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September 6 months
DiNiNg RoOm
"Is this ham?" asked Emily while taking a seat.
"Oh Uh you're in trouble" Lorelai whispered in Luke's ear while he was helping her to her seat.
"Shut up" he whispered back.
"Yes, mom. It's ham. Why?" Lorelai said with a little smile, she was just a bout to get proven right, or was she?
"Not many people make ham other days beside Christmas and New Years..." Emily started.
"I know" Lorelai's smile grew a little more
"It's nice" Emily simple stated.
"Yes it is" said Richard.
"I think Lorelai just had a stroke" Samantha whispered into Jess' ear, he only smirk.
"Oh, I totally agree with you mom" Lorelai said try to hide the little shock she was felling, and well Luke just smile cuz' he had just been proven right. At the table Luke and Lorelai were sitting at opposite ends, Emily was sitting right to Lorelai and Richard was next to her(putting him left to Luke), Rory was sitting left to Lorelai, with Samantha sitting next to her, then Jess (putting him right to Luke).
The dinner advanced smoothly, hitting soft topics, mostly Lorelai and how she was feeling, Emily was being extremely nice, this far.
"Lorelai remember you cousin Lydia?" Emily asked before taking a bite.
"Didn't she die a few years back?" Lorelai asked after swallowing.
"No that was Claudia..." Emily corrected and Lorelai nodded. "Lydia, is getting married next weekend" Emily continued. Oh uh Rory and Luke thought simultaneously.
"Well good for her" Lorelai said with an emotionless voice. Please don't go where I think you're going. Lorelai thought please please please.
"And she told me to give you this..." Emily elbowed Richard and he pulled and envelope from the inside pocket of his suit. Emily handed the envelope to Lorelai.
"What is this mom?" She eyed the envelope.
"It's and invitation to a wedding, Lorelai. A wedding you are attending next weekend..." Emily told her, Lorelai just shook her head but didn't say a word. "You are also coming, the invitation is for all of you, all though, Rory you're gonna need to get an escort..."
"No she's not, because we're not going" Lorelai finally said putting the invitation on the table, a little closer to Emily than to her.
"Yes you are Lorelai, she's your cousin for intends and purposes..." Emily told her.
"Not this again..." Lorelai sighted. "Mom, she might be me cousin but I don't know her..."
"What do you mean you don't know her? You met her at your fifth birthday party" Emily stated.
"Really? I don't care if I met her, I still don't remember her. That's why we're not going. Besides you're giving me the invitation a week early..."
"So?" Emily asked.
"'So?'... so, you rambled on and on about it being impolite to deliver invitations a week early when I gave you Sookie's wedding invitation..."
"It is impolite. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't go Lorelai. If you remembered correctly we went to that wedding even though the invitation was rather late..." Emily reminded her.
"But..." Lorelai started.
"No buts Lorelai, you're all going. You too Samantha." Emily turned to look at her.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I can't. We have to fly to Arizona to check on my grandma, we're leaving on Friday" Samantha said a little apologetic.
"Don't worry about it, I hope she's ok" Emily said and turned towards Lorelai. "I do expect you and Luke there"
"Fine" Lorelai said in defeat, she turned to look at Luke and he only gave her a supporting smile.
"Make you a deal, Lorelai" Richard told her, Lorelai turned to look at him expectantly "You don't have to go to this weeks Friday dinner if you go to the wedding..." Lorelai's eyes grew. "But if you skip dinner and don't attend the wedding, then next week there'll be Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch" Richard explained.
"Thank you daddy" was all Lorelai said. Samantha had a weird expression on her face, Rory noticed and whispered towards her 'tell Jess to explain all later' Samantha just nodded.
The dinner continued with no further problems, there was just small and pointless conversation.
"Luke did you make dessert?" Rory asked hopefully.
"Yes he did, and not only did he make dessert, but he made a new one that I just know you'll love" Lorelai told her with a smile.
"Ooh intriguing, What's it called?" Rory turned towards Luke.
"It's called 'choco-flan'" Luke told her and continued taking the plates to the kitchen.
"Is it Mexican or something?" Rory asked intrigued.
"Si" Lorelai said then her and Samantha laughed.
"What's in it?" Rory asked.
"Oh, its chocolate cake, but on top it has this sort of jell-O looking layer, which is made mostly by sugar" Samantha explained. Everybody gave her a weird look. "Sorry, it's just that my grandma use to make it a lot"
"The one from Arizona?" Lorelai asked her.
"No, my other grandma, but she stopped when the doctor told her there was way too much sugar in those and that she shouldn't eat them any more" she told her.
"That's exactly why I didn't want to make it in the first place" Luke said knowingly.
"And why did you?" Rory asked him.
"Because your mom was craving something chocolate-y but she didn't know what" he told them then went to the kitchen and returned with the cake.
They all ate and Lorelai was happy when she finally convinced Luke to give her a second serving, after eating and the great and annoying discussion on 'why Luke should serve this at the diner' ended, with Luke saying no, Jess and Samantha left. Rory excused herself, saying she had too much homework and went to her room. Luke and Lorelai where at the door saying their goodbyes to Emily and Richard.
"God, I'm so tired" Lorelai said and tilted a little so she was leaning against Luke and he placed an arm around her.
"Why don't you go upstairs and get ready while I load up the dishwasher?" Luke told her, she nodded and went upstairs. Luke went into the kitchen and somehow got every dish inside the washer, then he went upstairs. He was sitting at the edge of the bed taking his shoes off when Lorelai stepped out of the bathroom wearing his flannel and her undies. Luke got up and went into the bathroom. When he came back out Lorelai was sitting in bed, her back was against the headboard, her legs were Indian style, she had her hands on either side of her stomach and was stroking it slowly while whispering something. "What are you doing?" Luke asked and stepped on the bed, with only his boxers.
"We were discussing tonight's events" she said with a smile. He was sitting sideways looking at her, his left arm against the headboard and his right hand on her stomach.
"Hey there..." Luke said to her stomach while rubbing it a little. "Did you guys behave tonight?" Lorelai chuckled and shook her head.
"They did at first, but then while the Emily thing was going on they got all edge-y and started moving around and kicking"
"Hey guys, I told you to behave tonight for mommy, whoa" Luke said and his eyes grew, he just stared at her stomach, she laughed a little.
"I think they're trying to tell you who's in charge" Lorelai said with a chuckle.
"Oh, so we're under new management here?" Luke asked and Lorelai nodded.
"Hey Luke?" she asked turning to look at him, he was still looking at her stomach.
"Yeah?" he turned to look at her.
"You're not mad about the whole wedding thing are you?" Lorelai asked a little nervous.
"Nah, we can just go, be there for like an hour then leave" he told her.
"I knew I loved you for a reason" she teased and kissed him. After they pulled apart Luke told her.
"Goodnight Lorelai, goodnight babies" he bent down and kissed her stomach on both sides, then kissed her. They both scooted down, Luke wrapped his arms around her and they fell asleep.
TuEsDaY At LuNcH TiMe
Lorelai and Sookie went to the diner for lunch, they were the table by the window, Luke walked up to them.
"Hey" Luke said "What do you guys want?"
"Can I use the bathroom at your old place?" Lorelai asked him, he nodded. When she got up she gave him a look meaning he should follow. He took Sookie's order to the kitchen the went upstairs to his old apartment. When he walked in Lorelai stood from the chair and went towards him.
"What's..." he started but was cut of by her lips on his, they were kissing hard and firm, when he tried to pull back she bit his bottom lip and pulled him back, somehow they made it to the chair where she was before, he sat down and pulled Lorelai to straddle his lap.
"Why did you get rid of the bed?" Lorelai asked in a whisper when she pulled back a little and rested her head on his shoulder.
"You got rid of it" Luke told her while stroking her back.
"What was I thinking" Lorelai said, kissed him quick the added. "We have that appointment today at four"
"I know" he said and kept rubbing her back. "Pick you up at three?"
"At the house" she told him. "Sookie is gonna drop me off there"
"Ok, pick you up at three at the house. So, was that all you wanted?" Luke asked referring to the kiss.
"Turkey sandwich and fries" she told him and they went downstairs.
4:00 At ThE WaItInG RoOm
"...and then I started crying, I know I'm all hormone-y and all but I know that if I was not pregnant I'd still would've cried, I mean he Had worked at the hospital since for ever and nobody noticed he had a tumor, but that was not the sad part, the sad part was that he faxed this really beautiful letter and immediately after they get this letter that he's dead and at the end the show his 'spirit' going thru the halls of the ER while 'somewhere over the rainbow' plays, that's a sad song just by its own, but then add the whole ghost roaming around, it's just so sad..." Lorelai's voice started to tear up.
"What are you babbling about?" Luke asked with a weird expression.
"ER, the tv show. Dr. Greene died" Lorelai said sadly.
"You saw a rerun didn't you?" Luke asked and lorelai just nodded.
"Gilmore, Lorelai" a nurse said.
"Here" Lorelai said and lifted her hand.
"Follow me please" the nurse told her, Luke helped Lorelai up and they followed the nurse to an exam room. "Wait here, Dr. Matthews will be here soon"
"Ok, thanks" Lorelai said and the nurse left them alone. Luke help Lorelai up. She was sitting at examining table with her feet moving front to back, hitting the table every time they came back. After a couple of minutes of this Luke's nerve peeked.
"Will you stop that?" Luke asked her.
"But I'm bored" she whined.
"Yes, but That's annoying" he said imitating her tone.
"Ok, then come here" Lorelai said opening her arms. He walked towards her and she hugged him then started kissing him. Luke was standing between her legs, he had his hands at her neck, her arms were hugging him at his waist and her hands were in the back pockets of his jeans. Then the doctor came in.
"I see we're at the sex faze" The doctor said and they were startled, so much that Luke jumped back and got instantly red. "Don't worry..." she told Luke. "I bet its been really hard to keep your hand to yourself lately" the doctor told Lorelai and she nodded with a grin on her face. "Good" Lorelai laughed and Luke just got redder "Ok, I'm gonna examine you now, so lay back" Lorelai did as told, Luke walked to her side, sat on a little stool that was there and took her hand. After a several minutes. "Everything here looks good. Now lets move to the ultrasound, do you still want to know the sex?"
"Yes please, well that is if they let us see" Lorelai said. The doctor went to get the machine from the corner.
"Shirt please" the doctor said and Lorelai lifted her shirt. The doctor squirted a big amount of gel, at which Lorelai shivered, she started moving the little thing-y, soon the sound of two strong heart beats invaded the little exam room, Lorelai squeezed Luke's hand. "Let's see, let's see" the doctor was repeating in whispers towards the machine. "Aja!" she click on something and the image froze.
"What?" Lorelai asked and perched herself on her elbows. The doctor took from one of the drawers a little pen that she used to draw on the screen.
"Ok here..." she drew a little circle. "Is your little boy" Luke automatically smiled and squeezed Lorelai's hand. "And here..." she drew another circle right next to the previous one. "Is your other little boy..." Luke's eyes widen his mouth dropped a little and his hand got a little loose, Lorelai tighten the grip which made Luke turn to look at her, she had a grin and was looking at him with loving eyes, he bent down and kissed her softly. "From the looks of it, they're identical twins" They stared at the screen a little longer, while the doctor printed a few random shots and the one with the little circles.
"What am I gonna do in a house full of boys?" Lorelai said teasingly. Luke smiled and kissed her.
"Thank you" he whispered against her lips.
"Anytime" she mocked and kissed him again.
"Ok, lets talk about our goals here" the doctor said interrupting them and handing Luke the pictures.
"Goals?' Lorelai asked a little lost.
"Yes, with multiple births going into premature labor is our biggest enemy..."
"Premature labor?" Luke asked a little scared.
"When the womb grows to a certain point then labor starts, and with multiple babies that point comes sooner so your body thinks its time, but its not. So what we're aiming for here is December, any time in December would be good and safe" the doctor told them.
"December?" Lorelai asked and the doctor nodded. "But they're supposed to be born the 27, what if they're born the 1?"
"Well December is our main goal because you'd be in your last month, once we get to December then our goal will be the 27"
"December" Lorelai mumbled. "December is really far away, it's barely October 2"
"It's not that far away, Lorelai" Luke told her rubbing his thumb over the hand he was holding.
"In the great scale of time no, but..." lorelai started to panic.
"Relax, Lorelai..." the doctor told her. "The easiest way to achieve our goal is for you to relax, take it easy, rest, take you vitamins, don't work to hard, and enjoy the pregnancy"
"Ok" Lorelai said relaxing a little more
"Before you know it New Year will be here and you'll have your little boy's all safe and sound with you" the doctor said and lorelai smiled I'm having twin boys Lorelai thought and that made her smile. "Any questions?"
"Besides the no smoking, no drinking and no roller coasters, is there something else I shouldn't be doing?"
"Well you shouldn't fly in your last trimester, which you're currently in, so no flying either. Other than that no, it just like I said, no stress, rest and take it easy"
"Don't worry I'll make sure she does all of that" Luke said.
"Ok then, if there are no more questions you can go" the doctor handed Lorelai a little disposable rag and went to the door, before she exit she turned and said "Just relax and enjoy the few months of peace and quiet you have left" and with that she smiled. Lorelai started whipping her stomach and where she couldn't reach Luke whipped it.
"Hey" Lorelai said and Luke turned his attention towards her. "We're having twin boys" she told him and he couldn't help but smile.
"I know" he said and the smile grew bigger, he resumed with the whipping, then helped Lorelai off the examining table, she grabbed the little blurry pictures and they left for the front desk, once they had set the next appointment they left
At ThE CaR
"Hey do you want anything?" Luke asked once he got in.
"I want to discuss names" she said turning towards him.
"I thought we already discussed that" Luke said turning to look at her.
"We did, but I changed my mind. I don't want to go into labor not knowing what the name of our boys will be" she whined.
"Ok then, we'll discuss baby names tonight" Luke said with a smirk. "Anything else you want?"
"A krispy kreme donut!" Lorelai said happily.
"All right then, lets go" Luke turned the car on and left.
LaTeR GiLmOrE/DaNeS LiViNgRoOm
"...boys!" Rory shrieked thru the phone.
"That's right" Lorelai said placing a hand on her big belly.
"What are you gonna do in a house full of men?"
"I have no idea, That's why you're gonna be home for your winter break" Lorelai said hoping that was true.
"Count me in" Rory said and lorelai sighted in relief. They kept talking, Lorelai told her about the December goal and everything the doctor had said. At around seven Luke walked in, Lorelai had changed and was wearing a baby blue maternity t-shirt and jeans with a stretchy elastic waist. She walked out of the living room.
"Luke" she said in a sing song voice.
"What did you do?" he asked narrowing his eyes.
"Nothing" she said with a smile.
"Ok, then, what do you want?" he asked while walking into the livingroom towards the couch.
"Feel like going out?" she asked hopefully while taking a seat next to him.
"Depends" he said. "Where?"
"Sniffy's?" Lorelai asked like a four year old. "I miss them and their food, plus we can tell them what we found out today"
"That you're crazier than yesterday?" he asked with a smile.
"Well that too" she said with a grin. "So? Can we?" ok now she sounded like a 5 year old that wants to buy some ice-cream Luke thought then smiled.
"Sure, let me go to the bathroom first" he said getting up.
"Yay! Hurry! And remember 'if you shake it more the 3 times you're just playing with it'" Lorelai yelled up the stairs.
"Geez Lorelai!" Luke growled from the top of the stairs.
SnIfFy'S taVeRn
As soon as they walked in they were spotted by Maisy, a waitress took them to their booth, Luke help Lorelai then as he was gonna sit down a 'Lucas!' came from behind him.
"Maisy, hey" Luke turned and hugged her.
"Lorelai, my my just look at you. No, no don't get up" Maisy placed a hand on her shoulder to keep her from standing up. "You can take a seat now Luke" Maisy told him and he did as told. "So, what brings you two here?"
"Well... we went to see the doctor today" Lorelai started.
"And?" Maisy asked a little eager.
"Apparently I'm pregnant" Lorelai said with a serious face.
"Lorelai..." Luke growled at her.
"Sorry, we're having twin boys" Lorelai said happily.
"Wow, you always were an over-achiever Luke" Maisy teased.
"Yeah well what can I say" Luke said shyly while turning red.
"Aw look at him, he's blushing" Lorelai said in a baby voice.
"So, is Buddy here?" Luke said changing the subject.
"Yeah, he's in the kitchen. I'll go tell him you're here" Maisy said then left towards the kitchen.
"Thanks" Luke told her before she left.
"Look at you all proud" Lorelai teased him.
"Yeah, well what can I say" Luke said again.
"Wow, de ja vu" Lorelai teased. A little while later Buddy came and congratulated them, he patted Luke on the back several times and affectionately rubbed Lorelai's shoulder, then left to cook them their food. After they ate they said their goodbyes and Buddy & Maisy congratulated them again.
ThEiR BeDrOoM At 10:00pm
Luke was lying in bed, hands behind his head, looking at the ceiling just thinking about that day when Lorelai walked out of the bathroom.
"I'm sorry Luke but they make the best chocolate cake in the world" Lorelai said while getting in bed.
"Nah, don't worry about it, at least you said them and not Al or Pete" Luke told her with a smile. Lorelai sat in the center of the bed cross-legged looking down at him. After a little while. "What?" Luke said a little annoyed.
"We are supposed to be discussing names" Lorelai whined.
"Oh right, I almost forgot" Luke pushed himself up and sat with his back against the headboard Lorelai shifted so she was sitting between Luke's legs and leaning her back against his chest. After a couple of minutes of silence Luke said. "So do you have any suggestions?" Lorelai smiled.
"Well, since you don't want to name one 'Luke' I was thinking we can name him 'Will' after your dad" Lorelai said and waited expectantly for his response.
"You do know that if we name one after my dad, we're gonna have to name the other one after your dad" Luke told her raising both eyebrows. Lorelai thought for a moment.
"I'd be ok with that" she said with a smile. "How bout you?"
"Ok..." he said then placed his hands on her stomach "Hey guys, you've got names" Luke said and rubbed her stomach.
"Ok, now we just have to thing of first names" Lorelai told him.
"What? I thought..."
"Well, it's just that I've always thought that twins with rhyming names are cool..."
"Cool?" Luke asked in disbelief.
"Ok, maybe not cool but I've always liked it" she gave him the puppy eyes.
"So you want rhyming names?" Luke asked and she nodded. "Had any in mind?"
"Have you ever seen 'dude where's my car?'?" Lorelai asked and he shook his preparing for what would come. "Well in that movie there's an actor and I always like his name, so I was thinking we could use it?" she asked wincing, expecting the blow at any moment. But it never came, instead...
"What's his name?" Luke asked intrigued.
"Sean" Lorelai said.
"Sean what?" Luke asked, knowing she was hiding something.
"Sean William, I like how it sounds, and since we are already using the William, I was thinking we can use the Sean also, all though we are using the William in honor of your dad, but it still sound nice and..." Lorelai was about to start babbling.
"I like how it sounds also" Luke said sheepishly. "All we need now is a name that rhymes with Sean" Luke told her. They both stayed quiet for a little while.
"Ooh John!" Lorelai said while jerking her head up. "John rhymes with Sean and it goes well with Richard and also its four letters just like Sean... come to think of it Richard and William have the same amount of letters also, that is so cool, don't you think" Lorelai turned to look at him and saw his smirk. "What?" Luke leaned in and kissed her.
"I love the name" he whispered while pulling away.
"So?... That's a yes?" Lorelai asked expectantly.
"Yeah" Luke nodded.
"Yay! You heard that guys?..." Lorelai asked placing her hands on her stomach. "You've got names now!" Lorelai smiled "Hey. I guess you like your names huh?" Lorelai asked rearranging her hands on her stomach, placing them on top of where one was kicking.
"I don't think it's much him liking the name, but you yelling and keeping them up, they should be sleeping now" Luke whispered the last part. "Actually we should be sleeping now"
"Ok, ok I can take a hint" Lorelai said and scooted down on the bed, Luke turned the lights off and lay in bed on his side and Lorelai was on her side. He turned a little and lowered his face to her stomach.
"Goodnight Sean William and John Richard" he said and kissed her stomach twice, Lorelai smiled. When Luke lay back again Lorelai scooted over towards him, he wrapped his arms around her and they fell asleep.
Next it will be the wedding