I'm all in
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Chapter 1: So much for sleeping….
Lorelai swung open her front door, and walked in. She had just gotten back from the worst date of her life and all she wanted to do now was go to sleep and forget that it ever happened.
She threw her jacket on the couch and made her way upstairs, forgetting to lock the door like usual. It was Stars Hollow after all and nothing bad every happened….right????
After her routine of getting ready for bed was finished, she jumped onto her mattress and relaxed on top of the soft comforter and pillows. She was so tired, she fell asleep within minutes, forgetting to get under the covers.
Outside her house, lingering in the shadows, he watched her enter the house. After he was sure she couldn't see him, he slipped onto her front porch, and then a while later, let himself in.
He knew she was asleep, because all the lights had been turned off, and the music that she had on when preparing for bed, was turned off. Finally, he was ready to get his revenge on the woman who broke his heart.
Lorelai turned onto her side, and smiled as she dreamed. She had always been a deep sleeper, so anything including an earthquake or a tornado couldn't possibly be able to wake her up, much less a stalker. And that bad habit of her not locking her doors just made it so much easier for him.
He crept into her room. The door was open. Yet another easy thing to make his plan work out better. Basically, all he had to do was show up and come in. In this town, nobody suspected anything like this could ever happen, so they all came to the conclusion that safety wasn't as important a matter as what food to buy, what house to choose, or what breakfast to eat.
He carefully, grabbed the gun out of his back pocket. Lorelai groaned in her sleep and then turned onto her other side. The side facing him. At first, a rush of guilt hit him. Thoughts about how he could kill such a beautiful woman ran through his head, but he pushed them aside. He came here to do one thing, and he would never back down. Not after what she did to him. Playing with his heart like that. A heart is not something to mess around with. His heart had been beaten badly ever since he was younger and now he had, had it. Enough was enough. Little did he understand though, that Lorelai, unlike all the other people in his life that messed around with him, was just some person looking for her one true love. He didn't qualify for that, so she had to let him down, but she never meant anything by it. She would never do anything intentionally to someone to destroy their lives. That just wasn't Lorelai.
Once he was done reminiscing about their relationship, he raised the weapon high and aimed it at her head. Lorelai laid there, defenseless. I guess the only good thing about this situation was that she didn't know what was going to happen to her. It was better then being strapped down, knowing your life was going to end.
Amazingly, though, just as he pressed his finger down on the trigger, Lorelai's eyes shot open. It wasn't the sound of his breathing that woke her, nor was it the sound of him breaking into her house. It actually had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with Luke. The dream she had ended quickly after she watched her best friend, get stabbed in the side by an unknown figure. When she saw what was going on in the real world, she screamed and sat up. "Wh..what's going on????" That was all she could get out before the gun went off and the man bolted out the bedroom door. Lorelai looked down at the mass of blood before her. It was dark, but she could still see and feel everything. However, if she hadn't of woken up, and hadn't of moved as quick as she did, that bullet would have nailed her right in the head, killing her.
Ignoring the pain and worry that her life would soon be over, Lorelai tried to stand up out of her bed. To her surprise, she was a lot stronger then she thought she was, and she made it all the way down the stairs. Her attacker was long gone, but she wasn't concerned about him. Just getting to the phone.
When she reached her destination, she dialed in the first number that came to her head. 911, of course. But the line was dead. How could that be, she thought. After looking down, she realized her wire had been cut. "Oh, God…" She moaned, as she used any object near her to help her get back into the living room. She wasn't exactly sure what to do at this point, or where she was going to go, but she knew she had to do something. She grabbed her keys off the table and got herself out the door, down the steps, and into the car. Then she started it up and drove off.
He injury wasn't bad, but it was getting worse. The bullet probably hit somewhere near the lower abdomen, but she wasn't going to check. The sight of blood didn't exactly gross her out, but a lot of it did. Especially now.
It took her only a few minutes to get into the main part of the town, and she stopped her car when she saw some hope. Luke's Diner wasn't open, but the light was on. She could hear the sound of his little television and she could just make out his image sitting in one of the chairs. She pulled the car to a stop, got out, and ran to the glass door, banging as hard as she could on it.
Luke, who was watching the game, jerked his head back to see Lorelai standing at the door. Actually, she wasn't standing, she was kind of leaning over. This got his concern, and he raced for the door. When he opened it up, Lorelai was hunched over, grabbing her stomach. Blood on her hands, and all over her pajamas. "Luke, I…." She started.
His eyes almost popped out of his head. "Oh my God, Lorelai…" As he said this, her legs weakened greatly and her body threatened to fall over. And without Luke being there, she just might have, but his strong arms immediately picked her up off the ground and he carried her inside, placing her on top of the nearest table. "Luke…" She tried again, as he left her there. But it was only to retrieve the phone to call 911.
"It's okay, I'm coming back. Just hold on. He dialed in the numbers and waited impatiently for an answer.
"Yes, what's your emergency?" The woman on the other line asked him.
"Um…I think my friend's been shot."
Lorelai listened as much as she could. She heard Luke give the address out and she heard him hang up, but she sort of missed the beginning of the conversation. Nothing was really making sense anymore. The pain was too intense now and she was starting to wonder if she would die. "Luke…" She called out again.
"What? It's okay, I'm here…don't worry." He ran back into the kitchen and got a rag out from one of the drawers. He hurriedly wet it down with some hot water and ran back to Lorelai.
"I think…I've been shot…." Lorelai continued, this time, her eyes were closed. She looked as if she were asleep and having a bad dream.
Luke let out a little laugh. "Yeah, I think your probably right." He agreed with her as if she were a child. He knew she was struggling to stay conscious, so her thought process was probably not doing so well. It was understandable that she's be a little confused, and disoriented about what was happening.
"No…" She shook her head. "No….I'm…I mean yes, I was…" She swallowed hard, trying to get her words out. "Shot…" She finished her last sentence. "Some guy…some guys was in my room." She explained.
"Do you know who it was?" Luke asked her as he tended to her wound. He lifted up her shirt, after moving her hands out of the way first. Then he carefully and slowly dabbed the warm washcloth onto her stomach. Lorelai winced from the pain.
"No…no, he was there…and…and he left after you died….." Everything was making perfect sense in Lorelai's mind, but Luke didn't have the slightest clue as to what that meant. But, that wasn't unusual. The same thing happened when she was completely well and conscious. He just tossed that to the side of his mind, and focused more on her bleeding. She seemed to have lost a lot of blood, but it had slowed down a bit. Which was good…maybe. Luke could only hope that his friend…his best friend, would be alright. It was at the moment, up to him on whether she would live, so he would do his best until the paramedics arrived. "Luke?" She asked.
"What?"
"Thanks." She told him gratefully.
"For what?"
"For, this. For…being…here. For…helping…me."
Luke shook his head. "How could I not?" I love you, he thought to himself.
Lorelai let out a little smile, and opened her eyes back up. He stared into them. Never before had he got a chance to witness just how blue and angelic they were. Oh the things he would give to see those two eyes stare at him like they were now, every day of his life.
But before he could stare any longer, sirens were heard outside of the diner. Luke quickly got into action. "They're here, Lorelai. Your going to be okay."
"You know, you've…been saying that so much. I'm staring…to get worried. Is it…really that bad." She struggled just to complete a sentence.
Luke smiled with tears in his eyes. "Lorelai, you've been shot."
"Thanks for the update…."
Luke shook his head. "Your welcome. Now, come on." He lifted her up into his arms and carried her outside. There, the paramedics had gotten a stretcher out, and they helped him put her down on it.
"Can I ride in the back?" He asked one of the men.
"Yeah. Is she your wife?"
"No, um…just a friend. A good friend." He explained.
"Okay, just hop in the back after we load her on then."
Luke did what he was told. He watched them strap her down to the stretcher, put an oxygen mask over her face and then put her in the ambulance. People around the town started coming out to see what was happening. Sookie being one if them. "Luke! What happened?" She yelled.
"Lorelai was shot." He told her. "Don't worry. She'll be okay. I'm riding with her to the hospital…unless you want to."
"Yeah, of course." She replied, shocked.
Luke really wanted to go with Lorelai, but he knew having Sookie there with her would be better for her. "I'll inform everyone else. You go with her."
Sookie gave him a quick hug and then got into the ambulance. Looking at Lorelai, she started crying. She grabbed her best friend's hand and sqeezed it tightly while the paramedics did their job. Lorelai seemed to have lost conscience.