Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.

Lorelai wakes up and acts distant towards Luke because she senses danger around the two of them, when they're together...

Lorelai had been drifting in this place for awhile now, her head felt so big and every time she tried to move it, the whole world around her seemed to spin. Which didn't accurately describe the place she was in, but it felt right to her logic wherever she was.

She remembered hearing so many voices from a far distance while she'd been trapped in this void. She'd heard her mom and dad's voice, Luke's voice, professional voices and Rachel's voice. That bitch. Lorelai knew she had something to do with why she was lying in this place, why she couldn't return to reality.

She remembered hearing Luke cry for her and express his fears that she would never come out of the coma and she wanted to open her eyes and shake her head. Admonishing him for fearing the fact that she would never wake up again to tease him. She still had her community service to complete which better not have been penalized simply because she ended up being in an accident that wasn't her fault.

The last thing she remembered was that dream and then the call from her mother telling her that Luke had been calling her to come to the Youth Center.

She felt as though she was drifting through layers that had kept her confined to this place and now she was floating to back to her consciousness where she could finally wake up.

Luke looked down and saw Lorelai's eyelids fluttering repeatedly as though she were struggling to wake up. "C'mon Lorelai, I've been waiting for you for so long, I need you now." He whispered in her ear.

Holding her hand with his own, he watched as her beautiful blue eyes came into focus after a month of being shut.

"Luke," her scratchy voice croaked.

He looked down at her with tears in his eyes, still not realizing the depth of his feelings for her, just extreme relief that she was awake and a banked desire to commit her body to his memory again.

A doctor and a fleet of nurses scurried into the room pushing Luke out of the way and telling him to wait in the hall and they would let him know when he could come back in.

Luke walked to the nearest pay phone to call Richard and Emily to let them know that Lorelai had waken up.

Now who knows what path her life would take, would she go back to the family manor or possibly go down a different path once released from the hospital.

1 week later

Lorelai was finally getting out of the hospital, she'd been on bed rest for the last week and the doctors were finally releasing her after putting her through a battery of tests. The tests had all come back fine showing there was nothing wrong with her, nothing to explain why she'd been a coma for a month.

Lorelai was going home to her parents' house and she'd seen them every day this week, while she'd seen Luke every day, he seemed to be pushing her away.

However one night when she'd been dozing, visiting hours had been over for awhile, Lorelai had felt as though someone were watching her. She got a creepy suspicious vibe from whoever it was.

She was clad in her favorite blue comfy sweater, it was time to leave the hospital. Luke had asked to pick her up, but she'd declined, feeling that she'd just be taking up his valuable time. He had seen it as she didn't want to be near him or have anything to do with him.

Lorelai had felt a tug on her heartstrings watching him leave the room, dejection evident in his stature as he walked out. Her heart felt for him but she couldn't help wondering if her accident had had something to do with her association with Luke. She still has community service to complete and that would be hard doing around him.

She felt so torn, bring pulled in two different directions, one was back to her country club existence in Hartford and the other was being with Luke in Stars Hollow. He'd offered to let her stay with him, but she'd felt that would be too much too soon for both of them.

So she was leaving with her parents to go back to her cell like room in Hartford. Hanging her head, she looked out at the rain as it pounded down against the panes of the window.