A/N: Major thanks to Jessi for her amazing input on this chapter. I credit her for all the fun stuff!! And also thanks to those who read and reviewed the last chapter. I'm glad you all like Spencer ;) Hope you like this chapter as well. Please R&R!

Chapter 3 – First meeting

"So tell me, how did the two of you meet?" Spencer asked.

"Luke is very good at telling that story." Lorelai said, taking Luke's hand in hers.

"We met at my diner." He said, interlacing his fingers with Lorelai's.

Lorelai sighed, remembering how he told her this story on their first date and hoping he would tell it to Spencer in the same way. Spencer noticed this and before Lorelai started to tell the entire story herself, he interrupted.

"Can you tell me about it some more?"

"It was a very busy day, around lunch time. The place was packed and she came in. I was with a customer and she interrupts me, wild-eyed, begging for coffee. I tell her to wait her turn, but then she starts following me around, talking a mile a minute saying God knows what. I finally turn to her and tell her she's being annoying and that she has to sit down and shut up and I'll get to her when I get to her. She takes a seat at the counter and asks me what my birthday was. When I wouldn't tell her, she wouldn't stop talking so in the end I gave in and my birthday. Then she opened the newspaper to the horoscope page, wrote something down, tore it out and handed it to me. I look at the piece of paper in my hand and under Scorpio she had written 'you will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away and so I gave her coffee.'" A small smile appeared on Luke's face as he remembered what Lorelai had looked that day.

Spencer smiled inwardly, happy that he finally got Luke to open up. "She never went away?" He asked, while he wrote down a few notes about how Luke and Lorelai met.

Luke shook his head. "She always came back."

"Did you start with a relationship immediately or were you friends first?" Spencer asked.

Lorelai felt like answering that question. "First we had a customer – diner owner kind of relationship. He provided me with my coffee, made me and Rory breakfast and dinner whenever we ate there. Later we became friends and eventually that became something more. But that was 8 years after I first walked into the diner."

Spencer nodded and wrote down a few more notes. Then he put his pen down and asked "why did it take you so long to get together?"

Lorelai raised her shoulders. "I guess we never saw what was in front of us."

"Luke?" Spencer asked, really wanting to know Luke's opinion on the matter.

"I guess what she's saying is right. The first 2 years she called me Duke instead of Luke. Beats me why. When we became friends I started to care for her and Rory. I helped her fix things around her house, I listened to her problems, I went to her when my nephew Jess was living with me and I had no idea how to fix him."

"So you saw each other quite often?"

"At least once a day. Most of the time even more." Lorelai said. "I definitely needed my coffee fix, and he had, and has the best coffee in town."

"So for 8 years you saw each other at least once a day, most of the time even more, then why did it took you so long to see what was in front of you? Did you have no feelings for each other?"

They both stayed silent at this question. It was something they rarely talked about.

"Did things change suddenly after 8 years or did they change before that?" Spencer tried again, hoping one of them would answer his question.

"There was always someone else." Luke finally said.

"Go on." Spencer said, making a gesture with his hand to encourage Luke.

"I don't remember when I realized how I felt about Lorelai, but I do know that she was always with someone or just coming out of a relationship. There has always been Christopher. There was Max, the guy she was going to marry, then there was this guy for whom she wanted me to teach her how to fish, her father's business partner and several other guys I don't remember."

"What about Rachel? And not to mention that you got married." Lorelai retorted, not liking that he was putting all her previous relationships on the table.

"So did you." Luke said, hurt that she brought up his failed marriage to Nicole.

"That was much later. I didn't just go off on a cruise and came back married, ready to file for divorce. Also I didn't move to another county without telling you."

"No, you went to Paris with Christopher and came back married. That's totally different." Luke argued.

Lorelai sighed, realizing Luke was right. "I regret doing that."

"And I regret marrying Nicole. That relationship was never right."

"Why not?" Spencer interfered, wanting to know if Luke already had feelings for Lorelai when the marriage took place.

"I wasn't really willing to let Nicole into my life. I moved into her townhouse and yet I spent most of the nights in my apartment above the diner."

"Why do you think that was?"

Luke raised his shoulders. "I guess I never really loved her. I cared about her, but that's all. In the end she cheated on me and I was really hurt and we finally got divorced."

"The sock man" Lorelai said.

"Yeah, the sock man" Luke replied.

Spencer looked confused. "The sock man?"

Luke sighed. "I realized that she was cheating on me when I didn't wear my socks."

"Because he always wears white socks with a red stripe, but he realized that now he was wearing different socks."

" What did you do?" Spencer asked.

"I drove over to the house, waiting for her. I saw her go into the house with that guy."

"And then he beat up his car and I had to bail him out when he got arrested"

"You got arrested?" Spencer asked. "Do you always tend to aggressiveness? We might have something to do against that as well!"

"I don't" Luke said, slightly irritated at the suggestion.

Spencer is not convinced.

Lorelai wanted to stand up for Luke. "He's really not. Except for when he beat up that car. Or when he threw the pan at Taylor. Or pushed Jess in the Lake. When he beat up Dean. And Chris. And you pulled Kirk by the ear." She opened her eyes wildly and exclaimed "Oh my god! You are aggressive! Spencer is right, you should do something against that!"

Luke looked at her unnerved. "Lorelai, would you just shut up now?"

"See! There you go!" Lorelai said. No more proof was necessary.

Luke groaned in response.

Spencer grinned about their banter and asks the question, deciding to ignore their banter. "Lorelai, "Luke said you were going to marry this guy, what was his name, Max?" When Lorelai nodded in confirmation, he asked. "Why didn't you?"

"Because he wasn't the right guy for me. I just realized it in time and called off the wedding."

"How did you realize he wasn't the right one?" Spencer asked.

Lorelai sighed. "I don't know. He came over and I couldn't sleep in one bed with him. And Luke said that it's not biologically natural for people to mate for life."

Spencer raised his eyebrows, confused. "What?"

"He said that animals don't mate for life. Well, except birds but as I recall he said, who cares about birds."

"So Luke you were against this wedding?" Spencer asked.

"I was not." Luke defended himself.

"Oh you were bucko. You didn't like Max."

"That's not true."

"It's absolutely true! That day when he came with us to the diner and you had to wait a second while he chose what to have for breakfast, it was SO obvious you hated him. You even brought him the lunch menu in case he didn't make up his mind before you stopped serving breakfast." She recalled that particular morning.

"He had three different newspapers! What kind of freak reads three different newspapers every morning?"

Spencer looked offended. "Actually I do"

"Oh... Well…" Luke stammered, before turning back to Lorelai. "But I was not against this wedding. l even made you the chuppah!"

Lorelai smiled. "Yeah, the beautiful chuppah with Gilbert."

"Gilbert?" Spencer asked, his eyebrows raised again.

"Gilbert the goat."

"I see". Spencer said, and then decided he had to turn this conversation serious again. "So Luke is the right guy for you?"

Lorelai nodded. "He is. I just didn't know it back then."

"I see." Spencer took ran a hand through his hair and leaned back in his chair. "So you both had your share in relationships before you got together. How did things finally change?"

Lorelai smiled immediately, remembering when their friendship turned into something more. "Luke invited me to his sister's wedding. At first I didn't think of it as a date, but now I like to believe that it was."

"Why did you decide to ask Lorelai to your sister's wedding?" Spencer asked.

Luke thought for a moment. He wasn't really willing to reveal the truth. The fact that he read Jess' book and bought the self-help tapes was something he kept to himself all this time. Jess was the only one who knew about it, and if he could do anything about it, it would stay that way. Finally he said "After my divorce with Nicole got finalized I started thinking about what I wanted to do with my life and who I wanted in it and I finally realized what was in front of me all along. I realized that nothing would ever happen between me and Lorelai unless I took the first step."

"Was it awkward?"

They both shook their heads. "It wasn't an official date. And although we had a small disagreement I had a great day. I even got Luke to Waltz and I didn't know he could do that. It was the day afterwards when things got awkward because it wasn't until then I realized it had been a date and I freaked out. I shoved things off a table at the diner, creating a mess. I ran into a door at the inn, things like that." She shook her head, thinking about how weird she'd been acting back then.

"What happened next?"

"I had a test run at my inn and Luke was invited among some other of our friends. My ex-boyfriend Jason showed up saying he wanted me back and whatever I did, I couldn't get him to go away. That day I was very busy entertaining my guest, making sure everything was going okay so we didn't have much time to talk, but when we cleaned everything and almost everybody went to bed, Luke was waiting for me in the lobby. He started ranting about how I knew what his intentions were, completely confusing me. We started fighting and then he moves towards me and tells me to stand still. So I stand still and then he leans and kisses me. We kissed twice before Kirk interrupted us."

"The Kirk you pulled on the ear?" Spencer asked Luke.

"The very one." Luke grumbled. "I should have kicked his ass as well that night"

Lorelai giggled. "His naked ass"

"This Kirk was naked when he interrupted you?" Spencer asked.

"Yeah, He was having a nightmare and ran buck naked out of the Inn. Luke followed him.

Spencer: Why did he ran out?"

"He thought assassins were after him." Luke stated, as if it was the most logical thing in the world.

Spencer looked confused. "Assassins?"

"That's Kirk for ya." Lorelai said. "He ended up in the rosebushes before Luke could catch him."

"OW" Spencer frowned.

Lorelai giggled again. "More like Ew."

Spencer once again decided to turn the conversation somewhat serious. "And that's when your relationship started? After Kirk had rose thorns in his butt?"

"That's where it would have started if Luke's sister and her husband hadn't gotten into a car accident and he hadn't gone to Maine for weeks to help them out."

Spencer nodded, understanding. "So after 8 years you finally kissed for the first time but still had to wait weeks before you could really start a relationship. How was that?"

"Horrible pretty much covers it." Lorelai said and Luke nodded in agreement.

"We talked over the phone almost every day and I promised her every day I would come home soon, but I wasn't able to until the summer was over." He still regretted that summer.

"How was it when you were finally able to start the relationship for real?"

"Awkward but also familiar. I guess we knew each other so well, but we were also learning new sides of each other. It was definitely different than dating something you just met. Better." Lorelai said.

"Can you elaborate that?"

"At first we didn't really know what to expect. On our official first date I went outside when I saw Luke pulling up, but he expected the whole date thing. Ring the doorbell, walk me to the car, all that. But later we got better at it and I learned a whole new side of Luke. I found out that he has a Luke's." She smiled at the memories of their first date. It seemed so long ago now, but she could still remember every little detail.

Spencer raised his eyebrows, confused. "A Luke's?"

Lorelai smile went even bigger. "His diner is called Luke's. On our first date he brought me to this beautiful little tavern owned by friends of his parents. I found he went there to eat a couple of times a week. Like I come to his diner a few times a week. So I guess that even though we thought we knew each other pretty well, there were still a lot of things we didn't know about each other."

"So you made a great effort by taking her there on your first date." Spencer said to Luke. "You let her in to a part of your life. Or did you bring all your dates there?"

Luke shook his head. "Lorelai is the only woman I ever brought there."

Spencer nodded. "What did you do after dinner?"

"We went back to the diner for coffee, then one thing lead to another." Lorelai said and when she glanced at Luke she saw him blushing.

"Lorelai." He hissed, not wanting to let Spencer in on that part of their life.

"Don't worry," Spencer said. "We're all adults here. That is a very healthy part of a relationship. How was it to take that big step from being friends to something more? There is no way turning back after that."

When Luke remained silent Lorelai said. "Better than I could have ever imagined. You would think it'd be awkward to see each other naked for the first time, to do that for the first time, but it really wasn't. Of course I was nervous and I know Luke was as well, but it was also new and exciting. And I trusted him. It was something completely different than I ever experienced with any other man."

"And for you?" Spencer asked, really wanting to know Luke's opinion about the subject.

Luke shook his head. "I really don't want to talk about this. I'm not here to discuss our sexual relationship. The only reason I'm here is to get that letter so Taylor will give us our marriage license." He brought up the real reason they were there, and that brought Lorelai back to reality as well.

"How does talking about this helps us get that letter anyway?" She asked, starting to wonder what Spencer wanted from them.

"I understand your worries." He said, making sure compassion was hearable in his voice. "All I want is to get an insight in your relationship. You were friends for so long. I want to know what it was like to turn that into something more. How things changed for the both of you. Some things are very natural, but others are aren't. Even though you were good friends, it can be hard to have a complete different relationship all the sudden. You have to let each other in on every little detail of your life. Things you can easily keep hidden from a friend but not from a partner. I want to find out exactly what went wrong in your relationship. What caused you to break up twice and what will change to prevent that from happening again. On which parts of your relationship the both of you have to work on. And I really do not need to hear all the little details about your sexual life. I just want to know what it was like to take that step with your friend, that's all."

Luke nodded, understanding where Spencer was coming from. Still a little uncomfortable he stutters "I see it the same way Lorelai does."

Lorelai grabbed his hand and squeezed it, trying to make him feel a little more comfortable. Spencer noticed this and smiled. "Although there is a lot more to discuss, I think we have to keep it to this for today. For our next appointment I want the both of you to think of three things that changed the most after your friendship turned into a relationship. That's where I want to talk about with you next time."

Both Luke and Lorelai nodded and then stood up, shaking Spencer's hand. "Thank you."

Spencer nodded. "See you next time. And don't forget about those three things."

T.B.C.