A/N: I know, I'm horrible. Schools been, well, school. Then straight from school I go to work until 7. Then I come home and by the time I've eaten and showered and done my hw its like nine o'clock, sometimes later. Also, I'm kind of doing this student teaching thing for high schoolers so that takes a lot of time as well.

Thanks for all the reviews! BTW, this takes place like a week or two after Caiden was born.

"Lorelai, I'm home. Are you ready to go to Friday Night Dinner?" Luke called from the front door. "Lorelai?"

Lorelai emerged from the bathroom a few seconds later. It was obvious that she had been crying.

"Lorelai, Lorelai…what's wrong? What happened? Are you okay? Is Caiden okay?"

Lorelai nodded. "Caiden is fine. I just…all he did today was cry. He cried from the time you left this morning until about ten minutes ago. I couldn't take it. I didn't know what to do for him."

"Where is he now, Lorelai?"

"He's in his crib. I put him in there and then I locked myself in the bathroom. I was scared that I'd do something that I'd regret."

Luke pushed past Lorelai and ran into Caiden's room. He picked up the little boy, and kissed his cheek. The baby's face was beet red, he had obviously been crying too. With the infant in his arms, Luke walked out of the room to talk to Lorelai.

"Go get dressed. We're going to be late."

Lorelai shook her head. "I'm not going tonight. I don't want to. You go. You go and take Caiden with you. I need a little break."

"Lorelai, this is the last night you will see Rory until she comes home for Easter."

"Luke. I need sleep. I'm not going. You go. I'll be here."

With that Lorelai kissed Luke and walked upstairs.

Luke watched as Lorelai disappeared upstairs. Once she was out of sight, he went into Caiden's room where he placed the infant on the changing table. His diaper was soaked through, to the point where it was almost leaking, and he was developing a diaper rash. Luke applied Balmex, and then put a clean diaper on Caiden. He then changed Caiden into little corduroy overalls and a blue onsie.

Luke placed Caiden into his car seat, and then grabbed the bottles that Lorelai had filled from the fridge. He placed them in the diaper bag, and then zipped Caiden's car seat blanket so he wouldn't get sick.

Luke arrived at Emily and Richard's a little while later. He gently removed Caiden's car seat from the back seat, so he wouldn't wake him, and grabbed the diaper bag. He walked up to the door and rang the doorbell. Not even five seconds later a maid answered and guided Luke to the living room.

"Luke." Emily stood up and walked over to Luke and the baby. "Where is Lorelai?"

Luke didn't know whether he should lie or not, but he decided to tell the elder Gilmore's the truth.

"Lorelai's been having some trouble lately. Today, when I got home from work, she had locked herself into the bathroom so Caiden wouldn't be harmed. Emily, I don't know what to do."

Emily had a look of shock on her face. "Luke…"

"Emily, didn't you go through that after you had Lorelai?" Richard asked.

Emily nodded. "Luke, it sounds like Lorelai is going through Post Partum depression."

Just as Luke was about to respond, Rory and Logan walked into the room.

"Hey Grandma, Hey Grandpa." Rory hugged both her grandparents. "Luke." Rory acknowledged and then sat down , as did Logan.

"Post Partum Depression? I've heard of that. Now, what can I do to help Lorelai?"

"Mom has Post Partum Depression?" Rory asked.

"We don't know but it seems that way." Emily answered.

"Where is she?"

"She's at home. She didn't want to come tonight." Luke responded.

With out saying another word, Rory stood up and walked out of the room. A few seconds later they heard the door slam and Rory's car start. Luke immediately got up to try and stop Rory, but Emily pulled on his arm, telling him to sit back down.

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"Mom! Mom! Are you home? Mom!" Rory ran into the house, nearly tripping over Caiden's stroller which was in the middle of the foyer. After struggling to get by, she continued on her way upstairs, stepping on dirty clothes, and bottles. "Mom!" Rory called again.

When Rory opened Lorelai's bedroom door, she found her mother asleep on the bed. She had cried herself to sleep. Rory gently sat down next to her mother and held her hand.

"Mom, I am so unbelievably sorry. I have been nothing but a spoiled little brat. You have every right to hate me. God, I hate me. I guess, I'm just a little jealous of Caiden. I mean…who wouldn't be? He is so loved and I'm…I'm just a…I'm just a mistake that my mother made."

Lorelai rolled over and opened her eyes. "Sweetie, you are not a mistake. I love you with all my heart. I love you more then I ever knew I could love somebody. Grandma loves you. Grandpa loves you. Luke loves you. Logan loves you! Heck, this whole damn town loves you! It just happens that Caiden was born at a more appropriate time. I love neither of you too more, but Caiden just had better timing. If you want something I'll get it for you. Just ask, Rory. I'll get you anything you want. Anything. You say it and I'll get it."

"Mom, its not that. I don't expect anything. I'm just jealous. I'm jealous of a new baby." Rory laughed.

"Well there is nothing to be jealous of. Caiden and I will never have what you and I do."

"I know." Rory smiled, and Lorelai pulled her into a hug. "Why didn't you come to dinner?"

"I'm just a little tired. I haven't been getting much sleep with the baby and all."

"Luke said that you locked yourself in the bathroom earlier. He said you were scared that you'd hurt Caiden, is that true?"

Lorelai looked away, ashamed. "That's not true. I was going to the bathroom. Out of habit I locked the door."

"Mom…"

"Rory, I'm tired. I want to get some sleep before Caiden comes home and is up all night."

"Okay, good night. Mom?"

"What?"

"I'm leaving tomorrow."

"I know kid." Lorelai threw her arms around Rory. "I'm going to miss you."

"I'll miss you too Mom."

With that Lorelai laid down and faced the wall, and Rory left the room. When she got downstairs, she realized how messy the house really was, and started to clean up.

Two hours later, Rory had picked up everything that was on the floor, she had done the laundry, the dishes, she put Caiden's stroller away, and she had taken the garbage out.

Luke walked in a little before nine with Logan. He carefully placed Caiden's car seat on the kitchen table before going into the living room to talk with Rory.

"Hey Luke."

"Where's your Mom?" Luke asked.

"She's upstairs asleep. I didn't want to leave until you got home. I cleaned up the living room and the kitchen, and all the dirty clothes are now clean and in the dryer."

"Thank you Rory."

Just then Caiden started crying.

"Rory, you ready to go?" Logan asked.

"Not yet." Rory stood up from the sofa and stopped Luke who was in the kitchen getting Caiden. "Can I get him?" She asked.

Luke nodded. "He's probably hungry. You're going to have to bring him up to your mom."

Rory nodded and proceeded to take Caiden out of his seat. "Hey little brother. I'm your big sister Rory." Caiden stretched his arm out and then peacefully brought it back down. "You are so cute." Rory said and kissed the infant. "I'm going to bring him up to mom. I'll be down in a little while."

"Okay."

Rory climbed the stairs and went into Lorelai's room. She sat down on the bed and started to wake Lorelai up.

"Caiden's hungry, Mom."

"Mmm…sleep."

Rory shook Lorelai. "Mom…Caiden needs to eat."

Lorelai grabbed her pillow and placed it over her head.

"MOM!"

Just then Caiden started to cry and Lorelai's breasts began to leak milk. She then shot up in bed and took the baby from Rory.

"Thanks Rory."

"What? Luke told me to bring him up here for his feeding. There's no breast milk left in the fridge."

"I know, I'm just so fed up right. Rory, I'm so tired. Caiden cried all day today. He cried all day. I finally got fed up. I thought I was going to hurt him, so I locked myself in the bathroom. When Luke got home I was still in there. I think he was mad."

"Mom, has this been happening a lot?"

"No." Lorelai shook her head. She had started to cry. "I've never felt like this. You were never like this either. He just started this today."

"Mom, do you think he may have colic?"

Lorelai nodded. "I already scheduled an appointment with his doctor."

"When is it?" Rory asked.

"Tomorrow morning."

"Is Luke going with you?"

"No, Luke has to work."

"Did you tell Luke about it?" Rory asked.

"Rory, Luke's not going to want to be bothered. He doesn't get up in the middle of the night and take care of him and he's gone all day."

"I think you should talk to him. Maybe if Luke was here today, you wouldn't have been so scared and frustrated."

"Maybe." Lorelai shrugged.

"I don't think I'm going to go to London tomorrow."

Lorelai turned to face Rory, her eyes filled with shock. "What?"

"I don't think I can go. I don't want to miss Caiden grow up. Plus, I don't think I can go with out my Mommy for so long."

Lorelai smiled. "Well, you can stay here if you want."

Rory smiled too. "There's no room here, Mom."

"We're going to get a pull out couch. You can sleep on there for now. Maybe if things work out between me and Luke, we can buy a bigger house someday."

"If? What do you mean if?"

"I mean exactly what I said. If we work out."

"Mom…"

"Rory, cut me some slack, I just don't want to get hurt again."

Lorelai then handed Caiden to Rory, and pulled her shirt back down.

"Could you be a doll and change his diaper for me?"

"Sure."

"Just be careful, he has a tendency to pee."

Rory laughed and walked downstairs.

"I need to talk to you, alone." Rory said to Luke, and Luke followed her into Caiden's room.

Rory carefully placed Caiden onto the changing table and began to change his diaper.

"Okay, first of all…my mother does NOT have Post Partum Depression. Caiden might have colic. Colic will make a baby cry a lot. Mom just got frustrated and you weren't here so she did the only thing she could think of, and it helped her. Caiden has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. You should go. Second of all…it wouldn't hurt you to take a night time feeding or two. Did you ever think that that might be why Mom pumps the breast milk? Also, try not to work long hours like you have been. No wonder Mom has had it. She's had no help. And one last thing, Mom's convinced you guys won't last this time around."

With that, Rory finished buttoning Caiden's outfit up and handed him to Luke. "Now, if you will excuse me I need to go talk with Logan."

Luke nodded and walked up to his and Lorelai's room. He placed Caiden into the bassinet and sat down next to Lorelai on the bed.

"I'm sorry, Lorelai. I never realized how over stressed you were. I figured you didn't want me to help out."

"Why wouldn't I want you to help out?" Lorelai snapped.

"I don't know. I guess I just assumed that you wanted…"

"Luke, no woman wants to raise a baby on their own. I need help. I can't do this alone. I am sleep deprived. I haven't showered in three days. I need you."

"I know, and I'm sorry. I'm going to come to the doctor with you and Caiden tomorrow, and I will take all of the feedings tonight, I promise."

"Really?"

"Really, now, start pumping so you can go to sleep."

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"Logan, I need to talk to you."

"Okay…" Logan stood up from the sofa.

"No, I think you should sit."

Logan nodded and sat back down.

"I can't go to London with you. I don't know what I was thinking. I need to be here with my family."

"But Ace, you and me, we can make a family. You are my family."

"But this, right here…" Rory pointed to everything around them. "This is my family. I don't belong in London. I belong here."

"Ace…"

"No, Logan. When and if you choose to come back, I will be here waiting for you." Rory kissed Logan one last time. "Goodbye Logan."

"Bye Ace."

Rory sat down on the sofa and started to cry. She didn't know why she had just done what she had did, but she knew it was the right decision.

Just then the phone started to ring, but nobody bothered to answer it. Lorelai and Luke were to busy working things out, and Rory, well Rory had a broken heart.

"Hi you have reached…shhh! Caiden, its okay, mommy's here, shh! Lorelai, Luke…Caiden honey, mommy's here. You don't have to cry. And little Caiden Nicholas. Leave a message after the beep and hopefully…Caiden it's okay. We will be able to hear it. Wahhhh!"

"Hi Lorelai, it's me, Mike. Listen, I'm not trying to win you back or anything, I just wanted to apologize. Obviously you are with Luke now and I am SO happy for you, I am. As I was saying, I just wanted to apologize. Things didn't end well with us. This is kind of embarrassing for me to say, but…I am, was, and alcoholic. I'm sober now, and I realize all the drunken mistakes that I made and I am truly and deeply sorry for all the pain I have caused you. I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me. People make mistakes. You know that. People make mistakes, so…well this is goodbye. I'll talk to you some other time, or not. Oh, and congratulations."

A/N: I hoped you enjoyed it. Let me reassure you, Mike is NOT coming back. Thanks for reading and please review!