A/N: I know the last chapter was really sad…I'm sorry but that's life…not everything is fun and games. You'll find out what the outcome in the Ryan situation is in this chapter.

Disclaimer: Same.

5 days later

"Mr. and Mrs. Finnley?" a voice asked stirring into Finn's sleep. He and Rory were both sleeping in the waiting room at the hospital, Rory had already been discharged so they no longer had the hospital bed.

"FINN!" a more familiar voice yelled in his ear.

He sat up and looked at Logan, about to yell at him when he saw that Logan was indicating someone behind him with his eyes.

Finn turned around and saw the doctor standing there looking slightly amused.

"Love, wake up," Finn said to Rory who was in the chair next to him.

She didn't even move. Finn knew the doctor didn't really have a lot of time so he looked around. He grabbed the coffee cup out of Stephanie's hands and waved it in front of Rory's nose.

She sat up and reached for the cup immediately. Finn handed it back to Steph before Rory got any.

"Mean," she said narrowing her eyes at him.

"The doctor is here to see us," Finn said looking at him apologetically.

Rory spun around immediately. "Oh god…I'm sorry to keep you waiting sir."

"It's not a problem. I just wanted to let you know that Ryan's breathing has gone to normal and we have taken the oxygen off him. We're going to keep him probably two more days just to monitor him and make sure that everything is okay. And then he's free to go home with you," the doctor told him.

"Thank you so much!" Rory squealed hurling herself over the arm of the chair at Finn.

Finn stood up and whirled Rory around before setting her down. "Thank you sir," he said shaking the doctor's hand.

When the doctor left Rory jumped into Finn's arms and started crying.

He stroked her hair and kissed her cheek but couldn't keep the smile off his face. They had known he was doing better but they didn't want to get their hopes up.

"Congratulations!" Logan said hugging each of them with Stephanie and Colin following suit.

"I have to call my mom!" Rory exclaimed whipping out her cell phone even they aren't allowed in hospitals.

Rory told Lorelai and there were tears on both sides. Logan, Colin, and Stephanie were talking quietly as Finn in a chair with his head in his hands just thinking about how lucky they were.

Paris walked in on her break at that moment. She had taken to stopping in and seeing them during the breaks in her shifts as the hospital. She knew they would be there, Finn and Rory had each been home once and there was always at least part of the crew with them.

Well Paris walked in and saw Rory crying, the others looking nondescript and Finn with his head in his hands. Automatically she assumed the worse.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry! I thought he was getting better!" Paris exclaimed and immediately did something unParis-like, she burst into tears.

Everyone stopped and looked at her sobbing.

Logan looked at Rory quizzically, she just shrugged and told her mom she had to go.

"Paris…what's wrong?" Rory asked sitting Paris down in a chair.

"I'm so sorry about Ryan," she sniffled.

"What happened to Ryan?" Rory asked her eyes getting scared.

Paris looked at her confused.

"What did the doctor tell you that he didn't tell us?" Rory asked getting scared all over again.

"Wait…he's still alive?" Paris asked.

"As far as I know…why? What do you know?" Rory asked.

"Nothing…I came in here and saw you crying and Finn looking depressed and I thought…well I thought Ryan died," Paris told her looking confused.

Rory sank back into her chair. "Happy tears, Paris…happy tears. The doctor was just in here to tell us that his breathing is normal and they've taken the oxygen off. They want to keep him a while longer to monitor him but we should be able to take him home in like two days."

"Oh. Well…that's good," Paris said feeling like an idiot. She quickly left the room and planned to act like it had never happened.

3 days later

"I have never been so relieved to bring a child home," Rory whispered as Finn set a sleeping Ryan Nathaniel in his new room.

"Amen," Finn said putting his arm around Rory as they stood in the doorway of the pale green room and watched their son. It felt very similar to when they had brought the twins home.

"Mommy? Da?" a small voice asked in the hallway.

They slowly withdrew from the room they were in and saw down the hall Twister was standing in his pajamas with his hair sticking up all funny.

"Hey baby," Rory said kneeling down and their eldest child ran into her arms.

"We missed you mate," Finn said hugging his wife and little boy at the same time.

"I miss you," Twister said reaching for his Daddy.

Finn spun him around until he heard Rory's voice. "Finn it's late…don't wake him up the whole way." Finn knew she was right so he set the boy down.

"What's wrong?" Rory asked when she saw pain in Twister's big blue eyes.

"You run away," he said and ran into his room.

"What did he say?" Finn asked sure that he had heard wrong.

"He thinks we ran away…" Rory trailed off looking troubled.

They headed into his room and saw him laying in his racecar bed with the blankets covering his entire little body.

"Twist…we didn't run away…we would never run away," Finn said pulling the blankets back to find the little boy with his eyes filled with tears.

"Honey…we were taking care of your little brother…he needed us. But now we're here," Rory said running her hand through his messy hair.

"I miss you," he told them.

"Baby boy…we missed you too. But we're back and we aren't going anywhere," Rory promised pulling him into her arms.

He buried his face in her shoulder and she rocked him back and forth. Finn put his arm around the pair unsure of what to say.

"Are you okay?" Rory asked once she and Finn were in their bedroom after Twister had fallen asleep in her arms.

"Of course love…why wouldn't I be?" Finn asked pulling his shirt over his head with his back to her.

"Because you're avoiding my eyes…you never avoid my eyes," Rory pointed out.

Finn sighed and turned around. He walked until he was about a yard away and bent slightly so that their eyes were even.

"Happy?" Finn asked. He saw Rory's eyes fill with tears for what seemed like the zillionth time since Ryan had been born, the tears broke his heart. She turned away and got into bed making sure that her back was to where she knew he would lay.

"Rory, I'm sorry," Finn said standing in the same spot.

He heard a snuffle but no words.

"Love…I didn't mean it. I'm sorry," he said going around the bed and kneeling in front of her.

"Just leave me alone," Rory said with red eyes. She rolled over to get away from him again.

Finn sighed and walked back over to his side hoping that she would talk to him. To his dismay however as he got into bed she rolled over again so he was once again faced with her back.

"Listen…I know it was uncalled for. This week has been insane and you didn't deserve that. I'm just reaching my end of stress and I'm losing control. When we were in Twister's room and he said that he thought we ran away it broke my heart…not only because I felt like a bad parent… because that's what I used to think when my parents went on vacations or trips of any sort and left me and my sisters at home with nannies. I promised myself that I would never put my children through that. I know that we had a noble cause for being gone…we were at the hospital hoping that our newborn didn't die for god's sake! But when I looked into Twist's eyes I saw the pain that I used to feel and I didn't like that I was doing that to him," Finn explained leaning on one elbow facing Rory.

He heard her inhale deeply and slowly roll over. "I'm sorry too…I overreacted. But like you said this week has been really stressful…I didn't mean to do this."

"I know love. I love you," he whispered and pulled her into his body.

He heard her mumble the same back and she clung to him. And once again he was reminded that as long as they had each other everything would be okay.

"Miss Rory?" Francesca asked the next day. Rory was once again working on an article for the paper. She had arranged to work from home a while longer so that she could be there in case something happened to Ryan.

"Yes Francesca?" she asked breaking her concentration and looking up.

"Master Jess is here to see you," she informed her.

Rory was surprised; she hadn't talked to Jess since their little disagreement.

She went into the living room and saw Jess talking to Twister. She cleared her throat and he looked up.

"Twist…I'm gonna talk to your mommy…maybe you can show me these cars some other time?" Jess suggested and Twister looked at Rory then back at Jess and nodded.

Jess and Rory walked into the parlor together and stood there in silence just looking at each other.

"I'm surprised you're here," Rory commented trying to break the uncomfortable silence.

"I just wanted to stop by and tell you that you were right about Theresa. I found her with some random guy…in our bed," Jess admitted.

Rory had to admit she wasn't completely shocked but she still felt horrible.

"Jess…I'm so sorry," she said not knowing what else to say.

"No…I should be sorry. I should have listened to you…you were right. You were always right…if only I had realized that before," Jess said sinking onto the couch.

"Jess…I wasn't always right and you know it," Rory said sitting next to him and putting a friendly arm around him.

"You were always right for me," Jess whispered turning his head so that their lips were inches apart.

"No I wasn't…if I was we would be together," Rory said.

"We would be together if I hadn't screwed up and left," Jess whispered maintaining the small distance.

"No…we wouldn't, I still would have met Finn," Rory said about to move away.

Before she could pull away Jess moved in and kissed her. She was shocked into paralysis.

"JESS!" she yelled and pushed him away.

"Oh my god…Rory I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to!" Jess said immediately.

"Jess…you need to leave," Rory said getting off the couch and pointing to the door.

"Rory…I'm so sorry! It just happened!" Jess insisted.

"I need you to just go!" she pleaded.

He nodded and left leaving her standing in the middle of the room. She ran upstairs and brushed her teeth. Kissing Jess had brought magic to her…in the past. Now kissing him was like kissing her brother.

"Twister! Time for dinner!" Rory yelled as she put the girls in their highchairs.

Finn took Lori from Rory, as she was about to put her in the highchair. "Let me."

"Thank you darling," she said and kissed him on the lips, that brought magic nowadays, not Jess.

Finn smiled at her as Twister came wandering into the dining room.

"Hi Da!" he called waving.

"Hello mate!" Finn replied waving back and grinning.

The family sat down with the absence of their youngest member (he was sleeping upstairs). Rory had taken to insisting that the nannies, maid and cook joined them as well for meals.

There was chatter about Ryan, and Finn's work and other random things.

There wasn't much focus on Twister however. They talked a lot about Ryan and how he was doing and about the twins and new words they had learned or funny things they had said but not much was said about Twister.

Apparently the constant talk about those around him made him very attention starved.

"UNCA JESS AND MOMMY KISSED!" he yelled when everyone was laughing about something.

Everyone stopped laughing…in fact they stopped everything.

Finn looked at Rory and got up and left the table without saying another word.

"FINN!" she yelled and ran after him.

A/N: I know this was shorter than the others and was slightly cliff-hanger-y but I'm sorry. There should be more up either in a few hours or tomorrow afternoon depending on when I go to bed. Review with your thoughts por favor.