Here is my, or your next chapter, as you like. It takes place a day before Luke´s birthday.

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Chapter 20: Little monkey

"You know, every time we come here I can´t believe that you didn´t bring me here for such a long time. You always talked about "a little cabin" and this thing might be bigger than the crap- shack! I think it looks a bit like the house of Frank Farmer´s dad in Bodyguard."

"I know and you are scared that your sister, the one you don´t have, I might add, will hire a killer to shoot you because you are prettier and nicer and everybody loves you!" Luke finished her rant. He knew it by heart.

"Exactly. But because you are here to save me and our kids are too small to use a boat by themselves, I feel a lot better." she grinned and hopped out of the car. She walked to the door behind and opened it, then unbuckled Laila´s seat-belt and took her out of her seat while Luke did the same with with Sara and William. While William and Laila were asleep, Sara was still awake. Luke placed her on the ground and took one of the bags out of the car.

Luke had wanted a save car and Lorelai had wanted a cool and pretty car and no Mini-Van, so they had bought a VW Touareg after the birth of the twins and they both loved the car. Luke still had his truck, because it wasn´t that old, so Lorelai was lucky and drove the new car most of the time.

"Daddy waiiiit!" Sara yelled when Luke walked towards the house. It was completely surrounded by forest and a small lake in front of it. Luke waited for Sara and she clenched his jeans in her little fist while they walked inside.

Luke put the bag down, then walked into one of the bedrooms and lay William down on a bed, took off his jacket and shoes and covered him with a blanket. Sara was still beside him and he picked her up when he walked outside and closed the door.

Lorelai had done the same with Laila and was already unpacking the bag.

"I get the rest" Luke told her and placed Sara back on the ground and wanted to walk outside.

"Daddy, with you!" Sara squeaked and hugged his leg.

"Oh, baby it will take me forever to get the bags out when you help me. Why don´t you help your mother?" he said and played with her ponytail.

"Nooo, Daddy!" she whined and started to pout. Luke looked at her, then at Lorelai who was grinning.

"Lorelai!" he said in a pleading voice. They both knew he wasn´t able to refuse Sara when she was pouting.

"Baby help me to unpack this stuff. Maybe we will find some hidden chocolate! That would be great huh?" she still grinned and held her hand out for Sara. The girl looked at her, still hugging Luke´s leg, considering it.

"You brought chocolate?" Luke asked Lorelai with raised eyebrows.

"Noooo, daddy!" Sara said the and hugged Luke´s leg tighter.

"Traitor!" Lorelai said and also started to pout.

"Ah jeez! I get the bags!" Luke said when he saw the pout on Lorelai´s face and rolled his eyes.

"And you: Stay with your mother!" he told Sara. She looked up, checking if he was really angry, then sat down on his foot, still hugging his leg.
Luke just sighed and walked outside while Sara giggled. He walked to the car, opened the trunk then picked up Sara before he took out the first bag. Sara squirmed a bit in his arms, wanting that he put her down again.

"Hey stop that! You can´t ride on my foot when I carry the bags. Whether I will stumble and we will fall or you will hit your head on the bag. So stop it or I will leave you inside with mommy and not all the pouting in the world will change my mind then!" he said and held her away a bit to look at her so that she would see that he was not joking. Sara just nodded and then slung her arms around Luke´s neck and her legs around his abdomen. Luke held her with the left hand and carried the bag in with the other.

"Oooh, you found a little monkey outside?" Lorelai grinned when he walked inside.

"Yes, a little pouting Sara-monkey," Luke smiled and used his other arm now too, to hug his daughter, after he had put down the bag. Sara´s head rested a few more seconds on Luke´s shoulder, then it shot up.

"No monkey!" she protested.

"Huh, the little monkey can speak!" Lorelai laughed and walked over to Luke and Sara.

"No monkey, mummy!" Sara said again.

"What are you then?" Luke asked her.

"Sara" she just said.

"Do you know a Sara, Luke?I know a William and a Laila, but a Sara I can´t remember!" Lorelai added and pretended to think about it.

"I remember that there was a little baby once, named Sara. But I haven´t seen her for some time. She was really tiny and pretty."

"Me baby Sara!" the girl yelled looking scared at her parents.

"You are my baby Sara? But you are so big! You can´t be her!" Lorelai shook her head.

"Daddyyy!" Sara whined and hugged him again.

"She called me daddy. I think that is our little baby, Lorelai." Luke smiled and kissed Sara´s hair.

"When she is screaming for daddy all the time it must be her!" Lorelai also smiled and first kissed Luke, then Sara´s head.

"Come on baby, we´re getting the other bags!" Luke said and walked out once again with Sara in his arms.

By the time the last, the fifth bag was inside Sara was asleep in Luke´s arms and he also tucked her in. Then he helped Lorelai to unpack. They wanted to finish it as long as the kids were asleep and not running around between their feet.

"I´m glad Rory was a mummy-girl" Lorelai said while she put their clothes in the dresser.

"Huh?" Luke made and looked up from the kids clothes he was sorting and putting on three different piles, according to which kid they belonged.

"I said I´m glad that Rory was a mummy-girl. Otherwise she would have missed a dad so much more. With Sara this whole raising-her-alone wouldn´t have worked. Whenever she is whiny, tired, sad or scared she wants her daddy."

"It´s just because she is so much like you" Luke shrugged.

It was now on Lorelai to say "huh?"

"Well, you know her mother also always wants me when she is whiny, tired, sad or scared. And she is just like her mother, so no surprise."
"I´m never whiny!" Lorelai protested with a smile.

"Don´t even start this discussion! You know you are! Our son is not as whiny as you are in the morning!" Lorelai just grinned, then went on putting the clothes in the dresser.

"So and what are we doing now? Lorelai asked when she had finished and slung her arms around Luke´s abdomen from behind, resting her head against his back.

"I don´t know. What do you want to do?" he asked her and turned around.

"Hug you!" she answered and slung her arms around him again and lay her head on his shoulder this time. Luke just chuckled and pressed his lips against her forehead. When he pulled away she sighed and hugged him tighter.

"Hey, you´re okay?" he asked and looked down at her.

"Yes, I´m just a bit sentimental today."

"Why?"

"I don´t know."

"Lorelai, you aren´t pregnant again, are you?" he asked with huge eyes.

"God, no!" now she chuckled.

"I´m just glad that we can spend some time with our kids here alone. I even turned off my cellphone because I don´t want to hear anything from anybody else. I just want to be with you. After all what happened in the last time. We were arguing a lot. First about the kids, then about Chris and I hated it. I hate fighting with you."

"I don´t like it either!" Luke said truthfully.

"Then we just won´t argue again. Never ever!" Lorelai said like a little child and again Luke had to smile.

"I don´t think that that will work as much as I would like it. I mean in general we start bickering with your first cup of coffee in the morning and stop with your last before we go to bed."

"Yeah, because you are mean and want to take my precious coffee from me!"

"It will kill you!"

"It keeps me alive!"

"And there we go!" Luke said and rolled his eyes. When he looked down at Lorelai she grinned, then started to laugh and he joined her.

"Ok, I think the not-arguing case is closed. No chance solving it!" she grinned.

"So, again: What do you wanna do?" Luke asked

"Why don´t we just cuddle together on the couch as long as our little monsters are asleep?"

"Sounds good" he smiled and together they walked into the living room and sat down on the large couch in front of the fireplace. Luke lay back against the armrest and Lorelai lay down beside him, her head on his chest.

"Mmmh, I like this! The best things are always happening when it snows!" she said.

"It´s not snowing"

"But it will be snowing soon. I can smell it"

"All you can smell in here is the burned wood in the fireplace." he told her her.

"Grump!" she said and pinched his cheek.

"Ah jeez, would you stop that!" he said and took her hand in his, to keep her from pinching him.

"I have to say it again: Grump!"

"am not!"

"are too!" she smiled.

"When you told William that he was just as grumpy as me he asked me in the evening what you meant by it. And then he wanted to know how old I am because you called me an "old grump". I told him and he said "Wow, you´re really old daddy! But I don´t mind" he was so cute."

"You´re not only an old grump you´re also a big old softy!" Lorelai laughed.

"Yes, but that will change immediately if you tell anyone."

"I won´t. I love that you are so sweet just for me and the kids and the gruff diner-owner for the rest of the world. But I always knew that by the way you smiled at me"

"So you figured me out even before we were together, huh?"

"Kind of. But there are still things I don´t know and maybe never will. That´s what keeps you mysterious."

"I am not mysterious. You can ask me everything and I will answer you. All you have to do is ask and the mystery is gone"

"How boring!" she grinned and kissed him.

"But one thing I want to know: If you could, would you turn back the time?"

"What?"

"I mean would you change something in the past if you had the opportunity to?" she asked and looked up at him. He thought about it for some seconds.

"Mmmmh, maybe. Well, yeah...I think so" he said then.

"And what?"

" I think I wouldn´t buy Liz that damn ice-cream to start with. And then I would drag her home and lock her in after she had Jess. I would ask you out right after you would give me the horoscope and ask you to marry me on our first date. Of course, you would say yes. And I would invite your parents to the wedding."

"Huh, so you would marry me ten years earlier? You´re aware that Will would be 13 then by now and the twins 12. He would probably have his first crush on a girl and the girls would be bugging us that we would allow them to wear make-up." she grinned.

"I am so not looking forward to it. If I could decide it they would stay this small forever." he smiled back.

"So you like the dirty diapers and the whining along with that we never have a minute to ourselves during the day?"

"I think you know what I mean. And if I am not mistaken we have some minutes to ourselves right now."

"Yeah, but we can´t use them efficiently because one of them could wake up any second and until now we succeeded to avoid that one of them walks in on us!" she told him and kissed his cheek.

"Until now? It will definitely stay this way!" Luke groaned.

" Don´t be so sure about it. That happens faster then you know"

"Did Rory ever catch you?" he asked surprised.

"No, but just because we had the "no boys allowed" rule. I mean there was nothing happening. But I think all parents get caught by their kids!" she told him

"I don´t think so!"

"Don´t tell me you never surprised your parents!"

"Well, no. I didn´t."

"Liz did"

"What?" he asked and sat up staring at Lorelai.

"You know we had a little girl-talk once and she told me a story were she heard something from your parents bedroom and thought your parents were hurt or something. I think she said she was four or so. Well, she walked in to check, the rest you can imagine. But she said that she had no idea what was going on then, just was confused because especially your dad must have been extremely embarrassed." she laughed.

"Oh god! I can not believe this!"

"What that your sister was walking in on them or that your parents were having sex? I mean they had two kids, so you should have assumed..."

"Ok, stop right there! I don´t want to think about this!"he said and made a disgusted face.

"Why should you be in a better position than I am?" she asked.

"You mean you walked in on your parents?" his expression didn´t change.

"You know when you snug out at night and your parents think you are sleeping you sometimes hear things, you really don´t wanna hear. Oh my god and when my parents reconciled after their separation my father even had the urge to share this part of their making up with me."

"What?"

"Yes, I asked when they reconciled and my mother just said "Yesterday", but my father went on "and last night and this morning". I mean I was shocked, but Rory was standing next to me and I think she didn´t recover for weeks"

"This talk gets worse by the second. I think we should think about getting a room somewhere."

"No way, sweety. I think it might be enough to just lock the door. I mean there is a reason why I wanted this huge bed and the Jacuzzi in the bathroom." she grinned and pulled him back down.

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