So...wow,I need to start updating more! I mean, come on! I'm on vacation! I should have more time to do this crap! But I don't.And we have a meet on thursday so I've been trying to build up my speed for the past two days. I think I've been doing good seeing as I've only been running for the past two days after three or four weeks of nothing. So I will stop my random babble, and let you read this chapter. I think there's only one more chapter after this. I had it written a month ago or so, but I might add some more on to tie up some loose/weak ends that are present in the last chapter. So, enjoy.
Disclaimer: Guys, you want to know what? I'm way to tired to think of some little clever disclaimer, so all I'm going to ask of you is that you don't sue me, because I know I don't own Gilmore Girls.
Chapter 24: Answers to Unspoken Questions
Lorelai woke up to find herself in an empty, unfamiliar room. She opened her eyes to find the sun blinding them, so she quickly shut them again. She reached her hand up to shield her eyes, but felt something cold on her hand. She looked to see an IV stuck in the top of her hand. She then sat up and took in the rest of her surroundings.
There she was, in a hospital bed, covered in a white sheet and a white blanket. There was a machine near her bed that were monitoring her heart rate, and a sac of fluid hung on a metal pole, with a tube that connected to the IV. She then noticed that she wasn't alone, Rory was in the corner of the room where she was napping in a chair. She had obviously been scared that something would happen to her mother if she got too close.
What happened? The last thing I know everything was spinning and then it all went black. Lorelai thought.
Just then a nurse walked in. "oh good, you're awake." she said as she walked over with a clipboard.
"What happened?" Lorelai asked groggily.
"You collapsed out of exhaustion. This young lady," the nurse pointed to Rory, "brought you in." the nurse finished as she wrote something down.
"When?"
"That was yesterday morning. There was an older woman and an older man here to see you earlier. Richard and Emily Gilmore I think they said there names were." the nurse added. Yesterday morning? I passed out? Wow, what a week. Lorelai thought to herself.
"Was that it?" Lorelai asked.
"No, another man came by around midnight last night. He seemed extremely worried and he almost killed the nurse at the front desk because she wouldn't let him see you. He had a baby in a car seat with him. He said his name was Luke Danes I believe." the nurse answered. Lorelai immediately froze. Luke had come to see her? With Jake? Oh god! Jake! I hope Luke has him. "And then another woman, Susie in think, left the message that Jake is with Luke." she added. The nurse sounded really perky and energetic.
"Sookie?" Lorelai asked.
"Sookie, that was it." the nurse corrected. "Ok, well I'm done here." the nurse said as she was checked the bag of fluid and wrote something down. "Is there anything else you need?" she asked.
"I need to call someone." Lorelai answered quietly.
"Ok, well here's the phone, just dial 9 and then the number." the nurse said before she left the room.
Lorelai glanced quickly at the sleeping Rory and then grabbed for the phone.
"Wow, she must really be tired." Lorelai muttered to herself as she dialed 9 and then the very familiar number that she would normally choose not to call.
"Hello?" someone answered.
"Hi, is Emily Gilmore there?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes, hold on a moment." most likely the maid answered politely.
"Hello?" Emily's voice rang out from the phone.
"Hey mom."
"Lorelai? Is that you? Are you alright?" Emily asked frantically. None of the doctors had given her any answers last night.
"I'm fine, just a little tired and hungry. So you stopped by last night?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes we did. So you're alright?" Emily asked again.
"yes mom, I'm fine. But I think Rory's a little tired."
"What do you mean?" Emily asked.
"Well she's out cold over in the corner right now." Lorelai answered.
"Yes, well she was barely awake when we visited you last night. she did tell us that Jake wasn't there. She said she had dropped him off at someone's house but we couldn't remember it. Do you know who is Jake staying with?"
"With Luke." Lorelai answered exhaustedly.
"But I heard from Rory that you two were split up." Emily said.
"We are, but I can't keep Jake from his father. I didn't with Rory either." Lorelai said.
"Well if you want we can stop by the…diner, and pick him up for you." Emily offered. She still didn't like Luke. She knew he wasn't good enough for Lorelai, and now he was still going to be apart of her life.
"No, it's fine. Luke needs some time with Jake anyway. What you can do is send dad over here. I need to know if this is covered by the health insurance." Lorelai said.
"Oh…ok. I will." Emily said. She felt like she had been shot down. She wasn't needed. But Lorelai had called her right?
"Well I gotta go, Rory's waking up now. Bye mom."
"Bye Lorelai." and then they both hung up. Rory stirred and turned to face her mom. She opened her eyes.
"You're awake!" Rory exclaimed as she shot up out of the chair and ran over to her mother. Lorelai just smiled.
"I should say the same for you." she commented.
"How long have you been up?" she asked.
"About 15 minutes. You should go Rory." she suggested.
"What? Why?" Rory asked confusedly.
"You probably have things to do; you can't keep helping me out. Go and sleep, or eat, or shower, or D, all of the above." Lorelai joked.
"But mom--"
"No buts. I'm fine Rory. Thanks for bringing me in here, but you should go." Lorelai said.
"Ok. But I'll be back in a few hours. The doctors said you can go home this afternoon, so I'll be picking you up then." Rory said.
"That sounds good babe. Thanks. Now go!" she demanded.
"Ok, bye mom. Love you."
"Love you too. Watch out for the crazy motorcycle geeks." she joked. Rory smiled and then walked out of the room.
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An hour had passed and the news that Lorelai was awake had obviously spread because she now had a room full of townies. All except for the one she wanted to see of course.
"Lorelai, how did it feel to collapse onto the floor? Did you life flash before your eyes?" Kirk asked as he scribbled down some notes. Supposedly he was now part of the Stars Hallow newspaper and was in charge of covering this surprising event.
"No Kirk, it didn't." she answered. She had been dealing with him for the past 45 minutes and was about ready to throw something at him. Normally, she would just go along with it and make up some random story, but right now she just felt like being left alone to her thoughts.
"Hey sugar! How's it goin'? Did someone attack you or something?" Babette asked. Of course, there was always some rumor going around that Lorelai could only have been injured if attacked. There were the other rumors about the baby being the product of her cheating on Luke with one of Babette's garden gnomes, but that was just speculation.
"No, I didn't get attacked." she answered, again annoyed.
Just then her father walked in with her mother.
"Hey dad." she said generically.
"Lorelai." he greeted. "I hope you're feeling better." he said happily.
"I am. Can you just hold on a second?" she then turned to everyone from the town that had invaded her room. "Can I please have five minutes alone?" she asked them. They all nodded and slowly diffused out into the hallway, leaving only the Gilmore's. "Go on." Lorelai said to her father.
"Well, I checked over your health insurance policy before coming here, and it seems that this type of ordeal is covered." he reassured her.
"Thanks god. I don't know how I would pay if it wasn't." she said.
"So Lorelai, where's Rory?" Emily asked.
"I made her go home and shower and get some food before she comes back in an hour or two." Lorelai answered.
"Well that's sounds good. Are you sure you don't--" she was then interrupted by someone bursting through the door.
"Lorelai." Luke said relieved when he saw that she was indeed ok. He had been worried all night long and had not been able to sleep peacefully.
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" Luke said in a very annoyed pushy tone. He was tired and wanted to know what the hell was wrong with Lorelai! She was the only thing he had and he had just heard that she had collapsed onto the floor. Nothing other than that had been told to him.
The nurse looked up and glared at Luke through the glass. She was very busy at the moment and was not in the mood to deal with annoying freaks who tapped on the glass.
"May I help you?" she said in the not so sweet voice that nurses use when they want to say 'get the hell away from me or I'll kick your ass out the door'.
"Ah…yes…" Luke stammered at the glare he got, but he was determined to see how Lorelai was. He didn't care that it was midnight and he had to be in Stars Hollow in five hours to meet the bread guy who would not be coming for another five weeks because he was going on vacation so if Luke missed him, the diner was screwed. "can you please tell me where Lorelai Gilmore is?" he asked, making sure to be more polite this time.
"Are you family?" the nurse asked while searching through the papers.
"Well…uh…not exactly." He answered hesitantly. What was he going to do? Lie to the nurse?
The nurse stopped immediately and looked up. "Well then I'm sorry sir, but I can't help you unless you are family." She said stubbornly.
"Please, I need to know how she is. I won't be able to sleep tonight until I know she's all right. Please, can't you at least tell me she's ok?" he begged. His eyes full of fatigue and helplessness.
"I'm sorry sir, but we have a strict policy here about patient privacy. I can't tell you unless you are family." She said, her voice had softened, but was still the professional tone that was present in all of the medical people Luke remembered from the past.
"Please, I just need to know, she's the mother of my son." Luke held up the car seat with the sleeping Jake in it. "I just need to know she's alright before I leave." he begged some more.
"Again sir, no matter who she is to you, if you are not family, I can't tell you." She said. She was back to the annoyed person that Luke had encountered at the beginning of this conversation.
Just then, another, more cheerful looking, nurse walked behind the glass. "Lorelai Gilmore's file please." She requested. Luke looked at her with new hope. When she came out Luke picked up the car seat he had just set down, and ran after the nurse.
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" he shouted at her down the hallway. She turned around to face him.
"Yes?"
"Can you please tell me what's going on with Lorelai Gilmore?" he asked. He was pleading and begging her with both his words and his eyes.
"And you are?" she asked, looking at the file.
"Uh…Luke Danes. I'm not family and I know you have a strict…uh…policy here, but can you please just tell me if she's alright?" he asked.
"I'm sorry sir, but we really can't tell you--"Luke then interrupted her.
"I know!" he said desperately. "I know," he said softer, "I know, I went through the same thing with the nurse over there," he pointed to the nurse that previously would not allow him any information about Lorelai. " but this," Luke said, lifting the car seat up gently so as not to wake up Jake, "is our son, and me and Lorelai are not together, and I know that was probably not the right thing to say because now you most definitely will not tell me what the hell is going on with Lorelai, but," Luke rambled. He stopped for a breath before finishing his speech. "But, I just need to know how she is." He said softly, lowering his voice and showing more emotion than he knew he had.
"Mr. Danes, I'm sure you deserve to know, and I would love to tell you what is going on with Ms. Gilmore, but I can't. I will however tell her when she wakes up that you stopped by at midnight and tried to beat up the entire nurses staff to find out how she is." The nurse laughed. She loved how much this man was trying to find out about her patient, but her job was not worth loosing. "And I will also make sure to ask the young lady in there to call you if something happens because I am sure she has your phone number. Am I right?" she asked.
"Yeah, sure. I guess…I'll just go then." Luke gave in. he still wasn't sure if Lorelai was all right or not. He would just have to find out later. Maybe he would stop by in the morning and actually beat up the nurses if he had to.
"Luke? What are you doing here?" Lorelai asked him. "Can you excuse us?" she asked her parents, who both nodded and left the room. Luke waited until he knew that her parents were out of ear shot before he answered her question.
"I just needed to see that you were ok." he said, now knowing that he had been extremely foolish in believing that she wasn't. Of course she was! The nurse hadn't sounded sympathetic in a way that would indicate that Lorelai wasn't all right.
Lorelai was shocked. Did he still love her? Of course he does! She just smiled at how cute it was for him to do that.
"thanks." she whispered quietly, but he heard her.
"What happened yesterday? No one was telling me. I came in. did the nurse tell you?" he asked.
"Yeah, she told me someone carrying a car seat with the name of Luke Danes had stopped by at midnight. Didn't you have early deliveries?" she asked.
"Yeah, I did, but when I heard that you were in the hospital…I kind of just…"
"Freaked out?" Lorelai filled in.
"Yeah, I guess." He answered timidly. "So what…happened, I mean why are you here?" he said, gesturing around him, meaning the hospital.
"I hadn't slept in over 2 days, and I passed out." she told him. Luke seemed to be processing what she had just said. She passed out because she hadn't gotten any sleep? I am such and idiot! I should have just gone over to help!
"I'm sorry I didn't help with Jake, I should have. If I had, then you wouldn't have been up all night taking care of him and--" Luke started to ramble but was interrupted my Lorelai.
"It's not your fault." she said.
"Of course it is! If I wasn't being so stupid and would have just seen that you needed my help with him--"
"Luke." she said. He stopped and looked at her. "It wasn't your fault. Don't blame yourself because I just couldn't fall asleep. I was up both nights because I just couldn't get my thoughts straight. It had nothing to do with you not being there for Jake." she reassured him.
"Thoughts about what?" he asked. Lorelai hesitated. Should she tell him or should she deny that she still loved him? "Lorelai." he said pleadingly.
"Thoughts about you. And me. And us." she answered.
"Us?" he asked. Was she really considering it? Was she considering that maybe there was still a relationship to salvage.
"Luke, you were right. I can't do it alone. I do need someone, but I just didn't want to admit it. Like I said on those stairs the night I told you I was pregnant, I can't always be super woman, but it doesn't mean I don't want to be. I just can't let go Luke. I need to be able to control my life, and when you're around, it's like common sense and planning and control go out the window, and are replaced by spontaneous love. I just thought I could put you in the back of my mind, lock my thoughts of you up, and throw away the key.
"But I forgot to throw away the key, and when you were talking to me and you told me that you were going to propose, the love just came flooding back in," Lorelai was now in tears, "and I realized that I can't just forget everything about you and me. I just can't. And it hurts to try. I realized that right before I passed out.
"I was in the kitchen holding a cup of coffee. Not just any cup, but the one you got me for my birthday. Remember that one? The one that you had made with pictures of you me, Jake and Rory on it. I was looking at it, and I realized that it was just a fight, just a fight, and that our family can get over it. Our little family can get over it Luke. I'm sorry." she apologized as one last single tear rolled down her face.
"Don't be. It's my fault for accusing you in the first place. I should be the one apologizing, not you." he said as he walked over to her and wiped the tear off her face.
"Luke?"
"What?"
"I love you." she said with a smile on her face. Luke reciprocated the smile and then kissed her. He pulled back and looked her in the eyes.
"I love you too."
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There, back together again, happy? Ok, now thatI got them back together, I think I deserve to be given some extra reviews. I mean, come on, you owe me! Ok, just kidding, I do this for fun, But i would really like a review from everyone. The sooner the reviews come, the sooner the next chapter is posted.
