Rory smiled. Her first smile ever since- she couldn't even remember the last time she truly smiled. She headed toward Jess and hugged him tightly.
"Thank you. Thank you so much." She whispered into his ear.
"Hey, hello! Injured person here needing coffee before I start to wilt and slowly lose all my energy. Soon I'll be growing a white long beard. I'll have wrinkles all over." Suddenly she gasped loudly before wailing loudly in pretend- sobs, "And I'll have a wrinkled butt?RORY. I thought you had coffee. You lied to me and now I'm going to grow old rapidly just because of you."
Lorelai's loud whining was heard by everyone.
Some nurses were shaking their head in frustration. She's one of the difficult ones, they concluded silently in their heads.
Rory quickly released herself from their hug and shook her head with a wide grin on her face.
"God, Rory, run quick. Get her coffee before she drives us all mad with frustration."
Rory turned to run, with one last quick hug she turned and ran madly. Something the Gilmore girls were not famous for doing- exercising. Suddenly Luke appeared in front of her, armed with 4 cups of coffee. She was saved. She grabbed a cup from him saying thank you and ran quickly towards her mom's room.
"Here, here. I've got it."She quickly said as she slid into the room, breathing in and out deeply to try and catch her breath.
"You ran! How could you run? You know that we do not run no matter what." Lorelai grinned at the coffee before her and gulped it down as fast as she could."Ah the elixir of life. Warm, sweet liquid. I NEED MORE."
"Lorelai! You're at a hospital. Use your inside voice not your outside voice. I thought your parents would've told you that when you were younger obviously you need a reminder."Luke became frustrated. Lorelai was whining like a bratty five-year old, if not worse.
Lorelai was about to reply with a smart remark but thought twice about it when her eyes caught sight of more cups of joy. She was about to try her shot at sweet talking her way to the coffee when Luke handed her one to shut her up.
In a few seconds she downed the cup of joy and looked expectantly at Luke
"No more, Lorelai. The rest are for Rory. Don't you dare think of stealing them from her."
Lorelai pouted and stared hard at the side of her bed trying to force out some tears.
"Darn, I think I lost my special power."She mumbled grumpily as she watched Rory gulp down her two cups of joy, just as she did a while ago.
Rory missed this. She missed watching her mom beg Luke for more coffee. She missed being with her mom. She felt so happy remembering that her mom had forgiven her.
Jess entered with a clipboard of the patients details and began, "Lorelai listening to your loud, but very amusing, speedy recovery, I will allow you to be discharge in two days. We just have to make sure the wound is secure and that you are fit enough to be discharged. Jess grinned at her. Also, you don't have to worry about us keeping you hear longer then the two days. In fact we might decide to discharge you tomorrow. You haven't been a good little patient Lorelai. Many of the staff will be rejoicing once you have left the building. And I don't think I will have to worry about seeing you again, seeing as how everyone will be praying very hard for your safety in order to never have to see you here again.EVER."
"Why?" Lorelai questioned with her voice dripping with fake innocence."What did I ever do to them? She sniffed, pretending to be hurt. Nah I'm glad I'll be out of here. This means that I should be able to return to my baby tomorrow right?"
"Yes, Lorelai. If everything goes smoothly and if we don't get unexpected-"he stopped to look Lorelai in the eye ," tantrums from a certain someone."