"I'm sorry."
"Sweetie, don't..." Lorelai replied as she pulled up beside Luke's diner.
"I didn't mean to make Grandma so angry." Rory continued.
Lorelai sighed. "I know you don't understand this right now, but what happened tonight has nothing to do with you."
"How couldn't it?" Rory asked. "She threw a dinner party in my honor."
"Trust me, babe, it wasn't for you. Come on, let's get some real food." Lorelai opened the door of the jeep and stepped out. About this time, Luke pulled up behind Lorelai.
"Hey." He smiled as he stepped out of the old green truck.
"Hey." Lorelai greeted. "Thanks for doing this."
"Are you kidding?" Luke asked. "It's Christmas... I have to make sure you guys have a great meal."
Lorelai smiled. "Thank you, Luke."
Rory still hadn't gotten out of the jeep. Her headache had become worse over the past half hour and the bright lights of Stars Hollow's Christmas decorations were only making things more painful.
"Where's Rory?" Luke asked looking around.
"What do you mean?" Lorelai looked around as well, then noticed she was still in the jeep. "Hey, Ror." Lorelai called as she walked around to her side of the jeep. "You okay?"
Rory shook her head yes, but now had her eyes closed to avoid the bright lights. "I'm fine."
Luke walked over beside Lorelai and took a look at Rory. "You feeling alright?"
"Just a headache." Rory mumbled, finally stepping out of the jeep. As Rory's feet reached the ground she stumbled and Luke caught her.
"Rory." Lorelai replied in her concerned mother voice.
"Let's get you inside." Luke remarked as he helped Rory up the dinner steps.
Luke immediately turned on the lights, causing a rush of pain to shoot through Rory's head. "Turn them off!" Rory shouted.
Lorelai quickly hit the light switch. "Luke, maybe we should take her to the hospital."
"No." Rory whined.
Luke's eyes wandered back and forth. "Do you think it could be something from the coma?"
"I don't know." Lorelai answered honestly. "Rory, sweetie, how long has your head been hurting?"
"A few hours." Rory replied faintly.
Lorelai sighed. "I think we should take her."
"I'll drive." Luke replied.
"Mom, no, please." Rory protested. "I don't want to go to the hospital."
"I know you don't." Lorelai sympathized.
Luke scooped Rory up into his arms and carried her out to his truck, placing her gently inside. Lorelai crawled in beside her as Luke sprinted around to his side and jumped in. The engine started and Luke drove off for Hartford hospital.
"I can't help but want to blame her for this." Lorelai scoffed as they drove down the road.
"You can't do that, Lorelai." Luke replied.
"She never should have thrown that damn dinner party."
"The main thing to do is not get upset."
Rory rested her head on her mother's shoulder as she continued to keep her eyes closed. The pain was becoming so immense, Rory was beginning to lose contact with reality. She could hear parts of Luke and Lorelai's conversation, but then she would drift out and hear nothing for a few seconds. She wouldn't admit it to her mother at that moment, but Rory was very afraid. She was afraid of slipping back into the coma or losing her memory all over again. She tried to keep herself awake, but it was hard to do with her eyes shut so tightly; opening her eyes, however, meant that the pain would only greater itself. Rory sat there, completely helpless.
"She invites all these people, that Rory can't even remember and there it is, just a whole room of people who all expect Rory to remember this time and that time... She hasn't even been out of the hospital a full week! She tries to make it sound like she's done so much for us, when in reality it's just a way for Emily Gilmore to show off. Another way of saying look how great I am and how much money I have." Lorelai's tantrum was becoming more and more powerful. "Then... Then she tells me that I "need to take my daughter in hand." Where did she get that from? "
"Lorelai, don't do this." Luke remarked as he shook his head.
Rory was finally going through the emergency room when Doctor Smith happened to notice her and Lorelai.
"Lorelai." Smith proclaimed. "What's wrong?"
"She has a severe headache." Lorelai answered.
Smith motioned for a nurse. "Take her to the testing room, now." Smith ordered.
"What's going on?" Lorelai asked immediately.
"I don't know yet." Smith replied. "I'll let you know as soon as I find out anything."
With that said, Smith took off into the direction of Rory.