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 read it for him or her, 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 two. 1.02 - The Lorelai's First Day at Chilton, written
by the once best writer, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and directed by
Arlene Sanford, who again, I have no clue who she is, but way
to go!
AN: Again, thank you for all of the reviews. They mean a lot. Yes, I am taking it slow, really slow. I don't think it will be as slow as Raincoats and Recipes, only because I'm starting out different. So that's the main reason. I wanted to turn it my way, and my way has Luke and Lorelai together, but I didn't want to rush it. I just wanted them to see their feelings sooner. So yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. Thanks, and please review, and suggestions really help because I may be the one writing it, but I want to write something that at least some people like, so keep that in mind lol. I hope some people like it. I hope, lol. Anyways enough blabbering, on with the show, or story, whatever.
Chapter Three
Chilton, Coffee, and Curfews
Lorelai went home that night with a smile on her face. She had the best friends in the world, a great job, minus Michel of course, an amazing daughter who just got into a fancy prep school. She entered her house and took off her shoes. She walked over to the couch to see a sleeping Rory with a book in hand. She smiled and covered her daughter with a blanket that was hanging over the back of the couch, and took the book out of her hand. She placed it on the coffee table, and placed a kiss on Rory's forehead. She walked up the stairs to her room, and to get ready for bed.
Lorelai awoke to the sound of her alarm clock the next morning. After a moan, and stretching out her arm to click off the clock which read 6:15, she opened her eyes in an attempt to wake up, the feelings of her previous nights dreams flooding through her head. She slept good, really good. Better than she had in a long time. She tried to remember what she had dreamed about, but all she saw was black, a cloud if you will. Shaking it off, she pulled the blankets off of her and searched for her slippers. She suddenly remembered what day it was. This was Rory's first day at Chilton. She had so much to do. She had to pick up her clothes from the dry cleaners; she had to get coffee for her and Rory. So off she went to take her shower.
After her shower, she woke Rory up, thinking she'd want extra time to get ready for her first day. "Rory. Rory hun, wake up." Lorelai shook the sleeping figure to try to get her up.
"Hmm, I'm up. I'm up." She rolled over on the couch.
"Okay, I'm going out to get a few things, get up and ready, I'll be back with the coffee."
Lorelai left the house and got into her jeep to go get her clothes for Chilton. She had picked out her favourite outfit, and thought it would still be appropriate for a day at Chilton. She drove to Stars Hollow's only dry cleaning store and went in to pick up her outfit.
"Hey Lorelai." Betty, the owner of the store was a friendly citizen. She was really nice actually.
"Hey Betty. I'm just here to pick up the outfit I left here." Lorelai smiled at how easily Betty picked out her outfit.
"Here you go. If you want to change, the change room is right over there." Betty handed Lorelai her bang, after Lorelai had paid the bill.
"No, it's okay, I'm still going home to pick up Rory." She smiled at the nice older women.
"Oh right, her first day at that Prep school. Well tell her congrats for me, we're all so proud of that girl." She smiled to Lorelai and added a wave. "Take care of yourselves now!"
Lorelai got back in her jeep and handed into Luke's. When she parked the jeep and walk towards the diner, she suddenly remembered this from her dream that night. She shook it off as something she did everyday, and opened the door. She smiled at the bell, her favourite bell. That bell symbolized so many things for her. Coffee, joy, comfort, and love. Wait? Love? Not love, many things, but not Love. I don't Love Luke. I mean in a friendly way, I guess I could. He's a great guy, and he fixes everything, but I don't love him. I care about him. But I don't love him. I d-don't. Right?
She again waved it off. Denied any feelings. It was so much easier that way. "Hey Luke, two coffees and umm, just two donuts I guess. To go."
Luke looked up from his customer. When he had heard her voice, he put up that Luke wall. He tried not to smile; he wasn't sure how successful he was. His wall always fell down after she pouted anyways. "Lorelai." Acting annoyed as always. "Wait your turn." He pointed to the counter for her to go sit.
Lorelai however saw this as the okay from Luke to get her own stuff. Knowing Luke was too busy to notice right away, she figured if she was fast enough he'd never catch her. She walked over to the stool, wear she placed her bag and her purse, then walked behind the counter and grabbed two of the large to go cups. She walked over to the coffee machine, and filled them. A smile appeared on her lips as she thought of Luke catching her behind his counter. She took a bag and placed four donuts in it. With a coffee in each hand she tried to pick up the bag of donuts with one of her hands, and to her satisfaction, it worked.
"Lorelai!"
Luke having seen Lorelai behind his counter rounded the corner and was about to yell at her again when she quickly turned. Luke walked right into her, having expected Lorelai to walk to other way. The coffee she was carrying spilt all over the floor, and some of it got on Lorelai's shirt. The diner went completely quiet.
Miss Patty and Babette sat in the corner talking about how oblivious those two were about each other. They should have been together years ago according to the gossip-ists, of Stars Hollow.
Luke and Lorelai just stood there staring at each other. Could this be one of those moments? A moment where only the two of them existed. A moment where time seemed to stand still for just that moment.
The sound of the bells rang through the diner as it singaled the arrival of none other than Kirk. "Hey Luke, I'll have…"
"Shush Kirk!" Miss Patty really wanted to see what was going it happen. Luke and Lorelai were standing really close to each other; neither of them moved an inch since the coffee spilled.
They were reminded about their whereabouts and how many people were there; so they both bent down at the same time to pick up the coffee cups, and the donut bag that was dropped. They clashed their heads together, and both stood up again. "Sorry." It was like they said it at the same time. This made Lorelai laugh.
Again they both bent down to pick up the cups, this time not hitting their heads together. After picking up the cups, Luke was about to stand when he spoke again. He wanted to make whatever this was, a moment or not, last longer. "Sorry Lorelai, listen, you can go upstairs to change, I have a t-shirt and some pants you could b-borrow."
Lorelai looked over at the bag she placed on the stool and smiled. She was so lucky she'd left it in the bag, and not changed at the dry cleaners. "No it's okay, I've actually got a change of clothes, 'cause you know, I carry it around with me everywhere I go." She pointed to the bag on the stool, and continued to laugh at the things that happened in Luke's diner.
She went around the counter and grabbed her bag. "But I do need to change"
"Yeah, umm, yeah. Go upstairs if you want-t." Lorelai smiled and hopped up the stairs. This was going to be a pretty interesting day.
This was the first time she had ever been in Luke's apartment before. It was so clean, yet had its clutter. This feeling overcame her again. She remembered this from last night. In her dream, she remembered Luke's apartment being so much bigger. I had a dream about Luke's apartment? This is just is just weird. And where's the T.V? Nevertheless she walked over to what she thought must be the bathroom and went to change her clothes. She was pretty lucky that it hadn't been that much coffee.
She walked out of the bathroom to see Luke's tiny bed. She laughed to herself. Oh what fun it was going to be to mock Luke for all of time about his small bed.
She walked down the stairs and through the curtain with all eyes on her. She looked at Luke. "Where's my coffee?" Stars Hollow really needed a hobby, or at least something that was a little more interesting than the obsession with Luke Danes and Lorelai Gilmore.
Luke rolled his eyes and handed her the coffee and the donuts. She paid and walked out of the diner to her jeep.
She jumped into the house after drinking almost all of her coffee. "Rory my darling. Ready?"
Rory came from out of her room. "Mom, your ready already, its only 7:00."
"Yep, and I have coffee." She smiled and grabbed Rory's backpack. "You got everything you need?" With a nod from Rory, she smiled and they both started walking towards the car.
"Where here!" Lorelai stopped, and parked the jeep. She looked at the building. "Woah, is it just me, or did it grow?"
Rory nodded, as if to agree with her mother.
"So, where do we go?" Lorelai was confused at why there had to be so many buildings.
"The Ambroise building. Which is… umm…?"
A parent walked past and noticed they were confused. "You need any help finding anything? It's a really big campus, it's hard to find anything on your first day." He smiled at Lorelai and Rory, more Lorelai then Rory though. That didn't go unnoticed by Rory.
"Yeah, we need to find the Ambroise building. It's my daughter, Rory's first day."
"Oh yea sure, you're actually in luck. It's the building right there, on the right. To get to the headmaster's office, just down the stairs, make a left, and the headmaster's office is at the end of the hall."
"Great! Thank you so much. I'm Lorelai, and this, as you already know is Rory."
"Hi. I'm Ian. I have a daughter that goes here to. Her name's Julia."
"Really…"
"I hate to brake this up, but we should be on our way."
"Yeah sure." Lorelai looked at Rory and then back at Ian. "You should stop by the Independence Inn sometime, that's where I work."
"Sure," Rory pulled Lorelai's arm so she would go with her. "Umm, have a great day." He laughed at how Lorelai was being dragged into the building. Rory and Lorelai walked towards the big building, and went inside.
Lorelai walks into Luke's for the second time that morning. The sound of the bell went as she opened the door.
"Coffee."
Luke looked at her with shock. "You were here an hour ago and took two coffees. You're not getting anymore. I can however give you a nice cup of herbal tea."
"Okay."
"Really?" Luke looked at her with shock, again. Never in the 5 years that he has known her has he ever seen her drink tea.
"Yeah, sure. If it's made of coffee." She smiled at Luke and batted her eyelashes. Luke sighed and poured her the coffee.
"Its gunna kill you one day." With that he walked away.
"Luke, don't you want to hear about Rory's day at Chilton?" Luke stopped and turned around again.
"How can she already have had her first day when it's only 10 o'clock?"
"Well, yea, but you forgot to give me my donut." She laughed, and grabbed her donut Luke gave her. She headed for the door, but turned around. "Thank you Lucas." Luke gave her a look and she laughed again and left the diner. Yes, this was going to be a good day.
Lorelai walked out to the front desk to get the mail, after she had been at work for a while. She noticed a tall man standing by a painted on the wall. He looked kind of familiar, but she didn't know how. She walked up to the man and tapped his shoulder. "Can I help you?"
"Umm, yea I'm looking for… Lorelai. Hi" Ian held out his hand for a greeting.
"Ian, wow, that was fast." She walked over to the desk and he followed.
"Yea, I was actually on my way to New York when I saw the place, and thought, Hey! Might as well go say hi, so hi." This was all kind of awkward for the both of them.
"Yeah, Hi."
"So, you want to go to dinner sometime?"
"You don't waste any time, now do you Ian?" She looked down at the desk in search for something to do, anything to do.
"I guess not." He smiled thinking that was close enough to a compliment.
"Well, see… Ian, I just don't think it's going to work, and…" She was interrupted by the sound of the phone. She was about to answer it when she hears Michel's voice yell from the hall.
"Lorelai, I do not know how many times I have to tell you that I am not an answering machine. I do not take personal calls, and…"
"Michel, just give me the phone." Just what I needed, something to get out of that awkwardness. She gave Ian a somewhat sympathetic look and answered the phone, as she watched him take a business card and walk out of the Inn.
"Lorelai, Lorelai are you there?" So close…Even Michel could hear the voice of Emily Gilmore through the phone from where he was standing.
Once again she found herself at the door of the door of Luke's diner. Ignoring the closed sign she pulled it open, and walked over to the counter and waited for Luke. Luke popped his head out of the kitchen, and saw Lorelai.
"It's really nice to know that you understand what the word 'closed' means." He came out of the kitchen and stood in front of her.
"Yeah, I pride myself on that exact fact myself." She smiled. "Coffee."
"Okay now this is just ridiculous! I can't even count the number of cups you've had here today. I'm exercising my right not to serve you for the sake of your health. I mean come on Lorelai, this is just crazy, more than 10 cups of coffee."
"Luke, it's just been a long day. First YOU spill coffee all over me. Then I had to deal with my mother, and the stupid headmaster. Then this Chilton Dad came to the Inn, and asked me out to dinner." Luke's face fell when she mentioned the part about being asked out. Anybody but Lorelai who was in full ranting mood could see it. "Then some guy hit some other guy's car at the Inn, and of course I had to deal with it." She added a dramatic sigh and put her head down on the counter.
Luke poured her a cup of coffee.
"So, did you say yes?" Luke knew he shouldn't ask, but he couldn't help himself; he had to know.
"What?"
"To the Chilton dad, did you say yes?"
"Oh. No. No I couldn't. I mean he was nice. And he did drive all the way from Hartford, but it's weird, he's a Chilton dad." Luke's face returned to normal, even happier at this.
"Yeah, I mean I think you did the right thing. For Rory's sake and all." He added the last part in so Lorelai wouldn't question him. He hated the questions she could come up with.
"Yeah, for Rory's sake." They share a look before Lorelai's cell phone went off, no doubt it was Rory calling, wondering where she was.
"Out." Was all Luke said.
"I can feel the Love." She picked up he stuff and walked out the door as she answered her cell phone and started the short walk home. Luke watched her go, and smiled. He saw Lorelai about 5 times today. Today was a really good day. He turned off the lights and looked out the window one last time. He saw Lorelai in the far distance still talking on her cell phone, and he saw Kirk running through the town square as fast as he could trying to get home in time for his curfew. Luke chuckled and walked up the stairs to his apartment, hoping tomorrow would be even better.
Okay, so that was chapter three. So, by now you can probably see just how slow I'm going. Don't worry; after the basics are done, and I understand how to post my stories, and stuff, the story will go faster. But for now, I need reviews of any ideas anybody has. Suggestions are my favourite thing. So if you still reading thank you lots.
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.
