I need coffee, you need me Chapter 18: A heavy elephant and an expensive diamon, a gilmore girls fanfic

A/N: Hi guys!

I'm so sorry I haven't been able to update for weeks. But I've been out of time and there's been no chance to write at all. Crappy I say, but there's nothing I could do about it. Anyway I've watched a lot of GG so I got a lot of inspiration and I've had a Wicko-wacko freak out. I was in this store when I saw something called a "Swipper" and inside of my head that turned to "swipher" and that later became Michelle Pfeiffer. Why on earth I'm telling you this? Big mystery. Well, now no more of my babbling. Let's once again return to the Hollow of Stars :P Well, more specifically to the wedding of Christopher Hayden and Sherry Tinsdale :D (I'm pretending that Sherry and Chris have been together for a little longer than they had in the beginning of season 2. LL have been together for more than 6 months now)

I didn't have time to read it and check it for mistakes, so you have to live with grammar errors and so on.

I'm also looking for a beta-reader, so if anyone's interested, please let me know.

Chapter 18: A heavy elephant and an expensive diamond

Song: Kenny Chesney, Fall in love

Luke watched Lorelai. He looked at her face and then her eyes. He followed her gaze and saw she was looking in Christopher's eyes. It was like somebody stamped him in the gut with a knife. And that meant pain. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. 'It's okay. They're friends, they have a kid together. Ease it up, Danes' But it didn't seem to help. He saw her smile at Christopher and he returned the smile gladly. Were they flirting? 'It's a smile! Lorelai smiles to everybody! She gives a smile to every person she meets.'

He closed his eyes for a while and then forced himself to look at the piece of pie in front of him. Lorelai had insisted on him taking it and in the end he had agreed, knowing that if he just let it sit on the table in front of him for a while without it she would steal it and eat it. But now she was apparently way to busy.

'Stop fooling yourself! You're engaged and his just married somebody else. For God's sake! He said I do!' Luke reached out for a fork and took a bite of the pie. It tasted kind of funny and that caused him to make a funny face. Lorelai noticed and couldn't hold back the laughter.

Rory looked at her mother with a grin on her face. It was hard to believe that her mom and Luke was actually getting married. Suddenly both of her parents were married, just not to each other. But actually it didn't bother her at all. In some way she had always imagined her mother with Luke. And her mother in a wedding dress. Now it was suddenly going to happen. Sometimes Rory used to wonder why her mother and Luke never started a relationship any sooner.

She had seen it in her mother's eyes so many times. The day they had just moved into the big house Lorelai had come home with that look in her eyes. When Rory asked her why she was so happy, she'd just smiled at her daughter and then made some coffee. When Lorelai started to bring Rory to the diner she had seen it in Luke's eyes. The "there's more behind the smile" eyes. And she'd asked her mother time after time just to get the answer: "We're just friends!". But Rory knew that something was going to happen one day, something. She had been stunningly surprised that it hadn't happened any sooner.

But now they were happy together and nothing would ever cause them to break up, at least she hoped not. Christopher seemed to be out of the picture. He had Sherry now, the doll-looking girl.

The music started playing again and some of the last guests returned to the floor for a last dance. Some fat lady started singing

A little country church on a two lane road
A bride and groom coming out the door
White lace dress and a red bouquet
Just married written on a blue Chevrolet

Christopher offered Sherry his hand, but she gently shook her head.

"Dance with Lorelai! I need a break, and then I can get to know my step-daughter." After Sherry's suggestion the people around the table fell silent. Sherry apparently knew nothing about Christopher's little act a few months ago. But of course, she would think that he just asked her to marry him because he couldn't get the woman he really wanted. And in someway it was the truth.

Luke could see that Lorelai kind of panicked. But he just nodded. He knew he had to show her that he was okay with her being around Christopher. It was an obligation when you dated a Lorelai Gilmore. Lorelai smiled thankfully at him and then got out of her chair. Awkwardly she and Christopher walked out on the dance floor and there they were just standing, none of them really knowing what to do.

"So, Rory! I've heard like everything about you. Your dad is so proud of you. I hear you're an A-student."

"Oh boy, here we go!" Rory mumbled before she said: "Yeah, pretty much."

"I always wanted to have such a bright kid."

"Okay"

"And I really hope that will happen some day" Rory's eyes widened. Sherry was actually sitting there talking about having kids. With her dad!

Lorelai looked at her feet while she was standing on the dance floor. Why did Luke nod? She took a deep breath and then removed her look from the floor to the man in front of her. And then she realized it was the wrong man. It wasn't Luke!

"So… I guess congratulation is in order"

"I guess so"

"Maybe we should…" Lorelai let her gaze fall at the other dancing people.

"Oh yeah, sure" Christopher mumbled and then gently took her hands.

"Okay is it just me or does this feel completely wrong."

"It does" he agreed as they started to follow the rhythm of the music.

"So I see you and Luke made up"

"Yeah, we did."

"Good, that's good."

"Yeah, it's good."

"He makes you happy. I've never seen you smile that much."

"You're right he does make me happy. Sherry doesn't seem to make you unhappy"

"No, I'm pretty fond of her"

"Fond of her? That sounded weird."

"It most certainly did."

"So…"

"So…" The music stopped and people started clapping. In some way Lorelai couldn't stop picturing herself in a white dress. She had never seen the whole marriage thing as a good thing. But suddenly it seemed like an adventure she really wanted to experience, but only with Luke.

"Chris…"

"Yeah?"

"I'm going to marry Luke"

"So, Rory what would you think of having a little brother or sister?" the question came out of the blue and almost made Rory fall of her chair. She stared at Sherry in disbelieve. What she serious or was it some kind of sick joke? Rory really hoped for the last one.

Sherry waited for an answer, but it didn't seem like she was going to answer right away. So she went for Luke.

"So, Luke? Do you and Lorelai have any plans about kids in the nearest future?" Luke had just taken a sip of the champagne, but it didn't make it all the way down his throat. He simply spit it all out again.

Sherry's facial expression didn't exactly look pleased with Luke's little stunt, but she did her very best to keep a smile on her lips. Rory would usually laugh, but she was still paralyzed by Sherry's question, and Luke felt most like digging a whole and jump into it. But he was sitting inside and he didn't feel like going out in a 40 degree weather. So he was forced to stay in his seat. Luckily for all the awkward gathering at table 10, the awkward dance was over and it had only become even more worse by Lorelai revealing the truth. She almost ran over to the table and pulled Luke up.

"We seriously gotta go!" she almost shouted and when she saw the relieve on not only Luke's face, but also Rory's she knew that it was the right thing to do.

"Sherry nice to meet you. And once again congratulation. Have a nice trip to Hawaii or where ever you're going on your honeymoon."

Don't that make you want to fall in love
Don't that look like a picture of us
A match made in heaven if there ever was
Don't that make you want to fall
That just makes me want to give you my heart
Ever forever needs a place to start
Gotta be a sign from up above
Don't that make you want to fall in love

A few weeks had passed since the wedding. Rory was still shocked by the whole baby talk, but she hadn't mentioned it to Lorelai. For some weird reason, she just didn't feel like it. How would Lorelai react? Not that it should bother her, she was with Luke now and they were going to get married soon.

While Rory kept her mouth shot about babies Luke was still wondering about Sherry's question just like Rory. If he hadn't been thinking about kids before, he certainly had given it a though or two by now. He just wasn't sure what he wanted and especially not what Lorelai wanted. She was pretty frantic about the dance marathon that was coming up.

She was planning and even writing down how they were going to announce the engagement to the town. The thrash can had been filled and emptied ten times more than normally and the use of paper was extremely high. She wrote a line and then crossed it out. Then she added a new one, crossed it out and that's how she worked on a "script".

And on the top of the planning she was still trying to push the fact aside that she had to tell her parents sooner or later. She didn't feel guilty, that wasn't the case. She just felt like they were going to set her house on fire or something when they found out she hadn't told them as the first. Come on Gilmore! It's your life, not theirs! She kept telling herself, but after living under their roof for 16 years, she would never be able to break free, not really. They would always have an influence on her life no matter if she moved to Timbuktu.

She also felt guilty in some way. She hadn't told Sookie yet. It was hard for her to believe, and hard not to burst out when Sookie was rambling on and on about her and Jackson's plans. They were planning to marry sometime in the end of May or the beginning of June. Sookie had only once asked if Luke and Lorelai were going to join them at the altar, but when she saw Lorelai's face, she took it back.

The town had also stopped looking at Lorelai's finger. Though both her and Luke had a feeling that something was going on. Exactly what they couldn't tell, but Lorelai ran into Babette every morning when she was on her way to the inn. First she just thought of it as normal, but when Rory told her she had seen Kirk sitting in some bushes, Lorelai realized that the town was spying on them.

Another time Rory was on her way to school later than usually. The first class had been cancelled and Lorelai was already at the inn. Rory had been in her room when she had heard somebody unlock the backdoor. First she thought it was Lorelai who'd forgot something (it wouldn't be the first time). It also crossed her mind that it could be Luke or even Dean, but when she heard something fall to floor and break, she hurried out in the kitchen where she found Kirk sitting on his knees. In front of him was a broken plate; one of the Charlie's Angels! Kirk looked up and looked rather surprised. Rory couldn't hold back the laughter when she noticed the clothes he was wearing. He was dressed in one of those real secret agent cat suits. It was black!

When Rory had told her mother that story they had both collapsed on the floor where they were just laughing for what felt like ages. After Lorelai actually began to lock the doors, front and back. She also found a new place for the turtle and now it was only Dean and Luke who knew where to find it.

Luke had also noticed that Miss Patty and Kirk spend more time at Luke's that usually. Normally Kirk would spend around four to six hours in the diner, now he was there from the moment Luke turned the sign from "closed" to "open". And then he was there all day unless he had to work or take dance classes at Miss Patty's. He when Patty started to show up more it really began to annoy Luke. Especially the two hours a day where Kirk got a dance lesson. Inside the diner!

One day he had kicked Kirk and Patty out when Kirk started twirling around in the diner. Unwillingly they had continued the lesson outside the diner on the side walk. But just as soon as Lorelai entered the diner, they were back inside even sitting at the same table. A few minutes later Babette came by and ordered the biggest plate of food she could get. And she ate it extremely slowly. Not to stop there, twenty minutes later Taylor bumped in. Funny enough he had some flyers about the dance marathon that he happened to have in storage, so he thought that they could be in the diner. Luke started to complain, but then Taylor ordered just as big plate as Babette and joined the others. Lorelai was sitting on a stool by the counted and was laughing her self to death.

And so it kept going. One funny thing happened after the other. Lorelai had also started to count down the days until the dance marathon. Now they were down to 7, one week. Rory and Dean was going together. For some weird reason she had convinced him easily, though it wasn't even her own idea to go in the beginning. Lorelai had mocked her daughter to go. She had to be there when the big news would be shouted out loud. And then Lorelai 'just' had to convince Luke. It hadn't been an easy task, but in the end she somehow managed to get him to dance with her. At least until the announcement was made.

Old folks sittin' in a front porch swing
Still holdin' hands like they were sixteen
Fifty good years they're a lover's dream
Darlin' that could be you and me

It was now Friday, the day before the dance marathon and the Gilmore girls were on their way to the famous Friday night dinner. Again Lorelai had convinced Luke to go. They had to tell the great Gilmore, the sooner the better. Exactly how they were going to tell them, that wasn't going to be easy and Lorelai knew for sure that there would be no chance that Emily would be pleased. She would complain about why they hadn't told them right away and then start talking about how bad a time of the year it was to propose. Then she would refer to Luke and ask him why on earth he hadn't popped the question a few weeks sooner, so the party actually would've been a real engagement party. And it would all end with Lorelai and co. marching out of the door.

They parked the car and slowly got out. It was freezing cold and the frost that was on the roof of the Gilmore mansion didn't exactly make it look inviting. Lorelai was sure that the house had grown enormously since last Friday and she was sure that they people inside was just as big as the house.

The house seemed so unfriendly, more than Lorelai ever could remember. But the approached the house anyway. When they got to the door Rory put her hand out and rang the bell. The sound that followed seemed scarier that it used to be and when the door was swung open by Emily Gilmore, Lorelai shivered.

The red haired lady that was her mother wasn't taller, but she still seemed to have claimed more power.

"You're late" she said as she turned around and marched right into the living room. The three guests followed her in silence and when they "finally" made it, Emily was already sitting in a chair.

"Richard! They're here!" she shouted just to get the usual answer.

"I'll be right there, Emily!" Emily shook her head lightly, then stood up and went over to get the others a drink.

"Martini, Lorelai?"

"Yes, thank you mom"

"Luke? Beer?"

"A… uh… Manhattan"

"Manhattan? Interesting, one Manhattan coming up. And what about you young lady? Club soda?"

"Yeah, thanks grandma." The drinks were made and soon they were seated in the Gilmore's living room. Luke, Lorelai and Rory had somehow managed so squeeze all of them down on the couch. Though it wasn't the most comfortable position for any of them, nor of them complained. There was silent for several minutes until Richard finally made it out of his office. He walked into the living room and it was obvious that he was surprised to see Luke there.

"Luke? I didn't know you were coming. Nice to meet you again."

"The pleasure is all on my site" Luke muttered as he shook Richard's hand. Lorelai pattered him on the shoulder when he sat back down and giggled a little. They heard Richard make himself a drink and soon he was seated beside Emily across the table. The atmosphere wasn't the nicest, but they knew it was going to chance very soon.

Lorelai took a sip of her martini and then decided it was about time…

"Mom, dad. We have something to tell you…"

A/N: Sorry to cut it short, but I'm leaving for Sweden in exactly 12 minutes, so I wanted to update before I leave. I hope you liked it, I know it wasn't the best part, but screw that and review anyway. One word is appreciated too! I'll set the line at 72 this time, so now it's up to you if you want me to update before September. And by the way I posted a new fic a few days ago. It's a post "Partings" called "Milk and toast and honey"

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