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Summary: What happens when Luke and Lorelai get stuck in the diner together on account of the snow? Read and fine out. Please read and review this story depends on it! Also I like it when people review it makes me feel happy inside. So if u want to make my day review, Please! :D
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Chapter fourteen: a dancing theme
"So, you come here often?" he asked.
Lorelai's head shot up, and she turned to face the man sitting next to her. She could barley speak, but when she did it came out in almost a whisper. "Christopher." She said eyes wide with a tone of disbelief in her voice.
"Yep, that would be me." Christopher said. Boy does she look surprised.
"A-umm," she stuttered, at a loss for words, which rarely happened to a Gilmore. "Wha-what are you doing here?" she managed to get out.
"Well, I was in the area, and I thought 'hey why not stop by for a visit with my girls."
"Yeah." Lorelai said to Chris. "Your girls, right." She whispered to herself. Crap! Just when things were going good! Ugh!
"So where's Rory?" Chris asked looking around the diner.
"Well she should be outside some where." Lorelai said looking out the window. "Oh, there she is." She said pointing at the gazebo.
"Okay, great. I'm going to go say hi to her."
"Okay." Lorelai mumbled as Chris got up and walked out the door.
"Ugh!" she groaned the second Chris was out the door and put her head down on the counter.
Just then Luke walked behind the counter and stopped in front of Lorelai. "Don't do that it's unsanitary." He told her.
"I don't care." Lorelai said propping herself up on her elbows.
"Well I do, it's my diner." He looked over at her. "What's with you?"
"Now Luke, please don't be mad." She told him.
"That's not the best thing to start a conversation with."
"See now I said not to get mad." She told him.
"What did you do?" It was more of a demand rather then a question.
"Just don't be mad, okay?"
"Lorelai!" Luke was becoming impatient.
She took a quick glance around the diner, spotting a few Stars Hollows natives. " Can we talk up stairs?"
"Yeah, come on lets go."
They walked up the stairs and into Luke's apartment. The second Luke closed the door he turned to face Lorelai. "What did you do?" he asked sternly.
"Well, really it's not a matter of what I've done, cause I really didn't do anything." She hesitated for a moment and took a deep breath. "Christopher is here." She told him. Her stare cast down at the rug.
"What? You mean Christopher, Rory's-"
"Dad." Lorelai finished nodding.
"Is here, here. Like here in-"
"Stars Hollow." Lorelai finished for him again.
Luke adjusted his cap. "When did he get here?"
"Not even five minuets ago. I just saw him in the diner."
"He's in the diner?"
"Well no, well maybe, he was in the diner but then went to go talk to Rory. So technically he could be in the diner, but I don't know." she took a deep breath and continued. "I just want you to know that I didn't ask him to come, he didn't tell me he was coming, I hadn't even talked to him in months. So please don't be mad. Luke, are you mad?"
He exhaled loudly. "I'm not mad."
She took a step closer to him. "So you're not mad?"
He put his arms around Lorelai and looked into her eyes. "I'm not mad." He told her.
She smiled and leaned against his chest resting her head on his shoulder. "Good."
"Okay," Luke gave Lorelai a kiss, nothing special, but still full of passion. "now we have to get back downstairs."
"Why, do we have to?" she whined.
"Because I have a diner to run and you have your daughter and her father waiting for you."
"Oh forget all that."
"We can't, or at least I can't, but if you want to stay here by yourself."
"Oh, could I?" Lorelai's face lit up at the thought of not having to face Chris.
"I was kidding. Now come on." Luke said.
"Fine." Lorelai surrendered.
"Good, now come on." Luke said turning to face the door.
"Hey Luke?"
"I'm not mad." He told her as he turned to face Lorelai again.
"Good to know, but that wasn't what I was going to ask you."
"Okay, what did you want to ask me?"
"Do you think maybe that you could come over tonight? Rory and I were going to watch a movie, and we'd love it if you could join us."
Luke smiled. "That sounds good I'll close up early and be there around eight."
"Okay, perfect."
"Now that that's settled, come on."
"Oh, alright. I'm coming I'm coming."
Luke walked out from behind the curtain, with Lorelai following behind him. They look over and see Rory and Chris sitting at the counter. "Good luck." Luke whispered with a small smile, walking to the kitchen.
"Funny, very funny!" she called after Luke, which also caused a number of people to turn and look. Shying she walked over to Chris and Rory. Rory she wanted to see, but Chris, she could care less.
"Hey mom." Rory said, clearly still happy that her dad was here.
"Hey."
"What was that all about, Lore?" Chris asked.
Leave it to Chris to pry. "What was what all about?" she said not wanting to talk about her and Luke with Chris.
"Over there." He said pointing to where Luke and she had been standing.
"Oh nothing."
Sensing Lorelai was unconformable Rory jumped in. "So dad. How long are you here for?"
"Oh I don't know, I thought I'd stick around for the New Year."
"Really?" Rory said happily.
"Yeah." Chris said with a smile. "If that's okay with your mother." He turned to face Lorelai. "Lore?"
"Oh, ye-yeah of-of course it's um of course it's okay." Lorelai managed to get out. Crap, crap, CRAP! Chris is going to be here for New Years, and for all the days be for it! Oh this is so not good! I hope Luke still won't be mad!
"You should stay with us." Rory said with out thinking how awkward it would be for her mom and Luke if Chris were at the house.
Did my daughter, my darling Rory really just say that? Does she not remember anything that has happened this past month? "Oh Rory I don't think that would be such a good idea." Lorelai told her.
Suddenly Rory got what her mom was hinting at, Luke. "Oh you're right, sorry. Umm, what about the inn?"
"That sound like a good plan. Chris, what do you think?" God, please let him just stay at the inn, it's bad enough he had to show up when he did.
What's wrong with their house? Why is it such a bad idea for me to stay there? I was hopping I could stay there. "Oh, yeah that's fine." Chris told them. "Actually it's getting kinda late, I'll head over there now and see about a room."
"Okay." Lorelai said. "Bye."
"Bye dad." Rory called. Once the door shut behind Christopher Rory turned to Lorelai. "I'm so sorry I just wasn't thinking, I mean this is the first time he's actually been here, and I guess I was just happy he finally came."
"Rory honey, it's fine. Now come on we have to go pick out a movie to force Luke to watch. He's coming to movie night."
"Okay, Come on lets hit the video store."
" Oh and then Doose's."
"Why Doose's? Luke will bring us food."
"Yeah, but we to get all the junk food we're going to eat, and then proceed to make Luke eat."
"Good point, let's go."
"Bye Luke!" both girls called.
"Bye." They heard Luke respond from the kitchen.
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Rory and Lorelai had just arrived home from picking out the movies for tonight. After much debate they had decided to make Luke sit through Footloose and Dirty Dancing. First they were just going to pick one, but then decided to make it a theme night, and turn it in to a double feature. Also as an added bonus these movies just happened to be two of Lorelai's favorites. After picking out the movies the girls made a stop at Doose's and stocked up on every junk food known to man.
Lorelai and Rory were just walking past Babette's when Lorelai noticed Chris standing on the front porch with his bags. She froze.
"Why'd you stop?" Rory asked after almost running into her mom.
Lorelai motioned towards Chris with her head.
"Dad? What is he doing here?" Rory questioned Lorelai.
"I know just as much as you do kid." She told her.
The two girls walked up the steps of their front porch and over to Christopher. "Umm Chris, wh-what are you doing here. I thought you were going to the inn."
"Well I was, but they don't have any rooms available, so I thought maybe I could crash here until a room opens up." Come on Lore, just let me stay.
Well I can't just kick him out. "Yeah, you can stay here until something opens up at the inn. You'll be sleeping on the couch though." Luke is going to kill me for this.
"Oh that's fine, thanks Lore."
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Later that night. Lorelai is sitting on her bed reading a people magazine when Rory walks in to her room.
"Hey mom?"
She looked up from what she was reading. "Yeah?"
"Why don't you go over to Luke's and watch the movies there, with him, and I'll stay here with dad for the night."
"But Rory we were all going to watch the movies together, I can't just leave you."
"Go it's fine. I know you were looking forward to spending time with Luke, and we can pick out two new movies to force Luke to sit through next week."
"Are you sure."
"Yeah, I'll be fine. We can just do this again next week, with a different movie theme."
"Thanks kid, you're the best, but I'm leaving half of the junk food for you."
"I'm not arguing with that."
Rory turned to leave. She was half way out the door when Lorelai called out to her. "Dancing midgets."
Rory turned around to face her mom. She had a confused look on her face. "What?"
"The theme for next week, dancing midgets. We can rent Willy Wonka and The Wizard of Oz. Make Luke sit through those two movies." Lorelai said with a smile.
Rory smiled back. "I like that theme."
"I had a feeling you would."
"So shouldn't you be getting ready."
Lorelai looks over at the clock. "Oh crap, your right. I better hurry."
Rory laughed to herselfas she left her mom's room.
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10 minutes later Lorelai flew down the stairs. She made a quick stop in the kitchen to grab the movies and bags of junk food, before returning to the living room.
"Rory have you seen my keys?" a frantic Lorelai called out.
"Umm, night stand?"
"Nope."
"Dresser?"
"Not there."
"Pocket?"
"Don't have one."
"Purse?"
Lorelai stopped and dug through her purse. "Aha!" she exclaimed. "Found them."
"So Lore are you going out?"
Way to state the obvious. "Uh, yeah." Lorelai said putting on her jacket.
"Oh, where are you going?"
"Just to a friends house, nothing fancy." She told Chris, the turned to Rory. "Okay, so if you need anything you know where I am."
"Right."
"And you know the number."
"Yes."
"Now I should be home around midnight, but if I'm not, and I'm talking like 12:01 here, send out like three police cars, a few K-9 units, a fire truck, and an ambulance. You know the works. So you get all that?"
"Yeah I think. I know where you are and the number, you should be home by midnight but if your not don't worry because this is Stars Hollow, and the movies just probably took longer to get through then you thought."
"Well you got the first part, but what happened to the fire trucks and K-9 units?"
"Go." Rory said pushing her mom towards the door. "You're going to be late."
"Already am babe."
"Fine you're going to be later, now go."
"I have a feeling I'm not wanted here." Lorelai said in mock hurt as she left the house.
"I'll see you later!" Rory called after her. "Bye mom."
"Bye." Lorelai called back.
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Lorelai had just reached the diner. She grabbed the bags from the back seat and hurried off towards the door. The bells jingled above her had as she opened the door and stepped in.
"Better make it quick. We're closing." Luke called from the kitchen.
Lorelai smiled. "How quick do you want it." She called back as she took a seat at the counter.
"What?" Luke asked coming out of the kitchen. Lorelai snickered at the look on his face.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well you really know what a woman wants to hear."
"Sorry I just thought I was coming over to your house."
Lorelai realized that she had never called to tell Luke what had happened. "Oh I knew I forgot something." she mumbled to herself. "There was a change of plans." she told Luke.
"Really, why?"
"Well you see after Rory and I got back from getting all the stuff for tonight, Chris was waiting for us on the porch." she could see him tense up at the mention of his name, she just continued with the story. "He told us that there weren't any rooms available at the inn, so I let him stay at my place." She finished almost in a whisper.
"What?" Luke yelled, "You let him stay at your house?"
"Yes, but only until there is a room available at the inn." she quickly added.
"You shouldn't have let him stay." Luke told her.
"What was I going to do Luke? I couldn't just kick him out."
Luke took a deep breath and adjusted his cap. "You sure you couldn't kick him out." Luke asked.
Lorelai smiled and walked over to him. "I thought about it but then he is Rory's dad. And I didn't want Rory to be to mad at me, so it was my only option. But because I was so nice, Rory told me that it would be okay to have movie night here with you. Then the three of us could just have another movie night with a different theme next week." she slowly wrapped her arms around his neck, and he wrapped his around her waist. "Is that okay?" she asked softly.
"Yeah, its okay. So tonight's a theme night now?"
"Yes it is."
"What's the theme?"
"You'll just have to wait until we start the movies."
"Okay you go ahead upstairs and set everything up, I'll finish closing up and bring us some food."
"But I brought food." Lorelai said holding up a bag.
"Like I said I'll bring us some real edible food."
"Okay." She gave him a quick kiss then headed upstairs to Luke's apartment.
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15 minutes later Luke walked upstairs with a turkey burger and a salad for himself and a burger, Chile cheese fries, some pie, and a cup of coffee for Lorelai.
"There you are." Lorelai said as Luke walked out the door I was just about to send out a search party for you. Hey, why do they call it a search party anyway, I mean its not like these people have so much fun it's a party when they're out searching for some missing person, and-"
She was cut off by Luke's lips on hers. "You were babbling I needed a way to shut you up."
Lorelai smiled. "I like the way you shut me up."
"Good, so do I. Now I'm dreading to ask, but what movies did you get?"
"Well, Rory and I decided on a dance theme."
"A dance theme?" Luke asked.
"Yes a dance theme. So we have, for you viewing pleasure and mine,Dirty Dancing and Footloose." She said pulling the two movies out of a bag.
"Never seen them." Luke said.
"You're kidding! You've never seen Footloose, the story of music and dancing being outlawed in a town? Or Dirty Dancing about the girl who everyone called Baby?" Lorelai asked in disbelief.
"Why was dancing outlawed? And why did every one call her baby?" Luke asked.
"See that's why were going to watch the movies." Lorelai told him as she got up and put in the first movie.
"Which one are we watching first?"
"Umm, Dirty Dancing."
"Is that the one were everyone called her Baby?"
"Yes, now shhh it's starting." Lorelai told him.
After a few minutes of watching the movie Luke was the first to talk.
"Waho, that looks just like-"
"I know! Thank you!"
"I mean that looks- why did you say thank you?" Luke asked confused.
"Every time I watch this movie I always tell who ever I'm with that she looks just like Emily, and every time people say I'm crazy and that they look nothing alike."
"You're kidding. They look just like each other. Are you sure that isn't her?" Luke asked.
"Yes I'm sure that isn't her . . . I think." She said the last part to herself.
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Luke and Lorelai continued to watch the rest of the movie and about half of the second one before Lorelai fell asleep on the couch with her head resting on Luke. When Luke noticed this he slowly picked her up, so he wouldn't wake her, and laid her down on the bed. Then he carefully changed her from her clothes to a pair of his sweat pants and one of his flannels, the one she had claimedfor her own. After Lorelai was changed he quickly changed into a pair of flannel bottoms and a T-shirt.
As he slipped under the covers he felt Lorelai snuggle closer to him and mumble. "Thank you."
Luke smiled "You're welcome." He whispered back.
"Goodnight Luke." She said closing her eyes again.
"Goodnight Lorelai, I love you." He told her.
At first he didn't here an answer so he figured she had fallen back a sleep, but then he heard her quiet reply. "I love you too." She said scooting closer to him and wrapping an arm around him, Luke did the same and that's how they fell a sleep.
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