What Am I Doing With My Life?
Authors Note: Well kids to sort of quote REM it's the end of the fic as we know it. Yes, that is right this is the last chapter of "What Am I Doing with My Life?" Aww it's kind of sad, but it ends happy and that's good. I had a lot of fun writing it, and to everyone who reviewed thank you so much and I love you all like two dollar whores. Ha ha. I am hoping that I will once again be struck with the inspiration stick and I will have a new fic out soon. We shall see.
Spoilers: None.
Premise: Bette Midler's triumphant return to Television. No I am wrong it's the fic about one of the millions of possible ways that Luke and Lorelai might have gotten together.
Chapter 7: "Knowing Right in Your Hello Kitty"
"Luke, hey hi, what are you doing here?" Lorelai asked as she opened her front door. Luke didn't immediately respond to Lorelai's question and that gave her a chance to notice the nervous look written all over Luke's face. When it became clear to Lorelai that he wasn't going to say anything she continued, "Come on in."
Luke slowly stepped into her house and they both made their way in to the living room.
"I think we should go on a date." Luke finally managed to spit out.
Lorelai spun around quickly so she was now face to face with Luke.
"A date?" Lorelai questioned with a slight excitement in her voice.
"Yeah a date," Luke said with more certainty.
Lorelai grinned widely at the idea. Then a thought suddenly struck her and her smile began to fade. "Wait, I thought you didn't date. You had the gut."
"What?" Luke asked confused.
"The gut, on movie night when we watched Casablanca you said you don't date. Luke, you said that you just knew in your gut with a girl, and that dating was pointless. Oh I get it, you don't know with me. You don't have the gut. So you want to date and try and create the gut. Luke you can't create the gut, you should know that! Oh no, you don't have the gut with me! You don't have the gut but we kissed and so now it's weird. So you think to make it unweird you will date me…." Lorelai frantically rambled.
"Wait Lorelai will you please calm down." Luke said as he gently touched her shoulder and looked at her in her scared blue eyes. "You misunderstood. I did say that but I meant I don't casually date. I meant I have to know it could go somewhere to be with someone. Listen, do you really think I would break up with Nicole and risk the best friendship I have ever had if I didn't have the gut?"
Luke quickly averted his eyes from Lorelai's feeling a little vulnerable after his admission.
A small smile began to play on Lorelai's lips. "So you have the gut."
"I swear I have never had the gut more than I do with you." Luke said momentarily looking at Lorelai and then quickly looking away again.
"I think I have it to. The gut I mean." Lorelai coyly responded. "Who am I kidding? I know I have the gut."
As Lorelai spoke Luke stepped closer to her and once again looked at her straight in the eyes. As they gazed intently at each other the seriousness of the moment hit Lorelai like a ton of bricks.
"All this talk of guts is kind of gross. It's reminding me of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre or something. I mean gut doesn't have the greatest connotation. You gut a fish; a movie is all 'blood and guts'. Maybe we should use a different word. " Lorelai laughed trying desperately to lighten the mood.
Luke laughed in return breaking the intensity of their gaze. "Have I told you today that you really are crazy?"
"Yeah I am crazy, and you are absolutely no help." Lorelai returned. "Fine, I will just come up with the word all on my own. Oh I got it, Hello Kitty!" Lorelai said excitedly.
"What? No seriously, what?"
"Well, I decided gut had a bad connotation, right? So we need something with a good connotation and Hello Kitty has a fabulous connotation. So from now on you and I both have the Hello Kitty with each other."
"We need to get you on some kind of medication." Luke joked.
"I am serious come on Luke say it. Say you have the Hello Kitty with me!" Lorelai pouted.
"No way," Luke firmly stated.
"Luke, come on please." Lorelai batted her eyelashes. "Look, I will say it. Luke I have the Hello Kitty with you!"
"If you think you are going to get me to say that I have the Hello Kitty with you, you truly are insane." Luke said seriously.
"I believe you just did say it." Lorelai said with a smug satisfaction. "Yes!"
"Damn it!" Luke said raising his hand in frustration.
He totally Hello Kitties me, this is good. Lorelai thought then suddenly she remembered something Luke had said before the conversation had gone over to the Hello Kitty place. Did he tell me he broke up with Nicole for me? Oh wow I think he did. He is also not divorced yet. Damn it. We should talk about this stuff. But things are going so well I don't want to ruin it. However, it does seem like a now or never conversation! Okay here I go…
"Luke, did you really break up with Nicole because of me?" Lorelai asked with a slight trepidation.
Luke looked at her for a moment as if contemplating what he should say next.
"Well not completely." Luke replied honestly. "But let's just say after you told me what you did there was just no completion when it came to who I had the Hello Kitty with."
"Oh Luke that's really sweet, and you said it! You said Hello Kitty. You are such a girl. I am so happy!" Lorelai beamed. Luke growled at the girl comment and Lorelai ignored him continuing, "So how exactly does this divorce thing work, If you don't mind me asking?"
"Well, we already had the papers drawn up and so I just signed them yesterday. My part of it is pretty much done. Now it's all stupid lawyers in stupid suits and waiting for it to be finalized." Luke answered his mood changing slightly.
"Is this hard to talk about, I mean it must be. You are getting a divorce. You were married. Maybe this is all too much to soon. We could I don't know hold off or…" Lorelai sadly responded slightly backing away from Luke.
"No!" Luke said firmly. He took a step that removed any distance between himself and Lorelai. "This is definitely not too much and it certainly isn't too soon. This is, well this is perfect."
"Perfect." Lorelai whispered as Luke's lips met hers.
Lorelai and Luke's lips met and it immediately became passionate. The enthusiasm of their kisses was something neither one of them was used to. Lorelai felt no matter how deeply or intensely she kissed Luke all it did was make her want to find a way to be kissed more deeply and more intensely by him. Luke's hands lightly made their way up and down her back giving Lorelai a tingling sensation every place he touched and she let out a slight moan in response.
As Luke lightly nibbled at Lorelai's lower lip an enticing thought came into her head. We are alone at my house with no pizza guy to stop us, no Babette and Mrs. Patty just downstairs, no one but me and him. I want to; I can clearly feel that he wants to. I mean I literally feel that baby right on my hip. Come on just say it, ask him upstairs. This does not have to be this huge ordeal that you need to contemplate about and write pro and con lists about and discuss with Sookie. Then again has a hasty decision ever ended up being a good one for you, Lorelai? Has it? I think not! Why am I thinking in the third person?
Luke's hands slowly made his way under her shirt. He firmly placed his hands on the bare skin on her lower back moving his fingers so they gently grazed her skin. The skin to skin contact made up Lorelai's mind for her. We both have the Lo- Hello Kitty and this feels amazing….
"Let's go upstairs." Lorelai breathed into Luke's mouth.
"Are you sure?" Luke panted moving slightly to look at her.
"I am more sure about this then I am about most things. " Lorelai honestly replied.
"We don't have to if you don't want to, Lorelai." Luke said seriously.
Luke's lips looked so swollen and inviting and Lorelai knew all she wanted was those lips on her, immediately.
"I am sure, I want this." Lorelai declared.
She moved forward and captured Luke's lips in a searing kiss. She began to kiss the corners of his mouth with light fluttery kisses when she whispered. "I want you."
Luke needed no more encouragement. He took his hands that were still resting on Lorelai's back and moved them upwards pulling Lorelai's shirt over her head in one fell swoop.
"God, I want you too." Luke growled after throwing Lorelai's shirt on the ground. He began to place light kisses on Lorelai's chest making his way along the outline of her bra. At this point Lorelai could no longer form a coherent sentence if her life had depended on it.
Luke pulled back from his ministrations and put his hands firmly on Lorelai's thighs. In one swift motion he pulled her up so that he was carrying her. Lorelai immediately responded by wrapped her legs around Luke's waist.
"Wow, you're a big strong man Luke Danes." Lorelai giggled as he carried her up the stairs.
"Shut up." Luke laughed.
"Make me." Lorelai seductively purred.
Luke's lips were immediately on Lorelai's again fervently kissing her for the remainder of the way up the stairs.
Luke and Lorelai were cuddled against each other on Lorelai's bed with a sheet haphazardly covering the both of them. Lorelai laid securely in Luke's arms with her head resting on his chest, her curls falling in every direction. They both took just a moment while they tried to regulate their breathing.
"That was, well that was wow." Lorelai breathed.
"I can't complain." Luke smiled.
"I definitely want to do that again." Lorelai verbalized. "With you I mean."
"I figured that's what you meant." Luke laughed.
So I guess the mystery about how to get Luke to not be a Mr. Grumpy Pants has been solved. Lorelai thought to herself.
"I mean if I had known how great this would be, I would have skipped those two years of calling you Duke. I would have just jumped over the counter and ravished you." Lorelai grinned.
"Yeah, well I'm pretty sure that's some kind of health code violation." Luke laughed.
"You with the jokes," Lorelai said as she poked Luke lightly in the chest. "Admit it Luke Danes, grumpy diner man extraordinaire, is happy."
"I am. I am happy." Luke pronounced.
Lorelai smiled as Luke spoke. I think I finally know what I am doing with my life and this man is going to be a central character. That safe feeling I have with him is now through the roof and I have no urge to run. Not even the tiniest inkling of wanting to run. This has never happened before. This is amazing.
"Luke how long have we known each other?" Lorelai asked.
"A long time," Luke responded.
"So do you think it was unbelievably brilliant or completely ludicrous that we waited this long to get together?" Lorelai asked sincerely.
"Both." Luke declared as he redistributed himself so that his body was on top of Lorelai's pinning her underneath him.
"Both." Lorelai agreed with a smile as Luke's lips once again descended on to hers.
And they all lived happily ever after, THE END!