I am so so so sorry that it has taken me so long AGAIN to update. I really am trying; its just life gets in the way sometimes. Please forgive me. I know I made you all worried about William, but honestly I wouldn't do anything to harm him. I had to put this chapter in, but if you don't like it please let me know cause I would much rather delete it and put another chapter that is far better, up in its place. Also this chapter was written quickly in a lull at work so it hasn't been checked properly, but I couldn't wait to post it. Thank you to all of you who are still reading and reviewing. The last chapter, even though in my opinion it was one of my worst, was actually my most reviewed, so please keep them coming.

Disclaimer: I had a dream once that I was Lorelai, but that is the closest I have ever come to having anything to do with Gilmore girls or the characters.

When Luke and Lorelai arrived at the hospital, they were greeted by the sight of no less than 3 new doctors hovering over their son. It looked like he was being moved to a new room. Panic immediately set in. What could possibly be so wrong with their newborn son that new doctors would need to see him?

Lorelai rushed right over and jumped straight in with the questions.

Lorelai: excuse me, what is going on here?

Dr Moore: and you are?

Lorelai: that is my son! Now tell me what the hell is going in here!

Emily: Lorelai!

Lorelai: mom?

Emily: do you have to raise your voice at these wonderful doctors that came all this way to look after your son?

Lorelai: what? Figure you would be involved. How… how did you know, why are you here? Why are they here?

Emily: your grandmother was a huge contributor to this hospital Lorelai. When your father phoned to see that her money was being put to good use, he was congratulated on the arrival of his new grandson but they were sorry that he wasn't in better health. Do you know how we felt finding out about yet another of the big events in you life from a stranger.

Lorelai: they had no right to tell you. I didn't want this to happen, I didn't want you involved.

Emily: Lorelai these are the best doctors I could find. They will take great care of your son.

Lorelai: William, his name is William

Emily: excuse me?

Lorelai: I want you to call him by his name.

Emily: ok, they will take great care of William

Luke who had been quietly standing over his son decided to put his own opinion out there.

Luke: Mrs Gilmore, as much as we…… appreciate what you are doing for us, for William, we would much rather be the ones to make the decisions in his life.

Emily: you weren't making good decisions, if you were you would have had all these doctors in here already looking after your … after William.

Lorelai: the doctors here in the hospital are some of the best around mom. Do you honestly think I would leave William in their care if I didn't know for sure that he would be safe?

Emily: you can be so stubborn sometimes. Why can't you just accept my help for once?

Lorelai: because mom, your help always comes when it's not needed or welcome. Plus your help NEVER comes without an ulterior motive

Emily: what!

Lorelai: you heard me. You know good and well that you always help to get something. When you helped pay for Chilton that could not be enough, you had to make us come to dinner every Friday. You had an ulterior motive.

Emily: I wanted to be a little more involved in your lives

Lorelai: then stop butting in where you are not welcome and just let us involve you where we want

Emily: if I left that up to you I wouldn't be involved at all

Lorelai: you would be involved

Emily: like I was involved in being informed that you had given birth

Lorelai: i'm sorry that you hadn't been INFORMED yet, we've been just a tad busy worrying whether our son was going to live or not. He couldn't breathe when he was born. I had some complications. So i'm sorry if I didn't immediately wake up and phone you. I had other things on my mind

Emily: you had complications? What happened?

Lorelai: nothing you need to worry yourself with. I am fine and William is on his way to being fine. They want to take the breathing tube out tonight.

Emily: Lorelai ……

While the doctors continued to look over William, Luke walked over to Lorelai and laced his hand in Lorelai's

Luke: Mrs Gilmore, will you excuse us for a moment, I need to speak with Lorelai alone.

Emily: if you must. I will go track down Richard.

Luke: thank you

Emily made a quick exit and headed in the direction she last saw Richard.

Lorelai: can you believe her, butting in to our lives, no matter how hard we try to keep her out she always finds her way in.

Luke: I know you don't like taking her help but if it's going to help our son then shouldn't we accept this gesture.

Lorelai: no, she is doing this for some reason that only she knows. I don't want William dragged into this.

Luke: this is her grandson, whether she was happy about his existence or who the father is, she cares and this gesture shows that. She wants him to live just like we do and if that means letting these doctors help him then we should.

Lorelai: William is doing ok with Dr Shepard and the nurses here looking after him. If and I am only saying if there is something wrong that our doctors cant fix then we can use hers. I am the mother; I want to look after him

Luke: ok, when you mom and dad come back we will ask them to leave.

Lorelai: ok……. I can't believe they found out about William

Luke: they have connections, what can we say.

15 minutes later, both Emily and Richard returned to find William still in the old room and the doctors were gone

Richard: hello Lorelai, congratulations

Lorelai: hey dad, thanks

Richard: you too Luke

Luke: thanks you Mr Gilmore

Richard: please call me Richard; by extension you are part of this family now

Luke: well ok then, thank you Richard

Emily: what is going on here?

Lorelai: mom!

Emily: where are the doctors, why hasn't William been moved to his private room?

Lorelai: he doesn't need a private room mom; he is tiny and confined to his bed. The private room should go to some adult not to William. He is fine where he is. And we sent the doctors home. We don't need them; William is doing well without them.

Emily: you are being too damn stubborn Lorelai

Lorelai: but I hold that right. This is my son. Lukes, and mine we have say over his medical treatment not you. We are happy with what we have here. Please just accept that and move on.

Emily: move on! Move on! Lorelai the treatment William receives now will affect his future. If he doesn't get the best now then what will that mean for his future.

Lorelai: it will mean he will be like every other middle class premature baby that has ever come through these doors. Not everyone can afford all these fancy doctors and they are still fine. Some are more than fine and gone on to do great things in their lives.

Luke: we really do appreciate the fact that you are doing what you think is the best thing for William, but please just let us be.

Richard: Emily, lets leave them alone with their son

Emily: Richard….

Richard: Emily please, you are making too much out of nothing here. Our grandson is alive and that is all that matters. Now please can we go home?

Lorelai: you can come back and visit I promise, we just need to make decisions alone.

Emily: fine. Good-bye Lorelai, Luke

Luke: good bye Mrs Gilmore

Richard: oh, uh…. may I ask, how did you get the name William?

Lorelai: he is named after Luke late father

Richard: that's nice. See you later

Lorelai: goodbye dad, goodbye mom. I'm sorry

Emily: yeah…. I'm sure you will be

Emily and Richard turned and left the hospital.

Lorelai: what was that supposed to mean?

Luke: what?

Lorelai: when I said I was sorry she said and I quote 'i'm sure you will be'

Luke: that's just your mother being your mother

Lorelai': she is trying to guilt me into using her doctors by playing on my insecurity that something might go wrong with William.

Luke: if something is going to go wrong, it will go wrong whether we have your mom's doctors or Dr Shepard looking after him

Lorelai: I guess.

Luke: now come, lets go sit with William

Lorelai: I hope he won't remember this

Luke: i'm sure he won't.

Luke and Lorelai took up a seat by the side of Williams's bed and sat in silence. He looked so peaceful. They were both still very tired, as they hadn't gotten around to resting before they returned to the hospital. Good thing too, otherwise who knows what might have happened with her parents. Lorelai lazily lent back in Luke's embrace and closed her eyes. They just say listening to the machines helping their son with his breathing, hoping that the doctors were right and that the tubes could come out later that day. They knew they were lucky that he was alive, so they focused on that and fell asleep.

OK! So there is chapter 22. I seriously hope you liked it and that you are all still going to return and carry on reading. I am struggling a bit with this story and i'm not sure how to get to the end I want. I will keep doing what I am doing and just writing what comes to mind. It might not get me to the ending I want, but it might get me to an end.

Thanks you all so much again for reading, let's hope all 91 of you with accounts that have put me on alert can review as well as the anonymous people cause I seriously need a pick me up.

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