Previously:

"I knew"

"Knew what?"

"I knew you were pregnant," he said, as he looked her straight in the eyes.

"WHAT!"

"I knew"

"How did you know?" you could hear the emotion in Lorelai's voice

"I put all the clues together, the throwing up, the loose clothes, you lost your balance and practically fell into my arms and the fact that you dropped a reminder for a doctors appointment helped too"

"So you knew all along"

"Yes"

"That's why when you first saw Laurie you weren't shocked, it was because you knew all along"

"Yes"

"You knew wall along and you didn't do anything about it" the anger in her voice was rising.

"Hey, don't blame this all on me you never told me"

"Yeah because I was scared, but you knew, you could have done something about but you didn't you just left me, you left me and you left Laurie."

"Hey you weren't the only one that was scared, I was too, I thought I was doing the right thing by not coming after you, I thought if I did you would push me away and I would never see you or my child ever again, I couldn't risk that."

"I have to go"

"Lorelai wait"

"I'll see you later" and with that she was gone, Luke knew this wasn't the last time he would see her but it brought back so many memories, memories of all the hurt they had once experienced but this time it was different, this time they had both hurt each other so much it didn't even compare to before.

Continued:

Later that night Luke was cleaning the counter of the diner. He felt like crap. He never meant to upset Lorelai like that. He couldn't believe he told her like that. Honestly she took it a lot better than he ever thought she would. That didn't change the way he felt though. He was going to talk to her though. Tomorrow though, he wanted to give her some more time to process. It was the least he could do. So he decided to close up early so he could have some time to think about what he was going to say to her. Just then the bell over the door rang. He look up to see that he wasn't going to get an opportunity to go over in his head what he wanted to say to Lorelai because that opportunity was right in front of him.

"Can I talk to you?"

"Yeah um sure"

"Good"

"I didn't expect you"

"Yeah well I had a realization and Sookie offered to watch Laurie so I thought it was a sign to come talk to you."

"Right"

Lorelai walked over to a stool in front of Luke and sat down. "I'm sorry"

"For what"

"Everything, I handled this whole situation really badly, I thought I was doing the right thing but as it turns out I did the completely wrong thing. The worst part about it was that I didn't even realize it until today. I should have told you about Laurie and I didn't. I will regret that for the rest of my life but you have to know that I wanted to, I really did. I tried it's just I was so scared but I was selfish. I didn't think about anyone else but myself and I hope you can forgive me but I'll understand if you won't. I just want you to know that I'm very sorry."

Luke sat down on the barstool next to her. "I was never mad, I actually understood, I mean the town wouldn't leave you alone and I sure as hell didn't make it any easier."

"I still should have told you."

"As long as were apologizing here I want you to know that I'm sorry too."

"What have you got to be sorry about."

"I shouldn't have left you"

"You didn't"

"Yeah I did, but for the same reasons as you, I thought I was doing the right thing."

"Well at least we have best interests at heart."

"I hate the fact that I missed out on the beginning of Laurie's life and I will never forgive myself for letting you go through that all alone. "

"It's not your fault"

"I still should have done the right thing. I always preached to everyone to take responsibility for your actions and one of the most important things a person can ever go through in life happened to me and I basically ignored it. I mean I didn't ignore it, I thought about you and Laurie everyday and there were times I thought about going to find you. It's just I was so afraid that you wouldn't want to see me or I would push you to far and I thought the risk was to high."

"Let's just agree that we both had the best intentions in mind but didn't go through it in the best possible way. Agreed?" She brought out her hand to set the deal.

"Agreed" He then shook her hand to set the deal.

"Good, now that that's settled"

"Just so you know I wouldn't have runaway." Luke then went back to staring at the floor.

"What?" Lorelai was staring at him now, trying to comprehend what she heard.

"You said you were scared to tell me, and I just want you to know I wouldn't have left you" He was still avoiding eye contact with her.

"You wouldn't have?" Her face was starting to soften

"No, to tell the truth I would have probably asked you to marry me." He admitted.

"What?" Lorelai then went back to being shocked.

"I would have asked you to marry me." He then looked her in the eye.

"Why?"

"Because… it would have been the right thing to do?" Sure that wasn't the reason but he couldn't admit to her that he was in love with her then and still in love with her now, not after everything that happened tonight. So he went with the safe answer.

"Oh" She was a little disappointed by his answer but not surprised. Luke was the type of guy to do the right thing. She had thought about it from time to time and she knew that even if he had asked she would have said no, that's not how she wanted to get married. "Just so you no, I wouldn't have accepted."

"What?" This took Luke off guard.

"I wouldn't have accepted your proposal."

"Why?"

She then looked away from him. "Because I didn't want you to be up there and when you said, "I DO" to be think I do but only because I have to." She then paused. "That's not how I want to get married."

He just looked at her. What she said made a lot of sense; he understood where she was coming from. If only she knew that he wouldn't have asked her because of that. Sure that's what would have initiated it but it wouldn't have been the reason.

"I should go, Sookie's waiting and I've got work to do."

"Okay, I'm glad you stopped by."

"Yeah me too, we got a lot of stuff covered."

"Yeah we did"

"I'll see you tomorrow"

"See you tomorrow"

With that Lorelai left the diner. Luke stayed where he was though. He watched her walk away. Man he wished he could go back. If only he hadn't of hurt her all those years ago, things would have been so much different.

Lorelai walked through the front door of her house and quietly tiptoed into her living room. Sookie was just coming down the stairs.

"She's asleep."

"She wasn't any trouble was she?"

"Not at all"

"Good"

"So how did things go?"

"There better"

"Still didn't solve your feelings though?"

"Not at all" Lorelai then slumped onto the couch and Sookie joined her.

"I don't understand what's the problem?"

"Sookie, how can you not understand?"

"You still love him, you always have, you always will, what's the problem?'

"We to start we have a child"

"Yeah, so more the reason to tell him."

"It would complicate things"

"And their not complicated enough?"

"No it's just"

"Just what?"

"I don't want to get hurt again and I can't hurt Laurie"

"But if you go for it you may get everything you've wanted for years"

"Or I could lose everything"

"But for the longest time you and Luke haven't had a relationship"

"Until now"

"Yeah but before you had nothing to lose"

"And now I do"

"But things just got better, I mean if it happened again, wouldn't it be easy to go back?"

"Not now Sookie, I'd rather have a friendly relationship with him then no relationship at all"

"But if you tell him how you feel, you could have the relationship you want"

"This is giving me a headache"

"Just promise me you'll tell him how you feel before you go back to New York in a few weeks"

"Sookie"

"If not for me, then for yourself"

"Okay I promise"

Next: Were going to find out what's been going on with Emily and Richard in the past couple of years and what their relationship with Lorelai is like. Were also going to find out what Rory and Jess have been up do as well.