I can't help dragging things out.. I didn't mean to torture u guys!! plus she was in a coma for a long time!!!!!! or something like taht..

-Ggirl

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It was only a matter of days before Lorelai could go home.

"Today's the day!" Lorelai sang from her bed as Luke walked into the room.

"I think I just heard the nurses singing the same thing," Luke said.

"Ha!" Lorelai said crossing her arms. "They love me."

".. and the fact that you're leaving...," Luke said rolling his eyes. "Here, I brought you food."

"Coffee?" Lorelai looked up to him with puppy eyes.

Luke smiled at her with pity. "Doctor says no coffee for a couple more days."

"Thanks Dr. Luke," Lorelai replied.

"Bill's in the mail," Luke answered and handed her the carton.

"Cahhhh-feeeeeeee," Lorelai said with begging eyes.

"Oh God," Luke said.

"Cahhh-feeeeeeeeeeeee." Lorelai took the styrofoam carton and opened it. The smell of pancakes overwhelmed her. "MMmm pancakes!"

She started to gobble down the pancakes.

"Well," Luke said looking at her. "At least your appetite's back."

"My appetite has always been good," Lorelai said in between bites.

"It's amazing how you eat," Luke said as he started to pack her stuff.

Lorelai stopped eating and twisted around.

"What are you doing?" Luke stopped packing to look at her.

"I'm trying to see my butt," Lorelai said. "Do I look fat to you?"

"Stop it," Luke said and rolled his eyes. He resumed packing. "You know you aren't."

"Really!?" Lorelai squealed. "Oh, and all this time I thought I was horizontally challenged."

Luke snorted. "Mary Kate and Ashley Magazine?" He waved a magazine in her face.

"You'd be surprise how much educational material is packed into those 70 pages," Lorelai said as she ate some bacon.

"Right. It's too bad only three people in the world know it," Luke said and smiled. He started throwing the CDs, videos, and clothes piled onto a sofa into a duffel.

"Me," Lorelai said counting on her fingers. "Mary Kate, and Ashley! Gee, that is three. See how much I've learned?"

"Uh..," Luke said and pointed to a pile of her underwear that was lying in the bottom of the sofa.

Lorelai laughed at him. "Leave it. It'll be a surprise for the next patient..'Here's the bed, the sofa, and a nice pile of polka dot underwear'."

Luke looked uncomfortable and moved on to stuff on the cot.

"It's just underwear," Lorelai rolled her eyes. "You're sweating like a prostitute in church."

Luke grunted. (AN: DIrty! Hehe) 'But it's your underwear...'

Lucky for Luke, Rory decided to enter the room at that very moment.

"Hey!" Lorelai said and put the carton aside to hug her daughter.

"Hi," Rory smiled. "How's it going?"

"Good, can you do me a favor?"

"Sure," Rory said and took off her jacket.

"Can you put my underwear in the bag because Luke is being a baby and won't do it?" Lorelai asked. "Which, by the way, I didn't even wear!"

Rory shrugged. "You wanted Luke to touch your undewear.." Luke blushed a deep red. He started to talk but Rory interrupted him. "I won't even ask..." She said and took it and threw it in the duffel. Rory had to grin to herself though because she knew why it made Luke uncomfortable.

"I think we're done here," Luke said and shouldered the bag. "Man, you brought a lot of stuff."

Lorelai shrugged. "I don't believe in packing light."

"Are you dressed and everything?"

"Hm... if you put it that way, tha would mean that I was undressed before...," Lorelai smiled and wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

Luke turned red again. He looked ready to say something. Lorelai picked that exact moment to smile and announce, "I'm ready!" She paused for a second. "That suddenly sounded so... dirty."

Rory rolled her eyes behind her mother's back.

She helped her mom into a wheelchair. "Hey, Rory, can you get the lamp?"

Rory walked over to the side table and picked up the monkey lamp.

"You brought the monkey lamp??" Luke snorted. "I can't believe you brought the monkey lamp!"

"Hey," Lorelai said. "Don't be jealous of my fabulous lamp. It brought a home-y feeling into my room."

Luke looked perplexed. "A lamp with dancing, wild monkeys makes you feel more comfortable?"

"She's the woman who watches Alias and is convinced that Irina is actually a man disguised as a woman who, had a sex change, therefore was actually a woman before she was a man," Rory said rapidly in one breath.

Lorelai nodded. "She is. Look at the size of her biceps!"

Luke gaped at the two. "I don't understand you two at all."

Lorelai just beamed at him. "You're just jealous of our brain capacity."

"Okay, I believe that for one of you guys," Luke said looking at Rory. "And I think she has enough brain power for the two of you together so..."

Lorelai starting singing, hitting her casts like bongos. "I could while away the hours, conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain! And my head I'd be a-scratchin', while my thoughts were busy hatchin', if I only had a brain....!!!!"

"Why did God create ears?" Rory asked Luke.

"Satan made him do it," Luke replied calmly. They both stared at Lorelai as she continued to sing. ".. my head all full of stuffin'.. if I only had a brain....!!"

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"One good thing about having two broken legs is that I get to ride a wheelchair!" Lorelai whispered to Rory as she waved goodbye to the nurses.

"How is that good?" Rory asked.

"Because, now, Luke has no excuse for not going where I go," Lorelai smiled. "Like the mall."

"He hates the mall," Rory said.

"I know!" Lorelai giggled.

"You are so evil," Rory shook her head.

"But in a charming way, right?" Lorelai said, twisting around in the chair to look at her daughter. "Like Elvira?"

"Elvira...?" Rory cocked her head. "Ohhh, the lady who put the boob back in boob tube?"

"Okay, bosomy if not loveable and charming," Lorelai said. "I'd take either."

Rory rolled her eyes but smiled. "Maybe you should go for slightly bosomy?"

Lorelai pretended to look shocked. "UH! Insults already! You should make up for that by giving me a nice, warm cup of coffee.. MMmmm."

Rory laughed. "Good try, Mom. You just started this conversation so you could bring coffee into it." Rory shook her finger at Lorelai.

"Nooo..," Lorelai pretended to look surprised. "I would never..." She put hand to her heart. "No, never."

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Luke smiled as Lorelai and Rory bantered as they walked to his truck.

After putting Lorelai in the front seat, Rory closed the door and whispered in Luke's ear, "They said they'd have everything set up by noon."

Luke smiled and nodded. "Let's go."

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Sookie clapped her hands and said, "Well, now all that's left is Lorelai." She had just added the finishing touches to the menu and the decorations all seemed to be in place. She walked over to where Jackson was sitting with Kiki. "Hello, baby!" She said and took the smiling baby from her husband.

Patty and Babette sat together on the other side of Sookie's living room and scoped the males in the room.

"Too bad Luke's with Lorelai," Babette sighed. "I enjoyed watching him flip those burgers and..."

Patty suddenly pointed to a guy standing in the corner of the room. "My God, who is he?"

Babette stopped rambling about Luke and looked to where Patty was pointing. "Goodness, how could we have missed him?"

Patty was practically drooling and Babette seemed ready to start.

Babette was still rambling, but this time about the new guy. "I feel like when Jane Fonda and Ted Turner broke up.. Jane found God and Ted found out that it wasn't him..."

Patty looked confused but decided to ignore the comment. "Let's go talk to that new guy."

"Uh oh," Sookie said bouncing Kiki on her knee. "Looks like Patty and Babette are going to attack the handyman."

"Should we save him?" Jackson said looking worried. "He still needs to fix the radiator."

Sookie looked thoughtful. "Well, with Patty and Babette around, I'm sure he'll work faster."

"That is true," Jackson replied.

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"Hey!" Rory said as they started to drive out of the parking lot. "Did you see that?"

Luke and Lorelai looked in the rearview mirror at Rory.

"What?" Lorelai asked.

"I think I saw.. the hospital just breath a sigh of relief!" Rory said laughing.

"Rory," Lorelai said in a stern voice. "You can tell me, where have you been getting your hit of pot?"

"Oh, darn! I should never have stolen from your stash!" Rory replied in a dramatic tone.

"NOoo," Lorelai replied with just as much drama.

"Will you two stop it!" Luke said. "Enough with the drugs."

"I think the Luke the drug dealer is mad at us," Lorelai loudly whispered to Rory.

"We should be careful 'cause otherwise we'll have to start getting out stuff from Kirk," Rory whispered back.

"Kirk is one sexy mofo," Lorelai said.

"This is getting scary," Luke interrupted manuvered the truck onto the highway.

"He is sexy," Rory said agreeing.

"God help me," Luke grumbled.

"Do you think he has a chest of hair shaped as a heart?" Lorelai asked Rory.

"Maybe a star?"

"With little braids?"

"Dyed pink?"

"Stop!" Luke said, trying to get the picture out of his head.

"A dirty mind is better than no mind at all," Lorelai said to Luke. Rory nodded in agreement

'Trust me, in my case, having no mind would make life a lot more comfortable,' Luke thought looking into her eyes.

Lorelai broke the connection by turning her eyes away. 'What is he thinking?'

"Um, so is it heart or star shaped?" Rory asked breaking the silence.

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As they were pulling into the exit for Star's Hollow, Rory's cell rang.

"Hello?" Rory said.

"Rory, it's me, Sookie," Sookie whispered.

"Sookie, you don't have to whisper," Rory said, furtively looking at her mother. Lorelai was currently distracted by a 'piece of lint' in Luke's hair.

"Right there!" Lorelai said and starting dusting his head off.

"Stop that!" Luke said, trying to concentrate on the road. But it was hard with Lorelai's hands in his hair.

"But you have a piece of lint!"

"Leave it!"

"Mom! It's Sookie," Rory interrupted them as she rolled her eyes. 'Just tell each other you love each other already,' She thought.

Lorelai took the phone. "Sookie! Hi!"

"Hey, Lorelai!"

"What's up?" Lorelai asked, her hand still on Luke's head.

"UMmm.. not much, but the weather here has been so Anne Heche," Sookie said, looking at the guests who were starting to hide.

"Huh?"

"You know, the sun's all like 'I'm in! I'm out! I'm in! I'm out!'" Sookie replied, motioning for Patty to hide somewhere else besides next to the radiator.

Lorelai laughed. "Did you call to tell me that? I'm almost at home now. We're just passing Luke's."

Sookie smiled. "Nah, actually I called 'cause I was wondering if you could stop by my house and pick up some of Rory's things? She.. uh left them here."

"I'm kinda tired," Lorelai replied. "I'll send Rory over later."

"No, no," Sookie said. "Just drop by, for a sec."

Lorelai smiled as a light in her head went off. "Okay. Talk to you in a few." Lorelai hung up the phone and handed it to Rory.

"You guys planned a party for me!!" Lorelai said laughing. "'The weather here has ben so Anne Heche,'" Lorelai imitated her friend. She laughed.

"No," Rory said sternly. "There is no party."

"Yeah, and I'm not half as bosomy as Elvira," Lorelai said rolling her eyes.

Luke looked at her. "I won't even ask."

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Oh where oh where has jess gone? Oh where oh where can he beeeeee?????

Hehe he's coming... soon ... =)

-Ggirl

Okay, quite honestly, I sorta forgot about him and Paris and Tristan for a while there...