A Bar in Litchfield
Sookie and Liz walk up to the front door of the bar. Sookie glances around, a little unsure. "You sure this is the place?" Sookie asks. Liz glances down at the paper in her hand and shows it to Sookie. "Okay." Liz pushes open the door letting Sookie walk in first.
"Wow, I've never been to one of these high class bars before," Liz says with awe in her voice. Sookie gives her a strange look. "You know, people are wearing shoes, I'm not sticking to the floor, and they'll actually serve a martini here."
"Oh well, we all can't get drunk in barns," Sookie replies with a shrug of her shoulders.
"So where is she?" Liz asks.
"If I was Lorelai Gilmore," Sookie begins, starting to walk away. "And I went to a bar. And got really really really wasted. So much that when I tried to call my ex-fiance, I ended up called my ex-fiance's sister. So much that I referred to myself as Lola, as in the one from Old Soho. So much that I forced my best friend to talk to a skeezy bartender in order to get her to come get me. I would be…" Sookie opens the bathroom room. "Right here." Sookie points to Lorelai, who is curled up under the sinks in the bathroom.
"I take it back, not such a high class bar," Liz jokes. They kneel down.
"Hey Sweetie," Sookie coos, brushing some of Lorelai's hair away from her face.
"Swook?" Lorelai slurs.
"Yeah, Hun, it's me," Sookie responds.
"I – I – I called – Luke – Duke – Dukey." Lorelai waves the phone in her hand that she's laying on. Sookie quickly takes the phone putting it in her purse so that Lorelai doesn't make anymore phone calls.
"Actually you called me," Liz says, reaching out and touching Lorelai's arm.
"Liz?" Lorelai asks.
"Yeah, you got the Danes part right."
"Danes," Lorelai says softly. "Duke Danes. Luke Danes. Lorelai Danes. Lola Danes. Lorelai V. Danes. Lorelai Leigh Danes," Lorelai sings. Liz giggles.
"Hey, Lorelai, Lorelai Leigh is Rory. She's not a Danes," Sookie reminds her. Lorelai giggles.
"You're so smart, Sookie Wookie." Lorelai lightly slaps Sookie on the knee. Sookie and Liz share a smile.
"Okay, let's get you off the floor," Sookie says. Liz takes Lorelai's hand and Sookie slowly pushes Lorelai up to a sitting position. Lorelai flops her hands in her lap with a sigh. Liz reaches out and brushes the hair out of Lorelai's face.
"You feeling okay, Lorelai?" Lorelai looks at Liz, blankly.
"Lorelai?" Sookie asks.
"Sookie…" Lorelai groans, her eyes glazing over.
"I'm here," Sookie promise, rubbing Lorelai's arm.
"Sookie, I screwed up. I did this. I hurt him. No more Luke. No more Luke for Lola," Lorelai says, her voice getting softer.
"It's not over, Lorelai," Liz says. "He loves you."
"No, he hates me. I'm Evita," Lorelai slurs.
"Nice topical reference you're making there," Sookie teases.
"All the guys wanted her. She slept with them all. All the guys, but all she wanted was to take over the world," Lorelai whispers. Sookie just rubs Lorelai's arm. "I don't want to take over the world. He – he thinks I want more. That I'm an Uptown Girl. I'm not." Lorelai shakes her head, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I'm not, Sookie. I love him. I love him so much."
"Oh, come here," Sookie whispers, pulling Lorelai's head to her shoulder. Liz touches Lorelai's arm in comfort. Lorelai sobs, wrapping her arms around Sookie's neck. Sookie kisses Lorelai's head. After a moment, Lorelai pulls away.
"How'd you get here?" Lorelai asks.
"You called Liz," Sookie reminds Lorelai, pointing at Liz.
"Oh…" Lorelai swallows, her face going pale again.
"You feel okay?" Sookie asks. Lorelai slowly shakes her head. Liz and Sookie help Lorelai into a stall, where Lorelai lays over the edge of the toilet.
"Noooooo" Lorelai sobs. Sookie rubs Lorelai's back.
"Just let it out, Sweetie. Let it go," Sookie tells her. Lorelai finally gives in and throws up. Liz wrinkles her nose, walking out of the stall. She stands against the sink holding her nose. Sookie smirks. "You okay?"
"That smells terrible. I swear that is one of the worst smells on earth," Liz complains.
"Just wait until you have a kid and they puke on you day after day," Sookie replies.
"Oh I have a kid. You met Jess."
"Oh…" Sookie realizes. Lorelai finishes, leaning back against the stall, her eyes closed. Sookie rips off some toilet paper, handing it to Lorelai, who wipes her mouth.
"Jess. Mess," Lorelai sings. "Told 'stopher bout the sex. The sex in the car." Liz and Sookie share a confused look. "I didn't want 'ris. Only Duke. And Luke is the best sex I ever had," Lorelai continues in her drunken slur.
"Oh, Lord," Liz groans, covering her eyes. Sookie giggles.
"Ever ever never. And I've had a lot. Lots of sex for Lorelai. Lola means sex," Lorelai sings.
"Lorelai, what did you mean about Jess?" Sookie asks. Lorelai opens up her eyes, gazing at nothing.
"He told Christopher, bout sex with Luke. That's why Chris got mad. That's why he hit me. I was bad," Lorelai whispers. Sookie's mouth drops open.
"Chris hit you? Is that why you broke up with him?" Lorelai shrugs.
"I wanted Luke. Lukey, Dukey, Wookey, Sookie." A grin spreads across Lorelai's face. Sookie glances up at Liz.
"I – I didn't know," Liz tells Sookie. "About Jess." Sookie nods.
"I'm sure he didn't mean for that to happen," Sookie responds. "I mean he's not a sadist."
"Sadie, Sadie, married lady," Lorelai sings. Sookie glances over at Lorelai and giggles.
"That's right, Lorelai. That's going to be you!"
"Always a bridesmaid, never bride. That's me," Lorelai whispers. Sookie takes Lorelai's hand and waves it in her face.
"Look at that. Look at that ring. You're getting married," Sookie insists.
"I'm getting married, you're getting married," Liz insists. "You're coming to my wedding. You'll see it then, see how much he loves you."
"We're a happy family," Lorelai sings. She frowns. "I hate Barney." Sookie and Liz giggles.
"Lorelai, are you feeling better? I'd like to get you home," Sookie asks. Lorelai nods.
"Please take me home. There's no place like home."
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Lorelai's House
Sookie and Liz help Lorelai up the stairs and lay her on the bed, where she curls up, facing the center of the bed. She reaches out an arm to Luke's side, her chin trembling as she feels the emptiness. Sookie searches Lorelai's drawers and finds a tee shirt and a pair of pj pants for Lorelai. "Here Hun," Sookie says, placing the clothes on Lorelai. "You need some help?" Lorelai shakes her head as a tear runs down her cheek. "Anything I can get you?"
"Luke," Lorelai whispers. Liz and Sookie share a look.
"I guess she can call him if she wants," Liz says. Sookie shakes her head.
"Not with the state she's in. Lorelai would hate herself when she sobers up," Sookie replies.
"But she wants to be with him."
"If she can only tell him she loves him when she's drunk, that doesn't bode well." Liz frowns and nods, understanding.
"Rory," Lorelai whispers.
"I called Rory, remember? On our way home. You told me to tell her not to come because she has finals coming up tomorrow," Sookie reminds Lorelai.
"Alone," Lorelai whispers. "But the secret is still my own and my love for you is still unknown. Alone," she sings.
"Wow, almost the same as Heart," Sookie teases. Lorelai nods. "Do you want to get changed?" Lorelai shakes her head.
"I just wanted to forget," Lorelai slurs. She rubs her face. "No more pain. No more hurt. Free Lorelai. Free. Free as a bird." Sookie crawls on the bed, sitting next to her and taking her hand.
"You don't want to forget. That's the easy way out Lorelai and that's not you," Sookie tells her. Lorelai chokes back a sob. Liz shifts nervously.
"You know, I can leave," Liz says hesitantly.
"Liz," Lorelai whispers. Taking her hand from Sookie and stretching it to Liz, who walks over and takes it. "Stay here. Please stay." Liz sits on Luke's side of the bed, holding Lorelai's hand softly between hers. She smiles to herself.
"This is nice, you know. I mean Lorelai's drunk but it's nice. I never really had any close girlfriends. There was Carrie, but she was just good when she was high," Liz recalls.
"Me neither," Lorelai agrees. "Just the boys. And Rory. Rory's my angel."
"She's a great girl," Liz responds.
"And Sookie," Lorelai adds, taking her hand from Liz and tapping Sookie. "Lie down with me Sookie."
"There's no room!"
"Oh," Lorelai realizes. She scoots to the middle of the bed, lying flat on her back. Liz and Sookie lie on either side of her in the same position. All three staring up at the ceiling. "You guys are so lucky. Sookie's got Jackson and Davey. Liz's got TJ and Jess. And I've got me. The only member of the lonely hearts club."
"And the twins," Sookie reminds her.
"My babies," Lorelai says softly.
"And Rory," Liz adds.
"My angel." A tear runs down Lorelai's cheek. "Do you remember that scene in Indecent Proposal, when David gives Diana the divorce papers?"
"Yeah…" Sookie agrees.
"Oooh, good movie," Liz adds.
"Yeah…" Lorelai says softly. "I remember when Rory and I watched that movie, it drove her crazy. She kept going on and on about how wonderful David was to Diana, how he truly loved her and he showed her over and over and she couldn't understand why John Cage had that hold on her. I mean, Diana didn't love him. But she couldn't get away from him because there was something, something about him that drew her in."
"She did love David though," Liz recalls.
"Yeah she did," Lorelai agrees. "But that scene at the auction, when he signs the divorce papers. You remember what he said?" Liz frowns, puzzles.
"He said 'I thought we were invincible. But now I know that the things that people in love do to each other, they remember. And if they stay together, it's not because they forget. It's because they forgive'," Sookie replies. Lorelai closes her eyes letting the words sink in. Sookie reaches over and takes Lorelai's hand and squeezes it. Lorelai takes Liz's hand in her other hand.
"Thank you for staying," Lorelai says softly to both of them.