No Way!
By KEL-71E
Rating: PG…mite change
Spoilers: Nahhhh…actually yeah…for 'Nick and Nora/ Sid and Nancy'
Summary: Luke's diner faces it's worst dilemma yet…L/L!!!
Disclaimer: not mine, don't bother, I'm only 15, I don't own anything! Gilmore girls is not mine, Any AC/DC or Alex Lloyd songs aren't mine either!
A/N: Feedback is appreciated, this was the result of a brainwave and complete boredom in the holidays, if it sux tell me! happy reading…
**indicates the lyrics from the story**
Chapter one: PANIC!!!
The two Gilmore girls trudged into Luke's diner, desperate for a coffee.
"Yo! Burger man! C-c-c-coffee!" Lorelai called. Luke appeared from the storeroom.
"I'm a Burger man now? I thought I was burger boy."
"Nah, you don't need 'Huggies pull-ups' anymore, Jess is the burger boy." She explained.
Rory slammed her fist on the counter, "No more of this incessant banter! There are more important matters at hand! One needs coffee!"
"Your majesty, I am graced with your presence." Luke bowed, tipping his hat. Lorelai giggled and took the chance to ruffle his hair. "Hey! Not the do, never the do." He said as he stuffed cap on his head, backwards.
The girls clapped and grinned as Luke poured their blood into some mugs for them. Lorelai picked hers from the bench and inhaled the fresh coffee scent.
"You're sick." Luke mumbled as he wiped the counter.
"Why thank you, I try my hardest." Lorelai replied.
Just then, Jess emerged from the upstairs apartment. "Mornin' all." He said brightly.
"Whooooaaaa, You're being jolly, I think we passed through to the Twilight Zone, how does the theme song go again Rory? Is it, do dodo dododo dodo do?" Lorelai asked her daughter, quite seriously.
"No mom! Have more coffee, geez, it's do dodododo dodo doooo dodo."
Lorelai hit herself upside the head. "Well dah! Luke I need more coffee please."
"Ahh, no."
"Come on! I said please!"
"I know this and I'm very proud that you have obtained manners but there is a slight problem with your request." He began to scratch his head.
Jess moved behind him to see what the matter was, seeing the problem, a panicked look emerged on his face. He looked worriedly from Luke to Lorelai to Rory and back before running full-speed out of the diner.
"Oook, so what's going on here?" Rory asked curiously.
"Umm, you should go…. you might be late to school Rory…. Lorelai, you have work." Luke said, slowly backing away from the girls.
"Luke, its summer vacation, remember? Has been for a while now."
"Yeah and the Inn is being renovated. I have three months off. You know that! What's gotten into you?"
Luke ducked behind the counter and rummaged through the shelves, looking frantically for a container. It was hopeless; he was out of coffee. He was doomed.
Standing back up, he announced to the near empty diner, "I am sorry to inform you that Luke's diner is officially out of coffee." He braced himself for the onslaught.
"Whaaaaaat!" The girls screamed simultaneously.
"I ran out of coffee," he said again softer this time.
"Well don't just stand there! Go get more!" Lorelai was beginning to panic, she had only had one cup of coffee today and feared she would experience a nervous breakdown if she didn't get more.
"Mom, don't you have your emergency supply in your purse?" Rory asked as she snatched for the bag.
"I ate it in business class the other day." Lorelai said rather dejectedly.
"You ate it?" Luke asked, scrunching up his face.
"I was hungry and I hadn't had any coffee in like an hour! I was desperate."
"Hmmm…"
"Why are you 'Hmmmm-ing?'"
Luke read through his order book. "Well it says here that my monthly shipment of coffee should have come today, I wonder why it hasn't."
"Ring them! Ring them!" Rory jumped up from her seat and after a few seconds of running around in circles she ran out the door to look for Jess.
"Riiiight, I think that was a little over the top, even for the coffee." Lorelai watched her daughter leave. She turned and noticed Luke already having a heated conversation with whom she assumed to be the coffee company.
"…I don't care if your drivers are one strike. I have customers I have to serve….what? Next month! I can't wait that long….you seem to be working, why don't you get your ass down here and bring me my coffee! I'm sorry I just…what? No! I have to have your coffee!…. well how can I get some down here before next month?….myself? Do you mean…fine! I'll see you in a few days buddy!" he yelled as he hung up the phone. Lorelai got off her seat and walked over to where Luke was banging his head against the wall.
"Ah Luke, the expression 'touch wood' wasn't supposed to be taken that seriously." She pulled him away. "What's going down bro, I want my coffee man." She asked in her worst Jamaican accent.
Luke calmed himself. "The coffee guy said that the delivery guys are on strike so I won't get my coffee until next month and if that happens you along with half of this caffeine addicted town will chase me with knifes and pitch forks until you do get some coffee, so I have to drive to Ontario to get it myself!"
"The act of breathing consists of inhaling and exhaling in succession, just thought you might want to know." She thought for a moment, "Why do you have to go all the way to Ontario to get coffee? There is a market across the street."
"The coffee you so happily consume everyday is the best available coffee on the market, Taylor doesn't happen to sell it in his so called 'supermarket' so I get it delivered from Canada." He sighed, "If I didn't get the good coffee then you'd probably never come back and I don't want to lose my customers. Taylor's stuff tastes like cardboard. Now go start your own bobsled team or something.."
"Ah huh! So you do drink coffee! I knew it!" Lorelai clapped her hands.
"When you have to look after annoying customers all day it's nice to have a coffee at the end of the day, just not very often."
"Whatever, so you're gunna drive to Ontario? You'll have to close up for a few days won't you?" She asked, genuinely concerned.
"I have to, it's better than closing for a month." Luke said moving to a table near the window to remove the dirty dishes.
"I want to come." Lorelai said suddenly.
"Ah..what? Why?"
"I want to come with you, I am not staying in Stars Hollow while the diner is closed for more than twelve hours! That would be a travesty! We can have a road trip!" she suggested excitedly.
"I don't think I could put up with you for a straight week." He mused.
"Oh come on dopey pants! It'll be fun! Pleeeeaaaase?" she begged.
"Did you just call me dopey pants?"
"Maybe…."
"As long as you never call me that ever again then I suppose you can come."
Lorelai almost knocked him over with a forceful hug, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" with that she ran out of the diner.
"Oh god…." Luke mumbled to himself. Lorelai returned.
"I forgot to ask when,"
"Tomorrow morning nine o'clock."
"Done!" she ran out once more.
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
9.15am the next day…
"You're late." Luke commented as Lorelai pulled up in her jeep.
"Rory's fault, she just WOULDN'T get out of bed, I had to lay down the 'Rory home alone rules,' rule number one being, 'Thou shalt not try to reenact any of the really baaaaaad 'Home Alone' movies." She smiled.
"I'm sure."
"Can we go in my car? I'm not one for changing modes of transport this early in the morning."
Luke loaded his bags into the back of the jeep and very soon they were off.
"So are you cool with Jess staying at home by himself?" Lorelai asked to break the silence.
"Yeah I think so, he's a lot better lately than he was when he first got here, I don't think he'll be burning down the apartment while I'm gone."
"You must be proud."
Luke nodded, "I am. You know how it was when he first got here, at least now he's making full sentences."
"Yeah…"
Luke heard a touch of resentment in her voice. "I…ahh…never really apologized for what I said to you."
"What do you mean?" Lorelai turned to face him but looked straight back at the road when she realised she was going sideways.
"Pull over for a sec?" He asked; Lorelai did so.
Luke stared out the windscreen, "When Jess first got here, you went out of your way to invite us over for dinner. Then we were total jackasses to you and I never really apologized for it. You don't deserve to be treated like that, so…I'm sorry."
Lorelai smiled and took his hand, "It's ok, I had totally forgotten about it." Luke nodded while Lorelai reached for a box in the glove compartment, she handed it to Luke, "Choose the tunes my man!"
Luke flicked through the many tapes and CDs in the box. Lorelai began to drive once more while he made his choice. A few minutes later he had picked out what he thought was the perfect album, AC/DC.
He inserted it into the CD player and seconds later, an explosion of guitar riffs and drumbeats rang through the speakers. Lorelai smiled, "Nice choice." Luke grinned back at her and began to sing along with Bon Scott, Lorelai was so surprised she nearly drove them off the road,
**I can tell by the look in your eye
I can tell by the way you sigh
That you know I've been thinking of you
And you know what I want to do
Oh Jean, Oh Jean
Oh Jean, Oh Jean**
Lorelai began to sing with Luke, glancing over to him from time to time.
**When you smile I see stars in the sky
When you smile I see sunrise
And I know you've been thinking of me
And I know how you want it to be
Oh Jean, Oh Jean
Oh Jean, Oh Jean**
Both were playing drums on the dashboard along with the beat, dancing in their seats.
**I can tell by the things you say
I can tell that you know the way
And I know what you want me to do
Oh, I've got hearts and flowers for you
If you leave me you'll make me cry
When I think of you saying goodbye
Oh the sky turns to a deeper blue
That's, that's how I'd feel if I lost you
Jean, Oh Jean
Don't go and leave me
'Cause I love, I love you, I love you, don't leave me
It would make me cry, if you said goodbye
Don't go away Jean, don't you leave baby baby…**
At the end of the song, Luke turned the stereo down so they could talk over the music.
"I didn't know you could sing like that!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Like what…"
"Like….ahh…so well! I just didn't take you as one who was able to carry a tune."
"Lorelai, it was AC/DC, It isn't really singing. It's more like yelling."
"Blasphemy!"
Luke grinned and turned to face the windscreen once more.
"Ok then, put another song in and we can see how well you do sing." She suggested. Luke picked up the box.
"Another AC/DC?" he asked.
"No, something that has a so called 'tune.'"
"Ok."
Once again music burst through the car speakers as Luke pressed play. Lorelai recognised the song immediately; it was her favorite, 'My Friend' by Alex Lloyd.
As the Lyrics began, Luke sang along.
**One day they'll pay to know your name
But you'll be dancing in the rain
You touch your heart to feel the beat
Must take precautions in the street
And all it was to know you
Ten seconds that I owe you
Will it be coming round again?
Just time to share a cigarette
I promised I would not forget
I'd like to see your face again
My friend**
Lorelai was enjoying Luke's rendition of her favorite song and joined in, tapping her neatly painted fingernails on the steering wheel.
**Angelic model sickness pill
How much they pay to see the stills
Ambition seems to serve you well
You trapped them deep inside your
Spell
And all it was to know you
Ten seconds that I owe you
Will it be coming round again?
Just time to share a cigarette
I promised I would not forget
I'd like to see your face again
Share my mind
Wish I'd leave it all behind
Much too much
To pay before you touch
In my mind we should leave it all behind
Cause it ain't got the strength anymore
No it ain't got the strength anymore
My friend
A pilot missile through the heart
As good a place to make a brand
New start…**
Both were smiling when the song finished.
"See you CAN sing."
"I already knew that." Luke said smugly.
"What?"
"I already knew I could sing, in fact I write my own songs when I have free time."
Lorelai's jaw dropped to her lap. "Nooo…" she said in utter amazement. "So is that what you do up in that bachelor pad of yours."
Luke nodded, "Uh huh."
"You learn something new EVERY day." They grinned at each other as Lorelai stepped on the gas…
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A/N: Plz review!!! I started this story the otha day afta my muse suddenly returned from the Bahamas, but its only my second GG fic so plz review! This will be a multi chap story…
If you haven't heard of Alex Lloyd cuz u live under a rock or outside of Australia then I recommend you either download his stuff or buy his album! Its sooooo good, the song I have included is my fav after another one of his call 'Green.' Email me if you want a list of his songs….ALEX LLOYD ROCKS!!!
By KEL-71E
Rating: PG…mite change
Spoilers: Nahhhh…actually yeah…for 'Nick and Nora/ Sid and Nancy'
Summary: Luke's diner faces it's worst dilemma yet…L/L!!!
Disclaimer: not mine, don't bother, I'm only 15, I don't own anything! Gilmore girls is not mine, Any AC/DC or Alex Lloyd songs aren't mine either!
A/N: Feedback is appreciated, this was the result of a brainwave and complete boredom in the holidays, if it sux tell me! happy reading…
**indicates the lyrics from the story**
Chapter one: PANIC!!!
The two Gilmore girls trudged into Luke's diner, desperate for a coffee.
"Yo! Burger man! C-c-c-coffee!" Lorelai called. Luke appeared from the storeroom.
"I'm a Burger man now? I thought I was burger boy."
"Nah, you don't need 'Huggies pull-ups' anymore, Jess is the burger boy." She explained.
Rory slammed her fist on the counter, "No more of this incessant banter! There are more important matters at hand! One needs coffee!"
"Your majesty, I am graced with your presence." Luke bowed, tipping his hat. Lorelai giggled and took the chance to ruffle his hair. "Hey! Not the do, never the do." He said as he stuffed cap on his head, backwards.
The girls clapped and grinned as Luke poured their blood into some mugs for them. Lorelai picked hers from the bench and inhaled the fresh coffee scent.
"You're sick." Luke mumbled as he wiped the counter.
"Why thank you, I try my hardest." Lorelai replied.
Just then, Jess emerged from the upstairs apartment. "Mornin' all." He said brightly.
"Whooooaaaa, You're being jolly, I think we passed through to the Twilight Zone, how does the theme song go again Rory? Is it, do dodo dododo dodo do?" Lorelai asked her daughter, quite seriously.
"No mom! Have more coffee, geez, it's do dodododo dodo doooo dodo."
Lorelai hit herself upside the head. "Well dah! Luke I need more coffee please."
"Ahh, no."
"Come on! I said please!"
"I know this and I'm very proud that you have obtained manners but there is a slight problem with your request." He began to scratch his head.
Jess moved behind him to see what the matter was, seeing the problem, a panicked look emerged on his face. He looked worriedly from Luke to Lorelai to Rory and back before running full-speed out of the diner.
"Oook, so what's going on here?" Rory asked curiously.
"Umm, you should go…. you might be late to school Rory…. Lorelai, you have work." Luke said, slowly backing away from the girls.
"Luke, its summer vacation, remember? Has been for a while now."
"Yeah and the Inn is being renovated. I have three months off. You know that! What's gotten into you?"
Luke ducked behind the counter and rummaged through the shelves, looking frantically for a container. It was hopeless; he was out of coffee. He was doomed.
Standing back up, he announced to the near empty diner, "I am sorry to inform you that Luke's diner is officially out of coffee." He braced himself for the onslaught.
"Whaaaaaat!" The girls screamed simultaneously.
"I ran out of coffee," he said again softer this time.
"Well don't just stand there! Go get more!" Lorelai was beginning to panic, she had only had one cup of coffee today and feared she would experience a nervous breakdown if she didn't get more.
"Mom, don't you have your emergency supply in your purse?" Rory asked as she snatched for the bag.
"I ate it in business class the other day." Lorelai said rather dejectedly.
"You ate it?" Luke asked, scrunching up his face.
"I was hungry and I hadn't had any coffee in like an hour! I was desperate."
"Hmmm…"
"Why are you 'Hmmmm-ing?'"
Luke read through his order book. "Well it says here that my monthly shipment of coffee should have come today, I wonder why it hasn't."
"Ring them! Ring them!" Rory jumped up from her seat and after a few seconds of running around in circles she ran out the door to look for Jess.
"Riiiight, I think that was a little over the top, even for the coffee." Lorelai watched her daughter leave. She turned and noticed Luke already having a heated conversation with whom she assumed to be the coffee company.
"…I don't care if your drivers are one strike. I have customers I have to serve….what? Next month! I can't wait that long….you seem to be working, why don't you get your ass down here and bring me my coffee! I'm sorry I just…what? No! I have to have your coffee!…. well how can I get some down here before next month?….myself? Do you mean…fine! I'll see you in a few days buddy!" he yelled as he hung up the phone. Lorelai got off her seat and walked over to where Luke was banging his head against the wall.
"Ah Luke, the expression 'touch wood' wasn't supposed to be taken that seriously." She pulled him away. "What's going down bro, I want my coffee man." She asked in her worst Jamaican accent.
Luke calmed himself. "The coffee guy said that the delivery guys are on strike so I won't get my coffee until next month and if that happens you along with half of this caffeine addicted town will chase me with knifes and pitch forks until you do get some coffee, so I have to drive to Ontario to get it myself!"
"The act of breathing consists of inhaling and exhaling in succession, just thought you might want to know." She thought for a moment, "Why do you have to go all the way to Ontario to get coffee? There is a market across the street."
"The coffee you so happily consume everyday is the best available coffee on the market, Taylor doesn't happen to sell it in his so called 'supermarket' so I get it delivered from Canada." He sighed, "If I didn't get the good coffee then you'd probably never come back and I don't want to lose my customers. Taylor's stuff tastes like cardboard. Now go start your own bobsled team or something.."
"Ah huh! So you do drink coffee! I knew it!" Lorelai clapped her hands.
"When you have to look after annoying customers all day it's nice to have a coffee at the end of the day, just not very often."
"Whatever, so you're gunna drive to Ontario? You'll have to close up for a few days won't you?" She asked, genuinely concerned.
"I have to, it's better than closing for a month." Luke said moving to a table near the window to remove the dirty dishes.
"I want to come." Lorelai said suddenly.
"Ah..what? Why?"
"I want to come with you, I am not staying in Stars Hollow while the diner is closed for more than twelve hours! That would be a travesty! We can have a road trip!" she suggested excitedly.
"I don't think I could put up with you for a straight week." He mused.
"Oh come on dopey pants! It'll be fun! Pleeeeaaaase?" she begged.
"Did you just call me dopey pants?"
"Maybe…."
"As long as you never call me that ever again then I suppose you can come."
Lorelai almost knocked him over with a forceful hug, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" with that she ran out of the diner.
"Oh god…." Luke mumbled to himself. Lorelai returned.
"I forgot to ask when,"
"Tomorrow morning nine o'clock."
"Done!" she ran out once more.
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
9.15am the next day…
"You're late." Luke commented as Lorelai pulled up in her jeep.
"Rory's fault, she just WOULDN'T get out of bed, I had to lay down the 'Rory home alone rules,' rule number one being, 'Thou shalt not try to reenact any of the really baaaaaad 'Home Alone' movies." She smiled.
"I'm sure."
"Can we go in my car? I'm not one for changing modes of transport this early in the morning."
Luke loaded his bags into the back of the jeep and very soon they were off.
"So are you cool with Jess staying at home by himself?" Lorelai asked to break the silence.
"Yeah I think so, he's a lot better lately than he was when he first got here, I don't think he'll be burning down the apartment while I'm gone."
"You must be proud."
Luke nodded, "I am. You know how it was when he first got here, at least now he's making full sentences."
"Yeah…"
Luke heard a touch of resentment in her voice. "I…ahh…never really apologized for what I said to you."
"What do you mean?" Lorelai turned to face him but looked straight back at the road when she realised she was going sideways.
"Pull over for a sec?" He asked; Lorelai did so.
Luke stared out the windscreen, "When Jess first got here, you went out of your way to invite us over for dinner. Then we were total jackasses to you and I never really apologized for it. You don't deserve to be treated like that, so…I'm sorry."
Lorelai smiled and took his hand, "It's ok, I had totally forgotten about it." Luke nodded while Lorelai reached for a box in the glove compartment, she handed it to Luke, "Choose the tunes my man!"
Luke flicked through the many tapes and CDs in the box. Lorelai began to drive once more while he made his choice. A few minutes later he had picked out what he thought was the perfect album, AC/DC.
He inserted it into the CD player and seconds later, an explosion of guitar riffs and drumbeats rang through the speakers. Lorelai smiled, "Nice choice." Luke grinned back at her and began to sing along with Bon Scott, Lorelai was so surprised she nearly drove them off the road,
**I can tell by the look in your eye
I can tell by the way you sigh
That you know I've been thinking of you
And you know what I want to do
Oh Jean, Oh Jean
Oh Jean, Oh Jean**
Lorelai began to sing with Luke, glancing over to him from time to time.
**When you smile I see stars in the sky
When you smile I see sunrise
And I know you've been thinking of me
And I know how you want it to be
Oh Jean, Oh Jean
Oh Jean, Oh Jean**
Both were playing drums on the dashboard along with the beat, dancing in their seats.
**I can tell by the things you say
I can tell that you know the way
And I know what you want me to do
Oh, I've got hearts and flowers for you
If you leave me you'll make me cry
When I think of you saying goodbye
Oh the sky turns to a deeper blue
That's, that's how I'd feel if I lost you
Jean, Oh Jean
Don't go and leave me
'Cause I love, I love you, I love you, don't leave me
It would make me cry, if you said goodbye
Don't go away Jean, don't you leave baby baby…**
At the end of the song, Luke turned the stereo down so they could talk over the music.
"I didn't know you could sing like that!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Like what…"
"Like….ahh…so well! I just didn't take you as one who was able to carry a tune."
"Lorelai, it was AC/DC, It isn't really singing. It's more like yelling."
"Blasphemy!"
Luke grinned and turned to face the windscreen once more.
"Ok then, put another song in and we can see how well you do sing." She suggested. Luke picked up the box.
"Another AC/DC?" he asked.
"No, something that has a so called 'tune.'"
"Ok."
Once again music burst through the car speakers as Luke pressed play. Lorelai recognised the song immediately; it was her favorite, 'My Friend' by Alex Lloyd.
As the Lyrics began, Luke sang along.
**One day they'll pay to know your name
But you'll be dancing in the rain
You touch your heart to feel the beat
Must take precautions in the street
And all it was to know you
Ten seconds that I owe you
Will it be coming round again?
Just time to share a cigarette
I promised I would not forget
I'd like to see your face again
My friend**
Lorelai was enjoying Luke's rendition of her favorite song and joined in, tapping her neatly painted fingernails on the steering wheel.
**Angelic model sickness pill
How much they pay to see the stills
Ambition seems to serve you well
You trapped them deep inside your
Spell
And all it was to know you
Ten seconds that I owe you
Will it be coming round again?
Just time to share a cigarette
I promised I would not forget
I'd like to see your face again
Share my mind
Wish I'd leave it all behind
Much too much
To pay before you touch
In my mind we should leave it all behind
Cause it ain't got the strength anymore
No it ain't got the strength anymore
My friend
A pilot missile through the heart
As good a place to make a brand
New start…**
Both were smiling when the song finished.
"See you CAN sing."
"I already knew that." Luke said smugly.
"What?"
"I already knew I could sing, in fact I write my own songs when I have free time."
Lorelai's jaw dropped to her lap. "Nooo…" she said in utter amazement. "So is that what you do up in that bachelor pad of yours."
Luke nodded, "Uh huh."
"You learn something new EVERY day." They grinned at each other as Lorelai stepped on the gas…
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
A/N: Plz review!!! I started this story the otha day afta my muse suddenly returned from the Bahamas, but its only my second GG fic so plz review! This will be a multi chap story…
If you haven't heard of Alex Lloyd cuz u live under a rock or outside of Australia then I recommend you either download his stuff or buy his album! Its sooooo good, the song I have included is my fav after another one of his call 'Green.' Email me if you want a list of his songs….ALEX LLOYD ROCKS!!!