Luke and Rory where sitting in some chairs after the other guests had cleared out after singing "It's Raining Men" an interesting title for a group made up of men and women alike, who 89 percent of which were senior citizens. The rain had began to slow at this point.
Rory looked out the window closest to her and watched as the rain traced down its panes.
"How long do you think they've been talking?"
Luke had started to become concerned as the time had past. Every minute that slipped by, he felt his chance with Lorelai was slipping with it.
"I think it's been an hour and a half now."
Rory kept on staring out the window, she had finished her book about twenty minutes ago and the contents of the shelves mostly held children's books.
"You're not worried?"
"Hm?"
Rory glanced away from the window and saw the worry weighing on Luke's face.
"About what they're talking about…"
Luke turned away and looked out the window opposite him.
"It's not politics Luke, the worst that could happen as that mom slaps him or something. Though I suppose that could apply to politics as well."
A smile was felt by both of them. She was trying her best to comfort him, but she had her own doubts. She knew her mother wasn't the most decisive type of person when it came to relationships, she was offered a future with Max. A future together, apparently that had definitely scared her, or none of them would be here, and she had said that she hadn't loved him, but minds could change.
Lorelai had indeed done some damage.
The whole conversation hadn't been going very smoothly. At first it had started out civil but then Max gave into her suspicion that it had only started that way because he thought he could "take" her back. That he didn't "care" what she had just done, which was apparently sleep with Luke, and that he would "forgive" her for running from him. The conversation about her recent mistakes had gone on for a lot longer than it should for her taste. Where he got the nerve to say such things, she had had no idea. So she left the hall and went into another abandoned dining room, slamming the door behind her, which intern hit Max square in the face.
Lorelai ignored his thump to the floor and headed back into the main room.
Smiling assuredly at Rory she sat down next to Luke.
"So, how'd it go?"
Rory inquired hesitantly, still not quite sure what to make of her smile but did smile back as she saw her mother sit next to Luke, who looked quite surprised in fact.
"What's the matter? This seat taken?"
The question towards Luke was enough for Rory to know her mom's decision, and couldn't say that she was at all unhappy. Rory got up and left, knowing the signal smile from her mother, telling her that if she didn't want to be completely scarred that she should leave the room.
"Um, n-no not taken."
Luke felt almost foolish for his stumbling. Here Lorelai was looking at him and all he could do was stutter, not a good sign.
"Glad to hear it, I was afraid that you might have run off with someone else."
"And when have I ever expressed any interest in a woman with a cane?"
"Who know, you might have been hiding a cane fetish from me all these years."
"I would think that if I had any fetishes, that you would know them all by now."
"Assuming you have any of course."
Lorelai smiled coyly at him, it felt like the conversation with Max hadn't even happened, well happened, but hadn't phased them at all.
"Oh, I might have a few." Luke seemed to inch closer.
"Really? Might I be familiar with any of these fetishes?"
Lorelai gave into Luke's inchings and began to pull her self closer as well.
"Who knows, you just might."
Lorelai had planned on another reply but was hushed by him, as he connected with her softly.
Max was currently on the phone at the front desk, calling an ambulance for his supposedly broken nose he caught them from the corner of his eye, kissing no less. He kept the phone to his ear being, ironically enough, on hold and walked over beside the main door and watched them, his broken face hurting more with every increasing moment he saw. Clutching a hanker chief over his face with the other hand, he maneuvered himself behind the curtain he had his back to and continued to spy them as he waited for someone to pick up on the other line.
The rain had quieted and had for a split second had averted Lorelai's attention to the window nearest to them.
"Look."
Trying not to break away Luke tried continuing but was denied as she spoke again.
"The rain's stopping."
"And?"
"Don't you want to go outside?"
Lorelai asked as if there wasn't anything peculiar about running out into the middle of the rain, ending what they had been doing. But he supposed that he might as well concede, he was sure that she would be able to find even more ways now to persuade him to do what ever she could think of.
Getting up Luke saw Lorelai's eyes light up. She flung her self around him while passing him. Grabbing his hand she dragged him to the door, flinging it wide open. Causing a groan to echo behind it.
Lorelai and Luke were already cleared of the door when it sounded so didn't pay it much mind.
Max then promptly lowered himself to the ground while clutching his nose tighter than ever, and leaned down from the pain that stung from the doorknob. "Yes, I would like to call for an ambulance, Cheshire Cat Bed and Breakfast of Connecticut, yes, I'll hold…" The elevator music then sounded in his ears, but went unnoticed from the ever growing ringing in his head. "Oww…"
Luke and Lorelai stood in the middle of the front lawn of the Cheshire Cat while the rain began slowing.
Lorelai was reveling in the smell and feel of the rain on her skin while Luke was looking at her, reveling in the smell of the rain and the sight of her being slowly showered in it. He couldn't recall ever seeing anything like it.
She was breath taking, her happiness felt like all the rest of the happiness in the world had fled their moments and had come to her, only be jealous of the joy that she had possessed all her self.
"What's the matter?"
Lorelai looked over to him, only to find him looking at her.
"Nothing."
"Then why are you looking at me like that?"
"Like what?"
"Like your about to do something."
Luke leaned into her yet again. "Like this?"
Lorelai had to take a moment to recover, it seemed like they had been doing this for years, but it had only technically been a few hours.
"I was thinking more of the lines of jumping me in the rain, but that works too."
She caught herself grinning at him again, this seemed to becoming a frequent occurrence she had noticed.
"And what's wrong with that?"
Lorelai laughed at this and found Luke grinning right along with her.
It seemed like everything was falling into place. Before she knew it they were together again, standing in the rain.
Both standing into each other, they deepened. Sirens sounded around them as the ambulance rounded the corner of the driveway, but they didn't hear a thing. From the time that they had gone in and found an unconscious Max lying near the thresh hold and the moment that they loaded him on the stretcher, the most that the two responded was moving sideways to a tree to get out of the way.
"Thank you for coming to look for me Luke…"
Lorelai whipered in his ear.
"Thank the lady with the bell."
They both smiled and watched the ambulance pull away.
"What do you think all that was about?"
"No idea."
-TBC-
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RORY: Maybe, like, you could limit the reports to just significant sightings. If you see him a hundred yards away, disappearing around a corner, I really don't need to know that. If he comes up to you and spits in your face, report that.
LORELAI: Permission to spit back?
You're turn now Copper, triply so now lol,
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