A Dream Come True                         Chapter Seventeen                                        Keiko                   

Disclaimer: Tye went on vacay, so I've got Milo AND Deryck AND Greg…  He he he…  But that's all I own…  Tye, we've got a bit of a situation here…  JeSsFrEaK8 wants Milo 10% or 20% of the time…  Can we afford that??  And go to school??  I don't know…  I'll have to check out my daybook…  HA HA HA!!!  I'm soooooooooooo disorganized, it's not even funny!  If I had a daybook, it would be holding up my TV…  Anyhoo, maybe while we're in school…  But now that I'm in high school, my day is 30 minutes shorter…  I don't know… We have to talk about this.

Author of the Chapter: LLFOREVER  Keep writing!

Lane, of course, had rebelled from her mother the minute she turned eighteen.  Now she and Dave were happily married, and had a daughter, Keiko. 

Keiko had inherited her mother's dark hair, but her dad's light eyes.  Her black hair was usually pulled into two spiky pigtails on top of her head, held in place by hot pink hair elastics with plastic electric guitars attached to the elastics.  She was born while her parents were on their second world tour, "A Memorial to the Clash", with their band, "The We". 

That night, Lane and Dave had a gig scheduled for Stars Hollow.  Rory and Jess, of course, were planning to go.  Rory was incredibly excited, as she had not seen her friend in concert before.  Together, she and Jess got ready for the concert.  They had front-row tickets, and Lane was planning on dedicating a song to them.

When they got to the concert, Rory started to feel kind of weird, but she didn't say anything.  When Lane and the rest of the band ran onstage, Rory cheered with the rest of the crowd, but the pains in her stomach continued.  After the first set, the pain in Rory's stomach became almost unbearable. 

Jess had noticed his wife's uncomfort, but, figuring it was just heartburn, ignored it.  But, by the end of the first set, he couldn't ignore it any more. 

"Are you okay?"  He asked her, his face contorted in concern.

"I- I think my water just broke," she replied, clutching her stomach.

"Let's go, then!  Use your cell to page Lane and tell her where we've gone."  Jess led her out to the car through the mass of people throbbing their way to the stage.

Jess ushered Rory to the car, and sped away toward the nearest hospital, which, thankfully, was only in Hartford, so they reached it in ten minutes' time, due to Jess' haste to arrive.

When they reached the hospital, they were immediately checked into a room and Rory got settled down.

"This whole birth thing has its perks, you know," Rory smiled.  "I mean, besides the new kid, I get to start drinking coffee again".

Jess groaned.  "I'd forgotten about that…  Oh man.  You do know that Luke's gonna hate that kid for coming out, right?"

They both laughed until another contraction came.  Rory focused, and Jess winced…  Rory was squeezing his hand way too hard.

A/N: Sorry about the REALLY long disclaimer!!  Oh yeah, and this is going to be the last chapter for a while…  I have to write the birth yet…  Sowwy L