A/N: Finally! Here is another chapter! I'm sorry it took so long, but I was
very busy because of my last week of school before Spring Break and a whole
lot of drumming stuff for my break. But now, a day before I go back to
school, I finally have to time to update my entertaining story. Thanks to
all that reviewed!
Also, I'm looking for a beta reader, just tell me if you want to be my "beta buddy" and we'll get started! Thanks! Now, on with the story!
A/N: I also forgot, there is a SLIGHT WARNING OF SPOILERS IN THIS CHAPTER!
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Lorelai woke up to an empty bed the next morning. She noticed that the clock read 9:32 AM and she reluctantly got out of bed. Lorelai came out into the living room fully dressed and saw a man on the couch reading the local newspaper. The sight startled her because this man had white hair and was balding. The man heard her gasp and looked up over his paper and bifocals.
"Good morning, dear. You must be Lorelai," he said cheerily.
"Um, yes I am. Uh, I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?"
He held out his hand. "My name is Dan. I'm Leslie's husband. Sorry I didn't get to meet you last night, I was visiting my sister in Puyallup."
She shook Dan's hand. "Oh, well, it is nice to meet you. Um, do you know where Luke is?"
"He is outside checking the water heater. Leslie just had the fright of her life in the shower a few minutes ago. Went completely ice cold on her."
"Oh no." She slightly smiled as she remembered all the times Luke would do that for her.
Luke yelled from somewhere at the back of the house, "Ok Dan! You can tell Auntie she can the turn the shower back on."
"Oh, if you will excuse me, dear," Dan said as her rose and walked down the hall to the bedrooms.
Luke walked in and saw Lorelai. "Hey."
She turned around. "Oh, hi. I just met your uncle."
"He's not entirely my uncle. Auntie just married Dan a few years ago after her other husband died."
"Oh, I'm so sorry."
He shrugged and walked over to the couch. "It's no big deal, I was never close to any of her husbands."
She watched him as he sat down in the center of the couch. "What do you mean? She's had more the two husbands?"
He nodded as she joined him on the sofa. "Yeah, she's had about five husbands. The one I considered my real uncle was her second. He was the father of her only child."
Lorelai's eyebrows rose. "Only child? You have a cousin?"
He shook his head. "No, the baby died at birth. The umbilical cord had tied around her neck during labor and it strangled her. My aunt was never supposed to have children anyways. She was caught in a fire and her waist down was burned."
She gasped. "Oh my god. That's so horrible!"
Luke nodded. "Yeah, but that all happened way before I was born anyway. So I don't know they exact details to everything."
"Sounds like you know a lot to me."
He shrugged. "My mother told me when I was younger. I'm surprised I even remember it all."
Dan came back out and smiled at the two. "Leslie said she going to be out in a few minutes and then wants to go shopping at this mall that you mentioned, Lorelai."
She smiled. "Oh yeah. Wow, I didn't know she actually wanted to go. I don't even know where it is."
"It's not that hard to find, I've driven by it a couple of times," Luke stated.
She turned to him. "Ok, you can take us then."
His eyes got bigger. "What? I am not taking you and my aunt out to shop for stuff you don't even need."
Lorelai waved a hand at him. "Oh, honey, I'm letting your aunt become more modern. Don't you want to have come fly over for our wedding?"
"What?" Luke noticed Dan staring at them and caught on. "Oh, well, I guess you're right."
She patted his right thigh. "Well, babe, when I'm right, I'm right."
He rolled his eyes. "Sure."
"Now, on to more important matters. Are you going to make me breakfast and coffee?"
He sighed. "I knew that was coming." He stood up and she giggled.
"Have fun!" Lorelai said sarcastically as he walked into the kitchen.
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Around noon, Luke drove to the Lloyd Center Mall with Lorelai beside him in the front seat and his aunt behind Lorelai in the back. The pulled into a parking space near to the food court and the three of them walked into the large building.
"Wow! I never knew there were so many stores in one place!" Aunt Leslie exclaimed.
"Leslie, if you don't mind my asking, how did you get all of your clothes?" Lorelai asked.
"Well, I am very crafty with a sewing machine, and my relatives give me clothes for my birthday and Christmas. But most of my clothes are from when I was married to my second husband. He absolutely loved to buy things for me, especially lovely outfits I could wear on trips." She sighed. "I miss Peter so much."
Lorelai looked from Leslie to Luke and noticed his him frowning at his aunt. "Leslie, I'm sorry I brought it up." She sighed. "Did you want a pretzel or something?"
The older woman slightly laughed. "No thank you. I'm still full from Luke's delicious breakfast."
Lorelai cocked her head to the side and raised an eyebrow. "Really? Well, I'm about ready for lunch. But first we'll walk around then you'll get hungry."
"You know what, as much as I would love to watch to two buy clothes, I'm going to go wander the mall," Luke stated.
Lorelai looked at him. "Are you sure?" He nodded. "Ok then, uh, I guess we can meet back here in...oh...say, three hours?"
His eyebrows rose. "Three hours? I was thinking maybe two."
"Oh Luke. You have never shopped with me. Trust me, talk to Rory, she'll tell you, that's why we always come back with full bags and sore feet."
He shrugged. "Fine, see you later then."
"Bye, darling," Lorelai said while batting her eyelashes. He turned from them and rolled his eyes as he started walking. She watched him until he turned a corner and turned back to Leslie. "Finally, now we can get down to business," she said with a large grin.
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About three hours later, Leslie and Lorelai had made it back to the food court and collapsed at one of the free tables.
"I had no idea it would be this hard to walk around for so long," Aunt Leslie stated.
"Yeah, and we don't even have a whole lot. I guess their selection isn't as good as it is in Hartford. You should see my daughter's and my closets. Full of good and stylish clothing."
"I wonder where Luke is. I was thinking that he'd beat us here."
Lorelai looked around and did not see Luke anywhere. "Huh, that's weird. I guess I'll go look for him, if you find him, tell him to call my cell and I'll come back." She got up and headed in the direction of where she saw him disappear to earlier. When she turned the corner she noticed a familiar blonde woman with an unfamiliar brunette man. She freaked out and tried to hide from Luke's wife, Nicole. She hid a nearby store and realized that Nicole was supposed to be in Ohio on a case. She noticed Nicole enter the same store as she was in and how she was very close to this man. She was holding his hand and kissing his ear and neck with a pink tint on her face and smile on her lips.
"Nicole?" Lorelai heard someone say. She saw Nicole turn around and jump away from the man.
"Luke!" Nicole exclaimed. Lorelai gasped. She saw Luke come into view from her hiding place with an angry and hurt expression on his face. "What are you doing here?"
"I have the same question fore you," he simply said back.
"Uh, well," Nicole hesitated. Lorelai noticed the frightened expression on her face. "My client couldn't make it to the hearing so I came here to talk with him. Luke, this is my client David, David, this is my husband Luke." Lorelai saw the man become instantly scared as he held out his hand to shake with Luke.
"You know, that's interesting Nicole, because you were supposed to be in a conference, not a case. And last I checked, it was illegal to have an affair with your client, especially since he's paying you!"
"Luke, I can explain everything."
"Good, now start." He crossed his arms and waited for her cock and bull story.
"Well, we never see each other anymore, and if we do, we're fighting. I don't want that Luke." She waited for him to respond, but he just held his stony façade. She gulped. "Ok, well, then I met David on a case in Boston, and we just talked and had fun. And now, I try to be with him any chance I can because we lost that spark, Luke. I've already drafted up the papers for our divorce. I was going to give them to you when I got back."
"That's it? That's why you cheated on me? Because we didn't have any spark? Nicole, a couple can always rekindle it if they want to, but you don't. You want to run off with your Calvin Klein model and have a hot fling. Well, fine, you made your choice. There's just one more thing I want to know."
Nicole was shocked that he wasn't as mad as she thought he'd be. "What is that?"
"Why?"
She had been expecting that and felt rage build up inside her as she opened her mouth. "Because you were cheating on me first."
Luke looked shocked. "I was?"
"Yes, with that whore, Lorelai." Lorelai became furious with her and her hatred for her deepened.
"Don't call her a whore because she isn't one and I never cheated on you with her. Where did you get that idea?"
"You would drop everything to be with her and how you spoke about her to me, and the way you looked at her and talked to her. It was disgusting."
He sighed. "That doesn't mean I was sleeping with her. She's my friend, we have a...a special bond. I understand her and respect her. She counts on me. Sure, we may have flirted back and forth, but nothing happened and nothing ever will happen." Lorelai heard the despair in what he said and realized that there was something there that everyone had told her about. He had feelings for her, and he was admitting them to his wife of all people!
"I'm sorry Luke, but we can't carry this on any longer. You can be with Lorelai now and I can be with David."
"No, I can't," he said glumly. "She has a boyfriend and she is completely happy with him so there's no point even if I wanted to be with her, which I don't. Look, I need to go, my aunt's waiting for me." Lorelai noticed that he didn't mention her, which was a good thing on both their parts.
"So then I guess this is it then," Nicole said.
"Yeah, I guess so."
"Then, I'll give you the papers when I get back."
"Just send them to me, I'll have them signed and sent back in no time. I'm going home tomorrow anyway."
"Goodbye, Luke."
"Goodbye, Nicole. You too, Gap Boy."
"Hey, I'm a Playgirl model, thank you very much," David said as Luke left. Lorelai gasped and covered her open mouth with her hand.
The new happy couple left the store without browsing or buying. Lorelai gave a sigh of relief and ran to catch up with Luke. She saw him as he was about to turn the corner to the food court and called out his name.
"Luke!" He turned and saw her running towards him. She caught up to him and started panting. "God, how did you do that when you were younger?"
"Well, for starters I liked running. What are you doing and where's my aunt?"
"I...was looking...for...you, and...your aunt is...in the...food...court," she managed to say.
"Are you going to be all right?" She shook her head and she gasped for air. He grabbed her by the waist and started pulling her toward a bench. "Jesus, Lorelai, why did you run?"
"I wanted...to catch...up...with you."
"I'm going to get you some water," he said as he sat her on a bench.
"No, Luke!" Lorelai grabbed him by his shirt collar and pulled him down next to her. "I just need...to catch...my breath." She put her head on his chest and hugged him and he hugged her back with a confused but satisfied expression on his face.
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A/N: Ok, not the greatest chapter but at least it has L/L stuff for you guys. Hope you liked this chapter and give me great reviews so I can post another one when I have time. Again, I'm looking for a beta reader, so let me know if you want to be my "beta buddy" when you review. Thanks! Au revoir for now!
Also, I'm looking for a beta reader, just tell me if you want to be my "beta buddy" and we'll get started! Thanks! Now, on with the story!
A/N: I also forgot, there is a SLIGHT WARNING OF SPOILERS IN THIS CHAPTER!
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Lorelai woke up to an empty bed the next morning. She noticed that the clock read 9:32 AM and she reluctantly got out of bed. Lorelai came out into the living room fully dressed and saw a man on the couch reading the local newspaper. The sight startled her because this man had white hair and was balding. The man heard her gasp and looked up over his paper and bifocals.
"Good morning, dear. You must be Lorelai," he said cheerily.
"Um, yes I am. Uh, I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?"
He held out his hand. "My name is Dan. I'm Leslie's husband. Sorry I didn't get to meet you last night, I was visiting my sister in Puyallup."
She shook Dan's hand. "Oh, well, it is nice to meet you. Um, do you know where Luke is?"
"He is outside checking the water heater. Leslie just had the fright of her life in the shower a few minutes ago. Went completely ice cold on her."
"Oh no." She slightly smiled as she remembered all the times Luke would do that for her.
Luke yelled from somewhere at the back of the house, "Ok Dan! You can tell Auntie she can the turn the shower back on."
"Oh, if you will excuse me, dear," Dan said as her rose and walked down the hall to the bedrooms.
Luke walked in and saw Lorelai. "Hey."
She turned around. "Oh, hi. I just met your uncle."
"He's not entirely my uncle. Auntie just married Dan a few years ago after her other husband died."
"Oh, I'm so sorry."
He shrugged and walked over to the couch. "It's no big deal, I was never close to any of her husbands."
She watched him as he sat down in the center of the couch. "What do you mean? She's had more the two husbands?"
He nodded as she joined him on the sofa. "Yeah, she's had about five husbands. The one I considered my real uncle was her second. He was the father of her only child."
Lorelai's eyebrows rose. "Only child? You have a cousin?"
He shook his head. "No, the baby died at birth. The umbilical cord had tied around her neck during labor and it strangled her. My aunt was never supposed to have children anyways. She was caught in a fire and her waist down was burned."
She gasped. "Oh my god. That's so horrible!"
Luke nodded. "Yeah, but that all happened way before I was born anyway. So I don't know they exact details to everything."
"Sounds like you know a lot to me."
He shrugged. "My mother told me when I was younger. I'm surprised I even remember it all."
Dan came back out and smiled at the two. "Leslie said she going to be out in a few minutes and then wants to go shopping at this mall that you mentioned, Lorelai."
She smiled. "Oh yeah. Wow, I didn't know she actually wanted to go. I don't even know where it is."
"It's not that hard to find, I've driven by it a couple of times," Luke stated.
She turned to him. "Ok, you can take us then."
His eyes got bigger. "What? I am not taking you and my aunt out to shop for stuff you don't even need."
Lorelai waved a hand at him. "Oh, honey, I'm letting your aunt become more modern. Don't you want to have come fly over for our wedding?"
"What?" Luke noticed Dan staring at them and caught on. "Oh, well, I guess you're right."
She patted his right thigh. "Well, babe, when I'm right, I'm right."
He rolled his eyes. "Sure."
"Now, on to more important matters. Are you going to make me breakfast and coffee?"
He sighed. "I knew that was coming." He stood up and she giggled.
"Have fun!" Lorelai said sarcastically as he walked into the kitchen.
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Around noon, Luke drove to the Lloyd Center Mall with Lorelai beside him in the front seat and his aunt behind Lorelai in the back. The pulled into a parking space near to the food court and the three of them walked into the large building.
"Wow! I never knew there were so many stores in one place!" Aunt Leslie exclaimed.
"Leslie, if you don't mind my asking, how did you get all of your clothes?" Lorelai asked.
"Well, I am very crafty with a sewing machine, and my relatives give me clothes for my birthday and Christmas. But most of my clothes are from when I was married to my second husband. He absolutely loved to buy things for me, especially lovely outfits I could wear on trips." She sighed. "I miss Peter so much."
Lorelai looked from Leslie to Luke and noticed his him frowning at his aunt. "Leslie, I'm sorry I brought it up." She sighed. "Did you want a pretzel or something?"
The older woman slightly laughed. "No thank you. I'm still full from Luke's delicious breakfast."
Lorelai cocked her head to the side and raised an eyebrow. "Really? Well, I'm about ready for lunch. But first we'll walk around then you'll get hungry."
"You know what, as much as I would love to watch to two buy clothes, I'm going to go wander the mall," Luke stated.
Lorelai looked at him. "Are you sure?" He nodded. "Ok then, uh, I guess we can meet back here in...oh...say, three hours?"
His eyebrows rose. "Three hours? I was thinking maybe two."
"Oh Luke. You have never shopped with me. Trust me, talk to Rory, she'll tell you, that's why we always come back with full bags and sore feet."
He shrugged. "Fine, see you later then."
"Bye, darling," Lorelai said while batting her eyelashes. He turned from them and rolled his eyes as he started walking. She watched him until he turned a corner and turned back to Leslie. "Finally, now we can get down to business," she said with a large grin.
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About three hours later, Leslie and Lorelai had made it back to the food court and collapsed at one of the free tables.
"I had no idea it would be this hard to walk around for so long," Aunt Leslie stated.
"Yeah, and we don't even have a whole lot. I guess their selection isn't as good as it is in Hartford. You should see my daughter's and my closets. Full of good and stylish clothing."
"I wonder where Luke is. I was thinking that he'd beat us here."
Lorelai looked around and did not see Luke anywhere. "Huh, that's weird. I guess I'll go look for him, if you find him, tell him to call my cell and I'll come back." She got up and headed in the direction of where she saw him disappear to earlier. When she turned the corner she noticed a familiar blonde woman with an unfamiliar brunette man. She freaked out and tried to hide from Luke's wife, Nicole. She hid a nearby store and realized that Nicole was supposed to be in Ohio on a case. She noticed Nicole enter the same store as she was in and how she was very close to this man. She was holding his hand and kissing his ear and neck with a pink tint on her face and smile on her lips.
"Nicole?" Lorelai heard someone say. She saw Nicole turn around and jump away from the man.
"Luke!" Nicole exclaimed. Lorelai gasped. She saw Luke come into view from her hiding place with an angry and hurt expression on his face. "What are you doing here?"
"I have the same question fore you," he simply said back.
"Uh, well," Nicole hesitated. Lorelai noticed the frightened expression on her face. "My client couldn't make it to the hearing so I came here to talk with him. Luke, this is my client David, David, this is my husband Luke." Lorelai saw the man become instantly scared as he held out his hand to shake with Luke.
"You know, that's interesting Nicole, because you were supposed to be in a conference, not a case. And last I checked, it was illegal to have an affair with your client, especially since he's paying you!"
"Luke, I can explain everything."
"Good, now start." He crossed his arms and waited for her cock and bull story.
"Well, we never see each other anymore, and if we do, we're fighting. I don't want that Luke." She waited for him to respond, but he just held his stony façade. She gulped. "Ok, well, then I met David on a case in Boston, and we just talked and had fun. And now, I try to be with him any chance I can because we lost that spark, Luke. I've already drafted up the papers for our divorce. I was going to give them to you when I got back."
"That's it? That's why you cheated on me? Because we didn't have any spark? Nicole, a couple can always rekindle it if they want to, but you don't. You want to run off with your Calvin Klein model and have a hot fling. Well, fine, you made your choice. There's just one more thing I want to know."
Nicole was shocked that he wasn't as mad as she thought he'd be. "What is that?"
"Why?"
She had been expecting that and felt rage build up inside her as she opened her mouth. "Because you were cheating on me first."
Luke looked shocked. "I was?"
"Yes, with that whore, Lorelai." Lorelai became furious with her and her hatred for her deepened.
"Don't call her a whore because she isn't one and I never cheated on you with her. Where did you get that idea?"
"You would drop everything to be with her and how you spoke about her to me, and the way you looked at her and talked to her. It was disgusting."
He sighed. "That doesn't mean I was sleeping with her. She's my friend, we have a...a special bond. I understand her and respect her. She counts on me. Sure, we may have flirted back and forth, but nothing happened and nothing ever will happen." Lorelai heard the despair in what he said and realized that there was something there that everyone had told her about. He had feelings for her, and he was admitting them to his wife of all people!
"I'm sorry Luke, but we can't carry this on any longer. You can be with Lorelai now and I can be with David."
"No, I can't," he said glumly. "She has a boyfriend and she is completely happy with him so there's no point even if I wanted to be with her, which I don't. Look, I need to go, my aunt's waiting for me." Lorelai noticed that he didn't mention her, which was a good thing on both their parts.
"So then I guess this is it then," Nicole said.
"Yeah, I guess so."
"Then, I'll give you the papers when I get back."
"Just send them to me, I'll have them signed and sent back in no time. I'm going home tomorrow anyway."
"Goodbye, Luke."
"Goodbye, Nicole. You too, Gap Boy."
"Hey, I'm a Playgirl model, thank you very much," David said as Luke left. Lorelai gasped and covered her open mouth with her hand.
The new happy couple left the store without browsing or buying. Lorelai gave a sigh of relief and ran to catch up with Luke. She saw him as he was about to turn the corner to the food court and called out his name.
"Luke!" He turned and saw her running towards him. She caught up to him and started panting. "God, how did you do that when you were younger?"
"Well, for starters I liked running. What are you doing and where's my aunt?"
"I...was looking...for...you, and...your aunt is...in the...food...court," she managed to say.
"Are you going to be all right?" She shook her head and she gasped for air. He grabbed her by the waist and started pulling her toward a bench. "Jesus, Lorelai, why did you run?"
"I wanted...to catch...up...with you."
"I'm going to get you some water," he said as he sat her on a bench.
"No, Luke!" Lorelai grabbed him by his shirt collar and pulled him down next to her. "I just need...to catch...my breath." She put her head on his chest and hugged him and he hugged her back with a confused but satisfied expression on his face.
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A/N: Ok, not the greatest chapter but at least it has L/L stuff for you guys. Hope you liked this chapter and give me great reviews so I can post another one when I have time. Again, I'm looking for a beta reader, so let me know if you want to be my "beta buddy" when you review. Thanks! Au revoir for now!