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A/N: The last chapter, an epilogue. Finally! If you have stayed with me during these long periods of hiatus, I thank you so much. If you read this and enjoyed, thank you for reading and I'm glad my random thoughts entertained you. If you read this and reviewed, I thank you even more! I love reviews, so thank you so much for that. And now on to my very favorite chapter of all… (drum roll please)…the epilogue!
Epilogue
"Mommy, they're here!" Lily cried.
"Lorelai!" Rory exclaimed, coming into the living room. "Do you want to put your brother and sister back to sleep?"
"No," Lily said sheepishly.
Rory smiled. "Then don't shout."
"They're here!" Lily whispered, just as excitedly.
Rory full out laughed. "Well, don't just stand there, silly. Let them in!"
Lily raced to the door. She flung it open. "Hi Nana, Pops, Aaron and Emma. Nice to see you. We have to go now!"
Rory rolled her eyes following her daughter. "Good heavens, girl! They haven't even stepped inside yet."
"But we have to start movie night!" Lily protested.
"Excited, isn't she," Luke said, stating the obvious.
"She's been like this all day!" Rory explained. "She's barely been able to contain herself."
"Well, maybe this will help," Emma said, giving Lily a book they had just bought on their way over. Lily was exactly like Rory and Emma in the academic department. Rory finally appreciated the difficultly her mom had with her.
"Thanks!" Lily said, barely looking at it. "Can we go now?"
"How are the twins?" Lorelai asked.
"Jon and Amanda are fine," Rory answered. "More work than this one ever was, if you can believe that. Jess is up with them right now, but they should be almost asleep."
"I have to go take a peek at them," Lorelai declared.
Lily gave a loud groan and walked into the living room to plop on the couch. "We'll never get out of here."
The rest of the group followed her into the living room and Rory laughed. "Patience is a virtue."
Luke raised his eyebrows and looked at Rory. "And exactly how many Gilmore girls have patience?"
Everyone in the living room laughed and Aaron turned to Lily. "You've got it easy, Little One."
Lily wrinkled her forehead. "How do you figure?"
"You know the rule, right?" Emma asked.
Lily nodded her agreement. "Of course. The Saturday night of the week you turn five you get a movie night."
"Exactly," Emma agreed. "Your birthday is today, Saturday, which means you get a movie night tonight, right away. Aaron and I turned five on a Sunday and I had to wait a whole week to get a movie night."
"I remember that," Rory said. "I didn't think you'd make it through the week."
"It was questionable," Luke concurred.
"Why couldn't you just get a movie night the Friday night before you turned five?" Lily wondered. "Oh, right, Friday Night Dinner. Well, why not Thursday?"
Rory and Emma both gasped.
"The rules," Aaron and Luke intoned in bored voices.
"Rules!?" Lily exclaimed. "There's more than one?"
"Oh, yes," Rory said.
"It's a rule that no Gilmore girl gets a movie night any time before she turns five no matter what," Emma reminded Lily.
"And the first rule of movie night is that you don't disrespect the rules of movie night!" Rory told her daughter.
Aaron quickly threw in his two cents. "It's stupid."
"Don't listen to him," Lorelai said, coming down the stairs with Jess behind her. "Movie night rules are almost as important as coffee!"
"That's stupid too," Jess stated. He knew how excited Lily was about movie night but he had to try his last resort. "You know, Lily, you don't have to go with them tonight. You don't have to participate in movie night. Aaron, Luke and I are going to be watching a good baseball game."
Lily's eyes slightly lip up. "Who's playing?" She really did like baseball. That was the one and only way she was different from all the other women of her family.
"The Mets and the Yankees," Aaron answered.
Lily bit her lip. She loved the Yankees! "Oh, I hope the Yankees win…but I'm going to movie night!"
Lorelai, Rory and Emma cheered.
Rory looked critically at the boys. "Are you sure you can do this?"
Jess sighed. "Rory, honey, I promise you we can take care of the babies for one night."
Rory furrowed her brow. It wasn't that she didn't think they could take care of kids because she knew from experience there was no trouble there. Her real worry was the time. She wasn't sure they would wake up when the babies cried and she could come back home tomorrow to find all the boys asleep and both babies screaming.
"Don't worry about it," Lorelai soothed her daughter. "They can do it."
"Easy for you to say," Rory mumbled. "They're not your kids."
"I left Aaron and Emma with Luke plenty of times and they're still alive," Lorelai told her daughter. "And if Luke can do it, so can Jess."
Luke looked at the other men in the room. "Was that a thinly veiled insult?"
Aaron laughed. "I don't think it was 'thinly veiled,' Dad."
Finally Lily couldn't stand all this small talk anymore. "I don't mean to be a nag, but can't we pleeeeease leave!"
Rory laughed. "I guess we'd better, before you explode all over the place. I hope you guys have already picked out the movies, I don't know if she can stand that."
"Of course we have," Emma assured Rory. "We have the standard first movie night movies with the standard first movie night junk food."
"Don't kill my daughter," Jess warned Rory.
Rory rolled her eyes. "No Gilmore has ever died from a movie night and no Gilmore ever will."
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"Now that you know the rules," Lorelai said. "We will explain to you why we picked the movies."
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," Emma began, sitting down in a chair.
"Not to be confused with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Rory quickly threw in, sitting on the couch beside the littlest Lorelai.
"This was picked because every Gilmore girl over five needs to see the Oompa Loompas," Emma explained.
"Oompa what?" Lily asked.
"Oh, Rory," Lorelai sighed in mock horror.
Rory rolled her eyes. "Mom has a thing for the Oompa Loompas. She's trying so hard to get another girl to have a thing for them. She was so disappointed in Emma and me. I don't think you'll have a thing for them either. Don't worry about disappointing her."
"Rory!" Lorelai exclaimed. Emma and Lily just laughed.
"The next movie is Pippi Longstocking," Lorelai said. She had picked the standard movies when Rory was five and they had yet to change. "It would be a crime to have any Gilmore girl over five stay a Pippi virgin any longer than necessary."
"And the last movie is Casablanca," Rory told Lily. She knew these standard movies by heart and was so excited for her daughter to join in the Gilmore tradition. "Because every Gilmore girl turning five has to experience a true classic."
"Three movies?" Lily questioned. "Isn't that a lot?"
Lorelai, Rory and Emma again gasped.
"Oh, honey," Lorelai sighed.
"This is tame for a movie night," Emma explained.
Lily's face broke out in a smile and she bounced on the couch. "I love being a Gilmore girl."
Rory's smile was a perfect imitation of Lily's, and her mom's as well. "We all do. And I'm so glad I get to share this tradition with you."
"Enough of the mushy," Lorelai declared coming over to sit on the couch as well. "Everybody start squishing. Movie night will begin in five, four, three…"
Okay, if you read my last story, you know that this epilogue starts exactly the same way the last one did, but it deviated almost immediately. And for all you lovely reviewers that wanted Rory to have twins…she did! It just took a little while. I just wanted to give her a little Gilmore girl first; I kind of wanted it to be similar to my first story as well, and Lorelai had twins second, so I decided Rory would too. I hope you enjoyed my epilogue and I hope some of the things sounded believable. I like the idea of Lily liking baseball, even though no other Gilmore Girl does. Also, I thought long and hard about these three standard movies and I know they didn't actually have them (did they?) but if they did, I think these would be the ones they would pick. Anyway, if you read, if you liked…if you didn't…leave me a review? This is going to be your last chance so…