Chapter 33

"Lucy!" Emily said as she walked over to Lucy.

"Grandma, hi." Lucy said giving Emily a hug.

"Where are they, where's Lorelai? How are they?"

"They're in the ICU and Mom's sleeping I think. Everyone's fine."

"Can I see them?"

"They're getting all doctorized right now, but here, these are the pictures that Luke took in the ICU."

"They are just so precious." Emily said in awe looking at the pictures. "Now which one is which?"

"This one is Katherine; she was born first, 3 pounds 2 ounces."

"She is so small."

"I know. This one is Morgan, she was second, 2½ pounds, and the last one was Matthew, 3 pounds 1 ounce."

"A little boy!" Emily exclaimed.

"Yup." Lucy said proudly.

"How does it feel to be a big sister?"

"I haven't really felt anything yet, 'cause they're always in the ICU. It's kind of weird though, because now they're actually on the earth."

"Are you happy?"

"I'm a little freaked out, but I'm fine."

"Okay. Where are Rory and Luke?"

"Rory is in the waiting room, and Luke is with Mom. You can go see her if you want."

"Sure, okay."

"Okay. Where's Grandpa by the way?"

"He was away this weekend. He left yesterday, but he's coming back on Monday." Emily said as she and Lucy walked to Lorelai's room.

"That sucks."

"Lucy don't say 'sucks.'"

"Fine, that stinks."

"Lucy."

Lucy giggled. "Here's Mom's room." Lucy said as they entered the room.

"Lucy!" Lorelai said.

"Hey Mom." Lucy said giving Lorelai a hug.

"Hello Emily." Luke said politely.

"Hello Luke, hello Lorelai." Emily said.

"Hi Mom." Lorelai said.

"Okay, I'm just going to go to Rory, and we're going to get some food." Lucy said. "Are you coming Luke?"

"What? Oh yeah, I'm coming." Luke said, and he and Lucy left Lorelai's room.

"How are you feeling Lorelai?" Emily asked once Luke and Lucy left.

"I'm feeling a bit tired, and hungry, but I'm fine." Lorelai said.

"Would you like me to bring you something?"

"No, that's okay. You know you can sit down on the bed Mom, I'm not going to bite."

"Well okay."

"So…"

"So?"

"Where's Dad?"

"He went to Michigan for the weekend."

"Oh."

"Lorelai now that the triplets are born, I was wondering whether you would like me to come and help, you know from time to time."

"Sure Mom, I'd like that. It's going to be really hard, and I'm going to take all the help that I can get."

"Okay."

"Okay."

1 Month Later

"Okay guys. We're going home now. You're never going to have to see this place again." Lucy said as Luke put Morgan's car seat in their new van. "We're going to go home and see Stars Hollow. Now let me warn you that the people of Stars Hollow tend to be very odd at times. But hopefully you guys like it."

"They'll like it." Luke said.

"All of a sudden you're psychic now?"

"No, but everyone who has been to Stars Hollow has had a…memorable experience." Lucy giggled and rolled her eyes. "And also, you guys like it, I like it, they'll like it."

"Whatever you say. I'm too confused to interpret that right now. You see that Morgan, Daddy likes to confuse people; it's part of his nature. He's also very grumpy sometimes but not all the time. Mostly when Mommy wants coffee or Taylor's bugging him."

"Okay, here are the last two campers!" Lorelai called as she held two more car seats.

"Hello, My Sweeties." Lucy said giving both babies a kiss on the nose.

Lorelai and Luke looked at each other and smiled.

"I was just telling Morgan about Stars Hollow and Daddy's grumpiness." Lucy said as she picked up Matthew's car seat and gave it to Luke.

"You were, were you?" Lorelai said.

"Yup. I have to finish telling them. They'll probably fall asleep while I'm telling them, but they can hear when they're asleep."

"Okay Hon, you do that."

"…and then there's Miss Patty. Beware of Miss Patty, remember Babette the other one that I told you about, yeah, they gossip. They always know everything. So if you have a secret, don't tell them." Lucy rambled on as they drove home.

"I think they really love you Luc." Lorelai said.

"How can you tell?"

"They've been looking at you for the past 20 minutes, with their big blue eyes just open wide."

"And you thought that they were going to fall asleep." Luke said.

"Well they did that a lot in the hospital, how was I supposed to know? Now I'm running out of things to say…Oh yeah, and there's Kirk. Kirk, how could I have forgotten Kirk? He has a business for everything…"

Lorelai smiled as Lucy rambled on about the people of Stars Hollow.

"She's going to be okay." Luke whispered so Lucy couldn't hear.

"Yeah, yeah she will be." Lorelai whispered back.

The Babies Are 3½ months

"Mom!" Lucy called as from upstairs.

"Yeah?" Lorelai called from the kitchen.

"Katherine's crying!"

"Okay, bring her down here!"

"Okay!"

"Guys are you home?" Rory called from the front door.

"Over here!" Lorelai and Lucy said in unison.

"What, where?"

"Here!"

"One at a time please!"

"Go to the kitchen! I'm coming down with Katherine!" Lucy said.

"Okay!"

Lucy came down the stairs holding baby Katherine.

"Hey Lucy." Rory said.

"Hi." Lucy said.

"Hey Katherine." Rory said giving Katherine a kiss on her forehead.

"Here, hold her." Lucy said, giving Katherine to Rory. "I need to go and get Matt. He started to cry when I left with Katherine."

"Okay. I'm going to give Katherine to Mom and I'll come and get him with you."

"Okay." Lucy went up the stairs.

"Hey Mom." Rory said coming into the kitchen.

"Hey Rory." Lorelai said as she took a bottle off the bottle warmer.

"Here's number one." Rory handed Katherine to Lorelai.

"Thank you. Hello there Princess. Are you hungry?"

Roy smiled, left the kitchen, and went upstairs.

"Where did Mom put the diaper bag?" Lucy said to herself.

"Hey Luc." Rory said as she came into the babies' room.

"Hi."

"Morgan's asleep, huh?"

"Yeah. She seems the quietest out of the three. She doesn't cry too often, only when she really, desperately needs something. It'll be like two minutes of a very loud cry, sort of to say 'Okay I need something.' Then after that she'll quiet down."

"That's good."

"Yeah, but Matthew now, he will cry and cry and cry until you physically hold him, as you see here. Katherine cries a lot too, just not as much as Matthew, but not as little as Morgan."

"Wow, you know so much about that them, and they've only been home for two months."

"Yeah I guess. I just see them a lot. Before school, after school, at the diner, at home, before they go to bed, after they go to bed."

"So basically all the time."

"Yeah, except for when I'm at school and skating, obviously."

"I see. When's Mom going back to work?"

"Well since I summer break starts soon, Mom said she'll go sometimes in the summer, that way I can help her. And you're going to be there too, so you can help too."

"Yeah. How about the wedding, do you know anything about that?"

"Not much. How about we bring Matthew downstairs and ask her about it?"

"Let's go." Rory said and she and Lucy left the room.

"So Mom…" Rory said once they got into the living room where Lorelai was feeding Katherine.

"Yeah?" Lorelai said.

"We have something to ask you."

"Okay."

"When are you getting married?"

"That was a random question."

"It wasn't random." Lucy said. "We had a question to ask you, and we asked you. Therefore, you need to give us an answer."

"Well if you must know, Luke and I have talked about it and we said the second last week in August."

"August?" Rory whined. "That's so far."

"Well that way, the kids are bigger, and they won't need me every single minute of every day. They'll be asleep longer that's for sure."

"Okay Mom, whatever you say, it's your call." Lucy said.

"Okay."

"Okay."

"Okay." Rory said.

All of a sudden, they heard a cry from the baby monitor.

"I'll get her." Rory said.

Author's Note: Okay guys. This story is almost coming to a close. Only a few more chapters left. I know, it's sad right? I'm tearing up right now. No, I'm not actually, just kidding. But who thinks there should be a sequel, and who doesn't? If you think there should be a sequel, what should it mostly be about? Okay R&R