Oh Baby!

by LoVeLuKe

LL My first FF Oh baby, a baby. REVIEW PLEASE

30. Christetning Thanksgiving

I am very sorry for the delay, in the bright side this chapter is extra extra long.

Thanks KYLIE for you help!

J.STONE: you make my day, man.

SuGgEeStIoN: you should grab a pen and a pad, then write down what you thought, said, or felt on certain parts. When you finish the chapter, type what you wrote down on the Review thingy. That way you won't forget anything.

One more thing ENJOY!

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"Oh my God, Sookie, this is gorgeous" Lorelai said while lifting a little white dress. They were in Sookie's living room getting the last kinks out of the whole christening that was going to be that weekend.

"I know! At first I thought of using Davy's old one but he's a boy, plus I saw this one and thought it was perfect for Martha" Sookie admitted. A baby cry was heard coming from another room. "I'll be right back" with that Sookie left and rushed over to the nursery.

"It comes with little shoes!" Lorelai exclaimed once she spotted the tiny shoes inside the box.

"That's the best part" Sookie walked back into the living room carrying Martha.

"Hi baby" Lorelai cooed and that made Martha smiled.

"Wow, she never smiles when she'd just woken up" Sookie said surprised.

"What can I say? I have a baby side" Lorelai bragged.

"Yeah and it's your front and center part" Sookie laughed out loud at her own joke.

"Mean" Lorelai pouted.

"Here, watcher her, I'm gonna go get her food" Sookie handed Martha to Lorelai before disappearing to the kitchen.

"Aren't you lucky your Mommy is a chef" Lorelai talked baby talk and Martha just stared at her like if she had three heads. "The boys here…" she patted her belly. "…don't have that luck" Martha placed her hands on Lorelai's tummy. "Their Daddy cook's but he's not a chef like your Mommy…" Lorelai gave a small pat with her index finger on Martha's nose. "No he's not, no he's not" Lorelai's funny voice made Martha giggle, while giggling she began hitting Lorelai's stomach with her little hands. "Hey, you're gonna wake the boys'' Martha stopped hitting when she felt something hit back, she had a shocked face. "Too late" Lorelai laughed at Martha's face. "That's one of the babies saying 'hi' honey" Lorelai smoothed Martha's crazy hair with one hand. Martha waved 'hi' back. "They can't see you" Lorelai giggled. "Here…" she took Martha's hand. "…feel the babies" she placed the little hand where she felt the kicking. But now instead kicking, apparently the boys had moved and that caused the spot where Martha had her little hand to bump out. Martha's eyes shot wide open and she pushed her hand onto Lorelai's belly to try and hide the bump. Lorelai giggled. "Hey, no squishing the babies" Lorelai pulled Martha's hand back and the bump appeared again.

"Here we go" Sookie walked back in the living room. "Dinner is ready" she placed the plate on the coffee table and walked over to where Lorelai was. "Whoa" Sookie pointed to the bump on the side of Lorelai's pregnant belly. "What's that?"

"I'm thinking a foot or maybe an elbow" Lorelai said looking at the bump.

"Does that happen a lot?" Sookie took Martha from Lorelai.

"It's been happening lately. The boys are getting bigger now and when they move, we can see" she smoothed her hands over her belly, her right hand going over the small bump. "This one time Luke and I were… well… you know, and suddenly this happened…" she pointed to the right side of her belly. "…and it was the first time Luke had seen it, and oh my God was he freaked" Lorelai started to laugh remembering that night. "Eventually he understood what had happened but we couldn't finish, he was too freaked out" Lorelai said a little down.

"Understandable" Sookie was feeding Martha. "That only happened once, it was Davy, and I was on my last week… I think. Jackson almost had a stroke" Sookie began to laugh.

"Yeah, guys don't get it the first time it happens" Lorelai smiled, she lifted her shirt a bit to examine the shape of the bump. "Looks more like an elbow, doesn't it?" she asked Sookie.

"Oh yeah, because it's pointy" Sookie said after examining it a few seconds.

"Sookie us men are getti… oh my God!" Jackson covered his eyes upon seeing Lorelai.

"Shirt is down, Jackson" Lorelai said between laughs.

"I can still see it" Jackson whined which made Lorelai and Sookie laugh harder. "I'm gonna go look at my pickles"

"Oh my God, dirty!" Lorelai said and laughed harder, if possible. Jackson ran out of the living room.

"As fun as this has been, Sookie, I have to go" Lorelai said once they stopped laughing.

"So soon?"

"Luke is getting off early today and we're going to dinner" Lorelai smiled and stood up.

"Aw a date, how cute" Sookie cooed.

"Bye bye baby" Lorelai kissed Martha's forehead. "Bye Sookie"

"Enjoy the date because once those two are born there'll be no more" Sookie said knowingly.

"Thank you Yoda" Lorelai put on her coat and left.

"I'm not green, am I" Sookie asked Martha who just gave Sookie a weird look. "I'll take that as a 'no Mommy' ok?''

Lorelai was walking down the streets of Stars Hollow slowly, admiring the small town life. Taylor was yelling a the troubadour for some unknown reason he must've been singing 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' Lorelai thought. Kirk had somehow managed to get his head stuck between the gazebo's railings, Gypsy was laughing at him from her shop. In the distance Lorelai saw Lulu running to the gazebo with a package of butter Oh my God; only Kirk gets himself into these things. We won't be hearing the end of this on the next town meeting. Lorelai kept walking in the direction of the house.

The house was deserted, which wasn't odd considering it was Thursday afternoon. This time next week the house was going to be buzzing since it was Thanksgiving but right now she was all alone. Hating silence Lorelai walked into the living room, popped a CD into the DVD player, she cranked the surround sound, and went to get ready.

An hour later Luke walked in the house, by now the music was off in the living room but he could hear faint music coming from their room. It wasn't normal 'Lorelai' music, this one was classical music. Rory had given them the copy of a study that said that classical music helps develop unborn babies, so they were trying it out, after all 'it could only help' Luke had said.

Lorelai had pilled all the pillows together and was resting on them in a half sitting position. She had her eyes closed, hands on her stomach rubbing it lightly, and was shirtless because 'that way the music gets to them a little louder than with a shirt to interfere' like Lorelai had once said.

"If you used headphones you wouldn't have to listen to it" Luke said once he was inside the bedroom.

"If you ever find headphones big enough, tell me" Lorelai mumbled without opening her eyes.

"Will do" he walked over to his side of the bed and lay down on his side. "You went to Sookie's?" he place a hand on her stomach, she smiled.

"MmmHmm" she nodded slightly. "And the boys freaked out Jackson"

"How did they manage that?" he chuckled a bit.

"They moved…"

"Wow, Jackson freaks out easily"

"Look who's talking" she teased.

"I don't freak-out when they move"

"Oh yeah? How about that time…"

"The first time doesn't count" he quickly said. "Besides I didn't freak out the first time they moved. If I remember correctly, we had just finished fighting when they decided to shimmy in"

"I wasn't talking about that time. And I'm impressed you remembered" Lorelai turned to look at him.

"Of course I remember, I was scared shitless when you said 'ow' and place your hands on your stomach"

"My tiny stomach, aw those were the days" she said in a remembering tone of voice.

"So, when was I scared?" he kept slowly running his hand around her belly.

"Oh! When my stomach took a weird shape" that was all she could say before bursting in laughter, every time she thought of that night she couldn't help but laugh.

"That time doesn't count"

"What? Of course it does!" she stopped laughing a little.

"No because I was focusing in other things when that happened, something I never thought could happen"

"C'mon, it was a matter of time before they ran out of space in there"

"Well, I hope they find more space because you still have a little over a month to go" Luke remind her and she groaned in frustration. "How much longer do we have to listen to this?" Luke said after a little silence.

"It gets to you doesn't it?" Lorelai said smugly.

"Yes, and I'm getting hungry"

"I'll go get ready. Help me up" she said, Luke got up and helped her. Once she was up Luke sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her.

"Stop that" Lorelai said without turning to look at him.

"Stop what?" he innocently asked.

"Stop staring at me" she was looking into the closet and moving clothes from side to side.

"Cocky?" Luke stood and walked over to where she was.

"Not cocky, I just know you" she kept looking for something to wear. Luke wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his hands under her stomach; he carried the weight on his forearms. "God that feels good" Lorelai said when she felt the weight being lifted a bit.

"Use the light blue shirt" he whispered into her ear.

"Where are we going?" Lorelai began so sway a little from side to side.

"Anywhere you want" he swayed along with her.

"Even out of Stars Hollow?"

"Of course, otherwise we'd end up at the diner and I really don't want to go back there today" he let out a heavy sigh.

"Bad day?"

"Taylor and Kirk" was all he said.

"Got it. How about Sniffy's?" Lorelai said like a little kid. Luke already knew where she was getting at since she asked where they were going.

"If that's what you want" Luke said smiling, she couldn't see it but she knew.

"Yep, and that way I don't have to wear high heels"

"You're not wearing high heels until next year, Lorelai" Luke said, again, he's been telling her that for the past two months.

"We'll see about that" she said and then reached for the shirt Luke had said. "I have to go change, I'm hungry" she whined.

"Go" he let go of her. Lorelai whined a little more because she was now carrying the babies' whole weight again.

"Men should carry the baby's, aren't they supposed to be stronger?" Lorelai mumbled as she walked over to the bathroom.

"Just change here" he ignored her.

"I would but I gotta pee" she hurried to the bathroom and closed the door.

oN THe DRiVe THeRe

"Would you stop that?" Luke said annoyed. Lorelai was locking and unlocking the door with the little button.

"But I'm bored" she whined and kept on locking and unlocking.

"We're almost there"

"That doesn't mean I'm not bored"

"Just… close your eyes or something"

"No because if I fall asleep and you wake me up, you'll be sorry" Lorelai now moved on to opening and closing the window.

"Lorelai…"

"What?" she said innocently. They kept driving for a little more. "Yay!" Lorelai said once she saw the familiar parking lot.

"Keep your pants on" Luke said, smiling at her excitement. He really hoped their kids would get that from her.

"Sorry but I can't promise that, because if I eat too much I'll have to unbutton them" Lorelai said.

"Aw geez. Try not to do that, last time you had heartburn all night"

"Yeah I know damn kids are putting a damper on my eating habits" she pouted but when the car came to a stop she shrieked.

"C'mon" he got out of the car and walked around the front of it to Lorelai's door. "Let's go" he helped her out and closed her door.

"Oh my God, it smells great" Lorelai said as they walked through the parking lot.

"It smells like car smoke" Luke said, he had his right arm around her shoulders.

"You need to ignore that smell and focus on the food smell"

"There is no food smell out here"

"Yes there is, you just can't smell it" they walked up the few steps before the main entrance.

"I can smell it now" he shot her a grin.

"That's because you just opened the door" Lorelai said and walked inside.

"Lorelai, nice to see you again" The hostess said.

"Hi, Mark" Lorelai said brightly.

"How are the boys doing today?" he began to lead them to a table.

"Playful" Lorelai answered placing a hand on her stomach. In normal circumstances Luke would've jumped Mark by now but ever since Lorelai started doubting her looks and asking him 'am I fat?' or 'do you still feel attracted to me?' twenty times a day, he didn't mind if guy hit on her, that just meant Lorelai wouldn't ask him anything that day.

"That's good. You're getting near the end now, I can't wait until you bring them by for their first Sniffy's visit" Mark showed them the table.

"Hopefully it'll still be over a month" Lorelai said with a smile while Luke pulled out a chair for her.

"Well, everyone here is hopping the same thing" Mark told her and then handed a menu to each.

"Good to know" Lorelai said.

"I'll go inform Maisy and Buddy that you're here" Mark said and left.

"Change that face" Lorelai told Luke without taking her eyes off of the menu. Ever since Lorelai got pregnant whatever she ordered she was brought, Maisy explained to Buddy the problem of bringing Lorelai something she didn't want, it included the words projectile vomiting.

"What face?" Luke looked at her. No reason to look at the menu, he wasn't pregnant.

"Your jealous face" she lifted her eyes and met his.

"I was not jealous" he scoffed.

"Yes, you were. You always are, anytime a guy talks to me you get jealous"

"No I don't" he said like a little boy.

"Yes, you do"

"Don't"

"Fine, you don't get jealous. You don't love me enough to get jealous, I get it" Lorelai said that because she knew that would break him.

"I love you just enough"

"Just enough? What is that supposed to mean?" Lorelai placed the menu down. Ohuh Luke thought. Lorelai was not mad or anything, she just liked to tease him.

"Nothing! It's just… you said… so I… but I didn't… I mean… I do …. I…" Luke stammered looking like a dear in the head lights. Lorelai's mood swings showed up a few weeks ago, and he had suffered 'the wrath of Lorelai' he ended up sleeping on the couch because he thought the 'Mummy Returns' sucked. Luke was going to avoid sleeping on the couch again by all means necessary.

"Luke, relax, I was just teasing you" Lorelai began to giggle.

"Good" he sighed.

"Would you look at that, the rumor is true" Maisy walked over to their table.

"What rumor?" Lorelai asked.

"That you guys were here" Maisy told them, Luke stood up and hugged her. While Luke was hugging Maisy Lorelai stood up. "You didn't have to stand up. But now that you did, let me see you" Lorelai turned slowly. "Perfect" Maisy said and hugged Lorelai, as well as she could because of the pregnancy.

"I always am" Lorelai smiled. "Get that through your head, Lucas"

"What did you do to her?" Maisy turned to look at Luke.

"Nothing!" he shot Lorelai a glare.

"I was just kidding, he's been a perfect little gentleman" Lorelai reassured Maisy.

"He better be" Maisy eyed Luke, he rolled his eyes. "Sit sit" she told Lorelai, Luke walked over to Lorelai and helped her.

"See, perfect gentleman" Lorelai told Maisy.

"Good, now, what will you have?" she asked Lorelai.

"Hmm… the stake is calling my name"

"Stake it is…"

"But, instead of the salad could you put some French fries?" Lorelai asked like a little girl.

"No" Luke said before Maisy had a chance to say anything.

"Luke" Lorelai said.

"You'll eat the salad" he told her seriously.

"Fine, then bring an extra order of fries" Lorelai told Maisy who nodded and decided to ignore Luke's tone when he told Lorelai 'no', it was something between the two of them.

"Lucas?" Maisy called to him.

"Yeah?" he turned to look up at Maisy.

"And you?" She asked expectantly.

"I get to order?" he asked surprised.

"For today" Maisy gave him a smile.

"Ok then…" he looked at the menu. "Bring me… what ever you want" he said with a sigh. Lorelai laughed and so did Maisy.

"Ok" Maisy turned to leave but then turned back around. "Buddy said to go see him in the kitchen" she told Luke.

"O-kay" he said and Maisy left. "I'll be right back" he told Lorelai.

"Sure, just send Mark over here to entertain me" Lorelai sent Luke a flirty look.

"Don't think so" he said and left to the kitchen. He was yanked to a side before he reached the kitchen door. "Hey!"

"Lucas, are you and Lorelai alright?" Maisy asked him when he turned around to face her.

"We're fine, why?" he gave her a weird look. "Wait, isn't Buddy waiting for me?"

"He's out running an errand" Maisy waved it off.

"Then why did you say he wanted to see me?"

"Because I wanted to talk to you"

"We were talking"

"Yes, but I wanted to know if you two were ok and I couldn't ask that with Lorelai there, now could I?"

"What makes you think we're not ok?"

"The salad bit" Maisy quickly said.

"The what?" he chuckled.

"The salad bit, you didn't let her order French fries"

"I did let her order French fries; I just didn't let her drop the salad. She needs to eat veggies, the doctor told her so" Luke explained calmly.

"Oh"

"Yeah. Even though the doctor told her, she still doesn't eat them" Luke said with a sigh.

"Well, let's just make sure she eats them" Maisy smiled at Luke. "Go sit down, I'll bring out the salads in a minute"

"Thanks" Luke walked back to the table.

"What did Buddy say?" Lorelai asked Luke when he sat down.

"Oh, he wasn't there"

"What?"

"Yeah, he had just stepped out to run an errand; I'll go see him before we leave"

"That's weird" Lorelai gave Luke and odd look.

"Apparently Maisy understood wrong" Luke shrugged it off.

"Oh no" Lorelai said.

"What?" Luke got a little concerned.

"I gotta pee, again" she stood up; Luke watched her walk off until he couldn't see her anymore.

LaTeR

"Oh my God, this was so good" Lorelai pushed her plate a little away from her.

"Damn, Lorelai" Luke told her, he was barely halfway through his food.

"I was hungry"

"I'm hungry also but I take my time" and as to show her he ate slowly.

"But I eat for three because of you mister"

"And I'm very grateful for that" he gave her a charming smile.

"You should be" Lorelai told him seriously then smiled. "Can I get dessert?" she asked in a shy voice.

"Don't over do it" was all Luke said.

"I won't" she smiled and waited for the waiter to come.

BeFoRe ThEy LeFt SnIfFy'S

"You take good care of her, Luke" Buddy told him.

"I'll try" Luke said helping her with the coat.

"Bye, dear, take it easy" Maisy told Lorelai.

"Oh here!" Lorelai grabbed Maisy's hand and placed it on her stomach.

"Oh my" Maisy said.

"They're saying 'bye'" Lorelai told her.

"Well bye to you two too" Maisy talked to Lorelai's stomach.

"Hehe she said 'to to'" Lorelai giggled.

"We need to go" Luke reminded Lorelai.

"Oh yeah" Lorelai said and then moved over to Buddy. "Mmm bye handsome" Lorelai told Buddy and hugged him.

"Don't lie to the poor guy" Maisy said.

"See what I have to live with" Buddy told Lorelai.

"Don't complain" Luke told Buddy and got smacked on the arm by Lorelai.

OnCe On ThE CaR

Luke buckled his seatbelt and turned to look at Lorelai, she had her eyes closed, her head back, and she kept rubbing the sides of her stomach in a circular motion.

"You ok?" he placed a hand on her knee.

"Yeah, just a little tired that's all" she told him looking at his eyes.

"Sure?" he gave her knee a squeeze.

"MmmHmm" and to prove it she yawned.

"We'll be there soon" he gave her one last squeeze before turning the car on.

"Ok" she said sleepily, her own rubbing motions were putting her to sleep. Before Luke left the parking lot Lorelai was already peacefully sleeping. He smiled and focused on the road.

ThE DrIvEwAy At ThEiR HoUsE

"Lorelai?" Luke gently said, he was standing next to her opened door. "Lorelai wake up" he nudged her a little.

"Mmm?" she wiggled a bit on her seat.

"C'mon get up, it's cold"

"Just turn the heat and leave me here" she mumbled.

"I would but tomorrow you'd be very stiff and you'll blame me" he kept nudging her.

"Fine, just give me a sec"

"Open your eyes please"

"No, they'll get cold" she turned her face to the side, Luke kissed her cheek repeatedly.

"Cheater" she said and turned her head the other way. Her eyes were still closed but now they were kissing. Luke helped her out the car and into the house. Once inside Lorelai didn't let him go, she made him walk her up to their room. "I'll go lock up, I trust you'll get changed" Luke told her like he was talking to a six year old.

"Yeah, yeah" she waved him off and he left.

First thing Luke did was check if Jess and Sam were home, they were. Next he went downstairs checked all the doors before turning everything off and walking back upstairs and into the nursery. It was a habit of his ever since it was finished. Every night he'd walk into the nursery look around it for a little while then walk into their room through the doors he had put there.

Once he was back in their bedroom he saw Lorelai watching TV.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on NICKNITE" she informed him.

"I noticed that. But I thought you were dead tired?" he began to get ready for bed.

"I was but then you woke me up and told me to get changed, which I did and that made my sleepiness go away" she turned to face the TV screen again. "I love this episode"

"He's striping… in front of his Mom? That's just wrong" Luke had a disgust expression.

"That was expected as soon as Will got the gig"

"I'm sure it was" Luke walked into the bathroom. When he walked back out and climbed into bed Lorelai was aimlessly changing the channels. "You're not gonna sleep?"

"I'm not sleepy"

"Are you gonna be doing that all night?" he said referring to the constant channel changing, she didn't even let a channel long enough to hear a whole word; it was just syllables from every station they passed.

"Not all night" she kept on changing them.

"Good cause it's annoying and kind of nauseating"

"Just go to sleep honey, I'll turn the volume down" and she did. Luke pecked her lips, ran a hand over her stomach before kissing it twice, and then he settle under the covers.

ThReE Am

"Could you please stop that?" Luke slurred clearly annoyed.

"Sorry, I didn't want to wake you up but I can't get comfortable" Lorelai said turning around in bed, again.

"Lay on you back" Luke had his head deep into the pillow.

"My back feels sore" she moved again.

"Then lay on your side"

"Oh, on my side, I hadn't thought of that, thanks Hon" she said sarcastically. "Could you turn the air off, its way too hot" she said and kicked off the sheets.

"Are you kidding?" Luke turned to look at her for the first time. "It's freezing as it is"

"Luke, I'm sweating"

"Lorelai, I'm freezing" he replayed and turned to lie on his side. "Just take something off" he mumbled, Lorelai took off the nightgown she was wearing.

"My God I'm so uncomfortable" she whined.

"Could you shut up for five minutes" Luke had finally lost it.

"What?" Lorelai asked in a you-better-explain-yourself-or-you're-sleeping-on-the-couch tone.

"I have to get up in less than two hours, I had a long crappy day. I had to get up early, I had to deal with Taylor and Kirk and everybody in this stupid town, I twisted my ankle on the stupid storage room, we went to dinner, we're still working on Jess' apartment, and I can't sleep" he ranted.

"You twisted your ankle?" of course Lorelai would focus on that, and she'd ignore the fact that he was throwing the date back in her face.

"Yes" he said after a long sigh.

"Why didn't you tell me?" she turned to look at him with a concerned look.

"Because it was nothing, I'm fine"

"Sure?"

"Yes, you saw me walking, I'm perfectly ok"

"Good" she kissed him.

"Turn around" he suddenly told her.

"What?" she kind of giggled.

"I have an idea, so turn around" she did. She was now on her side, her back to Luke. He scooted closer to her and pressed up against her.

"I thought you were tired" she teased.

"Shut up" he wrapped his arms around her, like he had before.

"Your arm is gonna die" she said once she felt him staring to drift off again.

"Are you more comfortable?"

"Yes" she said sleepily.

"Then I don't care about my arm" he slurred before they both fell asleep.

NeXt MorNiNg

Luke was long gone by the time she woke up. After getting ready and convincing herself that walking to the diner on a rainy morning was probably not the best idea, she walked downstairs. The smell of waffles hit her by the time she was on the bottom step.

"I thought you had to open" Lorelai was saying as she walked towards the kitchen.

"Nope, just close" Jess told her.

"Sorry, thought you were Luke"

"Yeah I get that all the time, I'm thinking of having his cap say 'Luke' so we don't get mixed up anymore" he kept making waffles.

"Good idea. And maybe you two can color coordinate your shirts, you know, to look cooler" Lorelai teased.

"You enjoy this way too much" Jess told her passing a plate over to where she was.

"Yeah I do" she was adding a lot of syrup to the waffles.

"Here…" Jess went over to the fridge. "Luke said that you had to eat this" he handed her a plate of fresh fruit.

"Damn Luke" Lorelai mumbled eyeing the plate wearily.

"Why do you always make a big deal about health food?" Jess turned off the stove and sat with Lorelai to eat, Samantha was long gone to school.

"I don't like" Lorelai stabbed the fruit.

"So?"

"So I avoid it as much as I can" she said in a 'duh' voice.

"But it's good for you and, well, the boys" Jess told her and she dropped her head.

"Luke's making you do this isn't he?" she kept looking down.

"Not really, I got to the conclusion that you don't like healthy food all by myself"

"Well aren't you a smart boy"

"Just eat the fruit" he kept eating, Lorelai also ate but with a pout.

A LiTtLe LaTeR

"Oh Jesse" Lorelai said after they had finished eating and Jess was washing the dishes.

"What do you want?"

"How about we go shopping?" Lorelai said at if it was the greatest thing on the world.

"Sorry can't. I have to work upstairs before going to the diner"

"What about school, Jess? Don't you have class?"

"Not on Friday's or Monday's" Jess reminded her.

"C'mon" she whined. "We'll go fast"

"Tsk, I've shopped with a Gilmore before, it's never fast"

"That's because we're very good at it" Lorelai said then burst in giggles. "Oh my God that was so dirty"

"Aw geez!"

"You know what would take your mind of off the dirty? Shopping!"

"Drop it Lorelai, I have to work" Jess was done washing dishes so he turned to look at her. "Need anything else before I go to the attic? And no I'm not going shopping" he quickly added.

"No" she pouted.

"Good" With that Jess left the kitchen and went upstairs. They'd been working non stop on the attic. Jake came by most weekends to help but other than that it was just Luke and Jess. Luke said that they were to have done all the noisy stuff before the twins were born. That meant cutting, hammering, drilling, and whatever else that made noise was being done now to avoid disturbing the twins later on.

Man this sucks, I can't drive because of my 'condition', I can't walk because it's raining, and I can't call anyone because it's Friday and they're either working or studying. Lorelai thought as she plopped on the couch.

ThAt AfTeRnOoN

Luke was home, upstairs in the attic. Lorelai was in their bedroom with Sookie and Martha. Sookie, Jackson and the kids had gotten there a little after Luke had. The girls were planning for the next day, the christening. And the 'men' were upstairs helping Luke and Jess.

"Your bed is always so comfy" Sookie said as she lay back, on Lorelai's side of course. Lorelai was gonna show Sookie what she was planning on wearing the next day, if it still fit. Martha was quietly sitting on the bed watching cartoons.

"It hasn't been comfy to me for quite some time now" Lorelai told Sookie. "What do you say?" she placed an aquamarine-ish dress over her.

"It's beautiful" Sookie reassured her in a sleepy voice.

"Don't fall asleep Sookie" Lorelai said tossing a rolled up sock at her friend.

"Hey!" the sock hit Sookie right in the face.

"Sorry but I don't want you to fall asleep"

"Why?" Sookie whined and managed to dodge another sock that was headed her way.

"Because I'm bored and I want to go shopping" Lorelai placed the dress back to where it belonged and went over to the bed, she sat with her back firmly on the headrest on Luke's side.

"What do you want to shop for? You already know what you're wearing"

"I want to go Christmas shopping" Lorelai said in a whisper.

"Honey, it's not even Thanksgiving yet, why do you want to go Christmas shopping?"

"I want to be prepared. I don't wanna have to deal with two newborns while shopping for Christmas gifts"

"Lorelai, the twins are not due until the 27th, you'll have plenty of shopping time"

"Twins are always early" Lorelai told Sookie.

"Oh my God, I hope you don't go into labor Christmas Eve" Sookie suddenly said.

"Why would that be so bad? It'll be like the best Christmas present ever"

"But only 'on-call' doctors work that day, and you really don't want an 'on-call' doctor"

"And why is that?" Lorelai was highly amused by Sookie's panic.

"There's a reason they're on-call. It's because they suck!"

"Huh" Lorelai said holding back giggles. "So that whole speech was a 'yes' or a 'no' on the whole shopping thing?"

"Sure, we'll shop" Sookie quickly came back to the main topic.

"Yay!"

"Get your stuff" Sookie sat up in bed. "I'll go tell 'the men' where we're going"

ThE AtTiC

"Mommy no!" Davy screeched when he noticed Sookie there. He had been told that the attic was a no girl's zone, so that meant no mommy. At first he was scared to not have his Mommy there but he soon found out that this meant he was a big boy because he was never allowed to be in a no mommy zone before. Besides his Daddy and Uncle Luke were there, so he was ok.

"What honey?" Sookie asked confused by Davy's sad face.

"No!" and with that he began crying.

"What's up, Sookie?" Jackson asked her ignoring Davy.

"What's with him?" she pointed to a crying Davy, who was currently being carried by Luke, he was telling Davy something.

"Just ignore him" Jackson waved it off. "Did you need something?"

"Oh yeah!" Sookie remembered why she came up the in the first place. "We're going shopping"

"We?" Luke walked up to them carrying Davy, who was hiding his face on Luke's shoulder.

"Yeah" Sookie said brightly.

"Lorelai's idea?" Luke guessed.

"No, no! My idea, I'm a shop-oholic"

"Aha" Luke narrowed his eyes. "Don't let her exhaust herself" with that Luke walked downstairs to find Lorelai.

"What was that?" Sookie asked Jackson.

"Beats me" Jackson shrugged.

ThE SeCoNd FlOoR

"Lorelai?" Luke called from the hallway.

"Yeah?" she answered from their room where she was watching cartoons with Martha.

"Hey. What are you doing?" he asked chuckling. Lorelai was sitting by the foot of the bed with Martha sitting on her lap; they were both wearing the same interest face while staring intently at the TV.

"Shh" she patted the empty space next to her.

"What are we watching?" Luke asked as he took a seat, Davy turned to see the cartoon.

"Thundercats"

"Isn't that an old cartoon?"

"Yep, it's old school baby" they kept watching for a little while longer.

"You guy's going shopping?" Luke asked, his eyes fixed on the screen.

"Yeah, jut for a little while" Lorelai's head dropped to the side, just like Davy's did.

"Ok, just take it…"

"Easy" she finished for him. "I will, babe, don't worry" she placed her hand on his knee.

"No girls" Davy said and pushed at her hand until she removed it from his knee.

"What have you done?" Lorelai asked Luke, he just smirked.

"Girls are yucky, right Davy?" Luke asked him and Davy nodded enthusiastically.

"Oh so now we're yucky?" Lorelai said amused.

"Yeah, yucky" Davy told Lorelai.

"I don't think your Uncle Luke agrees with you buddy" Lorelai told Davy.

"Why did you tell him that?" Luke scoffed at Lorelai when Davy turned to look at him with sad eyes.

"Because it's the truth, either that or you're a great pretender" she placed the hand that was on his knee on her stomach, Luke smirked.

"Ok, Lorelai, lets go" Sookie walked into the bedroom.

LaTeR

Sookie dropped off Lorelai and left quickly because Martha was fussing and she needed her beauty sleep for her Christening. Lorelai had asked Sookie to hide the presents over at her house. Lorelai didn't want Luke or Rory to find them, since those two were the mostly like to snooping around.

"Hi Mom" Rory said brightly as she walked downstairs.

"Rory? Did I know you were coming home?" Lorelai closed the front door.

"Apparently not, I came for Martha's big day"

"You mean my big day?"

"No, Martha's. It's her Christening, not yours" Rory walked over to the living room where Sam was waiting for her.

"Meanie" Lorelai pouted.

"What did I miss?" Rory ignored Lorelai and asked Samantha.

"Just the blow up" Samantha informed her, they were watching mythbusters.

"Aw man, that's the best part" Rory whined.

"Rory where's…?" Lorelai began.

"He's making dinner" Rory cut Lorelai off. "Think they'll explode something else?" Rory turned to Sam again, Lorelai smiled at the strong bond forming between those two girls.

"Of course, they always do" Sam said smiling. Lorelai walked over to the kitchen.

"Hey, Luke?" Lorelai tapped his shoulder; he was squatting by the fridge's opened door.

"Hey, you're back" he turned to look up at her.

"Yep. Get up" she pulled a little at his flannel, he stood.

"Yeah?" he asked after closing the fridge's door.

"Hi" she whispered before kissing him slowly.

"Mm, hi" he said after they pulled back. "You had fun?"

"Sort of" she took a seat.

"Why?" Luke kept cooking.

"I forgot it was Friday" she said with a sigh.

"What's that got to do with it?" Luke turned from what he was doing long enough to give her a confused look.

"High school kids have a later curfew"

"Oh"

"Exactly. I'm just glad Rory was never like those kids 'dude' Oh my God! If I hear that one more time I'll scream" Lorelai said frustrated.

"At how many kids did you yell at?" Luke said knowing Lorelai.

"None" she quickly said, Luke stared at her. "Four…ish…six" she sighed and Luke chuckled. "It's not my fault, they're idiots! It's like they're high all the time" Luke was now smirking at her. "What?"

"You sound grumpy"

"That's because I'm carrying your twins, that's what made me grumpy. I used to be able to go to the mall on Saturday's and nothing would bother me"

"Teenagers weren't so annoying before"

"Plus I was so aching; I couldn't really enjoy the shopping experience"

"Experience?" Luke said amused.

"Yes, experience" she smiled brightly.

"Oh I think you're getting old" Luke teased.

"I'm not old I've just been injected with pure grumpiness" she placed a hand on her belly.

"Ha-ha" Luke turned back to the cooking.

"Jess!" the voice of two whining girls was heard.

"Give it back!" Rory's voice was heard.

"No!" Jess said.

"We were here first!" Rory whined.

"I'm older than you so I was on the planet first" Jess told her.

"Mom!" Lorelai heard Rory yell and Lorelai sighed.

"How come they act like little kids every time they're around each other?" Lorelai wondered out loud.

"Don't know. But you better hurry up" Luke told her, and right after he had, Rory was heard again.

"Jess! Give it back!"

"No!"

"Ok I'm seriously thinking I should've stayed at the mall" Lorelai told Luke before she walked over to the living room.

"What's with you two?" Lorelai asked as she walked into the living room and saw them tugging on the remote.

"Mom, Jess just waltzed in here and took the remote and began changing the channels" Rory whined.

"Tattle" Jess whispered.

"Shut up!" Rory told Jess.

"You shut up!" Jess answered back. Samantha was just watching them amusedly while trying to hold back her laughter

"No, you…" Rory started to say but Lorelai stopped her.

"Oh my God, enough! If you two are going to insist on acting like little children, I'm going to have to treat you like little children" Lorelai said sternly, that caught both Rory and Jess' attention. "Now, Jess, if the girls were watching TV first you had no right to come in here and take the remote from them" Rory smiled and poked her tongue at Jess. "Rory…" Lorelai said warningly. "Now you two will be nice or I'm turning the TV off. Do I make myself clear?" at first they thought she was kidding but then they saw Lorelai's business face on and they both nodded. "Good" Lorelai left the living room.

"I think you're Mom lost it" Jess told Rory.

"I heard that!" Lorelai said from the dinning room. The rest of the night went by smoothly after that.

NeXt MoRnInG

The christening was going to be at 10:00am so they had to get up early and work fast, so they'd be on time. Luke woke up normally and got ready, before going down to start breakfast he woke Lorelai up.

"Get up, you need to start getting ready" he told her.

"You're not ready yet" Lorelai told him when she saw his usual attire instead of the suit he was supposed to wear.

"I'm not making breakfast in my suit, Lorelai. I'll just throw it on before we leave. You, on the other hand, have a long way to go so get up" he yanked the covers off of her.

"Luke!" she squealed.

"Are you up now?"

"I'm up and mad, thank you very much" Lorelai lifted her arms to Luke's direction. "Make yourself useful" he helped her up. "What are you making?"

"What do you want?"

"Eggs and hash brown!"

"Ok, go get ready" he began to leave.

"Wait!"

"What?" he turned to look at her.

"Kiss'' she pointed at her lips. Luke smiled and walked over to where she was and kissed her. "Now go" Luke shook his head slightly before leaving the room.

An HoUr Or So LaTeR

Lorelai was walking out of their bathroom when she heard it.

"Jess! Get out!" Rory yelled and banged on the bathrooms door. Lorelai sighed. "Jess, you've been there for over an hour!" and the banging kept on going. Suddenly the banging stopped and Lorelai could hear running footsteps down the hall and halfway down the stairs. "Dad! He's not coming out!"

"Stop telling on my, cry baby!" Jess had opened the bathroom door and yelled at Rory. Rory ran back upstairs and down the hall, just as she was reaching the bathroom Jess smirked and slammed the door shut.

"Damn it, Jess!" after that the banging began again.

"Gah" Lorelai said. "Rory!" Lorelai yelled after opening her door. "Stop banging the door. Come take a shower over here"

"I already took a shower" Rory informed Lorelai.

"What?"

"Jess locked the door and my Metalica t-shirt was still in there" Rory whined.

"Were you going to wear that shirt to the Christening?"

"Of course not" Rory scoffed.

"Then why does it matter now?" Lorelai asked highly annoyed.

"Because it is my shirt" she said loud enough so Jess could hear her.

"You took it from my room!" Jess yelled back.

"That's it!" Luke's voice came from the stairs, he was forcefully walking upstairs. "Jess, get out here, now!" he barked. The bathroom door opened slowly. "Gimme the shirt"

"What shirt, Uncle Luke?" Jess asked innocently.

"Don't play with me" Luke said seriously. "Shirt, now" Jess sighed and gave the t-shirt to Luke. "I'm keeping this" he walked back downstairs. "And no bickering!" he called back. Lorelai smirked and walked back into their bedroom to finish getting ready.

ThE ChUrCh

Jess drove and dropped off Lorelai and Luke by the main entrance otherwise they'd be late. All through breakfast Rory and Jess ignored each other and if they happen to make eye contact they'd only glare at each other. At first Luke was annoyed by this but later he figured that if they did this then they couldn't be fighting all day.

Rory sat next to the proud parents. Samantha and Jess sat on the row behind them.

Up, next to the altar, Luke was standing carrying the baby and Lorelai was next to him holding his arm. They expected baby Martha to be bored and to fuss a lot but she didn't, she was currently playing with Luke's shaved cheek. This was a first for her; all 'daddy' type persons she'd always met had beards. When the priest placed the water on her forehead she panicked and began whining.

"C'mere" Lorelai grabbed Martha and rubbed her little back, Martha clung to Lorelai's clothes. Luke was intently listening to everything the priest was saying but also paying attention to Lorelai and the little girl. He had his hand on Lorelai's waist. Soon after, and way before the ceremony was over, Martha was asleep so Luke took her back. In the corner of his eye he saw Lorelai stand up straight for a little bit so she could crack her back.

"Go take a seat" Luke whispered into her ear, Lorelai shook her head and paid attention to the priest. A little before it ended her hand went to her lower back and rubbed it a little. "You don't have to stand the whole time" he whispered again.

"It's almost over" she whispered back.

Once it was over Luke guided Lorelai to where Sookie and Jackson were. Sookie took the sleeping girl from Luke.

"Now to our house!" Sookie exclaimed.

"What?" Lorelai was confused, all she wanted right now was to lie down and have Luke give her a massage.

"For our little gathering, silly" Sookie told her.

"Gathering?"

"Well, it's just gonna be us, so it's a small gathering" Sookie explained.

"In this gathering, there won't be any dancing, will there?" Lorelai asked a little concerned.

"Of course not, mostly just food" Sookie began to gather all the kids' things.

"Ok then, for food, lets go" Lorelai gave her a smile. Sookie, Jackson and the kids left.

"You really want to go?" Luke asked hearing Lorelai's previous tone.

"Yes, it'll be fun plus they'll have food there" Lorelai told him with a nod. "And lot's of sitting places" she added when Luke gave her his knowing look.

"I told you to go sit down" they were walking to leave the church.

"I know but I didn't want to look weird, you weren't going to sit down"

"I'm not eight months pregnant with twins"

"I know" she sighed. "At least I know for next time"

"Next time?" Luke sounded a little panicked.

"Mom!" Rory interrupted them much to Lorelai's pleasure.

"Yes lovely daughter of mine" Lorelai said with a big grin.

"Ok, what did I interrupt?" Rory knew Lorelai.

"Nothing" Lorelai kept smiling.

"Sorry, Dad"

"Hey!" Lorelai said.

"It's ok" Luke told Rory.

"What makes you think that Luke had the short hand here?" Lorelai scoffed.

"Because you keep smiling" Rory told her.

"Damn it, mini me" Lorelai pouted, Rory shook her head but smiled.

"So you guys going to Sookie's?" Rory asked them.

"Yep, we're on our way" Lorelai told her.

"Ok, here" she handed them a gift. "Give it to Sookie and please apologize for me for not being there, Julian called and he's on his way here" Rory smiled.

"So you're ditching us for your boyfriend?" Lorelai asked faking hurt.

"Pretty much, yeah" Rory told her.

"Sure kid. Have fun" Rory kissed Lorelai's cheek then Luke's before she turned to leave.

"Hey Rory?" Luke called and she turned to look at him.

"Do you have cash on you?" he asked her, Rory made a thinking face.

"Three bucks and twenty eight cents" Rory said with an exaggerated nod, she was proud of herself for remembering how much.

"Come here" Luke dug out his wallet; Lorelai gave him a weird look but smirked. "Here" he handed Rory a twenty. Rory glared at the bill on her hand like if it was plutonium. "You should always carry cash on you"

"I have cash on me" Rory reminded him.

"Real cash" he told her.

"It's real" Rory said.

"Cash you can buy stuff with" Luke was beginning to lose it.

"I can buy three burgers at McDonalds with this"

"Just take the money" Luke was annoyed.

"Sure" Rory smiled. "Bye"

"Bye hon" Lorelai said.

"Thanks!" Rory called back and Luke smiled.

"You've been very fatherly lately" Lorelai told him with a smile.

"Have not" He looked at the ground trying to hide his smile.

"Yes you have. Yesterday with Davy, this morning with the bathroom incident and right now giving Rory money" Lorelai explained.

"She should always have money on her, it's for safety" Luke told her.

"It might be safe but it's not in the boyfriend title description" Lorelai said and Luke shrugged.

"Hey Luke! Here" Jess tossed Luke the car keys he was grateful for the distraction. "I'm going to the diner, Sam is gonna come help me for a while"

"Ok" Luke said then turned to Lorelai. "Shall we go? Or do you want to stand out here some more?"

"Are you kidding me? I'm about this close…" she indicated with her thumb and index finger. "…to chopping my feet off" Luke smiled.

"Let's go then"

SoOkIeS HoUsE

"I'm so close to strangling both of them" Lorelai told Sookie, they were both in the living room. Martha was upstairs sleeping, and the 'men' were outside working the grill.

"It sounds funny" Sookie said giggling.

"It's annoying" Lorelai said frustrated. "And I don't know why they do it. Is it just to annoy us? Or do the enjoy fighting like little kids?"

"I'm pretty sure they don't even realize they're doing it" Sookie told her.

"How can they not realize?"

"It's like with me and my sister. My Mom said we drove her crazy with all our fighting but really, for us, we weren't even doing anything"

"That's different, Sookie"

"How?"

"It was you and your sister this is Jess and Rory"

"But they're living together in a household that implies they are brother and sister"

"We don't imply that on them"

"Plus, neither of them has a sibling nor knows how to deal with one"

"Rory has Gigi" Lorelai said quietly.

"Has Rory ever been with Gigi for more than two hours?"

"No" Lorelai admitted shyly. "But still, they're not five. They should know how to deal with each other without driving me or Luke crazy"

"Like I told you before, they probably don't even know they're doing it"

"Maybe or they do know what they're doing and they're just doing it to push our buttons" Lorelai said.

"Maybe" Sookie said with a nod.

"Damn it!" Luke's voice was heard.

"That didn't sound good" Sookie said. Luke ran in and quickly turned on the kitchens faucet.

"Luke?" Lorelai asked.

"Hold on" he told her. "Damn it" he grumbled. Lorelai got up and walked over to where he was.

"Oh my God! What happened?" Lorelai saw his left hand under the running water, it was like magic, the water touches his hand clear and when it leaves the hand it's red.

"Nothing, its fine" he applied pressure to it and winced a little.

"It's not fine, it's leaking" Lorelai told him.

"A skewer thought my hand was part of the meat" Luke told her clamping his hand.

"Not funny" she told him. "Sookie do you have a first aid kit?" she turned to look at Sookie.

"I don't need it" Luke told her.

"Sure, I'll be right back" Sookie said and disappeared.

"You do need it, I don't want my shish kebabs tasting like blood" she told him sternly but with a smile.

"Don't worry; the aggressor was the last one"

"Good"

"Here you go" Sookie handed them the first aid kit. "I'll go check up on the boys, Jackson is not the best when it comes to the grill" with that Sookie left.

"Hand please. Have you noticed that when Jackson and Davy are alone it's 'the boys' but when you're out there with them it's 'the men'?" Lorelai asked him amused.

"The stupidest things amuse you" Luke told her. "Ow!" Lorelai had pressed an alcohol wipe harshly on his wounded hand.

"Sorry" she said with a smile.

"Like I believed you. Ow! Stop doing that" Luke told her but she just smiled at him sweetly. "Tease"

NeXt MoRnInG

Lorelai walked downstairs to discover something odd, Luke and Rory were on the couch talking, no music, no TV, just taking.

"What are you guys doing?" Lorelai walked over to them.

"Why are you up? It's still early" Luke asked.

"I couldn't sleep anymore, they were squishing my bladder"

"Gross" Rory mumbled. "I'm gonna try and catch another wink of sleep" with that Rory left them alone, Lorelai took Rory's deserted seat. Luke scooted closer to her.

"Good morning" he told her.

"It would be, if I could sleep more. What were you and Rory talking about?"

"Nothing, I just wanted her opinion on something" he shrugged.

"On what?" Lorelai was intrigued.

"Do you need to know?" Luke already knew the answer to that.

"Well, duh"

"Ok, I asked her if she thought you'd like to go on a small trip with me"

"Really?" Lorelai gasped.

"Yep" he nodded.

"When?" she squealed.

"Next weekend" he told her.

"On Thanksgiving?" Lorelai happiness went down a few decibels.

"Yeah, I figured it'd be the only time we'd have left"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, after Thanksgiving it'll be December…"

"Uh duh" Lorelai interrupted him but he ignored her.

"And the doctor said that the twins could come any day of December, and I really don't want you going into labor on the trip"

"Luke I could be going into labor now, being December makes no difference"

"Wait, you don't like the idea?" Luke finally heard Lorelai's not so excited tone.

"I like the idea; I just don't know why we have to do it on Thanksgiving Day"

"I already told you why"

"Luke, its Thanksgiving"

"I know" he said in a frustrated voice.

"Rory is coming home and she's bringing Julian, Jess and Samantha are gonna be here, my parents are coming and so is Buddy and Maisy"

"I know that, Lorelai" he said it a little more harshly than he intended.

"You're seriously telling me you want to miss it?"

"Who said anything about missing it?"

"You said we'd be going on Thanksgiving" Lorelai reminded him.

"Yes, after dinner"

"You never said after" Lorelai told him.

"Sorry" he said sarcastically. "So…?" he asked after a little silence.

"Luke, I'd love to go but I'm on my third trimester" Lorelai said a little sad.

"I know"

"I can't fly on my third trimester" she reminded him.

"I know"

"And I can't go on a very long road trip either"

"I know" he was becoming very annoyed.

"Then what's left? I'm pretty sure a bike is out of the question"

"We don't have to go very far, just get away from the town for a little while before the twins get here. It'll be the last chance we'll get to go on a trip just the two of us"

"I know. Great, now I sound like you" she said and smirked. "What did you have in mind?

"New York?" Luke told her.

"New York?'' Lorelai asked.

"Yeah, I mean, its close"

"You hate New York"

"I know, but you like it and we wouldn't go out much, we can find a good hotel and just relax" Luke said then shrugged.

"That sounds good" Lorelai smile. "Look for a hotel with massaging compliments"

"I was thinking of massaging you myself but if you want for someone else to…"

"No! I like that idea better" she smiled.

"Good" he also smiled. "We have the appointment tomorrow; we'll ask the doctor and see what she thinks"

"Be smart about it, got it" Lorelai said with a knowing nod.

"So your parents are coming?" it finally dawned on Luke.

"Yeah, that's why Rory was here on Friday" Lorelai told him.

LaTeR ThAt DaY

Lorelai, Rory, and Samantha were in the kitchen making lunch. Luke, Jess and Jake were working upstairs.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Rory asked when Lorelai walked over to the stove.

"What? It's not my fault Sam left"

"She said not to touch anything" Rory reminded her.

"No, she said not to touch the food and I'm not touching the food, I'm touching the utensils"

"And what are the utensils touching?" Rory asked amused.

"What are we all really touching, how do we know what is real and what is not, how do we know if…" Lorelai was interrupted in the prime of her speech.

"Lorelai!" Sam walked into the kitchen and saw Lorelai standing next to the stove.

"Damn!"

"Busted!" Rory told her.

"Shut up" Lorelai grumbled.

"I thought I said not to touch anything" Samantha told her like if she were talking to a little child.

"I'm sowwy" Lorelai pouted.

"Hey beautiful, why are you pouting?" Jake asked as he went over to the fridge.

"Luke'll kill you once he hears you calling me that" Lorelai told him.

"You're worth the risk" he told her, smiled, and then went back upstairs.

"He's a dead man" Rory said.

"Yep, well, at least he said I was beautiful before he was killed" Lorelai said always looking at the bright side of things.

"Hey Mom?" Rory tentatively asked.

"Yeah?" Lorelai turned to look at her.

"Did Luke talk to you?"

"Yeah he… Oh! Samantha don't put sunflower seeds on the salad" Lorelai quickly said.

"Why?" Samantha asked with the sunflower seed's bag in the air.

"Luke is allergic"

"Oh, I didn't know" Samantha said.

"It's ok, just don't put any" Lorelai smiled when Samantha placed the bag down. "Yeah he talked to me" Lorelai turned to Rory. "Did he tell you about the trip?" Lorelai asked her.

"He wanted to know if I thought you'd say yes"

"Well I said yes and we are going after Thanksgiving dinner" Lorelai smiled.

"Oh hey, I forgot to tell you I invited someone over for dinner" Rory said.

"Let me guess… Julian?" Lorelai said in a 'lovey dovey' voice.

"No, he's having dinner with his family"

"Oh, then who?"

"Paris" Rory said and winced slightly when she saw Lorelai's reaction. "Mom, she has nowhere else to go"

"Rory" Lorelai whined. "The last time I saw her she told me I was fat"

"You're not fat you're pregnant" both Rory and Sam said in unison.

"That didn't sound rehearsed at all" Lorelai mocked.

"C'mon Mom, it's Paris, you've known her for a long time"

"And it's all your fault" Lorelai reminded her.

"And I'm sorry, but you're seriously saying that she should spend Thanksgiving alone?" Rory gave her the sad eyes.

"We did that when you were younger" Lorelai told her.

"But we weren't alone, we had each other" Rory shot back with a pout.

"Fine" Lorelai said after a dramatic sigh. "Paris can come"

"Thanks Mom! Now let's watch Sam and see if we can learn something about cooking"

"If we didn't learn from watching Sookie or Luke, what makes you think we'll learn from Sam?" Lorelai questioned Rory.

"Beats me, wanna watch TV instead?" Rory asked.

"Sure" they got up and began to walk away.

"Thanks guys that's very supportive!" Sam yelled at them.

"Anytime!" Rory and Lorelai said.

MoNdAy

It was about eleven am, the doctors appointment was at eleven thirty so they were going to be on time. At least Lorelai was going to be on time. Luke was going to drop her off and then pick her up, he hated the plan but there was no other way. He had to go pick up something from 'Home Depot' for Jess' apartment and Lorelai said she was not gonna go there. Lorelai told him to go some other day but to him it'll just be a waste of time and money so he was going now, while Lorelai was with Dr. Matthews.

"Hello Lorelai" Dr. Matthews said walking into the examination room Lorelai was currently at.

"Good morning" Lorelai said brightly while fighting with the small paper robe she had to be wearing since last visit.

"I see you still don't like the robe"

"I hate the robe, it makes me feel bigger"

"Oh are we waiting for Luke?" the doctor asked once she noticed he wasn't there.

"No, he had to run an errand" Lorelai informed her.

"Ok, well, we'll just record the ultrasound so he won't lose out on seeing his sons" the doctor said, Lorelai smiled, she loved the sound of that 'his sons'.

"He'll love that" she was grinning.

"Good, please lie back and we'll start" Dr. said and Lorelai obeyed.

AbOuT HaLf An HoUr LaTeR

"Hello?" Lorelai small voice answered.

"Hey! I'm done here. I'll go pick you up, where are you?" Luke was driving.

"Luke?" Lorelai's voice was whisper-like.

"You sound weird, are you ok? Oh the Doctor didn't approve of the trip did she? I thought that wouldn't be a problem because…"

"Luke?" she said a little louder now, but just a little.

"Lorelai we can go later, I'm sure we'll find a babysitter" he rambled on.

"The doctor thinks she found something" Lorelai could barely say it.

"What?" Luke turned a little pale. Damn it! Why did I have to skip this appointment! I told her I was going to be there all the way ALL the way! He didn't hear what Lorelai said, he was focused on getting there as soon as possible.

TeN MiSeRaBlE MiNuTeS LaTeR

"Lorelai" Luke ran into the examination room she was in. "What's going on? What did she say?" he was by her side, her hand in his in a heart beat.

"I don't remember, sorry. It's just that when she said the word 'contraction' my mind went squash" Lorelai rambled near tears now.

"Hey, hey, relax ok. I'll go look for her and ask her" Luke started to pull away.

"No! Please stay, I don't want to be alone" Lorelai started to whimper.

"It's ok, I'll stay here" he pulled the little stool, where he always sat, and took a seat.

By the time Doctor Matthews walked back in with a nurse and another machine, Luke's head was down, forehead tightly against Lorelai's side, her hand in his and he kept kissing it softly.

"Luke? I thought you couldn't come today?" the doctor asked while the nurse installed the new machine.

"I made it work" Luke told her. "What's wrong?" straight to the point, that was Luke.

"Nothing is truly wrong" the doctor said.

"All done" the nurse said.

"Thank you, now please take this machine to the door at the end of the hall" the doctor told the nurse then turned back to Luke. "We found out we had two malfunctioning machines so we separated them from the rest and placed them on a different room until the technician came, well today he came to check them but he only found one machine. Now the one that was just taken away could've been the lost malfunctioning one, if not, then Lorelai is going into premature labor" Doctor Mathews explained.

"So, let me get this straight" Luke said. "She is either going into labor now or nothing's wrong and you just worried us for nothing?"

"In a nutshell, yes" Dr. Matthews said.

"If she is going into labor, then what?" Luke asked.

"We'll give some medication to stop the contractions, if that doesn't help then that's it"

"That's it? What do you mean that's it?" Luke was getting more than uneasy.

"She goes into labor and you'll have the babies for Thanksgiving dinner"

"Unbelievable" Luke mumbled, he couldn't believe how carefree the doctor was being.

"Here we go" the Doctor said.

A FeW MiNuTeS LaTeR

"It's ok if you don't go too far, and you have rest stops along the way. But before the trip you'll be off of your feet" she reminded Lorelai who nodded with a goofy grin on.

"I'll make sure of that" Luke told the doctor, he had never been so relived in his whole life.

"Ok, then that's all for today. I apologize again for the uncomfortable time you had" with that she left them alone so Lorelai could redress.

"God, I was so scared"

"Me too, baby" Lorelai told him. She was sitting on the edge of the bed he was standing in front of her, hugging her tightly to him.

"Let's go, I wanna get out of here, I'm liking this place as much as I like hospitals at this moment" Luke told her before helping her get dressed.

On the drive there Lorelai called Rory to inform her that the boys were ok, and also to tell her about the hell they had just gone through. When Luke heard Lorelai tell the story he could barely breath it could've gone so bad in so many different ways he thought. Lorelai hung up and sat back more comfortably, she placed the phone in her purse by her side, and then rested her hands on top of her stomach.

"You scared me today, don't ever do that again" Lorelai said looking down at her hands. Luke gave her a side glance and smiled. She kept on talking. "I know I sometimes tell you guys how tired or aching I am but that doesn't mean I want you out here now, it just means I'm tired or aching. You two don't have permission to come out here until December and when we're in December then you can't come out here until the 27th you hear? Otherwise you'll be in very very big trouble, you'll be grounded, no phone or TV for a month" Lorelai said seriously, Luke laughed lightly.

"I doubt they'll care about that"

"I never said when it was effective, did I?"

"I guess not" he was smirking.

"Ok then, back to what I was doing. No TV, no phone, no music, no computer, and no girls for a month, and it becomes effective when you turn 14, no questions asked"

"I don't think you'll remember by then" Luke said, sounding very amused.

"Oh! I'll remember, and they'll be in big trouble" now she smiled. "That should scare them enough to keep them in there until mid December"

"I wouldn't come up until early February" Luke told her.

"God no! Cause that'd hurt" she flinched.

"Let's get you home" Luke said chuckling and shaking his head.

By Tuesday noon Sookie had showered Lorelai with gifts and food.

"You don't have to do this Sookie" Lorelai was going through all the movies Sookie had brought so they could watch together.

"What are you talking about, yesterday was a hard day for you and now you should go wild" they were in Lorelai's bedroom. Jackson was taking the kids with his Mom to help her out a little with Thanksgiving dinner.

"We can't go wild" Lorelai reminded her. "See it was a good idea for me to go shopping for Christmas gifts"

"Fine, you were right. But you didn't get all of them" Sookie began to panic.

"Don't worry, I'll send Rory to buy them for me" Lorelai said even though she hated the idea, it wasn't actually Christmas if she couldn't go shopping.

"You're gonna have her go out and buy her own present?"

"Of course not! I'll send Luke to buy Rory's present" Lorelai had a devilish smile, and she hated this idea even more than the Rory one it's not fair that anti-mall Luke gets to go shopping and I don't Lorelai mind-pouted.

"Looks like you have it all planed out"

"Of course. And with the trip Luke came up with, that gives Rory all the time in the world to go, shop, wrap, and hide" Lorelai smiled.

"C'mon she won't do that this weekend" Sookie said.

"Yes she will, it's Rory, she always buys ahead of time"

"Well, duh, but she won't go shopping on the weekend her parent are out of town"

"Why not? Does she have something better to do?" Lorelai mocked.

"What would you have done if your parents left you alone a whole weekend?" Sookie daringly asked.

"If? Sookie they did that all the time, there was no if"

"Ok, then what did you do when your parents left town?"

"I made Rory that's what I did when…" Lorelai trailed off.

"Exactly" Sookie told her.

"But this is Rory we're talking about, besides, Julian is out of town"

"Julian is going to have dinner with his family, that doesn't mean he's out of town" Sookie pointed out.

"Sure but it's Rory we're talking about here" Lorelai said again.

"I'm sorry honey, I know Rory is an adult and she has a good head on her shoulders but she slept with a married man before"

"That doesn't mean she's still doing it" Lorelai defended.

"Oh c'mon! You can't be that naïve"

"What?"

"They both live in campus, they could be living together and you wouldn't even know about it"

"She'd tell me if she was living with a guy, if not her, Paris would" Lorelai said calmingly.

"I'm sorry you're right, it's Rory, and she wouldn't do anything rash"

"And even if she did, we have it covered" Lorelai said.

"What?"

"Since the whole Dean thing happened, I made her go on the pill because I'm way too young to be a grandmother"

"I agree"

"Can we watch a movie now? Or do you want to talk more about Rory's sex life?" Lorelai asked Sookie.

"Movie!" Sookie quickly said with a disgusted face that made Lorelai laugh.

Sookie stayed until late into the night, they weren't going to spend Thanksgiving together so this was their substitute. The only way Sookie left was when Luke walked into the room and was all covered in sawdust.

"I'm taking a shower then going to bed, whether you're still here or not" Luke told Sookie as he made his way to the bathroom.

"Is he serious?" Sookie asked Lorelai in a whisper.

"It looked like he was, so, we still have about twenty minutes before he comes out, what were you saying?"

"Oh right…!" and they kept talking until the heard the shower turn off.

LaTeR ThAt NiGhT

They both had just gotten under the covers.

"Hey Luke?"

"Yeah?" he answered her; she could tell he was practically asleep.

"I forgot to tell you that Julian is not coming to dinner"

"Ok"

"And instead Rory invited Paris over to dinner" Lorelai said quickly but Luke still groaned.

"No" he stretched the word.

"She has nowhere else to go" Lorelai repeated Rory's words.

"That's her own fault"

"Luke…"

"Why should we be punished?"

"Luke…"

"Fine I'll stop complaining"

"Good"

"For now" he added.

"Complain all you want, she's still gonna come, and she might even spend the night" she said in a scary story voice.

"Good thing we won't be here for that" he reminded her.

"Good thing" she agreed, kissed him, the turned to get more comfortable.

"G'night" Luke said practically sleep talking.

"Good night" Lorelai slurred.

ThUrSdAY MoRnInG

"I smell turkey!" Lorelai was walking downstairs.

"Then take a shower!" Jess called from the living room.

"I said: I smell turkey, not like turkey" Lorelai scoffed at him.

"Oops, sorry, innocent mistake" Jess smirked.

"Be good or I'll sit on you later" she told him.

"Mom!" Rory yelled from the kitchen, she had gotten home the night before. "I'm smashing the mash potatoes!" she shrieked. Lorelai shot Jess another glare before walking over to the kitchen.

"You're making another batch, right Babe?" Lorelai asked Luke.

"Hey!" Rory said.

"Sorry honey, but you are my daughter"

"I'll give you that" Rory said and kept on smashing.

"So, are you?" Lorelai turned to Luke.

"Nope, I have faith in Rory" Luke said.

"What!" Rory shrieked. "This is the only batch? What if I screw it up?"

"You won't. I'll help you, and so will your Mom" Luke calmed her.

"Really? And how?" Lorelai said interested.

"By leaving us alone" Luke told her and gave her a gentle push.

"Hey!" Lorelai said. "And you, stop laughing" she told Rory, but she didn't stop.

"Sorry Mom"

ArOuNd ThReEiSh

Buddy and Maisy arrived to help Luke out with dinner, which he didn't let them do.

"You are a very stubborn man, Luke" Maisy said as she left the kitchen.

"I know" Luke called after her.

"Is this ok?" Buddy asked, the only thing Luke was letting him do was set the table.

"How the hell should I know" Luke answered.

"It's your table, Luke"

"Well, if it were up to me we'd put nothing on it but since it's Lorelai's table… well we have all that crap on it" Luke told him.

"Is that your way of saying I should ask Lorelai?" Buddy asked.

"Exactly" and Luke turned back to cooking.

FoUr

"Hey Rory!" Jess yelled up the stairs. "You're crazy 'no condiments' friend from high school is here!"

"Jess!" Lorelai scoffed as she walked up to the two of them. "Sorry Paris, Jess is… well… he's Jess"

"Nice" Jess told her before he walked back into the living room where he was smacked in the head by Maisy. "Hey!"

"You need to learn manners" was Maisy's only excuse.

"Rory is up in her room, Paris. Down the hall, last door to your left" Lorelai said smiling.

"Are you due soon?" was Paris' only response.

"Go find Rory, Paris" Lorelai said with a fake smile on.

At FiVe

Since Luke and Lorelai were leaving for their trip that night, the dinner was going to be at six. That meant that Richard and Emily would arrive, any second now.

"I hate when you make me do this" Luke told her as she tied his tie.

"It's Thanksgiving, Luke, you should look nice" Lorelai told him, again.

"No, I should be comfortable" the doorbell rang.

"Too late to change now so lets go" Lorelai began to walk out of their room.

"I also hate when you say that" he walked after her.

"And why is that?"

"Because, we could have another three hours to go, and you'd still say that in the last minute and expect me to believe that you would actually let me change if we had the time"

"You've become very confusing lately" Lorelai told him, they were walking downstairs.

"That's your fault" he told her before walking past her to open the door.

"Hey!" Lorelai shrieked at him.

"Hello Emily, hello Richard" Luke politely said before moving to the side to let them in. They had asked him to call them that.

"Mom" Lorelai said holding back a laugh. "What's that you're carrying?"

"Oh come on Lorelai, I know you don't like vegetables but you should at least recognize a salad when you see one" Emily scoffed.

"I know what a salad is, I'm just wondering what you're doing with it"

"I'm taking it for a ride" Emily seriously said.

"Really?" Lorelai was dumfounded; Luke and Richard stood aside looking at them.

"Of course not, Lorelai! We brought it"

"You brought it?" Lorelai was still confused.

"Yes, it is polite to take a dish to a dinner party" Emily recited.

"Since when?" Lorelai giggled.

"Always?" Emily scoffed.

"Always?" Lorelai asked and Emily nodded. "Mom, you had never taken a 'dish' to anyone before"

"Well, then, it's a new tradition"

"Aha" Lorelai eyed her.

"Fine! Martha Stewart said it the other day and we decided to try it out here and see what reaction it had" Emily confessed.

"And" Lorelai prompted.

"It's had a very bad reaction so far" Emily admitted.

"Yes it has, and now that we've cleared that we can move on. Hi Dad" Lorelai went over to hug him.

SiXiSh

Everybody was at the table Luke and Lorelai were each on opposite sides. On one side there was Richard, Emily, Rory, and Paris. And the other side were Maisy, Buddy, Jess and Samantha. The turkey had its traditional cut, and then it was slaughtered. On the table sat all the garnishes plus Emily's salad. For a full five minutes plates were passed round and round, they never touched the table they went from hand to hand. The only plate, besides the turkey, that never moved was Emily's salad. After everybody had platefuls Emily noticed her salad still sitting in the same spot untouched.

"Oh this is ridiculous" Emily said.

"Mom, I have a strict salad diet and I can't break it" Lorelai said.

"You don't have a salad diet" Jess scoffed.

"Yes I do, I only let myself eat one bowl per day, it used to be per trimester but things changed" Lorelai told them.

"You should really eat more vegetables, Lorelai" Richard said.

"I will, Daddy. Some other day" Lorelai added.

"If nobody is going to touch it then it makes no sense for it to be sitting there" Emily said reaching for the bowl. Samantha, Maisy or Buddy would've been more than pleased to have some but they were instructed by Lorelai not to do so, 'Emily had to stop taking food to other people's houses, it just sent off a bad vibe'. Were Lorelai's exact words.

"Fine, I'll eat some" Luke stepped up.

"You don't have to" Emily told him.

"I like salads and if nobody else will try it…" Luke knew what Lorelai had done; he was going to talk to her about it later. "Then it'll just go to waste and that is a shame"

"That's right boy" Richard said. "Please pass it to me afterwards"

"Sure" Luke put some on his plate then passed the bowl to Richard who took it but didn't serve anything to his plate. Luke sighed and picked up his fork, he stabbed the vegetables a few times before placing some in his mouth. He quickly chewed and swallowed then said. "There. It's actually not bad" he took another stab at it, while fixing his tie.

"Well then, I should try it" Richard pilled some onto his plate.

"Luke?" Lorelai saw how he scratched the side of his neck and began to turn white. He sat up straight then pushed himself and the chair back away from the table. "Luke?" Lorelai said a little more loudly. She saw his hands take a tight hold on the edges of the table, his breathing was extremely harsh and it was beginning to sound as if someone was choking him. "Luke!" Lorelai shrieked and stood up from her chair with a jolt. He opened his mouth to try and breath but it wasn't helping, suddenly his face and arms broke out in rashes.

"Oh my God! He's in anaphylactic shock!" Paris yelled.

"Rory, go get the first aid kit!" Lorelai yelled at Rory and that brought her back to this moment, she stood up and ran to the kitchen cabinet where she knew one of the first aids kit was. Jess and Buddy helped Luke off of his chair and laid him on the floor. Luke was shaking his head 'no' and trying to say something.

"What? Honey, what?" Lorelai was loosing it.

"C'mon Lorelai" Maisy pulled Lorelai away from Luke.

"No" Lorelai resisted.

"Here it is" Rory ran back and gave the kit to Buddy. Luke's breathing got much worse, and he shook his head harder.

"They're not here!" Buddy said and Luke's eyes closed.

"Rory, check our bathroom!" Luke slightly nodded at that.

"An ambulance is on its way" Samantha announced as she came back from the living room, where she had made the call because there was less commotion there.

"Oh my God, thank you Sam" Lorelai said. Maisy was still holding Lorelai slightly back and tried to calm her whispering in her ear that it had happened before and he had been ok.

"Here!" Rory again gave the kit to Buddy. He opened it fast got out the epinephrine bottles and the injections, and prepped them, then in one quick motion the needle was in and the epinephrine was running through Luke's body.

"Luke?" Buddy asked. "Just relax, Luke" Luke's breathing was not calming down. Buddy and Maisy were having flashbacks because of it.

"Why isn't it working? Why can't he breathe? He needs to breath!" Lorelai was frantic.

"Hey, relax, he'll be ok. It takes a little time" Maisy told her, having seen this happen to him more than once before.

"But he doesn't have time! He needs to breath!" just then red lights flooded the dining room.

"Jess" Maisy motioned with her head and Jess went over to let the EMT guys in. They strapped Luke in and quickly took him away; informing them that one person was allowed to go with them.

"I'll go!" Lorelai immediately said.

"No" Maisy said.

"What?" Lorelai turned to look at her like if she was crazy.

"Bud, go. Now!" with that he left with Luke.

"No! I want to go, I need to be there!" Lorelai began to sob. Rory's eyes began to fill with big tears and then they rolled quietly down her cheeks, Jess saw her and went over to hug her she buried her face in his chest.

"And you will be" Maisy held her.

"Lorelai, what happened?" Emily asked, Maisy felt Lorelai's body tens up, Rory winced a little knowing what was coming.

"What happened? What happened!" Lorelai whipped her tears harshly with one hand.

"Lorelai, calm down" Maisy said.

"Mom, please" Rory said once she saw her mothers death glare.

"What?" Emily was clueless, Richard knew better than to ask, he had an idea of what had happened.

"You did this to him!" Lorelai said.

"What!" Emily scoffed, Lorelai's lips were a fine line, fists were clenched, and she was breathing hard.

"It's your fault he's on an ambulance hardly breathing!" Emily had a 'how dare she' look on.

"Lorelai, lets go" Maisy said and pulled on Lorelai's arm.

"And how exactly is it my fault?" Emily asked.

"Emily, now is not the time" Richard said trying to stop Emily from pushing Lorelai's buttons, she was in enough stress as it was, she didn't need more.

"Lorelai, we need to get to the hospital" Maisy kept pulling on Lorelai's arm.

"Mom you have to go, incase they need information on Luke" Rory told her. Of course Buddy could provide the information, but Rory wanted to get Lorelai out of there as soon as possible.

"No, I want her to tell me how on earth it is my fault that Luke is on an ambulance right now" Emily forcefully said.

"He had an allergic reaction!" Paris shouted, she didn't need to be pre-med to know what had happened nor did she need to be pre-med to sense that if things kept going as they were another ambulance might be needed.

"Now, Lorelai" Maisy used a forceful voice and with that Lorelai walked outside. Rory tried to go with them but Jess held her back.

"I'll drive you, just let them go alone" he whispered into Rory's ear, she nodded slightly.

"An allergic reaction?" Emily asked confused once the front door closed behind Lorelai and Maisy.

"You had to be play martyr and make Luke eat the salad?" Rory angrily asked Emily, Jess let go of her. "Why couldn't you've just ignored the fact that no one ate it! Why did you have to push it? Why did you have to make Luke feel bad and eat it?"

"Rory, stop" Jess told her; he knew she'd regret this later if she kept on going.

"Don't talk to me in that tone young lady" Emily told her.

"I'll talk however the hell I want to…!" Rory had tears running down her face but that didn't stop her.

"Rory…" Jess said warningly.

"You just had to put sunflower seeds on the salad? Who puts sunflower seeds on salads? Dad is allergic to sunflower seeds!" Emily and Richard had only heard Rory call Luke 'Dad' once and it was when Lorelai had the panic attack, she had actually called him 'daddy'. But this was different, nobody seemed to be shocked, it was like Rory called him that in a daily basis. After her final outburst saying that Rory ran outside.

"Rory, wait!" Jess called out before he turned to Sam.

"Go, I'll clean up" she told him and with that Jess ran after Rory, slamming the door close behind him.

"He's allergic to sunflower seeds?" Emily asked almost in a whisper. She could clearly remember telling the cook to put them in as a 'kick' to the salad. Se also remembered how the cook had told her that not everybody liked that, Emily had yelled at her and told her she wasn't paid to inform them what peopled liked, she was paid to cook and cook she should do. "I didn't know"

"I think you better go now" Samantha told them.

"The girl is right, Emily" Richard said. Emily said nothing, she just walked outside. "I'll take this" Richard grabbed the salad bowl and left.

"Need help" Paris asked Samantha who nodded after taking a deep breath.

"This is not how dinner was supposed to go" Sam sighed sadly.

MeAnWhIlE LoReLaI AnD MaIsY

"Lorelai, relax. We don't want you going onto early labor, now" Maisy said as soon as they got into the car.

"I know but I can't relax. Not with Luke like that… did you see him? He was in so much pain" Lorelai's voice broke. "What if…"

"Don't start whatifing, Lorelai"

"But…"

"No, no buts. This has happened before and it most probably will happen again"

"I don't want it to happen again" Lorelai mumbled.

"Well, Luke's parents didn't want it to happen again after the first time but we all know how that turned out" Maisy said.

"I'll make sure it doesn't happen" Lorelai resolved. "I'll make Taylor ban all sunflower products in town if I have to" Lorelai was crying.

"That's going a little too far don't you think?" Maisy asked as she kept on talking just to keep their mind off of Luke's current condition.

"No" Lorelai firmly said. "I'm so scared right now and I never want to be this scared again. That is if he's ok. He has to be ok…" Lorelai's mind was beginning to wonder back to the bad side.

"I know how you feel. We were there the first time it happened" Maisy began; she knew Lorelai loved to hear about old Luke stories.

"Really?" Lorelai asked in a small voice.

"Yeah. He wasn't even one yet, he had just started walking, and Buddy and I had gone over so he and William could watch a baseball game" Lorelai smiled. "They were supposed to be watching him, since they had said he needed to watch baseball like a 'true Danes man'" Lorelai giggled a little, Luke had said that the twins were going to play in minor league and now she knew why he insisted so much on that. "Anyways, little Lucas…" Lorelai smiled at the name. "Grabbed a sunflower seed from a bag and he bit into it, broke its shell and plopped it into his mouth" Lorelai was imagining the scene Maisy was describing for her. "Then all hell broke loose, everything went along as it did tonight but with more panic since no one knew what was going on" Lorelai winced, imaging it. "Luke was rushed to the hospital, we don't know exactly what had happened but he was ok. After that first time, we now knew he was allergic to the sunflower seeds. We had blamed Bud and Will for it even though we knew it wasn't their fault"

"It must've been hell to them, seeing Luke like that and then being blamed for it" Lorelai said sympathetically. Maisy was about to tell Lorelai that she was doing the same thing to Emily but decided that it was better to say nothing.

"Yes it was. But you'd believe after that, Luke would stay away from sunflower seeds" Maisy kept on telling.

"He didn't?"

"Oh no. He once ate one when we were babysitting him, I think he was three. Then when he played pee wee baseball, he wanted to be just like the other kids, so he ate some on a game. That was the worst he ever got it, he was some where around nine. And then in highs school Rachel tried to cook for him…" Maisy trailed off.

"And she sent him to the hospital" Lorelai finished.

"Pretty much, he'd never told her though. That's why he keeps the injections on the first aid kit, he's so stubborn that he's bound to have another shock" Maisy said shaking her head.

"He told me about it" Lorelai whispered.

"What was that dear?"

"Umm nothing" he told me, a long time ago he told me that he was allergic to them. He told me even before we started dating. He told me but not Rachel, I wonder if he ever told Nicole, probably not since they were never together.

ThE HoSpItAl

"I have to go in there!" Lorelai told the nurse who had just explained where Luke was to Maisy and Lorelai.

"I'm sorry ma'm but you can't go in there right now, you'll have to wait a little longer"

" I don't…!" Lorelai began but was cut off.

"Lorelai, do as she said" Buddy told her. "Luke is going to be in his room in a few minutes, she said he's ok now"

"But I want to see that with my own eyes" Lorelai insisted, the nurse was long gone and she never told them Luke's exact location.

"You will, once he's in his room" Maisy reminded her.

"Why can't I see him now? Why can't I wait with him while they fix his room?"

"I don't know… because it's hospital policy, there, now sit and wait" Buddy made that up and it made her smile a little.

"Mom!" Rory's frantic voice was heard.

"Honey!" Lorelai yelled back and stood up.

"Great, just when we had her calm" Maisy whispered.

"How is he? Is he ok? Is he breathing now? Where is he? Can I see him?" Rory rambled.

"Wow there honey slow down" Lorelai told her a little amused. "The nurse said he was ok now and that we could see him in a little while" Lorelai smoothed her palm over Rory's damped cheeks. Rory leaned forward into Lorelai's embrace. "You didn't drive here, did you?" Lorelai whispered into Rory's ear suddenly concerned that her daughter had drove in her currently emotional state.

"Jess drove me" Rory said in a small voice.

"And you two didn't fight on the drive here?" Lorelai pulled back a little to ask Rory face to face.

"Of course not Mom" Rory told her seriously. "Why would we?"

"Because you two have been on each others throats lately"

"We have?" Rory didn't recall being on Jess' throat.

"Yeah, you two have been acting like three year olds"

"We have? I don't remember" aha, so Sookie was right Lorelai thought and smiled. "What?"

"Nothing"

"Who is here with Luke Danes?" a doctor asked. They all went over to where the doctor was; Jess had been with Buddy and Maisy.

"He is in his room now and can have visitors. Normally we only allow two people at a time but I've heard that you guys have been a pain in the ass to all my nurses, so, just this once you can all go in, say a quick 'hello' and leave. After that you'll go in two at a time" the doctor told them, they all nodded. "He is in room 108" with that the doctor left.

LuKe's RoOm

Lorelai opened the door quietly and saw that he wasn't moving, her eyes immediately went to his chest and she sighed when she saw it rise and fall. She walked in and took a seat on a chair near his right shoulder. Rory walked in next and took the chair on his left. Buddy and Maisy walked in after, Maisy went over to where Rory was and Buddy went over to stand behind Lorelai. Jess just lingered by the door. Lorelai's eyes kept watching his chest go up and go down and go up and go down.

"We should get going" Buddy broke the silence, and gave Lorelai's shoulder a squeeze. "He's ok" he told her quietly, Lorelai nodded but her eyes were still fixated on his chest.

"Make sure she rests" Maisy told Rory, who also nodded but her eyes were on Luke's face. As Maisy walked past his bed she rubbed his leg in a 'goodbye' sign.

"You take care of them, you hear me?" Buddy instructed Jess who still lingered by the door.

"I will" Jess said and moved to the side so they could go. Five minutes after they left, Jess couldn't take the silence anymore. "I'm gonna go find some coffee or something, plus I have to call Sam"

"Ok" Lorelai whispered absentminded chest goes up, chest goes down, chest goes up… Lorelai chanted over and over.

"Bring me some coffee" Rory said, she had actually turned to look at Jess.

"Go with him, honey" Lorelai said but she still kept on looking.

"But…"

"Go" Lorelai insisted and Rory took a deep breath and stood up. After the two of the left Lorelai grabbed Luke's right hand. A couple of minutes passed before Luke slowly opened his eyes. He saw her sitting there staring intently at his chest, he smirked a little and squeezed her hand. She jumped a bit. "You're up" she sounded relieved.

"I'm awake" her bottom lip quivered and her eyes got glassy. "Hey don't cry" he had his 'just woken up' voice.

"I was so scared" she whispered then drew in a shaky breath.

"I'm fine, everything's ok… well, not everything, our trip is off and dinner was quite a downer" Luke tried to joke to make her feel better.

"I don't care about the trip or dinner" she told him harshly. "Luke what would've happened if you had eaten that salad for breakfast, huh? What? I would've woken up to find you lying on the kitchen floor?" she began crying now. "Or worse! If I had been the only one there and I couldn't reach the first aid kit fast enough! I'd have to see you lie there not been able to breath" her cries were now becoming uncontrollable.

"But non of that happened"

"But it can! Because you're stubborn and like baseball and you're a Danes man!"

"What?" Luke was confused.

"It can happen again Luke! And you could be alone or stranded or with me! Who's a total spaz when it comes to stuff like this. I didn't even know where your medicine was" she whispered the last part.

"Lorelai, the last time this happened to me I was in high school…"

"Yeah I know Rachel cooked for you" Lorelai said.

"How did…?''

"Maisy''

"Oh"

"Yeah" she quietly said and looked down to their hands; he gave her hand a squeeze.

"I'll make sure it doesn't happen again, and I'll put an injection on each kit just to be on the safe side" Luke told her and gave her hand another squeeze.

"Promise?" he nodded. "And also you need to teach me how to apply them"

"I'll teach you" he smiled.

"Good"

"Hey, Lorelai?"

"Yeah?" she raised her eyebrows.

"Come here" he told her. She leaned closer and he kissed her softly.

"Daddy!" Rory ran inside and over to Luke.

"Hey kid" he smiled.

"Can I hug you?" she asked. Luke loved the face Rory had just made, it reminded him of when she was a little girl.

"Sure" Luke said and instantly Rory attached herself to him.

"Stop squishing him" Jess told Rory.

"He's not complaining" Rory talked into Luke's neck.

"Not yet" Jess told her. Lorelai rolled her eyes and Luke smiled. At the beginning he was annoyed at how they acted but now he found it amusing.

"He's not going to" Rory said.

"Yes he is"

"No he's not"

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