#17-- Blood

Lorelai couldn't help but grin at the sight before her. Rory twirled around the room ever-so-gracefully, bumping into the couch, the coffee table, the magazine rack, and just about any object that she went near.

Lorelai called for her to be careful, before she broke something, but before the sentence was out of her mouth, Rory lost her footing and went flying, her knee bashing into a piece of furniture.

"Rory!" she exclaimed, rushing to her daughter's side. "Sweetie, are you okay?"

With a trembling lip, Rory held out her knee for her mom to see. A small trickle of blood ran out of the cut Lorelai found there. The sickening feeling she usually got when she saw blood was replaced by relief for her daughter's safety.

"Aw, that's nothing," she assured her daughter. "Let's get you a Band-Aid, shall we?"

A few minutes later, a Big Bird Band-Aid covered Rory's cut, and Lorelai pressed a kiss to the top of it.

"All better?"

Rory nodded.