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Chapter 28: Looking
It was noon and Lorelai needed a break from searching for Rory.
"Luke I need a quick water break" Lorelai said.
"Alright lets stop grab some lunch and keep looking this afternoon" Luke said as they walked into a McDonalds.
After ordering they sat down and started to eat.
"This is going to give me a heart attack" Luke said looking at his burger.
"Just let it go it's only this once" Lorelai said.
Luke grumbled but ate his food.
"So where are we right now on finding Rory?" Lorelai asked.
"Well we've checked about 25 percent of what we need to" Luke said.
"It's going to take a miracle to find her" Lorelai said.
"Come on stay optimistic we will find her" Luke said.
'I wish I could believe you' Lorelai thought.
"Lets just go back to looking" Lorelai said as she got up to leave and Luke followed.
Meanwhile Max had gone back to his apartment to find Rory sleeping.
Max took a good look at Rory's body. She was still naked and had some cuts and bruises all over her but was in fairly good shape overall.
'I should wake her up' Max thought as he thought about the best way to wake her up.
Max decided to brew some coffee to wake her up.
Once the coffee was ready Max poured the steaming hot coffee on her.
Rory woke with a start and started to cry she wanted to scream but couldn't because of the tape.
"Hello again, who said you could sleep?" Max asked.
Rory didn't answer.
"Fine don't answer but just remember if you're asleep when I get back you will get a wake up call" Max said.
Rory nodded in understanding, 'I can only take naps' she thought.
"Well anyway I brought you a sandwich since I'm sure you're hungry" Max said.
Rory was going to refuse but she felt her stomach growl, 'I've only had three bites of a burger in the last day' she thought as she nodded yes.
"Alright now don't scream" Max said as he took the tape off her mouth.
Max spent the next five minutes feeding Rory and giving her something to drink.
"You've been very good today Rory" Max said.
"Thank you" Rory said.
"You've been so good I think you deserve something special" Max said.
Rory gulped she definitely didn't like where this was going.
"I'm only going to beat you for ten minutes today instead of an hour" Max said.
'That's good I guess, at least it's just ten minutes' Rory thought as Max started to hit her.
Nine minutes later it was all over.
"I'm going to take a nap, you may sleep but I'm going out later and if you're not up you'll be sorry" Max said as put tape across her mouth and went into his room leaving Rory to nurse her wounds the best she could.
A couple hours later Luke and Lorelai were exhausted.
"Well lets head back to Chris's we can go back to looking tomorrow" Luke said disappointed that they didn't find anything.
"I know he's hurting her and it kills me" Lorelai said.
Just then Lorelai's cell phone rang.
"Hello" Lorelai said.
"Hey Lor, where are you two?" Chris asked.
"Luke and I are just walking back to the apartment" Lorelai said.
"Your mom's worried" Chris said.
"Let her worry" Lorelai said.
"You don't mean that" Chris said.
Lorelai sighed she wasn't in the mood.
"Whatever Chris, we'll be home soon, have the police found anything?" Lorelai asked.
"They haven't found anything but the FBI came to ask us some questions" Chris said.
"Well at least they are looking" Lorelai said.
"So when should you be back?" Chris asked.
"Have you had dinner?" Lorelai asked.
"No" Chris responded.
"Well Luke and I will bring something back, see you in an hour" Lorelai said hanging up the phone.
"We have to bring back dinner" Lorelai said.
"Let's get something closer to the apartment" Luke said as they continued to walk.
After about 45 minutes of walking they reached a fast food place and went in to order for everyone.
Just as they were leaving they Luke noticed something.
"Lorelai does that look like Max" Luke whispered to Lorelai pointing Max out.
'It's been a long day, I could be wrong' Luke thought.
"That does look like him" Lorelai whispered back hope rising within her.
"Let's get closer to be sure" Lorelai continued.
"Thank you" Max said accepting his change.
"That's him, we can't let him see us" Lorelai said dragging Luke behind a wall in the fast food place.
"We have to call the police" Luke whispered.
"No then he'll get away, lets follow him" Lorelai said quietly.
"You've seen too many movies" Luke said.
As Luke and Lorelai continued to argue about what to do they didn't realize that Max had seen them.
'Crap, I need to get rid of Rory' Max thought as he started running.
"He's seen us, no time for police, leave food" Lorelai said as she grabbed Luke and starting running after Max.
Max was running as fast as he could, 'I have to kill her and escape' he thought as he ran.
Lorelai and Luke weren't that far behind.
'As long as I can see him I'm good' Lorelai said as her emotions started to overcome her.
'Will Rory even be alive?' Lorelai asked herself as she continued to run.
'I have to lose them' Max thought as he looked behind and saw them there.
Max took the most roundabout way home in hopes of losing them, just as he reached his apartment he turned around and didn't see them, 'I'm good' Max thought as he went upstairs.
Little did Max realize Luke had seen him go into the building.
'We just need to find a room' Luke thought.
"We have him" Lorelai said.
"Not yet we have to find the room first" Luke said.
Max had made it up to his room on the third floor and saw that Rory was awake.
Max went to shut the door but didn't close it all the way; it was open just a crack.
"Well I'm sorry Rory but I have to kill you know" Max said as he went to the kitchen to grab a knife.
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