crack_van | The Things She Knows by Lula Bo

Fandom: GILMORE GIRLS
Pairing: Luke/Lorelai
Author on LJ: unknown - feel free to drop a note if you do.
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Why this must be read:

I may be going a bit overboard tonight, but this story makes such a great bookend to my first rec, I couldn't resist.

Because the thing is, three years later, Lorelai and Luke did dance together, at his sister Liz's wedding. It later prompted Lorelai to proclaim with glee, "Luke can waltz," and it made fangirls everywhere swoon.

Lorelai's POV on this night, with a clever format, and chronicles the beginning of something we'd all been waiting years to see.

The song ends and she stays tucked easily in the curve of his arm, her cheek close to his and her hand on his shoulder. She knows she’s stayed this way a beat too long, but he’s still holding her too and she’s not sure how to step away. Instead she lets her hand fall, brush past his elbow; as he loosens his arm around her, his hand crosses the small of her back, his fingertips just grazing the fabric of her dress. She doesn’t know that she really feels the brief tightening of his hand over hers just before he releases it or if it’s just that when his hand is gone she suddenly knows she’s cold. She shivers slightly, aware of the distance between them, of the sudden absence of warmth and the solid support of his arm. She knows she’s going to have to look at him at some point: she’s glad he makes it easy for her, seeing that she’s cold and leading the way back to their seats for her wrap. She’s fairly certain she knows how to put one foot in front of the other as she follows him, but she can’t quite account for the tightness in her chest or the slight tremor in her hands.

She doesn’t know what to do with herself now and so she falls back on two things she’s always excelled at: eating and talking. She reloads her plate and his and keeps a steady stream of commentary about the spectacle unfolding before them on the dance floor.

The Things She Knows by Lula Bo