Jess pulled into the car park of the hospital and quickly found a parking space as it was still early. Lily had managed to talk herself to sleep about ten minutes into the journey so it was mostly silent. The couple got out of the car and Jess opened the back door.

"Lily," he said quietly. She turned her head and opened her eyes to look at him. "We're here." He unfastened her from the seat and waited for her to get out.

"I'm tired."

"I know you are but don't you wanna go see your mommy? She's waiting for you." She still didn't move and he rolled his eyes. "You're so lazy, you know that." He lifted her out and put her on his hip before locking the car. He took Rory's hand with his left and they walked into the hospital together then got into the elevator to travel up to the floor Lorelai was on. The doors opened and Lily's head shot up from where it had been rested on Jess's shoulder.

"Jess can you put me down now?" asked Lily. He did as he was told and she ran off in the direction of Lorelai's room. She burst through the door and looked at Lorelai, who was fast asleep. "Daddy I thought mommy was awake." Luke stood up and walked over to her then knelt down in front of her.

"She was princess. Don't worry she's just sleeping because she was a bit tired."

"But she's been asleep for ages, how can she be tired?"

"It's hard to explain." Rory and Jess came into the room and saw Lorelai was asleep.

"Luke did you tire her out already?" asked Rory quietly.

"No, actually you can blame that on your brother here."He pointed to the crib where Callum was also asleep.

"I can't believe she's finally awake." Rory walked over to sit on the edge of the bed.

"Me either!" Shouted Lily, which caused Lorelai to open her eyes.

"Hey mom, how are you feeling?" asked Rory, who was still concerned about her even though she seemed fine over the phone. Lorelai smiled at her.

"I'm fine kid, a bit tired though."

"Sorry for waking you mommy," said Lily whilst walking over to the bed.

"It's ok honey, I wanted to see you anyway. Climb up here." She watched as Lily slowly climbed onto the bed a sat next to her. "Come here." She put her arms out and Lily crawled into them.

"I missed you when you were asleep," said Lily sadly. She pulled away to look at Lorelai and she saw a tear rolling down her daughter's cheek.

"Oh baby don't cry. I know you missed me but I'm here now and I'm not going anywhere." She wiped the tear from Lily's face.

"Promise?"

"I promise. And thank you for the card, it's great."

"Do you like it? I drawed you in the middle."

"You mean you drew me in the middle?"

"Yeah that's what I said." Lorelai laughed at her.

"It's brilliant. It must have taken you ages."

"Only an hour."

"An hour! Wow well done my little professional artist." Lily smiled and Lorelai kissed her forehead.

"So what do you think of the baby?" asked Rory.

"He's gorgeous, just look at him sleeping there like an angel."

"I know he's something special isn't he?"

"We gave him a name," said Luke.

"Ooh what is it?" asked Lily, turning her attention away from Lorelai.

"We decided to call him Callum." Lily looked from Luke to Lorelai.

"Really, you chose my name?

"Yep, we liked it so much and it suited him."

"Cool, thanks. Wait he needs a middle name too!"

"Don't panic, we've already chosen one. What do you think of Lucas?"

"Aww you've named him after Luke. That's so cute," interrupted Rory. "What do you think Lily?"

"It's not as good as Callum, because I chose that but it's ok."

"What. You think my name is ok?" asked Luke.

"Yeah, that's a good thing. I didn't say I hated it."

"I give up." Callum's loud cries suddenly filled the room and Luke began to make his way over to the crib.

"Hey it's ok, I'll get him." Lorelai started to climb out of bed slowly.

"Are you ok getting up?"

"Luke, I'm fine. Stop worrying." She stood up and walked over to the crib then gently lifted Callum's body up to her own.

"He might be hungry," suggested Luke. "I'll go ask the nurse if we can have a bottle." He left the room and Lorelai sat on the bed and laid Callum down in her arms. His cries became softer and his bright blue eyes looked up at Lorelai's matching ones. Lily moved to sit closer to her and Lorelai put her free arm around her.

"So are you happy with your baby brother?"

"Yeah he's the best."

"Good. Because even if you weren't, we wouldn't send him back."

"I don't want him to go anywhere." She looked at her brother who was still watching Lorelai carefully. "Can I hold him?"

"Yeah of course." She moved her hand up under his head and transferred him into Lily's waiting arms. "Have you got his head?"

"Yeah. Daddy said that to me last time. Why do I have to hold his head?"

"Because he can't hold it up by himself yet."

"When will he be able to?"

"Probably in a couple of months."

"And when will he be able to walk?"

"Not for about a year, I'm afraid."

"That's ages. Why does everything take so long?"

"You've just gotta be patient." Lily looked at her brother who was trying to grab hold of her hair. Lorelai watched the two of them and smiled at her and Luke's little family as he came back into the room holding a bottle. He gave it to Lorelai and she looked at Lily who was now looking up at them.

"Do I have to give him back now?"

"He needs feeding princess but you can play with him afterwards." Lily looked down sadly at the baby and Lorelai saw her expression.

"Sweetie, do you wanna feed him?"

"Am I allowed?"

"Yeah." Lorelai put her hand under Callum to support him as Lily took the bottle with her right hand. "Just put it near his mouth and he'll find it himself." Lily followed Lorelai's instructions and watched as Callum put his lips round it and starting suckling.

"Look he's drinking it," she said excitedly. Rory looked round at Jess who was stood awkwardly at the end of the bed. She sensed he was a bit uncomfortable and gave him a small smile.

"Hey erm me and Jess are just gonna go to the cafeteria, we won't be long."

"Ok hon. Don't leave the building though, we have some catching up to do." Rory nodded and Jess took her hand as they left.

"So you were awfully quiet in there."

"I just felt like I was intruding."

"You could never do that. You're family you know."

"Yeah but I meant on their little family, they don't want me hanging around."

"Jess what's wrong? You've been acting differently since we found out mom was awake."

"Nothing. Nothing's wrong."

"We've been married long enough for me to know that you're a terrible liar."

"You don't have to worry about it."

"But I am worried about it because you're my husband and we're supposed to tell each other things but all you seem to do is keep everything to yourself. I'm starting to think you don't trust me."

"Of course I trust you. It's just something we should talk about properly."

"Well let's talk here, now, properly." She dragged him over to a row of seats and they sat down together. "So."

"So erm..."

"Jess I don't mean to sound insensitive here but will you spit it out?"

"Ok. Just seeing Luke and Lorelai with the new baby and taking care of Lily the past few days, it's kinda put things into perspective for me." He paused.

"Go on."

"I guess what I'm trying to say is." He took a deep breath.

"Yeah."

"I sometimes wonder what it'd be like if we had our own family." Rory looked at him for a moment with a shocked expression on her face.

"Wow erm...."

"Have you not thought about it?"

"Yeah I have, a lot actually. I just didn't think you would have done, you took me by surprise."

"So you've thought about it too. Thank god."

"Yeah, I've imagined kids running round the house and a swing set in the garden. Our own perfect family."

"So we're really gonna do this?"

"Yeah I guess we are. Oh my god this is exciting! I have a slight problem though."

"What?"

"The whole child birth thing totally freaks me out. Like when my ex-step mom went into labour with my half sister, I was there and it wasn't pretty. In fact I almost had a panic attack."

"It'll be different with our kid."

"You'd better hope so because your hand will be very broken by the end if it's not." Jess laughed.

"Yeah but it'd be worth it for the result. Shall we go back in there?"

"Nah let's give them some privacy. We could get something to eat like we said."

"Sounds good." They stood up and walked towards the cafeteria together and Jess wrapped his arms around his wife.

Back in Lorelai's room, Callum had finished his bottle and Lily was still holding him.

"Eww I think Callum just threw up on me." Lorelai took the baby from her and Lily looked down at her t-shirt. "That's disgusting. Get it off!"

"Lily don't be such a drama queen, it's only milk," said Luke.

"Can you wipe it off please?"

"I'll have to go ask for a pack of wipes, don't touch it ok?"

"I wouldn't dare." Luke left the room and Lorelai laughed.

"Did you spit up on your sister Callum?"

"Yeah he did look!" She pointed to her t-shirt.

"There's hardly anything there, you're over-reacting."

"It would be different if he'd done it on you."

"No it wouldn't because these aren't my clothes." She pointed to the gown she was wearing.

"Whatever." Lily crossed her arms.

"Whatever. Is that all you've got?" Lorelai smiled at her. She loved their little arguments even though Lily always ended up getting angry.

"No there's more."

"Go on then."

"Erm....later." She was stuck for something to say.

"Later is not good enough!" Luke came back into the room with a pack of wipes and took one out to clean Lily's top with.

"There you go." He threw the wipe in the bin and looked up to see Lorelai and Lily giving each other evils. "Did you two start arguing again?"

"No," replied Lorelai.

"Yeah we did, she was being mean." She pointed at Lorelai.

"What, me, mean? Never in a million years. Not to my baby Lily." She pouted at Luke.

"Ok I'm not getting into this." Luke sat down in the arm chair and watched as his wife and daughter argued over something that didn't even matter with his son laid between them. He smiled at how much he had missed watching the two of them together and at that moment, he wouldn't have had them any other way.