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A few months had passed since the mistake, the kiss between Luke and Lorelai and things had slowly returned back to normal, but only to last a little while. Luke and Lorelai had talked about it and both agreed that it was a mistake and couldn't happen again, plus Lorelai came to the decision that she didn't want Christopher to know about the kiss, much to Luke's dismay. Things had also been patched up at the Hayden residence, Christopher was now being a worthy father to Rory and Teighan and a helping husband to Lorelai, he had found an open job at Richard Gilmore's firm that paid good and the hours flexible. Rory was doing well at Chilton, she had made some good friends and her grades were excellent, the Inn was doing well and for once Lorelai was able to pull things into shape with her parents. Friday Night Dinners had been going a little bit more smoothly, there was no yelling or fighting, the occasional agreement but nothing too harmful and Luke and Lorelai had pulled their friendship back together again, since the incident and moved on, maybe a little too much. They had been spending countless time together in the past 3 weeks since they worked out the whole kissing issue. Lorelai would go to the diner more than twice a day and when the house was empty and she wasn't working she would simply go over there for company, they even went to the town meetings together every week when Rory was too tired after school to go and Christopher wanted to stay home and spend a little quality time with Teighan. I mean, don't get me wrong, all this time spending with Luke was no problem, the problem was that while she was doing this, at the same time she was slowly pushing Christopher away, and he could tell.
It was Friday night. Rory had just come home from the library and was now already into her extra credit work, Teighan was knocked out after a long day at pre school and Lorelai had just arrived home from Luke's, with dessert.
"Ok so I got us some donuts, cherry pie and cake", she called out as she entered the house, "Plus a couple of muffins, cookies and twinkies", she announced, taking off her coat, "Oh and maybe a few more cookies, I pretty much took the whole diner home with me".
Chris met her at the door and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and then helped her with the food, "How are we going to eat all of this", he asked, shocked at how much there was.
"Well there's four of us", Lorelai replied.
"Three actually", Chris announced, "Tigger's out for the night".
"Really", Lorelai asked surprised, making her way into the kitchen, "She doesn't usually go to bed this early".
"Yeah well she had a long day", Chris responded, following her into the kitchen, "They had a visit to the park today and of course, knowing her love for swings she never had a rest for the whole time she was there, aka sleep".
"Poor thing", Lorelai replied, as she dropped the bags on the kitchen table, "I'm just gonna go and check on her".
Just then Rory came into the room.
"Whoah", she said, noticing all the food, "This is all for us".
"Apparently", Chris replied, "I think I'll put some in the fridge for later", he announced, picking up a bag.
"Nooo", Rory quickly stopped him, grabbing the bag off him, "I never said we wouldn't eat it, we'll eat it, me and mum there's nothing we can't eat".
"Ok that I believe but we still have to have dinner first", Chris announced.
"Stuff dinner", Rory exclaimed grabbing a bag and making her way to the living room where she fell onto the lounge, threw her legs onto the coffee table and turned the t.v on. Chris just laughed and started fiddling around with something for dinner.
Lorelai quietly made her way into Teighan's room and snuck over to her cot, to find the little toddler asleep and hugging onto her favorite little teddy bear. Lorelai smiled and gave her daughter a kiss on the forehead. "Goodnight baby", she said, carefully turning the lamp off and heading back downstairs. She walked past Rory in the living room and went to find Chris in the kitchen.
"She's sound asleep", Lorelai announced, heading over to the food.
"I expect", Chris replied, "She was out like a light".
Lorelai grabbed another one of the bags and made her way into the living room with Rory.
"What are you doing", Chris asked.
"I'm skipping dinner", Lorelai replied, "Going straight for the dessert".
"See I told you dad", Rory announced, "It's much easier".
"Yeah, the best part you don't have to do anything, no cooking", Lorelai added.
"Yeah and no washing up, dishes, or putting away", Rory announced.
"You just chuck it all in the bin", Lorelai said.
"No mess", Rory said.
"No fuss", Lorelai finished, giving Rory a high five.
"Come on dad", Rory called out, "Be crazy with us and skip dinner".
"Yeah cause this cherry pie is delicious", Lorelai announced, her mouth full of food.
Chris put away the stuff he was going to cook and jumped on the lounge next to Rory.
"Here, try some", Rory said practically shoving the spoon in his mouth, amking Lorelai laugh.
"Good", Lorelai asked when he had swallowed.
"Yeah", he replied, "Give us some more", he said. Rory scooped up some more pie onto the spoon and fed it to her dad, laughing, "Ok, you can feed yourself now", she joked, laughing.
After their show had finished Rory decided to go to bed, "Ok so I'm gonna hit the sack, I have a big day tomorrow", she said getting up from the couch.
"Its Saturday", Lorelai objected, "What is so tiring about a Saturday".
"Mum, I still have like 5 assignments plus I have to study for my calculus exam", Rory announced, "All by this Tuesday".
"You still have time for breakfast at Luke's right", Lorelai asked.
"Always", Rory smiled, "Goodnight", she said walking to her bedroom.
"I'm gonna go to bed too", Chris said, sitting up, "You coming".
This was the question that Lorelai dreaded every night. With everything that is going on with Chris and Luke, nights were the worst time. When she was around other people and not alone with Chris she could ignore her feelings for Luke and the confusion she felt but when she is alone with him she goes crazy and nights were the worst time, she just wanted to avoid them, avoid feeling weird around him.
"Ah no", she quickly jumped in, trying hard to think of a good excuse, "I'm just going to clean up a bit first, you go I'll be there soon", she lied, putting on a fake smile.
"You sure", Chris asked, "You don't want any help".
"I'm good", she replied, "You've had a busy day you're exhausted, you should go".
"Ok, but don't be too long", he said giving about to give her a kiss but she turned her head to the side so instead he kissed her on the cheek.
"Night", she quietly said, as he walked away. She waited till he was upstairs and the door was shut before she jumped back on the couch and turned the t.v back on. She stayed up watching t.v until she was starting too doze off before she decided to go to bed, Chris would be asleep by now anyway. She quietly made her way upstairs and got dressed into her pajamas before sliding into bed, trying not to wake him. She got comfortable and pulled the sheets up. Chris squirmed beside her and rolled over to face her, slowly opening his eyes.
"Hey", he said sleepily.
"Hey", she whispered, "Go back to sleep".
"What time is it", he asked, rubbing his eyes.
"Late", she replied. He leaned over her and looked at the alarm clock, "It's 2:30".
"Yeah well the house was really messy", she lied, trying to ignore the conversation.
"Are you ok", Chris asked.
"I'm fine", she lied, twisting around so she had her back to him, "Just tired".
It was about 5:40 in the morning, the sun was just starting to shine through the windows when Lorelai was woken by Teighan's baby monitor. She groaned at the loud noise next to her ear and the fact that she had to get out of bed. She slowly got out of bed, chucked her slippers on and went next door to Teighan's bedroom. "Shhhh Shh, mummy's here", she said walking into her room.
She bent down and picked her up trying to calm her, noticing that she felt really hot.
"Come on Tigger, shhh", she said, soothingly, "Aww baby you're really hot", she said starting to get a bit concerned. She started rocking Teighan in her arms and she slowly calmed down, "That a girl", she said, "Come on, lets go get something in you".
Lorelai made her way downstairs with Teighan who was still whinging. Chris came down a few minutes later.
"So you're the reason mummy's up so early huh", he said as he noticed Teighan in the kitchen.
"Yeah she has a bit of a fever", Lorelai announced, "I'm just trying to find something to give her, I don't know what any of this stuff is", she said, rummaging through the medicine cabinet.
"So your not feeling too good sweets", he said, giving Teighan a kiss on the forehead.
"Here I'll do that", Chris said noticing Lorelai was getting frustrated at the medicines, "You go back to bed, you look exhausted".
"Are you sure", Lorelai asked.
"Go, I'll look after her", he said, taking over the medicine cabinet.
Lorelai went back to sleep and at about 7:00 she was woken by the phone. "Rhhhh", she whinged, lying in bed, "Go to hell", she said to the phone, too tired to answer it. It just kept ringing and all she wanted for it was too stop so she sighed one last time and picked it up.
"Hello", she groggily, still half asleep.
"Lore", Chris said at the other end panicked. Lorelai quickly sat up immediately recognizing the panic in his voice.
"Chris", she responded, "What's wrong".
"I'm at the hospital", he replied.
"What", Lorelai asked, worriedly, "What happened, are you ok".
"It's not me you should be worried about it's Teighan", Chris replied.
"What happened, is she alright", Lorelai asked concerned.
"I don't know, I tried giving her something to eat but she wouldn't take anything then I she started throwing up, I checked her temperate and it was really high, I didn't know what else to do so I bought her here", he said rushed and panicked.
"Ok, I'm coming", Lorelai announced, jumping out of bed and grabbing a jacket, "I'll be there as soon as I can".
"Wait", she stopped him just before he hung up, "What about Rory".
"She already left for school, she doesn't know yet", Chris replied.
"Ok I'll call her let her know", Lorelai said, getting upset, then she hung up.
She rushed outside to the car and quickly left not even bothering to lock the house up or even change out of her pajamas.
When she got to the hospital she ran to the main entrance and asked the lady where she could find them. She pointed her in the right direction and she hurried up her pace wanting to make sure her daughter was ok.
"Chris", she called out when she saw him down the corridor, sitting on a seat.
He stood up and she fell straight into his arms. He could tell that she had been crying.
"Hey, hey, hey shhh", he said, rubbing her shoulders for comfort, "Come on, she's gonna be ok".
"How do you, have you talked to a doctor yet", Lorelai asked, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"No there still in there running some tests", Chris replied.
"How long have you been waiting", she asked, taking a seat.
"Not long, I was going to wake you but I just wanted to get her here as quick as possible".
"Yeah thats ok", Lorelai replied, "I understand that".
"Look at you, you didn't even change", Chris laughed.
"I couldn't", Lorelai admitted, "I actually literally couldn't I had to get here as soon as possible or I would have gone crazy not knowing if she was ok".
"She's going to ok", Chris assured, taking her hand.
"Mr Hayden", a doctor asked coming out of one of the rooms.
"Yeah that's me", Chris said standing up, "Is she ok".
"She's going to be ok", the doctor said, giving relief to both Lorelai and Chris.
"Thankgod", Lorelai said, smiling.
"What was wrong with her", Chris asked.
"We're not sure yet, we ran a few tests but nothing came up", The doctor informed, "It's probably just a virus or something, it tends to look more serious when kids have it, but we won't to leave her here over night just in case she's sick again, and we'd like to run a few more tests to make sure we didn't miss anything".
"Great", Lorelai responded, "Just as long as your sure she's ok".
"She's going to be fine", the doctor reassured.
"Can we see her now", Lorelai asked.
"Yeah, she's in the room on the left", the doctor said pointing to room 105.