Lorelai Gilmore46: That was by far the biggest one I've ever had (that came out wrong) this chapter is dedicated to you.
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Pen N' Pad
MoNdAy 12th YaLe
"Anything else you need?" Jess asked sarcastically. He and Samantha had gone to Yale to help Rory pack and move her stuff back home for the winter break.
"There are two more boxes in my room" Rory told him. She and Samantha were sitting on the living room couch talking while Jess did all the work.
"Oh really!" Jess faked enthusiasm. "Can I please be the one to take them out to the truck?"
"Of course, we don't want to be responsible for you're disappointment" Sam told him smiling.
"Cute" Jess told her, narrowing his eyes, Sam just smiled. "What the…?" Jess said when he tried to lift the boxes.
"Oh, those boxes have my books in them" Rory said wincing.
"Thanks for the heads up" Jess said through clenched teeth as he walked back outside carrying just one box.
"So how's the attic going?" Rory asked Sam once Jess had closed the door behind him.
"All the major things are done. The rooms are separated, we have floors and we are bound to have running water in a matter of days. After that we just have to paint and decorate" Samantha said excitedly.
"Wow, they worked fast"
"Yeah"
"Take one last look around" Jess said walking back in. "We're leaving as soon as this is in the truck" he went to Rory's room to get the last box.
"How serious do you think he was?" Rory asked Sam.
"Very, why?"
"Want to watch a movie?" Rory said turning the TV on.
"Jess will probably have a fit, so… sure! But pick something funny" Sam said and got more comfortable on the couch.
ThE DiNeR
"Thank you Mr. Danes" Clara said.
"Call me Luke and it's no problem, I'll need the help once the twins are born" Luke told her.
"Still, you hired me and not someone else" she smiled at him.
"Ok, umm, Lane is going to help you. I have to go because Rory is moving her stuff today" Luke pointed at Lane, who smiled at Clara.
"Say 'hi', I always liked her" Clara said truthfully.
"Ok. Umm, Lane I'm going now"
"Sure" Lane said, she was going to go see Rory after her shift that night and spend some girlie time with her. "Clara, come with me and I'll show you the proper way of ignoring Kirk" Lane said and Clara followed her.
At ThE HoUsE
Lorelai was taking a nap while everybody else worked around the house. They didn't mind that Lorelai was sleeping, it was actually better because she wasn't getting in the way, plus she hadn't been sleeping well at nights because she couldn't get comfortable.
"Hey Rory?" Luke asked carrying a box into her room; he and Jess carried the boxes while Rory unpacked them, Samantha was making dinner.
"You can put that by the foot of the bed"
"Think you'll get everything done today?" Luke took a seat next to the box he had just placed down.
"I hope I'm tired of seeing boxes" Rory was sorting through her clothes.
"That's because you spent last night and this morning packing them and now you're unpacking them. If you were less like your Mom you would've had them packed days ago"
"Too bad I'm a Lorelai carbon copy" Rory said with a smirk.
"Umm Rory?" Luke said sounding nervous.
"Yeah?" she said without looking up from what she was doing.
"You know Clara right?" Luke asked and that made Rory stop and turn to look at him.
"Dean's sister?"
"Yeah, her"
"Yes I know Clara, why?"
"I kinda hired her today" Luke said shyly.
"Oh"
"Yeah. See with the twins almost here, the construction, and my visit to the hospital Lorelai said I should hire someone new"
"And you hired Dean's sister?"
"She applied and, well, she was the only girl that did so I figured it'll be easier on Lane if I hired a girl instead of a high school boy…" Luke said then saw Rory's confused look. "…boys don't do well with people bossing them around, and they do worse with girls bossing them around. But if you don't feel comfortable with it…"
"No, no, it's ok. Clara is nice"
"She said to tell you 'hi', so, umm… hi" Luke said nervously. Rory smiled.
"Thanks and its ok, really" Rory told him with a smile.
"You sure?"
"Yep. Now you better go help Jess or he'll stop doing it, we kinda made fun of him this morning"
"Alright I'm going" Luke stood up. "Rory…"
"I'm really ok with Clara working the diner" Rory said before Luke even asked.
"Just making sure" and with that Luke went to get more boxes. Rory smirked and kept unpacking.
"Luke!" Lorelai shrieked a few minutes after he walked out of Rory's room. Since the guys were outside, Rory went to see what was wrong with Lorelai.
"Mom, are you ok?" Rory asked through Lorelai's door.
"Yes, I just need my strong man to help me" Lorelai joked.
"I'll go get him" Rory walked away from the door and half way down the stairs before yelling to Luke.
"Lorelai!" Luke ran into their room. "What's wrong? Are you ok? Are you in labor? Does something hurt?" Luke rambled and kneeled in front of her, she was sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Luke, breath" Lorelai giggled. "I can't reach" Lorelai pointed to her pants.
"You almost gave me a heart attack because you can't reach your pants?" Luke said grabbing her pants that were by the foot of the bed on the floor.
"Umm yeah" Lorelai smiled, Luke handed her the pants. "Help" Lorelai pouted, her big pregnant belly didn't let her bend down. Luke sighed and helped her. "Thanks" he helped her up and Lorelai gave him a thank-you kiss.
"Next time could you not scream for me, just call" Luke said as they both walked downstairs.
"I can try, but what's the fun in that?" Lorelai smiled.
NeXt DaY TuEsDaY 13th
Lane had slept in Rory's room and both girls had left that morning with Luke and Jess because Caesar had the night shift. Sam was still sleeping because she had woken up early for a puking session. Lorelai was on the couch talking with Sookie as the Stars Hollow people paraded through her house regularly.
Sookie had suddenly come to the conclusion that she never threw Lorelai a baby shower, so naturally, she panicked. Sookie called every person in Stars Hollow and babbled her mistake, after the babbling took place she organized for everybody to stop by at a different hour and drop by a present. It was like a baby shower but without the party and the mess after people leave. So technically it was just presents.
"I'm telling you, if Luke doesn't hurry up I'll open everything without him" Lorelai whined looking at the pile of presents by the door. "I still can't believe you did this"
"And I still can't believe you weren't mad at me for forgetting to throw you a baby shower" Sookie started panicking again.
"Don't worry about it Sook" Lorelai waved it off.
"Lorelai!" Luke shrieked when he saw all the presents by the door.
"Ohuh, I have to go" Sookie said and stood up. "Good luck" and with that Sookie ran out of there, past Luke and back to the inn.
"Hi honey" Lorelai walked over to where Luke was.
"What's all this?"
"They're gifts" Lorelai simply stated.
"I know that, why are they here?"
"People brought them"
"Why?"
"Because Sookie told them to. Do you want to open them now?"
"Sookie told them to?" Luke asked as Lorelai grabbed a few presents and moved them over to the living room. Luke grabbed a few of the bigger presents and followed Lorelai.
"She panicked because she didn't throw me a baby shower, so she told everybody to stop by and drop us gifts" Lorelai sat on the couch.
"She did?" he sat next to Lorelai, presents on the coffee table. Lorelai just pointed to all the presents. "Ok, she did. Wow, and people actually did what Sookie told them to?"
"It's Stars Hollow; if you tell them to all go stand on the bridge at the same time because we want to test its resistance, they would even though there's a big risk of the bridge braking and all of them getting wet"
"Right" Luke nodded. "So what do we do?"
"We open them" Lorelai said in a 'duh'. "Oh hand me the big one" Lorelai extended her arms at the present.
"So… we just get all of the presents without having to deal with all of the town's crazy people?" Luke asked while grabbing the gift Lorelai pointed at.
"Yep"
"I think I'm gonna love this method" he handed her the present.
It took them close to an hour to finish opening all the presents. Since everybody already knew the nursery was finished they focused on buying toys, diapers, and clothes for the boys. Lorelai kept playing with a video camera somebody have given them, while Luke sorted through the other gifts.
"Stop playing with that, you're gonna break it" Luke told with a side glance look while he folded some clothes.
"Am not. You're just jealous because I get to play with it first. Aha!" Lorelai finally turned it on.
"You do know it would've saved you some time if you had just read the manual"
"Where's the fun in that?"
"Still having a functional camera after you're done playing with it"
"I'm not gonna break it, plus it has warranty. Hey! Look at that" Lorelai said and Luke turned to look at her.
"What?"
"Smile"
"Are you taping?"
"Yep, they also gave us five virgin tapes, hehehe virgin" Lorelai giggled.
"Stop it" Luke placed his hand in front of it. "And I'll put these away" he grabbed the rest of the tapes.
"Can I keep this one?" Lorelai pouted.
"Fine…" Luke sighed. "… but that's the only one you can play around with"
"Yay!" Lorelai began shooting random stuff. "This is our 2005 Christmas tree, that's one of its ornaments. Wow the zoom on this thing is so cool. That's some wrapping paper, and that's the cartoon that's all over the wrapping paper" Lorelai zoomed in on it.
"Are you gonna keep doing that?"
"Just until it gets boring" she turned to him. "Say 'hi' Luke"
"Leave me alone" with that Luke stood up and walked out of the living room with all the baby clothes.
"That's Luke's touchy, and now we're zoomed in to it"
"Lorelai!" Luke said and turned around.
"Hmm, that view is much better" Lorelai smiled.
"Gees!" Luke all but ran out of the living room leaving a giggling Lorelai behind. She flipped the camera around so she was taping herself, smiled and said.
"Sorry but he's all mine" then she turned the camera off.
ThE DiNeR
Luke and Lorelai had gone to the diner so Luke could help out and Lorelai could have some lunch. Rory was sitting with Lorelai, they were gonna have lunch together.
"Who in their right mind would give you a video camera?" Rory asked while focusing it on Lorelai, who insisted on taping her order and then playing it for Luke instead of just ordering normally.
"I don't know, we were too busy opening them to read the cards. Ready?"
"Luke is not gonna like this" Rory shook her head.
"Well, he's gonna have to deal with it because I'm carrying his twins and this is what I wanna do"
"Gee, crabby" Rory noted.
"Not crabby, just uncomfortable, so take my order"
"Ok… and…go!" Lorelai began placing her order to the camera.
"Ok, now you rewind it while I call for Luke" Lorelai told her and Rory nodded. "Luke!"
"Mom, didn't he say no more screaming?" Rory said while rubbing her ear.
"Yeah but this is a fail proof method that he'll come" and Lorelai giggled at how dirty it sounded that her screaming would make Luke come.
"What?" Luke said annoyed.
"Are we bothering you?" Lorelai asked referring to his mood.
"Not you, just your screaming is"
"What if I had been in labor? Wouldn't you feel stupid coming over here with that attitude while I was brining you kids into the world?"
"If you were in labor Rory would be panicking right now…" Luke turned to see Rory who was far from panicking. "…no panicking, no labor. So like I said before, what?"
"Rory?" Lorelai turned to Rory and pointed at Luke.
"What is she doing?" Luke asked Rory.
"Here…" Rory handed Luke the camera. "Press play" Luke did and Lorelai's order began to play.
"You didn't" Luke turned to look at Lorelai.
"Pay attention" he turned to look at the camera again.
"Where's your order?" he asked Rory.
"Chili fries" Rory told him with a smile.
"You should be more like her" Luke told Lorelai and then left them alone. Rory smiled proudly.
"Shut up" Lorelai threw her napkin at Rory.
LaTeR
That night the girls; Rory, Sam, and Lane, were in Rory's room. Luke and Lorelai were in the living room because Lorelai insisted on them watching the video she took that day, which Luke found annoying and pointless. Jess was up in the attic looking at some things.
"See! That's when you took my order, hmm I can eat that right now" Lorelai said.
"We just had dinner"
"I don't mind" Lorelai smiled. Luke said nothing, they just kept watching.
"What's that?" Luke asked slightly tilting his head.
"Sookie's nostril" Lorelai said giggling.
"Gross!"
"Don't worry; I made her blow her nose first"
"Oh yeah, cause that's much less gross" Luke said sarcastically.
"Shh, tell me what you think of this" Lorelai rewind the movie. Jess was coming downstairs only wearing his sweatpants when he heard Sookie's voice, he stop mid stairs.
"Of what, the video? I think it's wrong" Luke said.
"No…'' she smacked him. "About Sookie's proposition"
"She made a pass at you?" Luke was in a playful mood ever since that day off they had. Lorelai laughed.
"No, just pay attention" that part was shot on the Inn's kitchen. Jess kept walking downstairs since no one was there. He grabbed a bottle of water and began walking back upstairs when something stopped him mid was again 'a chef internship' Sookie had said.
"A what?" Luke asked Lorelai.
"Shh" Lorelai pointed to the screen.
'I could train one or two people to be me when I'm not here, don't get me wrong Many is great but I can't leave everything to him' Sookie explained.
'So what were you thinking?' Lorelai asked.
'We can put an add, or tell Patty, and I'll pick one or two people, train them and that way I can spend more time at home with my kids'
'You sure, you'll spend more time at home and not just hire two more people?'
'Yes, I've wanted to spend more time with the kids but it's hard'
'Then do it'
'Really?'
'Yeah' at that Jess ran upstairs, wildly knocked on Rory's door and pulled Sam over to their room to tell her.
"That's actually a good idea" Luke said.
"Wait, it gets better" Lorelai said with a smile.
'…since Jackson had a vasectomy these are the only kids we're gonna have and I don't wanna miss out on anything' Sookie said.
'Well, if you want more kids you can always borrow Luke'
"Lorelai!" Luke yelled slightly blushing.
'But Luke makes them in bulk' Sookie pointed out.
"Gees!" Luke blushed more, Lorelai just laughed. "Can we stop watching this now?"
"Fine…" Lorelai turned it off. "I'm tired anyhow"
In ThEiR BeDrOoM
"Ok, December 13th wasn't it" Lorelai walked over to a calendar they had and crossed the day off.
"We have two more weeks" Luke started to change his clothes. "Relax"
"I know" Lorelai sighed. "Think they'll be born in a blizzard?"
"Hopefully not"
"Aw, it would be nice"
"No it wouldn't because we still have to drive all the way to Hartford" Luke walked over to the bathroom.
"So?"
"So, driving all the way to Hartford in a blizzard is a hazard"
"Hehehe that sounded funny" Lorelai also walked over to the bathroom, Luke gave her a glare.
ThUrSdAy 15th
"Still knocked up?" Jess asked as he passed Lorelai in the kitchen.
"Jess!"
"Relax, Luke, I was joking" Jess said and went over to the fridge.
"He's right Luke. The doctor said I wouldn't even make it to December, now it's December 15th and I still don't see an end to this" Lorelai pointed to her stomach.
"The longer they're there the better" Luke chanted.
"I know" Lorelai sighed annoyed at that phrase. "Stop saying that"
"Mom! Black converse?" Rory yelled downstairs.
"I haven't seen them?" Lorelai yelled back.
"Could you two stop that?" Jess said annoyed.
"CD player!" Rory yelled again.
"No idea!"
"Stop that" Luke told Lorelai.
"Rory, Luke says 'no more yelling'!" Lorelai yelled.
"Why not!" Rory called back.
"Rory, get down here!" Luke yelled.
"You do know what you just did right?" Jess smirked.
"Shut up" Luke grumbled.
"What's up?" Rory walked into the kitchen shoeless.
"Stop yelling" Luke told her and turned back to cooking.
"He's crabby" Rory told her Mom. "So, shoes? CD player?"
"No idea" Lorelai told her.
"Jess?" Rory turned to him.
"Sorry, but your converse don't fit me" he smirked and left the kitchen.
"You?" she asked Luke.
"They don't fit me either, plus I haven't worn converse since I was a kid" Luke said, both Rory and Lorelai gasped then mocked him. "Stop mocking or I'll stop cooking"
"You wouldn't deprive us of nourishment, would you?" Lorelai pouted and Rory gave him the puppy eyes. Luke sighed. "Thought so"
"I'm gonna get ready, you two stop fighting" Rory said and left.
"What's she talking about? We don't fight" Lorelai said.
"Aha"
StArS HoLlOw StReEtS
"I don't know how I feel about this" Rory said walking around the center of town with Lorelai.
"Why?"
"Because you could go into labor at anytime"
"So?"
"I don't wanna be there if you do"
"Thanks for the love"
"And this walk alone could induce labor" Rory sounded a little panicked.
"I know" Lorelai smiled.
"You want to induce labor!"
"Rory, shh, people are watching. And no I don't want to induce it; I was just feeling trapped and wanted some fresh air"
"But what if it does induce it?"
"Then you'll call Luke, we'll go to Hartford, and you'll have two new brothers" Lorelai said calmly.
"Mom?" after a little silence Rory asked. "You're not felling labor-y, right?"
"Rory, relax" Lorelai swung her arm around Rory's shoulders. "Oh God" Lorelai groaned and grabbed her stomach.
"What!" Rory panicked and Lorelai began laughing.
"Nothing, Rory, relax I was joking" Lorelai kept laughing.
"You're mean" Rory pouted with one hand over her heart. They kept walking.
"Feel like eating?" Lorelai asked her eyes on Luke's.
"Does my answer matter?"
"Not really"
"Ok then, let's go eat" Rory said as they started to walk over to the Diner.
ThE DiNeR
"Hey, I wasn't expecting you today" Luke walked up to Lorelai and Rory's table.
"Mom wants to induce" Rory said.
"What!" Luke turned to look at Lorelai.
"No I don't…" Lorelai scoffed at Rory. "I just wanted to take a walk, get some air, and distract myself" Lorelai said and Luke narrowed his eyes at her. "And even if I was, nothing happened"
"Stop trying to induce labor" Luke told her.
"Fine, can I have something spicy?" Lorelai joked.
"Funny" Luke told her and went back to the kitchen. After Luke left Rory thought a bit then decided to jump right to it.
"Mom?"
"Yeah?"
"Tomorrow is Friday…"
"I know, and yesterday was Wednesday" Lorelai joked.
"I just wanted to know if you guys were going to dinner" Rory asked tentatively.
"No" Lorelai simply said.
"But…"
"Rory drop it, we're not going. Not tomorrow, or next week, or even the one after that"
"Mom…"
"Rory!" Lorelai warned.
"It wasn't her fault, she didn't know and…"
"Rory, stop" Lorelai said forcefully.
"But…"
"He was in the hospital, Rory, andhe couldn't breathe" Lorelai started, voice quivering.
"But…" Rory sighed and decided to drop it, for now. "Do you want some pie?" Lorelai took a deep breath.
"With ice cream"
"I'll be right back" Rory got up and went over to the kitchen. "Can we get some pie and ice cream?" Rory asked Luke.
"No" was all Luke said and he kept cooking.
"I wasn't actually asking"
"Oh really?" Luke turned.
"Nope, it was more of a polite way of telling"
"Nice" Luke said and left the kitchen to get the pie.
"What about the ice cream?" Rory asked.
"Hold on, I only have two hands. Here…" Luke handed her two plates of pie. "I'll go get the ice cream"
"Thank you, Daddy" Rory cooed. Luke rolled his eyes and went to get the ice cream.
"Where's my ice cream?" Lorelai pouted when she saw her sad and lonely pie.
"Its coming" Rory said before digging into her pie.
FrIdAy 16th
Luke knew better than to ask Lorelai if she felt in the mood to go to dinner at her parent's house. Rory, however, did ask Lorelai, multiple times. After the fifth 'no' from an angry and annoyed Lorelai, Rory finally left for Hartford.
At dinner, no one touched the subject of Luke, Lorelai, or what had happened; it was as if it hadn't happened at all. But before Rory left though, Richard pulled her aside and privately asked how Luke and Lorelai were, how bad Luke had actually gotten, and how much longer Lorelai still had. Rory was happy to answer all of questions before leaving.
When Rory got home Lorelai was already asleep, Luke wasn't though. He wanted to make sure Rory got home safe, and that dinner had gone down smoothly. This was the first dinner they had had since Thanksgiving Day. Rory reassured Luke that dinner went well, and she also told him what her grandfather had asked. Luke was glad that Rory was in ok terms with her grandparents, someone should.
MoNdAy 19th
"How are you feeling now?" Rory asked Lorelai, they were taking a break from their shopping since Lorelai's back had been killing her all day.
"Still hurts but it feels good to be off my feet" Lorelai answered. They were Christmas shopping and were almost done, actually they were already done but they wanted to buy more stuff.
"We should get going soon" Rory said placing all their bags on the food court table top.
"But we're hungry?" Lorelai pouted.
"How does Luke deal with you on a daily basis?"
"I'm constantly throwing the fact that it's his fault I'm pregnant in his face"
"Mean"
"Yeah well…" Lorelai shrugged. "Be a good girl and bring your Mommy some pizza"
"Be a good Mommy and give your daughter some money" Rory extended her hand towards Lorelai.
"Hehehe you rhymed" Lorelai said while digging into her purse. Rory rolled her eyes and left to get food. "What are you guys doing?" Lorelai asked her stomach.
That night Jess and Samantha had gone out on a date; Lorelai had told them that just because they're pregnant don't mean they can't still enjoy a relationship. Lorelai took that time to wrap their gifts; Luke was over at the Diner so she also wrapped his. Rory was helping Lorelai, by walking up and down the stairs to place the gifts under the tree.
"You're done, right?" Rory walked into Lorelai's room. "Your back still hurts?"
"Yeah, the doctor said it was because one of the boys was pressing against my back"
"Huh?" Rory took a seat next to Lorelai on the bed.
"The last time we went to the doctor she said the boys were 'in position'…" Lorelai saw Rory's weird expression. "Baby 'A', also known as Sean, was head down ready to be born and that pressed baby 'B', Ricky, against my back"
"So it's not gonna stop hurting until they're born?"
"Basically but the doctor also said that if the boys aren't born by the 25th she'll induce…"
"Why?" Rory didn't get it, at first the doctor was worried Lorelai wouldn't make it to the due date and now they were gonna induce.
"She said they're getting too big" Lorelai ran a hand over her stomach.
"Well duh, just look at their parents"
"Shut up" Lorelai said and then Rory's cell phone rang. "Ooh I wonder who that is" Lorelai said sarcastically knowing damn well it was Julian. Rory glared at Lorelai before answering. "Hey Julian!" Lorelai greeted loudly.
"He say's 'hi'" Rory told Lorelai before walking out of Lorelai's room and over to hers.
"Ok kid, seriously, get away from my back" Lorelai told her stomach sternly.
TuEsDaY 20th
That morning Rory had convinced Luke to let her help with the morning rush, since she was already bored at home and Lane was going to be at the Diner. Samantha had annoyed Jess until he had agreed to go to the mall with her and buy stuff for Christmas and for their apartment. And since it was currently 9am Lorelai was sleeping, until now.
"Luke!" was the first thing that came out Lorelai's mouth, her eyes hadn't opened yet. Something had woken her up with a start but it seemed to be gone now. "Luke, are you home!" Lorelai called as she climbed out of bed, no one answered. "Rory?" Lorelai walked out of her room and down the hall, she checked Rory and then Jess's room and found no one. "Is anyone here?" there was still no response, not feeling in the mood of making a house search, Lorelai walked back into her room and straight to the bathroom to take a shower.
It was now half an hour since Lorelai had woken up and she was about to finish her shower when the thing that had woken her up came back. Lorelai groaned, her right arm went to cradle her stomach, and her left hand was on the wall for support. No, no, no, no, not now Lorelai thought, she was pretty sure she was in the first stage of labor but wasn't completely sure because she remembered it to be more painful. And as soon as it had started it had ended, Lorelai turned the shower off and got out of the bath, dried off, and left the bathroom.
Lorelai sat on her bed for a while just waiting, nothing happed. Since she was already dry, she got up and got changed. Considering she had nowhere to go, and she was nine months pregnant, she was moving very slowly now so it only took her about twenty minutes to get ready. Lorelai was dressed, make-up-ed, and hungry so she went downstairs hoping Luke had left her breakfast. Lorelai walked into an empty kitchen.
"Damn it Luke!" Lorelai said frustrated and since she was alone she'd had to make herself something to eat. "Great" Lorelai mumbled, she found two letters pined on the fridge. 'Mom, I'm at the Diner' Rory's note had a smiley face on the bottom 'We're at the mall' and Jess' had nothing. "Damn you" Lorelai said upon opening the fridge's door and found Luke had left her a fruit salad and some yogurt with a post-it on them 'Please' was all it said in Luke's handwriting. Lorelai grabbed them and the orange juice. "Why did you have to put 'please'? You know I can't say no to that" Lorelai grumbled to no one as she grabbed a glass.
Lorelai had grabbed some juice and was now putting the container back in the fridge. After that she piled everything on her arms so she wouldn't have to make another trip. She was right in the middle of the kitchen when it hit again taking her by surprise, causing everything she was carrying fall on the floor with a crash. "Ok, now I'm sure" Lorelai groaned while she held the bottom of her stomach. After it had passed Lorelai carefully tiptoed out of the kitchen, after all she was barefoot and the OJ juice glass shattered. On her way out she grabbed a pen and a pad, the phone, and went over to the living room to take a seat.
She wrote what time it was then turned on the TV and waited until another contraction hit. She wasn't supposed to do that. The doctor had told them that since they were going to have to drive all the way to Hartford that they were supposed to leave as soon as the first sign of labor occurred. Lorelai just wanted to make sure she was in real labor and that they weren't Braxton Hicks contraction.
Surely enough, about, half an hour after the kitchen incident another contraction hit. Once it was over Lorelai reached for the phone and dialed the Diner, she didn't know why but she was smiling.
"Luke's" Luke answered annoyed. "Kirk stop playing with that!" he tried to cover the phone's receiver but Lorelai still heard him. "Hello?"
"Luke?"
"You have to eat it, Lorelai" Luke said thinking Lorelai had called to complain about his choice of breakfast for her.
"Can't it's all over the kitchen floor"
"You threw it? Why did you do that? I would've eaten it later" Luke was ready to go into full on rant mode.
"I was gonna eat it but got startled by something"
"By what? A spider or was it just a fragment of your imagination? I mean it Kirk, stop!"
"No, no spider and I'm pretty sure I didn't image the other thing either" Lorelai was smiling; she'd love to see the face Luke was about to make.
"What other thing?" Luke asked absentminded because of Kirk.
"A contraction" Lorelai simply said. Silence fell on the other side of the line. "Luke?" Lorelai got worried.
"What did you say?"
"I said your name"
"Before that"
"Oh, you mean the contraction part?" leave it to Lorelai to mess with Luke's head while being in labor.
"Yes, that part, are you sure?" Luke had no emotion in his voice.
"Yep, the one in the kitchen was my second… or third?" Lorelai wasn't sure if what had woken her up had been a contraction.
"Seriously? They weren't those fake ones?" Luke still couldn't believe Lorelai was in labor, because knowing her she could just be making one of her jokes.
"There is nothing fake; I made sure of that before calling you. I had another contraction right before calling you"
"Oh my God" it finally clicked on Luke's head; he was gonna be a father, today. "I'll be right there, just relax and umm…breathe"
"Ok and Luke?"
"Yeah?"
"You too… relax and breathe" Lorelai told him seriously.
"Ok, I'm on my way" was all he said before hanging up.
ThE DiNeR
"Everybody out!" Luke said as soon as he hung the phone.
"I'm sorry Luke, I'll stop playing around just don't kick everybody out" Kirk's voiced quivered.
"What's going on?" Rory asked Luke, ignoring Kirk.
"Lorelai's in labor" Luke said still not believing it himself but still a smile crept up his face.
"Oh my God!" Rory shrieked. "Everybody out!" she imitated Luke's previous words.
"She's been spending way too much time with you" Taylor said pointing to Luke.
"Shut up and leave!" Luke told him and everybody else there.
"Luke, just go, we'll make sure everybody leaves and we'll close up" Lane told him.
"Sure?"
"Yeah boss, go" Caesar answered.
"Ok then, Rory lets go" Luke told her and they both left the diner in a hurry.
ThE HoUsE
Lorelai just sat there watching TV while she waited for Luke to come get her. While she waited she began talking to the twins.
"You guys are gonna be here for Christmas, isn't that great? Your first Christmas and you'll only be five days old. On the bright side, next year you'll be old enough to appreciate it" Lorelai's hands kept running over her stomach. "December 20th, December 20th, hmm that has a good ring to it. Also its Bo Derek's birthday, so at least one famous person has the same birthday as you. It's not the same as Bono's but it'll have to do" Lorelai turned the TV off since she was not paying attention to it. "You guys have no idea how happy I am that they're not inducing labor, especially on Christmas when all those on-call doctors are running around like headless chickens" Lorelai giggled at that. "I hope your Dad hurries because we still have a long drive ahead of us, not to mention a long day… please be nice to Mommy"
On the drive there another contraction hit Lorelai who was going shotgun to Luke driving; Rory was in the back seat freaking out. Since these contractions weren't so bad, yet, Lorelai hummed it. Meaning she drowned the pain by humming and squeezing Luke's thigh.
"Is it over?" Luke asked when Lorelai let go of his thigh.
"Yeah" Lorelai nodded with her eyes closed.
"Don't worry, we're almost there" Luke told her soothingly.
"MmmHmm" Lorelai's head was thrown back, eyes closed, and her hands on top of her stomach.
"Do I write down when it started or when it ended?" Rory asked, she was supposed to be documenting.
"The start" Lorelai turned to look at her.
"Ok, ok" Rory nodded.
"Rory…" Lorelai said trying to hide her giggles. "Honey, relax"
ThE HoSpItAl
After Lorelai had checked in she was moved to a private room where she was connected to a fetal monitor.
"It'll still be a while before anything happens" the doctor said while taking off her examination gloves.
"It's 11:20" Luke told Rory who had asked because she was programming the video camera.
"I'm not gonna go in there with you" Rory warned Lorelai. "So you need to find someone to tape this thing for you"
"Luke or a nurse could do it, don't worry" Lorelai waved it off.
"Stop that" Luke told Lorelai who was playing with the button that made the bed go up and down.
"But its fun" Lorelai kept doing it. "Go grab yourself a bed and try it out"
"Mom, you're gonna break it" Rory said once she was done fiddling with the video camera.
"I'm not that heavy" Lorelai scoffed.
"That's not what I meant" Rory quickly said because she had heard of Lorelai's mood swings, and the consequences they had.
"I know, gee relax" Lorelai began laughing but stopped abruptly when a contraction hit.
"See, don't make fun of me, I have peeps on the inside" Rory told Lorelai.
"They won't be in here much longer" Lorelai grunted.
"Hey, that was 25 minutes and not 30" Rory pointed out.
"Yeah, they come sooner and sooner. Also more painful"
"And for a longer duration" the doctor added before walking out of the room.
"I think I'm gonna go look for coffee" Rory said wincing.
"I'm thinking she'll go on a coffee run with every contraction you have" Luke told her, and Lorelai's contraction passed.
While Rory got the coffee she called Sam's cell phone to let them know that Lorelai was at the hospital. Sam said they'd be there in a few minutes to see how things were going. Rory also called Sookie, Lorelai hadn't asked but Rory was sure she'd like it if Sookie knew.
A FeW HoUrS LaTeR In ThE RoOm
The doctor had told them that walking would help Lorelai, so she was currently walking around the room with the video camera.
"Come on, Luke. Say something to the boys on the day they're born" Lorelai insisted shoving the camera in his face.
"Hurry up" Luke deadpanned.
"Oh that was very…" Lorelai trailed off, Luke shot up from his seat and was standing next to her in a heart beat.
"It's ok" Luke repeated as Lorelai clung to his forearm. "Just breathe"
"Shut up" Lorelai growled at him.
"What the…?" Luke looked down at the floor.
"My water" Lorelai informed. Once the contraction passed Luke made sure Lorelai was on the bed and comfortable before going out to find the doctor and inform her about Lorelai's water breakage.
ThReE Pm
The doctor had just told Lorelai she was eight centimeters dilated when Sookie walked into Lorelai's room, Luke stepped out to give them some privacy.
"How are you feeling?" Sookie asked sympathetically.
"You're kidding right?"
"I was being polite" Sookie took a seat on the chair next to Lorelai's bed. "Hey, it say's here that you're about to have another contraction" Sookie said amusedly pointing at the monitor Lorelai was connected to. Not a second later the contraction hit Lorelai. "Wow, that's so cool"
"Not helping" Lorelai grunted. Just then Luke, Dr. Matthews and a nurse stepped in.
"Another contraction?" Luke asked Lorelai.
"No" Lorelai answered, she was sweating.
"Okay" Luke said.
"Lorelai we're here to apply your epidural" the doctor told her.
"And that's my que to leave" Sookie said getting up.
"What?" Lorelai's contraction ended.
"I really don't wanna see that" Sookie said. "I'll be around here, bye!" and with that she left.
"Could you sit on the edge of the bed please?" Dr. Matthews asked Lorelai. Luke went over to the bed to help Lorelai.
"Ok, this may feel cool, it's just the alcohol" the doctor told them. Lorelai was hunched over sitting on the edge of the bed; Luke was standing in front of her looking at what they were doing behind her, he was also taping it prior Lorelai's request. "You'll feel a small pinch" the doctor said when they gave Lorelai the local anesthetic.
"I don't like needles" Lorelai said then gave a little scream when she felt the small needle.
"Oh God" Luke mumbled when he saw the epidural injection.
"What?" Lorelai asked worriedly.
"Umm, n-nothing" Luke stumbled over his word, he was turning pale.
"Ok, Lorelai, this pinch will be a bit harder but you won't feel it because of the anesthetic" the doctor prepared her.
"Oh, my God" Luke was about to pass out as he saw the giant needle go into Lorelai's spinal cord.
"Now?" the nurse asked, she was a student and wanted to know when to pull back.
"No, you need to hear it pop" Dr. Matthews said, and just then it did.
"Did you not feel that?" Luke asked amazed.
"Feel what?'' Lorelai asked.
"Ok, now pull back" doctor Matthews told the nurse as she saw the monitor Lorelai was connected to. Lorelai's contractions were now coming every 3-5 minutes, meaning 4 minutes.
"Why do they still hurt?" Lorelai groaned.
"It takes about ten minutes to fully work" Doctor Matthews explained. "After the contraction passes I'll see how dilated you are" it took a minute for the contraction to end.
Luke stayed close to Lorelai's head and kept kissing her forehead sweetly.
"Love you" Luke whispered trying to distract Lorelai as the doctor checked her out. Lorelai smiled at Luke's sweet side.
"Ok, you're 9 centimeters dilated, I'll say another hour and we'll move you over to the O.R." the doctor said while removing her gloves.
"The O.R.?" Luke asked.
"As in the Operating Room?" Lorelai had a slight fear on her voice.
"You watch the E.R don't you?" Dr. Matthews teased and when she saw that Lorelai didn't smile she added. "We'll move you to an O.R. to be on the safe side. Multiple births are trickier than single births"
"Is something wrong with the twins?" Lorelai was still a little scared.
"No, we do this with all multiple births. It's just easier, in case something was to go wrong, we'd already be prepared"
"So the boys are ok?" Luke wanted to make sure.
"The boys are doing great" the doctor assured him.
"And Lorelai? She ok too, right?"
"She fine also. Now, I'll go do some rounds and be back in a little while to take you over to the O.R" and with that the doctor left them alone. A little later another contraction hit.
FoUrIsH
Lorelai just rested between contractions. Jess and Samantha had visited but Lorelai's contractions had freaked them both so they left fast. Rory was in the room but left every now and then, mostly during contractions but now that they were so close together she just had to suck it up and stay there. Luke was sitting on the edge of the bed close to Lorelai's head; he'd wipe the sweat off of her forehead every now and then.
"Mmmmmm" Lorelai sat up and grabbed Luke's hand to squeeze. The doctor had told them that if Luke leaned some of his weight down on her back during contractions it'll help out a bit, so he did while, Lorelai broke his hand.
Her contractions were now lasting around a minute and a half so after the last one, the doctor moved her over to the O.R. Rory decided to sit that one down, so she stayed in the room while Lorelai was wheeled out. Luke smirked at Rory before leaving the room to follow Lorelai.
Once in the O.R. Luke was given some scrubs and he handed the video camera to a nurse so she could tape everything just in case he passed out.
"I want you to push on the next one ok?" the doctor asked Lorelai.
"MmmHmm" Lorelai nodded. "Oooooow" Lorelai sat up slightly and began pushing; Luke was holding one of her hands and rubbing her back with his other.
"Come on, Lorelai, push harder" the doctor encouraged her.
"Nooo" Lorelai whined but kept pushing.
"C'mon Lorelai" Luke whispered in her ear, and still rubbed her back.
"Ok stop. Take a breath" Lorelai lay back down but only for a few seconds before she had to push again.
"You're so great for doing this" Luke whispered.
"Shut up" Lorelai said through clenched teeth.
"He's starting to crown" the doctor told one nurse, a different nurse kept taping it all but from the head of the bed prior their request, they didn't want to have a gross & graphic home video. Luke had always wanted to know what crowning meant so he took a look.
"Oh my God! How are you doing this?" Luke shrieked and asked Lorelai.
"Not helping!" Lorelai grunted.
"I mean it, you're amazing" he kissed her forehead, not caring it was covered in sweat. "You're unbelievable, I love you so much for doing this" he kept kissing her forehead.
"And I hate you so much for doing this"
"I don't care" Luke said with a quiet laugh.
"Ok, stop pushing now" the doctor told Lorelai. After a few seconds Luke was yanked and someone had placed surgical scissors on his right hand. "Cut there, between those two" the doctor pointed to the umbilical cord.
"Seriously?" Luke sounded freaked. The doctor nodded and hurried Luke, the video camera caught the moment when Luke cut the cord and the baby cried his eyes out.
"Look at you" Lorelai teased Luke's goofy grin.
"It screeched" Luke made a weird face. "But it was very cool" he walked over to the head of the bed where he had been all along. "Thank you" he kissed her forehead.
"Don't thank me yet, I'm not done" Lorelai smiled.
"Here you go" a nurse placed the baby on Lorelai's chest. "Hi, Mommy"
"Hi baby" Lorelai poked the baby's nose and his cries settled down a bit.
"He's so small" Luke said amazed.
"He didn't feel small"
"Do we have a name yet?" a nurse with a pen asked.
"Sean William Danes" Lorelai says proudly, the nurse took baby Sean away and wrote his name on the baby tag he had on his wrist.
"Umm Dr. Matthews?" a nurse nodded her head slightly towards the baby monitor.
"What's wrong?" Lorelai noticed Dr. Matthews face change a little.
"The heart rate dropped a little"
"Dropped?" Lorelai asked suddenly scared.
"It's nothing to worry about" the doctor reassured her.
"Why isn't she having contractions anymore?" Luke asked.
"It's normal for contractions to stop between births" the doctor said. "Just give it a minute" after said minute Dr. Matthews decided to do a pelvic and see if the baby was in position or if there was something the matter because the heart rate had dropped a little more. The doctor turned to a nurse. "Get me a C-section tray"
"C-section?" Lorelai was freaking out.
"Your baby is lying on his back like if he was on a hammock instead of being heads down. Normally we'd try to flip them but he's tangled up with the cord"
"Then untangle him" Lorelai told them.
"We can't…" the doctor started.
"Why not?" Lorelai asked as they prepped her for the C-section.
"Why is he suddenly all tangled up?" Luke asked in a monotone voice trying to hide his fear.
"He is not 'suddenly' tangled up. He's been wrapped up with the umbilical cord for a few weeks now but that's normal…" the doctor explained God I'm so tired of hearing her say 'that's normal' Luke thought annoyed. "But now that he's alone in there he had more space to stretch, which he did, and that tied the cord more tightly to his body. Do you feel this?" she asked while pinching Lorelai's stomach.
"Feel what?" Lorelai asked distractedly. The nurse who had been carrying the camera gave it back to Luke since she was now needed. Luke turned the camera off. "No, tape this too" Lorelai asked with puppy eyes.
"Really?"
"We don't want to favor one twin, now do we?" that's Lorelai, masquerading her fear with humor.
"No we don't" Luke smiled. He stayed where he was but raised the camera over the little curtain they had placed separating Lorelai's upper body from her lower, he moved the little screen of the camera so they could see what was going on as they did it. Lorelai didn't want to see anything so she just laid back, eyes closed as they pried her son out of her. Luke, on the other hand, was paying attention to everything they did. "You seriously don't feel that?" Luke asked amazed.
"I feel movement but not pain" Lorelai said, eyes still closed.
"Ok, here it is" the doctor said as the second baby's head popped out.
"Whoa" was all Luke said. Someone took the camera away from him and again he was asked to cut the cord which made the baby cry like crazy, and again it was captured on tape. The nurse took the camera and followed the baby as he was getting cleaned up; instead of taping Lorelai's afterbirth and how they closed her up.
"Those are some lungs" Lorelai said in a tired voice.
"They got that from you" Luke removed the stray hairs that she had on her face. Lorelai smiled.
"Name?" a nurse asked.
"John Richard Danes" Lorelai looked at the nurse then turn her attention back at Luke. A few seconds later they brought baby Ricky to Lorelai and placed him on her chest. "If it weren't because all babies look alike, I'd say these two are the same one"
"They're twins, they'll look the same" Luke pointed out.
"They're identical twins" Lorelai corrected him. "Hey baby, you just had to make a big entrance didn't you" Lorelai cooed.
"Not so identical now, huh?" Luke teased.
"Say 'bye' we'll bring them back once you're settled in your room" the nurse took baby Ricky away, and another nurse took baby Sean out of the O.R.
ThE WaItInG RoOm
Luke went to the waiting room, after Lorelai asked him to. Rory had moved to the waiting room after being bored in Lorelai's room. Sookie, Rory, Jess and Samantha were also there. Luke walked in with a big smile.
"So?" Rory asked and Luke's smiled grew, Rory shrieked.
"They're both ok" Luke said with a smile. "There was some problem with Ricky so they had to do a C-section"
"A C-section?" Rory turned serious.
"Yes but now both Lorelai and the twins are ok" Luke reassured her.
"Can we see them?" Rory asked happily again.
"Sure" Luke and everybody else left the waiting room.
"They're really ok, right?" Sookie asked Luke as he guided them over to the nursery station.
"Yes, Sookie, they're perfectly fine" Luke reassured her again. Once they got to the big windows Luke asked to see the 'Danes boys', two nurses picked them up and carried them over to the windows.
"They're so cute!" Rory shrieked and hugged one of Luke's arms.
"They are identical" Sookie pointed out.
"You can only see their faces" Jess snorted.
"So, their faces look the same" Sookie defended herself.
"Every kids' face looks the same" Jess eyed all the babies in there. "Whoa! Except for that one, yikes"
"Jess!" Samantha smacked him. "That's a very bad thing to say!" and she smacked him one more time.
"Hey, this is an abusive relationship now" Jess whined.
LoReLaI's RoOm
Lorelai was put in one of those rooms where the babies stayed there the whole time. It was so the parents could get used to them and if they had questions they could call a doctor. That way once they took the twins home they'd already have had some experience dealing with them.
Once the twins were brought to her room, Lorelai stripped them and checked them inch for inch. They were identical. And Lorelai couldn't help but mock Luke when she saw that both the twins had Luke's touchy-freckle, to which he responded with a heart felt 'aw geez'.
Lorelai redressed them in the baby clothes they had brought; she placed each twin their own beanie with each of the twins name and initial sewed on 'Sean W.' and 'John R.'
"Why is he like that?" Rory asked pointing to Sean who was lying on top of Lorelai's bed. Luke was sitting on a rocking chair holding Ricky.
"Well… when you're in the same position for 9 months you tend to get used to it" Lorelai explained.
"Oh" Rory acknowledged.
"Hey" Lorelai gave a nod towards Luke's direction, Rory turned to look at him. Luke was looking down at his son and had an 'awe' look on his face. Luke opened one of Ricky's hands and he quickly closed it, Luke did it again, and again, he had done the same thing with Sean a few minutes before. Luke opened Ricky's hand on last time but now he let his finger rest on Ricky's palm. "You ok over there?" Lorelai asked him, Luke looked down at his son's scrunched up face, due to his beanie, and then smiled at Lorelai.
"I'm great" Luke stood up and walked over to Lorelai's bed, he placed Ricky next to Sean.
"Hey I just came to say…" Sookie poked her head into Lorelai's room. "Oh my God! How cute!" Sookie entered Lorelai's room.
"That's what you came here to say?" Lorelai asked with a small smile.
"Oh! No, I came to say 'goodbye' but got distracted by them…" she pointed at the sleeping boys. "Hey guys, whatcha doin?"
"Oh you know, we're just chillin" Lorelai said in a baby voice.
"How modern of you" Sookie played along.
"Don't edge her on" Luke begged.
"Fine, I gotta go anyways" Sookie said and rubbed each of the boy's cheek with her finger before turning to Lorelai. "Get some sleep…" she turned to Luke. "… you too"
"Hey, Sookie?" Rory asked.
"Yeah honey?"
"Can I catch a ride with you? Jess and Sam already left and I came here with them" she pointed at Luke and Lorelai.
"Sure, honey, let's go" Sookie said with a smile. "I'll be waiting outside. Bye" she made a small wave at Lorelai's direction.
"Bye Mom" Rory kissed Lorelai's cheek while she gave her a weird hug. "Bye Dad" she hugged Luke and also kissed his cheek. "Bye-bye guys" Rory kissed the part of the beanie that had their names.
"Bye, Rory, and thanks for not freaking out completely" Lorelai smiled at her.
"Anytime" she said and with that Rory left.
"How are you feeling?" Luke asked picking up Sean and moving him over to the little plastic crib where he was going to sleep.
"Very very sore" Lorelai groaned, Luke chuckled a little.
"I think that's expected" Luke picked up Ricky and moved him over to the same crib; the doctor had told them that it would help them deal with the change better, womb/real word, if they shared the same crib for tonight.
"Well yeah but I'm doubly sore because of Ricky, he just had to be special" Lorelai said while placing a hand on her stitched up stomach.
"Special tends to run in the family and so does crazy" Luke joked and he walked closer to her bed.
"I'm thinking that's on your side of the family, right?"
"The crazy and special?" Luke asked and Lorelai nodded. "No, that's on your side" he smirked then kissed her forehead.
"I just underwent labor and a C-section to deliver your boys, and all I get is a lousy kiss on the forehead?" Lorelai whined.
"Sorry" Luke joked then kissed her passionately.
"See, that's what got me in this position in the first place" Lorelai joked when Luke pulled back.
"Shut up" and he kissed her again. "Thanks for making me a Dad" he mumbled against her lips.
"Sure but you'll pay for it later" Lorelai mumbled and then kissed him again.
There you go! The boys are now here, next one Christmas Day
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