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Chapter 3

Lorelai slightly blinked at the streams of the soft morning sunlight shining on her face. For a moment she didn't know where she was, but then the events of the past night came back to her memory. 'Luke. I'm in Luke's bedroom at the Dragonfly.'

They had shifted their position during the night so now he was lying on his back with his arm around Lorelai, her head on his shoulder and her left arm draped over his body. She looked up to see Luke smiling at her.

"Morning", she mumbled into his chest.

He softly kissed her forehead. "Good morning. How did you sleep?"

Lorelai propped her head up on her shoulder. "Allright. Better than I would have without you being here. Thanks, again, for keeping me company, I mean."

Luke nodded. "Anytime."

Lorelai gave him a soft smile. "I need to get downstairs for breakfast."

Luke nodded. Lorelai gave him soft kiss on his cheek and left to get ready in her room.

"I'll see you downstairs." She said closing the door behind her.

Two hours later the guest of the test run had left and Luke was waiting for Lorelai in the lobby. Lorelai just was about to walk to the front desk when she saw him sitting in one of the armchairs. 'Wow, major deja-vu' she thought.

"Hey still here?"

Luke walked over to her. "Yeah, Caesar and Lane are both at the diner today and they said that they don't need my help, it's not really busy there I guess."

"I was just about to go home for a while. Well, Sookie told me to go 'cause I have worked my butt off for the last couple of weeks and she wanted to take care of the cleaning up."

Luke smiled at her sympathetically. "She's right, Lorelai. You look tired. You should go home and get some rest."

Lorelai's expression became sad when she thought about what had happened with Rory last night. She quickly tried to put on a smile so Luke wouldn't notice. He did, but didn't say anything. If she wanted to talk about what had happened between her and Rory, she knew he would be there for her, when she was ready.

"Hey why don't I walk you home. I mean Caesar and Lane said I'd only be in their way and I could keep you some company or…"

"That'd be nice. Let me just go say bye to Sookie."

They walked closer than normally but not obvious to anyone else. When they turned into the driveway Lorelai noticed that Rory's car was gone and stopped abruptly. Luke looked at her concerned face.

"What's wrong, Lorelai?" he said putting his hand on her shoulder.

Lorelai couldn't say a word. She started to quickly walk to the house and unlocked the door. She left the door open and Luke followed her inside. She walked to Rory's bedroom. No one was there. Rory's things were gone. She walked back into the hallway.

"Rory." She ran upstairs.

Luke went into the living room and saw an envelope sitting there on the couch table.

"Lorelai?"

She walked down the steps and saw Luke holding out the envelope to her. She slowly took it from him, pulled out the letter and started reading. Luke saw small tears running down her cheeks.

"Mom,

I'm sorry about last night. I'm not sorry about what has happened, though. I still love Dean and I know he still loves me. He told me that he and Lindsay couldn't make it work and that he's going to leave her.

I'm sorry that we had this bad fight. We both said things we probably shouldn't have said. But I'm not a kid anymore. I'm capable of making my own decisions, now.

I took grandma up on her offer to go to Europe with her for the summer. We're taking the early flight so we'll probably be on the plane when you read this. I'm not sure when I'll be back. I'll call you at some point.

Rory"

Luke watched her cautiously. Her face was getting pale and he quickly caught her in his arms when her knees seemed to give away under her body and brought her over to the couch.

She clung to him and sobbed into his chest, clutching the letter in her hand.

He stroke over her hair with one hand, the other arm still holding her tight against his body. "Lorelai?" He softly asked after a few minutes.

She took a couple of deep shaky breaths and looked into his face tears still running down her cheeks. She held out the letter to him.

He took it from her and began to read. He didn't know what was going on, he only knew that it must have been a really bad fight.

When he was done reading the letter he took Lorelai's face between his hands and gently wiped away her tears. "Lorelai, what's going on? I promise I won't tell anyone, but you need to talk about it. You know you can trust me."

Lorelai nodded and in a still shaky voice told him the whole story.

"I don't know how to handle this, Luke. I don't know what to do. I mean she's always been the mature one and thought about everything twice. We always talked about everything and now this. How could she do this? I mean, Dean is married and even if she still loves him, she rejected him a long time ago and picked Jess over him. She is ruining a marriage, Luke. How could she do this? Doesn't she know there's gonna be consequences to that? That's just so not her. And now this. Running away from all of it, with my mother, who's doing the exact same thing. I mean she can't think that's gonna solve anything for her, is she? I always thought I had raised her to do better than me and not to make the same mistakes I did as a teenager. I totally failed, Luke." Lorelai started to sob again.

Luke had listened to her carefully but he could not let her think of herself in this way.

"Lorelai listen to me."

He tilted her head up so she was looking into his face.

"You are so not a failure, Lorelai. You are the most amazing woman I have ever met. I mean look at you. At a very young age you had to become a grown up because you had Rory. But look what you made out of your life, Lorelai. You never gave up. You made it on your own, you got a job and worked yourself up to being the manager of a hotel, and you gave Rory a wonderful home and education. And now you're about to make your longest dream come true, to have your own hotel with Sookie. You are not a failure. And inspite of all the bad experiences you had to make in your life, you never lost you humor. Although it can get a bit annoying sometimes."

Lorelai smiled at that.

"You're amazing, Lorelai. I 've never seen someone do all this. Don't ever dare to say again that you're a failure. Cause you're not. Got that?"

She couldn't believe that he just said all that about her.

Lorelai nodded at him. "But what am I gonna do about Rory?"

Luke took her hands. "I don't know, Lorelai. But whatever you decide to do, I will help you as best as I can. You won't have to manage this on your own. I love you Lorelai Gilmore and I promise that I will never leave you alone."

Lorelai started to cry again but this time they were happy tears. "I love you too, Luke Danes."

He gently pulled her into an embrace and kissed her softly, hoping to ease some of her pain.

To be continued….

Allright guys. This was a bit longer than the first two parts. Hope you enjoyed it. Tell me what you think. I'll update soon.