We're not going to take this!
Disclaimer: I own nothing! I am just obsessing about it per usual. I also don't own twisted sister or Dee Snyder. Although that would be pretty cool if I did.
Summary: why won't Lorelai assert some control over her spinning out of control life? What if she does? How would Luke take it?
Dedication: to my favorite authors on here, who write amazing Luke and Lorelai stories, and inspiring my to write my own.
Lorelei just stared at Luke as he stood there. What the hell was he doing here? She needed to be away from him, until she sorted out why she was miserable. At first she thought it was the way he was treating her, and now she thinks maybe it was that her fiancée, her wonderful uncomplicated man, had suddenly become really complicated.
'Lorelai, did you hear me?' Luke says and she just stares at him trying to find any flicker of emotion at the sight of him. Of course she had the flutterings in her stomach and her heart pounded, but did she feel any need to just run away from him.
'Luke what are you doing here? Why aren't you home?' She said and he almost winced at the word home. 'I think we should really talk, don't you?' He said and he started to walk towards her and moved to sit on the coffee table. Where he would be very close, and almost touching her.
Suddenly the nausea that had disappeared sometime after the first insult to Michel, had come back instantly and in full force.
She moves to get up and her stomach rolls in protest. 'Lorelai?' he says and he holds her wrist gently and she immediately backed up and ran to the bathroom. Luke was hot on her tails and she slammed the door shut and sunk on the cold tile.
Here she was in her brand new bathroom, a bathroom created with Luke. Luke pounded on the door and just thinking about everything with him she felt that final feeling and she threw up.
She hadn't thrown up since a really bad drinking bout with Sookie when she was 30. After that, she had promised herself that she would never get to that point again. 'Lorelei?' Luke knocks again and she groans. 'Luke go away.' She says and Luke opens the door. He sees her, looking green, looking miserable, and beautiful.
'Lorelai are you sick?' Luke leans down to eye level, but far away from her body resting achingly on the toilet. 'This is new.' She said and she sighed and then groaned as another bout of sickness passed through her. 'I don't know what's happening Luke.'
Eventually as the nausea passed and she heard the door slam once more and the soft voice of Rory calling up to her. 'Mom? I've got the food, and I managed to buy vegetables without anyone suspecting anything.'
Lorelei groaned and saw the look on Luke's face. 'Vegetables Lorelai?' Luke asks her and she cursed her daughters timing. 'Not now Luke. Just go please?' She got up slowly to wash out her mouth and brush her teeth. Luke stood behind her watching, and his expression changed from sad to concerned.
'No, you've had your chance to talk. I'm not leaving until I get my chance to explain.' Luke says and he stands behind Lorelai, and he puts his hand on her shoulder and she suddenly stops all movement.
This was the first time Luke had touched her in days, week's maybe. She felt isolated as of late, and she had not even thought about how much she missed the simply innocent touch of Luke on her body. Really how long could a person stand without being touched, and more so, how long could she last without Luke touching her.
A tear began to fall and she leaned on the sink and looked at Luke through the mirror. He leaned forward and put his other hand on the matching shoulder, and sighed. 'Lorelai, what's wrong?' he said and she shuddered and try to breathe in deeply.
She turned around and took his hand and guided him into the kitchen where Rory was putting away the food. 'Hey Mom I went to Hartford earlier and made sure I went into that pharmacy where no one knows us…' and Rory stopped talking when she saw Luke.
'Luke. Hi. I um I will start the movie in the other room.' Rory scurried out of the room and there sitting on the table was a pink and blue box. Lorelei started to move it, but Luke saw it and he looked panicked.
'Is that what I think it is?' He says and she goes toward the table and snatches it. 'It's none of your concern right now Luke. Please just go.' She says and he stands there. 'Lorelai how can you say that?' Luke says and he steps closer to Lorelai and she backs up.
'Whatever the results are, that's not going to change anything. You still don't trust me, and I can't make the pain go away. This just complicates everything. And I need time to figure stuff out. So please, just go.'
Luke just stands there. 'No, I am not letting you push me away. I am going to stay here, until you tell me what the hell is going on!'
She sat down. And stared at the box. 'Luke, I don't know. I know that I didn't give you time, but trust me on this, I will need it. Go, just go!' She shouts and this time Rory runs into the room looking concerned.
Lorelai then picks up an apple; Rory had just washed as she put them away. She smiles and bites into an apple. 'Luke maybe you should go?' Luke looks at Rory in a way that revealed how upset he truly was.
'Luke, Mom doesn't need to be more upset, I will make sure you get your chance.' Luke sighs and gets up. 'April is supposed to come over tonight.'
Lorelai then burst into tears. Luke reacted first and went up to hold her, and she started to sob. 'don't touch me. You can't just start again, when you had the chance you didn't. I don't want you near me, can't you understand that.' She spat and Rory stepped in front of him and hugged her mom.
'Go Luke, before I call Jackson to get him to throw you out.' Rory said, and Luke turned and ran to the Diner, leaving two devastated Gilmore girls in his wake.
After a long crying jag, Lorelei and rory went to sit in the living room. 'I'm sorry my little drama interrupted our night kid.' Lorelai said, and Rory shrugged. 'Next time, it's my turn. I have a feeling that Logan and Jess will be involved.'