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Sorry for not writing a new story for so long. Life came in the way. Hope you are still interested and like my new story.
He just stood in the middle of the chaos Luke´s Diner had become. He couldn´t believe what had happened yesterday. He felt numb, tired, worn-out. His mind wents to the incidents which concluded in - him having the toughest night of his life.
27. April 12 o´clock am
It was a usual day in Stars Hollow, Rory and Lorelai were at Luke´s and had ordered their lunch. The banter between Luke and Lorelai was on highlevel that day. A few empty tables were left when the two stranger men entered.
"Nobody moves! This is a robbery!" One of the two said, when the other one pulled out a gun.
Dead silence filled the room. Everybody saw the panic and crazy look in the men´s eyes.
Luke opened the cash register and took all of his money out of it.
"Give it to me!" the man screamed again. Luke didn´t want to put anyone of his guests in even more danger and so he stretched his arm when a noise behind the curtain startled him and everyone else.
"Hey, here you are." Lorelai spoke to him with soft voice. "I know it is hard for you and I know how much you care, but please come with me, so you can take a much needed rest."
"Let me alone… please!" he answered, his voice was barely above a whisper.
From this point on everything happened really fast. Rory appeared at the point where the noise came from. One of the man saw her and pointed his gun in her direction. Luke noticed it and made a movement to her. Then a bullet crossed the room…Lorelai was screaming "NO!"…and it hit Luke in the back. In the aftermath the two man grabbed the money and escaped. Lorelai run to her daughter and hugged her. Then she kneeled down and looked after Luke.
"I can´t do that Jess and you know it! Luke would never forgive me if I let you here by youself." Lorelai spoke softly again. She took a few steps to get near him. "Why?" was all Jess was able to say before he started shaking. Lorelai put her arms around him and run a comforting hand on his back. A couple of minutes went by where they hold that position. When Jess had calm down a little, Lorelai began talking again. Carefully she pointed out that he couldn´t stay in the mess the diner had become. But that he needed a point to rest and sleep. "Please come home with me…pause…we can call the hospital to reach us there. You are not in a condition where I let you alone. I know, that we had problems before but please let me help you now."
Jess was really exhausted and didn´t had the strength to fight with Lorelai at this point. But there was no way that he could go with her. His voice was tired and sorrowful when he told her: "Thanks for the offer but I can´t."
"What´s the problem?" Lorelai responded.
Jess sighed deeply and continued: "It has nothing to do with you – so can we please put this to an end?!"
"No way" she said determined. "Do you have any other options?"
She saw his defeated look. She looked at him closely and felt a pain in her heart. Sure they never were close or even on friendly terms but to see him broken like this, broke her Motherheart. She never thought, that Jess cared so deeply about Luke.
Jess interrupted her thoughts with his question. "Can I stay at the hotel, please?"
"Okay" she said unassertive. Her mind was working on high speed.
"Good!" Jess whispered.
Lorelai was never a person who gave in so easily so she had to asked again.
"What is the difference? Why are you so against my help?" Why do you want to go through this a alone?"
Jess was totally outspend and wanted this conversation to end. He hadn´t enough energie to come up with some fake explanation. All he wanted now was his peace, a little sleep and get back to Luke as quickly as possible. So he told her the truth. "Because of Rory!"
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