Stand Still: She's the Only One
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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: Sorry you don't like it...I realize that Luke and Lorelai are out of character, but that's what I was trying to do. People change, even Luke and Lorelai. After 5 years of being apart, I figured they would be a little bit different. As for the things with the shirts, yeah I did mess up a little bit there by saying the sea thing. I fixed it a little bit in this chapter. And if something like this happened I figured that the townspeople wouldn't really like it. Just my thoughts. Thanks for the review!
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"Lorelai..." He began for the 3rd time in the past 10 minutes.
"Luke, I know you're getting married...I know, I know that I'm a little late doing this and I know that the timing is bad but...I love you and I think you love me... I just needed you to know how I felt...before you go and get married." She said reaching for his arm only for it to be pulled away.
"I don't love you. Not anymore." He said as if he was trying to convince himself more than her.
The words sent a chill through her body, and not the good kind. She instantly felt like crying, but she tried to stay strong. He still loved her, she knew it. He was scared...He was just too scared...
"Luke, I know your scared..." She said. "But I promise you, this will work." She tried so hard to look sure of her statement.
"Lorelai...You're too late..." He said. She didn't want to believe him, but he looked so sure of what he had just said.
"Luke, I know..." She began.
"No, Lorelai! You don't! You don't know anything!" He was screaming now. She could tell he was mad, very mad.
"Luke, I'm just trying to tell you how I feel!" She was yelling back at him now.
"Well I don't give a damn!" He screamed. "Your way too late, Lorelai. You missed your chance. How could you just go and do this? I'm getting married in two weeks! Don't you care about that? Why are you trying to screw with my mind?" He said loudly.
"You did the same thing to me!" She snapped back at him.
"What I did was completely different." He told her.
"No fucking way!" She yelled. Most of the town was watching by then, but the two didn't care.
"I gave you the chuppah to show you that you meant something to me, that we were friends, that I cared... I didn't come down and completely screw with your mind!" He told her.
"I'm not screwing with your mind!" She said.
"Yes you are!" He told her. "Goddamit, Lorelai..." He said not sure of what to say.
"I just wanted you to know that I love you!" She said.
"Well I don't love you!" The second he said it, heregretted it.He hadn't meant for it to come out so harsh, but it did. It was out and it wasn't coming back in... He wasn't sure why he was saying this, why he was telling her that he didn't love her when he wasn't even sure if that was true. She was right, he was scared. He was very scared. Maybe he was just trying to avoid getting hurt, avoid letting her in, letting her know how he felt. And if that wasn't true, she was still his friend, a very good friend. He just wished he hadn't yelled at her, not like that.
She suddenly lost all of the anger in her eyes and became very sad. She sighed.
"OK." She said quietly. She turned away from him and walked away leaving Luke with the prying eyes of the towns people.
His heart sunk as he watched Lorelai walk away. He was doing the right thing, right? She would just hurt him...It was too big of a risk, right? What he had was good enough...
Good enough...Rebecca was good enough? She was more than good enough, wasn't she?
He went and stood by the chuppah, running his fingers down it and admiring how beautiful it still looked. He sat under it, still looking at it's beautiful details.
He had this horrible feeling in his stomach, he hated fighting with Lorelai, he always had. But this time, everything seemed so much worse.
Rebecca wandered around town later that afternoon, people seemed to be buzzing about something, but she hadn't been paying too much attention.
She was too happy about her conversation with Luke. They were going to move in together. Right now, she didn't care that he had lied to her or that he hadn't sold the house, she just wanted to be happy.
But she was suddenly forced out of her daze when she bumped into Kirk.
"Oh, sorry Kirk." She said.
He was stuttering as he tried to cover up something behind his back.
"What's that?" She asked trying to figure out what he was hiding.
"Nothing. Why would you think there's anything behind my back? There's nothing behind my back..." He said.
"What's on the table, Kirk?" She asked pointing to the table behind him.
He didn't answer, he just looked away from her, avoiding eye contact.
"Whatever." She shrugged,turned around and started walking towards Luke's.
She walked slowly, down the street, saying hello to her neighbors.
She was almost at Luke's when she stopped dead in her tracks. She turned around and her mouth dropped open. Everyone was rushing around town, as always...and almost all of them were wearing green shirts...And she was pretty sure that they said Luke and Lorelai forever on them.
Her eyes wandered around the town, trying to find someone without a green shirt on, but she couldn't.
She walked up to a random person, probably a tourist because she had never seen her before, wearing a green Luke/Lorelai t-shirt.
"Excuse me?" She asked.
The woman smiled, "Yes?"
"Umm...do you live in this town? I mean, I've never seen you here before." Rebecca talked to her trying to hide her anger.
"No, I don't." the woman replied.
"Soo...then...why are you wearing that shirt? Do you know them?" Rebecca asked.
"No, but I'veheard the entirestory during the story time the dance woman had an hours ago..." The woman said.
"Miss Pattie?" Rebecca said.
The woman nodded. "...Everyone talks about them, says they are meant to be and how it took them 8 years to finally realize their feelings...and then some things didn't work out and now marrying the wrong woman...They think the t-shirts might help him realize how stupid he's being...that if he knows everyone believes it will happen, he'll believe it to...Plus, I'm a sucker for a good romance and the shirts were free." The woman said.
Rebecca felt like her heart had stopped. She was incredibly angry and very sad. Angry that the town was so against her and that they were trying to ruin everything for her...Sad that maybe, even though they had just decided to move in together, he would realize that she was wrong and Lorelai was right.
"I have to go." She practically whispered.
She was going to go home, she was going to go home to think and maybe even cry...But then, she saw Kirk handing out the shirts and she snapped.
"Kirk!" She began to run to him.
He could tell she was angry, anyone with eyes could tell. He was scared, he was sure he could see steam coming out her ears, so he ran away.
"Kirk! Stop!" She yelled as she chased after him. They did laps around the gazebo and ran all around the square before Kirk tripped over something, probably his own feet.
"Kirk!" She yelled as she caught up to him. They were practically where they had started, at the table, only this time she could see what was on it...Hundreds of green shirts...
"Oh, hi...Didn't see you there." He said.
"Yes you did. I know you did..." She said getting angry.
He opened his mouth to speak, but she beat him to it.
"How could you do this, Kirk? I thought we were friends!" She yelled.
"We are...I have Luke/Rebecca shirts, too. Wanna see?" He said. He walked behind the table and pulled out an incredibly large trash bag. He opened it and pulled out the black shirt and handed it to her.
"Why are they on the table?" She said, begginning to calm down.
"Nobody wanted them." He said.
"Oh..." She said sadly. She folded up the shirt and handed it back to him, then she walked off away from the square.
"They think the t-shirts might help him realize how stupid he's being...that if he knows everyone believes it will happen, he'll believe it to..."
She couldn't get what that woman said. What if it worked and he did believe it... But they were going to move in together...This could ruin it...
She couldn't let that happen...
Luke had been sitting outside under the chuppah for at least 45 minutes when Rory came outside. He was so zoned out that he didn't even notice her until she sat down beside him and started talking.
"She really does love you." She said.
He just nodded, he wasn't sure what else to do.
"She was miserable without you. She hasn't really dated anyone since you, I don't think she's even kissed another guy. I never seen her like this, Luke. Not with a man at least, I know she loves you." Rory told him.
"Then why'd she leave?" He asked.
"You said you were out. You broke up with her. She didn't see any reason to stay." Rory explained.
"I wasn't out. I was just frustrated. She should have known that, she should have come talked to me. She shouldn't have just left like that..." Luke said.
"Maybe you should have talked to her." Rory told her. "You can't blame that whole thing with you guys, on her. She left because of what you said, she left because she didn't think she had anyone to stay for." Rory told him.
He didn't answer.
"Look, I know you're getting married. Maybe this woman'sthe real thing. But...just be absolutely sure about that, OK? Mom really does love you. I know she won't screw up this time. I know it. And I know she wants you to be happy even if it tears her up inside...Just think about it..." Rory said and then she got up and went back inside.
"Mom," Rory came back into the apartment to see her mother frantically packing a suitcase.
"I'm leaving, Rory. For good this time. I know I said it before, but this time I mean it. I'm never coming back here." Lorelai said as she threw things into her suitcase and then shut it, tears were streaming down her face.
"Mom, you can't. Give him a few hours, a day or two..."
"No, he made it perfectly clear...This time and last time...I shouldn't have come back...What was i thinking?"
"You were thinking you were in love." Rory said.
Lorelai ignored her last comment. "I have to go." Lorelai told her daughter and she began towards the door.
"Can you pack up the rest of the stuff and bring it home when you leave?" Lorelai asked her daughter.
Rory nodded, knowing that she wouldn't be able to get Lorelai to stay. But maybe she had a chance of getting Luke to chase after her.
"I'll see you later, kid," Lorelai said and kissed her daughter on the cheek.
"Bye. I love you."
Luke into his house to see many boxes by the door.
He walked into his bedroom to see his Lorelai Box sitting on the bed and Rebecca standing next to it. She was holding the ring, his mother's ring.
"Why aren't I wearing this ring, Luke?" She asked him, her eyes begginning to water.
He didn't answer her, instead he watched as she pulled out each individual thing in the box and place it on the bed.
"You kept all of this stuff, all of the stuff that you remember her by...Am I right?" She didn't wait for an answer, because she already knew what it was.
"I've been sitting here looking through this box and at first I had no idea what it was until I found this picture of you and Lorelai. Then I realized that it's some sort of memory box for her... And then I find this ring. And the box has your mother's name written inside. It took me a few minutes but... I think I finally understand...This was your mother's ring, and you wanted her to have it, didn't you? It's an engagement ring, right? And we're engaged so you'd think I would have it...But I don't. You wanted it for her, didn't you?" Again she didn't wait for an answer.
"All this stuff, you still have it...This ring...It was for...Everyone was right, I didn't want to listen, but they were all right. It's not you and me, it's you and Lorelai. God, I'm so stupid...Everyone told me that she was the only one for you, and they were right. She's the only one you want, Luke. She's the only one that will make you truly happy. I'm right aren't I?"
He was silent.
She nodded, tears threatening to fall down her face, "OK." She said. Then she walked towards him, twisted her ring off of her finger, took his hand and placed the ring inside, then closed his hand around it.
"Bye, Luke." She said. She started towards the door, but then turned back towards him. "As much as I hate you right now..." She took a deep breath and continued, "I want you to be happy...So...Go tell her, go tell her and give her that ring."
And with tears streaming down her face, Rebecca walked out of his life.
Sooo I'm certain that I'm about to get many angry reviews from all the Java Junkies out there...I deserve it, I know...but c'mon...
how stupid would it be if I was just like "Luke! I love you!" and then Luke was just like "OH, Lorelai, I love you too!" and they just start making out...See...that's boring and stupid. This way is more interesting...Maybe more painful, too but don't boycott the story yet! There's still 3 more chapters left!
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Next Chapter: Luke has a lot of thinking to do...And Jess is back? (boring summary, I know, but I can't say much without giving anything away.)