Fancy Meeting Your Belly Here!

By GilmoreGirl1979

Up First, .... A Dedication: I'd like to take this op to thank and give a shout out to LuvzAFunEthing, girl you are one crazy chica, your stories have made this hiatas that much more bearable...our convos, season speculating, and brainstorming crack me up to no end (oh the pain, my sides they split), and woman, you hate SCARY NIPPLE MAN AS MUCH AS I DO, SO THIS ONE IS FOR YOU!!!!! ENJOY!!!

and remember, while I have strange passions, you are multifaceted abnormal.

Rating: PG-13( just for the hell of it!!! diet coke!)

Hi this is your friendly disclaimer,: I own nothing, I do own the Season 1 on DVD(and have watched it repeatedly) and have dibs on a copy of season 2......that is all....ASP WB no harm no sue...( I don't own diet coke either...hell I don't even drink it....)

Summary: L/L,Future fic let's say...spring 2006? 2007 Maybe...(I suck at math) Luke and Lorelai as a cute couple, where is that pepto-bismol? Its just too cute!!!!please R/R you know, So Scary Nipple Man haters unite and enjoy the Fluffy goodness!!!

R/R: yes please I love reviews, I wanna marry them (as stated before I have strange passions.) I 'm sorta going for the whole "Pit of Dispair" (again with the Princess Bride) "[we want]... eveyone healthy before they are broken ..."LOL

So, Oy with the poodles already!!!


"You just went at your parent's house," Luke gripped.

"Luke, I'm sorry, but I have to go again." Lorelai pleaded.

Luke pulled the Jeep into the drug store parking lot, "Here, this place is open 24 hours, so you don't have to worry about how long you will take."

"HA HA," not appreciating her husband's sarcasm, but did appreciate the thoughtful subtext behind the comment. "Hey, you're not gonna leave me like 'Where The Heart Is' are you?"

"Lorelai that was just a movie, and at a Walmart, ...I would never leave you, now will you go relieve your bladder before you make a mess in the Jeep!!"

Lorelai giggled at Luke "You said bladder."

"Leaky faucets, flowing streams, Niagra falls...."

"You are evil!"

"Will you just go..."

"I didn't drink that much, I swear..."

"Yeah , yeah, ... do you want me to go in with you?"

She always thought it was sweet, he was always so protective! And she was always so independent! But after two years of marriage, and a few big blowout misunderstandings later, they finally mastered the art of compromise.

"If I'm not out in 10 minutes, I either fell in or got lost in the junk food aisle."

"Then either way, the cavalry will appear in 10 minutes, and save you from yourself" he smiled, ... he kissed her hand, then got out of the jeep, and hurried over to help her out of the passenger side. She gave him a quick peck for his chivalrous gesture and headed inside to use the restroom immediately.

As she made her way back down the aisle to exit, she spotted some Antacids, and as if recalling some sense memory, rubbed her hand above her heart. Why did her mother not listen to her dinner requests? ...or maybe it was the cook's fault? Whoever? There were certain foods that were now off limits, food that she may never be able to eat again, if Luke had his way, but mainly due to the terrible acid reflux she was suffering of late. Yes, I lead a charmed life! So, Lorelai decided to stock up since she was here, "oooh and they are on sale, too! Score!" She wanted to make sure that these were the kind with calcium, so she wouldn't have to hear THAT lecture again. Knowing when to pick your battles, she smiled, I do love being married. As she read the label she had a strange feeling she was being watched...then a presence seemed to sneak up behind her.

"So how's my favorite coffee addict?"

"Luke, I'm almost ready, I'm just making sure these are the calcuim kind, and they are on sale...soo we can...Oops" As she turned around too quickly, she bumped into the man standing too close behind her. A man that WAS NOT Luke.

Both gasped, for very different reasons. Lorelai gasped, because, yet again, she was face to face with her Ex-Fiancee, Max Medina...in a drug store. She was surprised at how different he looked, his trademark head of hair was gone! He now looked more like Matt Lauer from the Today Show. Max had gasped as well, due to bumping into her protruding, pregnant belly. "She didn't look pregnant from behind." He thought.

"WOW!" Was all he could verbally manage, at the size of her stomach. Forgetting all formality and courtesy of not being blatantly rude.

"Yeah you to. Small world,...again..." she cursed her choice of words, now she'd have that song stuck in her head, and no doubt it would annoy Luke the entire ride home. She wasn't really offended by Max staring ar her stomach; After all she was staring at his shaved head. But really how would he have known, how often do you keep in touch with someone you stood up at the altar. But they seemed destined for these random chance meetings. Only the fates knew why?

"So how have you been? You still at Chilton?" she asked casually. Trying to distract him from the size of her belly, She was self conscious enough as it was being as big as the Dragonfly.

"Oh, Yeah still at Chilton, ... and, I'm actually engaged....again.." he chuckled uncomfortably, trying to joke about their history. Here she was agian, only pregnant and as radiant as ever.

"Well good for you, " she smiled genuniely, happy he had moved on successfully just as she did. "What happened to your hair?"

He had to laugh at the Gilmore directness, "Oh, well Veronica, my fiancee, she convinced me to shave it when we were in California visiting her folks. Much cooler, temperature wise. Not style wise." Now it was his turn, "So how's Rory? Amazing them at Harvard?"

"Actually, she's in her fourth year at Yale."

"Really? But all she ever talked about was Harvard?"

"Things change, and the pro/con list won out..."

"AH,... And you,.... I see you have been busy."

"Yeah, right now I'm as big as my Inn."

"Oh right, the Dragonfly, I remember seeing that in the paper. Nice write up."

Lorelai recalled his three papers a day habit.

"What's it been? Three years now for your Inn?"

"Yeah, the "Magic Inn" as I like to call it" smiling at all the fond familiar memories that had taken place the past few years.

"Oh really I don't remember reading that?"

"Well it's kinda long story, but the inn is kinda how this happened..." patting her plump stomach, an unrepressable smile, at the memory. Much speculation was thrown about Stars Hollow about when and where the conception took place. Only Luke and Lorelai knew for sure. But Babbette had made an unintentional guess at the Test Run, " It's a paradise. Oh, Lorelai, the babies that are going to be conceived on this property!" A romantic picnic on the Dragonfly grounds had turned into a passionate romp. Lorelai's only comment to Luke, as she and her husband walked back to the Inn, hand and hand, grinning like teenagers, was "I turned you into a movie guy, and you've turned me into an outdoors girl." Returning her attention to the man before her, Oh right Max ...

"Well you can't stop there, ..." concerned about her pause, "... I'm intrigued, how did a Magic Inn impregnate you? How far along are you by the way? You look like your ready to pop?"

"Please don't ever use the word pop with a pregnant woman, again. Another 6 weeks, They're twins acutally, though God help me, My doctor said if I get any bigger, I will be bed ridden the entire last month...I'll need a fork lift to get to the hospital."

"Do you know what you are having?"

"Nah, we wanna be surprised?"

"Oh, yeah, are you here alone??" he asked out of genuine concern.

"Oh no, Luke is in the jeep" she pointed out the window.

"Luke?", Max knew that name.

"Yeah, my husband, Luke ..."

"As in Luke's Diner?"

"I was gonna say Danes, but same difference."

"Coffee Serving Luke?"

"Uh huh!"

"Flannel & Baseball Cap wearing Luke"

"Yup"

" 'Doesn't matter what time it is. I'll always be around' Luke" how those words were burned on Max's brain. After all these years, they were still crystal clear.

"Again yes?" she was started to get annoyed with his density of grasping this concept, not even noticing the direct quote. Come on Max, you're a scholar, you were right, him and me, we had a thing for each other, after all these years, wrap your brain around it...Geez. Her feet were killing her and she just wanted to go back home with her hubby, maybe take a warm bath.

"Wow, so you two finally did it...."

Lorelai had to laugh at the choice of words. "Dirty! And Duh!", ...because of her current pregnant state.

Max nervously, edited his answer, desperately not wanting to think of Luke and Lorelai ...in THAT way. "I meant,... you got together, .... and you got married, ... I mean,...I knew I sensed something,....so how did the Dragonfly factor in?"

Never one to back down from talking about herself, she caught him up to speed. "Well I was running low on funds for construction, and Luke being my friend and all around knight in shining armor, lent the money to me and became an offical investor. But it turns out he wanted to be more than just a money lending friend." a smitten smile swept across her face, "So we went to his sister's wedding together, and then we went to the test run of the Dragonfly, which is when we REALLY began. That is when we had our first kiss, And now, everything for us seemed to happen there. Our first kiss, it's where he proposed, where we had our wedding with our chuppah," she left out...the wedding night, "...our baby shower... it's really like "Our Inn", She smiled,

Only as an after thought realizing that the chuppah was made for her and Max's wedding, by Luke. Huh, life is funny?

"Wow, how can you top that,... an entire business, I just did the '1,000 yellow daisies'", he laughed lightly, "so how long has it been.... Since the whole "daisy thing"any way?" he only pretended to think....

Lorelai was straining to remember, let's see it was Spring,.....She and Luke were married for almost two years, the kiss at the test run was a year before their wedding... Rory graduated from Chilton 2003, Sookie's wedding the year before that, "hhmmm like 5-6 years? Something like that?"

Max was a little hurt by the nonchalant tone, well he did start it by referring to it as the "Daisy thing", instead of "my proposal". He could see it in her face, hear it in her voice, it's that glow that pregnant women had, or maybe it was just of a woman in Love. He really didn't need to ask, but he was going to despite himself, maybe he was just a masochist that way.

"So does he make you happy?"

"Very!" she smiled as she absently patted her belly, thinking of the joy it would be to raise these babies with Luke. Ever since they were dating Luke would occasionaly tell her: "Lorelai, you are the best thing to ever happen to me, and I thank you for that and I love you ." Finally having kids of his own sort of turned Luke into a big kid himself. He smiled more, joked more, and he was even nice to Kirk! and the backwards baseball hat didn't help either, but she loved it just the same.

"So he takes care of you?" still a little suspcious, what kind of man let's a pregnant woman go into a convience store alone at night?

"The very best, He wouldn't even let me lift a brush for the nursery, not even during the early months, he was so worried about paint fumes, so I just sat on the couch with my feet up, and he'd painted the room by himself and pampered me between coats. And Luke HATES painting but he loves to pamper me, so it turned out alright." She laughed, and Max followed suit, and laughed along with her. What was wrong with him, he had a beautiful fiancee at home, who he was just crazy about, and vice versa. But it was that Gilmore charm again, that mystique, it was infectious, it had captivated him again. And for pete's sake she is pregnant!! With Luke's baby, ... babies, he corrected.

Just then Luke's gruff voice could be heard over the aisles, "Marco?"

Lorelai had to giggle "Polo!" she shouted. I've taught him well! She grinned with pride.

Max couldn't help but feel edgy about seeing Luke again, the last time he saw him was their "measuring contest" in Lorelai's foyer just before "the daisy thing". He cleared his throat for some reason. Max sensed Luke coming up behind him as he saw Lorelai's smile widen.

"Geez even pregnant you get all the men hitting on you!" Luke joked, not yet realizing who it was. Lorelai took Luke's hand and kissed him on the lips. And Luke continued, "At least you are not in the junk food aisle trying to smuggle contraband home, disguising it as our kids."

"Please I'm big enough as it is, nothing else will fit in here."

"Honey, you are beautiful, and once more..you know it!"

"Thank you," she smiled...she did know it. "Oh Look, they are on sale," handing him a few more boxes of the Antacids. "And yes, they are the calcium kind."

"Good!" Luke replied, grinning that she of course picked the peppermint and berry flavors. Then Luke looked up from the label he was reading, finally noticing it was Max she was talking too. he thinks it was Max. A somewhat altered Max, so he wanted to be sure. "Max? right, Medina, was it?" Luke turned to Lorelai to confirm. And she nodded, and with that Luke offered Max his hand.

Max could sense 'it' in Luke too, just like with Lorelai. He heard it in Luke's voice, saw it in his face, the way Luke shook his hand so freely. Max could see that he posed no threat to Luke as he did that night many moons ago... was it really 5 years ago? ...but today, Max had no power over Luke. After all, Luke was the one who had the Gilmore Girl, he was the one married to her, the one having not just one, but two babies with her.

There was no posturing, or showing up, or malice in the voice. Just a friendly, casual air.

"Ummmm yeah," he hesitantly shook Luke's hand. "well you look good, Luke." he wasn't sure if it was alright to call him that. But Luke didn't seem to care. And that bothered Max all the more.

"Oh Thanks, Friday night dinner with the in-laws." He said by way of explaination of being out of his flannel uniform. "Last one till the new additions arrive" Luke had a broad grin, as he put a hand on Lorelai's belly.

"Much to their mother's releif." Lorelai smiled, again with the smile, Max thought mildly irritated.

"Hey these past few months haven't been that bad, and I must say you were on your very best behavior tonight."

"Thank you, Coffee Man"
"You're welcome, Crazy Lady"

Max forced a smile, the pet names was about all he could stand..."Well it was nice seeing you both. And congratualtions ... on everything." Max offered his hand again to Luke, which Luke took. "Take care, Max", Lorelai called after him as he turned away... As Max walked away, and he couldn't help but hear the rest of their conversation. Intentionally or not, he couldn't be sure.

"You ready to go home?"

"Absolutley, my feet are killin ...OW!" and Lorelai gasped, dropping her boxes of Antacids.

"Lorelai! What is it?" Luke's concern thick in his voice.

At the end of the asile, Max turned back to see what the problem was.

"Give me your hand Quick!"

"What is it?"

Lorelai palced his hand on a spot of her stomach "Feel that?"

Luke was just beaming, "Yeah, I do", as releif washed over his face, it was just a series of hard kicks.

"I think that's Will,...he's gonna be the next Freddie Adu, I tell ya, keeping mommy up at night."

"Will? Huh?"

"Yeah... after your dad, don't you like it?"

"First off I thought we wanted to be surprised..."

"We will be, we have 50/50 chance of one of them being a boy? and if this one's a girl we'll call her Wilma and she'll be like Mia Hamm."

"My daughter will not be named after the Flintstonesthank you very much...."

"Ok ok continue your previous rant...Secondly?..."

"Right,...secondly, I'd love to name a son Will, ... and I love you."

"Well, you better, I'm carring two of your kids at once. I better get double the coffee when this is over to make up for lost time."

"We'll see how many ice chips you can pelt at the nurses..." and Luke picked up his wife's Antacids from the floor.

"Deal!" she considered her stomach again. "Luke, you don't think they could bust out of me like in aliens, do you?"

"I told you not to watch the sci-fi channel marathons, all that stuff is filled with alien baby stories"

"You would know Trekkie. but Luke I'm serious, I'm older now, I'm not as flexible as I was when I was when I had Rory!"

"Dirty! And you are no John Hurt!!"

She sticks her tongue out at her husband.

"Don't tease, not for another few weeks"

and a wicked smile came on Lorelai's face, a smile that was obviously full of fond, possibly dirty, memories. " I love you." And she kissed her husband.

Max didn't mean to be staring. But as Max watched he wondered if he should get a bottle of Pepto-Bismol for the knots forming in his stomach. He sighed and made his way to the counter. With his newspapers, gum, and emergency feminine products for Veronica.

After he checked out, he sat in his car to considered what had just happened. He was jealous of Luke,... again. He had Lorelai, he had the life Max wanted all those years ago. But it wasn't meant to be, right? Max met Veronica in California, and they were serious, they were getting married, and she was willing to move cross country, away from her family, to be with him, so he could still teach, and she did not run away from him....Max wondered if Lorelai had smiliar pre-wedding jitters with Luke.

Then he saw them exit the store together. Lorelai waddling to the Jeep and Luke protectively steadying her, ever watchful of her every step since she could no longer see her feet. Max watch Luke open the door and help her inside. Max saw the kiss she planted on Luke's lips in thank you. He could see it again, of course she didn't run from Luke. He was the one she'd wanted all the time. He knew here inside and out. Their lives were fused together long before they even admited their feelings to each other. Their exchange inside the store proved that they fit together, the belonged together. No one else could have been more suited or made for each other.

Lorelai understood Luke, Luke understood Lorelai. And even though they probably still fought over coffee and burgers, they loved each other, and their relationship seemed to flow so easily.It was never work...it was natural.

So now the enternal question. Why was fate constantly dangling Lorelai Gilmore.... Lorelai Danes, he corrected, cruelly infront of him like this?


A/N: I know I know, why? right,... well I got to thinking about Scary nipple man (after watching the season one DVD ...repeatedly....AHEM) any way,... I never liked Max(scary hairy nipple man, able to freak you out just by taking his shirt off.eeeeewwwwwwwwww),

and you know, I just wanted him to KNOW (and suffer) that he was right all those years ago... so nipple man haters unite and enjoy!!!

I think this is just one parter fic...It paractically wrote itself in like....5 hours....and dude this is the stuff tha happens when you watch the dvds repeatedly...LuvzAFunEthing you know what I'm talking about..!!!!

A/N2: Freddie Adu is the 15 year old Wunderkind soccer palyer on the DC united (my home town team!! DC UNITED clap clap ... clap clap clap, GO Freddie)

A/N3: answer to the enternal question, to MAKE HIM SUFFER insert EVIL LAUGHTER

A/N 4: I know the "Dream Twin" thing has been done to death...BUT twins hold a special place in my heart....(my mommy is a twin.) so I like the dream twins....and plus if they have a boy an da girl it's like jedi twins....hehehe...And lorelai isn't getting any younger, ire eggs are viable for only so long...they need to crank them out while they can!!! hehehe (again wth the forgeting to be polite and courtesous)

A/N 5: if you have idea where I can go with this please tell me....

What do you think?

R/R: PLEASE, I like to better myself. To quote The Princess Bride,

"...Remember this is for posterity, ... so be honest."

Please be specfic with R/R; name one at least specific thing you like please!!! It makes me feel good...inside (Dirty!)

Hence the Rant option bellow.

Insert Rant here V