Lorelai Gilmore walked into her house with pizza in hand. However, to her shock her house was overwhelmingly still. Normally her sixteen year old daughter would have been sitting there on the sofa working on her homework as music blasted through the whole house. But, Rory wasn't sitting there today. "Rory I'm home and I have pizza!" She yelled as she walked down the hall to her daughter's room to find it empty too. "Rory where are you?" Lorelai asked herself softly as she walked across the hall to the bathroom only to find it empty to. She walked back into the living room as her heart raced she ran up stairs. "Rory this isn't funny. You're scaring me. Rory!" She yelled as she walked into her room to find it empty. She grabbed the phone off her night stand and quickly dialed a number.
"Hello." Luke's annoyed voice said on the other line. Tears had started running down her face as she looked out her window.
"Luke, Rory's gone. I got home and she not here." Lorelai said through her tears as she walked back down stairs.
"I am on my way." Luke said as panic set in his voice before he hung up. Lorelai just sat on the sofa and let herself fall to pieces. Her kid never would run away. Or would she? Did Lorelai miss something? She thought she knew Rory better than anyone. It seemed like no time passed at all before Luke was bursting through her front door.
"Luke how did you get here so fast?" She asked as she looked up at her hero in fannel. If anyone could find Rory it would be Luke Danes.
"This is Stars Hollow." He said softly. "And I speed as fast as I could." He replied as Lorelai got up and wrapped her arms around him.
"Why would she leave?" She asked through her tears.
"Did you two have a fight?' Luke asked as he pulled away from her and looked right into those soft blue eyes of hers. It killed him to see her in so much pain. She just shook her head and barely managed to get the word "No" out of her mouth. "Did her and Dean have a fight?" He asked, but Lorelai did the same thing as the first time.
"Not that I know of. Rory tells me everything or at least she used to." Lorelai said with pain in her voice. Luke thought to check the voicemail just to see if she left Lorelei a message. Sure enough Rory's voice filled the house in a simple message.
"Mom I'm sorry but, I have to go. Love you." Lorelai couldn't believe that was all her daughter had to say. She practically dropped to the ground. She would have if Luke wasn't there to catch her.
"Why? What could have possibly made her leave?" Lorelai asked softly as she looked at her long time friend before the sound of another voice came out of the answering machine.
"Miss. Gilmore. It's Doctor Parker your test results came back positive." Lorelai remember enough of how scared she was when she found out she was going to have Rory that she pieced it together in her head. However, it still seemed unreal to her. "I'm going to kill him. He hurt her." She said as he sorrow turned to anger. It took Luke a minute to figure out what she meant.
"You don't think… she couldn't." Luke said as the two sat down on the sofa.
"She is." Lorelai said as looked at the floor. Her mother was right. Rory was just like her. What about Chilton and Harvard? "She's not going. She's not graduating. She's just like me." Lorelai said as she answered her own question out loud before the tears came back. Luke just sat there holding her as she sobbed most the night.
The next few days were the worst. People just keep talking as word spread throughout the town. Somehow Luke managed to get her out of the house just three days after her daughter left. She just sat at the counter of his diner listening to the whispers. She was getting ready to leave when Dean stopped her. She blamed him for Rory leaving. "Lorelai I need to ask you something." He said as he looked at her. For a moment she felt bad for him, he almost looked as bad as she did.
"What?" She asked him as she stabbed him to death with a fork in her head.
"Is it true that Rory is … pregnant?" He asked whispering the last part. She just nodded her head as her heart dropped. The more she said it the more it became real.
"I can't believe this." He replied as his head dropped.
"What that you're going to be a dad?" She asked in anger. She couldn't believe that her daughter would ever let this idiot touch her.
"It's not mine…we never…you know." He replied softly as she saw the pain in his eyes.
"Oh." She said softly.
"Sorry." He said before he walked away.
"Luke I will be upstairs." She said as she looked at him.
"Why?" He asked from across the room.
"I don't want to be in that house." She said softly before disappearing into the back.
The next day Lorelai found herself standing in the Chilton parking lot waiting to talk to Paris. Once she saw her she ran after her. "Paris." She said as she caught the young girl by the arm.
"This is about Rory isn't?" Paris asked as she looked at Lorelai. Lorelai just nodded as she looked at the her daughter's friend…if you could call her that. "You want to talk to Tristan. He is the one who told me she left." The young blonde replied.
"How did he know?"
"She called him… he's the father." Paris said softly as Tristan walked passed.
"BIBLE BOY GET BACK HERE!" Lorelai yelled as she ran after him. "Where is Rory?" She asked as she caught up to him.
"I don't know." He said as he looked at her. For the first time Lorelai saw emotion in that boy. "I love your daughter and I want to find her. You don't know how much I just want to hold her in my arms right now. But, Rory…if she doesn't want to be found…she won't be." He said before he walked away.