Ok, so next chapter because there are a few more left and I need to finish this! Like I already said, this chapter is better again (in my opinion!). If you don´t think that way, tell me! And please review!
to Daphnetjuh: Thanks for the compliment ; ) ! Well, I still think that this wasn´ta goodchapter. Maybe also because it just wasn´t ... flowing while I wrote it, if you know what I mean. In general I know the basics what should be the result of a chapter and then start to write and then everything just... happens. But in the last two chapters it was hard because nothing... happened. But while I wrote this and especially the next one it "happened" again, so it´s all right. As long as you don´t complain...: )
to COBbabygirl89: Well, thank you. The quick updates will remain, because I want to finish this story before the 25th august!
to orangesherbert7: I think this one is better!
to LLLoveForever: I know, and I wasn´t sure if to put it in or not. But then I just couldn´t let him call her just "Lorelai" in situations that screamed for more affection. And then I thought about which word to use, because Luke would never call her "sweety" or something similar. But I only let him use that name in important situations, or at least I planed it like that. If I didn´t follow my own rule, I´m sorry. And maybe with the baby, or babies Luke becomes more open, because I think in his innerst beinghe´s a real sap!
to ProFfeSseR: I always wanted to study languages because I love learning and using them. And then I heard arabic during our holidays and I just had to learn it, so I do it. But Norway for 5 months is not that common either! Why Norway? Isn´t it REALLY cold there? (During the winter, of course!). And because you were talking about cliffhanger... at the moment I can´t find some real cliffhanger. In this chapter I could put one, but because I already did it when Lorelai had Will, I think it´s kind of stupid to use the same trick again. I just hope I´m able to finish this before I have to leave and before the next season starts!
Chapter 32: Cloning
"Where were you so long? Drinking a coffee or what?" Lorelai said when he entered the bedroom, she was dressed now and obviously waiting for him.
"No, but I needed to wake them up and tell them what happened and tell them to look after Will. And now come here" he said and picked her up.
"I can walk!" Lorelai protested.
"I carried you around the last two weeks, so don´t argue with me now, you won´t walk!" Luke told her and walked down the stairs. Rory was already waiting downstairs with the bag.
"Oh mum. I want to come to the hospital with you!" Rory said and hugged her.
"No, stay here and look after your brother. We will call you, it will be fine" Lorelai said and tried to calm Rory.
"Bye mom!" Rory said and let go of Lorelai.
"By babe!" Lorelai tried to smile, but it faded when the next contraction came.
"I see you´re still having contractions, the medicaments don´t work. It looks like your babies want to come today!" the doctor said three hours later. Lorelai lay in a hospital bed, an IV in her hand, Luke sat on the side of the bed, holding her other hand.
"It´s just the 34 week." Luke said and looked worried. Lorelai squeezed his hand.
"I know. But the chances are very good that the babies won´t have any problems after some weeks in the incubator. I mean, of course there is a risk, we talked about it two weeks ago, but with twins an early birth is always a risk. But I have to talk to you about something different"
"Why don´t I like the sound of that!" Lorelai asked.
"We have to talk about the ultrasound we did some minutes ago. I know you wanted a natural birth, but I have to tell you now that we have to make a Caesarian, for the sake of your babies."
"Why? What´s wrong?" Lorelai asked and squeezed Luke's hand even harder.
"The babies are lying with their heads in the wrong direction. They didn´t turn. And the heartbeat of one of them is getting worse. It´s not that bad yet, but we have to do something. We have to deliver them. Now!" the doctor said.
"Oh my god!" Luke mumbled and Lorelais eyes teared up.
"But it´s too early... and I don´t want a Caesarian... and we have to call Rory... and my parents. Oh god, my parents, they don´t know that I´m here... and I wanna be awake when my babies will be born... and I want them to be healthy..." Lorelai panicked and started to cry.
"You can stay awake during the Caesarian, we will give you an epidural. And we will do everything for your babies. And now try to calm down, we will pick you up in twenty minutes." the doctor said and left the room.
"Oh god, Luke!" Lorelai sobbed and Luke leaned down and hugged her. He tried to calm her and told her that everything would be all right, but inside he was as panicked as she was.
"We have to call Rory and my parents" Lorelai sniffed after some minutes. Luke walked to the night-stand and took the phone. He handed it to Lorelai and sat down on the bed again. She wiped her eyes and kissed Luke, then dialled the number.
"Hey Logan, it´s me Lorelai. Can you give me Rory? ... Rory? Hey it´s me. Listen, the contractions won´t stop and now they decided to make a Caesarian... No, no calm down, it´s just that the babies don´t lie the way they should. So can you look after Will a little longer?... Thank you! And don´t worry, everything will be fine!bye hon´! ... I love you, too!" Lorelai ended the call and took a deep breath. Then she looked at Luke who gave her a weak, but reassuring smile. Then she dialled her parents number.
"Hi, hello, this is Lorelai Danes. Can I please talk to my parents?... I know that it´s still early, but it´s very important... Thank you... Mum? Hi it´s me... what? Well, actually you could say that something is wrong! Mom I´m having contractions again and they won´t stop!" Lorelai said and started to cry again. She needed to protect and calm her daughter, but not her parents.
" And they gave me something, but it doesn´t help. And they decided that they have to deliver the babies now because something is wrong with the heartbeat... And I can´t have a normal birth.." Lorelai sobbed.
"Yeah, Rory is looking after Will... yes Luke is here... wait... Luke she wants to talk to you" Lorelai said and handed him the phone.
"Emily hi... three hours ago... no it didn´t stop them... mmh, yes... no that´s not necessary... of course it would be nice... yeah, okay... see you then!" Luke said and placed the phone back on the night-stand.
"You´re parents will pick up Rory, Will and Logan and then come over. They will also call Sookie." he told his wife and took her hand in his.
"That´s nice" Lorelai said.
"How are you feeling?" Luke asked her.
"I´m scared, Luke. Why can´t I have a normal birth? The last time it was so fast and also too early and now this. I´m so sorry!"
"There is nothing you have to be sorry about! None of this is your fault. Now try to calm down, it will be fine" Luke said and sat further on the bed and she lay her head on his chest.
"Will you come with me?" Lorelai asked after some minutes.
"Of course! I don´t let you go in there alone."
"You don´t have to, you know"
"I know, but I want to." he said and placed a kiss on her forehead.
"So, here we are again. This is doctor Sanders, he will give you the epidural and then we will bring you into the operation room. Mr. Danes you want to stay with your wife the whole time or wait outside?" the woman asked.
"I wanna come with her." Luke said and gave Lorelai a small smile.
"Ok, you´re ready?" the doctor asked. Lorelai looked at Luke, then pulled his head down and kissed him hard for some seconds. Then she pulled back with a weak smile on her face.
"Now I´m ready" she said, still looking at Luke.
"Do you feel that?" the doctor asked some time later in the operation room.
"No" Lorelai said. Luke held both of her hands and she looked into his eyes. He sat behind her head and then lay his head next to hers, so that he could whisper some reassuring words into her ear, without letting go of her hands.
"Does it hurt?" he asked her
"No, it feels strange, but it doesn´t hurt." she whispered back.
"Come here, little one" they heard the doctors voice after some minutes.
"Here we go... 07.13 a.m., 22th June. And it´s a girl" the doctor said and some seconds later a nurse came and showed Luke and Lorelai their daughter. They both placed a kiss on her forehead and both weren´t able to hold back their tears, then the nurse ran with the baby in the next room.
"Is something wrong? Why isn´t she crying?" Lorelai asked, but got no answer.
"And a girl again, 07.16 a.m." the doctor announced and he hadn´t finished his sentence when loud screams echoed through the room.
"Ah jeez, another screaming one!" Luke smiled and kissed Lorelai. Another nurse showed them their screaming daughter and then also brought her to the next room.
"Mr. Danes if you want you can follow your daughters, we will need some time here." the doctor said.
"Go and look after our daughters. And give them their names! I´m sure you know which name belongs to which baby!" Lorelai said and kissed him again before he walked out of the room.
"Are they okay?" Luke asked when he walked into the room where three people surrounded both of his daughters.
"Their heartbeats are fine and they are bigger and heavier than we hoped. But the first one has some problems with breathing, that´s why she gets oxygen at the moment." Luke stepped closer and looked at his daughters. He stroked the hand of the smaller one, who didn´t need oxygen and was still crying furiously. She had dark, nearly black hair and huge blue eyes and it was obvious that her eyes would keep the colour. She looked exactly like Lorelai.
"Hello Sara. Im your daddy. Please stop crying, everything is fine, your mommy will come soon, don´t worry!" he said and picked her up. She was just wrapped in a towel and calmed down when Luke placed her in his arms and she grabbed his finger in her little hand.
With her still in his arms he walked over to the other baby. She wasn´t crying, just looking around curiously and playing with her fingers. She also had her mothers face, but Luke´s eyes and his hair colour.
"Sara look, there is Laila. But you already know each other. Hey Laila, you have to breathe, you know. Your mom will be very worried when she sees you like that. Can I take her?" he asked the nurse.
"Yeah, but just a second, then we have to place them in the warmth-beds."
"Hello, Laila my princess. You´re a little bit bigger than Sara, aren´t you. But you are the big sister, so it´s just fair." he told her and also kissed her, then placed both girls back on the table.
"How are you feeling?" he asked Lorelai when he entered her room half an hour later.
"Like being hit by a truck or a train or something other big. Where are our babies?" she asked and he sat down on the bed and kissed her before he answered.
"They will bring them any moment. They are so beautiful. They look exactly like you."
"Are they healthy?" she asked still worried.
"Yes, they are fine, although Laila had some trouble with breathing at first, but it´s fine now. And they are so small, oh my god. I don´t know how to thank you."
" Well then you also have to thank yourself and the fact that I´m hyper-fertile, even while I´m nursing." she smiled and pulled him down for another kiss.
"I love you so much" Luke said.
"I love you more!" Lorelai grinned.
"Not possible!" he laughed and kissed her again.
"Sorry we have to interrupt, but these two here are impatiently waiting to meet their mother" a nurse said smiling when she entered the room and caught the couple kissing on the bed. She pushed two small bassinets in front of her and Luke stood up and helped her.
"Just press the button if you need anything. We weren´t sure if you want to nurse them so we didn´t feed them yet. If you need somebody to help you..."
"No thank you, but I just stopped nursing my son some months ago, so I think I know how it works."
"You really want to nurse them?"Luke asked when the door closed and they were alone again.
"Yes, it´s better because they are so small. But I will pump milk so that you can feed them at night. Don´t think you can sleep while I look like a zombie! And now hand me my babies, before I explode of curiosity!" she said, still a little weak and not as exited like she usually would have been.
"Okay, sooo, this one is Laila, our big daughter." he said and handed her the first baby, now dressed and clean.
"Oh god Luke, she´s sooo beautiful and cute and so tiny! Have you seen her hands! And she has your eyes! And your hair!" Lorelai squeaked and then kissed her tiny daughter and inspected her carefully.
"And this one, who is already screaming again, is Sara, the exact image of her mother! I think you cloned yourself!" Luke smiled and kissed his daughter before he also handed her to Lorelai.
"Wow, you´re even smaller than your sister, my girl. But you are just as beautiful. Don´t listen to your daddy, he is lying! I was such an ugly baby and you are such a beauty, you just can´t look like me!" she said and then inspected her just as careful as her other daughter seconds before. But then Laila began to cry this time.
"Are you hungry my princess? I think we can do something against that if daddy helps me." she baby-talked with her daughter and placed her on her legs.
"What should I do?" Luke asked and picked her up.
"Well, take these two so that I can unbutton this night-gown and then I´m gonna feed them."
"Both at the same time?" Luke asked confused.
"Yeah, never heard of tandem-nursing? It was in this book we both read! But you have to help me positioning them." Lorelai instructed Luke how to position the two babies.
"Oh my goodness, they are just as greedy as their older brother! My boops will be gone by the time I will stop breast-feeding them!" she said but stroked both of their heads which she held in her hands. Luke just laughed and then watched amazed how his tiny daughters ate contently.
"You burp this one, I that one!" Lorelai said when the babies were fed and Luke took Sara, placed her on his shoulder and started to walk around with her, talking to her all the time, while Lorelai did the same with Laila.
He had just placed the two of them in their beds,when he heard something. He looked at Lorelai and then both burst out in laughter.
"I think our son comes to meet his sisters!" Luke choked out.
"And obviously he doesn´t like hospitals!" Lorelai laughed.
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