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Chapter Twelve

Lorelai went to the diner Luke was just leaving.

"Woah. Where do you think your going?" Lorelai asked.

"I'm out of food." Luke said plainly.

"You can't run out of food, you own a diner."

"Exactly. What are you doing here anyway?" Luke asked.

"Oh I was feeling anti-social." Lorelai said.

"You do know that means you want to kill everyone?" Luke said.

"Oh…well that about covers it."

"Oh, then go right on ahead." Luke said. Lorelai let him leave his diner. She sat down. The door opened and closed again.

"Luke, Luke, Luke! Did you forget your wallet again?" Lorelai said sarcastically.

"Hey Lor." Lorelai turned around, Christopher was there just standing looking at her.

"Chris what do you want?" Lorelai said anger and annoyance rising to her throat.

"Lorelai you know what I want!" Christopher said walking to the table where she sat and he sat down himself.

"Chris, if you mean you want me to let go of everything I hold dear to be with you, your sorely mistaken." Lorelai said.

"Just give me one chance!" Christopher said plea in his voice.

"No! Chris, you have had several chances." Lorelai yelled at him. Christopher looked out the window. Luke was coming quickly to the door. As Luke opened the door, Christopher moved in towards Lorelai and kissed her soundly on the mouth. Lorelai, shocked, not really comprehending, for a split second didn't react. Luke stood there, transfixed to the spot, his heart pounding, mouth slightly open in surprise and hurt. Lorelai, regaining a sense of herself, pulled away quickly. She looked behind her, and saw Luke. She let out a gasp. Luke closed his mouth quickly.

"Tornado." Was all he said as he led the two of them down to the cellar.

"Luke!" Lorelai pleaded, "Luke, it's not what you think!"

"Let me guess, he kissed you, you didn't kiss him right?" Luke said quietly.

"Yes!" She said.

"This isn't high school Lorelai!" Luke yelled, "It's not like your going to say that and I'll just apologize for not trusting you! No! That's not how it works!"

"Luke I know it sounds childish but it's true! Luke, I-I love you!" Lorelai said, tears falling down her cheeks.

"No! No you don't! Don't pretend Lorelai! It'll just make it harder! You are over me and already have someone else! I was just a stand-in, wasn't I?" Luke shouted,

"No, you weren't! He—"

"You're over me." Luke said much quieter.

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"RORY!" Tristan yelled.

"TRISTAN!" Rory yelled over the noise of the tornado.

"RORY COME HERE!" Rory ran too him and inside his house.

"Tristan are you okay?" Rory said panicked.

"I'm okay, are you?" Tristan said hugging her tightly.

"Yeah. Yeah I'm fine." Rory lied. Of course she wasn't! But she didn't want to worry him.

"Good. We have to get to the cellar!" They ran as fast as they could down two flights of stairs and then to a concrete staircase they ran down and at last they were safe. "Mom, Dad are you alright?"

"Yes Tristan. We are. Are you and your girlfriend?" Tristan's mom said.

"Um…do you mean Rory? She's not my girlfriend. Well, she is my friend that's a girl, so technically she is my girlfriend, bu—"

"Shut up." Rory said.

"Right, well, we're good." Tristan said plainly.

"Good. Rory does your mom know your safe?" Tristan's mom asked. It was then that it dawned on her; her mother had no idea where she was.

"Oh no!" Rory said more worried than she had ever been. "I need to reach her! She's probably at Luke's or…Sookies's or…maybe miss patty's or Bab—"

"Rory!" Tristan said to her loudly. Rory looked up. "I am sure she's okay. And I know she knows your okay, so breathe."

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Lorelai and Christopher sat opposite each other, and Luke went and sat at the other side of the room.

"Lor, listen—" Christopher said.

"No." Lorelai said coldly.

Luke was thinking about everything he and Lorelai had done, they had been dating only a few months but they had and they had done so much. Before and after they had started dating. When he realized something…

"Rory!" He said out loud, and Lorelai and Christopher turned to look over at him.

"Rory!" Lorelai repeated, "Where is she?"

"She's at Tristan's house." Luke said bitterly.

"Rory? Oh. Okay, uh…is she safe?" Christopher said.

"I don't know Christopher! I wouldn't be acting like this if I knew!" Lorelai shrieked.

"Sorry." As the night went on Lorelai and Christopher fell asleep, but Luke couldn't fall asleep, the noise outside worried him, he kept picturing in his head what the tornado was going to do to the town. He walked over to Lorelai and looked at her.

"You told me you loved me, I know you lied, but I love you." He said to the sleeping Lorelai. Luke sat in a lonely silence for several more hours with nothing but the howling wind, worried thoughts about Rory. And only in the early hours of the morning, did sleep finally take him.

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Tristan woke suddenly. It was the next morning and The Tornado had died out but it was raining hard.

"Good morning." Rory said sleepily as she woke up.

"Hey, good morning." Tristan replied.

"Is it?" Rory asked.

"Weather wise, not really. And when I speak not concerning the weather, yeah, I'd say so."

"Good. That was so strange though. I mean, have you ever heard of a tornado in January? Least of all in Connecticut?" Rory said.

"No, I know what you mean." There was a slightly awkward silence.

"Hey Rory?" Tristan said.

"Yeah?"

"I just really… Never mind."

"No, go ahead!"

"No, really, it's nothing."

"Okay, fine."

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Lorelai woke up to see that Luke must have fallen asleep by the couch she slept on. There were blankets and a pillow but Luke was no where to be seen. She saw that the cellar was door open. She walked up the stairs and saw Luke looking at his diner, which had been utterly torn apart by the storm. He picked up one of his father's wall decorations from the ground that hadn't been ruined. He slowly walked to the door, now in shreds, hanging on by a single hinge, and looked at the town. There was wreckage to be seen all through Stars Hollow. So many buildings had been damaged, a couple completely knocked down by the storm. There was a person was crying in the distance. Luke walked over to Kirk.

"L-Luke?" Kirk said eyes red with tears.

"What's wrong Kirk?" Luke said.

"M-My Mom, Sh-she's hurt and I-I don't know what t-to do!" Kirk said weakly.

"You have to take her to the hospital." Luke said.

"I-I don't have a c-car!" Kirk said wearily.

"I do Kirk." Luke said.

"Wouldn't it be destroyed?" Kirk asked.

"No Kirk, garage. It was pretty much protected there. It's not in very good condition, but it runs." Luke said.

"B-But how long is th-the drive?"

"Not long. Just to the hospital in Hartford."

"Thank you Luke."

"I'll get anyone else who got hurt, and doesn't have a car. You get your mom." Luke said.

"Okay." Kirk said walking off. Luke found only three more people hurt, Taylor, Morrie, and to Luke's surprise Jess, who was coming into town to see Rory.

Lorelai sat there in shock. It had been the worst two days she had ever had. Her house was highly damaged, the town was a wreck and she had no idea if Rory was okay. And to cap it all off, because of Christopher, Luke thought she had been cheating in her and had broken up with her. But she didn't have the time to think about that right now. She had to find Rory.

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