A/N: I don't think I ever said this, but Jake's last name is Davis and the baby will be taking his last name.

Lorelai and I were standing in the living room of my apartment watching Luke and Jake bring up bags and boxes full of stuff. Today had been our big shopping day where we got everything we needed, all the furniture, clothes, diapers, room decorations. Everything and then some.

Once everything was brought up we stopped and look at it. It was all piled on the floor in the middle of the apartment. I groaned and sat down on the couch, "We are never going to get this all done in time!"

Lorelai sat beside me, "Of course we are hun, look at the big strong men we have to do the work, plus you still have another month before you're due."

"Yeah, but look around, there is stuff everywhere and I'm not even moved out of the bedroom yet so we can't even begin setting this stuff up."

Jake came over and knelt down in front of me, "Grace, I promise first thing in the morning we will get everything set up, it'll all be done tomorrow. For now though, it's getting late and you are getting grumpy so we'll leave you to get to bed."

They all said their good-byes and after unsuccessfully trying to put a few things away, I went to bed.

I woke up with a pain in my lower back and abdomen, I looked at the clock it was 2:13am the pain didn't last too long so I rolled over and went back to sleep. I woke up a few minutes later with a similar pain, but I once again ignored it and went back to sleep. Once again I woke up with the same pain, it was now only 2:23.

I sat awake for the next 30 minutes but the pain just kept coming every few minutes. I tried to take a deep breath and calm myself, it couldn't be happening now. It was still too early; I still had 4 more weeks. When a pain once again hit me I grabbed my phone and called Jake, the phone rang and rang but nobody picked up.

I hung up the phone and dialed another number, "Come on, pick up, pick up." I said.

I heard a voice on the other end, "Whoever this is, I hate you."

"Lorelai, its Grace."

"Grace? What's wrong?" She asked, her voice full of concern.

"I don't know, I think I'm having contractions and Jake won't pick up his phone and I don't know what to do!" I exclaimed.

"We'll be right over!" She said before hanging up the phone.

I tried calling Jake again, but he still wasn't answering. No more than 5 minutes later I heard people running up the steps. Luke and Lorelai both ran in the door, still wearing their pajamas. I filled them in on what was happening and they decided to take me to the hospital. The whole way there I tried calling Jake, but still there was no answer.

We got to the hospital and they quickly got me into a room and started checking me out. Lorelai and Luke were both sitting in the room with me when the doctor walked in and informed me that I was in active labor. After a moment of freaking out, she explained that although babies born at 36 weeks are considered premature, they generally require little to no special care.

After she left the room we all sat there in silence. Lorelai gently stroked my arm, "It's going to be ok, you heard the doctor."

"I know, it's just too early, nothings ready, I'm not ready and Jake's not even here!"

Luke stood up and grabbed my hand; "I'll take care of that." He looked at Lorelai; "I'll be back soon."

Luke left and Lorelai and I decided to make some phone calls to let people know what was going on. After calling Ty, Rory, Sookie, and Jake a few more times we just sat and waited. The contractions were getting stronger and closer together, but there was still no Jake or Luke.

We decided to take a walk to try and pass the time and as we got back to my room we heard someone yelling and asking where I was. We hurried as fast as we could, which wasn't very fast, to get to my room. We walked in to see Luke sitting in the chair while Jake paced the floor, as soon as Jake saw us he ran over.

"Grace! Are you ok?" He asked as he hugged me.

"Well I'm having a baby, but other than that I'm fine. Where were you? Why didn't you answer your phone?"

"I left it on vibrate and it was in the other room, I couldn't hear it ringing. So Luke came and practically broke down my door to get me here."

He helped me back into bed and the doctor came to check on me again. When she was done she announced that it was time to take me into the delivery room.

Lorelai came over and hugged me; "Good luck hun, Luke and I will be in the waiting room anxiously waiting for news."

She tried to pull back but I didn't let go of her, "No, Lorelai, you can't leave me. I-I need you to come with me. Please, I need my mom in there and you are the closest thing I have."

She managed to pull back a little, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, please. I need you in there." I told her, still not letting go.

"Ok, I'll come." She said as she stroked my hair, she gave a little laugh, "But you are going to have to let go of me sometime."

I finally released my hold on her and they came to take me to delivery. Jake and Lorelai got changed into scrubs and then followed me in. Lorelai stood on my right side and Jake was on my left, they were both holding my hands and whispering in my ears as things went on. It was going slowly, but it was going. Finally after about an hour of pushing they saw the head.

Jake and Lorelai kept cheering me on until finally we heard a cry fill the room. The doctor held up a screaming baby and said, "It's still a girl!"

As soon as I saw her I started sobbing, she was the most beautiful disgusting looking baby ever. Jake got to cut the cord and they let me see her for a moment before they had to take her away for testing, to make sure everything was alright. Jake followed them, never letting our precious baby out of his sight.

I was lying in my hospital bed holding my little girl and looking her over. She really was perfect, I know every mom says that, but I swear this time it's true. She had a head full of soft brown hair, Jake's green eyes, and the tiniest fingers and toes I've ever seen.

Jake and I were staring at her in total and complete awe when the door opened and Lorelai, Luke, Rory, and Ty all walked in. We smiled and looked up, "Hey everyone, come meet the baby." I said to them.

I handed her to Jake so he could hold her up for everyone to see, he made the announcement to the group as no one besides Lorelai had gotten the details yet. "It's still a girl! Beautiful and completely healthy, 6lbs 4oz, 17inches long."

"And the name is?" Lorelai asked, even she didn't know the name yet.

Jake and I looked at each other, "Are we keeping the name?" I asked him. He nodded and I continued talking, "Awhile back when I had a freak out at the mall and Lorelai was giving me parenting advice, she told me the first thing I needed to do was to name the baby after myself and I told her no."

Lorelai smiled at the memory and I continued, "In my family it's very important who you are named after, so I wanted to name her after someone who has been very important to all of us, and I also used her suggestion to name the baby after myself."

Lorelai had a huge smile on her face, as she realized I was talking about her, Jake handed the baby back to me and I announced to the group, "Everyone, meet Elle Victoria Davis."

Lorelai's eyes filled with tears and she walked over and gave me a hug, "It's beautiful, I love it."

Once she stepped back I moved Elle towards her, "Do you want to hold her?"

"Of course!" She came and took Elle from my arms, "Hello Elle, I'm Lorelai and you are named after me. Now that might sound weird since your name isn't Lorelai, but you know what I mean." She continued rambling to Elle for a little while longer before handing her to Rory.

Rory was holding her very carefully; "She's so beautiful! Where did you get Elle from though?"

"It's from my first name, Eleanor, there was no way I was using Eleanor but Elle just seemed perfect." I said.

"Gracie, now how long does the uncle have to wait? I think it's my turn." Rory handed Elle to Ty. He held her in his arms and whispered something in her ear.

I rolled my eyes, "Ty, what did you tell her?"

He smiled, "Nothing, it's our little secret."

Ty handed Elle over to Luke, Luke held her and started talking to her and as he did she opened her eyes for the first time since everyone had walked in, he continued talking to her and she just stared at him.

Lorelai walked over and put an arm around Luke, "Hey pretty girl, look at you with your pretty green eyes. You like Luke, don't you? Well just so you know he's mine, but I'm willing to share him with you. I think he kind of likes you."

"Ah jeez," Luke said.

It wasn't until this point that I noticed that Rory was taking pictures of everything that was happening, "Rory, what's up with all the pictures?" I asked her.

She stopped and looked like she had been caught doing something bad, "I, um, just thought you might like to have them."

Her words and facial expression didn't seem to say the same thing, but I didn't let on that I was suspicious, "Thanks Rory, I'm sure I will." I started yawning and Jake started shooing people out of the room.

Outside of the door

Nobody's POV

Lorelai turned to Rory, "Hey way to be a smooth talker, she'll never know that we're planning something!"

"Sorry, it was unexpected, she hadn't said anything yet it just caught me off guard." Rory said.

"You two going to keep fighting about this or are we going to go?" Luke asked.

The group went to a drugstore with a 1-hour photo center and dropped off the pictures Rory had taken. After shopping around to pick up some baby necessities they went back to pick up the pictures, then went back to Grace's apartment.

They spent the whole rest of the day and into the early morning in the apartment getting everything ready. Grace's things were moved out into the main room, and Elle's room was all set up and decorated. At about 9am Rory had to leave to get back to Yale for a class and Ty went to get breakfast for everyone.

Luke and Lorelai sat at the table and worked on their final project, they got the pictures Rory had taken and spread them out on the table. They were sorting through them and picking out the good ones when Lorelai saw a picture and picked it up.

"Luke, look at this," It was a picture that was taken when Luke was holding Elle and Lorelai had her arm around them, they were both looking down at Elle. "You look good with a baby."

"You think so?" Luke asked.

"Yeah, I do." Lorelai paused for a moment, "You know, I think you'd look good holding our baby."

"Oh yeah? And when will I be holding our babies?"

Lorelai smiled, "Soon I hope."

"Soon. I think we can manage that."

They started kissing right as Ty walked back in the apartment, "Am I interrupting something here?"

Luke and Lorelai both turned and started blushing, "No, come on in Ty. We were just finishing up with the pictures." Lorelai said.

They finished with the pictures and after eating Luke and Lorelai headed to work and Ty went back to the hospital.

Back at the Hospital

Grace's POV

I was laying in my hospital bed having just woken up from a nap. The doctors had wanted to do a couple more tests on Elle to make sure she would be fine to go home tomorrow and Jake had gone with them too "Supervise."

I heard the door open and thought it was Jake coming back, to my surprise it wasn't Jake, it was my sister.

"Alyssa, hi." I said, trying to hide my surprise.

"Hi Elea- oh sorry, Grace. Tyler called and told me what happened so I thought I would come see how you were doing." She had a large pink gift bag that she set on the chair.

We sat there in an awkward silence for a minute, before I finally just asked her, "Alyssa, what are you doing here?"

"I told you, Tyler called and I wanted to know how you were doing. How are you doing?"

"I'm fine Alyssa, and that's not what I meant. What are you doing here, in this room, visiting me when you've never cared before." I said, I wasn't really yelling at her, I was just curious.

She sighed and seemed upset, "I know, I've been horrible, I really have. That's how I was expected to act," I started to say something, but she continued, "I know that's not really an excuse but it's the way I was taught to act, I didn't know any better."

"Maybe you didn't know any better when you were a kid, I'll give you that, but this has been going on my whole life. You had to have realized it sooner."

"I did, and I have no excuse, I was a butt. I'm sorry Grace, do you think we could start over?"

She seemed genuinely sorry, "Yeah I guess we could," I started laughing, "You've been around your kids too much, you were a butt? Come on Alyssa, you could've at least used the real word."

"Just you wait, it'll happen to you," She laughed along with me. "Now when do I get to meet my new niece?"

"Soon, Jake should be back with her any minuet," I paused I wanted to ask something, but I probably didn't want to know the answer, "Alyssa, do Mom and Dad know?"

She nodded her head, "Yeah they do."

"They aren't coming, are they." I said, more as a statement than a question, she shook her head no, "Oh well, it's probably better that way."

I looked up and saw Jake walking in the door with Elle; he had a questioning look on his face. I smiled when I saw him, "Hey, you're back! Everything still ok?" I asked as he handed me Elle.

"Everything is perfect, we are still all set to go home tomorrow."

"Great," I smiled, "Jake this is Alyssa, my sister. Alyssa this is Jake, my fiancée and Elle's dad."

"Nice to meet you," She shook his hand, "Now I still haven't met Elle."

"Oh sorry, this is Elle Victoria Davis," I said as I handed Elle to Alyssa. While Alyssa was looking at Elle, Jake leaned over and whispered in my ear, "Everything ok there?"

I whispered, "Yes," back to him.

Ty walked in the door and there was a tense moment when he realized it was Alyssa holding Elle, but I gave him a sign saying that it was ok and he calmed down.

He greeted Alyssa, then turned to me, "I don't have long, I've got to get back to work I just wanted to stop by and say goodbye." He leaned down to give me a hug.

"Bye Ty, thanks for coming."

"Are you kidding me? I wouldn't have missed this for anything!" He walked over to Alyssa, and she handed Elle to him. "Goodbye Elle, it was great to meet you. Tell your mom that she needs to send me new pictures everyday." He said as he handed Elle back to me. "Bye Gracie."

He walked out of the room without another word to Alyssa; there was definitely some tension there.

"I should probably be going, give me a call sometime?" She asked.

"I will, bye Alyssa." I said as I waved.

It was after she walked out the door that I noticed the present she brought was still sitting on the chair, I pointed to it, "Jake, see what's in there."

He went and opened it, and pulled out several outfits, blankets and a note. I was about to read the note when Elle started crying, I glanced at the clock she was probably hungry. Elle is a really good baby, she only cries when she's hungry or needs a diaper change and she loves to watch everyone, her eyes are always wide open taking everything in. We spent the rest of the afternoon taking care of her and getting to know her.

The next morning

Elle and I had been officially discharged and we were free to go home. Jake was down putting the car seat base in the car while I got Elle dressed in her coming home outfit. As soon as I finished I put her into her car seat so I could finish getting everything together.

Jake came and got us and we all went home. As we drove by the diner I noticed it was very crowded inside, "How long do you think it's actually going to take us to get upstairs?" I asked Jake.

He parked the car and we got out, "We might never get there, if it starts getting really bad then pinch her or something so she'll cry and you can say you have to feed her."

Knowing that everyone was going to want to see Elle, I got her out of her car seat, "That's mean! My poor little baby, daddy is never going to get to hold you around large crowds."

We walked up to the diner and saw everyone turn and face the window, "Oh boy." I said before we walked in. As soon as we did everyone surrounded us, luckily they had all been filled in on the details, but they were all wanting to get a look. We could barely get through the door because there were so many people. Luke broke through the crowd and pulled us to safety.

We walked up the stairs and when we got through the door I realized the large pile of Elle stuff was gone. All of my stuff was set up in the main room, we walked into Elle's bedroom to see that the room was totally set up and decorated. Everything was put away and there were even pictures on the walls. I walked over to the pictures to see they were the ones from the hospital. There was a big picture of Jake and I holding Elle, and it was surrounded by smaller pictures of everyone else the first time they held Elle.

I went to lay Elle down in her crib and noticed that over her crib in large white wooden letters was written, "Elle."

I walked over to find Jake looking at a note from Lorelai; I went over to read it.

Jake, Grace, and Elle,

Welcome home! Everything is all set up so you have nothing to worry about. Luke left some food in the fridge that you can heat up when you get hungry. He also said you can call down to the diner at any time and place your order. Good luck on your first night and call me if you need anything.

Lorelai

Even though I didn't need anything, I went and picked up the phone and dialed Lorelai's number.

"Wow a crisis already?"

I laughed, "Nope, just calling to tell you how amazing you are."

"Are you just now realizing this, because I for one have known it for awhile."

"Seriously Lorelai, you didn't have to do all this."

"Well it wasn't all me, Rory, Luke and Ty were all in on it."

"Make sure to thank them for me."

"I will hun, have a good night and get lots of rest."

I hung up the phone and sat down next to Jake on the couch, he wrapped his arm around me and I laid my head back on his shoulder. I had a family now, a soon to be husband, a daughter, a brother and a sister, and for the first time I felt like I had parents. Not James and Caroline, sure they were technically my parents, but Luke and Lorelai were more my parents than they ever had been.

A/N: There you go, we now have a baby! I hope you liked it! Please review and let me know!