Luke's Lake
Chapter 11
"So how do you feel? Are you okay with it?" Lorelai asked tentatively.
"You and Luke? Rory replied trying to get her mind around the idea.
"No Kirk. I decided to give him a second chance, yes Luke!" she said to her daughter on the other end of the phone.
"Does this mean we get free stuff at the diner now?" she asked.
"Like the left over donuts," Lorelai joked,
"And the day-old Danish," Rory added.
"Maybe, I'll ask," Lorelai giggled, "Look this is still knew so keep it to yourself, don't even tell Lane as this information in the wrong hands can be very bad," Lorelai said in a mini rant.
"So I guess Grandma should be kept out of the loop?" she joked.
"Don't even joke about that!" Lorelai said gasping at the thought, "How am I going to tell them?" she asked.
"You'll work it out," Rory said pausing for a moment, "This is a good thing Mum. I've see the two of you together, I knew it would happen one day."
"Bet you never pictured it being at the lake!" Lorelai said noticing she was almost home.
"I never pictured it and now have a bad image showing on the big screen in my mind, how will I look Luke in the face again?" Rory asked.
"Well as long as you don't look else where," Lorelai joked.
"Gross Mum!" Rory said making a weird face.
"Well I've got to go. I'll call you later tonight to fill you in," Lorelai said at the taxi pulled into her driveway.
"Love you," Rory responded.
"Love you more," Lorelai returned closing her phone.
The taxi pulled up outside Lorelai's home; it was around lunchtime so a chance the neighbours weren't home. Lorelai paid for the ride before getting out, she sighed as she watched the taxi back out of her drive.
"Hi ya there Doll!" her nosy neighbour called.
Lorelai was out of luck. Composing herself she turning with a smile, could they know already? She thought as Babette walked up to her, "Hi Babette," she replied.
"You okay Hun?" she asked with a flurry of questions, "I haven't seen you in a few days, where have you been?"
Lorelai had to think quick, "I was at my parents," she lied, Babette not believing the tall brunette.
"Your parents?" she asked.
"Yes, dad needed some help with his business yesterday and it took longer than I though so ended up staying the night," Lorelai tried to cover.
"The Jeep?" Babette said looking over to the parked vehicle.
"Didn't want to start, so I took a taxi," Lorelai said, the lie was falling into place.
Babette decided to give up for now, "Well it's good to see you're okay," she said turning to walk away, "I better get home," yelling "Morey, I'm coming home!" with that she walked off before stopping on her steps, "Lorelai, I guess you missed the news about Luke," Lorelai froze in her tracks, so close she thought.
Turning she asked, "News?" unsure where this was going.
"Yes, apparently he went fishing at the lake. Like he does! Well his truck was towed back a little while ago. Gypsy says it's the electrics or something. Well I heard on the grape vine that he was not alone when the towed him from the lake," Lorelai was silent for a few moments.
"Are you sure?" she asked not wanting to give anything away.
"Apparently it came for Peter, a friend of Luke's, he was talking to Gypsy," Babette added, "Well I'll see ya later doll," she said disappearing into her house.
Lorelai quickly found her keys and went inside, putting down her things she grabbed the cordless phone and dialled a familiar number as she slumped onto the couch.
"Luke," she said before he had a chance to say anything,
"Lorelai?" he asked unsure as to the person on the other end of the line.
"Yes Lorelai. Who else would be calling you in a panic? I just got back and we need to talk," she told Luke who was busy behind the counter of the diner during the busy lunch period.
"Wait," he said coving the phone with one hand, "Ceaser I'll be in the storeroom," Luke said taking the corded phone through the door it barely reach the quite of the other room, "Yes Lorelai?"
"That's better, I can hear you now. You said you just got home. What took so long? I had to have the truck towed back to town and I'm at work now," Luke said having not seen Lorelai since she hopped in the taxi at the Rangers station.
"I stopped for coffee," she said.
Luke shaking his head, "Well that explains it," he said.
"I think they know!" she said with worry in her voice.
"About?" Luke asked still tyring to catch up.
"Us, you, me and our night of carnal pleasure!" Lorelai said with a slight smile as she remembered his touch.
Luke feeling hot as Lorelai talked, wanting to go right over to comfort Lorelai, but having a diner full of the very same crazy townies that would know something was up, he knew he couldn't.
"So do we come clean?" Luke asked waiting to hear her reply.
"I'd rather not for now, it's none of their business. By the way if Babette asks I was at my parents helping dad, it got late so I stayed the night. That reminds me I need Gypsy to check my Jeep, it wouldn't start," Lorelai said making a mental note.
"Thus the reason you stowed away in the back of my truck," Luke said with a smile.
"Maybe I should have just came back with you and Peter in the tow truck?" Lorelai said lying back to rest on her couch.
"They'll know soon enough, I mean I don't want to hide this. That's only asking for trouble," Luke said resting back against the door.
"Maybe we should have a real date first, see how it goes," Lorelai said with a touch of sarcasm.
"Well that's the sensible thing to do," Luke agreed with a chuckle.
There was a few moments of silence, "Well I better go," Lorelai said sitting up, "I need a bath, so in five minutes while you're dealing with Kirk sending back his sandwich because you cut it wrong, I'll be naked lying in a tub full of bubbles," she teased.
"You are a cruel woman," Luke joked.
"I'll see you later tonight for dinner," Lorelai said.
"Dinner?" Luke asked, "Here?"
"Well I still have to eat, this way I can see you without the town knowing," Lorelai told him.
"Bring a change of underwear in case you get lucky and stay the night," Luke said in a cheeky tone.
"Maybe I just won't wear any," Lorelai said hanging up before Luke had a chance to respond.
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Later that evening with the town watching Lorelai sat at the counter eating her burger. She smiled watching Luke standing at the stove flipping burgers. Giggling to herself Lorelai imagined Luke's naked butt, which she last saw scampering across the jetty.
Luke was finding it difficult to concentrate, he could feel her eyes burning holes in his jeans, "Stop that," Luke said coming out of the kitchen with a second plate of fries for Lorelai.
"What?" Lorelai said all innocent.
"You know what. Just stop being so obvious," He asked before looking around and leaning in to get closer, "You're right, they know," Luke said.
"Did they say something to you Snuffy," Lorelai side in her baby voice.
"No but they've been weird all day, weirder than normal," Luke clarified, "Just stop it,"
"What Snuffy?" Lorelai said keeping up the baby talk.
"The baby talk, if they didn't know before two seconds still next to you and they would," Luke said keeping his voice down.
Back to her normal voice, "Relax, if they find out so what, it's none of their business," Lorelai said taking some fires.
"So you're telling your parents Friday then?" Luke asked knowing what her answer would be.
"Absolutely. Then I'll solve this whole global warming thing," she joked, "Get Al Gore on the phone."
"So do you want to spend the night," Luke said under his voice.
Lorelai's eyes lit up at the thought, "How do we do it?" she asked.
"I think you know, going by this morning's activities," he chuckled, "I want to finish what we started in the lake," Luke said for only Lorelai to hear.
Luke looked up as the doorbell rang, he saw Kirk enter the dinner with a young lady.
"Wow, this place seems nice." The lady said looking around.
Kirk agreed, "Yes, diners are apparently all the rage nowadays."
"Really?" She said in response.
"Very hip. Very, very hip. Excuse me." Kirk said.
Lorelai turned in her stool, "Hi Kirk, and this must be Lulu." She said getting off the stool.
"Hi," the shy young lady said.
"I'm Lorelai and this is Luke," Lorelai said standing aside.
Lulu gave a small wave as Luke came around the counter.
"Yes Kirk?" he responded not wanting to leave Lorelai's side.
"I believe I have reservations for two. The name's Kirk." he told Luke.
"Yes Kirk I know that," he said in his usual manner before playing along for Lulu's sake, "Okay. Follow me. How's this?" Luke said as he showed them their reserved table.
"Very satisfactory. Thank you," Kirk said as he handed Luke a dollar bill, "There's more where that came from."
"It's my lucky night," Luke returned walking back to his side of the counter.
Lorelai watched as Kirk helped the young lady with her seat before turning to Luke, "I want that?"
"What a date with Kirk? Didn't you turn him down already?" Luke joked as he put the dollar in the cash register.
"No, a date with you," she said pouting a little, "You'd make a reservation, not at a diner by the way. Then pick me up before, pull out my chair at the restaurant, it's not a lot to ask for."
"You'll have it," Luke said as he picked up his washcloth.
"What are you up to?" Lorelai asked noticed a tell-tail grin on Luke's lips.
"It's a surprise," he said walking in to the kitchen leaving Lorelai with her now cold fries and thoughts of what Luke could be planning.
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Several hours later Kirk and Lulu left, Kirk still wondering how to handle things as this was a first for him.
Luke locked the door, "And that's it," he said looking drained from his dealings with Kirk all night.
"Leave the rest till morning," Lorelai said going to Luke's side.
"Yeah okay, so you want to go up?" Luke asked.
"Up's always good," Lorelai joked, "And it's late, the streets can be dangerous at this time of night," she said wrapping her arms around Luke's middle.
"Yes the streets of Stars Hollow at ten in the evening are a bad place to be," he returned with a kiss on the lips.
Luke turned off the lights as they walked up to the apartment hand in hand. Opening the door Lorelai was surprised.
"What is this?" she asked.
"I thought you might still be hungry," Luke smirked still holding her hand.
Lorelai walked over to the table, it was set up with dessert, plates and even a candle. Turning to Luke she smiled, "So this is why you kept coming up here all night?" Luke nodding, "And here I was thinking you were doing something dirty," she joked as Luke stepped up to Lorelai.
Picking up the lighter Luke pressed the button and lit the candle, "I want to give you all you want Lorelai," he said pulling her close.
"Dirty!" she returned before being stopped by Luke's lips on hers.
They held each other as the kiss deepened, "Dessert can wait," Lorelai said as their hands started wondering.
Before long they were making their way to Luke's bed, almost tripping over the coffee table they fell down on the bed, Lorelai on top of Luke her shirt partly unbuttoned and bra showing. Lorelai smiling as she noticed something, "This is new," she said looking at the large bed replacing the tiny single she once slept in.
"I got it a few months ago," Luke said working to free Lorelai from the confines of her clothes.
"Months, so you got it for…" Lorelai said not feeling very romantic any more.
"What?" Luke said as Lorelai climbed off his lap.
"You got this for Nicole?" she asked doing up the buttons on her shirt.
"I got it for myself, yes I was with Nicole then but that is over. Besides, you told me I needed a new bed so when Jess left I thought, why not! I took the plunge." Luke said sitting up realising the night was going south quickly.
"Luke!" she said shocked.
"What, so I was with someone else I never complained about the men in your life!" Luke said knowing want an idiot he was as he spoke.
"I can't do this," Lorelai said grabbing her handbag and left.
TBC…
A/N I've checked this twice but I don't have a beta so sorry for any errors.
Feedback would be good.