An: First of all I've said before and I'll say it again , I haven't seen the season finale so please don't tell me anything, I'm only up to 5x15 – Jews and Chinese Food :( But a big Thank-you to everyone for reviewing you totally make my day and make me want to write more :)

Thanks to: Labyrith, bubblesRfun04 (email me if you want to chat about gg or anything), Bloomin' Daisy (Thankyou!), LukeNlorelaifan, starshollow108, GilmoreGirl5244, Lover4LL (Thanks for your input – I also love reading about when Lorelai was a teenagers, its cool eh), JerseySaint19

So now on with the story…

Chapter 3 – Oh Dad

"Mum, Dad" Lorelai said facing her parents.

"Mum, Dad" Christopher said next to her, facing his own parents. They darted sidewards glances at each other before turning back to face both set of parents.

"I'm pregnant"

"Lorelai's pregnant" they spoke at the same time, the room filled with an ere silence, Christopher's father, Strobe the first to speak. Both mothers looking shocked, and Richard looking hurt and confused.

"Pregnant?" He looked from Lorelai to Christopher then over to his wife, who was clutching at her chest.

He turned on Lorelai

"How could you do this to Christopher! He was headed for Princeton, every Hayden male has gone to Princeton!" he almost shouted in her face.

"Strobe please" Emily begged him to stop yelling at her daughter, tears welling in her own eyes.

Both teenagers' eyes glued to the floor.

"I always knew you were no good for Christopher! You…"

"Strobe that's enough!" Richard boomed, his voice shaking the room.

"What's going to happen now?" Christopher's mother Francine asked quietly. The room fell silent again and this time Richard was the first to talk.

"They will get married, and live here, Christopher will come and work for my company and that will be that" His tone sounding so final.

Tears welled in Lorelai's eyes that night as she lay in bed, her future, her life and her baby's life, was now in the hands of her parents and she hated that. They were planning out her and Christopher's life for them. She had loved Christopher, but now…she didn't want to marry him.


Luke paced outside room 302, Liz sat exhausted on a chair near him. They had been there for nearly 5 hours, and the nurses wouldn't tell him anything. Luke continued to pace up and down.

A doctor walked purposefully towards them and Luke rushed forward, anxious to know.

"Mr Danes?" the doctor asked, a solemn look on his face

"Yes" Luke replied eagerly

The doctor's eyes fell down and then looked back up at Luke. Luke felt his stomach drop, he knew what was coming.

"I'm sorry, your father didn't make it"

Luke felt his heart break in two, he slowly backed up and sunk into the chair next to his sister. She looked at him, realisation dawning on her face. She clung tight to her brother's arm as the tears silently fell from her eyes. He felt blank, empty and…totally alone. So they sat there, brother and sister having no one else in the world. Liz crying onto her brothers shoulder, and Luke just sitting they're feeling numb and empty, half of him refusing to believe, the other half breaking because he knew it was true, his father was gone.


Knock Knock

"Come in" Richard called, looking up from his desk as his daughter entered.

"Hi Dad" she said meekly, in quiet un-Lorelai like way.

"Lorelai" he said curtly before returning to look at his papers.

She cautiously walked forward a little

"Um I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute" she said, her hands clenched together, nervousness filling through her.

Richard looked up tipping his glasses to look at her.

"What about?"

She took a few more steps forward and then looked up at her father. She had never really had much of a relationship with her father. He would get up, to go work, come home, eat and go to bed, and that was that, no great father-daughter time scheduled into the day. But he had always been a good man, she just hoped he could understand. She took a deep breath.

"I can't marry Christopher"

His eyes widened, and a look of anger crossed his face.

"You are 16 and expecting a child, you will marry Christopher" he said using that tone, sounded so final again. But she kept on, she couldn't just throw her life away, hand it over to her parents on a silver platter.

"No dad, I'm 16 and expecting a child. I have to make a life for me and my baby and I can't do that with Christopher, I don't want too"

"Lorelai sometimes in life we have to do things we don't want to do, you think I want to employee Christopher at my company! No I don't but it's the right thing to do, the respectable thing to do. That is something you should think about young lady" his tone rising.

Her face creased in anger and resentment, and most of all sadness.

"You don't get it do you?" she said, her voice sounding hurt and way beyond her years. She nodded her head and looked down. Richard sat still.

She took one last look at her father, sadness in her eyes and turned around and left his study.

A slightly stunned Richard sat inside that room, and a determined Lorelai stood outside. That conversation had confirmed what she had been thinking for most of her life, that this wasn't the life she wanted for herself and it certainly wasn't the life she wanted for her kid.


Luke sat at the kitchen table, darkness filled the room.

It had been 2 months since his dad had died. His thoughts taken up by grief and deciding what he was going to do with his life, and with his sister's life. But sitting here alone his thoughts wondered back to that girl. He almost felt guilty to be thinking about her when his dad had just died. He tried to fight his thoughts about the girl with the dark hair and deep blue eyes, the girl with personality he had never seen before, who gave him feelings he couldn't express. But he couldn't fight them, he couldn't forget her.

He had graduated high school only weeks before his father's death and now he had to decide what to do with his life. He couldn't go off to college he knew that, he had to be here for Liz and to run his Dad's business. He didn't really want to leave Stars Hollow anyway. But both of these responsibilities left to him seemed to be getting harder and harder. His dad had taught him a little about hardware business but he didn't know enough to properly run the store, and then there was Liz. Since their Dad died she had gone sort of well…wild. Staying out till all hours with boys, doing god knows what, and she wouldn't listen to Luke.

This is how he ended up sitting in the kitchen in the dark. It was close to 2am when he heard the front open and his sister creep inside. He heard her making her way towards the kitchen. She walked in and turned on the light. She jumped slightly at the sight of him, she obviously had not expected Luke to be there.

"Luke! What are you doing sitting in the dark?" she asked crossing the room to the fridge.

"Liz its 2am"

"So?" She said sitting down on the other side of the table.

" So it's 2 o'clock in the morning, you got home at 2 o'clock in the morning" he said, trying to keep his cool.

" Yes, I think we've established that fact there bro" she replied sarcastically, unscrewing the top to a bottle of water.

"Dad would never have let you stay out till 2 in the morning" he said, his eyes focused on the table.

"Well dads not here is he!" she said bitterly.

"Liz!" he said, his voice not soft, instead gruff and holding warning.

"Your not Dad, Luke, so don't try and be!" she stormed off and Luke buried his head in his hands.


The door to the hardware store jingled as someone entered. Luke looked up from his place behind the counter.

"Buddy, good to see you" said Luke walking around to the counter to greet the man.

"Lucas" he said shaking hands with him.

"How are you going?" Buddy asked as he walked towards the counter.

"Alright, I'm not really that good at the whole hardware thing" he said walking back behind the counter. Buddy chuckled slightly.

"What you going to do about it?" he asked

"I'm not selling this place" Luke replied quickly.

"No, no I wasn't suggesting that, I was just thinking why don't you…renovate or something?"

"Renovate?"

"Yeah like the turn the store into something you like or are good at, you know"

Luke thought for a moment, Buddy watching the expressions on his face.

"Like what?" Luke asked cautiously.

"Well you can cook right?"

"Yeah" he answered slowly.

"So open a diner or something"

Luke thought for a moment. Me open a Diner? Could I do that? Well at least I wouldn't have to sell this place. Me, having a Diner? Diner? Luke's Diner?

To be continued…


Note: I know this chapter was not all happy-happy-la-la but don't worry, some LL stuff is coming up soon :) Cuz we all know I can't resist Luke and Lorelai together :)

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