As promised, here's numero 3…

Kylie, I loooooved that email.

"Mommy, that guy over there knows my name!" sky pointed to Kirk but Lorelai's eyes were still fixed on Luke's. "And he wouldn't give Rory coffee" now he pointed at Luke.

"Aja"

"I had a shake, it was good but its gone now" Luke finally broke eye contact with her to look down at sky, Lorelai saw this and she too looked down at the boy.

"Honey, go finish what you ordered"

"I did" sky told her; Lorelai looked up to look at Luke and she saw how he was turning whiter the more he started at sky, surly doing the math.

"Ok…" Lorelai had to think fast, Luke wouldn't stay quiet forever and she knew they needed to talk, preferably without having the kids there to hear them. "Go ask him…" Lorelai pointed to Kirk. "To tell you a story, he has a lot of stories"

"He knows my name, Mommy" sky sounded a little scared.

"It's ok, honey, I know him; he's nice, his name is Kirk" sky thought about it a second more.

"Ok" he nodded and went of to Kirk's table; Luke's eyes followed sky until he took a seat across from Kirk, then his eyes returned to Lorelai. "Rory, come!" sky called. "Story time" Rory grabbed her fries and coke, and made her way to Kirk's table. Lorelai slowly walked to a stool and Luke behind the counter.

"Hey" Luke whispered.

"Coffee please?" more time, I need a little more time; plus I miss his coffee.

"Sure" Luke nodded and turned around. "Here" he set the mug down and Lorelai instantly gulped it.

"My God, I've miss this" Luke just stood quietly, no need to make a rude comment right off the bat. "Yes" Lorelai whispered when she caught Luke staring at sky.

"Yes, what?" he turned to look at her.

"To what you're thinking"

"Ok, so, that was the reason you disappeared?"

"What? No! Yes… maybe, sort of"

"Damn it, Lorelai! You find out and then you just leave?!" Luke snapped; Rory, sky and Kirk turn to look at them.

"Luke" Lorelai hissed.

"Mom…?" sky asked, after all he is the man of the house.

"It's ok, honey, get back to your story" Lorelai told him with a smile, she waited until they stopped looking at them and Kirk kept going with the story before she turned to Luke. "We either take this somewhere else, or you stop snapping at me" she told him seriously.

"Fine, come on" Luke said and started walking towards the door to go outside; since he was the only one working right then he couldn't just leave.

"We'll be right outside, ok?" Lorelai told the kids and they all nodded, including Kirk.

.o0 Just Outside the Diner 0o.

Lorelai looked inside and saw both kids paying close attention to Kirk's stories and not looking outside.

"Ok, you can yell now" she told Luke, who had been pacing.

"I don't want to yell at you" he told her in an even voice.

"But you will"

"Lorelai…" he sighed and turned to look inside.

"I didn't want to leave, Luke"

"Right"

"If I had stayed here, you would've done 'the right thing' and we would've gotten back together"

"Damn right I would" he focused on her now.

"That's why I left"

"You left so none of your kids would have a father? So you could play the single Mom card and get sympathy?" he snapped.

"Hey!"

"What? Truth hurts?"

"That's not fair"

"Not fair? Not fair is me having a son that I don't know of, missing out on so many things; not fair, is having him suffer without a father. That's what's not fair"

"You didn't want to move forwards, you didn't want a future with me"

"We had a fight, not even a fight, it was an argument and the next thing I know is you moved away! And now I find out you left pregnant"

"It wasn't an argument, it was a fight; and it was very simple, you didn't want a future with us" Luke chuckle ironically.

"It wasn't an argument or a fight, it was a cover up"

"What are you talking about?"

"If you would've stayed here two days more, so we could've gone on the date we had; we'd be married by now" he admitted.

"What?" Lorelai was not expecting that one.

"During movies, you'd always babble on how some guy had proposed, and what was romantic and what was not. You always said that surprise proposals were always romantic, so I wanted it to be a surprise that's why when you started talking about 'the future' and stuff I lied; I wanted you to have a 'romantic' memory. If had known how everything would turn out, I wouldn't have bothered so much"

"You-you were going to propose? Oh, my God. I can't breathe" she turned to look inside; both kids were laughing at Kirk's story.

"I loved you and Rory more than anything; too bad you couldn't see it" Luke also turned to look inside; Lorelai was having an out-of-body experience, thinking how different her life, their life, could've been. Sky turned to look out the window and saw his Mommy looking at him; he smiled and waved causing a single tear to slip down her cheek. Sky assumed his 'man of the house' role and went outside to see what was wrong.

"What he do, Mommy? Do I hit him?" he asked pointing at Luke and preparing himself to defend his Mommy's honor.

"Nothing, honey, I'm ok; go back inside" she ran her fingers through his hair.

"I'm watchin you" he narrowed his eyes at Luke before going back inside; Luke couldn't help but chuckle, this boy was less than half his size and he was ready to fight him for making Lorelai cry.

"How chivalrous" Luke stated.

"He's just like you in so many ways that it is scary" Luke couldn't help but smile.

"Can I ask you something?"

"He'll be six in a couple of days"

"Uh… good to know, but that wasn't my question"

"Oh, sorry, go ahead"

"Why the hell did you name him Sky?" Luke asked letting out a groan with the name; Lorelai couldn't help but giggle.

"I didn't, sky's a nickname"

"Oh, ok, good; then…?"

"Lucas" Lorelai informed him and Luke's face softened.

"Really?" she just smiled. "How the hell did you get 'sky' from Lucas?"

"Oh you'll have to ask him that" Luke nodded.

"Does he know about..." Luke waved his hands around. "…me?"

"No. umm… a few days back we were shopping and he has this tendency to wander off and on one of them he bumped into Patty and Babbette; I saw them so I assumed they saw me, I was afraid they'd tell you before I got the chance so I came here as soon as I could. They think we're just on a trip"

"Wait…" Luke frowned taking a step back. "The only reason you are here right now is because you were afraid Patty or Babbette would tell me?"

You've been LoVeLuKe-ized

S0o0o0o?

Whatcha thunk bout this one? Is it the reaction you wanted and/or expected?

I am so happy people like this story. It's strange how people like reading the stories I don't like to write or read. I don't read stories with this srotyline, or where Luke is Rory's real Dad and those are the ones you guys like best, that's odd; and challenging.

Any who… THANX 4 readin!