A week after Ally was born, Jess Mariano was born. Luke still had no idea what to do as a father, but he was adjusting as his baby girl kept growing. Liz rarely visited, but when she did, it ended up with Will and Jimmy fighting. Liz always took Jess and stormed out to find Jimmy in the truck waiting for her. As a baby, Ally was always fascinated with things to grab. Luke always had to watch her when he helped his dad in the hardware store because she would try to grab loose screws and bolts. When she got a bit bigger, she kept giving her grandpa and daddy random items to help.

At three years old, she started to become fascinated with books and always asked Grandpa to read to her.

"And they lived happily ever after." Will looked down into his lap to find Ally Marie asleep. He set the book down on the coffee table and slowly lifted her up, carrying her to her big girl bed. He knelt down and kissed her on the forehead before leaving the room. "Goodnight Princess."

He started coughing once he shut the door. It kept happening, but he didn't want his family to know.

Luke was sorting tools with Ally sitting on the floor when he heard a loud thud coming from the office. "Dad?!" Ally wanted to run after daddy to see what was wrong, but Miss Patty had grabbed her, pulling her tightly into a hug. "It's okay sweetie." Minutes seemed like hours as Luke called the paramedics, going with him as Patty was watching Ally back at Stars Hollow.

"Luke Danes?" A doctor called out in the waiting room. Luke jumped from his seat to get away from everything that made him squirm.

"Yes. How is my dad? What happened?"

"He suffered from a stroke."

"A stroke?"

"It was heat stroke but we found something else."

"What?"

"Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Apparently, it wasn't caught early on. He doesn't have long to live."

"How long?"

"Four months if he's lucky. I'm sorry."

Luke drove home with a bed to put in his living room, his dad asleep in the passenger seat. Today was so long, he wanted to see his baby girl. Luke had one of the guys from the store help him set up the bed before picking up Ally. When he got to Miss Patty's home, Ally was giggling as she was twirling.

"Where's my girl?"

Ally turned around to find Luke standing in the doorway, and rammed into his leg to hug him. "Daddy!"

He lifted her up to his hip. "Thank you for watching her Patty."

"It's no problem dear. Perhaps you should enroll her in my dance class. She's got undiscovered talent."

"I don't think so."

"Pwease daddy?" She still couldn't pronounce her L's, but the puppy dog face she made was one he could never say no to.

He kissed her forehead before replying. "We'll see." Both Miss Patty and Ally were very excited.

Luke pulled her even tighter when he started to mention his dad. "How about we go home and see grandpa, hmm?"

Ally's eyes got wide and she got excited. Miss Patty distracted her so well from this morning that she forgot what happened.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!" She wiggled herself out of his arms and pulled him to the door. "I wanna see grandpa!"

Will was watching old westerns by the time they both got home.

"Grandpa!" She yelled as she climbed onto his bed, giving him a big bear hug.

A small oh escaped from his lips as she collided with his chest.

"How's grandpa's little princess?"

"I'm gonna be a dancer. Miss Patty's gonna teach me how. Watch this!"

"I'm watching sweetie."

She was twirling around the living room while Luke was on the phone with Anna, telling his girlfriend about what happened with his dad.

Thirty minutes later, Luke found both of them asleep with Ally's wavy brown hair in a fluff on his dad's chest, hearing small snores come from her.