You never realize how great sleep is until you're sleeping in the arms of a man that you love. Luke must have been tired after our movie night, not used to staying up so late, and getting woken up by the phone call this morning, because he was a big fan of sleeping this morning. It afforded Lorelai with the pleasure of getting to watch him sleep though, which was something that she was certainly not willing to turn down anytime soon. God, he's gorgeous. Again, I can't tell him that because gorgeous is a girly word… at least he thinks so. Man… this really is weird, but only because it isn't weird. I can't believe that this was right under my nose the whole time. This not weirdness of a relationship… it's weird. Okay, I need coffee…

"Lukey…" she says in a sing-song voice.

"hmmph…"

"Well Mr. grumpy diner man, I'm glad that you've added something to the conversation… can you wake up please?"

"Why?"

"Because the love of your life is in bed next to you…"

"Yeah right…" he says, turning around to face her and open one eye.

"What?"

"It's because the love of my life wants me to make my way down to the kitchen and make coffee and bring it back up to bed so she doesn't have to get up."

After he closes his eyes again for a minute, she starts in again.

"Lukey….." again in the sing-song voice.

"Fine… I'm up, but don't think I'm gonna like it."

Sitting up in bed she starts to shake her head as he's putting on his pair of jeans and his t-shirt from the night before.

"What are you shaking your head at?"

"Just the fact that I can get you to do anything that I want and you haven't even seen me naked yet."

"Yeah, well…. Only a few days in and I'm already rethinking the situation..."

"LUKE! You are not supposed to be the cranker butt in the morning… you get up at like 4AM… why am I a ray of sunshine, and you are acting like someone stuck something where the sun doesn't shine?"

He turns to her with a gentle expression on his face and he cradles her cheek in his hand. "Ah, but you didn't let me finish the thought! I'm already rethinking the situation and have decided that it's exactly how I want to wake up every morning."

"Well then… since you feel like that… then…"

"Yes, I will get up and get your coffee."

Throwing her arms up in the air in an act that screamed of victory, she fell back onto the bed as Luke got up.

As he pads down the stairs he notices Rory's bedroom door open and peeks inside to see her still fast asleep. That is one good kid. I knew I had the approval I guess, but it's good to know that she loves me just as much as I love her.

He starts making coffee and hears a creak from the opening of Rory's door and turns to see her walking into the kitchen. Not really acknowledging his presence, she sits down at the table in the kitchen, puts her head in her hands and groans.

"Man, your mom isn't joking when she says that you two need coffee to live." he says sitting down across from Rory, waiting for the coffee to brew.

"I've only slept like three hours…me and coffee need to have a moment this morning." she replies, finally looking at him.

"Why did you only sleep three hours? I thought you went to bed about the same time that we did."

"Yeah, well, I wasn't that tired, so I decided to start reading one of my novels for class, and well… starting it turned into reading three-quarters of the way through it."

"I see."

"Yeah, I fell asleep when I was on page 347… well at least I think so, cause that's where I found the drool mark."

Pushing up away from the table, he grabs a mug from the cupboard and sets it in front of Rory.

"Mom is right… you are an angel."

"Yeah, well, I try."

"How'd you sleep?" she asks, making small talk while the coffee is finishing up.

"Well aside from your grandpa calling, it was probably one of the best sleeps I've had in a while."

It's so weird to see him here… but in the not weird kind of way, because it feels like he's supposed to be here. I can tell that he's not sure exactly what to do about this whole situation though, cause he still can't look me in the eye. "Luke?"

"Yeah Rory?" he replies, still not really looking at me, but choosing to focus on the coffee maker.

"Luke, look at me?"

Finally, he turns to face her and gets a sheepish grin on his face. "I'm not really sure how to… well… I'm not very good with this whole relationship thing… and…"

"You have to know that I have watched the two of you skate around each other for years, and I'm so glad that you finally woke up and saw what was right in front of you."

"Yeah, well…" I don't think that even she knows how much I love her mother. Yeah, I've probably always liked Lorelai, but I don't think that it was until recently that I thought that I loved her, and even then I was too chicken to do anything about it. There is so much on the line with this that it's sickening and exciting at the same time. "Rory?"

Sitting back and tapping the top of her coffee mug, she glances up at him, "yeah Luke?"

"I just… I don't want to screw this up, okay?"

"You won't. Even when you guys were just friends and messed with each other's heads or got in fights, you always made up. You can't stay away from each other. I'm telling you, it's meant to be."

With that, he smiles and looks over at the coffee maker, which seems to be finished with it's job. "Coffee?"

She lifts her mug up to him in response and he grabs the pot to fill her up.

"Thanks Rory."

"No problem…"

After he makes a mug for Lorelai, he makes his way up to the bedroom, where he finds her sitting up in bed as awake as can be.

"Here is your death…" he says with a monotone saved only for talking about her and her coffee addiction.

"Well, I've got to say that you're the sexiest Grim Reaper I've ever seen…so… my Dad called this morning." She says, pushing a stand of hair nervously behind her ear.

"Yeah, if you remember, I was here when he called."

"Oh, yeah, that was you…I couldn't remember which boyfriend it was…"

"Funny… so what did he tell you?"

"Well, he said that Jason's lawyers are trying to get a trial going because he claims that he didn't really do anything…"

"Sure, and let's see them explain this!" he says gesturing to her cheek, which had taken on a very interesting shade of yellowing green reserved only for those really nasty bruises.

"Is it really bad today?"

Pushing another piece of hair out of her face he examines the healing welt. "No, it's actually getting a lot better, but you can still see it pretty well. We should take pictures of it while it's still visible."

"Rory and I actually did that… she thought that it would be smart in case Jason pulled something like he's pulling right now. But, Luke, my dad said that I should ask you about testifying, and I know that he knows that you were here through a lot of what happened for me, but I don't think that you should."

"Lorelai, I'm going to testify, because I was here, I saw the welt as it was forming, and I was here when the nut came back to harass you."

"But, Luke!"

"No arguments! Tell you're dad that I'm completely in on this."

She smiles over at him and while blushing looks back into her coffee mug. After a few minutes of silence, the expression on her face changes to reveal a bit of anger. "You know he had the balls to say that what I did caused his name to be tarnished in the community."

"Yeah, well, I would say that him being an asshole is what cause his reputation to be tarnished."

With a small giggle, she met his eyes with hers shining.

"What?"

"Luke, either we really are meant to be together, or you have spent WAY too much time with me over the years."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because that's exactly what I told my father this morning when he told me that."

"Well… I like to think that it's a combination of the two."

"Yeah…me too."

So there it is… I'll add some more chapters later, but I wanted to update both fics tonight! I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. I'm sure I'll be hearing from some of you! Thanks for reading!