Lorelai woke up at nine to the smell of pancakes and coffee. She rubbed her eyes and got out of bed, throwing Luke's flannel on and heading downstairs.

"Morning." Luke said when he saw her.

"Mmm.. coffee." she mumbled.

Luke poured her a cup of coffee and handed it to her. She gulped it down in a minute and then handed it to him.

"More."

"I just handed that cup full to the brim to you a minute ago! You already finished it?" he marveled.

"Well somebody kept me up to early hours of the morning and I didn't get the total eight hours. I'm sleep deprived and am in desperate need of coffee!"

"You kept me up top, and I still woke up earlier than you." he laughed.

"What can I say? It's not my fault I'm just so incredibly irrisistable." she said, flashing him a cheeky smile.

Luke rolled his eyes and filled her cup back up and handed it to her along with a plate of pancakes.

"Eat up you junkie." he told her and sat down and ate himself some oatmeal.

"Ok, so when I'm done, I'm going to hop in the shower, get ready and then we can head over to my parents to get Lauren and Will." she said, taking a bite of pancake.

"Ok, as you can see, I'm already ready, so no need to hurry."

"All right. And, I never got a chance to tell you how fun last night was. Thanks for suggesting it."

"I'm assuming you're referring to the stuff other than the physical activities."

"Dirty! And, yes." she laughed and smiled.

"Well I was glad to do it. You needed a break."

"Yes I did and so did you."

"Well we got it and I'm satisfied."

"Me too."

They ate their breakfast and chatted. Lorelai got up, cleaned her plate, then headed upstairs to shower and get ready.

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Lorelai and Luke stood in the doorway of the Gilmore household waiting for the maid to open the door. Instead, they were met by Emily.

"Mom, this is a suprise. No maid?"

"Oh, the little dunce, I fired her last night."

Lorelai could only shake her head at this as she entered the house.

"What happened this time?"

"She flinched."

"She.. flinched?"

"Yes. It was as if we were about to pounce on her. Everytime her name was called or we gave her an order, she would flinch."

"Not suprised." Lorelai mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Uh, nothing Emily. How are the twins?" Luke interjected.

"Well, Lauren really used those lungs of hers last night. But, other than that, they are fine." Richard said, coming into the room.

"She was loud, huh?"

"Yeah, well, so were you." Luke said into Lorelai's ear. She swatted his chest and turned back to her parents.

"Ok, where are they? I want to see my kids!"

"Well don't throw a fit, their upstairs in the nursery." Emily said and got up. Luke and Lorelai followed her.

They entered a room and Lorelai went over to one of the cribs to find Will lying on his back, looking up at her and kicking his little legs. She smiled and picked him up.

"Hello baby boy. Mommy missed you." she cooed, holding him.

Luke had picked Lauren up and was placing her in her carrier. Lorelai was doing the same with Will and then she grabbed the diaper bags.

"We ready to go?" Luke asked.

"Yeah, we're all set. Thanks mom and dad for keeping them."

"Well, it was our pleasure. I hope the two of you enjoyed your evening." Richard said.

"Oh, we most definitely..."

"We had a nice time. Thank you. We'll see you Friday." Luke said, cutting her off, know full well she was just about to give more information than needed.

They all walked downstairs and the Danes family headed out of the house, to their car, and onto home.

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The week flew by and it was now Friday. Tonight was the night Lorelai was going to discuss with her parents about taking the babies to work with her. It was also the night that Emily and Richard would bring up the subject of a savings account for the twins. It was going to be quite an exciting evening, for both couples were a little nervous about their subjects, not knowing how the other would take it.

The air was tense in the sitting room that night. Rory felt something was coming and was trying to break all tension.

"The New York Times read one of my articles and want to put it in their paper." Rory told them, hoping to break the icy silence.

"Really? Well, that's splendid Rory." Richard said.

"Yeah, hun, that's great." Lorelai said, smiling at her.

The room quickly fell back into silence. Rory couldn't think of anything else to say, so she just sat silently as well. After about ten minutes, a maid came in to announce that dinner was ready. They all got up and made their ways to the dinning room. Luke and Lorelai placed the babies in their high chairs and then sat down.

Once they began to eat, Emily looked at Richard, signaling that it was the appropriate time to ask.

"So, Lorelai, Luke, Emily and I have been discussing."

"About what dad?"

"How would you like it if we opened up a savings account for William and Lauren?" he asked.

"Oh, uh, dad, that's really nice of you and mom, but..."

"But what Lorelai?" Emily asked. "It's a perfect opportunity to take. You wouldn't have to worry about tuition if they go to private school, or for college, or any other important life event that it will be needed for."

Lorelai sighed. "Yes mom, but you see, Luke and I..."

Once again, she was cut off. "We know you and Luke want to do this yourselves, but we would just be helping." Richard told her.

Rory sat there, looking back and forth between everyone talking. So, this must have been one of the reasons for all the tension.

"Richard, we appreciate the gesture, but we have it handled. We're perfectly fine finacially."

"I'm sure you are." Emily said. "But, it would really..."

"Mom, please. We're ok. We have something to talk to you guys about as well."

"Oh.. what is that?"

"Well, I, I mean we, are very gratefull that you have been watching the twins for us during the week, but..."

"You no longer want us to keep them." Emily said quietly, looking down at her plate.

"Now, mom, it's not you. It's just, I'd feel better if they were closer to Luke and I."

"Lorelai, you don't have to worry about them. They are perfectly fine when they are here." Richard assured.

"I know they are, dad. But, after Lauren got sick and all, I just don't feel comfortable leaving them."

"She doesn't trust us." Emily whispered.

"What? Mom, no! That's not it."

"Emily, we do trust the two of you. That's not it." Luke assured her.

"Well, then, what is it? You're going to do just like you did with Rory and keep those two babies away from me!" Emily said, starting to get upset.

"Grandma..." Rory started.

"No, Rory, this is between your mother and I."

"Mom, I am not keeping them from you!"

"Yes you are! First you turn down our offer to open them a savings account, and then you take them away from me."

Lorelai laughed. "Mother, if I had taken that offer, I would have been tied down to you for the rest of my life."

"Oh yeah? What does that mean?"

"You know what I mean."

"I'm afraid I don't."

"Now Emily." Richard tried to reason.

"Stay out of it Richard." she snapped.

"I don't want this to be like it was with Rory! The two of you helped me pay for Chilton, and in return, all you did was blackmail me!"

"Blackmail you! We did not blackmail you Lorelai Gilmore!"

"Danes!" she shouted. "My name is Lorelai Danes."

"Mom, grandma, please." Rory begged.

"Stay out of it Rory!" they both shouted.

Rory, shocked, shut her mouth and decided not to say anymore.

"You never once let me off the hook! I had to run errands for my kid before she went off to college and all you did was bust me for missing that one night! Or how about when I had to work late for your two week early Christmas dinner? You held that against me as well. As if I could help it mother! And then, when I finally received the money to pay you back for the tuition, you got angry and blew up in my face! If I were to take this offer, then I wouldn't be allowed to pay you back. Because, if I even tried, you would just get pissed off and accuse us of trying to get away from you and dad and make me end up feeling like the worlds worst daughter!"

"You are so dramatic, you know that? Everything is about you! Oh no! Don't pay any attention to the rest of the family. It's not about us." Emily raged. "You overdramatize everything. We can't ever do anything nice for you without you turning it into some way of us holding you captive!"

"Because you are mom! You know what? I don't have to listen to this." she said, standing up. "We're leaving."

"Don't you dare walk out of this house!" Emily shouted to her.

"Mom, come on." Rory said to her.

But Lorelai didn't listen. She placed both babies in their carriers, walked over to Rory and kissed her cheek.

"Bye hun. I'll talk to you later." she told her. "Bye dad."

She walked out of the room and Luke followed her.

"Uh, I'm sorry about this... bye." he told them.

He made his way out of the house and to the car where Lorelai was already strapping in the twins in the backseat.

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