A/N First off this was a challenge (I don't remember from who, sorry, because I've gotten a few challenges) so if you remember sending this as a challenge for me, please let me know so I can acknowledge you.
Secondly, I don't usually do this type of story (or read them for that matter) but I figured a good writer has to be able to write what they don't read (if that makes sense)
A/N2 What you need to know… I won't say much otherwise I'll give the story away but… Chris is gone, long gone. How did he leave? Well… remember on 'Dear Emily and Richard' when they show young Lorelai and Christopher sitting on the stair eavesdropping on their parents' 'plans' for their future? Well that's the last Lorelai heard of him. Why you ask? Well you just need to read to find out.
This is set on the episode where Luke gets roped into giving a speech at SHH.
And now, on with the story…
Oh! Not mine
.o0 Stars Hollow High, Hallway 0o.
"Are you sure about this?" Lorelai asked
"About being here? No, I wanna go" Luke said annoyed.
"Not what I meant. Are you sure I can go first"
"Fine by me, there's a very good chance that you'll talk so much they won't even get to me" he had a smirk on. Lorelai rolled her eyes and started looking around, she giggled when she saw a familiar yet younger face.
"What?" Luke grunted while getting up to go stand next to her and see what she's looking at. Lorelai's eyes wonder down to read the little plate State High Hurdles Champion – 1985 - Butch Danes
"Butch…" Lorelai whispered shocked.
.o0 February 1984 0o.
"Butch… and you want me to believe that's your real name?" a young Lorelai asked skeptically.
"Is Sissy yours?" Luke asks back.
"Good point" Lorelai said with a smirk. They were at a party in a house over at Litchfield. "So… where were we?" she smiled more before leaning in again.
.o0 Stars Hollow High 0o.
"Lorelai…? Hey" Luke waved a hand in front of her face but her eyes just kept fixated on the picture.
.o0 About and hour later at the party, 1984 0o.
"Hey Lorelai, Christopher was just looking for you, he said you disappeared" a girl told Lorelai when she rejoined her near the table with all the booze.
"Oh…" Lorelai acknowledged looking at the ground with a small smirk.
"What did you do?" the girl asked with a sing song voice.
"Nothing"
"You hooked up with someone even though you came here with Chris! That's not fair! I came here alone and I'm still alone" the girl pouted and turned around to grab a drink.
"I never said I hooked up with someone, and if you really wanted to meet someone you'd leave the bar and mingle"
"I think you 'mingled' enough for the both of us" the girl rolled her eyes.
"Whatever, I'm gonna go look around" Lorelai waved her off and walked away.
"Don't you mean sleep around?" the girl called after Lorelai but she just ignored her.
.o0 Stars Hollow High 0o.
"Lorelai come on, it's not funny" Luke tried again but Lorelai wouldn't snap out of her trance. "Is this your way of saying you wanna get out of here?" he teased.
.o0 The party, 1984 0o.
"So… are you from around here?" Lorelai asked once she had bumped against Butch twice already.
"What?"
"Nothing, it's just that destiny or whatever keeps putting us together, I thought I might as well get to know you a little seeing as how we… we just… you know" Lorelai gestured wildly with her hands.
"Oh"
"Yeah so… are you from around here?" Lorelai tried again.
"Sort of, I live in a stupid small town about an hour from here"
"That narrows it down" Lorelai mumbled. "I'm from Hartford"
"I live near there"
"So you live near there and near here?" Lorelai wanted to clarify and Luke just nodded.
"It's this small town where they have a bunch of stupid little festivals every weekend and everybody knows everybody… its annoying actually"
"Riiiight…Ok then… I'm just gonna go talk to someone who actually knows where they live" Lorelai said annoyed before leaving.
"Wha…?" Luke didn't know what had annoyed Lorelai.
.o0 Stars Hollow High 0o.
"Butch…" Lorelai whispered again this time slowly turning around to look at him.
.o0 A few weeks after the party, Gilmore mansion 0o.
"It sounds ok" Christopher whispered from the stairs where they were both listening in on their parents 'discussion'.
"What?" Lorelai looked appalled.
"It doesn't sound that bad… I mean, I could deal with…"
"No" she interrupted him.
"But…"
"No, Chris!" Lorelai said a little too loudly and everybody downstairs heard her. "I'm not gonna let you ruin your life when…"
"I'm not going to ruin…"
"You're not the father!" Lorelai snapped to see if that would shut Chris up.
"Lorelai Gilmore, what did you just say?" Emily Gilmore shrieked from the bottom of the steps.
.o0 Stars Hollow High 0o.
"What…? Aw geez!" Luke groaned when he saw his old track picture.
.o0 Spring 1990, Luke's Diner 0o.
Teenagers change a lot over 6 years.
"Geez! What the hell did you do?" Luke asked when he saw a little girl crying her eyes out into Lorelai's shoulder; he knew Lorelai but he had never seen the little girl.
"She fell off her bike" Lorelai answered taking a seat on a chair by the windows with Rory straddling her lap. "Do you have a first aid kit?" Lorelai asked over Rory's cries.
"Mommy, it huuuuurts!" Rory whined still crying and clinging more to Lorelai.
"I'll bring the kit" Luke walked away; Lorelai had told him she had a daughter but he never actually believed her.
"Honey, Luke is gonna make you feel all better ok" Lorelai cooed and Rory just snuggled more into Lorelai.
"Here you go" Luke tossed the kit on top of the table and started walking away.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, where are you going? You need to fix her" Lorelai pouted.
"Tsk, I don't like kids, they're loud and sticky and…"
"Please…" Lorelai showed him the big puppy eyes. Luke growled before pulling a chair out and sitting on it.
"Turn her around" he grunted while preparing the kit; Lorelai turned Rory in her lap, she was still crying but looked at Luke with big eyes watching his every move.
"Is it-t gonna hu-urt" Rory was hiccupping.
"Yes" Luke answered absentmindedly and Rory started crying again. "Geez"
"Luke…" Lorelai smacked him. "Don't tell her that"
"Sorry, I didn't know we were supposed to lie to them"
"Not lie, just fib"
"Fine…" Luke sighed. "Ok… little girl"
"Rory" Lorelai told him fast.
"Right, Rory… ok, Rory, this is gonna make your cut tingle a little ok? But it's gonna make it all better" Luke said in a small voice, Lorelai smiled never imagining Luke could be so nice.
"Tingle?" Rory asked in a sad voice.
"Yep, and if it hurts too badly then you can pinch your Mommy's arm" Luke said with a smirk getting back at Lorelai for making him do this; she glared at him before placing her arm in front of Rory.
"Ow!" Lorelai shrieked when Rory pinched her, Luke chuckled. "Ow! Rory, does it really hurt that bad?" Lorelai asked thinking Luke was being a tad tough on Rory.
"No but you're funny" Rory giggled.
"Hey!" Lorelai pulled her arm back; Luke placed a band-aid and closed the first aid kit.
"You know what, you were such a brave little girl that I'll go get you a brownie, what do you say?" Luke asked and Rory's eyes sparkled.
"What do you say, Rory?"
"Thank you" Rory said shyly.
.o0 Stars Hollow High 0o.
"Don't they need my permission for this?" Luke wondered out loud forgetting for a moment that Lorelai was in shock for some reason.
.o0 1990 0o.
"So she's Lorelai Leigh Gilmore?" Luke asked referring to Rory.
"Yep" Lorelai said taking a sip of coffee; it was after hours and Rory had fallen asleep on top of Lorelai who was on a stool.
"Gilmore?" Luke still asked.
"Yes"
"But you're Gilmore"
"You don't say" Lorelai faked surprise. "What's the big deal?"
"Nothing, I just figured… you know…she'd have her Dad's last name" Lorelai's mood suddenly changed.
"Umm… It's getting late, we should get going" Lorelai placed her coffee cup down and got up to leave.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to intrude"
"Don't worry about it, you didn't" she still went over to the door.
.o0 1992 0o.
"What's wrong?" Luke asked when Rory stumped into the Diner and over to the side of the counter while tearing a piece of paper.
"Stupid day, stupid school, stupid teacher, stupid assignment, stupid…"
"Hey, hey, hey that's five more stupid's than you're allowed to say"
"Sorry" she tossed something in the trash and then went back over to the door. "Bye Luke. Don't tell my mom I was here" and with that Rory left. Luke frowned and went to check the trash can, he picked up the torn up pieces of paper and placed the together on the floor 'happy fathers day' was written with beans and it had a flower drawn under it. Luke knew her teacher must have made her do it because Rory would never make something like that on her own free will. Luke picked up the pieces of paper and crumbled them in his fist. He wondered what kind of man would abandon Lorelai and Rory without a second thought.
.o0 Stars Hollow High 0o.
"Oh my God" Lorelai mumbled and Luke turned to look at her again.
"What?"
.o0 1995 0o.
"I think the only reason you won't tell me who the father is, is because you know I'd go kill him with my bare hands" Luke said frustrated; again Rory had come into the diner and confided in him, like she'd become accustomed to but this time he couldn't keep it to himself anymore.
"Luke…"
"Its true, I know it and you know it and I know you don't have to tell me, you don't have to tell anyone, except Rory…"
"I can't!"
"She deserves to know, if he abandoned her then its ok for her to hate him but if he didn't then it's not fair to…"
"I don't know who the father is!" Lorelai finally snapped.
"What?"
"I got pregnant at a party!" she admitted before she turned around embarrassed of what she had just said; they both dropped the subject and never touched it again.
.o0 Starts Hollow High 0o.
"Butch… you're Butch, and you live in a small town where they have a bunch of stupid little festivals every weekend and everybody knows everybody…" Lorelai said in a daze.
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm Sissy" Lorelai mumbled.
"Sissy…?" Luke frown, Butch and Sissy sounded so familiar to him; then suddenly his face showed realization and shock.
You've been LoVeLuKe-ized
So… what do you think so far? I hope it wasn't too confusing. Tell me what you thought of if, pretty please.