a/n: So I am loving the positive feedback I am getting, thanks! But it makes me wonder...am I doing ANYTHING wrong or something yall don't like I need to fix? [minus the length and not updating fast] I'm open to criticism, just not to harsh ok? I have some bad news, my moms laptop broke and Ive been borrowing my boyfriends laptop but he just informed me that he is coming to pick it up tonight so I only have time to update one more time today. :( I don't know when I'll be able to update again after this, hopefully my moms laptop gets fixed fast!

sarahb2007-the date will not be in this chapter, but more than likely the next. I have to finish the hospital scene, I'm sorry. But I haven't gave the date scene much thought because I've been so busy with all of the other stuff going on.

javajunkie4evr-I know, its sooo sweet. :] I love it! Yes, I don't think the word "sweet" is in Luke's vocabulary. It cracks me up that he trys to be all macho and show no emotion whatsoever but yet you still know that he is like the sweetest guy ever. I love him.

XActDanceWriteX-Ah I'm sorry I forgot! lol. I'm not exactly sure how to change that...help? We'll have to think up one for you, ha. But yours isn't bad. Well for some odd reason I don't really like Jess for Rory, well I do, but then I don't because of the Luke and Lorelai relationship, get me? Yes I agree, Logan is a hottie! :] I think that the writers should have gave Marty a chance, I really liked him. Ok, thank you for the advice, I will definitely use it, I just wanted a little motivation. ha. Well you'll be happy to know that I didn't quite make 10 yet, but I'm sure I will by the end of the day but I'm going to update anyway. :] OH wait, I just checked my email and I have over ten. lol.


Chapter 11

She didn't know how long they had been sitting there, waiting. For all she knew it could have been hours, or maybe minutes, she had no idea. She had been thinking about her father all night, praying for his safety. She was worried about her daughter and how she would take it if he died. "But I was just getting to know him." Rory had said to her earlier. Lorelai knew he wouldn't die but she just couldn't help herself to think the worse, she always did.

"Gah this sucks." Lorelai said, getting restless.

"You gotta stay positive, think good thoughts. Rainbows, unicorns, clowns, little cute, furry...Ok I'm out."

"Thank God." Lorelai chuckled at Luke's attempt to cheer her up. She appreciated it. "Gah, are you ok?" Lorelai asked Luke because he was holding his nose looking up at the ceiling.

"Yeah I'm just not that big on hospitals, people being wheeled by, tubes sticking out of them, draininage fluid, gaping holes..." He trailed off, getting weak to his stomach.

"Hey, why don't you go home?" Lorelai suggested.

"You want me to go home?" Luke's head shot to Lorelai's.

"No." Lorelai said, a little too quickly. Why did I say it like that? Lorelai wondered. "It's just that you don't look so good."

"Thanks." Luke said, quietly.

"You know that's not what I meant." Lorelai defended herself. "You always look good."

"Yeah?" Luke smiled. That sent his heart wild.

"I mean..." Lorelai stuttered. Why was she having such a hard time with this? Am I blushing? "I mean, you always look healthy." She smiled, choosing her words very carefully.

"Ok?" Now Luke was amused.

"Just now you don't look..."

"Heatlhy." Luke finished for her. This really amused Luke watching Lorelai stuttered over her own words and being slightly embarrassed. He could have sworn he saw her blush.

"So what, I said you look good, we're not in the fifth grade." Lorelai said, noticing that Luke was still staring at her. "You look good, no big deal." Lorelai finally confessed. "Stop staring at me." She said, seeing out of the corner of her eyes that Luke was still looking at her, smiling.

"Oh God," Luke said, as a patient was being rolled by.

"See," Lorelai said, pointing her finger in Luke's face. "That's what you get for being cocky." She laughed.

Not too long after the doctors rolled Richard out and moved him into a different room. Lorelai quickly went to find her mother and daughter so they could visit him. Rory and Lorelai went for another coffee fix leaving Luke still sitting in the same chair.

"Hello." Emily said, coming out of Richards room.

"Hello." Luke repeated, sitting straight up in his chair.

"You don't mind?" Emily motioned to the empty chair beside Luke.

"No, not at all, have a seat. So how is he?" He wondered.

"Well he's you know...I don't know."

"Nice tie." Luke said, looking at the tie Emily held in her hand.

"It was bothering him tonight and I told him not to loosen it, then he went to turn down the thermostat, and well you know." Emily looked at the ground and tried to to cry. "The paramedics took it off on the way to the hospital, I just haven't haven't set it down yet." Emily laughed. "I bet I sound crazy."

Luke shook his head. "I kept my fathers store exactly the way he left it."

"Really?"

"Well I turned it into a Diner, but I kept all his things on the selves, even the hardware sign."

"Well I'm sure he would have appreciated his lifes work being honored like that."

"Oh no, he would of called me a damn fool."

"Oh well..." She changed the subject. "I don't know what Lorelai's told you about her father, I can certainly imagine, but he's a great father, did everything he could for his family."

"That's what she told me."

"So," Emily said, once again changing the subject. "What exactly is going on with you and Lorelai?"

Not this again..."We're friends, thats it." Luke said, honestly. He looked at Emily and immediately became uncomfortable under her glare. "We're friends, nothing more." He repeated.

"Your an idoit, the both of you."

Just at that time Lorelai and Rory both showed up and wondered if they had heard anything about Richard. "So what's going on?" Lorelai asked.

"Your mother called me an idiot." Luke said, simply.

"Wow," Lorelai was shocked. "You must have sucked up good."

"Well I'm going to go to the restroom." Emily said, getting up and leading Rory with her. Leaving Lorelai and Luke by themselves, again. Luke told Lorelai to go in and talk to her father, she slowly but surely did, scared to death. She walked in and just stared at her father, asleep, well she hoped. He looked so...different. Lorelai walked over to the front of his bed, still staring at him, thankful that he was alright. Richard finally opened his eyes and before Lorelai could get a word out Emily, Rory, and a doctor came bustling in the room. The doctor said that he was going to be fine, and that he needed to watch what he ate and start exercising. This brought tears to her eyes, happy ones. She quietly slipped out of the room and went out into the hall.

"I heard." Luke smiled as he saw Lorelai.

"Yeah yeah, their going to keep him over night." She held her hand over face, trying her best not to cry. "But he's going to be fine." Lorelai couldn't hold back her tears any longer and before she knew it she was in Luke's arms, crying on his shoulder.

"Now this is where the guy gives the girl the hanckerchief but you see, I don't have one and I find the practice a little revolting." Lorelai chuckled and eased her way out of his strong arms. "Here," Luke said, handing her a coffee cup filled to the top. "I got this for you."

"Ah, where did you get that?"

"Nurses lounge.

"Yeah right." Lorelai said, drinking the coffee.

"What, your not the only one that can flirt." Luke laughed. "The door was open." He finally confessed.

Lorelai smiled. "Thank you."

"Anything else I can get for you?" He wondered.

"Um," Lorelai thought. "If Rory's ready to go home, could you take her?"

"Yeah of course. What about you?"

"I'll just drive the jeep back."

Luke did as Lorelai asked, he took Rory home and headed home hisself. It wasnt until he got home until he realized what a horrible mistake he had made. There on the front steps on the Diner was Rachael, freezing he assumed, just sitting there, her knees to her chest, and looking off in the distance. Luke quickly parked his truck and ran over to her.

"Rachael I'm so sorry." He apologized.

Rachael looked up at Luke. "Don't." She said.

"Let me explain."

"I don't need an explanation, I know where you were." She said coldly.

"Oh you did, good. It was totally unexpected." He started, he unlocked the Diner door and lead Rachael inside.

"I came back after taking pictures only to find that the lights in the Diner is out, the door is locked, and you no where in sight."

"I know, I'm sorry I should have called." He felt extremely bad.

"Of course you couldn't because you were too busy." She put her hand on her hip.

"Well yeah I was kinda busy..."

"I can't believe you just left me with no place to go to go on a date with Lorelai! And yet you sat there and told me that there was nothing between yall, I knew you were lieing."

"Woah, woah, woah, hold it right there. A date?"

"Yes, someone told me when they saw me pounding on the door of the Diner that you had closed up because you and Lorelai had plans." She said.

"No, that's not what happened. Her father was in the hospital, I had to take her." Luke was shocked and wondered who had told her that bull crap.

Of course Rachael didn't buy it. She marched her way into the storage room and carried back her suitcases with her. Luke had assumed that she packed them the previous night.

"So you're leaving huh? Because of this? I made a mistake Rachael, nobodys perfect."

"I was waiting for you to get back, freezing my ass off might I add, to say goodbye."

"Yeah, at least you always manage to do that. So go."

"Don't you even want to know why?" She questioned.

"I know why. You're mad because I haven't been spending every second of my time with you. I said I was sorry for leaving you here, but it slipped my mind."

"That's not the reason."

"Then what is?" Luke looked at Rachael with curiosity. "Oh no, you're not leaving because of...I told you a hundred times we are just friends."

"No, you told it to me once, and you could barely get it out then."

"Come one Rachael, she and I, we uh..." He stuttered.

"I'm going to go. I'm going to miss you Luke." She smiled.

"Rachael come on." Luke said as she reached the door.

"Tell Lorelai I hope her father gets better."

Luke only nodded his head.

"And Luke?"

"Yeah?"

"Don't wait to long to tell her." She smiled then left, leaving Luke by his self.

He couldn't believe that just happened. Was it that obvious that he liked...loved Lorelai? This night was just crazy and unexpected and all he wanted to do was go upstairs and go to sleep. Luke was laying in bed when he suddenly remembered that he had to go buy a tie for tomorrow night.


a/n: So like I said earlier, the computer I'm borrowing is being taken back tonight so this is the last update for I don't know how long, I'll try to talk him into letting me borrow it for a couple more days, not . Well leave me nice long reviews for when I get back!! I'm totally listening to an amazing song right now call "Aint no reason" by Brett Dennen. If you haven't heard of it, you should totally look it up, its amazing! :] Well...I hope you enjoyed!