"I know. Im excited." Katie says.
"Thats great honey, I'm sure you and your dad are going to have a lot of fun together."
"Yeah.."She says and looks at Lorelai.
"Yeah.."
"So...I was thinking...maybe we could go shopping tomorrow." Lorelai says randomly.
"Really?" She asks excitedly.
"Do you want to?"
"Of course!"
She smiles. "Great, well I think I'm going to go to bed. Its been a long day." Lorelai says and gets up from the table.
"Mom?" She says and Lorelai looks at her. "Can I sleep in your bed tonight?"
"Sure sweetie. Are you feeling okay?" Lorelai asks curiously, giving her a hug as they walk upstairs together.
"I feel just a little sick."
"Okay honey, well let's get to bed." They both go down the hall and into the room. Lorelai stares at the bed. "I don't know if I can sleep in here yet kiddo."
She sighs "It's okay." She lies. She really hates what her mom and dad are going through.
"Let's go sleep in the guest room." Both of them go to the guest room, and instantly fall asleep for the night.
In the morning Lorelai was in the bathroom, putting makeup on for work,hair in a towel when Kelsey came running in.
"Mommy! Katie is throwing up."
"Okay honey." Lorelai calls and runs to the other bathroom where Katie is cleaning herself up with a towel.
"Mom, I don't feel so good."
"Aw honey, you were fine yesterday. Why don't you take a shower and then get in some comfy clothes. I'll make you some toast."
She nods going to take a shower. She then gets out and goes and gets dressed, laying on the couch.
Lorelai puts a second blanket over Katrina and puts a small snack table in front of her with toast and juice, then hands her the t.v. remote. "Here you go sweetie, just take small bites of the toast, get something in your stomach."
"You going to work?" she asks faintly.
"I'm not now that you are sick. I'll be right back, I'm just going to go in the kitchen and call Sookie to let her know."
"Okay." She nods.
While Lorelai is out of the room, Kelsey walks over to her sister. "I can make you soup Katie."
"Thanks Kels, but its too early for soup."
"Okay, then I can make something else for you."
"What?"
"Can't tell you, its gonna be a surprise.' She says and runs upstairs, getting ready to make her sister a special get well card.
Lorelai comes back in the living room, but goes upstairs and changes into sweats and a t-shirt since she wasn't going to work and comes back down sitting on the couch with Katie
"You look different." Katie says.
"What do you mean I look different?" She asks curiously.
She shrugs. "Your just usually never dressed down."
"Are you kidding, I could spend an entire weekend in sweatpants if I could."
She shrugs. "Maybe I just never noticed."
"Thats okay. Anyway, How are you feeling?"
"Like I don't have a stomach anymore."
Lorelai laughs. "Aw don't worry, you'll feel better soon enough. You probably got that virus that's been going around."
"Yeah, I know, but I feel like crap."
"Being sick can do that to ya." That gets Katrina to laugh. A few minutes later the phone rings.
"Hello?" Lorelai answers, not expecting it to be Luke.
"L..L..Lorelai. Hi." He says not expecting her to answer.
"Why are you calling here?" She asks coldly. Not ready for him to be calling the house like this.
"I wasn't expecting you to answer. I wanted to talk to Katrina."
"She can't talk right now, she's sick."
"I'm sick, not mute mom." She says, laughing and rolling her eyes.
"Shut up...anyway, Luke, she can't talk right now. Is that all you wanted?"
"She's sick?" He asks concerned. "Do you need me to get her anything?"
"No, she's fine. I can take care of her. Its just a stomach virus."
"Yeah, but last time I knew there was no medicine there." He says.
"Luke you don't take medicine when you have a stomach virus. when her stomach settles I'll give her Tylenol if she has a fever. Please don't call here and tell me how to raise my kids."
"Oh so now they are your kids? Why do you always say that?"
"Because I'm still angry with you. Don't you understand that?"
"They are my kids too, Lorelai. Don't you understand that?' He says coldly back to her.
"I'm tired of being nice to you lately with this situation. All you are doing is yelling back at me. Yes I deserve to be treated like crap, but not to be treated badly when it comes to our children. I never thought that would be something you would do. I never doubted that you couldn't raise them either. Hell look what you did with Rory and she turned out fine, but anyways I'm not going to sit here and talk nice to to you anymore, there is no point because I cant reason with you."
Katie had overheard Luke talking and moved over closer to Lorelai, taking her hand for comfort, knowing she may need it.
Lorelai went to answer, but Luke cut her off
"I really wish what happened last week never happened and if I could take it back I really would, but it happened and just as much as you have to live with it, I have to live with the fact that I hurt the only woman I truly loved."
"Yes, you're right! You do have to live with that! You can't just expect me not to yell and to be nice to you. It just happened two days ago! Don't you understand that I can't talk to you right now, because talking to you hurts! It really hurts!" She yells over he phone, close to tears.
"You think I don't know that Lorelai? You think I don't know that it hurts you?" He says in a comforting way. "I do know that. I know that I made the hugest mistake in the world and that I am an asshole and what's even worse when I look at Kelsey and Colin, I see you and I'm reminded of that mistake. I don't know what you want me to do, but please don't keep me out of my children's lives. I'm not Christopher Lorelai, I want to be there."
Lorelai has already started to cry and Luke can hear it over the phone. Katrina sits by her mom, comforting her.
"I'm sorry...I know you're not Christopher."
"Please don't cry. Just know I'm here for the kids." He says and then gets quiet and after a bit he says"..and you."
She sniffles and wipes her eyes. "I really need to stop talking to you right now, would you like to talk to Katrina?"
"Sure." He says wanting to talk to her.
"Okay," She hands Katrina the phone. "Here, your dad wants to talk to you."
"Hi dad."
"Hey kiddo, how are you feeling?"
"Like my stomach has been ripped out."
Luke laughs. "Well hang in there."
They talk for a good 20 minutes, then hang up.
"So, what did your dad want?"
"He wanted to check how I was feeling and he told me to call if i needed anything."
"Oh...well that was nice of him."
"Yeah. It was." She says cuddling into Lorelai.
Lorelai rubs her daughters hair and smiles. "I'm sorry that I'm putting you and your brothers and sister through all this."
"Its okay. Its not your fault." She says sweetly.
"I know its not my fault, but I feel somewhat responsible."
"Well you shouldn't. You and daddy are going to divorce, so there is no need for me to get upset about it."
"Yeah I guess...maybe your right."
She nods and begins to fall asleep.
A few minutes later Katrina falls asleep and Lorelai tucks her back in on the couch and turns off the T.V. Then she goes into the kitchen and makes herself a cup of coffee. While she's sitting at the kitchen table, Brendan comes down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"Hey sleepyhead."
Brendan gives her a confused look, because he's still half asleep.
"You want some cereal."
"Yeah sure." He says, waking up a little bit. As her and her son sit down, she figures this is a perfect time to ask him how he feels about all this.
"So...Bren, are you okay?"
"I guess so..."
"I just want you to know that I am not going to keep you from seeing your dad."
"I know you won't mom." He says as he digs into her food. "You need to eat though." He said, sounding like Luke.
Lorelai laughs and rolls her eyes. "Okay, I'll eat." She says and grabs his bowl of cereal."
"Hey!" He shouts and laughs, trying to reach for it.
"Mmmm...this is soo good good." She pretends to eat it and laughs.
"I meant your own food." He say grabbing it back. "I can make you something if you want?" He asks sweetly.
"Oh really?" He nods. "Okay, that'd be nice. What will you make me?"
"Eggs" He says and goes to the fridge and gets out the eggs and the frying pan. "See I can make them." He says cracking the eggs into the pan.
"Honey this is very sweet, but I'm okay. How about you just make me some cereal?"
"No, I want to do it."
Lorelai gets up from the table and takes the frying pan from him. "Its okay kiddo, I'm not in the mood for eggs. How about you make me lunch this afternoon? You could make me a sandwich." She suggests, trying to get his mind off using the stove.
"But you need to eat now!" He protests.
"I will eat right now, I just don't want eggs."
"Okay good." He says and they sit down.
Lorelai makes herself a bowl of cereal and her and Brendan eat breakfast together.
"Who is going to take me and kelsey to school?" He asks.
"I am. Why do you ask?"
"Because Katie is sick."
"Yes, but she's 13 and she's stayed home sick alone before. It'll take me 5 minutes to drive you guys to school, then I'm coming back here."
"Thats true."
"So finish up breakfast and then go get dressed okay."
"Okay." He says and finishes his breakfast, going right upstairs and gets dressed and comes back down.
"Okay, are you ready to go?"
"Yup." He grabs his backpack.
"Alright, let's go. Come on Kelsey!" Lorelai shouts for her daughter. She comes bouncing down the stairs and follows them out the door. Lorelai quickly drops them off at school and then goes back home.
Katie had fallen asleep with a movie in and had the remote in her hand.
Lorelai takes the remote, lowers the volume on the T.v. and then places the remote on the table. She pulls the blanket over Katrina and kisses the top of her head, then goes upstairs to wake up Colin.
"Hey baby, time to wake up and eat some breakfast."
"What time is it?" He asks in a cute little voice as he wakes up.
"Its 8:30, you slept late today."
"I did?" he asks
She nods
He sits up and rubs his eyes "Carry me?"
She smiles. "Okay, come here." She picks him up and carries him downstairs, then gets him some breakfast. 15 minutes later she cleans up his breakfast and Colin jumps down off the chair.
"Mommy, tan I try to get dressed like a big boy this morning?"
Lorelai bends down and smiles. "Sure you can, you know where your clothes are. If you need help, just yell for me."
He runs off and comes back downstairs wearing his little flannel shirt and a baseball cap backwards.
Lorelai stares at her son, he looks like a mini Luke."Honey, why are you wearing that?" She asks curiously.
"I wanted to look like daddy."
"Where did you find that shirt?"
"You bought if for me mommy."
"Oh..right, sorry I must have forgot." She says and then just stares blankly at the floor.
"Mommy, are you otay?"
Lorelai sighs and snaps out of it, then, for the first time, she shakes her head. "No honey, I'm not okay." She says sadly.
"I..I..I can go change. I'm sorry I wore dis outfit" He says.
"Oh, no no no, buddy, you don't have to change."
Lorelai pulls him onto her lap and gives him a hug."I'm just feeling a little sad today thats all. I think you look very handsome in that outfit."
"Did I make you sad?"
"No, its not you buddy." He kisses Lorelai on the cheek
Lorelai smiles. "Thank you."
He smiles back. "Can I see daddy today?"
"Um....I don't know sweetie."
"Is he gonna come home soon?"
"I don't think so honey, I'm sorry."
"Wanna play cars with me mommy?" He asks.
"Sure." Lorelai takes his hand and they go into the play room. She wishes things were different, for her and for her kids....
6 months later.
Months have passed now and with each day, Luke and Lorelai talked to each other a little more. There was no doubt that Lorelai was still upset with Luke for what he did, but in some ways she is able to look past it and have a normal conversation with him. She and the kids eat in the diner, Luke stops by the house sometimes to cook for them or fix things.
Katrina has been living with Luke for the last 6 months and has been doing great. She sees both her parents a lot and is allowed to have a bit more freedom living in the apartment with Luke. She recently turned 14 and Luke thanks god everyday that she is a smart, normal, teenager.
Lorelai and Luke have had divorce papers drawen up just in case, but neither one of them signed them. They decided to just be seperated and that it would be okay if they dated other people, even though technically, they are still married.
Luke has dated on and off within the last 6 months and presently does have a girlfriend. Lorelai too has a boyfriend, Steve, who she has been dating for the last 3 months. He has treated her and the kids with great respect and Lorelai trusted him with everything. In her mind, he would never hurt her.
(Steve is in the bathroom taking a shower, they just had a fight)
As she stands in her bedroom, the burning sensation still fresh against her cheek, she realizes that she had fooled herself.
Tonight is the night she realized that he has a temper.
Tonight is the night she realized that maybe Steve isn't the nicest guy.
Tonight is the night he hit her.
He came out of the shower about twenty minutes later and Lorelai walked past him and into the bathroom.
Lorelai was shocked when she heard the next words come out of this mouth.
"I said I was sorry Lorelai, I didn't mean to hurt you."
Lorelai huffs and rolls her eyes, locking the bathroom door. "I'm taking a shower." She tells him and then ignores the rest of his mumbles.
After a long shower, she came back out and he was sitting on the bed with the TV on.
"You coming to bed?" He asks.
"I think you should go home." She stand at the edge of the bed, with her arms folded.
"Fine" He says getting up and puts on his coat.
"I really am sorry Lorelai" He says and tries to give her a hug.
She sighs, every time he looks at her like that she always falls for it. "Just don't let it happen again."
"You still want me to go home?" he asks taking her hand and rubbing her face where he hit her with the other.
She smiles softly. "I guess...it'd be okay...if you stayed."
"You sure? I mean if you want to be alone, I can go home."
"No, no. Stay, its okay...I'm sorry we fought earlier. I didn't mean to make you so mad at me."
"Okay. I'm sorry too." He says kissing her softly.
"Its okay, let's just go to bed." She takes his hand, noticing that the grip on it is a little tighter than it usually is. As they lay down to sleep, she notices that he is holding her a little tighter than usual.
"Goodnight." She whispers softly.
"Goodnight." He says and holds onto her as they fall asleep.
During the night, she tries to move but can't because he's holding her so tight.
He wakes feeling her move. "What's the matter?" He asks.
"Nothing..can't sleep thats all."
He actually loosens the grip on her and she turns facing him. "Anything I can do to help?" He asks.
She smiles a little. "No, I'm okay."
He smiles and strokes her hair back out of her face.
"Goodnight Steve." She says softly and closes her eyes
The next day Lorelai went to work and Steve was out and about around town and decides to stop and surprise Lorelai at work with flowers.
He brings them in and waits for her to come to the front desk.
Lorelai comes out of the kitchen and walks over to the front desk. When she sees Steve with flowers in his hands she smiles and walks over to him.
"Hey, this is a nice surprise. What are these for?"
"Just because. I don't know. I guess to say I'm sorry about yesterday. Can I take you to lunch later today?"
"I'd like that. You have any place in mind?"
"Wherever you want to go." He says.
"Hmm...well I'll have to think about it. How about you come back here around 3 and we'll go somewhere."
"Sounds good. How about you let me walk you back to your office to give you a proper goodbye?"
She blushes. "Thats sounds like a great offer, but I really can't." She says, making another excuse, in the 3 months they have been together they still have not slept together.
"Can I at least kiss you goodbye?"
"I'd be mad at you if you didn't." She grins and gives him a kiss.
He smiles, placing a hand on her side and kissing her back.
"See you later,I'll miss you." Lorelai says with a smile and walks him outside."
"I'll miss you too baby." He says, calling her that for the first time.
Lorelai giggles and waves goodbye as he gets in his car and leaves.
When she closes the door, Sookie comes up to her."Look at you all googly eyed and happy and kissing in the lobby."
"Oh shut up." Lorelai says and smacks Sookie shoulder, laughing.
"So, how is he? Is he a good kisser..is he good in you know other ways?" She says, not knowing they didn't sleep together.
"He's a great kisser." She says simply.
"Ohh..just a great kisser huh?"
"Yeah Sookie, just a great kisser...nothing else has happened."
"Oh..I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get you mad or anything."
"I'm not mad. Why do you think I'm mad?" She asks curiously.
She shrugs. "You seemed snippy."
"Sorry...I'm just tired."
"Why are you so tired?"
"Last night Steve and I had a fight and it just tired me out." She explains.
"Aw sweetie. Why did you two fight?"
"I don't even really know. He came to my house after work and had asked if I made him dinner, I said not yet and he said okay. Then I told him to make his own dinner and he got really mad and started yelling at me, telling me I don't care about anything."
"You actually make him dinner?"
She nods. "Yeah, I learned how because he wasn't too happy that I couldn't cook."
"Aw thats sweet in a way. Now you can cook for the kids and what not right?"
"Yeah, the kids seem to like it. But Steve still thinks I can do better so I'm going to take lessons." She tells Sookie, and Sookie beings not to like what she's hearing.
"Sweetheart..don't let him control you, if you don't want to learn how to cook better, then don't." She says simply.
"He's not controlling me. I don't mind learning to cook, its even kind of fun." She makes up, although she doesn't think cooking is too bad, she just doesn't like having to do it all the time.
"Okay." She says not believing her.
"Anyway, I should get back to work. I'll talk to you later Sook." Lorelai leaves the kitchen rather quickly.
That night the kids are all upstairs and Lorelai had just gotten home and didn't get a chance to make Steve dinner. Steve gets home right after her and isn't in the greatest mood to begin with.
"Hey, where's dinner?" He asks, giving her a kiss hello.
"Sorry, I just got home. I was about to make it."
"I thought I told you I wanted my food on the table when I get home."
"I know, I said I was sorry. I had to work late."
"THen what the hell am I supposed to eat!?" He raises his voice.
"I'll make you something! What do you want!?" She shouts back.
"Forget it, I'm not hungry, I'm going out to eat." He slaps her across the face and shoves her into the wall, then walks away. "Next time, have my dinner on the table." With that said, he leaves the house.
Lorelai straights out her clothes and goes into the bathroom to clean up the blood that is on her face. As she is cleaning it, she starts to cry.
"What have I gotten myself into?" She whispers to herself in the mirror.
Lorelai heard a small knock on the door and it was Colin.
"Mommy, my belly is growling." He says.
Lorelai wipes her eyes quickly and opens the door with a smile. "And what is your tummy saying it wants for dinner baby?"
"Whatever my mommy makes me." He smiles cutely.
"How about soup and a turkey sandwich?"
"Yeah! That's my tummy's favorite." He cheers and walks with her into the kitchen.
"I thought so, what kind of soup do you want? CHicken noodle or chicken with stars?"
"Chicken with stars!" He cheers and climbs up to the table
"Mommy, where is Stevie?" He asks.
She warms up the soup and sets it in front of him, then makes his sandwich. "Stevie decided to stay by himself tonight."
He nods "Is he going to go away like daddy?"
"What? Honey, daddy didn't go away, he just lives a couple of minutes away."
"I know. I like Stevie though. He is funny."
Lorelai smiles. "Yeah honey, I know you like him."
"And do you?"
Just as Lorelai was about to answer Kelsy and Brendan came down along with Katie who was visiting for the night, Lorelai was going to take her home later.
Lorelai smiles, thankful for the interruption.
"Hey you three. Kaite, are you ready to get going yet? Your dad said he wants you home by 8 and its 7:45 now." Lorelai says, not very happy that her oldest daughter has to leave already.
"Um yeah. I'm sorry that I can't stay longer."
"Thats okay...hey, but let's not be sad. The two of us could do something this weekend. You want to do dinner and a movie or something?" She suggests.
"Sure. Could I stay the night?"
"I'd love that, but you'll have to run it by your dad." Lorelai reminds her.
"I'm sure he won't care."
"Yeah you're probably right." Lorelai walks back over to Colin and makes sure he's eating okay.
"Okay,I need you two to watch your brother while I go take your sister home." Lorelai orders Brendan and Kelsey. Lorelai and Katrina get in the car and drive over to Luke's diner where Luke is waiting for them outside.
"Hey dad." Katrina says with a smile and walks inside, leaving Luke and Lorelai alone outside.
"Hey...thanks for letting her come over today."
"No problem." He says "I will bring her over this weekend."
"That'd be great, and would you mind if she spent the night saturday night?"
"I don't see why it would be a problem. As long as she doesn't mind."
"No, we already talked about it and she really wants to." Suddenly Lorelai notices Luke's smile fade away and turn to anger.
"Wait, you two already discussed it with our asking me?" He asks in an angry tone.
"It wasn't a sure thing...I just don't get to see her as much so I told her if she wanted to come over she could."
"You should have ran it by me first, I am her father."
"And I am her mother! I am doing you a favor by running things by you!" She yells at him.
"Oh I know very well you are her mother, but the agreement was we run things by each other!" He yells, but just then Steve walks up to Lorelai.
"Hey what are you doing out here?" He asks, pretending nothing happened.
Lorelai tenses up as Steve comes near her, and Luke notices. "I was just dropping Katrina off."
"Okay." He says, taking her hand.
"I will call you tomorrow." Luke says turning to go in.
Lorelai moves her hand away from Steve's. "No, we aren't done here." Lorelai tells Luke sternly.
"I'm not fighting in front of your boyfriend, no offense its not his business what we discuss" Luek says not particularly fond of her boyfriend.
"Lorelai, let's go!" Steve barks from across the street. The truth is she is afraid to go home with him right now, because of what he may do if he gets mad at something.
"Luke, please, could we just talk? I'll tell Steve to leave." Lorelai begs him, really not wanting to go home with Steve right now.
"What do you want to talk about? Besides Steve is waiting on you."
Lorelai just shakes her head. "Fine, I'll leave you alone, I just thought I'd apoligize for yelling at you just now...but you really could care less so fine! Goodnight Luke!" Then she turns and walks towards Steve.
Luke watches them. He watches as Steve yanks her arm, how he yells at her for taking so long to come over to him, and thats when he sees Lorelai's face. For some reason its different....almost scared.
Luke takes a breath and can tell something is wrong and decided to talk with her.
"Lorelai, come here." He yells.
Lorelai smiles in relief. "Steve, maybe you should just go to your house. I'll call you later."
Steve isn't happy about this, but says its okay and let's her go. Lorelai walks back over to Luke.
"What?" Lorelai asks, folding her arms, wanting to know why Luke all of a sudden, changed his mind.
"We need to discuss this situation." He says making sure Steve is gone.
"What situation? You mean the one where you have sex with your ex girlfriend in our bed and then tell me that I am not allowed to tell my own daughter that she can spend the night at my house before running it by you?" She asks in a very sharp tone, but does not raise her voice once.
He puts his head down "I'm sorry Lorelai okay, but look we both moved moved on..you have Steve and I have Allie simply put. I tried to make up to you, but you wouldn't take me back, and as far as Katie goes, we agreed to make arrangements together."
"Telling me your sorry and that you never meant to do it is not trying to make up with me...not this time. You broke my trust and my heart Luke...find a way to repair that, and then talk to me." With that said, Lorelai turns away so that he doesn't she her tears and begins to walk away from him.
He goes and runs in front of her begining to say something, but notices her crying. "Wh..whats wrong?"
She sniffles and wipes her eyes. "Nothing...I'm just..afraid if I go home, Steve will be there."
"What would be wrong with that? He is your boyfriend."
"I know...I know, just forget it. I'll just go, I'm sure you have plans with Allie tonight or something."
"No. What's going on?" He asks grabbing her arm lightly. Even though they weren't together he still cared.
Lorelai flinches and moves away. "No. You don't get to care anymore. You don't get to comfort me if I'm hurt." She mumbles, she didn't mean for that last part to come out.
"Well..sorry for being concerned. I'll let you go." He says sarcastically.
She sighs. "I'm sorry. I know you and I are just started to be friends again, I don't want you to be mad at me. Are you mad?"
"No. I'm not mad at you. I'm just concerned."
"Well you don't need to be, really, I'm okay." She reassures him.
"I know you aren't, but I'm not going to ask because you don't want to talk about it."
She smiles in relief. "Thank you." Then some silence falls between them. "Well...goodnight."
He nods and slowly and nervously hugs her. "Take care okay and Lorelai, I'm always here."
Lorelai awkwardly hugs him back. "I know...thanks."
"Not a problem." He says and watches her walk away. Just then Allie pulls up getting out of her car.
"Hey who was that?" She asks, never meeting Lorelai.
"Oh um...that was Lorelai..my ex- wife."
"Oh. She pretty" Allie says in a jealous manner.
"Yeah.." Luke mumbles.
"How about we eat some dinner?" She suggests.
"Sure, come on. I'll make you and Katie something to eat." He says and they walk inside.
"Okay great." She says with a smile and walks inside with him, forgetting all about Lorelai's visit.
Over the next couple of weeks, Steve's abuse towards Lorelai has gotten worse. He's pushed her into things, hit her, punched her, kicked her and once he even thretened to make her disapear if she told anyone what is going on. Everyday she hides her bruises under tons of make up and long sleeves.
Tonight Lorelai had dinner on the table as soon as Steve got home in order to avoid an argument.
"This is a great dinner, maybe afterwards we can go upstairs."
Lorelai gets really nervous. "And...what? go to sleep?"
He rolls his eyes. "Come on Lorelai, we have been together for awhile now, its time."
"I don't think I'm ready yet."
"What do you mean not yet!?" HE yels, suddenly getting angry and Lorelai backs away from the table, fearing what he may do.
"I don't want to sleep with you Steve!" She yells back and thats when he gets really mad and marches over to her, she tries to get away but he corners her.
"Oh really? Well now its lookin' like you don't have much of a choice."
"Steve...please...don't do this, my kids are right upstairs."
He slaps her across the face and pushes her hard to the floor, her back hits into the chair.
"Ow." She yelps.
"Don't be so brave Lorelai, I told you I could make you disappear, don't think I won't do it."
Lorelai gets really scared and tries to reach for the phone but he gets to it first. He unplugs it and throws it at her. "You are not calling anyone!"
"Steve, let's just talk about this." She tries to reason with him.
"No, I don't want to talk. I told you what I want to do. Now you either do it, or I will make you disappear."
She stand her ground. "I don't want to, I'm not ready. Do whatever you want, I don't care."
Steve goes upstairs without Lorelai and goes into where the kids were
"Hey you guys want to go out and grab some ice cream? I'll give you money" He says acting nice just to get them out.
They all nod and go, taking his money. Steve comes back down and makes sure the kids are out. Then he approaches Lorelai.
"Now we are all alone baby." He says touching her face.
She slaps his hand away. "Stop it! I can't believe you just let my kids leave my house! Thats it, I can't take this anymore, its over." She yells, breaking up with him.
"No way, you are not getting away that easy." He grabs her arm tightly, making a large bruise and then pushes her into the wall.
"Stop it!" She screams.
He pushes her against the wall and starts to remove her shirt and kisses her neck.
She starts crying and tries to get away. "Please stop Steve...please." She begs him.
"I'll stop when I get what I want." He says and carries her into the living room with her shirt off and he lays her on the couch, climbing on top of her, unbuttoning her pants and kisses her again.
Before doing anything else, he slaps her hard across the face. Lorelai just continues to cry. Colin had already been asleep in bed when he heard loud nosies from downstairs. He runs to the top and sees his mom bleeding and crying with a guy hurting her. He runs to the phone and dials Luke's number.
"Daddy! Mommy's on the floor! Mommy has blood!" Colin yells over the phone to Luke.
"What? Buddy what are you talking about?" Luke asks confused.
"Stevie is hitting her! She's crying and i sawed blood!"
"Buddy. I'm on my way over, but don't tell mommy or stevie" He say and hangs up going out the door and to Lorelais
He gets the key from the turtle and goes inside and to the living room and sees lorelai on the floor huddled, with no clothes on and steve is about to put a pillow over her face.
"What the hell are you doing?" Luke says coming over grabbing him.
"She was trying to break up with me. I warned her if she did there would be trouble."
"Let me tell you something you better get the hell out of her right now or there will be trouble with me."
"Well let me tell you something! She's a little bitch! She doesn't listen to a thing anyone says! She disobeys me! She doesn't deserve to be alive."
"A bitch? Your the only one that is a bitch. A nasty one at that. She doesn't deserve you and definitely don't deserve her thats for sure. You probably couldn't tell me her middle name, the color of her eyes, her favorite food, color, hobby or anything."
"I don't have time for this. Have a nice life Lorelai!" He says with disgust and spits at her, then kicks her legs while she's already laying on the floor, bleeding and half concious. Then he leaves,slamming the door behind him. Colin comes running down the stairs.
"Mommy! Are you okay!?" He screams and starts to cry when he sees his mom laying on the floor covered in cuts and bleeding.
"Colin, do daddy a favor and go play your v-smile. I'll come and get you then okay kiddo?"
"Kay daddy." He runs upstairs and plays his video game. Lorelai is still laying on the floor, not moving.
Luke sits her up gently and grabs the blanket on the chair covering her.
"Can you talk to me?" He asks making sure she could make voluntary actions.
"I don't want to." She mumbles. Not realizing that all he wanted was a yes or no answer.
"You don't have to. All I wanted was you to talk, so I could make sure you were okay."
"I should go get cleaned up." She speaks softly, but as soon as she stands up, she collapses, luckily Luke is there to catch her.
"Please, let me help." He says.
She shakes her head no.
"Lorelai. I'm not going to ask you what's wrong. I won't ask anything. I'm just going to be here for you."
She nods slowly and helps her upstairs, pretty much carrying her.
Since she can barely move, she allows him to clean up her bruises. He puts some medicine on them and cleans up the blood. Then puts Band-Aids on places that need them, then give her some pajama's and helps her get changed. Then he helps her wash her hair and face. After that, he helps her into her bed and tucks her in, getting her a glass of water, a few ice packs, a wet washcloth, and some Advil.
She closes her eyes because her head hurts a lot. "Thank you Luke." She whispers softly.
He smiles sympethetically "It was no problem."
He goes downstairs and begins to clean up the mess that was made. He looks around and sees the house trashed. There were pictures on the ground shattered, the couch a mess, the kitchen destroyed, and the couch flipped upside down. Luke sighs and begins to pick up the pictures in the living room. He picks up the one and turns it over revealing the family picture of Lorelai, him, and the kids. He smiled remembering thad day and how happy they were and how he screwed it up. He shakes it off and continues to clean up. He cleans up the whole house, goes out to get rubbing alcohol, Neosporin, Band-Aids, and more medicine since Lorelai was low. He also picked up the kids at the ice cream shop and brought them home. He told them to go do their thing quietly and he started dinner.
An hour later Luke called kelsey she came out into the kitchen.
"Go get your brothers and tell them it's time to eat." She nods and goes
Luke takes a tray with a plate of food and a cup of coffee up to Lorelai who was awake watching television, but just staring at it.
"Hey, I made you something to eat." He says standing by her bedside with the tray.
She takes the tray from him and puts it next to her, then continues to stare at the wall. Not saying a word.
"I'm going to go get Katie and bring her here from practice. We are going to stay the night. I'll stay in the guest room. You know my cell number if you need to call while I'm out. Be back in 20 minute." He says.
She just nods, turns off the T.V. and falls asleep.
He comes back about a half hour later and finishes washing the dishes and gets the kids ready for the night for bed. The kids and Luke were watching a movie in the living room, Colin curled up on his lap.
After everyone goes to bed, Luke goes in to check on Lorelai and realizes that something is off. He moves the covers and notices a large cut on her leg that he missed, it was now bleeding a lot. He checked for a pulse on lorelai and it was very little. He wakes her up the best he can and calls 911, rushing her to the hospital.
They take lorelai back in the emergency room immediately. Now Luke and the kids are sitting in the living room, waiting.
After about two hours the doctor comes out and tells Luke that Lorelai is going to be just fine. It seems that Steve had cut her with a shapr piece of glass in the leg. The fixed the damaged tissue and put a bandage over the wound. They also cleaned Lorelai up somemore and put a few stiches on a cut on her arm. They also did a rape kit and it came up as positive that she was in fact, raped. There is no internal bleeding which the doctor said was amazing considering what had happened to her. She also has a small concusion but its nothing to worry about.
The doctor, who has known the family for a long time now, allows all 4 kids in the room to see Lorelai. Luke waits outside the room, hesitant to go in.
Lorelai smiles when she sees her kids, including Rory, and they all sit around her on the hospital bed.
"Hey kid."
"Hey mom, I came as fast as I could. Luke called me. I'm so glad you are okay." Rory starts to cry a little and gives her mom a hug.
"Oh sweets, don't worry. I'm fine."
"Mom, who did this to you?" Brendan asks.
"Don't worry about it honey, it doesn't matter who, all that matters is that I'm okay."
"Are you going to come home tonight?" Brendan asks.
"Who is going to take care of us?" Kelsey asks.
"I want something to drink" Colin adds.
"Woah, woah woah, slow down you guys. Too many questions. Everything is going to be taken care of, you guys will always be taken care of, no matter what."
"Is daddy going to take care of us?" Kelsey asks.
"Honey, chances are I will be out of here tomorrow. SO I can take care of you."
"You need your rest mom." Katie says being the older protective one. "Let us or dad handle things." She says sounding just like Luke.
"No, I'll be fine. I just need to go home. I don't need your father's help."
She just nods.
Luke had been getting ready to come in the door and Kelsey had seen him getting ready to walk beyond the door way, when heard Lorelai say that he frowned and turned around, walking back out.
Katrina notices Luke too and runs out to him. "Dad! What are you doing? Why aren't you going in there?"
"You heard your mom Katie, I'm not going in there. I'm not needed, but you go. I can wait here for you."
Katrina grabs her father's arm to prevent him from walking away. "Mom needs you dad. She may still hate you, and she still may not want to talk to you. But she needs you. Don't walk away from her...don't walk away again."
"I never walked away Katrina, your mom kicked me out. Don't blame that on me."
"I'm not blaming it all on you. All I'm saying is that you gave up, true, what you did was the worst possible thing. But still, you could have fought harder, you could have done whatever it took to get her back. But you didn't. Its not too late dad, just go in there and be with her."
"You sounded just like her you know?" He says and walks slowly in with Katie.
She smiles and hugs her dad as they walk in. "Scary thought." She whispers and they both laugh to themselves.
"Hey you guys, let's go back in the waiting room." Katrina says to get her brothers and sister out of the room. Kelsey and Brendan leave in front of their sister, and Katrina holds Colin's hand as they leave the room.
Lorelai immediately looks away from Luke and stares down at the hospital blanket.
"You didn't have to stay."
"I wanted to."
"What about your girlfriend? Isn't she going to wonder where you are?"
"She knows where I am and she understands." He says.
Lorelai sighs and knows that she owes him a thank you for saving her life.
"Luke," That gets his attention and their eyes lock. "Thank you for what you did tonight."
He smiles and nods "It was nothing I.." He slows off not saying anymore.
She smiles back. "Well I just...I appreciate it."
He nods. "If he comes near you or the kids, I want you to call me. I'll kill him, I swear."
"How is that a good thing? You'll be in jail." She says and they both laugh.
"Well, I don't think you will let me report him to the police now will you?"
"If I thought it was necessary. But I really think its okay."
"You sure? What if he comes back Lorelai?"
"He won't. I just have this feeling that he won't. Please trust me, you owe me that much."
"I know, but he knows your address,work address, cell number,house number,address at home. I do trust you. I always have."
"Then you'll trust me when I say that he won't come back."
"Okay." He nods not sure what else to exactly say.
"So....how are you and Allie doing?" She asks, trying to make conversation.
"We are doing really good." He says, but didn't want to say anymore to make her feel bad. They were actually doing great and Luke enjoyed being around her.
"Thats..uh..great..I'm really happy for you." She says and gives him a fake smile.
He knows when she flashes him a fake smile and knows what she is thinking "Thanks, but you don't have to pretend."
"Pretend what? I really am happy that your happy."
He smiles. "Well then thank you." He says.
"No problem....its good that you found someone you like a lot." She says, trying to hide the sadness in her voice.
"Lorelai, I'm sorry that you and steve broke up, but worst of all I'm sorry we couldn't make it."
"You say that as if its my fault." SHe says, not yelling, just upset.
"I'm not blaming you, I told you I take all the blame."
After a few minutes of silence, Lorelai asks a question. "Luke...why did you do it? Was it because of the way I look? Because I had 4 kids and I'm not as thin as I used to be. Why did you have to sleep with her? Why did you have to cheat on me? Why Luke!? I thought you were better than that. Why did you have to do that to me!?" SHe cries out, she starts sobbing in the hospital bed, putting her head in her hands.
Luke just shakes his head "One your are gorgeous, two you are far from fat, damn I mean look at you. You look amazing for having four children. I dont exactly know why I did it, but all i know is I was a jerk and I dont deserve you any more that Steve did. You deserve someone who can give you what you need and I guess thats not me anymore. I'm sorry I cant be that man for you anymore I really am. I w..w..want to be," He drags out "But you wont allow me."
Lorelai rolls on her side, facing away from him and wipes her eyes. "I just want someone to protect me. I don't want to get hurt anymore. I'm tired of being the strong one....I don't want to get hurt anymore."
"I said I would always be here for you no matter what, but you made it pretty clear that you dont need me in your life or there for you to our children earlier." He says letting it be known he heard her "So who do you want? I'm doing all I can."
She turns back around and gives him a look. "I'm sorry that you heard me and I'm sorry that I am not accepting you back into my life easily. Its going to take some time. I don't want me or the kids getting hurt again." She says and furiously wipes her eyes. "Plus...why should I forgive you when you didn't even fight for me." She says in a low voice and turns away from him again.
"I did fight for you! I apologized numerous of times, called you, gave you flowers, but I guess that was never good enough. You when I stopped fighting that night you told me you had a new boyfriend and you asked how I felt, then I gave up because I didn't want to be in the way.!" He says and starts to walk out.
"I would have left him if you stayed that night! I would have tried to make it work with you if you told m how you really felt! All you had to do was say one more thing and you would have had me. But no, you stopped!" She yells back, making him stop in the doorway.
"What was I suppose to do? You had that goofy smile on your face, the same one you had when we went out on our first date, but I seem to remember you telling me you never smiled that way ever, but you smiled that way that night. As far as saying one more thing I didn't want to say it because you would have doubted me, but I will say it now, I love you dammit, but if you cant open your blue eyes and realize that then I have nothing else to offer you right now."
"None of that matters anymore Luke, can't you see that? I don't care about the way I smile. All I care about is finding out a way to be happy again and to let you in my life. Because right now, I can't. Just leave okay, thats what you were about to do. You can't even stay in the same room as me, I knew it was too god to be true. I knew you wouldn't want to stay here with me....I'm scared Luke, okay...but if you want to leave...then leave."
"I don't want to leave, but your pushing me away, just like you have been the past 5 months."
"Then don't be pushed away so easily...if you really care about me the way you say you will, then you won't leave. you would be sitting in this chair next to my bed. You wouldn't be standing in the doorway. Go b with Allie, she's probably waiting for you." She says sadly and looks out the window with tears in her eyes.
He walks over to the side of her bed and takes her hand, kissing it and hands her a tissue. Then sits down on the bed "I'm not leaving you. Ever again."
She smiles a little and runs her hand through his hair. "Promise?"
"I promise." He says and smiles at her.
"Okay." She replies softly. After staying by her side for over 3 hours, visint gtime was over and he and the kids had to go. They all say goodbye and leave the hospital.
Luke drops the kids off at home, including Katrina and then goes over to Allie's house, with every intention to end it with her so that he could have a better chance at getting Lorelai back. However, that isn't what happens.
He rings her doorbell and Allie answers, very happy to see him.
"Hey Luke, come on in. How's Lorelai?" She asks with concern. Luke doesn't know what comes over him as the next words slowly leak out of his mouth.
"Marry me." He blurts out to her.
"What?"
"Marry...me Allie."
"Really?" She asks, confused at his forwardness. He nods his head yes, shocked at what he's doing.
"I..I..don't know what to say" She says.
"Say yes."
She smiles and gives him a big hug and kiss. "Yes, of course I'll marry you."
He smiles and kisses her passionately, not knowing what is going on with him.
"I love you Luke." Allie whispers to him.
"I love you too" He says kissing her head as they go and sit on the couch.
She looks at the ring on her hand and smiles. "I can't believe I'm getting married."
"Well believe it, you are" He says taking her hand in his, the exact way he took Lorelai's earlier that night
"I am so excited! I have to go call my mom." Allie runs to the phone and begins talking with her mother. Leaving Luke on the couch to think to himself about what he had just done. He had just proposed to a great person, who he likes a lot but he also wants to win back Lorelai. Allie is so happy and Luke really doesn't want to hurt her because she is such a sweet person, he doesn't know what to do.
She comes back out about a half an hour later and sits back down with Luke. "She says you better not break my heart." Allie says.
Luke smiles nervously.
"Are you okay hun?" Allie asks with concern.
"I'm fine." He says smiling "but hey I think I'm going to go home and sleep, I'm pretty beat. I'll call you tomorrow?"
"Kay hun, see you tomorrow." She gives him a kiss goodbye and walks him to the door.
He goes outside the door and just stands there a minute saying to himself, "Damnit, what did I just do?" He then goes back to Lorelai's house and sleeps on the couch.