The Fundemental Things Awry
By GilmoreGirl1979

Hi! this is your Friendly Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls(rub it in why don't you!!!) . No Harm, No Sue. Dialouge has been borrowed from....episode 4-05 -The Fundamental Things Apply (written by John Stephens, directed by Neema Barnette); Some Dialouge and intentions have been altered by me, Gilmoregirl1979,
... that is why it is awry! (I rhymed).

Summary: The Fundemental Things Apply AU, what could have/should have happened!! (DAMN IT!! it's like a catch phrase or something !!) what we all wanted to happen, L/L action, R/R please!

A/N: awry: 1. In a position (Dirty!!) that is turned or twisted toward one side(really Dirty!!); askew. 2. Away from the correct course; amiss.

well my version is awry (askew, a new twist) from how it happened in the eppy AKA in actual Gilmore history... get it? great! Enjoy this AU path!!

LuvzAFunEthing, just for being there...

and Shouhei who betaed this!! thanks babe, for telling me this was good and that I was talented, and for rubbing my ego....(DIRTY? EXTREMELY!!!)

Chapter 3
Sooooo, Eventful Night ?! ?!

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LORELAI'S HOUSE ... Still....
Later that night...

Rory walked through the front door, set her purse and keys down on the foyer table.

"Mom?" she called as she searched around. She walked in the living room, and kicked something, she looked to the floor and picked up ... Luke's hat? Rory stood behind the couch and tried again "Mom?" she looked down at her watch to check the time and caught site of the pair on the couch, dropping the hat back to the floor.

Luke and Lorelai were curled up together, sharing a blanket, fast asleep. Lorelai's head was on his chest, he was holding her hand over his heart, his other arm around her waist.

Rory made her way around the couch, with wide eyes. She sat down on the coffee table and smiled, wondering if they finally saw what everyone in town had seen for years. She hated to disturb this scene, even so she tapped her mom's shoulder.

Lorelai inhaled deeply, feeling a poking on her arm, and opened her eyes. She saw her daughter, her angel and dreamily smiled, "Hey."

"Hey, ... is there something you wanna tell me?"

"What do you ...?" Suddenly feeling and remembering Luke was next to her, "...Oh?"

"Yeeeeeesssssss, ... Oooooooooooooh" Rory said knowingly, and couldn't help but smirk.

"Shh." Lorelai hushed, not wanting to wake Luke, "Kitchen, ... meet you there." She said softly.

Rory stood, still grinning, but couldn't help but eavesdrop. As her mother squirmed to free herself of the blanket and Luke's arms, Luke's voice was heard sleepily "Lorelai?"

Rory turned back and saw her mother's smile, it seemed to light the dark room, "Hey," she whispered "I'll be right back, go back to sleep." And Lorelai freed herself from his embrace.

He grunted something about coffee pots and his bread guy, and exhaled heavily, falling back asleep.

Lorelai feeling her daughter's gaze, but couldn't meet it. She kicked herself for getting caught, by her daughter, ...with Luke.

"Soooooo eventful night?" Rory inquired, as she got two glasses from the cabinet and put them on the kitchen table.

"I'd say, ...enlightening."

"Really? Do tell!" as she pulled out a box of cookies for her late night snack.

"Rory?"

"What? I just got off a bad date, cheer me up with yours." As she set the box down at the table, desperately wanting some much needed girl talk with her mom.

"It wasn't a date." As Lorelai sat down, how much should I tell her?

Rory reached into the fridge, pulled out the milk, "Oh no? You two were pretty comfortable on the couch a few minutes ago." As the fridge door closed, it seemed to emphaisized the observation.

Lorelai couldn't help but think of how comfortable they were a few hours ago, ... before Emily had called.

"It's Luke, ..." Lorelai said expectanly, as if Rory hadn't made that connection.

"So?" as Rory sat down at the table with her mother.

"Sooooo?... are you okay with this?"

"Are you okay with this?" Rory countered, with a raised eyebrow.

Lorelai really considered it..."Yeah, I think I am..."

"Then I'm okay with it ... now spill!!"

Lorelai had to chuckle at the enthusiasm. "But IT's LUKE! ... he makes your pancakes and coffee, do you really want to hear this?"

"I've been waiting to hear this since you met him!" as she poured her milk, wanting to get to the scoop already.

"What?"

"Oh please, there has been a betting pool for years on when you two would get together. I thought all bets were off when he got married ... Oh My God, he's married to Nicole!" as she slammed down the milk jug.

"He is divorcing her!" Lorelai reminded, as her hands figetted on the table top..

"Yes, but it's not offical yet...he's ... married...?"

"I know that, he knows that, we both know that." Annoyed, not needing the reminder of THAT whole stupid situation.

"Mom?...did something ... happen tonight?... with Luke and ... you?" Rory almost feared the answer.

"We,... uuuh, we kissed?" she winced, and went into defense mode, "he is seperated, and he sees himself as single, ...it's just that the legal channels need to catch up with their clients, it's a slow process apparently. "

"You kissed Luke?"

"Yeah,... "

"Is that all?" implying how well she knew her mother.

"Yeah?" trying to sound inncoent, and failing.

"Mom?" not believeing her.

"Well, ... it could be considered ... harmless .... making out?"

"How old are you?"

"Ha, Ha"

"And that is all that happened?" finding it hard to believe. With all the built up sexual tension, Rory figured they would have been at it like wolves...not that she likes having those mental images....EWWWWW! with a shutter.

Lorelai didn't notice Rory's shutter. She was lost in the evening's earlier events, and she considered bringing up the fact that Luke had a very muscular chest, but that might bring up the situation he had in his pants, and how far she wanted to go with him. Worried at what that might be saying to her daughter, "Yes." More convincing this time. When she is 35, I will give her the real answer, or after the wedding....wait what? " We kiss a for a while," she said distracted.

"For a while...?" Rory said in a teasing tone.

"Then..., We fell asleep... during "Hardbodies." She puncuated with a smile.

"How do you fall asleep during a classic like 'Hardbodies'?"

Lorelai shrugged "Long day?"

"and that is all?" Rory just wanted to be sure.

Lorelai nodded eagerly.

"Okay,... so you, kissed made out, and fell asleep,"

Lorelai confirmed, "IT was completely innocent."

"How ... Not Dirty, ... Well, okay, I don't think you will go to hell for kissing a divorcing man." Letting it go.

Lorelai smiled, "good to know."

After taking a sip of her milk, and Rory offered "Besides, he hasn't seen her since the cruise, right?"

"yeah, ... but still, if I catch you doing anything with a married man, I will kill you, unless of course he is your husband...in that case...you will be 93 and that is fine, but someone else's married man, they are off limits."

"Noted, but If I'm 93? Why kill me, why not just let nature take it's course, and how old will that make you? 109? Will you even be able to kill me?" Another pause "... soooo how was it?"

"Rory?!"

"Come on, was it just like in your dream?? ..."

"Hey, Where did that come from!! I didn't plan this, .. it just happened."

"RIIIGHT,... He just happened to come over? 'Hey Lorelai let's watch Casablanca' ? Cause that is SO Luke."

"I did invite him, granted, ... but he was bummed about breaking up with Nicole and some ball game they were supposed to go to... I wanted to cheer him up"

"By making out with him?"

"It didn't happen like that. He had the remote and he wanted to fast forward through the movie, ..."

"Through a classic? Is he crazy? What about the flow?"

"Exactly...so I was trying to get the remote from him and sort of ...fell on top of him, and we were ... so close, and he ...smelled so good,.... And ... I kissed him." Lorelai bit her lip.

Rory tried to remember all the movie night rules. "Is there a rule about making out?"

"No, we did make one up though."

"Really, I must know, ... strictly for future referrence."

Lorelai cleared her throat, again wanting to sound offical "Well, it simply states that if both ... parties ... are in agreement, they could ...opt to..." she trailed off with a gesture of her hand, not really needing to finish the sentence, " ...instead".

Rory shook her head at her mother "Re-writing the rules of movie night. It's called Movie night, not make out night. ... You've got it bad." Taking another sip of her milk.

"Speaking of bad? You wanna talk about it or you wanna forget about it?" Shift the spot light on her, good job, Lorelai.

"Well, there's nothing much to talk about. It was just bad. I got a little better as the night went on - talked a little more. He was very nice, just not my type. Oh, and the whole draft thing backfired. "

"How so? " as she reached for the cookies.

"Well, I switched over to the other side of the table. Then he started to feel the same draft and came over to my side."

"But we made up the draft." With a mouth full cookie.

"The power of suggestion."

"Boys are so malleable." Lorelai took another bite.

"It just all seemed so forced. I mean, I felt like I was locked into the pointless societal ritual. There has to be another way."

"Luke and I were debating that..."

"Oh was that before or after you made out like teenagers?"

Lorelai narrowed her eyes, how did she know? "Before, ... Anyway, Luke thinks it's all about gut instinct - you know instantly if a person is right for you. I think you have to go through a lot to find a contender. And you've been very lucky with boys before. They were just always sort of ... there, but I think for the most part, a girl's got to hunt a little."

"And go through a lot of non-contenders." Rory sighed, dreading her next date.

"Yes, then the non-contenders become your fun bad-date anecdotes. In fact, on your next date, if you're stuck for a topic, tell him about your bad date."

"But what if that date is bad?"

"Then you have an anecdote for your next date."

"And how long does this go on?" afraid of the answer.

"You've seen 'Grey Gardens.' It could go on forever."

"Oh, well, just shoot me now."

"Hang in there. Go with Luke's gut thing if all else fails. "

"Was it a gut thing that made you kiss him?"

"Hey! enough with the teasing kid!!"

"I'm just saying maybe you should examine his gut thing method, too."

"Are you doubting the wisdom of your mother?"

"Well, your contender method hasn't paid off for you?"

"Ouch, ... His gut thing has him in a werido divorce?"

"His gut thing had him kissing you on the couch?"

Now, how do you argue with that?

Rory asked, "So, how do you get a gut thing? What is it exactly?" taking a cookie for herself.

"Well... Luke said it's just knowing that someone will let you ... be. That you are comfortable with them, and them with you. You are relaxed around them, and just be yourself basically."

Rory nodded in agreement thinking of Dean and her, "like me and Dean"

"Rory? You were as nervous as a cat around him. You freaked out the first time he came over."

"Yeah, because you set up our first date, but I became relaxed, and comfortable. It was easy then." She sighed. Thinking of Dean now married to Lindsey.

"You'll find it babe. You got penty of time."

"Well, I'm glad you finally found it, took you long enough."

"My subtext sense is tingling?"

"I just mean maybe there is more to Luke's gut thing than you give him credit for ? Look at the two of you; friends for years, constantly bickernig, by the way, in elementarty school that means you like him. And you guys have always been comfortable around each other, relaxed, if you will. Attracted to each other forever, and don't' deny it everyone sees through the mock-mock flirting. That was all Gut."

Lorelai considered her daughter's point.

Rory continued "and with your method, you almost got married to someone you didn't love, almost got back together with dad, which he screwed up..., and were considering dating a man just because he pisses off grandma. How mature is that?"

"How did you get so smart?"

"Yale doesn't let in the dummies."

Lorelai smiled, still confused by the complexity of the situation. If only I had't suggested he go on that cruise. "sooo bed?"

"Yeah, I've need to ponder."

"Well, my advice is to try, try again, and maybe you can merge the contender/gut into a new hybrid method of dating that is all your own."

"I'll think about it..., enjoy your fella!" Rory teased as she went to her bedroom.

Lorelai got up from the table and paused in the living room, staring at Luke on the couch. she knelt down beside him, stroked his cheek, and kissed him Good Night. My Fella.

"Lorelai?" he said in his sleep, as she pulled away.

I love how he says my name. Pleased that he was dreaming of her, she made sure he was covered with the blanket, and decided to head upstairs to her own bed, to avoid temptation.

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Hhhhhmmmm If Luke reviewed this piece what would he say?

LUKE's review: "That was all God-given talent."

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What do you think? Were they True to character...??

R/R: PLEASE, I like to better myself. To quote The Princess Bride,
"...Remember this is for posterity, ... so be honest."

Please be specfic with R/R; name one(or as many as you can think of or want to mention.....) at least specific thing you like please!!! It makes me feel good...inside (Dirty!)

Hence the Rant option below.

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