Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with the WB.

The next day Rory woke up feeling refreshed. She was happy about how nicely things went last night. It was an absolutely perfect ending, or beginning; the kisses, the snow- just everything was perfect.

It was Saturday now and Rory decided to get up early, as early as she could get up, for a full day of shopping with Sam and Rea.

There was a knock on the door and Rory ran to answer it.

"Hey," Rory said, greeting Reanne as she stepped in.

"Hey," Rea responded. "So you guys ready?"

"Umm we're still waiting on Sam," said Rory.

"Ready!" Sam shouted coming out from her bedroom.

"Let's roll!" said Rea.

The two gave her a funny faces and she said, "I promise to never say that again......"

The three walked out of the apartment and began their quest. Upon doing so, Rory noticed a man who had had his eye on them for a while now.

"Guys?" Rory spoke as they turned on Madison Avenue, "there's a man across the street who hasn't only been watching us, but following us too!"

All three subtly looked across the street, but there was no starring man. Sam raised her eyebrows and said, "You're being paranoid....."

Rory looked back across the street and yelled to them, "I'm not being paranoid, I truly saw a man following us!"

"Hmm, lets get coffee," Rea said.

"Only, none for you," Sam said to Rory.

Rory rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, don't believe me!"

"Come on," said Rea, leading Rory into the coffee shop.

They all grabbed a coffee to go, including Rory despite Sam and Rea's protests, and walked back out the door.

"Where are we now?" Rea asked.

"Mm, Madison Avenue, for the finer things in life," said Rory.

Rea nodded and sipped her coffee.

"To your left, we see FAO Schwarz and to your right, we see Baccarat," Sam said; she sounded like a tour guide and from this she received eye rolls from both Rory and Rea.

"Further up we see both Calvin Klein and DKNY, shall we?" Sam asked, pointed at the stores.

"We shall!" yelled Rea.

They walked inside DKNY and went browsing. Rory never liked this kind of clothing, but she was honestly interested to see how much the models looked like walking toothpicks. Rory was walking around the front of the store and looked out the glass window, only to find that that same man was watching them. She freaked out and quickly walked over to Sam and Rea who were in the back.

"You guys! That man is watching us!!" she hissed.

Sam rolled her eyes and said, "show me," so Sam led Rory to the front where she previously was and said, "I don't see him."

Rory heatedly looked out the window.

Frustration had hit her hard.

Sam sighed and walked back to where she was before. Rory continued to stand by the window, waiting for the man to show his sneaky face.

He didn't.

Rory just dropped the whole thing and joined Sam and Rea.

They soon left the store to continue walking down the street, window- shopping.

The three continued walking and it was up until they had reached Coach, Sam turned to her right to see a man across the street watching and following them.

"Oh my god, Rory you were right!" Sam whispered. She didn't dare look back across the street.

Rea tilted her head a little to her right and saw that there was in fact a man watching and following them.

"Okay, okay don't panic. The last thing we need is a worrywart......" said Sam.

"Oh god, oh god, oh god," Rea kept repeating this over and over and over so Sam stopped her and shook her heavily as she said, "Get a hold of yourself! We need you to stay focused!"

"Right, focused!" Rea said, "Focus!" she repeated to herself.

"I know I'll call Jess!" Rory said.

"Why would you do that?" Sam asked.

Rory blushed and said, "I'll tell you later," Sam then raised her eyebrows causing Rory to blush even more; regardless of the situation they were in.

Rory pulled out her cell phone inconspicuously and called Jess.

Two rings

"Hello?" Jess asked.

"Jess!" Rory whispered.

"Rory!" Jess said, in the same tone Rory used.

"Oh my god Jess, we need your help!" Rory said.

"We?" he asked.

"Sam and Rea," she responded.

"Oh, how may I be of service?"

"Jess I need you to get to Madison Avenue."

"What? Why?"

"Would you come if I told you that there was someone following us?"

"Are you serious?!"

"Jess, no time here!!"

"Right, um where are you now?"

Rory looked around to find that they had walked a block and passed Valentino. Crossing the street she said, "I'm right by Armani."

"Good, go inside and stay around a large crowd of people," Jess said.

"Okay and Jess?"

"Hmm?"

"HURRY!"

They both hung up their phones and Rory turned to Sam and Rea and said, "Okay the best thing to do right now is to act normal, we're gonna walk into Armani and stay around a large group of people, Jess should be here anytime soon."

"Any time soon?! Why not now?! Rory we have a stalker on our hands and all I CAN do is NOT act normal!"

"Well try!" Rory shouted.

They walked into Armani and the man walked across the street.

"Rory," Rea whispered loudly, "He crossed the street!! We can't stay here!"

"We have to, Jess is picking us up here!!" Rory whispered back.

"Jess wont need to pick us up if he finds that we're gone because of that stalker!!!" Rea whispered back.

"Fine! Hurry, hurry, lets go!!" Rory said, shooing them out.

They rushed down the street like true New Yorkers and walked 2 blocks from Armani and wound up and Peter Fox.

Sam turned around and saw that the man was nowhere to be found.

The three of them joined her by turning around and Sam said, "Guess we lost him." they turned around and there he was!!

"Guess not," the man snickered.

Rory's heart beat furiously and her mind raced to all these different scenarios. What would happen to them?? Too late to ask because the man glowered at the three of them and said, "If you walk quietly across the street, no one will get hurt."

Rory gulped and said nothing; they all just started walking.

The man stood in back of them telling them which way to go.

From Peter Fox, they turned around and started walking back, the way they came in. They had had to walk for about111 blocks before they turned on 57th Street where they then took a turn on the corner where Chanel is and stopped, waiting for the man to tell them where to go next.

On the outside Rory looked completely calm for a situation like this, but inside she was going crazy!

'What about Jess!! He's gonna call me when he finds out that I'm not at Armani!!' Rory thought.

The man had come around them to look directly into their scared eyes.

"Call a cab," he simply said.

"Why?" Sam asked.

Rea and Rory look with wide eyes at her. Why would she do anything to provoke him?! Who knows what he can do in public!

The man snidely responded with, "Cause I asked you to!" in his New York accent.

"Where are we going?" she asked again.

'Good god she's gonna get us killed!'

The man was getting irritated with her, Rory could tell, "To a place!" he responded, anger rising in his voice.

"Can you be more vague?!" Sam curtly replied.

The man had had enough, he pulled her up to his face and he said, "Yeah, I can! Now if ya value your life at all, you'll shut up!"

That was it.

Sam was quiet.

'We sure met the end of our tunnel, no more stalling because death, most likely, awaits us.'

When the man turned around, Rory put her phone on vibrate as she hung it on her thigh length stalkings and in between her legs, so you couldn't see the bump.

Just as she finished doing so, a cab had pulled up.

The three, plus the man, stepped in. The man told the driver to pull into an ally way.

The driver asked, "Why?"

And the man responded, "So you can get out."

The driver, as if he knew what was going on complied with the mans wishes and took him to an ally way where he then stepped out. In the drivers seat was now the creepy man.

It was kind of a long drive but they wound up somewhere in SoHo.

Rory really couldn't tell; she was waiting for Jess to call her.

Just then, her phone vibrated. Sam and Rea looked at her shaking leg.

Rory slyly pulled the phone out from between her legs and opened it. There was a text message that read: Where are you?? You said Armani!

Rory quietly, but slowly responded with: go to SoHo, quick! He's taken us there!

She waited for Jess's response and so Rory glanced up and out the window. The man glanced back at the three and snickered.

"Almost there," he said.

"Woopi!" Sam replied, under her breath.

Jess replied: SoHo?! What street are you on?

Rory looked out the window and said: we stopped; we're on the corner of Greene Street and Prince Street, Jess hurry!!

He responded but Rory couldn't look, she had to shove the phone back on the inside of her leg, where he wouldn't see it- so she would hope (A/N: if ya know what I mean....... If you don't, that's okay).

The man turned to face the three petrified women and said, "Out."

They obeyed his command and got out. Rory looked at the building in front of her. It didn't look very promising.

The building was painted a dingy kind of color. The man walked to the front of the door, opened it with ease and motioned for them to come in. They did so, and looked back at the entire world outside.

The man led them up a few stairs and to a flat. It apparently had one bedroom and absolutely no furniture. There were bottles of whiskey and vodka all over the floor, accompanied by boxes of old pizza.

"Sit!" the man screeched at the three, as he pointed on an even more dingy colored couch.

But they sat.

And they waited.

Why?

Why them?

These questions were too simple- too simple for even the mind to understand.

It was beyond reason.

But it wasn't fate.

It was worse than fate.

It was destiny.

Or was it?

One would have to wait and find out.

But now, now you worry.

But even then, there's no room for worry.

So you wait.

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