Authors Notes: This Chapter deals with some serious stuff, so proceed with caution. Ever since I started writing this story, I always kept thinking about this Chapter. I know it's very controversial, but that's what mostly FanFiction has to offer. You can go look on Glee's stories and see Stories about rape and Suicide, so please no hate on this Chapter.
Also, please go read my new Story about Glee and The X-Men.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Glee in any form what so ever
BETA CREDITS: Raynesake, go read Different Kind Of Sport, it's a very fun Blam story
RECAP: Rory had a very fun birthday with Sam. They went to Six-Flags, but Rick was there and he scared Rory a lot so they left. Then they had a steamy time in bed, and then they went to the school to end of one his best birthdays ever. Two days later, Rory could see someone walk into the school when Sam heard gunshots go off.
Chapter 15: Where Is He
Columbus, Ohio, 2022
Rory shifted in his bed in pain. Why would he though? Today was one of the worst days of his life, or the anniversary of it. Also the hotel room that he was staying in had a rock hard mattress, so Rory didn't get that much sleep.
Rory shifted up in his bed and ached in his back pains. The only thing that could help him now was either Advil or ibuprofen. The Irishman got out of bed, walked out to his suit case, and doused three pills of Advil. Then Rory started to think back to that day, and all the pain that was caused by it. After that day, Rory would never be the same. His personality didn't change at all, but his perspective of life did. A lot of his dreams that he wanted to accomplish during High-School and college were crushed after that day.
Rory put on a shirt and some pants, and then started to pack up his things. Yesterday, he had a meeting in Columbus, Ohio, and now he would be on his way back to Lima. Rory finished putting his clothes and toiletries in his bag, but then his phone rang. When Rory looked over to see who was calling him, he smiled a little bit. Because Sam Evans was calling him. "Hey Sam," Rory said as he put the phone up to his ear.
"Hey Rory, how you feeling?" Sam asked. Rory didn't even have to ask what Sam was referring too. Because Sam got hurt on that day too.
"What I always feel on this day: Alone."
"I get that, I feel the same too. Do you want to meet for lunch when you get back in Lima?"
"Ye sure, I'll see ya then," Rory said as he then hung up the phone. He didn't care if Sam was hurt by Rory doing that. He didn't care what anyone thought today. Because today was his day. His day for everyone to feel sorry for. His day to grieve and mourn in sorrow. His day to eat a bunch of ice cream and cry. His day to remember, when Rick Nelson shot up McKinley High-School.
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Lima, Ohio, 2012
The first two gunshots went off five minutes after the lunch bell rang. They were back to back, so one knew what to expect when they went off. Sam just thought they were doors slamming, but Mr. Shue thought otherwise. "Guys spread out and hide, don't be near the windows," Mr. Shue ordered.
Sam and the rest of the Glee kids sorrowed around the edge of the Choir room in a scared state. Just like Sam, the New Directions didn't know what was happening. They were just scared, until the next gunshot happened. This one was further away, but it rang in Sam's ears afterwards.
"Guy I want you to start texting people, probably your parents, but don't let them know we're here," Mr. Shue explained. Sam had never let go of his phone since he had just texted Rory. Sam unlocked his phone and immediately saw Rory's name. Rory, where is he? God I hope he's okay.
Sam- Are you okay I'm in the choir room and we're on lockdown
Sam waited for a Rory to text back. He didn't take his eyes off his phone gunshot went off, followed by another one. Sam jumped a little while he was siting, and then he looked back at his phone. No response from Rory.
Three more gunshots happened in the span of ten minutes. Mr. Shue and the Glee club just sat there in complete silence. No one wanted to say anytime to put them in danger. Eventually Sugar and Brittany started crying. Sam wasn't sitting next to them, but he watched as people comforted the girls.
"I'm counting fifteen who are we missing?" Mr. Shue asked as he counted the kids again. Everyone looked around confused as they tried to figure out who was missing.
"It's Rory," Sam said as he tried to not get emotional, but it started to become too much for him. All eyes went directly towards Sam, who put his head down so they wouldn't see him get emotional.
Finn was sitting right next to Sam, and he put his hands on Sam's shoulder. "Hey Sam I think he's fine. He probably ran to a classroom as soon as the gunshots happened," Finn whispered.
Sam moved his head up and looked at Finn with teary eyes. "God I hope so."
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Lima, Ohio, 2022
Rory had a quiet, twenty minutes' drive back to Lima. All he did was think about that day ten years ago. That's what he for majority of the anniversary. It was all the same, what he remembers, what the Glee club remembers, and what happened after that. It always ended up with him getting sad, but not emotional.
Rory drove his way around Lima until he parked outside Breadsticks. It had been ten years since Rory first entered Lima, and Breadsticks was still the main restaurant. The Irishman walked inside and found Sam siting at a both in the back right. "Hey Sam," Rory said as he sat down on the other side.
Sam said hi back and they quickly ordered. Over the past ten years, Sam and Rory had memorized their orders, and each other's. "How are you feeling?" Sam asked once the waitress left with their orders.
"Oh I feel alone and sad, I always feel this way."
"It's okay to feel that way. Up until the five year anniversary, I was feeling guilty."
"Yeah but that was five years ago, today is the ten year." Rory looked down at his jeans in sorrow. He didn't feel like crying right now.
"Hey Rory look at me," Sam said. Rory looked up at the Blonde to see him moving his hand out. "We all suffered that day, and we all take grief in different ways. It's okay to feel sad on this day." Rory put his hand on Sam's. The Blonde was always the best cheer up Rory in difficult times. Especially on this day, but Rory wasn't feeling that much sorrow. Sure he was feeling sad, but there was also guilt, pain, and grief going through his brain.
"Can we just talk about other things?" Rory asked. Sam nodded and Rory continued talking. "How's Chase?" Sam smiled and began to talk about Chase. Rory smiled while he listened to Sam talk about the kid. Rory and Sam spent the rest of their lunch talking about happy things. Sam didn't care what they talked about, but Rory was trying his best to get his mind off everything.
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Lima, Ohio, 2012
Thirty Minutes had passed since the last gunshots went off. In that time, they heard Rick walking around and yelling. "I will find you fags. You can't hide for long," Rick would yell out as he banged on things.
Sam spent the time worrying about Rory. He kept talking about him as some of the other Glee kids were crying. "God where is he? He won't respond to me what's going on with him. I really hope he's okay."
"Sam I'm sure he's fine. A teacher's probably not allowing him to text you back. Everything will be alright when this is over," Finn said as he tried his best to comfort him. Rachel, Blaine, Mike, and Mercedes was also sitting next to him, and they too were trying his best help him. But Sam wouldn't listen to them, he was trying his best to get into touch with Rory.
Sam- I really hope you're okay Rory we're fine in the choir room but we're thinking about you constantly as soon as this is over I'm going to find you
The next sounds that were heard were heart-wrenching. Because Rick was walking right next to the Choir room. "Here a group of fags I've always wanted to shoot," Rick said as three gunshots were shot at the right door. Sam and the others screamed at the shots, and then it sounded like Rick was trying to break into the Choir room. Thankfully, Mr. Shue had locked the door, but he never barricaded it.
"Finn, Puck, Sam I need your help barricading the door hurry," Mr. Shue said in a scared tone. Sam quickly stood up and pushed a red speaker right next to the door. Finn and Mr. Shue moved chairs on top of the speaker, and Puck moved a desk in front of the other door. They did their work in silence, and it looked like it worked. Sam sat back down in his spot next to Finn and Mercedes. Rick kept trying to break into the Choir room, but he never did. So instead he shot a bunch of bullets into the choir room.
Some bullets hit the chairs in the back, while one hit the window. Another one hit the drums set and caused some sparks to fly, all while the glee club was screaming. Sam closed his eyes and thought to himself. Dear Lord I pray for Rory's safety. I pray that he is okay in another classroom and I pray that he is worrying about us. Finally, I pray for our safety against Rick's shooting. With all respects, amen.
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Lima, Ohio, 2022
"Well I hope you're doing good Rory. Mike and I are thinking about you and that day," Tina said while she and Rory were talking on the phone. After lunch, Rory went back to his apartment and that's when the old Glee club members started texting and calling him. Quinn and Mercedes said that they were praying for him, while Blaine and Kurt said that they mailed Rory a gift to help him with the sadness. Artie mentioned a new film that could help him with the memories. Rory said thanks to of them and then continued on to the next person.
"Thank ye so much Tina, and I am doin' fine today, really," Rory said. He and Tina said their goodbyes and then Rory hung up the phone.
It wasn't even five minutes before he got another call. This time it was Finn. "Hey Rory, how's it going?"
"Hey Finn Hudson, it's goin' good."
"I'm glad to hear it," Finn said with a small chuckle. Then he went quiet for a little while that scared Rory a little. "Could you turn to channel six for me please? It's important about that day ten years ago."
"Yeah sure," Rory said as he grabbed his TV remote and turned on the TV. He turned to the channel that Finn asked him to turn too, and then he dropped the remote.
In the top left of the TV screen was Rick Nelson's face with numbers under his face: 1994-2022. Rick was dead. Rory stared at the screen and listened to the Reporter talk about Rick. "Rick Nelson was a troubled man who started a school shooting ten years ago that injured seven of the students and teachers at William McKinley High School. He was found in his prison cell with a noose around his neck, he had hung himself."
Rory stared at the TV with a broken face. Rick was dead. The person that he caused Rory so much pain in his life had just ended his own. He couldn't even finish his own prison sentence now. Nope, because he was dead.
"Rory? Are you okay?" Finn asked.
Rory blinked, he completely forgot that he was talking on the phone with him. "I got to go Finn," Rory said up the as he hung the phone and looked back at the TV screen. Now it was showing all that Rick had done in his life. He was born into divorced parents, expelled in his senior year and the shot up the same school. One year later he broke out of prison but was caught again, and then he spent nine more years in prison until he killed himself today.
All throughout the day, Rory tried his best to not get emotional, but now he couldn't. He felt the tears starting to fall down his face as began to cry. He moved his face towards his hand and cried into them as his Husband came out of their room.
==XMWMX==
Lima, Ohio, 2012
Sam looked up to see everyone still in a scared state. It's been an hour since the first gunshots went off, and everyone was still scared to their core. Five minutes ago the school door opened and it sounded like some police had entered the building. That didn't stop the gunshots, so Sam stayed put. But that was five minutes ago, so now Sam was ready to act.
Sam- I can't wait any longer I'm coming to find you Rory stay where you are
Sam stood up and walked quietly to Mr. Shue, "Sam get down," Mr. Shue whispered to Sam.
"Mr. Shue you gotta let me go find Rory. He's not responding to me, and I need to make sure he's safe."
"Sam I can't, I can't risk putting everyone's life in danger," Mr. Shue explained. Sam wasn't listening though, no. The Blonde started to walk past his teacher, but Mr. Shue started to push back on Sam.
"Mr. Shue I need to find him," Sam said as he tried his best to get past his teacher. Puck got up and grabbed onto Sam's arm and started too pulled back. "Guys please, he's all alone."
"ALL CLEAR, ALL CLEAR," a police man shouted.
Mr. Shue and Puck let go of Sam, and everyone started to stand up. People were crying still and hugging as the pain and scare was finally ended.
Mr. Shue walked past Sam and talked to everyone, "Everyone come here." Mr. Shue started to gather everyone into a group hug, but Sam wasn't ready for that. No. Sam was ready to go find Rory, so he moved the desk that Puck had set up and bolted out the door. He never noticed Mike run out of the door behind him.
"RORY, RORY, RORY," Sam shouted as he ran around the hallways. First he ran past Rory's locker, nothing, then to his locker, nothing. The hallway that had his Homeroom was empty of Rory's presence, nor did the actual Choir room hallway. Sam continued running around the hallways as he shouted out Rory's name. Some people were leaving the classroom that they were hiding in, but Sam never saw Rory. He did see Rick getting escorted outside the school by some S.W.A.T. people.
Sam stopped and watched Rick leave the school then he continued to run. But Rory was nowhere to be found, unless he made his way to the cafeteria. Sam was just about to run to the cafeteria, but Mike caught up to him. "Sam, Sam. I know where Rory is."
"Where?"
"He's been shot, and no he's heading to the hospital."
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Lima, Ohio, 2022
"Rory?" Sam asked as he left his bedroom to see Rory crying. "Finn just told me about what happened." Sam rushed over to Rory and sat down next to him. The Irishman was in a full state of crying, and he moved his head towards Sam's shoulder. The Blonde put his hands on Rory's head and back as he started comforting him. Sam listened to Rory cry as he tried his best to make everything better. "It's alright Rory, everything's fine."
"He killed himself Sammy, he's dead now," Rory said as he sniffed in while tears streamed down his face.
"He won't be able to hurt us anymore, we're free from his pain." Sam placed a kiss on top of Rory's head and continued to stroke his hair.
"Papa, da?" a little kid's voiced asked. The kid made his way over to see one of his dad's crying. "Why are ye crying Da?"
"Chase please give us some time," Sam said to his son.
Rory moved away from Sam's shoulder and look at his son. "Sammy it's fine, come here Chase," Rory said as he grabbed his four year old son and put him on his lap. "Chase today is just not a good day for me."
"Well that's why I'm here da. That's what I heard papa said yesterday," Chase said as he kissed Rory on the cheek. Both Sam and Rory smiled at their son. Today might not have been a good day for Rory, but now they have a kid to cheer him up. Things were good for the Flanevans right now.
Sadly, I won't be writing about 2022 anymore, sorry. Get ready because we are about to go on a wild ride with Sam and Rory.