Chapter 6:

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The 30 minute ride, that felt in fact more like a whole eternity, was nothing compared to the hell they were going through as they made their way down the hallway of the hospital. Lorelai was rushing like a lunatic round corner after corner, desperate to find her daughter. She had absolutely no clue where she was heading to or in which part of the hospital she was in right now. But that really didn't matter to her.

She would ran through every single hallway, she would storm in every room, hell she would burst into the operating room even if the world's most difficult heart surgery was performed in there. She couldn't care less about it. Her mind had switched off as soon as her mobile had hit the floor in Luke's Diner and it was better that way. Would she think about the hundred different questions and possibilities that popped up in her head, she would have gone nuts a while ago. So, she simply suppressed the thoughts and the voice in her head that just wanted to scream her pain out loud, and instead she ran. She ran as fast as she could, and if she had to look for her in every room, than so be it.

"Mom, slow down" Rory's desperate voice echoed from somewhere on the other end of the hall and interrupted her bad trip for a moment. She stopped and turned around to see her daughter rushing closely after Luke, completely out of breath.

"Mom please stop" she nearly begged her, while single tears rolled down her cheek. To see the desperation, confusion and fear in Rory's eyes, finally made her snap out from her trance-like-state and made her return into reality. She hadn't thought a moment about how Rory must feel. During the whole time she hadn't been able to catch a clear thought and she hadn't been able think about what must have went on inside of Rory.

"For god's sake, her twin sister was alive!" the voice in her head told her matter of fact. And during the whole time she only thought about herself, how this would affect only her life. Seeing her tear stained face and the anxiety that was practically written on her face, her motherly instincts kicked in and made her wake up from her egoism trip.

"Oh babe, I'm so sorry" Lorelai said hoarsely as she embraced her in a tight hug. Lovingly, she stroked her chestnut brown hair and pressed her as hard as she could to herself, as if there would be no tomorrow.

"I'm sorry" she whispered as she finally aloud herself to cry a few tears of solace. For a minute they allowed themselves to get lost in their hug and to forget about the live changing things that lay ahead of them. They had felt lost during the time they drove from Stars Hollow to Litchfield. They had felt truly lost because they didn't share their thoughts and emotions with each other. Something they always did, and which made their relationship so special. As they finally fell into an embrace, they found each other again because they had someone whom they could lean on to, someone to share their feelings with, someone who would take care of the enormous emotional burden that weighted on them like a dark cloud.

Time seemed to stand still for them, when Lorelai slowly loosened the embrace and carefully studied the expression on Rory's face. She could practically feel her daughters fears and doubts as she looked in Rory's sapphire blue eyes, her eyes. She lightly touched Rory's cheek to wipe away her tears and though no words were spoken, she assured her daughter through a single glance that everything was going to be all right. That they had each other, and everything else didn't matter.

Rory nodded to make her mom know that she understood. That she understood her pain and fears and that they would go through this together. Rory gave her mom another quick hug and let her gaze drift over their whereabouts.

"Mom, we are in the urology wing. I guess we won't find her here" Rory said, lightening the mood of the situation.

"I guess you are right" Lorelai answered, a small smile making itself appear on her face.

Luke, who had quietly watched the interaction between the two from a few feet away, wondered what exactly it was what he had seen. Through a single hug and eye contact, they had given each other new hope and strength. It was as if they had led a whole conversation through their eyes. He always had known that Lorelai and Rory shared a very special mother-daughter relationship but now he understood that it was so much more. They knew how to make the other feel better through a simple touch and they knew how to speak to the other through a simple glance. They needed each other like they needed oxygen and Luke hoped that although they had each other, he could give them some kind of solace with his presence. He would do anything he could to make the situation easier on them, that's what he always did, he helped out when others needed him.

"I'm sorry Sir, could you tell us where we would find a sixteen year old girl. Her name is Avery." Luke asked when a doctor suddenly rushed past them.

"Ask Mrs. Stevens. Left door, when you come into the entrance hall." The Doctor said as he proceeded to rush down the hall. He obviously was in a hurry to come to a patient.

"Thanks." Luke yelled after him.

"That's her. That is the name of the woman who called me" Lorelai told Luke, hope reflecting in her eyes.

"Come on, we go to the entrance hall, and ask there. It will bring us nowhere, if we rush from one end to another. We will find her way faster that way." He calmly said as he gestured Rory and Lorelai to follow him.

She nodded, giving Luke a small smile.

"He had always been there, and even now, on the most difficult day in her life, he was on her side." She thought, while she took Rory's hand in hers and followed Luke closely behind.

Ten minutes later, after having asked three people, where they would find this nurse Stevens, they reached the room which said nurse staff on it.

"I'm sorry you are not permitted to enter this room." A voice from behind told them. A 30 something, a little chubby looking woman approached them. "Only staff members are allowed in there." She told them, pointing at the door.

"Mam, listen, this is an emergency." Luke said gruffly, not wanting to upset Lorelai more than necessary.

"It's okay Luke, let me handle this." she said calmly, laying her hand on his shoulder.

"I'll be alright." She assured him and turned towards the woman.

"My name is Lorelai Gilmore and…." She was interrupted by an excited gasp.

"Oh my god, you are Lorelai Gilmore?" she asked with wide hopeful eyes. "I'm the one who called you. I'm nurse Stevens. I'm so very glad you are here." The woman told her, shaking Lorelai's hand violently.

"Is it really true? Is she really my Avery?" Lorelai asked her, praying to every higher power that it was true. She could feel Rory squeezing her hand tightly, assuring her that she was there for her, that she would go nowhere.

"I actually, just got a call from the police giving me new information on the case" Nurse Stevens explained, as she studied the face of the woman. "This in deed had to be the mother" she thought. "Avery was nearly an exact replica of her. And this girl here had to be her sister. There definitely was a resemblance"

"Case? Police? What does that mean?" Lorelai asked, as signs of fear appeared in her eyes, awaiting the absolute worst.

"Maybe, we should go somewhere quiet, where we can talk in private." Mrs. Stevens suggested, pointing towards the door. Luke, Lorelai and Rory followed her inside, which must have been the common room of the nurses, for coffee mugs and plates where strewn all over the place.

"Sorry for the mess" she said, as she thought about how she could tell them the terrible news the most easiest way.

"Was there an easy way, to talk about tragedies like that" she thought, taking a deep breath, to finally start to explain the circumstances.

Lorelai couldn't believe what she had just heard. Had she thought that things couldn't get worse any more before, than she was wrong, she was so wrong. Before she had thought about how difficult everything would turn out for Rory and her. That it would be hard to build up a whole new relationship to a person, who was her daughter but whom she hadn't known for sixteen long years. She had thought about Avery's reaction to the news that she had a new mother and sister in her life. She had thought about how afraid she was that she probably would never have the same relationship with her as she had with Rory. But now, all these doubts and worries didn't matter any more, because there were more important things to take care of.

Her fears were replaced with anger, fury and hate towards the man who mistreated her baby.

"How dare he" she thought, shaking furiously, as she dug her nails into her hand. "How dare he touch her." She wished she could switch off her mind as she had done before, she wanted to escape from this nightmare and pretend that everything was alright. But the cruel reality hunted her like an animal, only waiting to crush her already wounded heart. At first she had thought she hadn't heard right. She whished that she hadn't heard her say that someone mistreated her girl for ten long years, that she misunderstood her saying that she had been beaten up with an iron rod and had now several broken rips, concussions and bruises. This could only be a bad dream. She would awake up any second because her Hello Kitty Alarm Clock would go off. But as hard as she tried to ignore the truth, she was brought back into reality, when the voice of Mrs. Steven interrupted her thoughts anew.

"I'm very sorry Ms. Gilmore, but there is something I haven't told you yet. As I said before there are new facts concerning the case. The police just told be a couple of minutes ago that they have found out who brought Avery to the orphanage all those years ago" the woman said, continuing her story. She had studied Lorelai's expression during the whole conversation, and she truly felt sorry for the woman. From minute to minute she seemed more miserable and smaller, but she deserved to know the facts, even if they were cruel and barbaric.

"The police spoke with the director of the institute and he could clearly remember the people who brought her, because they wished to stay anonymous. They left no address, no birth certificate, no names except for the baby's and this is normally uncommon" the woman explained taking a quick sip from the water glass in front of her.

"The police would have never found out about the people if they hadn't used a credit card to pay for food, clothing etc. in advantage. The director said he was very confused about why they would do this, for an orphanagewas a stately financed institute. Anyways, through this they could track down the owner of the credit card and therefore the kidnappers" the nurse told them taking a deep breath before revealing the names. (I'm not sure if this is possible, but we simply pretend it is:-)

Lorelai feared the worst, for a single moment she feared that her parents could have anything to with it, however she quickly dismissed this thought. They may have had their difficulties and problems with each other but they would never have done something like that to her. She felt terrible for even thinking something like that, she thought as she waited for the truth to be revealed.

"Strobe and Francine Hayden. Do you know these names?" she said, silence following her statement.

"I should be shocked about this, but I'm not" Lorelai slowly said as she processed the news. "They are the parents of her father," she calmly told her.

She couldn't believe that she reacted so calm about the news that Francine and Strobe were the reason for this whole ordeal but she always knew that they were not good people. She always felt unwelcomed in Christopher's house, and an icy chill would always ran down her spine when Francine or Strobe mustered her from head to toe, as if they would say "You are not good enough for our precious son". They were cold-hearted people whose only worries were their status in society. And as one could see they wouldn't even make halt of selling their grandchild.

"Mom, I don't believe this, you really think they would do something like that to you?" Rory asked shakingly, not believing what she had just heard. During the whole conversation she and Luke had sat quietly in their seats taking in the horrible details about Avery's life but that their own family had anything to do with a crime like that was too much for her. Could someone really be so cold-hearted and cruel as to make everybody believe that their grandchild is dead?

"To be honest Rory, yes I do believe that it was them" she told her apologetically. "They were afraid of what an illegitimate child would do to their status in society. This is what they are, and what they live for, what they didn't know however was that I would have twins. This made their nicely planned plan useless" she sighed, rubbing her forehead.

Her head hurt from all these intrigues and conspiracies. Yesterday they were an intact family. Not a perfect one but they had each other and that was all that mattered. Today however, they had to find out that an important part of their family was alive, hurt and mistreated over years and that somebody they were related to was responsible for the seemingly death of their grandchild.

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