Chapter 4 Mommy's arrival
Rory pulled away from Matt again and wiped her tears away "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have broken down they way I did. I guess I'm…scared. Jess and I…I care about him, a lot, I always have. The timing just has never been right for us. First he wasn't ready, and then I wasn't. And I don't get why he keeps…" Rory stops "Sorry, I'm babbling I should clean up and then check on Logan." She told him.
"It's ok, I understand. I'll come and get you if I hear anything. I have to talk to the police anyways."
"Thanks" Rory said giving him a genuine small smile before heading to the reception.
"Excuse me, what room is Logan Huntzburger in?" she asked.
"One minute" the nurse at the desk said then added "Room 1147"
"Thanks" Rory replied and was about to walk to the elevator when she heard her name being called.
"Rory?" Liz called again hurrying over to her, TJ not far behind. "How is he?" Liz asked her.
"Still in surgery, there was some trouble before but he's tough. They still don't know for sure if…" Rory stopped and placed a hand on Liz "Jess is a fighter." She said knowing that was true. She decided not to fill Liz in what the "trouble" exactly was.
"I know, do you know what happened?" Liz asked her.
"Matthew, Jess friend who brought him in, was telling me but we got interrupted. He's fillings the police right now." Rory informed them.
"How is Logan?" TJ asked.
"I haven't seen him yet but his sister told me he'd be fine." Rory told him.
"That's good, what is it with the smell in hospitals?" TJ asked no one in particular.
'Huh, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that TJ asked that, considering it's TJ. Well at least he's there for Jess's mom, I guess.' Rory thought to herself. "Why don't you go in the waiting room and I'll get you some awful hospital coffee." She suggested to Liz and TJ.
"Thanks" Liz said heading over to the waiting room with TJ in tow.
Rory watched them for a few seconds then went to get coffee.
Rory walked towards the waiting room, three coffees in hand, when her mothers voice called her. Looking towards where her voice came from she smiled when she spotted her mother and father hurrying over to her. "Mom!" She put the coffee in a nearby chair and met them halfway hugging her mother tightly.
After a few minutes of hugging she pulled back feeling better and stronger then she did not long ago. Lorelai motherly pulled a few strays of hair away from her face as she asked "How are you holding up? Your eyes are red."
"Jess died briefly not so long ago." She told her mother. "His friend Matthew let me cry on him."
"Jess has friends?" her mother said before she could help it then quickly added "Wait forget that Jess died?"
"Yeah" Rory said remembering then added "but he came back…" '…he always does.' She thought and a small smile came on her lips.
"And how is Logan?" Chris asked speaking for the first time.
"Who? Oh" Rory said as she suppressed a blush and quickly said "His sister told me he's going to be fine. I haven't visited him yet."
"Good, I talked to Luke, he had Jimmy's number and said he'd call him." Lorelai said.
"Thanks, Liz and TJ are in there. Liz fell apart when she found out. She's lucky TJ didn't and took her here to Presbyterian hospital." Rory told her parents as she walked with them to retrieve her coffee. She felt her mothers eye and said "it tastes horrible…the machine is that way cos these are for TJ and Liz and you're not getting mine."
"I'll be right back." Lorelai said walking in said direction of coffee machine.
"So now that his mother is here maybe you should visit Logan" Chris said to Rory as they walked towards the waiting room.
"Logan is going to fine dad, I know that. Jess I don't know if he's going to be ok." Rory said a little annoyed.
"Logan is your boyfriend and you should be there for him. Jess only brought you trouble, he's the reason you broke your wrist 4 years ago." Chris said to her.
"God dad, It was an accident and only a fracture. And you go planning my wedding with Logan you should know that he's the kinda who cheated on me with his sisters entire flock of bridesmaids. He's the kinda guy who even though we never broke up but had just one little fight believes we're broken up and can just sleep with whoever he wants! And then he comes to me and convinces me we were broken up, and how he couldn't have possibly have known we weren't. We have the little device called the phone you know!" Rory ranted at him all her frustration and suppressed anger pouring out of her now that her emotional barriers were so weak from almost losing Jess. "And just so you know Jess may have had issues but he never cheated on me or made me into this person I can barely recognize and hardly stand. Yes he left me and broke my heart in the process but I broke his too." She paused "But that's all in the past" she hurriedly added. "He's changed, he's more responsible, he has a nice job, and he wrote a book!" she told him then realizing they were still in a hospital and people were now looking at her she turned around and walked into the waiting room.
Chris stood there stunned when Lorelai put a hand gently on his back "I didn't know." Chris said to her.
"I know, I didn't know some of it too. Our little girl has grown up Chris. She doesn't need or want us to meddle with her love life or to tell her what to do. I've been struggling with it too, it's hard to let your kid go from up to down to up to down again constantly without doing something about it. I don't like Logan, I don't like Jess either. But out of the two I know that with Jess she wasn't such a mess. As much as I would hate to say it Jess would not have let Rory drop out of Yale last year, or cheated on her. But eventually no matter what we do or say it is her choice and her life." Lorelai told him.
"I know, it just…hard." Chris said.
"Hey, at least you still have Gigi. All I have is a fiancé who isn't letting me be part of he daughters life." Lorelai told him.
"You have to talk to him Lore, you know that what you're doing now is killing what you have." Chris told her.
"I know, I think last night was an eye opener. But now isn't the time." She told him.
"Now we have to be there for our daughter." Chris told her.
A while later the doctor finally came into the waiting room, he looked exhausted, Liz and Rory almost charged at him. "Is my son going to be ok?" Liz asked just as Matthew returned and joined Rory and Liz.
"Well we managed to-" the doctor began.
"Is he going to be ok?" Liz asked more forcibly.
"He's slipped into a coma. I'm afraid he may have suffered brain damage, there is no way of being certain without him awake, the next 8 hours are critical. If he doesn't wake up in that time you could never." The doctor informed the group. "he's strong young man, we almost lost him during the operation, but he managed to find his way back." The doctor added while looking at Rory.
"Can we see him?" Rory asked him.
"His body needs to rest, however time is critical, it's best if you go in one at a time." The doctor said "we put him in room 1148."
Rory got a little pale at that but quickly covered it up, Lorelai however noticed but kept quiet for now.
"Liz you should go first, tell him to fight" Lorelai said to her fiancé sister.
Liz nodded and thanked the doctor and then left to see her son.
"Rory, are you ok?" Lorelai asked.
"I'm fine…it's just that…well Logan is in the room next to Jess." Rory told her mother then looked back at Matt before her mother could reply she asked "So what happened when you got to New York?"
end chapter 4, next chapter is called "Mariano's tale part 2" so you might finally find out what happened to Jess.