20.04.2007, 14:49
[/QUOTE]So, danke für die reviews an mom, wohnraumheldin und >Lauren<
Chapter 5: The god-mother
While Lorelai made her rounds through the Independence Inn, she was getting more and more nervous.
She was relieved that her fight with Rory wasnât settled it seemed eclipsed, at least for the time being. She still hadnât figures out what had caused Rory to act the way she had acted and she still couldnât believe that Rory suddenly didnât want to go to Chilton anymore. The girl who had lived for learning and for school since she had been born now didnât want to enter one of the best schools in the country, although she had a space and could start immediately.
That was so un-Rory-like that she, Lorelai Gilmore, wasnât sure how to react or what to say.
She had reacted by pulling the mom-card, like she had called it, but that didnât make her feel any better. She never really had forced Rory to do anything, other than combing her hair, when she had been three and decided that combing hurt too much.
She was repelled by her own action to react with restraint to her daughterâs behaviour, but at the moment everything was just too much.
Her parents would force her to get married on Friday and just thinking about it made her chest tighten painfully.
She had thought about this all day and had come to the conclusion that maybe Sookie had a point. It wasnât a bad thing that it was Luke. He was her friend, she liked him and he liked her. He was forced into this just like she was and they could talk about it and find a solution. But on top of it all he really cared for Rory.
That knowledge gave her a warm and fuzzy feeling and whenever the thought came to surface, she knew she didnât have to worry as much anymore. They would find a way, together, and no matter what way it would be, he would still be Luke afterwards and that made every option bearable.
Sookie was right, a stranger or someone like Chris would have been worse and would have set the stage for disaster.
When she finally left the hotel at eight that evening she had been brooding about her motherâs condition all day, but still couldnât offer Luke a way out of the situation. Maybe he had been more successful, if he had thought about it at all.
But then again, it was Luke, Mr. Fix-it, he just had to know a way to fix this, to fix her.
She was broken somehow since she had had that disastrous talk with her parents. She had secluded with her dream of a romantic proposal, of a husband who loved her and whom she loved. And her pride had been shattered because of all of this. She had to admit to herself that she couldnât do it on her own. She had sworn to herself that night she had fled out of her parentâs house with her daughter that she wouldnât come back, that she wouldnât need them and that she fine all alone. That had been an illusion and it hurt to admit it. She wasnât super-woman and beside all her efforts and her hard-work, she still needed them to pay for her kidâs school.
She arrived at the diner a few minutes after she had left the hotel and was surprised when the sign at the door was already flipped to âcloseâ. For a second she had the urge to turn around and walk away, but she knew that this wouldnât help and so she tried the door and discovered it was unlocked.
âHello?â she called when she stepped in and didnât see Luke.
âHiâ, Luke said when he came out of the kitchen, a towel in his hands with which he dried his hands.
âClosed already?â she asked him, trying to make some small talk before they had to come to business.
âYeah, I wasnât sure when you would come, so I decided to close earlyâ, he shrugged and turned to the coffee- can to pour her a cup of coffee.
âThe advantage of owning the business, huh?â she smiled and sat down on âherâ chair at the counter and took the blue cup, which was filled to the rim with coffee, from him.
âYeah wellâ, he shrugged and started to wipe the counter, a habit he had when he was nervous or uncomfortable.
âSoâ¦â Lorelai said after a moment of silence.
âSo⦠maybe we should go upstairs? You know to, uhm, talkâ, he replied and motioned upstairs with his hand.
âOkayâ, Lorelai shrugged and stood up from her chair, grabbed her cup and followed him upstairs.
She looked at his backside while he was walking up the stairs in front of her, at couldnât help herself noticing that he had a nice behind. She shook her head about herself and lectured herself in her head that this wasnât the time to check the diner-owner out.
âYou wanna⦠uhmâ¦sit?â Luke asked uncomfortably when they stood in the apartment and they both sat down at the kitchen- table. Lorelai played with the coffee- cup in front of her and Luke followed the cup with his eyes.
Then suddenly she stopped herself and took a deep breath before she said. âLuke I m sorry for the things I said yesterday. I want you to know that I didnât mean any of them. I was just so shocked that it is you my parents want me to marry. I mean... not that itâs you, but⦠uhm... you that itâ¦â she stumbled over her words and looked up for the first time and met Lukeâs eyes. She could see that he didnât get what she wanted to tell him.
She took another deep breath and then clarified, âI mean, actually I am relieved that it is you and not some stranger, because that really would have been sick, but I am shocked that you know my parents. Why did you never say anything? I mean you know my last name and obviously you know my parents. So?â
âI donât know, really I just⦠I donât know. I guess somehow it never crossed my mind. I never made the connection between those Gilmoreâs in Hartford and you. I mean I have known them all my life somehow and I knew they had a daughter. My mother always said her name is Lola, but now I learned that is just a nick-name she gave you. I thought Lola had graduated from some expensive college, then joined her mother in the DAR and married some rich snob. It never crossed my mind that you could be their daughterâ, he admitted.
âThank you, I guessâ, Lorelai chuckled and took a sip of her coffee.
âYou knew my mother?â Luke asked then.
âHonestly, I donât know. I canât remember anybody calling me Lolaâ, she replied.
âMaybe you were too young when she died to remember herâ, Luke said and sounded sad.
âHow old were you when she died?â she asked.
âEightâ, Luke replied and sounded so sad that Lorelai laid her hand on top of his and gave it a squeeze. She was four years younger than Luke, so she had been four by the time his mother had died and wasnât surprised that she couldnât remember his mother.
âWhy do our motherâs know each other? I actually canât imagine Emily Gilmore hanging out here in Stars Hollowâ, Lorelai smiled and gave his hand another squeeze before she pulled hers away.
âMy mother wasnât from Stars Hollow. Her birth-name was McGregorâ, Luke said and wanted to go on when Lorelai interrupted him.
âAs in Devon McGregor?â she asked.
âYeah, that was my grand-father actually. I think I met him two times in my whole life and I canât say I am sad about thatâ, Luke shrugged.
âI can imagine. I donât remember him, but his wife was a witch. She was the one who wanted to kick my mother out of the DAR when I got pregnantâ, Lorelai said.
âThat fits. So our mothers were friends at College, room-mates. But then my mother met my father, got pregnant and dropped outâ.
âOh myâ, Lorelai flinched, already knowing how the story would continue.
âHer parents kicked her out and cut her off and she married my father. She was happy here, I guess, she had always been the black- sheep in the family and here everybody was friendly to her at least. The only contact that remained with her former life was your mother. As far as I know the two kept in contact, although your mother didnât approve of my father. She even is my god-motherâ, Luke explained and Lorelai started coughing because she had swallowed on her coffee.
âShe is what?â Lorelai exclaimed when she got her voice back.
âMy god-mother. But after my mom died my father broke off the contact with your parents and I never heard anything of them anymore until he died. A few weeks after his death your mother showed up here and asked my how I was, what I was doing, what I wanted to do. I told her that I had dropped out of college when my dad got sick and that I wanted to turn the hardware-store into a diner, but I didnât have the money to. We had sold the house to pay the hospital- bills and all I had left was the store and the office above. She offered to pay for it, but I didnât want her to. She was a stranger.
âYou canât refuse her anythingâ, Lorelai smiled knowingly.
âNo, you canât. Finally we made the deal that she would pay for it and I would pay her back as fast as I couldâ, Luke said.
âYou never did?â Lorelai asked surprised.
âI wanted to. I donât know how often I drove to Hartford with a check, but they always send me back home, telling me that the time would come when I could return the favour. So yesterday she called me and told me that the time had come and I could finally pay her back, but not with money. She asked me if I remembered my motherâs letter, which I doâ, Luke said and stood up. He started to pace in front of the table.
âWhat does it say?â
âitâs a letter from my mother to your mother, which Emily gave us back after mom died. Basically it says that they had always planned that their kids would get married someday, but that my mom knew that Emily and Richard couldnât let you marry me, because of where I come from. But that she hoped that one day we would meet at least and if she had say in it she would still want us to marry, because that would just be great when the daughter of her best friend would marry her son. I guess that she hoped that we would fall in love with each other if we would ever meetâ, Luke said and Lorelai stopped breathing for a few seconds.
âWhich we didnâtâ, Luke said quietly, knowing that he was lying to her.
âNo, which we didnâtâ, Lorelai repeated and suddenly felt sad.
âEmily said that I had to marry you, that this would be the pay-back. She also said that she wouldnât accept a no and that I should keep the fact in mind that this was for Roryâs futureâ, he finished his explanation.
âThis is so sick. She uses Rory to marry us offâ, Lorelai said and the sadness was replaced by anger.
âYeah it is. But what are we gonna do?â Luke shrugged and sat back down on the chair.
âI have no idea. The only thing I know is that Rory needs to go to Chilton and I need my parentâs to pay for it. So unless you know where I can get 70.000 dollars available until Monday and then another ten-thousand in a few weeks, I have no other ideaâ, Lorelai shrugged defeated.
âI wish I could give you the money, but my financial investments will be paid out in two years and the rest I had to invest in new furniture for Lizâs new apartment a few weeks agoâ, he said.
âLiz?â Lorelai asked confused, wondering if he had a girlfriend she knew nothing about.
âMy sisterâ, he explained.
âMmh, didnât know you have a sisterâ, she said surprised.
âYeah, well⦠I have⦠Lizâ, Luke shrugged uncomfortably. He had told her enough about his family now.
âSo, back to the original problem: What are we gonna do?â Luke said then.
âGet married I guess. Iâm so sorry Luke that my mother dragged you into this. You shouldnât have to do this that my kid can go to another school. I am.. I am so sorryâ, Lorelai babbled.
âItâs okay, donât worry. But Friday is just.. very soon. I mean, we canât get used to the thought, we have to tell Rory and the town, have to invite relatives and friends and so on and so onâ, Luke said.
âRight. But maybe the town and Rory donât have to know. I mean itâs not like anthing would change. You will live here over the diner, I will live at my house, we will meet when I get coffee or when the Crap Shack needs fixing. Nothing would changeâ, Lorelai slightly panicked by the thought of telling her friends and her daughter.
âYou want to lie to Rory and Sookie?â Luke asked.
âNo, I donât, but I just⦠I can⦠I willâ¦. I need time to process itâ, she stuttered. Luke looked at her for a long moment and then sighed.
âYou know what? I guess we should drive to Hartford and talk to your parents. Maybe we can get them to agree to get more time at leastâ, he suggested then.
âI donât think we can bargain with my mother, but itâs worth a tryâ.
âOkayâ, he nodded and Lorelai got up.
âHey Luke?â she asked while she slung her purse over her shoulder.
âYah?â
âIâm glad that itâs youâ, she admitted shyly.
âI think Iâm really relived you feel that wayâ, he nodded.
âSo you concur?â she asked with a smile.
âDear god yesâ, he laughed and got up from his chair to escort her to the door.
âGood. So, then, I guess we will discuss this with my later?â she asked.
âTomorrow?â he asked.
âI will call my mother first thing in the morning and make an appointment with themâ, she said.
âOkay, tell me when you know somethingâ, he shrugged.
âThanks Lukeâ, she said again and gave him a kiss on the cheek without thinking about it.
âYouâre welcomeâ, he said, blushed and watched her walk into the dark-corridor and down the stairs, before he closed the door.
TBC
Zitat:Aber eins versteh ich nicht (Gehirn = Off). Wenn Luke durch das Geld der toten GroÃmutter reich ist, warum zahlt er denn das nicht einfach für Rory? Das wäre doch besser als zur Hochzeit gezwungen zu werden, also für beide!Abwarten, abwarten. Einen Teil bekommst du jetzt schon erklärt, der Rest kommt noch. Wenn ich jetzt schon alles an Fakten raushaue wo bleibt denn da die Spannung?!
Zitat:Du spinnst wohl!Das ist ja wohl spätestens seit dem FF-Projekt klar,oder?! :p
Zitat:ich möchte wissen was bei dem Dinner am Freitag passiertnicht so schnell, ne alte Frau ist ja kein D-Zug!
Chapter 5: The god-mother
While Lorelai made her rounds through the Independence Inn, she was getting more and more nervous.
She was relieved that her fight with Rory wasnât settled it seemed eclipsed, at least for the time being. She still hadnât figures out what had caused Rory to act the way she had acted and she still couldnât believe that Rory suddenly didnât want to go to Chilton anymore. The girl who had lived for learning and for school since she had been born now didnât want to enter one of the best schools in the country, although she had a space and could start immediately.
That was so un-Rory-like that she, Lorelai Gilmore, wasnât sure how to react or what to say.
She had reacted by pulling the mom-card, like she had called it, but that didnât make her feel any better. She never really had forced Rory to do anything, other than combing her hair, when she had been three and decided that combing hurt too much.
She was repelled by her own action to react with restraint to her daughterâs behaviour, but at the moment everything was just too much.
Her parents would force her to get married on Friday and just thinking about it made her chest tighten painfully.
She had thought about this all day and had come to the conclusion that maybe Sookie had a point. It wasnât a bad thing that it was Luke. He was her friend, she liked him and he liked her. He was forced into this just like she was and they could talk about it and find a solution. But on top of it all he really cared for Rory.
That knowledge gave her a warm and fuzzy feeling and whenever the thought came to surface, she knew she didnât have to worry as much anymore. They would find a way, together, and no matter what way it would be, he would still be Luke afterwards and that made every option bearable.
Sookie was right, a stranger or someone like Chris would have been worse and would have set the stage for disaster.
When she finally left the hotel at eight that evening she had been brooding about her motherâs condition all day, but still couldnât offer Luke a way out of the situation. Maybe he had been more successful, if he had thought about it at all.
But then again, it was Luke, Mr. Fix-it, he just had to know a way to fix this, to fix her.
She was broken somehow since she had had that disastrous talk with her parents. She had secluded with her dream of a romantic proposal, of a husband who loved her and whom she loved. And her pride had been shattered because of all of this. She had to admit to herself that she couldnât do it on her own. She had sworn to herself that night she had fled out of her parentâs house with her daughter that she wouldnât come back, that she wouldnât need them and that she fine all alone. That had been an illusion and it hurt to admit it. She wasnât super-woman and beside all her efforts and her hard-work, she still needed them to pay for her kidâs school.
She arrived at the diner a few minutes after she had left the hotel and was surprised when the sign at the door was already flipped to âcloseâ. For a second she had the urge to turn around and walk away, but she knew that this wouldnât help and so she tried the door and discovered it was unlocked.
âHello?â she called when she stepped in and didnât see Luke.
âHiâ, Luke said when he came out of the kitchen, a towel in his hands with which he dried his hands.
âClosed already?â she asked him, trying to make some small talk before they had to come to business.
âYeah, I wasnât sure when you would come, so I decided to close earlyâ, he shrugged and turned to the coffee- can to pour her a cup of coffee.
âThe advantage of owning the business, huh?â she smiled and sat down on âherâ chair at the counter and took the blue cup, which was filled to the rim with coffee, from him.
âYeah wellâ, he shrugged and started to wipe the counter, a habit he had when he was nervous or uncomfortable.
âSoâ¦â Lorelai said after a moment of silence.
âSo⦠maybe we should go upstairs? You know to, uhm, talkâ, he replied and motioned upstairs with his hand.
âOkayâ, Lorelai shrugged and stood up from her chair, grabbed her cup and followed him upstairs.
She looked at his backside while he was walking up the stairs in front of her, at couldnât help herself noticing that he had a nice behind. She shook her head about herself and lectured herself in her head that this wasnât the time to check the diner-owner out.
âYou wanna⦠uhmâ¦sit?â Luke asked uncomfortably when they stood in the apartment and they both sat down at the kitchen- table. Lorelai played with the coffee- cup in front of her and Luke followed the cup with his eyes.
Then suddenly she stopped herself and took a deep breath before she said. âLuke I m sorry for the things I said yesterday. I want you to know that I didnât mean any of them. I was just so shocked that it is you my parents want me to marry. I mean... not that itâs you, but⦠uhm... you that itâ¦â she stumbled over her words and looked up for the first time and met Lukeâs eyes. She could see that he didnât get what she wanted to tell him.
She took another deep breath and then clarified, âI mean, actually I am relieved that it is you and not some stranger, because that really would have been sick, but I am shocked that you know my parents. Why did you never say anything? I mean you know my last name and obviously you know my parents. So?â
âI donât know, really I just⦠I donât know. I guess somehow it never crossed my mind. I never made the connection between those Gilmoreâs in Hartford and you. I mean I have known them all my life somehow and I knew they had a daughter. My mother always said her name is Lola, but now I learned that is just a nick-name she gave you. I thought Lola had graduated from some expensive college, then joined her mother in the DAR and married some rich snob. It never crossed my mind that you could be their daughterâ, he admitted.
âThank you, I guessâ, Lorelai chuckled and took a sip of her coffee.
âYou knew my mother?â Luke asked then.
âHonestly, I donât know. I canât remember anybody calling me Lolaâ, she replied.
âMaybe you were too young when she died to remember herâ, Luke said and sounded sad.
âHow old were you when she died?â she asked.
âEightâ, Luke replied and sounded so sad that Lorelai laid her hand on top of his and gave it a squeeze. She was four years younger than Luke, so she had been four by the time his mother had died and wasnât surprised that she couldnât remember his mother.
âWhy do our motherâs know each other? I actually canât imagine Emily Gilmore hanging out here in Stars Hollowâ, Lorelai smiled and gave his hand another squeeze before she pulled hers away.
âMy mother wasnât from Stars Hollow. Her birth-name was McGregorâ, Luke said and wanted to go on when Lorelai interrupted him.
âAs in Devon McGregor?â she asked.
âYeah, that was my grand-father actually. I think I met him two times in my whole life and I canât say I am sad about thatâ, Luke shrugged.
âI can imagine. I donât remember him, but his wife was a witch. She was the one who wanted to kick my mother out of the DAR when I got pregnantâ, Lorelai said.
âThat fits. So our mothers were friends at College, room-mates. But then my mother met my father, got pregnant and dropped outâ.
âOh myâ, Lorelai flinched, already knowing how the story would continue.
âHer parents kicked her out and cut her off and she married my father. She was happy here, I guess, she had always been the black- sheep in the family and here everybody was friendly to her at least. The only contact that remained with her former life was your mother. As far as I know the two kept in contact, although your mother didnât approve of my father. She even is my god-motherâ, Luke explained and Lorelai started coughing because she had swallowed on her coffee.
âShe is what?â Lorelai exclaimed when she got her voice back.
âMy god-mother. But after my mom died my father broke off the contact with your parents and I never heard anything of them anymore until he died. A few weeks after his death your mother showed up here and asked my how I was, what I was doing, what I wanted to do. I told her that I had dropped out of college when my dad got sick and that I wanted to turn the hardware-store into a diner, but I didnât have the money to. We had sold the house to pay the hospital- bills and all I had left was the store and the office above. She offered to pay for it, but I didnât want her to. She was a stranger.
âYou canât refuse her anythingâ, Lorelai smiled knowingly.
âNo, you canât. Finally we made the deal that she would pay for it and I would pay her back as fast as I couldâ, Luke said.
âYou never did?â Lorelai asked surprised.
âI wanted to. I donât know how often I drove to Hartford with a check, but they always send me back home, telling me that the time would come when I could return the favour. So yesterday she called me and told me that the time had come and I could finally pay her back, but not with money. She asked me if I remembered my motherâs letter, which I doâ, Luke said and stood up. He started to pace in front of the table.
âWhat does it say?â
âitâs a letter from my mother to your mother, which Emily gave us back after mom died. Basically it says that they had always planned that their kids would get married someday, but that my mom knew that Emily and Richard couldnât let you marry me, because of where I come from. But that she hoped that one day we would meet at least and if she had say in it she would still want us to marry, because that would just be great when the daughter of her best friend would marry her son. I guess that she hoped that we would fall in love with each other if we would ever meetâ, Luke said and Lorelai stopped breathing for a few seconds.
âWhich we didnâtâ, Luke said quietly, knowing that he was lying to her.
âNo, which we didnâtâ, Lorelai repeated and suddenly felt sad.
âEmily said that I had to marry you, that this would be the pay-back. She also said that she wouldnât accept a no and that I should keep the fact in mind that this was for Roryâs futureâ, he finished his explanation.
âThis is so sick. She uses Rory to marry us offâ, Lorelai said and the sadness was replaced by anger.
âYeah it is. But what are we gonna do?â Luke shrugged and sat back down on the chair.
âI have no idea. The only thing I know is that Rory needs to go to Chilton and I need my parentâs to pay for it. So unless you know where I can get 70.000 dollars available until Monday and then another ten-thousand in a few weeks, I have no other ideaâ, Lorelai shrugged defeated.
âI wish I could give you the money, but my financial investments will be paid out in two years and the rest I had to invest in new furniture for Lizâs new apartment a few weeks agoâ, he said.
âLiz?â Lorelai asked confused, wondering if he had a girlfriend she knew nothing about.
âMy sisterâ, he explained.
âMmh, didnât know you have a sisterâ, she said surprised.
âYeah, well⦠I have⦠Lizâ, Luke shrugged uncomfortably. He had told her enough about his family now.
âSo, back to the original problem: What are we gonna do?â Luke said then.
âGet married I guess. Iâm so sorry Luke that my mother dragged you into this. You shouldnât have to do this that my kid can go to another school. I am.. I am so sorryâ, Lorelai babbled.
âItâs okay, donât worry. But Friday is just.. very soon. I mean, we canât get used to the thought, we have to tell Rory and the town, have to invite relatives and friends and so on and so onâ, Luke said.
âRight. But maybe the town and Rory donât have to know. I mean itâs not like anthing would change. You will live here over the diner, I will live at my house, we will meet when I get coffee or when the Crap Shack needs fixing. Nothing would changeâ, Lorelai slightly panicked by the thought of telling her friends and her daughter.
âYou want to lie to Rory and Sookie?â Luke asked.
âNo, I donât, but I just⦠I can⦠I willâ¦. I need time to process itâ, she stuttered. Luke looked at her for a long moment and then sighed.
âYou know what? I guess we should drive to Hartford and talk to your parents. Maybe we can get them to agree to get more time at leastâ, he suggested then.
âI donât think we can bargain with my mother, but itâs worth a tryâ.
âOkayâ, he nodded and Lorelai got up.
âHey Luke?â she asked while she slung her purse over her shoulder.
âYah?â
âIâm glad that itâs youâ, she admitted shyly.
âI think Iâm really relived you feel that wayâ, he nodded.
âSo you concur?â she asked with a smile.
âDear god yesâ, he laughed and got up from his chair to escort her to the door.
âGood. So, then, I guess we will discuss this with my later?â she asked.
âTomorrow?â he asked.
âI will call my mother first thing in the morning and make an appointment with themâ, she said.
âOkay, tell me when you know somethingâ, he shrugged.
âThanks Lukeâ, she said again and gave him a kiss on the cheek without thinking about it.
âYouâre welcomeâ, he said, blushed and watched her walk into the dark-corridor and down the stairs, before he closed the door.
TBC