Title: Wanting To Turn Back Time

Wednesday Night Dating


It was Tuesday afternoon. Lorelai was running around the office dropping papers off at different people's station. As she was on her way back to her office she was stopped by a young blonde man.

"Lorelai, right?" He asked smiling.

"Yea, you're the new kid, huh?" Lorelai replied smiling.

"I guess you could call me that." He smiled. "I'm David."

"Nice to meet you." She said. "You like it here so far?" She asked walking towards her office with him following behind.

"Yea. It's a great place to work." David replied. "I know it's soon, and everything, but I was wondering if maybe you would like to go out tomorrow night?"

Lorelai gave him the once over. "Aren't you a little too young for me?"

"I don't think so." He smiled.

"How old are you?" She asked, eyebrow up.

"40." He stated.

"Damn it!" She smiled stacking the papers in her hand on top of another stack.

"Too old?" He asked.

"Perfect age." She replied smiling. "You said tomorrow night?"

"Yea, around 6:00."

"Sure." She smiled. She turned to her desk and scribbled her number on a piece of paper. "Here's my number. Call around 5:00."

He smiled. "Okay."


The next day she took off work so she could spend time with Kaleb. The whole morning she chased him around playing this and that, finally around 3:00 he fell asleep and she moved him into his room. She went into her room, and started getting ready. She hadn't been on a date in over 3 years. It had been so long ago. She thought about what she would wear on those dates with Luke. Never, would she ever wear those around any other guy. She went to her small closet and opened it up. She searched until she found the perfect outfit. A white flowing skirt that fell below her knees, and a pink sleeveless top. She threw it on quickly, and made her way to the bathroom, to do her hair and makeup.

About 4:50, Lorelai finished. Her hair was loosely curled and fell close to her elbows. Her makeup was very little. Eye makeup and blush. She went into Kaleb's room to wake him up.

"Come on Kaleb. Mommy's leaving soon."

"Where?"

"I'm going to go eat dinner with a friend."

"Can come?" He asked sitting up.

"No honey. It's just me and him." Lorelai picked the little boy up. "Who would you like to stay with tonight?"

"Umm.." Kaleb thought. Lorelai noticed that he looked a lot like Luke when he was thinking. "Mimi."

"Mimi it is." She said pulling him up on her hip and walking towards the phone. Just about that time it rang. She picked it up. "Hello?"

"Lorelai?"

"David, hi." Lorelai replied.

"Do you think I could pick you up a little early? I have reservations at Le De Restaurant for 6:00."

"That's over near Broadway."

"That's why, I thought I could pick you up early."

"Oh yea, that's fine. I have to call the babysitter and have her come now."

"Babysitter?" David asked confused.

"I have a three year old son. His name is Kaleb."

"Oh." He said shocked.

"I also have a 23 year old daughter."

"Big age difference." He replied.

"Yea. Well I better go if I want to get a babysitter."

"Okay, see you in a while."

"Bye." Lorelai hung up. "Okay Lucas let's call Mimi."

"You call me Lucas."

"That's your middle name."

"Op." He said.

Lorelai kissed his head then dialed Mimi.


At 5:30 promptly, David rang the doorbell. I'll have to teach him to be late. She smiled at the memory of Luke always coming to pick her up late. She shook her head, trying to rid the thought. She opened the front door and smiled at David.

"Come in. You can meet my son." Lorelai moved out of the way and let him walk in.

"Here, these are for you." He said handing her a bouquet of roses.

Lorelai smiled and sniffed the sweet scent. "Thank you." She leaned over and kissed him softly on the cheek. Defiantly doesn't taste like Luke. She silently cursed herself for the thought. "Kaleb!" She called pulling a vase out of the cabinet. "Get in here!" Lorelai slipped the roses into the vase and filled it with water. "Mimi!"

"Is Mimi your daughter?" He asked.

"No, Mimis' the babysitter." Lorelai sighed. "Kaleb Lucas Danes!"

All of a sudden a little boy with sandy brown hair and big blue eyes came running in from the back of the apartment. David peered down at the little boy. He doesn't look much like Lorelai. Must take after his father. "Well hello." David said kneeling in front of Kaleb.

"Hi." Kaleb replied.

"Kaleb this is David, he's my friend that I'm eating dinner with."

"Oh." Kaleb replied, blue eyes clouding over with tears. All of a sudden he burst out of the room crying.

David looked up at Lorelai. "What did I say?"

Lorelai just smiled and walked off after Kaleb.

"Kaleb?" She called walking into his room. "Oh there you are Mimi."

"Hi Lorelai." Mimi replied in a thick french accent.

"Could you give me a minute with Kaleb?"

"Oh um sure."

Lorelai plopped down on the bed next to Kaleb. "So. What was that all about?"

"He going be daddy?" Kaleb asked looking up at Lorelai with tear stains down his face.

"Oh no Kaleb. Daddy is your daddy forever. No one could take that from you." Except me. "David's just a friend. We're going to go out and eat dinner, and then we'll be back."

"No marry him?"

"No." Lorelai replied kissing the boy on his sandy brown head. "Come on." She picked him up and headed out of the room.


"That was a great dinner." Lorelai smiled as her and David walked down the busy street of New York City.

"I"m glad you liked it." David looked over at her.

They walked a few more steps in silence.

"I was wondering if maybe you would like to go out again on Friday."

Lorelai looked up into the deep green eyes of David. Not blue. "Well actually I have to go visit my daughter in Stars Hollow." David looked away disappointed. "But if you want, you could come down and meet my daughter."

"That would be great."

Lorelai looked away, then back up at him. "I'll call you when I get there and we can plan it out." Instantly David leaned down and kissed her softly on her lips. Lorelai was surprised. She didn't want the kiss. She liked David yes, but she wasn't in love with him, and she didn't want to fall in love with him. She also couldn't help but think she was cheating on Luke.


A/N: Don't worry, if you know me at all, it will end up a Lorelai and Luke fic. Okay there's the third chapter. 2nd chapter of 3 years later. Read and Review!

A/N2: Thanks to all who have reviewed so far: borncountry88, Hi I'm Cold, Suusje32, ProFfeSseR, sarahb2007, lubyfanforever, jennatheJesusfreak, Christi06, litizreal,goclo92, GilmoreLover, Tears4Chris, javajunkie101, and scubaluver. Special thanks for the encourging words oflubyfanforever. Also to answer some questions, Kaleb is Hebrew, and my Aunt got me hooked on the name. Also I can't tell ya'll if Lorelai and Luke get back together, the suspense is in my favor. Lol.