"Mom what are you doing here?" Lorelai asked surprised that her mother had come to the hospital considering the rift there was between Rory and herself.
"Don't act so surprised Lorelai, it is a miracle I heard that Rory is in the hospital in the first place, since no one else bothered to tell me." Giving Lorelai a look of disparagement.
"Mom I was going to call you. In fact I was just going to put down my coffee and give you a call on me cell. But then I realized I left it at home in all the rush to get to Rory, and I don't have any quarters so I couldn't."
"I am sure someone in this hospital has a cell phone you could borrow."
"I don't want to borrow someone else's cell phone, you don't know where it has been" Lorelai made large gestures with her hands
"Well heaven forbid you suffer for two minutes to call your mother and tell her that her grand daughter is in the hospital."
"Fine mom I should've called you, but it isn't like we were here that long." Lorelai said sulking, "What are you doing here in the hospital anyway?"
"My granddaughter is in the hospital Lorelai, and when someone is in the hospital you visit them. It is the proper thing to do." Emily took the tone of someone doing a duty, not visiting a loved one.
"Hello Rory." She said coldly walking over and standing next to the hospital bed
"Hello" Rory said weakly, half smiling.
"Can you leave us alone for a moment?" She asked Lorelai and Logan
"Sure Mom, we can do that." She put her hand on Logan's shoulder and led him out of the room. Once they were alone, Emily turned her attention away from the door and back on her granddaughter.
Rory's POV"I just wanted to say if you wish to return to our regular Friday night dinners you are more than welcome to attend." Emily said
"Alright"
"Well I have to go now, there is a DAR meeting this afternoon and I can't miss it."
"Grandma?" Rory said taking the older women's hands in her own "I'll be there."
"That would be nice." She said placing her other hand on top of Rory's. After three months without seeing her grandma, things were about to heal between them, or at least start to. It was strange but maybe Emily Gilmore had realized that she was about to loose her granddaughter, in the same way she lost her daughter all of those years ago. Maybe that would mean things could finally start to heal between Lorelai and Emily as well, but that didn't seem likely. The wounds between those two were to deep to heal. But having both her daughter and granddaughter out of her life was to much to handle, so if sacrificing some pride was what it took than for once in her life than she was going to do it. Rory smiled at this thought that maybe family bliss was around the corner. But then she saw a look of shock on her grandmother's face, followed by as pause as a look of as she noticed the ring on Rory's finger. There was a few moments of unspoken silence between them as Emily tried to maintain her poise
"I suppose congratulations is in order." Emily said quickly recovering from her shock
"Yes" She smiled as she looked at tasteful ring around her finger. It wasn't as extravagant as it could be, but since being cut off from the Huntzberger fortune they didn't have much. It was an adjustment for Logan, but it suited Rory just fine, and the ring was more than a symbol of his love, it was also a symbol of the new life they were starting away from everything he'd ever known. She smiled as she remembered everything it stood for.
"Well when is the wedding to take place?" Emily asked maintaining her poise
"October 15th" Rory said politely, "You and grandpa are welcome to attend."
"I think we have a function that day, but thank you so much for the thought." She said getting up and hurriedly walking towards the door. A moment later Lorelai and Logan reentered the small hospital room, and immediately went to the side of Rory
"Honey what happened?" Lorelai asked concerned
"Grandma found out about the wedding." Rory said
"You didn't tell her?" Lorelai asked shocked, "I can't believe you didn't tell her"
"Well she went on and on about how we needed to be married, and I just couldn't sit there and tell me what to do with my life. You know the speech."
"I am the soul audience for that speech, but do you have any idea how much my mother is hurting right now?"
"She
is hurting pretty bad."
"Yeah kid, she is hurting pretty bad,
and you have to fix this before it gets worse."
"Fix it, how?"
"I don't know kid, I don't know. But if you want any kind of relationship with your grandparents you better think of something." She said worriedly "and quick"