Author's note: So I got a handful of reviews that objected to the idea of Lorelai wanting to take the baby home since Logan is the biological father and he would have more rights than the grandmother. That is true, however I see Lorelai as a very determined and protective person. She would do anything for her loved ones and she is wary of Logan, although she doesn't know he is broken up with Odette yet (keep in mind she's very frantic and her mind is jumbled right now, given the situation). Logan is not prepared to take Owen home; he just came back to the US and he didn't know that Owen was born and Rory was in a coma until he arrived. He doesn't have an apartment yet (or a job but he still has money of course) and he doesn't have a crib, diapers or any other baby necessities. Lorelai and Luke have the nursery already set up at their house as Rory was planning on living there. I hope you continue to read the story, there is only 4 chapters, so there is much more to tell. Thanks for the feedback.


Lorelai and Logan walked through the hospital, Logan leading her outside. The late afternoon sun was bright and they both squinted and blocked their eyes. Lorelai pointed out a bench that was in the shade. They walked over and sat down on opposite ends.

Logan cleared his throat. "So, I need you to know that I am moving back to The States, I'm currently in the process of it, actually. I'm planning on moving to New York, I've got a couple of job interviews in there in a few days. Maybe I can find a job in Hartford instead, but I don't know." He kept eye contact with her the whole time.

Lorelai nodded slowly. "Okay, but what about your fiancée? Rory told me she knows about Owen's existence but she didn't say how that was all going to work out. Is Odette moving here too or?"

Logan glanced away for a second, suddenly feeling ashamed. "Actually we broke up. It was amicable. Well at first it wasn't…." He trailed off, remembering when Odette first found out about Rory.

"I'll be there for my child's birth, Rory. I want to meet my baby and we need to talk in person, arrange everything…" Logan said. He shifted the phone from one ear to another.
"Yeah, I know we aren't getting back together but I want to support you and our kid… and I want to be involved. I don't want to be an absentee father."

He listened to what Rory said. She agreed to it. She claimed she wouldn't fight him. But she seemed to be more concerned about Odette. She asked how she would fit in to all of this. The wedding would be a month after the baby was supposed to be born and Rory wanted to know if Odette wanted to meet her future stepchild.

"No. I think it would be best to keep my life with the baby and you separate from my life here in London. I don't want Odette to be involved."

Rory asked him if he was sure.

"I'll tell her about you and the baby eventually. I can't keep this a big secret forever. Look, don't think about anything stressful… I'll handle it. Get some rest. Okay, bye." Logan let out a breath as soon as he ended the call.

Little did he know, Odette had woken up from her afternoon nap and was listening from the next room. She came into the room a couple minutes later.

"Logan, did I just hear what I thought I heard?' She asked, placed her hands on her hips.

Logan jumped. He didn't hear her come in. "You startled me."

"Answer the question."

"Okay… um yeah. I had… relations with another woman and she's having my baby." Logan admitted it right away.

This lead to a screaming match. Odette felt betrayed. Logan accused her of not being fully committed to him either. She said he was trying to condone cheating. She claimed that she had only been with him since they got together but he didn't fully believe her. They finally came to the conclusion that the whole engagement was a mess. They never truly loved each other and they were only involved for the business benefits. Over the past few months, Odette slowly moved her things out and moved back to France. Logan was left alone and once his father found out, things really blew up. Logan knew he had to leave England and move back to The States and sort everything out with Rory before the baby came.

Logan told Lorelai all this.

"Oh…" was all Lorelai said. She didn't expect this. She had to think about what to say. "So your plan is to live in New York and visit Owen on weekends? That's about a three hour drive."

Logan ran a hand through his hair. "I don't know my exact plans in regards to Owen. This is all a lot to take in."

"I know." Lorelai smiled. She felt sympathy for him. His son was just born and the mother of his child was in a coma. She knew it wouldn't be right to be angry with him right now although she still didn't fully trust him.

"The ICU visiting hours aren't until tomorrow morning, so you might want to head to your hotel or where ever you're staying. Owen won't be discharged for a few days, when he's healthy enough. Luke and I will probably head back to Stars Hollow as there isn't anything we can do for Rory." Lorelai said.

"Okay, but I hope you know I won't bail on Owen. I'll be back to see Rory and him tomorrow and we'll need to discuss Owen's living arrangements." Logan replied.

Lorelai frowned. "Well I figured he'll live with Luke and I. We're married now, I'm not sure if Rory told you. The nursery is already set up and we're prepared for him. Rory had been living with us and she planned to stay for at least another year as she finishes up the second draft of her book and she took a part time job at the bookstore." She sighed.

"I understand that…" Logan didn't look at Lorelai. "Look, we can sort out everything later. I think we both need rest. Rory would want us to be well rested and not to worry too much."

"I agree." Lorelai said simply. She held out her hand and Logan gave it a shake. It was a formal gesture and Lorelai wasn't used to it. She usually hugged people, but she wasn't close to Logan. Sometimes she still saw him as the young man who broke her daughter's heart when he walked away after she rejected his proposal.

"Thanks Lorelai." Logan nodded and gave her a tiny smile.

Lorelai smiled back. Logan turned around and started walking away. He turned back less than a minute later.

"I'll be back early in the morning." He told her.

Lorelai just nodded. She headed back inside and made her way back to the NICU.

She saw that Luke was inside the room and she quickly put her scrubs back on and stepped inside.

Her heart melted at the sight of Luke sitting on a rocking chair, Owen sleeping in his arms.

"Hey." She whispered as she came to stand next to the chair.

Luke didn't say anything, just flashed her a smile before returning his attention back to Owen.

"See, it's not so bad, you're doing a great job holding him." She said.

"Yeah," Luke whispered. "Can you take him back to the incubator?" He added after a minute.

Lorelai bent down and gently took Owen out of Luke's arms. The nurse helped her place him back in the incubator. Luke came over and they looked down at their grandson for a moment before leaving the room.

Once they had removed their scrubs and left the area, Luke asked how she and Logan's conversation had gone.

Lorelai told him what they discussed and Logan's current plans. Then she suddenly remembered something.

"Where did my mother go? Did you see?"

"Oh right. I don't know she rushed off." Luke rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. He felt bad for losing track of Emily.

Lorelai dug her phone out of her purse. There was one text message and it was from Emily. Emily never texted, she barely knew how to email. The message was just a few words:

"I went to find a hotel."

"Okay, apparently she went to find a hotel." Lorelai frowned.

"I'm sure she'll be fine." Luke said.

"I'll call her on the way back. She could have stayed with us… in Rory's room."

"On her twin bed in that small room?"

"Good point." Lorelai was still a little worried about her mother.

"So are we heading home then?" Luke asked.

"Yeah. It's kind of depressing sticking around here and you've never been comfortable in hospitals." Lorelai wrapped her arm around his waist and squeezed his side gently.

His arm came around her and he pressed a kiss to her temple. They headed back out the main doors and to the parking lot.

Once they got home, Luke made a quick meal of spaghetti and meatballs. Lorelai ate it all and a dessert of a slice of apple pie. She knew she had to eat and rest. They went to bed early, the sun was still up but they closed the curtains to make the room as dark as possible.

Lorelai snuggled up to Luke, laying her head on his chest. He ran his fingers through her hair.

"How am I going to sleep when my mind is still racing?" She asked him, knowing that it was a tough question.

He continued combing through her hair as he cleared his throat and spoke.

"I'm sure we can get at least a couple hours of sleep. Do you want to try counting sheep or something?"

That made Lorelai laugh. Luke smiled at the sound.

"Well at least I'm comfortable in my own bed, next to you." She said gently.

He stopped moving his fingers and pulled his hands away. Lorelai lifted her head and looked into his eyes. Her eyes were watery, he noticed, like she was about to start crying.

They kept eye contact as they leaned in and their lips met in a tender kiss. Luke deepened the kiss and Lorelai responded by moving her hand to the back of his neck. They kissed passionately for a bit.

Lorelai was the one to pull back. A tear had fallen on her cheek and Luke wiped at it with the pad of his thumb.

"I love you." He said, voice breaking.

Lorelai smiled softly. "And I love you."

She kissed him once more then said they should try to get some rest. He immediately agreed.

They laid back, Lorelai staying close. He wrapped an arm around her waist before she could reach for him. Sleep came to both of them about an hour and a half later, when their minds calmed down and the scary thoughts were pushed away.


Meanwhile, Logan was in his hotel room in Hartford. He had ordered a pizza, but he barely touched it.

"God Rory, why did this have to happen to you?" he muttered. He sighed heavily and sat on the bed.

Just when I thought we could finally get things right and be happy together. He thought.

He rubbed his face and ran a hand through his hair. Quickly deciding he needed a shower, he got up and pulled his shirt off then got clean clothes out of his suitcase. He headed into the bathroom, closing the door behind him a little too loudly.

After he got out of the shower, Logan checked his emails. When he saw one from his mother, he ignored it. He surfed the web for a bit, looking up information on comas.

It was nearly midnight by the time he finally lied down and shut his eyes. Sleep came quickly as he was exhausted, but he woke up a few hours later after having a nightmare.

He stayed awake and waited an hour before heading back to the hospital.


Luke woke up to take a sip of water from the cup that was on the nightstand. He turned over to Lorelai's side when he heard her whisper: "Hmm."

"You're up already." Luke was a little shocked.

Lorelai was typing on her cell phone, fingers expectedly tapping away at the touch screen.

"Hmm? Oh yeah I've been up for a little bit." She looked at him and bit her lip. "I woke you."

"No. I was thirsty."

She nodded and turned her attention back to her phone.

"What are you doing?" He asked, then yawned and rubbed his eyes.

"I'm looking up information about grandparents' rights. I want Owen to be with us."

"What?"

"What I just said, I want Owen to live here so I'm seeing what we'll have to do to make that happen."

"But Lorelai, Logan is here now and he's staying right?"

"Yeah but he isn't ready to be a father. I was a mother to an infant, I had experience. I was mature for my age; Logan seems to be still stuck in his twenties. I still see him that way… he's the guy who broke Rory's heart."

"But he's Owen's father." Luke protested. "You can't just take his son from him."

"I'm not taking him. He'll be allowed to visit. He's planning on living in New York, Luke. That's three hours away. And he doesn't have anything ready; he'll have to rush to get everything. Owen should be released in a few days at the most unless something goes wrong." Lorelai objected.

"Okay, but you can't blame him for being unprepared; he didn't know this was going to happen. You have to give him time to come to terms with being a father. I had to jump into it when I found about April and I went about it the wrong way, shutting you out. Logan has the chance to be there from the start and if he's smart he'll man up and be responsible." Luke took a breath and gently touched Lorelai's knee. She kept eye contact with him and listened.

"Just please give him the chance to be a father, Lorelai, give him what Anna refused me. He hasn't got the best track record and he isn't my favourite person, but he is Owen's father and he seems to be determined to be here. Don't fight him." He pleaded.

Lorelai sighed and furrowed her brow. "You're totally right." She looked down. "What was I thinking? I saw how not knowing about April and not having the chance to be her dad affected you… I just got in my own head and started imagining us raising our grandchild and I…" She stopped.

A minute passed before Lorelai looked at her phone again. "Maybe we can just have Owen one day of the week or so. We need to sort it out with Logan. You're right; I can't take his son from him, that would be unjustified. I thought maybe we could have guardianship and let Logan visit but that would never work out. He probably wants to bring Owen home once he gets an apartment and the baby supplies."

"Yeah," Luke said gently. "We can't take a newborn baby away from his father, even if we have his best interests at heart." He patted her knee. "I can see you just want Owen to be safe and healthy, but I don't know about him staying with us for a long amount of time. We don't even know when Rory will wake up."

"Ugh, Rory doesn't even have a will or any sort of legal document. She was going to be a new mother and she planned on getting help from us when possible and she just… never saw any of this coming. She was basically going to be a single mother and let Logan visit whenever he wanted. How could she have known that she'd get in an accident and fall in a coma and that Logan would leave Odette and move back?" Lorelai spoke quickly and let out a shaky breath.

"She couldn't have known…" Luke said quietly. "This whole situation is a mess, but we'll make it work."

Lorelai put her phone down and cuddled up to him, seeking comfort. She started crying again.

"Shh. It's okay. I'm here." Luke whispered as he rested his chin atop her head.

"She needs to wake up soon. I need my baby girl back. She needs to meet her baby boy… I…" Lorelai sobbed.

"I know. Shh." Luke held her tightly and soothed her with his words and a gentle hand rubbing her back.

Lorelai calmed down after a bit and they got ready to go back to the hospital.