Stand Still - Chapter Seven: No More Running
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
A/n:
Mimimoon: Well, Thank you! Enjoy!
Pheobe4u: Thank you! I try to be original so that's a great compliment. Enjoy...
Ronata: Haha thanks so much!
Franala: No Luke didn't just leave with Lorelai. Lorelai left to go upstairs and then Rebecca got mad and left, too. Sorry if that was confusing... Pretty good guess about Lorelai's present...But you'll have to wait and see.
lindsey: Haha thank so much that means a lot. Enjoy and review!
GilmoreGirlsFreakazoid: Sorry, you'll have to wait a llittle longer to find out Lorelai's surprise...For now you'll just have to read this...
screaming truth: Just a little longer and then you'll find out what Lorelai's surprise is...Glad you liked it, enjoy...
JoEySaNgEl1534: Well, lucky you cuz the Taylor/ Rebecca chat is the first part of this chapter soo enjoy...Glad you liked the Lorelai Box.
GGFAN6: You'll find out what Lorelai's plan is soon...And here is another chapter soo another one closer to the scene you have been waiting for...Rory and Luke don't really talk much in this chapter, but don't worry...They will...
gilmoregirlsfanatic: You'll find out her present in 3 chapters I believe. 2 or 3I forget...But while your waiting, read this and review!
Lukelorelaichick: You'll find out her plan in 2 or 3 chapters soo it won't be too long of a wait. You'll find out what Rory's doing in Stars Hollow soon enough, soo please enjoy!
lollysamantha: Hey, glad you like the ring idea, and also the Lorelai box idea. Thanks for the review, enjoy this next chapter...
Marcel-Marceau-chicken: Thank you! Here's my update soo I hope you like it, tell me whatcha think!
tom: Don't worry, I think my way of getting Rebecca 'out of the picture' is pretty good, and Ithink you'll like it... Luke and Rory don't talk much in this chapter but they will talk later...And you find out about the present in 2 or 3 chapters, I can't remember which I wrote it in. Please enjoy and thx for the lovely review.
javarox: Yup, she is.Thanks so much for the review! Please enjoy...
MoKnKeYbUtT09: Haha I'll think about your story idea...Thx for the review!
orangesherbert7: Hey thanks! The first part of this chapter is Taylor/Rebecca's chat soo enjoy. You'll find out what Rory brough in a few chapters, chapter 9 or 10 I can't remember...Thx for the review!
Anyways, on with the story...
"Good morning, Rebecca." Taylor greeted her.
"Hey, Taylor." She responded.
"Hey, any news about Luke's house?" Taylor asked.
"Nope," She said.
"It's too bad that he's selling it...He's lived there for five years, kept it exactly the same..." Taylor said.
"Same as what?" Rebecca asked.
"What?"
"What did he keep it the same as, Taylor?" She asked.
"Oh, he kept it the same as it was when Lorelai owned it." He said in a "duh" kind of way, knowing that he was starting trouble.
"Lorelai owned it?" She asked wide eyed.
"You didn't know? You've known Luke for two years, he never told you?" He asked again knowing that what he was doing would start some problems.
"No..." She said begginning to get angry.
"Well, I hope he picks a buyer soon." Taylor said.
"Well, nobodys offered yet." Rebecca said.
"Sure they have, there have been tons of offers so far. I've talked to a few of them myself." Taylor said. He could tell that she was getting angry, and he liked that...
"Luke told me that there haven't been any offers yet."
"Oh, well, maybe I'm mistakin'. I swore that I thought the Donaldson's..."
"No, Taylor, your probably right, I must have heardhim wrong." She told him even though she was positive that she heard Luke right. He had told her that no one had offered, that's why he hadn't moved in with her yet. And why didn't he tell her that it used to be Lorelai's house? And does that mean...No it couldn't. Luke loved her, not Lorelai. It was a nice house, that's why he bought it, not because it's Lorelai's. She had broken his heart, he was way over her.
But she had to go talk to him, now.
Rory pulled up at the high school just like Lorelai had told her in the message. Then she walked into Luke's Diner trying to hide herself from the townspeople's eyes. She didn't want to attract any attention, not yet. She wasn't ready for the questions.
She opened the door to the diner and heard that delightful BING sound that she had heard so many times before. She looked around the mildly crowded diner and searched for Luke.
"Rory?" There he was, but if he hadn't called her name shemight not have recognized him at all. He was wearing nice clothes, not his usual flannel shirt and backwards baseball hat.
"Hey, Luke." She hugged him.
"What are you doing here?" He smiled.
"Looking for my Mom." She replied.
"She's upstairs." He told Rory.
"Oh, thanks." Rory walked behind the curtain and began up the stairs. Her mother was staying in Luke's apartment, did that mean that they were together again? She hoped so.
Rory knocked on the door and a few seconds later her Mom opened it.
"Rory!" She hugged her daughter, something she hadn't done in a very long time.
"Hey, Mom." Rory said. Lorelai led her inside and they sat on the couch.
Rory looked around the room, it was practically empty. There was still a couch, and a bed.
"Why are you here, Mom?" Rory asked.
"I'm staying here." Lorelai said even though she knew it wasn't what she meant.
"No, I mean, in Stars Hollow. Why now?" Rory asked.
She sighed. "...You remember how Luke loaned me 30 thousand dollars when I was trying to open up the Inn, right?" Lorelai said.
"Yes."
"Well, I came to pay him back."
"So, that's it, just to pay him back?" Rory knew there was more.
"Well...That's what it was originally about. I was going to stay for a few days, see everyone, the town, give him the money, and then leave..."
"But...?"
"But, I don't know. I can't leave now, Rory. Not yet, not until I know that there's absolutely no reason for me to stay."
"What about your job, Mom? You can't just take all these days off."
"Rory..." She didn't want to tell her. She knew that she'd be mad.
"Mom...?"
"I quit my job." Lorelai said and waited for the yelling to begin.
"You quit?" Rory said surprsingly calm.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I wasn't happy, Rory. I worked all day in this job that I never really liked, and I never got to see my daughter and...I just wasn't happy."
Rory knew that it wouldn't help anything if she kept going with the conversation they were having. She knew her Mom had been unhappy, she just didn't know she was this unhappy.
"So...What happened here?" Rory changed the subject to Luke's apartment.
"Oh...Well, Luke moved." Lorelai said.
"Luke moved? To where?" Rory asked.
"To our house." Lorelai answered.
"Our house? You mean our old house? Luke moved into our old house?" Rory was shocked, why would he do something like that? There was only one explanation...He missed them...
"Yes. And he's selling it, because..." Lorelai started.
"Because...?"
"Because he's getting married." She hated saying the words aloud, it hurt her to say them, it hurt to hear them.
"He's getting married? Mom..." Rory began to comfort her mom but Lorelai put a hand out.
"No, it's OK... I know he still loves me, Rory...Well I think he does. I mean, he bought our house, and he kept the horoscope, and Rebecca's not wearing his mother's ring and he has a Lorelai Box. That has to mean he still loves me right?" Lorelai asked with hopeful eyes.
"Whoa...What horoscope and what ring? Luke has a Lorelai Box?"
"This horoscope I gave him once, when we first met. I told him to keep it, and he did. And well...Kirk told me that he was going to propose, with his mother's ring. He was going to ask me to marry him someday...So then I asked him if Rebecca was wearing his mother's ring and he said no. That has to mean that he still loves me right? Or that he has some feelings for me, right? That hewants me to have his mother's ring?And I was at his house...our house...his house...whatever and so then I was kind of looking in his closet and I found this box and inside were all these things...I- I'm pretty sure it was a Lorelai Box...It's Luke, Rory...I can't let him go, not without a fight." Lorelai said.
Rory had never seen her mother like this. Lorelai often knew what she wanted and she would always fight for it. She would fight for a job or trying to find a house or something like that, but never for a man. She had never had a man worth fighting for, partly because her mother had always been one of those people who were afraid of commitment. In New York, her mother dated when she had the chance, but she would never had a 3rd or 4th date with the same man. Rory thought that Lorelai was still in love with Luke, but she didn't think it was anything like this. She could see it in her eyes, just how much she loved Luke. Rory knew she wasn't going to give up.
"So...Why'd you make me bring..." Rory was cut off.
"Because it says something, it says that I still love him and always will...And I know that when I give it to him, he'll know what I'm trying to say..." Lorelai said. She had this look in her eyes that said that she was in love, and that she knew everything would be OK...But it also showed that she was a little bit afraid that it wouldn't.
"No one saw it right?" Lorelai asked. She didn't want her surprise to be ruined.
"No...No one saw it." Rory assured her.
"Good. Now, I just have to give it to him..." Lorelai said.
"How are you going to do it?"
"I'm not sure yet...I haven't really thought that far ahead..."
"So...What happens if he, you know, gets what your saying and comes back to you?" Lorelai knew what she was getting at.
"I don't know...I don't really want to go back to New York, Rory. New York was just an escape. But the thing is, what I was running from...I don't want to be running from it anymore..."
"But, Luke, your living in her house, that has to mean something!" Rebecca argued as they had been for the past two hours. After Taylor told her all about Luke's house, she rushed over to Luke's and they had been talking in the gazebo for the past two hours, with a short little break every hour when Luke had to return to the diner for a few minutes. Then he'd return and the yelling would just start again. By this point almost everyone was listening in on their argument. After all, it was Stars Hollow and they didn't know such a word as privacy in that town.
"It means nothing, not anymore...It used to, but that was a long time ago, before we met. Now it means nothing." Luke told her even though he wasn't sure that was true. Of course it meant something, he just wasn't sure what kind of something that was.
"I don't believe that." She quieted down. She looked at her feet and began to study the wooden floor. She was trying to hold in the tears, she knew the whole town was listening and she didn't want to cry in front of them. She didn't want them to think that they had won, that she was out of the picture.
"Why don't you trust me?" He asked trying to get her to look at him.
"This doesn't have to do with trust, it has to do with who do you love, her or me?" She looked deep in to his eyes as she said this.
"I love you." He told her in a not so convincing way.
"I just don't believe you, Luke. Why don't I believe you?" She began to raise her voice and wave her arms to show her anger.
"I don't know, Rebecca. Why don't you believe me?" He began to get angry, too. He knew why she didn't believe him. She didn't believe him because he didn't even know how she thought, so how could she believe something he wasn't even sure about?
She was silent for a few minutes, sighing and shaking her head. Neither of them knew what to say, so they sat in an uncomfortable silence for awhile.
"If we're going to get married," She sighed and sat down on the bench, "Then I have to know that your really in this, and that you really love me. I have to know that your over her." She stared into his eyes trying to figure out what he was thinking. But she couldn't figure it out, she could never figure him out. His expression was blank, as it usually was. She had no idea what he was thinking, so she waited.
"OK." He said.
"OK? That's it? OK?" She asked him. She wanted something more than an OK. She wanted some reassurance that he did love her and not Lorelai. But all she got was an OK, what did that mean anyway?
He nodded, "yes...OK." He told her.
She nodded, too. "OK." She said. She stood up beside him, took his arm and led him back to the diner. She had no idea what he was thinking or even what she was thinking. Things had been going great with them, they were going to get married. But then at the worst possible time, Lorelai shows up. She knew that her showing up confused Luke and she knew that now he wasn't sure about his feelings towards either of the two women.
All she could do was wait and see what happens. She hated that, she hated waiting. But it was all she could do.
And then she realized, that maybe there was something she could do...
I know this was kind of a short chapter, I'm sorry! ButI have to goto a party soon andI think this is the best place to stop...So please leave some reviews because you all know how much I love them!
Next Chapter: Sometimes people need to hear the thing they don't want to hear...Well, Liz provides that for Luke and Rebecca for Luke.
..That's all I can spill for now...Sorryy