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Chapter 14: Luke

Rory took a deep breath, "I was raped" she said just above a whisper.

Jess had never been so angry in his life and in any other situation he would have gone nuts and destroyed something. But he knew that if he went crazy it would only hurt Rory so he kept his anger in check.

"Was it Dean?" Jess asked breaking the silence.

"It wasn't Dean" Rory said in between sobs.

"Then who was it?" Jess asked softly.

"It-it w-wa-was my step dad" Rory choked out.

Jess couldn't believe it, even though he had only met Max a couple times he seemed like a fairly nice guy.

'But Rory wouldn't lie' Jess thought.

"When did it happen?" Jess asked.

"It happened once two months ago, again a month ago, and again about two weeks ago" Rory said hanging her head shame.

"What else did he do to you?" Jess asked.

"He's been abusing me since the start of the school year" Rory said.

That floored Jess, sure he had seen a couple minor signs but nothing that seemed like all out abuse.

'She must be great at hiding things' Jess thought.

"Does your mom know about this?" Jess asked.

"It was her idea" Rory said sadly.

Jess was furious now he thought that they could just go to Lorelai and everything would be alright but now that he knew it was her idea he was furious at her.

"Why did they do it?" Jess asked.

"Because I almost lost my dad his job, didn't get good enough grades, and I because they were afraid I'd tell someone" Rory said

"Rory we need to get you to a hospital" Jess said.

"No please Jess I'll be fine I only have to make it about a year until I go off to college" Rory said her eye's wide with fear.

"Rory please he's raped you three times, he might kill you" Jess explained to her.

"No I refuse to go" Rory said.

'I can't make her go but she needs help' Jess thought for a moment waiting for an idea to come.

Suddenly Jess came up with an idea. "Luke" he said out loud.

"What about Luke?" Rory asked not liking where this was going.

"I'm taking you to see Luke" Jess said.

"Jess, don't" Rory begged.

"Rory please just talk to Luke he'll know what to do and when has he ever hurt you?" Jess asked.

Rory thought for a moment. 'He's always been there for me, maybe I can trust him' she thought.

"Fine I'll go" Rory said nodding her head.

"Good let's go" Jess said.

"Wait, how are we going to get past my parents?" Rory asked.

"We'll deal with them if we see them" Jess said.

They made their way to Luke's and luckily for them by the time they got to the square both Lorelai and Max had gone home.

"Thank God they're not here" Rory said as they entered Luke's.

"Jess, where have you been?" Luke asked.

"Luke I need to talk with you upstairs now" Jess said urgency in his voice.

Luke realized that it was serious. "Caesar you're in charge" he said going upstairs.

"What's going on and why is Rory here?" Luke asked.

"Luke there's something Rory needs to tell you" Jess said.

"I was raped" Rory mumbled hanging her head.

"What did you say?" Luke asked being sure that he heard right.

"I was raped" Rory said louder as she started crying.

Luke was speechless he couldn't believe it. 'This shouldn't happen to anyone but why Rory?' he asked himself.

"Who did it?" Luke asked softly.

"It w-was –Max" Rory said. She just couldn't call him her father anymore now that people knew.

Luke felt his anger boiling over. 'HOW THE HELL COULD HE DO THAT?' he screamed in his head and his next thought was to kill Max.

"Did he do anything else to you?" Luke asked trying to keep his cool.

Rory just started to cry some more.

"Max and Lorelai have been abusing her" Jess said realizing that Rory couldn't answer.

Luke felt his heart break. 'How could Lorelai do that?' he asked himself.

"How long has this been going on?" Luke asked.

"Since the start of school" Rory choked out between sobs.

"Have you been to the hospital?" Luke asked.

"No she hasn't that's why we're here because she needs your help" Jess said.

"I need to sit down" Luke said taking off his baseball cap.

After about a minute of silence Luke got up.

"Here's what we're going to do, Rory and I will go to the hospital and Jess you're going to stay here in case Lorelai or Max come looking for her" Luke said.

"Please Luke I don't need to go to the hospital I can handle it" Rory said.

"Rory you need to go to the hospital, please do it for me" Luke said.

"Alright" Rory said giving in not knowing if she was doing the right thing.

"Why do I have to stay here?" Jess asked.

"As I said before in case Lorelai or Max come looking for her you're our cover" Luke said.

"But…" Jess said.

"No buts, if they think that Rory's said something they might run, so if they come say that I had to go take care of some family stuff" Luke said.

"And what should I say about Rory?" Jess asked.

"Tell them you have no idea where she is" Luke said.

"Come on Rory let's go" Luke said as he lead Rory out to his car.

Once they left Stars Hollow Rory felt a little bit safer.

"Thanks for doing this Luke" Rory said.

"You don't have to thank me, I just wish that you had said something sooner" Luke said.

"I'm sorry I just didn't know how to say that I was being a-abused" Rory said shamefully.

"You don't have to be sorry, none of this is your fault" Luke said firmly yet softly.

"I still can't believe they would do this" Rory said looking out the window.

"I'm sorry I should have seen something earlier I should have known something was up you've seemed kind of distant lately" Luke said.

"I'm also sorry that your mom and dad did that to you, I would've never thought Lorelai was capable of that" Luke said.

"I know when Max first hit me I thought it was nothing but then he raped me and I was never allowed to talk about it" Rory said rambling a little bit.

"What's going to happen to me?" Rory asked.

"I'm not sure the hospital will probably call child services and you'll have to live with Chris or your grandparents" Luke said sadly.

"That means I won't be able to live in Stars Hollow" Rory said.

"Yeah, but you can visit" Luke said.

"It's not the same and besides I'm not sure if I want to live with my dad" Rory said.

"Why's that?" Luke asked.

"Because he has this new girlfriend and I'm not sure how much attention he'll give to me and my grandparents will just want me to be part of society" Rory said sadly

Luke looked at Rory and felt his heart go out to her. He'd adopt her if he could but the Gilmore's wouldn't allow it and Chris probably would want to take care of Rory.

The rest of the ride to the hospital went in silence.

'I can do this as long as Luke is here' was all Rory thought.

'How could Lorelai do this to her own daughter?' was the only thing on Luke's mind.

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