Hello all! Here is Chapter 14! Thank you for reading! Please review and keep reading! You won't be disappointed!
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Months after getting properly engaged, Luke and Lorelai, are working on making wedding plans. During the quietest times of the day at the diner, Lorelai would come over and talk to Luke about her ideas.
As Lorelai sips on her coffee, Luke stands in front of her, looking at plans from their certified Disney wedding planner and travel agent. Lorelai smiles, "Babe, you've read over this stuff a million times. You're going to give yourself a horrible headache." Luke stops flipping pages and looks up at her, "Lorelai. Shhh. Let me focus please." Lorelai puts her head down on the counter and pouts, "Luuuukkkeee. Please. Give me the books. You do not need to be stressing about all of this. Our wedding will be perfect." Luke groans, "Lorelai. Please stop pouting. You're not helping anything." Lorelai takes a big gulp of her coffee as she looks over the wedding dress catalogue, "Fine. But I'm warning you. If you lose your chill, I'm taking the plans into my own hands, and getting help from Sookie." Luke stops flipping the pages, to glare up at her, "You wouldn't dare." Lorelai smirks, "Try me."
A few minutes later, April and Rory come into the diner and throw their book bags down behind the counter, then they go sit next to their mother. Rory groans after laying her head on the counter, "Dad. Can I please have some pie?" April looks at Luke, "I'd like some too please." Luke shakes his head, "Not before dinner you two. We may have some after dinner. But tonight is a big dinner. You may not even want to eat pie afterwards." Lorelai looks at Rory, with a concerned look in her eyes, "Kid, what's wrong?" Rory sighs, "I'm waiting to hear from Chilton. I'm so nervous mom." Luke looks at Rory then back at Lorelai, "Pumpkin. Your mother and I are very confident, that you will make it in. There is no reason to stress." Rory shakes her head as she gets off her stool, "I'm going home. April are you coming?" Lorelai nods, "Apricot, go home with Rory. Keep her company." April gives her mother a dirty look, "Fine. But if I die, you're never gonna forgive your self."
After the girls leave, Lorelai starts yawning and rubbing her eyes. Luke looks up from the planning guide, "Honey, if you're tired, go up stairs. When I'm done, we'll go home." Lorelai nods, "Will you carry me home?" Luke just nods his head, "Yes. Luckily we are only five minutes from home. Otherwise, I would have said no." Lorelai laughs as she stands up and leans over the counter, grabs the collar of Luke's flannel and pulls him closer to her, "Kiss?" Luke chuckles and leans in to kiss her softly, "I love you." Lorelai smiles a sleepy smile, "And I love you." After a longing glance, Lorelai disappears behind the curtain and heads up to the office.
Around seven, Luke starts closing up the diner, so he can go home and have family time with all three of his girls. As he cleans a table, the phone rings. He walks over to it and gruffly answers, "Luke's?" Rory is on the other end, "Hi dad. I have amazing news!" Luke's face softens, "What is it pumpkin?" Rory smiles, "I got into Chilton! After April and I got home earlier, I received a call from the admissions office!" Luke is speechless, and before he can speak, Rory starts talking again, "I better go! I have to help Apricot out with her homework. See you soon! Love you dad." Luke, still shocked, smiles, "Bye pumpkin." After Luke puts the phone back on the cradle, he goes upstairs and finds a sleeping Lorelai laying on the sofa. Her hair spread out all over the back of arm rest, and her legs tangled with the blanket. Luke bends down to pick her up gently without waking her up. Once he has her in his arms, he turns off all of the lights and heads down stairs. After locking the doors, Luke carrying a sleeping Lorelai, walks home in silence.
After arriving home, Luke managed to take Lorelai upstairs to bed, without waking her up. He goes back down to the kitchen where he finds both of the girls asleep at the kitchen table, drooling on their text books. Luke chuckles quietly as he takes April in one arm, and Rory in the other. Rory stirs awake, "Dad. How can you still carry me?" Luke laughs as he lays Rory down her bed first, "First off, you're very light. And second off, I've been working out since I was 15. I'm strong enough." Rory snuggles her head into her pillow and mumbles, "Okay, daddy. Good night."Luke kisses her forehead, and quickly walks out and over to Aprils bedroom. He takes April and gently places her under the covers, and tucks her in. Luke kisses her forehead and walks out and shuts her bedroom door.
Luke heads to his bedroom and strips down to his boxers. He goes and brushes his teeth before laying next to Lorelai. As soon as his head touches his pillow, Lorelai raps her arms around his waist. She mumbles Luke's name, causing Luke to smile as he heads into a drowsy state.
3 AM-
A crash is heard from downstairs, and Luke jolts awake. Luke grips Lorelais shoulder, "Lorelai. Wake up." Lorelai sits up, "What the hell is wrong with you?" Another loud noise comes in the form of screams. Lorelai starts crying, "Luke. We have to go down there!" Luke grabs his baseball bat, and looks back at his fiancée, "Lorelai Victoria, I swear to god. If you leave this room without my signal, and something happens to you, I'm not going to be a very happy man." Lorelai nods as Luke stands up and heads down stairs.
Luke hits the bottom of the stairs to find Rory and April knocked out on the floor of the living room. Anna Nardini, walks over to him with a mysterious man behind her, "Ah. I wondered where you were. Coming to rescue these little brats I see." Luke grits his teeth,"My children aren't brats. You're the brat here. Why the hell are you in my house? The police have been looking for you almost Eleven years. I'm going to call the police. But I want an explanation."As Luke argues with Anna, the mysterious man sneaks up to the bedroom where Lorelai is.
Lorelai hears footsteps coming closer to the bed, and she tries to not breathe. The man turns on the lamp, and pulls off his hood to show his face. Lorelai screams in terror, "Christopher!" Christopher chuckles, "I'm so glad to see you too." He takes her by the hair and throws her to the floor, "I see you're still with him. He doesn't love you. He'll never love you like I will." Christopher gets down on top of Lorelai and holds her arms down. Lorelai screams loudly, "LUKE!" Luke finishes his rant with Anna and punches her so hard in the face, that she falls down and hits her head on the coffee table and goes limp. Luke hears Lorelais screams and runs up the stairs, to find Lorelai pinned down by Christopher and a knife at her throat. Christopher looks at Luke sternly, "Don't come closer. Or she'll die." Luke stops moving. Lorelais breath is ragged as she looks into Luke's eyes, "Luke. Please just do as he says." Luke nods as he stands in place, "Ah. The famous Christopher Hayden. Lorelai told me about what a creep you were. How her mother tried to pair you two up most of Lorelais young life, because she hated me so much." Christopher groans, "Every time, she picked you. Every damn time. I'd try to impress her, but I couldn't. And it's all because of you, Luke Danes." Christopher gets up off of Lorelai, and gets in Luke's face, "You. You… IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" Christopher takes the knife in his hand, and stabs Luke in the chest, and stares into Luke's eyes with a cold stare as he yanks the knife out of Luke's chest, causing Luke to fall to ground hard, screaming Lorelais name. Luke suddenly starts blacking out. Lorelai screams and runs full throttle into Christopher, knocking him over. He then gets up and pushes her down, punches her in the jaw, then runs down the stairs, to find the police busting through the front door.
While some of the cops rescue April and Rory and take them to the hospital, Anna is taken out to a police car along with Christopher.
The rest of the squad comes up stairs to the bedroom, and they find Lorelai sitting in a pool of Luke's blood, with Luke in her arms. Lorelai is sobbing and reassuring Luke that he's going to make it. The police chef tells the newly arrived ambulance, that Luke needs to be taken now, due to the severity of the wound. The nurse has to literally pull Lorelai away from Luke, "Miss Gilmore. We have to take him now, he is losing a lot of blood." Lorelai looks into Luke's eyes and whispers, "Come on baby. Please don't die." Luke squeezes her hand gently, and gulps for air. The nurse helps an officer pull Lorelai away from Luke, again and into the bathroom. When Lorelai enters the bathroom, Sookie is in there getting a bath ready for her. Sookie looks up at Lorelai who looks like she is about to have a nervous break down, "Lorelai. Oh my god. Hon, what happened?" Lorelai bursts into tears, "Christopher broke into my bedroom, while Anna was doing damage downstairs, and he tried to kill me, then he got in Luke's face and yelled at him, and then he stabbed him in the chest." Sookie is in shock, "That asshole will pay for this. So will Anna. Come here Lorelai." Sookie puts her arms out and Lorelai comes over and raps her arms around Sookie. Lorelai cries in her arms for a few minutes, then pulls away and tearfully smiles at her best friend, "How did you know?" Sookie sighs, "Besides Luke, I was also an emergency contact. So as soon as they had found you with Luke, they called me and I ran all the way here." Lorelai wipes her eyes, "Thank you." Sookie nods her head, "You're welcome. Now go get cleaned up. I'll be out here, waiting for you so we can head to the hospital." Sookie leaves the room and Lorelai shuts the door and sits down in the tub, and lays in a fetal position.
Sookie sits out in the bedroom, and watches the nurses trying to get Luke up off the floor. Luke is reaching his arms out to the bathroom door where Lorelai is, and he is struggling for air. Seeing this, makes Sookie cry all over again.
40 Minutes later- Hartford Memorial-
Lorelai and Sookie arrive at the hospital at the same time as the ambulance. Lorelai sees Luke laying limp on a stretcher, and she runs over to it as they are wheeling him in. The nurses look at Lorelai and sigh, "Who are you? What is your relation to Mr. Danes?" Lorelai nods, " I'm his fiancée. I've been engaged to him for 29 years." One of the nurses looks at Lorelai, and says in a matter of fact tone, "I'm sorry. But you aren't his wife. You cannot come in." Lorelais face turns purple as she clinches her fists, "LET ME SEE MY FIANCÉ, NOW! I DON'T CARE IF WE AREN'T MARRIED YET! WE HAVE TWO PERFECT DAUGHTERS TOGETHER! WE HAVE LIVED TOGETHER SINCE MY OLDEST DAUGHTER WAS FIVE! WHY SINCE SHE WAS FIVE? BECAUSE MY MOTHER WANTED ME TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE MAN WHO STABED MY FIANCÉ! SHE SAID THAT SHE WOULD TAKE RORY AWAY FROM ME IF I EVEN SAW LUKE! SO I HAD TO STAY AWAY FROM HIM! UNTIL HE CAME TO ME, ASKING ME FOR ANOTHER KID, FOR AN EX GIRLFRIEND, BECAUSE HE WAS BEING MANIPULATED BY MY MOTHER!"
Lorelai continues to go on a rant for 10 minutes. Finally, the nurse caves, "Room seven."
Lorelai smirks, "Thank you. That wasn't so hard, was it?
Hartford Memorial Children's Center-
Rory wakes up to find her little sister laying in the bed next to her. She sees Sookie in a chair across the room, "Sookie, what are you doing here? Where's mom and dad?" Sookie walks over and takes Rorys hand in hers, "Honey, your dad was hurt. Like really bad." April wakes up to see her arms in bandages, and she starts crying, "Aunt Sookie. I want my mommy and daddy." Sookie feels the tears in her eyes, "I know Apricot. I know."
Luke's room- After the surgery-
Lorelai walks into Luke's room, to find him fast asleep in his bed. She had just talked to the doctor, who said that the surgery went really well, and that it'll be a while before he woke up. So, she sits next to his bed and holds his hand in hers and whispers, "Hey baby. I'm so glad you're alright. I was worried sick. I love you so much. You have no idea." Lorelai takes her free hand, and runs it through his curly hair. She sighs, "The girls are doing great. They had minor injuries. Sookie is with them. They are in good hands. She'll keep them safe. Along with the guards at the door, just in case someone tries any funny business." Lorelai looks at the huge bandage on Luke's chest, and notices that it's so close to his heart. She suddenly starts having flashbacks of the the whole evening, and she starts sobbing. "Oh god. Oh Luke. You almost died. He was so angry for nothing. He will pay for this. He deserves the worst punishment that the court can give…" She pauses to choke back a sob, "… Honey, I watched you die in my arms. The doctor said that the nurses in the ambulance, lost you a few times. They had to use the defibrillator."
5 Hours Later-
Lorelai is asleep in the chair next to Luke's bed, holding his hand, when she feels a tight grip. Lorelai opens her eyes, to find Luke's baby blue eyes staring up at her. Luke whispers hoarsely, "Lorelai. Are the girls okay? Are YOU okay?" Lorelai nods as she caresses his scruffy cheek, "Baby, we are all okay. Don't worry. I'm just so glad to see you awake."
Luke smiles a little smile and groans in pain, "You know what would make me feel even better?"
Lorelai smiles sweetly, "What?"
Luke laughs, "A kiss. A long, passionate kiss."
Lorelai leans down, and smiles, "Your wish is my command."
