Lorelai got up and walked quickly to the door, opening it to reveal a not typically dressed Luke.

"Wow, you actually do own clothing that isn't flannel or jeans!"

"Yeah, I do, and most of it you bought for me, remember?" he says nodding.

"Ah, yeas, I do vaguely remember that I bought out Bloomingdales a while ago." she says giggling, and reaching up to give him a quick kiss.

"Okay you two, can we please watch the movie now!" Rory yells from the living room, where she has Spaceballs cued up.

"yeah yeah, we're coming…" Lorelai replies, grabbing Luke by the wrist and forcing him to come with her into the living room.

"Hey Luke!"

"uh… hey Rory." he greets her with a nervous smile.

Lorelai watched this exchange amused, sitting on the couch. It was funny how he saw her almost every single day since she was like twelve, but he was jello when he knew that she knew that he was dating her mother.

"Luke, you know, I'm not minding this…okay?"

"huh? What? Oh… yeah, well…"

"Seriously, we've all been waiting for it for quite some time, so I'm already okay with the idea."

"Quite some time, huh?"

"Yeah."

"Well, me too, so I'll try not to mess this up, okay?" he tells her, sitting down next to Lorelai, and squeezing her hand to show his sincerity.

"Okay, cause I don't feel like having to… I don't know… buy all the vegetables so you can't get them or something like that…"

"oooh, you hear that, she'd actually buy vegetables to save her mommy. Now that's love." Lorelai pipes in with a sarcastic tone.

"It was the only thing that I could think of cause I like him too much."

Wanting to change the subject, Luke dared to ask what movie they were watching, to which Lorelai responded, "none other than the ultimate mocking movie! Spaceballs!"

"Spaceballs?"

"Yeah, it mocks like the trekkies and the Star Wars fans and stuff. Since I had an exhausting week, my mocking skills are a bit rusty and a little tired, so we figured that we would get a movie that succeeded in mocking another movie to get a complete mocking fix."

"None of that made much sense, but that's okay. Let's watch the movie."

Rory pressed play and the three started to enjoy the movie together, Luke being quite clueless, since he wasn't the biggest movie person in the entire world. Halfway through, Lorelai decided that she needed a pillow, and attempted to lean on Luke.

Wincing when the left side of her face hit his chest, she asked, "Can you move to the other side of the couch?"

"What?"

"Well, I want to use you as my pillow, but I can't lay on this half of my face, so I want you to move to the other side so that I can lean on you."

"Well, I think that I can manage that." he says smiling at her.

When the movie was over, they started into another one right away. After that, however, Lorelai had fallen asleep. Noticing this, Luke turned to watch her sleep for a few minutes, reaching up to push a strand of her hair behind her ear, careful to not hit her bruise.

Rory had seen all of this in the corner of her eye, and certain that Luke was focused on her mother, she turned to take in the whole picture. It is so amazing to see them like this, all about each other and no one else. The look in his eyes when he's watching her sleep is enough to melt any woman who wants to be in love, and it's all towards my mother. At that thought, she notices him falter and wince a bit when pushing the hair off of her face, revealing the bruise from the past weeks events more fully.

"Thank you Luke." Rory says, recalling these same events.

He turns to look at her with a surprising glance, almost forgetting that she was even in the room for a moment. "For what?"

"For being there for her this week with all of this Jason stuff."

"By now, I think that you know that even if she and I weren't together, I would be there for your mother and you anytime that you need it."

"I know that Luke, but thank you anyways."

"Well, you're welcome."

"Can I thank you for something else?" she says, not really looking at him.

"Uh… yeah, sure."

"Thank you for loving her the way that you do."

"Has it always been that obvious?" he asks, looking back down at her sleeping form sprawled out on top of him.

"Probably only to me… she was clueless the whole time." she pauses for a moment, "but you were just as clueless to the fact that she was loving you just as much all these years, so I guess that you're even." she finishes, finally looking up to catch his eye.

Smiling, he replies, "Thanks Rory."

They finish watching the movie, with Luke gazing at Lorelai for a few moments every now and then, and Rory catching each of those small interactions.

An hour later, the movie was over, and Lorelai was still fast asleep.

"What should we do with her?"

"Just leave her on the couch… she's slept there plenty of times, so she'll be fine."

"Okay, then I guess I'll just get out from the grip of sleeping beauty here and be on my way."

"I'm sure that we'll see you tomorrow Luke, have a good night."

Rory retreats to her bedroom with the intention of reading for a few minutes and then falling into a peaceful slumber. Before that though, she decides to grab a glass of water for her bedside table and wanders into the kitchen. With a quick glance to the living room, she sees that her mother is no longer on the couch, but in the arms of Luke, being carried up the stairs.

She quietly climbs the stairs with the intention of telling Luke that he should just stay the night, when she hears her mother wake up.

"Luke?"

"yeah, I'm here."

"I didn't get to finish the movie…" she says in a groggy voice.

"No you didn't, but that's okay, cause you and Rory can watch it again tomorrow, okay?"

"mmhmm… Luke?"

"Yes, Lorelai?"

"How did I get up here?"

"I carried you."

"Wow, so manly of you."

She hears him laugh a quiet laugh, and dares to take a glance into her mother's bedroom, seeing Luke kneeling beside Lorelai's bedside. After a few moments, she sees that her mother is most definitely asleep again. With this, Luke leans down to whisper something to her.

"I love you Lorelai, and I always will…"

He stands up to leave the room and Rory plasters herself up against the wall, not wanting Luke to know that she saw the exchange, when her mother's voice breaks through the quiet house.

"Luke?"

He turns without a word to face her.

"I don't really think that I've ever done this and meant it until now, but I love you too…"

It's like a fairy tale, and she finally found her prince charming. I'll be the first to say that Luke has always been perfect for my mother from the beginning, even if she didn't realize it. He's always been the one to be there for us, and he's always been someone that I considered a father figure. Hearing this though, I don't think that anything could have made me love him more than I do right now. She quietly steps back down the stairs, turning off the lights as she goes through the house, and going to the door to lock it for the evening.

Luke wasn't going to leave tonight, and she was okay with that. Rules were made to be broken.

Really Really corny... I know...but I really couldn't help it! So, I know this one was short, but I don't know what to do with it yet... I mean, I have some ideas, but I don't want to do the same old same old stuff, you know what I mean? Well, I'll be brainstorming, but in the meantime, please read and review to let me know what you think!