Written in the Stars
By Gilmoregirl1979 (the reigning Quote Queen)

Rating: PG-13

Hi this is your friendly disclaimer: I REJECT ASP's REALITY AND SUBSTITUE MY OWN! Once again, I don't own (DAMN IT! DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!), No Harm No Sue.

R/R: Yes, please I love reviews; I wanna marry them (as previously stated, I have strange passions.)

Summary/ The Q: AW If you DON'T KNOW BY NOW! HURUMPH!

LUVZ: I MISS YOU MOST OF ALL SCARECROW!

FEATURED BETA: Localizy, WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE

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Chapter 48:
Ding Dong the Bells are gonna chime!

Luke would take a week's worth of clothes to the diner at a time, coming home on the weekend to do his laundry and make sure that Lorelai and Rory weren't falling back into their old eating habits. During the week and nights that he wasn't around it left Lorelai and Rory to wedding land. Other then "the bedroom reasons" for keeping Luke out of the house, Lorelai wanted to make sure he wasn't around so she could safely work on her wedding dress and finally bring home the materials she needed for her special project.

"Rory?" Lorelai poked just her head in the house.

"Yeah?" Rory called from her room.

"Is Luke here?"

"No, you banished him remember!" Rory grumbled. She liked having Luke there in the morning if he didn't have to open, he would make her pancakes or whatever she wanted, Rory didn't even have to get dressed, and she could go straight from bed to the table and enjoy her breakfast and not have to get out of her PJs. Luke was her father now; she didn't understand why he couldn't keep living there till the wedding, but her mom would spout something about a silly superstition.

"I didn't banish him." Lorelai was tired of the little grudge Rory had against her, "I just …" don't want the temptation of sleeping with him before our wedding. "I didn't want any bad luck before our marriage..."

Rory rolled her eyes again, predictable.

"Can you help me?" Lorelai asked nicely.

"With what?"

Lorelai explained, "Well, I bought some material and…"

Lorelai could hear Rory's loud gasp from her bedroom, then the thudding of her tennis shoes on the hardwood floor as Rory ran to the door and past her mother to help, grudge forgotten in the excitement. "Is it for your dress? Huh? Huh? Is it?" Rory bounced in place on the porch, waiting for her mom to answer, acting as if someone said William Holden is here.

"It is," Lorelai nodded. "I also have material for Sookie's and for yours."

Rory squealed, "EEEEEEEEEEEE!" grabbing her mom's arm and pulling her down the front steps. "What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Rory ran ahead to the car to help her mother.

With the bolts of fabric, reels of lace and bags of beads safely in the house, the girls then spent time organizing everything, beads and sequin in one pile, the variety of lace in another and all the blue and off white fabric in another on the couch.

Rory asked, "Why didn't you get white-white?" Rory furrowed at the ivory satin bolt.

"Well, I thought this went better with my skin tone." Lorelai really didn't want to explain the whole virgin thing to her daughter, after all some traditions were nice.

"Oh, okay!" Rory accepted, "and it goes nice with your hair too. So… what's it gonna look like?"

"I don't know yet," Lorelai shrugged, overwhelmed by all the supplies she bought. Did I really buy all this, it's one, well, three dresses… "I mean I have a picture in my mind, of what I want, but it's translating it to reality..."

"Okay, obviously you want some beading," Rory commented at the large pile of pearly and shiny beads.

"I just want it to add to my glow for the big day. I'm getting married, I have to sparkle."

"Can I sparkle too?"

"Well, of course, we have to match."

"Okay then, sleeves or no sleeves?"

"I don't know," Lorelai shook her head. "I thought the lace would be nice for sleeves, but I don't want to be covered up like a bride of God."

"Huh?" Rory tilted her head to one side.

"A nun."

"Aw, okay, so...veil or no veil?"

"I don't know," Lorelai sighed.

"Would drawing it out help?"

"You know, I have no artistic capabilities."

"So, what do you want to do?"

"You're going to be my little helper right?"

"YES!" Rory said ready for her mission.

"Well, first we are need to go through all these new wedding magazines," she said, putting a separate bag of brides periodicals on the coffee table. "Then, we have to mark and note the details we like… then, as stupid as it sounds... maybe... go wedding dress window shopping."

"Can we try stuff on to see what works? Like Muriel's Wedding?"

"Sure, but I still want to make it myself. I finally got Luke out of the house so he can't stumble in on it and then we would be getting married on bad luck. When Sookie's shift is over we'll take her along too, the more the merrier, the faster I make a decision."

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Even though Luke had been banished to sleep at the diner, he still came over to make dinner and hang out. If time, the diner, and wedding plans permitted sometimes he would even spend a movie night with his girls, relishing in the fact that they both would soon be his girls.

"Hi," Luke said shyly when Lorelai met him at the door. He missed her so much, it had only been a week, but he felt shy again like when they were first dating.

"Hi" Lorelai blushed, missing him everywhere, as much in her bed as around the house. She could barely sleep at night without him to sleep beside her. She had grown used to his light snoring and now at bedtime it was too quiet and too cold in her room.

"So, I'm making dinner here right?" he asked.

"Well, you have groceries in your hands," Lorelai chuckled.

"Oh yeah, well, I didn't know if, you know, Rory needed fresh ingredients...for anything…"

Luke and Lorelai just stared at each other knowing the days were counting down till their wedding.

"LUKE!" Rory exclaimed, running at him, tackling him with a hug, that had him pinned against the front door.

"Hey Rory."

"I've missed you!"

"I noticed, but you saw me at the diner this afternoon."

"It's not the same," Rory squeezed, "I can't wait till you live here all the time again…"

Luke and Lorelai noticed Rory was careful not to mention the fact that now legally Luke was her father. It was probably still so new to her, she wanted to take it a step at a time, everyone still need to get used to the idea in their own time. "I missed you too, kid."

"Luke, there is one rule about being here now," Rory announced.

"What?"

"You can't go in Mom's bedroom."

Luke automatically looked at Lorelai wondering if she told Rory the whole of their agreement and the reason he was sleeping at the diner till the wedding, "Okay?" he said cautiously.

"She's working on her wedding dress and you can't see it!"

Luke looked again to his fiancée, "You're...making it?"

"Yeah, I am," Lorelai nodded proudly.

"Nice," Luke said. "You know, my mother made her dress too."

"Really?" Rory asked, "Do you have pictures?"

"Maybe, why?"

"Well, the final design hasn't been realized yet, maybe Mom could get some ideas."

"Sure," Lorelai agreed, "umm dinner and movies shall we?" Rory was ushering their guest in, while Lorelai was wishing her and Luke could be alone again.

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Lorelai had a line of wedding movies they were watching to help count down to her own big day, that evening's choice was Besty's Wedding, during which Luke begged Lorelai not to have a top hat instead of a veil as part of her final wedding dress design. She teased, "You'll have to wait and see." After the movie, Lorelai walked Luke to the door, as she had the year before when Luke first started coming over for movie nights.

"Thanks for dinner," Lorelai shrugged.

"Kind of like old times..." he observed.

"Yeah, kind of," and Lorelai had to laugh t again. "Luke... we're getting married."

"I know."

"Just last year… I mean, we were getting Rory used to you and now you are her father."

"Well, adoptive father," Luke he said humbly.

"You're her father," Lorelai repeated firmly. "She looks up to you she loves you... I love you too."

"Well, I hope so, or we've gone through all this trouble for nothing," he laughed when she started hitting his chest. "I love both of you." Luke kissed Lorelai a little longer than expected.

Things were heating up a little too much for a kiss good night and when Rory hadn't heard any talking for a while she knew she had better check on them as her mom had told her to do. Her eyes widened when she saw them, "A-HEM"

The engaged couple disengaged their affection, embarrassed that they needed a twelve year old to remind them to keep their hands to themselves.

"Umm, good night" Luke said sheepishly.

"Good night," Lorelai said wistfully. When he was on his lonely way back to the diner, Lorelai turned to her daughter, "Okay, new rule, for the next month, Luke and I can't be left alone like that."

"Why?"

"That's why. Umm Luke and I made a deal not to …you know, have sleepovers, but we can't be alone like that…ever, not here, not at the diner, no where... if you need a soda, I'll get it or Luke will get it but we can't be left alone until we are married. Do you understand?"

"Got it," Rory shrugged, wondering what the big deal was.

"If that happens again," Lorelai was pointing to the spot where she and Luke had been kissing most passionately moments before, "You have to do something to stop us, anything, okay? Permission granted for extreme measures."

This seemed important to Lorelai so Rory, still confused, agreed, "Okay."

"Promise."

"I promise."

"Okay," Lorelai sighed, "I'm going to take a cold shower before bed... night."

"Night mom," Rory cocked her head to one side thinking her mother was being even more silly than normal.

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Whenever she had spare moments from the Inn and wedding plans she would improve her dress by adding beading here and there, adjusting a hem, or changing the neckline, perhaps. Finally, exactly 10 days before the wedding, Lorelai felt she had it perfect.

A week before the wedding Rory went up the stairs to give her mother a message from Sookie about her flowers, "Mom?"

"Oh… hi Hon…" Lorelai giggled a little embarrassed.

Rory entered her mother's room and shook her head at her mother, "You are trying on your wedding dress again?" exasperated, but finding her enthusiasm funny and cute. Frankly, Rory never thought her mother could look more beautiful, but it's amazing what an ivory dress, a veil, and some shiny beads and embroidery could do for a woman.

"I had to make sure it fit," Lorelai defended.

"Again?" Rory droned.

"I can't help it…it's so pretty!" Lorelai twirled again playing with the skirt of her gown. The final product was an off the shoulder, ivory satin floor length gown. The bodice was overlaid with lace, so to off-set the simple ivory satin, Lorelai spent many, many hours meticulously sewing in delicate beading and embroidery by hand along the hem, shoulders, and waist of the dress. When it was done and she modeled it for Rory, Sookie, and Mia, all four women ended up in tears at the sight of Lorelai in her wedding gown.

"Well, it should be, you made it."

Lorelai stared at herself in the mirror again, "I just can't wait to wear it...for real!"

"You really love him…" Rory observed.

"Yeah I do," Lorelai whispered quietly as she admired the dress in the mirror.

"I love him too, you know… well in a different way…"

"I know and thank you for letting me date him in the first place."

"Hey! Can I try on my dress too?" Rory wanted in on the fun.

Lorelai smiled; if she had a partner in crime she wouldn't feel so stupid, "Of course you can."

With Lorelai in ivory, Rory in bright blue, mother and daughter reclined on Lorelai's huge bed, soon to be Lorelai and Luke's marital bed. The Gilmore girls were eating mallomars from the box, careful not to get a smudge of chocolate on their pristine embroidered and beaded dresses.

"You know kid, you are lucky. Not every girl gets to be the flower girl at their own mother's wedding."

Not every girl gets to pick her father, Rory smiled inwardly. "I still want to be a bridesmaid…"

"Rory…"

"Please…"

"We need a flower girl and you are by far the best choice for that job."

"This is a once in a life time chance, please, can't I be both?"

Lorelai shrugged, "Why not. In the event that the first bridesmaid is unable to perform her duties you can become first bridesmaid." Mother and daughter laughed, "All right, I suppose I should take this off," but Lorelai looked at her self one more time in the mirror, "I'm getting married," she smiled with a final smile to Rory.

Rory went downstairs to hang her dress back up too, and save it for the big day. Left alone in her room, Lorelai knew there was one stop she had to make in the final errands leading to her wedding day which was a mere week away.

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"That was all God given talent..." why thank you NON POD Luke!
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