Why Me? - Chapter 28
Title: "Behind Closed Doors"
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Jess stopped short in his tracks. He made no movement, and listened again. Then he heard it, and his heart began to beat a million miles per second.
It was very faint, very quiet, but nonetheless he had heard it. Or, he thought he had?
"Help!"
There is was again. This time, there was no mistaking whether it was real or not, or who was screaming it. He bolted back towards the diner and bellowed out her name in a way that he never had before.
"Rory! RORY!" He yelled it while jumping over bushes and dodging tree's. He wasn't going to lose her again, he wasn't going to let Lorelai lose her again. He was out of breath, tired, and wasn't sure how much longer his legs would carry him. But he wouldn't let that stop him, he would crawl to wherever she was before he would give up.
"Rory!" He screamed it again, this time standing in the road between the diner and the high school. Then he looked up, and saw the light in the diner apartment on.
They were upstairs.
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"Help!" She screamed it one last time before he caught up to her, and flung her to the ground.
"You bitch!" He kicked her hard in her side, and she lost all her breath. Gasping for air, she held tightly to her stomach while he picked her up. He grabbed her by her shoulders and brought her close to his face, and began to shake her with every word he breathed, "What the hell are you thinking? Do you want me to kill you? Are you fucking insane?!" Rory looked deep in his eyes, and then with evey last ounce of enery she had - spit right into his face. Brad, stunned, just stood there while still holding on to her.
"No, Brad... your fucking insane." She said it as though she didn't care anymore, as if either way she was going to die no matter what she did. The intensity in her voice almost scared him, but then he once again realized he was the one in control, he was the bigger one, and he was the one that could do the damage. Not this, 105 pound girl who suddenly had mean streak. The rage built up inside him and Rory knew that if he was going to kill her, this would be the time.
But he didn't. Instead, he brought her even closer to him, covered her mouth and then turned her around. He put her head close to his collarbone and slowly spun around in a circle.
"I want you to look around Rory..." he whispered into her ear, "because this is the last time you'll ever see Stars Hollow again."
His voice made her shudder and tears began falling down her face. Her side, her arms, her shoulders, her face... nothing hurt more now than the pain she was feeling inside her. This could very well be the last time she ever saw Stars Hollow again, and she knew it. He was crazy, and this time she had pushed him to far. His voice brought her back to the reality of the situation she was in as he whispered his last words to her.
"And if you thought I'd give everyone the decency of not finding your body, well then your wrong. See, your little boyfriends apartment up there?" He pointed and she nodded.
"I'm sure you'd like to be there right now, wouldn't you?" She nodded again, she figured now wasn't the time to try and say the right things to him. He had been pushed to far as it was.
"Well, good for you. That's where we are going still. Instead of you two being together, you snuggling in his arms, having sex..." Brad continued as they walked toward the diner but Rory couldn't hear a word of it. She remembered. She remembered everything now - how Jess had loved her, how he had always comforted her when she was going through the hard times, and how they had made love before she left for the trip. The trip... the accident... oh God, to her horror, she remembered it all. But it was to late now, she had remembered this all to late.
Now they were in his apartment. Jess and Luke's, where she had gone with Brad, Jess, and herself many times before. They used to be best friends, all three of them. What happened? Where did she go wrong, where did he go wrong? Brad shoved her onto Jess's bed, and turned on the light. He began pacing back and fourth, as if he was thinking or debating what to do next.
"God, I bet you guys had sex there to..." he said with jealously in his voice, eyeing Jess's bed.
"We didn't."
"Liar."
"No, Im serious we..." Rory was cut off when she heard his voice. Jess. Her mind raced and her heart skipped a beat, could it really be him? Could he have heard her cries? Or was it just her mind, playing cruel tricks on her because she knew it was her last moments here.
"What?" Brad noticed how she stopped mid sentence and was now interested in what she had to say.
"Nothing, I just... we didn't have sex here." She said quietly, hoping to hear Jess's voice again.
"You were always a bad liar Rory... see what you don't understand is I've known you for what, almost 2 years? And this is how you treat me? Like some stranger who has no idea what your thinking or feeling? Dammit Rory! Why do you have to be this way!"
"Im not ANY way Brad! I just don't understand what brought you to be like this, what brought you to think that this is the only way we could be together! It's not, well... it is now. You could have gotten better, you could have been a different person but you choose not to. So don't ever blame this on me because I did nothing to make you this way!"
Brad stopped pacing and looked at her. He walked over and sat down beside her, and began speaking in a quiet tone.
"I love you, and you didn't care. You ran to him, you just gave up on us and ran to him. I could never understand why you did that, and I never will be able to." He wasn't done but Rory cut him off anyway, "Brad you hit me. Thats not me picking Jess over you, thats you treating me like dirt and me finding someone who deserved me."
"I deserved you!"
Rory saw that Brad was now calmer and ready to talk instead of yell, she knew better than anyone how to handle his different moods. So she took advantage of the situation and hoped that if it really was Jess she heard outside, he would come before what she was about to do escalated into what she didn't want to happen. She leaned into Brad and gently kissed his cheek, then the corner of his mouth, then his mouth. He passionatly returned the gesture and took her face in his hands.
She winced, not just because he touched her bruised face, but because what she was doing was killing her inside. But she figured this could be the only way to buy time before Jess got to them and took her away like her knight and shining armor. Thats all she thought about while they were kissing, Jess.
Jess. Jess. Jess.
Thats the name she kept repeating in her head as Brad leaned her down on Jess's bed and his hand traveled up her shirt. She never opened her eyes, she didn't want to see Brad there, she just wanted to pretend it was Jess. God, what was she doing? What if Jess didn't come? What if it really was her mind playing tricks on her?
"Rory..." Brad sighed quietly, he was on top of her now. She still wouldn't open her eyes, she didn't want to believe this was happening.
"Rory," he said again, "open your eyes... look at me."
Reluctantly, she did. There he was, on top of her, thinking that this is what she wanted. She couldn't do it anymore.
"Get off me!" She screamed, and began kicking and wailing her hands in the air in an attempt to get him off her. But Brad wouldn't have it, "God dammit, what is wrong with you? You started kissing me! Why would you lead me on like that!"
Brad didn't get up. He squeezed his legs tightly, making it so Rory couldn't move her legs at all. Then he snatched Rory's hands out of the air and held on to both her petite wrists with one of his masculine hands and pinned them above her head. Her plan had gone all wrong, Jess wasn't there and Rory was about to get.... raped. She couldn't even think about it, something that she and Jess had done so passionatly, and so much out of love, he was about to take it and make it something brutal and hurtful.
"Please..." she pleaded as he began to kiss her roughly, "please don't..."
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Jess quietly made his way inside the diner and walked behind the counter, grabbing the phone and quickly dialing Luke's cell.
"Hello? Jess?"
"Luke. I found Rory, she's in the diner. Get here FAST." Jess whispered into the phone, then hung up and went back outside to wait for them.
Luke hung up the phone and made a 180 in the BMW, then stepped on the gas on the way towards the diner.
"What? What is it Luke? Did he find Rory! Is she Ok?!" Lorelai was desperate for answers, but Luke just kept driving.
"Luke! Answer me!"
"I dont know if she's Ok!" He snapped, "Jess just told me to get to the diner fast... call the police tell them to go there."
Lorelai pulled out her cell phone and called the police, telling them the location of Luke's diner and then quickly hung up. The two of them rode in silence the whole way, which was only about a total of 4 minutes. They pulled up and meet Jess at the doorway.
"Jess why the hell arent you up there!"
"Luke, this guy is strong when he wants to be... trust me it's better if we all go up there together."
The three of them quietly walked in, and slowly made there way up the stairs being careful not to make any noise. Then Lorelai heard it, she heard her daughters cries. 'Please, please don't'... Lorelai heard her daughter and began running up the stairs.
"Lorelai!" The two men yelled, but it was no use. She was gone, she made it to the door and tried to open it, but it was locked.
"Dammit! What's it with everyone locking there friggin doors!" She screamed, Luke and Jess finally caught up to her and tried to open it as well, but it was definatly locked.
"Back up..." Jess whispered, and pulled out a tool from his pocket. He stuck it in the doorknob and began twisting it and turning it. Lorelai and Luke looked at eachother and silently agreed that they, for once, were happy that Jess knew how to pick locks and be a nuisance. The three of them heard a thud, and that only made Jess work just as fast. Finally, he got it unlocked and burst through the door. What they saw horrified them.
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Brad stopped when he heard Jess and Luke yell Lorelai's name.
"You knew they were here... you knew!" Brad jumped off Rory and quickly ran over to the door and locked it. Then, without saying a word, he walked over to Rory and slapped her as hard as he could. He mumbled something indecipherable and threw her off the bed, kicking her when she fell to the ground.
He stopped when he saw the doorknob jiggle and kicked her hard one last time before making his escape through the window. Rory laid there, dazed and confused, bloody and beaten as she watched her abuser slip away. There wasn't anything she could do, she couldn't even call out his name because she had no breath left.
But seeing that was nothing compared the sight of her Mom, Luke, and Jess walking in through the doorway. Thank God, they found her. 'Everythings going to be Ok now...' she thought. Then everything went black.
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A/N - Ok, even IM getting excitied as to where this is going! Hehe! I know how its going to end up, and like I've said before tttrrruuusssstttt me :-) By the way, I dont think I've ever done this before - not only updated twice in one day, but this (I think?) is the longest and most intense chapter I've ever written. Please R&R, because the more reviews I get the more anxious I am to post the write/post the next chapter. And trust me, you guys WANT the next chapter! Anyway, I hope you all enjoy and remember to always R&R!!!!!
Title: "Behind Closed Doors"
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Jess stopped short in his tracks. He made no movement, and listened again. Then he heard it, and his heart began to beat a million miles per second.
It was very faint, very quiet, but nonetheless he had heard it. Or, he thought he had?
"Help!"
There is was again. This time, there was no mistaking whether it was real or not, or who was screaming it. He bolted back towards the diner and bellowed out her name in a way that he never had before.
"Rory! RORY!" He yelled it while jumping over bushes and dodging tree's. He wasn't going to lose her again, he wasn't going to let Lorelai lose her again. He was out of breath, tired, and wasn't sure how much longer his legs would carry him. But he wouldn't let that stop him, he would crawl to wherever she was before he would give up.
"Rory!" He screamed it again, this time standing in the road between the diner and the high school. Then he looked up, and saw the light in the diner apartment on.
They were upstairs.
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"Help!" She screamed it one last time before he caught up to her, and flung her to the ground.
"You bitch!" He kicked her hard in her side, and she lost all her breath. Gasping for air, she held tightly to her stomach while he picked her up. He grabbed her by her shoulders and brought her close to his face, and began to shake her with every word he breathed, "What the hell are you thinking? Do you want me to kill you? Are you fucking insane?!" Rory looked deep in his eyes, and then with evey last ounce of enery she had - spit right into his face. Brad, stunned, just stood there while still holding on to her.
"No, Brad... your fucking insane." She said it as though she didn't care anymore, as if either way she was going to die no matter what she did. The intensity in her voice almost scared him, but then he once again realized he was the one in control, he was the bigger one, and he was the one that could do the damage. Not this, 105 pound girl who suddenly had mean streak. The rage built up inside him and Rory knew that if he was going to kill her, this would be the time.
But he didn't. Instead, he brought her even closer to him, covered her mouth and then turned her around. He put her head close to his collarbone and slowly spun around in a circle.
"I want you to look around Rory..." he whispered into her ear, "because this is the last time you'll ever see Stars Hollow again."
His voice made her shudder and tears began falling down her face. Her side, her arms, her shoulders, her face... nothing hurt more now than the pain she was feeling inside her. This could very well be the last time she ever saw Stars Hollow again, and she knew it. He was crazy, and this time she had pushed him to far. His voice brought her back to the reality of the situation she was in as he whispered his last words to her.
"And if you thought I'd give everyone the decency of not finding your body, well then your wrong. See, your little boyfriends apartment up there?" He pointed and she nodded.
"I'm sure you'd like to be there right now, wouldn't you?" She nodded again, she figured now wasn't the time to try and say the right things to him. He had been pushed to far as it was.
"Well, good for you. That's where we are going still. Instead of you two being together, you snuggling in his arms, having sex..." Brad continued as they walked toward the diner but Rory couldn't hear a word of it. She remembered. She remembered everything now - how Jess had loved her, how he had always comforted her when she was going through the hard times, and how they had made love before she left for the trip. The trip... the accident... oh God, to her horror, she remembered it all. But it was to late now, she had remembered this all to late.
Now they were in his apartment. Jess and Luke's, where she had gone with Brad, Jess, and herself many times before. They used to be best friends, all three of them. What happened? Where did she go wrong, where did he go wrong? Brad shoved her onto Jess's bed, and turned on the light. He began pacing back and fourth, as if he was thinking or debating what to do next.
"God, I bet you guys had sex there to..." he said with jealously in his voice, eyeing Jess's bed.
"We didn't."
"Liar."
"No, Im serious we..." Rory was cut off when she heard his voice. Jess. Her mind raced and her heart skipped a beat, could it really be him? Could he have heard her cries? Or was it just her mind, playing cruel tricks on her because she knew it was her last moments here.
"What?" Brad noticed how she stopped mid sentence and was now interested in what she had to say.
"Nothing, I just... we didn't have sex here." She said quietly, hoping to hear Jess's voice again.
"You were always a bad liar Rory... see what you don't understand is I've known you for what, almost 2 years? And this is how you treat me? Like some stranger who has no idea what your thinking or feeling? Dammit Rory! Why do you have to be this way!"
"Im not ANY way Brad! I just don't understand what brought you to be like this, what brought you to think that this is the only way we could be together! It's not, well... it is now. You could have gotten better, you could have been a different person but you choose not to. So don't ever blame this on me because I did nothing to make you this way!"
Brad stopped pacing and looked at her. He walked over and sat down beside her, and began speaking in a quiet tone.
"I love you, and you didn't care. You ran to him, you just gave up on us and ran to him. I could never understand why you did that, and I never will be able to." He wasn't done but Rory cut him off anyway, "Brad you hit me. Thats not me picking Jess over you, thats you treating me like dirt and me finding someone who deserved me."
"I deserved you!"
Rory saw that Brad was now calmer and ready to talk instead of yell, she knew better than anyone how to handle his different moods. So she took advantage of the situation and hoped that if it really was Jess she heard outside, he would come before what she was about to do escalated into what she didn't want to happen. She leaned into Brad and gently kissed his cheek, then the corner of his mouth, then his mouth. He passionatly returned the gesture and took her face in his hands.
She winced, not just because he touched her bruised face, but because what she was doing was killing her inside. But she figured this could be the only way to buy time before Jess got to them and took her away like her knight and shining armor. Thats all she thought about while they were kissing, Jess.
Jess. Jess. Jess.
Thats the name she kept repeating in her head as Brad leaned her down on Jess's bed and his hand traveled up her shirt. She never opened her eyes, she didn't want to see Brad there, she just wanted to pretend it was Jess. God, what was she doing? What if Jess didn't come? What if it really was her mind playing tricks on her?
"Rory..." Brad sighed quietly, he was on top of her now. She still wouldn't open her eyes, she didn't want to believe this was happening.
"Rory," he said again, "open your eyes... look at me."
Reluctantly, she did. There he was, on top of her, thinking that this is what she wanted. She couldn't do it anymore.
"Get off me!" She screamed, and began kicking and wailing her hands in the air in an attempt to get him off her. But Brad wouldn't have it, "God dammit, what is wrong with you? You started kissing me! Why would you lead me on like that!"
Brad didn't get up. He squeezed his legs tightly, making it so Rory couldn't move her legs at all. Then he snatched Rory's hands out of the air and held on to both her petite wrists with one of his masculine hands and pinned them above her head. Her plan had gone all wrong, Jess wasn't there and Rory was about to get.... raped. She couldn't even think about it, something that she and Jess had done so passionatly, and so much out of love, he was about to take it and make it something brutal and hurtful.
"Please..." she pleaded as he began to kiss her roughly, "please don't..."
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Jess quietly made his way inside the diner and walked behind the counter, grabbing the phone and quickly dialing Luke's cell.
"Hello? Jess?"
"Luke. I found Rory, she's in the diner. Get here FAST." Jess whispered into the phone, then hung up and went back outside to wait for them.
Luke hung up the phone and made a 180 in the BMW, then stepped on the gas on the way towards the diner.
"What? What is it Luke? Did he find Rory! Is she Ok?!" Lorelai was desperate for answers, but Luke just kept driving.
"Luke! Answer me!"
"I dont know if she's Ok!" He snapped, "Jess just told me to get to the diner fast... call the police tell them to go there."
Lorelai pulled out her cell phone and called the police, telling them the location of Luke's diner and then quickly hung up. The two of them rode in silence the whole way, which was only about a total of 4 minutes. They pulled up and meet Jess at the doorway.
"Jess why the hell arent you up there!"
"Luke, this guy is strong when he wants to be... trust me it's better if we all go up there together."
The three of them quietly walked in, and slowly made there way up the stairs being careful not to make any noise. Then Lorelai heard it, she heard her daughters cries. 'Please, please don't'... Lorelai heard her daughter and began running up the stairs.
"Lorelai!" The two men yelled, but it was no use. She was gone, she made it to the door and tried to open it, but it was locked.
"Dammit! What's it with everyone locking there friggin doors!" She screamed, Luke and Jess finally caught up to her and tried to open it as well, but it was definatly locked.
"Back up..." Jess whispered, and pulled out a tool from his pocket. He stuck it in the doorknob and began twisting it and turning it. Lorelai and Luke looked at eachother and silently agreed that they, for once, were happy that Jess knew how to pick locks and be a nuisance. The three of them heard a thud, and that only made Jess work just as fast. Finally, he got it unlocked and burst through the door. What they saw horrified them.
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Brad stopped when he heard Jess and Luke yell Lorelai's name.
"You knew they were here... you knew!" Brad jumped off Rory and quickly ran over to the door and locked it. Then, without saying a word, he walked over to Rory and slapped her as hard as he could. He mumbled something indecipherable and threw her off the bed, kicking her when she fell to the ground.
He stopped when he saw the doorknob jiggle and kicked her hard one last time before making his escape through the window. Rory laid there, dazed and confused, bloody and beaten as she watched her abuser slip away. There wasn't anything she could do, she couldn't even call out his name because she had no breath left.
But seeing that was nothing compared the sight of her Mom, Luke, and Jess walking in through the doorway. Thank God, they found her. 'Everythings going to be Ok now...' she thought. Then everything went black.
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A/N - Ok, even IM getting excitied as to where this is going! Hehe! I know how its going to end up, and like I've said before tttrrruuusssstttt me :-) By the way, I dont think I've ever done this before - not only updated twice in one day, but this (I think?) is the longest and most intense chapter I've ever written. Please R&R, because the more reviews I get the more anxious I am to post the write/post the next chapter. And trust me, you guys WANT the next chapter! Anyway, I hope you all enjoy and remember to always R&R!!!!!