A/N: I realized some of the text didn't transfer on this chapter. There's a whole lot more to read. Sorry about that.

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Traveling on the Gilmore's dime was audacious to Luke and Lorelai heard many-a-rants about how glutinous it was, but they had a lovely time. He inspected the different buildings they entered weather historical or not, admiring the woodwork and construction while Lorelai stared at his butt as he'd bend down.

Lorelai was feeling awfully jet lagged now that they'd returned home. Luke who had far less air miles under his belt than she did was even fairing better than she. She was feverish and nauseous; you'd think she was on a boat. So she spent the first 2 days home in bed- only willing to eat tater tots, mashed potatoes and pop tarts. On the third day, Lorelai had a pretty ok afternoon. She was almost feeling completely herself, just exhausted, but she managed to make her way around the town.

She was in a good mood talking to "Hello Magazine" and the other townies. Of course she didn't feel pleased when Miss Patty said how awful and thin she looked. Well, she liked the thin, but she could have left out the awful. Still, nothing could bring down Lorelai today. Because she and Luke finally talked on that trip… a real talk with no subtext about the kids thing.

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Like almost anything Lorelai brought up, it started with a rant. The only part that Luke caught was the variation of what she told Rory about becoming Mrs. Lorelai Danes. She said the ease at which those words came out and her desire to marry him a thousand times made her realize how even though they had a family and kids before they were married; she wanted to do it again with him, from the beginning and as Mrs. Danes.

Luke admitted that he could still see them having more kids even though they were expecting grandchild number 1 after Lorelai proclaimed that she wanted another child. She always felt she had more to give and that she'd be able to enjoy it more this time because she wasn't struggling anymore like she did as a teenager with Rory. Luke wanted those first milestones too. Most of all, they both wanted a family with each other.

That night and for the rest of the trip, their love making was completely sans condom. While they figured it was physically too late, it was cathartic for them. It was like sealing the deal on having a baby when they made it back to the states. All it took was Lorelai's promise that all Lorelai would take care of the how-to portion. She figured they'd end up having to adopt so she could ask Frederick for his expertise. The daughter he and Michel adopted from Haiti, Celine Diana Gerard, was perfect. She'd like one of those if they could.

This time, it was Rory who was giving the town tour. After Hello Magazine came down on her, Lorelai needed the buffer so she went to the paper and made her take a break to give her the skinny.

"My Morning sickness has passed, and I've sent you a bump picture every day per your request even though at 7 weeks I only looked like I did after the great Thanksgiving tour of 2002 and I look even skinnier now because of the morning sickness. I'm so glad that's over but I just started noticing how Taylor smells faintly of Ms. Patty's perfume. I have convinced him to give me health care by calling Paris in as my lawyer but I had to take a job with Andrew for a few hours per week at the bookstore. I'm going to have to resist the books this time around… except the baby ones. They did take out the phone booth, but replaced it with a vintage red English style phone booth that has no phone, just a placard on it commemorating the old phone booth. Kirk angered Lulu last week when he said he might love Pedal as much as her and had to sleep in it for 2 days. Lane graduates from the music program at Connecticut State in 3 weeks and she's already lined up a job as music teacher at Stars Hollow high this Spring."

"Well, I must never leave this town again. Too much happens when I am gone." Lorelai responded. Suddenly, she wasn't feeling well again. God this bug or Jet lag would just not go away. She'd ask Paris about it at their appointment tomorrow. Before looking into donor eggs, she was going to do an ultrasound to see how many eggs Lorelai had left. She wasn't menopausal so there was still a chance for her and Luke to try IVF treatments and such.

They landed at Luke's and Lorelai ordered her typical I don't feel well food of chicken soup and mashed potatoes. She of course lied to Luke about eating the carrots (mostly to annoy him) and he caught her slipping them to pedal. She couldn't drink the coffee in front of her either. Just didn't taste right. Maybe the machine was off? Rory had chili fries. Since being pregnant, she couldn't really stand hamburgers.

"So how ya doing kid?" Lorelai asked with a warm tone.

"Good actually. Now that my knees no longer hurt (Kirk was right about the downstairs bathroom tile) from going exorcist all day long. It's a cruel joke they call it morning sickness when the illness can not read a freaking clock."

"Good. And How's the situation with…?" Lorelai started to ask, but Rory already knew the question.

"Logan and I came up with a custody agreement. He's told Odette of the impending birth as well as the rest of his family. They all still want to go through on the wedding."

"I'm sorry, hun."

"No, it's ok." Rory said trying not to sound at all phased but failing. "We didn't choose each other. I finally understand how you felt about Max. When it came down to it, even when Logan wants to do the right thing… well I love him, but I'm not IN Love with him. He's a comfort choice. I went to him and wanted to come back because it was easy, but not because…. Well he's just not my Luke."

Lorelai nodded in perfect understanding. "So what's the deal?"

"He's going to have monthly visits while the baby is young and still nursing. I refuse not to breast feed. Every book I have read says to breast feed and I want to do right by the kid. I will at least try even though it kind of weirds me out."

"It won't as much when it's yours."

"I hope so. But he'll be around and we'll facetime in between. We'll re-evaluate the visits and frequency with how old the baby is."

"That sounds like a good plan. I knew you'd figure it out." Rory nodded. Then, Lorelai leaned in. "Luke and I have decided to try for a baby." She whispered because Babette was in the corner eating shredded wheat cereal and that woman had dog ears.

Rory let out a silent squeal of excitement. "Do it fast, this could totally be our Father of the Bride moment."

"Well I'm no spring chicken so I don't know my chances. Paris previously said they're low based on age but I have an appointment in a week to see how many/healthy my eggs are. I was wondering if you'd come along? I'm sure Paris would give you a free ultrasound if we did."

"Throw in lunch and a pedicure and I'm in."

"Deal."

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Before Lorelai's ultrasound got started, she talked Paris into doing Rory's belly first as a "demonstration" of the abdominal portion of the ultrasound. Rory was 14 weeks and 3 days so her and Lorelai assumed they wouldn't see gender or anything but just felt it would be cool.

Of course, it was the latest and creepiest technology. It was nothing like the blob looking Machine Lorelai had when she was just 16. As Paris located the baby, she pointed out it's features, telling her how everything was typical and bragging at how advanced her own babies looked and their symmetrical heads when she did this on her surrogates.

Paris had never carried her own kids, so as not to ruin her body or take unnecessary maternity leave. Until now. She was 25 weeks along, with Doyle's baby. Once she informed him, he promptly sent over a construction crew and added an elevator to the 5 story house because her walking up the stairs was no longer acceptable to him- authenticity of the house be damned. He also quit his job and went back to town writing for a newspaper. He didn't tell Paris this at first (needed his ducks in a row or she would rip him to shreds).

When the day they were to sign the legal separation papers came along, they sat in the remediation room and he pulled out a ring twice as big as the one she currently had and proclaimed he wasn't signing them, he was coming home. Some gross stuff happened and both sets of lawyers and the mediator cleared the room as fast as they could run.

After telling the last measurement and correcting how far along she was to 14 weeks and 5 days while cursing the incompetent idiot who gave Rory the wrong date, Paris then asked, "So did you want to know the gender now or are you going to wait to give birth in the Stars Hollow Manger to find out?" Paris was great at her biblical insults.

"You can tell already?!" Rory was shocked.

"Yep, this machine could have told you over a week ago. That's why I always keep the latest at Dynasty Makers."

Rory looked at Lorelai, who she could tell was going to browbeat Paris into telling her within a day anyway. That woman could and did persuade the royal guard to move. Plus, she was curious anyhow. She was planning to pick paint for Luke's apartment this week anyways so she could make a more specific nursery from April and Jess' old room. "You were going to tell me anyway Paris. But I'll officially give you the ok."

"Good, glad to see you're not a knuckle dragger… joke." They politely laughed but were just anxious and Paris was being a little slow to speak on purpose. "Fine. You're having a girl. Surprise, surprise. I selected a girl for our first too." Paris then trailed off about how a girl being older leads to a statistically less criminal boy or something but Neither Rory or Lorelai were listening now.

A girl. A baby girl. While usually Rory would be the one making lists based on the new info, this time it was Lorelai who'd interrupted Paris and was also talking a mile a minute about girl things and her 21st birthday… In Vegas this time because Atlantic city had been done. All Rory could do was kind of nod.

A girl.

She was elated, and terrified, as well as about every other emotion under the sun amplified by pregnancy. She was only jolted out of it when Paris handed her the warm towel for her belly and told her to switch places with Lorelai.

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A few minutes later, Lorelai was now the one on the table after a medical assistant came and quickly changed the high thread count sheets.

Lorelai was wearing a dress at Paris' instruction because she was getting an abdominal and transvaginal ultrasound. It was so awkward letting Paris be the gynecologist to shove a foreign object where only Luke and old Dr. Bader (who she wasn't entirely sure could even see) had been in over 10 years. Luckily, after insertion, Paris didn't even look down there as she navigated the computer screen.

"Huh." Paris stated and then grumbled a couple things to herself followed by a few "interesting" and "impressive" comments. Lorelai was intrigued and nervous but the "Impressive" made her hopeful.

After what seemed like 5 minutes, she screamed at Paris, "I can't take it. Tell me what you see. You obviously see something. Is it cancer? Am I magical? Do I have 2 uteruses?"

"Well you have 2 of something," Paris replied.

"What do you mean?" Lorelai asked, starting to fear the worst, that impressive word now seeming insignificant because knowing Paris, she'd just be impressed by the accolades she received for discovering that Lorelai was someone who ate her twin in utero.

"Well Lorelai, I'm Sorry but I can't help you get pregnant."

"What? Paris? What's wrong with me." Lorelai was sure now she ate her twin.

"Well, it's a parasite; two actually. You're already Pregnant- you're having twins." Paris then flipped the screen to show two sacs hardly big enough to distinguish anything inside of them. The transvaginal ultrasound didn't show the same thing as the abdominal one revealing baby girl Gilmore's gender.

"Now while I didn't inseminate you, I do plan to put this in my portfolio of success stories as I did consult you on the boxers for Luke. Based on these measurements, you're about 6 weeks along. Pretty much conceived a day or so around your wedding date. We can do a follow up when the babies are bigger so we can measure and give a more precise timeline. I'm gonna go ahead and give you the abdominal ultrasound for picture purposes but it won't give me any more information than this machine."

For the first time in their lives, both of the Lorelai's were truly stunned speechless. Neither of them moved or even reacted to the rest of Paris' speech. They just stared at each other in utter disbelief. Paris excused herself and gave them the room for the rest of the hour after she saw her next appointment so that they could all grab lunch and get those pedis.

After about 15 minutes of that hour, Lorelai finally spoke. "Oh Damn…Twins…Me…Luke…Oh God Luke… Oh damn."