Dun, dun, dun! This is the last chapter! after this, it's epilogue, baby! So enjoy it and review and I'll see you on the other side...

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Chapter 20

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For the rest of the day, Lorelai's cell phone didn't leave her hand. Every hour, on the hour, Jackson called and told her what was going on. Every hour, on the hour, it was the same. Nothing had changed. The baby was yet to come out and Sookie was going bonkers, again. Lorelai did her best to calm her down, and reminded her that Davey had been overdue and everything turned out fine. And Martha had come a week early, so maybe this baby was trying to even the score, by coming on the right day, but taking 'its' time.

Even during the party, Lorelai would duck outside every hour to take her call, then come back inside shaking her head sadly at Luke and Rory.

The clock ticked closer to 12 and Lorelai slipped outside, the only people to notice were Luke and Rory. Rory watched from across the room, and Luke followed her out, wanting to take the opportunity to speak to her while things were quiet.

"Okay, bye Jackson." she sighed and hung up and turned to find Luke behind her. "Oh, jeez. You scared me." she said, running a hand through her hair.

Luke smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry." he murmured, taking her hand.

Lorelai smiled up at him. "Well, I'm glad it was you and not someone else. You have the best ways of making it up to me." she said, stepping closer, her body pressed against his.

"Lorelai, I want this to work." he said quietly.

She nodded. "Me, too. More than anything."

He nodded. "No secrets?"

She nodded. "No secrets. I love you, okay? The only person I love more than you is Rory, and that's only because I gave birth to her. You're my everything, Luke. And I swear I won't take you for granted this time. I'm in, I'm all in."

Luke smiled. "Good, me too. And, while I don't like Christopher, I understand that he will always be in your life, because Anna will now always be in mine. You have Rory, and I have April and I really want this to work. We can all be a family."

Lorelai nodded. "I know. Kiss me?"

Luke smirked. "always." he replied, then leant down and kissed her gently.

They stood outside the Inn, in exactly the same spot as where they shared their first kiss, totally wrapped up in each other. They could hear the party going on inside, but didn't care if someone walked out to find them making-out. That would be way less embarrassing than Lorelai walking into the diner in nothing else but Luke's shirt.

In fact, if she had to choose a way for the town to find out about their re-kindled relationship, she would choose this. It was un-intrusive and innocent and it's not like they hadn't seen them kiss before.

And Lorelai knew that the townies would love nothing more than to see them back together. How many times had Babbette and Miss Patty hinted at that when she was married to Christopher?

They were outside for over twenty minutes, when Lorelai's cell started ringing shrilly in her right hand. Groaning at the suck-y timing, she pulled away from Luke and looked at the screen.

'Jackson' appeared there.

Eyes wide and staring at Luke, she flipped the phone up and held it to her ear. "What is it?" she asked worriedly.

She heard Jackson's tired sigh. "She had a little girl." he said and Lorelai could almost hear the smile in his voice.

"Oh, Jackson, that's fantastic!" she said, smiling softly.

Luke watched her interestedly, while Rory had extracted herself from the party and was standing a few feet away from them.

"I'll let them know right away, Jackson. Okay. Let her know that me and Rory and Luke will be in to see her tomorrow. And that we love her. And the little one. Oh, of course we love you, too, Jackson." she grinned up at Luke. "See you tomorrow. Bye!" she flipped her phone shut and took Luke by the hand, dragging him back into the dining room. She marched past everyone and stopped behind the microphone.

"Hi! Can I have everyone's attention, please?"

The room fell silent as everyone turned to look at her, worried expressions all over the room.

"Okay, I know I don't have the greatest record when I mix alcohol and microphones, but, I promise, with every part of my beautiful self, that this is good." she paused. "All of you know that my best friend and business partner, Sookie St James, is pregnant. Well, I just got a call from her husband - Jackson, Kirk - and he has asked me to ask you to join me in toasting the arrival of a brand new little girl, who, no matter what Sookie and Jackson call her, will always be known as 'Dragonfly' by me, because she was born on the night of the Inn's three year anniversary. Okay, so everyone, please raise your glasses, mugs, cups, bottles and whatever else to 'Baby Bellville'."

The crowd cheered as Lorelai stepped away from the mic to where Rory and Luke were standing.

"We're aunts again, we're aunts again!" the two women cheered as they held hands and jumped around in a circle.

When they stopped their bouncing, Lorelai flung her arms around Luke's neck and kissed him passionately. This cause the townies and guests to start cheering again, as their favourite couple finally seemed to have found their middle.

Christopher sat in the corner with Sherry and Gigi, watching as Luke and Lorelai kissed. Thought their divorce had gone through months ago, it wasn't until then that he realised that he had absolutely no chance with Lorelai, she had chosen Luke. And he knew that if he wanted anything to do with his eldest daughter he was just going to have to accept that. She had ignored him once before when she thought he was going to mess up her mother's relationship with the diner owner, and he really didn't want to risk it.

And, it was just like that, that Lorelai and Luke were back. Back for good.

End Back For Good

Epilogue to come.

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