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Summary: Jess fights Haylie for custody of Jacob while the Gilmore's receive some shocking news. Sequel to Wedding of the Century.

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Luke sat stiffly in the waiting room next to Lorelai. A few children were running around while some couples had crying babies. He was pretty sure he would end up yelling at one of them by the time they got to see the doctor.

"Unclench." Lorelai ordered, flipping through a gossip magazine.

Luke cringed and pulled himself as far back in the chair as he could as a small boy ran by with a particularly bad case of the runny nose.

"You know we will have one of these soon," Lorelai explained, "It'll be in the same house and you might even be in the same room at some point."

"That's different" Luke replied, "Ours won't be nearly as annoying." Luke was looking pretty confident until he saw the same little boy wipe his nose straight across his sleeve. Lorelai patted his arm comfortingly while rubbing another hand across her swollen belly. Luke was pretty sure that the doctor's initial conception date had been wrong. Lorelai looked as if she were due any day and Luke was more than ready to cease all trips to Doose's for apples and all of Lorelai's other random cravings.

"Mrs. Danes?" A nurse poked her head through the door by the Nurse's station. Luke helped Lorelai up and they both made their way to a room near the back of the office.

Rory sat in the office that was home to Yale's newspaper. She was trying as hard as she could to finish her last article so that she could get home and spend time with her mom and Luke. She was also ready to see Jess and Jacob later that night. Right as she printed off a final copy of all her work for Paris her phone rang shrilly through the now empty office.

"Hello?"

"Where are you?" Lane asked desperately. She sounded out of breath.

"At school. Why? What's wrong?" Rory began to worry.

"The second you get back to Stars Hollow meet me at Sophie's Music!" Lane immediately hung up the phone, leaving Rory aghast. What in the world is going on?, she thought. She packed up her things as fast as she could.

Forty-five minutes later, Rory parked just outside the music shop in Stars Hollow. To any passerby, the store looked as if it had closed up early for the evening, except for one light still on in the back of the store.

Rory opened the front door hesitantly. Lane rushed up to the front of the shop excitedly and pulled Rory to the magazine stand in the back. Rory could hear the guys practicing in one of the rooms in the back normally reserved for giving lessons. Lane stood in front of Rory taking a few deep breaths.

"Have you been taking yoga?" Rory pondered out loud. Lane took a couple more breaths before finally composing herself.

"Look at the magazines." Rory looked curiously throughout the stand. She didn't really know what she was looking for. Lane was bouncing impatiently before finally giving up.

"Oh for god's sake!" She pulled out a thick magazine off to the right and immediately Rory realized why Lane was acting so neurotic. On the front cover of the magazine, The Big Takeover, stood Hep Alien. The band stood in front of their home in Stars Hollow. Zach and Gil were both turned toward each other, playing air guitar. Brian stood awkwardly beside them, shoulders drawn up with a hint of a smile. Lane stood nonchalantly beside Brian with her drumsticks poking out of her back pocket.

"Holy crap! Lane! I..." Rory was speechless and then ensued in giggling and jumping up and down with Lane for a solid minute.

"Okay, my legs are tired now." Rory stopped bouncing and sat down on a stool nearby.

"I would've told you sooner, but-" Lane started to explain.

Rory nodded, "You didn't want to jinx it."

Lane nodded her head in agreement. Rory jumped as her phone vibrated with an incoming text message.

-get home now! 911!-

"Is everything alright?" Lane asked upon seeing Rory's worried face.

"I don't know. Last time she sent me something like this she wanted poptarts and Luke was stuck at the diner."

"Uh-huh." Lane had already lost interest, going back to staring at the cover of the magazine as she had been doing two hours before Rory arrived.

Rory reached over and play-pinched Lane's cheek. "My little rockstar, all grown-up." She teased.

Rory arrived to find the Gilmore-Danes residence eerily quiet.

"Mom? Luke?"

"In here!" Rory followed her mother's voice to the kitchen. Her mother sat at the table, nursing a cup of tea. Next to her sat Luke, who was unusually pale and was staring at some unseen spot on the wall.

"What's going on?"

Lorelai let out a short, bitter laugh at the question.

"Well, the check-up was today." She stated carefully, making Rory worry even more. She waited silently for her mother to continue.

"And it looks as if there might be more than one bun in the oven."

Rory's eyes widened. "Oh my god! Twins!" Rory's mind was reeling, and she gave her mother a look that said she, too, was thinking about the dream Lorelai had confessed to having years before.

But Lorelai shook her head, taking a nervous sip of her tea, finally revealing the reason for the panic.

"Three...Three babies."

Luke let out a small groan and if the house hadn't been as quiet as it was then, neither of the girls would have heard him.

Rory's head reeled at this news and she suddenly saw the nightmare that was surely playing out in both parents' heads. At that moment, Rory heard the front door open and close and a few seconds later Jess appeared in the kitchen doorway with a sleeping Jacob in his arms. He looked cautiously among the three people sitting at the table, sensing the gloomy demeanor.

"Who died?"