Chapter Three: Realisations
Spoilers: Everything through the season finally. Do NOT read if you don't want to know anything about from here 'till then.
Rating: PG
Pairing this chapter: L/L
Helpful information:
Spoilers: Rory's going to some camp for 6 weeks, Luke and Lorelia are fighting. Sookie and Jackson already had their wedding at which Chris found out Sherry was pregnant so he ran back to her and Rory kissed Jess.
From Chapter One: Jess is somewhere that's not here right now. Rory goes to Lukes because she's having a bad day and Lorelai is upset that she's leaving. Luke acts all fatherly and it ends with them playing bagel hockey.
From Chapter Two: Rory and Luke talk about the accident and Lorelai, Rory says it's okay for him to like, like her mom and she doesn't mind. Taylor, Babbett, Miss Patty and Kirk all annoy Luke with questions about Lorelai so he turns things over to Jess and storms out.
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Luke sighed heavily as he walked down the sidewalk wondering why he let those people bother him so much. He knew the truth about what he felt for Lorelai so why did he care what they thought. But he couldn't help wondering why they couldn't just leave him alone about it. No one had been this way with Rachel! Clenching his hands into fists he continued down the sidewalk hoping he could walk it off.
20 minutes later he found himself in front of the Gilmore residence, shaking his head ruefully he sat down on the porch steps. Resting his head in his hands he sighed as he wondered why everything eventually came back to her. They were friends... nothing more, so why hadn't he accepted her apology? Why hadn't he let things go back to the way the were, the banter over coffee and food, just everything! His thoughts were interrupted by her voice floating through the air, "Rory is that you?"
He suddenly had the urge to make a run for it, but knowing that would be pointless he answered, "Um.. no it's me... Luke." He heard something hit the floor in side and stood quickly, turning he opened the already slightly ajar front door and went in. In the living room he saw Lorelai with a surprised expression upon her face, he glanced at the area around her and saw a shattered coffee mug. "Wow, sorry I didn't mean to... startle you... I'll just leave now." He turned to leave.
"No Luke, please, stay." Lorelai said as she stepped over the remnants of her mug and closer to him. "Please."
He turned to face her again, seeing her face made his heart clench, why did she have to look so beautiful all the time? "All right."
"So, what were you doing sitting on my front steps? Afraid to come in?" she asked with a smile.
"I didn't actually plan on coming here." he told her and quickly realised it was a mistake when her face fell, "Not that I didn't want to come here, I mean, not that I want to come here all the time or anything but." he stopped and sighed, wondering when talking to her had become so hard to do.
Lorelai's smile returned, "It's fine Luke. Do you want anything? I have... water and..." her voice trailed off.
"Waters fine," he followed her as she went into the kitchen, looking around he didn't see anything edible on the counters and the refrigerator held mostly water and miner commodities. "When was the last time you went shopping?"
Lorelai looked at him, then around the kitchen, "Well I would have to say," she paused to think, then counted on her fingers, "two weeks ago. See after the first week we had ate everything that was remotely good, and we've been ordering out and dining out or at my mothers all the other times. She insisted we come over like... three times a week for the past two weeks because Rory is leaving and she said that she was making up for lost time, which isn't even lost yet but you know her. Or rather you don't know her, but if you did you would hate her, she's so annoying! Can you believe she's making me come still on Friday nights?! The nerve, I've had to go six times in two weeks but yet I have to go while Rory's gone to! It's so unfair!" She looked at him with an apologetic look, "Sorry, it's just Rory's leaving and I'll have no one to talk to or anything and my mother makes me so mad sometimes!"
He smiled at her as he took the water bottle she was holding, "No worse then usual Lorelai. There's always me." They both stayed silent for a minute, just watching each other. He realised things were back to the way they were and the truth was... he wanted something more. Something closer to real friendship, he wanted to be wanted when he wasn't needed, when she didn't necessarily need something of him. He didn't want the jealousy over him dating someone else, he wanted his freedom back. He wanted her to think of him as a friend, a friend who she would sit and talk to, who she would go places with not just someone she saw when she was eating. He had all the pitfalls of a relationship and none of the rewards. As he looked into her eyes he realised he just wanted something more.
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A/N: I know Luke wouldn't usually act like that and that's not how things always are, but more times then not it is.
Thank you all so much for the reviews you have no idea how much I love reading them! Please, please review. Again, just thanks peeps!
Spoilers: Everything through the season finally. Do NOT read if you don't want to know anything about from here 'till then.
Rating: PG
Pairing this chapter: L/L
Helpful information:
Spoilers: Rory's going to some camp for 6 weeks, Luke and Lorelia are fighting. Sookie and Jackson already had their wedding at which Chris found out Sherry was pregnant so he ran back to her and Rory kissed Jess.
From Chapter One: Jess is somewhere that's not here right now. Rory goes to Lukes because she's having a bad day and Lorelai is upset that she's leaving. Luke acts all fatherly and it ends with them playing bagel hockey.
From Chapter Two: Rory and Luke talk about the accident and Lorelai, Rory says it's okay for him to like, like her mom and she doesn't mind. Taylor, Babbett, Miss Patty and Kirk all annoy Luke with questions about Lorelai so he turns things over to Jess and storms out.
~*~
Luke sighed heavily as he walked down the sidewalk wondering why he let those people bother him so much. He knew the truth about what he felt for Lorelai so why did he care what they thought. But he couldn't help wondering why they couldn't just leave him alone about it. No one had been this way with Rachel! Clenching his hands into fists he continued down the sidewalk hoping he could walk it off.
20 minutes later he found himself in front of the Gilmore residence, shaking his head ruefully he sat down on the porch steps. Resting his head in his hands he sighed as he wondered why everything eventually came back to her. They were friends... nothing more, so why hadn't he accepted her apology? Why hadn't he let things go back to the way the were, the banter over coffee and food, just everything! His thoughts were interrupted by her voice floating through the air, "Rory is that you?"
He suddenly had the urge to make a run for it, but knowing that would be pointless he answered, "Um.. no it's me... Luke." He heard something hit the floor in side and stood quickly, turning he opened the already slightly ajar front door and went in. In the living room he saw Lorelai with a surprised expression upon her face, he glanced at the area around her and saw a shattered coffee mug. "Wow, sorry I didn't mean to... startle you... I'll just leave now." He turned to leave.
"No Luke, please, stay." Lorelai said as she stepped over the remnants of her mug and closer to him. "Please."
He turned to face her again, seeing her face made his heart clench, why did she have to look so beautiful all the time? "All right."
"So, what were you doing sitting on my front steps? Afraid to come in?" she asked with a smile.
"I didn't actually plan on coming here." he told her and quickly realised it was a mistake when her face fell, "Not that I didn't want to come here, I mean, not that I want to come here all the time or anything but." he stopped and sighed, wondering when talking to her had become so hard to do.
Lorelai's smile returned, "It's fine Luke. Do you want anything? I have... water and..." her voice trailed off.
"Waters fine," he followed her as she went into the kitchen, looking around he didn't see anything edible on the counters and the refrigerator held mostly water and miner commodities. "When was the last time you went shopping?"
Lorelai looked at him, then around the kitchen, "Well I would have to say," she paused to think, then counted on her fingers, "two weeks ago. See after the first week we had ate everything that was remotely good, and we've been ordering out and dining out or at my mothers all the other times. She insisted we come over like... three times a week for the past two weeks because Rory is leaving and she said that she was making up for lost time, which isn't even lost yet but you know her. Or rather you don't know her, but if you did you would hate her, she's so annoying! Can you believe she's making me come still on Friday nights?! The nerve, I've had to go six times in two weeks but yet I have to go while Rory's gone to! It's so unfair!" She looked at him with an apologetic look, "Sorry, it's just Rory's leaving and I'll have no one to talk to or anything and my mother makes me so mad sometimes!"
He smiled at her as he took the water bottle she was holding, "No worse then usual Lorelai. There's always me." They both stayed silent for a minute, just watching each other. He realised things were back to the way they were and the truth was... he wanted something more. Something closer to real friendship, he wanted to be wanted when he wasn't needed, when she didn't necessarily need something of him. He didn't want the jealousy over him dating someone else, he wanted his freedom back. He wanted her to think of him as a friend, a friend who she would sit and talk to, who she would go places with not just someone she saw when she was eating. He had all the pitfalls of a relationship and none of the rewards. As he looked into her eyes he realised he just wanted something more.
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A/N: I know Luke wouldn't usually act like that and that's not how things always are, but more times then not it is.
Thank you all so much for the reviews you have no idea how much I love reading them! Please, please review. Again, just thanks peeps!