Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Gilmore Girls, actors, characters, plots, etc, that would be the wonderful people at WB. Although if I did, I'm pretty sure they'd be some big changes coughChadcough. Anyway if you do feel inclined to sue me, some people have strange urges and we must accept them for who they are, I'm currently flat broke so all you will get is a used textbook, on organic chemistry.
AN: Rory comes home from work one day to find her apartment ransacked and her fiance nowhere to be found. The police think he's just got cold feet, Rory is worried it might be something more sinister. But when she turns to a company specialising in rescuing kidnap victims, she might be opening a whole new can of worms, the kind best left untouched…
Chapter 1In the movies, it always starts on an ordinary day, but reality is far from fiction. Why does it always have to start on an ordinary day? There is no such thing as an ordinary day, at least not for Rory Gilmore. For her, a regular day can consist of anything from sleeping all day to jetting in from the South Pacific in time to cover the latest fashion show following it all up with a gala charity dinner and a romantic moonlight walk with her fiance. She lived the extraordinary life that could only befit a person of her social standing.
A secure job at Shine, the monthly must-read magazine for anyone who was anyone. The position was respectable, though not exactly Pulitzer prize-worthy stuff, but it wasn't as glamorous as most people thought. What she lacked career wise, she made up for in her relationship. She mightn't be the star of the world journalistic world, but she was certainly going to be the luckiest wife in America. She was engaged to one of the most eligible bachelors of their time, Mr Logan Huntzberger.
After paying the cab driver, plus a healthy tip of course, she entered the apartment building she had lived in for just two months. Technically it was Logan's apartment, but it had been getting too crazy for them to live in two different parts of the same city, but spending every spare minute with each other. They had decided on his apartment because quite simply, it was better. It was bigger, had better views and was closer to her work.
The elevator doors opened with a pleasant 'bing' and she stepped out onto her floor, the plush carpet, the colour of red wine, absorbed her stilettoed footfalls. Unlocking the door to the apartment, she hummed a random tune, making absent mental notes. They needed a new pot plant, their current one languished, half-dead in its pot, COD was over-watering. The rest of her thoughts flew out of her head when she saw the inside of the apartment.
"Oh… my… God," she whispered, she pressed her hand lightly against her throat.
The entirely place had been ransacked. The sofas and cushions were shredded. Books, magazines and papers strewn everywhere. Broken glass and ceramic shards scattered, crunching underfoot. The place was unrecognisable.
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"Logan's not answering his phone, his secretary doesn't know where he is, no one knows."
It was less than four hours since she had walked into the apartment and the frantic calls to police and building security had changed the interior dramatically once more. The place was now crawling with detectives and crime scene techs, so far they hadn't been able to answer her questions, instead peppering her with a hundred more.
As soon as she got a chance, she had called Logan or at least tried to. His mobile phone was switched off, she left a dozen messages on his voice mail begging him to call her immediately. No one seemed to be able to get a hold of him anyway. His secretary informed Rory that neither she nor anyone else in the office had seen him all afternoon.
"Maybe he's battery's flat?" Harry Johnston, Rory's boss suggested.
Harry Johnston was not just Rory's boss, he had become a fatherly figure to her. Not only that, he was Logan's second cousin and one of the few members of Logan's family who fully supported Rory and Logan's relationship. Rory had called him, hoping that he might know where Logan was.
"He recharges it every night," Rory replied quietly, it was the first thing Logan did as soon as he came home.
"What are the police saying?" her boss asked.
"It hasn't been twenty four hours yet, so they don't consider him missing yet," she frowned, remembering the conversation she had had with the policewoman, "But I get the feeling they won't be too concerned with it anyway."
"What do you mean?"
"They seem to think that Logan might have just left, cold feet or something," she shook her head slightly in disbelief, "Harry, I don't know what to do."
"Look, why don't you try to get some rest, I'll make some phone calls, see what I can rustle up."
"Thank you," Rory gave him a small smile even though he couldn't see her, "I really appreciate everything you're doing."
"I'm just doing what any friend should do," Harry shrugged off the thanks.
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The phone ringing woke her from her fitful sleep, it took her a moment to register that source of the ringing.
"Logan?" she exclaimed, hopeful and worried at the same time.
"No, it's me, Harry," came her boss's voice, and she was flooded with disappointment.
"Oh, hey," she replied, dejectedly.
"I made a few calls," he told her, "And like you said, the police aren't all that worried yet, but if you want, I know some people who might be able to help you."
"What sort of people?" she asked suspiciously, his vague reply worried her.
"I don't want to alarm you, but it's a company that specialises in finding people who have been kidnapped."
"Kidnapped?" she echoed hollowly.
"Yeah, look, I don't think Logan's kidnapped or anything, it's just that they are very good at finding people, that's all."
"Oh."
"Look, the company director and I go way back, he owes me a couple of favours and if you want me to, I can get him to send someone over to talk to you, okay?"
"I guess it can't hurt," Rory murmured, still taken aback by the thought Logan might have been kidnapped.
"Okay, well, they'll probably send someone as soon as possible."
"Alright."
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AN: As always, please review. Another new story, hopefully you'll like this one.
