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Chapter 17: Good answer


Incredulously Lorelai stared at Max and prayed that Luke wouldn’t come now, because she didn’t want fate to ruin another chance for Luke and her.

“I live here. What are you doing here? “she asked him harshly and looked quickly over her shoulder to check for Luke.

“I was on my way back from Stamford, and my car decided to stop,” he told her, slightly taken aback by her tone.

“Here? “

“Yes.”

“In my town?” Lorelai asked, still in the same tone.

“Yes”, he nodded again and eyed her suspiciously.

“What a coincidence”, she muttered and looked to the snow-covered ground.

“It's nice to see you”, Max said and tried to lighten the mood.

“Uhuh”, Lorelai said without looking up.

“You know, a minute ago, I was really angry about something and now I just can't remember what it was”, he went on, but this time she stayed quiet. “So, this is quite a predicament I’m in. Stranded here in a strange town with no one I know…. “ he went on, but again she stayed silent. “Where's Rory tonight?” he asked then, trying to get a reaction.

“She's in Hartford with her grandparents”.

“That must be nice”.

“Whatever you say”, Lorelai snapped at him.

“Hey, what’s…” Max said and trailed off when he saw Luke walking directly towards them. When Lorelai found him staring at someone or something she turned around and saw him as well. She saw him clench his jaw when he saw Max and she loved of how protective he was about Rory’s reputation.

“Mr. Medina’s car broke down here and I met him here”.

“Uhuh”, Luke only made and glared at Max.

“The mechanic is refusing to repair the car tonight, so I really have a problem”, Max hurried to explain when he saw Luke’s look.

“Gypsy! Why won’t you repair his car tonight?” Lorelai asked immediately and went over to the mechanic.

“Because it’s a freakin’ snowstorm out here and he won’t be able to drive home, no matter what”, Gypsy replied. Lorelai thought for a second about it, then turned to Luke.

“What do you think: We drive him over to the Inn, where I get him a room and then we take our walk?” she asked with a hopeful tone and completely ignored Max, what didn’t go unnoticed.

“I don’t need a hotel room, I…” Max protested.

“Guess we can’t leave him out in the cold all night”, Luke muttered and ignored Max.

“Ok, then let’s go. The faster we can go on our walk” Lorelai smiled happily and when Max saw Lorelai smiling at Luke he understood what was going on and knew that he had lost, actually that he had never had a chance.

~*~
After they had checked in Max at the Inn, Luke and Lorelai wandered through the snow covered town, in the middle of the night.
Silently they walked through the cold night side by side, glancing secretly at the other from time to time.

“God, it's a beautiful night, huh?” Lorelai broke the silence when they reached the Gazebo.

“Yes, it is. So beautiful with all the slippery frozen water on the floor, the air being so cold it hurts to breath and tomorrow everything will be muddy and I will have to wipe the diner-floor a thousand times. Isn’t it a lovely night”, Luke answered sarcastically. ”Where are we going?” he asked then.

“You'll see”, she smiled and ignored his rant.

“Are we gonna get there before my fingers will freeze off?” Luke grumbled.

“Oh don’t be such a baby”, she laughed and grabbed his right hand and took it into hers, blew on it and rubbed it.

“You're crazy”, he said and grabbed on of her hands, so she would stop it, but then kept holding her hand while they kept walking. After a while they stopped in front of the Black and White Movie Theatre.

“You wanna watch a movie?” he asked her and wrinkled his forehead.

“I don’t know”, she shrugged, not really caring what they would do or where they would go, as long as they were together like this.

“Why don’t we get something to eat and watch the movie at home?” Luke asked, not really fond of the idea of going into the Stars Hollow cinema, under the eyes of the gossip queens.

“Al’s or Joe?” she grinned.

“I’m not gonna eat this crap”, Luke protested.

“Come on… a movie and Al’s burgers, that’s the tradition”, Lorelai told him and tugged at his hand.

“Burgers and fries from the diner. Take it or leave it”.

“Add pie and we’ve got a deal”, she grinned and Luke sighed in defeat.

“Fine, but let’s hurry”, he grumbled and hand in hand they made their way to the diner and were soon spotted by the re-enactors.

“Luke, can you bring us some coffee?” Harry yelled over the square.

“I already brought you coffee”, he yelled back and gave Lorelai’s hand a squeeze before he let it go.

“I could really go for some more cocoa”, another man yelled and Lorelai laughed.

“We will be out with coffee, tea and cocoa in a second”, she yelled back.

“What? I thought we would go and watch a movie?” Luke asked her.

“You make our burgers and the fries and in the meantime I will save the guys over there from becoming the new Oetzis”, she informed him and dragged him into the diner.

“Aren’t you Mother Theresa?!” he snorted, but knew at the same time he had no choice and he wouldn’t want it any other way.

~*~
When they arrived back at Lorelai’s house the atmosphere had gotten slightly awkward and the lightness of before was replaced by nervousness and longing on Lorelai’s side and by confusion and happiness on Luke’s side.

“So, welcome to the Crap Shack. I hope you’ll have a nice stay”, Lorelai said.

“Would you just open the door?!” Luke grumbled, the bags with food in his hand.

“All right all right, keep your pants on!” she answered and then thought that actually she wanted him to lose them.
Together they made their way inside into the kitchen and Luke placed the bags with food on the table before he took off his jacket and hung it over the back or a chair.

“You want some coffee with the food, right?” he asked and walked to the coffee-maker. Lorelai took of her own jacket and her scarf and the watched him. She knew that this was her chance. He had let her hold his hand, there had definitely been a moment the house was empty; It was now or never.

“Luke?” she asked quietly and walked over to him.

“Huh?” he asked without turning around and filled the filter with coffee.

“Luke?”, she asked again and took the spoon out of his hand and placed it on the counter beside the coffee-maker. She could smell his aftershave and stepped a bit closer When he turned around he saw that she had trapped him between the counter and her body and his breath caught in his throat when he saw the look in her eyes. He saw her lick her lips while she stared at him and a second later she slung her arms around his neck and kissed him. He felt her hand on his neck and her lips on his. Before he was able to react she pulled back and took a step back, stared at him again, at his lips to be exact.

“How badly do want this coffee?” he asked her huskily and pulled her close again by her sweater.

“Not that badly”, she mumbled.

“Good answer”, he rasped before her lips were on his again.

Lorelai couldn’t believe that she was really kissing Luke, and that he was an active participant of the kiss, had actually started the second one.
He turned them around and pressed her up against the counter when his tongue entered her mouth and his hand glided under her sweater. She moaned, pulled him closer, couldn’t get him close enough.
Suddenly he pulled her away from the counter, walked them out the kitchen, stopped to kiss her senseless by the desk, walked them to the stairs, pressed her up against the banister.
She threw his cap away and then jumped and slung her legs around his middle, made him moan.

“Upstairs”, she muttered breathlessly, but they only made it up three stairs, then she found herself pressed up against the wall, squirming and moaning impatiently, while his hands roamed her body: one on her back, the other on her butt.
Lorelai was in heaven and she knew it would only get better, once they would have made it up the stairs and into their bedroom. And if they wouldn’t be able to get upstairs… the stairs couldn’t be that bad and the couch wasn’t far either.
She started to unbutton his shirt, but didn’t stop kissing him at the same time. She was halfway done with his shirt when he suddenly pulled back, dumped her back on the ground and stared at something.
Lorelai was confused and still panting when she turned around and found Lane standing in front of the stairs.

“Lane! Hi, hi. Wha. . .uh. . .we're just. . .what are. . .what are. . .what are you doing here?”, she stuttered and understood now why Luke had turned different shades of red in the meantime.

“I'm sorry, I was waiting for Rory. I'll just go back into her room and I won't come back out, I promise”, Lane excused and ran back to Rory’s room where she had come from. A second later music blasted from the room.

“Oh, that's The Cure. I have to go back in there”, Lorelai said to Luke, a disappointed expression on her face.

“It's okay”, he told her and looked to the floor, still red in the face. Lorelai stepped towards him and tipped his chin up, so he was looking at her.

“We’re not done here Mister. I’ll be back as fast as humanly possible”, she said after kissing him gently.

“I’ll finished coffee in the meantime”, he gave her a small smile and another kiss, before they broke apart and Lorelai made her way to her daughter’s best friend with a sigh.

TBC