Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls.
Author's Note: It's been done again and again and again. Rory and Jess, back together again. Oh yeah, Luke and Lorelai are together too... Chris doesn't exist in my mind. By the way, this chapter is just to set up the story. The next chapter will start back in 2006.. and I may alternate between the past and present often.

Chapter One: 2017.

Lorelai Gilmore was thinking about coffee, lots and lots of coffee. She was sitting next to her husband in a disinfectant-y smelling, horrible hospital waiting room and all she could think about was coffee. Of course, this was typical… but it still managed to shock her. Her first grandchild was to be born within the next few hours and all she could think about was coffee? Oh well. She stood up, attracting the attention of her slumbering husband.

"I want coffee," she stated matter-of-factly, "I assume you don't?" She smiled.

Luke Danes looked up at his wife with groggy eyes.

"No, I don't. You go ahead and give yourself a premature heart attack though. With all the coffee you've drank in the last twelve hours, I think I've had at least 4 cups just sitting near you. It's like second hand smoke, you addict."

"Okay, be back soon." She said with a smile, used to his typical comments about her future heart attacks, strokes and clogged arteries. They had been married since June 3rd of 2006 but eleven years he still hadn't managed to convert her to his eating habits and neither had she.

As she was standing in front of coffee machine, Luke bolted up to her almost knocking the coffee out of her hands.

"Rory is going into the delivery room, the nurse just came by." Luke exclaimed. Lorelai could tell, even through his efforts of trying to mask it, he was excited. This baby was, after all, his first grandchild too.

"Is Jess with her?" she inquired, wishing she could be the one in the delivery room with her only daughter, but Rory had insisted that her husband was with her instead.

"Of course." he answered.

Jess Mariano was standing next to his screaming wife, quickly losing the feeling in his right hand. It felt like a vice was slowly shutting around his fingers and he struggled to wiggle them. He felt Rory's grip tighten. He looked down into her clouded blue eyes.

"Don't." she said, simply but with enough duress to scare any man out of ever moving even a finger again, especially Jess.

He smiled, trying to convince his wife without words that everything was going to be fine, but his smile was strained.

Rory's water had broke around 11:30 the previous night. They were laying in bed in their Star's Hollow home, both fast asleep when Jess woke up to Rory sitting up in bed with her normally clear blue eyes, wide and flooded with unspilled tears. In his vulnerable and still mostly asleep state, he had thought his wife had peed the bed.

"Gee, Rory. I knew being pregnant meant you had to pee more, but what's up with this?" he asked her, with that patented smirk of his.

The tears began to slip down her cheeks and he suddenly remembered every "What to Expect When your Expecting" type book, article and magazine Rory had made him read.

"Your water!" he proclaimed, throwing his hands in the air, getting tangled in the sheets and hitting the cold wooden floor with a thud. Jess quickly stood up. "Your water." He said, this time in a softer tone, "It broke."

Her eyes were still wide with terror but a smile finally crossed her lips, lighting up her features. "Well, good job there, Nancy Drew." She said teasingly.