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You Can't Separate True Love
Chapter 20
"Will someone tell me what the hell he's doing here!?" Jess turned to Lorelai.
"Don't look at me, I'm as shocked as you!" Lorelai frantically defended. "Christopher what do you think you're doing here?"
Christopher rushed over to them. "I came to see my pregnant daughter who is going into labor."
"She doesn't want you here." Jess snapped.
"Jess, I'll handle this, just go check in with the nurse and get Rory settled into a room." Lorelai reasoned and she kissed Rory on the cheek. "I won't be long."
Rory was breathing heavily and whimpering, but nodded. "Jess." She clung onto him.
"Alright, let's get you a room." Jess said, pulling her gently to the front desk.
- - -
"Chris! Why are you here? Rory said she didn't want you here. And how did you even know that we were on our way?" Lorelai shouted.
"She's my daughter, I wanted to be here. And Emily called me. I was passing through the town and decided to head over here. I want to be here for my daughter Lorelai."
"We have Luke here. That's all we need. Rory's happy, she is happy with just Jess, Luke, and I. Go home to Sherri, Christopher." Lorelai turned away.
"Lor." Chris put his hand on her shoulder, but she shrugged it off.
"No Chris, leave." Lorelai walked to an anxious Luke.
Chris started walking toward Lorelai, but Emily shook her head and he left.
- - -
Back in the room, Rory was screaming. She didn't want to be a screamer, but it helped keep her mind off of the pain. Jess was extremely nervous, but he hid it well. He did all he could to keep her comfortable.
When Rory's contractions would end, he would read to her, but as soon as a contraction would start up, Jess would immediately grab her hand and count.
Lorelai walked into the room with an extremely pale Luke.
"Whoa, you don't look too well Uncle Luke." Jess chuckled, taking in the ghost like appearance.
"Shut up." Luke mumbled and sat down in the nearest chair.
"He hates hospitals." Lorelai informed Jess.
"Ah, I see." Jess stifled a laugh, but turned to a gasping Rory.
"How're you doing sweets?" Lorelai asked, pulling up a chair next to her bed.
"Do you have to ask?" Rory murmured.
"Right, right. Sorry."
"How much longer will this last?" Rory whined, cringing in pain.
"It all depends hon. Has the doctor come to check on you?"
"Not in a while." Rory panted. She was squeezing Jess's hand so hard, that it was starting to turn purple. Jess grunted in pain and Rory gazed at their hands. She immediately let go.
"Sorry. Are you ok?"
"I think so." Jess rubbed his hand and tried to hide his pain. "It's not broken, at least that I know of."
"I'm sorry. I didn't realize my own strength."
"Well that's something that comes out during deliver. I swear, we are all superheroes, but men don't believe us." Lorelai chimed in.
"Not helping mom." Rory giggled.
"Yeah, really. Jeez, I think I need ice." Jess opened and closed his hand, getting the blood to circulate.
"I'll go!" Luke jumped up immediately and took off.
Lorelai and Jess laughed. "Poor Luke."
"I think it's funny." Jess disagreed.
"You're cruel." Lorelai smirked.
"Hello, injured hand here, I can be cruel if I want to." Jess waved his hand in front of Lorelai's face.
"Ow!" Rory screamed and grabbed Jess' hand again.
"Ow!" Jess shouted in pain.
Lorelai laughed at both of them. "Ah, the pain of birth."
Jess grunted and glared at Lorelai. "If you want to know what we name them, you'll keep remarks like that to yourself."
"Sorry." Lorelai raised her hands in surrender.
"Get the doctor in here!" Rory shouted.
"Ok, I'll be back." Lorelai rushed out, deciding it best that she leave the shouting parents alone for the moment.
- - -
A few hours later Jess had ice, Rory was asleep between contractions, Lorelai was resting her head against Luke's shoulders, and Luke was trying not to be nauseous.
Rory woke up, due to another contraction and Jess handed his hand, with ice pack in it, to Rory.
"Ok, now they're not that far apart anymore. You're almost there." Lorelai tried encouraging Rory.
"Uh huh." Rory painfully grumbled.
Jess, needing a bathroom break, left the room for a while. He wasn't back half an hour later, and Rory was worried.
"Maybe you should go find him Luke."
"Ok, I'll be back."
"I hope nothing happened."
"Don't worry about him, I'm sure he's fine."
- - -
The next time the doctor came in, he said that they were ready to move her into the delivery room. Jess and Luke weren't back yet, and Rory didn't want to leave until he was back.
"You have to go hon, these babies won't wait. Trust me." Lorelai urged.
"No, not until Jess is here."
"Sorry Mrs. Mariano, but we need to take you now. Especially since you're having twins." The nurse and doctor began rolling her bed out.
"No! Jess!" Rory began crying.
"Rory! Rory!" Jess was running down the halls after her.
"Jess!" Rory reached out for him.
"I'm here!" Jess grabbed her hand and ran along the bed.
"Sir, you have to go put on a smock and a hat. Sanitary purposes."
Jess nodded and followed the nurse. "I'll be back!" He called over his shoulder.
"Hurry!" Rory pleaded.
- - -
After two hours of waiting, Jess walked out into the waiting room with a tired smile. Lorelai squealed and ran to him.
"How are they? Oh I bet they're gorgeous! How's Rory doing?"
Jess smiled. "Rory's doing great, tired, but great. The babies are beautiful. Come see for yourselves."
"Luke let's go!"
Rory was sitting in the bed holding one of the babies, and the nurse was holding the other, waiting for Jess to come back. She handed the baby to him and he moved next to Rory.
"Aww! Let me see!" Lorelai said.
"Ok, but first we want to tell you their names." Rory smiled widely and looked at Jess.
"Ooh! Yay!"
"Ok the one Jess is holding is a girl. We wanted to name her Lorelai at first, but we decided that another Lorelai in the family would be a but much. So…"
"…we decided to name her Elizabeth Jane. Elizabeth is a character from Pride & Prejudice that I like to refer to Rory as, and Jane is the author of Pride & Prejudice." Jess announced the name and explained the reason.
"Love it!" Lorelai smiled and wrapped her arm around Luke.
"And the one Rory's holding is the boy. We wanted him to have a family name to carry on, so…"
"…we decided on naming him Jess Lucas. Jess after his daddy," Rory cooed at baby Jess, "and Lucas after Luke, because if it weren't for him Jess and I would have never met." Rory smiled at Luke. Lorelai had tears in her eyes.
"That's beautiful Rory. Both of you guys did good." Lorelai wiped tears from her eyes and moved in to get a better look at the babies.
"Oh my gosh!" Lorelai gasped in delight.
There you have it! Another cliffhanger! *smirk* sorry, but i had to do it! Let me know what you think...i'll be ending this story probably after next chapter. So as this story comes to close, i want to again thank all of you have stuck to my story...and i will start updating the other one and begin a new one!
Beth