OK so I apologize it took me so long to get this chapter out. I have like 6 stories going at once and it's hard to keep up with all of them at the same time. So it's family picture time. Hopefully you like the chapter.

3 months later…

I can't believe how time is getting away from me. Maddy is getting closer and closer to being a year old. The last 9 months has went incredibly fast. She's crawling all over and loves to get into drawers. She is able to stand up too but luckily isn't walking by herself just yet. She can with some help though.

This weekend is family pictures at the Hartford Country Club. We have never done family pictures before. Not with Grandma and Grandpa and definitely not with Logan's family. I think the last family picture that was taken at Grandma and Grandpa's was when mom was 10. I'm pretty sure since then she has absolutely refused. Unfortunately there's no way for her to get out of this one though.

I think it'll be nice. I mean, we'll have one with my family and one with Logan's family. We then plan on taking one with mom and Luke and one with just us. It'll be a busy weekend! Actually now that I think about it, there's not a weekend when we go back that we're not busy.

"Seriously, why are we doing this?" Logan whines as he watches me pack. He's got Maddy sitting on his lap. She squirming though because she wants down and the drawers in our bedroom don't have locks on them so she knows she can get into stuff.

"Because we promised your parents we would. Come on, Logan. It might be nice."

"Our family pictures are never nice." Logan informs me as he gets up and puts Maddy down in her playpen. "Something's going to happen and it won't be good."

"Quit being so negative." I frowned as I finished packing. "Man, I thought my mom was bad."

"Rory, there has never been a family picture that has went well." He repeats. "Either someone's not smiling or they take the picture too fast and no one was even looking at the camera. And one year, Honor even got sick and threw up all over the stage."

I wince. "Eww…well, I'm sure things won't be that bad."

"Mark my words…something bad is going to happen."

We get back to Stars Hollow at 6 that night. Our pictures are going to be taken at 10 am the next morning. We haven't been home since Christmas and so I definitely want to go visit Lane and see how she's doing. We keep up with each other through email and Skype but other than that, I haven't seen her in person since Christmas. Her boys have to be almost 2 by now. Seriously time flies.

Mom, Ayden, Logan, Maddy and I head to Luke's for supper. I've been seriously missing these burgers.

"How are things going?" Mom asks as she eats her fries.

Logan and I look at each other. "Good." He tells her.

"Yeah, they've been good." I agree then feed Maddy a bite of baby food carrots. It's one of her favorite foods."Work's going good. Maddy's been doing well. She's got crawling down all by herself. She walks with help. How are things here?"

"Good. Ayden's been taking some steps all by himself." Mom bragged and I smiled.

"That's good."

"Yeah, wanna see?"

"Umm… sure."

"Luke come here." Mom signaled him and he came over. "Go stand right there and we can show Logan and Rory how Ayden's walking."

Luke stands a few steps away and holds out his hands as if to tell Ayden to come to him. Mom sets his feet on the ground and hangs onto his hands for a brief moment. She then lets go and Ayden is able to walk a couple steps before he falls down. He still gets a round of applause from the diner and from us. Luke looks around at everyone and groans. Logan and I laugh.

"He can normally take 4 or 5 steps before he either needs help or falls down." Mom tells us.

"Well, he's still learning." Logan tells her as he eats his burger.

I alternate between eating my food and feeding Maddy hers. I have found it is always good to pack a good two or three bibs in her diaper bag because we normally go through a couple of them at meal time.

We talk about how things are going and the dreaded pictures that are tomorrow. Seriously, I don't know who's worse: Logan or my mom. Even Luke is happier than my mom about it. Granted not by much but right now any amount higher than either of them is acceptable to me.

We head over to Lane and Zack's house. Yeah, they were able to get a house a couple months ago. From what Lane said it was a bitch to move in the winter. Still they were happy to have some more room. Brian took over their apartment by himself.

When Logan, Maddy and I arrived, the first thing I noticed is that it was a good sized house. Of course I'm sure they were happy regardless because they were able to spread out more. That apartment had to be getting cramped with three adults and two toddlers. Babies are one thing but toddlers are entirely different.

"Hi!" Lane gave me a huge hug. "So good you're here."

"Thanks. Wow!" I gaze around. "This is nice."

"Well come on in. Let me give you guys the tour. We walk in and see Zack watching the boys play. "What's up Rory! Hey Logan!"

"Hey Zack." We tell him in unison.

Lane leads us through the house and shows every room. They do have the basement soundproofed so they would be able to hold band practices and not have to worry about the boys not sleeping.

It's not enormous but neither one of them needed that right now. It has a little over 1500 sq. feet and 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms. The boys are currently still sharing a room but it'll be nice for when they get older, Lane tells us.

"So how are things going?" I ask Lane as we sit down in the living room.

Lane and Zack both let out a collective sigh. "It's good." Lane tells me.

"Exhausting but good." Zack adds.

"I bet." Logan nods.

"So how are things going with you guys?" Lane asks.

"Good." We say in unison. I laugh. "It's good. Maddy just loves getting into everything now."

"Yeah, imagine it with two babies."

"No, thank you." Logan tells them.

We all laugh.

"How old is she now?" Zack asks.

"She just turned 9 months a couple days ago." I tell them as Maddy wraps her fist around one of my fingers. I move it back and forth which keeps her entertained.

"Time has gone so fast." Logan mused.

Zack and Lane stifle laughs. "Yeah, if you think this was fast, then you just want for year number two." Zack says.

"Oh I'm sure." I tell him.

"So you have pictures tomorrow?" Lane asks.

Logan groans which he gets smacked on the arm for. "Yeah, it sounds like we may end up spending most of the morning at the Hartford Country Club."

"Hey you didn't tell me that."

"I know. There was a reason for that." I smirk and Lane and Zack laugh.

We end up staying a couple hours. We leave because it was bedtime for the boys and honestly it was bedtime for our little girl too.

I feed her at 10 then rock her until she falls sleep. She loves to be rocked. It never takes her too long to fall asleep when she is but if she's not…well let's just say you don't want to make any plans for next hour or so. Mom had found a rocking chair in Lane's mom's store. The price was rather high but mom negotiated it down explaining it would be used for rocking her granddaughter to sleep and Mrs. Kim should understand what that's like. Mrs. Kim is not one for normally going for guilt trips or even knocking the price down significantly because apparently mom excelled at hitting the grandma button. She doesn't get to do it too much.

The next morning starts at 8. Well, for me it does. I spend 15 minutes trying to get Logan to move. He very reluctantly does. We arrive at just before 10. I don't want to even fathom my grandma yelling at us for being late. Logan's wearing a dark blue suit. Maddy is wearing a dark rose color dress that had little roses around the collar and red polka dots all over it. She looks adorable in it. I have on a deep red satin Ralph Lauren dress.

We see Mitchum, Shira, and Elias waiting around so we greet them and head over to my grandparents. Apparently we are going in alphabetical order. Grandpa, Luke and Logan are standing behind us and grandma, me and my mom are seated in chairs. There are two pictures taken and I get to see them. Everyone appears to be smiling however, don't ask which ones look totally fake cause there's more than just the 2 I expected them from. I actually think everyone, besides me who wears the legitimate smile, is showing how well they can each pull off a fake smile. Well except the babies. They do have some smiles. Ayden's actually showing teeth in his. All three of them that are visible in front. It does look great though.

Mom and Luke take theirs next which Ayden smiles for the first and the second picture he starts to cry. I know Logan was thinking, I hear ya, kid. At least you're done. My hell is just beginning. I mentally roll my eyes as I gaze over at him.

When the Huntzbergers are called, Honor, Josh and Adam are first. Adam was not a happy camper. He ended up crying for both of them. I think it was mainly because he was trying to get out of Honor's arms and be put down on the floor.

"The Huntzberger curse is alive and well." Logan comments.

"Don't do that." I whisper. "We don't need anything worse than Adam crying to happen."

Next are me and Logan. Our pictures go well. Maddy did good for both pictures. I'm actually pretty impressed by this and so is Logan. We then all gather for the Huntzberger picture. The first one goes well. We then hear coughing coming from Logan's grandpa before they can take the second.

"Hold on just a second." Mitchum tells the photographer. He puts a hand on his hand on his dad's shoulder. "Pop, you OK?'

Logan and I share a look as we all turn around to see Elias shaking his head. "Can't breathe." He gasps. "Chest hurts."

"Someone call a doctor!" Shira yells as Elias collapses to the ground. We all gather around him trying to talk to him. Maddy and I and Josh and Adam decide it's best to move away from everyone. Maddy starts crying so I take her out into the hallway.

"Rory…" My grandma follows me out.

"Oh hi grandma." I tell her solemnly as I'm pacing the hallway trying to calm Maddy down.

"What's going on?"

I finally stop and turn to her. "I…I think Logan's grandpa had a heart attack."

"What?" Her voice raises.

"Yeah. I hope he's OK."

"I'm sure he will. Elias is stubborn."

I throw my grandma a look so she adds. "I meant he's strong. He'll fight back."

I just nod and wait until Maddy calms down. A few minutes later, I see the EMTs rush in with a gurney. I stay out in the hallway. The doors are open so I can see everything that's going on. For a second, I see my husband look up and it was the first time in a long time that he looked really scared. They load Elias onto the gurney and then make their way in the ambulance to the hospital. Logan's parents rush out and head to the hospital. Everyone else quickly follows.

"What's going on?"

"Grandpa had a heart attack." Logan tells me as we hurry to our vehicle. I buckle Maddy in as quickly as I can and we take the 5 minute drive to the hospital. By the time we get there, we find Mitchum pacing the hallway outside of the operating room. Shira keeps her gaze to the ground. I take a seat next to Shira and Logan goes to talk to his dad. Honor, Josh and Adam show up shortly after we do.

Logan and Mitchum return when they see Honor.

"What's going on, dad?" Honor asks.

"I don't know. The doctor has said that dad had a heart attack. They had done an EKG in the ambulance and it came out abnormal. They think he has coronary artery disease. They were prepping him for bypass surgery."

I grab Logan's hand and coax him to sit down by me. I have my other hand around Maddy's waist and keeping her close to me. Logan finally sits down and he threads our fingers together. I lay my head on his shoulder. Logan kisses my forehead and then kisses Maddy who has her hands held out so that daddy can hold her. He lets go of my hand so he can hold her with both hands. I smile at the two of them. He smiles when she giggles.

The minutes feel like hours. It was forty minutes later that the surgeon comes out and everyone looks up at him. He's a balding man in maybe his 50's. I seem to remember him as one of the surgeons from when grandpa had surgery here. We all rise.

"I'm so sorry, Mitchum." The surgeon tells us sadly. "I'm afraid Elias didn't make it."

I have never in my life seen this man cry but I did then. Even when Shira was battling cancer I never saw him cry. But he did right then and there. I instantly have tears in my eyes as I hug Logan and our daughter. "I'm so sorry, Logan." He clings tight to both of us. He starts to break down then and I hug him for several seconds then I let go and take Maddy from him as he hugs his parents.

I glanced over at Honor who is bawling understandably as she hugs her mom. I walk over to her and hug her then. "I'm so sorry, Honor."

Honor keeps her arms around me. "Thank you, Rory."

I do hug both Mitchum and Shira before we leave. We don't leave the hospital for another hour though. I end up driving. By the time we arrive home, it's already late afternoon. My mom, Luke and Ayden are in the living room.

They quickly rise when they see us but they can tell by our expressions that we're not happy. My mom first gives Logan a hug. "I'm so sorry, Logan."

"Thank you, Lorelai." He gives her a watery smile.

She then hugs me. "So sorry hun."

"Thanks mom."

We get condolences from Luke too which we appreciate.

"Mom?" I ask her a few minutes later when we're in the kitchen.

"Yeah, hun?"

"Could you do me a favor and watch Maddy for a little bit? I'd like to take a walk with Logan and just see…"

"No problem, hun. Go ahead."

I convince Logan to take a walk with me. He's very sullen which of course is to be expected. I very gingerly try to reach for his hand and it takes him a few seconds before he latches on to it.

"Are you going to be OK?"

It takes him a few seconds before he answers. "I don't know, Rory." It's quiet as we walk around the neighborhood. He turns to me a few minutes later and says, "You know, we've been together almost 5 years and in that time, we have never encountered a family death."

I think for a moment. True, Very true. "We've had enough brushes with it though."

"Yeah. The brushes were bad enough but now…"

"We'll make it through this, Logan. Your family and us will make it through it. I honestly believe with everything that's happened that we came out of everything stronger."

He stops and stares at me. "You really believe that?"

I give him a sad smile. "Yeah, I really do."

We start walking again and a few minutes later, Logan glances over at me.

"What?" I ask him.

"I told you something always goes wrong at our family pictures." Logan mumbles.

Not really the best line to end it on but I still wanted him to say that. OK so regarding this story. I know there's going to be the funeral, there's going to be Maddy's 1st birthday party and there's also the cruise/LDB trip. Skydiving is winning by a landslide by the way so that's the way it's looking. I will try to get chapters out as soon as I can but I have like 6 stories to update so it's been harder juggling all of them. I'm also taking online classes so that takes some time. I never meant for it to take 6 months but honestly I have updated this story since I updated my Gossip Girl story and that one's been 7 months so. Anyway, review please and let me know what you thought and I'll try to get chapters out sooner! PS-Hope everyone had a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!