I'm baaaack (insert wicked laugh here )
Thanks Kylie! Glad you're in your room now :-)
Grab some paper and something to write cause (again) this baby is loooong!
Enjoy!
DeCeMbEr 24 MoRnInG
"How are you feeling?" Luke asked Lorelai as he helped get all of their stuff together, Lorelai and the twins were finally leaving the hospital today. They kept Lorelai in the hospital for 72 hours, that meant she could leave early morning but of the 24th.
"I can't wait to sleep on my bed again" Lorelai was helping Luke gather the stuff.
"Your bed?" Luke gave her a weird look.
"Yes my bed, after what I just went through we're not gonna sleep together for a long while" Lorelai smirked at him.
"Goody" Luke mumbled and before Lorelai could answer, Ricky started fussing.
"Be a good boy and hand him over" Lorelai extended her arms at Luke; she still didn't feel confident enough to pick them up because she feared her c-section incision, she'd never had one before.
"Here" Luke passed Ricky over to her after placing a kiss on his forehead and then returning his attention to gathering their stuff.
"Good morning, Sean, did you sleep well, baby?" Lorelai cooed and Ricky kept fussing. Lorelai was getting settled to give Ricky his breakfast.
"Umm… that's Ricky" Luke told her and before Lorelai could say anything the door opened.
"I brought the Pathfinder over and whoa…!" Jess walked into Lorelai's room talking, when he saw it was breakfast time he quickly turned around and slammed right into the room's closed door.
"Are you ok?" Luke asked trying to hide his smirk, Lorelai however just plain came out and laughed at Jess.
"Yeah, don't think I broke my nose" Jess checked his nose.
"You can turn around, Jess" Lorelai said clearly amused.
"Is he done?" Jess asked.
"Not quite" Lorelai said looking down at Ricky and running a finger over the baby's nose.
"I can wait" Jess kept looking at the closed door.
"Sean hasn't eaten yet, so after Ricky it's Sean's turn" Lorelai informed him.
"In that case I can wait outside" Jess went to open the door.
"Jess, you need to get used to it for when Sam has the baby" Lorelai told him.
"I won't be in the room when that happens. Plus it's gonna be Sam, not you" Jess shuddered a bit.
"Why thank you" Lorelai mocked.
"You know what I mean"
"I have very nice boobs"
"Geez!" both Luke and Jess said.
"I'll be in the waiting room" with that Jess left.
"I bet you like my boobs" Lorelai told Ricky who was still sucking.
"You're… weird" Luke placed all their stuff on her hospital bed.
"I know! Ain't that cool?" Lorelai mocked.
RiDe HoMe
Lorelai had insisted on riding in the backseat where the twins were, Luke and Jess were in front.
"Stop babying them" Jess said annoyed, Lorelai first kissed Sean's cheek repeatedly then she moved over to Ricky's cheek.
"They're baby's, that's what I'm supposed to do" Lorelai shot back.
"You're gonna make them whiners"
"I don't care. And you don't care either right boys? They said 'no'" Lorelai informed Jess.
"This is gonna get old very soon" Jess mumbled.
"I carried them, I brought them to this earth so I can do whatever I want to and with them" Lorelai told him seriously and to make her point clearer she poked her tongue at him.
"That's gonna get old soon also" Jess said.
"Gonna?" Luke asked Jess.
ThE HoUsE
Lorelai walked into the house first, opening the door for the guy's. Luke carried Sean's car seat and the baby bags; Jess was right behind Luke carrying Ricky's car seat. Rory and Sam were at the Diner, which already had 2 Polaroid's of the twins, one of each, and they were taped to the register so when they finally came home from the hospital everybody had seen them and wouldn't parade around the house.
"Lorelai…?"
"Over at the nursery, I'll be right up" Lorelai answered without waiting for Luke's question. He went upstairs with Jess behind him. Lorelai went over to the phone and called the Diner.
"Luke's" Rory answered in a happy tone.
"Hi sweetie"
"Mom! Are you guy's back yet?" Rory instantly smiled.
"Yep, we just got here" Lorelai began walking upstairs. Up in the nursery was Luke getting each boy settled in their own crib, Jess had placed Ricky's car seat there and then left to his room. "And Luke is being all sweet" Lorelai whispered as she peeked into the nursery.
"What's he doing?" Rory asked.
"He's just talking to them"
"Aw he's a softy"
"Yep. How's the Diner? Is it still standing?" Lorelai walked away from the nursery's door and over to her room.
"It's up and running, people keep coming in to look at the pictures" Rory said side glancing Kirk who was intently looking at the pictures.
"Luke is gonna take them off once he sees them" Lorelai walked around looking for some sweat pants and shirt, she wanted to take a bath right after feeding the boys.
"No he won't. Those are 2 very cute pictures of 2 very cute boys who just so happen to be his sons. Luke will leave those pictures there"
"Tsk, yeah right" Lorelai heard a cry.
"Aw who's that?" Rory asked excitedly hearing the cry.
"Don't know, let me go check" Lorelai walked over to the nursery and saw Luke holding a crying Sean. "It's your brother" Lorelai said with a playful smile.
"Nah! You don't say" Rory said but had to smile at the sound of 'your brother'.
"Hey" Luke whispered and smiled at Lorelai, she smiled back. Luke motioned to the phone and Lorelai mouthed 'Rory' before walking over to sit on the rocking chair. Luke shook his head and motioned for their bedroom; Lorelai got up and walked back to the master bedroom.
"Gee, what's wrong with him?" Rory asked.
"He's hungry" Lorelai got comfortable on her bed, back flat against the head board and she placed the feeding cushion on her lap.
"So he got your hunger grumpiness?" Rory mocked.
"Exactly. Ricky has a little more patience, but hopefully we'll get rid of his patience soon. The only time he cried out loud was after his circumcision"
"Gross, Mom!" Lorelai smiled as Luke walked into the room juggling both boys.
"Honey, I have to go"
"Ok, kiss both boys and I'll see you later"
"Sure, bye" Lorelai hung up and extended her arms to take Sean from Luke. "Look at you all hungry and grumpy" Lorelai cooed as she rid herself from her shirt. "The grumpiness you got from your Dad" Lorelai pointed at Luke.
"Thanks" Luke walked around the bed and took a seat on his side of the bed, baby Ricky cuddled in his arms.
"Anytime" as soon as Lorelai got Sean close to her breast he instantly attached himself to her making a funny sound. "Whoa there buddy" she giggled Luke just smirked. "You're not jealous, right?" Lorelai shot him a look.
"What?" Luke asked chuckling.
"There will be two other guys using my boobs" Luke had to laugh at that. "You're not jealous?" Lorelai mocked shock.
"As long as those two 'guys' are my sons, I'm ok with it… for a little while" Luke added and then Ricky woke up and began fussing.
"Hand him over" Lorelai readjusted Sean on the pillow.
"You sure?" Luke asked and Lorelai nodded. "Huh" Luke's head dropped to one side as he looked at Lorelai and the boys. Silence fell in the room, except for the twins sucking sounds.
"Hey Luke?" Lorelai asked after a few minutes.
"Yeah"
"Do you mind looking after the boys so I could take a quick shower?"
"Sure but I doubt I could feed them" Luke frowned.
"I meant after they're done" Lorelai had to smile at Luke.
"Sure. I'll take care of the burping, and the diapers, and stuff while you take a normal shower. No need for the 'quick' shower" he smirked.
"Seriously?"
"Yep" Luke said and Lorelai shrieked.
Once the boys were done Lorelai left them with Luke and she jumped into the shower. Luke took care of the twins while Lorelai took a quick-ish shower, she didn't want Luke to run into any trouble. By the time she walked out of the bathroom Luke was laying on his back in the middle of their bed, the boys were sleeping in the nursery and she could hear their breathing through the baby monitor next to Luke on the bed. Lorelai smiled at Luke's napping form. He had spent all of Lorelai's hospital time next to her refusing to leave her or the boys alone.
"Luke?" Lorelai whispered and he didn't even flinch. She grabbed the baby monitor and went over to the bathroom to comb her hair. Lorelai narrowed her eyes at the mirror and then she lifted her shirt to take a better look at her new scar. She frowned at how it looked, Lorelai stood sideways and looked at her still big-ish stomach. It's barely been four days Lorelai told herself. She picked up the baby monitor again and went over to take a nap with Luke until the boy's woke up again.
ThE DiNeR
"They're back?" Sam asked Rory after she hung up.
"Yep. And one of the boys was crying so my Mom had to go"
"Think Luke told her yet?" Samantha asked wincing.
"I doubt it, she didn't sound mad"
"Well, he better hurry up and tell her because dinner is at six which means they'll get here by five"
"I know. My Mom is gonna be so mad once Luke tells her"
"That's why we're 'covering' the Diner" Sam said with an eyebrow wiggle.
"True. I feel bad for Jess though"
"It's his own fault. He said he had worked the Diner long enough and that he needed a rest" Sam said, while trying to imitate Jess' voice.
"Does he know what Luke is going to do?"
"Nope and that's the fun part of it" both girls giggled and went back to work, well not so much work as answering questions about the two new babies.
ThE HoUsE
Luke stirred and looked over to his left side; Lorelai was peacefully sleeping next to him. he turned to his right side and saw that it was a little past one in the afternoon, he sighed knowing what he had to do and the reaction he was going to receive.
"Lorelai" Luke said in a weird voice, he cleared his throat and tried again. "Lorelai?"
"Mmm?" Lorelai asked and Luke moved a few hairs out of her face.
"Wake up please"
"No"
"We need to talk"
"You talk, I sleep"
"Come on, it's important" Luke moved to lie on his side and look at her better.
"What can be so important?" Lorelai whined.
"I… your… they'll be here in a few hours" Luke said the last part very fast.
"What?" Lorelai squinted to look at him. "Who?"
"Your, umm… your"
"Luke?" Lorelai asked now paying full attention to him.
"Your parents" Luke finally got out, his head dropped.
"What?" Lorelai face and tone of voice was monotone.
"They are going to come here for Christmas dinner" Luke said quietly.
"You're kidding right?" Lorelai sat up and winced a little.
"No. I called your Dad to tell him about the boys, and… I… I invited them over for dinner tonight" Luke said and he saw Lorelai get up and start pacing along the length of the bed.
"Damn it Luke!" Lorelai said loudly then cursed remembering the boys were sleeping in the next room; she stood quietly waiting to see if she had woken them up, she hadn't. "How could you do that without telling me?"
"I knew you wouldn't say yes" Luke sat up on the bed.
"Damn right I wouldn't have said yes! I'm pissed at them right now"
"Lorelai it Christmas and they have two new grandsons"
"I don't care! I'm still pissed!"
"Do you even remember why you're so mad at them?" Luke challenged her.
"Yes" she looked at him straight in the eye.
"You do?"
"Yes" she said more quietly.
"Ok then, why?"
"Because they almost killed you" her voice quivered.
"What?" Luke frowned.
"On Thanksgiving you were rushed to the hospital and it was all my Moms fault" she was fighting tears now.
"No it wasn't" Luke stood up and went over to where she was. "It wasn't her fault, Lorelai. She didn't know" Luke placed his hands on her shoulders.
"If you shoot a gun into the forest and the bullet hits someone and kills them it's still your fault whether you knew if the person was there or not" Luke made a weird face and kissed her forehead repeatedly.
"Nothing happened. Your Mom didn't do it on purpose"
"Still" Lorelai pouted. That day still scared Lorelai, all the different ways it could have ended frightened her, and the idea of not having Luke here right now scared her more than she was willing to admit.
"You can't stay mad at her forever"
"I can try" Lorelai slightly smiled.
"I know you can. Come on, I bet they'll bring you presents"
"Really?" she asked like a little spoiled girl.
"Of course, after all it's Christmas and you just had twins"
"That's right…" Lorelai pulled away from him and smiled for real this time. "… they owe me three presents"
"I think the boys count as one"
"No way, mister! They came out two very different holes, and both hurt a lot so there is no way it's considered one birth" Lorelai rambled and Luke just smirked at her.
"So… we're ok? You're not mad, right?" Luke asked after a few moments.
"We're ok. And no, I'm not mad… not at you at least" she smiled then sighed. "Guess I have to start getting ready, I also have to get the boys ready" they had already picked out the boys 'Christmas' outfits.
"I'll get the boys ready" Luke offered.
"Don't you have to cook? You're not gonna let my Mom bring the food are you?" Lorelai instantly panicked.
"No, she's not bringing anything that's edible. And don't worry about the rest. Just relax and get ready, I'll deal with the rest"
"You sure?" Lorelai eyed him.
"Positive. I just have to make a few calls" he kissed her and walked downstairs to the office. Lorelai walked to the nursery to lay out the boy's outfits for Luke.
DoWnStAiRs
"Hello?" Sookie's bubbly voice answered.
"Hey Sookie"
"Luke! Are you guys back yet? How is Lorelai? How are the boys? Did they enjoy their first car ride? Oh my God they're gonna love Christmas! To bad they can't eat turkey because…"
"Sookie!" Luke chuckled at her excitement.
"Sorry, I was rambling"
"Yes, you were" Luke said amused. "I was just calling to check on the food"
"Everything is right on schedule" Sookie quickly changed into her business voice.
"Good, good"
"Did you tell Lorelai yet?" Sookie asked wincing; everybody seemed to do that when it came to Lorelai and her parents.
"Yeah"
"And?"
"She freaked out a little but when I mentioned presents she seemed to ease of a bit"
"Yeah, that sounds like Lorelai" Sookie said with a knowing nod.
"Yeah. I need to go because I promised Lorelai I'd take care of the boys and the house"
"Why would you do that?"
"So she wouldn't rant more about her parents coming"
"Oh. Good luck, I'll drop the food off in about an hour or two" Sookie said.
"I can have Jess go pick it up"
"No way, I want to see those gorgeous boys of yours" Sookie quickly said.
"Ok" Luke strangely said before hanging up and calling the Diner.
"Luke's. If you're gonna place an order it better not be chicken because that makes me sick, and it better not be coffee because I can't have any, and it better not be alcohol because… well, because we don't sell any" Samantha said in one breath.
"Is that how you always answer the phone?" Luke asked amused, if it had been Jess he would've yelled at him but being Sam he just had smile at her rant.
"Luke? Hi!" Sam said nervously.
"Nice rant, now I know why we have so much chicken left over" Luke chuckled.
"Sorry, it's just that chicken has been making me gag"
"It's ok. I was calling to tell you guys to close up. It's Christmas and I bet the only people there are not even ordering"
"Nope"
"They're just ogling the pictures"
"Yep"
"Ok then, tell Caesar to close up and you and Rory can come home now"
"Depends"
"What?" Luke was confused.
"Does Lorelai know about the dinner?"
"Yes"
"Is she mad?"
"No"
"Ok then, we're on our way" Samantha said giving Rory's the thumbs up. Rory kicked everybody out and went over to tell Caesar to close up.
"What if I had said Lorelai was mad?"
"Then I would've insisted on Rory and I keeping the Diner open until New Years" Sam said truthfully.
"You're both crazy"
"No, we're both thinking self preservation" Sam said seriously and Luke just plain out laughed.
"Just close up and get both your butts here"
"Ok" both hung up and Luke kept smiling.
"Hey…'' Lorelai's head pocked from the door. "… those boys aren't gonna dress themselves, well, not yet"
"I'm going" Luke got up and walked closer to her. "You're ok?"
"A little sore but that was expected. I need to go pretty myself up, if possible" Lorelai said, looking down at herself. Luke raised her chin and gave her a reassuring kiss.
"You're not pretty… you're stunningly beautiful" Lorelai kissed him again.
"Nice save. Now get your butt up there and get the twins ready" she pulled him out of the office and gave him a smack on his butt so he would hurry.
"Hey!"
"Just cause we ain't doin it don't mean I can't have no fun, know what I mean?" Lorelai mocked.
"Nice" Luke chuckled.
ThE NuRsErY
Luke grabbed Ricky and placed him on the left side of the changing table; he then went to grab Sean and placed him next to Ricky, on the right side. Luke took their beanies off just like all their clothes except for the diapers.
"How long till those fall off?" Luke wondered out loud to Lorelai. He was whipping each umbilical cord stump with alcohol pads. "They're gross"
"Like two weeks" Lorelai called from their room, she was going through the closet looking for something that didn't look too ugly on her.
"Gross" Luke repeated.
"Make sure the diaper…"
"…is not on the cord" Luke finished for her. "I know!"
"Fine" Lorelai said and walked over to the nursery. "I don't have anything to wear" she pouted.
"You have plenty, you actually have double"
"I can't wear my normal clothes because they're way too small, and my maternity clothes are way too big" she walked over to the left side of the changing table.
"You can wear mine" Luke teased and got smacked for it.
"Not funny" Lorelai glared at him, she picked up the left side baby. "Hey Sean, I need your input. You need to tell Mommy what to wear. Since you and your brother are early I can't wear what I was planning on wearing" Lorelai cuddled and talked to the baby, Luke smiled and started at her. It killed him but he had to say it.
"You're cute but… umm, that's… that's Ricky" Luke said and winced. Lorelai shrugged.
"Eh I had a fifty fifty chance of guessing it right" she placed the baby back on the changing table and walked back to the master bedroom.
A CouPlE HoUrS LaTeR
"Look at that little nose" Sookie cooed at one baby. They were in Lorelai's room, the boys were lying on the bed and so was Sookie. She was looking at them while Lorelai did her make up and stuff, she had already picked out what she was wearing, she just hadn't changed yet. "You have one just like your brother, don't you" Sookie cooed at the other baby. "They look like they're inside potato sacks" Sookie pointed out and Lorelai laughed.
"No they don't. Potato sacks aren't that cute" Lorelai said. Both boys wore white long sleeved onesies and thick socks inside a 'baby sleep sack'. Sean's was a deep green 'sleep sack' and Ricky's was a deep red, they were both going beanie less. Ricky's 'sleep sack' had a Santa on one corner and Sean's had an elf.
"You're right" Sookie told Lorelai then turned back to the twins. "Plus, potato sacks are filled with yucky potatoes and not cute little baby boys"
"Now that's and ego booster guys, 'you're cuter than potatoes''' Lorelai said approaching the bed.
"Not what I meant…" Sookie giggled. "Although it is true"
"Mom, Luke said…" Rory walked into the master bedroom. "Oh! Look! Look! Sean opened his eyes!" Rory hurried to her brother's side; Sean looked around and then he closed his eyes again. "Aw that was so cute" Rory kept watching her brothers waiting to see if either one opened their eyes.
"Rory, what did Luke say?" Lorelai asked amused at Rory's intent glare over the boys.
"Huh?"
"You said Luke said something"
"Oh yeah! I forgot" Rory smiled apologetically.
"Ok, that wasn't helpful" Lorelai got up. "I'll go see what he wants"
"Look! He sighed!" Sookie said excitedly and Lorelai rolled her eyes, she was halfway down the stairs and she heard Sookie.
In the kitchen Luke and Jess were fixing and arranging the food Sookie had brought. They were also setting up the table. Samantha was upstairs taking a shower.
"Hey, Luke?" Lorelai called.
"Hey" he turned around. "You're not dressed yet" he pointed out.
"I know. I was in the middle of when Rory walked in saying something but trailed off" Lorelai shrugged. "What did you want to tell me?"
"I sent Rory up to tell you to hurry up and get dressed; your parents will be here soon"
"Yeah see, she didn't say that"
"Thought so. Now go up and get changed"
"Can't"
"Why?"
"They boys, Rory, and Sookie have taken over our room" Lorelai said in a weird voice and Luke just chuckled.
"Then go change in the bathroom"
"Huh, good idea" she gave him a quick kiss before walking out of the kitchen.
"Lorelai?"
"Yeah?" her head popped back in.
"Umm… you should… umm, you know…" Luke was gesturing wildly with his hands. "…so you don't have to umm… feed the boys in front of your parents. You should… umm"
"Pump?" Lorelai asked giggling.
"Yeah" Luke looked at his shoes blushing.
"Don't worry, babe" she walked closer and gave him a kiss. "Got it covered" she smiled and left.
AlMoSt 5
The twins were on their little vibrating seats in the living room with Rory, Jess, and Sam. Lorelai was putting her finishing touches. She was wearing sweat pants because of the c-section and a Christmas-y long sleeved shirt, which made her look like she was Pamela Anderson but four months pregnant. Luke was just wearing black slacks and a burgundy shirt, no tie.
"Wow, those… you…they" Luke's head dropped to the side to get a better look at Lorelai. "You look…"
"Stop staring!" Lorelai smacked him with one hand as she covered herself with the other.
"Sorry! I just, I didn't know pregnancy did that" he pointed to Lorelai's new boobs.
"Is it that obvious? You hadn't noticed before, maybe it's not that obvious" Lorelai looked herself in the mirror.
"Before you were wearing a robe, and before that you were wearing a hospital gown" Luke walked over to stand behind her.
"So it is noticeable" Lorelai concluded.
"I'd say yes" Luke smiled at her through the mirror. "Consider this my Christmas gift" he whispered in her ear.
"They're not your gift, they're for the boys"
"What boys exactly?" Luke narrowed his eyes at her.
"Any boy who wants a glance" she teased, Luke was about to respond but the doorbell rang. "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" Lorelai said with a sigh.
"I knew it if Rory made you read Dante's La Divina Commedia nothing good would come of it"
"Hey! Something good came out of it" Lorelai told him as they walked downstairs.
"What?"
"I found a saying to put on a plaque to hang on my parents door" Lorelai said in a 'ha' tone of voice and Luke just shook his head.
"This is all your fault" he pointed to Rory before going to open the door, Lorelai walked over to the living room where the twins were.
"What did you do now?" Rory asked Lorelai who ignored her and picked up Ricky.
"Grab your brother" was all Lorelai said.
"Richard, Emily" Luke said as a greeting while opening the door. "Here, let me help you" Luke grabbed the presents from Richard.
"Actually, there are a few presents still in the car" Richard said walking into the house.
"I'll help with that…" Luke told him. "Jess! Come here" Jess walked over to where they were and Luke handed him the presents. Jess took them over to the living room. "Emily, why don't you go into the living room, Lorelai is there" the 'men' went outside to grab the rest of the presents while Emily slowly walked over to the living room. Jess had placed the presents under the tree and then he and Samantha went to the kitchen trying to get away from the living room. Lorelai and Rory were sitting on the couch each with a baby in arms.
"Lorelai?" Emily asked tentatively as she entered the living room and walked closer to the couch. Lorelai slowly go up from the couch.
"Look, baby, somebody wants to meet you" Lorelai whispered to Ricky as she walked closer to Emily who looked stunned. Rory stood up and walked over to where Lorelai and Emily were. "Mom…" Lorelai glanced at Emily. "…this is John Richard Danes but we call him Ricky" Emily's face softened at the name. "And over there is Sean William Danes, we just go by Sean"
"They are gorgeous, Lorelai" Emily said, keeping her distance from the boys.
"Don't you want to hold one?" Lorelai took a step closer to Emily.
"Can I?" Emily seemed touched. After all, she had expected some attitude from Lorelai seeing how they had left things last time.
"Sure. Here, this is Ricky" Lorelai handed the baby over to her mother.
"Are you going to go change?" Emily asked looking at Lorelai's sweat pants and shirt. Oh no Rory thought.
"No. I'm already changed, actually" Lorelai tried to shrug off her mother's words.
"That's what you're wearing to Christmas dinner?" Emily asked with a tone of attitude. Lorelai took a deep breath trying to play it cool and be the bigger person.
"I have to wear sweatpants because of the incision" was all Lorelai said before she walked back over to the couch.
"Incision? What incision?" Emily frowned a little.
"Grandma, there were a few complications with Ricky and they had to do a c-section" Rory informed her before Lorelai snapped.
"Oh my. Lorelai, what happened? Are you ok?" Emily looked worried.
"I'm fine, Mom" Lorelai reassured and placed a hand over her stitched up stomach. Just then the front door opened and the 'men' walked in carrying more presents. "Hi Dad, are those for me?" Lorelai asked with a smile.
"They're not just for you Lorelai" Richard told her as he and Luke placed the presents under the tree.
"Richard, look" Emily said with a voice that sound like pride. "In my arms I have little baby Ricky" Richards eyes opened wide at the name, Lorelai saw something pass by Richards face and she had to smile. She knew she had made her father very happy. "Rory has baby Sean in her arms"
"Want to hold him, grandpa?" Rory asked with a smile. Richard seemed to puff with pride as he walked closer to Rory.
"Richard, did you know Lorelai had a c-section?" Emily asked him but her eyes kept fixed on Ricky.
"What?" Richard turned to look at Lorelai who was sitting on the couch with Luke's arm draped over her shoulder and her hand still resting on her stomach, she felt a little self conscious.
"I'm fine Dad" Lorelai said with a little shake of her head.
"Why don't you take a seat?" Luke asked.
"I'm fine" Richard said and he looked petrified, Emily did take a seat.
"Dad?" Lorelai asked trying not to laugh. "Are you breathing?"
"Yes I am, Lorelai. Thank you for asking" Richard said but he still didn't move.
"You can move, Dad, Sean's ok with that" Lorelai was giggling.
"Ok" Richard said with a nod but he still wouldn't budge.
BeFoRe DiNnEr
Emily had insisted on helping Lorelai take the boys upstairs. Right now Lorelai and Emily were in the nursery while everybody else was in the dinning room.
"That is a very beautiful necklace, Lorelai" Emily said. Lorelai had been placing Sean down in his crib when Emily saw a sparkle coming from Lorelai's neck.
"Thanks, Mom" Lorelai said, her hand instantly flying on top of it.
"I've never seen it before"
"That's because it's new" Lorelai said with a shy smile.
"Was that your Christmas present from Luke?"
"Tsk, I wish! Luke won't let me open my Christmas presents until tomorrow. He says that opining them today doesn't make them Christmas presents" Lorelai scoffed.
"So it wasn't a Christmas present" Emily confirmed.
"No, he gave it to me as a 'thank you' after the twins were born" Lorelai wore a goofy grin. The necklace was a small diamond incrusted heart that hung from a white gold chain; the chain went through the middle of the heart.
"A thank you?" Emily seemed confused.
"Well yeah, for making him a father, for going through labor and the c-section and all that stuff" Lorelai shrugged.
"That was sweet of him. It's a very pretty necklace"
"He picked it out" Lorelai kept smiling.
"He has good taste. That is always a good quality in a man, too bad your father doesn't posses that quality"
"Dad gives you very pretty jewelry, Mom"
"Yes but only because I tell him what to buy" Emily said and Lorelai felt a little bad what's the fun in having to tell your husband what to get you? Although… Luke isn't my husband; he's not even my fiancé Lorelai thought.
"Then… you have very good taste in jewelry, Mom" Lorelai teased.
"Why thank you, Lorelai" Emily teased back and Lorelai noticed how much her mother was trying to keep peace between them, was it only because it was Christmas? Who knows but it was nice.
"Mom!" Rory yelled up stairs. "Get down here or we'll start without you!" Lorelai quickly walked downstairs, baby monitor in hand.
"Shh! don't wake your brothers" Lorelai hissed a little.
"Oh right, sorry" Rory said.
"Aren't we waiting for anyone else?" Emily asked, she was referring to Buddy and Maisy.
"Who?" Lorelai frowned.
"The couple that was here on Thanksgiving" Emily said.
"Oh! Umm, no, they are out of town"
"Oh"
"Ok, now, let's eat"
A WhIlE LaTeR
"Can I open my presents now?" Lorelai asked, they were all still in the dinning room. She had asked that a little while ago but her Mom had told her to wait until after dinner, which was now. "Please" she pouted at Richard. Luke gave her a weird look; he was trying to glare at her but his goofy smile was betraying him.
"Yes, Lorelai. You can go open them now" Richard said amusedly.
"Yay!" Lorelai shot up from her seat but didn't go far before Luke stopped her. "Luke, my Dad said I could open my presents now"
"Open only the ones they brought because I never said you could open the others" Luke told her. Jess, Sam and Rory had to duck their heads because of the big amused smiles plastered all over their faces.
"Fine" Lorelai sighed and resumed her walk over to the living room. "But I'm not gonna open them without an audience" Lorelai said and waited for everybody to get up and follow her.
ThE LiViNg RoOm
The twins were still sleeping upstairs.
Luke was sitting on one of the Lazy-boyz with Lorelai sitting sideways on his lap; he would've been uncomfortable with their position in front of his 'in laws' but now he didn't care anymore, he actually liked it.
Richard was gonna be playing Santa Clause with the gifts so he stayed near the tree. Emily was on the remaining Lazy-boy.
Rory, Jess and Samantha were on the couch. Rory had the video camera and was gonna record everything.
"The big one first, Richard" Emily ordered, nicely. Richard nodded and went over to pick up a big box wrapped in a Candy Cane paper; he smiled and walked over to the couch.
"Here" Richard said and handed the box over to Jess who had a big shocked expression. "It's for you and this young lady" he pointed at Samantha.
"You didn't have to do that" Samantha said blushing slightly.
"Open it, open it" Rory urged. Jess held the present as Samantha opened it, she gasped.
"Oh my God" she smiled.
"We know you'll need one soon and we wanted to be the first to give you one" Emily said with a smile. "And even though they'll be things you'll get from the twins, this is something that they can't always share.
"What is it? What is it?" Lorelai asked smiling.
"It's a car seat" Samantha said with a smile showing Lorelai the side of the box.
"Thank you" Jess told them.
"Very much" Samantha added.
"Yes, we all know you're thankful but stop already, I want my present" Lorelai whined and Luke hugged her a little tighter to keep her from jumping on Jess and Sam, or on her parents for not giving her her present first.
"Lorelai…" Richard said and Lorelai sat up straight extending her arms. "…and Luke" Richard added after a very small pause. Lorelai slouched back down against Luke who was smiling at Richard's joke.
"Thanks" Luke grabbed the box wrapped in Rudolph paper.
"It is a Christmas present for the twins" Emily said with a smile. Lorelai sat up straight again.
"Gimme it" Lorelai yank the gift from Luke and opened it.
"I thought I should try shopping like you would instead of how I would" Emily said after Lorelai had had a peek inside the unwrapped box. "And since most people buy newborn gifts I thought I should get them a present around 6 or 7 months"
"Superman and Batman?" Lorelai asked pulling out two different t-shirts.
"Little boys like superheroes" Emily said with a shrug.
"Yes they do" Lorelai said with a cutesy smile.
"There is also a pair of Jeans for them and a pair of pajama bottoms; I couldn't find the shirts that went with the bottoms though"
"Superman and Batman pajamas!" Lorelai shrieked and pulled out the two small pajama pants. "Aw I can't wait to put them on the boys" Lorelai turned slightly and placed the little Superman t-shirt on Luke's chest and smiled, she was about to kiss him and call him her superman but Richard spoke up.
"I am hoping that was a good shriek?" Richard asked.
"That was a very good shriek" Lorelai reassured him taking her eyes off of her 'Superman'.
"Good" Richard nodded. "Here" he handed them another box with the same wrapping on it.
"Mine?" Lorelai asked hopefully but both Emily and Richard shook their heads. Luke was grabbing the discarded clothes.
"That is the boy's birthday gift" Richard said.
"But you already got them something" Lorelai looked confused.
"That was their Christmas present, Lorelai" Emily said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"You didn't need to get them a birthday present" Luke said.
"We sure did" Richard scoffed.
"Why do I get this crazy feeling that what's inside here is not a teddy bear?" Lorelai asked Richard who just smirked remembering the conversation he and Lorelai had many moons ago.
"A teddy bear, why would it be a teddy bear?" Emily asked confused.
"Never mind, Mom, I was kidding" Lorelai said and then went to open the present. "Oh my God"
"Definitely not a teddy bear" Richard said and Lorelai shook her head.
"What is it?" Luke asked her but Lorelai just turned to her Dad.
"You picked this out didn't you?" Lorelai seemed in awe, Luke reached around her to grab the gift he frowned and turned to look at Richard.
"I though an investment would be risky now, this is better" Richard told them. Inside the gift box was a folder informing that two accounts had been opened one to Sean W. Danes and the other to John R. Danes, each one containing 1000 dollars. On a small note, with Richard's hand writing, it said I will deal with these accounts until to boys are of age –congratulations.
"Dad, this is…" Lorelai started shaking her head.
"It's not too much" Richard cut her off. "It's an investment into their futures, without a risk" Lorelai took a deep breath and smiled. "You two can forget about the existence of this accounts, we just wanted you to know" Richard told them.
"Thank you, Richard" Luke told him, no need in arguing because he was sure Richard was just going to say he'd stop with putting money in them but he'd keep doing it behind their backs.
"Thanks, Mom" Lorelai said.
"Don't thank me, it was all your father's idea" Emily told them.
"Ok then, thanks Dad" Lorelai said with a smile. "Now can I get my present?" she said breaking the ice.
A LiTtLE LaTeR
Luke was cleaning up the kitchen and dinning room. Rory and her grandfather were talking over at the office. Emily had cornered Samantha and the two were talking about Samantha's pregnancy, what she and Jess planned on doing together and as individuals... Lorelai and Jess were off making fun of Samantha's trapped facial expression, when a cry was heard through the baby monitor.
"Lorelai?" Luke asked from the dinning room.
"Don't worry I got it" Lorelai got up and went upstairs. "What's wrong? You're hungry huh? Yes you are, but you have to be quiet or you'll wake Ricky up" Lorelai said picking up Sean. Lorelai had asked Luke to place big cushiony letters, the initials of the boys, on the wall over the head of their cribs. Lorelai walked downstairs and over to the kitchen, where Luke had already heated a bottle for Sean and was on the process of heating another one for Ricky, who was bound to cry at any minute. Lorelai was walking into the living room when Ricky cried.
"Got it" Luke told her before darting upstairs to go get Ricky and bring him over to the living room where Lorelai was already letting, convincing, Richard into feeding Sean. "Emily?" Luke asked gesturing towards Ricky and the bottle, Emily's eyebrows flew up to her hairline.
"Lorelai?" Emily turned to Lorelai.
"Go ahead, Mom" Lorelai smiled and Luke handed Ricky and the bottle to Emily.
"I'll be right back" Lorelai told Luke and he nodded. While Lorelai was in their bathroom, downstairs Emily and Richard had traded the boy's because Rory wanted footage of her grandparents, each, with both boys. When Lorelai came back Richard held a crying Ricky, he didn't like the bottle
"Sorry, Dad" Lorelai winced a little. "Sean is a crier"
"Lorelai, Sean hasn't made a peep" Jess told her mockingly, she turned to look at Jess.
"Grandma has Sean" Rory told her Mom.
"Oh…" Lorelai said quietly. "Umm… excuse me" Lorelai looked at the floor and walked out of the living room and up to their room. Luke frowned as he watched her leave.
"Oh my!" Richard suddenly said, and Luke's heart almost stopped right then and there. "Emily, have you noticed what time it is?" Richard said in shock and Luke had to fight back the urge to strangle Richard, instead he just walked over to him and took, a still crying, Ricky.
"You're right" Emily said and stood up.
"I'll take him, grandma" Rory walked over to Emily and grabbed Sean.
"Thank you, Rory" Emily said gratefully. Luke kept trying to feed Ricky but he didn't want a bottle, he wanted his Mommy. "Don't worry, Luke, we'll see ourselves out" Emily told him once she saw Luke's stressed face. Samantha nudged Jess in the ribs, he sighed and got up. He went to get Emily's and Richard's coats.
"Thank you" Richard told Jess with a nod.
Once Emily and Richard were out the door Luke turned to Rory.
"I'll take the boy's to Lorelai" Luke said motioning to Sean.
"You sure?" Rory asked and Luke nodded, he placed Ricky's bottle on the center table and Rory did the same with Sean's, he started crying and Rory passed him over to Luke.
"Could you…" he motioned to the bottles.
"We got it covered, you just take them upstairs" Rory hurried him.
"Thanks" Luke bolted up stairs into their room. "Lorelai?" Luke asked loudly over the boys loud cries. He walked to the closed bathroom's door and kicked the bottom of it slightly because he couldn't knock. "Are you ok?"
"No!" Lorelai said and Luke could tell she was crying.
"What's wrong? Are you hurt?" he was juggling both crying boys.
"I'm a bad mother" Lorelai said loudly enough so Luke could hardly hear it.
"What are you talking about? Get out here, the boys are hungry and Ricky didn't like the whole bottle thing"
"No, get them away from me"
"Lorelai…"
"I mean it, Luke!"
"Lorelai, come on. Shh, baby its ok" Luke bounced them a little. "I know you're hungry" it broke Luke's heart to hear them cry like that. "Lorelai, talk to me but… could you do it out here, please?" the door opened slowly. "I thought the hormones left once the babies were out" Luke tried joking.
"Luke?" she pouted, cheeks wet from tears.
"Sorry, come on" he walked over to the bed and Lorelai followed, she sat and Luke handed her the twins. The cries instantly stopped and silence fell, except for the sucking sounds. "You're not a bad mother" Luke suddenly said and kissed her temple.
"Yes I am" Lorelai said quietly and tears threaten to fall again.
"Why would you say that?" Luke would tell her 'no she wasn't' again but that would only start a cycle he didn't want to get into right now.
"I don't even know my own children" she sobbed.
"What?" Luke frowned.
"I've been mixing up the twins ever since they were born and I'm the only one that does it. You know which one is which, even when they're in their diapers. I thought I've found a way to separate them because Ricky doesn't cry much but that didn't pan out, now did it?" Lorelai was crying again, Luke chuckled a little. "And now you're laughing at me!"
"No!" he chuckled a little then added. "Lorelai, I can't tell them apart either" he said softly.
"That's not true! Earlier you knew, you know who they are, you can tell them apart, everybody does except me"
"No they don't. The only reason I knew earlier was because I made sure I took each twin out of their crib and placed them on the changer on the same side their crib is. I make things to help me remember, I couldn't tell them apart just like that. They're too alike right now. And you're right about the crying thing; you just had bad luck with Ricky not liking the bottle. And the only reason Jess knew who they were was because of what they were wearing and because he saw when Emily and Richard traded them" Luke explained. Lorelai saw him with puppy eyes, crying puppy eyes.
"Really?"
"Yeah" Luke told her quietly and whipped her tears away. "You know what? Let's put them their beanies on and we won't take them off until they can talk and tell us who they are" Luke offered with a smile, secretly planning something else.
"I like that idea" Lorelai said quietly, Luke smiled and kissed her lightly on the lips. After pulling apart Luke watched his sons have dinner. "Remind me again why I hated when women did this?" Luke asked amused and Lorelai giggled.
NeXt MoRnInG LiViNg RoOm
The twins were seated on their vibrating seats, each with their beanie on. Jess was filming everything because, after all, it was the boys first Christmas. Plus they were going to show the video to Buddy and Maisy when they came back. They had been opening present for half an hour now. Jess, Sam and Rory each got a bran new ipod shuffle courtesy of Lorelai and Luke. Their other gifts were smaller. Most of the presents were for the twins. Luke had gotten Lorelai a new type of coffee machine 'Flavia Fusion' it had its individual packages of coffee and you don't have to wash anything, other than the mug you use. And he got her over 100 different little bags of coffee's which will make 100 different cups of coffee. Lorelai was through the roof and had told Rory that she could only have 1 cup because the present was hers and now she could have 1 cup of coffee daily and it wouldn't affect her breast feeding. Luke had gotten Rory a coffee maker also but it was sitting over at Yale, it was a surprise for her. Lorelai had managed, with a lot of trouble, to find a signed Lou Gehrig rookie card.
"How…? Where…?" Luke was speechless staring into the little card that was inside a display plaque.
"You like it?" Lorelai asked with a huge smile.
"I… I…" he couldn't answer so he just kissed her with all he had. "Thank you" he whispered and kissed her again.
"Should I feel bad you're having a better reaction to that card than to the twins' birth?" Lorelai teased.
"No…" Luke chuckled. "You didn't have to get me anything…" Luke told her. "The birth was present enough" Luke was talking quietly so only Lorelai could hear him.
"That's not a real Christmas present, this is" she tapped on the plastic plaque Luke was clutching for dear life.
"I can't believe you found this" Luke said in awe; Lorelai kept smiling, she loved it when she did stuff like this for him because he was always doing stuff for her.
A FeW MiNuTeS LaTeR
"That's it" Lorelai stated looking at all the paper thrown everywhere.
"Not quite" Luke said and stood up, he walked over to the office and then returned empty handed.
"Was that one of your weird jokes that no one gets?" Lorelai asked Luke, he was laughing a little.
"There's something I wanted to give you last night but… well the mood wasn't all that great after the whole 'crying in the bathroom' thing" Luke said walking up to Lorelai who was helping Rory and Sam clean up, Jess was still taping because Luke had told him to.
"Oh! I know! You are gonna give me a little booklet with 'this is good for a hug' and 'this is good for a cuddle' or 'this is good for a diaper change' or…"
"Would you stop that?" Luke asked with a grin. He couldn't believe he was doing this; his heart was about to blow up at how fast it was beating.
"Ok, so it's not a booklet" Lorelai concluded, Luke took a side glance at Jess and saw him with the camera ready. "Oh! Is it a new car!" Lorelai said jumping a little, Luke took a step closer and grabbed her left hand in his. Rory turned to look at her Mom wanting to tell her they had just bought a new car but something in Luke's expression stopped her.
"It's not a car" Luke whispered and brought her hand up to his lips. While his other hand went into his pocket.
"Oh intrigue"
"You're so beautiful"
"I know" modest Lorelai said with a shrugged.
"You're amazing"
"I stand by my previous statement" Lorelai smiled.
"You're perfect…"
"Luke?" Lorelai asked those were way too many compliments from Luke.
"I love you, I can't picture not having you in my life, and quite frankly I don't want to…" Luke dropped to one knee and looked up at her. Lorelai's mouth formed a small 'o', Luke pulled out the velvet ring box out of his pocket. "Lorelai…"
"Yes!" she interrupted him and Luke chuckled.
"Wait for it…" he whispered and she nodded. "Lorelai…"
"Yes! Sorry" Lorelai winced when she did it again.
"Marry me" Luke said quickly so Lorelai couldn't interrupt him.
"Let me think about it" Lorelai teased.
"This offer won't last long. It's good for like five more…" Luke was shut up by Lorelai's lips.
"Yes" Lorelai whispered as she pulled back, a few inches. She was now kneeling in front of him.
"…seconds" Luke finished his previous sentence. He smiled and slipped the ring on her finger. "Why are you crying?" Luke asked whipping a tear off of her cheek.
"Pure joy, babe" she smiled and kissed him again. "Best Christmas present…ever!" she kissed him again but this time they pulled back due to Rory's shrieks, Lorelai smiled at her daughter.
"Better than the coffee maker?" Luke asked.
"Way batter" Lorelai reassured and then added. "Because when we get married it'll be like I married a coffee maker, which I actually did"
"Gee I can feel the love" Lorelai kissed him again but this time they pulled back because of a baby's cry.
"Duty calls" Lorelai said and got up.
ThAt AfTeRnOoN
Sookie, Jackson and the kids were going to have dinner at Lorelai's house. Samantha and Jess were having an early dinner at Liz', they were finally going to tell her Samantha was pregnant. Luke was giving each boy a thorough sponge bath while Lorelai took a shower and got dressed; dinner was already done so they didn't have to worry.
"Sorry kid but your Mommy wants you dressed in a warm ducky onesie" Luke told a crying Ricky, who was really getting into the crying thing. "I know you got the short end of the stick here" Luke said. "Since your brother got doggies instead of duckies" Lorelai was listening to Luke's conversation and she had to smile. She knew he would be a good Dad but she never pictured him like this. "Don't worry; I'll go get you a more masculine one. What do you say bout dinosaurs?" Ricky fussed a little bit. "Ok, maybe you just don't like animals. How about tools?"
"How cliché of you!" Lorelai called from their room.
"Ignore her, she's a girl" Luke waved it off and walked into their room from the nursery. Sean was lying on the bed already dressed in his doggy onesie.
"Don't 'ignore her' because she's your Mommy" Lorelai said while she applied makeup. "And you don't like bottles"
"Don't worry, she never holds out" Luke mocked and placed Ricky on the bed next to Sean.
"Hey! That's no way of talking to your fiancé" Lorelai reminded him, Luke smiled and walked closer to her.
"You're right…" he kissed the top of her head. "… that's how you talk to your girlfriend but never your fiancé. My bad, I'm just not used to it yet" he teased and Lorelai smacked him. "I don't think you're supposed to hit your fiancé"
"Oh no, you can and when you're married you can hit them harder" Lorelai reassured him.
"Huh, somehow I've never heard that before"
"Oh my God! This is so cool!" Rory yelled from her room, she was uploading songs to her new ipod.
"Do you think she likes her present?" Luke asked Lorelai as he stared at their closed door.
"Don't know, hard to tell" Lorelai said and then laughed, there was a knock at their door. "Come in" Lorelai said and Luke walked over to their bed where the boys lay happily sleeping.
"This is so cool" Rory said walking in and over to where her Mom was.
"We heard you the first time, babe" Lorelai was smiling at Rory.
"Oh… but still, it's so cool" Rory repeated and Luke chuckled from the bed, he was on his side of the bed, flat on his back, eyes closed, and his left hand softly caressing Sean's tummy. "Babies" Rory said happily; she stuck the ipod in her pocket and walked over to the bed.
"And the ipod is quickly forgotten, guess it wasn't that cool" Lorelai mocked.
A LiTtLe LaTeR
"Hey cupcake" Sookie said when Rory opened the door, headphones on.
"Hi" Rory said and motioned for then to come in. "Mom and Luke are in the kitchen" Rory said and then went upstairs to her room until dinner was ready. Jackson and Sookie took off the kid's coats and then their own.
"Marco…?" Sookie called. In the kitchen Lorelai giggled, she was hugging Luke from behind as he heated dinner.
"Polo" Lorelai called back.
"You two really did find each other" Luke said shaking his head.
"Hi Lorelai, Jackson's over at… Luke, what are you making?" Sookie hurried over to the stove, carrying a sleeping Martha.
"Don't you want to put her down before you start cooking?" Lorelai asked pointing to Martha.
"She's not cooking" Luke answered for Sookie.
"Oh yes I am" Sookie said and handed Martha over to an unexpecting Luke.
"Hey"
"Honey, why don't you take her up to our room" Lorelai ran her hand up and down Luke's back.
"Fine" Luke sighed, repositioned Martha and then took her upstairs.
"Hey!" Davie yelled happily, he was walking out of the living room, saw Luke going upstairs and tried walking upstairs also. Luke walked back down and took a hold of his hand because having Davie fall down the steps wasn't very Christmas-y.
"Let's go put your sister down for a nap" Luke told him as they walked into the master bedroom. "Be very quiet" Luke said in a hushed voice and Davie nodded.
"Nite nite sis" Davie said and kissed Martha's forehead, he had jumped on the bed before Luke placed Martha down.
"Let's go downstairs and get your Mom away from the stove" Luke picked Davie up and closed the door behind them.
Lorelai was about to tell Sookie about the engagement when Jackson walked into the kitchen.
"Sookie! I thought you said you weren't going to cook tonight" Jackson squeaked.
"I'm not, Luke is" Sookie defended herself.
"He is not even in the kitchen" Jackson walked closer to her and Lorelai stepped away.
"That's why I was here, I'm covering for him while he goes put Martha down" Jackson eyed her and then turned to Lorelai.
"Lorelai…?" he wanted to know her side of the story.
"Sorry but I don't get in the middle of other people's business"
"That's not true" Jackson told her, luckily for Lorelai that's when Luke walked back in carrying a babbling Davie.
"Luke!" Lorelai said a little too loudly.
"What?" Luke was a little stunned.
"I'm so glad you're back" she walked closer to him.
"O-ok" Luke raised his eyebrow at her. "I'm gonna go put a movie for Davie"
"I'll go help" Lorelai said and dragged Luke out of the kitchen.
"What's your problem?"
"I missed you" Lorelai answered with a smile. "Hi Davie" Davie waved hi.
"Nemo" Davie said pointing to the TV, he couldn't say his sister's name but he could say nemo.
"You're so cute" Lorelai said pinching his cheek, he tried swatting her hand away but couldn't so he started fussing.
"Lorelai, leave him alone" Luke told her, he put Davie on the couch and went over to the TV.
"Cry baby" Lorelai told Davie and then went over to where Luke was.
"Hey!" Davie called when he saw Lorelai hugging him.
"Sorry kid, but Luke is mine" Lorelai told Davie and poked her tongue at him.
Once the movie was on and Davie was distracted, Lorelai and Luke went back to the kitchen where they walked in on Sookie and Jackson kissing.
"That's not good for the food" Lorelai teased.
"Hi Luke" Jackson said and Luke nodded back.
"Lorelai, is Rory grounded?" Sookie asked frowning.
"Umm… no, why?" Lorelai also frowned.
"Because she ran upstairs as soon as the door closed" Sookie explained.
"Oh!" Lorelai giggled. "No, she's just up there playing with her Christmas present" Lorelai shrugged it off.
"Oh did she get a new fun toy?" Sookie teased.
"Yep, we got them ipod's and Rory offered to fill them up with songs while Jess and Samantha were over at Liz' place"
"You go them all ipod's? Aren't those things expensive?" Jackson asked, he had a faint idea of what an ipod was.
"Nah" Luke waved it off.
"Wow" Sookie whispered at Lorelai after Luke's careless response. Lorelai mouthed back 'I know'.
"But my present was the best of all" Lorelai declared proudly.
"Really? What was it?" Sookie asked giddily.
"That" Luke pointed to the newest kitchen gadget.
"Ooh shiny" Sookie walked closer to it.
"That's not the one I meant" Lorelai said and Sookie turned to look at her, so did Luke. Lorelai gave Luke a questioning glance and he smiled.
"You got one better than a coffee maker?" Sookie asked and Lorelai nodded with a big goofy grin. "What?" Sookie was intrigued.
"This" Lorelai said lifting up her left hand; Sookie's face was the pure definition of shock. After a couple of seconds she shrieked and jumped up and down.
"Is it real" Lorelai nodded, smile still there. "How…? When…? Where…"
"Do you want to keep asking or do you want to see the video?" Lorelai asked; Sookie was analyzing Lorelai's ring.
"It's on video?" Sookie couldn't believe it when Lorelai nodded. "Let's see, let's see, let's see!" Sookie bounced. Lorelai turned questioningly at Luke.
"The video is upstairs and you should probably watch it in our room since Davie is in the living room" Luke told her and both women left the kitchen.
"Congratulations man" Jackson said.
"Thanks" Luke responded and with that both of them went to join Davie in the living room.
Twenty minutes later Luke went upstairs to go get Sookie and Lorelai because dinner was all ready, it had been for ten minutes now.
"What's taking so long?" Luke asked a little before entering the bedroom. "Why are you crying?" Sookie and Lorelai had a pile in of tissues on the bed.
"It's so beautiful" Sookie sighed. "And so romantic"
"I know" Lorelai said whipping a tear. "He proposed on Christmas''
"That makes it all the more romantic"
"I know!" Lorelai said and grabbed the remote to rewind the video again.
"No, no, no, no" Luke walked over to the bed and took the remote from Lorelai.
"Hey!" Sookie and Lorelai shrieked.
"Dinner is ready and if you keep rewinding that same spot you'll mess with the tape" Luke turned the TV off.
"Mean" Lorelai pouted.
"You have two minutes before we start without you" he told them and then left the room.
"He's strict" Sookie noted and Lorelai nodded before getting up of the bed.
DoWnStAiRs
The front door opened and Jess walked in slightly pissed off, Samantha was right behind him but she was a little calmer. Jess walked upstairs and to the attic, it was done, sort of, they needed to buy furniture but it was livable so Sam and Jess had moved up there because it was way more spacey than Jess' old room. While Samantha was walking down the hall to the attic's door she bumped into Luke who was coming out of Rory's room, he went to tell her dinner was ready.
"Hey, you guys home already?" Luke asked confused.
"Yeah, things didn't go very well" Samantha decided to stop and talk with Luke.
"What do you mean?''
"Liz didn't take the news good. She told us we were making a mistake just like she had, and that nothing good would come out of it just like with her. And naturally Jess didn't take it very well. She basically insulted Jess and his existence"
"What!" Luke asked, rage taking over; Samantha nodded with a shrug. "My sister has quiet a nerve I tell ya" Luke said then sighed. "Did you guys eat anything?"
"No, we thought we'd get it out of the way so we could eat in peace. It didn't go exactly how we planed"
"Dinner is ready so why don't you go downstairs and I'll go get Jess" Luke told her and Sam smiled slightly before starting to walk away. "It's not a mistake" Luke told her before she rounded the corned to go downstairs.
"Thanks, I never thought it was" Sam said with a smile and then walked downstairs. Rory opened the door.
"Hey!" Luke looked nervous.
"Thought you two needed a little time" Rory said as an explanation to why she had taken so long to come out.
"Umm, yeah thanks"
"Hey Luke, thought you were in a hurry to get us down" Lorelai teased as she and Sookie left the master bedroom and continued their journey downstairs.
"Did you hear what Sam said?" Luke asked and Rory nodded. "I can't believe Liz would say that"
"Poor Jess"
"Yeah. Well, I gotta…" Luke motioned to the attics door.
"Right" Rory said and smiled slightly before walking downstairs. Luke walked halfway up the attics stairs but thought better of it and walked back down.
Lorelai had seen Sam on the couch with Davie and thought it was odd that she was watching Nemo especially when she was supposed to be eating dinner over at Liz', so Lorelai went over to see what was going on.
After Samantha had told Lorelai their night recap she said she was staying with Davie and watch Nemo. Lorelai smiled apologetically and left the living room, once she was in the dinning room she saw Luke but no Jess so she went upstairs to look for him.
Lorelai walked by the closed nursery where the boy were sleeping, she eyed her closed door where Martha was sleeping and headed straight for the attics door to look for Jess. Once up there Lorelai noticed the place was empty, she frowned and walked back to the second floor. She thought it was highly improbable but went to check on Jess' old room, soon to be the guest room, but he wasn't there either. When she closed the door to the room she heard noises coming from the nursery and walked over. She was about to enter and investigate when she heard Jess' voice.
"Hey guys, I know it would be easier if you were both on the same place but I can't carry you both at the same time…" Jess was standing in the middle of both cribs"… I'm not good at carrying a baby and I have no idea what I'm going to do when Sam has our baby…" silence. "… You'll help me right? I can practice with you, and you'll tell me what I did wrong… although in order to do that you'll have to start talking before the baby is born" Lorelai smiled. "I'll make a good Dad, right? I mean, I won't be like your Dad cause… heck no one is as good as Luke, not even Bill Cosby especially because Bill was very annoying" Lorelai was touched by that. "You know what's funny? My baby isn't born yet, heck Sam is not even showing yet, and still I'm a better parent than my Mom or Dad, isn't that sad?" Jess then heard whimpering coming from Lorelai and Luke's room so he walked over to check it out, sitting on the middle of the bed was Martha who looked like she was going to cry.
When Lorelai didn't hear Jess in the nursery any more she decided to open the door and walk in. she went over to the cribs and saw Sean's eyes were open, she turned to look at Ricky and his eyes were also open.
"Hey boys, whatcha looking at?" Lorelai cooed.
"Lorelai?" Jess asked walking out of the bedroom carrying Martha; she had her head on Jess' shoulder.
"Hey, whatcha doing here?"
"She was fussing so I thought I should get her" he lied.
"Ok. Wanna help me take the boys down?" Lorelai asked picking up Sean. Jess shook his head.
"I'm not good with carrying babies"
"You have to practice, Jess. Here, hand me Martha" Lorelai took the girl while carrying Sean. "Now go pick Ricky up.
"But…"
"Go!" Lorelai said sternly. Jess walked over to Ricky's crib and looked down at him.
"Now what?"
"Just pick him up and make sure you support his head" was all Lorelai said before she walked out of the nursery.
"Wait! How to I pick him up…?" he looked down at Ricky. "Lorelai?" no response. "Don't hate me for this" Jess told Ricky before carefully picking him up. Jess walked out of the nursery and saw Lorelai standing next to the door still holding Sean and Martha.
"See, I knew you could do it" Lorelai said with a smile.
"Why didn't you answer?" Jess asked as he looked petrified.
"You needed to figure it out on your own" Lorelai shrugged and started walking downstairs.
LaTeR
Samantha had gone to sleep since she has been very tired lately, Rory insisted on talking to Jess about Liz so they were in Rory's room talking. In the living room were the adults, and the twins. Davie and Martha were sleeping on the big bed. Lorelai was letting Sookie feed Sean with a bottle while she fed Ricky, because he didn't like the bottle. Luke and Jackson had gone to the office as soon as Lorelai lifted her shirt. Needless to say they were teased.
"Aw I miss this" Sookie said sadly.
"What do you mean?"
"This, having a baby depend on you for everything"
"You have that Sookie, you have two actually" Lorelai said with an amused smile.
"No, they're all grown now, they do their own thing, Davie already walks and talks, Martha is crawling"
"That's good Sookie"
"I know, but I loved when they were like this" she lightly stroke Sean's cheek. "And I can't have it anymore" she pouted.
"You can baby sit if you want, that'll make you remember why it's good to have toddlers now" Lorelai teased.
"In a couple of months you'll see what I mean" Sookie threatened.
"Well yeah, but we're actually planning on having another baby so I won't miss it for long" Lorelai said with a dreamy voice.
"Oh that's right" Sookie said remembering Sean disengaged from the bottle with a funny sound.
"Easy there baby" Lorelai said giggling and Sookie repositioned Sean so she could burp him.
"So what are you going to do?" Sookie suddenly asked.
"What do you mean?"
"If Ricky doesn't like the bottle then you'll have to wake up every time he gets hungry" Sookie said and Lorelai cringed.
"I hadn't thought about that. I guess we'll have to make him like it or I won't be able to sleep until he eats solids"
"Think Luke can hack that?"
"Yeah… I hope. He's such a softie when it comes to the boys or Rory. I really doubt he'll be able to hold out waking me up to feed Ricky, he doesn't like it when the boys cry" Lorelai said and Sookie had a weird face. "What?"
"Are you talking about Luke?" Lorelai nodded. "Luke Danes?" Lorelai nodded again. "Your fiancé…"
"Yes Sookie! I know it sounds odd and un-Luke-like but it's true, he is such a softie" Lorelai had a goofy grin and Sookie had to smile.
NeXt DaY
Jess was at the diner with Lane and Clara. Rory and Samantha were helping Lorelai out at the house. Luke said he had to run an errand and would be back soon, and then he'd go take over Jess so he and Sam could spend some time together.
"Mom, when are those things gonna come off?" they were hanging in Lorelai's room, they boys on the middle of the bed. Lorelai was changing a diaper and Rory caught sight of the umbilical cord stumps. "They're so gross"
"You sound like Luke" Lorelai said giggling. "In like two weeks" Lorelai gave Rory the same answer she gave Luke.
"Are you saving them?" Sam asked, she was changing a diaper also, because she wanted to learn and Lorelai was more than glad to let her do it.
"We're thinking about it" Lorelai admitted.
"Gross" Rory wrinkled her nose.
"Marco?" Luke's voice was heard and all the girls giggled.
"Mom, what did you do to him?"
"Me? Nothing. Polo!" Lorelai answered and a few seconds later Luke walked into their room carrying a present.
"Hey, slumber party?" he asked and walked over to kiss Lorelai.
"Something like that" Lorelai answered. "What's that?" she pointed to the gift Luke was carrying. He just smirked and handed it to her. "For me" Luke nodded.
"Well yeah… sort of" Luke took a seat on the edge of the bed; Sam and Rory were looking at them wondering what was in the bag. Lorelai smiled and reached her hand inside, she felt around and frowned.
"Luke…?" but all he did was smile. Lorelai pulled out a light blue baseball hat, a tiny light blue baseball hat, followed by a darker blue baseball hat. Lorelai seemed to be holding back tears.
"There's more" Luke said quietly. Rory and Sam shared weird looks. Lorelai took a deep breath and pulled out a baby size light blue flannel shirt, followed by a baby size darker blue flannel. Lorelai walked over to where Luke was and kissed him.
"You sure?" she whispered.
"Positive, it'll make you happy" Luke whispered back.
"Mom?" Rory asked confused.
"Yeah?" Lorelai turned to look at Rory.
"Care to elaborate?" Rory waved the little cap she was holding.
"Oh! Umm…" Lorelai smiled. "A little before the boys were born I told Luke we should dress them in specific colored flannel and baseball hats but he said no and I couldn't change his mind. But apparently something changed his mind now" Lorelai turned to smile at him. "Thanks" she whispered again and kissed him. She knew he had only caved because of her break down on Christmas Eve.
"Aw Dad, you're too cute" Rory teased.
"Now all we have to do is pick which color goes with which kid" Lorelai said and the girls began discussing it.
"Tell me the verdict" Luke said before leaving the room to go to the diner.
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