"What took you so long to come back to bed?" She asks curiously, with her eyes half open.
"Colin wanted me to read him a story and he wants me and you to teach him how to eat proper"
"Why? He eats fine for a 3 year old."
"I don't know. I think he is upset because of Emily."
"Should I go talk to him?"
"He is sleeping. Talk to him tomorrow."
Weeks passed on in the lives of the Danes family. Shortly after Thanksgiving, Kelsey's agent called to let her know of a main role of a half hour comedy filmed in Hartford that she would be perfect for.
"Mommy, daddy can I audition for it!? Please, please, pleaseeeee." Kelsey begs at the dinner table that night.
"I don't know kiddo." Luke says unsurely.
"Yeah honey, I don't know. This is a big deal."
"Is that a yes?"
"And it'd take up a lot of time."
"Is that a yes?" She repeats in an exciting voice. She has no idea that luke and lorelai had already discussed it and were planning on letting her go audition tomorrow.
Lorelai grins. "Yes, its a yes. I'll take you tomorrow at 8:30 to the casting call."
"Yay!!! Thank you mommy! Thanks daddy!" She gives them both big hugs and runs upstairs to pick out her outfit for tomorrow and practice her lines that her agent had sent her for the role.
Two weeks later, her agent Carissa called her up to let her know that she got the part. That night the danes famly went out, with Carissa and celebrated. Kelsey is playing a seven year old raised by a single dad in this half hour comedy.
A month later in december, snow had fallen, Kelsey's show was filming, and everything was going smoothly. December, 12. Luke planned a romantic evening, which all the kids were in on, and he was planning on proposing to Lorelai.
"Are you enjoying your dinner?" Luke asks his girlfriend.
She smiles, looking around the perfectly lit restaurant. "Its perfect. All of this is perfect. What made you do all this?"
"I just..wanted to do something nice for you. you deserve it. Plus we won't get to do much of this in three months once you have the baby."
"Good idea. Well I love all of this."
"Good, I'm glad." He smiles back at her, then they continue to eat. Lorelai notices that Luke starts to move around a lot and is getting sweaty.
"Are you okay hun?"
"Yeah, why?"
"You're shaking the whole table with your leg." She says with a laugh.
"Oh sorry..."He stops shaking his leg. "Oh what the hell, Lorelai, there's something I want to ask you."
"Is everything okay?"
He takes her hand and smiles. "Yes..You see, I love you very much, and this past year has been great having you back in my life. I'm glad you could find it in your heart to forgive me, even though you never should have and I never deserved to be forgiven and-" He stops when Lorelai winces a little in pain. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah yeah, I'm fine, keep going." She waves it off.
"Alright, well I really just want to make sure that I'm in your life..permentaly. I love our kids and I'm going to love this baby too. I love you and I want to know. Lorelai, will you-"
"Owwww!!! Oh my god ow, Luke I think my water just broke!" She screams and starts to cry.
"What!?"
"My water broke. Why did it break! We were supposed to have three months!"
"Oh god, oh god!" Luke says and paces in the restaurant.
"Lukee!!!!"
"Hold on I'm thinking."
"Hopsital Luke!" She yells at him.
"Right, right. Hospital. Good idea, let's go!"
Lorelai rolls her eyes as Luke carries her to the car and drives as fast as he can to the hospital.
Luke gets her to the hospital as fast as possible and carries her inside.
Luke looks around and no one is coming to them.
"Can we get some damn help over here?" He yells.
"Sorry sir" A nurse says coming over and puts lorlelai on a bed and rolls her to a room
"How far along are you dear? You don't look very far" the nurse says, checking her contractions.
"7 months. Is she going to be okay?" Lorelai asks the nurse in a scared voice. The doctor that has delivered all of the Danes Children comes rushing over to Lorelai's side.
"Mr. Gear, is Madison gonna be okay?" Lorelai asks him. Luke repeats the question.
"We won't know until we get into the delievery room, right now just take Luke's hand and breath deep for me okay?"
She nods. "Okay."
Once in delivery, Lorelai had some complications and the doctor had to turn Madison around the right way before she could begin pushing. About four hours later, Lorelai was finally dialated fully and began pushing.
"Okay, Lorelai, I know you are tired, but I need you to give me one more big push" Dr. Gear says .
She nods and squeezes Luke's hand tightly and pushes.
"You can do it." he says coaching her and holding her up with a hand on her back.
About three minutes later, Madison was born. She heard her crying and immediately relaxed.
"You did it." Luke said and kissed her forehead.
"You did it." He repeats.
"You did great Lorelai. Can you please give the nurse the name for the birth certificate."
She nods. "Madison Olivia Gilmore Danes."
"Perfect, now let me personally take care of this little one and get her all cleaned up for you." The doctor gently takes Madison from Lorelai, and comes back shortly, with a perfectly pink and clean baby girl.
"Thank you Doctor Gear."
"What have I told you? Call me Frank. Your family has earned that, you keep me on my toes." He jokes and Luke and Lorelai laugh.
"Thanks Frank."
"She gorgeous." Luke says and sits down next to lorelai.
"Yeah she is." She looks down at Madison. "Hey Luke, do you think you could take Madison to the nurse and put her in the hospital nursey. There is something I need to do." She reaches for her cell phone and the hospital phone.
"Sure." He says and takes her and walks out.
Lorelai waits until she hears Luke's footsteps leaves the room. Then searches for a number in her cell, then dials it on the hospital phone.
"This is Steve, leave a message."
"Hi, its Lorelai...Lorelai Gilmore-Danes. You probably haven't forgotten my last name. But anyway, I just wanted to call to let you know that I gave birth. I thought you should know. I don't want you coming around here unless you sober up, and get some help. I want a note from a doctor and a police officer, and thats when I won't have a problem with you seeing your daughter. I believe everything little kid needs a father. She will already have a father figure in her life, but I think it would be nice for her to know her real one. My number is listed, call me after you get help....she's beautiful...and her name is Madison. Goodbye Steve." She says this message very unemotionally and hangs up. She takes a deep breath and relaxes, then falls asleep.
Luke comes back in a bit later and notices Lorelai is asleep. He covers her up and then sits down in the chair
Lorelai stirs awake about 3 hours later and is surrounded by Rory, David, Katrina, Kelsey, Brendan, Colin, Luke, and Richard.
"Hey everyone." She says in a half awake state.
"I saw my new little sister in the nursery mom, she's so cute!" Katrina says, sitting on her mom's bedside.
"Aw, did everyone else see her too?"
Katie nods "Yeah they did."
"She is adorable, Lorelai." Richard says
"And here is something for her." He says, handing her a white envelope.
She opens the envelope and sees a check for 5,000 dollars. "Dad, this is too much. You really didn't need to do this."
"Put it in a savings account for when she gets older and wants to go to college."
She smiles and gives her father a hug. "Thank you daddy."
Luke smiles, glad that Lorelai can get along with her father.
"I have something for her too, but it is back at my apartment." Rory says.
" I didn't think you were going to go into labor anytime soon."
"Believe me, neither did I. Doctor Gear says its a miracle that Madison is doing as well as she is. She's so tiny. Most babies don't survive when they are born this early."
"She is a tiny, but she made it because she is strong like her mother and she sports the baby blues well." Rory says.
Lorelai laughs, confused. "The baby blues?"
"The baby blues." She says pointing to their eyes.
"She got them from you."
"Ohh yeah, she does have blue eyes, She has very blonde hair though." Lorelai says, as you can tell that Madison's hair is going to be blonder than Kelsey's hair is.
"Another blonde one huh?" Rory says and Lorelai nods.
Rory just laughs.
"Steve has blonde hair." She says quietly.
"Oh mom." Rory says, sitting down on the other side of her, rubbing her back. "It will be his loss."
"Yeah. It is."
Rory looks over to Luke and whispers "Do something."
Luke says like what and Rory shrugs her shoulder.
"Mom, do you want me and David to go get Madison?"
"Not Yet."
"Okay, well me and David are going to go to the cafeteria. you want something?"
She shakes her head no.
They go and are walking down the hall.
"You okay?" David asks Rory.
"Yeah...I just wish there was something more I could do for my mom."
He wraps an arm around her/
"She is going to be okay. Don't worry."
"I sure hope so."
He nods and they get something to eat, going back to Lorelai's room.
"Hey you guys, did you get anything good to eat?" Lorelai asks curiously.
"I got a burger and David got a salad. Health freak' she teases, nudging him.
Lorelai laughs.
3 days later, at night, everyone was asleep. Including Madison, and Lorelai and Luke are sitting in bed waiting for the next time Madison needs to be fed.
"Hey Luke, what were you going to ask me three days ago? You know, at dinner before I went into labor?"