Hey 'K', didn't feel like writing Kylie (hey! There, I did it) weee)
.o0 MoNdAy MoRnInG, ThE HoTeL RoOm 0o.
"How are you feeling?" Lorelai asked as she combed her hair.
"Annoyed" Luke said getting his sneakers on. "Could you stop asking me how I feel?"
"Maybe in an hour or so" Lorelai teased. "I'm gonna buy you something pretty with that money" she added.
"Pretty?" Luke frowned.
"Yeah, like a pink cap or something. Oh! Maybe one with sparkles!" she said excitedly.
"No" Luke said sternly and got up. "That money is for you and Rory to enjoy, go to a mall or a spa or something" Luke shrugged.
"Luke, it's five thousand dollars, I think we can spear something pretty for you" she walked over to him and hugged him around the waist.
"Nothing pretty" Luke grumbled, Lorelai smirked and just kissed him.
.o0 MoNdAy AfTeRnOoN, LoCaTiOn 0o.
They walked into a dark, dirty, and abandoned basement. The first thing Lorelai saw was Joe Rogan standing next to a covered box type thingy next to a small covered table.
"How are you feeling?" Joe asked in general, there were approving mumbles because nobody was going to admit fear or anything like it. "Ok then, let's see what the last stunt is" Joe pulled the cover off of the biggest box. It was a clear plastic coffin and Lorelai instantly knew she wasn't gonna like this, at all. Joe pulled off the other cover and there was a U shaped plastic with a key resting inside of it, there was a bowl next to the U tube and it seemed to have some sort of liquefied concoction, which smelled really bad, next to the bowl there was a saw that had a big lock. This can't be good Lorelai thought, and as if Luke could sense her fear he slung an arm around her shoulders. "The women will be strapped inside this coffin, we will pour hundreds of tarantulas…" Joe began explaining and Lorelai sucked in a breath. "… and we'll close the coffin with a metal tube, the men will have to suck in this liquefied cows gut and spit it into the tube until the key floats to the top, you'll use that key to unlock the lock and free the saw, then you'll have to saw the tube that's keeping the coffin close. The couple who does this the fastest will win one hundred thousand dollars, the other couple will go home a loser" Joe said with a smirk. "Tony and Carmen, you are lucky number one, let's get you strapped in" he told Carmen, and Tony helped her into the coffin.
"Lorelai?" Luke asked tentatively as they strapped Carmen into the coffin. "Are you ok?" he knew Lorelai's fear of spider's, it wasn't arachnophobia but she was still scared of them.
"MmmHmm" Lorelai couldn't even talk; she saw how they dropped three buckets filled with tarantulas and crickets onto Carmen's body.
"The crickets are to keep the tarantulas entertained" Joe said and Lorelai just squeezed Luke's arm more. "Ready?" he asked Tony who only nodded.
Tony started sucking the liquefied thing from the bowl and spitting it into the tube, the key slowly rising to the top; he unlocked the saw and went to work on the tube that was over an inch thick. Lorelai was biting her nails off one hand, and digging the ones in her other hand into Luke's bicep.
"Time! Let's get her out of there" Joe called and four guys walked up to where the coffin was. "Two minutes and forty seven seconds" Joe told them as they helped Carmen take off all the bugs that clanged to her body. "How does that feel?" Joe asked once Carmen was all clean.
"Awful, I can still feel the little hairs, they feel like fiber glass; it just hurts and itches" Carmen said, and Lorelai was trying her best not to cry. It looked awful, being trapped inside a coffin with hundreds of tarantulas with no way out.
"Lorelai?" Luke saw her battle, Lorelai just looked up to him and two big tears made their way, silently down her cheeks, Luke wiped them away.
"Luke, Lorelai, you're up" Joe said. "Lorelai? Are you ok? You do know that if you pull back now, you'll lose" Lorelai nodded with tears.
"It's ok" Luke said rubbing Lorelai's arms.
"They're tarantula's Luke" Lorelai's voice broke.
"Oh, so you're afraid of them huh?" Carmen smiled wickedly.
"Don't listen to her, Lorelai" Luke whispered.
"Lorelai, you two have kicked ass on the two previous stunts, I'm sure he won't leave you high and dry in there" Joe said, Lorelai had her thinking face on which that and her tears made her look scared and cute
"I won't leave you in there, you know that" Luke told her.
"They're spiders" was all Lorelai said, tears kept silently rolling down her cheeks.
"You don't need to do anything that you don't want to. This was your idea remember? I'm not forcing you to do anything" Luke told her staring her dead in the eye.
"I want that money, Luke" she whispered with a smirk. "I have no idea what I'll do with it, but I want it" Lorelai whined and giggled at the same time she eyed the coffin.
"I won't let you in there, I swear" Luke told her. "And… if we win… we can go get Rory, and… go to Vegas... and… we can get married" it took some time but he finally said it.
"What?" Lorelai's fear was quickly forgotten.
"If you want to" Luke pulled back a little and Lorelai's mouth dropped opened.
"Seriously?" there was a smile that threatened to appear on her face.
"Well… yeah" Luke said, Lorelai shrieked and wrapped her arms around his neck giving him a quick kiss.
"Let's win this thing" Lorelai said happily.
Lorelai was getting strapped in.
"Just ignore the feeling, Lorelai. Think of something else" Luke said.
"Tsk, you can't ignore that!" Carmen called from afar. "It hurts and it itches!"
"Ignore her, honey" Luke whispered.
"You called me honey" Lorelai said with a small smile.
"Yeah"
"We need you to step aside" Joe told Luke. They brought the buckets of tarantulas and dropped them on Lorelai.
"Just relax, think of something else" Luke told her and the closed the coffin
"MmmHmm" Lorelai mumbled too afraid that if she opened her mouth something would crawl in.
"Ok, and go!" Joe said.
Luke's face went straight for the bowl taking deep gulps filling his mouth to the rim before spitting everything out into the tube, he ignored to awful taste, his mind focused on Lorelai just lying there practically buried under tarantulas. He kept spitting into the tube from one side and he had his finger jammed into the other side of the tube anxiously waiting to feel the key. A few seconds later he got the key and freed the saw. Luke moved to the clear coffin to start sawing the tube, the image before him made his heart nearly stop, Lorelai was lying perfectly still; it reminded him of his parents, and the tarantulas weren't helping at all. Luckily while he's mind played trick with him he had started sawing the tube.
"Hang on, Lorelai!" Luke called and sawed faster, he never thought all those times he helped his Dad out and all those times he fixed stuff for Lorelai would come in handy until today. The tube was sawed in no time.
"What's taking him so long! He's gagging, he won't do it!" Carmen kept yelling.
"Time!" Joe yelled. "Get her out of there!" they waited a few minutes until Lorelai was free of animals. She ran over to Luke and hugged him tight, quietly crying, Luke kept rubbing her back whispering things into her ear. "Your time to beat was: two minutes and forty seven seconds, you two completed the stunt in: two minutes… five seconds! Congratulations Luke and Lorelai, you two are our Fear Factor champion couple!" Joe said quickly and Lorelai shrieked and jumped a little still hugging Luke. "You saved her from drowning, saved her from eating any disgusting foods, and now saved her from tarantulas and for that you get 105'000 dollars; congratulations and apparently fear is not a factor for Luke when you're in danger" Joe told Lorelai, she kissed Luke again, ignoring the after taste of cow guts.
"We're going to Vegas" Lorelai whispered when she pulled back.
"Yeah" Luke smiled.
What do you think? Did you like it? Should I do one more? Or just leave it like that?