A Second Chance
Chapter Two: The Story is Unraveled
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters you recognize. I don't own God either… oh, what if God was one of us? Sorry. I do, however, own the plot, and the idea of God… I won't say anything else, but you'll get it once you read it. Yeah… so now, onto the incessant rambling A/N's!
A/N: Hey y'all! What's up? How y'all doing? Happy late July 4th to you Americans! And happy July 5th to the whole world! This is going to be a good day! I can smell it… maybe just because I'm going shopping later. Anyway… yeah… thanks to all of you people who reviewed! It really inspired me to write this chapter! Yay! So now to the story… but it will probably end up being another A/N… whatever.
A/N2: Monday was a very sad day for me and Gilmore Girls. I got home from the beach with my friend Katie, and we turn on the TV and Gilmore Girls just happened to be on. It was episode 3.2, Rory's first day of Senior year, and Lorelai was waiting for Rory to wake up. And then she does, and Lorelai starts talking about how much Rory had cost her over the years. Ya know, that one. Anyway, Lorelai was talking about how much Rory costs, and how many diapers she had used, and Katie goes "Well, that's what you get for having a kid at 16! You shouldn't blame Rory for that!" It made me sad. So after she left, I went into my room and wrote FanFiction to ease the realization that she doesn't like GG… tear tear. So, anyway, I guess I'll stop rambling right now. On with the story! And don't forget to review!
A/N3: I just thought I should say before you read that this might be a little bit weird. It's kind of… unlikely. But just give it a chance, keep on reading it, hopefully it isn't too weird for you guys! I hope you like it! This chapter is going to answer a lot of questions you guys were asking… like how he died, and how he's going to get another chance at life. So, read on!
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Luke Danes walked around the small town of Stars Hollow, looking at all the sights from his life. He walked along, noticed by none and loved by all. He passed the dance studio, where Miss Patty shivered from the breeze. He passed Doose's Market where an employee closed the door to block out the draft.
He kept walking along, thinking of what had happened, what he had to do. Soon his mind was floating back to the night he had been murdered in New York.
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Flashback
Luke was in New York for the weekend with his girlfriend, Lorelai. They wanted to get away from Stars Hollow and head for the big city for just a few days. Lorelai was currently in her hotel room, while Luke ran out to get food.
Luke walked quickly along the crowded street, looking around for someplace to get something decent to eat. He heard commotion behind him, and saw a huge crowd of people running toward him. Right in front was his nephew, Jess Mariano. He was carrying something in his arms, and was being chased by about 5 people. He had a pretty good lead on them, but they were gaining
"Jess! What are you doing?" Luke yelled as Jess approached him.
"Run! Luke, run!" Jess yelled as he bolted down the street. Luke stood transfixed as the people chased him. He didn't know what to do, but before he could do much of anything, someone had snuck up behind him and wrapped an arm around his throat and put a gun to his head.
"Where did the kid go?" a man hissed in his ear. Luke could not see his attacker's face, but he got a glance at the hand around his neck and saw the man didn't have a ring finger on his left hand.
"I don't know. He just kept going straight," Luke lied. In truth, Jess had turned around a building, to throw the people off, but Luke was determined to protect his nephew. He didn't know what was going on, but he knew those guys were up to no good. If nothing else, the gun to the head tipped him off.
"Don't lie to me! You know that kid, and if you want to live, you will tell me where that kid went," the man stressed, pushing the gun into Luke's head as if to remind him what the penalty was for lying.
"I told you, I don't know anything," Luke said again, starting to get really scared, but not showing it. He had to stay tough.
"You're asking for it," the man said, cocking the gun. Luke gritted his teeth, not about to give in, "Tell me where the kid went, or you're finished!"
"Kill me then! I don't know anything and even if I did I wouldn't tell you anything," Luke said.
"That's it! I've had enough of your smart talk!" The man pulled the trigger, and just before everything went black, Luke saw Lorelai standing in front of him, screaming in shock. The last thing he heard before passing on was Lorelai's voice, screaming his name.
End flashback.
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New flashback
After Luke was killed, he found himself in a huge, white castle, with clouds everywhere, and angels all around. As he walked along, he ran into an angel, who told him that God wanted to speak to him.
Luke walked into a room with a blinding white light being emitted form the center of it. Luke squinted, thinking this all was just a bizarre dream. But he knew it wasn't. Deep down he knew he was dead, and his head was spinning from it all.
"Luke?" said a voice coming from the middle of the room. Luke walked forward, seeing the outline of a man, when suddenly the light flickered and died. Luke frowned. Could that happen?
"Aw jeez. How hard can it be to find a good 1,000 watt light bulb these days? That killed my whole entrance" said the voice again, a man walking forward. Luke did a double take, seeing the form of the person in front of him. He had blue eyes, brown hair, and was wearing a flannel shirt and had a baseball cap on backwards.
"What the hell?" Luke said, staring at himself standing in front of him.
"Hey Luke. I'm God. I've been waiting for you," the Luke-clone said.
"I'm God!" Luke exclaimed, his jaw dropping to the floor. Yeah right!
"No, I am. I'm God, and I have the ability to shift shapes. I can take on the form of any person in the world, or in heaven," God said in a very Luke-like 'duh' manner. Luke did a double take, surprised at just now similar He was to Luke. He even got the personality.
"Huh," Luke said. God chuckled, "So you can become any person you want to?" Luke asked.
"Yep," God grunted monosyllabically. He then started to glow, and change shape. He stopped glowing suddenly, and a tall brunette with curly hair stood where Luke's clone had just seconds before. Luke inhaled sharply, his eyes wide.
"Lorelai," he breathed, his heart pounding. She smirked at him.
"I knew I would get a reaction with this one. But the question is why?" Lorelai-God said. Luke's breath caught in his throat at just hearing her voice again.
"Why? Because, I love Lorelai. With all my heart," Luke said, not able to take his eyes off of her, despite the fact that he knew it wasn't really her.
"Interesting," God said. He then glowed again, changing shape back into Luke. When God was finished, He walked around and sat down on a chair that Luke could have sworn was not there a second ago.
"Sit down Luke," God said, pointing to another chair that was definitely not there before. What do I expect? I'm in heaven, having a nice little chat with GOD!
"Okay. So this is a sitting thing…" Luke said, recalling the meeting with Jess's principle all those years ago. That had been bad news… who was to say this wouldn't be?
"Don't worry Luke, this isn't going to be a bad thing, you aren't… shunned to hell or anything like that," God said, rolling his eyes.
"How did you know what I was thinking?" Luke asked stupidly. God just rolled his eyes.
"Hello? I'm God," He said. Luke nodded, and God continued talking, "So, Luke, I have another question to ask you,"
"Shoot," Luke said.
"Why would you want to be living again? What was it that made your life so important? What would you do if you could be alive again?" God asked. Luke didn't even have to think about it for two seconds.
"Lorelai. I want to be able to see her again. To talk to her, to touch her. I know how unhappy she must be, and it just kills me to even think about that. She made my life complete, the month when we were apart was horrible. I don't want to be the reason she feels like that for the rest of her life," Luke said. God smiled lightly, nodding his head.
"Good," He grunted. Luke frowned, confused, "Luke, I've been watching you," God continued.
"Who are you now, Santa Claus?" Luke grumbled.
"No, but I could be if you want me to," God said. Luke shook his head, "Well then, if I may continue. You are a good guy Luke. I had always liked you, the love you showed for Lorelai for years was unbelievable. There is no tactful way to say this, so I'm just going to do it. I've decided to give you a second chance," Luke did a double take, not thinking he understood right.
"What! A second chance? As in, you'll give me my life back?" Luke asked, bewildered.
"Yes. But not right away. There are conditions," God said.
"Bring them on," Luke said, hope in his heart.
"First, you will go back to Earth as a ghost. Only one select person will be able to see you. You must find that person, and together, the two of you must find the person who did this to you," God began to explain.
"The person who killed me?" Luke clarified. God nodded.
"Yes. Find the person who killed you and recover the stolen item. You'll need to find your nephew to help with that," God continued. Luke nodded, remembering that Jess had been there the night he died. He then had a sudden thought.
"Wait. You said there would be only one person who could see me. Is that person going to be Jess?" Luke asked.
"Oh, no. I'm not telling you who it is," God answered, "Hopefully we can kill two birds with one stone with this one," Luke frowned, about to ask another question when God spoke up.
"Well, you better get a move on. You'll have a lot of work to do before you get your life back. I advise you go to your funeral to start off. Good bye now," God said. He waved his hand, and another bright light illuminated the room. Luke opened his eyes to find himself in Stars Hollow again. And then, the adventure begins.
End Flashback
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Luke walked around Stars Hollow, deciding how to make his next move. He had found the person who could see him sooner than he had expected. Rory had seen him at this funeral, and then later in the house. Unfortunately, she thought she was just going crazy. He would have to find a way to fix that.
He thought back to another thing that God had said. Hopefully we can kill two birds with on stone with this one. What on Earth had he meant by that? Luke decided not to dwell on it. It would probably become apparent soon.
Luke was still walking around Stars Hollow, and suddenly he found himself standing in front of the diner. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at it. The blinds were drawn, and he knew that if he were to walk around the corner he would find a "Closed Permanently" sign on his door.
Luke walked around the corner, and found, to his mild surprise, Lorelai sitting on the steps. She had her face in her hands, and her shoulders were shaking, showing that she was sobbing. Luke felt his heart break all over again for the millionth time. He felt so sad that he had to leave her like this.
He walked over to her, and sat down next to her on the steps of the diner. Lorelai was, in fact, crying. Yet even with tears all over her face, she looked just as radiant as ever.
When Luke sat down next to her, Lorelai had lifted her face out of her hands and was wiping her tears away. She felt the cool breeze from Luke's ghost and pulled the light sweater she was wearing tighter around her small frame. Luke sat there for a few moments, just watching her, until she suddenly spoke.
"I miss you Luke. Everyday I think about you non stop. I never really thought about what I would do if something happened to you. I think I just… knew I would totally break down," Lorelai said. She started to cry again, and put her face in her hands. Luke looked at her.
"I miss you too Lorelai. But everything will be okay soon. Soon I'm going to get another shot at life, and everything is going to go right," Luke said. Lorelai tried to compose herself, as there were people walking around town who were shooting her painfully sympathetic looks.
"Sometimes I feel bad Luke. I feel bad that I never really told you how much I love you. I sometimes wish that I had really given us a chance earlier. We could have been so happy, but we wasted so much time. Eight years before our first date. And even then I never told you that… I really love you Luke. And I still do. And now, I'm going insane. Sitting here on the steps of your diner, talking to myself," Lorelai laughed a little bit and turned around. She was looking at the door, at the sign that said "Closed Permanently".
Luke just looked at her. She had just spilled her heart out, said everything she was thinking. The bad thing was that she didn't know Luke was really there, had heard everything that she had said.
"Mom!" came Rory's voice. Luke and Lorelai both looked across the square to see Rory jogging towards then, "I've been looking for you. I kind of figured you would be here," Rory said. She stopped running, and looked shocked as she realized that Luke was sitting next to her mother.
"Mom? Can you…" Rory said, trailing off. Luke shook his head.
"No, Rory. You are the only person that can see me. I just came here and saw Lorelai, and wanted to talk to her. She was talking to me too, but she didn't really know that I was sitting here the whole time. I would suggest you don't say anything. She won't know what you are talking about, and she is a little bit sensitive right now," Luke said. Rory stared at him, wide-eyed.
"Rory, hun, you okay? You look like you just saw a ghost or something," Lorelai said. Rory tried to suppress a laugh at how ironic that was. Luke rolled his eyes. Rory then realized her mom was waiting for some kind of an answer.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine. I was just, uh, looking for you. But now, I found you… so yeah, I'm just going to, uh, go now," Rory said, growing a little uneasy due to the fact that she was looking at Luke as well as her mother. Lorelai nodded, and Rory headed off down the street.
Luke debated going after her, but decided against it. It wouldn't do him any good to follow her around, just bugging her. He knew that.
Rory glanced back over shoulder at Luke one last time, to confirm he was actually there. Luke gave her a little wave, and she just shook her head. Luke sighed. The first part of the mission was done, finding the person who could see him, his link to the real world. Now he just had to get her to believe he was really there. That part might be a little bit tougher.
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Well? Did you like it? What do you expect? You're in Heaven, having a nice little chat with GOD! Hee hee, I liked that part. PLEASE review and tell me what you think! REVIEW REVIEW! DANCE DANCE! I'm listening to that now… anyway, thanks for reading, and please REVIEW!
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