"Okay that ones off the list." Jess said. "Cady?"
"No."
"Caitlin?" Jess offered.
"No." Rory said after a moment.
"Calista?" Jess read from the name book they were currently reading through.
"No. Nice and normal remember." Rory reminded.
"What was wrong with Caitlin?"
"I just don't like it. What's next?"
"Let me try and find something normal in between the Calypso's and California's." Jess scanned down the list. "Cara?"
"No."
"Carla?"
"No it makes me think of that barmaid from Cheers." Rory said as she pushed the dinner door open.
"I'm guessing that's a no to Carly as well, Caroline or Carolyn?"
"No, no and no."
"Still no luck?" Lorelai asked.
"Not yet." Rory replied.
"She's said no to all of the A's and B's as well." Jess sighed.
"How did you class go?" Lorelai asked.
"If the woman told me to breathe once more I was going to hit her."
"I have bruises to prove it." Jess rubbed his arm.
"Broken hands, bruises all things to come." Lorelai told her.
"Casey?" Jess offered reading the next name on the list.
"No and no Cassie's either."
"So basically we should stop looking at names beginning with C as well."
"Good guess."
"You'll figure something out." Lorelai told him.
"In the next two weeks?" Rory asked.
"You can always call her baby for a while after so you can figure it out." Lorelai suggested.
"We're going upstairs to argue our way through the D section, I'll see you tomorrow Mom." Rory told her.
"Night hun."
"Night Lorelai." Jess said before he followed Rory up the stairs.
GG
They made it through to the K's Rory dismissing every suggestion that Jess pulled out of the book.
"Is there a name you actually do like?" Jess asked.
"We were supposed to figure something out together." Rory reminded him.
"As long as we go along with the reasons we ruled certain names out, I can live with most things as long as they fit the reasonable category."
"Are you sure you don't want to keep going through the book?" Rory asked.
"Not if it will make this whole process simpler."
"You really don't care what we name her?"
"As long as it's not some crazy name, like I said go ahead."
"Why?"
"Because you're doing all the hard work, I think you should have a bigger say in it." He shrugged.
Rory didn't say anything.
"Ror, I know you've had something picked out in the back of your mind since you found out you were pregnant, just go with it." Jess told her.
"How about we call her Lorelai?"
"How did I not see that coming?" Jess smiled, he knew that if it was a girl she was always going to end up being called Lorelai. "I thought you didn't like Lola or Lori."
"I hadn't finished.
"Sorry."
"We call her Lorelai Elizabeth and call her Libby to avoid any confusion."
"You want to name her after my mother too?" Jess questioned.
"My Mom and family tradition and your mother. What do you think?"
"I can live with Libby."
"And the Lorelai Elizabeth part?" Rory asked.
"Ror, I knew you were going to want to call her Lorelai since the moment you told me you were pregnant if she was a girl."
"Then why did we go through all those books?"
"Because you could have surprised me and picked something else. But I like it."
"Okay, she has a name." Rory patted her stomach.
TBC