Disclaimer: tear nope don't own em'... but seeing as ASP is no longer with the show, technically they aren't her characters anymore...so maybe... I could steal them when Rosenthal isn't looking!

A/N: yea I know... let me hear you all say it at once ... "KATIE SUCKS", but... even though it's a poor excuse I really was busy, and I was on vacation for 2 weeks and I've been working, but anyway, you probably don't care because it always takes me forever to update these and the least I can do is spare you the author's notes and get on with the story.

However this one thing is important so read...

ATTENTION: Okay, so now that I have your attention here are my thoughts... I'm thinking about getting them out of the snowstorm by chapter 14 and then ending the story at 15 or 16 because it doesn't really work if their not locked up seeing as that was the main plot however I might make a sequel... what are your thoughts? Because they can't be stuck for much longer however I want to keep exploring the characters and I don't want to give up the story just yet. :)

Also, I decided to go down a slightly different path then what I originally planned. So this chapter turned out different, it's more dramatic, but I think it will turn out for the better. I apologize for the lack of lit, but I needed to focus on L/L.

Chapter 13 - To Kidnappers and Snowstorms

She just stood there with her arms crossed over her chest. She wasn't angry at Luke, she was angry at herself. This was the second time she let herself believe that everything she was feeling about Luke was too good too be true. She knew that everything she had said wasn't how she really felt, but somehow she couldn't stop herself from saying it. "What have I done?" she thought and ran up the stairs.

"Luke!" she called out to him.

"Luke!" she cried and quickly opened the door which read 'William's Hardware'

No one had moved from their earlier positions, Dean and Kirk were still arguing, Rory was still on the couch, but she had been joined by Jess, and Luke was no where to be found.

"Where did he go?" Lorelai asked.

"Luke? He went in the bathroom...why?" Rory answered with a confused look on her face.

Lorelai just ignored her and ran over to the bathroom door, "Luke! Come on Luke, just open the door," she said.

"Mom... what are you doing? Just let him go to the bathroom," Rory said.

"He's not going to the bathroom, he's avoiding me because we had a fight downstairs."

"Oh."

"Luke, I'm sorry...I didn't mean what I said down there. In fact I haven't meant a lot of what I've been saying these past couple of days..." she continued, "Wait... that came out wrong," she stumbled for the right words, "What I mean is, the only time I've actually meant what I've been saying is when I've been talking about how happy I am that I'm with you," she got quieter as she said this, maybe because she was embarrassed to be saying something like this to Luke, who had been just her friend for so long, or maybe because the four other people in the room were staring at her and she didn't want them to hear. The one thing she did know though, was that she meant it and she desperately wanted Luke to open the door, "Please," she said again. She turned around to see everyone quickly moving around to make it seem like they weren't paying attention. She turned back to the door saying, "Luke, come on Luke, we have to talk, please just come out."

Luke slowly opened the door from the other end and they stared at each other for a few moments.

Lorelai began, "Luke, please, if I could just explain…"

"No." Luke said, "You've already told me everything."

"Luke come on, this isn't fair."

"Look, we can't keep doing this Lorelai. We've had this conversation twice in what three days? You've already told me how you feel, so what more is there to say."

"Yes, but I didn't mean it," Lorelai explained.

"But you did mean it, and you know it. Maybe you didn't want to believe it, but you meant it, every word."

"Don't do that. Don't tell me what I'm thinking just to make yourself look better. You have no idea what's going on inside my head."

"As a matter of fact I do, because you told me twice!"

"Why do you keep saying that! I've told you a lot of things twice, that doesn't mean anything! Just because I say something more then once doesn't mean it's more holds more truth then something I've only said once," she paused for a moment trying to see if what she just said made any sense. She decided that it did and continued. "You know… I've told people I was in the Bangles more then once, so then it must be true right?"

Luke just shook his head and said, "You know that isn't what I meant…why can't you just admit that you were having doubts?"

"because that isn't true!"

"Whatever." Luke had nothing more to say so he began walking towards the door.

Lorelai didn't know what to do. As much as she wanted to follow him, she knew he needed his space. Besides, how many more times could she run after him? Also, she was actually pretty mad at him for making all of these assumptions about her.

However Luke stopped right when Kirk suddenly said "The snow stopped!" Everyone turned to find Kirk looking out the window and they all got up and ran over. It was true. The snow had stopped and the sun had begun to peek through. However, it looked as though they might be there for at least one day seeing as the snow was still piled up to the door.

"Finally!" Rory said then looked over at her mother who was staring down at the ground. She walked over to her. "You okay?" she asked, putting her hands on Lorelai's shoulders.

"Yea," Lorelai said and walked away.

The rest of the day no one said much. They were all anxiously waiting for the snow to clear so they could go home. Lorelai went to sleep really early to avoid any conversations she didn't feel like having. Jess woke Rory up in the middle of the night, blindfolded her and dragged her downstairs.

"Jess. What are we doing?" Rory asked.

"I'm kidnapping you." Jess said with a smile.

"You're kidnapping me!" Rory asked.

"Well no, not really, but this is the closest I'll come to it."

Jess lead her into the storage room and took off her blindfold. There were three boxes lying on the floor, one acted as a table with a small lit candle, two burgers and two sodas. The other two were chairs. They both sat down.

Rory smiled, "Jess… I can't believe you did this."

"It was nothin'" Jess said.

"No this is more than nothing. You know, you have this tough guy exterior, but deep down you're a soft soul" she said with a chuckle.

"Shh" Jess said, "Or I'll take it all away."

'Okay, okay," Rory said and lifted up her soda to toast with Jess' "To kidnappers," she said with a smile.

"To snowstorms," Jess said. They both took a sip of their soda and then leaned across the table to kiss.

"This is wonderful. Thank you," she said.

"You're most certainly welcome," Jess said with a smile.