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Authors Note: Hey everyone. I'm really really sorry that the first two chapters are so confusing. I tried explaining a little but it didn't make as much sense as I hoped. So I'm explaining everything below. And it'll actually be an explanation I promise!

Run Away Little Girl

By Angel

Chapter 3: Memories

Lori Gallager sighed and reached into her purse. Searching around she pulled out a card that had seen better days. Gripping the card tightly, she dialed the number and waited. "Hello Cambridge Police, Inspector Davidson here." A male voice said into the phone. Lori took a quick glance to make sure her office door was still closed and took a deep breath. "Hello Inspector Davidson? This is Rory Gilmore."

After the call, Rory sat back in her chair, fighting the memories flashing through her mind. Yet they wouldn't stop coming and scene after scene flashed through her mind, like the pictures of a bad story.

Flashback

It was late, and Rory had just finished studying in the library. Walking back to her dorm, the soon to be Harvard graduate was glad that exams would be soon over. Walking into the dorms, she noticed that it was eerily silent. Shrugging it off as the late hour, she headed towards the elevator. The elevator "ping" resounded through the hall. As she turned the corner, the doors slid open, and Rory stopped dead in her tracks. There in the elevator was a man standing over the body of a girl. There was blood splattered all over the elevator walls. Rory's numb mind registered with shock that she recognized that face that was frozen in a silent scream. 'Oh my god! Allison!' Then the figure in the elevator turned slowly and looked at Rory. Although his face was hidden in shadow, his eyes glittered with a cold malice, and his mouth twisted into a grim smile. Rory stood in shock for a couple of seconds, and as the figure started to move towards her, she broke out of her trance and began to run. Hearing footsteps coming after her, she ran out the door and started screaming for help. "Help me, oh please, somebody help me." Running into another set of dorms, she started banging on doors, praying that somebody was awake. Rory was so panicked that she ran straight into a pair of arms. Starting to thrash wildly, it took Rory a couple of seconds to realize she had run into one of the campus security guards. Tears streaming down her face, she let the guard take her back to his office, and there she told her story. The guard quickly called the police, and locked his office door. Rory sat huddled in the chair in shock. She couldn't believe it. This wasn't happening. This couldn't be happening. 'Please let it all be a bad dream' she thought, 'please let this all be a bad dream.'

Inspector Davidson looked over at the girl huddled under a blanket in the corner. He shook his head sadly. 'Poor kid,' he thought as he walked over to her. "Hi there, my name is Inspector Davidson. So what's your name miss?"

Rory opened her mouth to speak, but no sound came out. Accepting the glass of water the inspector gave her, she took a sip and tried again. "Rory Gilmore," she croaked out.

"Well Rory, can you tell me what happened?"

"I…I…was walking back from the library after studying and I went into the dorms. It was unusually quiet, but I thought it was just because it was so late. Then I turned the corner and the elevator doors open, and then…oh god, Allison! He killed Allison! She was so nice, I mean as far as roommates went she was decent. She was so much fun to study with, and…and…and…" Rory faltered and began to sob uncontrollably.

Inspector Davidson let her cry for a little while and then handed her some tissue. "Rory, I know you're upset," he said gently, "but I need to know what happened. Do you think you can finish telling me what happened?"

Rory nodded slowly, drying her tears. "The elevator doors opened, and there was a man standing over a girl. There was blood all over the elevator. Then I noticed that it was Allison, and I guess I must have made a noise or something, but he turned around and saw me. I was so scared…he started coming towards me and I ran as fast as I could to this dorm. I was screaming for help, and then I ran into the security guard and he brought me back here." Rory said quietly, her voice faltering occasionally.

"Did you see the man's face?" Inspector Davidson asked.

"No, it was all in shadow." Rory answered. "I only saw his eyes. They were dark, brown I think, and filled with malice. And his mouth was curved in a grim smile." Rory shivered at the memory. "He looked like he enjoyed cutting Allison to pieces."

"More importantly, did he see you?"

"I pretty sure he did. So…what's going to happen now?"

"Right now I have men going over every inch of the entire campus, and we're going to see if we can catch this guy. I'm going to need you to give as much information as you can about this guy, and we'll try to track him down. As for you, do you have anyone you can call?"

"My mother…"

"Good. Call her. I'm going to have to ask you to move somewhere else for a short time. Maybe into a hotel, where I can reach you at anytime. This guy has seen you, and so you are probably going to be his next target."

"What about my exams? What am I going to do? I graduate soon!"

"You can arrange something with the Dean. I'm sure he'll…"

"No, I can't! I have to graduate now and if I push my exams back, I won't finish in time for the end of the year. I need to take those exams." Rory said with desperation in her voice.

"Rory, I don't think it'd be very safe for you to…" Inspector Davidson began, but as he saw the pleading look on Rory's face, he knew that she needed something normal in her life right now to help ease the shock of the death of her friend. Heaving out a sigh, he said, "Alright, fine. You can take your exams and do everything as usual. Only always stay in public places, and always have a group of friends around you. I don't ever want you alone, do you hear me? And here is my card with my number. Contact me anytime. Hopefully we'll catch this guy tonight so there's nothing to worry about. We're hoping that this guy was someone who didn't know you, and so hopefully this will pass by very quickly without your safety being compromised. Well I guess that's all I have for now. Are you sure you want to take your exams?"

Rory nodded slowly and Inspector Davidson sighed. "Alright then, but remember, be careful. Now let's get you into that hotel." With that Inspector Davidson guided Rory into his police car and drove off into the night.

Rory didn't notice the tears streaming down her cheeks as she remembered the night that started the horror that would be her life for the next two years. She couldn't believe she had been so stupid. Why had she insisted on keeping her normal routine? Things had been normal for a while. She had miraculously finished her exams with wonderful marks, and was valedictorian at her graduation. The pain of Allison's death was still there, but she had dealt with it, and the inspector had sent word that they had caught a man with a description similar to the one Rory had given. Thinking that the nightmare was over Rory had breathed a sigh of relief. Her mom, who had been with her all this time, finally flew back home, and things seemed to go back to normal. Until that fateful day…

Flashback

Rory entered her new apartment and flung down her keys. It had been three months since that incident and things seemed to go back to normal. She had gotten a job at a newspaper office, and Rory felt like her life was getting back on track. Turning on her computer, she logged onto her e-mail. Opening the first message, she slowly began to read. Furrowing her brow, she opened the attached picture and gasped. Rory turned pale as she backed away from her computer and closed her eyes. 'No, it can't be. Please no…' she thought as she looked back at her computer. On her screen was a picture of Allison the night she had been killed, and underneath it there were two simple words that chilled Rory down to her very bones. The blood red letters burned themselves into Rory's eyes as she read them over and over. "You're next."

Rory shivered as she saw those words again in her mind's eye. That had been the first of many e-mails that had followed. The police could never trace the e-mails back to a source. Then came the threatening phone calls, and the feeling that she was being followed everywhere she went. To ensure her safety the police put Rory under the witness protection program, and she had her name changed and moved into another state. She got a new job and began a whole new life. From that day on Rory Gilmore had ceased to exist, and Lori Gallager had been born.

A month later Inspector Davidson called her to say that they arrested a man who seemed to fit Rory's original description. Although they weren't sure that he was the guy, they thought that she was going to be safe. Rory was so relieved, yet for her own safety, she was told to keep her true identity secret. It had been like that for the last year and a half. And now, Rory sighed, it seemed that her past had caught up with her. She looked again at the words on the screen, and again she felt the familiar chill. Filling the screen was the same picture of Allison the night she died, and underneath was five bloody words that froze Rory's heart. "I know who you are."

~Hopefully it all makes sense now. I'm sorry my last two chapters were so short, but hopefully this one made up for it. So what do you think? Please review! : )~