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Alright, I know that this chapter is really really corny and schmaltzy :-) Maybe a bit too exaggerated. Sorry about that! But I kinda had no plan where I would go with this chapter. I wrote and wrote and that's what came out!

Chapter 8:

The wheels in Avery's head rotated furiously, while her heart pounded like the one of a marathon runner, who had just finished his first iron man. She felt torn apart between two sides: trust and distrust, while at the same time her whole body ached from an unbearable pounding pain deep inside of her. But this time the reason were not her broken rips but something, Avery couldn't quiet tell. It was as if her intestines were tightening and pulling together. It was a stinging pain, that made it hard for her to breath. And suddenly it overcame her like a huge bitter tasting wave, which was washing over her. She wanted to cry, she had the unbelievable urge to cry as hard and bitterly as she had never before.

"Where was this coming from?" she thought, as she desperately tried as hard as she could to grit her teeth together.

Never before had she let her emotions rise up inside of her like that, except when she knew absolutely for sure that she was alone. In the deepest of the night, when the darkness and shadows of her room would surround her, then finally she would allow herself to cry single tears into the lonely night. Only then and really only then, would she allow herself to sob into the comforting pillow until it was completely drowned by her desperation. She had learned a long time ago how to bottle up her emotions in front of others and how to swallow her tears back down. It was an ability she had perfected over the years, so that nobody would find out the truth about her abusive stepfather.

"So what was happening now?" she asked herself, desperate to hide the emotions, which dangerously seemed to swell up.

A small sob escaped her lips as she silently prayed that nobody had heard it. She had to beware her unbreakable façade, which she had built up over all these years. She couldn't give in now, just because someone pretended to be her mother and sister. Too hard had she worked on this safety wall around herself, which would beware her from disappointment and pain. It wouldn't let emotions come near her, but it also wouldn't let any feelings come out of her.

"No, the wall had to be bewared and she couldn't let it break down now" she thought as she turned around so she would face the other side of the room. Suddenly she seemed to be able to repair the damages in her façade again and once again bottle up her real self inside of her.

"Looking into the eyes of that woman was a dangerous game" Avery realised, because as soon as she had torn her gaze away from her, everything was back to the old way. She would wait until they were gone, and only then when darkness surrounded her, only then she may let down her wall and cry.

Lorelai, for sure, had heard the little sob that had escaped her daughter's lips. The ears of a mother where as good as the eyes of a falcon, when it came to her child. Lorelai was studying Avery's reaction closely, and she definitely had seen the change in her eyes. For a break of a second she could swear that she had seen a tiny little sparkle light up, that underlined the beauty of her deep midnight blue orbs. She could clearly see the battle that was going on inside of her. Through a single glance Lorelai could tell that the real Avery, who was bottled up deep inside of her, wanted to escape for a short moment. She knew that the fragile girl in front of her was nothing more but a shadow of her former self and she would do everything in her power to bring back the real self of her daughter.

Yes, for a single moment, Lorelai had thought that she in deed would open up to her, this illusion however was destroyed as soon as she broke their eye contact and turned away from her. For the second time on that fateful day Lorelai felt as if somebody had stabbed a knife into her heart but she also knew that she couldn't force Avery's trust and that she needed time to let the news sink in.

Lorelai swallowed down her disappointment and like Avery she swallowed down the tears that where threatening to rise up. She had to be strong for her, for Avery's and Rory's sake. She would put her own needs behind herself, and instead would fully concentrate on the needs of her daughters. That's what a mother is supposed to do, right?

After this silent promise had slowly settled down in her mind, she turned over to Luke and Rory, who had been standing closely behind her the whole time, ready to stable her if she would break down. She gave them a nod, which signalled them to leave the room.

Before she followed them however, she took a last look at the girl in front of her and whispered, only for Avery audible:

"Please come home."

These were her last words before she left her daughter alone, so that she could process the reality of the situation. However, she wouldn't go far. She would place herself in front of the door and wait for her. She would wait as long as she had to, and if she had to sit there forever, then so be it.

Luke angrily kicked the coffee machine in front of him, which had just swallowed the 50 cent coin he had put in.

"Stupid machine" he muttered as he was searching his pockets for money.

"No…he couldn't make the situation easier on them and he also couldn't take the enormous emotional burden away, although he would happily oblige" he thought. "But he could bring them coffee. Coffee was always a good thing when it came to the Gilmore girls. This time however he would not lecture them how unhealthy the stuff was. This time he would simply let them have their coffee, without any further words."

As he made his way back with two mugs of steaming coffee in his hands, he found Lorelai and Rory in a tight embrace sitting on the bench in front of Avery's room. It nearly broke his heart, as he saw them like this, each of them searching solace in form of the other.

"She needs time babe" Lorelai told Rory soothingly, while she stroked rhythmically over the small of her back, like she had always done when she was still small.

"She will come around eventually" she promised Rory, although she wasn't so sure herself any more.

"God, mom! The look in her eyes….it really scared me!" Rory told her as she loosened herself out of her mom's hug.

It had deeply startled her as she had closely studied Avery just a few minute ago. As their eyes had connected for a break of a second, she indeed knew that every time she had felt this familiar soothing connection in the past, it really had been Avery's presence she had felt. As soon as they had entered that hospital, she instinctively knew that her sister was alive. It was as if a long lost part of herself had called for her and though she had truly felt scared at that moment, at the same time it was the most wonderful feeling she had ever experienced. The feeling of completion and true happiness. She knew that she had finally found what she had been looking for so long.

However, when she looked in those beautiful pained blue eyes of her twin sister, she suddenly felt so much more than joy and happiness but she could truly feel every single emotion inside of Avery. It scared her to death, how much pain was bottled up inside of her sister. It scared her to death, that one could feel such an intensity of painful emotions. The intensity of the pain she had to endure, the intensity of disappointment she had to experience, the intensity of fear, anxiety and worst of all hate, sucked the oxygen out of Rory's lungs for a moment. She couldn't breath, for the overwhelming emotions seemed to crush her lungs and her little heart.

Rory knew that Avery could only find peace with her help. She had to gain her trust, so that she would see that she indeed was the key to her absolution. Rory held the missing piece of Avery's soul inside of her, while Avery had Rory's. And only if they would find complete trust in each other, would they be able to exchange these missing parts. Then and only then could Avery start to forget her painful past because she would have someone, who would understand her fully and completely. She wouldn't be alone during the process of forgetting because she had an eternally connected twin sister, who would go through hell with her.

"You know, when our eyes connected that moment…" Rory stopped for a second to find the right words, to explain her mom what she truly felt. "It was as if I could feel what she felt. It was as if thousand of emotions came crushing down on me and for a moment I thought I might collapse from the intensity." she said as she rethoughtwhat had happened.

"You know... it is nearly the same with the both of us. Sometimes I can tell through a simple look at you what you feel and think and it is not only because we know each other blindly. No…it is because we have a special bond. And the same thing happened in there with Avery….just a hundred times more intensive…this sounds crazy doesn't it?" Rory said, sighing deeply.

Lorelai, who had closely listened to the words of her daughter, was touched by Rory's confession.

"You are twins Hon…I guess there is some kind of special connection between the two of you." Lorelai mused as she lovingly touched her cheek.

"I know it must be confusing…."

"No…no it isn't. For the first time I can see things really clear." Rory interrupted her words.

"You know, all those years, I felt something….I can't explain what it was…but I knew that there was somebody out there, who belonged to me and now that I'm here , I finally understand that it was her. For the first time I…I know it sounds stupid…but there is this feeling of near completion and I know it's because of Avery. Would she finally trust us…I know that everything would turn out okay…"Rory explained her mom, while she played with a strand of her hair, something she always did when she was nervous.

"No that doesn't sound stupid…absolutely not" Lorelai said in awe, as the words sunk in. "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard... Give her time Sweets…I'm sure that time will heel her wounds and there will be a time in the future where she will trust us…I'm sure" Lorelai told her daughter, but this time she believed her own words.

The clock beside thebed read 2:54 a.m. in big, red, digital letters. Avery couldn't sleep, even if she wanted to, she couldn't. Over and over again she went through the conversation that had taken place about 5 hours ago. She had heard Lorelai and Rory talk outside the room after they had left.

"She is right" she thought, even now she was astonished by the confession by her supposed-to-be sister.

"She had felt it too. All those years, it was Rory, in whom she had tried to find solace! And as their eyes suddenly met, she felt something too. However, didn't she feel pain like Rory had, but complete love, devotion, joy and happiness. It was as if Yin and Yang were collapsing into another and melt into one person. She felt the complete opposite of what her emotions represented. She felt the incredible love and devotion Rory shared with her mother and the joy and happiness her whole life was built around."

"Maybe I should give them a chance" she heard herself suddenly think, and she was amazed that these words were really coming from her.

Again she was torn apart between trust and distrust. She was deeply confused.

She had heard the words of Lorelai before she had left the room and the words echoed over and over again through her head.

"Please come home. Please come home…" it was like a mantra for Avery, while she philosophised over the simple word home.

What was a home? For her, it had always been a negative associated object. Somewhere, where she felt unloved and afraid. Maybe for once it could be something positive.

"Maybe I can trust them…no I can't…can I?" a battle raged in her head as everything started to spin around.

For a moment she lay still, clearing her mind and finally making a decision that would change her life.

"She would not let down her brick wall she had built up over the last ten years" she thought. "But…she would literary spoken break out one of the stones and see what happens. This first brick would be a step she never thought she would dare to risk, however, the overwhelming trust her mother and sister set in her, was worth a try."

She promised herself however, as soon as her trust would be abused again, she would fill the whole in her wall once again, and this time forever.

After this decision, she took a small piece of paper and wrote in straight letters on it: I'LL COME HOME".

Slowly she got out of the bed, while she gritted her teeth and painfully held her hand to her side. She made her way outside, where she was greeted with a sight that made her wall loose another stone. Her sister was safely wrapped in the arms of her mother, who both slept peacefully in this position. Yes, she had finally accepted the fact that her real mother and sister were in her life now.

"They had really waited outside her room the whole time long" she thought astonished, whileatiny tiny smile appeared on her face, the first one in years. She placed the message on the small table beside her mother and made her way back into the room, when she suddenly saw Luke's eyes flutter open. For a moment they stared at each other. Luke gave her a small wave as he continued to star at the small girl in front of him. To his surprise, he received the same gesture in return before she disappeared behind the door again.

Luke smiled like an idiot into the darkness of the hospital hallway. Now he knew that everything was going to be all right, and it made him truly happy.