So, this is the first part of Christmas at the Danes. I hope you like it.

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Chapter 35: Christmas songs

On the morning of Christmas Eve Lorelai woke up with a smile. She was lying in her warm bed while she could smell the snow outside, snuggled up to her gorgeous husband, whom she felt watching her. Her three kids were still asleep in their beds, healthy and totally beat after a major snowball fight the evening before. They had finished the snowmen in the front-yard and then surprisingly Luke had started a snowball fight. The snowballs had flown everywhere and they had all been completely soaked by the time they were finished, but so happy.

For Luke and Lorelai it had been even more special because that evening they had seen Sara absolutely carefree for the first time after the accident. She had run around, thrown snowballs and had giggled and laughed the whole time. Nearly four months after the accident she had finally acted like her old self for the first time again.

Lorelai had had the urge to scoop her up in her arms and hug her until she couldn't breathe anymore, but she had just watched her in awe playing with her siblings. Luke had felt the same and they had embraced each other, because they felt they couldn't keep the happiness to themselves and needed to share it with someone, each other. The moment had been over when the first snowball had hit them in their faces followed by William's hysterical giggles. Luke wasn't yet able to run after him and so Lorelai had tried, but failed, what had caused the boy to laugh even harder.

So the next morning when she woke up, those happy feeling were still present, also because she had replayed those scenes in the front-yard over and over in her dream that night. The first night during which she hadn't dreamed of the accident or the hospital.

"Mmmh, good morning" Lorelai mumbled smiling and slowly opened her eyes.

"Good morning," Luke said with that sexy raspy morning voice of his causing her smile to only get wider, before she tilted her head up to kiss him.

"Very good morning," she said happily after the kiss and lay her head on his shoulder and buried her face in the crook of his neck. Luke slung his arms around her and pressed a kiss on her temple, leaned his cheek on her hair and closed his eyes and just enjoyed this moment.

"If I wasn't too lazy to undress you we could go into another round of love making right now. We really should start sleeping naked," she mumbled into his neck, before she bit it playfully.

"Mmh and then William will decide to wake us again because he will be too scared to walk downstairs alone again and get something to drink, because Voldemort might be downstairs and he'll find us naked in bed. Hurray!" Luke remarked dryly.

"Oh my…you said the name of who-might-not-be-named, now he'll come and get you" Lorelai mumbled sleepily, stuck her hands under his shirt and scraped his skin softly with her fingernails.

"You really shouldn't have let him watch Harry Potter," Luke said and grabbed her hands with one of his and held them in place on his chest.

"He wanted to watch it. I warned him, but he wouldn't stop whining," she shrugged and nibbled at his neck again.

"So he can watch now whatever he wants and you turned to Dracula?" Luke asked.

"I think he learned his lesson. And you taste good," she explained and resumed what she was doing for a while before she went from nibbling to sucking on his neck.

"Hey don't give me a hickey," Luke scolded and moved a bit away from her.

"But it would be fun when my parents are coming over tonight. It's always fun to see the different shades of red on your face when they comment on our sex-life," she grinned.

"Okay, now you definitely killed the mood," Luke groaned and sat up.

"No, what are you doing? Lay back down and I swear I'll get you back in the mood in a few seconds" she pouted. Luke smiled and leaned down and kissed her slowly. She slung one arm around his neck and her other hand glided in his hair and pulled him closer. She deepened the kiss and teased him with her tongue until he opened his mouth and allowed her entrance. Their tongues played with each other and Luke played with her hair with one hand and his other stroked over the skin of her legs, which were exposed, because of the short and flimsy nightgown she wore.

They couldn't let it go much further though, because then the door opened and William marched in, ignoring completely what his parents were doing. He crawled on the bed and then tugged on Luke's shirt, causing Luke and Lorelai to break the kiss with a groan.

"William, what are you doing here?" Lorelai said with a whining tone in her voice.

"Can we decorate the Christmas tree now?" he asked.

"Will it is eight o' clock in the morning, go back to bed" she told him then and leaned her forehead against Luke's shoulder.

"But you said yesterday we would decorate the tree this morning. And it is morning. Now get up," he demanded and crossed his arms in front of his chest. Luke only sighed and laid back down while pulling a pillow over his head.

"Aren't we bossy this morning, little Mister," Lorelai mocked her son and then grabbed his arms and pulled him on top of her. She hugged him and ignored his attempts to get out of her hug.

"Sleep, baby, sleep. Your father tends the sheep. Your mother shakes the dreamland tree. And from it fall sweet dreams for thee. Sleep, baby, sleep. Sleep, baby, sleep," Lorelai sang to mock him and rocked him from side to side.

"I am not tired anymore, Mommy. I wanna decorate the tree," William said, but slung his arms around his mother's neck.

"Three, two, one" Luke suddenly said and took the pillow from his face. Then the door opened again and the sleepy twins stumbled in.

"Can we decorate the tree now?" Sara mumbled and the yawned while Laila was still rubbing her eyes and was barely seeing where she was walking.

"Oh you two, come here my princesses," Luke chuckled and opened his arms for the twins to stumble into, which they happily did. He pulled them up on the bed and they snuggled up to him, half asleep again.

"Mommy sing," Sara muttered against her fathers chest, her eyes had drifted shut already.

"What do you want me to sing?" Lorelai asked her quietly and greeted her daughters with a kiss on the cheek for each.

"Lil' star," Sara whispered, while Laila had fallen asleep already.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are." Lorelai sang quietly and they all fell back asleep.

After a copious breakfast which reached into the afternoon they all were in their pyjamas in the living-room and decorating the Christmas tree. Luke sat on the couch, William beside him and tried to untangle the light-chain while Lorelai and the girls threw tinsel on the tree with both hands and sang Christmas songs on top of their lungs.

"Geez, somehow I remember that I told you to roll the chain up and not to throw it into the box. I'll never get this thing untangled there are too many knots in it. But for what do we need a light-chain on the tree anyway? It's not like we don't have any light in here. There are a thousand lamps in the room and even more of these smelly scented candles you put up in the whole house. So why do we need this thing? If the lights are out and we only turn this thing on its way too dark anyway to see a damn thing" Luke ranted while he tried to get the knots out of the chain and William nodded his head in agreement to everything his father said.

"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch .You really are a heel. You're as cuddly as a cactus; you're as charming as an eel. Mr. Grinch," Lorelai sang and the girls started to laugh.

"Daddy is Mr. Grinch" Sara laughed, took one tilt and hung it over Luke's ear.

"Wait till I get ya," Luke threatened, but had to smile because his daughter was back being her sassy and bubbly self.

"I wouldn't touch you, with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole," Lorelai went on singing, grinned at Luke, took the light chain from him and sat down on his lap.

"Stop singing, it's awful," Luke said, still smiling and then kissed her to shut her up.

"Geez, do you always have to kiss? It's yucky and you look stupid," William grumped and pulled on his mother's shirt, which she had pulled on over her gown.

"You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch. You're a nasty, wasty skunk. Your heart is full of unwashed socks. Your soul is full of gunk. Mr. Grinch. The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote..." Lorelai started to sing again after she had pulled back from the kiss. This time she looked at William though.

"Stink, stank, stunk," Sara and Laila finished for her and threw some tilt over the three on the couch.

After Luke had untangled the light-chain and had put it on the tree, as well as the rest of self made decorations from the kids, it had gotten hectic, because they all had to shower, get ready, clean the house and Luke had to cook the dinner for the evening. Emily and Richard had wanted the family to come over to their house, but Luke and Lorelai thought it would be less stressful when the kids were home and could play and go to bed when they wanted.

While Luke was busy in the kitchen, Lorelai ran through the house and tried to clean up the mess they had made decorating the house. Trying being the operative word, because constantly Luke needed help, because still struggling to cook with the crutches, or the kids needed something, even if it only was attention. An hour before her parents arrived she had finally given up and had gotten ready herself instead.

William let his grandparents into the house and showed them were to put the presents. When Lorelai came down with the dressed up twins Emily and Richard were surprised to see Sara joking with her sister. Lorelai had told them on the phone already that the girl had changed a lot since the festival, but now that they saw it live it was something different.
Although she tried not to have favourites, Emily cared especially about Sara because she reminded her so much of Lorelai as a kid.

"Hello Sara, hello Laila" Emily greeted them.

"Grandma! Grandpa!" the girls yelled excitedly and ran to them, because it had been nearly two weeks since they last had seen Emily and Richard.

"My, my, what pretty granddaughters do I have" Richard laughed and put Laila back down.

"Mommy gave us lip gloss, see!" Sara said and pursed her lips, before she smiled.

"Don't you think these two are too young for lip-gloss?" Emily asked Lorelai and raised her eyebrows disapprovingly. She got along quiet well now with her daughter but she was still Emily Gilmore.

"Didn't I tell you that?" Luke said and walked into the room.

"There is no such thing as too young for lip gloss, especially if it tastes like strawberry," Lorelai shot back and stuck out her tongue.

"This scented stuff is so unhealthy," Luke said and shook his head, what caused Lorelai to march over to where he stood and kiss him fully on the mouth.

"Geez," both William and Luke muttered and Luke wiped his lips, after she pulled back.

The dinner was fun for all of them. The kids told their grandparents their newest achievements, even if it was just that Meeko and Barney hopped into their cage on command now. During the dinner Emily glanced around and watched her family interacting. The only person missing was Rory, but she was with Logan at the Huntzberger's house that night and would come the next morning. Emily smiled when she saw how well they all got along and she was thankful for that, because the latest events had shown her how much she loved her grandchildren and how much she even likes Luke now. She would have been sad if he hadn't made it and not only because her daughter would have been broken then. She just couldn't imagine Lorelai without Luke anymore. They completed each other and they were a good team, just as she and Richard, but completely different at the same time. Emily had found the one over forty years ago and she was happy that her daughter had found the one man for herself also.Lorelai caught her mother's glance, gave her a smile and took Luke's hand at the same time and gave it a squeeze which he returned.

It has been late when the kids went to bed and it gave Luke and Lorelai hope that they would sleep long the next morning, because the four adults had sat a long time afterwards talking in the living-room. It had been so late then that Richard and Emily had taken the offer to spend the night in the guest-room. They had already spent the night so often during the last months that they had some clothes and toiletries at the Danes house.

"Today was nice," Luke said when they lay in bed that night.

"Today was really, really nice," Lorelai replied and placed a kiss on his arm.

"When will Rory and Logan stop by tomorrow?" Luke asked and pulled her closer to him.

"I think some time in the morning, but I don't know. She didn't mention a time," Lorelai shrugged.

"I hope she will stop by in the morning otherwise she'll have to open her presents alone, cause I will not make the kids wait until they show up" Luke said and yawned.

"Hey, you're not tired, right?" Lorelai asked and leaned on her elbow to look at him.

"No, that yawn was fake," he said sarcastically.

"But I wanted to go on where we left off that morning" she pouted, but slipped her hands under his shirt again.

"You're going to be the death of me, woman" he grinned and then kissed her, which soon lead to other things.

TBC