I'm so sorry this installment took so long, but I had such writer's block!
Thanks for all the encouragement to continue! It really helped get me
going! I hope you like it!
~All disclaimers apply~
Length of Time 15
"Hey."
Rory looked up from her book, to see Jess standing over her, now.
"Hi," she said, nervously, as he sat down.
"How's your mom?"
"Crazy still."
"I mean pain-wise," he said wryly.
"She's okay. She has other things on her mind right now."
"Really," Jess said, hoping she might choose to continue.
Rory regarded him with a curious look and decided to continue. She smiled. "Well, turns out in a moment of complete and total Lorelai insanity, she kissed Luke."
"She kissed him!?" Jess said, seeming astonished by the whole thing.
"Yeah, finally."
"Man, I'll say. I was entertaining the idea of surgically putting magnets inside their lips," he joked.
Rory laughed. "That's funny. But I think they'd look weird. I mean, square lips don't really look good on anyone. Boxy."
"Very boxy," he agreed.
"So when's your next class?" Rory asked him.
"An hour. You?"
"Two hours." He nodded, looking around like he wasn't sure of what to say. Rory hesitated, but finally asked "do you.. I don't know, wanna get lunch?" in a very casual tone.
Jess smiled. "Sure, I'm starving."
Meanwhile at St. Marks's Hospital, Room 203-----
"You can do this, you're strong. You're a Gilmore. That's strong stock, right there," Lorelai was telling herself, when she suddenly heard the door start to open.
Luke entered the hospital room very cautiously, practically tip-toeing. He was clearly on edge, and Lorelai took this as a bad sign.
When he reached the foot of her bed, he just looked around, finding everything in the room except her suddenly fascinating. His uneasiness was the same as the day before when he visited her after she woke up. Only this time, she was uneasy too. She had no idea what to say to him this time.
After a few horribly intense and awkward moments, Luke finally said "So, I brought..." he indicated to the bedside table. Lorelai looked over and grabbed the Fake Coffee nervously.
"Ah! Fake Coffee! Yes. Thank you!" she said, much too excitedly.
"You're looking... medicated," Luke finally said, after looking at her, noticing the crazy look in her eyes. Then he chastised himself for his horrible attempt at small talk.
Lorelai couldn't stand it anymore. "AHHHH!" she shrieked, putting her head into her hands and shaking it, to which Luke just looked at her like she was nuts.
"You okay?"
"Luke I am so sorry! I never meant to... I shouldn't have... I k-k---ki--- " she couldn't say it. Not to him. This wasn't like talking to Rory. This was Luke. As in Luke the Man She Just Kissed. "Ki-killed---"
"You killed.." he encouraged her on, enjoying how cute she looked trying to get around saying what had just happened.
"I killed the mood. Just now. With my shriek. We were having a perfectly pleasant Fake Coffee-related conversation and I killed that. Convo... you know, that's the online slang for conversation. And BTW is the online way of saying by the way. OMG stands for oh my god," she said. Now she was just flailing her arms while she talked, seemingly at a loss of bodily control... and verbal control as well.
"Did someone give you a computer with internet access as a get-well gift?" he asked, breaking her of her crazy rant.
"Nope. These are things that Rory is picking up at Yale, and telling me all about. I think it's fascinating. Soon we'll all be talking in abbreviations. Like you tell a joke, and instead of laughing I just say lol," she said, only instead of saying the letters L O L, she said lol like it was a word.
"Lol?" he repeated. "Nevermind, don't care, Lorelai you have to relax. You're gonna..." he stopped as she looked up at him, "hurt yourself" he finished.
"O.M.G., Luke, we kissed!" she finally said.
"O.M.. ah, right. Okay," he said, realizing what she was talking about.
"well WE didn't kiss..."
"We didn't?" he asked, clearly confused now.
"I kissed YOU," she clarified.
"I'm pretty sure I kissed you back," he said, putting his hands in his pockets, suddenly getting a little embarrassed.
"Luke, you're still with Nicole," she said, and put her head in her hands again, despairingly, feeling ashamed all of a sudden.
"I told you yesterday. We're done. What are you talking about?"
"Oh, Luke, you're not done. You broke up with her without logically thinking about it. You were upset, you weren't logical, you were in an illogical state of mind---"
"I got it, logic wasn't on my side."
"Luke, I shouldn't have done that."
"Done what?" he asked, a smile creeping up his lips. She shot him a look.
"You KNOW what."
"I'm not sure I do," he said, trying to sound serious.
"You're really gonna be like this? Fine. I shouldn't have KISSED you! You had a great thing going with Nicole, and you should think twice before letting it all fly out the window," she said gesturing to the window, at which time he looked at the window, confused and intrigued by her tangent.
"Luke, you could have found 'the one' and who am I to stand in the way? I'm not Ali Baba, I can't just think I have all this power and can wipe away 'the one' from your life, by being all kissy and stupid!"
"Lorelai, you lost me on Ali Baba."
"I'm sorry, Luke," she said, dead serious now. "I am so sorry. I was just.. I mean, the Nurse said... Millie said... I... I'm not sure what happened. It's all a little fuzzy in my head now. Really fuzzy actually. It's part medication-induced fuzziness, and part going-out-of-my-mind- related fuzziness. But to make a long story short----"
"I'm not sure you could make a long story short," he said, more to himself, while she pretended to ignore his comment and charged on---
"I, for whatever reason, kissed you. And I didn't really think about the consequences. And that is so unfair of me! I mean there's our friendship to consider, and your feelings, I mean, I shouldn't just assume you'll go along with whatever I want to do, I mean, if I jumped off the London Bridge.. okay, okay.. and there's also Nicole to consider. She's still in the picture, whether you admit it or not."
By now Luke was sitting in the chair next to her bed, getting too nervous standing up listening to her go off like this. He looked up at the exasperated woman in the bed.
"O.M.G, Lorelai, Nicole is not in the picture and B.T.W..." he started.
"B.T.W. what?"
He stood up, suddenly feeling bold, and took the step that closed the space between the chair and bed. He bent down, put a hand in her hair, and pulled her into a kiss, pausing briefly before their lips touched to give her a look that told her that he wasn't lying.
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Length of Time 15
"Hey."
Rory looked up from her book, to see Jess standing over her, now.
"Hi," she said, nervously, as he sat down.
"How's your mom?"
"Crazy still."
"I mean pain-wise," he said wryly.
"She's okay. She has other things on her mind right now."
"Really," Jess said, hoping she might choose to continue.
Rory regarded him with a curious look and decided to continue. She smiled. "Well, turns out in a moment of complete and total Lorelai insanity, she kissed Luke."
"She kissed him!?" Jess said, seeming astonished by the whole thing.
"Yeah, finally."
"Man, I'll say. I was entertaining the idea of surgically putting magnets inside their lips," he joked.
Rory laughed. "That's funny. But I think they'd look weird. I mean, square lips don't really look good on anyone. Boxy."
"Very boxy," he agreed.
"So when's your next class?" Rory asked him.
"An hour. You?"
"Two hours." He nodded, looking around like he wasn't sure of what to say. Rory hesitated, but finally asked "do you.. I don't know, wanna get lunch?" in a very casual tone.
Jess smiled. "Sure, I'm starving."
Meanwhile at St. Marks's Hospital, Room 203-----
"You can do this, you're strong. You're a Gilmore. That's strong stock, right there," Lorelai was telling herself, when she suddenly heard the door start to open.
Luke entered the hospital room very cautiously, practically tip-toeing. He was clearly on edge, and Lorelai took this as a bad sign.
When he reached the foot of her bed, he just looked around, finding everything in the room except her suddenly fascinating. His uneasiness was the same as the day before when he visited her after she woke up. Only this time, she was uneasy too. She had no idea what to say to him this time.
After a few horribly intense and awkward moments, Luke finally said "So, I brought..." he indicated to the bedside table. Lorelai looked over and grabbed the Fake Coffee nervously.
"Ah! Fake Coffee! Yes. Thank you!" she said, much too excitedly.
"You're looking... medicated," Luke finally said, after looking at her, noticing the crazy look in her eyes. Then he chastised himself for his horrible attempt at small talk.
Lorelai couldn't stand it anymore. "AHHHH!" she shrieked, putting her head into her hands and shaking it, to which Luke just looked at her like she was nuts.
"You okay?"
"Luke I am so sorry! I never meant to... I shouldn't have... I k-k---ki--- " she couldn't say it. Not to him. This wasn't like talking to Rory. This was Luke. As in Luke the Man She Just Kissed. "Ki-killed---"
"You killed.." he encouraged her on, enjoying how cute she looked trying to get around saying what had just happened.
"I killed the mood. Just now. With my shriek. We were having a perfectly pleasant Fake Coffee-related conversation and I killed that. Convo... you know, that's the online slang for conversation. And BTW is the online way of saying by the way. OMG stands for oh my god," she said. Now she was just flailing her arms while she talked, seemingly at a loss of bodily control... and verbal control as well.
"Did someone give you a computer with internet access as a get-well gift?" he asked, breaking her of her crazy rant.
"Nope. These are things that Rory is picking up at Yale, and telling me all about. I think it's fascinating. Soon we'll all be talking in abbreviations. Like you tell a joke, and instead of laughing I just say lol," she said, only instead of saying the letters L O L, she said lol like it was a word.
"Lol?" he repeated. "Nevermind, don't care, Lorelai you have to relax. You're gonna..." he stopped as she looked up at him, "hurt yourself" he finished.
"O.M.G., Luke, we kissed!" she finally said.
"O.M.. ah, right. Okay," he said, realizing what she was talking about.
"well WE didn't kiss..."
"We didn't?" he asked, clearly confused now.
"I kissed YOU," she clarified.
"I'm pretty sure I kissed you back," he said, putting his hands in his pockets, suddenly getting a little embarrassed.
"Luke, you're still with Nicole," she said, and put her head in her hands again, despairingly, feeling ashamed all of a sudden.
"I told you yesterday. We're done. What are you talking about?"
"Oh, Luke, you're not done. You broke up with her without logically thinking about it. You were upset, you weren't logical, you were in an illogical state of mind---"
"I got it, logic wasn't on my side."
"Luke, I shouldn't have done that."
"Done what?" he asked, a smile creeping up his lips. She shot him a look.
"You KNOW what."
"I'm not sure I do," he said, trying to sound serious.
"You're really gonna be like this? Fine. I shouldn't have KISSED you! You had a great thing going with Nicole, and you should think twice before letting it all fly out the window," she said gesturing to the window, at which time he looked at the window, confused and intrigued by her tangent.
"Luke, you could have found 'the one' and who am I to stand in the way? I'm not Ali Baba, I can't just think I have all this power and can wipe away 'the one' from your life, by being all kissy and stupid!"
"Lorelai, you lost me on Ali Baba."
"I'm sorry, Luke," she said, dead serious now. "I am so sorry. I was just.. I mean, the Nurse said... Millie said... I... I'm not sure what happened. It's all a little fuzzy in my head now. Really fuzzy actually. It's part medication-induced fuzziness, and part going-out-of-my-mind- related fuzziness. But to make a long story short----"
"I'm not sure you could make a long story short," he said, more to himself, while she pretended to ignore his comment and charged on---
"I, for whatever reason, kissed you. And I didn't really think about the consequences. And that is so unfair of me! I mean there's our friendship to consider, and your feelings, I mean, I shouldn't just assume you'll go along with whatever I want to do, I mean, if I jumped off the London Bridge.. okay, okay.. and there's also Nicole to consider. She's still in the picture, whether you admit it or not."
By now Luke was sitting in the chair next to her bed, getting too nervous standing up listening to her go off like this. He looked up at the exasperated woman in the bed.
"O.M.G, Lorelai, Nicole is not in the picture and B.T.W..." he started.
"B.T.W. what?"
He stood up, suddenly feeling bold, and took the step that closed the space between the chair and bed. He bent down, put a hand in her hair, and pulled her into a kiss, pausing briefly before their lips touched to give her a look that told her that he wasn't lying.