Chapter Thirteen

As the days went by Rory went back home, Lorelai was very happy with this. It was like a weight was lifted of her shoulders. But there were a lot more weights to be lifted. As the weeks went by everyone started to get back on his or her feet. Even though Luke and Lorelai broke up, Luke started fixing Lorelai's house with a lot of other men. Luke would hammer away everyday. At six a.m. he would wake up, get his team together and start fixing all the problems at Lorelai and Rory's house. He would never say a word to them, except 'What do you need done?' and he would work. So like every day he woke bright and early. He gathered everyone who wanted to help out at Lorelai's house and they set off.

"Hi Rory, what do you need done?" Luke said on the fifth day of working on their house.

"Well, you can decide. I don't know." Rory said not looking Luke in the eye. Luke started to walk around the house to see what needed to be done, when Lorelai came out side.

"Luke!" Lorelai called after him. Luke stopped and unwillingly turned around.

"Yes?"

"Do you know when the house will be finished?"

"Probably at the end of next week." Luke said.

"Oh. That's great." Lorelai said. Luke walked away swiftly.

"Let's get going, we've got a lot more to do and a lot of different places to go to." Kirk said.

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As even more weeks went by Lorelai and Rory's house was back to normal and yet another weight was lifted. Every other house on that street was beautiful again. Luke thought that the diner was last priority.

"Taylor, how's your leg?" Luke walked up to Taylor who had some serious leg injuries.

"Oh just fine. My house looks wonderful by the way. Thank you for that." Taylor was being just as annoying as he always was, along with the whole town. Luke and Lorelai passed each other regularly which was not the pleasure for Luke or Lorelai.

Lorelai would sit at home all day most of the time. But every now and then she would see how the town was doing.

"Mom! Let's go! Sookie wants us to go to her house." Rory said.

"I don't want to." Lorelai said plainly.

"Come on missy. I'll give you chocolate!"

"Ooh! Chocolate! Let's go!" Lorelai said standing up.

"Come on, come on!" Rory said as if Lorelai were a dog.

"Alright let's go." Lorelai grabbed her coat and walked out the door.

"You know, it's only been a few months since the tornado and look at the town, it's almost perfect again! Everyone's acting normal! Well…no one has ever been normal in this town…." Rory said.

"No, no do you not remember…Wilson?" Rory laughed at the thought.

"Oh yeah! I remember, he was out of the town in a month."

"He couldn't take the pressure of being a member of the great Stars Hollow." Lorelai smiled as she walked around town.

"No! Taylor, you can't just leave that house in ruins!" Lorelai froze and looked forward a couple of yards. Luke was arguing with Taylor about a house that had been terribly affected by the tornado.

"We have been working on it for weeks Luke! We can't do any more! And it's not in ruins!" Taylor argued.

"Come on Taylor!" Taylor sighed as Luke yelled at him.

"If you can find a team to work on it with then, I suppose you can work on that house for one more week."

"Thanks." Luke started walking Lorelai and Rory's way.

Lorelai lunged behind Rory. But Rory was fighting Lorelai. When Luke reached their distance. He looked over but quickly realized who he was looking at and sped away. Lorelai started moving again and finally they reached Sookie and Jackson's house.

"It's beautiful!" Lorelai said as Sookie walked outside her house.

"I know! It looks just like it did before!" Sookie laughed.

"And it was beautiful before." Rory stated.

"I know!" Sookie said.

"Well Sookie I'm glad you have your house back."

"Hey Lorelai! Have you heard that Luke's not even starting to clean up his diner until the rest of the town is all back to normal?" Lorelai sighed, and Sookie realized that Luke and Lorelai weren't together anymore. "Oops…Sorry Lorelai."

"No problem. It's all is good! I love the new porch!" Lorelai said changing the subject.

"Yeah, I made them make it bigger! Jackson loves it!"

"Where is Jackson?" Rory asked.

"He's in Hartford getting seeds for the garden."

"Oh yeah! How is the garden?" Lorelai asked.

"Terrible. But this is actually great! Because the gross radishes are gone!"

"I thought you liked those." Lorelai said. Sookie laughed.

"I hate them! I never told Jackson because it would hurt his feelings! I told him not to buy any today because I told him they were mutating our tomato's!"

"He believed you?" Rory asked.

"No! But he hates them too. I saw him throw bunches of them away and he said he ate them!"

"The tomato's?"

"The Radishes."

"But you said…"

"That Jackson hated the radishes and threw bunches away because he hated them and told me he ate them."

"No, you said—"

"Sookie!" It was Jackson.

"Hey honey."

"Get them away!" Jackson said trying to push Lorelai and Rory away.

"Why?"

"Luke's coming over. I'm helping him and everything with all those houses." Jackson mumbled.

"You guys better go!" Sookie said quickly.

"Wh—"

"Hey Jackson." It was Luke, coming quickly to the house. Lorelai quickly started walking away, her eyes tight shut. She didn't know why she closed her eyes, she just figured if she couldn't see him, he couldn't see her.

"Ow!" Lorelai opened her eyes. She had hit Luke straight on.

"Are you…." Luke stopped talking and took a deep breath.

"Sorry." Lorelai mumbled. "Luke, I need to talk to you!"

"Lorelai, I can't talk right now, I'm in the middle of stuff."

"But it's important." Lorelai said.

"My work right now is more important. I'm going to work on a house."

"Right, sorry." She moved out of the way. Rory and Lorelai left without another word.

More weeks went by, around month. Lorelai and Rory were happy again, totally normal.

"So…I read this book about a tiger that was homicidal." Rory smiled.

"A tiger? Hm. Sounds like a great book." Lorelai said.

"It was!"