For those of you who don´t already know the chapter, here is chapter 28. From the reviews I got for it until now, I know that you are all waiting for some drama, or at least the most of you. But I decided not to change this one, so you just have to wait, maybe drama will come...

The names Meeko and Barney are actually the names of my own guinea-pig (Meeko) and my rabbit (Barney). Barney is kind of sick at the moment and I went to the vet with him today. He needed a syringe (what kind of word is that? Never heard it, it´s strange!) and will need two more next week and the week after.

Then I wanted to say that the ssssooooo written words or sentences are Lorelai´s thoughts, just in case it´s not clear.

And then I wanted to ask what this whole disclaimer thing is about? I mean, for me it´s logical tht when you post a story at a side called "fanfiction" and you are a "fan" that you don´t own the show because then you wouldn´t be a fan, but the owner and you would not write here, but for the show. So where is the logic in that? I can just guess that this is another stupid american rule (sorry guys, but sometimes your laws are just too funny!), like the one that forces to place a sign on the door of the bathroom in the hardrock-cafe which says: No drugs or nuclear weapons allowed". When we saw it we laughed our asses of! So funny! We took pictures of that sign when a group of Americans came in and they really could not understand why we laughed about it and found it extraordinary, even took pics of it! Incredible, really...incredible!

But now on with story...

Chapter 28: Meeko and Barney

"Mommy, if they are cute, can I then have one?" William asked the next afternoon while he and Lorelai walked over to Kirsten´s house. William had finally succeeded in convincing herto visit the guinea-pigs with him.

"William, I promised you we will visit the babies, but you can´t have one. You are too small to take care of a pet and your father is not willing to do it." Lorelai said and rang the bell at Kirsten´s house.

"You can do it, mommy! Please!" he begged and started to pout.

"I taught you this pout that you can get your father to be your willing slave. But it´s not working with the Queen of pouts, meaning me. So drop it!" she said but had to smile. He was just too cute for words with his straight, but sticking out brown hair, his huge blue eyes, his dark green jacket and the kaki trousers, this little boy not as high as her hips. He looked like pouting Mini-Luke. Just that Luke wasn´t pouting. She leaned down and picked him up, resting him on her right hip, before she kissed him on the forehead.

"Lorelai, William, hi!" Kirsten smiled when she opened the door and stepped aside.

"Hi, Kirsten. William was bugging me the whole day about the guinea-pig-babies, so I thought now would be a good time to look at them while the twins are asleep. Or is it a bad time?" Lorelai asked with a fake smile on her face. She had gotten pretty used to wearing one around Kirsten.

And when you´re saying´yes´now, disappointing my son, I will throw your clothes out on the street the next time you come over to wash them. Lorelai thought, the whole scenario already playing in her head.

"No, now is perfect. Honor is in her room, she has the guinea-pigs there. Come on, I´ll show you her room, Will! Lorelai there is coffee in the kitchen!" Kirsten said and took William from Lorelai before she could react. For a second she just stood there, then walked into the kitchen and poured herself a cup of coffee.

At least I´ll get one cup back, of the thousands she drank of my coffee without asking!

"I´m sorry, it´s still a little chaotic here. We just finished this floor, the rest will have to wait. But upstairs is just a guest-room, another bathroom and another one I don´t know what to do with it yet. Have I already shown you the house?" Kirsten asked while pouring herself another cup of coffee and refilling Lorelai´s.

"No, you haven´t" Lorelai just said. But why should YOU show ME the house? You have my husband here all the time, you sure don´t need me! She thought sarcastically.

"I´m sorry. Luke is working his butt of here all the time and I haven´t even shown you around. I´m really sorry!" Kirsten let out an embarrassed laugh. Then, to Lorelai´s big surprise she lay one arm around her shoulders and pulled her out of the kitchen.

"Come on, I´ll show you!" Kirsten smiled.

Get your hands off of me, stupid bitch! Planing on a three-some or what?

"That´s really nice of you" Lorelai smiled back.

"So, this is, as you can see, the living-room, sans shelves, because they haven´t arrived yet. But I´m planing on putting them up on this wall.You mean Luke will put them up Then I will buy an armchair and place it under the window, so I´ll have a nice view when I´m reading. For what does somebody need a nice view while reading? You plan on ogling Luke when he´s in the garden, I know that. So don´t tell me that shit about reading- then here we have the dinning-room, which is a lot smaller then yours, but it´s sufficient for me and Honor. If we have guest we can add some chairs and it´s fine. The kitchen you have already seen. So, then I can show you my dressing-room. I can´t believe that I´m actually having one! I finally can put all my shoes up, so that I can see them, can hang up all my dresses and shirts, so I won´t have to iron them every time I wanna wear them. Luke hung up this huge mirror for me, so that I can see the whole outfit. And he gave me the idea with the lamps around it, which are working like spotlights when I watch myself.My idea! I´ve had it first! I win! And then, last but not least: My bedroom. - Now it´s getting interesting. I wonder if she has a "I love Butch Danes" poster over her bed!" Kirsten finished her tour and opened the door to her bedroom. The two women walked into the white room, with blue curtains and blue covers on the bed. A T-shirt lay on the bed, a big one, one for men. Lorelai stared at it, while she was going through Luke´s shirts in her mind.

"It was Dan´s shirt." Kirsten said when she saw Lorelai starring at the shirt.

"Dan?" That name didn´t ring a bell.

"Daniel, my husband." Kirsten said very quietly, looking down at the floor.

"Oh, Kirsten, I´m sorry!" Lorelai said. Maybe the first time she said something to Kirsten and really meant it.

"Why are you apologizing? It´s not your fault. It´s not your fault, it´s not my fault, it wasn´t his fault. It´s no-one´s fault." Kirsten said, louder again, sat down on the bed and pickedup the shirt.

"You know at first it still smelled like him. When I wore it, it was like he would still be there, coming back any second. Like he was just on a business-trip. But then I woke up, every morning, reaching over and his side of the bed was still cold and empty." Lorelai said down next to her, a wave of sympathy washing over her.

"I don´t know how often I washed this shirt. But one day, it didn´t smell like him anymore. I got crazy and frantic. I yelled at Honor that it didn´t smell like him anymore, like she could had changed it! Then I used his cologne and put it on the shirt, but it wasn´t the same. I had a complete breakdown that day. I threw out all of Dan´s clothes, then ran to Freddy´s room, ripping the posters and pictures off the wall. And when I saw the fear in Honor´s eyes when she saw my doing that I knew I had to do something. So I started a therapy. It was the best thing to do." Kirsten said and put down the shirt and reached over to her night-table. She handed Lorelai a picture in a frame without looking at it. It showed a little boy and one could tell he was Honor´s twin. The boy was playing soccer and Lorelai thought that she had a similar picture of William on her desk in her office.

"You can maybe recover from losing your husband, but you´ll never get over losing your child. This loss is with you, no matter what you´re doing or where you are. There is always something which reminds me of him. The cartoon he loved so much on TV, the team he liked or something so simple like watching another child eating ice-cream." Kirsten was crying now. She wasn´t sobbing, but tears ran down her cheeks, staring down on the floor in front of her. Lorelai still sat beside her, not sure what she could or should do.

"Im so grateful I still have Honor, but there will be always a part missing. When Freddy died, a part of me died with him and nothing will bring him back. When Honor is running past a door and I just get a glance of her for a second, sometimes I think it´s him. Then I run after her, just to discover that it was her. That this isn´t just a nightmare and I was allowed to wake up, but I´m still stuck in it." Now Kirsten began to sob. Lorelai put the frame down and pulled Kirsten in a hug. Kirsten accepted it, hugging her back, while she was still sobbing.

" You have to enjoy every day with your family and your children, be grateful for everything you see them doing and if it´s ruining your best clothes or crushing your windows. Because everything you see them doing could be the last thing. I wasn´t aware of that. I wasn´t aware of that someday it could all be over, just like that. Without a warning, without an illness you can fight, or even the chance tosay goobye." she cried while Lorelai still held her. Kirsten needed another minute to compose herself, then pulled back, wiped her tears off with the back of her hands.

"I´m sorry! I didn´t mean to start bawling like a baby here in front of you!" Kirsten said embarrassed.

"It´s okay. There´s nothing you need to be sorry for. I don´t think I could go on if something would happen to Luke or one of the kids" Lorelai said and gave Kirsten´s arm a light squeez.

"That´s what Luke said" Kirsten told her.

"You talked with him about that?" Lorelai asked surprised. In her mind they were always laughing, joking and flirting.

"Yeah. He put away Freddy´s things for me. You know, sort through them, help me deciding what to keep and what to give away. I couldn´t have done it by myself. I needed three times to get it done, without having a little break-down again. Luke knows how it is to lose somebody and I thought he could give me an advice how to deal with it in a better, another way, and he told me, that yes, he had lost his parents and it had been hard. But he got over it, after years, decades and with your help. But he said that if something would happen to your or the kids, he knows that he would never get over it.". Lorelai didn´t know what to say to that and just stared at Kirsten.

"You want another cup of coffee?" Kirsten asked her with a little smile.

"Coffee? Always!" Lorelai smiled back and they walked back into the kitchen.

They chatted for another hour about the renovations, the kids, movies and music until William walked slowly into the kitchen, a small guinea-pig in his hand, which he held carefully, not to crush it.

"Mommy look! A baby!" he whispered and walked over to her and showed her the little pet. It had a black head and back, but the middle was brown. It had little brown points on his nose. The guinea-pig lay in his small hands, trusting William completely.

"Uuuuh, how cute! William look how his little nose is moving up and down and these little paws! Have you seen those little paws?" she cooed and smiled at William, who smiled back. She used one finger to stroke it and when her finger was in front of it´s nose, the pet bit her, but not hard. She made a face like she would start to cry, causing William to laugh.

"Mommy, he thinks your finger is a carrot!" he giggled. Kirsten and Honor, who was also holding one pig, also started to laugh. Lorelai looked at Kirsten and joined them.

"So you really wanna have it, huh?" she asked William. He looked at the little pet,then at his mother and nodded.

"Okay, you win! But it´s your duty to feed it every day! You can´t trust your mommy with this. I will forget about it!" she said.

"But mommy it´s a baby! Did you forget me when I was a baby?"he asked stunned.

"You my little boy, were such a screamer that I couldn´t forget about you if I had wanted to. And because my breasts would have killed me, but forget about that last comment!" she said. He wrinkled his forehead and lay his head to the side.

"Is there something else, my son?" she said and imitated his expression.

"Mommy, Honor said that Meeko would be lonely when I would take him alone. I´m in kindergarten all day and I can´t pay a nanny and he has no grandma and no grandpa" William told her.

"Which means?"

"We have to take his brother Barney, too!" William said and smiled. It was one of those million-watt-smiles he had inherited from her and although the pout was not working with his mother, this surely was.

"Fine. But you´ll explain this to your father!" she smiled back.

They took the two guinea-pigs and some hay food for them together with a book about guinea-pigs and left.

"I´m sure Luke will kill me when he sees our two new family members!" Lorelai laughed when she was standing on Kirsten´s porch.

"Yeah and maybe me in the process because I gave them to you. Could you warn me, maybe give me a call or something before he runs into the house and attacks me? It would be nice to at least have the chance to build barricades!"

"I think our desperate screams will be enough to warn you! Bye Kirsten!Bye Honor!" Lorelai laughed and walked back over to her own house.

"After we have these two moved in we will work on that pout of yours and then we perfect the one´s of your cute sisters. We will surely need them when your daddy will come home!" Lorelai said to William and he started to pout immediately.

"Good?" he asked her while she opened the door.

"Good, but not perfect. A little less drama!"

"Now perfect?"

"Very close!But..."

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