Her Savior

Chapter 1

Logan was looking everywhere for her. He needed to talk to her no strings arrangement wasn't working for him anymore. He saw her on the dance floor with Robert. His "Ace" was having a good time and it was not with him. He realized he should never make her agree to this arrangement. It was finally dawning on him that he was in love with her. His Ace, he loved her.

However, she was nowhere in sight, he hadn't seen her leave, so he knew she had been around. Finally, he spotted Finn across the room and headed straight for him. Logan walked up to Finn and tapped him on the shoulder. Finn was trying to charm a redhead Logan had never seen before. Finn whipped around to face Logan.

"Finn, have you seen Rory?"

"Sorry mate, I haven't seen reporter girl in a while."

"Well if you do, could tell you tell her I need to speak with her?"

"Sure thing mate, I will."

With that Logan turned and continued to search for Rory. He was getting worried this wasn't like her just to take off. Now, he was frantic to find her.

Meanwhile, Rory was in another part of the dorm talking to Robert, he was a nice enough guy, but he wasn't Logan. Rory knew that she finally had to admit to herself that she had feelings for him when he walked in with the blonde-haired woman on this arm tonight. She just hoped that he felt the same way.

All the sudden Rory looked up and Robert was nowhere in sight. But as she was about to go track Logan down so they could finally start to be honest with each other; then it hit her like a ton of bricks, a wave of dizziness all the sudden overcame her and she grabbed on the wall for support; of a sudden she felt strong arms go around her. They lifted her up into their embrace. She felt the like there was no control over her action or reaction. Her mind fell in a foggy daze.

The next thing that Rory knew, someone was on top of her, violently forcing her to have sex with him, violating her. She finally got a glimpse of his face and it was Robert. She was in shock. Here he was, her date doing this to her. What did she ever do to him to make him do this to her? Nothing, she never spoke of her true feelings for Logan. She began to cry out in pain and anger as she tried to fight him off of her, but he was too strong for her and she just laid there limp.

She passed out only to come to seeing Logan's face; she screamed when she saw him and then, clung to him for dear life.

"What happened, Ace?"

"Robert… he raped me."

"That son of a bitch. I will kill him…." He stopped talking when he saw that Rory needed him. He quickly came back to her and held her. He let her go long enough to call up the police. He stayed there with her until the paramedics arrived and looked her over. As much as he wanted to murder Robert for doing this, he decided to go to the hospital and be by her side instead. He would let the police deal with Robert.

They arrived at the hospital; Rory was taken into an examining room and checked over. The doctor told her that he would have to do a rape kit. She knew what they meant and gave her permission to do so. The doctor performed it and gave the kit to the tech to analyze. Then, the police came in and talked to her about what happened. She told them everything, at least what she knew. She was still crying when Logan came in.

"Hey… so, are they finished with everything?"

"As far as I know, they are calling my mother, she will be her usual self and go overboard, could you stay here to help?"

"Of course, Ace, I wouldn't dream of being anywhere else." He was still hiding his love for her, but this was no time to confess them to her. She needed him there as a friend, so that was what he would be to her.

"Thank you, I appreciate it. Promise me that you won't leave me alone with my mother or my grandmother, please?"

"I promise, even if they try to kick me out, I will stay." He smiled at her and for the first time since the rape, she smiled back at him.

At that moment, in came her mother and grandmother, babbling about everything. Rory blocked them out, just looking at Logan. She nodded her head to their questions, but didn't speak, she didn't dare. She didn't want to disturb this peace that she was in. She was having visions of her and Logan alone away from everyone, yes, including her family, just laughing and hugging. She just smiled now.

Lorelai decided that her daughter didn't need her and her grandmother there, so she dragged her mother out of the room, promising to come back later. Rory was grateful to her mother for that, she just needed time to wrap around everything that happened. She was still scared and she was also nervous about being near Logan.

When she had time to think, it hit her like a ton of bricks; she had been raped and violated. She did not want to think about it anymore and definitely not speak of it. She shut herself down. She even blocked out Logan, who was only trying to help her. She went as far as to kick him out of the room, told him not to come back. Rory didn't mean it; she was still shocked and ashamed; ashamed that she allowed herself to let this happen. Wait a minute, allow this to happen. She did no such thing, she was the victim, but it was too late to do anything about it. The rape kit was embarrassing enough for her. Having someone swab her and then, scrape her, like she was just there, she had no real emotional attachment to this yet. She didn't want to. No one could blame Rory; it was her body, her attack, and her problem to fix. The only question now was how to fix it, to fix her.

She lay in the bed thinking of what to do next and she came up blank. This was something that was going to be with her for life, it was not like she fell down and got a cut, this was something more powerful, more emotional, much more than she could handle. However, she knew one thing; she had to do this on her own, come out of this stronger than ever. She just hoped that she didn't drive Logan away. She never meant to yell at him, to tell him that he was responsible for this; he was in no way responsible for this happening, she was feeling horrible, she wanted to call him, to tell him that she was sorry, but fear stopped her dead in her reaching for the phone and dialing his number. She just sat in the bed and cried; she cried for the first time, really since the rape occurred.

She was released from the hospital the next day. She didn't want to go to her mother's place, she knew better than to even think of going to her grandparents', so she went back to her little room. She locked herself away from everyone, at least other than going to school, there she acted like everything was normal, nothing was normal, but she was doing an act. She never let on that she had been violated. It was like she was a zombie, doing her work, school work, eating, very little, and getting about 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night. She knew that she would have to breakdown and talk to someone, but whom? Damn counselors would just make her talk about it in detail, her mother and grandparents would harm on her about it, so she had to make a conscience choice to seek out Logan.

She spotted him talking to Finn. She approached him and asked if they could talk. He nodded and they went to a little private spot. "First of all, I am sorry for yelling at you, telling you that it was your entire fault for what happened. It wasn't and I hope that you will accept my apology. I was just shocked and scared. I have come to realize that I do need you, as my friend, as someone to talk to, that's if you will be that someone for me."

"Ace, it is okay. I never thought that I did anything wrong. I was just hoping in the end that you would come to me, to seek me out, as your friend, that someone to talk to. I am just sorry that I did not stop it or know how to help you. I was at a loss. I am sure that you're nervous to be around men, but as a friend, just a friend, I want to hug you, to show you that this someone does care."

She said nothing, she just hugged him tight. "Thank you so much for being here for me. So, do you think that you could maybe, want to get something to eat? I am starved, I haven't really eaten much in a couple of days."

"Of course, let's get some food in you." He smiled as she did. They went on to talk and eat. He knew not to push her even if he wanted to tell her about his true feelings for her. He knew that now was not the right time.

Logan took Rory to the cafeteria to grab some lunch but as they were standing in line he noticed Rory stiffen beside him and grab his arm. He also noticed her eyes got this far away frighten look.

Her head was turned in the direction of the south entrance. He decided to turn and see what was making her act this way. Then Logan heard the voice that made his blood boil, Robert!

There he was acting as if everything was normal with his friends. While Ace was holding on to him as if her life deepened on it. In a moment of weakness Robert had taken away the Rory he knew. Gone was the witty, laughing, carefree spirited Rory that he come to know. In her place was a shell of a person.

At that moment Robert walked by them and said

"Logan, Rory enjoy the party Friday night? I know I did."

At that moment Logan lost all control of the proper manners that had been drilled into him since he was a child. It felt to him as if he was in slow monition his fist connected with Robert's jaw and he saw it snap back and Robert hit the floor and he finally reentered reality. Robert was to stunned to say anything.

Logan turns and looked at Rory

"Let's get out of here Ace, we don't need to be around this piece of low life scum".

With that they turned and exited.

As soon as they reached a place where they out of sight of anyone Rory cracked and broke down, it took all of Logan 's strength just to hold her up so she would not crumble to the floor.

She turned and sobbed into his chest. It broke his heart to see her like this. He had no clue how to help her piece her life back together. All he could do was try and clam her down.

"Shhh…. Sweetheart it's over he's gone your safe I promise".

Finally Rory lifted her head off his chest and looked at him.

"Logan how can he still be free after what he did to me,I don't understand! Doesn't anyone believe me? I mean there's proof of what he did to me. So why is he still free?"

"Ace the justice system takes awhile. I promise he will be punished for his crime."

Again, Rory began to sob.

"Come on let's go back to your dorm and pig out on junk and watch movies'.

Rory didn't speak she just nodded and Logan lead her back to her dorm.

They finally arrived back at Rory's dorm. Logan had to fish Rory's key out of her pocket. She had not said a word since leaving the cafeteria. Logan just wanted to protect her from the pain she was going through. Nevertheless, he knew he could not he just wanted to be there to help her pick up the pieces of her shatter life.

Logan led her into the living room and over to the sofa. Once she was comfortable Logan reached down and got Rory's eye to meet his. She had been looking at the ground since they entered the room.

"Hey Rory, I am going to get a drink from the kitchen you want coffee?"

Rory mutely nodded not trusting her voice now. She did not want to breakdown more then she already had. She figured Logan had offered her enough comfort for one day. She felt as if now that he was her last tie to sanity, and ser hated that. She had always been so strong, Never needing anyone. She was Rory Gilmore strong and independent it was always her against the world.

Now she did not feel strong and independent she felt weak and vulnerable like she would shatter at any moment if the wind blew the wrong way. All she wanted was to be normal again.

Logan at that moment reentered the room and noticed the silence tears running down Rory's face. Without thinking, Logan sat down and wrapped her in his embrace. Rory just curled up to him. Rory felt safe for a moment.

"Hey Rory want to watch a movies like we planned?"

Again, Logan got no verbal respond from her just a nod. Logan finally realized nodding was the only respond she could give after everything that happened today.

Therefore, Logan got off the sofa and went over to her DVD collection to look for one of her favorites he finally found it Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory the original he knew how she felt about the Johnny Depp remake. She thought it was horrible and he agreed. So he retrieved from the stack and placed in the DVD player as it began playing Rory relaxed into him, and her put her head on his chest. He was just glad that she felt safe around him.

About half way through the movie, Logan noticed Rory was sound asleep on his chest. She looked so peaceful when she was like this. So Logan slowly lifted in his arms to take her to her room.

When he entered the room and noticed that the bed had not been slept in. This worried even more then he already was. He laid on her bed. She curled into the fetal position. Logan pulled the covers up, gave her a peck on the forehead, turned, and closed the door.

"Goodnight, Ace."

Nevertheless, he did not feel comfortable leaving her alone especially after today. Therefore, he called his dorm to let Colin and Finn he would not be back tonight. No one knew what happened to Rory but him and the medical staff and her family. It was up to Rory whether wanted to tell them.

He just did not want to leave her in the state she was in without anyone around if she needed help. So he called but no one was there like he expected so he left a message.

"Hey guys I am staying at Rory's she needs me at the moment I will be back sometime not sure when."

He hung up and got the blanket and pillows they were using for movie night and laid on the sofa. All that was racing through his mind was that he loved and he was planning to tell her that night but that moment was ruined because Robert did what he did.

He knew that he would tell her sometime just not now. He would tell her when she was healed from this trauma. He knew she felt the same way he did. As Logan was drifting off to sleep he heard Rory scream.

He bolted upright and ran to her bedroom when he got the he saw Rory tangled in comforter and sheets struggling and whimpering. It broke his heart . He slowly walked over to the bed and kneeled down to push the hair away form her face because she was sweating. He leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"Sweetheart he is not here your safe I won't let anything happened to you I promise I'm here."

Rory finally calmed down, Logan not wanting to leave her again he went back out to the living room and got the blanket and pillow and went back to camp out on Rory's bedroom floor just so she felt safe.