Oh my gosh. I'm sorry guys, but I'm just like so ready for this to be over. Gosh. Okay, the last chapter… woot. And thanks for the reviews, didn't get many, but it's okay, I'm not waiting around to get more cuz like I said, I want this over with so I can write my new story! Yay!

Chapter 11

Richard and Emily arrived at the hospital in a separate car than Rory, Luke and Lorelai since Emily had insisted there wasn't enough room in Lorelai's jeep and she wasn't going to leave the Jag there with the maid, who she really didn't trust.

Emily Gilmore, being who she was, quickly found the nurses station, "Where's my daughter?" Emily demanded frantic.

"Calm down ma'am, who's your daughter?" The nurse asked calmly.

"Lorelai Gilmore. Danes. Gilmore. Yes, Gilmore." Emily reasoned shaking her head back and forth.

"Take a seat ma'am..." The nurse tried to explain but was cut off by Richard's angry voice.

"We will not sit down! We want to see our daughter!" Richard yelled angrily.

"She just went into delivery..." The nurse finished.

"Grandma? Grandpa?" Rory called from the waiting area.

"Rory? How is she? Where is she?" Emily asked approaching Rory.

"She's...well as good as any woman who just went into labor, she just went into delivery so it shouldn't be too long." Rory said getting excited.

"Where's Luke?" Richard asked looking around.

"He went in with Mom." Rory said.

"They allow that?" Richard asked with and incredulous look.

"Yes Richard, they do." Emily said patting his chest, "Fix your tie. Rory, do you know where we can get something to drink?" Emily asked politely.

"Yeah, the cafeteria is down that hall." Rory gestured down a hall to the left.

"Thank you, come on Richard, let's go get something to calm our nerves." Emily said pulling Richard in the direction of the cafeteria.

Rory sat back down and picked up the Jane magazine laying on the table next to her. She got bored quickly and decided to check her phone for voice mail. 2 new messages.

Hey Rory, it's uh, me, Jess. I was just...in town and wondering if...maybe...we could talk. I know I left on a bad note last time, but I have something I want to tell you and I kind of want to do it in person. So, just call me back when you get this.

Rory was perplexed, what did Jess have to tell her? How did he get her phone number? Where was he now? She decided to check the next message before she called Jess back.

Rory, it's Dean, I uh, got your message? The kind of…drunk…sounding one—

Rory deleted the message, excited about getting back to Jess. She quickly checked her phone for the number he had called on, only to find that he had called from the diner's phone. Hopefully he's still there… Rory hoped as it rang once…twice…

"Hello?" Came Jess' voice.

"Hey, it's Rory." Rory said calmly.

"Hey, did you get my message?" Jess asked.

"Yeah, I did, what do you need to tell me?" Rory asked, curious.

"Well, where are you? I kind of want to tell you in person." Jess responded.

"I'm kind of at the hospital." Rory said looking around the waiting room.

"You're what? Why? What's wrong? Are you okay? Is Lorelai okay? Why are you at the hospital?" Jess asked, obviously concerned.

"Well, actually, my mom went into labor..."

"You're mom is pregnant?" Jess asked, obviously unaware of this.

"Not for much longer…" Rory trailed off.

"Who's the father? Your father?"

"Um, no, actually...it's...Luke..." Rory said softly.

"Luke's!?" Jess said, extremely surprised.

"Yeah..."

"What hospital is it?" Jess said, Rory heard him rummaging in drawers in the background.

"Uh, Hartford Memorial..."

"I'm on my way." Jess said and quickly hung up the phone.

Rory just stared at her phone, incredulous that she was about to see Jess. She hadn't seen him since before her graduation from Chilton. She couldn't help but be curious as to what he had to tell her...what he was like now...what he looked like—Stop it Rory! No Jess! Jess is bad! Rory scolded herself. Just then Emily and Richard approached Rory holding a can each.

"Did you find something to drink?" Rory asked standing up as Emily and Richard came near to her.

"That stupid cafeteria didn't have anything but a horrendous vending machine, I demanded for some sparkling water, but no. Only canned beverages. So I got a diet coke." Emily explained, holding the can like it was a radioactive substance.

"Yes. So did I." Richard said holding the can up.

"Any news on your mother?" Emily asked taking a seat next to Rory, Richard followed suit and took a seat next to Emily.

"No, nothing yet. I'm getting really anxious though." Rory said and smiled widely.

"Well you should be..." Emily said and took a sip of her coke and gagged, "Still not used to it yet..." Rory giggled.

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Jess walked into the hospital waiting room about 15 minutes later, this surprised Rory. "Hey." Rory greeted and stood up as Jess came up to them.

"Hey." Jess said, sticking his hands in his pockets.

"How did you get here so fast?" Rory asked glancing at the clock on the wall.

"Well...let's not talk about that." Jess said and smiled.

"Rory, who's this?" Emily asked from beside Rory, still sitting. Richard was too engulfed in his paper to notice anything.

"Uh, Grandma, this is Jess...Luke's nephew...he had dinner with us once." Rory explained looking down.

"Good to see you again Mrs. Gilmore." Jess said politely.

"You too." Emily said, returning to her magazine.

"Hey can we..." Jess said gesturing to the hall outside of the waiting room.

"Oh yeah, let's go..." Rory said following Jess, "I'll be right back." Rory called over her shoulder.

"So..." Rory said once they were out in the hall and Jess had been silent for about a minute.

"Okay, I'm just gonna tell you Rory...I was stupid. I ran off, for...stupid reasons. Stupid. All of it, stupid. I'm sorry. And I don't expect you to forgive me 'cause I wouldn't forgive me either, but Rory, I want to tell you...I went back to highschool...and I graduated." Jess explained and stuck his hands back in his pockets.

"Jess, that's great!" Rory said and hugged him close.

"That's not all Rory..." Jess said as they pulled out of the hug.

"What else?" Rory asked smiling.

"Rory..." Jess trailed off.

"Jess." Rory said in a deep voice, reminding her of the time her mother had been imitating Dean and done that, causing her to laugh.

"Rory." Jess said sternly.

"Sorry, go ahead." Rory said, still smiling.

"I love you." Jess said, but Rory didn't get a chance to answer 'cause at that moment Luke came rushed into the waiting room.

"It's a healthy...baby girl." Luke said out of breath, "Jess?" Luke asked as Jess and Rory rushed back into the waiting room.

"Ahhh! Yay!" Rory yelled and started jumping up and down hugging Jess who seemed to be, just as happy.

Rory pulled away from Jess but when she looked in his eyes, she saw the love he spoke of, out of spontaneity she leaned in and kissed him on the lips, Jess quickly reciprocated by kissing her back. They pulled away as they realized where they were, and surely this was not the place for a make out session.

"I love you too..." Rory whispered, and Jess hugged her closely.

"Luke, how's Mom?" Rory asked running up to him.

"Yes how is she?" Richard asked as him and Emily came up to Luke.

"Tired. Really tired, she said something about...doing the splits on a crate of dynamite?" Luke said and smiled at the thought of Lorelai's quips. Rory laughed, knowing what Luke was talking about.

"Okay, but when can we see her and..." Emily asked, hinting for Luke to tell them the name of the baby.

"Leah, Leah Lane Danes." Luke swelled with pride.

"Oh, how precious is that." Emily said and smiled widely as tears welled in her eyes, as did in Rory's.

"But, they said to give them 10 minutes to transport her to her room." Luke explained.

Rory ran over to Luke and hugged him tight, Luke took off his gloves and threw them to the side and hugged her back. Rory was crying tears of happiness and she pulled out of the hug to look at Luke who was also holding back tears.

"You're the best Dad in the world." Rory said and this caused the a single tear to trickle down Luke's cheek and he just pulled her back into the hug.

Emily and Richard obviously touched by the exchange of the father-daughter moment also were fighting back sobs, understand Lorelai was right all along, Christopher would never be the father Rory needed, but she had had the father she needed all along.

A nurse came up to the family slowly, "Um, excuse me, are you Mr. Danes?" She asked Luke.

"Yeah, yeah I am." Luke said wiping away the stray tear on his cheek.

"Ms. Gilmore has been place in room 205, it's down that hall and to the left." The nurse gestured down the hall.

"Thanks." Luke said and escorted Rory down the hall, they were followed by Richard and Emily. Jess just stood in the waiting room staring at his shoes.

Luke noticed Jess hadn't followed, "Hey you go ahead and go in, I'm gonna..." Luke gestured back towards the waiting room.

"Yeah. Okay." Rory said and Luke patted her on the shoulder as she went in.

Luke walked back into the waiting room, Jess had taken a seat by the door and was running his hands through his hair.

"Hey." Luke approached Jess.

"Hey." Jess said back.

"What are you doing here?" Luke asked, not rudely, just curiously.

"Well...to see Rory. And when I found out Lorelai was having a baby, your baby, I just felt obligated to, ya know, make an appearance." Jess explained, shoving his hands back in his pockets.

"Thanks." Luke said and patted Jess shoulder.

"For what?" Jess asked.

"For coming."

"Of course...and Luke?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks, for everything. I didn't deserve it but you gave and gave and I took advantage of it, but just so you know...I've always appreciated it." Jess said looking up to Luke.

"I know." Luke said, "So, let's go..." Luke said gesturing towards Lorelai's room.

"Sure she won't mind?" Jess asked, still not knowing how Lorelai felt about him.

"I'm sure she'll be glad you're here." Luke said and led the way to Lorelai's room.

As they were walking in silence Jess spoke up, "I graduated ya know." Jess said watching his feet.

"That's...great." Luke said and wrapped his arm around Jess and gave him a "manly" hug.

They walked into Lorelai's room and saw Lorelai laying there, obviously about to fall asleep, Emily was pushing a piece of hair out of her face, Richard was sitting in a chair in the corner, picking up his place in his paper, and Rory was...not in the room.

"Hey." Luke said as he entered the room with Jess behind him, "Look who I found."

"Jess." Lorelai said without emotion, "Jess." She said again and smiled as Rory had told her everything already.

"Hey. Congratulations." He said and leaned against the wall next to Luke.

"Where'd Rory go?" Jess asked Luke.

"Probably to get coffee for Lorelai." Luke said and looked back towards Lorelai, "Am I right?"

"Yup." Lorelai said and smiled really big.

"Told ya so." Luke said and smiled. He looked back at Lorelai and smiled as big as he could at how beautiful she could be even when she supposedly looked her worst.

"Why are you smiling like that?" Lorelai asked from her bed.

"You." Luke said smiling again.

"Boy, you really do love me don't you?" Lorelai said and smiled at how sweet he could be.

"Well I better love you a whole lot to be able to put up with you 24/7." Luke joked, it caught Emily somewhat off-guard and she sent Luke a glance, but then she smiled, putting Luke at ease.

"I've got coffee!" She said bursting into the room and over to Lorelai's bed handing her the coffee.

"Angel child, I love you." Lorelai said and took a long drink of the coffee.

"Hey I'm gonna go see the new baby..." Rory said backing out of the room and eyeing Jess to follow her.

"Oh, yeah. I'm gonna go..." Jess said, gesturing towards where Rory was going.

"Okay." Luke said and smiled.

"You two kids behave!" Lorelai called after them.

Aggh. I know, not done yet. One more chapter. I'm sorry! I thought I could finish it up in this chapter but… I was wrong. Okay, so review and tell me what you think. The name wasn't the best but… I thought it was cute.

Love Kati.