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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed. I hope that you liked that last chapter. Here is the new one...

Chapter Twenty:

SEVEN MONTHS LATER

"This is adorable!" Stephanie squeeled, holding up a decorative pink jumper for the entire room to see. Everyone 'ooohhed' and 'awed' appropriately, gazing happily at the pint sized clothing. She looked at Finn, practically beaming.

"Finn, you really do have a gift,"

"See, I wasn't intoxicated at the time of that gift buying, love. If I was it would've have been even better," Stephanie giggled, smiling warmly at her friend.

"That would've been a sight Finn. You staggering through the three months and up section,"

"They'd be lucky to have me there,"

"Right Finn, you keep thinking that," The entire group was seated in Logan's dorm, the room decorated with the appropriate baby shower decorations. Large plastic safety pins served as place holders and the paper spirals hanging from the ceiling was dripping with paper mache bottles and rattles. She had even hit up Sookie for some baby themed food, the result garnering diaper shaped cookies and amazing dips for the chips, poured into small Gerber baby cups.

"Rory, I still can't believe that you did all of this," Stephanie said, her eyes beginnign to tear up.

"No more crying," Rory teased.

"Hey, no picking on the hormonal mother to be," Colin reprimanded, his eyes twinkling.

"You're getting very defensive there Colin," Logan noted with a smile.

"Well, she's carrying my daughter in her stomach, it comes with the territory," Stephanie smiled, taking Colin's hand.

"No, really Rory, this is amazing. You went above and beyond my expectations,"

"Well, seeing that you had no expectations that was pretty easy," Rory quipped, taking a sip from her "I've Got You Babe" mixer, of course non-alcoholic.

"So, what's next on the agenda?" Stephanie asked giddily, her free hand moving to her protruding belly.

"We have pin the diaper on the baby," Rory announced, standing up to gather the materials. She revealed seven plastic baby dolls and seven cloth diapers, complete with pins and everything.

"No way,"

"Oh, yes way, I am a Gilmore which means everything is over the top and magnificent," Rory smiled, handing each person a doll and a diaper.

"Alright, now the first one to finish gets the wonderful prize of the knowledge of a job well done," Rory wielded out a timer, resetting the time.

"What is it Ace? Too cool to participate with us lowly party goers?" Logan teased.

"Precisely, and I tried to do it earlier and ended up pinning my hand instead," He smiled, giving her a quick kiss.

"Alright, start the timer Ace,"

"Will do, on your mark, get set, go!" Rory watched with glee as everyone began to frantically pin the diaper to the baby. She snorted in amusement as she saw Finn trying to attach the diaper to the baby's head. Clearly although the punch had no alchohol it did not affect Finn's usual inebriated state. She saw Logan was doing pretty well and Stephanie and Colin were not far behind. She looked down at her timer, biting her lip in anticipation as she saw the three frontrunners near completion.

"Done!" Logan bellowed, holding up the diapered baby with triumph. She smiled, stopping the timer.

"One minute, impressive Huntzberger," Paris noted, looking down at Rory's watch.

"I can't believe I lost," Stephanie pouted, "I'm the pregnant one, not you," Logan smiled.

"If you want Steph, I can give you my knowledge of a job well done. Seeing that I am Logan Huntzberger, I have a lot of that to go around," Rory shot him a look, unable though to keep her lips from curling into a smile.

"You are so cocky sometimes,"

"As cocky as a cocker spaniel," Rory looked at him, her mouth agape.

"You have officially surpassed my mother for outlandish logic,"

"I didn't even think that was possible,"

"Neither did I," As if on cue there was a knock on the door. Rory got up, finding her mother on the other side of the door. She smiled, leading her in.

"Mom, Logan officially surpassed you outlandish logic. You have competition," Rory repeated with a smile. Lorelai looked at Logan with a cunning smile, her eyes twinkling.

"Welcome to the dark side Blondie. Now where is this glowing mother to be?" She spotted Stephanie immediatly and smiled, revealing a gift from behind her. Stephanie clapped exuberantly, bouncing up and down.

"Another gift!" Lorelai handed it to her, smiling warmly.

"Now, this isn't another hundred dollar Ralph Lauren crew neck sweater for the little one, because I'm sure your family will give you enough of them to go through spit ups and an entire year of mashed peas. But, I think that it'll help you," Stephanie tore of the wrapping paper, unearthing a baby blue book with small handprints on it.

"Oh, and the scrap book is courtesy of Ms. Patti. That woman has everything," Stephanie opened up the book, gasping as she saw all that it entailed. Inside was billions of tips that Lorelai had recorded from her own pregnancy and early motherhood. There were tips, precautions, everything imaginable. Enclosed was even a recipe for peanut butter rounds from Sookie. Stephanie stood up, immediatly hugging Lorelai.

"Thank you Lorelai. This means so much to me,"

"Well, I figured that you could use the help. I'm not going to lie to you, it is really hard," Stephanie nodded.

"I know, but I am surrounded by people who love me,"

"Yes you are, and that is something that I lacked, so you're one step ahead of me," Stephanie smiled, wiping away a few tears that had slipped from her pristine blue eyes.

"Ah," Lorelai began with a wry grin, "The emotions, now that I do not miss at all,"

"I really appreciate what you're doing for Stephanie," Logan said to Rory as they walked hand in hand back to Rory's dorm.

"Well, thank you for letting me kidknapp your dorm,"

"Any time Ace," He kissed her cheek, sending a shiver down her spine. She didn't know how he did it. How, after months together he still made her nervous, made her feel that...feeling. She loved him and was accustomed to him and yet after all that time he never ceased to amaze her, to surprise her. He was perfect, they were perfect, everything was perfect.

"You're quiet," Logan commented, smiling down at her.

"I'm just thinking,"

"About what?" She paused, not knowing whether or not to tell him what was on her mind.

"I, uh, I was just thinking about us,"

"About us, huh? What about us?"

"What are you, Officer Krupke?" He smiled.

"I'm really that anal retentive? Last time I checked I didn't make you dance in a circle to corny 'big band' music," She sighed, diving right into it.

"I'm just amazed at how good this is. How good we are," She hesitated, feeling her common fear creep up, "I'm afraid that it's too good to be true," He glanced at her, noticing her burrowed frow, the slight flush in her cheeks.

"You don't need to worry about anything, Ace. I'm here to stay,"

"I know, I just...everytime I got really close to someone before I did something to ruin it, or they ruined it,"

"Are you saying that I'm going to ruin it?"

"No," She could hear the desperation in her voice, the raw emotion.

"Ace, you need to stop analyzing everything. We're together because we are good together. Our relationship is so good because..well, because it is. We worked hard at it, and we know we've had our troubles, but we moved on from them," She nodded, feeling the complacent security she usually felt seep back in.

"You're right,"

"I love you," That finalized it. With three simple words all of her fears vanished. Every doubt in her mind dissipated to nothing until all she had left was him and those three words.

"I love you too,"

"So are you done freaking out?" She smiled as he wrapped an arm around her waist.

"Yes, I am quite done freaking out,"

A/N: I'm sorry that this is so short but I didn't know where else to go. I know what is going to happen next but I want to wait until the next chapter. Oh well, you'll get that chapter very soon. Thanks to an English project where I have to write for twenty minutes a day, my chapters are being written extremely quickly :-) I hope you liked it!