At five forty two she gasped again. She felt a little wet and looked down at the clear puddle at her feet. "No not now!"

"Lorelai? What's wrong? Is it time?"

"But it's too early. We still have two months-Ahh!" she grimaced in pain and squeezed the hell of Luke's hand.

"Ok we are getting you to the hospital, now."

"No! There's only fifteen minutes of the contest left. I don't want to lose because of this!"

"I don't want you having our twins on the floor of the Stars Hollow High gym! Come on Lorelai. We'll win next year."

Luke waved over to Rory and Marty. They danced there way over.

"What's going on Dad?"

"It's time. We have to get to the hospital."

Rory and Marty ran out to the car and brought it out front. Luke guided Lorelai off the floor and out the door. Miss Patty could only assume that the babies were coming because there was no way on God's green earth that Lorelai would purposefully let Kirk win the Marathon.

About twenty minutes later Luke was running from Lorelai's room with ice chips flying at him and curses echoing the hallway. He tries to go back in but just retreats back into the hall. Rory feels slightly ridiculous in the hallway of the hospital wearing 1940's style clothing.

Just then a doctor and a team of nurses wheel Lorelai out of the room and Luke races to catch up with them. Rory and Marty run after them. Luke goes into the delivery room and Rory and Marty wait outside. Moments later Luke comes out holding two Polroid pictures of Rory's new siblings. Because they are premature they were taken directly to an incubator. Luke hands the pictures to Rory.

"The little girl is Audrey Avery and the little boy is Christian Lucas," Luke said. "We can go see them in a few hours."

Rory spent most of the morning making calls about the twins. Her first call was to the Gilmores.

"Hi Grandma, sorry to call so early," Rory said.

"That's all right Rory. I can only guess that with such an early morning call I have two new grandchildren?"

"That's right. Christian Lucas Danes was born at 6:43am and weighed three pounds eleven ounces. Audrey Avery Danes was born seven minutes later and weighed three pounds three ounces," Rory told her grandmother.

"Richard!" Rory could hear Emily yell. "Richard! Lorelai had her babies! Just a second Rory! Damn it Richard! Pick up the extension!"

Once her grandfather was on the line Rory repeated the information. They promised to be down within the hour to visit Lorelai and the twins. After her grandparents Rory called Miss Patty who promised to spread the word around town.

Marty had gone back to school and had promised to call Rory later. Rory went into her mother's room and joined her new family. Lorelai was cradling little Christian and Luke had Audrey. Rory could tell already that Audrey was going to be a Daddy's girl. She felt that slight pang of jealousy.

"Rory would you like to hold your brother and sister?" Lorelai asked.

"Of course Mom."

Rory took her baby sister in her right arm and her baby brother in her left. "Mom they are so tiny. Was I this small?"

"Not as little as they are but you were tiny," Lorelai said.

Just then a whole group of their friends and relatives came pouring into the room. Sookie and Jackson, Lane, Michel, Miss Patty, Babbette and Morey, even Taylor was among the Stars Hollowians. Richard and Emily were caught in the middle of them. Along with a nurse who had come to take the twins back up to the NICU (Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit.)

Because they were two months early and had such a low birth weight their doctor wanted to monitor them for a few days.

Later that day, both Luke and Rory fell fast asleep in the chairs in Lorelai's room. They had both been up for over 24 hours. Lorelai looked over at her daughter and husband and smiled. Her whole package had just gotten bigger. She was happy.