Presenting … Lucas Danes?
By GilmoreGirl1979 (the Reigning Quote Queen)
Provider of Quality FAN FICTION
R/R: yes please I love reviews, I wanna marry them (as previously stated, I have strange passions.)
Friendly disclaimer: I REJECT ASP's/DR's REALITIES AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN! NO HARM NO SUE!
Dialogue borrowed from2.22 - I Can't Get Started
written by Amy Sherman-Palladino and John Stephens
directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino
motivations and intentions changed by me to suit the master plan.
Next Disclaimer: A/N: BY THE WAY… ALL THIS Let's Get STARTED stuff was written WAY WAY WAY before the S6 finale was CONFIRMED! I've had this story line pretty much figured out since summer of 2005.
I've had the final chapters written and plot twists understood for quite some time now(what's with the quite), like back when I started this story … once I realized this was my version of SEASON 2 I knew this is where and how I wanted things to end up… I embraced it and went all the way! The only real difference was Luke and Lorelai's relationship, the basket auction was still in the Stars hollow schedule, the termites still had to be munching on her house, etc. Despite the upchucking of having to write Christopher, for the good of the story I endured it! The only delay was connecting the dots and the in-betweens of the episodes of Christopher's visit to Rory, and the in-betweens after the spa (my favorite), these final chapters have been set in stone for a while. To those of you guessed the plot twists correctly congratulations, I'm sorry I wasn't more punctual with my updates so you could have had genuine surprise. Enjoy the happy ending anyway…there still may be a few you haven't counted on! Who knows! I'm just mad (i.e. crazy) with power!!
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Chapter 49:
For Once in My Life
About mid day, the Sunday of Sookie's wedding, Kirk Gleason entered one Luke's diner, "Luke, I've only got ten minutes. How quickly can you make me a ham on rye?"
"I've never clocked it, Kirk," Luke grumbled.
Kirk was suddenly distracted by how nice and dressed up Luke was, "What are you wearing?"
Luke was already self-conscious and had answered the same question all morning, "It's a suit," he groused, even more self-conscious than when he had first entered the diner to catcalls from the locals.
"I don't think I've ever seen you in a suit before," Kirk observed, checking Luke out up and down, "You look nice."
Luke was uncomfortable by the way Kirk was comparing the different details of their respective suits. Luke didn't want to deal with a bunch of questions about the designer and the cut, plus he didn't like the way Kirk was craning his neck to check out his backside, so Luke reminded him, "Kirk you were in a hurry?"
Kirk's eyes met Luke's face again, "Oh yeah, well, you think it could be fast? The ham on rye."
"Yes, Kirk. Of all the sandwiches, I do believe the ham on rye is one of the faster ones to assemble."
"What about a patty melt? Same time frame?"
"Probably a little longer," Luke offered dryly.
"Really?" Kirk seemed genuinely fascinated as to why that should be.
"Yes, I have to grill a hamburger whereas with the other one I just put the ham on the bread."
"What if I wanted the bread on the ham on rye toasted? Are we talking somewhere in between the patty melt and the untoasted?"
"Probably."
"Closer to the melt or closer to the - ."
Luke lost his patience, "Kirk!"
"Peanut butter and jelly to go."
"Coming right up."
"What do you think of my suit?" Kirk fished for a compliment from his best friend.
"It's fine."
"I read an article in the paper recently that said that weddings are an excellent place to meet women."
"Well, if it was in the paper, it must be true," Luke rumbled under his breath.
"I hope so, 'cause I'm so damn lonely not even Animal Planet does it for me anymore." Kirk seemed to examine Luke again, "Where did you get yours from?"
"Umm Bloomingdales, I think. Lorelai got it for me."
"Lorelai is already buying your clothes? Man, you are so whipped!"
"And yet, at least I have a date for Sookie's wedding," that seemed to shut Kirk up for a minute.
Something seemed to finally click together for Kirk, "Wait so you are going to the wedding?" Kirk hadn't heard any Luke and Lorelai buzz for a while and thought he may have finally been on top of the scoop for once. "With Lorelai?"
"Your sandwich is coming right up, Kirk."
"Caesar!! Could you make that snappy!!" Kirk called since he never got to scoop the gossip before.
Luke wanted to avoid the subject all together, "Caesar, I'm going head out in a minute."
"Okay Boss."
Luke went upstairs to his apartment, and went through his bed room door rummaging around his sock drawer. The ring was missing, he searched frantically; he knew he had put back it in there after Lorelai left.
"Looking for this?" was said behind him.
Luke turned around in time to catch the velvet box that contained the engagement ring for Lorelai. Luke saw Jess standing in his bedroom doorway.
"You haven't asked her yet."
At first Luke thought he was hallucinating, "No. We only recently made up, like last night."
Jess nodded understanding why his uncle's tone was so hostile toward him.
"How'd you get in here?" Luke asked.
"The door was open."
"No, I mean, I was in the diner. I would've seen you come up the stairs, you know what, forget it, I don't want to know. So, how's everything back home?"
"Fine," taking in his uncle's appearance, "You're back with Lorelai. That's good."
"Yeah, it is." Luke figured his suit was the dead giveaway. "How's your mom?"
"Fine," Jess nodded nonchalantly.
"What the hell you doing here? You know, when I finally calmed down, I called you six times. Now I didn't expect you to call me back so we could sit on the phone in bed and watch Sleepless in Seattle together. I just expected you to call me back, say you got home, say no one mugged me on the bus, say you were okay. Say. . .you know what, never mind. Just tell me what it is you want. I got to go here in a minute."
Jess held his breath, "I want to come back."
Luke did a double take, "You what?"
"I want to come back."
"Come back here?"
" Yes."
"Here to Stars Hollow?"
"Yes."
"To live in this apartment with me?"
Jess was getting annoyed, but he kept his cool, "Yes."
"Why??"
"Mom has," Jess squirmed in place for a bit, "a new boyfriend."
Luke anger toward Jess went down a few degrees, "What?"
"She has a new guy, okay, in her never-ending quest to find me a new father figure even though," Jess wanted to say he had out grown the use of a father figure, but he really hadn't; That's why he wanted to come back, to stay with Luke. "Look, I don't really like him and it's the city, you know, it's dirty and big and intimidating. Around here I know my way so well now and back in New York I just keep getting turned around and walking, confusing the numerical avenues with the numerical streets, acting like I know where I'm going, but I don't want to ask for directions because then the afore mentioned mugging would happen."
For a split second Luke thought it was himself talking, apparently he really had an influence on Jess during his time here.
Jess continued, "Here people are different. It's like Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood and well, while that can be annoying at times… it's also kind of nice…I know my way around because every street is named after fruit of a revolutionary war general, and rather than having mom force another fake father figure on me… well, I like the father figure I have."
Luke was floored when he realized "Me?"
"Yeah, you. I guess you learned your amazing parenting style from grandpa. For whatever reason, you really tried, you really listen to me and well, mom doesn't."
"Yeah, she was too busy getting into trouble herself to listen, both back then and now," Luke had to agree.
"I can't imagine what she was like when she was my age, with all the trouble she gets into as an adult."
"You really don't want to know," The men shared a sad chuckle over Liz.
"So, what do you think? Me coming back?"
Luke took a deep breath, "Okay."
"Okay?"
"Yeah."
Jess had to laugh, "So what do we do now? Do we …hug or something?"
"Sure, if you want… but real quick." The two exchanged a fast, masculine hug, patting the other's back then breaking the contact, "So you're staying?"
"I'm staying," Jess was relived, he almost looked happy.
"Okay, then. Stay. I got a …"
"Date?" Jess supplied, taking in his uncle's entire.
"Yeah, a date," putting the ring in his pocket, along with Lorelai's cell phone that she had left the night before.
"So things are okay; between the two of you? Really okay?" Jess had been concerned. Given Rory's desperate need to come all the way to New York to see him for help and insight.
"Now they are," Luke grumbled, "Took us a while to speak to each other again without yelling."
Jess felt appropriately bad so he offered, "I'll close up later, all right? You can stay out with her."
"Isn't that too much information for you?"
"I'll stay right here, no cars, no possums; you can even call if you want, and I'll clean the grease trap, I'll read a book and straight to bed."
Luke chuckled, "Well I cleaned the trap yesterday, before we made up."
"Well to do it after you made up would have been silly."
"Hey, hey."
"I'm just teasing. Have fun?" Jess sincerely wished. "Hey Luke?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks"
"You're welcome."
"Luke?"
Luke halted again, "Yeah?"
Jess cleared his throat, "Um… is Rory okay?"
"Yeah, she's fine. She got her cast off this week. She's fine."
"Um, are her and Dean okay? I mean I know he made that car for her."
"Yeah, they're still together. They're doing really good, Dean and Rory."
"Huh, Rory and I are going to be cousins."
"Yeah, I guess so." For the first time Luke saw there may have been some genuine feels for Rory in Jess' eyes. that Lorelai's absurd suspicions weren't so absurd.
"That's kind of weird to think about."
Luke didn't know what to say to his nephew. Granted he had years of experience in pining, but this was a strange situation to be in. pining for a girl in a family your uncle was going to marry into. None of the advice Luke had was going to make Jess feel better.
"Um I've got to go."
"Good luck."
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At the Independence Inn, Rory enjoyed watching Babette and Patty sing while Morey played the piano. Suddenly she felt arms at her waist and turned around to find her boyfriend there to kiss her, "Hey you."
"Hey. You look nice."
"Thank you. You look beautiful," Dean smiled.
"Thank you. My mother made my dress for me."
"Very nice; so, uh, how many cocktails caused that?" Dean nodded over to the piano.
"Oh, they haven't had any cocktails yet."
Dean was in disbelief, "Really?"
"Oh yeah. When they start having cocktails, we're going to have to hide you."
"I'm looking forward to that," Dean pulled Rory closer, but then his cell phone rang, disturbing their embrace, "Huh, I'm not sure who'd be calling me now. Hello?"
"Dean?" Paris' voice came on the line.
"Who is this?"
"It's Paris. I need to talk to Rory."
"Uh, sure, hold on," Dean handed his phone to Rory, "It's Paris."
"What?" Rory took the phone, "Hello?"
Paris actually sounded happy, "We've got the band!"
"What?"
Paris explained, "We got the band! I knew we had most of the academic clubs tied up, but band – they were the wild card 'cause believe me, if anybody's going to be truly scared of me, it's some artsy loser with a tuba wrapped around his neck."
"Paris, how did you get this number?"
"Oh, relax. I won't call you on Prince William's precious phone again. I just wanted you to know that we did it, we're in, welcome to the show."
Rory could hardly believe it, "We won." With all the distraction of the last few days, Rory completely forgot she had agreed to the school election.
"Wow. Uh, that's great," Dean congratulated, "You're going to be the prettiest VP that school has ever had."
"I hope that's not the only qualifications I'm bringing to the table," but she still sank.
Dean deflated too, "I guess this means you'll be spending the summer in Washington."
"Oh, nothing's decided yet; believe me. Let me do a little research and then we'll figure something out."
"Good," Dean wanted to pull Rory close again, but then Lorelai came up beside them.
"Hey," Lorelai beamed to her daughter and Dean.
"Hey," Rory eyed her mother curiously, since the last time she saw Lorelai she was scowling and crying sending Rory home for playing Frank Sinatra; it was the happiest Lorelai had seemed in weeks, she was downright giddy.
"Dean, you clean up really nicely," Lorelai gushed.
"Uh, thank you," Dean also seemed confused by Lorelai's good mood. He knew Rory was watching over her mother and was surprised she was so sunny all of a sudden.
Lorelai turned, still smiling to her daughter, "You know, we're going to have to hide him from Patty and Babette once they hit the hooch."
You talking to me now? "I already told him," Rory examined her mother closely, she was practically glowing, "How much have you had?"
"What?"
"Hooch? How much?" Rory interrogated.
"What? None? I've been far too busy to drink, though I would love a Mojito now that you mention it."
Rory didn't believe her, "Mom" she droned.
"Nothing, I swear. I'm just in a good mood, my best friend is getting married, everything is on schedule, Michel is handling all the stress so I can kick back and have fun," Lorelai started to scan the crowd as if to dare anything to go wrong and just try to spoil her good mood, Not bloody likely. Lorelai started humming as she took in the crowd.
"Mom?" Rory gazed hard at her mother, "You're humming." Rory recognized the tune as For Once In My Life, Sookie's new wedding march, the song that brought so much pain to her mother just the day before, and like a ton of bricks it hit Rory, "Oh My God!" prompting more than one glance turn in her direction.
Dean who had been watching the mother-daughter exchange like a tennis match, said in unison with Lorelai. "What?"
"Dean, excuse us, girl talk," Rory dragged her mother away from the crowd and prying ears, under a shady tree, "What's going on?" she leveled to her mother.
"What do you think is going on?" Lorelai countered in her playful mood.
"Stop it! You're in a really good mood all of a sudden and my not knowing the reason why is annoying! I haven't seen you for nearly twenty-four hours and your mood has pulled a 180. When you didn't come home, I tried to call you last night, no answer on your cell which I kind of expected given the silent treatment, but now you're all sunshine and lollipops?? Now," Rory steeled herself for better or worse, "I have couple of conclusions of what may have …happened last night," Rory swallowed hard, unsure if she could stomach the news. She was afraid to have confirmation that her worst fears had been put in motion. That if her father had come to the wedding he may have successfully seduced and won her mother back, on the other hand … "but I hope it's what I've been waiting for the last few weeks, in which case I can be and will be positively ecstatic with you!" Rory examined her mother for any sign of good news.
Lorelai knew Rory best and smiled shyly, "Then by all means, you have permission to be positively ecstatic!"
"You don't even know what my conclusions are," Rory challenged.
"Well, given how hard you've been trying to get me and Luke talking again."
"You made up!" Rory squealed and jumped in place.
"And then some!" Lorelai confirmed and both girls giggled, jumped and hugged.
"Gross! But still sweet, and romantic, but," Rory ceased her jumping.
"What?" Lorelai urged.
"Well, Dad?"
"Oh, him," Lorelai rolled her eyes dramatically.
Rory found the hostile tone a bit refreshing given the recent sicken friendship, "Well, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but on his recent visits, he's been, well, he's been very attentive to you, sort of making eyes at you," Rory treaded cautiously.
"Yeah, I think I got that memo last night," the gall! Lorelai narrowed her eyes, suddenly wondering how long Chris had his moves planned.
"Last night?"
"I'll tell you later, not here."
"Well, I hoped you had noticed, and well I didn't know how you felt about that. You were all happy that things were buddy-buddy again, and reminiscent, and well, with you and Luke on the outs and dad and Sherry on the outs…"
"Luke and I were never on the outs," Lorelai assured.
"Well, you gave a good impression of that, you fooled half the town; Dad certainly thought so, that's why I've been mad at dad, I didn't want him to mess things up for you and Luke but then things got messed up anyway and…"
"What? He asked for your permission to woo me? What did you say?"
"No, not like 'hey is it okay if your mom and I get back together'. It was more of a 'hey did you ever think your mom and I would get back together' type of speculation. At the time you and Luke were serious it was back when he came for my debate…"
That long huh? Lorelai grumbled inside. "You could have warned me?"
"I didn't want to rock the boat in that direction… I told Dad that you and Luke were real …I knew how much you loved Luke… but the last few weeks not talking to Luke, I didn't know what was going on …then having dad around, and you were so happy to see him…I wasn't sure anymore."
"I still love Luke," Lorelai assured, she looked around for eavesdroppers, "but in the interest of full disclosure, well last night… your dad… well he did make a pass at me."
"What!" Rory's anger was enflamed again.
"Its okay, just a kiss," Lorelai soothed her daughter, "and well, that got me really going; I mean literally going out the door and to the diner, to Luke and we talked and we made up, and well I love Luke."
"Of course you do," Rory smiled hugging her mother.
"Yeah, I know, I was just too scared and stupid to tell him, but he and I are together, in fact I expect him at any moment."
"Luke is your date?"
"He's my date!"
"Oh God I'm so happy now!" forgetting about the turmoil of Paris' phone call, about Washington D.C. for the summer, "I mean I was happy before for Sookie and Jackson, but now I can be happy for everyone!!"
"Me too!" Lorelai squealed with her daughter, "Okay, well, I got to check on Sookie before the ceremony, continue my good mood and mercilessly enjoy if Michel is wigging. And you missy-miss are going to have to protect that man of yours."
"Right back at you!" Rory chuckled; she was flying as high as her mother, she clapped her hands "Thirty minutes till Magic Time," and Rory was off to protect Dean.
Lorelai turned around and to walk back toward the Inn's porch to head inside to check on Sookie, when Christopher came walking down the steps toward her.
"Hey," he smiled.
"Oh, hi," Lorelai said coldly, averting her eyes.
"Can I talk to you?"
"I have things to do," she said quickly, but Chris caught her arm.
"It will be real quick, I promise."
Like Rory's conception! Lorelai pulled her arm back, now hating his touch on her exposed arm. She led Chris over to a less crowded part of the Inn's wraparound porch, and crossed her arms, to make it clear she didn't want to be standing there with him.
"So… last night? Was it a full moon?"
"What?" Lorelai snapped, in no mood for his humor or riddles.
"Well, I'm starting to wonder if you are a werewolf that you would all if a sudden leave me… like that."
"Chris, that was stupid. I was tired and you were, well you were just stupid to think that anything could happen between us. You still have Sherry."
"We are going to break up," Chris swore.
"Well, the deed isn't done yet, so if anything did happen, it would have been cheating and wrong, and your timing is bad, as always," referring to all the other times he just showed up. When she promised Luke she would help him paint, when he showed up late for the ball, showing up after Rory had already been to the doctor and set with her cast.
"That doesn't mean we can't…"
"Stop it."
"Lorelai, it can be the way it used to be; we can be together, all of us, a real family. We can be happy… "
"Chris, you remember the way it never was! We were never a family, after our parents had the big, scary talk about my pregnancy we were hardly together, your father made sure of that. You didn't have a person growing inside of you, so you didn't have to drop out of school; you got to graduate with all of our friends. Even during Rory's first year when I was at my parent's house we hardly saw you because you basically ran away just because I didn't want to get married at sixteen!"
"Well then, it can be the way it never was. I've grown up a lot; let me prove it to you! Sherry and I are over, I want you," he elongated his conclusion, "I don't see why we can't pick up…"
That's the problem you don't see!! "I'm with Luke, in general but also specifically here at this event. Luke is my date."
"Funny? When did he borrow Harry Potter's invisibility cloak?"
Lorelai folded her arms, a silent statement that she was serious.
"Oh, so you're really back together."
"So sorry to disappoint you, but as soon as you made a move on me, I went straight back to him, we apologized, we talked, we had sex!" Lorelai wanted to give Chris a clear picture of the situation, since he seemed to be a little slow on the up take.
Chris cleared his throat, "Glad to be of service, but uh, how long till you two have another blow out?"
"Well how long till we have another blow out? Cause the forecast here is looking 100 percent, right now!"
"Lor, I understand you, we come from the same place, and the last few weeks with us and Rory have been great. "
"You could have had that years ago, but you didn't want it!"
"I want it now!"
"Too Damn Bad! Like a spoiled brat you just want what you can't have for the sole reason that you can't have it!" Lorelai remembered her surroundings and calmed herself, "I don't want to do this here; this is Sookie's special day, we don't need you ruining it, just know that I'm not interested, okay," Lorelai was starting to walk away back toward the wedding guests.
"Lorelai…"
Lorelai turned back to Chris sharply, "I love him. "
"What?"
"Luke. I love him. It's that simple. You and me are ancient history, we aren't going to happen now or ever again. I'm perfectly fine with that; you on the other hand, apparently, are going to have to deal with that. I'm not some back up you can always come to when things don't work out for you, Christopher. You and I were a long time ago; Luke is my future, okay!" Lorelai turned back to head to the crowd, but was immediately surprised when she came face to face with her parents. "Mom, Dad, hi."
"Richard, Emily." Chris greeted over her shoulder.
"Well, hello Christopher." Richard greeted, he seemed a little off balance but pleased with what he had just overheard, "What a … pleasant surprise."
The look on her parents' faces told Lorelai that they had overheard the last words of her conversation with Christopher. "You came," she said lamely.
"Of course we came, we were invited. I mean, why did you think we would not come?" Emily stated.
"I thought you thought the invitation was rude."
Emily said haughtily, "It was rude. However, it would've been equally rude for us not to attend the wedding when we were perfectly capable of doing so, so we came. That's called rising above It."
"I see. Do you want to come back down here long enough to get a drink?" Lorelai tried to usher her folks back toward the festivities, and away from Christopher.
"Yes, that would be nice." Emily said keeping a suspicious eye on Chris and Lorelai.
"Umm certainly, Champagne?" Richard offered.
"Please," Emily replied.
"I believe I'll see what sort of scotch they're serving here," Richard headed toward the bar. Chris disappeared, hopefully to gather his things from his room.
"What on earth is Christopher doing here?" Emily asked point blankly.
Being a pain in my ass, "Um, well, he's visiting his daughter."
"Only his daughter?" Emily said archly, having taken a guess to the subject Christopher and Lorelai had been discussing.
"Yes," Lorelai rolled her eyes though she knew what her mother really wanted to hear.
Emily continued, "And Luke?"
"And Luke what?"
"What is Luke doing here? I thought I understood from your father that you two weren't speaking."
Lorelai looked over her to where her mother was looking; it was Luke, looking very dashing in his one and only suit. Lorelai completely forgot about her mother's questions, Lorelai went down the porch steps, rushed to Luke, threw her arms around him and kissed Luke full on the mouth for all the wedding guests to see. A cheer was up roared from the crowd, now learning that their favorite couple had reconciled.
"I told you they were going to find out we did it!" Lorelai giggled.
"Yeah but it wasn't from a hickey," Luke grinned, "Oh by the way, you left your cell phone at my place last night."
"Oh well thank you for bringing it all this way. Could you hang on to it for me? I don't exactly have pockets in this dress."
"I can see that," Luke smiled, not really minding the public display of affection.
"Since you're here and all dressed up, you might as well stay for the ceremony, and a dance or two," Lorelai teased.
"If you insist," Luke agreed.
Rory was with Dean by the piano and asked Morey to start playing It Had To Be You.
As the reconciled couple began to be barraged with questions of their local friends, Luke looked towards the bar and saw Richard Gilmore toast him with raised glass of scotch and a wink.
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Getting her head together before magic time, Lorelai wanted to enjoy a quiet happy moment with Luke. Luke and Lorelai took a stroll by the large pond, they walked hand in hand when Luke started, "Lorelai, umm I have to tell you something?"
"What? You kissed Miss Patty to get back at me?"
"NO! Don't even joke about stuff like that, no umm it's just, well Jess is coming back… here… to Stars Hollow to live."
"What?" she stopped in her tracks.
"He came by the diner earlier…"
"He's in town? How did he get here?"
"I don't really know, but, well, I just wanted to prepare you, you know if you saw him around town …"
"Huh, so Jess wants to comeback."
"Yeah, well it's just he's grown so used to it here and well, Liz is being Liz and believe it or not, he feels more comfortable with me… this is the best place he's been, and he's apologized for screwing things up."
"It wasn't his fault," Lorelai put her hand on Luke's chest.
"I know, and I'm glad you see that, but I didn't know how you would feel if he came back."
"Luke, he's your family. You have to take care of family. You let me put Rory first when necessary; how could you expect any less from me. I understand."
"Good. I wanted you to know, since we are being honest, full disclosure from here on out."
"I like that idea."
"I just wanted you to know…I just wanted to tell you… it…it just happened, he showed up at the diner this morning… Aw jeez… I ruined it didn't I?" Luke sank.
"Ruined what?"
"My moment; this is supposed to be the moment you remember and retell to all your friends … and the one you tell the kids and grandkids about and I just blow it!" he scolded himself.
"Kids?" Lorelai asked.
Luke tried to start over, "Okay, so, I read an article in the paper recently that said that weddings are an excellent place to meet women."
"Really? You want to try your luck?" thinking of Babette and Patty still singing at the piano.
"I got what I want right here," Luke looked down at his shoes again, "I'm no good at this."
"I think you're doing fine," she assured.
"Lorelai…will you … marry me?"
Lorelai's eyes went wide, her breath caught in her chest for a moment, but she heard herself saying "YES!" She pounced on Luke and kissed him with all she had. She just thought he was going to reaffirmed how much he loved her, not actually propose. Who would have thought that Lorelai Gilmore would get two marriage proposals in less than a year? Her dreams from November were finally coming true.
Lorelai pulled away, "Oh Luke, I'm so happy, I can't even tell you."
"You haven't even seen the ring, yet."
"There's a ring?"
"Of course there's a ring."
"I didn't know, I thought this was impromptu, off the cuff," she said with a giddy smile.
"Well, it was sort of. Honestly, I've been thinking about this, well, since Uncle Louie's funeral and our," he lowered his voice, "celebration of life."
"Oh, Luke," Lorelai stroked his cheek as she realized, "That night, the night of the car accident…you were trying to…"
"It's not the way I originally thought it would go, especially the not talking to each other for weeks and weeks… but… this will do."
Lorelai saw he had the ring at the ready, "Put it on me, put it on me."
Luke chuckled at her enthusiasm, Luke slipped a beautiful ring on to her finger.
"Oh, Luke I love it. I love you," Lorelai cupped his clean shaven cheeks and kissed him over and over.
Michel suddenly appeared in a girly jog toward the pair, panting, "There you are! The ceremony iz about to begin and you are making out with your boyfriend! Well, I will not 'ave you mess the first wedding I am in sharge of for your own sadistic amusement of torturing me." Lorelai kissed Luke in parting and let Michel steal her away from her new fiancé, with a smile on her face and a new ring on her finger.
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Rory wore a Cheshire grin; it was a beautiful day, Sookie was getting married in a matter of minutes, her mother and Luke were together again, and inadvertently she had just witnessed Luke's moment and finally pull off his proposal; all seemed right with the world.
Rory had come to find Lorelai to tell her it was time to line up for the march down the aisle, when she saw Lorelai lunge at Luke giggling uncontrollably, Rory started laughing too as she watched Luke slip the ring on her finger. As Rory was admiring the newly engaged couple, when she got the shock of her life.
"You're right. They're kind of cute together."
Rory looked to her left and saw Jess, of all people, Jess was standing beside her, she was shocked to see him since he had been shipped off on a bus after the accident. "Jess? What are you doing here?"
"I'm coming back."
"Like for good?"
"Yeah, till college, depending on where I go," he watched the embracing couple by the pond, "You know what this means right?"
"What?"
"We're going to be cousins, of sorts."
Rory looked back at her mother and Luke. "Well what does that mean?" they would be related by marriage, not exactly by blood.
"It means that we'll always be friends, because now," Jess finally turned his head to look at Rory, "we're family."
Rory looked back at Luke and Lorelai in time to watch Michel drag her mother away from her new fiancé. Rory didn't know why but she decided she needed to be around a lot of people, broke a cautious glance with her future cousin and needed to return to her boyfriend, she had to get ready for the ceremony anyway.
Rory looked up the path and saw her father, Christopher, with his hands in his pockets, looking defeated. His expression seemed to say, "That's that". He had witnessed the proposal too, no doubt. He just turned and slowly strolled away.
Rory caught up with Christopher, on the bridge over the pond, "So what's your grand plan now!" she said harshly.
"Rory, please, I give okay. I'm not going to try anything."
"Yeah, I heard all about your attempt last night!" Rory said in an uncharacteristic growl.
Chris looked at Rory, the anger in her eyes, the same expression she wore the night of the ball, when she was defending her father figure Luke. At that moment, Rory didn't even look like Chris; he thought she had more of a resemblance to Luke. Strong, impassioned, loyal; traits she no doubt learned from the steadfast diner man, "I thought they were over, I really did."
Rory crossed her arms, "Well, perhaps I should thank you; you got them back together when even I couldn't do it!"
"Well, then you're welcome," Chris said snidely, clearly wanting the conversation over with.
Rory was surprised at how mellow Chris was, "What's with you? You feeling sorry for yourself?"
"Nothing, you don't want anything to do with me, remember. Go be with your step dad."
"You can't be surprised at my reaction."
"No. I deserve it, I deserve everything I get, or don't get," he said morosely.
The fiery angel from November was back and Rory spat at her father. "Look you aren't going to make me feel sorry for you. Today is a very good day Christopher," she said his name with venom, "Sookie is getting married, mom is engaged and you get to go back to Sherry and tell her whatever it is you want to tell her; consider it a parting gift, go off marry Sherry and have kids with her!! Be their Dad!" Rory walked back to the Inn for the ceremony.
Rory didn't know how close to the mark she had hit. Chris went back to the Inn to pack up and check out, he had a long drive back to Boston, back to Sherry and the uncertain future waiting for him.
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Lorelai couldn't help but giggle as she waited for Rory to appear and for Michel to give them the cue to start down the aisle. Rory didn't need to ask why her mother was smiling since she had witnessed the proposal first hand. Even when Rory said, "We won the election, I'm going to Washington for the summer," it didn't faze the happy bridesmaid, as Frank began to sing:
For once in my life I've got someone who needs me
Someone I've needed so long
For once unafraid I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I'll be strong
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Someone warm like you
Would make my dreams come true
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like its hurt me before
For once I've got someone I know wont desert me
And I'm not alone anymore
Lorelai was positively beaming as she walked down the aisle side by side with her daughter and fellow maid of honor Rory toward the Chuppah that Luke had made for Lorelai's planned wedding to Max. Even now, Lorelai could see herself and Luke under the wooden structure, getting married with similar guests around on a not too distant day, though no one could see Lorelai's engagement ring under her bouquet.
Sookie was escorted down the aisle by her father, but Lorelai couldn't take her eyes off Luke, her fiancé, the love of her life in the crowd.
For once I can say: this is mine you can't take it
Long as I've got love I know I can make it
For once in my life I've got someone
For once in my life I've found someone
For once in my life I've got someone who needs me
Some say Lorelai beamed that day because she was happy for her friend. Others argued that she was happy for herself and Luke getting back together. No one knew it yet, not Luke, not Lorelai, but there was another reason Lorelai glowed so much the day of Sookie's wedding.
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The Beginning
"That was all God given talent"
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A/N: Do you trust me now? Huh do ya? Do you trust me now? You happy? Are ya? Are you happy now?? hehehehe (I love that high anxiety movie! YEY!! Mel Brooks!)
A/N: YES!! She's pregnant YEY! With all the times I've written them having sex, it was bound to happen. MUHUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
A/N: Just to clarify to avoid the barrage of emails… She IS pregnant with Luke's baby. In my world Chris never, ever lays hand on her…Rory was made in a lab as part of a high school biology project for Chris and Lorelai's GPA, they were trying to win first place at the science fair by actually procreating, that is why Rory is so freakishly smart!! What? It's no more farfetched then the last few season of the show.
Okay that's just silly, and they did kiss but they had to…. To make her ( insert Whitney Huston impression) I wanna run to Luke…ooooooooooo but if I come to Luke oooooooooooo will you hold me in your arms and keep me safe from harm…. I want to run to Luke…ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
as I was saying… SEE ASP would that have been so hard? So terrible to do? ASP, aka stupid hat lady, … she's pregnant, they're getting married, was that so HARD!! HUH? WAS IT?!
NO!! Like falling out of bed!! Like pouring water into a coffee filter!! Like eating a donut, like breathing…like…countless other easy simple things…
Anyway… for those of you who want to know WHEN she got prego (perverts)… GO, Go back and reread from the SPA(just because those two chapters are really worth another view,) notice all the bread crumbs I left for you.
A/N: How long ago did I "conceive" baby Danes…this has been one of the founding elements/goals of this story. The question was when… and here we are!!
A/N: When localizy learned of Lorelai's "condition"…
GG1979: and the fight could still be hormones
Localizy: she overreacts because she is pregnant!!
GG1979: exactly!
Localizy: brilliant!
A/N: The big Question:
And you may ask yourself where could PLD possibly go from here…
I am asking myself the same DAMN THING!! That is THE MAMMOTH DEBATE I'm right now…
Do you still want more?? I have tons of ideas of where this could go, but the next chapter of this saga isn't really complete, I mean I have ideas, TONS of ideas percolating in my fertile mind.
Tell me what you think; Review… and maybe I'll publish another chapter…or start a sequel; I have all these ideas I just need to focus, just waiting on my hard drive to share with all of you because I like to give you what you want, unlike stupid hat ladies…remember that
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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 one 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...