A/N: This would have been up sooner but there was a Law and Order: SVU marathon and I'm addicted to that show so I didn't get anything done today.

Gilmoregirl7878: Thanks for letting me use the name.

Kylie1403: Consider Paris and Doyle's son, Matthew named for you. He already existed in previous chapters but the name is officially dedicated to you.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

7 months later

"Finn…my water broke," Rory said urgently coming out of the bathroom.

"Oh shit!" Finn said sitting straight up in bed.

Panic coursed through Finn. SHIT! What was he supposed to do? The other two times she went into labor he had been at work and met them at the hospital. Now it was ten o'clock at night and he was the only one around other than the nannies and maids.

"FINN!" Rory yelled.

"What do I do?" he asked jumping out of bed and beginning to pace.

"Call my mom!" Rory said.

"Right!" Finn lunged for the phone and frantically dialed the number.

"Hello?" an unfamiliar voice asked.

"SHE'S IN LABOR WHAT DO I DO?" Finn yelled into the phone.

"Who the hell is this?" the voice asked.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHO THE HELL IS THIS? WHO THE HELL IS THIS?" Finn asked still yelling.

"SHIT!" he yelled as the person on the other side hung up.

"Try again, slower this time," Rory suggested.

He slowly muttered the numbers as he dialed them.

"Hello?" Luke's unmistakable voice answered.

"LUKE IT'S FINN! WHERE'S LORELAI?" he screamed.

"Lorelai! Finn's on the phone and he's yelling," Luke called in the background.

"Hello my favorite son-in-law," Lorelai said in a singsong voice.

"RORY'S IN LABOR!" Finn yelled.

"Are you on the way to the hospital?" Lorelai asked moving to grab her coat and keys.

"Should we be?" Finn asked.

"Of course you nitwit! Get the other three kids dressed, wake up the nannies and load them all into the biggest vehicle you own and meet us at the Hartford General Hospital. I'll take care of the rest of the calls, now go!" Lorelai said and hung up. She woke up Will and Krissy and told Luke and soon the four of them were on their way to the hospital.

Finn ran into nannies' room and woke them both. They shared a room with two queen-sized beds and a large bathroom.

"Come on love," Finn said helping the very pregnant Rory downstairs.

"What car are we taking?" Rory asked.

"Well Lorelai said the biggest one…I know!" Finn said helping Rory sit on the couch and then running out to the garages.

Soon they were all in the car of Finn's selection and on the way to the hospital.

Rory had been ready to protest but didn't want Finn to start running around like a chicken with its head cut off again.

"You idiot!" Lorelai said smacking Finn on the back of the head when she spotted them pull up to the entrance.

"What?" Finn asked confused.

"You brought the limo?" she asked incredulously.

"You told me to bring the biggest car!" Finn defended himself.

Lorelai rolled her eyes at him but didn't make fun of him anymore, at least yet.

Finn came out of the delivery room looking completely worn out. They had been at the hospital for over 18 hours and the baby had just been born.

"Finn you look exhausted!" Emily commented as he walked into the waiting room and collapsed into a chair with a hand over his eyes.

"Boy or girl?" Logan asked.

"Boy…Ryan Nathaniel," Finn said and leaned forward, his head dropping into his hands.

"How's Rory?" Lorelai asked.

"Rory's fine," Finn answered shortly again.

"Da?" Twister asked walking over and standing directly in front of Finn.

Finn looked at the little boy before him and lost control. He pulled Twister into his lap and wrapped his arms around him. He felt Twister's little arms go around his neck instinctively. Finn burst into tears and couldn't stop.

"Finn? You're scaring me…what's wrong?" Lorelai asked sitting in the chair next to him.

"There's something wrong with the baby," Finn sobbed.

Twister didn't really know what was going on but he had never seen his daddy cry before and somehow he knew that his place was right there in Finn's arms.

"What's wrong with him?" Lorelai asked her eyes filling with tears.

"I don't know exactly…they said there was something wrong with his breathing," Finn explained, his voice clogged and tears still running down his cheeks. He was absolutely terrified, what if his little boy died? He didn't know if he would be able to live with that.

"Go find Rory," Lorelai suggested.

Finn nodded and stood up. "Stay here Twister…I'm gonna go see Mommy and then I'm gonna come back and you, Lori, and Kelsey are going to come see Mommy."

Twister nodded and stood in the middle of the floor looking lost as his Daddy walked away.

"Come here," Lorelai said and she held onto him like he was her own.

"Hello love," Finn said five minutes later entering Rory's room with a cup of coffee.

Rory looked at him with large eyes.

Finn offered her the coffee knowing that she wouldn't drink it.

Rory took the cup and set it on the nightstand not giving it another thought.

Finn sat down on the chair next to the bed and took her hand. He looked at her with fear in his eyes and her face crumbled into sobs.

"What's gonna happen?" she wailed.

Finn didn't know if he was allowed or not but he climbed up on the bed with her and she pulled him closer and sobbed into the gray T-shirt he was wearing.

"I don't know what's gonna happen. But I do know that no matter what we have each other," he whispered stroking her hair as she cried steadily.

Then they cried together, each unsure about what was ahead of them and how they would cope with it.

When they seemed to be out of tears Finn gently left the bed and went back to the waiting room.

He saw that Twister was asleep in Lorelai's arms and that Kelsey and Lori were sitting on the floor playing with random toys.

"Twist, mate, wake up," Finn said rubbing his son's back.

"Can I see Mommy?" Twister requested.

"Yeah, that's why I'm here," Finn told him.

"Come on," Finn said lifting Kelsey into his arms. Lori stood up and he reached for her hand. Twister walked on Finn's left side, where Finn was holding Kelsey and Finn held Lori's hand in his right one and helped her to keep her balance as she toddled along the hallway to Rory's room.

"MOMMY!" Twister yelled jumping onto the bed and putting his head on Rory's shoulder.

Rory smiled when she saw Finn standing there with the girls as well. But it was a sad smile…she was dreading whether or not she would get to watch Ryan Nathaniel grow up like she had watched her other three children.

She looked at her kids one at a time. Twister was growing up to be exactly like Finn…they looked exactly the same (except for their eyes) and she could already tell he would be exactly like him when he got older.

As for the girls, well they definitely were identical in looks but personality-wise they couldn't be more different. It seemed that Lori was going to be like Finn, loud and outgoing. She didn't mind strangers, in fact she liked showing off to them. Kelsey on the other hand, was more quiet and reserved, she shied away from people that she didn't know very well. Already Rory could tell this and they were only 15 months.

"Mama!" Lori called and Finn set Kelsey on the bed with Twister and lifted Lori to join them.

The family sat there together for a few minutes, the twins yabbering nonsense while Finn and Twister both had rare moments of silence.

"Mr. and Mrs. Finnley?" a nurse asked coming into the room.

"Yes?" they asked together. Finn reached for Rory's hand as a doctor came into the room.

"So as you know there was some problems with your son's breathing--" the doctor began before Finn cut him off.

"Excuse me sir, I know you have limited time but could I run the kids back over to their grandmother so that we can discuss this without them here?" Finn requested.

"Of course," the doctor nodded.

"Okay, come on guys, we're gonna go back to Gammy," Finn said pulling both the twins up at the same time.

Twister kissed Rory on the cheek and hopped off the bed following Finn from the room.

Rory watched the small retreating back and she couldn't believe how mature he was being. He wasn't even four yet and he knew when to behave.

Finn quickly explained that they were talking to the doctor and hurried back to the room.

"Okay well as you know there were some problems with your son's breathing," the doctor started again once Finn was seated at Rory's side. They both nodded for him to continue.

"We've diagnosed his condition as Transient Tachypnea. What this is, is a fairly common thing in newborns, it's believed to be a product of slow re-absorption of fetal lung fluid. See the baby's lungs make this fluid and some of the fluid is squeezed out during the trip through the birth canal and the rest has to be absorbed after the baby is born. For whatever reason sometimes not as much fluid is squeezed out during birth and it absorbs slower after birth. This causes difficulty breathing and can last anywhere from hours to days," the doctor explained the condition.

"Will it cause any permanent damage?" Rory asked with tears in her eyes.

"No, and it won't come back once it's gone but until then there is always the possibility that the body isn't getting enough oxygen which could obviously be bad," the doctor replied.

"So it's a waiting game?" Finn asked.

"I guess you could call it that. The odds are on your son's side but you have to know that sometimes things happen and there isn't anything anyone can do about it," the doctor cautioned.

"Is there anything we can do?" Rory asked.

"Not really…we'll keep him on constant monitors and have oxygen for him but until his breathing gets normal all we can do is wait for the fluid to be absorbed," the doctor told him.

"Thank you for time sir," Finn said getting to his feet and shaking the doctor's hand before he left.

"What are we gonna do?" Rory asked tears spilling again.

"Love, you heard him…the odds are on Ryan's side," Finn said still not used to using the name Ryan when referring to one of his children.

"Ryan Nathaniel…I like the name," Rory said softly with the tears glistening on her cheeks.

"Who's out there?" she asked after Finn nodded in agreement about the name.

"Both my parents, you parents and siblings, but not Chris and Gigi, your grandparents, Logan, Colin, Steph, and Paris," Finn replied after thinking about who he had seen in the room. "Do you want to see any of them?"

"My mom…and tell Paris I want to ask her about this condition," Rory requested.

Finn nodded and left the room, returning only a few minutes later with Lorelai and Paris with him.

"Babe!" Lorelai said and flung herself at Rory.

After more tears Paris explained the disorder that Ryan had but they didn't really hear anything the doctor hadn't told them.

"You okay man?" Logan asked when he found Finn leaning against the railing in front of the nursery window staring into one of the little incubator things.

"I don't know," Finn said not really wanting to talk about it.

"Finn I'm your best friend…I have been since we went to boarding school together," Logan reminded him. "Which one is Ryan?"

"That one," Finn said pointing to what looked to be the biggest baby in the room of premature and sick babies. He had what looked like a little plastic hood over his head.

"Paris told me what's wrong with him," Logan said nodding.

Finn sniffed but didn't say anything.

"Talk to me," Logan prodded. He and Finn still talked and hung out all the time but he felt like they hadn't had a real conversation about anything important in a long, long time.

"I'm scared," Finn admitted. "They keep telling us the odds are on his side. But look at him…he may be the biggest baby in there but he's so small compared to the world. I just want to be able to protect him but there's nothing I can do except sit here and wait. If Twister was sick or one of the girls I could hold them…I could give them their medicine…I could do something, but not with him…all I can do is sit here and watch him and hope that everything is okay. I don't know what I'll do if he doesn't make it…I don't know what Rory will do either."

"Finn you said it yourself…odds are on your side…our side. I know that isn't exactly good enough but you just gotta trust that everything's gonna be okay. And if it's not…well you can deal with that bridge when you come to it," Logan said looking at his friend's exhausted figure.

"You and Rory…and all of us for that matter just need to get some sleep," Logan said.

"I know…but I'm not going anywhere," Finn said.

"Just come see everyone at least," Logan suggested.

Finn nodded and allowed himself to be guided to the waiting room where everyone was still waiting…praying and hoping that everything would be okay.

A/N: That's all for now. I'll update soon. Review if you have any comments. Oh and Transient Tachypnea really does exist. I told what I know about it but if you know more about it or I got something wrong email me or something. Oh and the name Ryan Nathaniel...I'm not a huge fan of the name Nathaniel but I named him after my boyfriend. 33