Title: It All Starts With A Kiss
Chapter Eight: The Road Trip To TV Land: Chicago: Part Two
A/N: Okay, hopefully this chapter will be the end of Chicago, and soon we can make it to New York. There's something very important that will happen in New York, and something very important will happen in Chicago. Have a fun time reading this!
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"Off we go to ask for Dr. Kovac!" Lorelai said as she, Rory, Jess and Luke walked out of the church.
"No, Mom, we're going to check in and unpack first."
"Aww." Lorelai pouted.
"No, Mom, no pouting! We're going to go check in to the hotel and unpack and get all situated, and then we can make up fake complaints and go to the hospital."
"Fine."
Walking behind the girls, Luke muttered to Jess, "Only a Gilmore could get excited about going to a hospital."
"Amen to that."
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"Got that? It's heavy?"
"I got it, I got it." Rory stumbled under the weight of her mother's large trunk. "Whoa! It's heavy!"
"That's why I said 'it's heavy.'"
"Yeah, thanks, Jess, I couldn't get that."
"What's she got in there, anyway?"
"Swimsuits, rainboots, sewing mannequins, anvils, whatever."
"Yeah, sure." Jess just nodded, not even trying to figure out the swimsuits in November; after all, it was Lorelai Gilmore. Rory set down the trunk and just stood for a minute, trying to get the feeling back in her arms. As Jess reached into the trunk to get another bag, Luke and Lorelai walked out of the hotel, card keys in their hands.
"Let's get the party started!!!" Lorelai yelled as she walked up to them. Jess, surprised, spun around quickly. The bag in his hands went flying as he fell on Lorelai's trunk. He and the trunk both collapsed on the ground, falling on Rory's foot. Jess's arm smashed against the pavement. Rory reached out and grabbed her mother's hand. Hard. In a matter of seconds, it looked like Jess had broken his left arm, Rory had broken her right foot, and Lorelai had broken a few fingers.
"Well," Luke said, surveying the disaster area, "looks like you won't have to make up complaints."
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"Gilmore?" A nurse looked around the waiting room.
"That's me!" Lorelai said, springing up. "Or her."
Rory feebly raised her hand from her seat.
"Which name does it say?" Lorelai asked.
"Uh...Lorelai." The nurse glanced at the chart.
"Great, thanks. That could also be both of us. What's the middle name?"
"Victoria."
"Yeah, that's me." Lorelai grabbed Luke with her good hand, and he caught her purse as Rory threw it to him. Lorelai waved and they followed the nurse into an exam room.
"Okay, here we are."
"Lemme guess," Lorelai looked around the tiny room in relation to the rest of the ER. "Exam room...one?"
"Big 'ER' fan?"
Lorelai nodded emphatically.
"Yes, this is exam room one. We had to change the layout of the Emergency Room a few years ago because big TV watchers were wandering into unauthorized areas."
"Good thing you waited till now to come, Lorelai." Luke said. "She's just the kind of person who would do that."
"Luke!" Lorelai hit him on his shoulder.
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"Mariano and Gilmore?"
"Oh, that's us!" Rory said. Jess stood up and offered his other shoulder to Rory. She gladly took it and they slowly followed the nurse. She led them to a curtain area, and Jess helped Rory onto the bed before hopping up.
"You guys make a cute couple." The nurse said, looking at Rory resting her head on Jess's shoulder, their fingers intertwined and resting on the bed.
"Thanks." Rory smiled.
"Okay, so, complaints?"
"I fell on top of her mother's damn trunk-"
"and they both fell on my foot-"
"and my arm smashed against the pavement." Jess pulled the towel on his arm slightly away; the nurse winced at the blood.
"Okay, well, we'll get a doctor to check on you as soon as we can. I'll be right back." The nurse smiled and walked away.
"We're pitiful." Jess said.
"Yep, full of pity are we."
Jess started laughing.
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"So you think you broke a couple fingers?" A charismatic doctor asked as he walked into exam room one, a very nervous-looking medical student cowering behind him.
"Yeah, that's right. My daughter crushed my hand." Lorelai looked pitifully at Luke for sympathy. He gave it, rubbing her back with his hand and murmuring it was going to be okay. She rested her head on his shoulder.
"Okay, so we'll take an X-ray to see. But before we send you to radiology, is there any possibility of you being pregnant?"
Lorelai hesitated, looked at Luke, and then answered.
"Yes."
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"Okay, we're gonna stitch you up, Mr. Mariano, while Ms. Gilmore is in radiology, and then we'll send you."
"Great." Jess and Rory answered simultaneously.
"Matthew, I'm taking Ms. Gilmore to radiology. You, grab a nurse and stitch up Mr. Mariano here. When you're finished, bring him to radiology."
"Yes, ma'am, Dr. Globe."
"I told you, don't call me ma'am! I'm only two years older than you!"
The medical student nodded as the doctor started wheeling Rory to the elevator.
"Men just don't get it."
"Yeah."
"How'd the two of you get so banged up, anyway?"
"Oh, he fell on top of my mother's trunk, and they both fell on top of me."
"Ouch." The elevator's doors opened and the two women entered the elevator. "Oh, before I forget to ask, is there any possibility you might be pregnant?"
Rory thought.
"Yeah."
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Lorelai had been taken to radiology, and with a very large lead blanket covering most of her body, she'd gotten her hand X-rayed. On the request of Luke, the doctor'd ordered a pregnancy test, and now the couple was sitting tensely on the hospital bed, just waiting.
"Do you really think you're pregnant?"
"I don't know. Maybe."
"Well, have you felt any of the...symptoms?"
"Luke, there's not really symptoms. It's not the flu."
"Oh. But I thought you threw up and...stuff."
"Sometimes. If I am pregnant, though, I haven't really had enough time to get..." Lorelai searched for a word, but then gave up. "Symptoms."
"Oh."
"What are we gonna do if I am?"
"Tell the kids, I guess."
"And my parents. Crap, my parents. They're gonna be happy about this. 'Oh, Lorelai's pregnant again, and still not married.'" Lorelai sighed and leaned into Luke. He hesitantly lifted his hand and rubbed her shoulder.
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Rory'd gotten her foot X-ray...and a pregnancy test. She hadn't told Jess. She'd wait to tell him if it was positive. Which it might very well be. Jess had gotten three stitches in his elbow, and then he'd gotten it X-rayed. Now they were stretched out on the hospital bed, waiting for the results. Rory kept thinking about the fact that she might be pregnant, and when the baby had been conceived, if in fact it had. It would have been about two weeks ago.
She'd gone to Hartford for what she'd thought was a routine Saturday night dinner at the elder Gilmore residence. She'd driven up at six-thirty and was greeted by an empty house. She'd called her mother, who'd pitifully answered the phone. Rory learned that her mother was sick with some kind of stomach flu, and her grandparents had flown to Europe for a funeral. All alone in Hartford, she'd gone ahead to her meeting with Jess, mentioning she was all alone for the night. They'd visited Richard and Emily's house because Jess had never seen it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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"You have, in fact, broken one finger. You see this tiny line on your pinky?" The doctor pointed to the X-ray, and Lorelai squinted at it and nodded. "That's a hairline fracture. We're gonna put a cast on your hand and finger, and that's gonna need to stay on for about six weeks."
"Okay."
"What about the pregnancy test?" Luke asked.
"Oh, we haven't gotten the results on it yet. David, start on Ms. Gilmore's cast. I'll be right back." The doctor nodded to his medical student and exited the exam room.
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"Well, you're both broken." Dr. Globe said to Jess and Rory. "You both need casts, and you need crutches." She pointed at Rory. Rory nodded. "Oh, and congratulations."
"On what?" Jess asked, confused, as all of the color drained from Rory's face.
"The pregnancy test was positive. You're having a baby. After we get the casts on, we can perform an ultrasound. Okay?"
"Okay." Rory meekly forced out, as Jess just stared at her.
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"Oh, that feels weird." Lorelai moved her hand around, getting accustomed to her new cast. "Feel how heavy it is." She dropped it into Luke's lap.
"Oof! That's heavy."
"I know. Just think, I have to live with this for six weeks. Now I know how Rory felt. She's broken both arms, you know."
"Uh-huh."
"Yep, one I caused, and one Jess caused. Well, now she's caused me a broken finger, so I guess we're even."
"Yeah."
"Do you know how I broke her arm? It's actually really funny. You see, it was around the time I broke my leg, except I broke her arm first. I was practicing yoga in the living room, and she was watching TV, and I was envisioning the class and the bratty lady who sat next to me, and I just came down on top of her. Isn't that funny?"
"Yep."
"Luke, are you listening to me?"
"What? Of course."
"What'd I just say?"
"You asked if I was listening to you."
"Before that."
"Uh, you were babbling about how much you like to watch TV and do yoga."
Lorelai made a sound like a buzzer. "Wrong! Why aren't you listening to me?"
"I'm just...thinking."
"About what?"
"About babies."
"Oh." And with that, Lorelai grew silent.
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"This is really uncomfortable."
"You know, I've had two of those before. Let me tell you, they are not fun."
"What's not fun?"
"A broken arm."
"I agree. I'm sure a broken foot isn't fun either."
"Not really. Although, I can use it as an excuse when Mom sends me to get something for her."
"Oh, that's always good."
"Yeah."
There was a pause.
"Hey, what are we gonna do?" Jess asked.
"About what?"
"The baby."
"Oh."
The two teenagers lapsed into silence. All of a sudden there was a commotion at the doors to the ambulance bay. Two doctors and a nurse ran to meet the paramedics, and they wheeled in a woman on a gurney. A very familiar man was running after the entourage.
"Nineteen-year-old female, B.P. eighty over fifty, pulse one twenty. Multiple contusions to all extremities, and a sonofabitch head laceration." A paramedic said as they ran down the hall.
"She just fell down the stairs. I don't know how it happened."
"Who's that?" A doctor asked.
"Her boyfriend." the paramedic answered.
"I love you, Beth. I love you with all my heart." The boyfriend said tearfully as they wheeled Beth into a trauma room. He turned around with his head down, and when he looked up he looked straight into Rory's eyes. She turned away from her ex-boyfriend and buried her face in Jess's shoulder.
"He beat her. I can't believe Dean beat his girlfriend."
"He's a bastard. You're lucky the two of you broke up when you did."
"I love you."
"I love you too. You're the best thing that ever happened to me."
"You, too. For me."
Jess kissed Rory and glared at Dean.
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"Well, Ms. Gilmore, your pregnancy test results are back."
"Oh, thank you David, but where's the doctor?"
"I'm gonna be a doctor in less than a year."
"Yeah, eight months." Lorelai snorted.
"Look, do you want the results or not?"
"Yes! Yes, we want the results. Ms. Gilmore will be shutting up now." Luke shot a look at Lorelai.
"Okay," David said, "but I won't say the results if she says another word."
Lorelai pantomined locking her mouth and throwing the key away.
"Now then, the test was positive. Do you want an ultrasound?"
"Sure!" Lorelai said mock-cheerfully. Luke was too shocked to say anything.
"Okay, I'm gonna go get the portable ultrasound. Don't go anywhere!"
"We won't!" Lorelai smiled until he walked out of the room. "Okay, we're leaving. Where's my purse?"
"Wait, aren't we gonna get an ultrasound?"
"No, we're leaving. I wanna get out of this place. Where the hell's my purse?!"
"Stop worrying about the purse! Don't you want to see if the baby's okay?"
"We can always see that later! I wanna....I don't want to think about it right now, okay?"
"Alright."
"There's my purse."
"Okay, let's go."
"Okay."
They exited the exam room and walked to the curtain area that Luke had seen Rory and Jess in earlier.
"Hey! You ready to go?" Lorelai asked.
"Uh, actually we're waiting on an-" Jess got interrupted by Rory hitting him on the shin with one of her crutches.
"We sure are!" Rory said.
"Okay, let's go!" They signed out, and as they walked out of Cook County General Hospital, Rory and Lorelai whispered to Jess and Luke the same thing.
"We're not gonna tell them right now."
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A/N: Okay, I've already gotten two reviews, and let me just say: Hospitals mix up tests sometimes. In other words, one person is pregnant; the other is not. Neither have had ultrasounds; therefore, they don't know for sure that they have a baby. Just wait and see!
Chapter Eight: The Road Trip To TV Land: Chicago: Part Two
A/N: Okay, hopefully this chapter will be the end of Chicago, and soon we can make it to New York. There's something very important that will happen in New York, and something very important will happen in Chicago. Have a fun time reading this!
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"Off we go to ask for Dr. Kovac!" Lorelai said as she, Rory, Jess and Luke walked out of the church.
"No, Mom, we're going to check in and unpack first."
"Aww." Lorelai pouted.
"No, Mom, no pouting! We're going to go check in to the hotel and unpack and get all situated, and then we can make up fake complaints and go to the hospital."
"Fine."
Walking behind the girls, Luke muttered to Jess, "Only a Gilmore could get excited about going to a hospital."
"Amen to that."
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"Got that? It's heavy?"
"I got it, I got it." Rory stumbled under the weight of her mother's large trunk. "Whoa! It's heavy!"
"That's why I said 'it's heavy.'"
"Yeah, thanks, Jess, I couldn't get that."
"What's she got in there, anyway?"
"Swimsuits, rainboots, sewing mannequins, anvils, whatever."
"Yeah, sure." Jess just nodded, not even trying to figure out the swimsuits in November; after all, it was Lorelai Gilmore. Rory set down the trunk and just stood for a minute, trying to get the feeling back in her arms. As Jess reached into the trunk to get another bag, Luke and Lorelai walked out of the hotel, card keys in their hands.
"Let's get the party started!!!" Lorelai yelled as she walked up to them. Jess, surprised, spun around quickly. The bag in his hands went flying as he fell on Lorelai's trunk. He and the trunk both collapsed on the ground, falling on Rory's foot. Jess's arm smashed against the pavement. Rory reached out and grabbed her mother's hand. Hard. In a matter of seconds, it looked like Jess had broken his left arm, Rory had broken her right foot, and Lorelai had broken a few fingers.
"Well," Luke said, surveying the disaster area, "looks like you won't have to make up complaints."
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"Gilmore?" A nurse looked around the waiting room.
"That's me!" Lorelai said, springing up. "Or her."
Rory feebly raised her hand from her seat.
"Which name does it say?" Lorelai asked.
"Uh...Lorelai." The nurse glanced at the chart.
"Great, thanks. That could also be both of us. What's the middle name?"
"Victoria."
"Yeah, that's me." Lorelai grabbed Luke with her good hand, and he caught her purse as Rory threw it to him. Lorelai waved and they followed the nurse into an exam room.
"Okay, here we are."
"Lemme guess," Lorelai looked around the tiny room in relation to the rest of the ER. "Exam room...one?"
"Big 'ER' fan?"
Lorelai nodded emphatically.
"Yes, this is exam room one. We had to change the layout of the Emergency Room a few years ago because big TV watchers were wandering into unauthorized areas."
"Good thing you waited till now to come, Lorelai." Luke said. "She's just the kind of person who would do that."
"Luke!" Lorelai hit him on his shoulder.
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"Mariano and Gilmore?"
"Oh, that's us!" Rory said. Jess stood up and offered his other shoulder to Rory. She gladly took it and they slowly followed the nurse. She led them to a curtain area, and Jess helped Rory onto the bed before hopping up.
"You guys make a cute couple." The nurse said, looking at Rory resting her head on Jess's shoulder, their fingers intertwined and resting on the bed.
"Thanks." Rory smiled.
"Okay, so, complaints?"
"I fell on top of her mother's damn trunk-"
"and they both fell on my foot-"
"and my arm smashed against the pavement." Jess pulled the towel on his arm slightly away; the nurse winced at the blood.
"Okay, well, we'll get a doctor to check on you as soon as we can. I'll be right back." The nurse smiled and walked away.
"We're pitiful." Jess said.
"Yep, full of pity are we."
Jess started laughing.
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"So you think you broke a couple fingers?" A charismatic doctor asked as he walked into exam room one, a very nervous-looking medical student cowering behind him.
"Yeah, that's right. My daughter crushed my hand." Lorelai looked pitifully at Luke for sympathy. He gave it, rubbing her back with his hand and murmuring it was going to be okay. She rested her head on his shoulder.
"Okay, so we'll take an X-ray to see. But before we send you to radiology, is there any possibility of you being pregnant?"
Lorelai hesitated, looked at Luke, and then answered.
"Yes."
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"Okay, we're gonna stitch you up, Mr. Mariano, while Ms. Gilmore is in radiology, and then we'll send you."
"Great." Jess and Rory answered simultaneously.
"Matthew, I'm taking Ms. Gilmore to radiology. You, grab a nurse and stitch up Mr. Mariano here. When you're finished, bring him to radiology."
"Yes, ma'am, Dr. Globe."
"I told you, don't call me ma'am! I'm only two years older than you!"
The medical student nodded as the doctor started wheeling Rory to the elevator.
"Men just don't get it."
"Yeah."
"How'd the two of you get so banged up, anyway?"
"Oh, he fell on top of my mother's trunk, and they both fell on top of me."
"Ouch." The elevator's doors opened and the two women entered the elevator. "Oh, before I forget to ask, is there any possibility you might be pregnant?"
Rory thought.
"Yeah."
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Lorelai had been taken to radiology, and with a very large lead blanket covering most of her body, she'd gotten her hand X-rayed. On the request of Luke, the doctor'd ordered a pregnancy test, and now the couple was sitting tensely on the hospital bed, just waiting.
"Do you really think you're pregnant?"
"I don't know. Maybe."
"Well, have you felt any of the...symptoms?"
"Luke, there's not really symptoms. It's not the flu."
"Oh. But I thought you threw up and...stuff."
"Sometimes. If I am pregnant, though, I haven't really had enough time to get..." Lorelai searched for a word, but then gave up. "Symptoms."
"Oh."
"What are we gonna do if I am?"
"Tell the kids, I guess."
"And my parents. Crap, my parents. They're gonna be happy about this. 'Oh, Lorelai's pregnant again, and still not married.'" Lorelai sighed and leaned into Luke. He hesitantly lifted his hand and rubbed her shoulder.
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Rory'd gotten her foot X-ray...and a pregnancy test. She hadn't told Jess. She'd wait to tell him if it was positive. Which it might very well be. Jess had gotten three stitches in his elbow, and then he'd gotten it X-rayed. Now they were stretched out on the hospital bed, waiting for the results. Rory kept thinking about the fact that she might be pregnant, and when the baby had been conceived, if in fact it had. It would have been about two weeks ago.
She'd gone to Hartford for what she'd thought was a routine Saturday night dinner at the elder Gilmore residence. She'd driven up at six-thirty and was greeted by an empty house. She'd called her mother, who'd pitifully answered the phone. Rory learned that her mother was sick with some kind of stomach flu, and her grandparents had flown to Europe for a funeral. All alone in Hartford, she'd gone ahead to her meeting with Jess, mentioning she was all alone for the night. They'd visited Richard and Emily's house because Jess had never seen it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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"You have, in fact, broken one finger. You see this tiny line on your pinky?" The doctor pointed to the X-ray, and Lorelai squinted at it and nodded. "That's a hairline fracture. We're gonna put a cast on your hand and finger, and that's gonna need to stay on for about six weeks."
"Okay."
"What about the pregnancy test?" Luke asked.
"Oh, we haven't gotten the results on it yet. David, start on Ms. Gilmore's cast. I'll be right back." The doctor nodded to his medical student and exited the exam room.
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"Well, you're both broken." Dr. Globe said to Jess and Rory. "You both need casts, and you need crutches." She pointed at Rory. Rory nodded. "Oh, and congratulations."
"On what?" Jess asked, confused, as all of the color drained from Rory's face.
"The pregnancy test was positive. You're having a baby. After we get the casts on, we can perform an ultrasound. Okay?"
"Okay." Rory meekly forced out, as Jess just stared at her.
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"Oh, that feels weird." Lorelai moved her hand around, getting accustomed to her new cast. "Feel how heavy it is." She dropped it into Luke's lap.
"Oof! That's heavy."
"I know. Just think, I have to live with this for six weeks. Now I know how Rory felt. She's broken both arms, you know."
"Uh-huh."
"Yep, one I caused, and one Jess caused. Well, now she's caused me a broken finger, so I guess we're even."
"Yeah."
"Do you know how I broke her arm? It's actually really funny. You see, it was around the time I broke my leg, except I broke her arm first. I was practicing yoga in the living room, and she was watching TV, and I was envisioning the class and the bratty lady who sat next to me, and I just came down on top of her. Isn't that funny?"
"Yep."
"Luke, are you listening to me?"
"What? Of course."
"What'd I just say?"
"You asked if I was listening to you."
"Before that."
"Uh, you were babbling about how much you like to watch TV and do yoga."
Lorelai made a sound like a buzzer. "Wrong! Why aren't you listening to me?"
"I'm just...thinking."
"About what?"
"About babies."
"Oh." And with that, Lorelai grew silent.
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"This is really uncomfortable."
"You know, I've had two of those before. Let me tell you, they are not fun."
"What's not fun?"
"A broken arm."
"I agree. I'm sure a broken foot isn't fun either."
"Not really. Although, I can use it as an excuse when Mom sends me to get something for her."
"Oh, that's always good."
"Yeah."
There was a pause.
"Hey, what are we gonna do?" Jess asked.
"About what?"
"The baby."
"Oh."
The two teenagers lapsed into silence. All of a sudden there was a commotion at the doors to the ambulance bay. Two doctors and a nurse ran to meet the paramedics, and they wheeled in a woman on a gurney. A very familiar man was running after the entourage.
"Nineteen-year-old female, B.P. eighty over fifty, pulse one twenty. Multiple contusions to all extremities, and a sonofabitch head laceration." A paramedic said as they ran down the hall.
"She just fell down the stairs. I don't know how it happened."
"Who's that?" A doctor asked.
"Her boyfriend." the paramedic answered.
"I love you, Beth. I love you with all my heart." The boyfriend said tearfully as they wheeled Beth into a trauma room. He turned around with his head down, and when he looked up he looked straight into Rory's eyes. She turned away from her ex-boyfriend and buried her face in Jess's shoulder.
"He beat her. I can't believe Dean beat his girlfriend."
"He's a bastard. You're lucky the two of you broke up when you did."
"I love you."
"I love you too. You're the best thing that ever happened to me."
"You, too. For me."
Jess kissed Rory and glared at Dean.
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"Well, Ms. Gilmore, your pregnancy test results are back."
"Oh, thank you David, but where's the doctor?"
"I'm gonna be a doctor in less than a year."
"Yeah, eight months." Lorelai snorted.
"Look, do you want the results or not?"
"Yes! Yes, we want the results. Ms. Gilmore will be shutting up now." Luke shot a look at Lorelai.
"Okay," David said, "but I won't say the results if she says another word."
Lorelai pantomined locking her mouth and throwing the key away.
"Now then, the test was positive. Do you want an ultrasound?"
"Sure!" Lorelai said mock-cheerfully. Luke was too shocked to say anything.
"Okay, I'm gonna go get the portable ultrasound. Don't go anywhere!"
"We won't!" Lorelai smiled until he walked out of the room. "Okay, we're leaving. Where's my purse?"
"Wait, aren't we gonna get an ultrasound?"
"No, we're leaving. I wanna get out of this place. Where the hell's my purse?!"
"Stop worrying about the purse! Don't you want to see if the baby's okay?"
"We can always see that later! I wanna....I don't want to think about it right now, okay?"
"Alright."
"There's my purse."
"Okay, let's go."
"Okay."
They exited the exam room and walked to the curtain area that Luke had seen Rory and Jess in earlier.
"Hey! You ready to go?" Lorelai asked.
"Uh, actually we're waiting on an-" Jess got interrupted by Rory hitting him on the shin with one of her crutches.
"We sure are!" Rory said.
"Okay, let's go!" They signed out, and as they walked out of Cook County General Hospital, Rory and Lorelai whispered to Jess and Luke the same thing.
"We're not gonna tell them right now."
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A/N: Okay, I've already gotten two reviews, and let me just say: Hospitals mix up tests sometimes. In other words, one person is pregnant; the other is not. Neither have had ultrasounds; therefore, they don't know for sure that they have a baby. Just wait and see!