Fate, Or Something Like It

Section 4: A Wedding To Remember

Chapter 33

Red, White, & Blue

Disclaimer: Hey ya'll! I'm back yet again. I own nothing, but Amy and Dan do!

A/N: Can you guess what this chapter is about?

"What is your wedding colors?" Sookie asked as her and Lorelai walked around the flower shop.

"I really don't know."

"Well your weddings on July 4th, so how about red, white, and blue?"

"For a wedding?"

"Yea, Me and Jackson are going to have our wedding right before Christmas and we're going to have red and green."

"But that's different."

"No, it's the same. Just one is Christmas, and one isn't."

"Well...I'd have to run it by Luke."

"Call him."

"Now?"

"Yea, use the phone at the desk."

Sookie pushed Lorelai towards the front desk. Lorelai picked up the phone and dialed the hardware store.

"William's Hardware." Luke answered.

"Hey babe."

"Hey Lorelai." Luke replies. "What's up?"

"Do you like red, white, and blue for the wedding?"

"The colors?"

"No the strippers. Yes the colors."

"Whatever you want."

"So if I wanted it yellow and green, you'd let me?"

"Well, let's not go that far."

"Don't worry, I wouldn't dare."

"I've gotta go, I have a customer."

"Tell him I'll marry him if he buys the store out."

Lorelai hears Luke mumble something to someone, then hears a laugh.

"She says she doesn't marry women."

"Oh...yuck!"

"It's Miss Patty."

"Ten times grosser!"

"Gotta go."

"Love ya."

"Right back at ya."

Lorelai hung up the phone and turned back to Sookie.

"He said if I wanted yellow and green he wouldn't care."

"Oh good!" Sookie exclaimed as she walked towards some flowers. "How about these?"

Lorelai looked down at the flowers Sookie was pointing at. Blue Bonnets, Baby's Breath, and Red Carnations.

"I know they aren't the normal wedding bouquet, but they sure are pretty."

"I like it." Lorelai smiled leaning in and smelling the sweet scent.

Meanwhile at the Hardware Store Luke was checking out a customer when the bell above the door rang.

"I'll be with you in a minute."

"Thank you." A deep voice replied.

Luke finished ringing up the customer and walked over to the tall dark headed man.

"Could I help you with something sir?" Luke asked walking up behind the man.

"Actually," The man turned around to Luke. "I'm looking for Lorelai Gilmore."

"And you are?" Luke asked wondering what this man wanted with Lorelai.

"Her father."

"Hi sir." Luke reached out his hand. "I'm Luke Danes. Your daughter and I are getting married."

"Oh yes, I met you at Rory's birthday party." Richard cleared his throat. "Is Lorelai here?"

"No." Luke replied. "Her and Sookie is out shopping for stuff for the wedding."

"Oh, do you know when she'll be back?"

"No sir, I'm sorry. All Lorelai said to me this morning was that her and Sookie were going around shopping for stuff for the wedding."

"When is the wedding?"

"July 4th."

"On a holiday? A National holiday?"

"That's what Lorelai wanted."

"I see. Could you have her call me at the office?" Richard pulled a card out of his coat pocket. "Here's my card."

"I sure will sir." Richard nodded and headed towards the front door. "It was nice to see you again Mr. Gilmore."

"Richard. Please call me Richard." And with that Richard left.

"Emily!" Richard called as he opened the door and hung up his coat and hat. "Emily I'm home!"

"I can hear just fine Richard. You don't have to yell." Emily said walking into the foyer. "How was work?" Emily asked kissing Richard on the cheek.

"Tiring as usual." Richard said making his way to the living room with Emily behind him. "Guess who I saw today when I went to see Lorelai." Richard began to pour him a bloody mary.

"Joan of Arc?" Emily asked sitting onto the couch.

"Don't be cute." Richard said handing Emily a bloody mary and sitting down with one himself. "Luke Danes."

"Who's that?"

"That guy Lorelai's with. The Hardware Owner's boy."

"Oh yes. What a disgusting boy."

"Damn right." Richards said. "Anyways, I spoke to him, and guess what I found out."

"Did the local grocery start selling poison apples?"

"Damn it Emily, I'm in no mood for your bit." Richard shook his head. "As I was saying, Luke said that they were getting married."

"We already knew that."

"Yes, but it's a set date now."

"What's the date?"

"July 4th."

"Of next year?" Richard shook his head. "What are they thinking? Are they crazy? They can't get married on a holiday, let alone a National holiday!"

"Calm down Emily." Richard said placing his hand on her arm. "We'll have to coax them into getting married on a different date."

"And if that don't work, we'll just break them apart." Richard spoke again.

"Exactly." Emily said smiling.

"I am so tired!" Lorelai yelled walking into the house, dropping her bags at the doorway, slamming the door closed and walking into the house to find out where Luke was. "Honey? You home?"

"In the kitchen." Luke whispered back.

"Why are you whispering?" Lorelai asked walking into the kitchen.

"The kids are asleep and should stay asleep for a few hours if we don't wake them up."

"Good."

"Yea good. It took me an hour and half to get them to bed."

"Poor Lucas." Lorelai said walking over to Luke and wrapping her arms around his neck an placing a kiss on his lips. "Poor." Lorelai placed another kiss on his lips. "Poor." Another kiss. "Poor." Another kiss. "Lucas." Lorelai then leaned in with all her strength and pulled her legs up and around his waist.

Luke caught on, remembering what is father had said. "Have all the fun you can now." Luke placed his hands on her rear-end, to keep her up. He started towards the stairs carefully carrying Lorelai, all the time never breaking the kiss. Luke successfully made upstairs and into their room, dropping her on the bed he went back to the door and locked it. Quickly making his way back to the bed, he was pulled in for another kiss. This time Lorelai pulled him down on the top of her on the bed. Lorelai quickly made her way underneath his shirt and began to feel his muscles. Finally Luke got fed up with the clothes on his body and started taking them off. Lorelai stopped him and unbuttoned his shirt.

"Damn it Gilmore, hurry!" Luke whispered in her ear.

Lorelai quickly unbuttoned his shirt and let him slide it off of him. Luke then pushed his mouth back onto hers for another electrifying kiss. Luke placed his hands at the bottom of her shirt and yanked it upwards. They only broke the kiss to let the shirt pass. Luke looked down at Lorelai and saw that her belly was growing steadily. He thought, with what brain wasn't concentrated on Lorelai, his son or daughter was in there. He gently ran a hand across her stomach feeling for any sign of movement. Luke noticed none. He then thought back to what they were doing.

Luke broke the kiss. "We need to talk first." Luke pulled himself off of Lorelai and sat up straight on the bed.

"What is it Luke?" Lorelai asked grabbing her shirt from the floor and pulling it on. "Is anything wrong?"

"We need to talk about the baby."

"What baby?"

"The one inside you."

"Oh, what about it?"

"I'm afraid I'll hurt it."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, if we continue, that I will destroy the chances of it living."

"I don't think that will happen." Lorelai said leaning in for another kiss, but Luke moved his head.

"We haven't been intimate in a month." Luke ran his fingers through his now messed up hair. "I mean, we've been close. Pretty damn close, but we've never had the opportunity to actually go all the way."

"Luke it won't hurt."

"How do you know?"

"Because the doctor said it was natural to have cravings for intimacy when your pregnant, and he said you can give into those cravings, but after 6 months, don't."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. Come on, let's enjoy this." Lorelai says pulling off her shirt and pushing Luke back down on the bed.

3 hours later.

Sweat poured off both Lorelai and Luke. Luke traced kisses across her neck. He gently rolled off of her and took a deep breath.

"I thought you were tired?" Luke asked finally catching his breath.

"Well I guess I wasn't." Lorelai said smiling. "I don't remember it being that good."

"Neither do I."

"You must have been practicing."

"With who?"

"I don't know, some girl."

"Why would I, when I have you?"

"Aw, so sweet." Lorelai turned on her side and pulled the sheet tight around her. "Your so cute when your tired."

"You are cute no matter what." Luke said turning to face her. They lay like that quiet, while Luke gently strokes her arm.

"Luke."

"Huh?"

"Do you love me?"

"Of course."

"Are you excited about having another baby?"

"I am."

"You know, this is kinda like the first child we had together."

"It is?"

"Yea. Before we were just boyfriend and girlfriend, and we weren't living together, and we were keeping it a secret."

"I guess so."

"I mean now, we will be actually experiencing being pregnant as a couple."

"Yea."

"I love you Luke."

"I love you too Lorelai."

A/N: Okay, I'm not so big on real intimate scenes in my stories. I kinda like to keep it sweet and romantic. This chapter was different for me to write, but I enjoyed doing it. I really wanted to have a little conversation between Luke and Lorelai about their child. I also wanted to have a conversation between Emily and Richard. Anyways, tell me if you hated the colors for the wedding. Also, Gilmore Girls has only three more episodes left this season. I cannot wait 'till Tuesday!