Lorelai attempted to shift in bed as the sun began to come into the window of her bedroom, but she was met with an arm squeezing tightly around her. What? Who is… Luke…Luke is in my bed with his arms around me…There is a boy in my bed and I am completely okay with this. As she is thinking to herself, she snuggles in closer to his embrace.
A few short hours later, she is brought out of sleep by her daughter at her side.
"Mom?"
Confused because Luke was still there and it felt like it was incredibly early to be waking up, she opens her eyes just enough to make out Rory's shape.
"Rory? What are you doing?"
At the sound of Lorelai's voice, Luke is then stirred from sleep.
"Lorelai? Rory? What's going on, it feels early…" he glances at the clock that reads 8:00 "it is early… at least for a Sunday… what's up?"
"Mom, Grandpa's on the phone… he said it's something about the lawyer being stupid…" Rory says, throwing the phone towards her mother and sleepily walking back down the stairs.
Why would he call me so early? "Dad?"
"Lorelai! Good morning!"
"Maybe for you… me not so much… Dad, why are you calling so early?"
"Early? Lorelai 8:00 in the morning isn't that early? What do you do with your days?"
"Well, on Sundays, I usually sleep until noon and drag myself to Luke's for brunch, and then put my pajamas on again and watch TV all day… none of these things involve any effort… like getting up at 8:00 in the morning to talk on the phone!"
"Well, I apologize for waking you up this early, but this is a sort of pressing matter… it's about Jason."
Sitting up in bed, and wiping her eyes, she glances over to see Luke still asleep in bed next to her. He looks so good there…OH my GOD! Rory… and Luke… and my bed… and the house… and the rules…
"Lorelai? Lorelai!"
"Yeah dad, what's up?"
"Have you been listening to a word that I've just said?"
"Honestly, no I haven't, because it's too early for me to form a coherent thought…now what is going on?"
"Well, they want to put it to trial…""What! They can't do that, can they?"
"Well, Jason's lawyer seems to think that what you did by putting him in jail has tarnished his reputation forever…"
"I'm sorry, but Jason being an asshole tarnished Jason's reputation forever!" she says, getting out of bed, and padding her way down the stairs.
"Lorelai, he wants to sue for damages because he doesn't think he did anything to you."
"What? Like hell he didn't! Luke was here, he saw what an ass Jason was… can I make up a welt on my face that size? No… I can't… Where the hell does he—"
"Lorelai, I know this… which is why I think that you really should take him to trial with this whole thing…Luke can testify, and that neighbor of yours… didn't she see Jason the next morning?"
"Well, yeah, but I didn't want this to get this big… can I think about it?"
"Why don't you think about it and let me know what you would like to do tomorrow?"
"That sounds good…Dad?"
"Yes Lorelai?"
"Thanks…"
"Goodbye Lorelai." And with that he hangs up the phone.
So Jason wants everyone to think that I'm the crazy one here? He comes to my house and gets all green-eyed-monster on me and then blames it on me? Selfish prick…And why did I come down here? Oh, Rory… and the whole man in house thing…
She knocks softly on Rory's door and is met with a muffled grunt of acknowledgment from her daughter. Carefully she opens the door and moves to sit on the edge of her daughter's bed.
"Hey Rory?"
"What?"
"Rory?"
"Mom, what do you want… it's early?"
"Sit up for a second and talk to me…?" she says, in an almost pleading voice.
Rory sits up and tucks her covers around her again to keep warm and looks and her mother with an annoyed but expectant glare. "Yes?"
"So…there's a boy in my bed."
"And?"
"Well… there's a boy in my bed."
"Yeah, and it's Luke… you like Luke!"
"But this isn't normal…"
"Mom… if you are down here because you think that I'm weirded out by this whole thing, then go back upstairs, cause I'm not. I don't even live here anymore, so it doesn't really matter." She says scooting back down into bed.
"It does too matter… cause it matters to me what you think." She says tapping Rory on the knee.
"Do you want to know what I think?"
"yes…" she says, almost appearing scared about what her daughter might say to her about the matter.
"okay…sooo… when was the last time there was a boy in the house… like overnight…in your bed?"
"Max." she said with a nod.
"okay… and when did you let Max stay the night?"
"after we were engaged…" I'm not really getting where she's going with this.
"it was weird though wasn't it?"
"yeah? Point being?"
"Was it weird having Luke here last night?"
"No."
"Think about that for a minute."
"I don't get it…"
"Mom, you and Luke have been "meant to be" since the first cup of coffee he served you. We've all known it all along, and it took the two of you FOREVER to realize it. He is the only guy that you have EVER let stay here aside from the man that you were going to marry, and even that was weird to you. Luke however, was as normal as 5 cups of coffee before being coherent in the morning."
She was sooo right about it all…Luke being here was the most natural thing in the world…and I loved it. I think part of me has had a thing for him so long, but I think that we just had to wait for the right time.
"I saw you guys last night too… no dirtiness, but I saw you after he carried you upstairs, and mom I don't think that I have ever seen someone love you so much…or you him… so if you're worried about me being weirded out by this whole thing, then you've got to know that I love Luke about as much as you do, cause he's Luke, and I don't think that anything could make me happier then seeing the two of you finally together."
"First of all… there was no dirtiness… I don't know why you and Sookie think about that all the time… climb out of it folks! And most importantly… thanks Rory." She finally gets her words in and hugs her only daughter.
After a few minutes, Lorelai makes her way out of the bed with the intention of getting back into her own bed.
"hey… wait, where are you going?" Rory says, confused at her mother's departure.
"Do you really think I'd sleep down here with you, little miss bony butt, when I have a man up there that gives off real body heat?"
"ewww…I don't want to be thinking about Luke's body heat!" she says throwing her covers up over her head as she burrows back into her bed.
Laughing at her daughter, she makes her way back up to her bedroom to find a sleeping Luke still curled up on his side. He's beautiful in the morning. Of course I could never tell him that, cause he would yell at me and tell me that beautiful wasn't the way to describe a man. He is though. I crawl back into bed and I'm quickly met with an arm tightening around my waist.
"Good morning…"
"Not yet friend, we still get a few more hours of sleep."
"Where did you go?"
"To talk to Rory."
"About what?" he says in a still groggy voice.
"You and me and you here… you know you're the only guy that I've slept in this bed with right?"
"No, I didn't know that…what did Rory have to say about this whole thing… is she feeling weird about it?"
"No… she told me that she loved you about as much as I do… so that's saying a lot."
"Well you tell her the feeling's mutual…"
"Luke… my dad—"
"Sleep now, talk later."
"I love you Luke."
Without a real response, he pulls her closer and the pair falls back asleep until they really have to start their day.
Wow… so long time no update…I apologize. School has gotten absolutely crazy, but yeah. Rorely, if you actually read this, the little "climb out of it" was for you. Anyways… I have a feeling I know where I want this to go, but R/R and let me know what you think.