You've Got Wings Baby
glowow
Rated: Fiction K, suitable for most ages. So basically, anybody who is interested, and can read, or someone who gets someone else to ready it for them, hehe.
Summary: What if just one action changed the entire show, as we know it. What if one moment caused a chain of moments both couldn't deny. My take on the very first episode, how I always thought it should have gone. LL.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own the rights to Gilmore girls, or any other show for that matter. If I did, the show would be my way. Hehe, or at least still an LL. Some of the dialogue was borrowed from Season one, episode one, 1.01 – Pilot, written by the once best writer, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, no clew who she is but good job, I think?
AN: Thank you all for the reviews. I'm so happy. I never thought I'd even get one. I'm still not sure how this all works, I'm learning as I go, lol, but it seems like my first chapter/Introduction worked, so that also makes me happy. Suggestions are probably my favourite thing right now, I know that it was kinda hard since no one really knows where I'm going with this story. So once again, with the thank you, to everyone, and I hope you like this one to.
Chapter Two
The Denial Game
After dealing with the plumber, Marco, and straightening out the issue, she heard a bang from the kitchen. Not just any bang, the bang that comes when Sookie St. James dropped something, or something caught on fire. This was the bang of big trouble. Sookie! She made a dash for the kitchen; to see what trouble her best friend had got into now, when she saw Sookie on the floor covered in pots and pans.
"Sookie! What happened?" Lorelai rushed over to Sookie who was lying on the floor. "Why weren't you watching her? No estabas cuidandola?" She looked up at Salvador, awaiting his response. His short pause just angered her more, but she knew this wasn't his fault.
"Eh, no, she's this - bad food in the head." He turned to walk away feeling over whelmed working in that situation. Lorelai, who had already hurt one of her friends this morning felt bad.
"No, no. Sorry Salvador. This isn't your fault. Please except my apology." She had already had a hard time getting Luke to forgive her. She didn't know why this was still stuck in her head, it happened hours ago. But the look on his face, he was so hurt. I did that to him. But he did look kinda cute when he opened the door to his apartment. Like he… Gah! No more Luke thoughts! Luke thoughts? Urghh! With a nod from Salvador, he continued his work. "Are you okay Sookie?" Her concern had shifted back to her best friend.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." Her face began to light up. "Who was that you were thinking about there?"
"What? What are you talking about Sook?"
"You had that, I got it bad face."
"Sookie! I wasn't thinking about anyone." Lorelai's cheeks grew red. Not just any red, but the redness she barely ever had. Her best friend caught her while she was thinking about Luke, and Sookie probably thought it was some guy she liked.
"No, I know that face. It was the same face you made when you thought about what's-his-name? John? I can't remember. So who's the new guy? I can't believe you never told me!" Sookie felt a boost of energy, enough to get up. So she tried to lift herself up, using the wall behind her for support. That was until Lorelai stepped in.
"Sookie, no. Are you sure you're okay. I think you should go to the hospital, or something." She was sure she wouldn't just let Sookie get back to work like that, who knows what else might happen to her, or anybody else.
"Yes Lorelai, I'm fine. Now tell me, who is it? Is it that cute insurance broker you were talking to last week? Oh, I bet it's him." Thinking she got this one right, she smiled in triumph.
"No Sookie, he was like 60! Besides I wasn't thinking about anyone." Playing the lying game. Please work just this once.
"There was definitely someone. Now tell me, please. I'm in need of some romance. Days of Our Lives just did one of those twists, and now everyone's with someone new." Sookie was actually being serious about this one, although it may not have seemed like it. Lorelai laughed to herself.
"Fine, you really want to know who it is?"
"Hmm, Yeah!" Sookie was shocked she wasn't going to tell her who it was.
"This guy, Joey, tried to hit on me this morning." Lorelai already embarrassed enough about the whole situation, thought it would be best to just leave it at that. So she turned away to leave the kitchen. She knew though, that this wouldn't be enough for Sookie. So instead she headed for the coffee machine. She poured herself a cup, trying to embrace herself for Sookie's questions that were sure to follow. So she leaned against the counter, and sighed. At least I got my coffee. Luke's gunna kill me, this is like my 8th cup this morning. Wait how would he know always? Why do I all of a sudden care?
Her thoughts were broken by Sookie's high pitch voice. Oh boy. "He hit on you! Was he hot? Oh please tell me he was hot. Did he ask you out? Please tell me he asked you out! Oh this is so exciting, screw Days of our Lives!"
"No Sookie. He didn't ask me out. Luke stepped in." Lorelai was so busy trying to calm her friend down she didn't even notice just how far her story had got. Nice Lorelai, nice. Now the see! I told you that you guys were meant for each other speech, shall begin.
"Luke. Luke stepped in? Why would Luke step in?" As Sookie pondered this, Lorelai pondered a way to get out of this.
"Lorelai, must I remind you that I am a busy, busy man, and I do not have time to do stupid, stupid things. Have your mail addressed to your house, like everybody else does. This is the last time I deliver things to you." Michel handed the letter to Lorelai and left in a huff, not even giving Lorelai the time to say thank you, not that she would, at least not to Michel.
Lorelai opened the letter, surprised at what she saw. This couldn't be it, could it? It was pretty big, and it was from Chilton. Had Rory done it? Did Rory get into the school that was sure to send her off to Harvard in no time flat?
She began to read the letter, and her mouth dropped open. "Oh! I get it! Luke was jealous, and he…"
"She did it." It came out way more quietly than she had expected.
"Who did what?" Sookie, always confused in the first place, she didn't need to be more confused. "Okay, I'm gunna need a little bit longer sentence. Does this have anything to do with the Luke thing?"
Lorelai decided it was best to just ignore the comment. "She got in. My Rory, our Rory, Stars hollow Rory got into Chilton. Look." Lorelai holds up the letter to share it with her best friend. She starts to read it out loud;
"'Dear Ms. Gilmore, We are happy to inform you that we have a vacancy at Chilton Preparatory starting immediately. Due to your daughter's excellent credentials and your enthusiastic pursuit of her enrollment' - I offered to do the principal to get her in – 'we would be happy to accept her as soon as the first semester's tuition has been received.'
"This is so amazing; I always knew she could do it." Lorelai was beaming with pride, as she read the letter. She had always known Rory was smart. She really was. She was that special kind of smart, the kind that just happened. Lorelai had always been proud, she'd always done her best to help Rory, but with school, it always came so naturally.
Sookie, having forgotten all about the 'Luke thing' was jumping up and down in joy. "Cookies, I have to make cookies!" So Sookie went off to make her cookies, while Lorelai went to the front desk to wait for her daughter to be done school.
Rory entered the lobby of the Independence Inn later than usual that day. As she walked past the coaches in the front, she went to the desk, to see where her mother was. She notices mail on the counter. As she was turning the corner, her mom ran out of the kitchen and hugged her.
"Rory!"
"Mom, what's going on?" Rory was a little freaked out by the way he mother was acting. It wasn't like her mother didn't do weird things on a daily basis, because she did some pretty weird things, but none that actually involved hugging her daughter so tight, to the point where oxygen would soon become very lacking.
"What? Can't a mother be happy to see her one and only daughter?" Lorelai added a gasp for dramatic affect, but the look on Rory's face told her she wanted to know what was happening. With Lorelai being so, well Lorelai, she couldn't wait to tell her, but not with a bit of annoyance first.
"Well, you see. There may have been something that was of good news, or there may have not been. I really can't say." With a smug smile on her face, Lorelai leaned up against the counter.
"Mom!" Rory stomped her foot, to what may seem like just a dramatic affect, but this was serious, and so was Rory.
"You-got-into-Chilton!" It was more of a one worded sentence then anything. Yet feeling she got it out and clear, Lorelai smiled and hugged Rory once again. She held her tight as Rory tried to break free of her mother's deadly grasp.
"What? All I heard was Chilton. I didn't get in, did I? I knew it." She laid her head down on the desk.
"Rory." Lorelai patted her back. "You got in. You did it. Like there was any questioning that anyways."
"Mom." All Rory could do was smile. She was on her way to Harvard.
Lorelai burst the doors of Luke's diner open. She had to let all of Stars Hollow know their wonderful news, but after realizing she was alone in the empty diner she sighed. After spending all morning talking with Sookie about how she was going to come up with the money to pay for Chilton, she was really tired. But the talking to Sookie wasn't what made her so tired. It was the talking with her parents that made her so tired.
Sure, they didn't hesitate at all to pay for Chilton, but not everything was as good as it seems which was exactly what happened to Lorelai, being roped into a weekly dinner. How fun! She had to do what she had to do for Rory though. Nothing has, or ever will compromise that.
She, very slowly, walked over to the counter with a frown on her face. Luke was in the kitchen, away from Lorelai. He had seen her coming down the street, and decided the kitchen needed his help. He was just scared because of how depressed she looked. Even when she was depressed, or sad, she always caught his eye. Something he would never admit, but she always caught his eye, no matter where she was. Since the day she burst through those doors the very first time, she'd always caught his eye. He remembered he hated that bell, he'd put it up just days before Lorelai came in, to signal when the diner was getting busy. He remembered thinking how stupid it was, and how he was going to take it down, but kept forgetting. He remembered the first thing Lorelai said in his diner; Oh, cute bell! Ever since then, he couldn't bring himself to take it down. The bell would always remind him of her. Again, something Luke Danes would never admit.
"Luke, coffee… now." With that she dropped her head on the counter, and covered her head with her hands. Her purse discarded sometime in between.
"Lorelai?" Luke was trying to act surprise. He was never good at acting.
"Coffee." It barely left her lips. She was so tired, and just needed a time to relax, and Luke's diner seemed like a good enough place.
"Lorelai. The sign says closed. Don't you ever..."
"Luke. Coffee. Now." She lifted her head up to pout. When she saw his somewhat angered face, she added. "Please?"
Luke signed and turned on the coffee machine. She was going to need more coffee than he left on just for her. He walked over to the place where he had quickly dropped the rag before going into the kitchen, and picked it up. He cautiously made his way over to Lorelai. She looked really tired. More tired than she usually did. He so desperately wanted to just give her a hug, to hold her in his arms, and maybe, some of that tiredness would ware away. He knew he couldn't. He didn't even know if they were friends. He knew she was his friend. In fact, over the years, 5 years to be exact, he thought of her as his best friend. She brought his few smiles to his face, and those few laughs to his lips. It was all just because she was there.
"Hey Lorelai?" He poured her some of the coffee he left out for her. He slowly pushed the cup towards her.
She quickly picked up her mug, and brought it to her lips to drink it. "Hmm?" was her response.
"You know… You know you are my friend right?"
Lorelai chuckled. She knew Luke would be able to cheer her up. Maybe that's why she came. He does have the coffee, but the reason she came for the late night visits when she knew the diner would be empty was just for him. But Lorelai would never admit that. It seemed they both were in denial. Denial; a game they both had played for far too long. Five years too long.
"Of course Luke, you're one of my best friends. One of the few people in my life I can always depend on." Not realizing just how much she let out, her cheeks reddened, just like it had when she told Sookie too much. Again, wow. I really, really gotta learn how to keep my mouth shut once and a while.
Luke smiled, that was way more then he had expected. "Yeah, well… Look, what's wrong?"
"Rory got into Chilton." Was all she could say.
"What? That's great!" This was one of the few times you would ever see Luke Danes genially happy. He felt a little proud. Sure, he wasn't Rory's dad, but she meant a lot to him. To him, she was the closest thing he had to a kid, and he saw her as his little girl.
"Yeah. It really is. She deserves it, you know. That's why I had to go to my parents to get the money to send her. I just feel so… I don't know. I should be happy. Rory did it. She's finally going to be on her way to Harvard. She's really gunna make it. But I just have this nagging feeling, about my mother. I, I don't know. I should be happy. I am happy. I'm happy." The last time she said it, it was more to convince herself, then to convince Luke. Luke however had made his way around the counter so he was sitting beside her, on one of the stools.
Luke thought about what happened. So far, he gathered that this school was too expensive for Lorelai to pay for, so she had no choice but to go to her parents for the money. They must have made her feel pathetic, or wanted something in order for them to loan her the money.
"You did the right thing." Were the only words that needed to be spoken, so Luke said them with ease, making Lorelai feel better too.
She finished off her coffee, and gathered her things to go. She smiled, for the first time she came in the diner that night. Luke saw this so he grabbed a donut to go. He knew she'd want it later. He put another donut in for Rory to. He handed her the bag.
"Thanks Luke." She accepted the bag and opened her purse to pay. Luke held his hand out as if to say no. "Really Luke, for everything." She threw her arms around him. He was caught off guard, but responded quickly, he pulled her close. For a brief moment, he felt it, that feeling growing by the second, the feeling that he couldn't explain. Lorelai felt the same feeling. She always denied her feelings, dismissing them. Thinking they weren't important. Just like she did for all feelings she didn't like, or didn't understand. They stayed like that for a moment longer than expected. They both felt it. That was what was important. That was what they both tried to deny. But the Denial Game only lasts to long. So how long would this denial last? That was the question only they could answer.
Okay, so that was chapter two. I know some of you, if you're still reading, might not know where I'm going with this, but just know it's a LL and it might take a while. I wanted to go slow, so I didn't rush or skip anything.
So thanks for reading if you got this far. Please review, I know it's been said a thousand times but it REALLY is a nice purple button. Good, bad, nice, big, small. Although I must say I like the nice big, good ones best, but any will do. Thanks if you do, Thanks if you don't.
I thought it best to change Lorelai's painting song for y'all:
Grab your brush and grab your rollers, all you kids and all you… bowlers, and please review right now. Smiles&Wink
And on that note, Peace.
