the only exception

𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚢

A LIttle warning: mentions of suicide attempts, drugs, mental disorder, and mentions of cannibalism; please read with caution.

******

Lorelai was making her breakfast when she heard a knock at her door. She put her spatula down on the counter and walked over to her door. She opened it to see Daniel standing there with coffee and his book bag.

"Hey," he said with his gorgeous smile.

Lorelai smiled back, "Hi. Uh..come in."

He walked in as she closed the door.

"You can put your bag on the couch and you can leave the coffee on the table," she instructed walking back to the kitchen.

He nodded, doing what she said, and then walked over to her kitchen. He looked over at what she was doing and smiled softly.

"Pancakes?" he asked.

She nodded then started to worry, "Wait, don't tell me you don't like pancakes."

He shook his head, then grinned, "I do, I just know a way you can make them even better."

"How?" she furrowed her eyebrows.

He smiled, "You have chocolate chips?"

She blinked, face relaxing, and nodded, "I like this idea."

*****

The two laughed over their freshly made pancakes.

He looked at her as she laughed.

Lorelai caught his stare and slowly stopped laughing, "What?"

"I know this is not a normal way of asking, but we've been seeing each other for 3 months now," he said hesitantly, "And I was wondering...if it was okay; if you'd like to be my girlfriend?"

Lorelai's eyes widened as she proceeded to open her mouth, but before she could answer, her phone went off.

"I have to go," she said, getting up quickly to grab her things.

Daniel nodded, "Yeah, it's fine. Do you want me to drive you?"

"No, it's okay. I...," she responded then pointed to the table where her keys were, "Can you lock up for me, please?"

"Yeah, of course," he said.

"Okay, well bye!" she quickly ran out the door.

He sighed in disappointment, "Bye."

******

Lorelai got to work quickly dropping everything off at her desk.

Elle noticed her rush, "Lore, what's wrong?"

"I kinda panicked," she answered sitting down at her desk.

"What do you mean?" Elle asked.

Lorelai sighed looking back at her, "Daniel might have, sort of, asked me to be his girlfriend."

"He asked you?" Elle said surprised.

Lorelai nodded, "Yeah, but I didn't give him an answer because Hotch texted."

Speaking of Hotch, he walked in, "Round table room, asap."

The two women nodded walking over to the room.

"What are you gonna say?" Elle asked.

Lorelai shrugged, "I don't know."

*****

Everyone else then walked in taking a seat as Hotch walked over to present the new case.

"Hope everyone had a restful weekend," he began.