Summary: This story is set 5 years after Luke and Noah’s first kiss and the couple have left Uni and our now working at WOAK.

Disclaimer: This story is no way associated with “As the World Turns”, CBS, P&G, or Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann. This is not for profit. No copyright infringement is intended.

Originally Posted to lukeandnoahfans.com – Apr 27 2008

Luke and Noah now lived together in their own apartment, not that far away from Oakdale’s old town. They had been living together for over a year now and were both working at WOAK for Oakdale Now. Luke was working as a studio writer and Noah was the assistant director. They both had their dream jobs and they got to work side by side on the towns’ biggest TV show.

It was 9 o’clock on a Saturday morning, Luke and Noah were both still lying side by side in bed as they got the weekends off. They didn’t have anything special planned for the weekend so they didn’t see the point of leaving each others side in bed. Everything was so peaceful, when they heard the phone ringing downstairs. Noah began to get up to go and answer the phone when Luke turned to Noah and said, “Just leave it, they’ll leave a message.” The phone continued to ring.

“Luke, what if it’s important,” Noah replied as he continued to get up. Luke stared back at him with puppy dog eyes and normally Noah wouldn’t be able to resist those beautiful eyes but the phone continued to ring so Noah left Luke and headed down the stairs. Noah got to phone just in time as he picked it up and answered.

“Hello,” Noah answered.

“Good Morning, can I speak to a Mr. Noah Mayer please?” chimed up the caller on the other end of the telephone conversation.

“This is Noah Mayer, how can I help?” Noah replied as Luke came down the stairs.

“Good Morning, Mr. Mayer this Sally Rogers from the Oakdale department of Social Services. I’m calling regarding your application,” responded the caller before she continued, “We were wondering if you could and your partner, Mr. Snyder, could come down to our offices here on 13th Street later today.”

“Sure, is there a problem with our application?” asked Noah. When Luke heard Noah say this he felt like his whole world was collapsing beneath him.

“No there’s no problem Mr. Mayer, could you and your partner please come in this afternoon, about 1 o’clock,” answered the woman.

“Yeah, sure, we’ll be there,” replied Noah before he hung up the phone. At this time Luke was panicking, he had no idea what was going on, he was thinking the worse and trying his best not to break down crying. Noah could see that Luke was almost ready to break down into tears that he finally put Luke out of his misery and told him what the woman from Social services had said.

Luke was so relieved once he knew what the social worker had said, but neither of the boys knew why the women from social services had insisted that they go into to see her at such short notice. Sure they were expecting a call from social services, but not this soon. They had only put in their application a month ago, there was no way anything could happen this fast. They were told it would take months for their application to processed. The only thing they could think of was that they were going to be turned down, but the woman from Social services said there wasn’t a problem, but then again, maybe she just wanted to protect the boys and then reject their application in person. These thoughts were running through both boys minds for the rest of the morning.

Summary: This story is set 5 years after Luke and Noah’s first kiss and the couple have left Uni and our now working at WOAK.

Disclaimer: This story is no way associated with “As the World Turns”, CBS, P&G, or Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann. This is not for profit. No copyright infringement is intended.

Originally Posted to lukeandnoahfans.com – May 4 2008

It was almost 1 o’clock. Luke and Noah had both put on their suits, so that they showed they were serious about this, and they were headed to 13th Street in Noah’s truck. On the way the boys were silent in the truck, Noah held Luke’s hand while he was driving but apart from that there was no contact between the two of them during the whole journey.

Noah’s truck arrived on 13th street; it was five minutes to one. Noah pulled into the car park of the Social Services building and parked up. Once Noah had turned the engine off he turned to Luke and said, “You ready.” Luke simply nodded and they both climbed out of the truck. Noah pressed the buzzer and a woman’s voice was heard across the intercom, “Who is it?”

Noah promptly replied, “It’s Noah Mayer and Luke Snyder, we have an appointment.”

After a brief pause there was a loud buzz and the door released. Noah and Luke headed inside and were greeted by a short woman sitting at a desk. She had large round glasses and large, frizzy, blonde hair. She invited them to take a seat and told them “Ms. Rogers, will be with you shortly,” before she returned to typing on her computer. Luke and Noah weren’t waiting long in the small waiting room before a door opened and from inside appeared a tall woman wearing a distinctive black blazer and a matching knee length skirt. She saw Luke and Noah sitting and waiting and walked towards them. “Mr. Snyder, Mr. Mayer, I’m Sally Rogers, I spoke to you earlier today,” spoke the woman. Luke and Noah stood up and shook the woman’s hand and followed her into the office from which she had appeared from.

Ms. Rogers sat down behind her desk and Luke and Noah sat down opposite her, holding hands. “Now I’ve been looking at your application and,” before the woman could continue her cell phone began to ring, she looked down at it and said, “I’m sorry, I’ve got to take this, I won’t be long,” she answered her phone and headed out of the room.

Luke turned to face Noah and said, “God, Noah, she’s going to say we’ve been rejected, I just know it, why do they have to keep us waiting like this, why can’t they just put us out of our misery.” Luke was starting speaking so fast Noah could barely understand him. Noah placed both his hands on the sides of Luke’s face and looked him directly in the eyes while he spoke. “Luke, sweetie, calm down, you don’t know their going to reject us.”

Luke calmed his breathing back to a steady pace before the door opened and Ms. Rogers returned into the room and sat back down. “I’m sorry about that,” she spoke, “Now, where was I,” she paused to look at her files, “Oh yes, as I was saying, after looking over your files and the social workers reports,”

‘Oh, God’ Luke thought to himself.

“And I need to know if now would be an appropriate time,”

Luke and Noah looked at each other, “Appropriate time for what?” asked Noah.

“To take on a child,” finished Ms. Rogers.

Luke and Noah were shocked by what she had just said, that was the last thing they were expecting to hear, they were prepared for the worst, but not for this. Just then they both realized that they hadn’t answered in a couple of minutes. Luke then spoke up for the first time, “I’m sorry, we’re just so shocked by what you just said, it was the last thing we would have ever expected you to say.”

“So, are you ready then?” asked Ms. Rogers.

Luke turned to Noah and Noah simply nodded, Luke then turned to back to Ms. Rogers with a smile across his face and said, “Of course we are.”
“That’s excellent news, I’ve just got a few papers for you to sign and you can take him home this afternoon,” replied Ms. Rogers, she pulled out some sheets from her top draw and handed them and a pen to Luke and Noah. “I’ll leave you two here to sign the papers while I go and get Timmy ready for you,” Ms. Rogers left the room and Luke and Noah looked down at the papers she had placed in front of them. They were both in shock; they were getting a child, it was all happening so fast, they didn’t know what to expect when they were on their way and now they were getting what they both had wanted for so long, a family.