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CHAPTER 18 – Encounters of the Luke Kind

"Mom?" Rory said grumpily as she walked out of her room and into the kitchen.

"Sorry" Rory said becoming very embarrassed, she had walked in on Luke and her Mom kissing, her mom had her arms around his neck and was sitting on top of the work surface with her legs around him as his arms were wrapped around her back. They pulled apart when they heard Rory apologise, looking very embarrassed and guilty after not having heard her come in. Lorelai jumped off the work surface and smiled at Rory, "You okay hon? How come you're up so late?" she asked quickly.

"I heard noises – I'll go back to bed now" Rory said smiling slightly and looked over at Luke who was blushing a lot, even though she was embarrassed that she had walked in on them, she was also happy that they had finally made up, her mom had been moping for weeks.

"I should go" Luke said huskily as he tried to avoid Rory's gaze.

"Hey don't let me interrupt" Rory said as she started to enjoy seeing Luke squirm.

"Night mom, night Luke" Rory said as she kissed and hugged her mom.

"Night hon"

"Night Rory" Luke said. Rory turned around to go back to her room but turned back, walked over to Luke and gave him a small hug before going back to her room.

"Aw look at you all embarrassed" Lorelai said smiling wickedly.

"I'm not"

"You're red in the face – it's nothing to be embarrassed about" she said teasing him.

"It's hot in here"

"So take off all your clothes, I am getting so hot..." Lorelai sang before Luke interrupted her.

"What are you doing?" he asked looking at her with his 'What the hell?' look.

"Singing"

"Ah so that's what you call it"

"Hey!" she said pretending to be offended and hit him lightly on the arm.

"I'm gonna get going" he said as he walked to the back door and gave her a small kiss of the lips.

"See ya tomorrow"

"Bye" he said turning to leave, she quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him back as she kissed him deeply on the mouth before pulling back and smiling flirtatiously.

"Night" she whispered in his ear as she turned and walked inside.

The next day...

"So how long did Luke stay last night?"

"What do you mean, he's upstairs" she said in a serious voice.

"He is?"

"Yeah, he is grooming himself, I gave him a manicure and pedicure last night"

"A simple question" Rory said rolling her eyes.

"He only stayed for a few minutes, I think you scared him off"

"So you two are back on?"

"Yup" Lorelai said smiling widely at Rory. She had that spark in her eye again, it had always been there but Luke had always managed to make it all the brighter, even it was just when she was annoying him or partaking in their usual diner banter.

"You look happy" Rory said as she slipped on her shoes and jacket.

"I am hon"

Luke opened the diner about half an hour later that morning. He hadn't gotten to bed until pretty late by the time he had got home and had decided to shave when he got up that morning, he hadn't bothered shaving lately, it just seemed unimportant after everything that had happened.

That morning every time the bell above the diner rang he would discreetly look up to see if it was Lorelai, she finally turned up later that morning around 9.30.

"Hey Luke"

"Hi Rory"

"Hi" Lorelai said smiling at him.

"Hi" he said and grinned back at her as Rory and Lorelai sat down at the table. They sat and just gazed at each other for a few seconds before Rory coughed and brought them both back to reality.

"Okay if you two wanna keep this a secret I would stop doing that" Rory whispered.

"What do you want?" Luke said as he turned and looked around to see if anyone had seen them, Lorelai looked down at her menu.

"Coffee?"

"Do you even have to ask?"

"Silly me. What else can I get you?"

"Pancakes and a side of bacon" Rory said.

"Pancakes and eggs – but make sure that you don't..."

"Put the eggs on the pancakes but on the side – yes I know" he said gruffly.

"Well I don't like my breakfast ogling me!"

"Obviously" he said rolling his eyes at Rory who laughed.

"Only you are allowed to ogle me in here" Lorelai said flirtaciously as she winked at him, purposely trying to embarrass him.

"Coming up" he said giving her a stern look, he turned around and walked back to the counter with a small grin on his face.

"Are you okay with this whole Luke thing?" Lorelai asked seriously.

"Yeah mom, he's really good for you"

"Yeah he is"

"Awww" Rory said smiling at her mom.

"Shutup"

"So tomorrow we have to go shopping for Yale stuff" Rory said.

"Aw I don't want you to go back there!" Lorelai said pouting.

"Well Luke will be here"

"Yes but Luke doesn't share my love for junk food or coffee, or renting bad movies purely to exploit their many faults and who am I going to get for clothes advice?"

"I'll be home at weekends and you can still call me you know"

"Can I email you pictures of all my clothes so that when I call you in my hour of need of what clothes to wear you will have visual aids to help"

"Yes mom but has anyone ever told you you're crazy before"

"Just almost everyday" Luke said as he set is plates in front of them both.

"Hey! Haven't I told you both that even the smartest people in the world have been mistaken for crazy before"

"Well then you must be really really smart" Luke said grinning.

"I'm gonna take that as a compliment" she said loudly as he walked back to the counter.

"I gotta go, I promised Lane I would go and see her" Rory said about twenty minutes later once they had both finished their breakfast and their three mugs of coffee.

"Okay well tell Lane hello from me"

"I'm going out with Dean tonight too"

"Really?" Lorelai said raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, Zach, Lane, Me and Dean are going to the movies and dinner"

"So double date?"

"No, just friends? Zach and Lane are going, how would that be construed as a date?"

"So you and Dean could be construed as a date?

"Mom! Just friends"

"Really?" Lorelai said giving her daughter a questioning look.

"Yes"

"Really?"

"Yes"

"Really?"

"Mom!"

"Okay bye! Call me if you're gonna me late"

"Okay, bye!" Rory said as she left the diner quickly not wanting to give her Mom anymore time to ask anymore questions about Dean. Lorelai left a few minutes later for the Inn but said a quick goodbye to Luke before she left.

"Hey Sook" Lorelai said as she entered the kitchen at the Inn.

"Hey – you look happy" Sookie said looking up from her mixing bowl.

"That's cos I am – Luke came over last night and we talked and made up, well we didn't really talk that much but we did use our lips" she said smiling suggestively.

"Yay!!" Sookie squealed as she jumped up forgetting the mixing bowl was in her hand as it smashed to the ground.

"Oops"

"Sorry - I should have asked you to put down the bowl before telling you"

"That's okay, this is so great about you and Luke, didn't I tell you that you and Luke would make up"

"Okay okay, so you told me so. I can't believe I never noticed how great Luke was before" Lorelai said excitedly as Sookie squealed and they both hugged and jumped up and down, Lorelai loved that Sookie shared her excitement about this.

"What the hell are you doing?" Michel said in a disgusted voice as he looked at Sookie with his usual frown on.

"Well Lorelai.."

"I asked what you were doing, I don't care why" Michel said as he handed Lorelai the phone before turning and walking out of the kitchen again.

"Hello"

"Hello Lorelai"

"Oh hi mom, how are you?"

"I'm good. I am ringing because I would like you to host a DAR galla at your Inn"

"A what?"

"You know what a galla is Lorelai, food, music, entertainment"

"Yes, but why the Dragonfly? Don't you usually rent out like palaces or those types of places"

"Don't be silly Lorelai, of course we don't rent out palaces, I just thought it would be nice to have it at my daughter's Inn but if that's too much trouble Lorelai I'm sure that we can hold it somewhere else."

"No Mom it's fine, I was just surprised that's all"

Lorelai and her mom talked for a while longer about the galla as Lorelai wrote down some details, after she hung up Sookie stood there with a surprised look plastered on her face to which Lorelai returned a questioning look.

"What?"

"I have just never seen you and your mom get on so well before"

"So we didn't fight, it's not like I'm gonna run down to the tattoo place and get her name stamped on my arm or anything"

"Oookay I was just saying"

"Plus I'm not about to let her ruin my good mood"

"You go girl"

1.30pm

Luke stood and wiped down the counter, the diner was pretty full this lunch time which wasn't anything new. He had been in a very pleasant mood all day which was noticed by a lot of people in town, there was actually a pool going about who Luke would lose his temper with first – Taylor and Kirk were tied.

"Black coffee and muffin please" a man across the counter asked Luke, waking him from his Lorelai daze.

A while later the bell rang on the diner rang as Lorelai entered as she quickly made her way to the counter.

"Coffee... now... please" she gasped as she collapsed on the chair.

"Hey to you to"

"Sorry, hey... now coffee"

"You okay?"

"Well apart from my Mom being on the phone every two minutes all morning and a problem with the linen delivery which caused so much chaos everything is fine"

"Ouch" he said sliding a coffee over.

"Can I get a burger as well, I'm soo starved"

"So nothing different than normal" he said rolling his eyes and walking back into the kitchen.

Lorelai watched him leave and smiled into her coffee mug as she drank her coffee and checked out his butt when he was walking away, 'It is pretty fine' she thought and laughed to herself when she remembered the conversation she had with Sookie once about Luke's butt... which he had become embarrassed about when he heard them.

"Hi" a voice said as she awoke from her daydream and turned around to look at the person talking to her.

"Hi" she said smiling.

"I'm Jenson" he said reaching out his hand. She smiled at him and shook his hand. 'He's a good looking guy' she thought, he was about 6'2, dark hair and eyes, tanned and she could see he was pretty muscular.

"Lorelai"

"Nice name"

"Thanks – it's always better than an ugly one like Agatha or something"

"That's my mom's name" he said with a frown.

"I was kidding, that's a great name, I actually might name my next kid that" she said slapping his arm with a nervous laugh.

"So was I" he said laughing.

"So you're married?"

"Nope"

"What age is your son... or daughter?"

"Nineteen"

"WOW!!" he said looking very surprised.

"I know, I know I don't look old enough to have a nineteen year old daughter" she said smiling.

Luke walked out of the kitchen to see Lorelai slapping the arm of the guy beside her at the counter as they both laughed, he suddenly felt jealous when he saw them. 'Who does he think he is' Luke thought.

"Here you go" he said setting the plate down in front of Lorelai as he shot the guy next to her a stern look.

"You done?" he asked Jenson when he saw his empty cup.

"Not quite yet" Jenson smirked.

"Lukee, more coffee please" she whined at him as she spotted the tension between him and Jenson, he looked jealous, 'Wow' Lorelai thought.

"So I just moved here from New York, I don't know the place very well, maybe you could give me a tour sometime" Jenson said as Luke was turned with his back to them at the coffee machine.

"It's pretty simple to get around really, and Taylor who owns Doose's and the ice cream place next door have maps if you need them but you shouldn't."

"Thanks. So Lorelai, can I maybe buy you dinner sometime?" he asked still grinning at her as Luke swung around and stared at them both as he waited for Lorelai's answer.

"I'm actually kinda with someone right now"

"Oh okay, well I'm not surprised someone's snapped you up" Jenson obviously flirting with her.

"Well thank you for that I will be sure to make sure they know that" she said raising an eyebrow as she turned and picked up her freshly poured coffee and shot Luke a look at the same time. He grinned as he walked back into the kitchen, glad that she had turned him down.

Jenson left soon after, but left his card with Lorelai just in case she changed her mind about dinner, which she knew she wouldn't but taking the card didn't hurt, she would throw it out later. She finished her coffee and walked behind the counter to find Luke before she went back to work, he was in the store room lifting some boxes.

"Oh Big Butch Danes, I don't know what I'd do without a big strong man like you" she said in a high pitched mocking voice as he set the boxes down and turned around to her doing his typical Luke eye roll.

"Hi"

"Where did you go? There are people in serious need of coffee out there!"

"Well I didn't want to interrupt you and brown eyed wonder boy" he said gruffly but in a joke tone.

"I've been meaning to tell you about him for a while – he's my bit on the side" she said walking towards him.

"Okay lets change the subject"

"Aw is Luke getting jealous" she said as she entwined her fingers in his and raised her eyebrow at him suggestively.

"No" he said gruffly. She grinned and knew that he was but decided to take advantage of this rare moment that they had alone and pressed her lips up against his, he quickly wrapped his arms around her tightly and deepened the kiss. Lorelai played with his lower lip with her tongue for a second or two which drove Luke crazy as he moved his hands further down her back so that he was cupping her ass in his hands, she gently ground her thighs into him as she tightened her arms around his neck and ran her fingers through his hair. They pulled back a minute later to catch their breath, Lorelai smiled widely at him and he grinned back at her and kept his arms wrapped tightly around her.

"Wish I could stay here all day" Lorelai said as she put her head against his chest.

"Me too... well maybe not the store room but maybe my place" he grinned as she pulled back from his chest and raised her eyebrow and looked at him seductively.

"Dirty" Lorelai said as Luke rolled his eyes. The looked into each others eyes for a few seconds smiling.

"LUKE?" Caesar shouted from the kitchen. He didn't want to go into the store room, he had seen Lorelai go in so he didn't want to walk in on them again.

They jumped apart when they heard Caesar. "WHAT?" Luke shouted back.

"BRING IN SOME MORE BURGERS WHEN YOU'RE DONE"

Lorelai laughed at annoyed look on Luke's face, he looked back at her sternly for a few seconds before he broke into a grin.

"So you wanna do something tonight?" he asked.

"No I have a date"

"You do?"

"Yes with a very cute diner man" she said smiling at him as he squeezed her hand.

"You wanna go to a movie, or we could have a movie night or I dunno... what you wanna do?" she asked not really minding what they did.

"Let's have a movie night at my place"

"Oooh you're place, we've never done that before"

"I know" he said and grinned at her.

"Okay well I'll be around around seven, I'll bring some food and movies"

"I have food"

"Yeah we need some junk food duh"

"No you need some junk food"

"Aw I know you secretly want it too"

"Yes sure" he said sarcastically.

"I need to be getting back to the Inn anyway, Michel is going to whine all day about me being late"

"Okay see you tonight" he said as he kissed her softly on the lips and pulled back.

"Um okay well bye Casanova" she said as she smiled and winked at him before turning around and walking out of the store room. He stood there for a few seconds and watched her go, he had never felt this happy with anyone before, 'She is so amazing' he thought to himself as he opened some boxes and thought about the date he had with Lorelai that night....