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(A/N) - Wow. I finally finished this story.
This chapter is kinda weird, I changed my
writing style a bit. But I hope you guyslike it.

About Rory's name.
I messed up. It's supposed to be
Lorelai Leigh Marie Danes

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Story - New School and a New Life

Author - GilmoreGirlsFreakazoid

Chapter - Photos of Us and Perfection

Wonderful is time captured for one moment in a photograph. It's catching that certain spark in someone's eye when they're laughing or seeing the sadness reflected through tears as they cascade down a persons face. It's seeing the happiness of your childs first steps or the destruction of a diaster. In that one moment, a person's whole world could be caught in a single picture.

But having an album full of those photographs is what one would call something beautiful. All those memories, caught on a single roll of film is marvelous. To think that a few delicate pieces of paper could show you someone's world is amazing.

That is why she has so many family photo albums. This is why she is sitting on her couch, the day of her wedding, looking through memories of the past years.

About four years after Rory's birth, three years and 5 months since William's death, two years after Lorelai got a job at the Independence Inn and Luke opened the diner and seven whole months since Luke proposed to her - they were finally getting married.

Lorelai turned the page of the 'Danes-Gilmore' picture book and saw the last picture her precious 'pops' ever taken. He was sitting on his bed sitting up, looking fragile, holding a two month old baby Rory. She'll never forget that day because right after the flash went off, Will asked Luke to take Rory out of the room for a second so he could talk to Lorelai alone for a second.

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"Lorelai.", he sounded serious.

"Yeah pops?", Lorelai responded eager to find out why Will to talk to her alone.

"I need you to promise me something." he began closing his eyes.

"Sure, anything." Lorelai began fluffing his pillows.

"I need you to promise that you'll be there to pick up Luke when he's down, help him even when he says he don't need it and give him a smack across the head when needed."

Lorelai laughed, "That's no problem at all. But, why are you telling me to do this?" Lorelai sat back down on the chair next to Will's bed.

"Because I know my time is almost Lorelai. I'm about to call - what you would say - the big coffee cup in the sky."

"No you're not. Don't worry. We'll find some way to get rid of the cancer. We did it last time and surely we can do it again." Lorelai responded with much confidence in her voice, but only really trying to convince herself.

"They don't think so, darlin'. It's spread to my lungs now. It's so far spread out that they can't do nothin' for me anymore. It's just a matter of time."

--

Only four days after that - William died, peacefully in the comfort of his own home. The death was very hard on both Luke and Lorelai. But more so on Luke.

He became shelled into his own emotional cocoon. He didn't let anyone in on anything but Rory. But since Rory was only a few months old, the only she could was wrap her tiny fist around her fathers finger and let him hold her for hours.

It wasn't until one day, Lorelai came home early from working at the Inn did she find in Luke in an emotional state. It would be the first time she'd see him cry, the first time in months that he talked about everything to her and the first time in a while was she allowed to comfort him.

Lorelai kept flipping through pages of the album and stopped when she saw a cut out article from the Stars Hollow Gazette. It was of the Gilmore/Danes clan standing in front of the newly transformed diner. Luke was in his normal attire - backwards baseball cap, red flannel, jeans and his working boots. He had in his hands a two year old smiling Rory in the same outfit as her daddy but smaller, sans the boots. And to Luke's right was Lorelai, with his arm around her she beamed with pride.

That was the opening the new buisness. For a while after William died, Luke kept the property as a hardware store but did not appreciated the greatness of tools much like his father. So he thought about what he was good at - cooking. So for the next year or so William's Hardware soon became Luke's Diner.

Since the money situation was tight, Lorelai started working at the Independence Inn since Mia's brother took ill and needed to go to California for a a while. She worked as a maid. But once Mia came back, she promoted Lorelai to head desk.

Another page turned and Lorelai saw the picture she loved the most. It was from right after Luke proposed to Lorelai. It was a close-up of them kissing at the lake.

She remembered that night perfectly clear. As if it was just last night.

--

"Lorelai!" Luke called up the stairs.

"Yeah?" was the answer.

"Put your shoes on. Let's take a walk."

Lorelai was now bouncing down the stairs with her hair in pig tails and looking like a 5 year old.

"Special reason?" she said while grabbing her sneakers from the closet.

"Maybe." he had a special smirk on his face and she knew he was up to something.

Once Lorelai was done putting her shoes on, they walked outside. Luke walked beside her with his arm around her waist and his hand in her back pocket. They reached the lake. The spot Luke took Lorelai before they were in a relationship and right before he met the Gilmore's.

"What are we doing here?" she asked as Luke sat down in the same spot they did those few years ago.

"I want to show you something. Come, sit down." Luke patted in front of him where his legs where open, so she could sit in front of him.

She sat down and Luke put his arms around his waist. He let his chin rest on her shoulder while she leaned back against him.

The watched the lake and the gentle movements of the trees around them.

A few minutes passed by until Luke spoke up, "Ya know. I still do most of my thinkin' here."

"Really?" she craned her neck and looked at his face.

"Yeah, not a lot though. Just times when I neeed to think of stuff that has to do with us."

"Hmm." was the only response.

"Lorelai?"

"Hm?"

"Do you remember when Rory was born?"

"How could I not forget? That pain, God, I can never forget that."

Luke chuckled.

"But do you remember the talk we had before you went into labor?"

Lorelai heart raced a bit.

"Um. Yeah. Why?"

"Because I need to ask you something."

Her body became stiff. She turned around and looked at him in the eye.

"See. I have this ring, and I need someone to wear it.", he pulled a velvet box out of his pocket and opened it.

"It was my mom's. She left it for me to give it to someone."

Her eyes began to tear up.

"And I was wondering, would you want to marry me? Because that's the only way you get the wear the ring."

He pulled the ring from the box and took her hand. He pushed it onto her right middle finger and looked up at her.

She nodded and laughed.

"Yes!"

"Good, because that would mean I'd have to take it back. And I don't want to." his voice lowered as his face became closer to hers.

"There is no way you're getting this back mister." she whispered right before kissing him.

The click of a camera was heard but they didn't care. They were finally engaged.

--

She closed the album.

She picked herself off from the couch, bundled the bottom of her wedding dress into her hands, walked out the door and into her jeep.

--

Luke walked into the cemetery and onto the familar path to his father's grave.

He visited his dad on the most important days and some not so important.

He looked up the hill to where his father was burried and caught off guard by the most beautiful sight.

The walk up to the grave isn't a long one, but Luke still ran.

At the top was his beautiful almost-wife standing there in her wedding dreses talking to the head stone.

"Excuse me miss. Why is a pretty thing like you, standing alone in wedding dress by yourself?"

"Oh, because my fiancee left me all alone in the house and I decided to run away to this grave. Good idea huh?" she teased.

"Yep.", he wrapped his arms around her waist and starred down at the tombstone.

"I was just telling him today was the big day."

"That's what I came to do."

"You know, it sucks he can't talk back to us because if he did, he'd probably say 'About damn time.'"

"Or he'd call me stupid and said I should have done this sooner."

"Yeah. That too."

They stood there for a few more minutes until Luke spoke up.

"Well dad, we need to go. We're due at the alter in a half an hour and if we don't get there soon, Emily will go Taylor on us."

"I still don't understand how she got us to let her plan this."

"I think it had something to do with her and your dad paying for the wedding and her saying 'sorry' forty-three thousand times."

"Yeah. Well, I swear, if she thinks that I wasn't serious about not having doves being let free during the ceremony, she has another thing coming to her."

"Okay babe, whatever you say."

They stayed there for a few more moments until Luke said, "How about we go get married?"

"I'd love to."

And Lorelai took his hand and walked with him down the hill.

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Perfect is finally having that someone you could always confide in no matter what. And that's what these two finally got.

They got married, had more kids, maybe even a dog.

That's the end.

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