Author: aynat (©Tanya Long)
Description: A funeral, a baby and a new beginning. To start over Lorelai needs to say goodbye.
Spoilers: ONE MAJOR ONE FROM SEASON SIX (well... season five finale on)
Disclaimer: I don't own the Gilmore Girls characters, though I would kindly pay for Luke. I make no money from this, it's purely for fun!
Author's Note: Eep! Don't shoot me, I didn't mean to leave y'all with the cliffhanger this time. Really, I didn't. I knew I'd be gone for the weekend so I had uploaded three chapters, the last which would leave you without any suspense while I was gone... and I forgot to add two of them to the story. D'oh!
Emily Gilmore had always been the biggest pain in Lorelai's a-- neck. Always. There were days growing up the Lorelai wished her mother would just be sucked into a hole. Days she never wanted to see her mother again. But she never thought of her mother dying.
It wasn't easy to understand. So many times she had wished Emily Gilmore would disappear, but now that she was gone Lorelai saw just how much she had gotten from her mother. She was Lorelai because of her mother. She had Emily's stubborness, which helped her get to where she was in life. She never gave up when there was a fighting chance, just like her mother. And most importantly, she wanted what was best for her daughter...
The service was dry, full of DAR women and family Lorelai had never met. Not many tears were shed, but the silence spoke the lost so many felt. Lorelai couldn't bear to look over at her father, she knew the hurt his face would show. The same hurt her face wore during Christopher's funeral, the same heart Lorelai couldn't shake.
Rory had come with Lorelai again, but the two were as distant as ever. Lorelai had hoped that with the events of the last months her daughter would be there for her, that Rory would let Lorelai be there for her daughter. But apparently not. Lorelai knew Rory was turning to Logan for comfort, she just hoped he was there for her when she needed it.
At least she had Luke. Everytime she was with him this past month she waited for him to leave, but he appeared to be right by her side. With all that was going on she felt her life was too messed up for Luke to be there, but he was. She wasn't going to question that fact any further.
Just at the end of the service her cell phone rang. She closed her eyes when she realized she'd forgotten to turn it off. Quickly taking it from her purse she saw Luke's name on the call display. This had to be an emergency, because he knew where she was.