A/N: For anyone who read the previous chapters, you should go back and read chapter 4. I apologize but I made a technical error and only published half of that story. Reading that will make 5 and 6 make more sense.

A few days later, before Lorelai could even open her eyes, she could feel Luke's stare. His hand wisped through her hair and he kissed her forehead as he noticed her starting to stir. After all these years, the way Luke looked at her still got to her. His blue eyes staring into hers being the first thing she saw was never a bad thing to wake up to. She would have enjoyed it more if seconds later she wasn't running to the bathroom to throw up last night's Red Vines and Rocky Road ice cream craving. Well she said it was a craving to get Luke to accept it and head out to Doose's for her. In reality, she just wanted those things. It was the Gilmore stomach.

Unfortunately for the stomach, she was carrying not one, but 2 Danes babies. Although Luke would surely press to make her eat healthy, Lorelai was unlikely to conform of her own volition. Thus, between her vomiting and Luke helplessly holding her hair again and apologizing, she contrived a conspiracy theory. Her Danes babies were in cahoots with their father. They were in fact going to see to it that Lorelai could no longer eat sugar of any kind. As she was telling her theory all to quickly to Luke, he couldn't help but remark

"Good, maybe they'll make you quit coffee. God knows I've tried to get you to stop drinking that vile ulcer concoction you drink like water."

The glare he received from Lorelai made him back down because Lorelai was not at all amused. She was even less amused to find that when she headed downstairs after her shower, the familiar smell of coffee in fact did not please her.

"Get it out of here!"

"Get what out? Lore-"

"The coffee, get it away from me. I swear Luke, if I have to spend another minute with my head over porcelain, I'm going to murder you and use your flannel-colored flesh to make a rug to kneel on while I do it like I was Ed Gein."

After running it out of the house and pouring it into the back yard, Luke marveled. "I never thought I would see the day that Lorelai Gilmore would hate coffee. This is more shocking than the time you almost broke up with snow."

"Well, Lorelai Danes and crew apparently don't have a taste for the stuff" she teased. They both got cheesy grins on their faces. Lorelai knew that even though Luke didn't need her to change her name, the fact that she chose to honor him with this one traditional thing for him made him a very happy husband.

He kissed her and continued making breakfast while she laid her head on the table missing her coffee. Luke was pretty sure he could hear her muttering under her breath how this was his fault and if it weren't for that cute butt of his she wouldn't be in this position.

Luke placed eggs, pancakes and bacon in front of her and she lifted her head. She threw the bacon across the room and Paul Anka gladly toted it off to the living room with him. "Gross…" she scowled knowing that only last week she ate almost a whole pound of bacon.

"Rory and I are going to pick out paint for the apartment today. Against my better judgment, I'm taking Kirk with us so he can load it for us poor weak pregnant ladies. He insisted out of chivalry. I'm sure we'll end up having to get the barely legal hotties at Home Depot to assist in the end, though. She's a little bummed about giving up the apartment she was planning to rent in Queens but she's got a plan to turn the Gazette around."

"Yeah, how is she? We haven't been able to talk since she went to stay with Paris last week. I thought that was supposed to be a one night deal."

"Oh she's good. Paris was going through some stuff too and Rory didn't want to leave her. The nanny quit again and Rory was helping with the kids. But this morning Doyle came in and announced that he had no intention of divorcing her and that after selling his latest script for more money than they could possibly need, that he was done with the Hollywood biz. He said they had more money than God and that it would be easier to keep the Nanny when the elevator was finished being installed. Plus at his new newspaper job he could work from home most days. Rory's watching the kids for another couple hours outside of the house because she didn't want to subject herself or the kids to the display that was about to happen on the second floor landing."

Luke groaned "oh gosh."

"Yeah, anyway, we're planning on lunch at Luke's so you can ask her yourself." Lorelai looked at her phone. "Oh shoot, I have to get to the Inn. Michel and I have to meet with Tom about the spa we're going to build in the basement of the new digs."

"Wait," Luke said.

"What?"

"Call your mother. Now," He said sternly. Lorelai had been putting it off because she wasn't sure how her mom would react.

"But I have to get going. I'll be late."

"Just call her really quickly. You don't want her to find out the wrong way and I'm pretty sure labor and delivery is the wrong way."

"Fine" she pouted at Luke then dialed Emily.

Mom?

Lorelai?

Hey Mom. How's Nantucket?

You're getting a divorce again aren't you?

No, Mom, I uh, I have something to tell you.

Is it something to do with the Inn? You need more money?

No, mom. It's happy news.

Oh. Well what is it?

Well, Luke and I were considering a surrogate so Paris- you remember her, she went to school with Rory- well she's a baby making doctor now. Anyway, Paris went to give me an ultrasound to see if I have viable eggs. And well, it turns out Luke and I took away a souvenir from that honeymoon you sent us on.

You're pregnant?

Yes mom. Actually it's two souvenirs. Like a salt and pepper shaker set. Miss manners would say that a gift set is better than a single I suppose. So yeah, I'm pregnant… with twins.

Silence… Pure silence. After a deep breath, Lorelai spoke again.

Mom?

Is this a joke? You're not joking are you? That would be a very crude joke Lorelai.

No mom, I have the ultrasound to prove it. I'll even have Paris call you if you'd like so you know it's for real.

Emily was in tears. She had a chance to be there from the beginning again. What a lovely new start she thought.

Congratulations Lorelai. I… am so proud of you…Tell Luke I say congratulations.

Thanks mom.

Emily whispered "Thank you, Richard" after hanging up. She felt like he'd gifted her a fresh chance from beyond the grave.

"She was crying" Lorelai said "Happy tears."

"Aren't you glad you told her?" Luke said kissing her forehead and squeezing her arms.

"yeah.. I actually am." After a few deep breaths and a long happy smile, Lorelai remembered she was leaving and started towards the door after kissing Luke goodbye.

"You sure you're okay to keep working right now, you look awful." Luke was already being overly protective of his babies and wife because the whole womanly thing made him nervous.

"Thanks," Lorelai responded flatly.

"You know what I mean. You should take it easy."

"I'm mostly sitting down. The only stress is when I have to tell Michel for the 10th time that no, we are not going to have fat burning laser technicians during bathing suit season."

She took one last bite of her pancake, kissed her husband and was out the door.

At 11, Rory walked into the Dragonfly to find Kirk in overalls and a white T-Shirt arguing with Michel about whether he was allowed to stand there and wait for Rory. She brushed past them unnoticed and into her mom's office."

Lorelai was eating apple slices with caramel, a hamburger and French fries while working the books when she was suddenly startled by a voice "You are gonna get SOOOOO…"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence missy." Lorelai cut her off.

"It's ok, I'm going to get fat with you" Rory said rubbing her belly and stealing a french fry.

Lorelai swatted her hand for the first time Rory could ever remember he being protective of her food. "Well isn't this so The Pregnancy Pact. Next thing we know, Sookie and Lane will announce they're pregnant again too…. Sorry I swatted you. This is the only thing I can eat right now. The babies won't even let me have coffee," she pouted.

"You? Without Coffee? Well I never." Rory put on her best southern accent.

"That's what Luke said when I made him throw the coffee out of the pot into the back yard this morning." Lorelai sighed "I need a hug. No coffee and lots of nausea makes me miss my first pancake. I was never this sick with you. And you loved coffee." They hugged and then heard Michel's voice crank up an octave like he usually did right before he was about to do something rash.

"We better go before Michel goes all Caty on Gretchen weiner before she gets hit by a bus on Kirk." Rory said.

"Let's go Kirk," Lorelai said as she looped her finger into his overall and guided him out the door with them.

2 hours into the paint swatches, Rory dropped one and as she picked it up, it seemed perfect. And in the bottom right corner, she read the name and tears immediately streaked her face. Without a word, she handed it to her mother.

Lorelei Pink.

"It's spelled wrong, but it feels like a sign."

Lorelai also began to tear up. "It does. Stupid pregnancy, you're crying is making me cry." They both stood there and held each other crying like lunatic pregnant women.

Finally, Lorelai had a thought and she took a deep breath. "Wait, does this mean you're gonna-"

"Lorelai Emily Gilmore"

Lorelai cried again.

"You gave me your name and your life's blood and it has blessed me. And I wanted her to be named after the two strongest and most courageous women I know. But since Trix, Lorelai and Rory are being taken, I'd like to call her Emily. Do you think Grandma woul…? and I mean do you think you would… would that be ok?"

"It's perfect" Lorelai said, embracing Rory and then wiping the tears. "We should probably compose ourselves. I think this is all we need. Hey, where's Kirk?"

Just then over the Loud speaker will Lorelai and Rory please come to the front of the store. Your party is waiting at security for you.

The bell over the door rang as Kirk followed the Gilmore girls into the diner.

"I'm sorry Lorelai, I was just asking how I could get a career mixing the paint and then I saw the guy using the forklift to move wood and wanted to inquire about that but they thought I was charging to try to take control of the forklift and almost called the police."

"It's ok Kirk. Are you able to get the paint upstairs? If not, you can leave it in my Jeep and Jess can come get it later. He's coming up for the weekend to help Liz and TJ with Doula so they can go out of town and we invited them to dinner. I can con him into doing it." Lorelai said confidently. Rory was a little surprised at the mention of Jess but she was determined not to focus on the fact.

"No, I got it Lorelai." Kirk Then started hauling the buckets upstairs one at a time as Luke came out of the kitchen.

"Rory! Oh wow! You look.. I mean you have a…"

"That's Luke for 'You look good, Kid.'"

"Yeah" Luke said rubbing the back of his head nervously. "You do. Hey, do you want some fries? A burger? Whatever you want."

"Fries would be good. I can't eat burgers right now, too greasy. Can I get some carrots and celery with ranch too?"

"A vegetable" Lorelai marveled.

"Two vegetables," Rory corrected. "As much as I want Luke's amazing burgers, the baby's not a fan right now."

"Coming right up… You should take a page from her book." Luke said and disappeared into the kitchen again.

"Is that any way to treat the bearer of your loinfruit?!" Lorelai said loudly. And then she realized what she'd done.

As if on cue, Babette and Miss Patty had walked into the diner and heard that last part of that conversation.

"Oh no," Lorelai winced as she slowly turned in her stool to see them. It wasn't a secret but she and Luke also hadn't discussed what to say and when and she hadn't thought of the repercussions of that.

"Lorelai, Doll… are you? Did I just hear you say you're preganant" Babette's raspy voice said adding an extra syllable to pregnant.

Lorelai just smiled. She tried to think fast on her feet but not a single word came to her lips. Only mumbles "I… iei… uh.. I… Um I'm…. yep. Pregnant."

There was a ton of celebration and as Luke came out to check on the commotion, he was instantly bombarded with questions and drawn to a seat next to Lorelai with Hello Magazine to discuss. Lorelai mouthed "I'm sorry" to him a hundred times but luckily Luke was ok with it. They hadn't talked but it was going to come out eventually. He was actually relieved it was out.

"You're having 2 babies?! Luke you stud!" Miss Patty exclaimed. Luke and Lorelai just awkwardly giggled.

Someone came in the door and Luke bolted at the chance to leave the table leaving Lorelai to field the questions until Rory came up behind her and gave her an excuse to leave.

"You okay?" Rory asked. Lorelai was looking overwhelmed by the questions. Her head was spinning.

"Yeah, Sweets, I am. I'm so glad I told mom this morning before it got out.