Hi! Here is the next chapter. Hope you like it. I wanted to credit just hidden for her idea. But we'll get to that later. Oh and I don't own anything! Except Of Course, Amber and Dylan. Not that any one would WANT Dylan but whatever. I added this chapter as filler. Next chapter will be more exciting.
Rory sat on her bed, staring off into space. She knew that not telling him would cause problems. She also knew that telling him was a risk, one that she was not willing to take. She knew she was being a bit childish on her part. But she was stubborn. When her mind was made up, no one could change it. And it just so happened that Rory had made up her mind.
Amber started crying and Rory hopped up. It had become second nature to her. As soon as she heard Amber cry, she was there to see what was wrong. She figured it was her maternal instinct.
Amber looked a bit flushed, and she seemed to be wiggling around in discomfort. Rory took her hand and placed it on Amber's forehead. She was a little warm, not much, but enough to know she had a slight temperature.
Rory had decided after much contemplation that she would keep Amber here tonight, give her plenty of liquids, and a couple spoonfuls of medicine. If she wasn't better by morning she would excuse herself from school to take her to the doctors.
Rory had walked out into the hall then into the bathroom, and looked around for some Children's Tylenol. Once she found some she headed back to the room.
She then went downstairs, briskly walked passed her friends, ignoring them. She wasn't at all up to talking to them. She was a girl on a mission.
She headed to the cabinets, and looked around for the Pedialyte. She found some and then she headed to the opposite side of the shelf and found the baby food.
She placed this all on the counter and went to the freezer. She found a bag of peas. "What are we doing with peas in the house? Well oh well, I'm glad, I need them." She thought to herself as she continued to look around to see if there was anything else she needed.
Unable to find anything else, she pulled the items the peas out quickly and put it down next to the Pedialyte and the orange jar of smashed yams.
She then picked up all the items and headed back upstairs.
All this time, she hadn't noticed that her friends were watching her and had followed her upstairs.
She made her way up the stairs and headed directly for her room. She could tell Amber was getting warmer.
"Is she ok?" Louise asked concerned.
"She'll be fine." Rory replied, a hint of worry showing in her voice.
Rory had thrown the medicine to Logan and told him to give one teaspoon to Amber. She then went back into the bathroom trying to find a small face towel.
"Aha!" She said, once she found what she was looking for.
She quickly walked back to the bedroom seeing that Logan had done his job well.
Rory got a small sippy cup and filled it with some Pedialyte. She picked up Amber slowly rocking her, giving her the sippy cup. She sipped slowly still wiggling.
Rory took the cup when Amber was done. She then put Amber on her right hip holding her with her right arm. She picked up the peas and towel knowing she couldn't do what she wanted with one hand and tossed them to Colin.
"Wrap the towel around the peas." She told him, not in a demanding way, but more of a gentle, frightened voice.
"Sure." He replied quickly doing what he was told. Rory had put Amber down in the meantime. Colin handed the peas back to her and she placed them on Amber's head.
"Well I'm gonna stay up with her, if her temperature doesn't go down by morning I'll take her to the doctor." Rory informed them, gently.
Each of her friends muttered their agreement, all worried about the little girl they all cared for.
They exited her room and Rory sat down on her bed. It was only six
o'clock, but it was still getting cooler outside.
Amber started to wriggle more, and now began to whine. Rory stood and picked her up, still keeping the peas on her forehead.
"Everything's going to be alright." She cooed to Amber.
She laid Amber down after she seemed to stop whining. She replaced the peas with her hand. Amber wasn't getting much better. Rory went out to the bathroom and found the thermometer.
She placed it in Amber's ear. It read ‘99.3’. High but still not serious.
The door opened downstairs and they heard Lorelei prance into the house happily. All of the teenagers exited their rooms and walked downstairs curiously.
"Lorelei what are you so happy about?" Paris asked.
"Does it have anything to do with alcohol?" Finn asked.
Everyone burst out laughing. When Lorelei finally calmed down she explained why she was so happy.
"I kissed Luke!" She exclaimed.
"Took you long enough" All of them said in unison.
"What do you mean?" She asked oblivious.
"He's liked you since I was like 10!" Rory told her mother, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"He did?" She asked heading into the kitchen for a cup of coffee.
All of them followed behind her.
"We even noticed!" The rest of the group exclaimed, some of them rolling their eyes.
"And we've only been here for 2 months!" Madeline stated. She may not be the brightest bulb on the chandelier but she was not stupid.
"Well I didn't know!" Lorelei exclaimed, seeming awed by how long she was in the dark.
"What's today's date?" Finn asked.
"September 15th." Louise replied.
"Score!" Finn exclaimed.
"What?" Lorelei asked.
"I won the pool. 250 dollars here I come!" He said, doing a little happy dance.
"There was a pool?" Lorelei asked again confused.
"Yep, everyone playing got to pick a week." Rory explained.
"Darn! Mine was next week." She exclaimed, snapping her fingers in disappointment.
"Hah! In your face!" Finn laughed and continued to dance around the room.
Suddenly, Amber began to cry. Rory rushed up the stairs with everyone trailing behind her.
"Everything will be fine, Amber." She said cradling Amber, rocking her back and forth to soothe her.
Once Amber calmed down, Rory put her back in the crib, and she quickly fell asleep.
Lorelei ordered some pizza, and they all sat down and ate.
"So how was school?" Lorelei asked.
"It was better then yesterday." Paris replied, while picking up another slice.
After their small talk, about school and other random topics, they were all tired so they headed up to bed.
Rory spent the night holding Amber when she got fussy, and feeding her when she was hungry, only able to take short naps in between.
The morning came too quickly for Rory. She only had 4 hours asleep.
At seven o'clock sharp she stood up drowsily from her bed and grabbed the thermometer.
After one minute in Amber's ear, it read ‘101.2’. Bad.
Rory could hear her friends outside of the door. She got dressed, brushed her hair, picked up her keys, picked up Amber and headed outside.
She passed by her friends, and continued down the stairs. She almost made it to the door, when the girls stopped her.
"Where are you going?" Paris asked.
"To the doctor's." She replied simply.
"We are coming with you." They told her.
"Nope, I'm doing this by myself, and all of you need to be in school. She's my daughter, I'll take her. Besides someone has to explain to the teachers why I'm not there, and you girls are more believable than the guys." She said, listing the reasons why she had to go by herself.
"Fine, we'll go to school" Louise replied.
"But next time we are going with you!" Madeline added, giving her a pointed look.
"Fine with me, and thanks girls, for everything. I know you're trying to help, but let me do this my way. All of this, Amber, Tristan all of it." She said, in a gentle voice.
"As long as you know what your doing." Paris commented.
"I do." She replied confidently and walked out the front door.
"At least I hope so!" she added in her head.
Rory went into the garage and got into her Porsche. Figuring out something was missing she got out and called Logan on her cell phone.
"'lo?" he answered.
"Sorry, but which car has the car seat in it?" She asked.
"Lexus" He replied.
"Tell Paris I'm taking her car." She instructed him.
"Sure." He agreed.
"Thanks Logan!" She said gratefully.
"Anytime!" He answered and hung up.
Rory got into the Lexus and placed Amber in her seat. She started the car and headed to the hospital.
She arrived fifteen minutes later and walked to the Children's department. Once inside, she briskly walked up to the desk.
"I need to see Dr. Walker." She told the nurse covered in a blue smock.
"Name?" The redhead asked.
"Rory Gilmore" She replied quickly.
"And who's this appointment for?" The nurse asked.
"Amber Gilmore, my daughter." Rory answered.
"You can have a seat. The Doctor will see you in about an hour."
The woman instructed.
"Thanks!" Rory said then walked towards the waiting area.
She sat down and waited. She then thought of Natalie. She phoned her and told her there was no need to come to the house today.
Meanwhile, everyone else was headed to school. The girls decided to take the Viper and the guys took the Beamer.
They arrived at school twenty minutes before the bell was scheduled to ring. They pulled into their "spots".
They walked to their lockers and saw Tristan leaning against them. They all silently groaned.
"Where's Rory?" Tristan asked.
"She couldn't come to school today" Finn answered for the whole group.
"Is she ok?" Tristan asked worriedly.
"She's fine, lover boy" Paris replied.
"Then why isn't she here?" He pressed.
Logan getting annoyed by the whole conversation, knowing they could never actually give him a real answer, decided to end the conversation.
"She was busy, Tristan. Leave it at that." Logan responded, in exasperation. He then shut his locker and walked to first period.
"Sorry." Madeline told him as they walked away.
Tristan did exactly what Logan had told him. He dropped it.
The day continued normally while Rory was in the doctor's office.
"The doctor will see you now." Another nurse said from behind the desk.
"Thanks!" She told her and headed behind the door to the examination room.
"Hello Ms. Gilmore!" Dr Walker greeted.
"Please, call me Rory." She commented.
"I had just gotten Amber's file from Dr. Blake last week, so I now know everything Amber has ever been sick with." The doctor said, looking over Amber's file.
"Well I guess the timing worked out perfectly then." Rory replied.
"Yes. Well why don't we take a look at Amber?" She continued.
"Fine with me." Rory said, placing Amber on the examining table.
The doctor proceeded to check Amber's temperature, her ears, heart-rate, etc.
"She does in fact have an ear infection. This is what's causing the fever and her discomfort." Dr. Walker said, when she was done with the examination.
"So what do I do?" Rory asked.
"I'm going to prescribe a bottle of medicine. Give her one teaspoon every 3 hours for the three to four days and she'll be fine." Dr. Walker said, while typing up a prescription.
"Anything else?" Rory asked, wanting to be sure.
"Nope nothing else." Dr. Walker reassured, handing her the small piece of paper.
"Thank you doctor!" Rory sighed with relief.
"You're welcome, what are doctors for?" She joked.
Rory laughed and walked out with the prescription in hand and headed to the Pharmacy.
There we go. Our filler chapter. Next Chapter will be a little more exciting. And the one after that for sure. Review people.