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Vielen Dank an alle die die Story gelesen haben und reviewt haben. Wir hoffen euch gefällt auch das letzte Chapter.

Laura und Jessi

P.S: Ich habe auch eine neue Story (auf deutsch und auf englisch, gleicher Inhalt, gleiche Story. Das Ding heißt "Through all of these years" und ich würde mich freuen wenn ihr mal rein schaut. Link findet ihr in meiner Sig )

Epilogue


Lorelai started to wake up and tried to turn around in order to fall back asleep, but something stopped her. She slowly opened her eyes and smiled, knowing it was Luke who was holding her. She felt his lips on her neck and heard a soft “Morning.”

She tried to turn around once more and this time he let her. She turned on her left side and faced him. “Morning.” After that she leaned in for a good morning kiss.

“How are you feeling this morning?” he asked her.

“Great. Better than the last few months”, she kissed him again.

“Good” he nodded and she smiled slightly as he moved a few hairs out of her face.

“You’re beautiful, you know”, he told her then and placed a kiss on the tip of her nose.

“You sure? I think I’m fat,” she protested. He shook his head.

“No. You’re beautiful.” He kissed her lips and moved his hands to her stomach. “You’re carrying my kids. You couldn’t be more beautiful” he assured her.

“Just wait until I’m nine months pregnant and you won’t fit in the same bed as me anymore,” she said, only half joking.

“I highly doubt that’ll happen. But if it does, I’ll buy us a bigger bed,” he shrugged.

She slapped his shoulder playfully. “Hey.”

“What? You’re the one who said it,” he replied, but smiled as well.

She smiled widely now as she looked directly into his eyes. “I love you.”

“I love you too Lorelai.” Then he disappeared under the comforter and she felt his lips against her stomach. “I love you, too.”

“You big old sap,” she said with a grin.

“Hey.” His head showed up from under the comforter. “I’m not.”

“Oh come here.” She carefully pulled him towards her so that she could kiss him again. “Did I tell you lately how much I love waking up next to my husband?” she asked and smoothed his hair which was sticking out now.

“Occasionally, yes.”

“Good. I don’t want you to forget.”

“I promise I won’t.” he nodded.

She smiled and closed her eyes. “I’m still tired.”

“Well, you are seven months pregnant with my children.”

“Yeah. So it’s your fault then.” She shot back.

He shook his head, but remained silent, because he knew this discussion would lead nowhere.

“What time are your parents and Rory and Logan coming for dinner?”

“Some time around 6.30. We’re having dinner first and do the gift thing afterwards.”

“Okay. Why don’t you try and get some more sleep, I’m going downstairs to see if April is awake already and make her breakfast.” She only nodded.

“I’ll come down when I wake up. Then maybe I can take April to a movie this afternoon so we won’t be in your way?” Lorelai said and yawned.

“You don’t have to leave the house,” Luke told her, it was important to him, that she knew she wasn’t in the way.

“I know. But they’re playing the great Christmas classic, Little Lord Fauntleroy, in the bookstore at 2 pm. I’d really like to see it. And I’m sure April will love it too. Rory was her age when she saw that movie the first time and we’ve watched it every year since. Until 2 years ago. Anyway, I’d love to take April if that’s okay with you.” Lorelai explained.

“Of course it is. Now go back to sleep.” He kissed her and watched her for a few seconds as she slowly drifted back to sleep.


~*~
At 6.30 pm exactly the door bell rang. April went to open it and found Richard and Emily at the other side.

“Hello April.” Emily said as she entered the house. “Are Rory and Logan here yet?”

“They arrived about ten minutes ago,” April told her after checking her watch.

“Good, good. How are you doing?” Emily asked and hung her coat up.

“I’m great. Thanks,” April replied, not a bit shy, because she had met the Gilmore’s on several occasions over the last year.

“We’re glad you’re here for Christmas. We missed you at Thanksgiving,” Emily informed her and took Richards coat.

April smiled. “I’m happy to be here too. Thank you Emily.”

“Hello April.” Richard said “How’s school going?” he wanted to know.

“Very well sir. I have this great science teacher this year. He lets us do all sorts of tests. It’s really great,” April smiled and together they walked into the living room.

“I’m glad to hear you’re doing okay April.” He smiled as he followed them into the living room.

After saying hello to everybody they all went into the kitchen for dinner. Luke prepared a big meal that would make Sookie jealous and was proud of it, which Lorelai saw by the look in his eyes. She resisted the urge to tease him and gave him a kiss instead.

“Luke that was delicious”, Emily complimented and the others nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, he’s such a doll,” Lorelai said.

“I’m not a doll’“, Luke huffed and glared at her.

“Oh baby, come on”, Lorelai said playfully and patted his hand.

“Speaking of babies, didn’t you want to announce something?!” Luke asked her, still with the same stern expression.

“Oh yeah right”, Lorelai said, took his hand, placed her free one on her belly and started to smile brightly.

“Because this is our first Christmas as a family, we though we’d let you know, who else will soon join the family, so you can start buying appropriate presents”.

“Lorelai,” Luke interrupter her, rolled his eyes, but smiled.

“Well, we thought we’d let you in on the secret of what the sex of these two are. And with sex I don’t mean the hypothetical sex they might like to have in twenty years from now or something…” she babbled and Luke groaned and gave her hand a squeeze.

“Okay, long story short: We’ll have a boy and a girl”, Lorelai then informed them and a happy chatter started, but Luke and Lorelai were too focused on staring and smiling at each other, that they didn’t hear it.


~*~
After dinner was over and all the dishes were put in the dishwasher, it was time to open gifts. Each person bought one gift for everybody and they were all placed underneath the Christmas tree. Luke and Lorelai sat down on the couch next to each other and as close as possible. Lorelai had tried to sit down on Luke’s lap, but he had stopped her and had hissed “Your parents” in her ear. Emily sat down on the couch as well and Richard sat down in the arm chair. The others sat down on the floor.

“Who wants to go first?” Lorelai asked impatiently and bounced excited on the couch.

“Stop bouncing, I don’t want these two to be born tonight”, Luke lectured her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

“It’s not like they are just going to pop out of me”, Lorelai giggled.

“Ah Geez, I know that, but just stop okay?!” Luke said and the rest laughed.

“Why don’t these two go first?” Rory suggested.

“These two? They don’t even have names yet but they already have presents?!” Luke asked.

“That’s so cool, did you hear that babies?” Lorelai smiled and patted her stomach.

“Luke feel, they’re kicking, they understood me!” she said then and placed his hand on her stomach as well.

“No, what they are feeling is their crazy mother bouncing up and down on the couch”, he said, but kept his hand on her stomach.

“See, now that was a strong kick, I bet he is disagreeing with you”, Lorelai said, leaned back and put her hand on top of Luke’s.

He smiled and kissed her on top of her head. “How do you know that’s the boy?”

She raised her shoulders. “I just do. Now how about those presents?” She looked at Rory impatiently. “Gimme, gimme!”

With a smile Rory stood up and handed one of the presents to her mother. She handed the other one to Luke.

Lorelai ripped the paper off the present while Luke took time to do it. In the end they each held a rattle. “This is great. Thank you.”

“We didn’t know the sex of the babies at the time, so they’re almost the same. I can go back and exchange it for a pink and a blue one if you like.”

“Nah. These are great. Thanks Rory.”

Rory nodded. “So, who wants to go next?”

They all unwrapped their gifts and in the end there was only one package left underneath the Christmas tree.

“Who does that one belong too?” Lorelai looked around.

Luke stood up from the couch to get the present. “It belongs to you.”

“But I already got so many presents.” She was smiling like a kid though.

“There’s one more.” He sat down next to her on the couch again and handed her the present. “This is for you.”

“Thank you.” Lorelai whispered as she unwrapped the gift. She was surprised to find a video tape inside. “This isn’t the tape with, well you know.”

“Lorelai.” Luke sighed as his face became bright red.

She smiled as she kissed his cheek. “I love it when you do that. Tell me, what’s on this tape?”

He looked down as he said. “It’s our wedding video.”

“It is? I thought the tapes were all ruined.”

“So did I. But Kirk wasn’t the only one who filmed at our wedding. I just found out a couple of weeks ago that TJ brought his video camera and filmed parts of the ceremony and the party afterwards. It’s not perfect quality but at least he took the lid of the camera.”

“Can we watch it now?”

“Of course.” He handed the tape to Rory who put it in the VCR. Logan turned on the television and handed the remote to Luke. As soon as he hit the play button Lorelai’s face filled the screen. She was standing at the end of the aisle in her beautiful white wedding dress. Then the screen turned to Luke who was waiting with the groomsmen and the bridesmaids at the other side of the aisle. The biggest smile could be seen on his face as he watched Lorelai walk down the aisle. His eyes were focused on nothing but her.

In the next shot Luke and Lorelai were exchanging vows. Her eyes were filled with tears as she promised her love to Luke and he did the same to her. When the minister pronounced them husband and wife a loud crying could be heard. It was obviously TJ.

They all laughed at this and Luke turned to face Lorelai. Her eyes were filled with tears through her laughter. She smiled at him. “Thank you so much. This is the best present you could have given me. I wish I’d given you a present this perfect.”

“But you already did.” He placed his hand on her stomach and smiled. She gave him a soft kiss and snuggled into his arms, laced her fingers through his on her pregnant stomach, where their babies were sitting safely and then looked around the room.

This really was it. Not pretend, but honest and for real this time. Her dream had come true.

The end

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