Because I see the interest with this story fading slwoly but surely I will try to end this whole thing within the next few chapters. I hope you'll stay with me at least for those last chapters. This one is the beginning of the end (and is not betaed yet)
Have a nive Christmas ! Merry Christmas!
Chapter 36: Oh happy day
„Mommy, daddy wake up! Wake up!" Sara yelled while she sat on Luke's stomach bouncing up and down. William was tucking on Lorelai's comforter and Laila tickled her feet. Lorelai opened her eyes and saw her excited children.
"Mommy, it's Christmas," William told her and immediately she shot up and sat on the bed, bouncing with her kids.
"Luke, Luke, wake up, it's Christmas!" she joined the chorus of the kids.
"Mmmh, let me sleep," mumbled like every year.
"But we wanna open the presents. Daddy get up!" Sara pouted like every year. Lorelai smiled at the scene. It was nice to have a tradition.
"Hey, look honey, your daddy is still asleep. Let's wake him up, okay" Lorelai asked.
"Daddy" one year old William squealed and started to squirm in his mothers arms.
"You wanna go to your daddy, huh? Go and wake him up" she told the toddler in the blue one piece pyjama and sat him on Luke's stomach. William laughed and clapped his hands, before he leaned forward and placed a wet kiss on Luke's mouth.
"Daddy" he squealed again and started to bounce on Luke's stomach.
"Let me sleep Will," Luke mumbled with closed eyes.
"Will, say: Christmas, daddy" Lorelai urged him on.
"'ismas daddy" William said and threw his hands in the air like Lorelai had done it just seconds ago.
"Kiss," Luke demanded and opened first one eye then the other. William laughed, let himself fall forward and his mouth landed on Luke's nose instead of on his mouth this time.
"Will, not on the nose" Luke laughed and wiped the wetness of his nose.
"Nose" William repeated and pointed to his own nose.
"Yes, that's your nose, but daddy wanted a kiss on the mouth. Where is my mouth William?" Luke asked him.
"The'" William said and lay his index finger on Luke's lips.
"Right, that's my mouth. Now give daddy a kiss, but on the mouth this time" Luke said and William gave him another wet kiss. Then Luke pulled him in his arms and cuddled his son close, what caused William to sigh and close his eyes.
"You two are too cute for words," Lorelai , who sat on her side of the bed and had watched the whole scene, said.
"I am not cute," Luke objected and closed his eyes again.
"Yeah, yeah I know. But now get up you two sloth-bears. It's Christmas and we have to open the presents," she reminded them.
"Pesents," William yelled, suddenly wide awake again.
"Yay, presents. I get the other two and we meet downstairs," she told Luke, gave him a kiss and walked out of the bedroom to nurse the six-month old twins and then bring them downstairs.
"I really don't wonder where they got that from. In general you can barely get them out of their beds, but suddenly when there are presents somewhere or you absolutely don't want them to, for whatever reason they are wide awake and up at 5.30h" Luke ranted and sat up in his bed. But his family knew he wasn't really angry and just ignored his speech.
"Daddy kiss" Sara said and Luke gave her one, before William and Laila demanded the same thing and he also gave them each a kiss.
"Can we go downstairs and unwrap the presents?" William asked anxiously.
"Hey, what about me? I haven't gotten my kiss yet," Lorelai pouted and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"Why don't you three go downstairs and wake your grandparents. I am sure they'll be thrilled," Luke proposed.
"Yay, let's wake grandma and grandpa" the kids yelled excited and ran out of the room.
"You are an evil, evil man Mr. Danes" Lorelai said with a glint in her eyes.
"I know, but my wife wants her good morning kiss" Luke grinned and pulled her to him to kiss her thoroughly.
When they finally arrived downstairs half an hour later the kids had succeeded to drag Emily and Richard into the living-room in their gowns.
"Where have you been? We've been waiting forever for you," William grumbled when they appeared on the stairs in their pyjamas.
"Lower your voice and leave your poor old parents alone. We're not that fast anymore," Lorelai said and helped Luke down the last stairs.
"And what shall we say?" Richard yawned with Laila in his lap.
"Mommy, daddy hurry up!" Sara groaned when she saw her parents sharing some meaningful glances, without moving away from the steps.
"Gah, I think it's time for you three to move out and get your own apartment so that we can be as lovey-dovey as we want," Lorelai joked, but the joke implication was lost on William, who had Meeko in his lap.
"No, mommy, I don't wanna move out, please. We are too young. Only Rory is old enough to live in her own house," he said shocked and looked scared in his mother's direction.
"Oh honey, that was a joke. I never want you to move. Actually I might lock you into your room when you will be old enough to move out, so that you can't," Lorelai laughed, sat down beside William on the floor and hugged him shortly and then placed a kiss on his forehead.
"Should we wait for Rory or are we going to open the presents without her?" Emily asked and adjusted Sara's pigtails.
"I don't know when Rory will be here so I think we should start without her," Lorelai said and got off the floor.
"Who wants to start without us, you traitors?" Logan's voice suddenly came from the entry.
"Logan" William screamed, placed Meeko on the floor and ran to his sister's boyfriend. William adored Logan because he always played with him and took him out for some guys things like cart racing or the basketball. While he had very little connection to Rory, he had even more connection to Logan, what brought Logan some brownie-points with Lorelai and Luke.
"Hey everyone," Logan greeted them and held William on his feet over his head and the boy was screaming and giggling.
"Hey, Logan, hi Rory," Luke greeted them and shook Logan's hand while Rory greeted Lorelai with a hug.
"Hey mom, hey everyone," Rory said when she pulled back from the hug.
"Logan put me down, put me down" William yelled at the same time and tried to wiggle out of Logan's grasp.
"That you can jump on my back again, you little flea?" Logan laughed and started to tickle William.
"Help daddy help!" William squealed.
"Logan put him down", laughed Rory and Logan tickled William a last time before he put him down.
"Can we open the presents now?" Sara asked impatiently.
"Yes, ready, steady, go!" said Lorelai, and the kids ran to the tree and started to unwrap their presents. The adults just waited and watched them ripping off the paper and screaming in delight whenever they saw what was inside the package.
Lorelai had always been just as bad as the kids, running to the tree and ripping off the paper, but this year she sat beside Luke on the couch, her arms wrapped around one of his arms and her head lying on his shoulder while she watched the kids.
"Ready, steady, go!" yelled Lorelai and ran to the tree, the kids and Rory following her. The twins were still a bit clumsy on their feet and they looked like they would topple over any second, while William with his two years was running behind his mother.
But while the twins just tumbled on the floor in front of the presents and Rory and Lorelai were already playfully fighting over a present, William couldn't stop.
He was too fast and his legs just kept moving. Luke, who sat on the couch saw what was happening and called out.
"Lorelai", he yelled, but it was too late. William crashed head first into the Christmas-tree, which slowly fell and buried Lorelai, Rory and the twins under it, while William was lying on top of it.
Luke could here the screams and then all 4 heads popped out between the twigs, covered with tilt and William looking flustered around him. Luke started to laugh so hard he had to sit down on the couch.
"You dork, come over here and get that tree off of us!" Lorelai screeched, but Luke couldn't get up.
"Daddy!" Sara yammered and started to pout, while Laila was already crying. Slowly Luke stood up and walked over to the small table where Lorelai had put the camera.
"Oh no, you wouldn't" she screamed, nut Luke was already taking pictures from every angle while he was still laughing. Then he put the camera aside and pulled out the twins from the twigs and sat them on the floor before he got William off the tree and pulled Lorelai to her feet.
"You meanie! You are so not getting lucky tonight mister!" she said and slapped his chest before she started laughing and hugged him.
"Don't you wanna go and open your presents?" Luke whispered in her ear .
"I already got mine", she whispered back. Luke didn't reply, he just placed a kiss on her temple and smiled.
"Hey that is mine!" William suddenly yelled and pulled a gift out of Sara's hands.
"No, you're lying!" yelled Sara back and tried to get the gift back.
"Take your hands off. You destroyed my present, you stupid, ugly girl" William yelled back and slapped her hands away and Sara started to cry.
"William, stop it!" Luke said and stood up.
"She unwrapped my gift. I wanted to unwrap it" William was now crying also.
"That is no reason to hit and insult your sister. She didn't do it on purpose" Luke said and took the half unwrapped puzzle out of William's hands.
"She did too! Stupid ugly frog Sara" William whined.
"I am not!" yelled Sara and ran to her mother, who pulled her in her lap.
"That's enough. You will go and apologize right now or Christmas is over for you" Luke threatened, but William only stomped his foot on the ground and yelled "no" as loudly as he could.
"Now" Luke said and pointed to Sara.
"No!" William yelled even louder.
"Upstairs, right now. You will go into your room and think about your behaviour. And trust me when I say that we won't accept it." Luke told William.
"I don't go up there" William shot back and threw himself on the floor.
"Don't make me bring you, cause then you'll stay up there until dinner" Luke said.
"You can't bring me, you can't even walk" William yelled and started to kick into Luke's direction. Luke, now really angry by William's behaviour, grabbed him by one arm and one leg and made his way up the stairs without crutches for the first time. He didn't even realize it until he had put William on the floor in his room and walked back down the stairs.
"Seems like finally everyone is back to normal", Lorelai grinned when Luke sat down next to her with a sigh.
"Yeah, but this more mature version of our son somehow grew on me", Luke said and pulled Lila in his lap.
"He'll be mature soon enough and then we really want this Will back, believe me", Lorelai grinned and gave Luke a quick kiss to show him, that she was supporting him in this though.
"Uhm, speaking of mature and stuff… we have an announcement to make" Rory suddenly broke the silence that had followed. Everybody looked at Rory and Logan curiously.
"We are getting married" Logan smiled happily and pulled Rory to him. Emily and Richard immediately rushed over and congratulated the couple, while Luke, Lorelai and the twins remained sitting on the couch.
Luke looked at Lorelai and saw the shocked expression on Lorelai's face. When Lorelai looked at him, he saw the question in her eyes: Did they hear correctly? Luke also wasn't sure.
"Oh happy day", Lorelai said sarcastically to Luke and hugged Sara to her before she realized that all eyes were on her and Luke now.
TBC