For disclaimer, please see chapter one. Thanks!

A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for reviewing! I'm doing my best to post as often as possible, but with school and such picking back up, my schedule's a bit crazy. Hope you like this chapter…it's the one we've all been waiting for!

addicted to the gilmoregirls, thanks for the heads up about the name Ava, but personally I don't see a big deal with it…so it was the name of one bad persons WIFE a long time ago. I don't think that should hinder people naming their kids it today. Just my opinion. It's personally one of my favorite names.

Expecting

Chapter Six: Being Mommy

September 3, 11:45 pm

Lorelai Gilmore-Danes stifled a yell as a particularly bad contraction overtook her abdomen. Luke stroked her hair sympathetically as she gritted her teeth. Finally, her face relaxed a little and she looked over at her husband.

"It's all coming back to me now…having Rory I mean. It was so long ago, but suddenly, I remember it like it was yesterday. I definitely didn't remember how much this hurts." He kissed her forehead.

"You're doing great, Lorelai, you can do this." She gave a pitiful smile. They both looked up as Rory rushed into the room looking frazzled.

"Mom! Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry that I took this long to get here! I was in class, and my cell was back at the dorm! Logan picked me up from class and we went to dinner…when I got home, I listened to the messages on my cell and one was from Luke, and well you know the rest of the story. Are you OK? She's still in there?" Lorelai smiled at her daughter and gave her a one-armed hug.

"It's OK, I'm just glad that you made it in time." She said genuinely. "I'm…well…Ok as I can be while my body's trying to squeeze a baby out, and yes, she's still in here." Lorelai laughed but her laughter abruptly stopped when she was hit with another contraction. "Ow…Ow…" She leaned over and squeezed her eyes shut tight. Luke rubbed her back.

"How far along is she?" Rory asked Luke. Before he could answer, the nurse who had just entered the room spoke up.

"Well, that's what I'm here to check. Is this the daughter?" She asked, motioning at Rory. Lorelai nodded through her pain as the nurse put on her gloves and took a seat at the end of the bed. Once the contraction had ended, the nurse looked up at her.

"All right, I'm going to check you again." She said. Lorelai nodded wordlessly and relaxed back into her pillows. After a minute, the woman stood back up, slipping off the gloves and tossing them into the trash can. "You're fully dilated. The doctor will be in here in just a minute and we'll start pushing." Lorelai looked over at Luke with wide eyes and he took his hand comfortingly.

"It's going to be OK." He assured her. "Lorelai, this is the final stretch…we're having a baby. Us." She smiled nodded, though her smile faded again as a contraction came on. Rory stroked her mom's hair until the contraction was over.

"Mom, I'm so proud of you." She said. "I know that you can do this." Lorelai nodded as the doctor walked into the room accompanied by the same nurse.

"Hi, Lorelai. So, I hear that you're fully dilated. Let's get this show on the road!" He said cheerily. Lorelai nodded. "When your next contraction comes, I want you to hold your breath and push for 10 seconds. I'll count for you." She agreed, and it didn't take long for a painful contraction to come.

"1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10" He counted. "Great job. OK, let's go again, ready?" She nodded, focused and began to push once more. "1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10" Lorelai moaned and a tear came down her cheek. Luke squeezed her hand.

"Honey you're doing great. You're almost done." He told her.

"Let's push again, Lorelai. Ready?" She pushed as the doctor counted. By the time he got to 6, he stopped. "OK, her head is crowning, this is it!" He told her. "Here we go!" She pushed again and immediately began to cry. "You're doing great; the head is almost all the way out Lorelai!"

"I can't do this!" She sobbed, "I don't want a baby! I have my baby Rory! Make this stop!"

"You can't stop now, you have to keep going, I need you to push harder." The doctor told her, not able to comfort her too much as time was slipping by. She did as she was told, crying heavily through out the time. It seemed like forever until the doctor finally held up a tiny pink baby. "It's a girl!" He said and Rory cheered. Luke kissed his wife, despite the sweat and tears covering her face.

"You did it!" He kissed her again. "I'm so proud of you…you're amazing." She couldn't help but smile as her baby girl was placed on her stomach for a moment before the nurse took her away to clean her up. Only a few minutes later, she approached carrying a tiny pink bundle, which she handed to Lorelai.

"Here's your baby. Congratulations." She told her. "Does she have a name yet?" Lorelai nodded. "Madelyn…Madelyn Ava Danes."

November 6 (2 months later)

Lorelai awoke to the loud cried of her two month old daughter coming from the room downstairs. She climbed out of bed groggily, glancing at the clock. "2:20 AM. Lovely." She thought to herself as she shuffled out of the room and down the stairs. When she entered her daughter's room, she walked over to the crib and picked up the squirming baby, who immediately began to quiet down. She carried her over to the rocking chair where she took a seat and began to feed her. All of the crying stopped as Madelyn hungrily ate her early morning meal. After a few minutes, Luke walked into the room.

"I'm sorry, I didn't even hear her." He said apologetically. Lately, he could see how exhausted his wife was and had been trying to get up when the baby cried in the middle of the night. "Go back to bed, I'll give her one of the pumped bottles." He said. Lorelai shook her head with a yawn.

"It's OK, honey. I'm up now. Besides, I like spending time with her like this. It's…nice." She said. Luke kissed her, kissed his daughter's cheek, then walked out of the room and back up the stairs. 30 minutes later, after Madelyn was done, Lorelai rocked her back and forth until the little girl's eyes shut once again. She carefully laid the baby back in her crib and tip toed out of the room and up the stairs. She fell asleep only moments after her head hit the pillow. She woke up 5 hours later to the smell of coffee. She got out of bed and slipped on her robe before going down stairs to greet her husband. When she got to the bottom of the stairs, she was greeted with a kiss and a cup of coffee. She smiled and walked with her husband to the kitchen table.

"Thank you for doing this." She said, motioning at the mug in her hands." She looked around with a furrowed brow. "Did she wake up after her feeding at 2?" She asked.

"Nope, she slept right on through. I've been listening for her for the last hour but she hasn't made a peep. I'm sure that she'll be up for the day any time now. Lorelai nodded and sipped her coffee again.

"I'm going to go get dressed." She said, standing and starting out of the kitchen. Saturday was always a busy day at the inn, so she always tried to arrive by 9 am. She slipped on her black dress pants with a green sweater, then made her way into the bathroom where she put on her make up. As she did her eye liner, she heard her daughter's cry from downstairs. She waited for a moment to see if Luke would get her, and sure enough, a few moments later, the crying subsided. She quickly finished with her make up and headed downstairs where she greeted her daughter with a kiss on the cheek. "I see that Sleeping Beauty has awakened!" She said with a smile, and Luke nodded.

"Yep, just got up a few minutes ago." He told her, handing her a scone from the diner, which he brought home every night for her. She ate her breakfast, then picked up her daughter and carried her into the nursery where she got out a tiny pair of denim jeans and a long sleeved pink onesie. She took of Madelyn's P.J.'s. The cold prompted the little girl to begin crying, so Lorelai hurried in first dressing her daughter in the onesie, then putting on the pants over it. She grabbed the baby bag and walked out into the kitchen where she grabbed a bottle and put it in. After checking to make sure that she had plenty of diapers, baby wipes, blankets, and a change of clothes, she grabbed a jacket for Madelyn and turned to her husband.

"Well, we're off. I love you." She told him, stealing a kiss before she started out the door. She put Madelyn in her car seat then climbed into the drivers seat and began to the Inn. Since she had come back from maternity leave, she and Luke had found it easier for her to just bring Madelyn to work with her, and when she couldn't, Luke would take her to the diner. She soon arrived at the Dragonfly and walked around to the back of her car where the stroller was collapsed down. She opened it up and transferred her daughter from the car seat into the stroller, placing the baby bag in the back. She locked up the car, and they headed inside. She took a spot next to Michel behind the reception desk. "How are we doing this morning?" She asked, eyeing the computer.

"Busy as usual." Michel said with his accent as thick as ever. "Do you think you and baby can handle it? I need to go take care of some details about the Miller/Johnson wedding." Lorelai smiled and nodded.

"We have it covered. Thanks Michel." He nodded and started off. Lorelai reached down and got the bottle out of her baby bag, then held it out for her daughter with rested her hands on the side of it while she drank it hungrily. She answered the phone a few times one handed before Sookie rounded the corner.

"May I?" She asked, like she did almost every morning.

"Be my guest." Lorelai said with a smile, as she pulled the bottle away from Madelyn for a moment to hand it to Sookie. She smiled and took it, then reached down and lifted up the little girl, cradling her in her arms and continuing her feeding.

"She's so beautiful." She said, and Lorelai smiled. "She's a perfect mix of you and Luke." She really was. With brown eyes and dark blonde hair, she was a beauty. Her hair was beginning to form tiny curls, which neither Luke nor Lorelai could get enough of. Sookie walked away to check out the rest of the hotel while Lorelai got a few minutes to herself. As she checked in a few guests, she looked around and realized that she was finally where she had always wanted to be. She was married to Luke, she was still working at the Inn, and she had a beautiful baby girl. This time around was proving to be a lot easier than being the 16-year-old single mom she had been to Rory.

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