"Hey, what's with the waterworks?" He asks.
"I'm just so happy right now." Lorelai wipes her eyes while Luke rolls his eyes.
"Can I go finish getting' changed?"
"Oh yeah, sorry. Go ahead."
He goes and ten minutes later, they are all downstairs getting ready for the picture and of course waiting for Lorelai to finish getting ready.
Lorelai comes walking down the stairs with Madison in her arms.
"Aw, you guys look so cute."
They all just give her a look .
"Okay guys, lets go and stand by the fireplace and take the picture." Luke says.
"You all look so great."
They all nod as they take the picture .
"You like it?" Luke asks.
"Let's take one more."
"Okay." he says.
Lorelai was on one side with Madison in her arms, katina beside her and then Brendan, and luke. in front of Katrina was kelsey and Colin beside her
"Perfect picture."
"I like it too." Luke says
"Now let's take one outside. Everyone except the baby."
"Who is going to watch her?"
"I'll put her in her carrier in the foyer."
"okay" he says and nods as they go outside and take the picture
They finish and the kids all go inside
Just then it stars to snow. The first snow of the season
"Oh my god, look its snowing!"
"yeah it is" Luke says, knowing she was going to get excited
"First of the season huh?" he says putting his arms around her to keep her warm, since she didn't have a coat on for the picture and he knew she wasn't going in anytime soon
She smiles. "Yeah, isn't it pretty?"
"Yeah." He says as they stand there for a couple of minutes
"Okay I think we need to get inside before you get sick" He says, being overprotective.
"You can't get sick just watching the snow."
"No, but for someone who has a sleeveless dress on without no coat and is standing outside, you might." he says
"Good point. All right, let's go back in."
3 weeks later Christmas had finally arrived. The kids rapidly open their presents and run off to play with what they got.
Luke and Lorelai sat back, with Madison, and relaxed, enjoying the peace and quiet.
A couple months have gone by now, its May, Madison has gotten a little bigger. She smiles more, and is starting to hold her head up on her own. If you put her on the floor she will roll around and giggle. The kids are in their last month and a half of school. Kelsey has just gotten done filming her half hour comedy show's last episode of the season. She was very excited to hear that the television network picked it up for at least 3 more seasons. Its a big hit. She is Stars Hollow's little star. Which is fine with most people, but not everyone.
Right now Kelsey is in her 3rd grade, outside at recess. She walks over to her friends, jimmy, Dana, and holly.
"Hi you guys."
They give her a look.
"Whats wrong?"
"You think you are so cool just because you are on TV." Holly says in a nasty attitude.
"What? No, I don't."
"Yeah you do, look at your fancy new clothes." Jimmy points and then rips her shirt. "Now its more like rags." Everyone on the playground laughs and points at her. Tears well up in her eyes and she runs back to the swings in the corner of the play ground.
"I have no more friends...they all hate me." She whispers to herself.
"We don't hate you Kelsey. I've been your friend since we were 3." Dana says to her best friend as she and her big fifth grader brother Eric walk over to Kelsey.
"Thanks." She smiles.
"Anybody else makes you cry, just let me know." Eric tells her and gives Kelsey a cute hug.
From across the playground Brendan sees her little sister sitting on the swings crying. He runs over to her.
"Kelsey, what happened? Why are you crying?"
Kelsey doesn't say anything.
"That boy Jimmy ripped her shirt. Holly called her names. The teacher punished them."
Kelsey starts to cry again and Brendan protectively hugs her. "Don't cry Kelsey, its okay. You still have me."
"And me." Eric includes. He's in the same class as Brendan, they are good friends. Both in 5th grade.
"And me too. It'll be us against the world. Forever and ever."
Kelsey smiles. "Best friends forever and ever?"
"Deal." They all shake on it. From that day on they hoped it would stay them against the world.
Later that day, Lorelai was at the office at the inn and she had Madison with her, because the babysitter was sick and couldn't watch her.
Madison started to cry, so Lorelai stopped typing on the computer and picked her up and started to rock her, but she didn't stop.
"Come on baby, please stop crying. You are starting to give mommy a headache." She doesn't stop crying. she cries louder
"Shhhh..." Lorelai decides to start singing to her and after a few, minutes, it works and Madison is fast asleep.
A couple minutes later Sookie comes in
"rough time?"
Lorelai smiles tiredly. "Yeah, I just got her to take a nap. She was crying forever."
"I heard you singing" she admits
"Thats alright. I always sing to her when she starts to cry. It seems to work so far."
"you don't have a bad voice you know" sookie says
"Thats nice of you Sookie, but I'm really not that good."
"Yes you are, I can see where Kelsey gets all her talent from. Its you, you hide it."
Lorelai laughs. "I do not hide anything because I do not have talent Sookie."
"I'm going to prove to you that you do. I'll record you singing and play it back" she says
"doesn't Luke tell you that you can sing?"
"Yeah he's told me before. But I never believe him."
"You can really sing." Sookie says again
"Thanks Sook. So is everything okay downstairs in the lobby?"
"Yeah everything is going okay. Hows it going with the monthly quota?"
"Everything's going great." Sookie and Lorelai spend a little more time talking, then get back to work.
After a long day at work, Lorelai comes home to a pretty quiet house since only Luke and Colin were home.
"Mommy!" Colin bull rushes her at the front door.
"Colin!" Lorelai says sternly, as soon as Colin had yelled mommy, Madison woke up and started to cry.
"How many times have I told you not to yell around the baby!"
"I'm sorry mommy. i just wanted to give you a hug. I didn't mean to make you upset or wake the baby" he says
lorelai was really stressed
Lorelai rubs her forehead and lowers her voice. "Honey its okay, mommy just has a headache."
"I make you feel all better." He gives her a hug and kiss then hurries into the kitchen. Lorelai sighs and smiles.
Lorelai brings the baby into the living room and sits on the couch, calming her down.
"hey" luke says coming in sitting next to her
She half smiles. "Hey, listen could you watch Madison. I need to go upstairs to my office and do some work for the Inn. I'm so far behind on all the paper work." She says, talking a mile a minute, handing Madison's baby carrier with her in it to Luke.
"um sure." he says
He was hoping to get to spend time with her, but he wasn't going to get to do that.
she had been so busy lately
She goes to her office and organizes herself and her papers. 10 minutes later she gets a little knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
"Its me mommy."
"Whats wrong Colin?"
"I bringed you something to make you feel better. Can I come in?"
That made Lorelai smile. "Of course baby, come on in."
Colin comes in carrying a small wheel tray with a flower from the backyard, a glass of water, and a piece of bread. "I made this for you."
"Awww, ohh sweetie I love it. Thank you." She gives him a big hug and kiss. "This is my new favorite meal."
"Really?" he asks excited and she nods
"when are you coming downstairs?"
"As soon as I finish all this work."
"okay" he says sadly
"I missed you"
"I missed you too kiddo. Now you go help daddy wit the baby while I do some work and eat this great snack you made me."
"okay" he says and goes downstairs
Two hours later Lorelai is still up in her office. when her crying daughter comes barging in.
"Mommy look at my shirt!" She turns around and sees Kelsey puffy red eyes and ripped shirt.
She runs to her side. "What happened? Are you okay?"
"my so called friends ripped my shirt and made fun of me." she says crying
"Oh baby, I'm so sorry." She holds her daughter and rubs her back to calm her down. "Shhh...its going to be okay sweetie. Its going to be okay." Kelsey grips Lorelai tightly.
"They were so mean to me."
"I know baby, I know. Shhh, its okay." She rubs her head and whispers in her ear so that she calms down.
" I just cant believe they would do this to me"
"Well you know what, you don't need them. Plus you are only 8 years old. You'll get older and forget all about this. Just ignore them."
"but its hard to mommy. I don't know if i can"
"Hey now, you are a Danes. I don't ever want to hear you say that you can't do something. Understand?"
she sniffles "okay mommy"
"Thats my girl. I love you kiddo, you know that."
"I know and I love you too. Can you come downstairs now? Daddy says dinner is ready."
"Oh yeah sure, let me just clean up these papers."
"Can I help you?"
She smiles. "Sure you can."
"This looks like a lot of hard work." Kelsey says picking up papers with a lot of numbers
"It must be end of the month quota huh?" She says. She usually hears her mom talking to her dad about it.
"Yup it sure is."
"That means you will be busy for awhile." She says sadly.
"Not really, actually I got a lot of work done when I got home. Come on, let's go eat." They walk out of the room and downstairs. "What did your dad make?"
"I'm not sure, but it smells good. Thats all I know."
"If it didn't smell good I'd be worried." They walk into the dinning room.
"Hey hun, what smells so good?"
"You mean you cant tell?"
She shakes her head no
"It's burgers and fries. I thought I would make you and the kids' favorites since you are at the end of the month quota"
"But its diner food." Luke just says so what.
"So, its not original and special for us. If I wanted diner food I'd go to the diner."
"I can make you something else" He offers.
"No thats alright, I'll eat this." She says,with a smile. She is just teasing Luke.
"Okay" He says and smiles
He sits down next to his wife as they all begin to eat
"How was school guys?" Luke asks
"Good" Brendan says
"Okay" Kelsey says
"Great" Katrina says
"Great?" Luke asks
"Yeah. This guy asked me to go to the dance with him next month
"I don't think so." Luke says
"What? Why?" She whines
"Your too young"
"I'm 14 and it's not like we are dating"
"No" He adds
"Mom, do something"
Luke looks over at Lorelai, waiting for her response
"Luke, she isn't too young to go to a dance. I think its sweet that a boy asked her. Who is it?" She turns to Katrina and smiles, asking her. Looking away from Luke to try and change the subject.
"His name is Nate and he is really nice and so cute." She says in a typical teenager voice
"Can I go please?"
"No" Luke says
"I was talking to mom." She says, giving attitude
"Fine. Talk to her. she will let you anyway"
"I just don't see the big deal with her going."
"Yeah dad, whats the big deal?"
"You're too young to be going out with a boy" He would never admit that he didn't want to see his baby girl growing up.
"I'm 14 dad, and its not even a date, he just asked me to the dance."
"Honey, I think thats a date." Lorelai interrupts.
"It is?"
"Yup, I can make your dress for you if you want." Luke looks furious because no one is listening to him.
"That would be great" She says
"Are you sure you have time though?"
"You are not going!" Luke yells
"Why?" Katie asks
"Because I don't want you to end up like your mother." Katie looked right at Lorelai at that moment
Lorelai gives Luke a hurt look. Which Katrin copies. "Excuse me!" Lorelai says,raising her voice.
"I don't want her to get hurt. I do not want her to go through what you did a young age."
"I think I can make my own mistakes" Katie says
Lorelai can't take it anymore. "Stop it! Both of you! You know what, I don't care what you decide anymore. Its between you two. I will not sit here and listen and talk with people that think Rory was a mistake!" She leaves the room, and you can hear the front door slam shut from the dinning room.
"Thanks a lot dad. Now she is mad and it is your fault." Katie says
"My fault? You brought up the dance"
"Yeah and you brought up the past"
"I never said your sister was a mistake" He adds
"So you are saying that I said Rory was a mistake?" Katrina says, groans and madly leaves the table. Stomping up to her room and slamming the door shut.
"Well she's going to be a joy to be with in the same room tonight." Kelsey says sarcastically.
Luke gives her a small smile
"I'm sorry you three had to hear that"
They all just nod
Later that night, around 2:30am, Lorelai still wasn't home. Madison had just woke up and was screaming
Luke picked her up and began to soothe her, but she screamed more
He went down to the fridge, butt Lorelai had no bottles that were pumped in there, so he had to get out the formula, which was hardly ever used because Lorelai didn't like to and he fed her.
She fell asleep in his arms and he put her back to bed.
Around 3:30, she still wasn't home
"Where are you?" luke says to himself
Finally at around 3:45 Lorelai walks in the door and upstairs to their bedroom where Luke is waiting up.
"What are you still doing up?"
"Well, first of all I'm up because Madison was fussy and there was nothing here to give her but formula. You left no pumped bottles and I couldn't feed her, but most of all I am up because I was worried sick about where the hell you been all night. It's almost four AM Lorelai! Do you know that?"
"I know what time it is Luke! I'm not an idiot. Oh wait, according to you I am. I make mistakes all the time. I can't believe you think that Rory was a mistake!"
"I never said you were an idiot and I never said that Rory was a mistake!"
"You said you didn't want our daughter to turn out like me, that is what it sounds like to me!" She yells
"No, I don't want our daughter to get hurt and I don't want this guy to take advantage of her. I never said she was a mistake."
"Yes you did!" She yells loudly
Just then Katie comes in the bedroom door, hearing them yell
"Stop fighting! Please. I'm not going to the stupid dance. If it will get you two to stop, I won't go. I'm the reason you two are fighting. If I never would have asked to go, then you two wouldn't be fighting right now, so please stop" She says on the verge of tears
"No Katie, you are going to that dance. Your dad is just being a jerk. And you know what, it was you that called Rory a mistake also. The both of you, is that what you really think of me? That Rory was a mistake and that what I did was stupid?" Lorelai questions, now she is on the verge of tears.
Katie starts to cry "I..i..don't want to go to the dance now. I don't want to go because it is making you too fight and last time you fought, our family was torn apart. I..I..don't want to be responsible for that. I..i never said Rory was a mistake mom and either did daddy." She says and then runs into luke and lorelai's bathroom, locking the door.
"I can't deal with this right now." Lorelai says, walking out of the room in tears and locks herself in the hallway bathroom. Luke stands in the middle, completely confused.
Colin comes walking into the room and sits on the bed next to his dad, he heard the whole thing. "Women, can't live with 'em, can't live without em." Colin says in a cute voice.
Luke looks down at him and starts laughing.
"Is mommy okay?" He asks in concern
"She will be kiddo" Luke says
"and Katie?"
"So will she."
He nods and then goes to the door where lorelai was
"Mommy?" colin asks
"What sweetie?" Lorelai says through her tears from inside the bathroom.
"Can I come in?" he asks in a cute voice
"Sure you can baby." She unlocks the door and let's him in.
"why are you crying mommy?" he asks, seeing makeup run down her face
"I'm just frustrated buddy"she says
"At daddy?"
She nods
"Is daddy going to move away again?"
"What? No, of course not. Why would daddy move away again?"
"Cause thats what happened last time you fought."
"Honey, that was very different. And adults fight all the time, this isn't really a fight. Its an argument."
"Those are the same thing mommy."
"No, they are different."
"then if they are different, why are you crying? Last time you cried this bad, daddy left." He says
"Honey i'm not upset with daddy okay."
"then if you are not upset at him, why are you two fighting? and why are you crying?" He asks
"Its been a long day."
He just nods, not understanding.
He then hugs her "I love you mommy"
"I love you too"
He smiles and then leaves, going back to his room to sleep
Lorelai sinks down against the wall, sitting on the floor and eventually falls asleep.
Around 6:00am when Luke was getting ready for work, he noticed as he got up that Lorelai never actually came to bed for the hour he actually slept.
He walked into the hallway bathroom and Lorelai was on the bathroom floor sleeping.
Luke sighed and picked her up gently, carrying her to their bedroom and laid her down on the bed. He covered her up and then got in the shower.
15 minutes later Luke comes out of the shower the same time that Lorelai wakes up for a minute. "Luke?"
"yeah" He says turning around facing her
"I don't want her to turn out like me either."
He smiles and sits down next to her
"Well why not? You turned out to be pretty amazing." He says
"Yeah but I don't want her to go through what i went through."
"I don't either." he says
"however, I don't think a dance is going to have her go through that" Luke says and smiles
"Then why didn't you want her to go?"
He shrugs "I guess because I don't want her to get hurt, but mostly i can't stand seeing her grow up" He admits
"And her attitude, she got from you" He adds, teasing her
She hits him on the arm and rolls her eyes. "Luke you need to get past that. I know its hard, but we have to let her grow up. She's a good kid."
"she is a good kid. She is a great kid" he adds
"We did go so far huh?"
"Yeah kind of. I just don't want the stuff that I did back then constantly thrown in my face. If I wanted that, I would have still lived with my parents." She says with a smile.
"I understand and I'm really sorry Lorelai. I didn't mean to hurt you and i didn't mean it rudely or that Rory was a mistake. I would never say that about her."
"I know you don't think Rory was a mistake. Don't worry, we are good now. Want to kiss and make up?" She grins.
He smiles and leans and kisses her softly, but she deepens it and Luke kisses back
"Your making me want to open the dinner a bit later you know." He says, catching his breathe
"Thats kind of the point."
He grins leaning in to kiss her again.
She giggles and they continue to make out a little bit. Until they are interrupted.
"Ew mommy, daddy, stop kissing. Its gross." Kelsey says as she enters the room. "I have a problem." She says, hopping on the bed and pushing them apart.
"Yeah we weren't doing anything." Lorelai says sarcastically. Kelsey gives her a look.
"Good, now can I tell you my problem?"
"Go ahead, what is your problem this hour of the day?"
"I can't find the shoe that matches this one."
"So? just wear another pair." Lorelai suggests.
"No, I want to wear this pair."
"Then look for the other shoe."
"but i can't find it."
"And what am I suppose to do?" Lorelai asks
"Um get up and yelp me find it." she says in a duh voice
"Kels, your mom is really tired." Luke says trying to get Kelsey to leave
""mmhm she looked it a minute ago" she says sarcastically
"Tell me again why you can't wear a different pair?"
"because I want to wear this pair"She says
"Kelsey, I found your shoe!" Katie yells
"Okay thanks!" She screams and runs out of the room.
Luke just shakes his head and laughs
"Our kids."he says and takes lorelai's hand n his
"You mean your kids." Lorelai says and laughs.
He laughs
"well i better get to the dinner and you need some sleep" he says and goes to get up, but lorelai pulls him back
"What?" he asks.
She kisses him. "Why are you leaving so early?"
"I always go this early. Why? Are you okay?"
"I think you should go in a little later."
"and why is that?"he asks
"Why do you think?" She grins and kisses him.
"oh that's why" he says and kisses her, gently laying her back
She giggles. "Finally, geez you are so slow."
"hey, you want this or not?"He says teasing her and she laughs
He kisses her neck and she wraps her arms around his neck
"I always want this." She whispers to him and kisses him again.
he laughs as their kiss begins to deepen
15 minutes later...
Colin walks in. "Daddy! What are you doing to mommy!" He yells.
Luke looks over to his son, who is standing at the door.
Colin just stands there
"I'm not hurting mommy." Luke says, pulling a blanket over them, so their son wouldn't ask anymore questions
"We are playing a game" Luke says
"Oh. Can I play too?"
Luke chokes "No. You can't. It's an adult game."
"Oh. Well if you weren't hurting mommy, then why was she screaming loud?"
"Um.." Luke says lost at words and looks to lorelai who just smirks
"She was happy she won the first round"Luke added
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
"And I'm about to make points to win the next round" Luke adds
"I'm sure you will' Lorelai whispers and luke gives her a look
"You won't let mommy win?" colin asks
"We play fair" Luke says
He just nods
"mommy, if you two are playing a game then how come you are naked? You told me I wasn't allowed to be naked except for a bath"
"Honey this is a different type of game."
"You can be naked to play a game?"He asks confused .
"Yes."Luke adds
"Why are you laying on mommy?"he asks
"Colin,if you finish getting ready for preschool, ill tell you more about the game later"
"Okay! Promise?"
"I promise"He says and Colin leaves
Lorelai is hysterical laughing. "Oh my god, that was so funny."
"no it wasn't and you weren't much of help miss giggly box." He says
"Oh come on, it was a little funny."
"okay maybe a little bit" He says and kisses her
20 minutes later they were up and dressed
"So are you coming by the dinner later for lunch?" He asks
"I don't know, I was thinking maybe you could pick up something on your way home since its friday night."
"I can. What would you like me to get?" He says
"A pizza will be fine."
"Well I'll get two or three because of the kids. We have four other mouths to feed" he says in a duh voice
"Two will be fine. One would be fine too."
"Okay" He says
"Well I got to go, so I will see you tonight" He says and leans in to kiss her
"Always." She smiles.
"Love you" he says and kisses her one more time
"don't work too hard today."
"Love you too. I'll try not to."
"bye."he says and leaves and then Lorelai takes Colin to preschool and Madison to the babysitter, then off to work
"You guys ready for school?" Lorelai shouts before leaving.
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:53 pm
"Yeah"They all yell
"Wait mommy" Kelsey say running downstairs
"I love you" She says giving her a hug
She gives her a big kiss and hug. "I love you too kiddo. Have a good day at school okay?"
"Have a good day at work"
"Goodbye sister"She says and kisses Maddy who was in the car seat Lorelai was holding
"Bye Bye. "Lorelai says in a fake baby voice
Kelsey laughs and then runs back upstairs. Lorelai smiled and walked out the door, putting madison in the car and going to work
The day goes by with ease and Lorelai and the kids all get home at around the same time, 4pm. Katrina helps Kelsey look over her script for the season finale of her tv show that she is filming tomorrow. Brendan gets a snack and goes to play outside. Colin is helping Lorelai with the baby.
"Honey, can you get me a diaper for the baby please?"
"sure" he says and gives her a diaper
"She is smiling at me mommy."
"Thats because you are being such a good big brother to her. She loves you a lot."
"Really?"
"Really, really."
"cool"he says
"Mommy, how come baby Maddy's daddy is not my daddy?"
"Thats a long story sweetie."
"I got time. I'm only 4."
Lorelai laughs. "Oh you got time, do yA?"
"yeah, but you might now because your old" He says
'how come her daddy doesn't see her? I see my daddy every day"
"Because her daddy needs to get some help and then he will visit."
"Does Rory have the same daddy?"
"No sweetie, Rory has a different daddy."
"I thought my daddy was her daddy? He seems like it"
"Its all very complicated. Its nothing you need to worry about okay. The most important thing is that we are all family."
"yeah"he says
"can I hold Maddy?"
"Sure, go sit down in the rocking chair."
"Okay"He says and goes and sits down as Lorelai places her in his arms
"Look mommy. I holding her"
"I see, want to take a picture?"
"yeah" he nodded in excitement and Lorelai got the camera
"Okay, ready. Say cheese."
"cheese"he said and right after that Madison started crying
"Uh oh your turn mommy"he says
"Okay, come here baby girl. Shhhh..." She comes the baby down.
"I did a good job of holding her."
"You sure did, she's lucky to have such a great big brother."
"I am a good big brother and I will protect her for you mommy"
"Thank you honey,I know you will."
She starts to whine lightly again
"Is her hungry?"Colin asks
"Yeah I think so. How about you go play while I feed her okay?"
"I cant help you feed her?" He asks, not knowing how Lorelai feeds her
"I'm afraid not honey. babies eat different than big kids do."
"Okay"he says and runs outside to play
Lorelai gets finished up with feeding Madison and changes her. Then carries her downstairs.
"Look at your brothers playing out there." She shows her through the window. Madison smiles and giggles. "You are such a cutie."
Lorelai stands there awhile more, just watching her children play. Then Luke came in the door with pizza
"Hey"He says
"Hey you, I see you got our pizza."
"of course. you think I would have forgot?" He asks and then pecks her on the lips
"No I knew you would remember, but i'm shocked you didn't pretend to forget." She teases him.
"I never thought about doing that actually." He says and laughs
"Lets round up the troops"
"Guys pizza's here."Lorelai to everyone.
they all come running in and sit down at the table
Lorelai puts Madison in her basinet in the living room and joins them
They eat dinner together
The middle of July, 3 months later. Luke and Lorelai are home with the kids, its a saturday. Its been raining all day so everyone is inside, playing games and with toys. Madison is taking a nap. She's been very good with sleeping for at least 3 or 4 hours during the day for her nap. Luke had put in snacks for the kids. They were having a great, fun lazy day. Everyone was behaving. It was great.
Little does Luke know, that the doorbell will ring and his life will be flipped upside down.
The doorbell rings.
"I'll get it." Lorelai says and goes to the door. She opens it and sees Rachel on the other side.
"What are you doing here?"
"I need to talk to Luke."
"Uh, no you don't."
"Yes I do, can I please come in?"
"No, I don't want you in my house."
"Lorelai, I need to talk to Luke. Luke!" Rachel shouts through the door.
"Don't call him!"
"I'll call him if I want to. I told you I need to talk to him. Luke!" She yells.
He comes walking toward the door.
"Lorelai, is everything..?" he froze when he saw Rachel
"What are you doing here?" he asks and comes to stand next to Lorelai
"I need to talk to you, alone" He says and look over toward Lorelai
"Like hell." She says.
"Whatever you have to say you can say in front of me and my wife."Luke says.
"Luke, please. This is really important. Just give me five minutes." Rachel begs him.
"Alright, come on, five minutes." Luke says and lets her come inside.
"Luke!" Lorelai yells at him.
"Just five minutes, you go back with the kids."
"Whatever." She says and huffs back into the living room.
"What is it?" He asks.
She looks down at the ground.
"I don't know how to tell what I am going to say."
"What? Rachel are you okay?"
"Yeah..yeah. I'm okay." She looks back up and Luke notices the tears in her eyes. "I...when we..were together two years ago...two months after that...I...I found out I was pregnant." She sees Luke's shocked face. "I'm so sorry I didn't tell you. I just..I was going to, but everything was so screwed up. I didn't want to ruin your life anymore than I already had...he's two now."
Luke just stares at her.
"Say something. Please."
"You waited two years to tell me? Two years!"
"I know, I'm a jerk and I am so sorry. I meant to tell you...I just didn't think you'd want me in your life after what we did."
"Are you sure the kid is mine?"
"You were the only I was with around that time. I wasn't with anyone else since actually. My focus is my son." She says
"Oh man." He says and puts his hand on his forehead.
"I'm sorry."
"Sorry? That's not going to make it any easier on me telling Lorelai. Things are going so well between me and her. I don't want to hurt her again." He says, trying not to sound mushy.
"You wont hurt her." She says.
"This news will tear her up."
"Yeah...I am so sorry Luke. Listen, I can walk out that door and we can forget this ever happened if you want. You don't have to tell Lorelai."
"No. I do not want you to think that I don't want to be involved because I do and I have to tell Lorelai. If you don't want her to know, I'm sorry, but I need to. I can't hide it from her."
She nods
"I understand. I just don't want to be the cause of you two falling apart again..again."
"You won't be. We won't fall apart again." He hopes.
Just then Madison began to cry and Lorelai ran upstairs past the two of them where madison was sleeping.
"Oh great you two have a new baby and I am just going to make matters worse."
"Rachel," he was going to try to explain, but she cut him off
"Forget it Luke. Look, here's my number. Call me and we can talk some more." She quickly hands him her number and leaves the house.
"Rachel" He whispers and puts her number in his pocket.
Lorelai comes back downstairs after putting Madison back down
"Hey. Everything okay?" She asks
"No" he says honestly
"Whats wrong? You guys didn't just have sex in there did you?" She asks, half joking, but half serious.
"No and I don't even know why you would say that. I mean I know why, but still." He wasn't sure how to tell her and he was hurting to tell her
Lorelai could sense something was wrong
"Luke I was joking...sort of. Anyway, just tell me whats going on? Why did she just show up here like that?"
He takes a breathe and then stands in front of her, taking her hands in his
"You know I would never intentionally hurt you again right?"
She nods, knowing he wouldn't.
"Oh boy." He says and looks her straight in the eyes
"Luke, did you kiss her or something? Just tell me what happened?"
"I didn't kiss her or have sex with her!" he says kind of angry. "She came here to tell me that two years ago you know when the incident happened, she found out she was pregnant two months later. She came to tell me today that I have a two year old son."
Lorelai's eyes widened and she backs away from him. "A...you...her...son...two...I...gotta go." She turns and leaves the room. Walking through the hallway, she walks into the kitchen and starts the coffee pot. While its going, she starts pacing and eating a lot of cookies.
Luke just sighs and goes out to sit on the porch on the edge, getting wet. He just sits out there and thinks. He stays there for a good hour
Lorelai walks outside an hour later.
"Hey, I brought you some tea. I thought you might want some since its rainy and a little cold out." She offers shyly and quietly from the doorway.
He shakes his head
"I'm fine" He says and closes his eyes, putting his head in his hands
She walks over to the porch swing where he is sitting. "Come on, I made it just for you. It'll make you feel better."
"I'll drink it because you made it, but it is not going to make me feel better."
"Okay, here." She hands it to him. "So..umm..do you want to talk?"
"Well I would like that, but I tried talking to you earlier and you took off on me"
"I was in shock, can you blame me?"
"No, I don't blame you. I don't know what to do." He says looking to her for support
"Don't look at me. I have no idea what to do either." She says and sits next to him. "You should call Rachel." She says after being quiet for a few minutes.
"I want to talk to you."He says. "Right now that is what I want. I will call her later"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I am sure. I mean unless you don't want to talk about it then that's fine"
"Well I'm still kind of in shock. But we probably should talk about it."
"I know you are in shock and I'm really sorry to have to put you through this, and I'm sincerely sorry that I ever cheated on you." He says quietly, but in a serious tone.
"Yeah.."She says softly and for some reason tears start to form in her eyes as she relives all the events of 2 and a half years ago. "I'll be inside." Her voice cracks and goes inside, not letting a tear fall until she was sure Luke didn't see.
Luke sighs. He really needed her support, but he had a feeling he wasn't going to get it. She was going to give him the cold shoulder again like she did two years ago. He felt like he would never be forgiven
He took out Rachel's number and dialed it
"Hello?"She says
"Hi. Its me,Luke"
"Hey, I wasn't expecting a call from you for at least 3 days. Are you okay?"
"No, I'm not okay Rachel. Why didn't you tell me when you were pregnant? huh?"
"I already told you. I meant to..I just..I was scared and I didn't want to ruin your life anymore than I already had...so...did you tell Lorelai yet?"
"Yeah. I told her and I think I just hurt her all over again. Things will never be right between me and her." He says and Lorelai can hear everything. She is standing at the door. She was going to come back out, but saw Luke on the phone
Lorelai grabs her coat and walks over to Luke. "I'm going to go out for a minute to the you need anything?" She offers him.
"No." He says in a single toned voice.
"Alright." She gets into her jeep and drives into town.
"Was that Lorelai?" Rachel asks over the phone.
"yeah it was why?'
"I was just wondering thats all. Do you want to come over to my place so that we can talk? You can meet Jake if you want to."
"Rachel I don't know. I'd have to wait until Lorelai gets back because it is just me here with the kids and besides if I tell her I'm going to your place, she might say I'm going to cheat on her."
"Well..what if you came over here anyway. Your oldest daughters there. Come on, please, just come over. What harm will it do?"
"Rachel, my wife is not home and i am not leaving my children here alone. Kate is only 14. She can not watch after four kids."
"Yeah, sorry you're right. How about when Lorelai gets back?"
"I'll see okay." He says.
"Okay, well I have to go now. Jake's waking up from his nap."
"okay" he says and they hang up.
He goes back in the house and sits down, watching a movie with the kids
Lorelai comes back in the house 15 minutes later with a shopping bag of food. "Hey guys, I bought some more snacks."
"Yay!" they cheer and go to Lorelai taking the bag out of her hand.
She smiles as the kids take the bag into the kitchen to see whats in there. Luke and Lorelai's eyes meet from across the room. They walk slow at first towards each other, then faster until Lorelai is wrapped in Luke's arms.
"You know I love you very much no matter what right?" He says, kissing her head.
She nods. "Yeah I know, I love you too. That was Rachel on the phone before wasn't it?" She asks curiously. Taking his hand and leading both of them to the couch.
"Yeah it was and she wants me to go over there to meet Jake, my son, but I don't think its a good idea."
She thinks about it for a minute. "You know...maybe you should go. I mean if not now, when? Because I know you, you want to get to know your son."
"Are you sure?" He asks and she nods.
"Ok. Well I guess I should go over then" He says and gets up, but turns around and kisses Lorelai quickly
"I wont be long. I promise."
"Wait Luke," She goes to the door and kisses him hard and moves her hands up and down him. "Thats to remember what you get to come home to." She says with a grin and big smile.
"Your so not fair." He says.
"You're making me not want to go."
"Thats kind of the point. Now go!" She orders him and slaps his butt.
"I'll get you back Mrs. Danes" He says and leans into to kiss her, but tricks her and pulls away
"Hey!" She yells at him. "That was mean!"
"You wont be saying that later tonight" He yells as he gets in his truck
She gives him an evil look from the doorway, then shakes her head laughing and closes the door.
"Alright you guys, who's ready to play another game?"
"Me!" Colin yells.
About five minutes later, luke arrived at Rachel's. He got out and slowly walked to the door and knocked.
She smiles a little. "Luke, hey. I didn't you were coming over right now. I would have changed." She says, kind of embarrassed because she is in her pajamas and her hair is a mess.
"You like fine. Don't worry about it." He says
"Thanks..well come on in, its horrible out." She let's him come in and closes the door behind him.
"So, can I get you something to drink? Tea? Water?"
"Um no thank you. I am not very thirsty."
"Alright, well come have a seat."
As Luke sits down a little boy comes waddling over. "Mama, I no sleepy no more."
"Well come here and sit on my lap." She says and picks up Jake, giving him a hug. She smiles at Luke.
"This is him. Jacob William McKinley, I wasn't sure if you would be mad if i gave him your last name, so i just gave him mine."
"Oh Rachel, I wouldn't have minded."
Jake hides in his mom's shoulder. "Jakey, there's somebody I want you to meet."
"Who?" He asks, looking at her.
"This is your daddy."Rachel says and points to Luke.
"My daddy? You mean like Teryn has?" He asks.
"Yup...Teryn is a friends of mines little girl." Rachel explains.
He nods "Hi Jake."
He waves. "Hi." He says shyly. "I two ears sold."
"Ts that so?" Luke asks. "I thought you looked about five." He teases.
"Nu uh. just two ears sold."
Luke smiles.
"Okay. If you say so."
He hops off Rachel's lap and walks over to Luke. "Wanna see my trucks?"
"Sure." He says and stands up. He follows Jake to his room.
"Dis is my favorite. Its a bulldozer." He hands it to Luke. Rachel is in the doorway, smiling.
"What about this one?" He says and picks up a fire truck.
"Dats a fire fuk."
"Is that so?" Luke says, trying not to laugh at his pronunciation of the truck
"You like playing with cars?" Luke asks.
"I lay with all toys. dey are my favorite."
Luke smiles and sits with him a few more minutes and then gets up and walks over with Rachel.
"You play for a little while honey. I'm going to talk with daddy." Rachel tells Jake.
"Daddy, you stay ear now?" Jake asks Luke, looking up from his toys.
"Um no buddy. I can't stay here permanently, but I can stay for awhile."
"Kay." He says, seeming happy with that answer, and goes back to playing with his toys.
"He resembles you a lot" Luke says to Rachel as they walk to the living room
"Thanks...he reminds me of you too."
"How is that? I see nothing of me in him"
"He's got your eyes."
"I guess" He says and shrugs
They talk for about an hour and then Luke looks at the time
"Rachel, I really need to get going."
"Are you sure you don't want to stay for lunch?"
"No, I can't. I always try to have lunch with Lorelai and the kids when I have a day off. I'm sorry. I promised her."
"Okay, I understand. Thanks for coming over."
"no problem." He says
"I'll um call you later"He says and hugs her out of respect
"Alright, great."
He smiles and then walks out
He gets home and walks in the living room
"Wheres mom?" Luke asks
"Upstairs changing Madison." Brendan says
He nods and goes upstairs
"Hey" He says as he enters the bedroom
She turns around and smiles. "Oh hey, how'd it go?"
"It went pretty well I think. He looks like Rachel the most."
"Oh come on, I'm sure he looks like you too. Is he cute?"
"He's very cute." he says and shows her a picture on his phone of luke holding him
"Aw, Luke he's adorable. What are you talking about he doesn't look like you? Of course he does. he has your eyes."
"Thats what Rachel said"
"Well its true."
He nods and then puts an arm around her, giving her a light kiss
"Sorry for teasing you earlier."
She giggles. "Thats alright..but you'll need to find some way to make it up to me."
"I think I can arrange that, but we will have to tonight when the kids are sleeping." He says
"We don't want Colin coming in on our game"
"Yeah, good idea."
He laughs
"How's Miss Madison today?"
"She's great."
"Thats good" he says and Maddy smiles.
"Yup, she's a 6 month old perfect little girl."
Luke just smiled.
"What do you want for lunch?" He asks.
"I'm not hungry right now. Thanks anyway hun." She says with a smile. Then goes back to playing with Madison.
"You're welcome." He says back and kisses her on the cheek.
"Love you."
She smiles. "Love you too."
"Bring Madison downstairs with us and we can watch a movie"
"Okay, sounds good."
They walk downstairs and pick out a movie to watch. The kids gather around and sit down too.
Luke and Lorelai sit next to each other, lorelai leaning into luke, as he wraps and arm around her and the movie begins
"What movie are we watching?"
"Um...I'm not sure."
"Kelsey what movie did you put in?" Luke asks.
"Enchanted."
Lorelai laughs as Luke groans.
"Hey you told me to pick."
"Oh come on hun, this is a great movie."
"Fine." He says and then whispers to her.
"You owe me."
She giggles and Kelsey says.
"Now don't get gross."
They watch the movie and enjoy the rest of the day together.
The next is a beautiful summer day. The temperature hovered around 80, with a cool breeze so it wasn't too hot out. They all decided to spend the day outside, relaxing. THe kids played in the back yard, and went swimming. Lorelai put a bathing suit on Madison and went in the pool with her. She loved it. She was splashing her hands in the water and giggling. Luke is playing ball with the the kids because they wanted to start a ball game.
Madison was splashing away and Lorelai smiled
Madison laughed and then she said it
"Mama." She laughs again.
Lorelai stopped in shock. "What did you just say little girl?" She asks, even though her daughter wouldn't be able to understand the question.
She wouldn't repeat it and just kept splashing.
Lorelai smiles. After a few more minutes, Madison starts to get a little whining, and cold. So Lorelai takes her out. dries her off, changes her and puts her down for a nap upstairs. Lorelai takes the baby monitor back outside with her and puts it on the picnic table. Then she sits on the lounge chair and relaxes with a magazine.
All of the kids finally finish the game and run into the pool and jump off the edge.
Luke comes and sits next to Lorelai and looks at what she is reading.
"A Cosmo? Interesting" He smirks.
"I just felt like reading a magazine. This was the closest one."
"uh huh..you sure you weren't interested in increasing your bust size, the less painful way to go?" He teases, mocking the headline on the cover.
"Ew no, i didn't even read the cover."
He laughs at her.
"Good because I love you the way you are" He say and then picks her up and suddenly throws her in the pool.
"Hey!" She screams after she comes up from under water. "You are so gonna pay for that. Kids, go get your dad!" Lorelai orders with a grin.
They all laugh and run to get him.
He throws all the kids in one by one and then he jumps in and Lorelai jumps on his back.
"Haha, gotcha." Lorelai giggles. Luke didn't realize that little Colin was crying, holding onto the side of the pool with his swimmies on.
"Daddy, why did you do that?" He cries and yells at him.
"Do what buddy?" He asks.
"You throwed me in the deep end, not the shallow end." He says and moves slowly to Lorelai.
"Oh baby, I'm sure daddy didn't mean to." She explains, Colin is holding onto her tightly, fearful of swimming on his own.
"Hey buddy. I didn't mean to do it." he says soothing him.
"You wanna splash me or something?"
"No." He mumbles.
"Oh come on, you and me can be a team. We can try and catch daddy and splash him."
That makes Colin smile a little. "Okay." He splashes an angry splash at Luke.
"Alright, that was a good one. Get him again."
Luke laughs
"You feel better buddy?' he asks him.
"No." He states and splashes him again and again and again.
"Okay, okay. Thats enough. I think daddy got what he deserved."
"I don't want to swim anymore mommy." He says in a cute small voice.
She rubs his back. "Alright, you want a snack honey?"
"Will you get me a snack and lay on the blanket in the grass with me?"
"Sure I will baby. Let's get you dried off." Lorelai looks at Luke as she and Colin get out of the pool. "Luke, could you keep an eye on the rest of the kids." He nods and goes to play with his other kids.
Lorelai gets Colin all dried off, then he goes and gets a blanket while she gets the cookies and carrots that he loves for a snack. Just as they are about to go outside, the door bell rings.
"Hang on Col, someone's at the door."
"Kay." He follows his mom to the door.
She opens it and sees Rachel and Jake at the door. "Rachel?"
"Hi Lorelai, I'm sorry for just coming over like this but Jakey really got along with Luke and wants to see him. Is that okay?"
Meanwhile Colin is eyeing the two year old up and down, he doesn't want some new kid coming in on his territory, its bad enough he's got Madison.
"Um, sure. Come on in."
She leads them outside and then over to the pool
"Luke come here a minute" she yells and he gets out and sees Rachel
"Rachel, Hi"
"Daddy!" Jake runs over to Luke and hugs his legs.
Colin drops the blanket, runs over to Luke and pushes Jake away. "Hey! Thats my daddy, not yours!"
"My daddy" jake says
"He is mine!" Colin says and pushes Jake away
Lorelai picks up Colin
"Colin stop it" She says, not in a mean tone, but a serious one because she knew Colin didn't quite understand.
"Mommy, put me downnnn." Colin whines. Lorelai outs him down but holds his hand.
"Come on, let's go lay on the blanket with our snacks." She says, trying to distract him.
"No, I stay here with my daddy, you go nap. You are the one that needs it" Colin says.
"No, come on. I want to hang out with my super cool 4 year old son."
"I'm super cool?" He asks turning around, asking his mother.