Title: Wanting To Turn Back Time
Let's Talk
"Lorelai! Suga!" Babette called running from her house towards Lorelai, Rory, and Kaleb. "Wait up Suga!"
Lorelai mentally cursed Babette, and turned towards her with Kaleb on her hip.
"Hi Babette." Lorelai smiled.
"Rory!" Babette smiled. "My God, you're pregnant!"
"Yea Babette." Rory smiled placing her hands on her stomach. "It's Logan's."
"Oh yea, you two are married!"
"Yea, 1 year next month." Rory said showing her wedding ring.
"Oh my god! It's a rock!" Babette smiled.
Rory just laughed.
"Well Babette, we better get going." Lorelai said smiling.
"Wait. Is this your little boy?" Babette asked patting Kaleb's head.
"Yes. He's three."
"Who's the father?"
Lorelai looked down.
"It's Luke's!" Babette squealed. "I knew it!"
"We need to go Babette." Rory said grabbing her mother's shoulders and walking off.
Babette smiled and ran off to tell the whole town what she found out.
Lorelai plopped down onto the couch with Kaleb.
"Damn that Babette."
Kaleb looked up at Lorelai.
"I mean, a damn is where Babette used to live."
"Nice cover up." Rory replied.
Kaleb got off the couch and walked off towards the kitchen.
"It's alright mom." Rory said walking over to her mom.
"The whole town probably knows by now."
"Yea, but it's better then them finding out later on."
"Whatever."
"Mommy!" Kaleb yelled from the kitchen.
"Rory go see what Kaleb wants." Lorelai told Rory.
Rory waddled into the kitchen to find Kaleb standing on a chair, trying to get a sippy cup.
"Bubby!"
"Cup!" Kaleb called.
"Okay okay." Rory said grabbing Kaleb and putting him on the ground. "Blue or green?"
"Blue!" Kaleb smiled.
Rory grabbed the blue cup and shut the cabinet. "Oj or milk?"
"Milk."
Rory pulled the milk out of the fridge and poured it into the sippy cup and a glass. She gave Kaleb the sippy cup, and took the cup into the livingroom.
"Here, drink some milk." Rory said handing the milk to Lorelai.
Lorelai made a disgusted face, but took the milk anyways.
"You know you like it." Rory said smiling. "You craved it the whole time you were pregnant with Kaleb."
"I still don't like it." Lorelai said sitting it down. "Only in my coffee."
"As Luke would say, Junkie."
Lorelai thought back to a cool September evening.
She walked into Luke's and went up to the counter with a coffee cup in her hand.
"Please Luke." Lorelai stuck out her bottom lip. "Please, please, please."
"How many cups of coffee have you had this morning?" Luke asked eyeing her carefully for any signs of lying.
"None." Lorelai said forcefully. Luke gave her the look that told her he knew.
"Plus?"
"5."She gave in. "But your's is better."
"You have a problem." He said staring at her.
"Yes I do." She replied putting the cup towards him.
Luke grabbed the coffee cup from her and filled it. "Junkie." He mumbled.
"Angel." She replied smiling and taking the coffee from him. "You've got wings baby."
"Hello? Earth to Mom!" Rory said waving her hand in front of Lorelai's face. "You spaced out there."
"Oh. Sorry, just thinking."
"About?"
Lorelai looked up at her daughter and smiled. "Our lives."
"What were you thinking about?" Rory asked sitting next to her mother.
"You remember that time when you met me at Luke's, and you were hit on by that man?" Lorelai asked looking up at Rory.
"Yea, he had a friend that was for you."
"Yea, and the way their faces was when I said you were 16."
"They looked as if they were about to pass out."
"I miss the old times." Lorelai said wrapping her arm around her daughter's shoulder.
"So do I mom, so do I."
The next night, Lorelai sat down with Rory to talk to her.
"Rory?" Lorelai said coming into Rory's room.
"Hey mom."
"Can I talk to you?"
"Yea." Rory said scooting over on the bed for her mom to sit down. "What's up?"
"I'm thinking about moving back to Stars Hollow."
Rory looked up at her mom. "What?"
"Kaleb needs a father, I'm Miss Independent and think I can do it, but Kaleb really likes Luke, and I think it's for the better."
"Good."
"What?" Lorelai said looking at Rory confused. "What do you mean good?"
"Luke deserves to be around his kid. You're doing the right thing." Rory sighed. "Plus I wanted you near, for when this little one is born." Rory said motioning to her stomach.
Lorelai smiled. "I want to be around."
"Thanks mom." Rory hugged her mom. "I love you."
"I love you too kid."
Rory peeked over her mother's shoulder at the clock.
"Mom it's 6:00!" Rory yelled pushing Lorelai away. "Luke will be here within an hour."
"Okay, okay." Lorelai said standing up. "I'm going to get ready."
Lorelai started out the door.
"Mom." Rory called. Lorelai turned around in the door way. "Is something going on between you and Luke?"
Lorelai looked down then back up at Rory. "You know, I don't really know."
"Do you want something to happen?" Rory asked.
Lorelai smiled with tears in her eyes. "Yea. I do."
For the first time in Lorelai Gilmore's life, she was ready at exactly the time she was told to be. It was 7:10, and still no Luke. She stood up, smoothing out her black skirt, and walked over to the window to look out. There she saw Luke getting out of his truck. Her breath caught in her throat. He was as good looking dressed up as she remembered. He was wearing a light blue buttoned down dress shirt, black slacks, which was surprising to Lorelai because he didn't like slacks. His hair was longer then before she left, but still the same sandy brown. She watched him walk up the steps and to the door. Then the doorbell rang. She shut the curtains and walked slowly to the door.
Luke was probably as nervous now as he was on their first date. He rang the doorbell, but then it dawned on him that Kaleb might be in bed. He heard inside the clicking of heels against the floor, then the chain of the lock being slid, and then the door being pulled open. He looked up to be met with a beautiful, yet classy looking Lorelai Gilmore.
She was dressed in a knee-length black skirt, which was accented by a deep silky purple sleeveless top. Her hair was pulled back straight. Bangs fell at her eyes, which were powdered with purple eyeshadow.
"You're late." Was the first thing she said.
"I thought you liked to have an extra fifteen minutes?" Luke asked.
Lorelai smiled at the memory. "Yea, I do."
"So, are you ready to go?" He asked.
"Yea, except Kaleb wanted to say goodnight to you." Lorelai said looking up into Luke's eyes. "He's seemed to have taken a liking to you."
Luke just smiled and followed Lorelai into the house. The walked towards Rory's room, and stopped just outside the room.
"Rory!" Lorelai called. "Is Kaleb awake?"
Rory opened the door to reveal herself, and a sleepy looking Kaleb.
"Kaleb? You want to say night to Daddy?"
Kaleb nodded and put his arms out as if for Luke to take him. Luke did just that. He pulled the little guy up into his strong arms.
"Hey Kaleb." Luke smiled ruffling the sandy brown hair, which was identical to his own. "You ready to go to bed?"
Kaleb shook his head yes and buried his face in Luke's chest.
"Well, Me and your mommy has to go, but when I drop mommy off later, I'll come say goodnight again." Luke paused and looked up at Lorelai who gave a reassuring nod. "Okay?"
Kaleb shook his head yes, and rose from his chest. "Night daddy."
"Night Kaleb." Luke said kissing the boy on the head and handing him back to Rory.
"Bye Rory." Lorelai said walking towards the front door.
"Bye."
Lorelai, followed by Luke, walked into Sniffy's Tavern a place neither had been in years. The last time was the night of their first date. They were seated in the exact same place, and both felt as uncomfortable.
Luke ordered red wine. Lorelai smiled. They made a toast, as minds traveled back to that night.
"Yep, I defiantly hate champagne." Luke said sitting the wine down.
"This is nice."
"Good."
"Hey, do you remember the first time we met?"
"What?"
"I'm just trying to remember the first time we met." Lorelai said thinking. "It must have been at Luke's. Right?"
"It was Luke's, it was at lunch, it was a very busy day, the place was packed and this person..."
"O, is it me? Is it me?" Lorelai asked pointing to herself.
"This person comes tearing in the place in a caffeine frenzy."
"Oh it's me."
"I was with a customer, she interrupts me, wild eyed begging for coffee, so I tell her to wait her turn.." Lorelai nods knowingly laughing. "Then she starts following me around, talking a mile a minute saying God knows what, so finally I turn to her and I tell her she's being annoying, sit down, shut up, I'll get to her when I get to her."
"You know, I bet she took that very well, 'cause she sounds just delightful."
"She asked me what my birthday was, I wouldn't tell, she wouldn't stop talking, so I gave in, I told her my birthday." Luke continues. "Then she opened up the newspaper to the horoscope page, wrote something down, tore it out, handed it to me."
"God Seriously, you wrote the menu, didn't you?"
"So, I'm looking at this piece of paper in my hand, and under Scorpio she had written, 'You will meet an annoying woman today, give her coffee and she'll go away. I gave her coffee..."
"But she didn't go away." Lorelai cut in.
"She told me to hold on to that horoscope, put it in my wallet," Luke paused to get out his wallet. "carry it around with me, and one day it would bring me luck." He pulled it out and handed it to Lorelai.
"Well man, I would say anything for a cup of coffee." Lorelai said taking the horoscope. "Um, I can't believe you kept this." Lorelai looked up at Luke who waved it off. "You kept this in your wallet. You kept this in your wallet.."
"Eight years." Luke filled in.
"Eight years."
Luke took back the horoscope, looked at it then put it back in his wallet. "Lorelai, this thing we're doing, here, me, you, I just want you to know I'm in, I am all in." Luke looks over at Lorelai who is just staring at him. "Does that..uh..are you..uh scared?"
Luke looks up to see Lorelai lost in thought.
"So, you wanted to talk?" He asks seriously.
Lorelai shakes her head trying make the feeling of their first date disappear. "Um yea, I wanted to talk."
"About?"
"Well, everything." Lorelai replies fiddling with the ring on her right hand.
"What do you want to start with?"
"Kaleb." Lorelai states.
"What about him?"
"He's your son."
"I know tha..."
"And you need to be there for him, and I think me going back to New York, will just keep you two apart, so I'm thinking of moving back."
"To Stars Hollow?"
"Yea, I just think it's good for Kaleb, I mean, now he knows you, and likes you, and you like him, I just don't want to tear you too apart."
"So you're moving back." Luke nods.
"I'm moving back."
They sit in an uncomfortable silence until Lorelai speaks up. "About the other night."
"Listen Lorelai just forget it."
"We hadn't done that in a very long time."
"Yea."
"The last time we did, was when Kaleb was conceived."
Luke turns away not wanting to continue the conversation.
"It was crazy."
"I know, you regret it, we're over and we shouldn't had done it."
"But I enjoyed it." Lorelai replied touching his hand.
Luke looked down at her hand and thought to one night when she came in the diner with Sookie, Jackson, and that weird man Rune.
"First I gotta watch a man walk out on you, then I gotta watch you eat alone. Nope, too pathetic." Luke said shaking his head.
"I'm not eating alone, you're here." Lorelai replied.
"I'm working."
"Yea, but after three cheeseburgers your done unless your expecting Elijah to stop by."
"Okay fine." Luke said reaching underneath the counter. He raised a deck of cards up. Lorelai smiled happily. "5 card draw."
"O, your on."
Luke dealt out the cards, Lorelai looked at hers then made a decision. "Give me four."
Luke gave her four more. "Eaahh. No, four more." She said putting the four cards back down.
"You can't have four more, those are the four I dealt you."
"Well, these don't help me, and I have vowed to discard anything negative in my life, first Rune, and now these four cards."
"Whatever you say." Luke gave in throwing her down four more cards.
Lorelai picked them up smiling. "Aahh. Much better, thank you."
Luke looked up at her and studied her face with a smirk.
"Rune knew when to run away."
"Ha." Lorelai replied laughing.
Laughing from Sookie and Jackson made the two look over at them.
"God, that's nice."
"Yep." Luke replied leaning against the counter.
"The whole first date, beginning of the relationship glow. Everything is' new and exciting."
"Every joke is hilarious." Luke added.
"Every little touch..." Lorelai said touching Luke's arm. "..is incredible." Lorelai smiled. "That's a good feeling."
"It is at that." Luke said nodding his head.
"I miss that." Lorelai said looking up at Luke.
"You'll have it again." Luke replied.
"I guess."
"You did?" Luke asked looking up at her.
"Yea, but.."
"There's a but." Luke mumbled.
"We can't. Not anymore. It was a one time thing. That's it." Lorelai said trying to reassure herself.
"Okay." Luke said not wanting what she was saying. "Whatever you want."
"That's why I always loved you Luke." Lorelai said.
Luke took a double take. "What?"
"I meant that's why I always liked you, you would do whatever I thought was best."
Luke looked at her unconvinced, but he let it go anyway.
"So, we talked." Lorelai said.
"Yea, we talked." Luke said upset.
They finished their dinner, drifting in and out of reality.
A/N: That was my longest chapter. 10 pages. Read and review. Also the quotes are taken straight from the show.
