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Chapter 9
After Lorelai and Rory were finished telling their story, no one spoke for about 5 minutes, which is probably a record for the Gilmores. They were too tired to talk anyways. All they could do is drag their feet and complain to Luke and Logan.
"Luke, how much longer do we have to go?" Rory whined to Luke.
"We should be getting to the propellers in about 5 minutes." Luke answered, used to their constant whining and asking him how much further they have to go.
"Ugh, my feet are killing me. Especially since I'm wearing heels!" Lorelai said.
"Well, maybe you shouldn't wear heels that much anymore." Luke suggested.
"If my feet weren't about to fall off right now, I would be mad. However, considering they're about to fall off, I might just not wear shoes at all when we get out of here and home." Lorelai said and sighed, tiredly.
"Good." Luke said. "You guys do realize that the 30 minute walk we're taking to the propellers is the same about of time it takes for you to walk to the diner and back and you do that 3 plus times a day." Luke told them.
"Yah, but that's a much better walk." Rory said and rubbed her eyes.
"Why?" Logan asked.
"Because we have something to look forward to. Food and beautiful, beautiful coffee, which I haven't had for like 5 hours!" Lorelai said and put her hand on her forehead, dramatically.
"Wow! We're going to die without coffee! Anyways, yah, and we usually see Kirk doing something disturbing, which is always fun." Rory said and laughed.
Luke chuckled. "That is disturbing, not funny!" He said.
"Who's Kirk?" Logan asked.
"A guy in our town who is disturbing, lives with his mother, just now got a girlfriend, and is almost 40." Rory answered.
"Wow!" Logan said.
"Yep, that's one way to describe Kirk." Lorelai said.
They were silent for a few more minutes until they came to gallons and gallons of water, again. About 50 feet from where the water started, were the propellers. They were still going at full speed.
"How in the world are we going to get through those!" Lorelai said, gesturing to the propellers.
They were now standing a foot deep in the water. But it was not moving up. They just moved a few steps forward.
"Well, we have to somehow turn them off." Luke said.
"How are we going to turn something off that going like 100 miles per hour!" Rory said, gesturing to the propellers along with her mother.
"Umm…well…"Luke started.
Logan answered for him. "Well, there might be a switch or something that turns them off." Logan suggested.
"Okay, call me blind, but I'll I see is water, tons and tons of water!" Rory yelled.
"Hey, Ace, calm down. It's going to be okay." Logan said, trying to stop her freak out.
Rory took a deep breath. "I'll try." She said, weakly.
"Okay, good. Now, there should probably be a control room somewhere." Logan said and looked at Luke, wondering if he might know where it would be.
"I don't see one from where we're standing, but…" Luke said and stopped.
"What? Why did you stop?" Lorelai asked.
"The control room might be under water." Luke said, looking at her eyes, and seeing fear.
"Will it still work?" Rory asked, scared also.
"Most likely. They probably built it to be water proof, would be my guess." Luke said.
"But how are we going to get to it?" Logan asked.
"Well, one of us is probably going to have to go under water and turn it off." Luke said.
"What! No way! It has to be at least 100 feet down and then the person has to stay to turn them off and then come back up!" Rory said. "There's no way any one could do that!" Rory said.
"Well, someone has to, if we want to get out of here!" Logan said.
"I'll go." Luke said, boldly.
"No!" Lorelai screamed.
Luke sighed. "Someone has to go." He said.
"Look, I'll go. Sorry Luke, but I'm younger. I can hold my breath longer." Logan said.
"Logan, no!" Rory said.
Logan pulled Rory to the side, out of hear shot.
"Rory, I have to go. I'll be fine, I promise." Logan said.
"You called me Rory." She stated.
"Yah, well, the situation called for it." Logan said.
"Logan, please don't go." Rory said again, tears welling up in her clear blue eyes.
"Ace, don't cry." Logan said, hating to see Rory sad.
Rory sniffed and wiped her eyes, only for to discover the tears kept on pouring out.
"Y-You c-can't die." Rory stuttered over the words.
Logan's eyes welled up with tears. He hated seeing Rory like this. "I won't, I promise. Now, I have to go."
As he finished that sentence, Rory and Logan heard a scream behind them. They turned around to find Lorelai sobbing on her knees on the ground.
Meanwhile, when Rory and Logan are talking
"I hope Logan will be okay." Lorelai said.
Luke looked down, as if trying to decide something. "I'm pretty sure he will be." Luke said.
Lorelai noticed something was different about Luke. "Luke, babe, what's wrong?" Lorelai asked him.
"Logan can't go." Luke stated.
"Then who's going to go?" Lorelai asked, confused.
Luke took a deep breath, preparing for what he was about tell his beautiful fiancée.
"I am." Luke said and looked in her eyes.
"What! No!" Lorelai yelled.
"Lorelai, I have to do this, okay?" Luke said.
"No you don't!" Lorelai started sobbing. "You don't have to do this!" Lorelai yelled.
"Lorelai, I've always protected you and Rory and I'm not gonna stop here." He said.
Lorelai grabbed his shirt and put her head against his chest. She sobbed in to his chest. "Please don't go!" She yelled.
Luke hugged her. "I have to go, Lorelai." Luke said.
"Luke, you can't die!" Lorelai yelled.
Luke pulled away from the hug and took Lorelai's hands in his. He looked her in the eye. "I am not going to die." Luke said.
"Luke, I love you. Please don't go." Lorelai sobbed.
Luke broke at this. A tear silently rolled down his cheek. "I love you too, so much. But I have to go." With that he dived in to the water, in search if the controls.
Lorelai screamed. "Luke! No!" She yelled and fell to her knees, sobbing.
Logan and Rory turned around when they heard the scream and they ran over to comfort Lorelai. Rory knelt down beside Lorelai and put a comforting arm around her shoulders, not sure what had happened.
She then noticed that Luke wasn't there. Oh, no, what happened to Luke? I hope everything is okay! He better not of died! But why would mom being sobbing on the ground, if nothing had happened? Mom never does this!
"Mom, where's Luke?" Rory asked tentatively.
"H-h-he" Lorelai started then started sobbing again.
"Mom, where's Luke?" Rory asked, a little more forcefully then last time she asked.
"He, he said that he was going to do it. He had to protect you and me. He said that he had always protected us and he wasn't going to stop now, so he dove in to turn those stupid propellers off!" Lorelai yelled.
Rory's eyes welled up with tears. She loved Luke, but she had to be strong for her mom. "He's going to be okay." Rory said, mostly trying to convince herself.
"He always does what's best for us. He would do anything for me and you, Rory." Lorelai said. "Even risk his own life, to save ours." She said and started crying again.
Rory couldn't stand it anymore. She couldn't be strong. She broke her guards down and started sobbing with her mother.
Logan did the only thing he could do. He put a comforting arm around each one of the Gilmore girls.
Meanwhile, completely oblivious to everything that was going on that wasn't under the water; Luke was searching for the control room. He had been under water for about 30 seconds. The last thing he had heard from Lorelai was her scream and telling him not to go. That made his heart break. He never liked to see Lorelai sad. But hearing her sobbing for him was even worse. He was going to find the control room and stop the propellers, to save their lives.
He was still swimming, but he was starting to run out of breath. The only thing keeping him from swimming back up to the surface was Lorelai and Rory. He kept telling himself that he was doing this to save Lorelai and Rory because he couldn't live without them in his life. That is what kept him going.
Finally, when he was about to give up, he spotted it. The control room. He picked up his speed and swam as fast as he could to the control room. However, as he was swimming there, he failed to notice a wire sticking up from where he was swimming. As he swam past it, his foot got caught on it. The wire got wrapped around his foot. He was stuck.
Meanwhile, up on the surface, Lorelai and Rory were starting to calm down. They were still worried sick though. They wouldn't tear their eyes away from the water for one second.
"It feels like he's been under there for hours, when in reality he's only been under there for about a minute." Rory said.
"It doesn't seem like hours. It seems like days, no months, actually, no years!" Lorelai said.
"He'll come back up soon. I'm sure of it." Logan said, to calm them down. However, he wasn't sure of that himself, even.
Luke tried his best to get the wire untangled. It wouldn't come undone though. He was just a few feet away from the control room. He was losing valuable seconds struggling with the damn wire. Finally, he remembered the knife he had in his pocket. He took it out and cut the wire, causing a very small explosion that left as quickly as it came. He swam with all the energy he had left to the control room. He finally made it to the control room.
Luke was starting to get very dizzy once he was in the control room. Everything around him was blurry. Everything was starting to go black…
Luke noticed immediately what was starting to happen and he opened his eyes quickly to prevent it. Once he opened his eyes again he looked around for the button to turn off the propellers. He searched all the buttons and could not find it. He started to feel around for it, which didn't help. His dizziness was getting worse by the second. Finally he spotted it, a big red button and with the last of his energy, he pushed it. He could hear the propellers stop and Lorelai, Rory, and Logan scream in victory. And with that, everything went black.
A/N Okay, well how was that chapter? I though it was one of my better ones. What do you guys think? Review and tell me please! Also, I went to see the new movie Click yesterday. Who else has seen it? Did you like it? I liked it. It was sad in some parts though. Oh, and don't forget to watch GG tonight! Last week's rating was a 0.7! Let's bring that up! We will not be beat! Also, sides for 7.1 should come out in about 2 weeks! Who else is excited!Anyway, please review!
