Author: JavaJunkieAngel

Disclaimer: The Gilmore Girls, its characters and everything else belong to the talented and very lucky Amy Sherman-Palladino and the WB.

Title: Down To You

Summary: When a new guy comes to Stars Hollow, he hits things off with Lorelai. They seem like the perfect couple, and Luke is happy for them. Ha! Yeah right.

Pairings: Luke/Lorelai

Spoilers: None

Distribution: Please tell me first. Being it's my story and all. You can just e-mail me.

Author's Note: The last chapter! I've had fun with this story and I'm happy that I've gone this far and hopefully you'll like the ending!

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"That's the last of your stuff." Rory said, dropping a box of clothes onto the floor. Lorelai sighed, happy that they had successfully transferred everything she had brought to Charlie's apartment back to her old house. She had missed everything – the town, her house, and the comfort of going to Luke's every morning for breakfast and then the same with lunch and dinner.

"By the way you never finished telling me what happened before – and what he said about Luke." Rory reminded Lorelai. A few nights before when she was staying at a hotel until they were able to move all their stuff out, Lorelai had begun to tell Rory about what happened that night… where everything changed. She had stopped telling her story at the point when Charlie said, you're better off with Luke. She had stopped there because she needed to think about it for a moment, she didn't know why but she just did.

"He told me that I was better off with Luke." Lorelai said finally. She looked at Rory who smiled, "Smart Man."

"What do you mean by that?" Lorelai asked, even though she knew what her daughter meant. She just wanted to hear Rory's interpretation of it all.

"Well I'm saying that Charlie probably knew all along that you were going to end up with Luke. I guess he was too in love with you at the time to really realize it but know since everything is changing and you two are heading towards separate paths then he thought that it was time to tell you how he really felt." Rory said. Lorelai nodded her head, understanding what her daughter said. She too felt that things weren't going to work out with her and Charlie but instead of being too in love with Charlie – she had been in love with Luke all along.

"Yeah I guess your right." Lorelai said

"So why don't you stop unpacking and go to the diner." Rory suggested. Lorelai smiled, "And just to tell you Jess is stopping by – don't ask me why… I just know that he really wants to see you."

"Okay thanks for the heads up." Rory said.

*

Lorelai made her way to the diner; she saw that Luke was behind the counter. She just stood outside, debating to herself whether or not she should go in or not. This is ridiculous… it's just Luke. She finally went in and sat at a corner table – where she only sat in only once. Moments later Luke came by, ready to take her order. He was confused at first on why she was here in the first place because the only times that he had remembered her stopping by was for wedding announcements or when she came to town to visit, nonetheless he walked over to her – order pad in hand and ready to take her order.

"Are you ready?" He asked - she looked like she was nervous or scared of something. The only time he had seen her like this was when her father had to go to the hospital and that was nearly two years ago. He hated seeing her like this, he liked her when she was her normal happy self.

It took her a moment to answer him she was still lost in thought, still thinking about the things that were bothering her for a while now. She had ignored the endless comments of Miss Patty, her mother, and the rest of Stars Hollow about her relationship with Luke. They were all the same anyway, that Luke had loved her for years, and that she had mutual feelings for him… but they both tried to ignored them, but it was no use because they kept on coming by truckload. But when Sookie said that if she just looked into his eyes that she would see that it was right there, she never did that though… because they were just friends, they had been for years and they didn't want to risk their friendship.

"Are you ready?" Luke repeated – this time a little more loudly so that she could hear her. That broke her out of her trance for sure; she blinked once and then looked at him. "Sorry, I was just thinking. How long were you here?"

"Like for three minutes, it's okay though because it's been a slow day anyway. Listen about your wedding …" Luke started

"…which isn't going on… go on." Lorelai continued. Luke looked at her in confusion, maybe she didn't understand him, he thought but then by the expression on her face he could tell that she was serious.

"What do you mean your wedding wasn't going on." Luke asked, hoping to get a good answer, but instead he got a smile from Lorelai – which confused him even more. Lorelai didn't know why she was smiling; canceling the wedding was a little hard for her too – even though she did it before with Max.

"We canceled the wedding, we broke up, and I'm happy about it." Lorelai responded.

"Really? You're not sad or anything?"

"Why should I be? I was extremely blind until now. I mean my mother was right, Miss Patty was right, the entire town was right, and Charlie is right."

"Right about what?" Luke asked, he wasn't too sure where she was heading with this but he was ready with whatever she had coming.

"Everything." She stated simply, "I love you." That was really hard for her to say… she meant it, she did love him but she wasn't sure if he had felt the same. Sure she told him that he liked her, but that was before and she thought that he had different feelings for her – the feelings that she wanted to have for him but just couldn't. She wanted him just as a friend but after the events that occurred over the past weeks, she finally realized that she just couldn't have Luke as just a friend, that he had to be something more, and now she was ready to tell him, her only fear was that if he wasn't ready to hear it.

Luke looked at her, the woman that he had loved but kept a secret for as long as he can remember, was telling him that she loved him. He wasn't sure if she really meant it and he didn't want to look stupid and saying that he loved him back – but he did. "I.." he started, but he just couldn't get the rest out.

Lorelai hoped that Luke was saying that he had loved her too, but he didn't say the rest of what he wanted to say, he just looked around the diner – speechless. She knew that Luke didn't have much to say all the time not like her, but she never really saw him like this. But she shouldn't be the one talking –or thinking- because she was the one that sat there for three minutes without saying anything. "Luke?" Lorelai said softly.

He didn't respond, he just set his order pad on the table and sat down across from Lorelai. He leant over and kissed her. The kiss lasted for about another minute until they realized that the entire diner was looking at them – smiling. "I love you too."

There. He had said it, he had finally admitted that he loved her too – even though he had kissed her before he did it. He didn't mind that everybody was looking at them… he knew that they had been staring at them for years but he just didn't know it, or maybe he did but he was just too ignorant to care.

They broke apart smiling at each other, they were still in a little bit of shock but the voice of Miss Patty broke their trance. "Luke and Lorelai!"

The couple simultaneously looked at her and her huge grin on her face, they knew that news of their kiss would be all over town faster than a heartbeat. But neither didn't care… they were happy and that's all that mattered to them now. They smiled and Miss Patty and then at each other – Lorelai looked at Luke at a different way, Luke Danes was smiling today then any other day that she had seen him. She knew that he was really happy.

*

Rory sat on the couch, curled up in Pride and Prejudice. It was about an hour since her mother had left and she had already gone through Jane Eyre too. She was really bored – or a really fast reader, she wasn't sure. At this rate she was planning on reading Withering Heights as well. She sighed… her mother told her that Jess was coming and she was waiting for him. They weren't really going out – well at lease she didn't think so, they haven't talked since they had both gone off to college. She had suspected that he had already another girlfriend or at lease was dating someone. She wasn't though, Rory had gotten asked out – but she had rejected all of them.

Paris called her insane for turning down all those dates but then she reminded her that she was pregnant – that shut her up for about a week until her endless rants began on how she was always at the dorm reading all the time. But again she reminded her on the little movie night that she went to and how she had missed out, again Paris was speechless and shut up. That was so un-Paris like she had thought to herself time and time again but she didn't want to waste her time worrying about Paris, after all she had to worry about her own self.

Someone was banging on the door – which irritated Rory since she had planned a quiet evening of reading. She walked over to the door, stopping at the mirror first to see how her hair looked, then she opened the door and saw Jess standing there smiling at her. He looked different some how, much more mature. But whichever the case was, she was happy to see him. She greeted him with a hug and he returned it. "Come in," she said.

"Seems different right?" Jess said, referring to their mini reunion. Rory nodded, it was really different maybe because they haven't seen each other in such a long time or maybe because their feelings for one another changed and now they were both ready to become just friends again.

"So how have you been?" It was only natural for Rory to ask that, she was curious on what he was up too and what he had been doing during the time that they had been apart.

"Studying," Was Jess's reply, it made Rory want to laugh because she remembered what he was like in high school – a brooding James Dean type that didn't seem to care about a thing. But his answer didn't completely seem humorous to her because she knew that he wanted to change and that he wanted to become as studious as her, but she just didn't think that he was serious.

"I missed you." She looked down, had she really said that? Apparently because now he was looking right at her, half smiling and half sighing. She knew that he had missed her too, but he was just to scared to tell her, or maybe he didn't miss her and that he didn't want to hurt her feelings. These thoughts blanked Rory out for about a minute until Jess said, "Me too."

A faint smiled began to form on Rory's lips, so he did miss me after all. She continued to smile, which made Jess ask, "Why are you so happy?"

Rory blushed a little; she didn't mean to be so oblivious that she was happy. She stopped smiling. "Nothing… it's just that I'm really happy to see you." She knew she was going to regret whatever was going to happen tonight – but she didn't really care, she was just really happy that Jess was back and that hopefully her mom and Luke got to together.

"Want to go out with me?" Jess said, out of the blue. Rory looked at him – and smiled.

"Yeah I'll go with you." She answered, she wasn't sure where he was planning on taking her and she knew that he wasn't too sure either, but she didn't want to waste a perfectly good night staying at home.

*

"Is this weird?" Lorelai asked Luke. They were at his apartment talking, laughing mostly but nevertheless talking about anything in general. She thought it was a little strange, now going out with Luke. They weren't really going out, cause they didn't really go on a date yet but she had a feeling that they were close.

"Not really, I mean I've known you for a long time and being around you isn't weird but the situation… I'm not sure." Luke said.

"I think where we're headed is somewhere good." She said, smiling. Jeez that sounded so corny! Hopefully he doesn't care… or he didn't notice. Please don't let him notice!

"Just to let you know… I really hated Charlie." Luke said. Lorelai smiled – she knew that already since day one really. But she didn't really ask Luke what he felt about everything, she felt at the time that it didn't really matter… at lease not a lot.

*

Fast Forward:

Jess, Rory, Lane, and Paris are all out of college, while Luke and Lorelai are happily married. 

Lorelai looked down at her stomach, "I'm getting fat!" Luke looked over at his wife, who was looking down at her shirt, she was doing that more often now, ever since she found out that she was pregnant – all she did was look down at her stomach, exclaim she was fat and rant about it all day. But Luke had gotten used to it, like he had gotten used to all her other quirks.

"You're not fat." He said. But apparently that didn't convince her because she was still pretty mad. "You're only like a month pregnant and you don't look – um it doesn't start to show until a while."

"You were going to say fat weren't you?" She said, upset. Luke nodded his head no. "Then can I have coffee?" she asked, hoping the answer would be a yes.

"Decaf."

"Meanie!" She said, sounding like a five year old.

"It's not good for the baby." Luke reminded her.

"Well having decaf isn't good for me." Lorelai said back.

"You can live without regualar coffee, it's only nine months."

"Yeah only nine months." Lorelai said, pouting.

*

Jess and Rory live in an apartment in New York, and are engaged. Lane and Dave live in New Hampshire, where they are married and Lane isn't pregnant, well at lease not yet. Paris and Jamie are living in Hartford with their one-year-old daughter, Gwen.  As for Charlie, well let's just forget about him for a while. =]