Chapter 15 : The Date

He picked her up at exactly 8:00 PM. She was sitting in her office at the inn, sorting through some paperwork, idling the time away, waiting for him? She was trying to concentrate on an insurance document when she sensed that she wasn't alone. She glanced up, wearily, and smiled at the brusque and muscular man that stood at her office door.

He looks so good tonight, she sighed...

He walked over to her side of the desk and offered her his hand. She laced her fingers through his as he led the way across the front lobby toward the door. At the front door of the inn, he suddenly stopped.

"What is it?" She inquired of him.

"I think we left off here...." And with that he pulled her to him and let his mouth find hers, enveloping them into the desire that had been interrupted twice so far.

As the two came back to reality for a much needed breath, Lorelai looked longingly up at Luke.

"Hmmm...a date that starts with a kiss...I could get used to that!" She teased, and Luke detected a hint of a twinkle in her eyes.

"I just figured we better get to that before we were interrupted... again....(Luke looked from side to side as if someone was going to jump out and surprise them) and what better place than where it began?"

He offered his arm to her once again and led her to his truck.

"So, ready for that movie?"

"Will there be coffee there?"she teased.

"Lorelai, I don't think the movie theater has coffee....and besides how much have you had today?"

"Not nearly enough! After you tried to serve me decaf this afternoon, and then neglected to make good on your promise for real coffee by, uh, distracting my good senses, I must say that I think I deserve some real coffee before this movie! So did you decide on what to see? Because I have several suggestions...."

Luke opened the door of his truck for her so that she could climb in and interrupted this ramble with a kiss on her lips just before shutting the door and getting in on the other side.

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After the movie....

"That was just terrible. Terrible, I tell you."

"What was so terrible about it? I thought it was good."

Lorelai made a face at Luke. "I can't believe you dragged me to see that!"

"Okay, so I will add Tombraider to my list of movies never to take Lorelai to again," Luke said more sarcastically than he had originally intended.

"...and what is up with those action scenes, I mean, come on people, you know they are fake. Seriously, if I am going to pay to see a movie at least make it look like Angelina Jolie actually did the stunts!"

"But you didn't pay to see it, I paid, so therefore, your whole argument is now completely null and void. It's a movie. You know it isn't real. Who cares if one person doesn't think the fighting scenes look real? Maybe someone else thought it did look real?"

"You mean to tell me that you actually believed that those action scenes were real? It was way off base from anything even close to reality. Come on, Luke!"

"Lorelai...." Luke sighed, clearly frustrated and unable to argue with her logic anyway.

Lorelai took this opportunity to grab him by the arm, pull him to her and kiss him, right there in the middle of the movie theater lobby.

"You know, you're sexy when you're frustrated," she smiled simply and walked ahead of him toward the truck.

Luke just shook his head in amazement and followed her out of the movie theater.

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(A/N Short, I know, like all my chapters. It's frustrating to me that it is taking 15 chapters to tell this story. But, hey, this is my first attempt at writing any type of fan fiction. I have something else partially written that takes place four months in the future. Since spoilers and the season premiere are coming out now, I am losing motivation to write what I think is going to happen. I really just can't wait to see how things really turn out, from ASP's perspective. In other words, there will probably not be much more to this story but some future speculations....I don't own these characters after all.

Oh, and sorry if I offended anyone with my cut down of Tombraider. The previews pretty much turned me away and didn't interest me, hence, I never saw it. I have no idea if Jolie did her own stunts or not. I really like most of her work in other films I have seen. The references to the movie were purely for the sake of trying to write some of Lorelai's wit and sarcasm like ASP does, though I think I didn't do such a good job...I don't do ASP much justice here with this story and for that I deeply apologize. I have the utmost respect for Amy Sherman-Palladino's story and only hope that someday I will be able to write as well as she does.)