Stand Still- Chapter Six: Dear Rory
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, onlyto 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?
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls or any of it's characters. I only write this for fun and don't make any money off of it or anything like that.
Rating: pg13 just to be safe
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"You should have just told me all of this, Sookie. Then I wouldn't have come home to all of this, I would have been prepared... I could have had a speech prepared or something, atleast I would have known what I was coming home to..." Lorelai told Sookie that day.
"I know. I just, I didn't want to hurt you. ...Plus, you love surprises!" Sookie said trying to lighten the mood.
"Not the kind where the man I love is getting married to somebody else."
"You really love him?" Sookie asked, she figured she did, but Lorelai had never said she loved him. She had never said she loved any man, not like that.
"Yes."
Sookie nodded. "Sooo what else did you want to tell me?" Sookie asked remembering why she had rushed over to Luke's old apartment.
"Oh! Well, see when I first met Luke I tried to get him to give me coffee by giving him this horoscope and I told him to keep in his wallet forever. Yesterday I looked, and it was still there. Andd you know he bought my house but did you know that he kept the inside exactly the same? I mean, Babette says he even has the couch in the same place and everything...What do you think that means?"
"That he hasn't cleaned out his wallet and he liked your furniture arrangement?" Sookie said.
"Sookie..."
"I don't know, Lorelai! You know I want you two together, but...He's getting married. I mean, you don't want to be the other woman, right?"
"No, but..."
"What?" Sookie asked.
"I havethis plan..." She said. Sookie raised her eye brow waiting for more.
"But why do you have to hang out with her so much?" Rebecca asked Luke that night at the diner. It was completely empty except for Kirk who was of course sitting there playing with his food.
"She's lonely..." Luke answered.
"Yeah, I'm sure." Rebecca rolled her eyes.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Why don't you care that this bothers me?" Rebecca changed the subject.
"Because you won't even tell me why it bothers you!" He yelled.
"Because your clueless!"
"Fine, fill me in..." He said.
"Fine."
"OK..."
"I'm jealous, OK? ...Everyone just goes on and on about how perfect she is and how much you loved her and how you still do. They tell me how you still get that twinkle in your eye when she comes in the room, and how you are still so perfect for each other. Everyone says it, Luke...They all tell me how I won't last...how you'll go back to her... And you know she wants you back, you know it, Luke." She said getting quiet.
He just stared. His stare was directed in her direction, but it seemed like he was looking right through her. He was thinking, about everything she had just said. He was staring into space, trying to figure all of this out even though he wasn't sure he ever would.
And then she came in. The bell rang as it always did and he looked up, like he always did.
"Hey! Listen, wanna have a movie night with me? I got Parent Trap, both versions andthen if we finish those I have Girl, Interupted. It's about this depressed 18 year old girl who goes to a mental hospital and becomes friends with a socipath. Then they escape and go to Florida but first they stay with this girl who just got out the mental hospital, but while they are there the girl ends up hanging herself in the bathroom. I know it's pretty different from Parent Trap, but I haven't seen it in awhile, so...You in?" Lorelai said completely ignoring the conversation that she probably interupted. Sure, she heard the yelling from outside, but she wasn't really interested, she just wanted to hang out with Luke.
He nodded and then she skipped upstairs to the apartment, leaving the couple alone again.
He looked back at his fiance who was furious. Her arms were crossed, she frowned, rolled her eyes and then walked out the door angirly.
Rory had been driving for what seemed like days. It had been exactly one week since her mother had left to go to Stars Hollow, and it had been one week and three days since they had actually spoken.
Their jobs kept them very busy and they just, always missed each other. They left early in the morning and came home late at night and barely talked.
The last time she had talked to her Mom she could tell that something was wrong, something usually was so she wasn't too worried. If only she had known it was like this...
Ever since they had left Stars Hollow, Lorelai hadn't been the same. Rory knew why, she knew it was because of Luke, but Lorelai would never admit to it. Lorelai hadn't been on many dates since they moved to New York, and no more than two with the same guy. Rory didn't even know if she had even kissed anyone since her and Luke had broken up, but she didn't want to bring it up.
The last time she had talked to Lorelai she seemed so distant, like her mind was somewhere completely different. She was worse than usual.
And when Rory came home that night to find that note sitting on her bed, it all began to make sense.
Dear Rory,
I'm going to Stars Hollow today. It's something I really need to do. I have something important to give to Luke, and I just need to get away for awhile. I don't know when I'll be home, but I'll call you when I know anything.
Love, Mom
The words rang through Rory's head. She wasn't sure what to think when she had read the note lying on her bed. She had been trying to get a few days off ever since her mother had left, but with her job, that was hard. She worked for the New York Times, it was her dream job, but it kept her very busy.
But then she got the message. The message her Mom left on her voicemail, so she told her boss she had the flu and left to Stars Hollow for a few days.
She was almost there, but it would still be atleast 30 minutes until she would be in Stars Hollow.
"Rory!"
"Mom? What's wrong?"
"I'm leaving, Rory. I'm selling the Inn, I'm selling the house, and I'm taking the job with the Durham group and I'm leaving.
"What?"
"I'm leaving."
"Leaving what?"
"Stars Hollow, I'm leaving Stars Hollow. I've lost Luke and your never here, there's nothing for me to stay for."
"Mom..."
"I can't stay here, Rory. It's too hard."
"But what about me?"
"What about you?"
"You didn't even think about consulting me in this life changing decision?"
"Rory...I need to do this. I can't stay...I'm sorry."
"You can't just leave, it's Luke...He's not going to let you go this easy."
"Well he did, he let me go, I'm gone."
"Mom... You can't just do this..."
"I can Rory, I did. Babette is taking care of sellingthe house, all I had to do was sign a few papers. I called Mike Armstrong today and it's all set, I signed on the dotted line...It's done."
"You're really doing this? Your just giving up? Just talk to him... He's waited for you for all these years, he's not going to just let you leave..."
"Rory! Luke made it perfectly clear what he wanted, there's nothing I can do about it...Why can't you support me!"
"Mom...Where are you going?"
"New York."
"That's it...Your going to New York and never coming back?"
"Yes."
"Never? Your never going to come back? How could you just leave? Stars Hollow is our home..."
"Not anymore, it's not my home. This is something I need to do, Rory. I need to start over."
She remembered how panicked and scared her mother seemed, but also so serious and so sad. Those weren't emotions she saw in her mother very often. After that they fought very often, they even had a four month period where they didn't talk to each other. But like they always did, they made up. Rory finished Yale, and spent the summers in New York with her mother. She graduated two years later and then moved in with her mother. After that, they had left Conneticut and the Gilmore's for good. Both Rory and Lorelai were mad at Emily for what happened at her wedding, and they didn't want to see her. They called Richard every once in awhile, but that was all the contact they had with their old lives.
Then Rory was offered a small job at the New York Times, and as time went by she kept getting promoted. And then Lorelai and Rory both became very busy and barely got to talk or see each other.
And now Lorelai had gone back to the place she said she never would go back to, and Rory was chasing after her.
"Hey Luke?" Lorelai scooted a little bit closer to him and looked him in the eye. They had just finished the first Parent Trap and were sitting in silence.
"Yeah?"
"About the house..."
"Look, Lorelai, don't look too much into it, OK?" He said. He didn't want her thinking he did it because of her, even though... maybe he did.
"OK...But I was thinking that...Well maybe...I think I'd like to, um, buy it...from you..." She said. She wasn't sure yet, it all depended on Rory, and if she brought it. And what Luke's reaction to it was. She sure as hell didn't want to watch Luke and Rebecca get married. If they went through with the wedding, she would leave. She wouldn't be able to stay and watch the man she loved be married to another woman. But if they didn't and she thought that she had a chance with him again, there was a very good possiblity that she'd buy that house back.
"Really?" He asked. He'd like that, it'd mean she was staying.
"Well, maybe. Nothings final, but I just wanted to let you know so you didn't sell it yet...I'll know pretty soon if I want to or not."
"OK...Well I won't..."
"Thanks, Luke." She smiled that beautiful smile. The one that used to make him melt inside, the one that still did.
"No problem." He told her.
"You up for the next Parent Trap? Did you know that Lindsay Lohan had to be both of the twins in this movie? TV is magical..." Lorelai laughed.
"Yeah... put it in..." He said as he moved around on the couch.
"I just have to go to the bathroom before the movie, OK?" Lorelai said getting up. They were watching the movie at Luke's new place and Lorelai's old place since the diner didn't have a TV. Lorelai went upstairs to the bathroom.
When she got out of the bathroom she looked across the hall and saw Luke's room, her old bedroom. She couldn't help herself but to go in.
She sat down on the bed and looked around the room.
The closet door was open, so she decided to look inside to see if there were any flannel shirts inside. She got up and walked into the closet. There wasn't any flannel in sight, only the clothes that he had been wearing since she came. But then she saw something red in the back of the closet near the ground. She pushed other things aside to find a box with a flannel shirt sticking out of it. She stared at the box before she looked inside.
When she did look inside she was amazed at what she found. There were atleast 15 flannel shirts inside, all of the ones that she used to wear where in there, along with a few others. His hats were in there also, but then she saw a picture. She pulled it out and smiled when she saw that it was a picture of her and Luke at the Fire Light Festival. Rachel had taken it when she came all those years ago.
Then she pulled out a coffee cup, it was the one that Lorelai always used when she stayed at Luke's apartment.
She pulled out the invitation for the opening of the Dragonfly, a pair of her old earrings that she must have left at Luke's, a tape, and a movie.
She looked at each of them and thought about the memories they held. She couldn't stop smiling. He had kept all of these things, he had a Lorelai Box.
She looked down at the tape and wondered what the tape was of. She moved over to his tape player that sat on his dresser, she made sure to turn the volume down very, very low. And then she listened. She was confused, it sounded like one of those self help tapes. Luke bought a self help tape?
Then she heard the part that she knew was the reason it was in the box. She wasn't sure how she knew, she just did.
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?
She smiled. She knew he had seen her face. That's why it was in here, right? He saw her face. She only hoped he still did.
She stopped the tape, took it out and then she sat down next on his bed, next to the box.
Then she saw a small velvet box, she knew what it was. She took a deep breath before reaching for it. She opened the small box and was taken away by how beautiful the ring in her hand was. This was his mother's ring, this would have been her ring. She took it out and put it on her finger for a minute, she smiled at how perfect it looked on her ring finger. She began to imagine Luke proposing to her. She wondered how he would do it, what he would say, if he would get down on one knee. She imagined him putting the ring on her finger. She didn't want to take it off, but she had to. Then she quickly took it off and put it back in the velvet box.
She put all of the stuff back inside the box, slowly, smiling at each object as she placed it inside the box. She quickly put the box back in the closet. Luke had a Lorelai Box. She smiled and went back down the stairs to watch another movie with Luke. He had a Lorelai Box, that had to mean something right? There was no Rachel Box in there and no Nicole Box. Just one for Lorelai.
She sat down beside Luke, still in her dreamland.
"You OK?" He asked.
"What?" She glanced around the room that looked almost the same as when she had lived there, and then she glanced at the man sitting beside her.
"Yeah, I'm good...Hey Luke?" Lorelai said.
"Yeah?"
"I have something for you." She told him.
"OK...What is it?" He asked almost a little bit afraid to ask.
"Well, it's not ready yet. But it will be soon." Lorelai said. She hoped he liked it, she hoped he would understand the message she was trying to send by giving it to him. She snuggled under a blanket and turned on the movie.
Well, there you go. I had this whole thing written, it was pretty long, but then I decided that I didn't like it and I completely changed it. I erased the whole thing and wrote it completely differently. But trust me, this way is much better. I know it's a little bit short, but its' better than my original chapter.
So, for now, your just going to have to guess what will happen when Rory returns to Stars Hollow and what is Lorelai's plan? And of course, how will Luke react to it?
Next Chapter: Rory comes to Stars Hollow and has a long talk with Lorelai. Also Rebecca and Luke fight when Taylor tells Rebecca somethings she didn't know.