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Lorelai woke up in a tangled mess of blankets and pillows. A lazy smile crept across her face as the memories of last night rolled through her mind – the good, the bad, and the breathtaking. She slowly stretched her arms above her head as she took her time waking up. Her eyes finally opened as she rolled onto her side and reached to the opposite side of the bed where she intended to find Luke but was instead met with an empty spot and cool sheets. A mild panic began to set in where she thought that last night may have been just an amazing dream but the clothes scattered about the room and the scent of bacon and eggs that now greeted her proved to her that last night was not a dream at all. She stretched one last time before slipping out of bed and heading towards the bathroom, swiping Luke's flannel from the night before and a pair of clean underwear along the way.

After stopping in the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face, Lorelai walked down the staircase taking the time to button up the flannel before she reached the bottom.

As she entered the kitchen, Lorelai greeted Luke with a smile and kiss on the cheek before she wrapped her arms around him from behind and rested her head on his flannel covered back, breathing in his comforting scent. She had missed this – waking up with Luke in the house or even in his apartment. Those days were few and far between lately. Some of it was avoidance on her part and the other part involved Luke and April and him keeping her away. But last night their talk/fight seemed to be a breakthrough for them, at least on the communication side of things, so hopefully it meant those days were all in the past and they could now move forward.

"Lorelai?"

"Hmm?" Lorelai hummed upon hearing her name, not bothering to move herself from being pressed up against him. She knew that she was probably being a little clingy even though she wasn't a clingy person but she just wanted the closeness to him for now.

"I need to finish up your breakfast," Luke replied.

"Well then you have my full permission to finish my breakfast. It smells great and I'm starving."

"The thing is, it's a little hard to move around if you're holding me like you are now."

"Oh," Lorelai gasped with sudden realization. She giggled and told him sorry before she unwrapped her arms from around him and moved to stand by his side. She looked up to meet his eyes, "I just missed this. Waking up with you here in the morning, being this close to you. I missed you."

Luke could still see a hint of vulnerability in her eyes. He knew it was there because of his recent actions of not always being around and him pushing her away but he was determined to prove to her that they were going to be okay and that he would involve her in April's life. Through their talk last night, they had already started in that direction.

He reached out and caressed the side of her face with his hand. "I'm sorry."

Lorelai shook her head from side-to-side. "You don't have to apologize Luke."

"I do," Luke protested. "I do need to apologize. I want you to know..."

Lorelai interrupted. "I do know Luke." She took his hand off the side of her face and held it gently in hers. "Trust me, I know Luke. You told me enough last night. You don't have to say it anymore."

Lorelai shook her head as Luke opened up his mouth to speak again. "If you're going to apologize again, save it. I'm serious Luke. I know. Please don't say it again."

"Actually I wasn't going to apologize," Luke informed her.

"Well then continue on with what you were going to say," Lorelai urged.

Luke brought his hand up and brushed a stray curl out of her face. "I love you."

A smile broke out onto Lorelai's face as she slipped her arms around his neck and pulled herself close to him. "Now that I do need to hear sometimes." She pulled him down to her and pressed her lips softly against his own. The kiss was slow, sweet, and full of love. She leaned her forehead against his when she ended the kiss. "I love you too."

The moment between the couple was soon broken as Lorelai's stomach rumbled which caused her to laugh. She pulled back from Luke and gestured for him to go ahead and finish up her breakfast while she moved to the coffee pot and fixed herself a cup. She sipped on her coffee and watched Luke as he plated her bacon and eggs. When he put just the one plate on the table, she turned to face him.

"You're not going to have breakfast with me?"

"Uh no, it's just that I need to go ahead and get to the diner. I really need to start work on it so I can get it reopened as soon as possible," Luke replied. "Working with T.J. it might take longer than I originally thought."

"Right," Lorelai said with a nod of her head. "Kirk will get tired of the diner business soon and then where will people eat? And I mean really good food not Al's special grab-bags of the week. Although sometimes those are good."

"They are never good."

"Agree to disagree," Lorelai shrugged it off. Her fingers traced along the buttons of his shirt. "Well since I might not see you today because I'm needed at the Inn, am I at least going to see you tonight? Are you staying here again?"

The vulnerability was back in her eyes. They hadn't spent many nights together recently. He noticed just how little of his stuff was in the house this morning as he got ready. Most of his nights lately were spent in his apartment, for some reason that he couldn't even place now.

Luke nodded his head slowly. "I'll be here," he assured her. "I'm staying here."

Lorelai smiled, "Good."

"Good," Luke parroted. He pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "Now you're up, you're fed, and I have to get to the diner."

"See you tonight."

The couple shared another kiss before Luke was out the door and headed to the diner. Lorelai looked at the breakfast that Luke prepared for her and decided that she could eat it upstairs while she got ready to go to work. She topped off her cup with fresh coffee and grabbed a fork from the silverware drawer before she picked up her breakfast plate and headed upstairs.


"Good morning Sookie," Lorelai greeted cheerfully as she breezed through the kitchen at the Dragonfly and made her way over to the coffee pot.

Sookie watched as her friend poured herself a cup of coffee then moved to sit down on one of the few stools they kept in the kitchen. The one thing that stood out to Sookie was the smile that Lorelai wore on her face. The smile was genuine, bright, and oh-so very Lorelai. A smile that Sookie missed seeing on her friend's face. Lorelai wasn't herself these past few weeks but, judging just by this morning, it seemed that she was getting back to her old self. At least that's what Sookie thought.

"Someone's happy this morning," Sookie commented. She checked on the pastries she had in the oven before she moved to stand beside Lorelai. "I haven't seen you this happy in a while."

Lorelai grinned and nodded her head, "I am happy Sookie."

"Does this happiness have something to do with a certain diner owner?" Sookie asked.

Lorelai nodded her head again. "It does. Luke came over last night and we talked. It was a really good talk. We worked through a lot. I got a lot off my chest and so did he and now I think everything is turning around for us. We're going to work on things. I definitely feel a lot better than I have recently."

"Really?" Sookie squealed to which Lorelai answered with a nod of her head. She hugged her best friend tightly. "Oh this is great! I know you haven't been happy lately but now you seem happy again and I'm happy that you're happy again and I'm happy that you and Luke are happy together again."

"Whoa Sookie, that was a lot of happies in one sentence," Lorelai cut in before Sookie had a chance to overuse the word happy.

"I'm just happy," Sookie squealed before she wrapped her arms around Lorelai in another hug.

Lorelai laughed lightly and returned the hug as best as she could from her seated position, "Me too Sookie."

When Sookie asked for more details on her talk with Luke and more importantly the making-up part that happened afterward, Lorelai was delighted to divulge a few details from the night before to her friend. At least the work-appropriate details. The other members of the kitchen staff didn't need to hear that much of their boss' personal life.

"So how does April factor into all of this now?" Sookie asked. "Luke's not going to try and hide you anymore is he? You talked about that, right?"

Lorelai nodded her head eagerly. "Yes, all that was covered last night. I told him that I need to be in his life full-time and that includes me being in April's life. I told him that I wanted to get to know her, that I want to spend time with her. He wants me to spend time with her but there's just the problems with Anna that come along with me being in April's life. But he did say that he needed to talk with Anna."

"He should talk with her, April is his child too," Sookie acknowledged. "Do you think he's actually going to talk with her about all of this though?"

Lorelai hesitated for a moment then shrugged her shoulders, "I don't honestly know. I told him that I would help him and he said that we would figure it out but...he's still Luke. Talking with Anna could create more problems since she doesn't want me to be a part of April's life unless Luke and I are married. She's still worried since Luke just came into April's life so I just see more problems popping up when I do get involved. I can just see how this would end badly. And you know Luke, he doesn't like to create problems for other people."

"That is Luke," Sookie agreed. "But you said you guys talked last night so maybe he will see that this is something that he needs to do, that he needs to talk with Anna so she knows that you will be a part of April's life in some way."

Lorelai nodded. "Yeah, we did communicate more last night than we ever really have before. He just needs to get better with processing things and handling more than one thing at a time. I told him that I would help him out."

"And you are a great help," Sookie added on.

Lorelai smiled, "Exactly. I'll just remind him of how I saved April's party if he needs reminding. Not that I think he will because according to Luke, April is still talking about her birthday party."

Sookie poked her bottom lip out in a pout, "I still wish I could have been at the party."

"Of course you do Sookie," Lorelai replied. "I'll tell ya what, one night soon you can leave your kids with Jackson and we'll have ourselves a girl's night. We'll do all sorts of girly things that will make up for the fact that you missed the party."

Sookie giggled, "Sounds like a plan to me!"

Lorelai took one last sip of her coffee before she moved away off her stool and dropped her cup into the kitchen sink. "I should get back to work before Michel accuses me of putting all the work on him since I took a few days off. I already heard plenty from him this morning about his workload these past few days. Remind me again why we brought him to the Dragonfly with us."

"Because deep down we really, truly like him and it just wouldn't be the same if he didn't work here with us," Sookie answered.

"Right," Lorelai mused.

Lorelai turned around and left the kitchen now that Sookie was occupied with another one of her creations that was bound to be a hit. As she neared the front desk, she saw that Michel was busy on the phone. She moved to stand beside him behind the front desk in case she needed to intercept the call so they wouldn't lose a potential guest due to Michel's attitude. As she started to sort through the mail, Michel held the phone out in her direction.

"It's your mother," he told her before he placed the phone in her hand and announced that he was taking his break despite it being early in the morning.

Lorelai held the receiver up to her ear, "Hey Mom," she tucked the phone against her shoulder as she began to sort through the mail again. "What's going on?"

"Can't I just call to check in with my daughter?" came Emily's reply.

"Of course you can call Mom. I just thought you would be enjoying your trip with Dad and maybe you wouldn't have time to call."

"Your father and I are having a lovely time but I still have time to call and check in with my daughter," Emily replied. "Unless this isn't a good time. I can call back later."

Lorelai looked around the lobby of the Inn, a few guests were mingling and discussing their plans for the day. She had a few minutes to talk. "Now is a good time. I'm not too busy."

"Good." A pause came on the line. "How are you doing?"

"In general? Like how my business is doing or how my hair is behaving this morning?" Lorelai inquired. "Or is this your way of asking how things are with Luke?"

"You did always have the most unruly hair as a child and then as you got older, I'm pretty sure you didn't run a brush through it most of the time no matter how many times I told you to. Your hair looks pretty now, you seem to have control over it," Emily responded.

"Okay Mom, I know you didn't call to talk about my hair. I also know that you made a stop in Stars Hollow to talk with Luke before you and Dad jetted off to wherever you two are currently visiting."

"I'll admit that I did go by and talk with Luke," Emily said after a long pause. "You came to me and you were hurt because of problems between you and Luke. As your mother, I thought that I could try and talk some sense into the man. Someone needed to do it. I am not going to apologize for trying to help my daughter. You can be mad at me if you want but I was only trying to help."

"I'm not mad," Lorelai insisted. "Luke told me everything that you said. It seemed like a good talk the two of you had."

"He listened more than he talked."

"Well that's Luke for you."

Emily cleared her throat. "So how are you and Luke? Have you two had the chance to talk?"

"We talked," Lorelai answered simply.

"Are you going to make this difficult Lorelai?" Emily asked, the exasperation evident in her voice. "Is that all you're going to tell me?"

Lorelai blew out a breath. "Luke and I had a really good talk last night. We were able to work through things that have been bothering us recently. We're going to try and work on things together now. Luke and I are going to be okay." For her mother's benefit, she added, "I'm doing a lot better."

"Good, that's good Lorelai. I'm happy that you two are working things out and that you are doing better," Emily replied. "It seems that I should call my real-estate agent and tell her to hold onto that house for a little while longer."

"Mom," Lorelai sighed. "Luke and I haven't talked about the house. He knows about it but it is not my focus right now. Luke and I are working on our issues, that's more important right now. We're not planning on moving anytime soon."

"I can still see how long she can hold onto the house just in case you and Luke decide that you would like the house one day," Emily replied. "It is a lovely house."

"It is lovely," Lorelai agreed. She smiled at guests who now approached the front desk and gestured that she would only be a minute. "I need to get back to work now but I'll talk to you later."

Lorelai waited for her mother to say her parting words before she placed the receiver back down into the cradle and focused her attention on the newly arrived guests in front of her. She swiftly checked them into their room then directed someone to help them with their bags and take them to their room. Once they were gone, Lorelai decided that there was one more person that needed to hear the details of the talk between her and Luke. She picked up the phone and quickly dialed Rory's number.


Later that afternoon, Lorelai had to practically drag herself through the front door of her house. Her morning started off so well but she couldn't say that about the rest of her day. Not long after she celebrated the news that she and Luke made up with her daughter, a dull pain began to throb in her head. Aided by Michel's complaints of her not being there recently, the dull pain quickly escalated into a full-blown headache. After taking medicine to deal with the pain, she stayed in her office most of the day going over paperwork. When the pain in her head didn't subside very much and she felt cramps beginning, Lorelai decided to cut out a few hours early and head home for a nap.

Lorelai dropped her purse and keys down on the table in the entryway before she headed straight for the staircase and made her way upstairs. In her bedroom, she sat on the edge of the bed and slipped off her shoes before she laid back on the bed and curled up on her side. She knew that her headache combined with the cramps usually meant that her period was right around the corner.

She felt conflicted because she did want to have a baby with Luke but the timing just didn't seem right. She always thought that if she was to get pregnant again it would be something that she and Luke discussed and planned for, not something that happened because of a slip-up. She didn't want to explore that topic anymore, for now she just wanted to sleep.

Lorelai awoke two hours later to the sound of someone moving around downstairs. From the delicious smells that drifted upstairs and the sounds from downstairs, she knew that Luke had made his way home and was currently cooking them dinner. She stretched and rubbed the leftover slumber from her vision and crawled out of bed.

Lorelai slowly made her way downstairs. A trip to the bathroom after she woke up confirmed that her pregnancy scare was nothing more than that, just a scare. She knew that she shouldn't have freaked out so soon over the issue since it seemed to quickly resolve itself but at the moment freaking out only seemed right. She was glad that she voiced her concerns with Luke about the scare the night before but now she needed to tell him that her worrying and his worrying was over nothing really. She wasn't pregnant, it was all just a scare.

"Hey sleepyhead," Luke said when he noticed Lorelai leaning in the doorway to the kitchen. "I was just about to come get you up, dinner is almost ready."

Lorelai covered her mouth as she yawned. "It smells great babe."

"Are you okay?" Luke moved to stand in front of her. "Sookie called earlier to check in, she said you weren't feeling well when you left work."

"I'm okay," Lorelai answered. "I just had a headache and I couldn't really focus on paperwork anymore or deal with Michel so I decided to come home. With the headache and cramps, I thought a nap might help."

"Did it help? Do you need anything?" Luke asked. "I can go to Doose's to get you anything you need."

Lorelai shook her head, a slight smile on her face. "I'm okay. I took something when I woke up. I'm feeling a little better than when I left the Inn."

"That's good," Luke replied when Lorelai moved past him and made her way towards the refrigerator. He took the time to put the finishing touches on their dinner before he turned towards Lorelai, her words from just a few minutes ago running through his brain. "Did you say cramps?" he asked somewhat awkwardly.

"Um yeah," Lorelai said hesitantly when she turned her gaze to Luke. "Mother Nature intervened earlier which is why I'm not feeling that great."

It took Luke a moment but he finally connected the dots. "So you're not..."

Lorelai shook her head, "I'm not pregnant. It was just a little scare, I freaked out a little too soon."

Luke nodded his head, digesting the information he thought back to their conversation over this very topic from the night before. "Well that's good, right?"

"Yeah," Lorelai answered noncommittally.

Luke went about placing their dinner plates on the table while Lorelai did the same with their drinks before she took a seat. "I mean we both agreed last night that kids wouldn't be good right now. There's a lot more going on, we have things to work on, and a baby wouldn't be ideal."

"I know what we agreed on last night Luke, I was there. I was the one that did most of the talking on that subject," Lorelai replied. "But we don't have to worry about a baby right now, I'm not pregnant. We can just focus on us and April."

When he sat down at the table opposite of Lorelai, he took her hand in his. "Are you okay?"

"I told you before I'm okay," Lorelai answered. "I know we don't need a baby right now because there are other things to worry about and I always thought when I did get pregnant again it would be something we discussed and planned and we would be married. But even if I was freaked out by it, I still wanted a baby with you so I was a little disappointed when I found out that I wasn't pregnant."

"I understand." He gave her hand a gentle squeeze. "We are going to get married and we will have kids together. I want you to spend time with April first because I want her to be at the wedding. Anna might not like that idea but I'm April's father and I say that she can be at our wedding."

Lorelai smiled, "I think that sounds like a fantastic idea." She pulled her hand back from Luke and began to eat her dinner. After a few bites of food, she looked up at Luke. "So this open communication and honesty thing, I think it's working for us."

"Me too," Luke agreed with a smile.

"Well you've heard a little about my day so how was your day?" Lorelai questioned. "How are the repairs on the diner coming along?"

As Luke rolled his eyes, tightened his grip on his fork, and blew out an angry huff of air, Lorelai bit her lip to keep from laughing as she prepared for yet another rant about the incompetent brother-in-law that just had to help with the repairs on the diner.


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