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This fic takes place at the beginning of the episode in Season 1, "Christopher Returns". It's another way to get Luke and Lorelai together.
Lorelai ran over to the diner. She sprinted, actually, and had no idea that she was so athletic. She arrived in the diner, her hair windblown, her cheeks flushed.
Luke was taken aback by her appearance. "Lorelai, are you okay? Is Rory sick? Is she hurt? What do you need?"
"Coffee, and to talk to you," Lorelai answered, slightly out of breath.
Luke hastily poured the coffee and sat down next to Lorelai at the counter. She took several deep breaths and gulps of coffee, then turned toward Luke.
"I desperately need your help," she started.
"With what?" Luke questioned, slightly afraid of what she could want.
"A sort-of lie." With Luke's puzzled face, she continued, "Christopher is back. I knew that he would want a relationship with me so I told him that I was already in one. With . . ."
"Me," Luke finished. He was somewhat confused, and flattered. He would tell her about the confusion, but definitely not the flattery. That was a private thing.
"I'm sorry," Lorelai gushed, "But I really don't want to be with him and I knew that he would want a relationship with me. He said he wanted to fix the shower cuz it sucked, and it does, but I told him that he didn't have to and then it came to me. I told him that my boyfriend was going to fix it and then I thought of you and so when he asked me who my boyfriend was I told him it was you. And so now you are my boyfriend and you have to fix the shower." Lorelai said all of that extremely quickly, and it left Luke seeing stars.
"What about the town?" he asked. "They're gonna know that we haven't been in a relationship for months and they will be all excited and happy and all, "This is SSSOOO great!" and Chris'll be like, "But I thought you were in a relationship?" and so we'll end up looking really bad." Luke said in an equally fast voice.
"Got it under control," she said. "Rory is talking to Babette and Ms. Patty; they'll probably have a town meeting or something to announce it. I just hope everyone will play along."
"What about Max?" Luke asked.
"Uh…it's just not going to work out with him. I think I'm feeling something, just not with, or for, him." Lorelai confessed. There . . . told the truth without telling him the truth.
"Fine, I'll do it," Luke said. The look on Lorelai's face told him that she was extremely grateful. Just then, Taylor walked into the diner.
"Come on," he said in a tone that had a bit of exasperation in it. "Stars Hollow's first emergency town meeting. Let's go."