The Incredible Rising Lorelai
By Gigi



Chapter 10 : Surprise, surprise!

A/N: Okay, I have written three different leads and finally settled on this one. I hope you guys like it! I'm not sure how long this chapter will be. It all depends on inspiration!!! Come on, time for the Rory in me to come out now!!

A/N 2: There is a portion in this where it is Rory's POV, so that's gonna be in bold. Enjoy!


Two beers and a new shirt later, I'm sitting on the couch with Luke in my arms. Now don't get any ideas! I'm still comforting him. He cried so much on my shirt that I had to go change. But I have to admit, it does feel good to be holding him. He smells really good! He smells like burgers, coffee, and just…Luke-ish.

"Luke, it's gonna be okay. You don't need Nicole. There are other fish in the sea…" Like me.

"Like who?" Luke asks, looking at me with pleading, lost-puppy dog eyes. Before I know what I'm doing, I kiss Luke, a soft, sweet, sensual kiss.

"Does that answer your question?" I ask tentatively, staring into Luke's crystal blue eyes. Luke nods. Good, at least that got his attention. I finally found a way to calm him down. And I like this way! I lean in again…

"Lorelai—" Luke stops me. Oh, no. I shouldn't have kissed him. Great, now I have wrecked whatever chances there were of becoming friends with him again.

"What?" I ask, a little scared of the answer.

"I…I…" I silence him with my fingers.

"I love you too," I said it! I actually said it! Yippee! Luke is smiling! He should smile more. It's sexy. And with that thought I kiss him again, this time not so softly. My hand goes up to his cheek, the stubble on it sliding along my skin. My other hand goes to rest on his chest.

Luke's tongue is sliding along my bottom lip, wanting me to open my mouth. I happily oblige. This is possibly the most fun break up ever. Well, for me at least. I wasn't the one breaking up. And by the way Luke is kissing me I think he agrees with me.

Luke's hands aren't doing anything nearly as innocent as mine. One goes to my ass, of course. Of all the guys I dated, not one could resist ma booty. Luke actually was able to refrain from going there the longest. I'm impressed. The other one goes to my chest—nothing dirty! Well, sort of—and slowly pushes me down so that I am lying on the couch kissing Luke like there was no tomorrow. Wow, Luke really knows what to do with a girl!

My hand goes from his cheek to his hair, knocking off his baseball cap in the process. Hey! That's the cap I got him for Christmas five years ago! Maybe Babette, Miss Patty, Rory, Jess, and about everybody else in Stars Hollow was right: Luke has a thing for me. And I've got a thing for him.

Luke and I are way too busy making out to notice Nicole come back in the house to retrieve her purse. She walks into the living room and freezes. I thought I heard something when Nicole came in, but I just thought it was Luke, so I did nothing, well, other than kissing him hungrily that is.

Nicole is so stunned she doesn't even say anything. However, at that moment, another person drops by. Rory

"Hey, Mom, I came as fast as I—OH GOD!!!" Rory exclaims as she sees me, her mother, making out with Luke, who is married. Of course, that gets our attention. That was definitely not my imagination.

Mom sure sounded stressed on the phone. I hope she's alright. She said she needed to tell me something too. She didn't sound too happy about it. She actually sounded…scared.

Well, I'm about to find out what's up, I'm home! I love coming home, it feels so…fulfilling. Wait a second. Why is Luke's truck here? And whose car is that? Mom hasn't bought a Toyota Camry as far as I know. Yep, there's Mom's jeep. What is going on here?

Opening the door, I yell, "Hey, Mom, I came as fast as I—OH GOD!!!" as I see my mother making out with Luke! I mean, I'm happy for them and all but this is just indecent!

Mom and Luke fly apart as I exclaim. Oh God, Mom's shirt's buttons are halfway undone! And so is Luke's! Hey, where'd his cap go? Oh, it's on the floor. Aaaah, ick! They aren't looking at me, though. I turn around to see what—or should I say, who—they are staring at.

"Nicole…" Mom, Luke, and I breathe out in unison.

"Nicole…" Luke, Rory, and I breathe out in unison. Nicole is just standing there, frozen. I have no idea what to say. I'm too scared to move, even if it's just to button up my shirt, because she might not have seen that and I would be drawing attention to it. Ugh, I need coffee.

"See, Luke? That's why I didn't want you coming here anymore! I just heard that she told Sookie she loved you and I knew you had a thing for her and I turn my back for one second and you're making out with her!" Holy shit! That woman has a pair of lungs on her!

Oh my god, I don't feel so good. "Excuse me for a minute, won't you?" I run to the bathroom and heave, puking the day's foods right out of my body. Oh, god no, not now. I mean, right now? How is that fair?

"Mom?" Oh, good, Rory. I wave for her to come in and point to my hair. Rory immediately understands and holds my hair back. "Mom, what's going on?" Rory asks.

"What's the date?" is all I say.

"It's May 4th, why?" I didn't even realize it's been two weeks.

"I'll be right back." I run into the foyer and grab my purse, ignoring the shouting match taking place there. That's the least of my worries at the moment. I go back into the bathroom and pull out a box. Rory's eyes widen at it. "Not now, honey." Rory understands and leaves the bathroom. Questions will be asked later.

I step out of the bathroom ten minutes later with a dazed look on my face. Rory immediately runs up to me and starts to ask a question, but I hold up my hand, silencing her. However, I nod, and her eyes pop out. I walk out into the foyer, where Luke and Nicole are still having a heated discussion.

"You filthy, lying, cheating hypocrite!" Nicole screeches. Wow, twice in one day, that's gotta be a record. "You say you want a divorce because I was cheating, but the second I turn around your all on top of this whore!" she points at me. Ouch.

Now it's Rory's turn to yell. " Hey! Do not insult my mother!"

"And what are you gonna do about it! You're an example of how slutty your mother is! You're an illegitimate child she had when she was 16!—"

"And she raised me extremely well! Look at me! I have a mother who loves me, who is my best friend, and a good education, good health and about 50 other things I definitely wouldn't be if you were my mother! I mean, my mother would turn heaven and earth for me! She went to her parents, who she can't stand, who she ran away from, for money just so she could get me a good education! And look where I am now! I am a junior a Yale University! That's hardly what you can say, Boston Uni. Graduate. You graduated with the lowest grades!"

"Yes but I'm not a slut, now am I?"

"You're the one to talk! Ever wonder why every woman hates you? Because you run around trying to seduce every man in sight, even those who are already taken! Now with Luke, you got lucky, because he's a great guy. He's practically my father. So I am not going to stand by and watch you call him a cheater when you have been going off every week to sleep with your best friend's ex!"

"How, how did you know who I—"

"You're best friend's ex has a brother. His brother has a son, Logan, who goes to Yale with me, and also happens to be my boyfriend. I think I would find out eventually. Now, I would appreciate it if you left… now"

"Luke?" I finally manage to get out. It's now or never.

"Yeah?"

"I'm pregnant."

Next on the Incredible Rising Lorelai: How will Luke react to this news? How will Nicole react to this news? What is this going to do with Luke and Lorelai's relationship?

A/N: So what did you think? It wasn't as long as chapter 9, but it is a good contender. I just had to get the whole Nicole situation out of the way. Or start to get it out of the way at least. By the way, I originally planned for Rory to have two big whopper surprises, but I decided only to have one in this chapter. Who knows, maybe it will be in the chapters to come?


To be continued...