Sorry it took so long to update, but I had family come in for Christmas and there was absolutely no time to write. Thanks for all the reviews!!

It had been a week since the day Christopher showed up at Lorelai's house. He had made her pack up and he took her to stay with him in his apartment in Boston.

That morning Christopher had told Lorelai that she could go into work, but only for a couple of hours.

"Okay Chris, I'm leaving now," Lorelai said as she walked out of the bedroom. She looked awful. She was pale, had big bags under her eyes, and looked a lot thinner. However, despite how bad she looked on the outside, she felt ten times worse on the inside.

"You're not going anywhere looking like that. Put some more make-up on to cover your face."

"Okay." Lorelai walked back into the bedroom, reapplied her make-up, and walked out of the bedroom once again.

"Fine," he said. "Be back in four hours. And if you're not, I will find you."

"Okay. I promise I will be back." She made her way to the door, and looked back when she heard his voice.

"Oh and Lor, if you tell anyone, I will find out, and you will be punished.

She just nodded and left. She hated this power that he had over her, she usually was so much stronger, but she didn't know what he would do if she didn't go along with it, so she just did.

For the past week, Luke had been storming around the diner, burning food and kicking annoying customers out. (A/N: Just like the break-up in mid-season 5) People were scared to enter the diner, so business had been slow.

At night, he always did the same thing; closed up the diner, went upstairs to get a beer, and cried. It was pathetic. If anyone had seen him do this, they would not believe that it was Luke. However, that was the way things were. Lorelai meant everything to him, and now he had lost her. He didn't just lose her though; he lost her to the father of her only child, the one that she swore that she would never go back to, yet she did.

Rory had been worried about her mother. She had not heard from her after she called to say that she was sick, and she was curious why she didn't want her to come visit. Normally, that was when Lorelai wanted to see her. However, she respected her mother's wishes and stayed away.
When Lorelai got to the inn, she went straight to the kitchen to see Sookie.

"Sookie!" she shouted when she entered, trying to put on a happy face.

"Oh my God! You're here!" Sookie through down the plate she was holding and ran over to give Lorelai a big squeeze. Lorelai winced because of her bruises, but it went unnoticed by Sookie.

"I am so glad that you are feeling better! I was getting worried about you. I think Luke was too. He seems off lately."

Lorelai frowned at the mention of Luke. She wanted so badly to see him, to have him hold her in his strong arms and tell her that everything will be okay. Sookie noticed the tears welling in Lorelai's eyes and asked her what was wrong.

"Oh, well it just that...well...me and um..." she had trouble finding the words. "Me and Luke...uh we...broke...up." It took all of her strength to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall. Sookie's face dropped immediately.

"What?" she asked with a sympathetic voice. "I thought that everything was going great. It seemed like he would pop the quest..."

"Sookie!" Lorelai didn't want Sookie to finish; she didn't want to be reminded of all that she could have if it wasn't for Christopher.

"Things were going great; they were amazing actually." Lorelai paused to think of all the great times that they had had. "But, it just didn't work out. And I don't really want to talk about it!" With that, she left the kitchen and went to the front desk, trying so hard not to break down and cry.

Michel was standing at the desk when she got over there.

"Well, well, well. Look who decided to come back to work finally." Michel said as snootily as he could.

"Yea, sorry about that Michel. I'll try to be here more." Lorelai's voice was monotone, and that didn't go unnoticed be Michel. Usually she would have some quirky remark about the unemployment agency or something, but this time she didn't.

Michel just walked away to give Lorelai some space because he could tell that something was wrong.

About two hours later, Sookie called Lorelai in to the kitchen again. "Hey hunny," she started. "I'm sorry for talking about well...you know...earlier. I was just confused. I mean you were so happy and I don't know how that could all change so quickly. I just...I'll stop there. It's just that I'm really sorry hun."

By this time, Lorelai couldn't hold her tears in anymore. They started running freely down her cheeks. "I miss him." Lorelai said. "I miss him so bad. But I can't go back to him. You have no idea how much I want to, though."

"Okay! Everybody out of the kitchen now!" Sookie wanted to have a talk with Lorelai. After everybody left, she put an arm around Lorelai.

"Why? What is keeping you from going back to him?" Lorelai didn't know how to answer that.

"It's complicated Sookie. I would explain if I could, but I can't." She wanted so badly to tell someone, but she knew that she couldn't.

"You know you can tell me anything. I want to help you." Sookie was growing more and more curious.

"It's Christopher." Lorelai said as quickly as she could.

Sookie was now more confused then ever. "Did he do something."

Lorelai hated lying to her friend, but she just said, "No. He didn't do anything. It's just that I...I...sl...I slept with him, okay! And now Luke hates me, and I don't blame him, but if he just..."

"Whoa, whoa, hunny, slow down. Why would you sleep with Christopher? I thought you hated him!"

"Can we just stop talking now? I really want to stop." Sookie nodded. She would allow her friend to take some time and process everything. Even though she was mad at her for doing that to Luke, she was still her best friend, so she respected her wishes. "Okay. But do you want a cookie, I know you love cookies?"

"Sure," Lorelai said.

"Okay, it's just that they are up on that top shelf, so could you reach up there and get them?"

"Yea." When Lorelai reached up, the bottom of her shirt came up and exposed one of the bad bruises on her back.

"Oh my God!" Sookie yelled. "What the hell is that?"

"What is what?" Lorelai asked once she got the cookie jar down.

"That bruise on your back. It looks awful! What happened?" Sookie was in panic mode.

"Oh, that? Um...I uh...hit it on the dresser at...um...Chris' house. You know how clumsy I am." Sookie was not buying that story. She knew Lorelai well enough to know that she was lying.

"That is not from a dresser! Did Christopher do that to you?" she asked in a demanding tone.

Lorelai's face turned red. "Um...no. I told you, I ran into the dresser."

"You're lying! You know I can tell when you are lying!" Now everything made sense to Sookie. Lorelai never was sick, Christopher abused her and made her go with him back to his place. "How could you let him do that?"

"He didn't Sookie okay! The damn dresser was in my way, and I ran into it! Now, I have to go, so I'll see you tomorrow." Lorelai walked out of the kitchen, grabbed her purse from the desk, told Michel she was leaving, and was out the door before Michel had a chance to respond.

Sookie was not going to let this keep going on to her best friend. She ran all the way to the diner without stopping. She swung the diner door open and shouted, "Luke! Upstairs now! We need to talk!"

Sookie stormed up the stairs, and Luke had no choice but to follow.

Okay, I know that chapter was kinda hard to follow, but I couldn't think of another way to write it. The next chapter should be better. I PROMISE I will write again soon. I already have the next chapter all planned out, so don't worry, it will be up by Monday.

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