"Hey, did he fall asleep?" Luke asks, peeking around the corner, looking onto the porch.

"Yeah, apparently he did get his mother's genes for the wonder of snow… he conked out after just a few minutes of watching it." She says to him, stroking her small son's thin, soft, hair.

"Do you want me to take him?"

"Yeah, put him up in bed…I'm going to stay out here a little while longer to enjoy my present before I have to feed Melly"

"Okay, but come inside if you start to get cold, okay?"

"Thanks, mom…" she adds playfully.

"Yeah yeah" he says, picking his son up and taking him inside.

As she sits on the sofa outside where just a few years ago she was contemplating breaking off her engagement, she can't help but think of how amazing everything turned out. Snow falling peacefully, she curls up in the blanket and allows herself to remember.

FLASHY

What is that sound, and why is it happening so freaking early? Oh my gosh! Who is calling me?

"You better be dying…"

"You're kidding me right?" Luke says on the other end.

"What are you doing calling me this early? Luke! What is wrong with you? If I look like crap today, you aren't going to want to marry me…"

"I can't believe it…"

"What, that you're still alive, and I haven't gone over there to kill you yet?"

"Lorelai, go to the window…"

"Luke, I'm warm, and I'm in bed, and I have no intention of putting my nice warm foot on a cold ass piece of hardwood."

"Trust me, go to the window!"

"I hate you." She says, sitting up.

"No you don't."

"I know, but I don't…. Oh my God… Luke!" she says, interrupting herself as she sees the sight before her.

"Now tell me why I was the one who smelt it first? I got up when I knew it was snowing because I figured that you would be knocking down the door by now, but you didn't come, so I thought I would make sure you were up to enjoy your present."

"Man, you must be in good with the weatherman to get it to snow on our wedding day."

"Oh yeah, we're old pals."

"Will you walk with me?" she asks while holding the phone to her ear with her shoulder while putting on socks and shoes.

"It's bad luck you know…"

"I know, and this tradition thing really sucks… I can't believe that they made us stay apart tonight!"

"Well, that's all your crazy friends for you. All I had on my side was Jess and TJ… and TJ doesn't even count as a whole person, so we can't really even say that."

"So… walk with me?"

"I'll meet you at the gazebo?"

"It's a date."

Walking to the gazebo, she contemplated what was going to happen that day. They were going to finally get married. Luke and Lorelai, the "it" couple of Stars Hallow was officially getting hitched, and the town couldn't be happier.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" she says, stepping up to meet him in the gazebo.

"I'm not normally a fan, but I'd say that it was beautiful."

"Too bad it's not this cold outside, I would say that we could have the ceremony outside."

"Lorelai, I love you and this whole town loves you, but not enough to lose our toes from standing out in the cold for an hour."

She smiles at him and sits down next to him, lacing her fingers through his. I can't believe that we're getting married today. "So…you still want to go through with this?"

"I'm pretty sure that I do, how about you?"

"More than anything I can think of…" she says, letting silence then fall around them.

After a few minutes, he stands up and pulls her up with him, leading her down the stairs to start their walk.

"Luke, can you believe how far we've come?"

"It has been quite the journey…"

"Worth it though, wasn't it?"

"I'll tell you later today… post-ceremony."

They smiled at each other and continued their walk in a silence only comfortable with someone that you love so much.

END FLASHY

God, we walked for an hour that night, and we barely uttered a word. I still couldn't believe that he was the one who smelt the snow first though. She shakes her head at the memory, while staring at the winter wonderland that was being created in her yard.

She lets out a long yawn, finally realizing the hour, but not wanting to go inside just yet. Snow had always been her present, and it always would be. The quiet blanket falling over the whole town was so comforting to her. This wasn't the first snow though, because every first snow has brought her an even bigger present. Five Years ago it was her marriage to Luke. Four years ago it was the news that she and Luke had started their family…

This was like the night we found out about William. It was so calm and so beautiful that night.

FLASHY

"Lorelai?" Luke called up the stairs after finding Lorelai nowhere on the first floor of their home.

Walking up the steps he opens the bedroom door to find her fast asleep, still in her suit at work. It was the second time this week that he has caught her passing out without realizing it.

"Lorelai…" he says again, more softly and squeezing her shoulder.

"Hmm..?" she mumbles groggily.

"Lorelai, you fell asleep."

Opening her eyes, she slowly looks at the clock and sees that it is in fact three and a half hours later than the last time she looked at it.

"Why do I keep doing this? I got home from work and I was a little sleepy, but I didn't want to sleep for almost four hours!"

"Are you coming down with something?"

"No…I feel fine, I'm just tired."

"Are you still sleepy or do you want me to make you something to eat? I'm assuming that you haven't eaten anything."

"That would be fabulous! I ate lunch when Sookie made it for me at the inn, but I'm famished now… how about something really good… like… Tuna Casserole!"

"Tuna Casserole?"

"Yeah, can't you make that?"

"I can, but you've never let me make it before."

"Really? Why was that again?"

"You said that it was because it had vegetables and tuna, which was like stabbing sugar and beef in the back."

"Hmm… well it sounds good, can you make it?"

Looking at her with a weird look, he shrugs "Yeah, sure, I can do that."

Ten minutes later, Lorelai makes her way down the stairs and into the kitchen. The expression she is wearing is something that can only be described as that of final realization.

When Luke catches her face, he stops immediately. "What? What's wrong?"

I'm pregnant… I know I am… Well… I don't know… but I think that I know… I am… I have to be…

"Can you stop that for a moment?"

"What? I thought that you wanted tuna casserole?"

"I do, but there is something a little more pressing that we need to do."

"What?"

"Come with me."

He does, following her as she grabs her keys and they head out to the jeep. Without a question he gets in beside her and waits for an indication of where exactly they were going.

"Which is closer, Hartford or Woodbridge?"

"Woodbridge…"

"All right…" she says, making a turn that would take them on their way to Woodbridge.

Pulling into a pharmacy she gets out, silently expecting Luke to follow her again.

"Lorelai, there is a pharmacy in Stars Hallow… why are we in Woodbridge?"

"Because of what we need to get…" she says, grabbing his sleeve and pulling him down the aisle that they need.

"What are we…" he stops as he realizes where they have finally found themselves. "Really?"

'I think so."

"Why?"

"The tired and the tuna…" she says, then suddenly starts to laugh.

"Lorelai?" he questions, amused and annoyed by her outburst.

"I'm sorry, but the tired and the tuna sounded like a bad spinoff of the young and the restless. I think mine would get better ratings, don't you think?"

"What am I going to do with you?"

"Take me to bed or leave me forever, you big stud!" she says, loud enough that most of the people in the aisles around them could hear.

"Lorelai?"

"Top Gun… good movie… now, shall we?" she gestures to the test she holds in her hand.

"We shall."

As they are driving back to Stars Hallow, Luke notices the strange look on Lorelai's face. She quickly rolls the window down and sniffs the air.

"Lorelai! What the hell are you doing, it's freezing outside!"

"Pull over…at the next exit, pull over."

"Why?"

"Trust me…just pull over."

Full trusting her and still thinking that she was insane, he pulls the truck over to the side of the road, stopping completely and killing the engine.

"Are you going to tell me what's going on here?"

She looks at him with a sparkle in her eye similar to the night that she proposed. It was a look that said that she loved him and she was ready for whatever lies ahead. To answer his question, she shakes her head and opens the truck door to step into the cold night air.

After watching her from inside the cab, he climbs out of the cab to stand beside her.

"I don't need to take the test… I'm pregnant…"

"How do you know for sure though? Did you already take a…"

"Nope, just wait for it…"

"Wha—" he starts to ask her as he feels a drip of moisture land on his cheek.

Looking up, they see that the snow has started to fall, starting out as small flakes, but growing to those big clumps that get stuck on your eyelashes.

"With the first snow of the year always comes an extra present. Last year, the first snow of the year just happened to be on our wedding day… this year, it happens to be the day that we find out about baby Danes."

Luke is never one to doubt Lorelai's first day of snow antics. If she was sure, and it snowed, then it had to be true. He steps behind her and puts a hand on her small stomach, allowing it to draw small circles and tickle her in a good way.

"This is going to be a good thing Luke, you and me plus baby… it's going to work."

"I could have told you that years ago…"

They stay outside of the truck for a few more minutes, reveling in their present of the first snowfall, which Luke has to admit has been something that he has enjoyed the past few years.

END FLASHY

As she is thinking, Luke comes up from the other side of her, sitting down beside her and pulling her to him.

"Are you thinking about William?"

"It was like this that night, do you remember?"

"Of course, it was when I realized that your crazy snow antics weren't something to be reckoned with."

"I knew that you were a believer."

"Yeah, well, don't tell April about that one, I don't think that she'll accept that. Then we'll both get lectures on the science of snow."

He is so right about that one. We get lectures all the time. The darn girl is just like Rory was at that age. "Yes we will, so we will keep it our little secret."

Okay, so this is the sequel to my other fic Processing. It's going to be written in the same fashion, with Lorelai having flashbacks, but it's starting 5 years after we left off with Processing. I hope that you like it! Read and Review, because that's what all the cool people do! If any of you are followers of my other fics, I promise I'll work on more updates to the others!