Before you are turning Rory in some drug-consuming kid... ; )

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Chapter 8: Mothers and daughters

"Come in!" Lorelai said after she heard a soft knock on the door.

Slowly the door opened and she saw Rory ... and Logan.

"Hello you two, come in!" she said after another second.

"Good morning Mrs. Danes. Congratulations!" Logan said with an honest smile and they shook hands. "Thank you Logan!" "Mr. Danes...Congratulations to you, too!" he turned around and greeted Luke.

While he did, Lorelai focused on Rory who just stood there behind Logan, saying nothing and staring at the floor.

Rory felt her mothers eyes on her and shook out of her daze.

"Heyyy...mom..." she said and hugged her mother, who sat on her bed, William lying in her lap.

"And you must be William. Hello little boy!" she greeted the baby, but didn´t touch him. "Or didn´t you stay with the name?" she asked then and looked at Luke, avoiding her mothers eyes.

"No, it´s William Jeremy Danes. We stayed with it!" Luke answered, but not returning Rorys fake smile.

"Rory said that you named him after your father, that´s really a great thing to do!" Logan said, also feeling the tension which slowly built up in the room.

"Yeah...um...well. He was a great man!" Luke said a little bit embarrassed and looked at Lorelai, who was staring at her son.

Then there was silence.

"Emily have you seen my newspaper?" Richard tried to start a conversation for the sixth time this morning.

"No" Emily said, but didn´t look up from her plate, which she had been staring to since the breakfast started.

Richard had enough. He stood up and walked over to the other side of the table. He took another stool out and placed it next to his wife´s and sat down.

"Emily, we both know what you did and I was very furious yesterday. But that wasn´t fair." Richard started and Emily looked up for the first time.

"I was so afraid that something could happen to Lorelai or the baby, that I couldn´t think rationally." Richard continued, before she could say something.

" If I imagine I had met her at the mall, seeing that she was pregnant without telling us anything and never returning our calls, I´m not sure how I would have reacted. No mater what happened in the past, she should have told us!" Richard finished.

" I was so shocked, Richard. Seeing her so happy when we had no contact at all hurt me. I thought maybe she would miss us a little bit and was just too proud or too angry to return our calls. And then I saw that she was pregnant and I felt like someone had hit me with a hammer on the head. I had no thoughts at all when I rushed over to her and called out her name. The smile she wore left her face the moment she heard my voice. And it hurt, Richard. It just hurt..." Emily tried to fight back her tears.

"I yelled at her and tried to hurt her, too. That she would understand what we were going through while she was walking around with that content smile on her face. But then she fell on that bench, crying because of the pain and I wanted that smile back on her face. Just wanted everything to be ok, even if I wouldn´t be a part of her life anymore. I called her Lori again. And she remembered, I´m sure she did. "

"We called her that the whole time when she was a baby." Richard smiled at the memory.

"Why did we stop, Richard? Why?" Emily lost the fight against the tears.

"She was too old to be called by a pet name all the time" Richard stated simply.

"She was three years old! Three! And she looked at me like she had lost our love when I called her Lorelai for the first time. And we never told her. I might not be responsible for her contractions, but I´m sure responsible for our relationship." Emily whipped her tears away wit the back of her hands and stood up leaving Richard alone at the breakfast table.

The silence lasted nearly a minute and all eyes were finally on Rory, but she stared at the floor, avoiding the others.

William saved her, because he started to cry. Obviously he also felt the tension in the room.

"Will, my baby. What´s up? You can´t be hungry, little boy. I just fed you twenty minutes ago." Lorelai said and cradled him against her chest. He calmed down, but still squirming like he would start to cry again any second.

Luke walked over to Lorelais bed.

"You mind if I...? he asked, reaching out for Will. Lorelai shook her head and handed him the baby.

He held William with his little head against his chest and rubbed his back while he held him.

Will yawned and Lorelai laughed when she saw it.

"Looks like somebody is tired" she said.

"Maybe we should... go then... so that he can sleep!" Rory jumped in immediately and looked at Logan.

"No, please stay. I take him and walk around with him for a while, I´m sure he´ll fall asleep soon. If I come by the cafeteria, should I bring something?" Luke asked and looked at Lorelai, who remained silent chewing on her bottom lip.

"I would like something to drink. But I come with you, and help you carry the stuff" Logan said and Luke shot him a thankful look.

"Oh, I come with you" Rory said and hurried over to the door. But Logan stopped her.

"It´s okay, Ace. I´m sure three men are enough to get something to drink. Stay with your mother. Have fun!" he said and with that Luke, William and Logan left the room.

"What should I write, Richard?" Emily asked.

"I don´t know. You write all kinds of congratulation cards all the time. What do you write normally?" he asked.

"Normally I would write some thing like " Best wishes for mother and child. Richard and Emily Gilmore", but that´s not an option this time." she said, still fidgeting with the pen in her hand.

"Why don´t you write something like "All the best wishes for William and the whole family, Emily and Richard"?" he asked a questioning look on his face.

"Oh Richard!" Emily rolled her eyes and shot him an annoyed look.

"Well, I don´t know what to write. But I´m sure you will think of something. I have to go. See you later, Emily" he said and kissed her cheek, before he left.

It took Emily another hour and three more cards, until she decided what to write. Then she placed the card on top of the gift and called for the maid.

"Angela, would you please make sure that this package will be delivered immediately to the hospital? I´m in the garden."

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Lorelai shouted when the door closed.

"I don´t know what you´re talking about! And don´t yell at me!" Rory said, looking at her mother for a second, then concentrating on the floor again.

"So you don´t ? I think I can help you! We tried for hours to get you on the phone and I´m sure you´re grandmother left more then one message on your mailbox, not to speak of the two I left you. And then you call and you´re just telling me that you won´t stop by the day you´re brother was born, not even asking if everything is fine with him or me, although you know that he came three weeks early!" Lorelai yelled, tears in her eyes.

"And now you´re standing here, staring at the floor, barely saying something. Obviously you´re boyfriend is happier about your little brother than you are! And you ask me what I´m talking about? Tell me what the hell is wrong with you, because I can´t stand this attitude at the moment and I´m not willing to let you do that to me! Can you even imagine what we went through yesterday? Let alone the pain during the birth, but I was scared that I would lose my baby and although Luke was just great, I could see the fear in his eyes when he carried me to the car. We didn´t know what was wrong when I broke down, it could have been serious, Rory. And when everything turned out fine and you should be jumping up and down of happiness all you say is "Sorry, but it´s too late I´ll stop by tomorrow, bye mom!"!"

For a second Rory just stood there, then she also started to cry and ran to her mothers bed, throwing herself into her arms.

"I´m so sorry mum! I´m so sorry. It´s just that...but I´m really sorry!" she sobbed.

"What is it Rory? Tell me! You promised to talk to me. The last time you didn´t you dropped out of Yale and I don´t want you to do stupid things again. You know you can always talk to me!" Lorelai was at first shocked when Rory threw herself into her arms, but she knew that something was wrong.

Rory took deep breath, untangled herself from her mother and sat down on the bed.

"Since you married Luke everything is so different." Rory started and Lorelai gasped at that, shocked.

" You got married and moved and I know that you asked me if I was ok with it and I said yes, but I wasn´t. I wanted you to be happy, and maybe it´s stupid, but the second you sold our house I felt like you didn´t want me in your life anymore. I screwed up so badly, first when I slept with Dean and then I stole this Yacht and dropped out of Yale. Everything you talked about was Luke and your new home, that you wanted a baby. I went back to Yale, because I wanted to, but mainly that you would be proud of me again and that you would let me back again in your life. But you just said "good" and the next second told me that you´re pregnant. I´m happy to have a little brother, I really am, but it feels like now you don´t need me anymore. You have Will now. That´s why I didn´t come yesterday, I just didn´t wanted the confirmation that I was right", Rory finished her little speech.

"I never thought that a smart kid like you could be THAT stupid at the same time! Have you lost your mind? How could you possibly think that you weren´t a part of my life anymore and that Will would take your place? I love you Rory and by telling you over and over how happy I am, I wanted you to be a part of it. I knew that something was wrong with you, but I never thought you could think something like that. Not in my worst nightmares! And you don´t need to prove me anything, because I will always be very proud of you, no matter what you do. Come here, kiddo!" Lorelai said and hugged her.

After some time she let go of her.

"Ah, and concerning the house, I never sold it. I wanted to at first, but then I couldn´t. The guys who are living in it now, just pay me rent and if we might need it someday, we can throw them out!" Lorelai joked.

"You´re pathetic!" Rory laughed and the door opened.

"We´re back!" Luke said, a sleeping William in his arms and Logan followed him with two cups of coffee and a brown bag in his hands.

"He´s so cute!" Rory squeaked. "Can I hold him?"

"Haven´t you reached you´re quantum of stupid questions today? Of course you can hold him!" Lorelai said.

Luke smiled and felt relieved,that what ever had been the problem seemed out of the way now. He placed Will in Rorys arms, careful not to wake him up.

"Hand me the camera Luke! I need to have a picture of that!" Lorelai said excitedly.

"Yes, mam!" he said, but then took the picture himself, and one more of Lorelai and her two kids on the bed.

"He suits you, Ace!" Logan said and took a sip of his coffee.

"Don´t get the wrong ideas! I won´t follow the Gilmores plans!" Rory said and winked at her mother.

"Oh... uh...no..that´s not what I meant!" Logan said embarrassed and the others started to laugh.

"That´s very nice of you to bring me some coffee!" Lorelai said and wanted to grab the other cup. But Luke was faster.

"Forget it! No way you´re drinking coffee while you´re breast feeding my son! That coffee is for Rory!" he said and handed the cup to his step-daughter.

"You are soooo mean! If it wouldn´t be my son as well, I would stop nursing him immediately and tackle Rory down to get that coffee!" Lorelai pouted.

"I know you long enough to know that this would be exactly what you would do! But this is not an option, because this little boy with the dark hair and his huge blue eyes is yours as well. We brought you something different!"

"Uuuuh... cool... I get something as well... where is it? Where is it? Give it to me! Now!" Lorelai said and started to jump up and down on the bed in her sitting position.

"Mum, stop it! You´re waking him up! Oh, and... dirty!"

Lorelai slapped her daughter playfully on the arm and placed a kiss on the forehead of the sleeping baby in Rorys arms and whispered "Sorry!" in the boys ear.

"Luke rolled his eyes and Logan handed her the brown bag, smiling about Lorelais craziness. She was really different without her parents around, Rory had been right.

"Oooooh, you bought me donuts! You´re the best husband on the whole wide world, my, pretty, handsome, Lukey!" she smirked at him.

"Geez, Lorelai... eat and shut up!" he said annoyed.

Rory and Logan both had to laugh, but when Luke looked at them with raised eyebrows they both tried to hide it.

"Not funny!" Luke told them.

Then there was a knock on the door and a second later a nurse entered the room with a huge package.

"This had been delivered for you Mrs. Danes" she said and Luke took the package and placed it on the table next to the window.

With a donut in her hand Lorelai got out of the bed and walked over to him and stepped between him and the table, so that she could open it.

"Oh!" she whispered when she recognised her mothers handwriting on the envelope on top of the package. Luke slid his arms around her waist and kissed her on the cheek.

Then Lorelai took the envelope and opened it.

TBC