2008
Lorelai was sitting in the diner sipping a cup of coffee while sitting at the counter. Luke had run out of a couple of things for the diner and Laurie wanted to go with him so they went off to the market. While she was sitting there she was replaying the last couple of months over in her mind. So much had happened. She moved back to Stars Hollow after quitting her job, Jess had found Rory after years of looking, Rory and her had reconciled and were slowly putting their relationship back together, Jess and Rory were friends again but Jess had other intentions (he was playing it slow), and the best part was Luke was not only in her life but Laurie's as well. She looked down at her left hand and admired her engagement ring. It was Luke's mothers. She then started to remember the proposal. It wasn't the usual down on one knee kinda proposal, not was in a thousand yellow daises (Looking back on it that was really over done). But it also wasn't a completely random moment either. Luke had put some thought and preparation into the proposal though and it was creative.
Lorelai was awoken on that Saturday morning by her annoying alarm clock. She rolled over to Luke's empty side of the bed to turn off the alarm. As she rolled over to turn the alarm off she felt something under her stomach. After she turned the alarm off she rolled onto her back and looked for the object she rolled over onto. After searching for a minute she came across the object. It was square box shape and had a velvet feel to it. She brought it to her face and saw it was a small jewelry box. The kind an engagement ring would be in. She then slowly opened the box and saw a simple silver band with a single square cut diamond on top.
"Oh my god" Lorelai said out loud. She then jumped out of and rushed downstairs. Didn't matter to her that her hair was a little messy and all she was wearing was Luke's flannel shirt. When she got downstairs she saw Laurie sitting in front of the t.v. Watching cartoons. She noticed Lorelai come downstairs.
"Hi mommy" Laurie was aware of what was going on and Luke told her to play dumb and act as if she knew nothing.
"Where is he?"
"Daddy?"
"Yes daddy, where is he?"
"In the kitchen"
Lorelai then ran out of the room and Laurie watched her and smiled brightly. She was so excited.
Luke was sitting at the kitchen table reading the paper. He heard her alarm go off so he was expecting her.
"What the hell is this" Lorelai said as she held up the box. Luke then put the paper down and looked at her.
"What the hell is what?" Luke was playing dumb too
"This" She held the ring in front of his face.
"Oh that"
"Yes that, what the hell is this?"
"An engagement ring" Luke said as he was getting out of his chair and folding the paper back up. He was avoiding eye contact to drive her nuts.
"I'm aware of that, what I'm asking is why do I have it"
"It's yours" he said not chonatly and still not looking at her
"Excuse me?"
"It's yours" he said again in the same manner but this time looker her in the eyes
"Why"
"Because I'm giving it to you"
"You are?"
"Yeah, it was mother's, she would have wanted you to have it"
"Really"
"Yeah, she told me before she died to give it to the woman I was going to spend the rest of my life with so I did"
"Okay"
"You going to you know put it on?"
"I would but I'm still confused?"
"About what?"
"What it means"
"What it means?" Luke repeated what she said in a confused voice even though he knew what she meant
"You know am I wearing it as an engagement ring which means were getting married or am I wearing it like a regular old ring that has no meaning behind it except that you gave it to me?"
"The first one" Again he said in a non chalontly voice
"The first one?"
"Yes"
"So you're asking me to marry you?"
"It would appear that way, yes"
"So basically you just asked me to marry you and I missed it"
"You could say that"
"You want to marry me?"
"I thought we already established this?" Luke started slowly walking towards her.
"I just want to make sure?"
"Well how about I assure you by doing this" He took the box out of her hand, opened the box, took the ring out, and put it on her finger. "And by this" He then lifted her chin up to face him and gave her a soft kiss which quickly turned passionate as his arms moves to be waist and her arms around his neck. After a moment or two they pulled apart.
"So I'm not actually going to get a real proposal out of you am I?"
"What do you mean, that was a real proposal"
"No I mean the whole down on one knee thing"
"You know I couldn't do that, it would ruin my reputation"
"Yes that it would"
"Besides this one took a lot of thought and preparation"
"It did?"
"Yes it did, I had to plan being here when you woke up, putting the ring where you would notice it, keep Laurie out of your room so she wouldn't disrupt the process, and bribe her into not telling you"
"What! Laurie knew about this"
"Yes she did"
"And she didn't tell me, that little girl can't keep a secret"
"Oh yes she can you just have to play her cards right"
"How'd you do that?"
"Like I said bribe, I promised her a new art box full of stuff if she kept this a secret"
"And it worked!"
"Like a charm"
"Alright I was wrong, you did put a lot of time into this"
"Thank you"
"And you were right"
"About what?"
"Getting down on one knee would have ruined your reputation"
"Thank you"
"And besides I always found the getting down on one knee thing a little over done"
2010
Lorelai was walking out of the kitchen into the living room and Luke was walking down the stairs into the living room as well.
"Kitchen is all cleaned up, food is put away, and dishes are all done" Lorelai said to Luke as she was walking to the couch to sit down.
"Well, Laurie has had her bath, in her pajamas, and playing in her room" Luke replied as he sat down next to her.
"And we have the downstairs all to ourselves, whatever shall we do" Lorelai said in a seductive tone
"It's clearly a mystery to me" Luke replied
"We could finished where we left off earlier" Lorelai said
"That we could, you know how I don't like to leave things half finished"
"You and me both" and with that they met in a kiss, it grew more and more passionate by the second. Luke's arms moved around her waist and her arms moved around his neck. Just as Lorelai was about to lay down oh her back the phone rang and the broke apart.
"Ignore it" Lorelai, said
"I can't it could be important"
"It's probably my mother"
"Or Rory and Jess calling to tell us about the engagement"
"They'll call back" The phone rang again
"That's it I'm answering the phone" Luke got up and went to answer the phone
"Five bucks says it's my mother"
Ignoring her he answered the phone "Hello"
"Why hello Luke how are you this evening?"
"Oh I'm fine Emily, how are you?"
"Emily, I told you, you owe me five bucks" Lorelai whispered as she walked towards Luke
"I'm doing well, I was wondering is Lorelai there?"
"Is Lorelai here well…"
"No, no I'm not I'm at the inn working late, no wait I'm saying goodnight to Laurie, no wait I'm asleep, yeah that's it tell her I'm asleep" Lorelai whispered
"She's right here Emily, hold on" Luke handed her the phone
"I hate you"
"No you don't"
"Yes I do"
"No you don't"
"Okay maybe I don't but I'm mad at you"
"No you're not"
"Yes I am"
"No you're not"
"Alright I'm not but you still owe me five bucks"
"Yeah, yeah"
Lorelai placed the phone to her ear "Hi mom"
"Well hello Lorelai, how are you this evening"
"Oh I'm fine mom and you?"
2008
"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?"
"No, I have to do this alone, well I won't be alone because Laurie will be there but otherwise I need to do this alone"
"Yeah but I mean it's been years since you have seen your parents and it may not go well, I don't want you to go through that all by yourself"
"I appreciate that but it's still something I have to do alone, if I need you I'll call okay"
"Okay"
"Laurie you ready?"
"Yes mommy"
"Okay go get in the car I'll be there in a minute"
"Okay, bye Daddy"
"See ya later Laurie" With that Laurie exited the diner and climbed into the backseat of Lorelai's new Jeep.
"Okay so wish me luck"
"You'll be fine"
"I sure hope so"
"Call me if you need me"
"I will, bye doll"
"Bye"
Lorelai was going to the Gilmore's that day. When she met with Rory that one day in New York they talked about everything. Rory spent six months in the pool house with the Gilmore's and then moved to New York with Logan (who Rory broke up with a year and a half later after she caught him cheating on her with another girl, she then moved out of their apartment and bot her own in Soho). Emily and Richard and her got into this huge argument over her behavior with Logan and then next day Rory left. Soon after learning this Lorelai soon felt sorry for Emily and Richard. They had lost their whole family. She found herself having a lot in common with them. All they had was each other, kinda like what she had with Laurie before she came home. Lorelai decided when the time was right she would try to reconcile with her parents. When Luke asked her to marry him she figured it was as good as time as any. Besides she had a favor to ask them. So she set out that morning to Hartford. She was nervous and scared but she knew it was something she had to do. She also knew that Laurie needed to know who her grandparents were.
Lorelai pulled up in the driveway of her parent's house and shut off her car. She got out and got Laurie out of the backseat. Lorelai held Laurie's hand and they walked to the front door. Before she rang the doorbell she knelt down to Come face to face with Laurie
"Laurie I want you to listen to me, now your grandma and grandpa may not be happy to see me, they may get mad and they may even yell, I want you to remember that they aren't mad at you and that they don't hate you, you did nothing wrong, do you understand?
"Yes mommy"
"Okay" Lorelai then stood up and rang the doorbell, still holding Laurie's hand. After a few moments the door opened with Emily on the other side.
"Lorelai"
"Hi mom"
"What are you doing here?"
"Well I thought you might want to meet your granddaughter" Lorelai picked Laurie up and placed her on her hip. "Mom I would like you to meet Laurie, Laurie this is your grandma"
"Hi!"
"Well hello Laurie, it's nice to meet you"
"You too"
"Lorelai would you like to come in?"
"Yes that would be lovely"
A little while later Lorelai was sitting in the living room with Emily and Laurie was on the floor reading a book.
"She's a sweet little girl Lorelai"
"Yes she is"
"You should be very proud of yourself, you're doing a wonderful job with her"
"Well I try, I do the best I can, the rest is up to her"
"She reminds me of you when you were that age"
"Well hopefully things will turn out better for her than me"
"You seem well"
": I am but it took a really long time to get there"
Emily then looks at Lorelai's hand and notices her engagement ring
"Your getting married"
"Yes I am"
"It's Luke isn't it"
Caught off guard "Yes it is"
"I'm glad"
"You are?"
"Yes I am"
"I don't know what to say"
"Lorelai I'm sorry for what I did to your relationship to him, I thought I was doing what was best for you, if I had known all of this would have happened I would have stayed out of it, I'm just glad you two found each other again, but I'm still really sorry"
"I'm not, if you hadn't done what you did, I wouldn't have Laurie, everything worked out"
"I'm still sorry"
"I know, your forgiven, I'm sorry too, I should have reacted better I was just so upset and I handled everything wrong"
"No need to apologize"
"Where's dad?"
"At the office he should be here soon, he only works half days now"
"It must be nice having him home more"
"Yes it is, it's been quite here ever since…"
"Rory left"
"How'd you know"
"I just recently got back in contact with her"
"How is she?"
"Alright, she lives in New York, alone, her and Logan broke up"
"Thank god, he's the reason she left"
"I'm aware of what happened"
"Are you two as close as you were?"
"No were not, we may never be but were in contact and it's better than nothing"
"We haven't heard from her in years"
"I know, that's partly why I'm here, that, Laurie and another reason"
"What other reason?"
"I'll wait until dad comes"
"Why are you here because of Rory"
"I'm here because you aren't talking to her, I realized you two had nobody and I could relate. It's a horrible feeling having nobody and I don't think anybody deserves that so I here"
"I'm glad"
Richard then walks into the house "Emily I'm home"
"We're in the living room Richard"
"We who?" Richard then walks into the living room
"Hi dad"
"Lorelai"
Lorelai stands up
"I came so you could meet your Granddaughter"
"Laurie's here?"
"Yes, Laurie come here and meet Grandfather" Laurie runs over to them and stands in front of Richard
"Hi"
"Well hello their Laurie how are you?"
"I'm fine, you?"
"Well I'm doing quite well now"
"Good"
Richard then walks closer to Lorelai
"You look well Lorelai"
"So do you Dad"
"I can't believe you're here"
'Oh dad" Lorelai then walks over to him and hugs him "I'm sorry"
"So am I, you'll never know how much"
"I have an idea"
They break apart
"So what it happening in your life Lorelai, please tell me how you are"
"I'm getting married"
"Please say it's to Luke"
"Yes I am"
'Good, I'm glad, he's the one you belong with"
"I'm glad you brought him up, there's something I need your help with, both of you"
"We're happy to help Lorelai"
"Yes Richards right, we'll help you with anything"
"Can we do this in private, I don't want Laurie to know"
"Sure we'll go in the other room, you can watch Laurie from there"
"Alright"
"Laurie I'm going in the other room with grandma and grandpa, if you need something just come find me and don't leave this room otherwise alright"
"Yes mommy"
"Emily, Richard and Lorelai walked into the next room"
"So what do you need Lorelai"
"A lawyer"
"What for?"
"Well Laurie just loves Luke and Luke adores Laurie and when Luke and I get married Luke will be Laurie's step father but I feel that isn't good enough, I want him to be her real father legally so I want him to adopt her like me. I went through the agency when I adopted Laurie so I didn't use a lawyer and Luke doesn't have one so I figured you would know you I could go to"
"You want us to find you a lawyer?"
"Yes"
Emily and Richard look at each other before answering "we would be honored to"
"Thank you"