3 Months Later…

"Luke, I do not want to go to Friday Night Dinner." Lorelai pleaded over the phone. She and Luke had been arguing for almost 20 minutes about dinner that night.

"You have to. You promised you would go one last time before you have the baby." Luke said.

"So? When have I ever kept my promise with the Gilmore's?" She asked. "Seriously."

"That doesn't matter now. You have to go."

"What if I have the baby before tonight?" Lorelai asked.

"Then I think they'll understand." Luke responded. He was getting sick of this. He thought for a second. What could he say to make sure she went? "If you don't go, then no coffee for 2 months after the baby." He said.

"What? That's not up to you. As soon as this kid is out, I'm drinking all the coffee in Connecticut." Lorelai said. She was serious, too. During her entire pregnancy, she had as much coffee as she would have on a normal day when she wasn't pregnant.

"3 months." He said.

"You can't stop me."

"I supply your coffee."

"I'll raid it when you aren't there."

"You're going." Luke said.

"Fine. But I'm not going to like it." Lorelai said.

"You don't have to. Like it or not, you're going." Luke said. "I have to get off the phone. The diner is packed. I love you."

"Love you too." Lorelai hung up the phone.

Now 9 months pregnant, everyday tasks were getting difficult for her. She couldn't sit on a couch unless she was right next to the arm, she couldn't bend over if she dropped something, she couldn't work, and she couldn't even take a walk to Luke's without having major back pain. Lorelai couldn't wait for the day she could bend and walk and work. Being home all day, although she fantasized it for months, sucked. There was nothing to do. She even cleaned, in her own little way. Driving was a pain. She had to push the seat back so far that she just barely could grasp the steering wheel, so driving was out. Finally, she gave in to Judy Garland, Pippi, and an array of movies most people haven't heard of.

Today, though, was different. Rory was coming home and Sookie was taking a day off so they could go baby shopping. Rory had thrown Lorelai a baby shower, since it had been over two decades since she last had a baby in the house, and had nothing that a baby would need. She still needed clothes, though. She couldn't go with Luke because he didn't want to know the sex of the baby, though she did. They were having a girl. She was happy because she knew how to take care of a girl. She had already raised a great one. Although she was happy, she wanted to give Luke a son. He already had two daughters, and as much as he loved Rory and April, he would love to have a son to fish and do "manly" things with.

Lorelai sat down on the couch in the living room. An hour passed. Then two. It was now noon, and two hours past when Rory and Sookie said they would be here. She picked up the phone and called Luke. The phone rang. And rang. And rang. No Luke, or Lane, or Caesar. Something was up. She was getting nervous. Finally, she decided to drive over to Sookie's.

It was a slow and steady walk to the car. Lorelai hoisted herself up into the driver's seat, and buckled the seatbelt, which just hardly fit her anymore. She went through her purse and found her keys, put the one for her Jeep in and backed out of the driveway. She decided to take a detour and pass Luke's on her way to Sookie's. As she drove past the diner, she saw people. Lots of people, but no Luke. Or Lane. Or Caesar. Where was everybody?

Deciding to investigate, she parked her car on the side of the street and went into the diner. She didn't know anyone in there. No one. Were these people even from Star's Hollow? There was some kid working the counter. She decided to talk to him.

"Hey, kid. Where's Luke?" She asked, sitting down on a stool.

"Not here." The boy said.

"He didn't go to Doose's, did he?" She asked, remembering their little argument a few months before.

"No. He said something about going to see his wife. She's pregnant, I guess. He wanted to check up on her."

"He did?" She asked.

"Yeah. Do you need him?" He said.

"I'm his wife." Lorelai used the counter to balance herself and stand up.

"Oh, yeah." He said, seeing her stomach. "He said he was going to his house to see you."

"I've been home for 2 hours waiting for my daughter to get home. He never came." She said, obviously confused. "When I got off the phone with him this morning, he said he had to get back to the diner because it was busy. I see that it's busy, but Luke isn't here."

"I don't know where he is, uh, Mrs. Danes."

"Lorelai. Call me Lorelai." She said.

"Okay. I'm Jake." He said.

"Hi, Jake. I have to get going. I need to find my daughter, Rory, and my friend, Sookie."

"Rory? As in Rory Gilmore?" Jake asked.

"The one and only. You know her?" Lorelai asked, putting her hand on her stomach.

"I had a crush on her at Star's Hollow High. I was so upset when she went to that ritzy private school." Jake said. His face dropped. "Oh my god. I just told you I liked your daughter. I'm so sorry." Lorelai laughed.

"She's engaged. Don't worry about it." Lorelai said, adjusting her purse on her shoulder.

"You don't look old enough to be Rory's mom. Is she really your daughter?"

"I had her when I was young. Look at my eyes. We have the same eyes." Jake leaned forward.

"Yep. Those are the eyes. You must have had her when you were what, 17, 18?"

"16." Lorelai said.

"Oh. Wow."

"I agree." Lorelai said, smiling.

"Well, tell her Jake Woods says hi." Jake said.

"I will, Jake. It was nice meeting you. If Luke comes back, would you tell him I stopped in?"

"Sure. I hope you find him."

"Thanks." Lorelai said. She looked around the diner one last time. "Who are all these people?"

"Customers from the Dragonfly Inn. Some French man came by about half an hour ago to drop them off. He said they were using their dining room for a party tonight, and that he couldn't have people there while they set it up." Jake said. That explained why she didn't recognize anyone. But why was the Dragonfly having a party?

"I own the Dragonfly with Sookie. I'm on maternity leave, but I thought we all agreed that I would know when there was a function there." Lorelai said.

"Oh. I don't know what's going on, Lorelai. Sorry."

"Okay. I have to go now." Lorelai said.

"Bye."

"Bye, Jake." Lorelai whipped out her cell phone and started dialing. First the Dragonfly. No answer. She left Sookie a voice mail.

"Hey, Sook, it's Lorelai. Where are you? I thought you were coming over? Call my cell when you get this."

She ended the call and tried her house. It rang twice, and then Rory picked it up.

"Hello?" Rory said.

"Ror?" Lorelai asked

"Mom?"

"Hi." Lorelai said. "Where have you been?"

"Traffic was bad. Where are you?"

"I'm outside of Luke's. Apparently the whole town ran away."

"What?"

"Sookie never came over, and Luke left the diner with some kid you went to school with. Jake Woods? He said he went to school with you." Lorelai said, getting into her car slowly.

"Jake the Stalker?"

"I don't know. He told me he had a crush on you in high school."

"Did you tell him I was engaged?"

"Yeah. He stalked you?"

"Mmhmm."

"Crossing him off my good list right now." Rory laughed.

"Luke's here. He said he's been here for an hour."

"What are you talking about? I left the house at noon" Lorelai said.

"He's been here since 11:30."

"Put him on the phone." Lorelai ordered. She heard the phone being shifted as she pulled into her driveway. His truck was right there.

"Lorelai?"

"Where were you?"

"When?"

"When you got home." Lorelai said.

"I came in through the back door and sat in the kitchen. I didn't even see you leave."

"I didn't see you either."

"My truck was right in front of your Jeep." Luke said. Lorelai got out of the car.

"I'm home. I'll be right inside."

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye." Lorelai turned the doorknob and opened the door to see Rory and Luke sitting on the couch.

"I can not believe I didn't see you." Lorelai waddled into the room. Luke got up.

"Honey, sit down." He guided her to the couch and sat her down.

"Thanks." Lorelai set her purse down on the coffee table. Luke sat down next to her. Lorelai cuddled into his side.

"Mom, Sookie called and said that Michel had booked a party that she didn't know about. She told me to tell you she couldn't come, and to take you myself."

"So that's where she is."

"Yeah. Michel brought all the guests to my diner, so I left and put Jake in charge." Luke said.

"That explains everything. I thought the entire town left or something." Lorelai said, shaking her head.

"Nope." Rory said.

"I don't really feel like shopping anymore, Hun. Are you staying the day or going back to school?" Lorelai asked.

"Well, I'm already here, so I might as well stay. I have to go to dinner tonight anyway." Rory said. "Is that okay?"

"Of course it's ok."

"Well, then I'm going to eat. I'm starving." Rory said. Luke decided he wanted to take a nap and asked Lorelai if she wanted to come. She said yes, and that she would be up soon. Luke went upstairs and Lorelai followed Rory into the kitchen.

"Mom, you got bigger since the last time I saw you." Rory said, opening the fridge and taking out Chinese leftovers.

"I probably did. I feel like a cow. Luke keeps telling me I'm not, but I am."

"You're pregnant."

"I know!" Lorelai said.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to make you upset." Rory shut the fridge after taking out two cans of soda.

"No, it's okay. I'm just so sick of everyone telling me I'm pregnant. Sookie, and Michel, and Luke and my mother. Everyone." Lorelai said, sitting down and poking at a carton of chicken and fried rice.

"Uh, that's because you are."

"Whatever. I just can't wait to not be pregnant anymore." Lorelai said, picking out a piece of chicken.

"You're due in a week. You won't be pregnant much longer." Rory pointed out.

"Yeah, I know." Lorelai threw her head back.

"How do you feel?" Rory asked sympathetically.

"Like I'm hiding a watermelon under my shirt."

"Eeek." Rory said, scrunching her face up.

"Tell me about it. Are you and Logan having kids?"

"I don't know. He wants to, but I don't think I'm ready."

"You aren't even married yet. You don't have to be ready now, Hun." Lorelai said.

"I know. But he wants kids so bad. I want a few eventually, but not now. I have to conquer the newspaper world first." Rory said, smiling.

"Got it."

"Are you and Luke having more after this?"

"I doubt it. I mean, he really wants a son. I want him to have one, but I don't know if I could do this again." Lorelai shrugged. "I don't know."

"That would be nice. It's great being a big, happy family. I have Logan, Dad and Gigi, You, Luke, April and whoever's inside of there." Rory pointed to Lorelai's stomach.

"Yeah, you do. Don't ever forget that."

"I won't."

"I'm going to go take that nap now. Have a good lunch."

"I will." Rory said. "Have a good nap."

"I will." Lorelai said. She got up from the table and went upstairs, through the double doors and into her and Luke's room. He was on the bed, under the covers. She crawled into bed with him and snuggled up as close as her body could go.

"Hey, babe." Luke said, kissing the top of her head.

"Hello." She looked up and pecked him on the lips.

"How do you feel?"

"Fine. Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Lorelai said, closing her eyes.

"Because you're pregnant."

"Good night, Luke." Lorelai said.

"What did I do? And it's not night."

"Good afternoon, Luke." Lorelai replied.

"What's going on?"

"Nothing. Just go to sleep." Lorelai said

"Honey, what's wrong."

"Nothing, Luke! Go to sleep!" Lorelai said angrily.

"Lorelai. Tell me what's wrong." Lorelai looked up. She had tears in her eyes.

"I don't know. Every once in a while I get angry at nothing. Then I cry." Lorelai wiped her eye with the back of her hand. Luke wrapped his arm around her and nestled his head into her shoulder.

"It's the hormones." Luke said. His voice was muffled by her shirt.

"I know." She said. "I need to get some sleep. Wake me up when you get up, okay?"

"It'll probably only be an hour or two." Luke reasoned.

"That's okay. Wake me up."

"If you say so." Luke said. He raised his eyebrows. "I love you. Sleep tight."

"I love you too." Lorelai closed her eyes and rested her head on her hands.

Back downstairs, Rory was talking to Christopher. Lorelai had asked her to make arrangements for the three of them to go out to dinner. Christopher was having trouble finding somewhere for Gigi to go.

"Ror, I want to come, but I don't have anywhere for Gigi to go. Straub and Francine are out of town, and Richard and Emily would never agree to take her." Christopher said.

"Bring her with you." Rory suggested.

"Out. With you. And your mom. To a restaurant? I don't think she'd do so well." Chris said.

"We could just go to Luke's. She'd be fine there." Rory said.

"I don't think Luke would like me being there much. He's really protective of your mom around me."

"He loves her, and he doesn't want you getting in the way. Don't you understand that?"

"Yeah. I do. But it's not like I'd do anything in front of him." Chris said.

"What do you mean, in front of him? So you would try something when he wasn't there?" Rory asked.

"No. That's not what I meant. I mean that your mom and Luke are happy, and I'm not about to mess anything up again." Chris explained.

"Okay. Then Luke's it is. How's 1:30 tomorrow?" Rory asked.

"Sounds good. I'll bring Gigi, not like I have any other choice." Chris said.

"Is Sherry still in Paris?" asked Rory.

"I don't know. I would think so. She sent me a letter about a month ago to tell me she was married with two step-sons. I don't know is she's still there though." Chris said quietly.

"Oh. I'm sorry."

"It's okay. Apparently I have a track record for having babies with women who don't want to be with me." He said, almost comically.

"Mom loves you. She always will."

"I know. I'll always love her too."

"Good. You should." Rory said.

"I know. Bye, Ror."

"Bye, dad." Rory hung up the phone and wrote herself a note to remind herself to tell Lorelai about lunch.

She picked up the phone again, this time to call Logan. No answer. She left a voice mail, and hung up the phone. She kept missing him. It reminded her of the time she and Lorelai kept missing each other. She sat down on the couch and waited for Luke and Lorelai to wake up. She saw her mother's collection of movies on the coffee table and put in Pippi Longstocking. Rory relaxed into the couch and enjoyed her movie.

6 hours later….

Lorelai opened her eyes and realized she was still lying in bed. She turned her head and saw that Luke was gone. Didn't she tell him to wake her up? She used her arms to steady herself and got out of bed. She walked to the door, and opened it to see a note on the floor. It read:

Lorelai-

I tried to wake you up, but you bit me. If you don't believe me, I'll show you the marks when you wake up. I'll be downstairs with Rory.

Luke

Lorelai was shocked. She bit him? Oops. She took the stairs slowly, and when she got to the bottom, she saw Luke and Rory sitting on the couch watching T.V.

"I can't believe I bit you, Luke. Sorry!" Lorelai said, balancing herself on the railing and stepping down from the platform that was at the bottom of the stairs.

"It's alright." Luke said, waving his hand at her.

"Lemme see the bite!" Lorelai said. She ran as fast as she could over to Luke and grabbed his arm.

"Wrong one." Luke said. He drew back his right arm and gave her his left.

"I did bite you!" Lorelai said. Her face lit up.

"What's so great about that?" Luke said, pulling his arm back towards him.

"I've always wanted to bite someone!" Lorelai exclaimed.

"You've bit me before." Luke said

"Ewwww. Luke!" Rory said, scrunching up her face and covering her eyes.

"Sorry kid, your dirty momma likes to bite her husband in bed. Is that such a sin?"

"Yes." Rory said. Luke got up.

"I'm going to take a shower. We have to get to your parents house by 7. Dinner's late tonight. Your dad has to work until 8, and he didn't want to miss you two."

"I have to shower too, mister!" Lorelai said. "I'm going in with you."

Rory cringed. "Mom!"

"Sorry." Lorelai said. She and Luke got up, and Luke helped her up the stairs. Once into her bathroom, he helped her get undressed and turned the water on. He took off his clothes and they stepped into the shower.

She leaned on him, and he wrapped his arms around her.

"Mmmm." She sighed. Luke kissed her head and turned them around so her back was to the water.

"You are perfect." He said sweetly. She kissed his chest and untangled himself from her. She smiled and turned to the side to grasp her shampoo in her hand. Luke picked up his. At the same time, they washed their hair, Lorelai taking slightly longer, seeing that she had more. She allowed him to wash her body, as she did his. She was reminded of all the times before they were married when they would do this. Just sit in the bathtub or stand in the shower together for hours. He'd run his fingers through her hair as she rested her head against his shoulder and rubbed his back. Together, Luke and Lorelai were one. They fit together like a puzzle.

They stepped out of the shower 20 minutes later. Luke left to get dressed while Lorelai dressed herself in the bathroom and began to fix her hair for dinner. She finished quickly and got dressed in a dark blue dress with a waist that showed off her belly through the fabric. She smoothed it over her body and admired herself in the mirror. Even she had to admit, she looked great.

Rory came up a few minutes later and found her mother sitting on the bed, looking through a book. Looking closer, she realized it was the baby book that Lorelai kept all of Rory's baby things in. She sat down next to her mother and looked with her.

"Do you think this baby could be as perfect as you were?" Lorelai asked, putting her arm around her daughter.

"Well, seeing as she has you for a mom, I'm sure." Rory asked, kissing the side of her mother's head.

"Thanks. Will you help me make her a book like yours? I don't think Luke's into it, and Mia helped me with yours." Lorelai asked, closing the book and looking at Rory.

"Of course. It'll be fun." Rory stood up and extended her arm to her mother. "Come on. We have to get going."

Lorelai stood up and took Rory's hand. Together they walked downstairs and outside where Luke was waiting for them.