Chapter Started: March 4, 2015

Chapter Finished: March 24, 2015.

Author's Note: So for the previous few chapters I got a couple mixed reviews and they effected me so much that I've come to some decisions: for now, I am going to leave the Prologue and Chapter 1 as they are and if at the end of the story, I think the story will flow better with them being one chapter than I will do just that. I have also decided to mix things up and shake things up in her which you will realize as you continue to read, hopefully you do. Also, those flames you send my way? Yeah, those, they pushed me to try to write a better chapter for Chapter Two and actually, they push me to workout (I need all the motivation I can) so thank you!

Another Quick A/N: If anything medical is wrong, I am sorry. I. Am. No. Doctor. Although. I. Tried. To. Do. My. In. Depth. Research.


=Highway Don't Care=

-Chapter 2-

Airlift…Level 1 Trauma Center…New Haven…Emergency Surgery…So much blood lose...doesn't appear to be a part of her body that hasn't been impacted…looking for blood donors if she pulls through because she has a relatively unusual blood type and she's going to need a lot of it…still a high chance of losing her because of high impact fractures and massive lacerations to both legs, a pelvis fracture, a left leg broken in three places and a left shoulder that was dislocated…arterial damage, bleed out…miracle…abdominal damage, crushed ribs, punctured lung…

Possibly other organs damaged, possible intestinal damage can cause blood poisoning…MTBI…Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, a concussion we are watching to make sure it doesn't become severe…since she's been unconscious for a long time, there is a possibility of a coma…. and we still don't know the full extent of her injuries…Almost lost her four times on the table, she has unbelievable strength and we swear we heard her say "Logan" one time before she fell back into a state unconsciousness… heard her say "Logan", heard her say "Logan"…

The words were kept on a constant loop throughout Logan's head as he sat in a sterile hospital room at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where they had airlifted his girlfriend to for the best care possible thanks to Yale-New Haven's status of being the first and only hospital in Connecticut with a Level 1 Trauma Center. He had arrived after they had brought her out of surgery, six hours ago, and he can still remember the doctor's speech and how the next few hours were critical for Rory and her condition.

"Logan, honey, do you need anything before Josh and I head out to mom and dad's?" a voiced asked softly, placing a loving hand on the blonde HPG heir's shoulder and giving it a light, yet comforting squeeze.

Honor Huntzberger-Jacobs had never seen her brother this way, not even when their beloved paternal grandmother, Emma Huntzberger died, who Logan had loved and adored more than anyone in the family. She had hoped that she or her husband, Josh, or anyone of Logan's friends – Stephanie Vanderbilt, Colin McCrae, or Finnegan Morgan II – could have managed to get ahold of him so he did not have to hear the news of his beloved's accident from their parents, but he had kept screening their calls, no doubt waiting for a call from Rory.

The twenty-three-year-old male couldn't pry his hazel-eyes off the prone body off of his girlfriend of almost two-years attached to all the monitors as she laid in the sterile bed, unconscious so, he just shook his head no, tightening his grip a little tighter on her hand.

"Honey, are you sure you don't need anything, anything at all?" Honor just needed to do something, she didn't mean to be a nuisance – she really didn't – she just had to do something, he was her baby brother and he was scaring her. Ever since he had arrived hours ago, he had not uttered a single word since hearing the news from the doctors except to ask to be taken to his girlfriend. God, she could still remember the reaction of the waiting room, the reaction of Lorelai Gilmore when Logan was the only one allowed to see Rory for the time being…

"Josh, can I see her?" The waiting room heard Logan asked one of the two doctors, Dr. Joshua Jacobs, standing before them.

"Of course you can, man," Dr. Jacobs told his brother-in-law with a soft smile and motioned for the nurse behind him, "Elizabeth can you make sure that my brother-in-law gets to his girlfriend's room okay."

"Lorelai Gilmore?" Nurse Webber asked for confirmation.

"Yes, she's in RTR1," Josh confirmed and watched as Logan was led away by the petite brown haired nurse, knowing that he would be in good care for now.

"So like I was…" The main doctor on the case, Dr. Patrick Drake, started to pick up their conversation again.

"Excuse me," a voice interrupted the two, "but I'd like to see my daughter as well."

"I'm sorry Ms. Gilmore, unfortunately we can not let you back there right now," Dr. Drake told the older Gilmore Girl. "We can only allow one in the recovery room and then in Ms. Gilmore's room right now."

"Then that person should be me, not him," Lorelai Gilmore told them as she pointed in the direction Logan had left in, "I'm her mother and I'm her next of kin therefore it is my right to be back there and see my daughter before anyone else; he should not be able to see her before me. I'm her mother."

"Ms. Gilmore, listen I understand…" Dr. Drake started to say only to be interrupted.

"No you don't understand," Lorelai hissed at him, "As her mother and her next of kin, I demand the right to see my daughter. I want to see my daughter now and I want him removed from her room immediately; I have that right as her next of kin, I know I do."

Dr. Drake and Dr. Jacobs shared a look, letting a quick passing conversation flow silently between them before turning back to the enraged mother. Stepping towards, Lorelai and already angered by how she was treating Logan, Josh laid out the facts for the brunette haired, blue eyed woman, "Ms. Gilmore, as Rory's next living relative you are her next of kin, that is correct, but Yale-New Haven's policy is that when a patient is in this serious of a condition only her POA and or Advance Directive is the only one allowed to see the patient and or make demands in association with the patient. Therefore, as far Yale-New Haven policy goes, Rory has got her POA and Advance Directive back where he needs to be right now, where he should be, with her."

"EXCUSE ME?!" Lorelai yelled in shock, and Honor who already knew about this fact watched the rest of the waiting room's reactions. She noticed that her parents and grandfather were in shock at the possibility of Logan having that much responsibility over someone's life as well as no doubt in shock with how much it seemed Rory loved and trusted Logan. Noticing the lack on shock on the faces of Finn, Colin and Stephanie, she knew that Logan and or Rory must have shared this fact with them, and the looks of pride on Richard and Emily Gilmore's faces, they already having known this medical fact because the couple had gone through Richard's insurance company and lawyers to get it done. Honor then turned to see the looks on the faces of other family bloodline Rory shared: Francine Hayden had a perfect mask on her face but you could see the pride shining through her eyes for Richard, Emily, Logan, Rory, and herself knew that Francine was the other witness on all the legal documents done for Rory and Logan's Power of Attorney and Advance Directive papers, she being Logan's witness, Georgia or Gigi Hayden was just plain confused which was normal for a four-year-old, and Christopher Hayden had a mixed look on his face, on of pride, respect, and , the blonde woman looked back towards the face of Lorelai Gilmore, who had gone from shocked to plain out angry and confused...

Shit had definitely hit the fan after that moment, Honor thought remembering that it took Richard and Christopher to calm the enraged Lorelai down after she had found out about her parents involvement and how almost everyone in the waiting room knew this little fact about her daughter's life and she didn't. Honor knew that as soon as she got to her parents' house they as well as her grandfather were going to have some questions for her on status of Rory and Logan and how the medical decisions came about, and why she wasn't shocked when Josh revealed the information to the waiting room. She also knew that just like Lorelai was told, the only ones able to answer those questions whole-heartedly were Rory and Logan.

"Hey Valkyrie, are you almost ready to go?" Josh asked his wife asked as he slipped into the room, his previous country club clothes that were covered in the brunette's blood, now replaced with a clean pair of dark azure colored, hospital issued scrubs. Seeing the tall, green-eyed, blonde-haired woman hugging herself a little ways from her distraught brother, he slowly approached her and wrapped his muscular arms around her middle. Resting his chin on her shoulder, he asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm worried about them Josh," she told him a low voice, tears in her eyes as she laced her fingers with his on her belly, "I've never seen Logan like this, even when Grannie Emma died. He hasn't talked since he asked to come see her, and I'm worried because he hasn't cried, or broken down yet, or just…and he's acting like he has to be strong and he doesn't have to be. He hasn't left her side since he got here, not once – not to eat, or even for a cup of coffee or tea, or to change into something more comfortable, or just for some fresh air...he's my baby brother, Josh, and he's hurting…And God, I can still remember hearing those sounds and passing by Rory's car and seeing it like that…and she was in the operating room for five hours, Josh. Five hours. You were in there with her, you know! You were standing right there beside Dr. Drake, Josh, and you heard him say that you guys almost lost her four times. Four times, Josh, and he could still lose her. Oh, God."

"Shhh, Valkyrie, shh," Josh tried to sooth his wife as he turned her around in his arms and started to rock her, trying to stop her sobbing, knowing that it wouldn't be good for her brother to hear her sobbing as watched the young couple over his shoulder and remembered the young woman's remarkable strength in the OR….

"SHE'S CODING! GET THE PADDLES!" Dr. Drake yelled to his trauma staff as they stood around the trauma patient.

"Come on, Rory, don't you start losing now," Josh, who had been allowed to come into the OR to stand by for support, but was not allowed to help due to a conflict of interest, encouraged the young woman as he watched the staff prepare the cardiac defibrillator.

"1, 2, 3, Clear," Nurse Elias yelled out as she placed the paddles on the patients chest. Seeing the heart monitor still reading a straight line and getting a nod from the head doctor, the nurse charged the paddles again before shocking the patients chest again. "1, 2, 3, Clear!"

Josh watched as the trauma staff all quickly looked at the heart monitor's flat line and at the young woman, who for the fourth time now, was flat lining, knowing that this might be the time and they might not be able to bring her back. Not being able to except that, Josh bent down and whispered in her ear, making sure to stay out of the working staff's way, "Come on, Ace, you need to fight, and if you won't fight to stay alive for yourself, or for your family, than fight to stay alive for Logan because he needs you more than anyone. He's on his way, Ace, he's on his way and he told me tell you that he loves you, Ace so much and that you need to hang on. So hang on, Ace because Logan's on his way home."

As the nurse took the paddles on last time to Rory's chest with encouragement from the two main doctors and Josh, the whole staff watched in awe as the young woman's eyes opened for a brief moment and whispered one word before falling back unconscious, "Logan", as the heart monitored started to beat in a rhythm again, this time at a stronger beat…

"Here baby," Dr. Jacobs sometime later told his calmed down wife as he came back with a tray filled with stuff and handed her a cup of coffee off of the hospital tray.

"Thanks," Honor whispered her thanks from her spot leaning against the wall as she kept her eyes on her brother, "what's the tray for?"

"Your brother," Josh replied with a soft smile, "that way, you don't have to worry about him starving himself or dying of dehydration. Now, once I put this over there, I want you to say goodbye and I'm going to take you to your parents and get you into bed; you're dead on your feet, Honor, you need to rest if you're going to be any help to both of them."

"Josh…"

"No, Honor, doctor's orders," he told her softly before walking over to lay the tray down beside Logan on the nightstand beside Rory's bed. "Hey Huntz, here's some food and something to drink. You need to try to eat and drink something; you're not going to be no use to anyone if you don't keep yourself feed or hydrated. I'm going to take your sister back to your parents and get her rested up, and then we'll see you tomorrow when Dr. Drake comes to check on Rory. Okay?"

Josh just watched as the young blonde man just nodded his head, not taking his eyes off of the prone body in front of him. Sighing, he stepped back so his wife could say goodnight to her broken little brother, knowing that the next few days and months to come were going to the hardest in the young couple's relationship and those moments were going to be a true test to see who would be the true support system for them as well as a true test to Rory and Logan's love.


Hey guys, I'm sorry it took SO long to get this out, but I've been tied up with life for the past couple of weeks. Namely with re-starting my course load back up for my double-major and then coming down with a serious case of pneumonia so all I do is sleep, slurp chicken broth and water and Gatorade with the occasional Pepsi, puke, and repeat the cycle and it was made worse when my cycle came – Mother Nature was truly out to get me – and I'm slowly (hopefully) starting to feel better so, that's what got this chapter finished. I was so bummed when I forgot to save this chapter so, this is actually not my original chapter 2 although, okay same direction is there, just different wording – namely before I wrote the whole waiting room scene out better in the "original" version so, yeah I was pissed, but hopefully this will compensate for this. All right, I will close this up now because this is becoming long. I just hope that you guys enjoyed it and are still sticking with me even if it is taking me awhile to post my chapters!

Thanks again & here's to a hopefully soon and longer chapter,

Jessica LA

P.S. I could not remember Josh's last name or occupation so I came up with my own! Oh and Dr. Drake and Elizabeth do NOT belong to me they belong to the lovely General Hospital (I love Robin, Patrick, the old Elizabeth, and a few others)!

"The highway won't hold you tonight

The highway don't know you're alive

The highway don't care if you're all alone

But I do, I do.

The highway won't dry your tears

The highway don't need you here

The highway don't care if you're coming home

But I do, I do."

~ Tim McGraw (feat. Taylor Swift & Keith Urban playing guitar)

Revised: March 24, 2015