Life Choices, Challenges and Changes

Part II 2011

Part II

Life Choices, Challenges, and Changes

2011

A/N: Dear Readers,

Part II will take you through the first five months of Finn and Rory's relationship and the choices and challenges they faced. This section will be made up of multiple chapters with flashbacks, where you will see glimpses of their life in the present time and the changes they made.

I hope you enjoy it and continue to read my Finn/Rory story. For all of you who love Logan, and Jess I hope you won't be too disappointed in their characters in my Fanfiction.

Thank you.

Part 2

June 20, 2017

Rory had returned to the bedrooms checking to make sure her two little ones were still asleep. She never knew how long her two and half-year-old son, Liam, would sleep and if he would stay in his room to play or cry waking up his sister. They were still both asleep, so Rory tiptoed past their doors and walked back into the kitchen. She poured her second cup of coffee, decaf. Rory had promised her husband that with this baby she would not drink caffeine. Finn insisted that the amount of caffeine she drank while nursing Liam was why he was so active. She always argued with him that in Liam's case it was hereditary.

The sliding door that was off her kitchen opened, two children ran in, a beautiful little four-year-old blonde named Bella and her handsome four a half-year-old son, Lucas, with reddish brown hair and hazel eyes. Steph followed behind them with her infant son in the carrier.

"Thanks for picking Lucas up today, Steph," Rory said as she poured a cup of coffee for her best friend.

"No problem Rory. It was great to get out of the house, and Conrad is so easy. I had to pick up Bella anyway. Where are Liam and Lyn?" She asked as she sat the carrier on the table.

Rory brought out a plate of cookies that Sookie had sent up the last time Luke and Lorelai had visited. She put out two cups for Bella and Lucas.

"Bella and Luke, bickies and milk are on the table," she called to the two children.

Living with Finn and being around her in-laws, Rory had picked up the Australian names of items. Since G-ma and Finn referred to the cookie as bickies she picked up the habit.

Bella came in dressed as a Princess. Today she was Belle from Beauty and the Beast. She loved to dress up and Colin, Steph and Uncle Finn encouraged it. Luke, on the other hand, was happy in jeans and a T-shirt, preferring to be barefoot. The two came in and sat at the table.

"Lucas, how was preschool today, did you color any pictures for me or write me a story?" she asked her son as she looked through his Batman backpack that he insisted on carrying.

"Yes, I wrote a story about Da, he was flying in the water," he replied enthusiastically.

"Your father will like that story. Where is it so I can have you read it for him."

Lucas got up and took his backpack from his mom and pulled out a spiral notebook that Rory had put in there for him so that he could draw. He opened a page proudly to show her a stick figure above blue squiggly lines. The letters written in a child's hand DA were above the stick figure, and a W was above the squiggly lines. Above the water was a yellow circle. In the blue squiggly lines was another stick figure with his name above it, Luke.

He proudly brought the book over to Steph and Bella and told them his story.

"This is Da, and we are swimming in the water. Da jumped up and was flying so he could save me from the sharks. Oh, I forgot to draw the bad shark, Mama. "

He then dumped out his backpack, and his crayons came rolling out on the table. Steph and Rory just smirked as the little boy found the black crayon and drew a circle in the water with jagged teeth.

"That is a wonderful story, Luke. Your Da will love it. Let's leave it on the table so he can see it when he gets home. Let's pick up the crayons before your brother finds them."

She just finished her sentence when a naked Liam scurried into the kitchen.

Bella started laughing, "Auntie Rory, Liam is nakie again."

Lucas looked up from his drawing and just shook his head at his little brother.

"Liam Finnegan, where is your pull up," Rory asked him.

"Off," he said, then climbed up on her lap and took his hands and put it on her cheeks and kissed her. "Bickie pease," he asked her as he looked at her with his big blue eyes.

"Where's my kiss, Liam," Steph asked him.

He blew her a kiss and looked at his mother and said, "pease?"

"Come on mister, pants first, then bickie." Liam shook his head and squirmed off her lap and tried to run away from her.

Stephanie sat there laughing and said, "Rory, this reminds me of the time the boys went skinny dipping..."

Rory got up and started after her two-year-old and said, "Don't say it... little ears." and they both started to giggle.

"I mean business, Liam if you want to have your bickie we need to put on your clothes."

Rory scooped up her son and began to tickle him, bringing him back into his room she found his pull up, that he removed lying on the floor, by his bed.  Yes, the pull up was wet.  She figured it was time to begin to potty train him. Maybe she should have him start going to the bathroom with Lucas and Finn, but then she remembered Finn training Lucas.

Now that was almost a disaster, she chuckled to herself as she helped Liam into his Thomas the Train underwear, Thomas the Train shirt, and jeans.  She reminded Liam that he had big boy pants on and he had to tell Mama, Da, or Luke when he had to go potty.

Carrying Liam back to the kitchen she sat him in his high chair and strapped him in. She pushed his chair up to the table and gave him a sippy cup with his milk and cookie.

Liam looked at his sippy cup and shook his head. "No Nana's milk."

Steph looked at Rory, "Nana's milk? Is this some Australian thing too like bickie?" she asked her.

'No, it's my mother's thing. This is why Finn wants me not to drink the real coffee. Mom started to mix a little bit of coffee in Liam and Lucas milk when she watched them. Lucas doesn't like it thank goodness, but of course, Finn Jr. loves it."

"Finn Jr.? Or Rory Jr.?" Steph replied laughing.

"I remember you standing at the coffee cart drinking a large coffee then going to the next coffee cart for your second in ten minutes."

"Well yes, but..." as she mixed a little coffee in his milk and handed it to him.

Bella and Lucas had left the table. She automatically picked up Lucas's crayons and placed them in the plastic container that Liam hadn't figured out how to open yet and returned them to his backpack. Rory continued to move around her kitchen.

Steph looked at Rory in amazement. Rory was in constant motion. She had three children and was so organize and has no help. Rory could afford a Nanny but prefers to take care of her children herself. Whenever Steph asks her why she doesn't hire someone to help. Rory replies, "My Mother raised me by herself. All it takes is a schedule and the support of a good man."

Steph then looked over at her son who was sleeping in the baby car seat carrier and enjoyed the cup of decaf coffee that Rory had given her. She wished she could take everything in stride like Rory and not be so dependent on her Nanny.

Looking at Rory, she smiled and said, "Rory, coffee is what brought you and Finn together. No wonder your mini Finn loves it."

Rory laughed and thought back to that day...