After being Stars Hollow for two weeks, it was time to go back to the hospital for a check up. Lorelai managed to get on the bus without difficulty, just like she had before.

As she sat on the bus, she looked around curiously, wondering if any of the faces might help jog her memory, what she didn't know was that just a few rows behind her, her daughter, the forgotten daughter, was sitting there.

Rory noticed a bruised, broken and unsteady woman getting onto the bus. She caught a glimpse of her face when she came on. For some reason the woman looked familiar, but she couldn't place her. Seeing her from behind didn't help much either because it was hard to tell one person from the next.

Perhaps it was all the stitches, bruises, and casts.

Maybe it was the heartbreak of having your mother just run out on you, leaving you behind.

It had blocked out the physical features of her mother, leaving Rory unable to put what seemed like such a simple equation together.

Wanting to stare, Rory sat there on the bus hoping that something would help her figure out who this woman was. Unable to stare for more than 10 seconds, feeling it was too rude to do so, she continued wondering just who this mystery woman was.

Once the bus got to the hospital, Lorelai got off in a staggered fashion and made her way toward the hospital doors.

Unnoticed by Lorelai, Rory too exited from the bus, determined to find out who she was. Rory kept a respectable distance but continued to follow with intent and a desire of knowing.

As Lorelai walked in, the pain in her stomach came back with a sudden sharpness, this time it was worse than before. She double over and let out a scream from the pain.

Rory paused "What's wrong with her?" she wondered. Not knowing what to do, she waited to figure it out.

There were now tears in Lorelai's eyes as the pain grew in intensity.

Lorelai could barely walk now let alone keep herself upright. Her body, unable to cope with the pain any longer, forced her to pass out. Luckily she was out of harms way. Rory, who was following behind, ran forward, blowing her cover to try to catch this woman before she hit the ground but she was too far away.

Rory missed her by a mere few feet.

Lorelai fell to the ground, unconscious once more.

Rory called for help, while making sure Lorelai was okay. The nurses who came out were the same ones that treated Lorelai before when she came in from the crash.

One of them shouted "Get me a crash cart, quick!"

As the doctors and nurses rushed to aid Lorelai, Rory watched in horror thinking that maybe she shouldn't have gotten off of the bus. Should she have just minded her own business and not done anything at all?

When she was just about to leave, one of the nurses asked if she knew the woman.

Did she?

Could this mystery woman be her mother?

Perhaps it was just a long lost friend.

These questions ran through her mind like wild hippos.

A/N: Hey guys. Hoped you liked this chapter. Please Review. It lets me know what you guys think of the story. Like if its good or sucky or horrible or anything at all. Yes I'm impatient but thus is life. And yes once again tell your aunts, uncles, best friends, hell even your pink poodle and get them to read this. You might think the show is better, but always be up for new things and ideas. Its something that my mother has always said. Eh on another note, my college is doing a production of The Triangle Factory Fire. Let me tell you how interesting and odd that play is. Its all about the fire of 1911 in New York that killed 146 people in about a half hour to 45 minutes. Makes you think that life is always open to knew things and ideas. For you never know when it will be your last!

-Grace-