Because I can´t see your reviews for chapter 23, I can´´t answer them, maybe it´s gonna work after I published this one? I don´t know, but at the moment I really have some problems with ff: I can´t see the reviews for chapter 23, I don´t get any more story alerts... very strange! I hope you can see this chapter!

Chapter 24: The answer

A week later Lorelai had her first official appointment with her doctor. She still hadn´t asked Luke to come with her. She had told him about the appointment and had hoped that he would offer to come with her, but he hadnt. But she didn´t want to go alone.

An hour before the appointment she walked into the diner, Will in his stroller.

"Luke? Luuuke!" she yelled and sat on a stool in front of the counter.

"Oh, hi! Don´t you have.. you know.. a "meeting"!" he asked, careful that nobody listened. They hadn´t told anyone but Rory about the pregnancy yet.

"Yeah, youre right. But I thought maybe you could... come with me?" she asked quickly and held her breath, waiting for his answer.

"Cesar, you´re on duty. I take a break, I don´t know when I will be back" he yelled into the kitchen and threw the towel in his hands on the counter, before he walked around it.

"Let´s go!" he simply said and wanted to walk out of the diner when he heard Patty´s voice.

"Well, well, dolls ... you´re gonna make a nice family trip?" she asked curiously.

"Yeah something like that!" Luke grumbled and placed a hand on Lorelais small back to signalise her that she should walk outside.

Before they drove to Hartford, they stopped at their house, that Luke could change his clothes, and then finally left.

They were ten minutes late, and already awaited when they arrived. They were the last patients for that day. Lorelai asked one of the nurses if she could have an eye on Will before she walked into the examination-room. Luke hesitated to walk in, but she grabbed his hand and pulled him in.

"Well, you told me already on the phone that you decided against the abortion. Have you calmed down a bit and adjusted to the fact that you might get twins?" the doctor asked her.

"I think so. We still have a lot to figure out, but I think I even would be disappointed if you tell me today that there´s just one in here" Lorelai said and shot Luke a small smile and he squeezed her hand, which he still held.

"Well, then let´s see if I was right. I will at first do some general examinations and afterwards the ultrasound, if that´s okay with you?"

"Sure" Lorelai just said.

"Then please change into that gown over there and then lye down on that stool, you already know how it works" the doctor smiled.

"So, everything looks fine here. You can lye down there and I´ll do the ultrasound." the doctor told her after the first examinations. She stood up and did like she told her. The gel was as cold as she remembered it. The doctor was sitting on her right side, Luke stood on her left, his arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Here we go" the doctor said and turned on the sound . Lorelai heard the heartbeat. Heartbeats, cause there was more than one. And instead of at the monitor she looked at Luke. His face softened by the sounds and he uncrossed his arms. He was stunned for some moments, then looked at Lorelai. Their eyes met and both had tears in their eyes. Luke kneeled down and placed a kiss on her forehead, and then took her hands. She laced her fingers through his and then kissed him on his cheek. They both held back the tears and then looked on the monitor. The doctor had waited, witnessing the scene between them and now started to explain.

"Maybe you already heard it, but there is definitely more than one baby. You´re getting twins. My congratulations." she said and then showed them the points on the screen which were their kids.

After Lorelai had re-dressed they walked outside the doctors office, Luke with William on his arm, Lorelai pushing the empty stroller with one hand, because with the other she again held Luke´s left one. Lorelai felt happy and for some moments she forgot that there was still this huge question standing between them. She felt like flying.

But in the evening when she lay in their bed, alone, she was puled back down to earth in a very unpleasant way and she cried herself to sleep, feeling lonely again.

The next morning, Luke just wanted to leave for the diner, he heard Lorelai calling him, she was crying, he could hear it. He hurried up the stairs and when he arrived in the bedroom she was standing in front of the mirror, just in a bra and open jeans. And he had been right, she was crying.

"Lorelai what´s wrong?" he asked her and leaned against the door-frame,but he had an idea where this was heading.

"Look at me! I´m fat. These two are growing by the second. Yesterday I could close my jeans, and today? No way! Soon I will be so fat that I can´t walk anymore. I have nothing to wear. And everybody will see it. And they will talk and the news will be all over the town and my parents will know... god my parents. Why did I call you? You should go! I don´t want you to see me like this. I´m fat and ugly with a swollen, wet face. And I feel like throwing up because I have no more tablets, and without them I´m throwing up all day..." Luke thought this was enough and he walked to her and hugged her. She was sobbing against his shoulder and she didn´t seem to calm down. So he lifted her up and carried her towards the bed, sitting down on it and placing her in his lap.

"See, here we are in our bed again, because you´re feeling sorry for me. And...and I can´t stop crying... stupid hormones... and I can understand you that you don´t want to sleep in a bed with me...cause I´m crying all the time... every night...and that makes me ugly... and now I´m getting fat and even more ugly if that´s possible... maybe you should turn the guest bed-room into your own..." she sobbed.

"Lorelai, stop it!" he interrupted her a bit harsh, but he couldn´t let her talking about herself like that.

"I don´t know what you are seeing when you look into that mirror, but all I can see is my beautiful wife standing there crying, just in her bra and some open jeans and is looking so incredible. You are pregnant, darling. And that includes that your jeans won´t close anymore, you know that. And that has nothing to do with that I´m not sleeping in this room anymore. I thought it would be better and I thought you wanted it that way, because of what I did."

"What you did?" she sniffed

"I took Will away from you. I just left because I was angry and there is nothing I can do to change that, I just hope that you can forgive me one day" Luke told her.

"I already did. And I need you to believe me that I really want these kids. I never would have had the abortion. It was just a stupid idea..."

"I believe you" he just stated and was glad when he realised that she had stopped crying.

"Luke?" she asked after some minutes of silence.

"Yeah?"

"I think I know the answer now" she told him and he remained silent, waiting for she was going to say.

" I think it´s because you´re always so perfect and you´re doing everything for me. You´re always there and I ´m never doing anything for you. And I try ... to be perfect, but I fail, I completely fail. And every time I do that I´m asking myself when you will have enough of me and go, maybe meeting another woman, who deserves it more that you are doing all these things for her. That´s why I didn´t tell you. I thought maybe this time you would see it." she told him and wanted to stand up, but he held her back.

"You are not failing. And I already told you more than once that I won´t leave you. Look, I´m here, now. I know I left, but after these days I missed you so much that I just had to come back. And I have to say that I´m relieved that this is the only reason you didn´t tell me. Don´t doubt yourself. I hate that your mother did this to you. Come with me, I wanna show ya something!" he said and stood up and pulled on her hand so that she followed him. He walked into the nursery where William was sleeping and let the door open so that some light fell into the room. He placed Lorelai on her shoulders, so that she was standing in front of the crib. Luke slung his arms around her waist and placed his chin on her shoulder.

"Look at him. Do you remember what you said when you saw him for the first time? You asked me "Isn´t he perfect?" and I told you that he is. He is perfect because he is a part of you. And soon we will have two more and they will just be as perfect as their older brother. So don´t ever talk of a failure when you speak about our kids, okay? I know they weren´t planed, and I still have no idea how we will handle it, but when I look at you and see that you´re pregnant with my kids, I´m over the moon and I can´t wait to meet them. Actually at the moment I feel like jumping up and down and screaming that we will have twins, so that everybody knows." he told her in a gentle voice and at the end with a small grin on his face.

Then they both stared at their sleeping son until Lorelai turned around in Lukes arms. She wore a similar grin and placed her hands on his cheeks, cradling his face in her hands. She leaned in and kissed him, hesitating at first but when she felt him responding, the kiss grew more passionate. She moaned when their tongues met and he glided his hand to her waist. He broke the kiss for a second, but his hands remained where they were: one in her hair, the other on her belly.

"Not here... bedroom" he mumbled and walked backwards into their bedroom, kissing her all the time and kicked their bedroom door shut before they fell onto the bed.

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