Luke's Diner

[burger-boy-luke.livejournal.com]

Luke shoos the last of his customers out, and goes into the back to change.

He has mixed feelings about this whole thing tonight. He's pretty sure that both the kids are going to be uncomfortable, and he's not exactly thrilled with it either.

Lorelai already doesn't like this Logan guy - that much is obvious, even though she had been careful not to say anything flat-out negative about him. Luke had no idea what she had against him. The kid had seemed nice enough on Monday, and after observing him and Rory interact a little, Luke had to admit that there didn't seem to be anything particularly dysfunctional about them. Still, he was sure Lorelai knew something he didn't.

He decides not to question her on it, however. She's fairly tense already, and has spent the last half hour picking out what to wear. The last thing he needed was to get into a fight with her.

In any case, after emerging from the back and checking on the food he had started preparing in the diner's kitchen, he was still uneasy about the whole thing.

He sighs, and checks his watch, wondering when the kids are going to show up.

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[fh_jackass]

Logan ducks into the diner, shaking off the rain. "Wow. That is some weird-ass--," he spots Luke, and clears his throat. "Um, very strange weather out there. Is this normal East Coast storm weather?"

[burger-boy-luke.livejournal.com]

"Well," Luke says, glancing out the window, "sort of. This is a little...unusual."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory spots Logan after entering, and smiles.

"Hey, you been here long?" she asks, discreetly locking the door behind her.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory finally leaves her room after agonizing over what to wear. After noticing the downpour, she grabs an umbrella, and runs to the diner.

"Mom? Luke?" she calls out.

[burger-boy-luke.livejournal.com]

"Hey, your mom's in the back, getting ready still," Luke says, coming out from behind the counter. He glances worriedly out the window.

[fh_jackass]

Logan picks up the rolling pin and cautiously emerges from behind the counters. Rolling pin poised, he edges along the wall towards the front window.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Logan!" Rory hisses. "What are you doing? Get down! They'll see you!"

Despite her best efforts, her voice rises in pitch, and panic is written all over her face.

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

Lorelai comes in from the back room, looking slightly disheveled and irritated.

"Sorry I'm late," she announces as she enters the room. "We had a huge crisis at the inn, Cletus got out of the barn and in to the kitchen and..." she suddenly notices Logan standing with a rolling pin.

"What the hell is going on?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Mom!" Rory says, not even trying to keep it down. "Get DOWN."

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

Suddenly, there is a loud knock at the door.

[fh_jackass]

"Who's there?" he calls out.

[burger-boy-luke.livejournal.com]

Luke comes back in to the main part of the diner, from the opposite direction that Lorelai just entered. He spots his wife on the floor with Rory and turns to the door.

"Who's there?" he calls out haltingly.

[fh_jackass]

"Get the table!" Logan orders. "Turn them on their side. We need to barricade the windows." He sticks the rolling pin under his arm and starts moving tables.

[burger-boy-luke.livejournal.com]

Luke helps Logan re-arrange the tables.

They turn them on their sides and slide them as close to the windows as they can.

"I think I have some boards in the back," he says. "We can use them to reinforce the door."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angelus whistled to get their attention.

"Guys - " he pointed towards the kitchen. "Knives. Sharp things. Fire. We call these actual weapons."

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

Lorelai looks at him.

"We haven't met yet, I'm Lorelai Gilmore-Danes," she says with a smile.

[(Anonymous)]

The sound of splintering glass fills the diner, as a tattered limb of rotten flesh blasts its way through a window.

[fh_jackass]

Logan raises the shotgun, aims, and shoots off the arm.

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

Lorelai comes back down the stairs with a blow torch in her hands.

"Hey Mr. I don't need a weapon - how's this?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Excellent," Angelus said. "Now find a gas tank and it's even sexier."

[(Anonymous)]

Another zombie smashes through a window, toppling a table over and falling on the floor with a thud in front of the counter.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

With a look of annoyance Angelus grabbed it by the back of the shoulders, jerking it to its feet.

"Okay, Thriller, time to go," he flung it across the room, over the heads of everyone there, until it landed with a sick thud against the wall.

Angelus snapped his fingers. "Fire, people, I need fire."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin and Faith, fresh from their epic victories against what is now apparently a plucky group of reconnaissance zombies, go racing past the diner and see the attack underway.

Anakin lights up his lightsaber and yells inside, "You need a hand?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory screams and jumps, and then realizes it's just the guy with the light-up swordy thing.

"Hey! Yes! Come in, or take us with you, or something!" she says, waving her giant fork around in a way that she thinks looks very threatening indeed.

[fh_jackass]

Please, if there is anyone who desires to go from the town to the school, or who needs a safe place to go within town, come to the police station.

"Did anyone else hear that?" Logan asks.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"We trust the cops to help?" Angelus asked. "Last I heard, they were human."

[(Anonymous)]

The boards creak as someone - or something - pounds at them. The pounding is slow, but steady and strong.

*Thump*

*Thump*

*Thump*

Another set of fists joins the pounding.

*Thump* *THUMP*

*Thump* *THUMP*

There's a sharp CRACK as one of the boards splits down the middle. Rotted fingers push through the boards and pull them apart. Another set of fists begins pounding at the windows on the other side of the door.

*Thump*

*Thump*

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

Lorelai has her back to the windows. She turns to identify the source of the thumping.

She shrieks as two zombies burst through the window and boards and lumber into the diner.

"AAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

On impulse, she grabs the coffee pot and throws hot coffee at the zombies.

[aroseintime.livejournal.com]

Rose and Anya wander into the diner, feeling a little more safe.

[fh_jackass]

Rose and Anya might notice that the only injuries in the diner are from a frying pan and a barbecue fork.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angelus looked out through the holes in the boards and saw more zombies shuffling forward. He debated, long and hard, about simply walking outside and letting them eat everyone who remained - or who couldn't defend themselves on their own.

And yet... there'd be the next day, and a whole lot of plans ruined.

Sometimes he felt that soul boy just had to be laughing at him somewhere. The asshole.

"Okay," he announced in a I've-dealt-with-Spike-for-years-no-really-don't-push-me tone, "we're done here. Everybody who can't fight on their own has to get to the school. Ani, Lisa, that includes you too. Faith, Logan, stick with me and we'll provide a distraction so the others can get a head start."

[burger-boy-luke.livejournal.com]

Luke has unearthed a baseball bat from somewhere. He holds it tightly in one hand and helps his wife up with the other.

"Is there somewhere on campus we can stay tonight? I don't think we're making it back to Stars Hollow."

[fh_jackass]

Logan checks the stove. "Yep. Gas." He looks over at Angelus. "We going to blow this place sky high?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"That's what I'm thinking," Angelus said. "Faithy lures 'em in, I get the gas going, you fire when we're out to make with the big boom. Think you can handle it?"

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Continued here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomtownies/91978.html) for Angelus, Logan, and Faith and here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rory__gilmore/8362.html) for everyone else.