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Lorelai felt the bullet hit her in the stomach, and she looked down, before falling backwards into Luke's arms.
"Hey, hey. Stay with me." Luke said as they fell to the floor, and Rory ran over to them and watched as Chris was placed into a police car and drove off.
"Make sure that.. that Liz knows who I am. And that you're all happy." Lorelai said, and Rory shook her head.
"Liz is going to know who you are because you're going to be there." Rory said, and smiled with a nod.
"I'm just so tired, Rory." Lorelai confessed as her eyes began to close.
"Lorelai, stay awake okay?" Luke said, and she looked at him with absolute love in her eyes.
"I love.. I love you so much." Lorelai gasped out, and her eyes began to close, and they fluttered open when Rory begged her to stay.
"He got arrested. It's over. We're safe." Rory nodded, knowing that her mom was too tired to carry on like this, and she was doubtful that the ambulance would get here on time.
"You're- you're safe." Lorelai said, and smiled at her daughter, before looking back at Luke one last time, before her eyes closed, and just as they did, an ambulance pulled up behind them. They lifted Lorelai onto a stretcher, and placed a mask on her, before putting her in the ambulance and controlled the bleeding, Rory got in the car with TJ, Liz and her sister, and Luke got in the ambulance.
They arrived at the hospital at the same time, Lorelai was rushed into emergency surgery for internal bleeding, and the family sat in the waiting room.
"I'll go and ring grandma." Rory said, and went to the phone on the wall.
"Hey grandma, it's Rory."
"Hello, is everything okay?" Emily asked.
"No. It's mom. You need to come home. Christopher shot her." Rory told her, and Emily informed her that she was on her way, before the line went dead.
Rory walked back to everyone, and sat next to Luke, who was starting into space, and when she looked at him, she saw that he was covered in her moms blood, that it was all over his hands from when he tried to slow down the bleeding coming from her abdomen. It was all over his top from the way she collapsed onto his lap. Rory then looked away from him, and caught Liz's eye, who didn't understand what was going on while she sat on TJ's knee as the other Liz walked over to Luke.
"Hey big brother, maybe you should go and wash your hands." Liz said to Luke, who looked down to his hands and saw the blood on them.
"Yeah." He said simply, got up and walked to the men's toilets.
Luke looked down at his hands and removed his wedding ring and washed the blood off his hands. Whilst washing his hands, he stared at the wedding ring, the ring that Lorelai's placed on his finger while they were in Italy. Happy. Now he's sat in hospital, because the love of his life had been shot and was in surgery. And he didn't even know if she was alive. Luke looked back to his hands and realised that the blood was gone. Luke turned off the tap, and took a deep breath as he placed his wedding ring back on his finger, and walked out. And as he walked out he saw Emily running in, and towards Rory, who then saw her grandmother coming towards her and stood up, embracing each other as they took in what was going on.
"How is she? Where is she? What happened?" Emily asked Rory, and Rory was about to speak when Luke came over, Emily then turned to face Luke, and she smiled sadly at him, and he returned the same smile, before taking a seat next to his sister, as Emily sat next to her youngest grandchild.
"Grandma!" Liz beamed and TJ passed her over to Emily.
"Hello Elizabeth." Emily smiled, and sat Liz on her knee.
"Do you know where mommy is?" Liz asked her, as everyone else refused to answer the question when she asked them.
"Well, right now mommy had to go away, but hopefully, she'll be coming back soon." Emily smiled sadly.
"But where did she go?" Liz asked her.
"She was in some trouble, and right now, people are helping her." Emily told her, and Liz looked at her grandmother, before looking at everyone else and noticing how sad they were.
"Did she go away with Grandpa? Is that why everyone's so sad? Because she missed her daddy and wanted to be with him?" Liz asked innocently, and Emily couldn't speak.
"No dear." Emily managed to choke out. "And I hope she doesn't." Emily continued, and Liz rested her head on Emily's chest and closed her eyes.
After what seemed like forever, and doctor walked over to the family.
"Family of Lorelai Gilmore Danes?" A doctor said, and almost the entire hospital looked up. There was, Luke, Rory, Luke's sister Liz, TJ, Emily, Jess had showed up not long ago after Rory rang him. There was also Sookie and Jackson, who came as soon as word spread through town.
"Well, we managed to stop the internal bleeding in the abdomen, but while we were in surgery we noticed that she had some severe head trauma, and a major concussion, so this has caused her to fall into a coma." The doctor informed them, and everyone's face fell, and hearts broke.
"Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Being in this coma will mean that her body has time to recover in the way it needs too. We are planning on a full recovery. But, in some cases like this, sometimes the body has gone through so much trauma, that it shuts down, causing them to become brain dead, and in every case it's a possibility. But for now, have hope, there's a 75% chance of a full recovery. She's lucky." The doctor said, and Emily walked over to him.
"Can I see her?" Emily said.
"Who are you to Mrs-" the doctor began, but Emily cut him off.
"I'm her mother and I want to see my daughter." Emily said, growing frustrated.
"This way." The doctor said, and Emily handed Liz over to Luke, who took his daughter and held her tight as she watched Emily walk away.
"Is she going to see mommy?" Liz asked her dad, looking up at him. And Luke didn't know what to say? What if he says yes, and then she dies?
"She's gone too see if she's ready to leave Grandpa yet." Rory saved him, and Luke smiled sadly at Rory, and she smiled back.
"She'll be okay right?" Rory asked him, and he put an arm around her.
"I hope so kid." Luke told her, and Rory let her tears roll down her face as they watched Emily freeze at the sight of her daughter as the door swung shut.
Emily walked over to her daughter, who had a tube down her throat that the doctor informed was helping her breathe. Emily walked over and pulled over a chair and sat next to her daughter and grabbed her hand. Tears falling down her cheeks.
"Lorelai, it's your mother." Emily said, and took a deep breath before continuing.
"I don't know if you can hear me- but, I'm so proud of you, and everything you've done. You've raised a bright young woman, and I know you're little Elizabeth would like you to raise her like you raised her sister." Emily told her daughter. "So, if this is the only time you'll listen to me, then please wake up. Come back to us, Lorelai. You're the glue." Emily said, a cry hitting the end of her sentence, and Emily brought her daughter's hand up and rested her forehead and cried silently.
"We've just started a good relationship, don't leave me now." Emily said, and kissed her daughter's hand.
"I love you my sweet girl." Emily whispered, and slowly let go of her hand and walked out, holding her head high as she walked over to everyone.
"Luke, go and see her, I'll go after you." Rory told him, and Luke nodded and walked into the room Lorelai was in, and sat in the chair. He stroked her cheek, and then held her hand, kissing it.
"Hey, I don't know if you can hear me, but, I hope you can." Luke said, holding her hand with both of his. Pressing it against his lips.
"Liz's asking for you. She doesn't really understand where her mom is, and I don't know how to tell her." Luke said.
"She'll need you, Lorelai, because I can't do this by myself. She needs the mother daughter bond that you and Rory have. She'll need a mother to talk to about things you don't talk to a dad about. And Rory, she's going to need you for a lot longer than this." Luke said, and wiped the tear that escaped his eye.
"And I, I need you, Lorelai. I'm not ready to loose you yet. So come back to us. Come back to me." Luke begged, and kissed Lorelai's hand once more, before taking a deep breathe and standing up, wiping his face before walking out, letting Rory know she could go in.
Rory walked in, and began to cry silently as she walked over to her mother.
"Hey mom." Rory said, placing her hand over her moms.
"I'm not ready for you to leave me yet, okay? So you don't get to leave me." Rory said, and looked at her mom, who was pale, who had a tube down her throat. Who had a bruise on her eye, and a scale on her cheek.
"I'm sorry. About everything. And I know it's not my fault but I'm just sorry. I'm sorry that this happened to you." Rory told her mother.
"You just come back to me when you're ready. But you come back." Rory said, and rubbed her hand over her moms and turned when the door opened.
"Hey, Sookie and Jackson are going to take Liz but Sookie was wondering if she could see your mom before she goes?" Emily said, and Rory nodded, wiping the tears that fell down her face.
"Yeah, send her in." Rory said and Emily nodded and walked out the room.
"I'll see you later mom." Rory said, and walked out the door as Sookie walked in.
Sookie took a deep breath and sat in the chair that Rory had not long left and stared at her best friend.
"I miss you already." Sookie laughed, shaking her head.
"I know it sounds ridiculous, but- I do. I've had you by my side for the last 15 years, I was there when you first met Luke and started freaking out and I was there when you ran into the kitchen screaming because he kissed you. I was there through everything, and it's just weird you know? I always thought you'd be there, next to me. Making things better with your awkward jokes at uncomfortable times." Sookie said, and a tear fell of her cheek and landed on her hand that was holding Lorelai's.
"I need you Lor, okay? So don't you leave me." Sookie laughed painfully. "I won't accept it." She told her, and kissed her hand gently before standing up, taking one last look on her beaten best friend, before kissing the top of her head.
"I'll make sure they're all okay, I promise." Sookie said, just in case she could hear her. She should know her family will be okay. She then walked out the door, and towards everyone, who were sat on in the waiting room. Rory had fallen asleep on Jess' shoulder as he read, and Luke was comforting a confused and tired Liz.
"I'll take her now, let her get some rest. Should we come by tomorrow, let her see her mom?" Sookie asked, picking up a fussy Liz from Luke's lap.
"Yeah, yeah. I think that would be good." Luke said, and Sookie nodded, and she and Jackson said their goodbyes and took a crying Liz out of the hospital.
"Lorelai is in a suite, so you can all go and sit in there if you'd like?" A doctor said when he came over.
"Yes we would." Emily said, and began to walk to her daughter's room. Rory began to wake up, and looked around and when she saw the doctor she immediately thought the worst.
"Is everything okay?" She asked, and Luke nodded.
"Yeah, Lorelai's in a suite so we can all go and sit in there overnight." Jess informed her, and she smiled slightly. And the three of them walked in, as TJ and Liz left awhile back.
The next morning, Rory was being woke up by her name being called. Opening her eyes, she saw Emily asleep with her head on the bed, her hand in her daughter's, and Luke was asleep in his chair, his hand holding Lorelai's other hand, and she realised that she was asleep on Jess' lap.
"There's a Paris Geller here to see you." The nurse informed her, and Rory quickly got up, and hurried out the room and into her best friends arms.
"I'm so glad your here." Rory said, and Paris hugged Rory back.
"I heard about it this morning in class, when I was handing in all your work you'd gave me last Friday. Woah, everything's changed since then." Paris said, and Rory agreed.
"I've just lost my grandpa, I can't loose my mom as well, not within almost a month between them." Rory said, and Pairs smiled at her.
"Your moms strong, Rory. She's fighting in there. Anyway, I came to bring you this weeks work, I assume you're not coming back for the rest of sophomore year?" Paris said, and Rory shrugged her shoulders.
"I mean, right now, probably not. But you never know." Rory said, and Paris nodded.
"Well I have to get back to school, I'll come back later?" Paris said.
"That would be great." Rory told her, and took the work Paris handed her before watching her leave, before heading back into the room and noticed that everyone was up.
"What's all that?" Jess asked his girlfriend as she sat next to him.
"Just this weeks work Paris handed me." Rory answered, and Jess laughed.
"Just today's work? That's more work I've done in the four years I've been at school!" Jess said and everyone laughed.
"No, it's this weeks class work and home work, along with Paris notes." Rory laughed, and Jess just shook his head.
"It's mad how much work you do." Jess said, looking at the huge pile Rory had planted on her knee.
"Why don't you to go home." Emily said to Rory.
"I can't, what if she wake up. I want to be here." Rory said.
"Rory, go home. Do your work, and come straight back. I promise to call if there's any change." Emily said.
"You can't go home. I mean, you can leave the hospital. You just can't.. go home." Luke said.
"What? Why?" Rory asked.
"Well, TJ went round last night and it's a real mess. The bathroom door is on the floor. There's blood on the floor. Doors have been smashed. It's a real mess. I don't think it's something you'll want to see." Luke told her, and Rory took a deep breath as she imagined Chris dragging her mom around the house.
"Head to my house." Emily said, and Rory and Jess left, hand in hand as Jess tried to comfort Rory as tears fell from her eyes.
Back in the room, Emily looked at Luke.
"Is the house really bad?" Emily asked Luke.
"I haven't seen it, but from what TJ's told me, it seems like it." Luke told Emily.
"You should really go and see if, try and get it done before she wakes up and is released." Emily said, confident that her daughter will wake up.
"Yeah, I think I will. You'll call if there's any news?" Luke confirmed, and Emily nodded, before looking back at her daughter, and with one last look at his wife, Luke left the room and headed to the house.
Emily looked at her daughter, and stroked her cheek.
"How you doin' in there?" Emily asked, tapping her lightly on the temple. "I miss you." Emily said, and kissed her daughter's hand, before sitting back in the chair, closing her eyes, her hand not leaving her daughters.
Once Luke arrived in town, he was bombarded with questions.
"Luke how is she? Is she okay?" Babbete asked as her and Patty followed him.
"She's in a coma." Luke informed them, and Patty gasped.
"She's strong, she'll wake up." Patty said, and Luke smiled sadly at them with a hum.
"I'll keep her in my prayers!" Babette said and her and Patty turned the corner, and Luke walked into the front yard of his house.
When he reached the front door, he hesitated before opening the door, and walked in. The first thing he saw was the couch that had been knocked over, he then moved into kitchen, and saw that there was blood on the wall. Luke closed his eyes and breathed, before opening them again and walking upstairs. As he was walking upstairs he noticed blood on the banister, and he looked away and carried on. When he reached the landing, he saw that the bathroom door was completely off its hinges, and on the floor with blood marks on it, and as he walked into it, he realised that's this where she was when he rang him, because her phone was on the floor. He picked up her phone and turned around and headed out the bathroom and into their room, where the door had a huge hole in and a knife on the floor. He noticed a smashed ornament on the floor. He walked over and picked the pieces, and decided that he'd clean everything up before heading back to the hospital, so, just like Emily had said to him, when Lorelai wakes up, she'd go back to a house that wasn't the mess she was attacked in.
After about two hours, Luke was finally done with the house, and he headed back to the hospital. He headed into Lorelai's room and smiled as he saw Emily holding her hand as she slept. Luke walked in and sat in the chair on the other side, and as he was about to close his eyes, Rory came in with Liz in her arms.
"Luke." Rory said, signalling for him to come outside.
"Everything ok?" Luke asked as the door shut behind him.
"Liz wants to see Mom." Rory said, and Luke's heart broke as he saw the innocence in Liz's eyes. Luke nodded and opened the door and Rory walked in and Liz got out of her arms and towards her mom. Liz stopped walking when she was that grandma was asleep. Liz poked her playfully and Emily awoke with a start.
"Hello Elizabeth." Emily said, and Liz raised her hands asking for Emily to pick her up and place her on her lap, and Emily did.
"Is mommy sleeping?" Liz asked Emily in quiet tone and everyone looked down.
"Yeah, she's getting some rest so she can come back to you quicker." Emily told Liz, and she nodded before looking at her mom, tilting her head to the side in confusion.
"Daddy what's the thing in mommy's mouth?" Liz asked. No one knew what to say.
"It's to help her breathe." Luke told her.
"Why?" Liz asked, and Luke smiled slightly. The age with the 'whys' has arrived.
"Because she needs it." Luke answered.
"But why?" Liz asked, and Rory laughed slightly and Luke sighed.
"Because she's hurt her head and so she has to sleep, but when she's sleeping she needs to breathe, the tubes helping her do that." Luke explained the best he could.
"Yeah but why?" Liz said.
"I don't know." Luke said with a laugh, hoping that she'd drop it.
"You don't know? Why not?" Liz asked him, and as Luke was about to answer her, and doctor walked in.
"We're going to have to ask you to leave whilst we examine her, I'm sorry." The doctor said, and they all nodded and stood up and Liz looked up and the doctor and tilted her head.
"Why?" Liz asked, and everyone laughed and left the room.
After about ten minutes, the doctor walked and towards the family.
"Signs are still looking good. There's sadly been no change in her condition, she's still in the same position she was three days ago. You can all see her now." The doctor said, and they all thanked him and sat back in the hospital room.
"I'm thinking I might go back to school tomorrow. You know, get back to normal so when she wakes up it's like nothing changed." Rory said.
"I think that's a good idea. Get your mind off everything. And you've missed a lot recently." Luke told her, and she nodded in agreement.
"Why don't you go back with me, and come back tomorrow after school. Luke will be taking Liz home soon and visiting hours are only all night on a weekend." Emily told Rory, and Rory nodded. Rory kissed her moms head.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Rory said, and left with Emily, and Luke stood up and told Liz to say night to her mom.
"Night mommy. See you tomorrow." Liz said, and Luke kissed his wife's head before stroking her cheek.
"Come back to us." He whispered, and he picked Liz up and left the hospital, and headed home. The first night in three days that's they'd been staying in the house after everything that happened.
It had been over two weeks since Chris shot Lorelai, and she still hadn't woke up. Luke, Emily, Rory and Jess were sat in her room like they all did everyday Saturday. Rory had started back at Chilton, and her school life and work was back on track, and she was once against in the running for top of her class with Paris. Luke had started running the diner again during the week, and everything was back to the way it was. Or at least, almost all off it. All that was missing was Lorelai, and the longer she stayed unconscious, the more worried the doctors became. As everyone sat and talked, and a doctor walked in, and looked at them with an expression that made everyone's heart fall.
"What is it?" Emily asked.
"The x-ray showed that Lorelai has developed a bleed in her brain, which is causing pressure on the mussels, meaning that if we don't operate, there's a high chance of brain death in the next 48 hours." The doctor informed them, and everyone in the room hearts broke.
"What happens if the surgery goes wrong?" Rory asked.
"There's always a high chance of that, and if that does happen, your mother will die on the table." The doctor told her, and Jess placed his hand in Rory's and she entwined their hands.
"So, you operate, and she could die on the table, but if you don't operate, she'll be dead in the next 48 hours?" Luke asked, and the doctor nodded.
"But, if the surgery goes the way we hope it will, she'll be out of the coma, and should wake up within two hours after the surgery." The doctor said, and everyone looked around. Luke and Emily made eye contact and made an agreement.
"Do it." Emily said to the doctor, and the doctor nodded, signalling to the surgeons outside the room to come in, and they all watched as they wheeled Lorelai into the operation floor.
"She'll be okay." Jess said, and everyone nodded, and they all went and sat in the waiting room.
It had been five hours, and Rory had fallen asleep on Jess' legs, spread out across a row of chairs, and he gently ran his hands through her hair, and from across them Luke smiled at them.
"He really loves her." Emily said, and Luke nodded in agreement.
"He does. She's really helped him." Luke said, and Emily smiled at the way Jess protected Rory from all the pain with one simple touch.
"How long has it been?" Emily asked.
"Five hours." Jess replied sleepily as he woke up.
"And how long did they say?" Emily asked again.
"Seven." Luke said, and placed his head against the wall behind him.
"This is torture." Emily said, tapping her hands on her thighs.
"She's gunna' die." Rory said quietly, and only Jess heard it and she sat up slowly.
"No, she's not." Jess told her, and Rory stood up and walked off, and Jess hurried after her.
"Hey. What's wrong?" Jess asked her.
"My moms going to die!" Rory cried.
"No, she's not. She's strong. She'll make it through this." Jess told her.
"No, it's different. I have this feeling in my gut that somethings not right." Rory cried and Jess held her in his arms as she cried, the fear of loosing her mother overwhelming her.
"Lorelais made it through so much, she can make it through this." Jess said, trying to comfort Rory, before they headed back.
The next two hours felt like forever. Everyone was sat in the waiting room as they fidgeted, comfort ate, paced. Then a doctor came and everyone rose from the seats.
"We managed to stop the bleed, but during the surgery there was a complication which caused us to loose her, and she went without oxygen for over five minutes, we managed to bring her back, and finished the surgery. Shes been moved into the ICU, where she'll be for the next hour, as we watch her carefully, and if we feel like their will be no complications, we'll move her back into the visiting suites and you can see her." The doctor said, and they nodded.
"So if in an hour she's perfectly fine, she should wake up today?" Rory asked.
"That's the plan, yes." The doctor said, and with a nod, excused himself. They all sat again and waited a bit longer, but they were no longer as worried as they were seven hours ago.
An hour later, Lorelai was moved back into the suite and they all sat and waited for her to wake up.
"She's goin' to wake up right?" Rory asked.
"Yeah." Jess nodded, trying to give the family hope, and before they all knew it, the last nine hours caught up with them and they were all asleep.
Lorelai felt her eyes open, and she looked around, her body felt paralysed, but she moved her fingers slightly and looked to her left to find Luke asleep in the chair next to the bed, a smile graced over her face and she poked his arm. He gently woke up, and looked at Lorelai and his eyes widened.
"You're awake." He said, and his words awoke Rory.
"Mom? You're awake! Grandma, moms awake!" Rory shouted, waking everyone up.
"How you feeling?" Luke asked her, and she coughed slightly before Emily passed her a drink of water.
"Sore." She laughed, and smiled up at Luke.
"I'll go and get the doctor! I can't believe it!" Rory said, and dragged Jess along with her happily.
"I'll give you two a moment." Emily said, smiling at her daughter before leaving the room.
"She's been there the whole- how long has it been?" Lorelai asked.
"Just over two weeks." Luke nodded.
"And she's been here? The whole time?" Lorelai asked, not believing that the woman who never had time for her when she was a child had spent all the time at the hospital.
"Yep." Luke nodded, entwining their hands.
"I missed you." Luke said, and kissed her lips gently, and Lorelai smiled as they parted.
"Glad to see you awake, now, we're going to have to run a few more tests now that your concussions, and the police will want to speak to you. Okay?" The doctor said, and Lorelai nodded.
"Yeah, that's fine." Lorelai said quietly, and as the doctor requested, the family left the room and left Lorelai with the police, explaining to them what happened.
"So, what's the first thing you remember?" The police asked her.
"Ever? Or just that night?" Lorelai asked.
"Just that night." The doctor told her.
"Well, I was just about to leave for work and I guess he came through the window, because there was a bang upstairs and I checked it out, and he was stood in my daughter's room." Lorelai told them.
"Okay, and what happened after that? Tell us the events. We'll stop you if we have questions as you speak." The police said, and Lorelai nodded, clearing her throat before she spoke.
"Well, he chased me down the stairs and pinned me against the wall by my neck and then when I got away he followed me up the stairs, throwing me onto the floor. He lay on top of me and before he could do anything I hit him over the head with an ornament and I managed to run back down the stairs, and grab my phone." Lorelai said, taking a deep breath.
"When he had you pinned to the floor, did he sexually assault you in anyway?" The officer asked.
"No, he just kissed me before I stopped him." Lorelai said, and the officer asked her to continue.
"I hid in the bathroom, and that's when I rang my husband. And then he broke down my bathroom door and dragged me into my eldest's daughter's room and tried to assault me again, but the police sirens stopped him and that's when he dragged me down the stairs and into the yard before shooting me." Lorelai said, not really remembering all that happened to her.
"And that's all you remember?" The officer asked her.
"Yeah." Lorelai nodded.
"Well, thankyou for your time, we hope you make a full recovery. We will let you know what happens with Mr Hayden." The officer said, and they left the room. Lorelai placed her head back down on the pillow and cried silently. What had her life come too?
HEY! what would you guys like to happen next, let me know your ideas! I could use some! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review!
It might be awhile unti the next upload, I'm currently writing it, but I'm not really sure I like it and keep changing it! After this 'shooting' part of the story is over, I could really use some ideas. Would you all like fluff? Some more drama? Let me know. Thanks again. -M xo