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Ch 46 Not Chris!

The next morning Luke woke in his bed at Stars Hollow all alone. He looked at his left hand and his wedding band was missing. He sat up in bed and it was his single twin over the diner. His heart was pounding and he raced to the telephone to call Lorelai but Rory answered. "Rory," he said hurriedly. "I need to talk to Lorelai. Can you bring her the phone?"

"Luke?" Rory was confused as to why Luke would be calling her so early on a Sunday morning. "You know mom's not here. You were at the wedding last night."

"So, it was last night? But she's not here. I need to find her." Luke was starting to panic.

"Luke she's with Dad on her honeymoon. Why would she be with you?"

Luke's heart started to beat way too fast. Surely he couldn't have imagined the entire relationship with Lorelai, Rory had to be wrong. "Rory, your mom loves me, not your dad! Lorelai loves me! I know she loves me!" Luke was screaming into the phone.

He had to convince Rory that he was supposed to have married Lorelai not Christopher.

Suddenly he woke with a start in Bar Harbor with his wife shaking him. "Luke Hon, wake up. You're having a bad dream. Luke I'm here and I do love you."

Luke was out of breath, his heart pounding and clutching Lorelai like she was a life preserver. "Oh God it was a dream. It was just a dream. Oh my God."

Lorelai rocked him as she quieted him with soft words. "Luke you OK? Were these the dreams you were talking about last night?"

Luke nodded and then when he was able to speak told her, "Except you didn't marry me, you married Christopher. I woke up in my old bed over the diner and our entire relationship was a dream. Rory didn't know why I was calling, the wedding I'd been to the night before was your wedding to Christopher. When I had dreamt that I couldn't find you it was because we weren't married. You had gone on your honeymoon with your husband. I woke up with no ring, no you and no life. I guess I didn't realize how worried I was about us getting married. When was the last time you even talked to Christopher?"

"Just about a month ago, when he came for the hat-rack; babe, you don't have to worry about me running off with anyone. I thought I made that pretty clear last night." Lorelai snuggled with Luke who was breathing more normally. He nodded and looked at the clock, it was three in the morning.

"Oh, Lorelai, I'm so sorry about waking you it's not even near morning. Damn, I can't believe I did that. Go back to sleep." Luke gathered her in his arms and stroked her hair.

"Luke it's not a problem. I'm glad to cut your nightmare short and I'm really sorry that Rory's father was the cause of your bad dream. If it helps as you drift off to sleep know that I love you and that I'm married to you and only you." She kissed him tenderly and snuggled deep into his arms.

Luke kissed her forehead and also went back to sleep.

Five hours later he gently woke aware that Lorelai was in his arms and he looked at his left hand verifying that they were indeed married. He chuckled to himself for being such a wuse. She hadn't even talked to Christopher in a month and then by accident. He tightened his grip on Lorelai and became aware that they were still without clothes and on their honeymoon. She was his wife by the state of Connecticut and nothing was going to change that.

Smiling broadly he kissed her neck just under her ear. She sighed and moved her head to expose her entire neck to him. "Well, if you insist," he whispered.

Luke started to apply gentle kisses on her neck that became more insistent as he traveled down her neckline towards her breasts. She moaned and became fully awake when he reached her bellybutton. "Luke, oh, Luke."

He brought her to climax once and then the second time he joined with her and as she was reaching her release he followed her over. "Now that is the way that someone should wake up their first morning as a married person." Luke whispered.

"Hmm mmh." Was all Lorelai could say. She sighed and wrapped her arms around Luke.

She opened her eyes and looked into his and smiled. "Good morning Mrs. Danes," Luke growled.

"Mmmmm-morning husband." Lorelai grinned at him, and stroked his growing beard.

"I need to shave."

"Nope, I like you scruffy." She smiled at him then pulled him in for a deep kiss.

"Well I aim to please." Luke kissed her again and felt himself becoming aroused again.

"Like a sharpshooter babe, you aim like a sharpshooter." Lorelai chuckled.

Luke stroked her side and said, "Roll over." Lorelai looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

Luke chuckled and shook his head, "I have to pace myself. But your shoulders felt tense so I thought before breakfast I'd give you a back rub."

"Oh, I knew there was some reason I loved you!" Luke began at Lorelai's shoulders and worked his way down releasing the tension in her back. "Oh Luke, that's wonderful."

"Like that huh?"

"Hmmm mmmh. Whoa fella, what's that?" Luke had gotten to the base of her spine and continued a bit lower.

"What happened to pacing yourself?" she laughed.

"I'll pace later," he growled and brought her to him.

Afterwards they lay in bed cuddled together Luke had a satisfied grin playing about his lips. Lorelai snickered and said, "A little proud of ourselves are we?"

"Hey, it's our honeymoon. I love knowing that I please you. And the fact we have an entire week for me to please you, pleases me." He raised his eyebrows wickedly. "Also part of the honeymoon is a time of celebration of our beginning of our lives together. So as any good celebration calls for…" He had gotten out of bed and put on his boxer-briefs to go get his luggage. He came back into the room carrying a large wrapped box.

"Presents!" Lorelai bounced in bed clapping her hands as Luke stopped and watched her with a smile on his face.

"What?" she asked.

"You do realize that you're naked right now?"

"Is that a problem?" she asked wickedly.

"Not for me, but your answer should be self evident. You naked bouncing and you wonder why I stop to watch you? Answer, I'm a heterosexual male and not blind. Now after you open your present we may need to have a short break before breakfast." Luke grinned.

"Did you go into training for this week?" Lorelai laughed as he brought the box over to her. As she started to unwrap her gift he was focused on her breasts. "Hey, husband, I thought we were taking that break after I unwrap the gift."

"Hmm," his mouth busy at the moment.

"Luke," Lorelai stopped paying attention to the package. "Luuuke. Oh Luke. Oh, God. I'm going to be dead before Thursday," she laughed throatily.

"Just relax, pay no attention to me, go about your business." Luke was talking directly into her skin sending vibrations to parts of her body he was no where near. Ok, now he was near, oh wow was he near.

Lorelai was returning to earth when she realized that Luke hadn't gone with her. "Babe? Are you OK?"

Luke was holding her stroking her back and smiled, "Yep great. I was just visiting with you. Physically I may need to rest and refuel, but mentally I needed to connect with that beautiful vision in front of me. So your pleasure was mine this time. Want to see your present?"

Lorelai looked at him warily. "Do I get to open it this time?"

"Yep, I promise hands off." Luke chuckled as he held his hands up in front of him.

"Well, just until I open it and admire my pretty present, then you can go back to it." She leered at him and kissed his cheek. She tore open the paper and flipped the top of the box off. There inside was a soft fluffy pink robe. On the pockets were pictures of Hello Kitty!

Lorelai squealed and flung herself at Luke. "This is even softer than velvet. What is it? I can't believe you got me this robe! I'd have thought you'd get one of those sexy see through things." Lorelai laughed as she got up and wrapped herself in the material. It was so soft she couldn't believe it. It was a robe that wrapped in the front and had a tie but no buttons or zipper.

Luke laughed at her and said, "If I got you one of those see through things you could only wear it here for the week. But now when we get home you can wear this over you pajamas and I can remember the week you wore it without pajamas. It's also very accessible." Luke walked over to her and undid the tie which caused the robe to fall completely open. "See?" He bent down to nuzzle her breasts and his fingers traveled a little lower.

Lorelai laughed and said, "Hold on there cowboy. Before you start roaming anymore I need coffee and breakfast." Luke sighed, closed up her robe and tied it. He pulled a pair of sweats and a t-shirt from his suitcase and found the pair of slippers Rory had packed for Lorelai.

"It's still cold on the floor here so wear these when we go down stairs. I had the refrigerator and shelves all stocked for the week so we could stay here without needing to go out. Or we can take a day or two to go shopping, walk the beach, go to dinner, there's a really nice restaurant at the Bar Harbor Inn or there are a few other places. We're here right before the tourist season starts up so there won't be a lot of people around." Luke was leading Lorelai downstairs to the kitchen area and she got her first look at the place.

The living room was open and airy. It had hardwood floors but in front of the massive fireplace that used real wood, was a plush rug and futon chairs so you could recline or sit depending on your mood. The rest of the living room had a large plasma TV with a DVD player and a VCR. In front of that were two chairs and an overstuffed couch. The open room led to the kitchen that had a counter with bar stools that you could sit at while someone else made the food. Behind the kitchen was a sliding glass door that led out to the patio and overlooked the ocean. On the patio was a table and chairs that you could sit at and eat outside.

Lorelai looked at the weather and it was a raw blustery day. Overcast sky and waves that crashed on the shore gave her a feeling of gratitude that they were inside. It was beautiful in it's own way, raw, immense, overwhelming in the strength it presented. She had the feeling that if she were out there she would be carried out to sea. Luke had been watching her watch the sea and he walked over to her and wrapped her in his arms.

"You ok?"

Lorelai looked up at him and smiled. "Yep, I'm just struck by how small we are compared to something this encompassing. If you were out there on a boat you couldn't win a fight between the ocean and you. The ocean would win every time. It feels ominous and overwhelming."

Luke nodded his head. "Breakfast is ready. Eggs and bacon, that OK?"

"Perfect, I need protein after last night and this morning." Lorelai smiled up at him. "I also want to call Rory and see how they're settled at the mansion. Once they get back to school she's going to be too busy to talk long. Paris is a slave driver."

Over the next five days they spent a great deal of the time in bed or at least in the cottage. They walked up the shore line when it was sunny, they even took the Blue Nose ferry to Nova Scotia for a day. There was one day they swore they wouldn't bring up again and another day they drove up to Cadilac Mountain. Once they went shopping in downtown Bar Harbor, Friday night they went to the Bar Harbor Inn for dinner.

"They're talking about putting in a Spa. I just don't get the attraction myself." Lorelai was telling Luke. "I like and Inn where you go to relax and soak up the atmosphere, not take a soak in a state of the art spa. There are places for that and they should be separate from this."

They were coming back to the cottage Friday night after dinner and as they walked in the door Lorelai's cell phone started to play. "Rory! How's mommy's favorite daughter?"

"Mom!?"

"Yes Rory, it's me. Is something wrong? Rory?"

"Mom! It's grandpa. He fell on the floor and no one knows what's wrong. Their taking him to Hartford Memorial. Mom I don't want to lose him. Mom can you please come home? I need you."

"Rory, what's wrong with Grandpa? Yes, we'll come home right away." Lorelai grabbed hold of Luke's hand as she was talking to Rory. "Are you going to the hospital with Grandma? Is Jess there?"

"Grandma is going with Grandpa in the ambulance and I don't know how to get there. Yes Jess is here."

"Let me talk to Jess sweets. Grandpa is going to be ok, I promise." Rory put Jess on the phone.

"Lorelai?"

"Jess, are you able to drive Rory to the hospital? She can't drive herself in the state she's in and I don't want her to wait at the house. We'll get the first flight out of here and be home as soon as possible. Jess do you know what happened?"

"I'll get her there. Well, Rory's grandparents were here and something must have happened because the next thing I hear is Richard yelling at Mr. Hayden and Mr. Hayden yelling at Richard. Then your dad was pulling at his tie and the next thing I know he's on the ground."

"Oh, my God. Why were the Hayden's there?" While Lorelai was talking to Jess and Rory Luke was calling Paige in New York.

"Paige, it's Luke Danes. I'm sorry to disturb your weekend but we have an emergency here and we need to get home right away. Could you check all commercial flights leaving Bar Harbor airport going to Hartford? If there isn't anything leaving in the next hour I want you to rent a private plane and if you aren't able to get a private plane in two hours I want ours here. Can you do that for me? Yes Lorelai and myself. Thanks Paige. You have my number let me know and we'll be ready. You'll have to get someone to deal with the rest of the details here. I know I can. Thanks."

"Ok, sweets. We're coming home. I'll just see you at the hospital OK? Keep an eye out for us. I love you and he's going to be ok." Lorelai hung up and collapsed in Luke's arms. She pulled herself out of her sobs.

"Luke, I don't have time for this now, we need to get packed and find away to get home. What if he dies Luke before I can say goodbye? We were just getting to the good part of our relationships. I actually started to like my dad and mom's even coming around. Why did this have to happen now? Why were Straub and Francine there? "

"He's going to be fine Lorelai. We'll get there as soon as we can and everything is going to be fine."

"How do you know?"

"I just do. Let's get packed and Paige is getting us to Harford as soon as possible."

Paige got them on a flight that was leaving in one hour. They packed and drove to the airport leaving their rental car in the long term parking. They got to the airport and Luke said to check their bags. "But Luke, if we check them then we have to pick them up and I want to get to the hospital as soon as possible."

"Paige said that she'd hire two drivers for us when we got to Hartford. One would take us to the hospital right away and the other will collect our baggage and bring it to the hospital for us."

Lorelai collapsed when they got on the plane. They were flying first class because coach was full. Paige was only able to get them tickets across the aisle from each other but Lorelai was able to talk the gentleman sitting next to her to trade seats with Luke.

She held Luke's hand the whole way to Hartford and he whispered to her. "That last call from Paige, something happened at the office that may be why Straub and your dad were yelling."

Lorelai looked at him and her eyes were wide, "What happened?"

"Wednesday Christopher's supervisor had a meeting with him about his performance and Christopher told her to shove it so she fired him. Paige said that Straub has called my office five times in the last two days so he may have gone to see your dad about it. I'm sorry Lorelai, I feel like it's my fault that your dad's in the hospital." Luke felt like hell. He really loved Richard and it was like losing his dad all over again. He had to be ok, Luke didn't want a happy occasion like his new marriage to be overshadowed with this possibility. He wanted Richard to be alive to get to know his next grandchildren.

"Luke, no. If that was the trigger then Chris is the only one at fault for his actions and Straub shouldn't be fighting Chris' battles anymore. I just want to get home and see that everything is fine. Please let it be fine. It'll be fine won't it Luke?" Lorelai looked at him with concern.

Luke took her hand and squeezed it, "It'll be fine I promise." Lorelai gave a short nod and played with her rings as she looked out at the night sky.

A/N Since the opening of this chapter is ambiguous I didn't want to give it away with this note: There will be a chapter or three of the honeymoon in Silence is Golden but it might be a few days until that is updated. Thanks for reading and reviewing.