Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own these characters. If I did, I would have never let Rory walk away from Logan's proposal and they would have had at least 2 or 3 babies during the revival.

A/N: It is just a new story I am kicking around. I haven't written for a really long time, but I just feel like this story is jumping out of my brain. Please let me know what you think and if you want me to continue.

She sat there and stared at the little white stick in her hand. Two pink lines blazing against the yellow background. How did this happen? How did her life end up like this? She was a planner! She made pro-con lists about every important decision in her life! So how was she sitting in her mother's bathroom, at the age of 32, unemployed, broke, and pregnant with Logan Huntzberger's baby; who by the way was engaged to someone else and living in London. They had been safe, at least she thought that they had been safe, she had drank quite a bit that night, but they were always careful. . . but none the less here she was, pregnant and she had absolutely no idea what she was going to do. She knew one thing for sure, abortion was not on the table; despite the fact that it would be a relief to not be in this situation, the long term mental guilt and anguish from terminating the baby that was growing inside her, a baby that she had conceived with the great love of her life, would kill her slowly every day for the rest of her life. Sure, she was all about a woman's right to choose, she always had been, but actually being in the situation and despite being terrified of the future, she just knew that would not ever be the choice for her.

She slowly picked up her cell phone and dialed her best friend's number. As she waited for Lane to pick up, her stomach was in knots and her head was spinning. Finally, after the 4th ring, just as she thought it was going to go to voicemail, Lane answered breathlessly.

"Hey Ror, whats up? Sorry it took me a second to get to the phone, Kwan's ipad died so he decided to use MY phone to continue to play his games." She rambled quickly into the phone. "oh the joys of motherhood, where everything that's yours is theirs and everything that is theirs is theirs…"

"So, speaking of motherhood. . . ." Rory interrupted her ". . .I think I may be pregnant"

She was met with a long pause on the other end of the line, followed by a deep breath "OK, wow, so. . . why do you think you may be pregnant?" Lane asked, trying to remain calm and be the voice of reason. She could only imagine how many things were going through Rory's head at this moment.

"Well, I haven't had a period in 2 months and I took 5 pregnancy tests, and they all said positive" Rory replied, her mouth dry and her hands shaking; she knew her voice was higher pitched than normal and it sounded like it was on the verge of cracking. "But they can be wrong right? You can have a false positive? I mean I have been really stressed lately, so that is probably why I haven't had my period. . . and maybe I just have some type of hormone imbalance which is why I have been moody and it just triggered a false positive, OH! I think I read somewhere once that if you have some type of tumor or something that it can produce hCG and give you a false positive. . .omg I have CANCER, I am not pregnant, I am just dying. . . which I guess isn't really any better but at least now I don't have to call halfway around the world and tell the man I have loved since I was 19 years old that I am pregnant, I just have to you know tell everyone I have cancer. . . that will be terrible, you know the whole having cancer thing but at least I am not pregnant. . ."

Lane took that moment to jump into the rant that was quickly spiraling out of control "Rory!" the incoherent rant continued "Rory! Stop! You don't have cancer! And you don't know for sure that you are pregnant yet, although most signs are pointing towards the fact that you are. Lets take a deep breath. . ." she waited a second to hear Rory take a breath on the other end of the phone, "okay, so lets take this one step at a time, okay?"

Rory responded with a weak "Okay, step one I guess was to buy a pregnancy test and take it. . . so I guess we can cross that one off the list. . . wow I feel accomplished already" she trailed off feeling herself about to slip into another rant. Luckily, Lane took control of the conversation again.

"Okay, so step number two is going to be scheduling an appointment with your doctor to confirm your pregnancy and get you some pre-natal vitamins and an initial checkup to make sure that you and my future niece or nephew is healthy."

Rory felt the anxiety starting to well up again in her stomach. Making a doctors appointment made it so real, so final. Once she made that appointment and they came back and told her that she was pregnant, that she was going to be a mother to a tiny little baby boy or girl, it was real; there would be no more pretending, no more freaking out, she would have to put her big girl pants on and start getting ready to have a baby. . .alone. "Okay, I can call them right now and set up an appointment." She paused for a second and sighed again, thinking about how much she didn't want to do this by herself, how much she wanted someone there with her when she received what was supposed to be glorious news, but in actuality was far from glorious. "Lane, will you go with me? I don't think I can do this by myself and I don't want to ask my mom. She has so much going on with her wedding coming up, and she has been very vocally against this whole situation I have had going on with Logan, and I just need someone there, someone to be excited when I get the news, someone to be excited for me because I know that I am not going to be able to be excited, but this precious innocent baby inside of me deserves to have someone be excited for them, please?" She stopped talking, and waited for the answer, already knowing what it would be. Lane and her had been best friends for as long as she can remember, she knew that there was not a chance in the world that she would not be there next to her, but she still had to ask.

"Of course I will be there! I wouldn't miss it for anything; and while you are still processing all of this, I will be happy for that little baby inside of your belly until you are in the place where you can be too. You are my best friend Rory, you always have been and always will be, and I will be here for you every single day as much or as little as you need me." Lane started to tear up a little bit, thinking of how scared Rory must be. She remembered when she and Rory found out that she was pregnant almost 10 years ago and how terrified she had been; but, Rory was there and she held her hand and she listened to her freak out. Now it was her turn to be there for Rory.