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few Gilmore Girls dvds and am getting their sountrack this
Christmas. I amjealous of you Amy!

(A/N) - Happy Thanksgiving guys!
I'm really appreciating all these reviews
I'm getting even though I don't update
as often as a good author should.
I really hope you like this chapter
as much as I enjoyed writing it.

If I wasn't so tired because of the turkey
I would write everyone a "hello" but I can't.

Story - New School and a New Life

Author - GilmoreGirlsFreakazoid

Chapter - New Adventures and 17 Hours

Lorelai sat in the hospital bed with holding her newly born baby with Luke lying next to her fast asleep. The past 17 hours have been a roller coaster ride. Heck, the past 9 months were a trip but the real thing just began. The adventure was just starting.

She finally had it, her own little family. Yes it was a little sooner than she hoped but she still couldn't believe she was lucky enough to get it.

She looked to her side and smiled at her sleeping boyfriend or in recent terms she could call him her fiancee-to-be. She liked how that sounded. Somewhere in the future Luke and her were getting married and not just because it was the right thing to do with their new child but because they wanted it.

Thoughts of Liz and Jess leaked into her mind as she continued to stroke her baby's cheek. Liz was having thoughts about moving out with Jess to go find Jimmy but one day she said it was a stupid idea. She altered her life style more to Jess' safety but not to much where she wouldn't be happy. She decided to not hang out with Crazy Carrie anymore since she finally realized she was a bad influence. She said she would work for her GED and get a job at the book store so William didn't have to support her as much. And she did.

William. Poor Will. He was getting sicker by the week. In a couple of months, the doctors informed the family, he's going to be off his feet and be put on bed rest. But he lived everyday like he was still 25. He got up early, went to work and talked to people like there was no difference in himself. That is what Lorelai loved about Will. Even at the worst time of his life he was still acting like he was going to live for 20 more years.

Even this morning Will with all the chaos going on he still pulled through with no complaints about being to tired or his muscles hurting.

It was 4:36 AM when Lorelai felt the pain. She thought they would go away, thought it was just something that would pass until a few minutes later they happened again.

She poked Luke's side a few times until he began mumbling incoherently.

"Luke, please Luke. This isn't the time to learn to language of Babel." Lorelai whispered to him.

"Lorelai?" Luke said as his eyes fluttered open to see his very pregnant girlfriend looking at him very scared holding her belly.

"Um, Luke. I think it's time." Lorelai tried to sound as calm as possible.

"Time? What is it time for?", Luke asked. He was really confused.

"It's time to get our groove on." Lorelai joked.

"Huh?"

"God Luke. You're slow in the morning! It's time for this baby to come out!" she motioned with her hands.

Luke jumped out of bed and started to frantically run around the room. He walked to their closet and began pulling out her clothes but then suddenly stopped and ran into the bathroom and came back in the bedroom with most of the toiletries. He dumped them into the suitcase he pulled out of the closet when he threw out the clothes.

"Um. Hun? We already packed the overnight bag over a month ago." Lorelai tried to calm him down.

Luke stopped in his tracks and looked at her as if she was a foreign alien.

"Okay. Luke. C'mere." Lorelai said softly trying to calm him down.

"Ah Jeez! I can't! We need to go! Baby is finally coming!" Luke sounded excited but terrified at the same time.

"Calm down. I should be the one freaking out here. Can you just get me out a pair of sweat pants and a sweater since it's sort of cold out?" Lorelai said slowly.

"Sure. Sure."

Luke ran to the dresser drawer and pulled out her clothes.

"Now walk over here and give me the clothes. Go wake up dad and tell him what is going on. Maybe you would want to even give Liz a heads up before we leave."

"Okay. Okay. Good idea."

Luke walked quickly out of the room but quickly came back in. He walked up to the side of the bed and placed a passionate kiss on Lorelai's lips.

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm just really excited so I'm sorry for being really crazy. I love you and bye." he said as fast as Lorelai could drink down coffee.

She shook her head and thought Man, he's going to be a wreck today.

Lorelai, Luke and William arrived at the hospital around 5:30 in the morning. They thought it would a good idea to have Liz stay at home with Jess until the town was awake and she could get a ride with Mia.

Once Lorelai was settled in her room she started to drift off to sleep until another contraction hit.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Lorelai winced in pain.

Luke hurried to her side and slip his hand in hers, which she greatly accepted.

Once the pain was over Lorelai put her head back down on the pillow trying to regain her breath.

Luke sat on the edge of the bed and pushed the hair out of her face.

"You're so beautiful." Luke remarked.

"Oh yeah. Beauty is what you see when you look at me in this state." Lorelai countered back.

"No. You are beautiful. You're even more beautiful than the day I first saw you."

"That's hard to believe. I wore my favorite Bangles tee shirt that day and I made sure I looked stunning." Lorelai teased.

"No. That's not the first time I saw you." Luke confessed.

"What?"

"I never told you this but I saw you before the day we first talked at your locker."

"When did you see me?" she was intrigued at this point.

"It was a few weeks before you came to Stars Hollow. Me and the guys went to a party up in Hartford because Kevin was going out with one of the girls. I really didn't want to go so I sat in the kitchen and watched as they all got drunk. That's when you came in. I was in back of everyone so you couldn't have seen me. But I saw you. Man did I see you." Luke began to reminisce.

Lorelai blushed.

"You had your hair down in curls and had on this blue shirt that brought out your eyes perfectly. I was about to approach you when some guy came to you and started to make you laugh. God, that laugh. I couldn't stop watching you tilt your head back and have that sparkle in your eye as you laugh."

"I can't believe you were there."

"Yeah, well. Obviously fate wanted us to be together so they gave me another chance." Luke smiled.

"Yeah. Now you're stuck with me for a while." Lorelai teased.

"I want to be stuck with you forever." Luke said seriously.

"Okay?" she was confused about his sudden talk about the future between the two of them.

"Lorelai.", Luke sighed and took her hands into his, "I want to be with you forever. Not just because of the baby but because I know that you are my rib."

"You're rib?"now she was really puzzled.

"Yeah. When I was younger my mom told me the story of Adam and Eve. My family wasn't very spiritual but we knew a few things. She said that when God made Eve he took one of Adam's ribs and made her. They turned out to be soul mates. My mom said that every little boy, before they were born gave God one of their ribs so God could make his soul mate. I think that you're my rib Lorelai." he explained.

"I think I'm you're rib too Luke." Lorelai was choked up that Luke just said something extremely beautiful but outrageously silly.

"And I want to make it official." he announced hopping off the bed.

"How? Yeah I know we're in a hospital but we're not having a weird operation to have us conjoined or anything."

"No no. That's not what I mean." he waved his hands in the air.

"Okay. Please explain with the weird rib talk.."

"I want us to get married."

"What?" She was stunned.

"Not now, not next week but I want us to get married in the future. Not because me and you are ready to have a child together but because I want to be with you forever."

"In the future?"

"Yes. After we get settled down and all is right I want us to be engaged and eventually have a wedding in a church or wherever you would want to have it."

Lorelai was silent for a few seconds until she finally said, "I would like that."

"You would?" Luke replied happily.

"I would love to." she smiled and looked into his eyes.

Luke took her face into the palm of his hands and kissed her.

Finally at 1:28 PM, Lorelai was fully dilated and ready to give birth.

"Okay, hun. You're doing great." Luke said holding his girlfriend's hand as she squeezed it and tried to see what the doctor was doing to her down there.

"No I'm not! I'm doing what anyone would do in my situation. When I'm done here and after we get married you are so going to be the one pushing a person the size of a watermelon out of your private area. Tomorrow I'm going to kick you repeatedly in the nads until you know what this feels like. I am seriously going to kill you for making me do this." Lorelai screamed at him in one breath.

"Okay. Ms. Gilmore, we just need 3 big pushes and it will all be over."

"I hate you!" Lorelai screamed at Luke but kept pushing until she heard a big cry of a baby as she felt this giant feeling of relief wash over her.

She closed her eyes and heard the doctors explaining to Luke how to cut the umbilical cord.

She then felt Luke's lips on her forehead and him whispering, "I love you" to her.

"Ms. Gilmore, I would like you to meet your new baby girl."

Lorelai opened her eyes and saw this tiny baby starring back at her. She had big blue eyes just like Luke and her and dark brown hair.

The feeling was indescribable. She was touched and ecstatic. She wanted to cry. She wanted to become a cheerleader and start to do dances around the room because that's how excited she was.

She took the baby in her arms and knew instantly that nothing could compare the feeling to anything else.

Lorelai look up at Luke and saw he had some tears in his eyes.

"Thank you, so much." she said to him before his lips crashed into hers.

When they parted they both look down at the now sleeping baby in front of them and smiled.

"Excuse me." a nurse interrupted their moment, "What would you like to name her?"

"Victor-" Lorelai started but was cut off by Luke.

"Lorelai Leigh Marie."

"Lorelai Leigh?" she asked.

"Because she looks exactly like a Lorelai and we don't want her to have her mothers exact same name do we?"

She smiled and turned back to the nurse, "Well you heard him. Lorelai Victoria Marie Danes."

"Danes?" Luke asked while smiling.

"Well she looks like a Danes to me."

After a few more hours of comotion of people coming to visit Luke, Lorelai and the new born Rory were finally able to have a moment to themselves.

After they talked about the baby some more Luke fell asleep with his arm around Lorelai's waist as she fed Rory.

Lorelai looked down at her daughter and said,

"Hey kiddo. It's me, your mom. Today is your birthday. I can't believe you finally came out of me. I have so much to teach you! You're going to learn how to get anything you want out of your daddy, what movies are the best, how to pout and so much more! I'm your mommy kid so you better listen to me even if I go crazy at times."

She looked back at Luke and at Rory and started to speak again,

"Ya know. Some people wait until they're old and gray to finally get their whole package. I only had to wait 16 years to find mine."

She kissed the baby's cheek and laid into Luke's chest holding Rory close.

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