Summary: Luke and Lorelai got married in 1996 and had three more children. This story takes place at the end of the summer in 2005. Rory is 20, Ami is 8, and Will and Richie are 2. Rory decided to change her major to English instead of dropping out. Everything else with Rory happened the same.
Disclaimer: All of the characters in this story belong to Amy Sherman Palladino. Except: Ami, Will, Richie, and anyone else I decide to add a later date. Also most of the flashback belong to Amy, I just tweaked it some.
Different Memories Rory's Dance, Forgiveness and StuffThe morning of August Twelfth was like any other for the Danes family. Luke got up at 4:45 and went to the Diner. Lorelai got up at 7:00, dressed the twins, dropped Ami off at school, took the twins to daycare, and then went to work. But their eldest daughter Rory, wasn't having a normal day.
It was 11:17 when Lorelai got the phone call from the police.
"Independence Inn, Lorelai speaking."
"Lorelai Danes?"
"Yes?
"This is Sergeant Peterson from the Hartford Police Department, are you Lorelai Gilmore's mother?"
"Yes? Did something happen to her?"
"Her and Logan Huntzburger were hit by a drunk driver in her Prius last night on Highway 17."
"Did any- I mean, are they okay?"
"I don't know the exact details of the state their in, but they are at Hartford Memorial."
"Thank you."
"I'm sorry that I had to deliver such bad news. Have a good day."
"You too." Lorelai said hanging up the phone.
Lorelai hurriedly called Luke and her parents. Then she made arrangements to have Sookie watch her three younger children and headed off to the hospital.
Lorelai and Luke pulled up at the hospital in Luke's truck and Luke started to get out. Lorelai however, was frozen.
"Lorelai?" Luke said when he noticed that she was still in the car. "Are you okay?"
Lorelai didn't say anything; she just sat in the car staring.
"Lorelai, come on. We need to go and see Rory." Luke said going around to the other side of the car and opening the door.
"I'm scared Luke." She said quietly.
"I know I am too." He replied.
"I don't know how bad her injuries are, and I almost don't want to know. Do you know what I mean?" Lorelai said.
"Ignorance is bliss." Luke said nodding.
"Yeah. I mean what if she dies, and the last time I see her is in the hospital. Then I'll always have that image in my head when I think of her. I don't want that to be how I see her Luke." She said panicked, and tearing up.
"It won't be." Luke says pulling her out of the car and into a hug.
"I don't want her die." Lorelai says sadly into Luke's shoulder.
"Let's go see her." Luke said.
"Okay." Lorelai said reluctantly.
As Lorelai entered the hospital she remembered four and a half years ago when her father was in the very same hospital for Angina.
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Lorelai and her mother were in a fight. It wasn't that out of the ordinary I know, but this particular fight was bigger than their normal fights. This fight was about Rory.
Rory went to her first dance with her first boyfriend, Dean. Luke and Ami went out to Luke's cabin for the evening. Lorelai had hurt her back earlier, but took some medicine and convinced Luke that she felt better. Lorelai was supposed to have the house to herself that night, but her mother came over to watch Rory go to the dance and decided to stay with her, since she couldn't move.
They actually had a normal mother/daughter evening. No fights. Then they fell asleep before Rory came home. They also woke up before Rory came home in the morning. This is when the fight started.
"She and Dean were at Miss Patty's." Lorelai said relieved.
"What is that, a motel?" Emily asked loudly.
"Um, it's a dance studio. That was Patty on the phone. She said that she found them asleep and woke them up and Rory's on her way home." Lorelai told her.
"In what state were they found in?" Emily asked concerned.
"She didn't say, OK. Let's just try to be calm until we know what happened." Lorelai replied calmly.
"What do you mean 'until we know what happened'? We know what happened." Emily yelled.
"No we don't." Lorelai stated firmly.
"They were out all night!" Emily called out in outrage.
"I'm gonna make some coffee." Lorelai said.
"Lorelai Gilmore, I've watched you do a lot of stupid things in your life and I have held my tongue." Emily told her sternly.
Lorelai laughs "You've what?" She said in disbelief.
"But I will not stand by and let you allow that girl to ruin her life." Emily said.
"Mom -- back off." Lorelai told her forcefully.
"She spent the night out with that boy, the one you let her run off to that dance with." Emily told her.
"Mom, so help me God, I will not get into this with you." Lorelai said frustrated.
"She's doing the same thing you did." Emily said evenly.
"No she's not." Lorelai told her.
"She's going to get pregnant." Emily said.
"No she's not." Lorelai replied with force.
"She's gonna ruin everything just like you did." Emily tells her loudly.
"No she's not! No she's not! No she's not! Rory is a good kid, Mom! She's not me." Lorelai yelled.
"What kind of mother are you to allow this to happen to her?" Asked Emily.
"Oh, I don't know, Mom. What kind of mother were you?" Lorelai returned smartly.
"You're going to lose her. You're going to lose her just like I lost you." Emily told her.
"I am not going to lose her. Do you hear me? Even if I hadn't gotten pregnant, you still would have lost me. I had nothing in that house. I had no life. I had no air. You strangled me. I do not strangle Rory." Lorelai practically screamed at her.
"Oh you're so perfect and I was so horrible. I put you in good schools. I gave you the best of everything. I made sure you had the finest opportunities. And I am so tired of hearing about how you were suffocated and I was so controlling. Well if I was so controlling why couldn't I control you running around getting pregnant and throwing your life away." Emily said.
"Get out!" Shouted Lorelai.
"What?" Emily asked confused.
"You will not come into my house and tell me I threw my life away. Look around, Mom. This is a life. It has a little color in it so it may look a little unfamiliar to you, but it's a life. And if I hadn't gotten pregnant I wouldn't have Rory." Lorelai told her.
"You know that's not what I meant." Emily replied.
"Maybe I was some horrible uncontrollable child like you say, but Rory isn't. She's smart and careful and I trust her and she's gonna be fine and if you can't accept that or believe it, then I don't want you in this house!" Lorelai screamed.
A few moments later Luke and Ami entered the door to the kitchen.
"Is everything okay?" Luke asked, putting his arm around Lorelai.
"Before I tell you, you gotta promise you won't get upset and o something you're gonna regret later." Lorelai told him.
"Okay, now you're makin' me nervous." Luke said.
"Just promise me." Lorelai said quietly.
Luke sighs. "Alright I promise."
"Rory didn't come home last night. Miss Patty called and said that she found her and Dean asleep in her studio. Rory's on her way home right now." Lorelai told him.
"Rory spent the night with a guy!" Luke yelled.
"Yes." Lorelai said in an almost whisper.
"So that's what the fight was about." Luke said figuring it out.
"Yep." Lorelai said.
"I wanna kill him." Luke said. "Is that bad, or wrong?" Luke asked.
"I want to kill him too. But first let's find out what happened, and see if killing him is necessary." Lorelai said.
"Okay." Luke said.
A week later she called the Inn to tell Lorelai the plans for the Christmas dinner that weekend. When Lorelai told her that her and Luke couldn't get off work in time for cocktails, her mother told her not to come. She said to just send Rory and Ami. Lorelai was stunned and a little upset.
It was later that evening in the Diner, that Lorelai got a voicemail from Rory, saying that her father was in the hospital. Luke quickly closed up the diner and drove her there even thought he hates hospitals.
When they arrived at the hospital, they got lost at first, but soon found Lorelai's mother yelling at one of the nurses. When Lorelai saw her mother she almost laughed. There was her mother, holding Ami and yelling at the nurse about being insensitive. Lorelai would've laughed had the situation been different.
"Mom!" Lorelai called.
"Lorelai." Emily said.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Ami called out.
"What's going on, how is he?" Lorelai asked concerned.
"You came." Emily said in shock.
"Well of course I came. How's dad?" Lorelai asked.
Meanwhile Ami was struggling to get out of her grandmother's tight grasp. "Daddy!" She said exasperated.
"That's what I've been trying to find out, but this woman keeps pestering me with idiotic questions like, 'What's the name of our insurance policy?' and 'How long have we had it?' Amelia, would be still?" She said sounding annoyed.
"I need to get this information." The nurse said.
"I'll take her Emily." Luke said and then Emily handed him Ami.
"Well, what if I fill out this information, and you can go find someone who can tell us how my dad is?" Lorelai suggested.
"I'm not supposed to-" The nurse started.
"Or, I could go, and you can continue to discuss this with my mother." Lorelai said with a tight smile.
"The nurse glanced at Emily. "I'll go." She said, and then walked off.
"Thanks." Lorelai tells her then turns to her mother.
"You got rid of her." Emily says in awe.
"Yes, so tell me what happened." Lorelai said.
"That was amazing." Emily said.
"Mom, please." Lorelai pleaded.
"I don't know what happened. He was hot, he went to turn down the thermostat and then I found lying on the floor." Emily said clearly shaken.
After they talked a little bit more, Lorelai and Emily went into the restricted zone to find out what happened. Ami was terrified. She, like her father, didn't like seeing all the people being wheeled by on stretchers. It gave her nightmares for about a week after Richard was released from the hospital. Lorelai felt the same sheer terror then, as she did now.
"Lorelai?" Luke called to her.
"Huh?" She said breaking from her memory.
"The doctor would like to speak to us." Luke said pointing to the closest room on the left.
"Oh, right." Lorelai said. Luke put his hand on the small of her back and led her to the doctor's office.
TBC
Wow, that felt like a really long chapter. I don't know it might've just been me though, because I have been known to write the shortest chapters ever. Okay well just a side-note, each chapter will have a memory/flashback. Most will be from episodes, but will be altered since she will be married to Luke and have kids. Also, I will talk about what happened with Jess and Christopher too, because it's different.
Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this first chapter. Please review!