Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters
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 and Rory tried to sneak into the house, but Christopher caught them and asked where they had been.
"Emergency town meeting. About—"Rory paused, "Who knows what, I was falling asleep in my chair." Her father laughed.
"Well, goodnight, Gilmore girls. Sleep tight." Christopher kissed Rory on the cheek and smiled at Lorelai, and then they all headed in their different directions toward bed.
The next morning Lorelai surprised herself by waking up at 7. She got up and put on faded jeans, a white tank top, a white long-sleeve shirt on top of her tank top, and a green sweatshirt.
She went downstairs to find that Rory and Christopher were still asleep in their beds. She found a stack of lime-green post-it notes and wrote on two of them, "At Luke's. Come and join me." She stuck them on Rory and Chris' heads. She wrote on a third one, "In case you didn't get my other message, I'm at Luke's. Come join me!" She stuck that one on the back of the door. She put on some running shoes and walked over to Luke's.
"Honey, I'm home!" she shouted into the diner. Luke looked up from the table he was serving and smiled at her.
"Go sit down, and I'll be right with you," he said to her. When he had finished taking the man's order at the table and went to give the order to Caesar. Then walked behind the counter and pulled out a mug, filled it with coffee, and gave it to his new girlfriend.
"What's up?" she asked.
"Nothing much," he answered. He paused, then asked, "Are you free tonight?"
Lorelai was a bit taken aback, then answered, "Why, yes, darling, I am. What did you have in mind?"
Luke smiled, "Well……we could have dinner and go see a movie."
"Ooh! Fun!" Lorelai exclaimed. Then she shivered. She had taken off her sweatshirt and she really didn't want to wear it.
"You're freezing. Come upstairs with me." He took her hand and lead her up the stairs to his apartment. She sat down on the sofa while she rummaged through some drawers. "Here you are," he said, presenting her with a blue flannel shirt.
"I get to wear Luke's flannel! No way!" Lorelai was happy.
"One of the perks of being a girlfriend," he told her. They went back downstairs and Lorelai stayed behind the counter with Luke. Luke gave her a warning look, but let her stay.
She hopped up onto the counter, where no one was sitting, and pulled the flannel close to her. "I'm special," Lorelai said, making the 'e' very long, and talking to no one in paticular, Luke rolled his eyes. They started talking like normal, but it was a bit different since they were a couple.
Rory and Chris walked into the diner while Lorelai and Luke were still talking. Neither of them noticed Rory or Chris. Rory looked at her dad's face, and saw how hurt it looked. She turned toward her mom and Luke to see what they were doing that was hurting him. Her mom was wearing one of Luke's blue flannel shirts. She was sitting on the counter, and the two were talking and laughing. When her mom laughed one of her curls came untucked from behind her ear and dangled in front of her eyes. Luke brought his hand up to her face and took the curl, tucking it behind her ear. Rory saw her mom smile at Luke, and she saw how special that smile was. It was new, and full of love.
Rory and Chris sat down at the middle table, and Lorelai spun her legs over the counter so she was facing everyone. She leaned back and whispered to Luke, "Ooh, that was fun!" Luke laughed at her and told her to go to her table.