Title: Wanting To Turn Back Time
Wanting A Daddy
3 years 8 months later
Lorelai Gilmore ran around her apartment chasing after her 3 year old son. She finally caught him and swung him in the air kissing him on the head.
"I got you!" Lorelai smiled sitting Kaleb down.
"He he he." Kaleb laughed running off towards his room.
Lorelai smiled then plopped down onto her red checked couch.
"Mama!" Kaleb yelled running into the livingroom with a picture frame. "Tell me story!"
Lorelai knew what her son was referring too. The picture was of Luke Danes. Every night Kaleb would beg her to tell him the story of his father. Of course Lorelai would agree, and she would put Kaleb on her lap, hold the frame in her hands and tell a made up story of Luke. Then she would put Kaleb into bed and go back, sit on the couch, and stare at the picture until the phone would ring. And Rory would always be on the other end.
Tonight was different. She told the story, put Kaleb in bed, went and stared at the picture, but Rory never called. Finally after an hour of staring at it she got up and walked to the phone. She dialed her 23 year old daughter.
"Hello?" Rory answered.
"It's mom."
"Hey mom." Rory said as she unlocked the apartment her and Logan shared.
"You didn't call." Lorelai said pulling open the fridge and grabbing the orange juice.
"Yea, sorry."
"What happened?"
"Oh nothing." Rory said dropping her bag onto the ground and flipping the light on. "Just got tied up at work."
"Oh." Lorelai took a sip of the orange juice.
"Listen mom I have to go, tell Kaleb I love him."
"Okay." Lorelai replied.
"Love you, bye."
"Bye." Lorelai hung up.
Lorelai woke up at 6:35 and got in the shower. She climbed out 10 minutes later, and wrapped a blue towel around her small body. She went to the counter and picked up her brush. She brushed through her hair, then took a hair band and pulled her curls out of her face. She grabbed her robe off the back of the door, unwrapped her towel, and tied the robe around her. She unlocked the door and walked down the hall towards Kaleb's room. She pushed open the door and walked inside to find the three year old little boy wrapped up in baseball sheets asleep. She walked over, kissed his head then walked out. She cracked the door and walked into the kitchen. She poured herself a glass of orange juice, quickly drank it, rinsed it out and went into her room. She pulled out a black skirt and a blue silk button down top. She took out her favorite black heels and sat them with her outfit. She slipped off her robe, took out some underclothes out of her top drawer, put them on, slipped on her skirt and top, and slid her feet into her black heels. She walked out of the room, back to the bathroom. She bent down and took out the hair dryer, plugged it in. She walked back out of the bathroom to Kaleb's room and opened the door.
"Kaleb, time to get up." Lorelai called walking over to the little boy. "Mommy has to get to work." Lorelai pulled the blankets off of him, and instantly he opened his eyes. Lorelai peered down at the little boy. He looked so much like his father. He had light sandy brown hair that fell at his eyes, he had the slender nose, and the perfectly rounded ears. The only things Lorelai could claim that he had like her was his blue eyes, and his stubbornness. He also acted a lot like Rory. He was smart, even for a three year old, he could already read. "Come on baby. If you get up now, we can stop and eat breakfast at Rockies."
Kaleb shook his head yes. Lorelai picked the little boy up and headed towards the bathroom. She sat him down and walked over to the tub. She turned the water on, turned back to Kaleb, pulled off his baseball pjs and put him into the tub.
"You take a bath, while I dry my hair for work." Lorelai said to the sleepy eyed boy. "Okey Dokey?"
"Okey Dokey." Kaleb replied.
Lorelai ruffled his hair and stood up. She went to the counter, pulled down her hair, picked up the dryer and began drying her hair.
15 minutes later, Lorelai was brushing through her now straight hair while Kaleb was splashing in the tub behind her. She took a blue sparkly clip, pinned back her hair on one side, then turned to Kaleb.
"Time to get out, and get dressed."
"Mommy!" Kaleb cried.
"No Mommy!" Lorelai said unplugging the bath, and pulling Kaleb out. "Go get dressed!" She said wrapping a towel around him and spanking his bottom. Kaleb ran off yelling.
Luke's daily schedule for the past three years had been something different than his schedule almost 4 years ago. Now, he wouldn't wake up early, he was up all the time. It seemed he never slept. The only time he slept was maybe and hour or two during lunch. Even then he didn't sleep like he should. He tossed and turned and never got comfortable. He knew why. He didn't have her next to him. He missed her warmth, her smell, her hugs, her kisses, he missed everything about her. People would have expected him to be over it by now. I mean, it's been 3 years 8 months and 15 days. Not that he was counting or anything. But it was hard. The only person he truly loved was gone. He had no idea where she went, Rory didn't even come around. The Lorelais' were totally out of his life. No beautiful blue eyes to look at him, no hair flip to make him smile, and no little black dress to make him cave. He wasn't over it. He admits it. He also never goes into the diner anymore. The only time he does is at night. Then he only goes there to count money. Luke Danes was lost. And everyone knew it.
Kaleb's favorite place to eat was a little diner, just a mile away from their apartment. Lorelai would take him their every morning for breakfast, and sometimes for dinner. On this morning after plenty of begging from Kaleb, she gave in. They sat in a booth by the window, ordering a cup of coffee and a glass of milk. Kaleb took after his father. Health nut all the way.
"When I get meet daddy?" Kaleb asked looking up at Lorelai with his big blue eyes.
Lorelai was taken aback. "Your...daddy?"
"Uh huh." Kaleb shook his head. "When?"
"Well Kaleb, daddy lives in Connecticut."
"Can we go see him?"
"No Kaleb." Lorelai replied shaking her head.
"But... I want daddy." Kaleb said crying.
Lorelai knew this was going to happen sooner or later. She knew he would ask for his daddy. Rory had told her over and over to call and tell Luke that he had a kid. But did she listen? No. Lorelai was too stubborn.
"Okay baby. Okay." Lorelai said going around to him and holding him. "I'll take you to daddy."
After work Lorelai picked Kaleb up from a local day care and took him home. She put him in the living room with Lion King on, and went into her room. She picked the phone up off her night stand and sat down on the bed dialing Rory's number.
"Hey mom." Rory answered. She was in Wal Mart picking groceries up.
"What are you doing?" Lorelai asked.
"Getting groceries." Rory replied taking a package of chocolate chip cookies and dropping them in the cart.
"Has Logan turned you into a little housewife?" Lorelai asked teasing.
"No mom. I just needed to pick some things up. What's up?"
"Kaleb asked for Luke today."
Rory stopped walking. "What?"
"We were at breakfast, he looked up at me and asked to see his daddy."
"And what did you say?"
"I said no."
"Mom!"
"Well."
"You need to take him to Stars Hollow and meet Luke. Luke deserves to know he has a kid."
"I know, but after three years?"
"It doesn't matter."
"But.."
"I'll drive up there this weekend and pick you and Kaleb up. We can stay at our old house."
"The Crap Shack is still standing?" Lorelai asked. "I would've thought Taylor had knocked it down by now."
"It's still standing, with everything the exact way you left."
"That's a little creepy."
"No one has dared to go near it."
"Are you sure you want to drive all the way up here?"
"I'm positive. I haven't seen my little brother in a while."
"He's been asking about you."
"He has?"
"He asks when his sissy is going to come stay the night with him."
"I defiantly wish you lived near mom, I miss you two so much."
"I know. I miss you."
"I better go." Rory said smiling. "I'll call you when I leave Friday."
"Okay kid. Bye."
"Bye."
A/N: There we go. Not great. But there it is. I hope you like it so far.
