yes, i finally have chapter 8 up. it took me so goddamn long to type it because i wrote too much, so you guys better like it. i can't promise chapter 9 is going to be up soon; i haven't finished writing it yet, and when it do it may be some time before it's typed because i have a lot of shit going on right now with school and life. so yea. you guys better fucking enjoy it. i'm not exactly in the greatest of moods right now, and i don't feel like writing the rest of the author's note that i had planned out about roxie's situation.

so anyways, here's chapter 8. it's a cross-over, and if you guys like it i can do more, but for now i'm just doing this chapter, 9, and maybe 10depending on how long i want ch. 9 to be as a cross-over, and it's all for this one scene. hopefully it won't take me too long to get those up.

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"Oh my God, Pookie! It's so pretty!" Maureen exclaimed as we pulled into the parking lot of the inn that we were staying in. "I'm so glad that Alexa and Amanda decided to have their wedding here. I wonder what the inside looks like…"

"Well, if you help me get the girls out then we can go inside and see." I put the car in park before getting out. I went around to the back of the car and got the double stroller for the twins. After I had them strapped into the stroller I picked up Roxie's snuggly and put it on. I took her out of her car seat and got her into the snuggly without waking her up. I cupped my hand around her small head and ran it over her soft, dark hair as I looked down at her head resting on my chest as she slept. Her skin was the darkest out of all of the girls, but she look exactly like Maureen. She didn't look like any of her sisters at all, and we could already tell from the texture and straightness of her hair that she wasn't going to have Maureen's curls.

"Mommy," Grace whined as she pulled on the hand that Maureen was holding onto her with, "I have to go to the bathroom."

"Ok, ok, just hold on a second. We're going to wait for Mama," Maureen replied.

"But I have to go now," she continued as she stomped her feet. She had been asleep when we arrived and was always grouchy when we woke her up after long car rides.

"It's ok," I said as I got my purse from the front seat and began to shut all of the doors. "I don't think I'll need you when I check us in, and it sounds like she needs to go pretty badly."

"Ok, then. We'll just meet you at the front desk when we're done. We shouldn't be too long unless Kelly decides that she has to go, too." She rolled her eyes before turning around and walking up the stairs and inside with Grace and Kelly.

Once I had managed to maneuver the stroller up the stairs and through the door, I began to head towards the front desk, but was stopped by a very attractive brunette before I got there.

"Looks like you've got your hands full there. Do you want some help?" she asked me as she put the papers she had been carrying on a table next to the door.

"That would be great, thanks," I replied as I smiled at her. The front desk wasn't that far away, but she seemed like she really wanted to help, so I let her take the stroller.

"So twins, huh? They must be a handful, especially with another one," she said, nodding her head towards Roxie.

"Yea, especially since she's not the only one," I said with a sigh. "I have two other daughters who are 3 and 5."

"Wow," she said as she parked the stroller in front of the desk before walking behind it. "So are you here for the wedding? I remember one family reserving two rooms because they had 6 kids or something."

"That's us, but it's only 5, thank God. I don't think I could handle another one." I propped my head up in my hand as I rested my elbow on the desk, careful not to smash Roxie. "I'm Joanne Jefferson."

"Oh, I remember you! You were the first one to make reservations online!" As she talked I began to look her over. She was wearing a light pink button up shirt untucked from her light gray pinstripe pants. Her brown hair was straight and tucked back behind her ears and she had piercing blue eyes that were nothing but astonishing. She looked at the computer as she typed something on the keyboard. She reached under the desk to what I assumed was the printer, and pulled out some papers and handed them to me. "I'm Lorelai Gilmore, the owner of the Dragonfly Inn. If there's anything that you need just let me know and I'll be happy to help. In fact, my daughter Rory is home from Yale right now and I'm sure she wouldn't mind watching your girls if you and your husband want to get away from the chaos for a little while," she said as she smiled.

"Actually, I don't have a husband; I'm a lesbian."

"Oh! That's right! I completely forgot about that. Well, you guys are the first lesbian couple to stay here at the Dragonfly, but I didn't expect you to have so many kids. Isn't that expensive?"

I was about to answer her, but got interrupted before I could.

"Momma! Grace said that my nose is fat and ugly!" I turned and saw Kelly running towards me as she signed and semi-yelled her complaint about Grace.

"Kelly, not so loud. There are other people here," I said and signed back.

"But she said that my nose is ugly!" She was whining and stomping and I could tell that she was tired.

"Kelly, I'm busy right now," I told her. "Wait a minute… where's Mommy?"

"She's still in the bathroom with Grace," she said as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Just then I saw Maureen walking towards us with Grace. I put my forehead back in my hand as I propped my elbow up on the desk.

"Hey Joanne, can we start unloading our stuff? My make-up is going to melt," Maureen said as she picked up Kelly and held her against her hip.

"Mommy you forgot to sign that," Kelly pointed out to her.

"Whatever."

"Why does she have to sign it? Is she trying out for a new Helen Keller movie or something?" Lorelai asked with a small laugh.

"Our baby's deaf," I said, my head still resting in my palm. Why was I the only one ever capable of being mature?

"Oh, I'm sorry." She sounded like she really felt bad for what she said.

"Momma said that we have to sign when we talk to that we can learn how to talk to Rosie," Grace said as she held the edge of the desk and stood on her tiptoes to see Lorelai. "Actually, her real name's Roxana, but then we called her Roxie, and now Mommy and Momma call her Rose because that's easier to sign, but I call her Rosie just like Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie." Yep. We definitely had a mini-Maureen on our hands.

I stood up and readjusted the straps on the snuggly. As I finished doing that, Rose began to wake up. I prayed she'd go back to sleep, but of course she woke up. That's how everything always is in my life.

"Maureen, I'm going to take her up to our room so that I can feed her. Can you handle the girls?" Finally, a chance to get some time to myself.

"Sure, Jo. I think I'm just gonna take them for a walk or something. Do you want me to get her stuff out of the car?"

"That would be great, Mo."

A few minutes later Maureen came back in with Grace and Kelly who had gone out to help her.

"Here you go Joey. We're just gonna go for a walk around the town; we shouldn't be too long;" Maureen said before kissing me on the lips.

Lorelai helped me carry Rose's stuff up to our room because it was hard for me to carry both the portable crib and diaper bag along with Rose. Once I got into our room I took Rose out of the snuggly and placed her in the middle of our king size bed so that I could set up her crib. While I was setting it up she began to cry.

I finished setting up the crib and then went over and sat down on the bed next to her. As I unbuttoned my shirt I looked down at her and smiled. She had stopped crying as soon as I sat down, and now she was making gurgling noises and smiling at me. I smiled back at her again as I picked her up and brought her to my chest. She latched onto my nipple quickly and began biting it, which wasn't something that bothered me at this point. Most mothers have a problem with their baby biting them, but I'd been with Maureen long enough to be used to it. Maureen was probably the biggest biter I had ever been with, but I think that aggressiveness was what attracted me to her, and her obsession with my nipples was kind of cute, in a weird Maureen way. I can't remember the last time that I didn't have someone's mouth on my nipples; if it wasn't a baby then it was Maureen. I was also beginning to think that Maureen had been a little jealous of Kelly after she was born and was somewhat jealous of Rose right now because they're the reason she's been forced into nipple withdrawal. Well, there was that one night about a month after Kelly was born that she decided to go for the nipples. The expression on her face that night was priceless, but then I had to listen to her complain about how disgusting breast milk tasted for almost a week.

I looked back down at Rose and just thought about how innocent she was. Even though she was our fifth child, it was still hard to believe that this little thing depended on Maureen and I to keep her alive. As I was wondering about how Maureen and I could make something that was just so beautiful, I heard someone unlock and open the door.

"Joanne?" I heard someone call as they entered the room. A few seconds later Maureen walked around the corner. "You feeling ok?"

"Yea, I'm fine. Just a little tired from the drive. Where are the girls?"

"Well, as I was walking out the door I ran into the cook, I think her name's Sookie or something, and she got all excited over how cute the girls were. While we were standing there talking about our kids and her's, Lorelai's daughter Rory showed up and Sookie thought it would be a great idea for her to watch the girls so that I could take a break, so I let Rory take them out for a walk."

"So you just let some random girl that we don't know take our children on a walk around a town that we've never been to before?" I asked her as I made room for her next to me on the bed.

"Pookie, she goes to Yale. How can you not trust someone who goes to Yale?" she asked me as she sat down. She wrapped her arms around my waist and rested her chin on my shoulder so she could look down at Rose. "Unless this is some Harvard-Yale rivalry thing, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't like her." She tilted her head up and kissed my cheek before focusing her attention back to Rose. "She's so beautiful," she said as she placed her right hand on Rose's head. "Just like us."

"I know Honeybear. I know."

Our little mother-daughter-mother moment didn't last too much longer, though, because out of nowhere I heard somebody storm up the stairs and start banging on our door.

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