A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! Before you read this chapter I just want so apologize in advance for any of you who are going to be disappointed. I just want to say that I did what I had to do to make the sequel work. And yes, there is going to be a sequel. lol. Also, I didn't have time to proofread this whole thing so sorry about any mistakes.

When Lorelai got home that night, later then expected, she was greeted by Landon's cries. She immediately took the little boy out of his car seat and comforted him. Once his crying had subsided, she began to look for Laci. She had called her name numerous times but Laci did not respond. Lorelai went over to Laci's bedroom and knocked on the door, but there was no answer. She let herself in and the first thing she saw was an open window. The room was ice cold! She looked around the room but she did not see Laci anywhere. She sighed and went over to the window to close it, but there was something in her way. She looked down and saw Laci curled up in a ball clutching her stomach. She was covered bruises and there was blood everywhere.

"It's going to be okay, baby. I'm just going to call for an ambulance and then you'll be all better, you'll see." Lorelai knelt down and kissed her daughters forehead before leaving the room to call 911 and Luke.

The ambulance got to the house before Luke did and they immediately ran to Laci's bedroom and gave her mouth to mouth. Once she was breathing again, they carried her out to the ambulance. Luke arrived home shortly after Laci had been carried out of the house. Lorelai ran up and hugged him but he did not return the hug, instead he got inside the ambulance with Laci and told Lorelai to take the car. Lorelai gave Luke a strange look, but then did as she was told.

"It's okay Laci, daddy's here now." Luke gently stroked his daughter's arm. Laci didn't respond, she just looked him in the eyes and tried to give him a smile, but it didn't work.

Luke looked back into his daughter's eyes and began to cry.

The ambulance pulled into the hospital parking lot a few minutes later. As Laci was being taken out of the ambulance Lorelai came running over with Landon in his stroller. Luke took one look at Lorelai and went inside with the stroller. Once inside Luke was given papers to fill out about his daughter, and he did them like a pro. He was finished in less then ten minutes.

Luke then walked into the waiting room where Lorelai was already seated. He gave her an evil glare and then sat down across from her. Landon started to fuss so Luke took the baby boy out of his stroller and began to walk with him. Lorelai saw this tried to take the baby away from Luke but just shot her another glare.

"Luke, please…I know this is hard for you but it's just as hard for me. I need to be doing something, anything. I can't just sit here and wait to hear about Laci." Lorelai begged.

"Fine, why don't you go call everyone who needs to be called? I don't want to leave this little boy with you because for all I know you might forget about him."

"Who should I call?"

"Rory, Liam, Sookie, Cesar, Mandy, you can check in with the police…"

"Fine. I'll be back in about an hour."

Lorelai threw her purse at Luke and then walked outside to call everyone that she was told to. The first person she called was Rory, because she really needed somebody to talk to since Luke was mad at her.

"Hey, Mom. Can't get enough of me, can yah?" Rory answered.

"What?"

"I just dropped you off at your house like an hour ago and you're calling me already."

"Oh, yeah."

"Mom, what's wrong? You don't sound very good."

"Laci…um…when we were out…he came to the house…she's in the hospital."

"Who came to the house? Rich?"

"Yes, and it's all my fault!"

"How is it your fault?"

"I was supposed to go with her to get the sonogram done, and I didn't. I went with you instead!"

"Wait, what? Why did she get a sonogram?"

"She's pregnant or she was pregnant and now she's not or she is and its all my fault! If I hadn't have gone with you and I had kept my promise to her I would have been home and he wouldn't have been able to hurt her!" Lorelai cried.

"Mom, this is so not your fault. You were doing me a favor by coming with me. You were doing something good!"

"Rory, I let your sister down and now she's hurt and in pain!"
"Mom, can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Why do you favor me over Laci? I know that she isn't the best example and all but you show pure favoritism over me. Everyone can see it Mom, just answer me this…why me?"

"Rory, I do not favor one of my kids over the other, okay?"

"Mom…I'm not trying to get you mad but everyone knows that you favor me."

"I don't favor you! Now, I just thought that you would like to know that your almost five month pregnant sister got beaten up in the stomach by her baby's father."

"Why didn't she tell me that she was pregnant if she had known for so long?"

"I don't know. I mean, how would I know? I do favor you over her, right?"

"Mom!"

"I'm sorry that I wasted my time calling you. I have to go and call other people. If you would like an update on your sister you can call us back. Bye."

Lorelai hung up the phone defeated. She knew that she favored Rory but she didn't know why. She didn't know if it was because of their situations or because of their birth order. Either way she knew she favored Rory. She looked through the address book on her phone and dialed Liam's cell number.

"Hey…I'm either out getting drunk or out getting laid, so leave a message and I'll get back to you when I get home…" There was a long pause. "Ha-ha! I totally fooled you, didn't I? Well, maybe not. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm either at the library or just ignoring the phone. Don't take it personally. I guess you can leave a message and I'll call you back. Bye!"

"Hey Liam. It's your mom. Now normally I would say how proud I am that you have finally begun to act normal and that you have a descent answering machine message but…well, you sister, Laci, is in the ER. We think Rich broke into the house tonight and well she's bruised up pretty badly and…so yeah. Call me back, kid. Bye and I love you."

Lorelai closed her phone and looked around. Was she really standing outside of a hospital at nine at night? Was her baby girl really inside the ER getting taken care of? Did her baby girl really get hurt because of her? Was it really her fault? Lorelai's thoughts were distracted when she saw a doctor approach Luke. She ran inside to find Luke with his head in his hands. He looked up at her and she looked down at him.

"What did he say?" Lorelai asked.

"They said that she was raped, again. They said that there was little if any chance for the baby to survive; they said that Laci might become infertile from being kicked in the ovaries, God Lorelai! You could have prevented all of this! You could have stopped all of this from happening, but you didn't! Instead you were out partying with your other daughter!"

"Rory is your daughter too, Luke!"

"Yes, but I don't prefer her over Laci and I don't prefer Laci over Rory! I love them equally!"

"Luke…"

"What, Lorelai?" Luke snapped.

"Nothing, never mind…I'm going to go and finish my calls."

"Good."

Lorelai went back outside where she called Sookie and Cesar. Both said that they would manage everything at the inn and diner. Lorelai's next phone call was to the police. She wasn't sure if they were already informed about Laci, but Luke wanted her to call just in case. Lorelai called 411 and they and they gave her the phone number of the Hartford police.

"Hartford Police, Tom speaking."

"Hello…um my name is Lorelai Danes. My daughter was taken to Harford Memorial a few hours ago…"

"Ah…yes. We have a few detectives on the case. They should be over shortly."

"Is there anyway that you can send them to the hospital."

"Yes, that is where they are going. Then after they talk to you and your husband one of you will have to go back to the house with them to show them where you found her, okay?"

"Yeah, that's fine. I'll keep my eye out."

Lorelai looked at Luke through the window and she could tell that he was hurting just as bad as she was. He looked at her and gave her half of a smile to let her know that he was alright and she did them same. Lorelai stayed outside for quite a while longer before going in and sitting with Luke. Once she had gotten inside she saw Luke with two detectives, one lady and one man. Luke stood up and introduced Lorelai to them, and then they all sat down.

"So, Lorelai, I understand that you are the one who found your daughter?" Lorelai nodded. "Can you describe to me exactly what happened?"

"Yeah…um…I came home and I heard my grandson crying. He was in his car seat so I took him out and comforted him. Then once his crying had slowed down a bit I went into my daughter's room with him and I saw the window open. The room was freezing."

"Okay, then what happened?" The female detective, Officer Benson (A/N: Go Law and Order SVU!), asked.

"I went over to close the window but there was something blocking my way. I looked down and…and…that's when I saw her."

"What exactly did you see?" The male detective, Officer Stabler (A/N: Go Law and Order SVU!), asked.

"I saw…I saw my pregnant daughter on the floor holding her stomach. She had bruises all over her body and there was blood every where!"

"Do either of you guys no who could have done this to your daughter?"

Lorelai looked over at Luke and Luke nodded. "I'll tell you who did this to her! It was that stupid-idiot-jackass-son of a bitch (A/N: Thanks The27thGilmore)! Oh…I am going to kill him!" Luke got up and started to pace the hospital floor.

"Luke, we are going to need you to calm down. Now, we do need a name..."

"Rich, Rich Manning. We have a restraining order against him and everything!" Luke said.

"Is there anything else you think we should know?" Officer Benson asked.

"No…well Rich did abuse Laci and he raped her daily for a few months. I would say for about four months but she moved in with us three months ago and that's when we got the restraining order."

"Thank you. Now, Lorelai would you mind coming back to the house so we can check it out?"

"That's no problem."

"Hey, Lorelai?" Luke asked.

"Hmm?"

"Can you bring some bottles for Landon, a change of clothes, and some diapers and wipes?"

"Sure."

Lorelai went back to the house with the two detectives. She watched as they took finger prints off of the window and how they took pictures of her house. After they were done she told them that she just has to run upstairs to get a few things and then she would meet them in the car. Elliot agreed, but Olivia decided that she would go upstairs with Lorelai.

Lorelai led Olivia into Landon's bedroom that once belonged to Liam. She took the diaper bag off of the changing table and began to put various items into it. As she picked up a stack of diapers she noticed the sonogram picture hanging on the wall in a frame that said "My Little Sister". At this point Lorelai broke down and began to cry. She looked over a Olivia who was staring at her.

"You know what the worse part is? I was supposed to stay home from work today. I was going to go with Laci to get the sonogram done but I didn't, instead I spent the day with my other daughter. I picked Rory over Laci. I am such a bad mother. If only I had gone with Laci like I had planned, none of this would have happened."

Olivia took Lorelai into her arms and comforted her, and then they went out to the car to join Elliot. Lorelai didn't say another thing the whole ride there. Once they got there, Lorelai ran into the waiting room where Luke was standing with a doctor.

"Hi, I'm Laci's mother. What's going on?" Lorelai asked.

"I'm sorry to tell you, but your daughter had a miscarriage. She also has two broken ribs, a broken nose, and she has some long term damage to her ovaries."

"Can…can…I see her now?" Lorelai asked.

"I'm sorry; she specifically asked to see her father first."

Lorelai's jaw dropped as Luke handed her Landon. She watched as Luke disappeared behind the forbidden doors. Did her daughter really choose Luke over her? Did she really like Luke more?

Luke followed the doctor threw the hallways and into a room where Laci was currently sleeping. The doctor told him that he could stay there as long as he wanted as long as he did not disturb her or the other patients. Luke agreed and watched as the doctor left the room.

"Hey Lace. You scared me there for awhile. I seriously thought that I was going to lose you." Luke began to cry and then he saw Laci open her eyes. He got off the chair and walked over to the bed where he gently wrapped his arms around her. "Laci, I love you so much, you have no idea."

"I love you too Dad."

"Oh, Laci…"

"It's okay."

"I'm so so sorry about…"

"She's gone Dad, she's gone! I feel so guilty about not wanting her. I should have loved her from the beginning, then maybe she would have had a chance."

"Laci, don't talk like that! You have done the best you could and there is nothing that you can do to chance what happened."

"But, she's gone Dad, she's gone!" Laci dug in head into Luke's chest the best she could and she cried on him for quite awhile.

"Hey, Lace…you can look at it this way…Emilyn left us because she was too good for this world. She was going to be an amazing person who only did good things so God felt that she was too good for us and that's why he took her way."

"I guess I can think about it like that."

"Yes, you can. Now, why don't you get some rest before your mom comes in."

"No, I don't want her to. I want you to stay here with me. Please?"

"Absolutely…I just have to tell your mom. Maybe she could bring Landon home and get some rest tonight."

"No! Landon can't go home, Dad! Rich said that he will hurt Landon next…"

"What?"

"He said that he would hurt Landon next."

"Okay. Let me go tell the officers that are in the waiting room with your mom and then I will come right back, okay?"

"Yes."

Luke ran down the hall to see the officers still sitting with Lorelai. Lorelai handed Landon over to Olivia and ran over to Luke. Luke walked right past Lorelai and over to Elliot.

"I want Rich arrested, NOW!" Luke screamed.

"What happened? What did Laci tell you?"

"I need him arrested! My family will not go home until Rich is behind bars!"

"Luke, please calm down. What did Laci tell you?" Olivia asked.

"She said…she said…she said that Rich told her that he would hurt Landon next! I need him behind bars, NOW!" Luke screamed once again.

"Luke, we have about five cops out there right now looking for him. Unless we know exactly where to look for him, we are going to have to be patient."

"That club…he likes to go to that club!"

"What club?"

"The club on West Main Street." Luke said.

"Ok, I will tell them to search there."

"Can I go see her now, Luke?" Lorelai asked.

"No, she wants me to stay the night with her. Will you guys let me know if you find him?"

"Sure thing."

Luke walked back to Laci's room and watched his daughter sleep. She slept the whole night through and so did he. At about six thirty the next morning, Lorelai came into the room to see Laci. She sat down on the bed next to Laci which woke both Luke and Laci up.

"Mom…" Laci said.

"Hey kiddo, I have some news for you."

"What is it?"

"They found Rich last night and he is now behind bars."

"What?" Luke and Laci asked at the same time.

"They found him and he is serving 20 years in prison. You're free honey!"

"Wow, how did they find him?" Laci asked.

"Your dad told him where he might be."

"Thanks Dad."

"No problem. Hey, I'm going to go check on Landon. I'll come back later, okay?"

"Yeah, thanks."

"So, Lace…I'm really sorry about yesterday. I shouldn't have forgotten. I'm really sorry."

"Mom, you always forget about me, it's nothing new."

"I won't do it again, I promise."

"Mom, I have learned to live with it, don't worry about it, okay? I understand that you like Rory more then me. Its totally okay. She is the perfect daughter."

"Laci, both of my girls are the perfect daughter, just in different ways, that's all."

"Mom, I wish I could believe you but I can't."

"Laci, I promise you on my life that I am going to change. From now on I not going to show favorites."

"Her name was going to be Emilyn Rose."

"Oh Laci, its okay." Lorelai said as she took her daughter in her arms and held her closely.

A/N: Wow, I can not believe that I actually got this finished today! I didn't even use the stuff that I already had written. I feel so proud! Now I just have to get my science project started and then I will feel really proud. lol. I hope you all liked it!

The sequel is going to start at Laci's wedding and continue through her married life. She is going to have a hard time getting pregnant because of what Rich did to her and then once she does get pregnant she will have a hard time keeping the baby.

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