Can't See Stars During A Tornado

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jennisfifi- Holy Crap! Thats so freaking wierd. I never would have guessed i just wrote this the night we had a tornado in PA. THanks for that link it was neat:) That Connecticuts Tonado Valley thing is majorly weird. I never knew that. I wasnt even sure that Connecticut got alot or any for that matter Tornados. lol.

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Chapter 9: Is this a good idea? You know, us?

By: Cripticwolf

Lorelai slept soundly in Luke's arms, gently moving with the comfortable rise and fall of his chest. He was snoring lightly and she smiled every time she felt the stubble on his face touch hers. She knew that she could fall off of the small couch at any second but she wasn't worried because she knew that if she fell then so would he, mainly because his arms were around her so protectively. Lorelai loved the fact that if anything happened to her he would be there, just like he had always been. That's exactly how she felt, protected, right and so in love with him.

Rory picked her head up off the bed after a crack of thunder woke her. She sat up slowly careful not to wake up Lane from the motion of the bed. 'Where's mom?' she thought until she spotted her. She was on the couch with Luke and Rory had to laugh at the site. Her mom was lying on top of him, her hair was sticking up, and she had one arm draped down off the side. She watched her mom peacefully rise and fall with the movement of Lukes' chest, his arms wrapped around her protectively and posessively. She couldn't help her enormous smile from showing; it was just like the goofy ones her mom and Luke both had on before. 'That's so cute.' she thought slowly getting up off the bed and grabbing her phone out of her bag. Rory snapped a picture of them. She couldn't resist that perfect opportunity. After she took the picture she just stood where she was, perfectly still, praying that they wouldn't wake up or at least not her mom. Her mom would know that it was the flash of her camera phone and if either of them saw the picture she would be so dead. She knew that her cell phone would be reduced to pieces in an instant. When neither of them moved Rory crawled back on the bed and within a few minutes fell back asleep, the smile still on her face.

An hour later...

Lorelai opened her eyes again and turned slightly. She was so comfortable and at peace in Luke's arms that at first she forgot she was on the couch. She started to fall and would have but she felt Luke tighten his hold around her to keep her where she was. He shifted under her so that she was lying between him and the back of the couch, half way on him still. Her leg was wrapped over his stomach and his right arm was behind her neck and around her shoulders. She reached over and took his left hand in her own. Her head was resting in the crook of his neck and chest, fitting perfectly like it was made just for her. She sighed contently. "Thanks." She whispered to him and kissed his cheek.

"No problem." He whispered back sleepily, kissing her forehead. They both sighed and stood silent for several more minutes just enjoying each others company.

"Luke?"

"Hmm?" He asked half asleep.

"Is this a good idea? You know, us?"

'Uh oh.' He thought and picked his head up to look at her.

"Without a dought." He said genuinely and truthfully, yet firmly all the same. "What ah... what do you think?" At this point he wasn't entirely sure he wanted to hear the answer.

She smiled at the firmness in his voice when he said without a dought but at the same time it only added to the nagging worry she was feeling. Her smile faded as she began to speak. "Luke... I don't know." She felt him tense and take in a shaky breath.

Neither of them knew that Rory had woken up again. She felt a lump forming in her throat and got a miserable feeling in the pit of the stomach. Becoming extremely worried. 'Oh God! Mom please don't! You're perfect for each other. I want Luke in our family permanently, and I know that you do to, so what the heck are you thinking!'

"I just... I don't want to hurt you Luke." She said not looking at him but finding the floor completely interesting instead.

Luke looked at her like she was insane. He gently pulled her face up to look at him. "What!" He said incredulously with slight laughter, still in a whisper. "Lorelai your insane. You wont hurt me." His voice was gentle but still had its normal Luke gruffness to it. She loved that.

"You sound so sure. I wish I could see the same way you do. All I do is screw good things up and hurt the important people in my life Luke... I don't want to hurt you. You're my best friend and I love you but I'm unreliable when it comes to anything good. Everyone knows that. I don't want to break your heart and I'm scared that if we do this and I do then I'll loose you as a friend also." She said tears burning the back of her eyes from trying not to cry.

"Lorelai look at me." He waited for her gaze to settle to his before continuing. "YOU are not a screw up." He said firmly looking her straight in the eyes. "Your anything but. You had a kid at 17, ran off to some place you didn't even know existed, got a job and a roof over your head all on your own-"

She cut him off, "Thanks to you."

"No not thanks to me. All I did was give you a number and a name. You did the rest." She smiled at him and how much he thought of her to give her all the credit.

"Look at yourself... you own an inn. The Dragonfly is yours and Sookies-"

She cut him off again, "Yeah maybe... but not without your help."

"No again. My investment and work around the Inn was a very small part of your success." She wasn't getting his point, or at least wasn't showing it to him, that she was, so he continued.

"You did it all yourself. Now you have an Inn, a great home, and an amazing daughter." She was smiling up at him with a few tears falling down her cheeks. He wiped them off with his thumb. " Come on Lorelai, look at Rory. You raised her alone, and now she's a beautiful, talented and kind kid. She's going to Yale. I swear there's not one person that doesn't adore her. I know I do, it's impossible not to... You had a huge part in that. You made Rory what she is and she loves you more then insanely possible. You haven't made one single mistake with her... well except for making her a coffee addict." By now she had stopped crying and smiled more at his coffee remark.

"I wonder how long it will take to convert you to one." She said.

He stared at her with a crooked grin. "Um lets see... NEVER."

"Come on Luke. I did Rory a favor. Coffee is the best thing in the world." She smiled at him. "Especially yours."

"No its death and... Thanks. But hey are you okay now? Do you believe me now that your not a screw up and that your not gonna hurt me?"

"Maybe but-"

"YOU. ARE. NOT. A. SCREW. UP. Hell if anyone is it's me. I'm the one who got married and divorced within weeks."

"Yeah well I ditched my own wedding so lets call each other even. Who knows maybe things worked out this way for a reason and well Nicole just happened to be an idiot because she would have had to be to let go of you. That's why I'm not going to. I love you Luke. You are and always have been the greatest thing in my life. Sorry it took me so long to realize that." Lorelai said slowly leaning up to give him a kiss.

"Likewise." Luke replied then kissed her.

Lorelai stopped mid kiss and sat straight up. "What?" Luke asked concerned. "Was it that bad?"

"What? Oh NOWAY! The kiss was great." She stared intently at his window and leaned all over the place desperately trying to see out the little bit of the open curtain. She sat up and then plopped down on Luke's stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

"Ugh... what are you doing?" He said taking a deep breath and holding her steady the best he could to prevent her from falling off the couch.

"I think it stopped raining." She said leaning, all the way off the couch practically, to see. But then she went to far off and lost her balance. Luke, who at the time was reaching back behind his head for his watch, didn't even know that she was falling until she grabbed on to the collar of his shirt, jerking him off the couch, when she fell and they both hit the ground with a loud thud.

Rory sat up hysterical laughing while Lane nearly had a heart attack. "Oh my god! What happened!" She yelled sitting up immediately. Her hair was sticking up all over the place and only made Rory laugh harder.

"OWW! Luke you big doof! You made me hurt my knee." Lorelai said pouting. She was lying on her side with her back facing Luke, so she swung her hand back to try and hit him, missing about 3 times before finally getting him. It wasn't a hard punch and it wasn't meant to be.

"What happened? Weren't you holding on to me... Luke?" Lorelai sat up and looked at him. He was leaning on the ground with his head against the floor eyes shut tight. "Oh my god. Are you okay? It wasn't that big of a fa-" She stopped when she noticed where his hand was. "OH GO I DIDNT! I am so sorry!" She put one hand on his back and the other one over her mouth to stop herself from laughing.

"Yeah. Yeah... ya did." Luke said between breaths.

Rory sat up and looked at them both once her laughing had stopped. As soon as she pieced two and two together she started to crack up again, as did Lane.

"Well I know what my knee hit." Lorelai said not able to hold in her laughter any longer.

"I'm so glad that you all think this is funny. Cause now just for laughing... your going to pay. Starting with me calling every place, here and in the surrounding towns, including Hartford, that sells coffee and telling them to refuse to serve you any." Luke said and stood up slowly causing them to sieze their laughter at him. 'Damn that hurt.'

"But... but it was an accident. You cannot deprive me of my coffee Luke Danes! Besides now that you will be seeing a lot more of me you will not be able to keep the coffee away from me, because now I am officially allowed behind the counter anytime I want." She said feeling triumphint.

"Psh... That's what you think. I'm still not going to let you behind the counter even if you are my girlfriend -" Luke stopped when he realized that he said it out loud in front of Rory and Lane. "Uh oh."

"Okay… so I guess that now we should tell them. Huh?... Rory, Lane, me and Luke are together now."

"Luke and I," She corrected then added a, "Duh!" laughing together.

"Duh? What do you mean duh?" Luke and Lorelai asked in unison.

"Oh please come on. Lane and me knew since yesterday. It was so obvious. Who couldn't know by the way you two had those majorly goofy grins plastered on your faces earlier."

Luke walked into the kitchen slightly embarased as Lorelai walked over to the window and was surprised to see that it wasn't raining anymore and that she had been right. Most of the clouds had disappeared and everything was still dark. The sun wasn't up yet, but from the dark blue color of the sky it was clear that it would be soon. Lorelai smiled, turned and stuck her tongue out at Luke

"See I told you it stopped raining."

"So, you couldn't just have gotten up like a normal person? Instead you had to pull us both off the couch and crush my..." He stopped short, quickly picking a change of words before finishing. "…Me in the process." Lorelai laughed.

"You know Luke, Lane and I are 19. You can say big kid words in front of us." Rory said going into the bathroom to change as Lane was coming out.

Luke turned to Lorelai. "I ah..."

Lorelai laughed at his uncomfortable-ness, walked over to him and kissed him. She pushed him back against the counter and kissing him harder and not letting him out from her pin. She could tell that he was trying to stop because of Rory and Lane, but really didn't want too. Quickly she took the coffee pot filled with the coffee that Luke just made, pulled two Mugs out of the dish drain, clumsily, and filled them up quickly. When she was done she broke the kiss.

Luke gave her an annoyed look as she took the mugs and walked over to the bathroom just as Rory was coming out. She handed her a mug and then sat down on the couch again. Rory noticed that for some reason Luke was staring intently at them both with a wicked smile. She just shrugged it off and ignored it, then took a big drink of her coffee, just as her mother did the same. They both spit it out.

"EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW! Luke! That was so evil!" Rory yelled wiping her mouth.

"How could you do that? I always knew that you wanted to kill us. What did we ever do to you?" Lorelai said giving him the death glare.

"I seem to remember being evilly laughed at, at my own misfortune before," he directed toward Rory then added this to Lorelai, "And you were the one who caused it."

"Look Luke, nothing is so bad that someone would have to switch the wonderful elixir that is real coffee with the crap that is decaf." Lorelai said.

"Coffee is death."

"Is not."

"Is so."

"Is not."

"Fine is not." Luke said.

"Ha! I know what your trying to do and... it is so!... wait Luke that was mean." Lorelai said pouting cause Luke tricked her. She watched him as he turned his back on them for a few minutes then walked over to them with two more coffee cups. He handed both girls the mugs and took the other ones over to the sink. Rory and Lorelai took two more huge gulps and were extremely happy that it was in-fact real coffee.

"Happy?" Luke asked.

"Oh yes Mr. Coffee god." Lorelai said with a smile.

"Thanks Luke." Rory added.

"No problem. Lane, do you want anything?"

"That's okay Luke I'm good." Lane said.

"Your sure?" Lane nodded again. "Okay well, if you want something any of you are welcomed to get it yourselves."

"And where exactly will you be?" Lorelai said.

"I have to go down stairs and I don't know see the damage I guess. Then I have to clean it up."

"Want help?" Lorelai asked half seriously and half flirtatiously.

"Ah... sure I guess." Luke replied, a grin starting to appear on his face.

"Um... hey Lucas?" Lorelai began as they desended down the stairs toward the diner. "How did you make this coffee? You said that last nights' pot was your last one."

"Did I now?" He pretended to be thinking and Lorelai stuck her tounge at him. "Oh thats right, I did... hmm well...I lied."

"Mean." Rory just chuckled from back upstairs watching them dissapear down toward the diner. She loved the way they bickered back and forth. 'This rocks!'

End of CHAPTER 9

TBC...

Okay well that was the next chap. What did ya think? PLEASE REVIEW! lol um i should have another chapter up maybe saturday night / sunday morning. It would be on friday but my homecoming is on Friday WOOOO another game to loose. lol. bye bye. I'll update ASAP i promise:)

I reposted this chapter to fix the word Lor to Lorelai and my comp cut half the dam chapter off. So here is the full one! Also I fixed some grammer mistakes as well. Please read. If you reviewed before you dont have to do it again.