Chapter Three: Diner Confessional

"About me?" Luke hoped he hadn't heard her wrong. He also hoped she'd been thinking of him the way that he'd been thinking of her for the past several years.

"Yeah. About you. Sorry if that freaks you out."

What the hell? Luke thought to himself, If she took a plunge, you should take one too. "What about me?" Luke asked, guessing that was a plunge in itself.

Lorelai tried to gather her thoughts quickly. The last thing that she wanted was to sound like a jumbled mess to the man she possibly had feelings for. Possibly? Right? Okay Lorelai, come on. You may not always be 100 honest with everyone else, but you need to be completely honest with yourself here. How do you feel about Luke? Yes, he's one of your best friends. And they say that the best relationships are based on friendship. So if anything were to happen, then maybe he could be the guy, as long as he doesn't wear that baseball cap and flanel on your wedding day. Maybe you couldn't screw this one up. Whoaaa there, you're getting ahead of yourself. You're not even sure if this feeling is mutual, whatever this feeling may be, and you're already planning your life together.

Lorelai started to realize that thinking was getting her nowhere other than some alternate reality in which her and Luke were now engaged. So she decided that maybe talking would help. She started off slowly, "It's actually not so clear to me. I'm confused by my own thoughts. That rarely happens."

"Well, of course it rarely happens. You are Lorelai Gilmore, otherwise known as Wonder Woman, and Wonder Woman never gets confused."

Lorelai chuckled. "Do you agree that the best relationships are the ones that involved friendship in the beginning?"

Luke pondered this for a moment. "I guess so. Do you?"

"I'm actually not sure."

"Well, why do you ask?" Luke was hoping that what she said next would be what he's been waiting to hear for a long time now.

"Because if that was true, we'd probably have the best relationship in the world," Lorelai thought a minute, "As a matter of fact, so would Sookie and I."

"That is if it's okay with Jackson. But I'm sure that if it were true, me and you, we'd be just fine."

"Yeah. In a hypothetical situation that is."

The smile on Luke's face slowly began to fade, "Yeah.. of course."

"But I mean, in a hypothetical situation, I should probably start dating you. That way I'd never screw up again. We'd be used to fighting, since we do it all of the time, and that wouldn't screw anything up, right?"

"Right. So we're soulmates? Hypothetically?"

"Hypothetical soulmates," Lorelai said, her voice a little shaky. She had no idea what she was saying.

"So exactly why is it that you're bringing all of this up?" Luke asked again, still waiting for the perfect answer.

"Well I wanted to know your opinion."

"On hypothetical relationships?"

"Well, yeah," Lorelai paused, "But not just that."

"What else then?" This was it, he thought. She was going to say it. She was finally going to confess having feelings for him. He couldn't stand the anxiety.

"About us."

Okay, so that wasn't the exact confession he'd wanted, but it was progress. Only problem? Now he had to figure out what to say. He couldn't say all of the things that he's wanted to say all of these years. That would be too much to take in. Or maybe he could. Could he? Okay. Most women like the whole fairytale dream come true situation. They love to hear how much a man wants to be with them and how much a man needs them. But I don't want her to know that I need her, even though I think I really do. So maybe I should just tell her that. Yeah, right? No! What the hell are you talking about? Crazy ass! You can't be too agressive or you might scare her off. Okay, maybe I should start talking before she thinks that I'm ignoring her.

Luke cleared his throat, still not sure of what to say. He decided to just go with it. "Us as a couple you mean?"

"Yes. Us together. You and me. Against the world."

"Well, I honestly think that we'd make a great team." There, that wasn't so hard, was it? So now let her know some of the rest.

But before Luke could go on, Lorelai interrupted him. "Yeah, I guess we would. I mean, with my amazing wits and you with your.. well your impecable taste in flanel. We'd conquer the world."

Luke started to worry that Lorelai was taking this as a joke. He didn't know what to do. Should he play along? Or should he go on the honest path.

At the same instant that Luke began to doubt Lorelai's thoughts, Lorelai did the same. Was Luke just kidding? This wasn't helping her to clear her thoughts at all. How was she supposed to make sense of all of these thoughts if Luke was just fooling around? How was she supposed to tell if he even was? Something in the pit of her stomach wished that he was being serious. She decided that she had to set things straight, she had to try to figure out what Luke was thinking.

"So," she started, "You really think that I compare to Wonder Woman?"

Come on Luke! She practically set this up for you. It's like she's in your head. Let her have it.

"Okay, so you really want to know?" All of a sudden Luke was energized and nothing was stopping him. Even if Lorelai didn't want to know, it was too late now. "To me, you are Wonder Woman."

Luke stopped to think about what he'd just confessed. Oh crap! That was too much. Damnit Luke Danes! What's your problem?

But Luke started to calm down once he noticed the look on Lorelai's face. She had an expression that he'd never seen before. She seem shocked, but her eyes, those electric blue eyes that he'd always loved, seemed to light up. Those were the eyes that he'd always wanted to get lost in. He looked into them everyday, deeply, being able to determine her mood, just by a slight variation of color. Her eyes were so much a part of her personality, and now he was reponsible for tweaking them just a bit, and in an extremely positive way. Luke never knew such a feeling before in his life.

"What?" Lorelai's voice cracked. Had Luke really just said that? She'd always expected that he may have had a bit of a crush on her, but nothing like that. Nothing like Wonder Woman.

Before she could even finish her thought, Luke had swept her up into a kiss. A kiss so filled with passion that the second her lips touched Luke's, she no longer had doubts as to whether or not she had feelings for him. She knew. It felt so right. She knew. She started to think that she'd subconsciously known that Luke was the man for her all along, but she needed something to send a spark of assurance through her brain. She needed this. She'd needed him to kiss her for so long now. So long.