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Rory's first pregnancy felt like it flew by, this time around she was sure it felt like she had been pregnant for six years. She didn't make it to her due date with Elliot, so when she hit her due date she was crankier than usual. Lorelai had come down and was going to take Elliot when Rory eventually went into labour. She had been there for almost a week, which is when the baby's due date was. Rory felt awful that Lorelai's life was basically on hold too, waiting for this baby. She was in a much less than pleasant mood on this particular morning and was letting everyone have it.
"You are pleasant today." Lorelai said, watching Rory try (and fail) to put her coat on.
"I want to give birth," Rory grumbled. "What is wrong with this child. Why won't she come out."
"She is doing it just to torture you," Lorelai answered and Rory just gave her a look. "You've made a comfy home for her and she doesn't want to come out."
"She is five days late," Rory whined. "Why does she hate me. She knows how punctual I am."
"And she will have her whole life to be reminded of that." Lorelai said now, getting Elliot's coat on.
"I give up," Rory grumbled throwing her coat on the couch. "I don't need a coat."
"Honey, it is the middle of winter." Lorelai said now, seriously.
"We're just going to for a walk to hopefully kick start labour," Rory groaned. "Because we have tried everything else."
Elliot fell asleep in his stroller while Rory made Lorelai walk the streets of Manhattan for almost two hours with no success.
"Honey," Lorelai stopped her. "You are not going to walk the baby out of you. I recommend we give this up and you relax and have a nice warm bath and take a nap."
Lorelai managed to get Rory home, into a bath and down for an early night. It was just she and Logan left awake eating dinner.
"I feel so bad for Rory," Logan said quietly. "But there is nothing I can do."
"You'll get her soon enough and Rory will be back to her happy self," Lorelai reassured Logan. "Rory was almost a week late and I do not envy how awful I felt at that point."
Lorelai managed to drift off into a pretty deep sleep and was woken quite early by who she assumed was Rory, shaking her awake.
"What?" Lorelai mumbled. "She will come eventually."
"Lai?" Elliot said quietly.
"Hey sweetie," Lorelai said quietly. "Come here."
Elliot fell asleep curled up next to Lorelai and she was woken by Luke calling to tell Lorelai that he was on his way to spend the weekend there. Lorelai and Elliot wandered into the kitchen and there was no Rory or Logan to be seen, just a note that read: Hey, didn't want to wake you. Rory is having contractions so I am taking her to the hospital. Will update you when we hear more.
"Where's mummy and daddy?" Elliot asked now after noticing they were gone.
"Your going to have a baby sister today." Lorelai said as Elliot just looked at her with his bright blue eyes. With the exception of his eyes, Elliot was almost the spitting image of Logan.
"Oh," Elliot said now. "Do you have a sister, Lai?"
"No I don't," Lorelai said giving him his breakfast. "But I always wanted one. Someone to play with all the time."
"Does mummy have a sister?" Elliot asked.
"Not really," Lorelai was trying to find the right answer. "But she really wanted one when she was about your age."
Rory had started pre-school so Lorelai was walking her back to the inn one day. Now that Rory had just turned three, she was quite a talker. She was telling Lorelai about her day at school and that a girl in her class got a baby sister.
"Can I get a sister?" Rory asked Lorelai. "Maybe someone in the town can give me one."
"You can't just get a sister," Lorelai laughed. "We can't just buy one from a store."
"How do you get one then?" Rory asked inquisitively.
"Well, there has to be a mummy and a daddy living together for you to have a sister." Lorelai said now, choosing her words so carefully.
"Oh," Rory paused. "So I can't get one?"
"I'm sorry baby," Lorelai said now, putting her arm around the three year old. "But I am like a sister. The other girls in your class have old mummies. You and me are special."
"Yeah," Rory beamed. "We are special."
Luke had arrived there a few hours later so they took Elliot to the park and then wandered around for a while. It was closing in on dinner time and Luke was cooking while Lorelai was teaching Elliot all the ways to annoy Luke.
"What do we say to Luke?" Lorelai asked Elliot.
"Luke is smelly." Elliot started laughing as Luke rolled his eyes focussing on the food.
"It's great to see you imparting wisdom there." Luke said now as Lorelai just continued her usual banter with him.
Lorelai heard her phone and took it in the next room. It had been a couple hours since she last had contact with the soon to be parents for a second time.
"Please say there is a baby." Lorelai said, closing the door.
"She is here," Logan answered the phone. "She is Rory's spitting image."
"Is that my mum?" Rory asked and Logan passed the phone over. "Hi mum."
"Hi honey," Lorelai said now. "Congratulations on a fourth generation of Gilmore Girl."
"Thank you," Rory laughed. "Though Charlotte doesn't have our last name."
"Charlotte?" Lorelai paused. "I love it."
"Charlotte Grace Huntzberger." Rory said now.
"Well, she is a Gilmore at heart, and genetically so that is all that matters," Lorelai laughed. "She'll be as stubborn as we are in no time."
"Don't say that," Rory said now. "She is a perfect angel."
"That is what I thought about you too." Lorelai responded.
A/N: Thank you all for the reviews. Elliot now has a baby sister named Charlotte! It was a name that I had in mind for her little girl. Let me know what you think. And, I do know that Rory 'technically' has a sister, but I can assume (safely) that she has probably hasn't seen her in over a decade. And she always calls herself an only child on the show.
