Hey everybody! I know it's been a while, but this work is nearing its end with biiiiig steps. And the little experimeter in me wants to play a little, so I' am posting this simultaneously with a new Chapter for Life happens. Hehe, let's see who's winning, since last month LHWYMP beat WASAN concerning clicks...
Have fun!
Eve
Chapter 53: Welcome!
Luke sighed deeply as he parked the truck in front of the hospital a week later, throwing his wife a look.
"We're there", he said, watching the building in front of him as if he was being lead to the scaffold.
"Yeah, you know, that's where you have babies, they built a room for it, and you don't have to clean up the mess you made", Lorelai joked while working to unbuckle her seatbelt, receiving another you are nuts look from her husband.
"Come on Luke, we'll be there for one or two hours, say hello to the twins and then we'll be off again." The seatbelt finally gave up its fight and Lorelai reached for the door handle.
Luke took another deep breath before stopping her.
"Wait a sec, it's icy out there", he said, before getting out and stepping around the car, opening the door for his wife.
"Uh, how knight in shining armor of you", Lorelai smiled, pecking his lips before getting out of the car, which was a rather complicated task due to her roundness and her back that today had decided to trouble her just a little more than usually.
"God, I cannot wait until I can see my feet again. Am I at least wearing socks of the same color? Shoes that actually belong together?"
"You made me hold up six pairs of different winter boots before you decided on wearing these ankle booties, and why do I know what ankle botties are?!" the Diner man exclaimed.
Rory's light blue Prius pulled up to the parking lot, which had Lorelai ignore him while she was busy waving at her daughter.
Locking the doors of the truck Luke also briefly waved at the other car.
"Remind me to ask Zack why this couldn't wait until they were home again", Luke grouched as he watched his step daughter park her car right next to them.
The women were cooing over the two baby boys for over half an hour now, while Luke, Zack and Jess were sitting in a corner of the room. The musician looked completely exhausted as if he had born both kids instead of fainting at the first sight of one of his sons and staying unconscious until everything was over.
"Oh god, we will never ever again have time alone… I think she doesn't even know anymore who I am", Zack whined as he watched Lane in the hospital bed, Lorelai on one of the chairs right next to the bed, holding Kwan.
Lane was just making Rory promise to be the Lorelai for her children while Rory was admiring little Steve.
"You should have thought of that before knocking her up, Van Gerbig", Jess absentmindedly retorted, his eyes focused on Doula in his arms who was playing catch with his fingers. Luke threw him an amused smirk that he didn't see because he was so absorbed by the baby.
Zack was just opening his mouth to retort something insulting about Jess' little instant family when there was another knock on the door.
Brian rushed into the room, almost hyperventilating because he had already missed the first five hours in the twins' lives.
"Thank god we're out of that psych ward."
It was Rory who finally expressed what all of them had been thinking.
It didn't take long for Mrs. Kim and family to arrive, after Brian had burst through the door, and she was furious because her bible circle had been taking place when her grandchildren were born. Somehow, though, she still managed to bring the entire frickin' bible circle along. Since the room was getting overcrowded, it was the perfect excuse to leave.
"You know, I like Lane… I'm just not quite sure what she's been smoking when she chose that guy to be the love of her life", Jess added, removing the baby seat from their brand-new trolley to put a sleeping Doula in the back of their car.
His fiancée swatted his arm.
"You know, there's people who are asking me exactly the same", she retorted, getting amused snorts from both Lorelai and Luke.
"Well, I know for sure that we will not inform the entire town as soon as our kids are born. It's gonna be Rory, Jess, and your parents. One would think those freaks had something else to do than drop everything and rush here… It's not like they'll keep Lane forever in the hospital, she has to go home, eventually", Luke ranted while opening the door of the truck for Lorelai and was surprised when she pecked his nose, gratefully accepting his help as she climbed into the car.
"Aw, there's my grouch again. Do you really think they informed the town? I bet either Babette or Miss Patty saw them. Stars Hollow's gossip mill is faster than lightning. You're coming over this evening, right, kids? Luke's going to cook and I was thinking of Rosemary's baby for movie night…", Lorelai asked, shifting in her seat to find a comfortable position. Maybe she should lay down again when she was at home.
This time it was Jess who was snorting.
"Preparing for the worst, huh?"
Lorelai just grinned while Luke sighed a "Better be safe than sorry."
"I swear to whatever deity that will listen, you are driving me crazy, wife! Sit down!" Luke had just started preparing dinner, he had not even fired up the oven yet.
Lorelai indeed had taken a nap when they came home, though it was not a very restful one since she could not find any position that was really comfortable. Now, she was wandering around in the kitchen like a caged animal.
"I don't want to sit. I'll never get up again if I sit down now. Did you see Steve and Kwan? They are so cute. I'm so sick of being pregnant. I want my babies. Now. Do something."
With a sigh Luke put down his knife and turned around, catching her.
"And what am I supposed to do?"
A mischievous smile appeared on Lorelai's face…
"Well… we could…"
The doorbell interrupted her, reminding her that she had invited her daughter and her nephew/son-in-law.
"Or we couldn't… would be highly inappropriate now, and actually it got us into all of this mess" she grinned, getting one of his exasperated expressions, complete with rolled eyes and everything.
At least he would have some decent help in the kitchen now and not someone who ate half of the ingredients when he had not even started on cooking.
And Lorelai had Rory to keep her occupied, and Doula to coo over.
Jess and he had just finished the sides and were starting to prepare the meat when Rory hurriedly entered the kitchen.
"OhmygodOhmygodOhmygod…"
"Ror, please tell me you didn't watch the episode from Grey's Anatomy with the gun rampage again… Both McDreamy and G.I. Joe survived, everything's fine and…", the younger man grinned while Luke did his patented eye roll. He would never get the affection of both women for this show… though he did like the dry, sarcastic wit of that one Asian doctor…
"No… No!" she threw him a searing look. "Don't joke about Owen getting shot, my heart stopped for a second. But you might want to put that meat back into the fridge."
"And we would do that because?"
"Because Mom's water just broke."
