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This is one of my favorite L/L scenes, it's so fantastic when Lorelai yells out "you got married!? how could you!" and then she manages to compose herself and finishes the sentence more calmly "...get.. get married" But each time I watch it I always wish that she didn't manage to compose herself and just say what she is really thinking. Also I'm tired of reading fanfic, where Lorelai is oblivious about her feelings towards Luke and then suddenly gets hit with the love-stick in the head. So I know there isn't much new here except for the prologue, but it's my first time giggle and it was something I just had to get out.

So he had gone with Nicole on the cruise, she had hoped he wouldn't. But she had pushed him to go, feeling guilty after teasing him about proposing, resulting in him getting second thoughts. He obviously liked Nicole, allot, he must like her since he was getting less scruffy by the day, getting his hair cut, shaving more often. Even frequently loosing his baseball cap. So when he told her that he wasn't going she had ignored her sense of relief, thinking she had already lost her chance with him and that he deserved to be happy, she did what every good friend would do, she told him to go for it, don't think to much or over-analyze, just jump and take the plunge. Hell he didn't need to jump she practically pushed him. But then after she had pushed he reached out a hand "Really? You think that's okay considering. . .I don't know. . .everything?" She couldn't believe what she'd heard and before she knew it, she had stammered out "Yeah, I do" letting him fall. "Oh, okay. I'll probably go then". It was to late to take it back.

The whole summer she had kicked her self for not telling Luke what was on her mind when he had asked if she thought it was okay for him to go "considering... everything". And now she was back, he was back, and he'd been all mysterious. She hoped it was because the trip had been awful, that they had fought the whole time, that they had broken up, and Luke was to embarrassed to say so. If they had, things were going to change, she told herself, she had almost lost him and she was not going to let that happen again. She had known for a while now that Luke was the one, but she hadn't been ready and so she had done nothing, thinking that when she would be, Luke would still be there like he always had. And then Nicole came to his life, and everything changed. But she was sure they had broken up, Nicole wasn't right for him, and Luke still seemed to have feelings for her "considering... everything" He wasn't going to let things get to serious if he had feelings for another woman, maybe Nicole was the same to him as Alex had been to her, just a little fling, nothing serious, just someone to serve your bodily needs before you were ready for the big thing, the one.

"Jeez, you think you go to a fancy school like Yale there'd be a mattress in the room."

"Yeah. Go figure, huh?"

He was lending her his truck to move Rory's stuff to Yale.

"You packed her stuff in Hefty bags?"

"Hey, she's lucky I even had these in the house."

She was thinking of how she could work the cruise into the conversation without being too obvious.

"If you needed luggage, you should've asked me."

"You have luggage?"

"Yes, I have luggage. Why wouldn't I have luggage?"

"You never go anywhere."

"I just went on a seven-country cruise."

"That's right, the mystery cruise that you don't wanna talk about."

That wasn't too hard he brought it up himself.

"I told you I brought luggage. What more info do you need?"

"Why won't you tell me what happened?"

"Because."

"Why? Luke, I swear, I'm dying to know, but every time I bring it up, you spaz out. Why won't you tell me? I would tell you."

She was not going to let him back out of this conversation.

"Yes, but I wouldn't wanna know."

"Did something happen with you and Nicole?"

"Yes."

There it was, he was going to tell her that the trip had been horrible and they were over.

"What? Did you propose?"

She smiled at how absurd it sounded.

"Yes"

Her face fell, her stomach went into a knot.

"Oh my God, you proposed?"

"Yes, I proposed."

"This is big. This is huge."

This is not happening

"There's more."

She started laughing nervously. Trying to stay calm.

"There's more? Okay, well, what? Did she say yes?"

This is not happening. Please tell me she said no, please tell me she said no

"Yes."

The knot in her stomach got tighter. Still trying to stay calm.

"She said yes. You proposed and she said yes. Wow, I -"

"There's more."

This is not happening. She could feel the lump that had formed in her throat get bigger. Don't start crying.

"And there's more after you proposed and she said yes? What, you -"

"We got married."

It felt like he had ripped her heart out.

"You got married!? How could you get married!? How could you do this to me!? You belong to me. You are mine! Not hers! Mine! You are my Luke! And now you're married? You're legally married? This is just -"

"Actually, there's a little more."

This is not happening, she felt sick, physically sick. This is just Chris and Sherri all over again. She had waited to long.

"And she's pregnant. Oh my God, you finally reproduced."

She still had managed to hold back the tears, but not for long.

"We're getting divorced."

What? Crisis averted. Her mind went blank.

"I'm gonna sit down now."

"It just all happened so fast."

"Well, yeah."

She hadn't been on such emotional rollercoaster since she had Rory. She faded out as he started to explain, she heard something about drinks and midnight buffets. Had she just called him hers? She had... his voice started to become clear again "...in love, engaged, or celebrating their hundredth wedding anniversary, and we were having a good time. . . and there you go."

"There you go."

"Of course, the next morning we both woke up and realized we'd lost our minds. We tried to ignore it for awhile, you know, went snorkeling, but by the time we hit land, we were separated, and now we're getting divorced."

Her heart was starting to calm down this wasn't too bad.

"Okay, well, my jet lag and your love life is making me dizzy. Is there more?"

"Nope, that's it."

"Good"

They sat in silence for a while. Finally he spoke.

"I am your Luke huh?"