HEY! I know it's been a really long time since I updated and I am really sorry, but I have been updating my other story and I have Regents coming up and finals and I have been reviewing like crazy, because if I don't pass my Earth Science Regents, I'm screwed. I also know that I have been giving you guys a lot of lame excuses, so here is another chapter you have all been waiting for!
Chapter 21!
Lorelai walked through the door to Lily's nursery to the sound of her crying.
"What's wrong, my ladybug?" She asked, picking up her blue eyed daughter from the crib that Luke had inscribed 'Lily May Danes' on it.
Lily suddenly stopped crying and looked up at her mother and started crying again.
Luke walked up behind her and looked over her shoulder down at his daughter.
Lily reached her hands up to her dad and he lifted her from Lorelai's arms.
He started to rock her back and forth, trying to calm her down.
When she stopped crying, he laid her back in the crib and looked over at his exhausted wife with the dark circles under her eyes.
"Lorelai, I thought I told you to stay in bed. You're pregnant, sick, and tired." Luke said. "I know that Lily has an ear infection, but I can get her, you know, you don't have to be at her beck and call." He said, wrapping her into his arms.
She looked up at him and said, "She wakes up about every hour and I can't help but wake up and I feel guilty if I don't come and calm her down." She said.
"I can do that, you don't need to feel guilty." Luke said, guiding her back to their bedroom across the hall.
"Mmm…" Lorelai mumbled and followed him to her side of the bed and willingly let him lay her down on the soft, warm mattress.
Lorelai had been sick with something other than morning sickness. When she went to the doctor he said that she would have some complications with the pregnancy and she might get sick off and on and she might go into premature labor. He also said that she needed to take maternity leave and to stay off her feet for the next three to four months until the baby was born.
She was highly resistant to what the doctor had told her and she argued with Luke about
The whole situation, saying that she needed to go to work and do her job because Michel couldn't be left alone. Luke had agreed to let her go for an hour each day and then she would come to the diner and rest where he had set up a personal rest center with a TV, DVD/VCR player, a stereo, and food within the ring of a bell.
Even the hour had work had been tiring her, so Luke had her stop going to work all together and stay home or come to the diner, mattering which days he worked.
When Lily had gotten her ear infection a week ago, Luke had insisted on keeping the crib in the room, but that had made Lorelai get up more and take care of her daughter, so they put it back, as long as she promised not to wake up and go tend to Lily.
The next day, Lorelai woke up at nine and saw that Luke was still asleep. She knew that today was her doctor's appointment and that Luke would make her be very careful when walking down the stairs, in and out of the car, and getting up on the little table-bed thing.
All of a sudden, Lorelai's stomach churned and she rushed to the bathroom, not realizing she had woken up, rushed to the toilet and started throwing up. She heard Luke's heavy footsteps behind her and he pulled her hair back. When she thought she was done, she pulled back, but her stomach churned again, and she started throwing up again.
When she was done, she leaned back into Luke.
"This is worse than when I was pregnant with Rory, Will, and Lily." She said.
"Well, the doctor said that you were going to have complications with the pregnancy, he also said that the morning sickness would probably last the whole time and would be worse than the other's." He said, stroking her hair.
Luke got a damp washcloth and wiped at her mouth. "I'm staying home today, so you can spend the whole day with me and Lily. She slept through the last half of the night." He said, helping her stand up and took her back into the bedroom and she sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Kay." She said, not really paying attention.
"Lorelai, are you okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She said.
"Alright, I'm going to wake Lily up and get her dressed and fed."
He left the room, and Lorelai tried to stand up, but she wobbled a little and fell back on the bed hard.
Her head was spinning, she needed to lie down. She scooted back to her side of the bed, lay down and closed her eyes to keep from seeing everything around her spinning.
She was really dizzy and needed to sleep to get it over with.
When she finally did fall back to sleep, Luke was done feeding and changing Lily and giving her her medicine.
He walked in with Lily to see Lorelai asleep and in a weird position. Her arms and legs were splayed across the bed and her head was on the comforter, not the pillow.
He set Lily in the bassinet and went over to his wife and shook her gently, "Lorelai?" He said.
When she didn't respond, he shook her harder and said her name louder. When she still didn't wake up, he stood up and called the doctor.
"Hello, Dr. Merry's office." He heard a cheery receptionist on the other line.
"Hi, can I talk to Dr. Merry please?" He asked. "It's an emergency.
"Hold on a moment, please." She said.
Two minutes of impatient waiting later, he heard Dr. Merry on the other line.
"Hello?" He asked.
"Hi, Dr. Merry, this is Luke Danes, I'm the husband of Lorelai Danes."
"Ah, yes. What's the emergency?" He asked.
"I cam back in from checking on Lily and Lorelai was passed out on the bed and she won't come to." He said.
"I was afraid of this." The doctor said on the end. "Bring her to the hospital, I'll meet you in the lobby."
Luke hung up, walked over to Lorelai and picked her up. He walked down the stairs, told April who was sitting on the couch to watch her sister and he walked out the door without an explanation.
When Luke got to the hospital, Dr. Merry was waiting for him with a stretcher and Luke laid Lorelai down on it and nurses started pushing it down the hall.
Luke caught up with the doctor and asked what was going on.
"People in Lorelai's situation, when they pass out, they won't come to unless we perform a C-section to remove the baby and then the person will come to." The doctor said.
"Wait, a C-section?" Luke asked, alarmed.
"Yes, I know it's sudden and that the baby will have to stay here for a while, but the last time I checked, the baby was healthy." The doctor said, went into a surgery room, and slammed the door in Luke's face.
Luke sat down on the chair next to the door and put his head in his hands. An hour later, Rory showed up, after him not having to call her.
"What happened?" She asked immediately.
"They're performing a C-section." He said.
"What?" She asked.
"Yeah." He said.
A couple of hours later, the doctor exited the room with a bundle in his arms. He looked at Luke with a smile on his face.
"How is she?" He asked.
"Just fine. The surgery went great, and you have a beautiful baby boy." Dr. Merry said, and set the bundle in his arms.
Luke looked down and saw sea blue gray eyes looking up at him. He had a tuff of dark hair coming off his head.
Rory looked down at the baby in Luke's arms and smiled.
"Do you know his name yet?" The doctor said.
Luke looked up and then looked over Rory. "Lorelai and I decided that his older sisters should decide what his name should be. April already said that she liked the name Joshua. What's the baby's first name going to be?" He asked Rory, smiling at the shocked look on her face.
Rory smiled. "Daniel." She said. "Daniel Joshua Danes." She said.
"Danny." Luke said, smiling as he looked down at his new born son.
I know that this was a really rushed and a really bad chapter, but I couldn't come up with any other ideas! Anyway, do you see that little purpleish-blueish button down there? Well if you click on it, you can tell me how bad this chapter was!
Oh, plus, thank you to myshadowspirit for giving me her most honest opinions!
Kaleigh