AN: Here is Set Adrift on Memory Bliss by PM Dawn, per BlancheFleur07's request.

I don't own the song or the show. And just so you know, Set Adrift is NOT the song Lorelai and Christopher are dancing to.

Set in Season 7 while Chris and Lore are married.


I think it's one of those de ja vu things, or a dream that's tryin' to tell me something – PM Dawn

It had been one of those days, and Christopher was longing to get home to his wife and forget about his day. He'd been late to work because of an accident on the freeway, someone dinged his car door in the parking lot of his office, and he had a run in with Luke at the grocery store.

He opened the door to find his wife dancing in the living room. She was singing off key with the radio, and his breath was taken away. He couldn't believe after all these years she was finally his, and still so amazing.

"You know the Go-Go's broke up years ago right?" he asked after we watched her for a while.

"Gah! You scared me! Never sneak up on a Gilmore! How do you not know this lesson yet?" she asked.

"You'd think that after more than 30 years I'd learn that lesson," he said with a smile.

"You'd think," she smiled back at him. "Come dance with me?"

He wandered over to a rack of cds and pulled out an album to pop into the cd player, the song started and he extended his hand to her. "May I have this dance?"

She nodded and took his hand, "This is the first song we ever danced to."

"I know."

"I love you Christopher."

"I've loved you all my life Lorelai."

She pulled him closer and kissed him soundly. "You know this song is about stalking don't you?"

"I do now, but I sure didn't when we first danced to it at homecoming in 1983," he said with a smile.

"I can't believe you remembered that this was the first song we danced to," she said as she laid her head on his shoulder, letting him lead her around the living room.

"You'd be surprised at what I remember," he told her a moment later. He stopped dancing and stepped away from her.

"Oh really?" she asked looking up at him.

"Here," he said, offering her a small flat wrapped box that he pulled from his pocket.

"Christopher!" she exclaimed eagerly grabbing the box. "What is this?"

"Open it and find out."

She opened the box to find half a dozen thin silver bangle bracelets. She pulled them out of the box and slid them on to her arm. "Christopher they're beautiful! But why did you get them for me?"

"Well, my mom called yesterday, she found some of my stuff in the attic and thought I might like it. In the box of stuff was a present for you that I never gave you. As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what it was. A collection of drugstore bracelets."

"Why didn't you ever give me the bracelets?" she asked curiously.

"You got pregnant with Rory, and some how I thought those cheap bracelets just weren't enough anymore," he started to explain.

"You got me a sapphire necklace for my birthday instead," she finished.

He nodded.

"You know I would have loved those bracelets just as much."

"Really?"

"Yeah. So are these those bracelets?" she asked as she ran her hand over them.

"No, these are from Tiffany's."

"Well they are beautiful, thank you. So why today?"

"Twenty four years ago today, I kissed you for the first time," he told her with a smile.

"Christopher, our first kiss was in the summer," she said in a confused voice. "Are you thinking of someone else?"

"No. I'm not talking about our first kiss. I'm talking about the first time I kissed you. Remember? You kissed me the first time. It took me more than a month to get up the courage to kiss you back."

"I can't believe you remember that!" She leaned in and kissed him again.

"When it comes to you, I remember everything."

"I still have that necklace you know," she said softly.

"You do? I figured you would have gotten rid of it after everything we've been through over the years."

"I considered it. I considered selling it when I first moved away from Hartford, but I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of it. It was the one thing I kept that made me feel beautiful and special when I wore it. When I'd get mad at you over the years, I'd sneak it into Rory's room and put it in her jewelry box so it was out of sight, and thus out of mind. But I always went back for it," she told him.

"Wow." He pulled her into his arms. "We really are a pair."

She laughed a little, "Do you still have the original bracelets?"

"You want them instead?" he asked as he crossed the room to retrieve the box from his briefcase.

"Instead? I want them too!" she teased. He handed her a dusty box awkwardly wrapped in faded wrapping paper, with a pink bow attached to the box. "Did you wrap this yourself?"

"Of course I did, I was 16, I didn't even know I could have someone else do it for me!" She smiled and began to gingerly open the paper. "Are you okay Lore? Normally you rip right into presents."

"I'm fine, I just wanted to preserve this paper – it's almost an antique." She got one end open, and pulled the box out of the paper, leaving the paper shell in the shape of the box. She took the lid off the box and removed the gold colored bangle bracelets that were tarnished with age and lack of wear and use. She slid them on her opposite arm. "I love them!"

"More than the sapphire necklace I replaced them with?" he asked.

"No, I love them differently, but equally," she assured him. "I love that you got me these cheap bracelets because you knew I wanted them. I love the necklace because it's beautiful, and sparkly, and it always reminded me of you. I knew with that necklace that I was never really alone, and that someone loved me. At least at one time."

"Always Lorelai. I loved you always. I loved you then, I love you now, and I loved you all the time in between, even if I didn't want to believe it."

"Charmer," she said with a soft smile. "Want to dance to our song again?"

"Anything for you." He walked over to the cd player and changed the song to that song again, and held out his hand to her. "You know, maybe we should get a new song. One that's not about stalking."

"Nope, it's been 23 years – no changes, no take backs."

She put her head on his shoulder, and they got lost in the dance.


AN: I hope you liked this one. Let me know what you'd like to see next.

And if you didn't guess, the first song they danced to was Every Breath You Take by The Police – which I completely made up just this morning.

Thanks for reading and reviewing.

S