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April 26th 2002- Lorelais 34th birthday-
It has been almost five months since Lorelai had disappeared, leaving Luke with their four children. Rory and April have became quite concerned with their fathers wellbeing.
Everyday was a struggle in the Danes household. Luke has become alarmingly quiet. He is starting to look like Tom Hanks in the movie, 'Castaway', because he hadn't shaved since she had left. Luke has barely eaten, or showered and, everyday when the girls come home from school, they find him flat out drunk, sitting on the couch waiting for their mother.
On this particular day, it is absolutely hard for Luke, because it's Lorelais 34th birthday.
Sookie comes over to help the girls take care of their baby brother and sister, and make sure that they are all fed.
Sookie takes the twins out of their high chairs and puts them on their dual changing tables then looks at Rory and April, "How's your dad holding up? He hasn't barely moved in almost five months. I'm thinking about shaving his beard off, when he falls asleep." Rory shakes her head, "Aunt Sookie, I don't think that's wise." April shudders, "Rory tried and almost lost an arm." Sookie starts working on Mel, "Honestly, girls… this is worse than the four years he was apart from your mother. He knew that he'd get her back. But now, he doesn't have any hope for himself." Rory sighs and wipes her eyes, "We hear him at night. He keeps saying her name over and over." April nods looking down with a painful look in her eyes, "We have been in bed and heard him throw beer bottles around. He has been screaming really loud. He's taken it out on himself."
Rory quietly whispers to Sookie, so Luke couldn't hear her, "I don't think she left on purpose." Sookies eyes grow large, "What are you talking about? She sent your father a letter." Rory nods to April, "April, go grab the letter." April runs quickly to her bedroom, then back to the kitchen and hands it to Rory. Rory opens up the letter and points to a tiny drawn snowflake, "Mom and Dad have a joint safe word, to let the other know that they are in trouble. It's snow. Mom is in danger." Sookie starts running out towards the living room, when Babette comes running towards the door.
Sookie opens the door, "Hi Babette. What's wrong?!" Babette is out of breath and starts babbling, "Zombie sighting. They found a zombie walking towards your house." Luke gets up when he notices a figure coming up the driveway, and he starts shaking, "Oh my god." He feels the once bright blue eyes stare into his soul, and he instantly knows.
3 months earlier- Lorelais POV-
Lorelais eyes open to a light being turned on over her head. She looks around and hears a familiar voice. A voice that at one time made her smile. But she remembered the feel of the gun against her neck. The feeling of leaving her baby. And she remembers. Chris.
She looks up at the cold chain tied to her wrists, and tries to move.
Her hand that was broken, looks so badly distorted, that it causes her to cringe.
Under the chains, Lorelais wrists are badly cut. Every time a trickle of blood rolls down her arm, it makes her cry quiet tears.
So much pain. Luke would never hurt me like this.
Why does Chris think this is okay? Hurting me to get what he wants is not effective.
She sees Christopher walk in with a tv on wheels and watches him press play. He looks at her with a smirk on his face, "Lorelai. Look at your family. So precious. So happy. What would you do if they were taken away from you?"
"Stay away from them Chris. If you even put one hand on them, I am killing you."
Lorelai feels the tears burning at the corners of her eyes and the rage building in her body.
Christopher turns to her and spats back, "My little birdies tell me that Luke hasn't left the house since you left him. He's too hurt that you left him. What a baby."
I have to get out of here. My husband and my kids need me. Oh Luke honey. I'm so sorry.
Lorelais face turns dark red, "YOU NEED TO STOP CHRIS! YOU ARE A GOOD FOR NOTHING ASS!"
Christopher walks up closer to her face and punches her so hard that her vision goes blurry, "Shut your damn mouth, Lor."
Christopher turns up the volume on the TV, and looks at Lorelai, "Watch it, NOW!"
Lorelai lifts her head up to look at the TV, and feels the tears burning at the corners of her eyes.
On the screen, Is Luke picking up five year old Rory from school. Lorelai hears her voice from behind the camera, telling Rory to 'give daddy a big kiss', and to 'wave to mommy.' When Rory does what she's told, the camera goes to Luke's face. Lorelai then tells Luke to look at her and wave and blow her a big kiss. He does with a smirk and sticks his tongue out at her.
The scene goes out and it enters to another part of the tape, to their wedding, making Lorelai start crying as she hears Luke's sweet voice enveloping her every being and breaking her already fragile heart.
Christopher sees Lorelai turn away in tears, "LORELAI YOU BETTER LOOK RIGHT NOW!"
I'm not going to let you torture me Chris!
"NO! YOU ARE TRYING TO BREAK ME!"
Christopher kicks her in the stomach making her cry even harder, "YOU WILL DO WHAT I SAY!"
Lorelai continues watching but is feeling very weak at this point and starts having a panic attack.
Christopher looks annoyed and turns off the videos, and he watches her shake and cry.
I can't take this anymore. I wanna go home. I want Luke to wrap his big strong arms around me and I want him to tell me that he loves me. I feel so weak.
Lorelais body shakes harder as she cries, "Please Chris."
Christopher looks at her sternly, "You hungry? I bought some pizza."
Lorelai nods weakly, "I'm very hungry. I haven't had a lot of food this week."
Christopher puts a piece of pizza on a paper plate and waves it in front of her face, before stuffing the pizza in his mouth, "I'm not giving you any. You can starve."
Lorelai feels the anger rise up in her body as she watches him eat, "Luke would never let me starve! If that was the last damn piece, he'd give it to me, no question."
Christopher smirks as he throws the plate in front of her, before turning off the light and leaving, shutting the door to the room behind him.
I'm all alone. I don't like being all alone.
Lorelais eyes fill with more tears as she leans her head against the cold and hard brick wall. Through her tears, all she can say is, "Luke."
3 Months Earlier- Lukes POV-
Luke had just received Lorelais letter a month ago, and he's been barely able to do anything. He feels like his heart has been ripped out of his chest.
He won't go into the diner, because the smell of coffee reminds him of her. He can't look at that stuff ever again. Never.
He can't even go up to their bedroom, because it looks like it did the night she bled to death in there.
He can't even look at his own children because all four of them look and remind him of her.
All Luke can do, is sit on the couch and wait for her to come home.
Late at night, once all of the kids are asleep, Luke sits and cries to himself. He thinks of where he went wrong. He drinks too many beers, making him loose all sense. He throws the bottles around the house, and screams at the top of his lungs. But no matter how drunk he was, Lorelai was always on his mind.
I can't go on without her. I love her way too much. She's the reason why I am who I am. I'm so lost without my Lorelai.
Luke's eyes wonder towards the picture frames on the walls.
Her eyes stare deep into his soul, making him fall to his knees.
He looks up to see the pictures from their wedding.
She was so beautiful that night.
Luke gets goosebumps as he remembers the feeling of her skin on his, after they took off their fancy wedding attire. Her gorgeous blue eyes looking into his, literally knocking the breath out of him.
Last month was our one year wedding anniversary. I wanted her to give me the same look she did that night, the look of love and trust. I wanted her to smile at me with that dazzling smile.
Luke gets up off his knees and walks over to the VHS player, and presses play.
What he sees, is an adorable five year old Rory running into his arms. He picks her up and suddenly, he hears Lorelais beautiful voice, telling Rory to ' give daddy a big kiss' and to 'wave at mommy'. Rory gives Luke a big kiss and giggles as she waves at Lorelai, and Lorelai turns the camera on his face. Lorelai had told him to look at her and wave and blow her a big kiss. He does with a smirk and sticks his tongue out at her.
Luke wipes his eyes and looks down at the floor.
But suddenly, the tape switches to their wedding, causing Luke to look up and stare at the sparkling beauty that is his wife.
He feels the tears burning at the back of his throat again, and turns off the tape.
I miss you. Please come home.
Luke takes a deep breath and walks to Mel's bassinet. He looks at his baby girls sweet face, and takes her little hand in his.
I wish Lorelai could be with the kids. They are growing up so fast.
His eyes fill with many tears as Mel lets out a happy grunt and smiles Lorelais smile at him.
"Oh Melody. You are definitely your mothers daughter. You already have me wrapped around your tiny fingers."
In the crib next to Mel, Junior happily grunts and looks up at Luke.
Luke chuckles at his son, then sighs, "Son, please don't grow up. Do not let the love of your life slip away. I don't want the same thing happening to you too."
April 26th- Lorelais Great Escape-
Lorelai wakes up to the painful feeling of smashed glass on the bottom of her feet.
She moans in pain, "Christopher, could you please sweep the damn floor?"
Chris comes in with a plate of food, and sets it a few feet in front of her so she can't reach. But before he leaves her alone, he slaps her hard enough in the face to open up a recent wound, making her bleed. He finally leaves, then suddenly, she can hear the rats come running for the food on the plate. She shudders as she hears them chew.
Lorelai feels so weak. Her whole body is on fire.
Lorelai looks to be about seventy pounds, and her face is so hollow.
After the rats eat the food, they come back and bite Lorelais legs. She's too weak to fight back and kick them.
Lorelai looks down at her severely wounded legs and watches more blood trickle down onto the floor below her.
She shudders at cold air around her and feels goosebumps start to rise on her skin.
Lorelai looks around the dark room and whispers to herself, "If there was light in here, I could probably see my own breath."
A couple hours later-
Chris comes in with a smirk on his face and a knife in his hand, "Oh Lor. It's time."
Lorelais eyes dart from the knife, then to Christophers face, "You wouldn't dare."
Christopher walks closer to her and runs the blade against the skin on the inside of her thigh, "Oh I would."
Lorelai feels the warm stream of blood roll down her leg, causing blood curdling screams to exit her chapped lips.
When she looks away from him, he forcefully turns her face towards his, and kisses her.
Lorelai screams again and wacks him in the jaw, making it crack, "GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!"
Chris stumbles backwards and drops the knife, not purposefully, at Lorelais feet.
With her strength that she has left, Lorelai picks up the knife with her feet and uses it to cut the ropes off her wrists.
Christopher gets up and looks like he's about to swing his fist at her, "Wow. You aren't so beautiful anymore, Lor. What's diner guy gonna think of you? He won't want you anymore. You don't even look like yourself."
Lorelai snorts, "He'll love me just the same as he did before. He loves me for me."
Chris chuckles, "We'll see about that."
He yanks the knife out of her hands and swings it at her causing it to cut the skin on her left cheek, making Lorelai automatically put her hand over the gaping wound.
She looks down at the ground and finds a huge single piece of glass, and picks it up, "You wanna go Chris?"
She points it at him a angry gleam in her eyes, "Come at me."
He comes running full throttle at her, knife in hand, until he feels a cold blade of glass being shoved into his chest.
Lorelais eyes fill with pride as she watches him suffer, "How do you like that feeling?"
She shoves it deeper into his chest, "I hope you go to hell."
Christophers eyes roll back into his head as he falls over. Finally, he stops breathing.
Lorelai looks down at her body to find more blood, this time it's Christophers blood.
She then looks at Christophers body on the floor. A pool of blood is encircling him.
The smell. It brings her back to the night she had bled out in her bed, and Luke's precious face looking on in terror.
Blood. It's all over my hands. I killed him.
Lorelais face shifts to sheer terror as the blood ends up under her toes.
She suddenly tastes the blood on her lips.
That taste is so familiar. The taste of metal is what I've tasted for five months. But to taste it for the last time, is the best feeling in the whole world.
Lorelai looks around and sees the front door.
She limps to it and swings it open. The soft spring breeze hitting her damaged skin.
Lorelai cringes and starts walking towards the square.
Everyone looks out their windows to see a dazed and bloodied figure walking the street toward the crap shack.
Lorelais feet leave a trail of blood behind her as she rounds the corner to her street.
Her eyes fill with tears as the crap shack comes into her blurry line of vision.
Lorelai gets closer to the driveway and trips over her feet, making her face plant onto the concrete.
As she gets back up, she sees Sookie opening the door to a distressed Babette, who is babbling about a zombie sighting.
The next thing she sees, is someone she never thought she'd see again.
Luke is standing at the front door of the house, and he's clearly in shock.
All he can whisper is, "Oh my god."
Lorelai knows that she's unrecognizable, but her eyes give her away.
Luke pushes past Sookie, and rushes out towards his battered and bloody wife.
He slowly stops and looks deep into her eyes, to make sure that she is still in there.
When Lorelais eyes look way deeper into his, Luke walks closer and takes one of her bloody hands in his, and gently pulls her into his embrace.
"Lorelai, what happened..." and she places a finger on his lips and says, "I love you, Luke. Don't ever let me go."
Luke runs his fingers through her hair, "If this is a dream, don't wake me up."
Lorelai looks like she's on the verge of tears, but laughs a quiet laugh, "Honey, why do look like Tom Hanks in Castaway?"
Luke smirks, "You like it? It's your special birthday surprise."
She smiles a tiny smile and laughs a tiny laugh, "You remembered?"
Luke reaches into his pocket and pulls out her engagement and wedding rings, and slips them back on to her left ring finger, "Happy birthday Mrs. Backwards Baseball Cap. Welcome home."
