Title: Friends 9/?

Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.com)

Disclaimer: These Characters belong to Gilmore Girls except anyone you do not recognize.

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"Hey it's Christopher, I guess I missed so leave a message"

"Hey Christopher it's Sasha, I'm in Stars Hollow. I am staying with the Gilmore Girls. I miss you. Please call me back when you get this message. I really need to talk to you. By the way in case you wondering who this lunatic is, it's none other than Sasha."

Max and Tristan were sitting on the couch in the living room.

"So what exactly happens usually on a Saturday night in this town?" Tristan asked.

"Anything and everything. They will eat everything and they will do everything. Just don't laugh at them."

"Will that be hard?"

"Very, they will do some weird things but you've got to just smile and nod. It will be worth it though. Because believe me you will never have another Saturday night like this one"

"You know I'm starting to believe you."

"Uptown got it's hustlers

The bowery got it's bums
42nd Street got Big Jim Walker
He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun"

Sasha sung and danced as she wiped down the tables. She has found Luke's old record player and then when she found Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories she knew she had to play it.
"Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call big Jim "Boss", just because
And they say"

Luke had been watching her since he heard the first chord. He decided to sing along.

"You don't tug on Superman's cape"

She turned and saw him and he smiled at her. She just kept signing
"You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim"

She walked over to where he was and took his hand and tried to get him to dance. He would not give in so she just started dancing and signing again. He stopped and just watched her.

"Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a pool-shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim
Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street
He drivin' a drop top Cadillac
Last week he took all my money
And it may sound funny
But I come to get my money back
And everybody say Jack don't you know."

 Watching her he couldn't help but laugh. He had not had anyone in his diner that made him laugh in a long time other than Lorelai who had Max. But he didn't need her anymore he had Sasha. And she was his right now. Heck she even got him to sing which is a miracle in itself. He joined in again.

"And you don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim"

He stopped signing again, she could tell and he watching her. She knew all of that but that did not stop her. No man had even given her the time of day since Christopher and she liked the feeling of someone watching her again even if it was Luke.

"Well a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
And when the cuttin' were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet
Yeah he were cut in bout a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sung a different kind of story
When big Jim hit the floor now they say"

He joined in again in the middle, the chorus not in the beginning and not in the end. That was not what she needed he knew that that much. She needed someone who was going to be there for her now. And if now was what she wanted then now what she was going to get.

"You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim"

His voice was not heard anymore because he knew just like she did that she did not need him now. She had had many people to take care of her. No one was there to stay at least not any one but him…. She had to forget him. He was not here any more and even though she tired to hide the fact that she was yearning for him, she knew Luke knew and that is why he stopped. She also knew that he did not really need her. He wanted Lorelai and he still missed someone else. Who she was, she had not figured out yet but she was going to his now. That was the least she could do.

"Yeah, big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue

Yeah you don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim."

"So you ready for your big date?" Lorelai asked with a smile.

"Don't start!" Rory said not wanting to get into this with anyone else not even her mother.

"A little edgy about the subject aren't we?" Lorelai said noticing the edge in her daughter's voice.

"No we aren't. See I'm just trying to get ready and I can't do that if someone is being a little pest."

"So you don't want to kiss him?"

"Mother!"

"Sorry, so that's a yes?" Lorelai said with a laugh.

"Get out! Get our now!"