A/N: See, quick update before I get killed :D. Thank you for the avalanche of reviews, you guys all rock. I know there's no way everyone is going to be happy with this chapter, but I hope you'll continue reading anyway, even if you were rooting for the other sex. Thank you again, sorry for my evilness and enjoy!
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"Congratulations! It's a girl!"
"A girl?" Rory whispered breathlessly, looking at Laura.
"Yeah." Moving her hand around the screen, she pointed at various things. "Legs and the naughty bits. Considering how much it took me to find this, I'm pretty sure she will never get naked while you're throwing a Christmas party and parade around the house."
"Tommy?"
"I don't think I'll ever be able to face my family and friends again." Laura smiled, moving the wand around. "This is your daughter." She announced, focusing the image on the fetus' face.
"Hey, baby Brett." Rory grinned, waving at her bump.
"Somers?"
"Ashley." Jess smiled. "The Sun Also Rises."
"Ava Gardner played her in the movie, didn't she?"
"Yeah, she did." Rory confirmed.
"Ok, so I'm going to get the pictures ready for you and then you can get dressed again."
"Thanks."
A few minutes later, they were back outside, Rory clutching one picture tightly, looking at it.
"This is our daughter, Jess." She handed him the picture as soon as they were in the car, still grinning. "Our healthy, nothing is wrong with her, daughter."
"Well, she most certainly is yours, considering how much trouble she gave the doctor."
"At least we don't have to worry about her becoming a porn star. And what, you had doubts that she's mine?"
"You never know." He chuckled, leaning over and kissing her. "You ok with a girl?"
"I am…so much more than ok right now. I don't care. She's healthy, everything's alright. And now I get to buy silly dresses and bows to tie her hair with when she's old enough and everything."
"Got to have your priorities straight." Jess smirked, still looking at the picture. "She's pretty."
Leaning over to him, she kissed his cheek, still smiling. "You're biased."
"I'm getting a shotgun tomorrow." He chuckled, handing her back the picture and placing a soft kiss on her lips. "Call your mom."
"I will. I'm just…everything is working out. We're married, we have the perfect house with a really good story behind it, our kid's fine…everything."
"Stop saying that, you'll jinx it and the house will fall down the second we move in."
"Now you've jinxed it." She grinned, kissing him again. "I love you."
"I love you too." He whispered back, rubbing her bump slowly with his thumb. "Girl, huh?"
"That's what the doctor said."
"Girl." He repeated, crushing his mouth to hers, smiling as she cupped his face in her hands.
"You've gone all dopey on me." Rory teased him when he pulled back, caressing his cheek. "Can I take it as a sign that you're happy with a daughter?"
"You could say that." He smirked, placing another quick kiss on her lips. "She's never dating."
"Oh, God, this again." Rolling her eyes, Rory pulled away from him, making him laugh.
"I mean it."
"Of course you do." She stuck out her tongue, fastening her seatbelt. "Go on, drive back to Truncheon, we can have lunch with the guys."
"You don't have to be back at work?"
"Work's slow today, I took a couple of hours off."
"Ok." He nodded, turning the key in the ignition when his phone started ringing. Turning the engine off again, he picked up his phone, not checking the number.
"Yeah?"
"What's wrong? Why isn't Rory answering? Is she ok? Is something wrong with the baby?" The woman's voice asked in rapid fire at the other end, not stopping to breathe.
"Lorelai?"
"Yes! What's going on?"
"Hold on, Rory's right here."
"Is the baby ok?"
"Yeah. Everything's fine." He reassured her, smiling again. Handing his wife the phone, he rolled his eyes. "Your mother."
"Mommy!" Rory yelped excitedly. "It's a girl!"
"A girl?" Lorelai grinned, her voice going back to normal.
"A girl." Rory confirmed, the giant smile appearing on her lips again. "And the doctor said everything looks great and she's healthy and Jess and I are having a daughter, mom!"
"Aw, kid, congratulations!"
"I'm scanning the pictures as soon as I get home and sending them to you."
"Scan them at work! And come back this weekend, we'll have a party!"
"We were coming anyway, we don't need a party. Is Luke there? I want to tell him!"
"Hang on, I'm just walking into the diner."
Hearing the bell ring, Rory bit her lip anxiously, waiting.
"Lorelai, no cell phones!" She heard the man's muffled voice from the other end of the line.
"It's Rory! They have news!"
"What news?"
"News! Here, talk to her!"
"Hey, Rory."
"Hey, Luke! It's a girl!"
"What's a girl?"
"The baby! It's a girl!" She exclaimed again, laughing softly.
"Oh, wow…congratulations. Everything else ok?"
"Everything is just perfect. I'd hand the phone over to Jess but he's driving."
"Send him my congratulations."
"Will do. We'll be there this weekend."
"I'm making you a cake."
"Thanks, Luke, but that's…"
"Is chocolate still ok?"
Shaking her head, she snickered. "Chocolate's good. Thank you."
"Wait a second, your mother wants to talk to you again."
"I'll see you tomorrow night."
"I'll see you then." After a short pause, Rory heard her mother's voice again.
"Ok, now that I've had coffee and can breathe again, what do you think you're doing not answering your phone? Do you have any idea how worried I was when you weren't picking up despite me calling 50 times? I don't care how old and married you are, you have to answer the phone at all times unless you want me to have a heart attack! Got it?" Lorelai ranted, trying to sound as angry as she could.
"I turned it off while I was in the doctor's office."
"And turning it back on…?"
"I forgot. I was excited. In my defense, I was actually just getting ready to call you when you called Jess."
"Well next time, don't forget!"
"I'll try not to."
"Hey, Rory…?" Lorelai smiled, her voice softening again.
"Yes?"
"You're going to have a daughter."
"I know." Rory grinned, biting her lip.
"Saturday morning, we're going shopping! We need to start this girl's wardrobe and soon!"
"Fine, but I'm storing everything in Luke's apartment until we…shoot, I forgot to tell you the other news!"
"There's more?"
"Oh, yeah! Really awesome news! Almost as good as the first thing."
"What is it?"
"We got the house!"
"Now we're definitely throwing you a party! Congratulations, kid. When do you sign?"
"Monday."
"Awesome! And moving?"
"Not sure yet, I'll call you after we talk to them. Listen, mom, we're at Truncheon so I have to go. I'll see you tomorrow night."
"I'll be the one holding the balloons."
"Bye." Turning the phone off, she handed it back to Jess who was looking at her, smirking.
"They're throwing you a party?"
"I think they're throwing us a party. Or the baby, I don't know. I'm not even sure if there's going to be an actual party or a get together with cake. Oh, and Luke sends his congratulations."
"With your crazy town catering to her every whim, she's going to be the most spoiled brat in the world, isn't she?"
"Don't worry, you can always pretend to throw in some fatherly authority."
"Pretend, huh?" He chuckled, unbuckling his seatbelt. "Sure."
"Oh, no, honey, I'm convinced that you're going to be extremely strict with her." Rory replied in a mocking tone, trying to not start laughing.
"You're paying for that one tonight, just for the record."
"Promise?" She whispered in his ear before kissing his cheek and jumping out of the car, leaving him shaking his head and smirking. A few seconds later he followed her inside Truncheon, finding Matthew and Chris standing next to the coffee machine, talking.
"No one does any work when I'm not here." He tried to sound angry, but ended up smirking, wrapping his arm around Rory's waist as she clutched her pictures.
"It's lunch break, idiot." Matt replied, laughing before turning around to look at Rory. "How'd it go?"
"The doctor said there's nothing wrong with her."
"Other than the father." Chris smirked, looking at the two.
"Wait, her?" Matthew chimed in and Rory nodded.
"It's a girl!"
"Damn it." Chris fake pouted before taking it out his wallet, handing Matt a twenty dollar bill. "Congratulations." He turned back to look at Rory, smiling. "My reaction was due to having to give this jerk money, not you having a girl. I am very amused at the thought of Jess having a daughter. Karma's a bitch, isn't it, Jess?"
"I need something heavy to throw at his head." Jess smirked.
"Whatever." Matt grinned, hugging Rory. "I'll kick the shit out of any guy that goes near her."
"Thank you."
"Hey, why does he get thanks and I get a 'sure, whatever'?" Jess protested.
"Because in the absence of an older brother, it's the duty of the uncle to be the one that keeps suitors away by scaring the living daylight out of them." Matthew tried to explain, grinning. "This way, she'll like you but she'll still be safe."
"I hadn't thought of that." Jess admitted.
"Wait, why does he get to be uncle and I don't? I can kill boys as well." Chris chimed in the conversation, an evil grin on his face.
"Because I asked first!" Matt announced proudly.
"Guys, there's no limit on who gets to be uncle. You've both earned that title a long time ago, if you want it." Rory smiled making Chris nod.
"Yes! I don't have siblings, this is as close as I'll ever get. And to be fair, you two are far less annoying than siblings anyway." He joked, making Rory smile.
"Settled then." Kissing Jess' cheek, she smiled. "Anyone want to go to lunch?"
Later that night, Rory was sitting on the couch, a pen in her hand and a notebook in her lap. Sitting down next to her, Jess smirked, kissing her shoulder.
"What are you doing?"
"List."
Reading the top of the page, he smiled. "Stuff for Brett. You've gone crazy list making mode, I see."
"It's the official list."
"What's on it?"
"What's not on it?" She laughed, shaking her head. "Everything." Handing him the notebook, he waited for him to read it, smiling.
"You're insane." He threw the notebook on the coffee table, kissing her instead. "You can get started on it as soon as we're moved."
"The camera has to be first, I want a million pictures of this place."
"You already have them."
"Yes, and even you're in some of them." Rory laughed, sticking out her tongue. "You and mom are impossible to get in a picture."
"Keeps the mystery alive." He smirked as she curled up closer to him, pulling her feet up and resting her hand on her bump.
"I'm excited."
"About the move or the baby?"
"Both. The baby is more of an excited yet so incredibly anxious at the same time thing."
"Why? Still scared it will go wrong?"
"Yes. And…this is going to sound stupid, but I really want to have a relationship like the one mom and I have with our daughter, but I'm scared I'll fail. I don't want to be like mom and grandma, always fighting."
"You won't fail." He rubbed her arm, kissing her temple. "I'm not going to let you, ok?"
"Promise?"
"Yes." Burying his face in her hair, Jess smiled. "There is no way she's not going to love you, trust me."
"Thank you." She lifted her head, kissing the corner of his mouth. "You're amazing."
"Good to know at least you think that."
"Oh, please, this girl is going to love you way more than she's going to love me." Rory smiled, kissing him again before lying down, resting her head on his lap while her fingers played on her stomach. "Girls always love their fathers more."
"You didn't."
"Different situation. Plus, I want her to. Between the two of us, we can make sure there's an impossible amount of love going your way. "
Smoothing her hair down, Jess smiled. "How about you wait until she's born before you decide which one's going to be her favorite?"
"Nope." She shook her head, grinning. "I've made up my mind. If you're going to be overprotective of us, we can love you like crazy for it."
"I am not…"
"Don't even try to argue." Sticking out her tongue, Rory laughed.
"I love you too."