It's baby time.
Lorelai shot upright in bed, one hand clutching her protruding stomach and the other clawing into the mattress for support. A course of pain shot up her spine and across her lower back, she failed to hold back the cry of pain that arose from her now agape mouth.
Luke awoke abruptly, turning to find Lorelai upright and hunched over slightly, her hair curtaining around her face. He scrambled to get upright himself and attempted to quickly brush the sleep out of his eyes. "Lorelai?" he asked.
"Luke!" she called out, her voice shaky and pain ridden. She reached out for him with her hand and grabbed a handful of his pyjamas.
"Lorelai, what is it? What's wrong?" he asked worriedly, quickly sprinting into position behind her, supporting her back.
Lorelai exhaled deeply trying to keep her breathing under control. "I think it's baby time," she said in a strained voice.
"Wait, what?!" Luke exclaimed.
"The baby's comin' round the mountain, Luke," she said sarcastically, using her best efforts to pull herself to the edge of the bed.
"But, but, he's a week early!" he said exasperated.
"Yeah well, they tend to come whenever they want to, babe," Lorelai said through gritted teeth as she felt another contraction begin to rack her body and she let out a pained cry, "Holy mother of God, I forgot what this was like. Luke, we need to go to the hospital, like now,"
Luke was snapped out of his daze by Lorelai's cry and snapped into action, rubbing her back soothingly and whispering comforting words into her ear as he was taught to in many a birthing class. "Hospital, right. Damn you're gonna need a night bag, did you ever get round to packing one?"
Lorelai looked guiltily at him. "No.. I'm sorry.. I started but then I got distracted by- ah," she was cut off by another contraction. She bent over double, resting her hand on the nightstand for support, her eyes scrunched up in pain. Luke ran to the bathroom and grabbed anything and everything he could find and stuffed it into one of Lorelai's bags before running to the dresser and grabbing as many of Lorelai's comfy clothes as he could find.
"Luke, the contractions are really close together," she called to him urgently.
"I've got everything, let's go," he said running back over to where she sat on the edge of the bed and taking both of her hands in his, "Right, can you stand on three?"
Lorelai nodded sagely, gripping his hands tightly. "Okay: one, two, three," he counted, lifting Lorelai up on three and wrapping his arm around her in support. He immediately felt her body weight being pressed against him. He slowly helped her towards the door, grabbing the bag he had packed and swinging it over his shoulder.
"Luke," Lorelai said quietly, stopping him.
"Lorelai, what, what is it? Another contraction?" Luke questioned worriedly, holding onto her tighter.
"Luke," she whispered again. "Our baby boy is coming," she said softly, her voice full of excitement, her smile huge.
Luke smiled at her and kissed her meaningfully, "Let's go meet him."
I'll probably upload chapter 5 later this evening because this ones reeeaally short.
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