Ok, first thank you so much again for the great reviews and I am trying to take them on board as much as I can. So a little about this chapter, there is a new character coming in to it here, now he is going to be important in a few chapters, but not for the same reasons as you might think, so please try to remember him. Keep reviewing please and enjoy…..
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Part 10 'No Need for This'Rory woke the next morning feeling a sense of warmth for once, she got out of bed feeling relaxed and forgetting everything from the days before, she was floating in her mind and she hadn't dropped back to earth quite yet.
"Hey Alex, where's the…" Rory walked through into her moms kitchen as she spoke. She stopped suddenly when she saw Luke sitting at the table and her mom stood by the sink
"Hey, Rory" Luke looked at Rory as if she were mad
"Oh right, hey guys, sorry I just forgot that I was, well here" Rory pulled out a chair and sat down at the table opposite Luke.
"Hey that's fine, grab a seat and I'll get you some breakfast" Lorelai smiled, all night she had been awake trying to think of a way she could fix this, both mending hers and Rory relationship and getting Libby back for Rory. It was a hard thing to do but she was determined. And Lorelai had always been told, if your determined then things will happen. Or at least she thought that's what she had been told. She couldn't always quite remember things her parents told her; her mind was so full of lyrics and lines from movies now that those things started to disappear.
"You're making breakfast, really mom?" Rory had never seen her Mom makes breakfast before, they had always gone to Luke's but now Luke was living here she guessed things must have changed.
"Oh no, I'm warming stuff up in the microwave that Luke brought home last night, see genius!" Lorelai ran to the microwave as it beeped and presented a perfect looking meal laid neatly on a plate that didn't have any of the Bond girls on it.
(I guess I've been away way too long. Mom makes food, well kinda, and she bought new plates, ones without Bond girls on them. When I went to New York I tried my hardest to find all the Bond girl plates but I could never find a Tanya Roberts, me and Mom had 3, but now I guess there's none left.)
"Right ok" Lorelai placed a plate in front of Rory, one in front of Luke then one at her place and sat down. "I have a plan."
"Ok, go ahead" Rory hadn't even remembered she were here so she had hardly had time to plan anything, she had been too busy sleeping, which had been something she hadn't done in a while.
"Well, first off we call social services and get things straightened out there. Then we get someone to go with you to New York and help you pack all of your things and get them out of your apartment, preferably when Alex isn't there; you can leave him a note. Then I've talked to Luke and you and Libby can stay here for a while if you want, because its obvious you aren't in good health and if you stay here I can take care of you like when you were little."
"Like you haven't got enough people to take care of" Rory commented sarcastically, she had grown even more sarcastic since she had left for New York.
"No, I haven't, Luke goes to work and sweats out a cold and Skye's like the immortal child, she never gets sick, its depressing, not even a cold!" Lorelai moaned, "Anyway, then we can find you a place and you can get back on with your life, you can still work for the paper, I mean you work from home anyway right." Lorelai eventually stopped, she was so proud of her plan that she couldn't wait to get it out.
"Well, it's a great plan but, I cant leave Alex" Rory had tried to leave Alex before, she had gone and stayed with Marty for a while, but she only managed a few days before he found her and made her come home "I'm already gonna be in enough trouble that I've been away all night but if I leave he'll find me again, I've tried before but he finds me and what about Libby, she needs him, and I cant just leave Jade with him"
Rory looked as I she was about to cry again. She really wanted to leave Alex, more than anything in the world she wanted to be free form him but he had some kind of hold on her and she couldn't seem to break free. As soon as Luke heard this he couldn't deal with it anymore, he got up and left. Lorelai moved to sit next to Rory, she put her arm round her and said.
Be strong for me
Be strong for you
But most of all be strong for them
Your enemies need you to beat them
"Rory, the first step to getting away is to actually do it, don't worry about it, you have every right to leave him and he can do nothing about it, don't worry, baby I'm not going anywhere, at least not his time."
"Mom?" Rory sobbed
"Yeah sweetie" Lorelai was in pain for Rory but she couldn't help but smile. This was the first time in a long time Lorelai had heard Rory call her mom and really mean it.
"Will you come with me, to New York I mean. I know we have only just made friends again but my other best friends on holiday and you're the only other person who I trust to help me, please mom" Rory was begging now and Lorelai had never been very good at saying no to the baby face Rory
"Sure Honey, I'll come with you, when do you wanna go?" Lorelai knew she was doing the right thing
(She said her other best friend, as if she still counted me as being one of them or as if she had put me back there. I've never felt such a rush of emotion since the day Logan first handed me Skye.)
Lorelai first did what was most important and called social services, so that they were able to pick Libby up legally and so that it wouldn't count as kidnapping.
"Hello, this is Lorelai Gilmore, I'm calling to find out when I my daughter is able to get her baby back" Lorelai didn't know exactly what to say, she'd never really had to explain something like this to a person she didn't know and wasn't comfortable talking with.
"Name please"
"Lorelai Gilmore"
"Ok, what'd'you want?" the woman was obviously very bored with her job and probably talked to a lot of people dealing with the same sort of cases everyday.
"Well my daughters baby was taken away from her father by social services while my daughter was out and now well we would like her back."
"Is your daughter there?"
"Yes would you like to speak with her?"
"Yes"
"Hello" Rory was really nervous about this
"Name?"
"Lorelai Gilmore"
"Is this the daughter?"
"Yeah"
"You both have the same name?"
"Yes, except my middle name is different"
"And that is?"
"Leigh"
"Ah ok, I've found your file. Yes the baby was removed from the apartment on 5th avenue, New York City, yesterday and there has been an appeal date set, which is where you can appeal to have the child back, next Tuesday. You will need to come along to the Hartford courthouse at 10am and you will need a lawyer and a case prepared. The baby was removed for abuse, so prepare yourself accordingly."
"Do both parents have to be there?"
"No, the accused parent is the father and he will be sentenced to whatever the court sentences him, but that will be dealt with in criminal court, he is being charged with child abuse but you are just appealing for the child to be brought back into your home, the father will not be allowed the child back, but you can appeal, hence the appeal date, happy now?"
"Yes thanks, so when can I go pick her up?"
"You don't, you have to wait until after court to see the verdict,"
"What, I aren't allowed to see her till then?"
"No, you have to see what the judge rules, so don't be late"
"Thank you very much"
"Bye"
"Bye"
Rory put the phone down miserably.
"We aren't getting her back, we have to go to court, next Tuesday at 10am, that sounds like a great day to go to court." Rory walked off into her room and closed the door lightly behind her, leaving Lorelai looking distraught.
By the afternoon Rory seemed better. Lorelai had taken the day off work; she had explained everything to Sookie who got all excited and shouted 'Take as long as you like'.
Rory had said she was ready to move the things out of her apartment.
Lorelai hadn't expected, when Rory said as soon as possible, that she would be driving down a crazy interstate that very same hour let alone day. Rory had said that she wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Lorelai felt like she had to help her, so she drove to New York, 5th avenue, they drove past the Plaza hotel and the four seasons, Lorelai and Rory had always stayed at one of the cheap hotels right on the outskirts of the city, Lorelai could never afford this kind of place. Rory's apartment was worth more than everything Lorelai owned was.
Lorelai followed Rory up the stairs; they stopped at the 4th floor and knocked on a door. A young man, tall and blonde, opened the door with a friendly smile.
"Hey Rory, I called you yesterday and then again this morning and Alex said he had no idea here you were, I was worried. Where've you been?" The young man hugged Rory tightly and Lorelai realised that Rory didn't just have one person looking out for her, this man cared too
"I was visiting my Mom. Adam, I'd like you to meet my Mom, Mom this is my other best friend Adam." Rory introduced them and they shook hands
"Nice to meet you Adam, sorry to take her away from you" Lorelai laughed, this guy was perfect for Rory, and he wanted her to love him. She'd only known him for a few seconds but he was just what Rory wanted and Lorelai could tell that Adam wanted Rory.