but, really, what did you say?"

"To take good care of you and that Lorelai and I are watching him. Eith the town's support of course."

"Ok." Rory nodded and hugged him. Lorelai smiled at the sight of the two.

"I should probably get going. " Luke said as he stood.

"Aren't you staying over?" Rory asked, pulling him back down on the couch. "We were gonna set up the living room and everything."

Luke hesitated. "I don't know"

"Come one Luke." Lorelai pleaded. "Stay the night. It's getting late anyways. And from what I remember, Cesar's opening tomorrow."

"Yeah, and you already have your stuff here." Rory added. "Your clothes, toothbrush, and you can use my toothpaste. And don't worry, it's the striped kind, not the cinnamon flavored kind that mom has, I know you hate that."

Luke smirked. That's true, he does have some stuff over from other times when he slept over here before. "Luke, please, please, please, please." Lorelai and Rory begged in unison, both pouting and giving him the puppy eyes. Luke rolled his eyes and said yes, and Rory tackled him down the couch.

They got the blankets out and put aside the coffee table. They set the blankets on the carpet in front of the couch. Lorelai took the one closest to the couch, Luke closest to the fireplace, and Rory in the middle.

"Goodnight." Rory smiled, happy that the two most important people in her life are with her right now.

"Night." Luke mumbled.

"Hm.' Lorelai said, sighing, her face towards the couch.

"Mom, what's the matter?"

Lorelai turned around and laid flat on her back, her face facing Rory. "I just really wanted you to tell me about that kiss." she said quietly.

"I'm sorry. I really wanted to tell you, but I just got really scared and-"

"Hun, It's ok. I'm not mad. Really. I just felt left out. Everyone in town knew before I did. I mean, you told Luke."

"She didn't tell me." Luke defended, propping himself up on his elbow, facing the girls. "I saw them."

"well at least you knew. And you saw them too. You got the full version at what happened." Lorelai pointed out. "I only got the readers digest version. You knew what really happened, what it looked like. If it was slow, short, long, sloppy, or with tongue."

"Aw Jeez." Luke and Rory said in unison and both with disgusted face on them.

Lorelai giggled at them. She loves it when they do that. "But, all I'm saying is, I'm Good. I know now. I got to know Dean a bit better too. I'm fine. I just had one too many Caramello bars. I'm sorry. You have school, Luke and I have work." she shrugged it off and said her goodnights to them.

Rory and Luke change glances. Luke nodded his head towards Lorelai, she knew what he meant. "Mom." Rory said timidly, tapping her shoulders lightly.

"Hmm?"

"I know this is lame, and totally after the fact, but-"

Lorelai immediately sat up. "Start from the very beginning and you leave anything out you die!" Luke rolled his eyes and turned his back to them. "Oh no. you can't go to sleep!" Lorelai said to him and motioned for him to turn back around and face him.

"And why the hell not?" he mumbled, his back still to them.

"Cause, I have to know whether or not what Rory's saying is true. And you were there so, you can correct her if she's lying."

"Lorelai, your daughter is the most honest person I know. She's never lied before."

"She lied about this one."

"I did not lie to you about kissing Dean." Rory defended.

"Well you didn't tell me about it. Which is just the same."

"Only in your world." Luke mumbled.

"Luke just turn around or mom will never let us sleep." Rory pleaded. Luke sighed and turned his body around to face the girls. "Ok, I was in the aisle where the ant spray is." Rory started.

"That's a good aisle." Lorelai commented.

"That's what Lane said too!" she said. "Anyways, so he was working and I go into the store and I sort of walked around pretending to shop…"

Luke woke up, his back a bit disoriented by the hard pavement under him. When he opened his eyes, he was met with the Gilmore household fire place. At first he was confused as to why he was there, in their house, on their living room floor. Then he remembered what happened last night. Movie Night, lots of food, Dean, sleeping over.

He had slept over at their house before. When on Movie Nights, late night housework and it's too late for him to leave so he sleeps over, if the girls ever need his manly presence after they had watched a very terrifying movie and they're too scared to sleep, or just for whatever reasons. Usually, he'd sleep on the couch, or on some occasions, like last night, they would make a slumber party out of it, and they would set up the living room with blankets and pillows.

Luke looked over at the VCR and checked the time. It was a little before five. The sun wasn't even up yet. The internal clock in his brain must have triggered which was why he woke up early. Though his usual wake up was a little early. But with last nights events, and Lorelai's demand for him to stay up as Rory retold the story of her first kiss, he had slept in for a good fifteen more minutes.

Luke sat up, and stretched his back. He looked over at the two girls next to him, snuggled up together. Rory's back to him, facing her mother. The two looked so peaceful and so beautiful. He thought of how lucky he is that he could be with these two girls. Even as just a friend to Lorelai, nothing more.

Luke stood up and folded his blanket neatly and put it back in the closet. He took his pillow, and put it back in Lorelai's room. He went back downstairs, after having a shower and dressed in his usual flannel shirt, jeans, and backwards baseball cap. He looked over at the girls and smiled again. He went and placed a gentle kiss on Rory's temple. And hesitated, before placing a kiss on Lorelai's temple. With Rory it's easy, she's like a daughter to him. But with Lorelai, It had more meaning into it. No matter how platonic their frindship should be. He knows it, but wont admit it.

He looked at them one last time before going to the kitchen. He called Cesar first, just to make sure that he opened. He did. So Luke checked the fridge for anything to eat. He was thankful that Lorelai let him buy their groceries, so they at least would have something good to eat asides form all the crap Lorelai buys. He found bacon, sausages and eggs. and in the cupboards, he found pancake batter. As the food cooked, he started to brew some coffee.

In the living room, Lorelai stirred from her sleep, smelling the wonderful aroma that filled the house. Though her nose was mostly fixated on the coffee. She opened her eyes, with a smile on her face. She came faced with her slumbering daughter, who looked really peaceful. She gave her daughter a quick kiss on the forehead before making her way to the kitchen.

She saw Luke, focused intently on the food he's cooking. Lorelai couldn't help feeling the butterflies in her stomach. Huh, and nobody even gave me any dirty comments about us. Lorelai thought what she was feeling is wrong. It really is. This shouldn't feel so normal! I shouldn't be feeling like I want this to happen every morning. I can't feel like this. Specially since it's with Luke. He's my best friend. Nothing more… …why is that? Nope. She didn't want to go there. Obviously Luke only sees her as a friend. If not. If he wanted somthing more. He would have said something. He would have done something. But he didn't. It's been fourteen years now. And they were still friends.

Lorelai still kept on mentally scolding herself from all these thoughts she's been having about Luke. She didn't even notice him turn around. "Oh, hey. You're up already? It's only…" he trailed off looking at his watch, "Wow, 5:50 in the morning."

Lorelai looked up and put on a smile. "Well I smelled coffee." she answered timidly.

Luke chuckled a bit. Then looked at her in concern. "You ok?"

"Hm? Uh, yeah…just uh…bad dream." she covered pouring herself a cup of coffee and sat down on a chair.

"Probably from all that crap you ate last night." he said.

Lorelai giggled, now finding it easy to be near him despite her earlier thoughts. It was probably from the lack of coffee…yeah, that's it. Cause no coffee means madness. MADNESS! "So what'ya cooking good looking?" her eyes grew wide at what she just said. Dammit! Need more coffee. She thanked god that her back was to him cause she really didn't want to see his expression, or for him to see her expression.

Though Luke thought nothing into it. He just thought of it as Lorelai being Lorelai and rolled his eyes and answered, "You're usual, bacon, eggs, sausage, and chocolate chip pancakes, for the two of you."

She thanked god again that he was being all casual about it. "Huh, I didn't even know we had any of those in our house."

"You didn't" Luke answered. "That's why I bought them yesterday after I fixed the fridge, seeing as how half of the contents in it were all moldy and leftovers."

Lorelai giggled. "You take good care of us." he really does.

"Well somebody has too." he mumbled, which Lorelai rolled her eyes at. He placed a plate of bacon, eggs and pancakes in front of Lorelai and another next to her for Rory.

"Thank you." Lorelai smiled digging in to her food. Then noticed there were only two plates set on the table. "Where's yours?"

Luke just walked back to the toaster and took out the toast and put it on a small plate. He placed the plate of toast across from Lorelai, with orange marmalade spreading next to it.

Lorelai gave a disgusted look. "Ugh. Disgusting healthy stiff."

He rolled his eyes. "It's not that bad." he said. "It's actually pretty good. It's kind of like jam, and it tastes like orange. it's also sweet a bit, but very healthy."

Ignoring him, "Mmmhh. Chocolate chip pancakes.' she smiled taking another bite of her pancakes.

"You're hopeless." he grimaced. "I'm gonna go wake up Rory." then he left. Lorelai kept on eating.

Luke walked into the living room and saw Rory was still peacefully asleep. He bent down, just at the top of her head, and gently shook her shoulders. "Rory wake up."

Rory stirred for a moment, then opened her eyes to meet Luke's. she smiled.

"Morning there sleepyhead."

Rory smiled. "What's that smell?"

"Food." Rory's smile grew wider. "Now come one, get up. Before your mom eats all of them."

Rory hurriedly got up and went into the kitchen with Luke.

"What the hell are you doing?" Luke yelled once he entered the kitchen. Rory looked at him then at her mother, who was now, eating Luke's toast with marmalade spreading on it.

Lorelai stopped mid-bite, then put the toast down and looked at Luke with an innocent smile. "It really is good Luke."

"That was my toast." he growled.

"Ooohhh! Mom's in trouble." Rory said in a sing-sang tone as she sat down and ate her food.

"Well, you were the one who told me to I should eat this kind of stuff so I did." Lorelai defended herself. "And you made it sound so good."

"Yes, but I didn't mean my food." he said annoyed, popping another bread in the toaster.

Rory smirked at her mother. Lorelai glared at her. She just mouthed 'you're in trouble' over and over while Luke's back was to them. Lorelai stuck her tongue out at her.

Finally, his toast was finished and he sat back down on the table, still glaring at Lorelai. Lorelai just gave him a sheepish, innocent smile, which kind of washed all the annoyingness away from Luke, but still act as if he was. Rory giggled at the two. She loved morning like these. Mornings when Luke would sleep over and stayed in whether or not he was opening the diner, just to cook them breakfast, which saves them a trip out. She loved mosnings like this. She wished it would always be like this. Some day. It will be.

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