True Love And Coffee (A Gilmore Continuation)

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Logan wheeled me into the lobby of the hospital, and straight up to the counter. The petite nurse looked up from her paperwork at the two of us. Logan looked slightly disheveled, due to the fact that we had to get out of the park so fast and catch a cab here, and I was sitting in the chair, my pants still wet from where my water had broke while we were sitting on the bench.

"Rory Gilmore, checking in." Logan said to the nurse, while handing her my ID.

"My water broke about twenty minutes ago." I added, while holding my stomach.

"Okay, if you'll just give me one second, I'll get you checked in and we can get you into a labor and delivery room, and get you comfortable." She said with a smile. "It looks like you already filled out all of your paperwork at a previous visit. If people call can we tell them your here?" She continued, typing on the computer.

"Yes, that's fine." I responded.

She wrote my information on a wristband and instructed me to put it on, "Alright Miss Gilmore, If you're ready we will head on back and get you settled into a room. Sir, if you'll just follow us." She said coming around the desk. We started down the hallway to the elevators.

"Logan, could you give mom a call and tell her what's going on?" I asked, handing him my phone.

"Yeah. Don't worry about anything, I'll deal with calling everyone who needs to know." He said, taking my phone.

"What would I do without you." I said with a small chuckle before another contraction hit.

"Good thing we don't have to find out." He replied, kissing me quickly before the doors slide open.

We walked down another hallway before I was wheeled into a large corner room. In the center of the room was a twin sized hospital bed, along with a monitor that I would be hooked up to shortly, and a hospital gown was folded on the bed. On the other side of the room was, what they called, a warming station where they would clean up the baby and swaddle her before handing her to me or Logan. Then under the window was a bench seat, and a plushy looking chair.

"Okay Miss Gilmore, if you could just change into this gown, and then we can get you and the baby on the monitor." She said, helping me out of the chair. "The bathroom is right through that door."

Logan was sitting in the chair making call after call, on his phone and mine. Mom hand been the first call. After that he called Grandma, Mitchum, Honor, Lane, Paris, and everyone else who needed to know. I walked into the sterile bathroom and stripped of my clothes, changing into the gown, and pushed the clothes to the side before walking out. On the white board the nurse had written "Happy Birthday Baby!".

"Okay, so Lorelai is on her way. She's bringing the hospital bag also, since we were out when this happened. She seems relatively calm." Logan said, coming to my side to help me into the bed.

"Calm? You're kidding right?" I asked surprised.

"Of course. She's freaking out. She couldn't believe she wasn't called immediately. Oh, and she's going to call Luke." He replied.

"That makes more sense." I said.

"Okay, if you could just sit up for a minute we can get this monitor on you so we can start keeping track of baby." The nurse said. "In just a few moments the doctor will be in to check to see how far you've dilated and then we can go from there. How are you feeling on a scale from one to ten?" She asked.

"Um. Maybe about a four. I'm pretty uncomfortable but not in a crazy amount of pain." I replied.

"Okay." She said circling the number four on the white board.

"Well hello there Rory, Logan." Dr. Song said, walking into the room. "Are we ready to have a baby?"

"Almost." I said, glancing over and reaching my hand out for Logan.

"Well then, let just jump right in, shall we? If you could just move down to the edge of the table." She said.

I did as she asked, and then she proceeded to check my cervix to see how far I had dilated. "So it seems you're about four centimeters dilated currently. So now it's just a waiting game. We will check you every couple hours, and once you hit ten centimeters you'll start pushing, and we'll get you your baby. How does that sound." She asked, while throwing away her gloves and washing her hands.

"There's no other choice, so that sounds fine." I replied.

***

Mom walked into the room where I was sitting, Logan had gone to the gift shop. She dropped the bag on the bench under the window and walked over to me.

"So how's my soon to be grand-daughter?" She asked.

"She good. The doctor said I'm only four centimeters so far so I've got a ways to go." I said back.

"So she's going to take her sweet time huh?" She asked.

"Looks like it. I can't believe my water broke in central park?" I said, still embarrassed at the thought.

"Had to make a scene!" She said laughing at me.

"Come on, it wasn't funny!" I said before wincing at the pain of the next contraction.

"You okay hun?" She said stopping mid laugh.

"Yeah, contraction is all." I said as it passed.

"It'll all be worth it." She said smiling. "You'll do great."

"Thanks mom." Said smiling back at her.

"Hey Lorelai." Logan said, walking back in with a flower arrangement of a dozen pink roses.

"Logan. How are you holding up? Not gonna pass out, right?" She said with a wink.

"Hanging in there." He said setting the flowers down on the table. "How you doing Ace?"

"Okay. Another contraction just came and went." I said.

"Well, hopefully she decides to come sooner, rather then later." He said with a small smile.

***

She had decided on later. Every two hours Dr. Song, or a nurse was back to check if I had dilated any further. In four hours I had only dilated two more centimeters.

"And how is your pain?" The nurse asked.

"Mmm. Five and a half." I said, getting through another contraction.

"Okay." She said, writing it down. "If you would like I could send the anesthesiologist in to give you an epidural. The way you can get some rest." She said.

"I think I'll try to wait a bit longer." I replied.

"Are you sure." Logan asked, eyeing me.

"Yeah." I said.

"Okay. Well if you change your mind, just press your call button." She said and walked out.

It was gonna be a long night.