Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls or anything to do with it, just this story idea.
Rating: G... but I think it's still sweet.
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4 days after the breakup....9 PM
Rory walks up the stairs with box of twinkies, pack of pop-tarts, and a cup of coffee...
Rory: Mom? Mom come on... please come out.
Lorelai: (sobbing) No...
Rory: What about wallowing? You need to wallow. I have all required wallowing material except the pizza and I can call them right now.
Lorelai (sobbing starts to lighten): Wallowing only works when you plan on getting over the person Rory... I can't just get over this.
Rory: Mom, I know that you really liked Luke. You were great friends. You can still be great friends but that won't happen unless you come out.
Lorelai: No Rory! Would you please just leave me alone? Just, please.
Rory: Well will you please eat something? You haven't come out of there for 3 days, you need food.
Lorelai: I can't.
Rory: Why not?
Lorelai: Oh come on.
Rory: Mom!
Lorelai: Let me guess what you have. A pack of poptarts, some coffee, and box of twinkies.
Rory: Well we were out of hohos
Lorelai: I see, I'll take you through this then.
Rory: Mo-(gets cut off)
Lorelai: What is my favorite food?
Rory: Coffee.
Lorelai: Coffee isn't a food but keep the coffee, what else?
Rory*sighs*: Burgers........
Lorelai: Can you make a burger?
Rory: Do you really want me to try?!
Lorelai: Who makes best burgers in the world?
Rory: Well I dono about you but I heard Al from Al's Pancake world makes one hell of a burger.
Lorelai: Rory!???
Rory*sighs*: Luke?
Lorelai: Yes and who was I in a serious relationship with?
Rory: Luke
Lorelai: Yes so right now if I would like any food what do you think I would like?
Rory: A burger?
Lorelai: From.....?
Rory: Lukes?
Lorelai: eee WRONG
Rory: well then what...
Lorelai: Nothing...
Rory: You have to.
Lorelai: Food makes me want coffee...
Rory: But I have coffee...
Lorelai: Coffee makes me want a burger...
Rory: I can get you a burger.
Lorelai (starting to cry again): Burgers and coffee make me want.................
Rory: I'll leave you alone....(walks back down to kitchen)
1 hour later the doorbell rings
Sookie: Is she okay?
Rory: I went up about an hour ago and she wouldn't take any food.
Sookie: Not even the coffee?
Rory: Nope, she refused the coffee too.
Sookie: Wow... What are we gonna do?
Rory: I don't know. I hate seeing her like this.
Sookie: So do I hon.
Rory: She said she wants a burger and coffee but only Luke's burgers and coffee but it makes her think of him too much and then we get back to square one.
Sookie: Maybe if we got something from Luke's without her knowing it was from his diner.
Rory: I dono it's worth a shot. I'm going over right now.
Sookie: Okay honey I'll be up stairs trying to talk through the door if you need me.
Rory: K
5 minutes later Rory walks through the door of Luke's.....
Luke: (shouting from kitchen) WE'RE CLOSED!
Rory: Well I demand service!
Luke: (poking head out) Oh. Rory it's you. Sorry I thought it was Kirk, he's been coming in every half hour or so asking if I had any clean socks.... strange man.
Rory: Yeah, if Kirk's anything he's strange alright.
Luke: Yeah so uh... can I get you anything?
Rory: Yeah uh I need one burger with everything except pickles, onions, and the buns without the little seeds, 2 chocolate covered doughnuts, one piece of apple pie, and the HUGEST to go cup of coffee you can find.
Luke (looking surprised but sad): That's quite a bit of food.
Rory: Yeah well, we're kind of, in need.
Luke: Oh....
Rory: If it's too much trouble I can jus---
Luke: Oh no! It's fine it's fine.
Rory: Are you sure?
Luke: Yeah, absolutely.
Rory: Alright...
Luke (heading back to kitchen): So.... are uh, you and your uh, mom having a movie night or something?
Rory: Um.. well. Not exactly.
Luke: Well... Too much food for just you. Too much for the average person.(comes back out with burger, sees the concern in Rory's face) *sighs* It's for her isn't it?
Rory: Yeah.
Luke: You know I didn't wa--
Rory: You don't have to tell me this Luke, really. It's okay it's between you guys and I don't want to get in the middle and possibly make things worse so...
Luke: Yeah, you're right I'm sorry. Here let me get the rest of your stuff, here I'll put it in a box for ya.
Rory: Thanks
Luke Yeah... so uh. There ya go.
Rory: Thanks.... see ya
Luke: Yeah... see ya
A couple minutes later Rory walks up to the house to see Sookie on the porch swing.
Rory: What are you doing out here?
Sookie: Well, I went upstairs to try and talk to her and it was going okay for a while and then I offered to-
Rory: Sookie, no.
Sookie: Well I'm sorry but she needs to eat and I figured I could run over to my house pick up some things and whip her up something.
Rory: What'd she do?
Sookie: She kicked me out of the house.
Rory: So she came out?!
Sookie: Nope... her voice just sounded so angry and I just didn't want to question her authority more than I had to.
Rory: Well thanks for trying. I'll take it from here.
Sookie: Good luck...I'll see you tomorrow I have to get home, I left Jackson with the kids so, lord only knows what that'll mean.
Rory: Bye(walks into house and into the kitchen)
Rory puts the burger, pie, and 1 of the doughnuts on a plate, pours coffee into one of their own cups and walks up the stairs with them...
Rory: Mom?
Lorelai: What? Did Sookie come back in the house?
Rory: No, but I brought you some food.
Lorelai: Do we really have to go through this again.
Rory: Until you eat yes...
Lorelai: Fine. Get in here.
Rory walks into room to see her mother in her pajamas, eyes red a slightly swollen, and approximately 3 1/2 boxes of tissues in and around the trash can.
Rory: Mom......
Lorelai: I'm fine..
Rory: No you're not.
Lorelai: I know I'm not but I need to be. I should be.
Rory: You don't have to be. Not yet.
Lorelai: I know.....
(silence)
Lorelai: So where's my food?
Rory: Here
Lorelai: Where'd you get this?
Rory: Oh uh.....
Lorelai: Rory...?
Rory: Uh... Al's Pancake World?
Lorelai: Rory!?
Rory: Well.....
Lorelai: Did you really go over there and ask him for all this just to get me to eat?
Rory: Mom you have to eat something.
(tears start to swell up in Lorelai's eyes... she runs out into the hall to the bathroom)
Rory: MOM!
Lorelai: I'm sorry Rory. Go ahead and eat it, there's some pickles in the fridge so you can have it the way you like.
Rory, shaky and worried as hell, goes down into the kitchen and puts everything back in the Luke's Diner containers and put it in the fridge...picks up the phone and dials.
Luke: Hello?
Rory: Luke?
Luke: Rory? What? What's wrong did something happen to you?
Rory: No...
Luke: What is Lorelai hurt? Is she okay?
Rory: No.... no she's not okay! She's not okay and it's getting serious and I don't know what to do, I can't do it.
Luke: I'll be right over.
5 minutes there's a knock on the door. Rory answers. Luke sees that she was crying.
Luke: Are you okay?
Rory: Yes. I'm fine Luke but my mother...(walking into kitchen with Luke following her) no my mother's not.
Luke: Rory... I-
Rory: Luke. I love you like you were my father. You have been here every single time we needed you. You have never turned us away when we needed you and you were the best person I've ever seen my mother with.
Luke: Ro-
Rory: Luke... what happened?
Luke: Come on Rory! You know what happened!
Rory: No, what I know is that my mom is in love with you and probably has been for god only knows how long and that when my dad came to the wedding and opened his mouth, with the ultimate bad timing as usual because my grandmother who never gets off my mother's back told him to do all of this, and said something that possibly only he and my grandma believe and then my mother tried to chase you and get you back and then you dumped her Luke, you dumped her. And that is ALL I know!
Luke (still comprehending all of this): Lorelai said she loved me?
Rory: Come on Luke! You know she does! Everyone knows it. You guys should have been together way before you finally did get together.
Luke: Yeah we defiantly should have. It's sad that it took 3-4 relationships, 1 marriage, and one engagement to figure it out but still... we did it.
Rory: You did. So why aren't you still?
Luke: Rory, you just can't see it from my point of view can you? What he said. He sounded so sure of himself and she doesn't exactly have the best relationship skills in the world and, I didn't want to be the one left hanging. I didn't want to be the one who got hurt.
Rory: If she planned to break up with you and leave you hanging, do you think she'd be locked in the bathroom right now?
Luke: She's locked in the bathroom?
Rory: Yeah. I went in to take her the food, she found out it was from you and she ran out of her bedroom into the bathroom.
Luke: Oh.
Rory: She looked horrible... she hasn't eaten in three days.
Luke: 3 days!!!
Rory: Not unless the pizza guy will deliver to second story windows.
Luke: Oh my god...
Rory: Can I ask you something?
Luke: Sure.
Rory: Do you love her?
Luke: What?
Rory: Do you love her?!?
Luke: Well.... I guess I have feeling for her that are probably stronger than I've ever-
Rory: Luke...... do you love her?
Luke (a smile comes across his face): Yeah. I love her.
Rory: That's good.
Luke: That's good?
Rory: Yeah. I like that. I'll know she'll be happy.
Luke: I want her to be happy.
Rory: I know....
(silence)
Rory: Do you care if she's alive?
Luke: WHAT!
Rory: Well chances are, if she doesn't eat soon, she'll either be driven crazy from lack of caffeine, she hasn't had coffee in days by the way, or she'll slowly wither away into nothing.
Luke: Should I try to get her to eat?
Rory: Yeah. I think you should.
Luke: Well... alright.
Rory grabs the food and hands it to Luke who starts to head up the stairs.
Rory: Oh Luke?
Luke: Yeah?
Rory: Question her authority all you want.
Luke: What?
Rory: Trust me.
A little confused and scared Luke goes up to Lorelai's room and sets the food on her nightstand. he walks slowly to the bathroom door. He hears soft crying...
Luke (speaking very softly): Lorelai?
(Rustling from inside the bathroom)
Luke: Lorelai?
Lorelai:(sniffling and wiping away her tears attempting to sound "fine") Uh.. yeah?
Luke: Can we uh... can we talk?
Lorelai: I think that's what we are doing.
Luke: Well can I uh. come in?
Lorelai: Is it required?
Luke: Well, it would just make it easier.
Lorelai: For who?
Luke: Well, uh.....
Lorelai: Luke why are you here?
Luke: Rory called. She was worried about you and, you haven't eaten Lorelai... she says you look bad and that you really need to eat and. I never wanted to do this to you. You know I'd never do this to you on purpose. Like I told Rory I didn;t want to be the one left hanging and I thought that's what you might have done.
Lorelai: What, because of Christopher and what he said?
Luke: Well, uh. Yeah I guess so...
Lorelai: God Luke! Do you REALLY think I'd just do that to you?
Luke: I didn't know! All I knew was I loved you and I didn't want to---
Lorelai: What?
Luke: What what?
Lorelai: What did you just say?
Luke: Uh.. well.
Lorelai: You can come in...
Luke: yeah?
Lorelai: If you must.
Luke: Oh uh. Okay.....uhm could you unlock the door?
Lorelai: It's not locked.
Luke: Oh, it's just Rory said it was and....
Lorelai: Well it's not so if you're going to come in come in.
Luke opens the door to see Lorelai the way she was when Rory saw her with her eyes slightly more red and puffy sitting on the floor by the sink Luke put the toilet lid down and sits across from her on top of it.
Luke: I uh.... well. I
Lorelai: What?
Luke: Lorelai... you know I didn't want to do this.
Lorelai: Really?
Luke: Of course not. You're my best friend and I'd never do anything thing to hurt you and-
Lorelai: Well you already did.
Luke: I thought you were going to hurt me and so I did it first. I didn't want to be the one trying to make things work when the other one doesn't want to. I've always been that guy and I didn't want to get that way over you. I was afraid that if I didn't you'd hurt me more than I could stand and then I'd hate you and if I ever hated you I'd hate myself 100 times more.
Lorelai: I didn't want to hurt you Luke. I would never keep something going between us if I knew I didn't want it. I would never try to hurt you on purpose... I thought you knew that.
Luke: Well, I do now.
Lorelai: Good....
(silence)
Lorelai: Did you mean that?
Luke: Mean what?
Lorelai: Mean what you said before.
Luke: About not wanting to hurt you?
Lorelai: No, before that, when you first came up.
Luke: When I said I loved you?
Lorelai: Yeah.
Luke: Yeah... yeah, I meant it.
Lorelai: Oh...
Luke: Oh?
Lorelai: Yeah...oh. I mean, I'm not really surprised. I think I should be, but I'm not.
Luke: You're not?
Lorelai: No because... I love you too.
Luke: Yeah?
Lorelai: Yeah.
Luke: Oh...
Lorelai: Yeah. Oh.
Luke gets down on the floor in front of Lorelai and hugs her... she leaps forward and squeezes him as hard as she can. Luke and Lorelai go over to her room and the sit on the edge of the bed.
Lorelai: I hated that...
Luke: So did I. Lorelai?
Lorelai: Yeah?
Luke: Don't ever do that again.
Lorelai: Do what?
Luke: Starve yourself and let yourself get this worked up over me.
Lorelai: I couldn't help it. I tried to wallow but that only works when you want to get over it and I didn't. Luke, I don't want to ever have to get over you.
Luke: You won't have to.
Lorelai: You're worth it though.
Luke: No I'm not.
Lorelai: Yes you are. You treat me better than anyone I've ever known. You've never left me or Rory hanging if we needed you. You've lent me more money than I've probably ever seen. Hell, you went golfing with my father *smiles*
Luke: Yeah...but I did it for you.
Lorelai: I know. And that's why you mean so much to me. That's why I couldn't just get over you. Well, all that and, you give me free coffee (her and Luke chuckle together)
Lorelai: Now I know you diner man, you did not make that burger after closing for a girl that you broke up with.
Luke: Yeah well... I figured if I didn't make it that oh so plesent part of you that lies in Rory would come out of her and she'd attack.
Lorelai: Oh no. Gilmore Girls only attack week old ex boyfriends... 4 days you'd get the crazy treatment.
Luke: I don't even want to know.
Lorelai:*laughing*No you don't.
Luke: Okay well, you better eat something before you fall apart(hands her the plate) Here this coffee's cold I'll go make you a mew batch.
Lorelai: Thanks
Luke starts to walk out of the room
Lorelai: hey... come here a sec.
Luke:(going back beside Lorelai)yeah?
Lorelai stands up and gives Luke a soft kiss on his lips.
Luke:*smiling* I'll be right back(leaves the room again)
Luke is in the kitchen making a fresh pot of coffee. Rory come in from her bedroom.
Rory: You were up there about 20 minutes...
Luke: Yeah.
Rory: So how did it go?
Luke: Perfect. Everything's fine.
Rory: Thank God.
Luke:(sadness comes over his face)I can't believe I did that to her.(remembering her eyes and how red the were)
Rory: You had a reason, it wasn't that hard to believe Luke and now everything's fine. She's fine you guys are fine. Everything's fine.
Luke: Yeah, I guess.
Rory: I'm going to go over to Sookie's to let her know everything's okay.
Luke: Alright... I'm going to stay here a while.
Rory: Alright... I'll see you later.
Luke: Bye.
A few minutes late Luke walks upstairs with Lorelai's coffee.
Luke:(walking into Lorelai's room seeing an empty plate and Lorelai with a half eaten doughnut) Wow, you sure got that down fast.
Lorelai: Yeah... I was hungrier than I thought I guess.
Luke: Do you need anything else?(hands her the coffee)
Lorelai: (takes a sip) Ahh.... that is possibly the best cup of coffee I've ever had. And no. I don't need anything else.
Luke: Okay. If you do just tell me.
Lorelai: I will...*yawns*
Luke: You should get some sleep.. you need it.
Lorelai: No. Not yet, I want to stay with you for a little while longer.
Luke: Go ahead, lay down. I promise I won't go anywhere.
Lorelai: Promise?
Luke: I promise.
Lorelai lays down and Luke leans agents the head board so Lorelai can lay comfortably against him.
20 minutes later Rory comes back to the house. She goes up stairs to see Luke and Lorelai asleep. She grabs the quilt on her mother's chair and places it over them. She shuts the door and goes down to her own room and goes to bed.
The End