Presenting … Lucas Danes?
By GilmoreGirl1979 (the Reigning Quote Queen)
Provider of Quality FAN FICTION
Rating: let's say PG-13 because well, I can't write smut… I break into girlie giggles … because it's so absurd… me… writing smut… it's funny, especially those who know me well….
R/R: yes please I love reviews, I wanna marry them (as previously stated, I have strange passions.)
Friendly disclaimer: Chapter 1 once again, I don't own (DAMN IT!), No Harm No Sue. I reject ASPs Reality and substitute my own!
Luvz: Miss you!
Featured Beta: Localizy, she's stupendiferous… READ HER FIC WHAT CAN I SAY… I helped!
A/N: it's been awhile huh… honestly I didn't realize that it had been so long since I updated… OI! Who knew time flew so fast!
Thanks to all you who kept after for more of this fic… I will try and be better; apparently this is my beta's favorite… so she had sway with me… lol… thanks Localizy.
A/N: Dialogued borrowed from 2.10 - The Bracebridge Dinner /written by Daniel Palladino /directed by Chris Long dialogued and intentions changed by Gilmoregirl1979!
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Chapter 18:
In A Pinch
On a cold, snow covered morning, Lorelai and Rory entered Luke's diner to see their favorite diner man, and for a hot cup of coffee to warm up on the frosty morning.
"Hey," Luke greeted unusually kind and friendly to the persistent, notorious coffee fiend.
"Hey," she beamed at the sight of him, like a girl in high school to the former track star.
For a split second, Rory thought Luke and Lorelai were going to actually kiss… in public! In the diner! For the entire mid-morning breakfast crowd to see! The way Luke met Lorelai at the door, with the coffee pot in hand, how his right hand seemed to want to reach out to Lorelai's waist and pull her close to him but suddenly stopped him-self. The way Lorelai had habitually tilted her head, the way she would whenever she expected Luke to lean in and lay one on her. However, both seemed to realize just what they were about to do, and where they were and how that would have looked to the people around, and they sort of awkwardly stepped back from each other.
Luke quickly choked out, "So umm you're… participating in that…umm…snowmen contest," having seen their efforts for the last hour through the front window as he tried not to watch Lorelai too intently.
Lorelai had wanted to kiss him, as was the custom when they first saw each other in private. Especially these days, with all the time she spent planning this grand dinner for the Trelling Paper Company of Chicago, she felt like she didn't see her boyfriend now. So the eagerness to touch and show affection as soon as they saw each other was understandable side effect of missing each other. "Don't you mean stupid snowperson contest?" Lorelai shot back in their familiar banter to misdirect anyone who may have witnessed the missed kiss.
"Well, look at you…you both are freezing your butts off out there...for what?"
"For town fanfare Grumpy Gus… and since when do you care about my butt?" Lorelai asked, one of those inappropriate lines of conversations that would allow her to flirt with her fella but continue to misdirect the masses of Stars Hollow.
"I don't!" Luke said quickly knowing how it had to sound to the public and how he would show Lorelai just how much he cared on their next date. If she ever takes a night off before Christmas.
"Well, if you don't care about me, what about my daughter? She's so young, has her whole life ahead of her. Get my Popsicle daughter some coffee… no arguments. Hurry! Stat! Before hypothermia sets in and she can't lift the cup with her numb, brittle, fingers," Lorelai cried out dramatically.
Luke rolled his eyes and went to get the two mugs.
As Rory and Lorelai sat down, Rory stared down her mother. Uncomfortable under the teen's gaze Lorelai finally asked, "What?"
"That was close," Rory said pointedly, referring to their near miss kiss.
Lorelai breathed a sigh of relief "Oh I know, too close."
"Which is why you should just tell people already!" Rory forcibly whispered, "Obviously your subconscious wants you to tell people so you can show affection in public… I mean, who knew Luke would be a public affection kind of guy…"
"Okay Freud, we will, it's just…"
"It's just stupid…" Rory interrupted.
"Hey, I have enough to worry about… I have the Bracebridge dinner in its final stages, our holiday movie extravaganza to plan….and Bjork's mouth to fix," Gesturing to their snowwoman in the square, "With how much I am juggling, I should try out to be part of the tumblers troupe we have as the floor show…"
"No, cause then you'd break your neck and then you'd die!" Rory warned, "And I told you, Ringer guy is gonna win the snowperson contest."
Lorelai scoffed, "Never Give Up! Never Surrender!"
"You're only saying that cause we rented Galaxy Quest to make fun of Luke's Trekkie history when he came over the other night."
Lorelai lowered her voice, "Hey, may I remind you that that night was one of the few nights Luke and I could spend together since I took on this Bracebridge dinner, and despite the fact we spent the whole time watching movies with you as our chaperone…he enjoyed it!"
"Huh?" Luke looked up from pouring coffee in their mugs, sensing they were talking about him., hoping Lorelai wasn't scarring Rory with tales of their more intimate times.
"Well, you could take a night off… to see your fella…" Rory suggested.
They didn't even notice Luke had returned, "Rory, I'm very busy right now… it will get out…eventually… "
Luke suddenly figured out what they were talking about… again, and decided it was better to serve his other customers.
"…And my suitor and I will have a date soon enough…" Changing the subject, Lorelai explained her busy day's schedule, "Okay, we have the rest of this morning to work on Bjork, but then I have auditions this afternoon at the Inn."
"Auditions?" Rory cocked her head, wondering if her mother was gonna start an all girl band and didn't tell her.
After Lorelai's first sip of coffee, "Yeah, we need a band of sorts…well, an orchestra really… period music, an all…"
Rory sighed knowing it wasn't easy being an adult and juggling as much as her mother did. "You go…I'll polish off Bjork."
"You gonna bust out our buffer to compete with ringer guy?"
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We are so bad, Lorelai admonished with a giggle. Manipulate Jackson to be Squire Bracebridge-Check! With another thing off her list, her load was feeling lighter. How appropriate she was now auditioning harpists. "Go ahead."
The serene music was making her think of Luke and how perfect things had been since his dark day, the only thing missing was some quality alone time. Last week, they had rented Galaxy Quest and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie on Lorelai's day off, but the dinner soon took over all her time. If Rory hadn't needed a break from school and the paper as well, Lorelai would have been happy to seduce Luke right there on the couch while Rory studied in her room.
Lorelai's cell phone rang, "Oh umm, sorry about this… umm… just keep playing," she told the harpist, "Hi, it's Lorelai."
"Hey Lor … it's me," and the unsure voice of Rory's father came through the phone.
Once recovered from her initial shock, "Oh, hi Christopher…" each syllable saying, "you shouldn't have called me." She swallowed hard and asked merely to be polite, "How are you?" After all the hoopla you caused during your last impromptu visit during Rory's ball.
"Good, good." Lorelai could almost see him nervously bobbing his head, "Soooo you, uh, got a minute?"
"Umm okay" but she pursed her lips together hoping to hide her dread.
"Uh, I just wanted to run an idea by you."
"Run it," she said shortly.
Hearing the tranquil music Chris had to dig in, "Where are you heaven?"
"How ironic considering I'm getting a call from the devil himself!"
Realizing he was already on Lorelai's bad side, it didn't help his situation to aggravate her further by trying to be cute, as they used to be. Christopher cleared his throat, as if he could feel Lorelai's cold glare over the phone, "Now it's totally your call and I don't want to step on any plans you've already made, but …you know I want to make it up to Rory… you know… well, everything… So, umm I know Rory has a break in school coming up, and I was wondering if you'd be cool with … her coming to visit for a couple of days."
"Uhh, a couple of days?" Lorelai laughed, "You mean she'd stay the night?"
"Yeah, it's totally your call." Finding the tranquil music behind her bizarre, but wanting to stay focused on his request.
"Do you even have room for someone to stay?" Lorelai was looking for any flaw to keep her daughter away from her former friend and father.
"Not just room - a room. A designated guest room. Sherry fixed it up really nice."
"Good for her," Lorelai said bitterly more out of annoyance than jealousy. Like I'm gonna strand my kid with you two… strangers!
"So what do you think?"
"I don't know. It's awfully last minute," come on I need a loop hole here…
"It's totally last minute, but I really need this chance…please Lor… "
Lorelai rolled her eyes, Christopher had ruined what otherwise had been a magic, momentous night for Luke and Lorelai's relationship, and an important night for her daughter, and here Christopher was, begging her for help, begging to be bailed out of a mess he caused… again. "Well, it's really up to Rory to say yes or no. She's the one who … has to forgive you."
"So … are we okay?"
"Chris…" Lorelai rolled her eyes again.
"Okay, we will start slowly, are you okay with her coming here? …it will give you some alone time with that boyfriend of yours…"
"Hey, Luke likes having Rory around! And again… it's up to Rory… I will respect her decision."
"Okay, great, I can live with that," and Chris released the breath he had been holding, "That's great. Uh, thank you. I'll let you run it past her and you can get back to me whenever. No pressure."
"Bye," as Lorelai hung up she seriously considered not telling Rory about the call. Lorelai was still mad at Chris for barging in and passing judgment on the life she made for herself when he hadn't been involved with the girls for years. Sure, he came for a visit last year, coming to Stars Hollow for the first time, and of course he was Rory's father and should have a connection with her, but how many times can you forgive and forget.
Lorelai was also afraid of Luke's reaction to Christopher's call, and worried that Luke was right about Chris wanting to try and worm his way into Stars Hollow for good!
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Since Chris' call, Lorelai's week went from bad to worse…
Her parents were having some sort of rough patch and Friday night dinner was unusually frosty between Emily and Richard, who were usually glad to flaunt their united front. Whatever ordeal Richard was going through at work, the situation hadn't improved since the ball, and his mood was now seriously infecting his home life and his usually pristine relationship with his wife.
The last straw was when the Trelling Paper Company aka the Bracebridge group, call to say the grand dinner was off because they were snowed in.
The bright side was Luke was over in a flash to comfort a wallowing Lorelai. Just as Luke got comfortable with showing Lorelai affection around Rory, he grew accustomed to PDAs around Sookie … once she stopped gasping and cooing and fawning over the pair. However, on that night Sookie was distracted by the canceled dinner, and she wasn't up for ogling the pair at the moment. Both Sookie and Lorelai were very depressed about the canceled dinner.
Luke invited Lorelai into his arms when they sat on the couch, Lorelai rested her head on his shoulder, her feet tucked under her bottom; Sookie continued to be "smad" in the armchair, and Rory had just returned from the kitchen passing out drinks so they could find a solution to all the supplies and help they acquired. Rory thought her mother and Luke looked so cute together. If they were public Rory would have taken their picture and put it on a Christmas card and sent it out to compete with her dad, Sherry and their little dog's picture. Rory still hadn't heard from Chris, for his twenty second chance…while she was disappointed, she figured it just made her end of the bargain that much easier.
"I'm gonna cry," Sookie barked from her seat.
"Again?" Luke said giving her a look and Lorelai swatted at his chest.
"Be nice, we're depressed," and rested her head back on his shoulder.
"Well, I don't see the big deal… you didn't loose any money… it's like a … Christmas bonus…without any work…"
Lorelai sat up from his shoulder "Excuse me, I've been working on this for weeks!"
"LUKE! I've got thirty pounds of aged beef!" Sookie barked, "Trays and trays of trout, mountains of pruned tarts. I diced pumpkins until my hands turned orange! I've got pumpkin hands!"
Seeing the two of them glare at him, Luke got out quickly, "I know, I didn't mean that… I just…sorry" and Lorelai returned to his shoulder.
Rory offered Sookie her beverage, "Take a sip"
Sookie shot a glance at Lorelai quietly huddled with Luke on the couch, not a care in the world, "How can you stay so calm about this?"
"There's nothing we can do about it," Lorelai shrugged from her safe place, listening to the comforting rhythm of Luke's heart again.
"I can't believe they got snowed in," Rory plopped on the couch next to her mother.
Now Lorelai shook her head, "All that work, all that extra help we hired, GAH!" and she buried her face in the crook of Luke's neck.
"Yeah, I guess. You know, I could still make up the dinner for the four of us," Sookie said halfheartedly.
"Yeah, but then it would be like the four of us, all alone in the dining room," Rory reasoned.
Lorelai chimed up again, "It would be like The Shining, except instead of Jack Nicholson, we have Rune!"
Sookie perked up in her chair, "What about Jess?"
"What about him?" Luke asked as he played with Lorelai's hair, she had told him once how much she liked it when he did that.
"He eats, doesn't Jess eat?"
"What's she doing?" Luke whispered into Lorelai's ear but keeping an eye on Sookie incase she was going to turn into Jack Nicholson from the shining.
Now Lorelai perked up from the couch, "I think she's inviting your nephew for dinner."
"Yeah, come on, do you know if Jess likes Peacock Pie?"
"I'm a hundred percent sure that would be a no… for both of us!"
"There'll be normal food too…" and Lorelai's smile returned, "Hey, you know what? Let's invite everyone"
"Everyone who?" Rory asked.
"Everyone, everyone" Lorelai smiled.
"Everyone, everyone who?" Sookie begged.
"Everyone we know, everyone we like."
Rory was on her mother's thought train as usual, "And they could even stay in the inn. All those empty rooms, all those uneaten pillow mints!"
"An out of control, over the top slumber party!"
"I love it!" Sookie sang.
"Me too!" Rory chimed.
"Done! Spread the word."
Then Sookie gasped "Oh no?"
"What?" Lorelai wondered what flaw Sookie saw in her plan, "What's wrong?"
"Well, you and Luke?"
"What about me and Luke?" Lorelai looked over at her boyfriend.
Sookie explained, "Well, its one thing where you pull your banter routine in the diner, it something else where you both are in a romantic setting… with the entire town buzzing about the Inn!"
Rory loved the idea, "Maybe this is where people could see your story unfold?"
"What?" Lorelai looked at her daughter as if she had turned blue.
"You said you want the town to see a story book romance, here's the setting… the gossips see you and Luke together… maybe you could blatantly flirt… and they speculate and then it's out in the open!"
"Honey, please I have enough to worry about with the minstrels and servers."
"AHEM" Sookie cleared her throat.
Lorelai cast a wary glance at her friend, "I mean, performers… this isn't the right time…"
"But we are in December; it's been almost two months since the two of you got together…" Rory argued.
"Sweetie, please…"
"Fine… just the dinner," and Rory sunk to Sookie's arm rest with her arms crossed.
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The more Lorelai thought about it the more sense her daughter made. It would be easier for the town to just conclude that this minstrel dinner is how she and Luke got together. However, with further last minute changes, and short notice invites out, Lorelai just had to rearrange room assignments and figure out what to do about one little problem. How do I get Luke alone?
"Hey, did Bootsy RSVP?" Lorelai asked her daughter.
Rory checked the stack of RSVPs, "Yeah, he's coming."
"Is he bringing anybody?"
"He's coming solo."
Big Surprise! "Okay. I'm gonna put him in room 16 with Jess." Lorelai said mischievously.
"You can't do that."
"Come on, let me have my fun," Lorelai pleaded.
"Luke's coming with Jess…" Rory reminded her mother.
"Coming with him yes, staying in the same room together… Not if I have anything to say about it… If I only I could get Luke a room by himself…damn that Jess!"
"With all the people we've invited…that's hardly efficient," and it dawned on Rory, Wait a room by himself? "Mom?"
Lorelai let out a hint of a grin, "Yes?"
"Mom… you have something planned? Don't you…"
"What makes you say that?" she smiled innocently.
"Well, you have all the power in arranging this whole shindig, and we have an even number of rooms, and an odd number of people…"
"You mean just odd people…" Lorelai said as an aside.
"…Invited an odd number of people; and you are trying to get Luke alone for your own selfish reasons…"
Lorelai reasoned with her daughter, "I just want him to be comfortable… Luke is not the most sociable guy you know… and he could use a break from Jess any way… they already share a one room apartment, and this dinner is supposed to be fun… and break up the regular routine!"
"Well, I don't see how you are gonna do this… unless you, me and Luke are sharing a room or you, Luke and Jess are sharing a room… I don't think you want me and Jess sharing a room."
"I'd rather you'd share a room with Dean… that was a joke, not a suggestion, by the way…" Lorelai said quickly, gauging her daughter's reaction.
"Mine too," Rory said embarrassed, by her suggestion to share a room with Luke's nephew, whom to the town was a flagrant, flipped, hooligan.
Lorelai had a guilty smug grin on her face, "Do you really want to know?"
"… In case I have to lie for you, yes."
Then Lorelai broke into a pout, "But it's a night of your mommy… you know… getting lucky… I want you to still respect me."
"Let me respect your devious fiendish plan…but how are you going to get in his room without the town noticing?"
"Well, I'm hoping I'll be invited, but even so… I run the place… I have like a key to every room… Now, help me find a place to put Jess" she closed with a whine.
"Yeah, the nephew in the next bed might put a damper on your romantic evening…"
Lorelai considered her puzzle again, "Ooo I know, I'll put Jess in with Miss Patty."
"There will be no Jess left in the morning."
Lorelai scowled at her daughter, "You stink."
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"Come on, you have to go!" Luke argued, as he started to pack an over night bag for Lorelai's special dinner at the Inn. Part of the boyfriend's job was to be supportive of his girlfriend, even if that meant participating in a fruity evening with jugglers, minstrels, and revelry.
"No… I don't," Jess stated matter of factly, content to sit in the easy chair and watch mindless television.
"If I'm going, you're going!" Luke commanded, trying to sound like the parent.
"Why?"
"Cause you are still a minor and I don't trust you with my apartment, with my only source of income alone."
"It's one night," Jess scoffed.
"Jess!" Luke exclaimed, whenever he wanted an argument to stop because he was getting frustrated with the circles he was running in.
"Look, I'm not exactly comfortable spending the night in the same building where my uncle and his girlfriend are having sex." Much less the same town …. Yeesh!
Luke didn't even know if he and Lorelai would have a moment alone, half the town was coming. Surely Lorelai wouldn't risk exposure of the relationship as such a public function. Although… that would be a way to get it out and over with…as Rory had suggested, Luke considered.
"I'm not going…" Jess stated finally.
That's what you think.
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The Bracebridge experience was on its way.
Guests were arriving. Rooms were being filled. Sookie was hyperventilating so everything was on schedule. Lorelai was now in an even better mood when her parents arrived, Shocker! They seemed totally different; her father had a light step, not a care in the world and her mother was happy to take the credit for the transformation.
Lorelai was thankful that Richard and Emily had gone to settle in their room, when Luke and Jess arrived at the door. Lorelai was eager to see Luke; she left Rory to talk with Dean and his sister. Lorelai beamed as she approached Luke, knowing what she had up her sleeve for later in the evening. "Hi," she giggled, and then had to remind herself not to be too obvious.
"Hey," Luke shyly smiled in return, "Umm thank you for inviting us… both of us." After a period of Jess' silence Luke elbowed his nephew.
"Ow, yeah umm I'm really glad I could be here," Jess said snidely, shooting a dirty look at Luke.
"Umm Rory has your keys…" Lorelai couldn't help but take in the sight of Luke, she hadn't seen him much this week; he wasn't wearing his ball cap and had fallen snow in his hair still. She really wanted to stroke her fingers through his hair. Damn it Sookie was right about that romantic setting.
"Well I'm gonna leave you two to the "you're pretty, no you're petty conversation," Jess rolled his eyes as he got him self lost.
After seeing Rune naked, well partially naked, Lorelai decided she needed a pick me up before dinner started. She followed Luke as he went to the rest room, concealed her-self as she waited in the coatroom. Luke was heading back toward the dining room for the start of dinner, Lorelai reached out and pulled him into the coatroom with her.
"What the…?" before he knew it, Luke's back was against the wall and Lorelai had crashed her lips onto his before he could react or say anything else to giveaway their location. Once Luke realized it was safe, he was very eager to have the alone time with Lorelai.
As Lorelai pulled away, she enjoyed his hands circling her hips, and whispered millimeters from his mouth, "Hi!"
"Hi… a little warning next time would be nice."
"But that takes all the fun out of it…" as she pecked at him again and gave him a squeeze around his middle.
"What if I had gone another way? What if I was Kirk?"
"Okay, you are officially spoiling the mood and grossing me out! I just wanted to see you…be near you. I'm gonna have a three hour dinner of just looking at my eye candy."
"I am not eye candy," Luke said humbly.
"Yes, you are," and before Luke walked out of the coat room Lorelai pinched his butt. He paused just out side the door frame, not wanting to alarm Morey and Babette who had just past him, hiding his shock that Lorelai did that, and glared back at her still concealed in the coatroom, glared at that devious smile he loved so much.
"Cut it out," he said slyly through clenched teeth.
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After mingling and saying hello to everyone before dinner, it was time for the night to truly begin. Lorelai stood on the entrance landing to address the crowd.
"Hey everybody, will you gather round? Everyone, everyone!" and the murmuring died away, "First of all, I want to welcome you to the first annual and probably never ever to be held again because Sookie's on the verge of a nervous breakdown Bracebridge Dinner."
Lorelai realized she should look at everyone and not just at Luke, who was standing in the back, she was trying to scan the crowd but her eyes always stopped on him.
"I …uh would also like to thank Mother Nature for snowing in the Trelling Paper Company in Chicago so I can throw this great party for all my friends instead. It's a very special night. And so, since I don't get to eat unbelievably strange food with my friends everyday, I have arranged a little surprise. Outside, as we speak, is a line of horse drawn sleighs and everybody gets a ride. So, uh, line up and keep it orderly. There's two per sleigh and no cutting in front of each other - that goes for everyone. Except me, 'cause I'll be damned if I'm gonna miss a ride in a horse drawn sleigh. Come on."
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Luke had put his coat on just to see the horses, he had lost track of Jess… again… and just prayed he didn't burn down the place, for the sake of his girlfriend's lively hood and reputation.
Lorelai came out of the inn, loving the snow and the night. She could hear Patty and Babette chatting and gossiping on the porch waiting for Patty to conclude her latest scoop before heading out on a sleigh. Lorelai saw Patty and Babette to her left, then the open sleigh in front of the inn, with Luke making friends with the horses. Her devious grin returned; Lorelai made sure she got Patty and Babette's attention, "Don't wait too long ladies…"
"Aw we won't, sugah," Babette rasped, "and then what happened."
Patty continued, "She went into the bathroom…and saw him waxing his chest…"
Lorelai climbed in the sleigh, and then called out to Luke, so the gossip sisters would hear, "Hey, you in the belt - get in."
Luke looked up from the horse. "What? Oh, no, I was just sort of checking things out."
"Come on. We can pull a Ben Hur and take down Taylor's sleigh," making sure Patty and Babette were watching out of the corner of her eye.
"I don't know, I..." Luke didn't know what she was doing… in front of all these people.
"Aww, come on Luke. I can't be all school marm-y and ride by myself. Please?"
"Well, okay." As Luke climbed in, he wondered if Lorelai was using Rory's suggestion, trying to get the town to see them together, wondered if when they got back people would be whispering about them.
"Giddy up," Lorelai hollered, and the sleigh began to move. "Uh! The horses heard me, I speak horse language! I'm Dr. Dolittle!"
"Plus, I think the driver of the sleigh heard you."
"Oh, yeah," and she smiled as they pulled away from the inn, Babette was nudging Patty repeatedly with her elbow, which was causing Patty's eyes to go wide as she dealt with the abuse.
"I gotta say, sleigh ride's a little much, but these horses are really beautiful," Luke was making small talk.
"Yes, especially from this angle," Lorelai teased, since they were staring at the horse's butt.
"Not just from this angle. "
"Oh seriously, don't backtrack. Horse has got a nice butt there."
"It's not what I'm saying."
"Nice firm hiney," Like yours.
"Stop talking about the horse's hiney?"
"Can I talk about your hiney?"
"Just stop talking…"
Now that they were a safe distance from the inn and any other sleigh, "Kiss me and I'll stop talking…"
"Lorelai… the driver…"
"His back is turned … he's from out of town anyway…" then Lorelai raised her voice, "and he'll get a huge tip if he doesn't say a word…"
So, Luke put his arm around Lorelai, and did as she requested, kissing her to keep her quiet.
Lorelai pulled away. "Hmm, now you're keeping me warm…" she cuddled closer to him under the blanket, "God, the town looks beautiful."
"Same as always."
"No, it's always different his time of year." She said from his shoulder. "It's magical."
Recalling her strange snow fetish, "If you say so, sure. Oh look, there's the magical plumbing supply store where I bought a magical float for my toilet last week."
"Stop it… you're spoiling it…"
"Sorry… Oh look. There's the magical Luke's Diner right underneath the apartment that Jess magically lit by leaving every stinkin' light on."
"How's it going with you guys?" pulling up the blanket.
"Great…"
"Great?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"Well, he's kept our little secret… you know and he is staying for the holidays…"
"Does this mean I have to get him a gift?" Lorelai whined.
"I don't know if you have to go through all that trouble…"
"Well, I should get him something… a little bribe for keeping us quiet…does he need any plastic explosives?"
"Don't encourage him…" Luke grumbled over what a trouble maker Jess had turned out to be.
"I thought we were supposed to encourage our youth…"
"You know… not like that… like for science…and math and stuff…"
"Does he like plutonium?"
"Stop…just enjoy the sleigh ride."
"I'd rather enjoy your hiney."
They kept warm by kissing till the driver signaled, by a loud clearing of his throat, that they were heading back toward the Inn.
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A/N: MY GOD! That was a meaty chapter… I owe it to ya after months of neglect!
A/N: I had this as one huge Chapter…(that's what she said) and Localizy told me I should break it up… so you now have 18 /19 yeah!
A/N: I tell you the only way ASP is gonna give us what we want is if we STOP WATCHING… I know it's hard… but you must TURN OFF THE TELE!
The quote that comes to mind is … "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it any more!"
Anyone seen Network (1976)?
My impression of Howard Beale (in regard to GG):
"So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,
shouting
'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
screaming at the top of his lungs "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO WATCH THIS ANYMORE!"
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"That was all God given talent..." why thank you Luke!
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R/R: PLEASE, I like to better myself. To quote The Princess Bride,
"...Remember this is for posterity, ... so be honest."
Please be specific with R/R; name one (or as many as you can think of or want to mention..…) at least specific thing you liked
Please! It makes me feel good...inside (Dirty!)
Hence the Rant option below.
Insert Rant here V
A/N: if not completely satisfied with this chapter, please return unused portion for a full refund …