Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls if I did I'd be rich and not writing fanfiction. Thanks to all the reviewers. Enjoy!
Luke was the first to break the frustrating silence. 'Hi, I'm Luke Danes.'
He said as he stuck out his hand to the doctor. 'Ah, the fiancé, Lorelai mentioned you.'
Rory's head snapped to Luke's, then to the doctor's.
'Uh….. yeah so how is she?'.
The doctor grasped his hand and noticed Rory's bewildered look and tried to convey his apologies with his eyes at his slip of the tongue at revealing the engagement.
'Well she was coherent when she woke up for a minute, but then the painkillers kicked in and she fell back to sleep. She has a mild concussion, various bumps and bruises plus bruised ribs.'
'Is she going to be okay? Can we see her?', Rory said in a shaky voice.
Luke noticed this and reached for her hand, squeezing it slightly.
'We would like to keep her overnight for observation, just to make sure there are no complications. Ah……'.
The doctor's hesitation had warning bells going off in Luke's head. He knew the doctor was holding something back.
'Uh complications, what does that mean?'.
The doctor was hesitant to continue in front of everyone. Luke sensed this, 'Dean, Logan can you excuse Rory, the doctor and I for a moment.' He said taking Rory's hand once again.
Dean and Logan walked to the other side of the waiting room making sure to keep at least three feet away from each other.
Meanwhile the doctor spoke with Rory and Luke. 'We want to keep her overnight because we have found some blood in Lorelai's urine.'
Luke's eyes went wide and Rory put a hand over her mouth to stop a sob form coming out. Luke put his arm around her shoulder for support.
'Okay what does that, uh what, is she bleeding internally. Does she need surgery? '
The doctor took a deep breathe and continued, 'She has contusions all along her left side and lower back. It looks as if there was quite a bit of bruising in the kidney area. It could just be a bruised kidney. Her urine is a lighter shade of pink now, but when she came in it was fairly red. That does concern us a bit. We just want to make sure it continues to lighten and not get worse. We want to be able to act quickly if need be, that's all. She's in the I.C.U. right now, but I hope to move her to a step down unit before tomorrow.'. He looked at Rory, 'You can both can see her for a few minutes.'.
They followed him to the I.C.U. where he left them to return to the emergency room.
Luke and Rory stood outside the I.C.U. doors both wanting and not wanting to go in. 'Rory why don't you go first.'. Rory looked at him with tears in her eyes.
'I can't Luke I-I- don't want to see her like that.' He rubbed her arms up and down and looked her in the eye.
'Okay, Okay how about we go in together.'
Sniffing and wiping her nose with the back of her hand, she looked like the little girl he remembered who skinned her knee outside his diner after school when she was eight.
With his arms around her they both walked into the I.C.U. together.
TBC
