Luke-and-LorelaiLuva6292, you're way too smart!
We're kind of in a fast-forwarding time period right now. Sorry if you're confused. I'm changing the GG timeline a bit, since this is my AU.
Chapter ELEVENNNN!
Lorelai stepped out of the taxi cab and heaved a large sigh. She was standing by the "Welcome to Stars Hollow" sign. Lorelai breathed in a big breath of fresh Stars Hollow air. She was holding luggage in one hand and a toddler's hand in the other. She had to stay in her parents' house longer than desired and planned. She was forced to wait until her daughter, also named Lorelai (aka Rory), was two years old.
Her luggage was huge, since of course, it was Lorelai Gilmore, AND she had her daughter's stuff in there too. She dragged it down the sidewalk and into a building lobby. It was small and kitschy. Not long after, a middle-aged looking woman entered from a back room.
"Hello, Lorelai Gilmore?" The woman greeted, confirming her name and thrusting out her hand.
"The one and only," She replied, shaking her hand and then getting Rory situated with a seat and a juicebox.
"Good, good. So you called about an apartment," She leaned forward on her desk.
"Yes, see, I just moved here, with a limited amount of money from my parents and no place to live," She explained.
"Hmm. Well, how limited is that balance of yours?" She asked.
"Very limited," Lorelai nodded grimly.
"Okay, well, I think we might be able to help you with that one. See, Stars Hollow is a very close-knit town. They're very welcoming -well, except for a certain diner owner, but that's beside the point- so, once everyone gets to know you, they'll help you out. And there are so many job opportunities here," The woman in the blazer said with a chuckle.
"That sounds great," Lorelai sighed.
"Yes. So, let's show you around one of our apartments and we'll see if you at least have enough for the down payment," She smiled, standing.
"Alrighty," Lorelai smiled.
She grabbed Rory's hand and the three of them drove just down the road to a pretty small apartment. They walked through. It was very open. The only room with a door was the bathroom. The kitchen flowed into the living room and then there was just an empty doorway into the bedroom. It was plain but cute, and the interior decorating was very simple, but it had a certain charm to it.
"It's perfect," Lorelai nodded.
"Great. So why don't we go back to my office and work something out?" The woman suggested.
"Sounds great," Lorelai agreed.
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Luke stood behind the counter, sighing. It had been about 2 and a half years since he'd seen Lorelai. Too much had happened since then. He thought about her a lot, but he was also keeping himself busy. He glanced around at the people sitting at the tables chatting and reading and eating. It wasn't a hardware store anymore. His father had died. He was good at fixing things, but horrible at owning an actual hardware store, so he changed it. It would also be much too painful to have to work in his father's hardware store every day. He had turned it into 'Luke's Diner', but still left the 'William's Hardware' sign up.
He wiped down the counter vigorously, as Kirk sat at one end, picking out the nuts and berries from his muffin and separating them into two piles. Luke shook his head at him. Kirk also sipped his orange juice, constantly gagging from the pulp as a cat would on a hairball. It was very unappealing, and it was driving people out of the diner. Luke could sell tickets, 'See The Lunatic Cat-Sounding-Man', they would read across the top.
Luke rolled his eyes and adjusted his baseball cap.
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Lorelai sighed happily as she dropped her luggage smack dab in the center of their new living room.
"This is home, baby," She announced, to both herself and Rory.
Though Rory was only 2 years old, she was already reading at around a first grade level. Lorelai set Rory down on the couch, handed her a Winnie The Pooh 'I Can Read By Myself' book, and popped in her favorite Rainbow Brite tape that she had secretly requested the maid to tape behind her mother's back. Then she dragged the bags into the bedroom. She looked around and noticed that something was slightly amiss. There was only one bed in the center of the room. One full bed. There was nowhere for Rory to sleep. And she knew Rory would throw a fit if she had to sleep in the same bed as her mother. She loved her mom, but she could almost form sentences as good as a Kindergartener, and she'd still be sleeping with her mommy? She thought not.
Lorelai thought about her dilemma. Her choices were quite limited, and she had a large inkling that Rory would not fit in a dog bed. She sighed and leaned back on the bed, getting lost in her thoughts.
She remembered when she had Rory.
(flashback)
Lorelai sat in the back of her father's car, writhing in pain. She had been interrupted by contractions while watching Hollywood Squares, so she was already obviously frustrated, but the shooting pains didn't help either. She cried in anguish, screaming a few choice words and even some little expletives she'd made up herself. She shouted at the driver, demanding that he go 40 over the speed limit and go into the carpool lane to get there faster.
Once they finally arrived at the hospital, she was greeted at the ER door by a grinning Christopher.
"Hey," He greeted, grabbing her hand and jogging beside the wheelchair.
"What the hell are you smiling about?" She cried, twisting in pain and squeezing his hand tighter than humanly possible.
Chris quieted and tried to comfort her as they made their way down the hallway and into the birthing room.
They transferred her onto the bed and she began pushing immediately.
"Get this damn thing out of me!" She screamed, grabbing the doctor by the collar of his scrubs.
"We're gonna need you to push as hard as possible, Lorelai," He doctor simply replied, unfazed.
Lorelai kept pushing at the urge of her doctors and nurses, while Chris held her hand and squeezed her shoulder.
"C'mon Lore, you can do it," Christopher encouraged.
"Christopher, I'm gonna kill you! I hate you! I'm never having babies ever again!" She announced.
Then a loud siren-like cry came from her lower region, which was obscured by a sheet. The doctor was holding a wriggling form in his arms while a nurse wiped it with a towel. It was covered in blood and bodily fluids and was emitting a high-pitched sound.
"Where's the off switch?!" Lorelai demanded, still agitated.
"Lorelai, this is your baby girl," The nurse announced happily, passing the newborn over to her as the whole room cheered.
"Ohmygod," Lorelai gaped, tears forming in her eyes, and glanced up at Chris. "She's beautiful."
"Yes, she it," Chris agreed.
"What's your name choice?" Another nurse holding paperwork asked.
"Lorelai…Lorelai Leigh," She confirmed.
"Beautiful name," The doctor nodded as Lorelai handed the infant off to the nurse to be taken care of.
"Yes, it is…Now sedate me!" She demanded.
(end flashback)
Yes, she would remember that day forever. Definitely like doing splits on a crate of dynamite.
Author's Note- Rory's here! L/L interaction next chapter, I think. Heh, so much for keeping you guys in suspense. More ASAP! R & R
