A/N: Insert Strong Bad voice:
Like a Phoenix, from the ashes
...she rises again!
(Hey Tom is this distracting yet?)
Written in the Stars
By Gilmoregirl1979 (the reigning Quote Queen)
Rating: PG-13
Hi this is your friendly disclaimer: Once again, I don't own (DAMN IT!), No Harm No Sue. WE just use the Gilmore Girls dolls during our slumber parties…. It's fun (shirtless Luke: with coffee pouring action, and the "Fry it and Buy it" Luke's Diner Play Set sold separately!)
R/R: yes please I love reviews; I wanna marry them (as previously stated, I have strange passions.)
Summary/ The Q: What if LL hooked up when they first met? What if things had moved … a touch more quickly…?
Luvz: you will receive a gift from an annoying friend today… REVIEW HER FICS and she'll stop nagging.
A/N: other stories… I am in the process of working through my rough patch…(EWWW JASON get away from ME!) and WOW Dirty…(sorry LMAO, too funny had to pub the blunder) ummm any way… I am attempting to over come my writers block with my other fics… there are just too many directions to go…(and too many come backs) I cannot pick! Also which are TRUE to CHARACTER, PLUS my mind won't turn off and I just heat April chanting "Luke's my father, Luke's my father, Luke's my father, Luke's my father" to the toon of the STAR WARS GANSTSA RAP, which is actually a really GOOD song… for us star wars freaks… and out flash light thingies…(come on… Luke you were a trekkie… you know their proper name…)
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Chapter 14:
After Boom
Lorelai came home and found her baby girl in her room, buried in blankets, asleep, tuckered out after her previous display, no doubt. Even asleep, Rory looked as though she was still pouting. Lorelai curled up beside her daughter, and waited for her to wake up.
After about an hour and a few twitches from the 11 year old later, Rory woke up to find she wasn't alone anymore, noticing her mother's arm was around her.
Lorelai propped her head upon her hand, "Hey there," she whispered to her daughter.
"Hi," Rory said coldly, refusing to turn over and look at her mother.
"I think we have some things to talk about…"
"No kidding," Rory folded her arms, forcing her mouth into a frown, and still refused to look at Lorelai.
Lorelai decided it was time to pull the Mom card. "Hey, I'm trying to be civil so please let's drop the attitude… and just… talk…" Lorelai tried to gently reason, "Now, I know we're a team, kid… it's been you and me against the world most of the time. It's been that way forever… but you are growing up… and things change…your dad and me … well we just don't fit together anymore…"
Rory took a deep breath in and let it out in a huff, refusing to cry again.
"I know you don't like hearing it… but it's true" Lorelai wanted to explain things realistically to Rory, without ending in a Bash Chris Fest. Lorelai had to pick her words carefully. "Your dad will always be apart of our lives… but after 10 years… I just… well, I need more than he is willing to give me… and I know that you like the 'no boys allowed, girls rule' clubhouse we've established, with Lane and Sookie and Mia … but Luke is a really nice, really great guy, and well … he is … very … special," and she tried to soothe her daughter's concerns by smoothing her hair. "I'm sorry if you don't like the situation, but we're going to have to work this out … together... like always…"
Rory wondered how long she could keep up the silent treatment to stonewall her mother's conversation.
"Come on, talk to me…" Lorelai urged.
Rory decided she needed some answers, so she calmly asked, "How long?"
"What?"
"How long have you been seeing him… behind my back," Rory emphasized.
"Only like …a few weeks… if that…"if you don't count the time he was out of town, maybe five dates…
This surprised Rory. "But… you've been going there for months!"
"Well, before I was just there for the coffee, and I sorta… noticed Luke", Lorelai wanted this to be a moment, where they could bond, and talk about boys, and hopefully all would be well again, "… it was just like in the movies, we started talking… and we became friendly. He helped me when I had car trouble… and he was always nice to me when I came in the diner. Then one day, out of the blue he just asked me out to dinner … and I hadn't been on a date since… well since before you were born…"
Rory's only exposure to dating was what she had seen in the movies, "where did he take you?" she asked out of pure curiosity. If it was more of a Point Of No Return, you have 60 seconds to kill the guy at the table behind you … Or if it was more of a romantic Fred and Ginger type affair.
"To a restaurant, owned by some friends of his…" see this is the kinda stuff I could never talk about with my mother… it wouldn't be proper… but I want my daughter best friend combo.
"… He owns a restaurant… why didn't he just take you to the diner?"
"Well… he wanted it to be… special… and he didn't want his customers disturbing us…"
Romantic… just what I was afraid of… "Did he … take you to a movie?" knowing that was part of the required date formula, and Rory began to wonder what people did on dates before movies were invented.
"Yes, he arranged for the theater play Labyrinth for me … because he knew I liked that movie."
Huh, really romantic…"How did he know…?"
"Well I told him… in all that friendly talking we did… I had quoted the movie one time and he didn't know the quote because he had never seen it…"
This fact appalled Rory, "he's never seen Labyrinth?" how can she date a man whose never seen Labyrinth?
"Well he's seen it now… of course."
"Did he… you know… kiss you good night?"
"Yes," Lorelai admitted shyly.
"Did you want him too?"
"Yes…" her daughter was so still, and unfortunately Lorelai wasn't a telepath, "Rory …I didn't expect to like him as much as I do… but there it is. I like a boy, and I would like to keep seeing him…"
Rory began to wonder who Luke was, had Luke been there right in the open during her secret visits? Rory tried to picture the three guys she had seen in the diner on her secret visits, then tried to imagine them sitting in a theater audience-watching Labyrinth with her mother. Or was the name Luke just a front… was her mother dating a diner chain titan? Like Denny's, But her mom seemed to be referring to him as a real live singular person.
"Rory?"
"Yes?"
"What can I do?"
You could not date him and get back together with Dad. However, Rory already knew her mother's feelings on that subject and knew it was pointless to voice the request. The young girl rolled over onto her back, but only examined her fingernails instead of looking her mother in the eye. "I don't know… I've never been in this position before…"
There's my freakishly mature girl…"Me neither," Lorelai grinned. At least the answer wasn't another tantrum, so she decided to take what she could get. "Well, okay. Luke wants to meet you… he's offered to make us dinner… here… at the house if that makes you more comfortable."
Rory took the time to think about it, "Maybe…" then curiosity got the better of her again… "So what did you do on your second date?"
Lorelai shared the PG version of the great second date with her daughter; maybe when she's 21… we'll get into the other stuff…
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"That was all God given talent..." why thank you Luke!
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R/R: PLEASE, I like to better myself. To quote The Princess Bride,
"...Remember this is for posterity, ... so be honest."
Please be specific with R/R; name one (or as many as you can think of or want to mention..…) At least one specific thing you liked
Please! It makes me feel good...inside (Dirty!)
Hence the Rant option below.
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A/N: if not completely satisfied with this chapter, please return unused portion for a full refund …