A/N should have posted this earlier, I wanted to write more but I didn't have more. argh. Hope you guys like this short chapter :)
Chapter 35: Part 2
July 8th 1993 9pm
' That was easy.' Luke plotted his butt on the bed next to the kids'.
Lorelai removed her shoes and laid beside Luke, 'I can't believe Jess and Rory didn't even refuse sleeping beside each other.'
Luke chuckled before yawning, ' They were too tired to care about getting a baby sleeping together on the same bed.'
Lorelai turned to her sides, she was caressing Luke's side hair with her fingers, ' Can't believe those two little bookworms had that much energy in them.'
' Kids will always be kids when it comes to fun.' Luke mumbled, his eyes were closed, the two kids had worn him out completely today.
' So what about New York? You never told me we're going to New York after Florida.' Lorelai questioned her sleepy boyfriend.
' Jess was just messing around. There's nothing about New York.' Luke explained, he then tossed to his side and looked at Lorelai with his blue eyes. ' Now tell me, what are you hiding out from me? Hmm?'
Lorelai hit Luke's chest playfully, ' Hey, I asked you a question first mister.'
' I gave you the answer, Jess was kidding.' Luke replied.
' You're a terrible liar you know that?' Lorelai wrapped her arms around Luke's neck before giving him a kiss.
Luke returned his girl a soft kiss on her lips, ' That depends on who you ask. Now tell me what Rory was about to say this morning.'
Lorelai gave Luke her cunning smile again, she put her hands on his cheeks and kissed him passionately. ' Will tell you when the time is right. Now is not the time.'
Luke grinned, slowly wrapping his arms around Lorelai's waist, ' Then what is it time for right now?'
' Luke you know the kids are literally sleeping on the bed next to ours right?' Lorelai whispered.
Luke whispered back, ' Shhh..listen.'
' Listen to what?' Lorelai whispered.
' Just listen.'
The couple stopped talking and listened for a good ten seconds.
Luke spoke up, ' You hear the snoring?'
Lorelai nodded.
' They are out like lights, don't worry.' Luke whispered and pulled up the blanket over their bodies.
'If Jess and Rory ask about how babies are made of tomorrow morning, you're answering it, mister.' Lorelai joked before embracing into Luke.
July 9th 6am
The hotel phone rang.
Luke reached the phone, lifting his right arm out of the blanket, 'Hello?'
' Good morning sir, this is your morning call.'
' Oh right. Thanks.'
' Have a good day sir.'
' You too, bye.'
Luke slowly slipped out of the blanket, sitting up from the bed. He turned his head around and saw Lorelai still deep asleep and he looked at the other bed, the two kids were not on their bed.
He walked to the balcony in his sweatpants and white tank, he saw Jess and Rory sitting across each other, looking serious. He stood behind and listened to the conversation.
' I can sell all my shares at the Yankees for the baby, I guess.' Jess muttered, staring down at his shoes.
Rory replied sadly, ' Yea, but I really don't want a baby. I don't think I can go to Harvard and become a great news reporter if I have to take care of the baby.'
' Well, the baby won't be a baby anymore by then, he or she can take care of themselves. Don't worry, I don't want to go to Harvard or become a news reporter, I can take care of the kid.' Jess looked at Rory, trying to comfort her as best as he can. ' I'm also going to learn how to make good chocolate chip pancakes from Luke so I can make delicious breakfast for the baby.'
Rory was staring at the ground the entire time, ' So when are we going to tell Luke and my mom?'
Jess looked at Rory all worried, ' Do we have to? Uncle Luke's gonna be so mad at me.'
Luke pushed through the door and tried to keep a still face entering, ' Hey morning kids.'
Both Jess and Rory jumped out of their seats, they thought the adults were still asleep.
Jess was too scared to look at Luke, he stared at his shoes, holding Rory's hand.
Luke sighed, he sat down at one of the chairs, ' I heard the conversation okay.'
' It was an accident. I didn't know why I was sleeping next to Rory. I woke up and I saw her next to me.' Jess panicked.
' Calm down Jess. Look, I think it's about time that you two know that, sleeping together on the same bed will not lead to a baby, okay? It doesn't work like that.' Luke assured the kids.
' But last time, you and mommy agreed.' Rory added, all confused.
Luke nodded, ' I know, I know. We thought you guys were too young to know the truth so we played along, okay? So don't worry.'
Both Jess and Rory had a sigh of relief moment.
' Then if this is not how babies come from, where do they come from Uncle Luke?' Jess looked at Luke with his big brown eyes and messy wake up hair.
' Yeah, where do they come from, Luke?' Rory added to the curious Jess.
Luke looked at these two little eight years old innocent kids still hugging their stuff animals in their arms, he opened his mouth, but no words came out. He couldn't.
' Tell us Uncle Luke.' Jess asked again.
Luke took a deep breathe, 'okay so to make a baby... you need um, a boy and a...uh..girl okay?'
The two kids nodded, paying great attention.
' Then...' Luke was struggling again, all that was up on his mind was how screwed he is right now.
' Then both the boy and the girl have to love each other very much first.'
Jess scratched his head and frowned, ' Well, what is much?'
'Uh, much is uh, a lot. It's a feeling that you won't get until you both are waaaaay older.' Luke's getting more and more nervous.
' How old?' Rory asked innocently.
' Like as old as me and your mommy.' Luke thought that was the best answer.
Rory looked at Luke with a disbelief face, ' So you mean, I don't really love mommy very much until I'm mommy's age?'
' No, no, not like that. Loving your mommy is different from loving a boy Rory. You will get it when you are my age.' Luke explained.
' But I love Rory and Rory is a girl.' Jess challenged innocently.
' Kids love and adults love are different okay?'
' What's the difference?' Jess asked again.
Luke was out of ideas, ' okay bottom line is, kids cannot make babies okay? Only adults. And that's all you guys have to know for now. Who's hungry? I sure am. Let's all get downstairs for some breakfast okay?' Luke then ushered both confused kids back into the hotel room, ignoring their questions.
'Lorelai. Lorelai.' Luke lightly shook Lorelai who was still deep asleep in the bed.
'What?' A hoarse tired voice came up from the blanket.
' It's 6:30, you should get dressed. The alligator farm tour is at 10 remember? We still have to drive there.'
Lorelai slowly showed her head up and arms up from the blanket, ' It's 6:30 only, Luke. I'm sure even the alligators are still sleeping at 6:30! Besides, we don't need more than 3 hours to get there.'
Luke sighed, ' Fine, I'll set the alarm clock to 7:30am while I bring the kids downstairs to the breakfast buffet okay?'
' Good idea.' Lorelai went back inside the blanket. Luke held both Jess and Rory's hands, ready to get out of the hotel room.
Lorelai shouted from the bed, ' Bring me coffee please Luke?'
Before Luke replied, Jess commented, ' You're gonna be a big fat pig someday, lazy Lorelai!'
Luke lightly smacked the back of Jess' head, ' That's not nice Jess. Apologize.'
' Sorry.' Jess apologized unwillingly and then muttered under his breathe with a cunning smirk on his face 'Lazy Lorelai Pig.'
' Okay we'll grab some coffee for you. You better be ready when we come back lazy pig!' Luke teased and closed the door before Lorelai had the chance to stomp up with pillows in hand ready to smack him.
' The scrambled eggs look different from the ones you make, Uncle Luke.' Jess picking up a piece of the egg and unwillingly put it into his mouth.
He chewed it a little and spitted it back out, ' This is disgusting, it tastes like sand! Can I just eat the bacon?'
' No. You either finish it or you're not going to the alligator farm later.' Luke replied while helping Rory cut her pancakes into pieces.
' But it tastes like crap. Try it.' Jess pushed his fork in front of Luke's face.
Luke sighed and actually took a bite of the egg, he chewed and spitted it out, ' Jeez, who the heck cooked this?!'
Jess giggled at Luke's reaction, ' Told you.'
' Okay you don't have to eat the eggs, but finish the bacon and go grab an apple.'
Jess nodded and went to grab an apple by the buffet table.
' So Rory, what were you saying yesterday when I said that this will be the one and only time I'll be carrying 3 people at once?'
Rory covered her mouth with her hands and shook her head, ' It's a secret, I can't tell you. Mom said if I tell you, santa's not coming to our house this year.'
Luke was about to break the Santa truth to Rory in desperation to know what the secret was but reminded himself that she's only 8, he couldn't ruin Christmas for the little girl.
' Can you at least give me a tiny little hint?'
Rory shook her head again, 'Sorry.'
Jess got back from getting an apple, he was trying to finish eating the apple as fast as he could, he was so excited to meet real alligators today.
' Done!' Jess said with his mouth full, ' Can we go now?'
Rory added, ' I'm done too, can we go now please?'
Luke took the napkin on the table and told Jess to walk up to him. Jess stood beside him, still chewing apples.
' Uncle Luke, if they have alligator stuffed animals can I buy one?' Jess said while mouth full.
Luke looked at him sternly, ' How many times did I tell you not to talk when you have your mouth full? Come here.'
Jess swallowed down the food in his mouth while Luke took the napkin and wiped the milk stain on the boy's upper lip. ' If you behave yourself there, I'll think about it.'
Jess happily hopped back to his seat while Luke proceed to wipe the biscuit crumbs on the corner of Rory's mouth then held the two kids' hands walking towards the elevator.
When the three got back to their hotel room, they were surprised as Lorelai was up and ready to go already. Luke gave Lorelai the cup of coffee and the four headed down to their car and to the Alligator farm.
Jess and Rory were in the backseat reading a book about alligators together while the adults were reading a map and finding directions to the farm.
' Trust me. I know it's this right turn.' Luke told Lorelai while focusing on driving.
' How are you so sure? Are you the GPS system? Look at this map, it says the next right turn.' Lorelai argued.
Luke sighed, ' I don't need no map. Just watch, it is this right turn.'
' How much are you betting that it is?' Lorelai challenged.
Luke scoffed, still watching the road, ' Pfff, none? Cause it's ridiculous.'
' Ha! You don't even believe in yourself! I knew it!' Lorelai teased.
' Are we there yet?' Jess asked from the backseat.
' Nope my dear child, I'm predicting 3 hours more, cause your Uncle Luke is not following the directions given.' Lorelai replied.
' What! 3 Hours?! We'll be in Connecticut at this rate!' Jess whined.
'No, we'll be there in 5 minutes. Just watch.' Luke replied.
After 5 minutes.
Luke pulled up the car at the parking lot of the Alligator farm. He smirked, ' Where's my money Lorelai?'
Lorelai looked at Luke with skeptical eyes, ' Witchcraft! This is impossible!'
' Yea right.' Luke chuckled.
The two kids unbuckled their seat belts and were already getting out of the car.
'Hold up you two!' Luke ran to catch up with two excited kids.
Luke stopped the two kids from running, he bent down, looking at them eye to eye.
' Let's lay down some rule first.' Luke stated.
Jess rolled his eyes, ' We know the rules Uncle Luke! Stick to you like glue right? Same with the aquarium trip we went. We already know the rules.'
' And do you remember what happened?' Luke reminded Jess.
' Yea, yea, I won't kick any toy up in the air again. Okay?' Jess replied frustratedly, the fact that the alligators is just few steps away from him got him too excited.
'Okay, one additional rule to the previous rule is that DO NOT. I'm serious okay, DO NOT put your hand into the water when we're on the boat. I'm dead serious. No warning no nothing, we're going back to the hotel if one of you put your hand even an inch out of the boat, understand?'
' Okay.' Jess and Rory both replied before Luke grabbed both of them with both arms and ran to the centre with Lorelai following them behind.
A/N: Wrote this 2 weeks ago, wanted to write more, but couldn't think of something super interesting yet. Let me know what you guys wanna see in the coming chapter! That would sure help me start going! Thanks for reading and reviewing! Always appreciate it.
on a side note guys, been working on a Luke Danes twitter account lately, Luke_Danes_ (Profile picture is Luke in a grey shirt smiling, backward baseball cap) if you guys love Luke Danes, feel free to check it out, it's basically a peep into Luke's life.
Anon1, thanks for your review! Ha, not giving you any hints, yet. :p So I guess your boys love nature and all that? Coz Canada has nothing but great natural sights. This Euro has turned out to be the greatest of all time for me. I've been waiting for a day like this for 12 years. I still remember being a little kid crying myself to sleep after the Euro finals 2004 when Portugal lost to Greece. And this year, I get to shed tears of joy :') So sorry about England, they will get there next time, they have good strikers and a stronger defense than previous years, just need a better coach in my opinion.
Nancy, thanks for your review! Lol, the girl can dream haha, Lorelai is one crazy gal. Luke's really the man of everyone's dream, seriously. Luke set the bar so high, we all get so picky in guys lol (may be just me :P) yes, big surprises, big surprises...
