Chapter Three: Waiting for the verdict on the bad boy rebel.
It has been at least an hour since Luke had made the decision to call Jess' New York friends. That hour felt like the longest in his entire life. The time seemed to have stopped still. They still did not know anything about Jess or his condition, and anytime Luke asked one of the nurses they told him to wait for the doctor.
Well the doctor didn't show… and Luke hated it, this feeling of helplessness, inability to make the situation better. He hated feeling vulnerable, and right now he felt vulnerable, because despite how much trouble his nephew caused, despite how solitary, rude, and rebel with out a cause he acted, he gotten into his heart, and once Luke Danes cared for someone he took care of them, whether they wanted to or not. Luke would be damned if he'd let his punk nephew slip.
"You Okay?" asked Loralai breaking him from his thoughts.
Luke looked at her and once again felt that amazement and myriad of emotions that were always attached to Loralai Gilmore. He still could not believe she had stayed with him at the hospital, especially since the reason they were here was Jess, the original reason for their fight that left their relationship on such shaky grounds. Sure they had mended fences somewhat but both of them were cautious around each other, like they were newly acquainted friends, and not the friends that knew each other for over 13 years.
"Yeah, I'm okay, or as okay as I can be, when the DAMN DOCTORS WONT TELL ME A THING!" he said the last part in a loud frustrated voice. "I mean damn the punk, why did he have to go and get himself hit by a car, what he couldn't just draw another chalk outline of a dead body outside of Dooses', much more amusing. Did he have to drive me to an early grave, damn boy?"
Loralai made comforting noise that would have been comforting except that her amused expression, dancing eyes, and barely contained laughter contradicted her effort.
Luke glared at her, which only caused her to laugh out loud.
" I'm sorry…..really sorry…I didn't mean to laugh…", at Luke disbelieving glance, she shrugged and said "well okay, may be I did, but you know he'll be okay, it Jess, that kid lives to torment Stars Hollow, he won't just abandon what seems to be his life's mission. Besides, he's a tough kid, he'll make it trough."
That speech left Luke staring at her once again, with that look in his eyes that always made Loralai so uncomfortable, but not really bad uncomfortable, more unsure uncomfortable with feelings she would rather not try to put a name to. It felt like he could see her soul, her deepest secrets, desires, and fears. It always left her feeling exposed to the world; like he had stripped all the protective layers she had and left her bare, for the whole world to see. It sounded silly, overly used cliché, like from one of those movies that she and Rory always mocked, but somehow it seemed the only way to describe these feelings.
She gave an awkward laugh, which sounded strained even to her own ears and gave Luke a questioning look.
"You are truly exceptional woman." He said with something akin to awe in his tone. That only caused Loralai to give him her playful smirk and say "I know" Luke shook his head, and would have said something else, had not at that moment seen Rory enter the Waiting Room looking all haggard, like she had ran all the way from Chilton.
As soon as she reached Luke and Rory she dispensed with formalities and politeness, diving straight to the point.
"How is he? What's going on? How did the operation go? Is he Okay? Is it finished? Do you know who the driver was? Is he going to be okay?" she asked seemingly in one breath, it was said even on Gilmore standard, and in human standards that was really, really, fast.
Loralai took her daughter by the shoulders and said in commanding voice "Rory stop."
Rory complied; taking much needed deep breath and raising pleading eyes at her mother. Loralai seeing that look on her daughter's face, in her eyes, felt her heart give a tight squeeze. That look of desperation, of helplessness, it wasn't that much different from the look she had seen on Luke what seemed like moments ago, and yet those looks were worlds apart. But now wasn't the time for examination or exploration of that fact, and so she did what she did best, she comforted her baby girl by engulfing her in a hug.
"We don't know much yet. As far as we know he was hit by a drunk driver, and he is still in the O.R., we are waiting for a doctor to tell us more."
Rory gave a nod, but still looked so heart wrenched that Loralai wanted to pull her close and tell her that everything would be alright, much like she had done with Luke. To give a light to the situation by reminding the punk ass that Jess was, that he wouldn't give up easily, but instead all she said was "It's going to be okay, he'll be okay"
Rory once again a nod, but this time the soothing words had no affect because it really wasn't okay, and even Loralai had doubts that it would be okay, not for a long while anyway. And so the three people, one way or another connected to the person behind the O.R door, where his fate was being decided, sat down in a defeating silence. Each in their own thoughts, all in some ways connected to the same Rebel, same bad boy, waiting, hoping, praying.
A/N: well, what do you think? I know not one of my best efforts but I wrote it in one go and I know it is kinda short but I just needed to write this chapter for several reasons, one to get back to writing since I took my last exam today, and second to be able to get where I need to be in the plot of the story to get things moving. Anyway, review and tell me what you think, and I still need a beta, so if you are willing email me at Thanks to the following people for a review:
lilyLOVESwb: I am glad that you liked the previous chapter, and I know what you mean about GG. I hated/loved the final too. I was kind of mad at Rory, and while I understand her feeling of indecision and lost, I cannot believe that she betrayed Loralai like that, to go behind her back to her grandparents, and is it just me or did it feel really manipulitve and fake when she came crying to Richard, and I really wanted to hit her over the head, Rory that is when we see LOralai looking at Rory through the window, the scene was heartbraking, but the proposal left me hooked. I knew it was coming, and yet when it came my jaw hit the floor and I had this excited feeling and then bam wait till fall, they're evil I tell you, pure evil. Its torture. Okay rant over,Ps:I got season three on DVD at the beginning of June. Yay for me and yay for you. Thanks for reviewing.
smile1: Thanks on your complement, and I am glad you like Jess the way I wrote him, I don't want to jinx it, but it is actually easier for me to write Jess and his scenes than any other GG character. Anyway, sorry for the wait for new chapter, but like I said I had a biology exam and I hate the subject so it had to take priority, and other than a week it will take me to relocate across the ocean for the summer, the updates should be pretty regular. Thanks for the review.
music4mysoul: Thanks, I am glad you liked the conversation between Luke and Loralai, for me its not that easy to try to get Loralai and Luke to be believable while still performing by the written script. Anyway, of course Jess is ………oops not suppose to give away the plot that how people loose interest! LOL, but just a hint, I love jess. PS; thanks for reviewing on both chapters.
Till next time, and remember review.!