The next morning, Lorelai woke up and immediately noticed that Rory was no longer in her room. She quickly got up and headed downstairs. She found Rory in her bedroom, unpacking a box.

"Morning, sweets," Lorelai greeted her.

Rory looked up. "Oh, morning Mom,"

"Unpacking your books from Yale?" Lorelai asked even though it was obvious that was what Rory was doing.

"Yeah. I'm actually about to head back there. I still have some things that I need to get there." Rory said quietly. She walked out of her room and Lorelai followed her to the kitchen.

"Okay. Well, I was going to go to Luke's for breakfast. Want to join me?" Lorelai asked as she watched Rory pour coffee into a travel mug.

"Oh, no sorry, I'd rather just head to Yale right now and just get everything out of my dorm this morning. Tell Luke I said 'hi' though." Rory replied.

Lorelai frowned. She was worried that Rory was trying to distract herself from thinking about their conversation last night.

"Okay… but um if you need to talk about anything you let me know." Lorelai said quickly.

"I will. It just hasn't really sunk it yet, you know? It's hard to believe it's really happening to you." Rory replied.

Lorelai noticed that Rory said "it". She was seemed to be uncomfortable saying the "C" word. She didn't want to upset Rory so she didn't say the word either. "I know, it's hasn't sunk in for me either. And I'm going to tell Luke today. Probably Sookie too." She exhaled.

"What about Grandma and Grandpa?" Rory asked.

Lorelai took a few seconds to reply. "Well, tomorrow is Friday… I might as well wait until dinner tomorrow night. I can tell them then."

Rory's brow furrowed, but she decided not to tell Lorelai that she disagreed with that decision. "Okay. Well, I'm gonna head out. I'll probably have lunch with Logan, so don't expect me to be back until later." She started walking towards the door, carrying her travel mug and her purse.

"Alright, hon. Drive safe." Lorelai told her. They kissed each other on the cheek before Rory walked out the door.

Lorelai found her purse and headed out the door. On the walk to Luke's, she started imagining Luke's reaction to her news. She hoped he wouldn't be upset that she had kept it from him this long.

When she arrived at the diner, Luke looked up, saw it was her and stopped wiping down a table and walked over to her.

"Hey." He greeted her with a smile and a quick kiss.

Lorelai was surprised as she was the one who usually initiated PDA. She gave him a small smile.

"Can we talk upstairs?" She asked him.

Luke frowned. "Um, sure, I'll meet you up there in couple minutes."

Lorelai walked up to the apartment. She didn't sit down as she was too anxious.

Luke came up a couple minutes later. He closes the door behind him.

"Want to sit down?" He asks.

Lorelai shakes her head. She bit her lip and tried to stay calm.

"Are you okay?" Luke reached out and touched her arm.

"No." Lorelai whispered. "I need to tell you something." She didn't meet his eye.

"What is it? You can tell me anything, you know?" Luke sounded worried.

"I… I have cancer." Lorelai said quietly.

"What?" Luke wasn't sure he heard her right.

"I've been diagnosed with breast cancer, Luke." She said clearly.

"You… how did you find out?" Luke lets out a deep breath and takes off his hat, runs his hand through his hair then puts the hat back on.

"I'm sorry… I didn't tell you this but I noticed I had a symptom, so I went to the doctor and they did all of these tests and my doctor just told me yesterday that it's breast cancer. They're going to confirm it and tell me how serious it is when they get the biopsy results back." Lorelai told him.

Luke stares at her. "I… you had a biopsy? And other tests? You went through all of that alone?" He asked.

Lorelai blinks. "Yeah, I didn't want to worry anyone if it was nothing."

"You should have told me… or Rory. We would have been there in a heartbeat." Luke said matter-of-factly.

"I know and I'm sorry." Lorelai replies in a low voice. She could tell he was upset.

Luke nods slowly. "It's okay, I get that you didn't want to worry us." He stepped closer to her. "This may be a dumb question, but how are you feeling?" He tried to meet her eyes but she was looking away.

Lorelai sighed. "I'm… it's surreal you know? I don't want to believe it's happening to me but it is. And I have to deal with it; I can't pretend it doesn't exist." She stopped as Luke took her in his arms.

"Everything is going to be okay, you're going to beat this." He told her.

She laughed half-heartedly. "Rory said the exact same thing."

"Well she was right." He whispered back.

She let him hold her and rub her back. He pulled back a little and kissed her forehead.

"Hey… I know I don't say this enough, but I love you." He said gently.

Lorelai smiled at him. He had only said those words once, when they got back together after their breakup. She knew he wasn't just saying it just because of the circumstances.

"I love you too." She told him.

He smiled. "You want some breakfast?" He asked.

"Yeah, I'd love some pancakes and bacon, oh and a side of hash browns!" She said enthusiastically. She was trying to keep a positive attitude.

"Okay." Luke said simply. She followed him downstairs and took a seat at the counter. Luke gives the order to Caesar and stands behind the counter on the other side of Lorelai.

He looks around the diner. Lorelai follows his gaze and notices that there is only one customer at a table.

"So, are Rory and I the only ones that know?" Luke asked quietly.

Lorelai nodded. "Yeah, I think I'll tell Sookie today though."

"Let me know if I can uh help with anything. "

"I will." She touched his hand lightly.

Lorelai ate breakfast quickly. Before she left the diner, Luke leaned over the counter and kissed her goodbye.

When she arrived at the Inn, she decided to pull Sookie aside and tell her right away. She didn't feel right keeping something this big from her best friend and she didn't want Sookie hearing it from someone else.

She went into the kitchen and found Sookie chopping vegetables.

Sookie glanced up, "Good morning."

"Morning. Um Sookie, can I talk to you about something?"

"Sure, talk I'm listening." Sookie kept on chopping.

"I meant in private. Can you come to my office for a minute?" Lorelai replied.

Sookie stopped chopping. "Oh. Okay." She starts to follow Lorelai to her office. She looked at Lorelai's face. "Is everything okay?"

Lorelai didn't answer until they stepped inside her office. "I need to tell you something." She told Sookie with a straight face.

Sookie frowned, but then a hint of a smile crossed her face. "Oh my god, are you pregnant? You and Luke are having a baby?"

"Sookie no, trust me that's not what I have to tell you. It isn't a good thing." Lorelai exhaled.

Sookie frowned again. "Oh no," She looked Lorelai in the eye. "Just tell me, I can handle it." She said firmly.

"Okay. I have breast cancer. I found out yesterday." Lorelai kept her eyes on Sookie and watched her reaction.

Sookie nodded slowly. She seemed to have trouble taking the information in. "Wow. I uh… I wasn't expecting that."

Lorelai gave her a tentative smile. "I know. It's a lot to take in. I'm still reeling myself."

"Did you tell Rory…and Luke?" Sookie pondered.

"Yeah," Lorelai answered simply.

"What about your parents?"

"No, not yet I'm waiting until tomorrow night's dinner."

"Well, I'm glad you told me. I'll always be here if you want to talk, Lorelai. You can tell me anything." Sookie gave her a small smile.

"I know, Sook. Thank you." Lorelai pulled Sookie into a hug.

They chatted a little about what Lorelai had gone through before they went back to work.

Rory parked at Yale and walked over to her dorm. She had called Logan before she left the house and told him to meet her outside her dorm. She found him waiting on a bench.

"Hey Ace." He stands up and she greets him with a kiss.

He follows her inside.

"Can you help me carry some boxes to my car?" She asked him.

"Sure." He replied.

They spent the next half hour filling Rory's car with boxes. As Rory packs the rest of her things in bags, Logan watches her.

"Hey, is everything okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, why?" She answered.

"I don't know something about you seems off."

Rory sighed heavily and sat down next to him on the couch. "I don't know if I should be telling you this, but last night my mom told me that she has cancer."

"Oh, wow… that's… how are you handling it?" Logan asked, clearly concerned.

Rory doesn't reply.

"That was a dumb question wasn't it?"

Rory looked at him. "I don't know… I'm just a little scared I guess. I've never known anyone with cancer and I don't know what's going to happen. It's so strange that it's happening to my mom, you know?" She felt tears start to fill her eyes.

Logan moved closer to her and put his arm around her. "Well, that's normal, to be scared I mean. I may not know a lot about the subject, but you can talk to me about it. I'll listen."

Rory just snuggled up to him and whispered, "Thank you." She didn't really how to feel or what to say. But she was glad to have Logan to by her side.

When Lorelai got home from work that night, she turned on the T.V. and tried to relax. Rory had called and told her that she would be arriving home late. She flipped through the channels and stopped when she saw a woman asleep on a hospital bed. She left the channel on and watched as a man who appeared to be the woman's husband, sat next to her bed and put his head in his hand and sobbed. Lorelai grimaced and turned the T.V. off.

Her mind raced. She imagined herself to be in a hospital bed. She pictured Luke sitting next to her, looking worried. She also imagined Rory crying silently. Stop She told herself. She didn't know when she had started crying, but she tried to blink back her tears. Why am I alone right now? She asked herself. She knew it wasn't wise to be alone because it allowed her to think about how much her diagnosis scared her.

She picked up her cell phone and speed dialed Luke. It went straight to voicemail.

"Ugh." Lorelai was frustrated. The beep sounded. "Um, Luke it's me. Can you come over?" She tried not to sound too desperate.

While she waited for him to come over, she tried to read a book, but after reading the same sentence over and over again, she gave up. Thankfully, there was a knock at the door. She got up and practically ran over to the door. When she opened the door, she saw Luke standing there, holding a bag of food.

"Hey." He said gently. He took one look at her face and quickly stepped inside.

"Luke I'm…" She started to say.

"I know." He replied. He placed the food bag on the entryway table. He had barely put his hand out when she threw her arms around his neck.

She cried on his shoulder and he tried to soothe her with his words. "Shh, it's going to be okay." He held her tight.

Lorelai knew that he was just trying to comfort her. She knew there was no way he could guarantee that everything was going to be okay.

He held her until she pulled away. "Talk to me." He said calmly as he gently pushed hair off her face.

"I'm scared." She admitted. "I don't know what's going to happen and I'm just overwhelmed."

Luke nodded. "I understand. Let's sit down and talk."

Lorelai shook her head. "I don't want to talk that will make me more scared… I don't even want to think about it."

"Lorelai," He said softly. She looked him in the eye. "You can tell me your fears. If you don't want to talk right now, that's fine. But, I'm here for you."

"I know." She managed to give him a grateful smile. "I just um can we talk once we know more about what I'm dealing with?"

Luke saw the look of pain on her face and he didn't want to push her to talk.

"Okay." He said simply.

She grabbed his hand. "Come with me."

He let her drag him up to her bedroom. Once they got there, she closed the door, pulled him to her and kissed him.

Luke was a bit stunned, but he kissed her back. She began unbuttoning his flannel. He pulled away. "Lorelai…" he warned.

"Please Luke, just let me experience some pleasure right now." She begged.

He looked at her and her expression made him feel empathetic. He could tell she just wanted to feel happy right now; that she wanted to distract herself. While he knew it wasn't exactly right, he went along with it.

He kissed her softly. She sighed against his lips and continued unbuttoning his flannel. They quickly shred their clothes and made their way to the bed. They made love slowly, Luke was very gentle and sweet and Lorelai appreciated it.

Afterwards they lied snuggled close together.

"Was that comfort sex? I'm sorry." Lorelai said quietly.

Luke shrugged. "I thought I was just making love to my girlfriend."

Lorelai giggled at that. "Since when do you call it 'making love'?"

Luke just shrugged again. Lorelai sighed and rested her head on his chest. He kissed her hair.

"Rory is coming home soon." She muttered, letting him know.

"I should get going then." He replied.

"No. Stay. Sleep here, she won't mind. Just make sure you put some clothes on."

"All right," He said simply.

They lied there for a few more minutes before Lorelai got up and headed to the shower.

About half an hour later, Rory returned home. She found Lorelai in the kitchen, eating the food Luke had brought.

"Any extra for me?" Rory asked.

Lorelai stopped chewing. "Oh hey, hon. Yeah, there's some extra fries."

Rory sat down next to Lorelai. They ate in silence.

Once they were finished eating, Rory said. "Sorry I left today."

Lorelai gave her a confused look. "You don't need to apologize. You had to get your stuff from Yale."

"Yeah… but what if you needed me?" Rory replied quietly.

Lorelai smiled softly. "I was fine. I told Luke and Sookie today. Luke's upstairs actually. He's spending the night here, that's okay right?"

Rory nodded. "How did they take it?"

"They were supportive, just like you. They said the right things." Lorelai said gently.

"I'll be there… tomorrow when you tell Grandma and Grandpa." Rory told her.

Lorelai reached out and touched Rory's hand. "I know." She said simply.

They both stood up at the same time and collided in a hug. They knew without saying so that the other needed comfort.

When they pulled apart, Rory muttered: "I'm gonna need help bringing in the boxes from my car."

Lorelai laughed a little. "Well, I've got a big, strong man upstairs. I'm sure he'd be willing to help."

The three of them spent the next forty five minutes moving the boxes. Later, in bed, Lorelai cuddled up to Luke without saying a word and he kissed her goodnight. They stayed close together through the night.

Author's note: Thank you for the reviews, favourites and follows. I never really expected to have this many follows after only one chapter… I hope you like the story and please know that reviews and feedback are appreciated.