By gilmoregirl1979
(just another woulda shoulda coulda/ IF ONLY!!! lol)
Hi! this is your Friendly Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls. No Harm, No Sue. Dialouge has been borrowed from....episode 1-08 - Love and War and Snow (written by Joan Binder Weiss; directed by Alan Myerson)
Some Dialouge and intentions have been altered by me, Gilmoregirl1979 (It's more Fun THAT WAY!!!).
The shout outs:
LuvzAFunEthing: my advisor and friend, you wanna know what is FUNNY? How long it too these too to get together… THAT is Funny!!!
jeepgirl259: you wanted more, borrowing my mother's brooklyn accent >you got it!! I'm a brooklyn broad once removed it's AWSOME!!! I am currently retaping the eppys I missed off ABCFamily down here(US).. don't know if you get that.. worth the research!!! Enjoy!!
The Q for this story: What if Lorelai had gone inside with Luke for coffee in Love War and Snow ?
(inspired by my inssesant need to watch and re-watch the first season DVD till season two comes out … and the rantings that come out of my mouth as I yell at the TV during such a marathon… ;o) Luvz knows whatI mean!!!
For those who came in late:
-Luke had a rant at the town meeting over the anniversary of …
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the legendaryBattle of Stars Hollow and its reenactors.
LUKE: Oh, for God's Sake, do we have to go through this every damn year! I thought we were here to discuss town issues. … Twelve guys stood in a row all night…..
MAYOR: Waiting for the Red Coats.
LUKE: Who never showed!
MAYOR: Now just a minute!
LUKE: Twelve guys stood in a row all night waiting for an enemy that never showed. They got stood up. They should've been wearing prom dresses.
TAYLOR: I've had just about enough of this.
LUKE: Sit down, Taylor.
TAYLOR: Menace.
LUKE: Suck up.
LUKE: Have any of you ever considered the fact that you're glorifying a war we fought so we could keep land that we stole?
MAYOR: If you don't like it here in America, why don't you go stand in line for toilet paper in the USSR!
LUKE: There is no more USSR, Harry.
-Lorelai smelled snow and obsessively listened to Mr. Medina's phone message
RORY: So, how many times are you gonna listen to that?
LORELAI: 'Til it stops being sexy.
RORY: Stop! That's my teacher you're talking about. I have to respect him.
LORELAI: Okay, well, if it makes you feel any better, while he's being sexy, he's also being grammatically correct.
RORY: Better. Thank you.
-Lane & RORY HAD FIGHT OVER Lane's crush on Rich Bloomingfeld And Rory's being so focused on DEANO … and Lane felt Rich Bloomingfeld "gorgeous hair"!! (huh, she had a thing for thick haired blondes even then … WOAW insight!!)
-Lorelai was snowed in the Hollow and unable to go to Friday night dinner, and Rory was snowed in with the elder Gilmores(scary thought indeed, can you say the shining? REDRUM) and introduced her grandparents to the wonders of frozen pizza.
Now, … on Gilmore Girls
CH 1:
The Musketeers
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The reenactors passed by Luke's diner on their way to that historical spot. Luke knew it was pointless, but he had to make one last appeal to the the mayor before it was too late. "Harry, come on, stop this before somebody drives through town and thinks the local mental institution has bad padlocks."
"Luke, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Your father was a reenactor."
"Yes, and I thought he was crazy also." Harry fumed off to his position.
Taylor was complaining, what else was new. "Who's stepping on my musket?"
"That'd be me." the skinny Kirk admitted.
"Well, stop it."
The reenactors walk toward their standing area in the square. Lorelai walks over to Luke. "There goes the fire chief, the police chief and the one paramedic with a valid license. I feel safe, don't you?"
Luke still couldn't believe it, "Look at them, all relatively intelligent men, but there they are dressed up in costumes, standing out in a snowstorm, and for what? "
"Because it's tradition. " a magical smile bewitched her face.
"Tradition is a trap, it allows people to stick their head in the sand. Everything in the past was so quaint, so charming. Times were simpler. Kids didn't have sex. Neighbors knew each other. It's a freaking fairy tale. Things sucked then, too. It just sucked without indoor plumbing."
Oh Luke! not even you could spoil my good mood. Lorelai was determined to win him over, and wistfully argued "I think some traditions are nice. Birthdays. Holidays. Taking a walk in the first snow of the season."
"I didn't get the Hallmark card for that one."
Lorelai felt the need to explain, with a story, of course, It's what I do."When I was five, I had a really bad ear infection and I had been home in bed for a week and I was very sad. So I wished really hard that something wonderful would happen to me, and I woke up the next morning and it had snowed. And I was sure that some Fairy Godmother had done it just for me. It was my little present."
"Your parents never explained the concept of weather to you? " he teased in a tone that he only saved for Lorelai Gilmore.
Broken out of her wistful remembrance "I am making a point, Mouthy McGee. Of course, many years later, I realized that logically, the snow was not there for me personally. But, still, when it snows, something inside me says, 'hey, that's your present.' I don't think it'll ever change."
He smiled at how cute she could be about the silliest things, she was all dreams a fairy dust, it was one of the things he loved about her. I didn't think love, I didn't think love… he also tried not to think about how much more beautiful, if that was possible, she was in the falling snow. Luke glanced over at the reenactors. She had shared something very personal with him, so he thought he'd return the gesture. "My father used to be one of those guys."
"Yeah? "
"Yeah, he even had his own musket."
"Really?" well he's trying…
"Never had to rent it."
"Where is the musket now? " trying to picture Luke carrying it around, maybe for Halloween…
"He was buried with it. "
"Wow." Topic taking a downer turn, Poor Luke.
"Yup. He loved that musket. "
"That's nice . . . in a disturbing sort of way."
Luke took a deep breath, and met her eyes again. "Come on in, … I'll get you some coffee." he was pretty sure he was shaking a bit from the cold; Yeah, the cold that was it, nothing to do with those amazing blue eyes.
She hated to admit it, but she was a little cold. "Oh sure exploit my weakness."
"It's not like I've got the musket to your head, you can go if you want…" Stupid!! Don't say things like THAT!!
Lorelai considered for a moment. "Like I'm gonna turn down coffee, especially yours ..." she jabbed him in the ribs. Let's see the man behind the ball cap.
The bells jingled as he opened the door for her, "If you did, I'd be asking where the Real Lorelai was.".
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"But how long is this gonna take?" asked Max Medina.
Gypsy was her usual charming self." I don't know."
"So I'm just stuck here? Over night? Can I at least sleep in my car while you work?" he was kidding of course, but Gypsy was never really in a joking mood when it came to being perched over as she worked.
"Look go to the Independence Inn, I have a friend who works there maybe she could get you a room." This putz looks like he could afford it.
"And what is this friend's name.."
"Lorelai Gilmore" Gypsy snapped, as she tweaked something with the clinking sound of tools.
"Lorelai?" That's right, this is Rory's home town. He seemed to remember it now from his student files. He turned away from his "unwell" car, as if Lorelai would materialize behind him, simply by saying her name. Maybe … maybe Lorelai will help out a stranded stranger, well teacher, … friend? He left Gypsy to her work, and began a hunt for the radiant, infectious Lorelai Gilmore.
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The diner was dead, Lorelai was on her third cup of coffee, and Luke was grinning at having her company. Well half grinning, Luke doesn't exactly grin. He managed a convincing "non-grin" at having Lorelai's undivided attention. He really does have a nice smile, when he decides to show it… Lorelai was rambling on at her usual speed, but any time alone with Lorelai was special for Luke.
" … and that is how the naming inanimate objects became a tradition in the Gilmore home." She slapped her hands on the counter to drive her point home.
"Okay, okay, some traditions are good, Geez!" Luke chuckled at her story, Agreeing is the only way to shut her up, but secretly he loved it. Then his attention was taken outside, by the reenacters. Lorelai peaked behind her, and considered his expression, "What are you thinking about?" curious at the wheels turning beneath that ball cap.
Luke sighed, and admitted, "My dad."
Her faced softened for him. She had picked up hints during their friendship that he was really close to his father. Hello, the sign out front, the practical shrine of a diner. And when William Danes died, it was understood, throughout Stars Hollow, that Luke had taken it pretty hard. Lorelai couldn't even imagine how that must felt, having a completely opposite relationship with her own father.
"If he were, ... you know, still around… he'd probably be … out there…" Luke sighed again.
Lorelai studied him, it was almost like Luke could still see his father standing outside in the row. Luke took another deep breath, the kind you took when you made a hard decision. Not so hard really. And he began load up a tray of coffees. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"And spoil the surprise?" He topped of the last take out cup with a lid and took the tray outside.
Lorelai smiled and watched through the window as Luke seemed to reason with Harry.
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"Here. " Luke offering a cup of coffee, to Harry.
"What is this? "Harry still suspicious at Luke's intentions.
"I brought you coffee. " I'm trying to do a nice thing here, don't make me regret it.
"No, thank you." Harry stood firm.
"Harry, you're freezing. Take the damn coffee. "
"When our forefathers stood out here many moons ago, they didn't have any coffee. "
"How do you know? Do you have written documentation about what sort of beverages they did or did not have on that long historic night of standing? " Okay cut the sarcasm a bit, man.
"This is still a joke to you, young man. I don't choose to be a joke. We don't need your coffee."
"Harry, please, … take the coffee." thenhe hithis point where he knew it would count most. "My father would've taken the coffee."
Reluctantly, Harry caved, "Well, all right then, thank you."
"Andrew?"
"Thank you, Luke." Andrew accepted the steaming cup.
"Kirk?"
"You got any herbal tea?"
"Uh, not on me, but I can get some."
"With a squeeze of lemon?"
"Okay. " herbal tea, with lemon…
Another "soldier" suggested, " I could really go for some cocoa."
His army buddy agreed "Oh, that sounds good. Cocoa for me too. "
Luke went to the next guy wishing he had brought his order pad with him. "Okay, okay, hang on a minute. One herbal tea, uh, and two cocoas……."
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Luke came back inside to get the orders that had just been placed. Lorelai had a strange sort of smile on her face.
"What?" he asked as he loaded up the tray for his second trip.
"Nothing… that was just … really nice."
"Hey like I said ... one of those guys could have been my dad."
Lorelai decided to ignore the obvious jab, he would naturally taken offense too, we are having amoment here, don't ruin it Gilmore, "Still nice. I get the feeling your not as much of a grouch as you protest to be."
He leaned in.. "I won't tell if you won't."
Lorelai did a double take, Did Luke actually wink at me?
"I'll be right back and make you dinner," he quickly added "… if you want."
She watched him again through the window as he gave Kirk his tea and passed out the other beverages he had donated to the reenactment. Luke is a really good guy. Nice, well most of the time, trustworthy, reliable … cute. Oh no, remember what Rory said.. I can't date Luke. Then again, she also said that Al's food stunk … which is totally crazy, it's just … imaginative … avant guard ... but still. What does that say about her judgment … Luke is… well Luke is Luke ... great Coffee,… handy,… handsome…
She didn't even notice when he came back in."Hey, you alright?"
She was startled when he had tapped her shoulder, "ummmm yeah, … So Burger?"
Luke rolled his eyes, " You have burgers every day." Then something his mom told him came to mind. The way to someone's heart is through their stomach, he knew that had to be more than true, … for either Gilmore Girl, having served them on a daily basis. "…you know, … seeing as its dead, I could make you something more ..."
"Healthy? Thank you No" she teased.
"… Just sit still, I'll surprise you." and Luke went up to his apartment for something.
A Luke Danes Surprise, this I have to see.
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-This putz looks like he could afford it.- we knew we always liked Gypsy.
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