Sooooo sorry for the wait - I have been way to busy for my own liking - I hope you will forgive me - but not forget me :-)
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Emily tried to surrender to her new in bed all day status, but it was not sitting well with the always active woman, she didn't like it one bit, in fact she hated it, but she wanted to keep the baby safe and that meant some sacrifices must be done. It had only been two days and Richard had done all he could to make sure she had everything within reach and the new maid had been instructed to go by the bedroom at least twice an hour and to call him if anything happened. The days had gone by without any trouble and Richard returned home on the second day with a smile on his face, he had had a meeting out of town this morning and had been a little worried to be that far away from home, but after a call home to have Emily ensure him that he could easily go he had done so, and when he had ended his meeting a shop window had pulled him into a store, a sweet pink teddy bear that was softer than soft, he had ended up purchasing it for the baby and to make sure Lorelai didn't feel forgotten he had bought a cute teddy bear with a t-shirt on for her. So his spirit was high as he entered the house.
"Mr. Gilmore, I called your office a couple of minutes ago." The maid said almost as an excuse
"Is something wrong?" he immediately asked, getting worried
"Well…." The maid didn't get further before they heard a door slam
"Oh, dear God – Uhm well…. thank you, Anna!" Richard said and ran up the stairs. He stopped outside Lorelai's room hesitating for a minute, wondering if he should enter or not, the second the music was turned up he decided to go to his own bedroom. He hurried down the hall and entered through the already open door only to see Emily sitting on the side of the bed, breathing deeply.
"Darling, what happened?"
"Lorelai doesn't want to go back to school, even when the baby comes." She panted out
"WHAT?" He bellowed
"She doesn't want to go back to school, she is leaving school!" Emily repeated
"I heard you my dear, it was meant as a rhetorical what, what did she say?"
"What I just told you damn it. The tutor came and she argued with him that she was pregnant, tired and didn't need him, so I called them both in here and we got into an argument, the tutor ended up saying that we could call him again when the young lady had calmed down and comes to her senses, then he left. Lorelai didn't she kept yelling that we were too controlling, she didn't want the tutor, she didn't want to be homeschooled, she didn't want all that we have set up and agreed upon, she doesn't want to go back to school or get married." Emily got to her feet and took a deep breath, Richard pulled her into a hug and rubbed her back.
"I'll go talk to her, even though I cowered out when I stopped by her door a minute ago. You get back into bed and try to calm down alright." He offered and Emily nodded, watching him leave the room.
Richard moved briskly down the hallway and simply opened the door to Lorelai's room and went inside.
"Lorelai, what is it I hear you don…"
"Have you never heard of privacy, how about knocking before entering? What if I had been naked or something else huh? I don't just burst into yours and moms' room now do I, get out!" she screamed
"You will calm down right now. I am still your father, and this is my house, therefor my rules, when you are an adult and live in your own home you can make the rules. But until then you listen to what we say." Richard spoke firmly but slightly louder than normal
"No way, I will follow some of your rules, but you can't tell me what to do all the time, you are not me. I'm tired of having to follow whatever you and mom decides is best for me, what about what I find best for me and my baby."
"And you think it will be wonderful for you and your baby when she has an uneducated mother, with no future to offer?"
"You are so full of yourself; do you know that!" Richards face went from anger to shock and back to anger again within a split-second.
"You will respect what we have planned for you, am I understood?"
"NO! I don't want to go back to school until this baby and I are ready for it, I will not marry Chris it will ruin us!"
"You will do as we say!"
"Forcing me into marriage!"
"See it as you like, I don't care, this is about what's best for my grandchild!"
"But not what is best for your daughter! I will not return to school before I'm ready to do it and if you can't accept that, fine I'll find someplace else to live!" Lorelai yelled
"You are a minor, you cannot make that kind of decisions my dear girl. Your mother and I have made arrangements for you to make this as smooth as possible for you and your baby and…"
"HA! Smooth yeah right, my mother is pregnant, you two are planning my life down to the time of day I sleep, eat, yes practically when I can use the bathroom. You want me to marry Chris and I don't want to. I don't care about your social standards or your social circle, I don't give a rat's ass to any of that crap, I told you what I want and neither of you wants to listen to me. I hate you!"
"Lorelai!" Emily said from the doorway, both Richard and Lorelai turned their heads towards her
"Emily you should be in…."
She held up a hand and looked at Lorelai "We just want what's best for you!"
"No, you don't, you want what's best for your reputation."
"Lorelai!" Emily said loudly and then she quieted
Lorelai kept looking at her mother expectantly, but nothing came. Just as she was about to throw back a dirty answer, she saw her mother look down slowly and she followed the way she looked.
"Richard, we need to go to the hospital!" Emily said just above a whisper that contrasted dramatically to the volume she had just used.
Richard was snapped out of his trance, he leapt towards her "Emily, lay down right now!" he instructed.
"No, no I need to moved downstairs now I think."
"What's happening? You peed your pants again?" Lorelai snapped
Richard turned slowly around to face his daughter "No, Lorelai, your mothers water broke, probably due to the fact that she had to argue with you and had to listen to your ranting. Now we need to go, but believe me, we are not done here!" Lorelai's eyes got wide, but she didn't want to lose momentum in this argument.
"Fine, go have a baby, I'll stay here in my tower and await my punishment!" she sat down on her bed facing away from her father slowly running her hands over her own growing belly.
Richard wanted to say something again, but he also knew that he had to get Emily to the hospital, so he left his daughters room with a slam of the door. He caught up with Emily at the bottom of the stairs and took hold of her arm to support her. He called for the maid who came instantly, looking horrified at the Gilmore couple.
"Yes sir?"
"Go out and drive the car up to the front door, I need to call the hospital, and just leave the engine running then get back in here." The woman grabbed the car keys he was holding out to her and ran off. Richard started easing Emily into the chair besides the staircase, but just before she touched the seat, a contraction ripped through her and she rose back up quickly, crying out. Richard got worried right away and reached out for the phone with one hand and held onto Emily's arm with the other, both adults were unaware of Lorelai on the stairs as she looked at them with a worried frown, before she moved back upstairs.
"...we'll be there in ten minutes!" Richard said before he hung up the phone. "Joshua is being paged at the moment and he should be there when we get to the hospital – are you ready to go?"
Emily sobbed "I…. I…. I can't…. can't believe this…. I really tried Richard!"
"I know you did, darling, please don't burden yourself with this – If Lorelai had…."
"NO! This has nothing to do with Lorelai – she has enough on her mind!" Emily straightened up "We need to leave now!" and she moved past the maid at the door and out into the waiting car, Richard just stood there looking after her for a small period of time before he suddenly moved, he stopped by the maid and gave her short instructions towards Lorelai and ended with telling her to look out for the teenager. Then he ran to the car and they speed of.
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So the baby is on it's way - Did you like this chapter? I loved writing this - leave me a little word :-)
