Luke paced the floor of his and Lorelai's room, rocking Lauren in his arms. It was 2:30 a.m. and they had only successfully gotten her to keep quiet twice. Lorelai was downstairs with Will, who occassionally woke up to Lauren's cries. They took shifts taking care of each baby. They were both exhausted and wanted to do nothing else but sleep.

Lauren's condition had only worsened. Her temperature was still the same, but now she kept tugging at her ears. And everytime Lorelai tried feeding her, she would pull away after only a few sips. Eight-thirty seemed so far away at the moment. They were both used to lack of sleep because of the twins, but it didn't look as if they'd be sleeping at all tonight. The only way Lorelai was holding up was with a up of coffee every hour.

Luke put a tape in the tape player, pressed play, and hoped once again that the song they played everynight for the baby girl would succeed in putting her to sleep.

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Lorelai and Luke sat in the waiting room of the doctor's office. Lorelai's head was resting on Luke's shoulder, her eyes closed and a coffee cup in her hands. Luke was gently rocking the carrier in which Lauren was in, hoping she would stay quiet. So far, so good.

"Lauren Danes." a nurse in the doorway called.

Lorelai lifted her head and got up and followed Luke.

"Hello, I'm Nurse Bailey. I'm just going to check her weight and temperature real quick before she sees the doctor." the nurse said, smiling at them.

Lorelai smiled back and nodded. The nurse took Lauren carefully out of the carrier and started to examine her before handing her to Lorelai. She then led them into a little room to wait in.

"Dr. Reese will be with you soon." she said and left the room.

They sat in silence, too tired for conversationg and hoping that they'd soon be able to leave. After a few minutes, a man in his early fifties walked in carrying a clipboard.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Reese. You two must be Mr. and Mrs. Danes?" he asked, checking his clipboard.

"Yes, we are." Luke answered him.

"Ok, well, lets get down to business now, shall we?" he asked, smiling. "Now, what seems to be the problem?"

"Well, last night she started coughing. I took her temperature and it came out to be 102.5. Then later on she started tugging at her ears and hardly ate any." Lorelai told the doctor.

"Did she sleep any?" he asked.

"For about two hours. But that was it."

He nodded and jotted more notes down on his clipboard.

"Ok, well I'm just going to do a quick examination of her." he said and examined Lauren.

"It seems as if she has and ear infection." he said when he had finished. "Nothing a prescription of anitbiotics can't fix. It's very common for babies to develop ear infections at this age. That would explain all of the symptoms you gave me. An ear infection makes it a little painful for a baby to swallow when eating and also painful in the ear. She also seems to be coming down with a little cold."

"So what should we do?" Luke asked.

"Well, give her the antibiotics until she shows signs of healing and keep her indoors. The cold weather right now wouldn't be good for her and it could only make her worse."

Lorelai nodded her head. "She's actually a twin and her and her brother sleep in the same room. Should we seperate them until she's better?"

"Yes, and it you might want to spray Lysol on all the funiture in the room to kill any existing germs and bacteria that could affect her brother." he said.

"Ok, thank you Dr. Reese for your time."

"It was my pleasure." he said, smiling and handing her a slip of paper. "Here is the prescription. If she doesn't get better in time, I would like to see her back."

"Of course. Goodbye." Lorelai said and her and Luke walked out of the building and to the car.

"I'll take you two home, then I'll swing by the pharmacy and drop this off and then pick Will up." Luke told Lorelai.

"We can go with you." she told him, already starting to fall asleep again.

"No, you need to rest and Lauren's just fallen asleep, so she might stay out for a while."

"You sure?" she asked.

"Yeah, it's no problem."

"Thanks babe." she said and closed her eyes.

Luke dropped them off at the house, went to the pharmacy, and picked Will up. By the time he got home, he thought he'd pass out. He was extremely tired and couldn't wait to go to bed. Lorelai was still asleep when he came home. Before he went to bed, he transported Lauren's crib upstairs into their room after putting Will down for a nap. After he was done doing that, he climbed in bed next to Lorelai and fell asleep.

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Later that night, Lorelai sat on the couch talking to Rory on the phone. Both the twins were asleep.

"So how's Jess?" Lorelai asked her daughter.

"He's great. His new book is going to be published soon." Rory told her mother.

"His first one was really good. Never thought he had writing talent."

"He was always smart, he just never put all his effort in his work."

"Well it's good he's doing something. You to do anything special lately? Hmm. Dirty."

Rory laughed. "No, neither. But, he's taking me out Saturday night."

"Really? Ooo. Where to?"

"A new little Italian restaurant in Woodbridge. He felt bad for not being around so much with trying to get his book puplished."

"Well that's sweet of him."

"Yeah, it is. Well, I gotta go mom. I have a paper to write."

"Ok hun. I'll talk to you later. Bye."

"Bye."

Lorelai hung up and walked upstairs.

"Hey." Luke said

"Hey." she said, sitting on the bed with him and giving him a kiss.

"Hey, I got an idea." Luke said.

"Yeah? What?"

"How about you and I go out this Saturday? It's been a long time since we've done that."

"Really? That sounds nice. What do you have in mind."

"I don't know. Dinner and a movie?"

"Aw, classic." she smiled.

"We can find someone to watch the twins."

"I bet I can get Rory or my parents to do it."

"Ok, good. So, Saturday night?"

"Saturday night."

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Hey guys. 20th chapter! lol I'm gonna try to do 50. I'm soooo sorry I haven't updated in a longgggg time! I know for those of you who are reading my other fic that I promised I'd update this weekend. Well, I was halfway through the chapter when I my computer froze and I had to restart it and I hadn't saved it. I was sooo mad! But, here it is. I wanted it to be big and special, but I didn't know where else to go with it. But I'm sure the next one you'll like. Only 3 more episodes guys! So sad..