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Chapter 14: Waking up
...then he suddenly pinched her
"Oww!" she said and slapped him on the arm.
"What are you doing?"she asked.
"I´m trying to convince you that this is not a dream and you are alreadyawake!Im here, Will is downstairs with Rory and your parents and this Logan kid. You had a hard time when you were younger. But this room here is not you. And we won´t leave you here. You will never be in the position you were in then. I will take you home after we have celebrated your dads birthday. We will bath Will, you will feed him, then we will lye him down to sleep in his crib and if you like we will watch a movie afterwards. Then we we´ll also go to bed, we´ll wake up tomorrow and go to the diner. You can bug me and maybe you will get a cup of real coffee, just this one time. But before, you have to calm down and trust me that this is not a dream. I mean what a weird dream would it be, in which we would lye in your old bed, on your fathers birthday, after you puked your guts out! So wake up!" he tried to joke.
This time she got his message. Unlike on the couch, this time it really hit her. She didn´t know why, it just happened. It clicked in her head. All weight fell from her shoulders and she started to smile. Not one of the sad smiles or not-Lorelai-like smiles she had worn all month, but an honest, happy Lorelai trademark smile. And he smiled back.
Then suddenly she jumped out of the bed and started to pull on Lukes arm.
"Come on, Lukey. Let´s celebrate! I really feel like it now!" she laughed when she saw his confused look. Everything felt so different suddenly. Her old confidence was back, her parents couldn´t take anything away from her. Not her husband and not her baby. Maybe Rory, sometimes, but not her two men. And that was enough.
Luke also jumped out of the bed when he saw her standing there, radiant with happiness. He hadn´t an idea what he had said that had changed everything, but he was more than happy that she was smiling again.
He pulled her close and hugged her, before they left her old room and went down stairs, still both smiling like crazy.
"Lorelai, you´re okay?" Emily asked concerned. She had Will on her lap.
"Yeah, I´m fine. Maybe I´ve just eaten something wrong today. But I´m fine now." She knelt down in front of her mother in the living room. It didn´t even bother her that Emily was holding Will. Rory shot Luke a curious look, but he just shrugged, shook his head and smiled.
Will smiled when he saw his mother, struggling excitedly with his legs and arms, like he knew that his mother was happy again."Gaaah!" he made again, and Lorelai kissed him on his nose.
"Are you singing for your grandfather? Yeees, I know you´re singing for him. Say "gaaah" Will!" she laughed and he did it again, laughing with his mother.
"Gaaaah!" Lorelai made and Will repeated it.
"Well. I have to say, that´s a nice song!" Richard laughed.
"Happy birthday dad!" Lorelai said, stood up and hugged him.
"He´s a very smart boy!" Emily said when Lorelai had joined Rory and Logan on the couch.
"Yes, he is. He´s not 3 months old and already smiles and "gaahs" the whole day. He´s incredible. You should see him when Luke comes home. Then everything you can see is the huge smile on his face and he struggles like crazy, sometimes I´m barely able to hold him. And if Luke comes home two minutes later than usual he is crying like crazy and I´m not able to calm him down." Lorelai said and turned her head to smile at Luke, who stood behind her.
The rest of the evening went very well. Luke took Will and placed him on the floor to play with him. The little boy had caught everyone´s attention when his giggles had filled the room.
Lorelai had talked with Rory and Logan and the longer she had talked with the young man the more parallels she had discovered. Maybe Logan was what she would have been if she hadn´t got Rory.
Emily and Richard had also enjoyed the evening. They loved to see the smiling baby and they felt that something had really changed that night. The smile Lorelai had worn on her face when she had come down the stairs with Luke, had not once left her face again.
And Luke... they both knew before that he was a nice guy. Emily had liked him before he and Lorelai became a couple. They just always have thought he wasn´t good enough. But now they saw their daughter interacting with her family and they knew that without Luke she wouldn´t be that happy. They had accepted that evening that he knew her better then they ever would, and that he had more influence. As long as Lorelai would be happy they would accept this.
It was late when they left and headed back to Stars Hollow, nearly eleven p.m. . Will was already asleep in his car seat and when they arrived at home they just lay him down in his crib without changing him.
Rory and Logan had decided to join them watching a movie. It was the first time that Lorelai really felt that her family was happy. Every member. No conflicts, no problems.
When the movie was over Rory and Logan went to her room and Lorelai fed Will again, before she joined Luke in he bedroom.
She wanted to plop down on the bed, when an idea came in her head.
"Hey, husband of mine! Get up!" she said lay her head a little bit on the right side.
"Wife of mine, it´s nearly two o´clock in the morning. And although our son might sleep till five or six, we should go to bed!" he told her. She started to pout and he was glad that she was doing that again. She hadn´t done it what seemed like forever.
"Okaaayyy! Then I will take my bubble bath in our huge bathtub alone!" she said and started to unbutton her blouse. She threw it at him. Then she walked backwards towards the bathroom-door, slowly opening her skirt. When she reached the door she let it drop to the floor and smiled at him seductively.
Luke watched her show, enjoying it a lot. Then he stood up and walked over to her, getting rid of his shirt in the process. When he stood in front of her, she reached for his belt and opened it and his zipper. His slacks fell on the floor and he stepped out of them. This morning all he had wanted was that Lorelai would stop touching him all the time, and now he longed for it.
She placed one hand on his chest and kissed him quickly.
"Luke... you know that we can´t... as much as I want... but I´m not sure I can..." she told him and became serious.
"I told you that you should take all the time you need. Let´s take this bath you were babbling about!" he smiled and kissed her.
"I wasn´t babbling!" she protested and wanted to walk into the bathroom, pretending that she was offended, but he grabbed her by her waist and kissed her neck.
When they lay in the tub, Luke behind Lorelai, cheek against cheek, Lorelai played with his finger.
"What a day!" he sighed and then kissed her cheek.
"I ´ve been annoying the last few weeks!" she said.
"I can´t deny that. But I was more worried about you."
"I´m sorry. But you were so great. You´re sure you can deal with me for the rest of you live?"
"I´m sure I can´t live without you!" he said and stroked with his thumb over the white-gold ring she wore.
"Very good answer! You´re perfect!"
"I´m perfect for you!" he whispered into her ear.
"Whoa, Mr. Grumpy, I think Babette and Miss Patty will kidnap and rape you when theyll find out what a lovey-dovey you can be!"she laughed.
"Aah, Geez! Lorelai!" he grumbled.
"Seems like everything´s back to normal" she laughed when he said that.
"Thank god!" he said before he stood up and got out of the bathtub, dried himself and then held Lorelais bathrobe open for her. She stepped into it and he tied it for her. Then he picked her up and carried her to the bed. When he got in next to her, she snuggled up against him, like she had done the whole last month. But this time she just lay her head on his chest, not hugging him so tight he could hardly breathe.
"What have I told you tonight at your parents house, that made the change? I mean I´m happy that you´re happy again, but what was it?" he asked and kissed her forehead.
"Honestly? I have no idea. I could hear the click in my head and then everything was fine again. Maybe...but... I really don´t know!" she said. Luke started to chuckle.
"What? Are you laughing about me? That is not very nice of you!" she told him and started to tickle him. He laughed even harder but tried to stop her. When he had caught her hands, he held them tightly together.
"I just doubt that it´s a good sign that now not even you are understanding your actions! That´s crazy, even for you!" he said and started to laugh again. And Lorelai also had to laugh. After that they lay there for several minutes and Luke drifted off to sleep, when she spoke again.
"Luke...hey, don´t sleep! I want to ask you something!" she whispered in his ear.
"Mmmmh?"
"Well, when I saw you playing with Will tonight, on the floor of my parents house I started to wonder..." then she was silent again.
"Wonder about what?" Luke mumbled still half asleep.
"I know Will is still really small and I mean... we can´t even ...you know... but maybe in a year or two...only if you want... " she rambled.
"What re you talking about?" Luke asked. If he was fully awake he was most of the times able to put together what she wanted to say, but he was too tired. Lorelai took a deep breath, then said.
"I was thinking that maybe it would be nice in a year or two to make a little brother or sister for our baby boy. I mean they could play together, cause Rory is too old... and they could argue... about toys I think... and drive us crazy because they run around in the diner or the Inn.. or..." Luke stopped her with a kiss.
"Yeah, that would be very nice! I love the idea of having another kid. But let´s wait. I think a year or two is okay. We could enjoy having Will being a baby before we have another one. "
"So maybe on our second wedding day we could try for another!" she grinned.
"Yeah, we could do that! Speaking of wedding days, I have a surprise for you. I booked a room for a week-end in a really nice hotel. I spoke with Sookie and Cesar and with Rory, she will look after Will."
"Oh, wow! You´re the best!" she said and hugged him.
"But now I´m really tired, Mr. Perfect. Let´s sleep!" she told him and yawned.
"Who was babbling the whole time!" Luke asked and grinned before he switched of the light.
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