Stand Still- Chapter Five- She's No Lorelai
Summary: Luke and Lorelai broke up after her parents wedding, then she left Stars Hollow when Mike Armstrong offered her that job. But now shes back in town, 5 years later, to give Luke something, only to find that he is a very changed man and there's something he isn't telling her. What's he hiding and what will she do when she finds out?
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Here he was again, staring down at that box. He was going to get rid of it, today. Today, it would be thrown away, forgotton, gone. First, he just had to look through it, one more time, one last time.
He pushed aside the things he had already seen, the shirts, the hats, the letter, the invitation, the movie, the earrings, and the ring.
And there, on top of a few other things was the tape. The self help tape he had bought after Nicole cheated on him and they got divorced. He didn't need to listen to it to know what it said, he still remembered.
"Whose phone calls or visits are never unwanted or too long? Do you see her face? Who would you most like to have in your life to ward off moments of lonliness? Do you see her face? When you travel who would make your travels more enjoyable? Do you see her face? When your in pain, who would you most like to comfort you? Do you see her face? When something wonderful happens in your life, a promotion at work, a successful refinacing, who do you want to share the news with? Do you see her face? Whose face appears to you, my friend, whose face?"
And he still saw her face.
He dropped the tape. He had to stop thinking this. He just had to go through the box and then get rid of it.
He looked through it some more, taking out her coffee cup. The one that she would always use at his apartment. She had claimed it hers after they had been dating for awhile. He smiled when he thought about all the times they fought over her incredible coffee addiction. He set it down on the bed and kept looking.
He pulled out a picture that Rachel had taken of them when she came back to town. It was at the Fire Light Festival, it was just a picture of them talking, but he loved it. They both looked so happy, just talking, and laughing together.
He put it down and kept looking.
The horoscope. It was in a small plastic bag so it wouldn't get ripped or lost. "You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away." He read it out loud to himself. "Keep it in your wallet and it will bring you good luck," he remembered her saying, it had been almost fifteen years ago. He thought for a few moments but then he took his wallet out of his back pocket, placed the horoscope inside and put everything back into the box and placed it back inside his closet.
He would have to throw it away another day.
"Oh I'm so sorry," Lorelai said as she bumped into someone at Doose's. When she saw who it was she wasn't sure what to say. "Rebecca...Hi..."
"Hey, Lorelai... Sorry I didn't see you last night, you must have been dancing all night, or something..." She said even though they both knew that Lorelai hadn't come.
"Oh well, actually, I couldn't go, I just had so many things I had to do and I lost track of time and well...I'm sorry I couldn't make it." Lorelai said nervously.
"Yeah, a lot of people couldn't make it." She said sarcastically.
"Well, I'm sure they all had good reasons." She said even though they both knew she was lying.
"No, I know why they couldn't come. They didn't want to. The whole town hates me, they all say "she's no Lorelai.' when I walk by. They don't want me to marry Luke, they want you to." She told her.
"Oh, well I'm sure..." She had no idea what she was suppose to say, but luckily she was interupted.
"I had always been so jealous of you, and I had never even met you, until now. Everyone would always tell me how much happier Luke was when he was with you, how his face lit up when you were around. And how you were the only one for him. They would tell me how he wouldn't be with me long because he would always be in love with you. 'Lorelai, she was perfect, she was beautiful, they belong together.' I was so jealous. But then... Luke agreed to marry me, and I thought 'hey maybe they are all wrong'. Everything was going great. Then you show up..." She said.
Lorelai watched the small woman go on and on about what the townspeople told her. She zoned out after awhile but then, she looked up at her to see Rebecca giving her the evil eye.
"He won't go back to you," she told her and then she dropped her shopping basket and left the store.
"Lorelai! Honey!" Babette came running to her later that morning.
"Babette!" She gave her a big hug. They hadn't really had a chance to talk since she came to town.
"How are you, honey? And how's Rory?"
"Good. We're good. Rory's very busy, she's working. A great job... in New York."
"We've missed your pretty faces around here."
"Oh well our pretty faces have missed being around here," Lorelai smiled.
"You were always such great neighbors. You watched the gnomes while we were gone, and the cat...Luke does it for us now, but Morey says the gnomes liked you better...But Luke does have that nice butt."
Lorelai laughed.
"Luke does it for you now?" She was surprised, she couldn't imagine Luke watching lawn gnomes.
"Yes, he's a pretty good neighbor, mows the lawn sometimes, shovels the walk after it snows. He helps me around the house. Of course he rants and complains the whole time, but the butt makes up for that."
"Neighbor?" Whoa...What? She hadn't just said neighbor, did she?
"Yeah. You know I was a little surprised when he bought the house, but I wasn't too surprsied. After all, after you left he would sit outside that house almost all day and night. He barely ever left. He would just sit there, staring at it for hours. I thought about poking him a few times, you know, to make sure he hadn't, you know, croked or gone into shock or a coma or something...Whenever people came to look at the house, he would scare them off or tell them you had termites or a roof that would cave in or something. Everyone just figured that he was hoping you would come back, and he thought if someone bought your house, you wouldn't. And then after a few months, he bought it."
"He ...bought my house?" She was shocked, she barely got the words out, but she managed.
"Yup, kept it exactly the same, too. Didn't do anything to it, he even has his couch in the same place you had yours."
She was speechless. He bought her house. What did that mean? She had to go talk to him, she had to find out.
"Luke!" She was out of breath. She ran into the diner, up to the counter where he was standing.
"Coffee? OK. I'm getting it, I'm getting it, don't worry." He said starting to reach for the pot. She grabbed his arm.
"No, not coffee." She was breathing hard. She put her hand over her heart as she tried to catch her breath.
"Lorelai, are you OK?" He asked putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah, yeah. I just forgot how bad excersise is for me." She caught her breath and began talking.
"You bought my house, Luke." She said it and looked right in his eyes, waiting for an answer.
"Who- who told you that?" He was nervous, very nervous.
"Babette... You look after her cats and her gnomes, and you have the couch in the same place. You sat outside my house for hours staring at it. She thought you croked. She was going to poke you with a stick. And- and you shovel her walk, and help around the house. And your butt makes up for the complaining. And you scared off everyone trying to buy it. You bought my house, Luke." She said a mile a minute, she couldn't get her thoughts straight so she just said them all at once.
"Why- Why'd you buy my house?" She said after he didn't say anything for a few minutes.
"I-I...I didn't think you'd want anyone else living in it." That was half the truth. But, it was more like, he didn't want anyone else living in it.
Lorelai studied his face. "Does she live there?" She patiently awaited his answer, praying that it was a no.
"No." He said while shaking his head.
She smiled a small, sweet smile. "And your selling it?" He knew her too well. She would hate him and another woman living in her house, so he was selling it. That was why he was selling it, right? She only hoped.
He nodded.
"Has anyone offered yet?"
"No." The truth was, many people had offered to buy his house. But he had told them all no, he wasn't sure why. But he always found himself telling all of them no. Maybe he wasn't ready to let go yet...
But he had to be ready, he was getting married.
Lorelai nodded then she smiled. It was a type of smile Luke hadn't seen since she got here. She went behide the counter and got close to him.
"What are you doing? Customers aren't allowed behide the counter." He said.
"I didn't buy anything yet, I'm not a customer." Then she smiled and reached her hand in his back pocket.
"Lorelai!"
She pulled out his wallet and then ran over to the other side of the counter.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
She didn't answer, she just opened it and looked inside.
There it was. It was still there. After all these years he still had it. It was the horoscope that she had given him all those years ago. You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she will go away. She smiled, closed his wallet, and handed it back to him, then skipped out the door.
He stood there, not having a clue on what just happened. He put his hand in back pocket, where Lorelai's had just been. He grabbed his wallet and then went behind the curtain. He sat down on the stairs that led to the apartment.
Did you mean all those things you said about marriage?
What things?
You really want me to repeat them to you?
No I mean, I guess, for some people, marriage isn't the worst thing in the world. I mean it's probably better than being hobbled or something like that.
And people can evolve together don't you think?
Maybe.
Yoko and John Lennon did. They got closer and closer as the years went by. At the end they even had the same face.
It got a little spooky.
But cool
Yeah, they were lucky. I guess if you can find that one person, you know, who's willing to put up with all your crap and doesn't want to change you or dress you, or you know, make you eat French food, then marriage can be all right...but that's only if you find that person.
Yeah, if you find that person.
Lorelai's words rang through his head over and over.
If you find that person.
Well how'd ya like it, guys? A lot of you guessed that Luke bought Lorelai's house. I guess I'm pretty predictable, lol. Anyway...
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I'm sorry if I spelled gnomes wrong, I'm pretty sure that's right, though. I'm just too lazy to go look it up right now, lol. So, I apologize if it's wrong.
Next chapter: Rebecca talks to Luke about Lorelai. Rory gets a message from her mother which sends her on a road trip to a place she never thought she'd see again. Luke and Lorelai have a movie night at Luke's house.