Disclaimer: I write this for me…and for you. I use this as a substitute for the reality ASP is creating. (Ok you can't really create reality but…yeah…) Now that ASP is leaving I will use this instead of the reality the new writer creates….

AN: the shot thing might be a bit confusing at first but it'll work into the story…sorry about the spelling thing my friend spells her name Rachelle but I'll try and spell it Rachel from now on :)

ANIMALS: NICKELBACK

I, I'm driving black on black
Just got my license back
I got this feeling in my veins this train is coming off the track
I'll ask polite if the devil needs a ride
Because the angel on my right ain't hanging out with me tonight
I'm driving past your house while you were sneaking out
I got the car door opened up so you can jump in on the run
Your mom don't know that you were missing
She'd be pissed if she could see the parts of you that I've been kissing
Screamin'

No, we're never gonna quit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Just acting like we're animals
No, no matter where we go
'Cause everybody knows
We're just a couple of animals

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get in
Check out the trouble we're in

You're beside me on the seat
Got your hand between my knees
And you control how fast we go by just how hard you wanna squeeze
It's hard to steer when you're breathing in my ear
But I got both hands on the wheel while you got both hands on my gears
By now, no doubt that we were heading south
I guess nobody ever taught her not to speak with a full mouth
'Cause this was it, like flicking on a switch
It felt so good I almost drove into the ditch
I'm screamin'
No, we're never gonna quit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Just acting like we're animals
No, no matter where we go
'Cause everybody knows
We're just a couple of animals

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get in
Look at the trouble we're in

We were parked out by the tracks
We're sitting in the back
And we just started getting busy
When she whispered "what was that?"
The wind, I think 'cause no one else knows where we are
And that was when she started screamin'
"That's my dad outside the car!"
Oh please, the keys, they're not in the ignition
Must have wound up on the floor while
we were switching our positions
I guess they knew that she was missing
As I tried to tell her dad it was her mouth that I was kissing
Screamin'

No, we're never gonna quit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Just acting like we're animals
No, no matter where we go
'Cause everybody knows
We're just a couple of animals

So come on baby, get in
We're just a couple of animals
Get in, just get in
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Check out the trouble we're in
Get in, just get in

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"This is nice." Luke said his arm around Lorelai. Her arm was around his waist and they were walking around.

"This is." She agreed squeezing his middle. They were in Hartford going to a movie. When ever they wanted to see a movie they did it out of town because people in Stars Hallow rarely left town.

"You see if we told the town then we could do this any time." He pointed out.

"You still wouldn't do this; public displays of affection." She said giggling.

"How do you know?" He asked.

"Because you hate them." She said looking up at him.

"You're different." He said shyly giving her a little kiss.

She smiled and kept walking.

Shot.

"Which movie do you want to see?" She asked.

He shrugged. "Don't care." He said.

She rolled her eyes and picked a movie. He paid and took her hand.

Shot.

They walked into the movie theater and got food.

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"That was horrible." He said walking out of the theater.

Lorelai giggled and rolled her eyes. "Bad movies are sometimes the best ones." She said slipping an arm around his waist.

"That's what the crazy people say." He said laughing, putting his arm around her shoulder.

"Is it?" She asked arching an eyebrow.

"Yes it is." He said nodding his head like he knew this for a fact.

"Wow. I must be crazy then." She said giggling.

"You must be." He said rolling his eyes.

Shoot.

They were eating dinner in a little café in Hartford when Emily spotted them. She contemplated going in and making a scene or ignoring it and letting her daughter tell her about him on her own. She figured Lorelai would never tell her but she didn't want to make a scene so she decided to confront her during Friday night dinner.

Lorelai took a vegetable and put it on her plate; isolating it form her other food.

Lorelai crossed her arms over her chest and pouted. Luke rolled his eyes and took a piece of her meat and did the same thing she did to the vegetable. Lorelai uncrossed her arms and smiled.

"Ok so you eat the meat and I eat the veggie." She said smiling.

"This will kill me." He said frowning.

"Ha. Once piece will kill you?" She asked rolling her eyes.

"Of course, didn't you hear about Doug Shaw?" Luke asked in mock shock. (hehe that rhymes.)

Lorelai rolled her eyes and took the unidentifiable green food. He stuck it in her mouth and pinched her nose. "Done." She smiled at him. "Your turn." She said innocently.

Her rolled his eyes and took the piece of meat on his fork. He ate it and grimaced.

"Yum?" She asked batting her eyelashes evilly.

"No." He said drinking his water.

"Liar." She said rolling her eyes.

"You love it." She said smirking.

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"So it's your cd that Lane borrowed?" She asked trying to get his straight. They had talked about it on her short morning visit but they didn't want to dwell on it. She walked into a busy Luke's and sat down at a stool.

"I have no idea." Rory said sighing. "Which one was it again?" She asked.

"The Arcade Fire." She said thinking about it. "I think." She said tapping on the countertop lightly. "Thanks Lane." Lorelai said to Lane who just poured her some coffee. "The cd we lent you was The Arcade Fire right?" She asked.

"I think so." Lane said nodding.

"Yeah." Lorelai said. "Uh-oh I have to go Luke's coming." She said smiling sweetly at Luke flipping her phone shut. "It was Rory she said hi." She said.

Luke rolled his eyes because for Rory he was a push over. And Lorelai.

Rachel noticed this throughout her visit. Luke and Lorelai would banter but Lorelai always won with her and Luke it was always work and compromise but in this relationship it seemed like fate, like everything was already chosen for them.

She also noticed the stolen glances and touches they shared. She knew when they were upstairs in his apartment 'having a moment.' It wasn't like she was stalking them she just noticed things like that. Being a photographer you had a sixth sense like that.

"Coffee?" He asked pouring some for her.

"Wouldn't dare to differ." She said smiling taking the cup away from his letting their fingers touch longer then necessary.

Lorelai smiled and drank her coffee not even noticing Rachel's cold stares. She was in a Luke trance. Yeah, she had fallen bad a little touch like that had made her mushy. Chris didn't even do that.

The diner began to empty because it was time for work.

"Don't you have to be at the inn?" Luke asked smirking.

"Yeah." She said looking at her phone. "But I hate being on time it makes me feel like my mother." She said rolling her eyes giggling.

"That's one thing we don't want you to be." He said and then stopped short. "Speak of the devil." He said motioning his chin to the window.

"Oh God, hide me. Do you think she saw me?" She asked.

Too late.

"Lorelai." Emily said walking into the diner swiftly.

"Mom." Lorelai said squeezing her eyes shut and re-opening them. When she found her mother still there she sighed. "How are you?" She asked feigning brightness.

Emily rolled her eyes and sat next to Lorelai. "Your father left last night at 7 and came back at 9." She said a hint of worry in her eyes.

"And you came here to tell me this?" She asked.

Rachel took her mother in. Tailored suit, designer hand bag, professionally done hair and make-up, and a snooty attitude.

"Yes!" Emily said.

"More coffee." She begged Luke. He nodded and some for her and her mom. "Mom, chill he was probably doing something business-y." She said racking her brains, trying to figure out why her father would be out late at night.

"Lorelai." Emily whined.

"Don't you have a DAR meeting?" She asked drinking the coffee Luke gave her.

"Our next meeting is at your inn, Lorelai." She said.

"What other clubs do you belong to?" She asked.

"Lorelai don't you care about where your father was?" Emily asked.

"Yes. But as far as I'm concerned he's old enough to make his own decisions even if somebody kicks him out." She said rolling her eyes.

"Lorelai." She said once again.

"Mom just ask him where he was." She said it as if she were saying 'duh'.

"I can't just do that." She said simply.

"You were married for most of your life I think you can give him a call." She said rolling her eyes.

"Lorelai this no joke." She said seriously.

"I am not taking this as a joke." Lorelai said crossing her arms over her chest.

"Yes you are! You take everything as a joke." Emily said disgusted. Lorelai pouted and re-crossed her arms. "And that pout." Emily said shaking her head.

"What about it?" Lorelai asked getting mad. "You come here, ask me where my father was as if I stalk him, and then criticize me." Lorelai said taking a deep breath.

Everybody had left and it was only Emily, Lorelai, Luke, and Rachel in the diner.

"Call him." Lorelai said after her confrontation was met by silence. "You owe him that much." She said raising an eyebrow.

Rachel was surprised at how fast Lorelai rebounded from the comments by her mother.

"I suppose so." Emily said sighing looking at her daughter.

"I win." She said smiling.

Emily rolled her eyes and drank some coffee. "To you, you always win." She said. "It's like a game Lorelai. To you, life's a game." Emily said.

"Why can't it be?" Lorelai asked.

"Because it isn't." Emily said stubbornly.

"Fine. I'm just too immature." Lorelai said rolling her eyes.

"You are." Emily said.

"I know." Lorelai said. "Rory was more mature then me when she was eleven…imagine your eleven year old being more immature then you…scary much?" She asked.

"Lorelai." Emily whined.

"What I've never been married before…let alone separated." Lorelai said shrugging.

"You came close." Emily said.

"So not the point." Lorelai said arching an eyebrow. "Don't bring that up." Lorelai begged.

Engaged? Rachel thought this over; Lorelai didn't seem the commitment type.

Emily rolled her eyes. "Fine." She said pouting very similar pout that Lorelai was just a moment before.

"I can't believe you came to Stars Hallow to tell me that." Lorelai said giggling.

"Lorelai." Emily sighed.

"I'm sorry but couldn't you have picked up the phone…or is that just too hard?" She asked referring to Richard.

"Lorelai." Emily warned.

"Ok, over the line. Got it." She said.

"Fine. I will talk to him." Emily said sighing.

"Good." Lorelai said nodding. "Is dad coming to dinner Friday?" She asked.

"We have yet to discuss that." Emily said shortly.

"Mom, you need to talk to him. Not just about his where abouts but everything." Lorelai said sincerely.

"I know." Emily frowned.

"I win. Again." She said smiling.

"I am always right. How many times do I have to tell you?" Lorelai asked.

"Lorelai if you keep talking then you won't be able to fit through the door." Emily said.

"Are you saying that I have a big head?" She asked mocking shock. "I've heard that somewhere." Lorelai said nodding pretending to think about where and when.

"Oh for heavens sake Lorelai!" Emily said.

"What?" Lorelai asked innocently.

"How I put up with you is a mystery." Emily said.

"Hey, it was only 16 years." Lorelai shrugging.

Sixteen? Rachelle thought this over. This would mean that she left after she had Rory.

"Hey ask Luke. He has to put up with me multiple times a day." Lorelai said smiling sweetly.

That reminded Emily of what she saw the day before. She scowled for a moment but hid it well.

"I'm going to go now." Emily said.

Lorelai checked her phone and gasped. "I'm late."

"You didn't seem to mind before." Luke pointed out.

Lorelai stuck her tongue out and rolled her eyes. Emily left and Lorelai finished her coffee. "Bye." She said over her shoulder leaving.

"What's the deal with you two?" Rachel asked wanting to know.

Luke thought for a moment, Lorelai's words echoing in his head: you should tell her. He shrugged, "we're going out but nobody really knows." He said. "I'm sorry." He said looking at Rachel. "I couldn't wait for you forever you know." He said.

"But I'm here." She said.

"I know." He said looking at her. "But I don't love you." He said.

Just twist the knife. She thought bitterly.

"I love Lorelai." He said looking out the window.

"Have you told her?" Rachel asked quietly.

"No." He said looking at his hands.

"What's with her family?" Rachel asked.

"They could have their own TV show." He said laughing. So he told her the story of Lorelai Victoria Gilmore and it was then Rachel knew she lost him….but that wouldn't stop her from trying, or would it?

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"Kill me now." Lorelai said walking into the diner.

A few tourists looked at her but the town folk were used to her dramatic enters.

"Take a ticket and I'll get to you, what kind of gun would you like?" Luke asked.

"Anything." She said taking the coffee he poured her.

Luke rolled his eyes and went to make her food.

"Afternoon sweetie." Babbette said to Lorelai.

"Hey." Lorelai said a bit more cheerful after seeing Luke and having some coffee. "How's Morey?" She asked.

"Oh he's fine." Babbette said waving a hand in the air dismissing the thought that he would be in any trouble. "How's Rory?"

"She's fine, studying hard." She said smiling.

Rachel, sitting on a stool, scoffed but nobody heard it. What's with everybody loving Lorelai and Rory? Lorelai's a slut and Rory's proof. Lorelai's parents are snobs and don't give a shit about anybody why does everybody love Lorelai and Rory?

Simple. They were Lorelai and Rory.

"That's good. Rory's a lovely girl don't matter what Taylor says." Babbette said referring to the ice cream queen incident.

"Does anybody listen to what Taylor says?" Lorelai asked laughing.

"I do!" Kirk piped in.

"We know." Babbette said rolling her eyes.

Lorelai giggled and took a bite of the burger Luke made her. "Amazing." She said smiling to Luke.

"Flattery will get you everywhere." He said stealing her line.

"I've heard that somewhere." She said arching an eyebrow.

"Huh, funny, me too." He said pouring her some coffee.

"Hilarious." She said giggling.

Lorelai's phone rings and she answers it despite Luke's stars and runts. "Hello?" She answered.

"All I have to do is pick up the damn phone and dial the pool house, right? Exactly. I dialed your number just fine why can't I call him?" She asked taking a deep breath.

"Mom?" Lorelai asked.

"You are unusually slow today, Lorelai." Emily pointed out.

"Ha. Luke if you killed me when I walked in I wouldn't have to deal with this." She said to Luke.

"I can still hear you Lorelai." Emily said.

"I know." She said smiling.

"Why can't I call him, Lorelai?" Emily asked.

"Maybe cause you lack motor skills?" She asked dumbly. Nice joke. "I know…no jokes mom." She said rolling her eyes already knowing what her mother was going to say. "Talk to him during Friday night diner…hey listen mom? Luke's making me get off the phone by!" She said in a rush hanging up. "Remind me to check the caller ID next time." She said looking at Luke.

"Just don't answer it next time." He said.

"Great idea." She said rolling her eyes. "Like that's possible." She added drinking her coffee.

"Oh it's possible." He said.

"You always answer when I call." She said smiling.

Luke shrugged and went into the kitchen.

Luke…a cell phone? Whoa, this girl is a miracle worker. Rachel thought tapping her fingers on the counter.

"Ah, Lane!" She said grabbing Lane's wrist.

"Yeah?" She asked handing Babbette her food.

"You know about crazy mother's right?" She asked. "Of course, what was I thinking…of course you know about crazy mother's." Lorelai said giggling.

"I'm guessing there's a point to this?" Lane asked crossing her arms.

"Of course!" Lorelai said. "Nope. Forgot it." She said.

Lane rolled her eyes and giggled. "Did you forget your pill or something?" She asked walking away.

"Hey!" Lorelai said pretending to be offended. "Be nice to your elders." She said.

Lane rolled her eyes and walked away. "Luke your employees are rude." Lorelai said pouting.

"They're rude when you harass them." Luke said.

"Lane was such a good kid." Lorelai said shaking her head.

"Like you?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

"Hardly," she said giggling.

"That kid loves you more then she loves Mrs. Kim." Luke said seriously.

"Did you just put me in the same category as her mother? Oh my God I'm going to kill you." She giggled. She sobered up and looked at him. "Thanks." She said smiling.

It took everything he had not to smile and kiss her. But he did it and walking away.

"Here." Lane said handing her some fries.

"Are you sure you're not my daughter?" She asked eating the fries.

"Pretty sure." Lane said walking away.

"Angel child." Lorelai said eating the fries.

"Ha. The angel child is feeding the devils starchy fingers." Lane said giggling.

"Whoa." Lorelai said giggling also. "Ironic." She said nodding.

Wow, she knows what ironic is…lets do a little dance. She thought bitterly. She couldn't help herself her competition was gorgeous and successful.

"Very." Lane said returning to the kitchen to get an order.

Her phone rang and she checked the caller ID. "Michel." She said sighing. "I'll see you later." She told Luke raising and eyebrow. He nodded and she got up.

"Bye Babbette." She said smiling. "See you later Kirk, don't have too much coffee." She said winking and then she walking away giggling to herself.

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The whole day Luke had been thinking about what Rachel had said. Why hadn't he told her? Was he scared of her running away?

"Hey." She said waking outside seeing Luke.

"Hey." He said walking up the stairs.

She sat down on the porch swing and motioned him to do the same. He said down and she pulled her legs up to her chest. "What are you thinking about?" She asked looking at him.

"You." He answered truthfully.

"What about me?" She asked moving her body so she was facing him crossing her legs Indian style.

The truth or not the truth. "How….much…I…" He looked up at the sky and down at her. "How much I…Love you." He said.

She stared at him. The only man she told she loved was Chris and they were stupid teenagers. Here was this man (who didn't exactly wear his heart on his sleeve) giving her his heart. "I love you too." She said little tears forming pools in the corners of her eyes. She smiled and cupped his face in her hands. His smile was huge; she's never seen a smile so big on his face before. She places three light kisses on his lips and giggled, resting her head in the crook of his neck, noticing, not for the first time, how well it fits. "I love you." She said giddy, suddenly full of energy. She took his hand and led him inside.

An: They said it…yes…

Next chapter: (not sure the song yet) A surprise person comes to town and visits (YES GOOD! Our old friend…) Lorelai. Rory has some love trouble when a blonde from her past meets a blonde from the now.