Saturday morning was spent at Lorelai and Luke's house, Lorelai had got caught up with wedding plans now she had been giving the green light by Luke, her excitement was contagious, even Jess and Luke were looking at the catalogues across the floor of the living room.

"What colours should we have?" Lorelai had been asking questions and then dismissing everyones answers for hours. "Is pink too girly?"

"You can have pink if you want." Luke didn't sound enthusiastic about that but he replied the same way he had for hours as well.

"So, no on pink then."

Jess and Rory had both given up trying to make decisions with her but found it amusing to watch Luke continue trying.

"Purple, less girly?"

"Sure, whatever you like."

"Ok, you give me a suggestion for a colour."

"It's your choice to make, I really don't mind."

"Rory, what do you think?"

"How about green mum, a nice light green."

"Ah, green, it's perfect, Luke?"

"I like green."

"Anything I should know before we go in there?" Rory and Jess were walking over to Liz's house for dinner, she found herself feeling nervous about what could be awaiting her in there.

"You'll be fine, Liz has already told me how much she approves of me making this work again so you have nothing to worry about. You're lucky I managed to talk her out of cooking for you though." He was glad it had made Rory smile at least, he could tell she was a little nervous about the dinner.

"We've fit a lot of family visits into a short period of time."

"Don't worry, this should be better than my lot at least."

Both of them were laughing as they neared the door. Jess reached up and knocked on the door, they heard yelling from behind the door and Rory saw Jess looking uncomfortable as they heard it continue after he knocked, he reached up and knocked louder, glad that the shouting came to a sudden stop, they both pretended not to have heard anything when Liz answered the door.

"Hey, you guys, come in, come in. Dinner shouldnt be long."

Jess could see tears behind Liz's eyes but decided not to pry, he found them arguing a lot lately but Liz clearly didn't want to talk about it yet. He would find out really quick when it came time that she wanted to talk. They both walked into the house and saw TJ sat in an armchair.

"Hey Jess, and Rory. How you doing?"

"Fine TJ, you?"

"Aw, I'm doing fine, getting lots of work nowadays, contracting keeps me busy."

"I'm sure it does." Rory could tell Jess had no time for TJ. "Where's that sister of mine anyway."

"She's in her playpen in the dining room, figured we would be in their most of the evening."

"Come meet her?" Jess looked at Rory now, he really just wanted an excuse to get out of conversation with TJ.

"Sure." Rory never felt confident in her skills with babies.

She watched as Jess bent over the playpen to get his little sister, she looked so fragile in his arms but he held her carefully. She just stood by the doorway as she saw him bounce her on his hip and making popping noises with his mouth at her, little Doula was laughing manically at him. It was good to see Jess with her, he was surprisingly great with the baby and seemed completely comfortable with her on his hip.

"Come here and meet her?"

Rory walked towards them and put out a hand, Doula grabbed hold of it and squeezed hard enough that Rory winced slightly but she didn't pull away. Jess moved closer to her and moved Doula so Rory could get hold of her. It was easier than she thought it was as she took the baby onto her hip, she bounced her like Jess had, even though she wasn't held by Jess anymore she still looked up at him as she laughed and kept hold of one of his hands. Liz came through with the dinner to see them like that.

"Hey, how is she doing?" She moved forward to see her in Rory's arms. "She likes you."

"Really?"

"Yeah she usually doesn't let strangers hold her, without screaming anyway." Rory was surprised at that, she seemed like such a calm child. "Come sit down and eat."

The foursome sat down to eat, conversation flowed but was interrupted by small arguements between Liz and TJ which Jess tried to ignore, as soon as he finished he turned back round to Doula, he liked coming to see his little sister.

"Do you guys want to put her down to bed, you can read her a story if you like, she looks pretty tired though so it might just take laying her down?"

"Yeah sure. Want to come?" Jess answered and looked towards Rory for confirmation that she wanted to join him.

"Of course." Rory got up as Jess bent to get hold of Doula and followed him upstairs to her bedroom.

Jess put Doula down in her bed gently and covered her with a small blanket. Both of them turned towards the door as they heard arguing from downstairs again.

"I'm sorry about them, they argue a lot."

"It's alright."

Jess settled in to sit down next to Doula and picked out a small book from a pile close to the bed, it was a picture book about horses, he flicked through it showing her the pictures while reading the story out loud to her, she seemed to have heard it and close to the end she was dozing off. Jess finished the story and stood up next to Rory as Doula sarting breathing deeply.

"You're really good with her."

"Well, she's a good kid."