Mini Fics
 

Pancake Day   By: Christy, Mandy, Piper, Javibot

 


 

Lorelai walked into Luke's diner. The two of them had been dating for three months. Everyone in town knew and was estatic for the couple. But, their newfound relationship did not stop the whole diner banter that had taken place between them for years.

"Hey, Lorelai." Luke said as he looked up at her.

"Hey." She leaned over the counter and kissed him.

"What can I get ya?" Luke asked. In reply, Lorelai wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. Luke blushed. "I meant food wise."

"Do you know what today is?"

"September 26th."

"Right, but I mean besides the date."

"Uh... Well, I know it's not our anniversary or your birthday, or Rory's... Is it your mother's?"

"It's no one's birthday."

"Uh... Lorelai, you know I hate these guessing games so just tell me what it is."

"Today is National Pancake Day!" She squealed, clapping her hands together happily.

"Oh, geez!" Luke rolled his eyes. "Lorelai, what do you want to eat?"

"Luke! Weren't you paying attention?"

"To you babbling about it being panca-... Oh! An order of pancakes coming up. Where's Rory?"

"Off with Lane somewhere."

"Oh. Okay. Well, I'll be back in a few with your pancakes." Luke walked off toward the kitchen.

"And make sure you make them and not Caesar. Your pancakes are fluffier! I want Luke pancakes, not Caesar pancakes!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." She heard Luke call from the back.

He came back ten minutes later with a stack of pancakes that could definitely measure up to Kilimanjaro. Okay, maybe not quite that big but still. Lorelai looked up at him expectantly. "No whipped cream?"

Luke turned slightly red. "Oh, I, uh... ran out."

"Oh! Last night. Right, I forgot. We should do that again sometime," she said suggestively.

"Eat your pancakes," Luke said, glancing around to make sure no one had heard.

"With no whipped cream" She looked at him like a little kid that was told they could have a cone but no ice cream.

Luke sighed. "Lorelai, would you like me to go and buy you some whipped cream?"

"Would you?"

"Fine. I'll be right back." He headed towards the door.

"Better get some extra for later!" Lorelai hollered as he went out.

Luke came back shortly and gave Lorelai the whipped cream. He went into the kitchen and came back out with some blueberries. He put a bowl beside her.

"What's that for?" She asked.

"To put on your pancakes."

"Blueberries? Any special reason?"

"Don't you like them?"

"Yeah, but you've never given them to me before."

"If I tell you the reason you promise you'll still eat them?"

"Of course."

"Well, I heard somewhere that they are good for preventing heart diseases and other kinds of things like cancers and stuff."

"Awwww! You are so cute taking care of me like that."

"Well, I thought with all that unhealthy food you constantly clog your arteries with, maybe this will even out the odds a little so to speak."

Lorelai smiled at him as she put the blueberries on her pancakes. She took a bite and looked up at him. "Yummm. This is good." She smiled again and he felt his heart flutter. Before he could stop himself, he was leaning over the counter kissing her. "Uhmmm... that's even better." She giggled.

"I know that you two are completely in love, but unfortunately, not all of us are that lucky, so could you please refrain from comminting acts of PDA and bring me some damn coffee!" Kirk yelled from the table by the window.
"Uh, sorry Kirk," Lorelai said, "But it's National Pancake Day."
"So?" Kirk asked.
"Well, on National Pancake Day I can do whatever I want."
"And why would you be able to do that?"
"Because I'm eating pancakes and you are eating Belgian Waffles, with no whipped cream on top. It makes me superior. I mean, maybe if you at least had gotten the whipped cream..." Lorelai trailed off as Kirk stared at his food furiously.
"Uh, I should probably get him some coffee so we can resume our uh...conversation," Luke said with a smile.
"No, I think he's fine. He's probably going to spend a few more minutes debating whether or not to go up and ask you to get him some pancakes with whipped cream, you'll yell at him, he'll sit down, the coffee's forgotten. Well, not really. I'll have drinken it all by the time anyone remembers." Lorelai took a sip right from the pot in front of her.
"Oh, now I'm gonna have to waste a perfectly good pot of coffee," Luke said.
"No, don't worry about it, I can drink it all."
"Well, that would defeat the purpose of the blueberries, wouldn't it?" He glanced at the clock. "Oh, you have to get to work," he told her, a little disappointed.
"Aww, cute, now you're worried about me being late to work." Lorelai said in between bites of pancake.
"Well, I don't want you to get in trouble."
"Yeah, I'm going to have to give myself a lecture when I get there," she teased. She looked up at the clock, too. "Hm, I really do have to go. But I'll be back for lunch. And- oh, hey, save the blueberries for later."
"What? Why?" Luke asked
"I'm sure we can think of something," she said, kissing him goodbye and walking out the door.

A few hours later, Michel approached Lorelai.
"Lorelai, there is someone here to see you."

"It's not my mother is it?"

"No. He's waiting in your office."

"Oh no, my dad?"

"No, Lorelai."

"Well, Michel, who is it?"

"I do not have time to play twenty questions. Just go find out."

"Why are you always so crabby? Do you not have enough fiber in your diet or something?" Lorelai walked toward her office and opened the door. She smiled when she saw Luke sitting in a chair by her desk. "Luke?" She shut the door and out of habit, locked it as well. "What are you doing here?" He grabbed her and pulled her into his arms, his lips crashing against hers. When they pulled apart, Lorelai said, "Wow! What was that for?"

"I just... earlier all the talk about the whip cream and stuff... it just made me... well you know..."

"So, you want to do it right here in my office?"

"Um... Well, actually I was kinda hoping you could take a break and we could go to the house. Rory's still at school so..."

"Umm... Yeah, okay." The two walked out of the room and Lorelai told Michel she was leaving for a little while. He grumbled and rolled his eyes as the couple walked out of the Inn.


"I just... earlier all the talk about the whip cream and stuff... it just made me... well you know..."

"So, you want to do it right here in my office?"

"Um... Well, actually I was kinda hoping you could take a break and we could go to the house. Rory's still at school so..."

"Umm... Yeah, okay." The two walked out of the room and Lorelai told Michel she was leaving for a little while. He grumbled and rolled his eyes as the couple walked out of the Inn.

"Are you sure you want to do this now?" Lorelai asked, as she flung her coat off and onto the living room floor.
"Hell, yeah!" Luke eagerly replied, loosening his collar.
"We've never done this during the day, before..." Lorelai said sheeppishly, taking the whipped cream from Luke's belt.
"Feeling excited?"
"You have no idea," said Lorelai, shaking the can vigorously.
"Remind me, what's the current record?" Luke asked.
"One minute, thirteen seconds."
"I can beat that," Luke said confidently.
"Okay. On your marks. Get set. GO!" Lorelai shouted.
Luke rushed at her and grabbed the can from her hand. He proceeded to place the nozzle in his mouth and devour the contents.
"C'mon Luke!" she cheeered him on. "You're not gonna make it!"
"Yesh i ammmh!" he shouted through the cream.
"No you're not! Fifty four seconds. Fifty five-"
"I'll take the penalty!" He shoved the nozzle in her mouth and injected the last of the cream. "Time!"
Lorelai stopped the timer and swallowed.
"One minute flat!" she announced.
"Plus the ten second penalty for the helping party," Luke corrected her.
"That's one minute and 10 seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new record!"
"You know what that means!" Luke urged!
"I'll get the dice!"
"There's three. It's die!"
"Was that a threat?" Lorelai called over her shoulder.

5 minutes later they were seated at the kitchen table.
Luke rolled the die.
"Ear. Nibble. Sexily," the die faces read.
"No problemo!" Lorelai scoffed. She did some fake neck stretch exercises and lunged at Luke's ear. "OW!"
"Want me to take my cap off?"
"Uh huh," said Lorelai, rubbing her nose.

Luke removed his baseball cap, tossing it carelessly over the back of the sofa. Lorelai proceeded to follow the directions on the die.

"Ow! Geez!" Luke jumped up.

"Oh, oh God. I am so sorry." Lorelai covered her hand with her mouth in effort to keep from laughing. "Are you okay?"

Luke rubbed his ear. "Nibble. Not bite."

"I know, I just... I got a little carried away."

"Let's do something else."

"Okay, let's get something to eat," Lorelai suggested.

"So you were trying to tell me something with the whole biting thing."

Lorelai took his hand and pulled him towards the kitchen. "Like...."

"Like you just can't help yourself."

"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?" Lorelai opened up a package of Twinkies, breaking one in half and offering it to Luke.

"No way," he declined. "I'm not eating that stuff."

"You'll eat whipped cream off of my body but not out of a pre-packaged, sugar coated bread? You are a strange, strange man."