SECRETS OF THE HEART.
Luke and Lorelai finally discover what everybody has known for years.
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It's been busy this morning. thought Luke to himself. It was already 8:30 and it was the first few minutes he'd had to stop and rest since six this morning. It then occurred to him that his most loyal customer had not yet arrived. As if on cue, she entered the diner. The door swung open with its usual ring of the bell.
"Morning Luke!" She looked fresh and clean, her cheeks rosy and eyes sparkling. Not quite sea blue or even sky blue today but a radiant colour like that of a jewel, the sapphire. She was wearing Luke's favourite tight jeans and her usual tee, this one was pink bearing the words - bite me!
Embarrassed to have been caught staring, he only grunted in return. Not at all put off Lorelai resumed her usual chatter, "It's a beautiful morning!" With a cheeky grin she turned and faced the counter again, "Isn't it a beautiful morning Luke?"
He blinked twice before answering, it certainly wasn't like Lorelai to comment on pleasantries like the weather. "Someone's being unusually nice this morning." He emphasised some words so it came across as a question.
Lorelai's features immediately became serious, it was her best version of the 'don't mess with me, I'm un-caffinated face'. She held put her huge green striped mug, "Fine. I'll skip the pleasantries. Coffee please!"
"No"
Without looking at all surprised Lorelai feigned confusion, "What? I don't think I heard you properly.Could you speak a bit louder?"
Luke shook his head, "I said no Lorelai."
"Awww, Lukie. Just one cup?"
Luke frowned, "It's Luke."
Lorelai grinned, she always liked to irritate coffee boy, "Hey, you should put a sign outside. 'Lukie's Diner'.it definitely has a nice ring."
Giving in, Luke filled her cup with coffee, "Drink it and shut up."
"That's not nice," Lorelai pouted.
Luke shrugged, "What can I say? I'm not a nice person."
Lorelai opened her mouth to protest, but it was just then that she spotted a displayed cake. "Can I have some pie?" Lorelai asked, her eyes lighting up.
"At this time of the morning?"
"Why not?" Lorelai shrugged.
"No" Luke replied for the second time that morning.
Lorelai pouted sulkily, "Sookie let's me have pie."
"Do I look like Sookie to you?"
Lorelai opened her mouth to speak, but shut it again when Luke interrupted. "No wait, don't answer that," Luke plonked a piece of warm apple pie in front of her with a grunt. Lorelai sighed and settled down to eat her cake, but only picked around the edges of it with her spoon. "Why are you in such a grumpy mood this morning?"
"Why are you in such a happy mood this morning?" Luke countered.
"Because it's a Friday!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"You hate Fridays!"
"Yup, but why?"
"Dinner with your parents," it was a statement, not a question.
"Ding! Ding! You win the round," Lorelai replied sarcastically.
"So dinner was cancelled?"
"Another five points awarded to Mr Danes and that concludes the game for tonight."
There was a brief silence, "Refill please."
"One cup is enough."
"Do you know what could happen if I don't have more?"
"You know, one of these days I'm going just hook you up with an iv." Luke shook his head with a grin.
"You know, I think that is a damn good idea."
"You would" Luke replied.
Lorelai mocked surprise, "Are you insulting me?"
"Take it how you like," Luke replied unhelpfully.
"Ha! I don't care, just give me more coffee."
"If your diet stays this way, one day it could kill you." Luke lectured.
"Do you have a picture?" Lorelai asked, "Cause I love pictures."
"No, I don't have a picture."
"You're no fun today."
Sardonically Luke replied, "Why on earth would you think that?"
With a sigh of resignation Lorelai stood up and slung her bag over her shoulder, "I've got my coffee, now I'm going. Happy? I'm outta your hair for the rest of today."
"I think I'm floating."
"If I wasn't so insulted I'd be laughing, " Lorelai paused at the door, "Cya bunchie!"
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Rory spotted her Mom on the street and ran to catch up, "Mom!"
Lorelai turned around and smiled, "Hey hunnie"
"You didn't wait for me," Rory said accusingly.
Both girls resumed walking as Rory fell into step with Lorelai. "The coffee was calling." Lorelai said sure that her equally coffee addicted daughter would understand.
"You could have waited!"
"Did you expected me to sacrifice my caffeine dosage to wait for you?" Asked Lorelai incredulously.
"I am"
Lorelai tucked a strand of hair behind Rory's ear, "You poor, befuddled child."
"I am not befuddled," a small voice said indignantly.
With a grin Lorelai launched into a length of incomprehensible speech, "Are you critically referring to the elephantine collections of the supreme Shoshido equilaterum?"
"What?" She halted in midstep, even Rory's Ivy League brain could not decipher her nonsense.
"You are befuddled!" Lorelai triumphed.
"Now I am. Why did you have to befuddle me?" Rory whined.
"Because you didn't wait for me this morning." Lorelai explained patiently.
Rory blinked, "But you didn't wait for me!"
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"Hurry up, hurry up," Lorelai muttered to herself as she steered the car towards the Independence Inn. Her banter with Luke had cost her precious time she needed to get to work punctually, she checked her watch, late again. The Jeep seemed to be moving a kilometre an hour, when Lorelai finally pulled into her parking spot reserved for the manager outside the Inn. Grabbing her bag, mobile and handful of files she ran inside, awkwardly due to the black heels she was wearing. The familiar sounds of the Inn filled her ears as she dropped her stuff on the main desk.the phone started ringing.
Lorelai looked pointedly at Michel who immediately put his hands up in front of him, "I will not," he said quickly in his French accent.
"Answer the phone Michel." Lorelai tapped her foot impatiently as the phone rang for the third time.
"Never."
"If you treasure your life, you will pick up that phone," Lorelai threatened with a grin.
"I despise you," Michel replied with a sneer looking thoroughly annoyed as he lifted the phone.
Satisfied that Michel could handle it from there Lorelai went to the kitchen. "Sookie!"
"How you doing sweetie?" Sookie replied with a smile, "Here try this." She held out a spoonful of sauce.
Lorelai tried it without hesitation, "Mmmm Sookie, this is so good. What is it?"
"Choc raspberry sauce, I wanna serve it with the crepes tomorrow morning."
"I wanna have a bath in it."
"Usually your fantasies are lot dirtier than that."
"I left some factors out of course."
"Ahhh."
Lorelai eyed the rest of the sauce greedily. "No, that's for the guests." Sookie told her firmly.
"Ok." Lorelai agreed with an innocent smile.
"And I don't want you to touch it while I'm fixing up the roast." Sookie said suspiciously.
"Sure."
"Don't you worry, she won't be touching anything," Michel entered the kitchen.
"One of the guests is being an incredible pain, I said I'd put the Colossal Boar on the phone right away."
"You didn't," Lorelai gasped.
"No, I didn't," Michel looked disappointed.
"Good, I'll be right there."
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"So then this guest tells me that he wants his bed remade with new sheets, because the ones he's got are wrinkled." Lorelai said dramatically.
"The nerve of some people." Rory chimed in.
"So I told him that I'd send my staff up in a few minutes."
"Good girl."
"But then he insisted that the manager comes up and remakes it himself."
"He didn't!"
"He did!" Lorelai exclaimed, "So I went up and he was like, I thought I asked for the manager! Have no doubt I let him know who the manager was, then he requested that I give him a neck massage.I told him it wasn't in my work description."
"Ugh! Well I'm happy to say that my day was at least a little better than yours" Rory said sympathetically.
"Tell me about it." Lorelai sat forward eagerly.
She answered in three words, "Tristan came back."
"I thought you didn't like him!"
"He's not such a bad guy.he's been through a lot."
"He called you Mary!" Lorelai looked puzzled.
"Okay, so he gave me a hard time. But he's changed." Rory replied earnestly.
Lorelai sighed, "Well I trust your judgment sweetie, just be careful ok?"
"Thanks Mom."
Lorelai grinned and flicked on the TV, an commercial came on advertising who-knows-what came on singing in an annoying high pitched chipmunk voice, "Don't be silly, be a smarty, come and join the nazi party."
Rory groaned, "Change the station."
"The things that are said these days!" Lorelai agreed.
Rory gave her a strange look, "What about all the things you say."
"Bah!" Lorelai shrugged her shoulders.
"You haven't seen my strawberry lip gloss lately have you?" Rory asked as she checked in her jacket pocket.
"No." Lorelai's voice drifted off unconvincingly.
"Mom?" Rory asked again.
"You should try checking in my underwear drawer." Lorelai hinted.
"Thief!"
"I only borrowed it, so technically I'm not a thief.besides I paid for it."
"Don't worry, I've already forget about it," Rory added.
"Forgotten about what?" Lorelai grinned.
Rory looked at her watch, "Forgotten about the time, I gotta go."
"The Franklin?" Lorelai inquired.
Rory rolled her eyes, "Yep, Paris decided to put on her crazy personality today"
"Ok, give me a call if you need to get picked up."
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Lorelai walked down to Doose's Market, enjoying the brisk night air. It was nice to get out, even though she didn't have Sookie or Rory to keep her company. Both were busy tonight so Lorelai decided to hang out on her own tonight, she had thought of inviting Luke over, but decided not to as he wasn't in too good a mood earlier today. Lorelai looked wistfully over at the diner before entering the supermarket and heading straight towards the lolly aisle. She grabbed several bags of red vines, mars bars, jelly jubes and chuppa chupps and paid for them at the counter. Tonight she planned to have a veg out night, with lollies and a video or two which she already had at home.
Putting her keys in the door lock, she twisted and heard it click open. Soon Lorelai was positioned comfortably on the couch in her pajamas with a wide variety of wrappers around her as an old favourite played, Bridget Jones's Diary. She sighed and stuffed a chuppa chupp in her mouth, this was the perfect movie to watch if you were feeling a bit lonely. Within 2 hours the movie was finished and Lorelai was bored, she had already pained her nails earlier and that left nothing to do. It was only 9:30 which was too early to go to bed, Lorelai frowned and hit the couch with her fist grumpily, she was boooored, bor-ed!
Picking up the phone, she dialed Luke's.
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If you've read this far please make a comment - this is my first fan fic and any suggestions, praise or critism will help me write my next chapter. Remember reviews are a wonderful thing. . . almost as good as coffee.
More Coming Soon. . .
Luke and Lorelai finally discover what everybody has known for years.
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It's been busy this morning. thought Luke to himself. It was already 8:30 and it was the first few minutes he'd had to stop and rest since six this morning. It then occurred to him that his most loyal customer had not yet arrived. As if on cue, she entered the diner. The door swung open with its usual ring of the bell.
"Morning Luke!" She looked fresh and clean, her cheeks rosy and eyes sparkling. Not quite sea blue or even sky blue today but a radiant colour like that of a jewel, the sapphire. She was wearing Luke's favourite tight jeans and her usual tee, this one was pink bearing the words - bite me!
Embarrassed to have been caught staring, he only grunted in return. Not at all put off Lorelai resumed her usual chatter, "It's a beautiful morning!" With a cheeky grin she turned and faced the counter again, "Isn't it a beautiful morning Luke?"
He blinked twice before answering, it certainly wasn't like Lorelai to comment on pleasantries like the weather. "Someone's being unusually nice this morning." He emphasised some words so it came across as a question.
Lorelai's features immediately became serious, it was her best version of the 'don't mess with me, I'm un-caffinated face'. She held put her huge green striped mug, "Fine. I'll skip the pleasantries. Coffee please!"
"No"
Without looking at all surprised Lorelai feigned confusion, "What? I don't think I heard you properly.Could you speak a bit louder?"
Luke shook his head, "I said no Lorelai."
"Awww, Lukie. Just one cup?"
Luke frowned, "It's Luke."
Lorelai grinned, she always liked to irritate coffee boy, "Hey, you should put a sign outside. 'Lukie's Diner'.it definitely has a nice ring."
Giving in, Luke filled her cup with coffee, "Drink it and shut up."
"That's not nice," Lorelai pouted.
Luke shrugged, "What can I say? I'm not a nice person."
Lorelai opened her mouth to protest, but it was just then that she spotted a displayed cake. "Can I have some pie?" Lorelai asked, her eyes lighting up.
"At this time of the morning?"
"Why not?" Lorelai shrugged.
"No" Luke replied for the second time that morning.
Lorelai pouted sulkily, "Sookie let's me have pie."
"Do I look like Sookie to you?"
Lorelai opened her mouth to speak, but shut it again when Luke interrupted. "No wait, don't answer that," Luke plonked a piece of warm apple pie in front of her with a grunt. Lorelai sighed and settled down to eat her cake, but only picked around the edges of it with her spoon. "Why are you in such a grumpy mood this morning?"
"Why are you in such a happy mood this morning?" Luke countered.
"Because it's a Friday!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"You hate Fridays!"
"Yup, but why?"
"Dinner with your parents," it was a statement, not a question.
"Ding! Ding! You win the round," Lorelai replied sarcastically.
"So dinner was cancelled?"
"Another five points awarded to Mr Danes and that concludes the game for tonight."
There was a brief silence, "Refill please."
"One cup is enough."
"Do you know what could happen if I don't have more?"
"You know, one of these days I'm going just hook you up with an iv." Luke shook his head with a grin.
"You know, I think that is a damn good idea."
"You would" Luke replied.
Lorelai mocked surprise, "Are you insulting me?"
"Take it how you like," Luke replied unhelpfully.
"Ha! I don't care, just give me more coffee."
"If your diet stays this way, one day it could kill you." Luke lectured.
"Do you have a picture?" Lorelai asked, "Cause I love pictures."
"No, I don't have a picture."
"You're no fun today."
Sardonically Luke replied, "Why on earth would you think that?"
With a sigh of resignation Lorelai stood up and slung her bag over her shoulder, "I've got my coffee, now I'm going. Happy? I'm outta your hair for the rest of today."
"I think I'm floating."
"If I wasn't so insulted I'd be laughing, " Lorelai paused at the door, "Cya bunchie!"
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Rory spotted her Mom on the street and ran to catch up, "Mom!"
Lorelai turned around and smiled, "Hey hunnie"
"You didn't wait for me," Rory said accusingly.
Both girls resumed walking as Rory fell into step with Lorelai. "The coffee was calling." Lorelai said sure that her equally coffee addicted daughter would understand.
"You could have waited!"
"Did you expected me to sacrifice my caffeine dosage to wait for you?" Asked Lorelai incredulously.
"I am"
Lorelai tucked a strand of hair behind Rory's ear, "You poor, befuddled child."
"I am not befuddled," a small voice said indignantly.
With a grin Lorelai launched into a length of incomprehensible speech, "Are you critically referring to the elephantine collections of the supreme Shoshido equilaterum?"
"What?" She halted in midstep, even Rory's Ivy League brain could not decipher her nonsense.
"You are befuddled!" Lorelai triumphed.
"Now I am. Why did you have to befuddle me?" Rory whined.
"Because you didn't wait for me this morning." Lorelai explained patiently.
Rory blinked, "But you didn't wait for me!"
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"Hurry up, hurry up," Lorelai muttered to herself as she steered the car towards the Independence Inn. Her banter with Luke had cost her precious time she needed to get to work punctually, she checked her watch, late again. The Jeep seemed to be moving a kilometre an hour, when Lorelai finally pulled into her parking spot reserved for the manager outside the Inn. Grabbing her bag, mobile and handful of files she ran inside, awkwardly due to the black heels she was wearing. The familiar sounds of the Inn filled her ears as she dropped her stuff on the main desk.the phone started ringing.
Lorelai looked pointedly at Michel who immediately put his hands up in front of him, "I will not," he said quickly in his French accent.
"Answer the phone Michel." Lorelai tapped her foot impatiently as the phone rang for the third time.
"Never."
"If you treasure your life, you will pick up that phone," Lorelai threatened with a grin.
"I despise you," Michel replied with a sneer looking thoroughly annoyed as he lifted the phone.
Satisfied that Michel could handle it from there Lorelai went to the kitchen. "Sookie!"
"How you doing sweetie?" Sookie replied with a smile, "Here try this." She held out a spoonful of sauce.
Lorelai tried it without hesitation, "Mmmm Sookie, this is so good. What is it?"
"Choc raspberry sauce, I wanna serve it with the crepes tomorrow morning."
"I wanna have a bath in it."
"Usually your fantasies are lot dirtier than that."
"I left some factors out of course."
"Ahhh."
Lorelai eyed the rest of the sauce greedily. "No, that's for the guests." Sookie told her firmly.
"Ok." Lorelai agreed with an innocent smile.
"And I don't want you to touch it while I'm fixing up the roast." Sookie said suspiciously.
"Sure."
"Don't you worry, she won't be touching anything," Michel entered the kitchen.
"One of the guests is being an incredible pain, I said I'd put the Colossal Boar on the phone right away."
"You didn't," Lorelai gasped.
"No, I didn't," Michel looked disappointed.
"Good, I'll be right there."
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"So then this guest tells me that he wants his bed remade with new sheets, because the ones he's got are wrinkled." Lorelai said dramatically.
"The nerve of some people." Rory chimed in.
"So I told him that I'd send my staff up in a few minutes."
"Good girl."
"But then he insisted that the manager comes up and remakes it himself."
"He didn't!"
"He did!" Lorelai exclaimed, "So I went up and he was like, I thought I asked for the manager! Have no doubt I let him know who the manager was, then he requested that I give him a neck massage.I told him it wasn't in my work description."
"Ugh! Well I'm happy to say that my day was at least a little better than yours" Rory said sympathetically.
"Tell me about it." Lorelai sat forward eagerly.
She answered in three words, "Tristan came back."
"I thought you didn't like him!"
"He's not such a bad guy.he's been through a lot."
"He called you Mary!" Lorelai looked puzzled.
"Okay, so he gave me a hard time. But he's changed." Rory replied earnestly.
Lorelai sighed, "Well I trust your judgment sweetie, just be careful ok?"
"Thanks Mom."
Lorelai grinned and flicked on the TV, an commercial came on advertising who-knows-what came on singing in an annoying high pitched chipmunk voice, "Don't be silly, be a smarty, come and join the nazi party."
Rory groaned, "Change the station."
"The things that are said these days!" Lorelai agreed.
Rory gave her a strange look, "What about all the things you say."
"Bah!" Lorelai shrugged her shoulders.
"You haven't seen my strawberry lip gloss lately have you?" Rory asked as she checked in her jacket pocket.
"No." Lorelai's voice drifted off unconvincingly.
"Mom?" Rory asked again.
"You should try checking in my underwear drawer." Lorelai hinted.
"Thief!"
"I only borrowed it, so technically I'm not a thief.besides I paid for it."
"Don't worry, I've already forget about it," Rory added.
"Forgotten about what?" Lorelai grinned.
Rory looked at her watch, "Forgotten about the time, I gotta go."
"The Franklin?" Lorelai inquired.
Rory rolled her eyes, "Yep, Paris decided to put on her crazy personality today"
"Ok, give me a call if you need to get picked up."
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Lorelai walked down to Doose's Market, enjoying the brisk night air. It was nice to get out, even though she didn't have Sookie or Rory to keep her company. Both were busy tonight so Lorelai decided to hang out on her own tonight, she had thought of inviting Luke over, but decided not to as he wasn't in too good a mood earlier today. Lorelai looked wistfully over at the diner before entering the supermarket and heading straight towards the lolly aisle. She grabbed several bags of red vines, mars bars, jelly jubes and chuppa chupps and paid for them at the counter. Tonight she planned to have a veg out night, with lollies and a video or two which she already had at home.
Putting her keys in the door lock, she twisted and heard it click open. Soon Lorelai was positioned comfortably on the couch in her pajamas with a wide variety of wrappers around her as an old favourite played, Bridget Jones's Diary. She sighed and stuffed a chuppa chupp in her mouth, this was the perfect movie to watch if you were feeling a bit lonely. Within 2 hours the movie was finished and Lorelai was bored, she had already pained her nails earlier and that left nothing to do. It was only 9:30 which was too early to go to bed, Lorelai frowned and hit the couch with her fist grumpily, she was boooored, bor-ed!
Picking up the phone, she dialed Luke's.
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If you've read this far please make a comment - this is my first fan fic and any suggestions, praise or critism will help me write my next chapter. Remember reviews are a wonderful thing. . . almost as good as coffee.
More Coming Soon. . .