Ok, it another really short chapter, but I'm really tired tonight. I drove myself crazy over the weekend, not being able to update. Plus, I got an aweful sunburn that hurts like heck. Oh well, I'll live. I might not update tomorrow, cause I have to go to play practice at 6:00 insted for when I usually go at 3:00. Oh well thats what happens when you draw close to the opening day. Did I mention, the opening day of the play (which is Annie by the way, I'm playing Grace Farrell, yay me) is Saturday! So close, yet so far. Now listen to me rant, you just want to read the story, so go ahead, read it.

Africa and Paris

Logan quietly let himself in to the dorm. He saw Rory asleep on the couch. Without making a noise, he crept inside. He had called Paris an hour earlier, and she had whole-heartedly agreed to his plan. She was Rory's friend, and no matter how much she didn't act like it, she did care about Rory. Logan saw that Paris had carried out her part of the plan. Two bags were situated by the door, one black garbage bag, and one suite case, both stuffed full. Logan grabbed both bag and went back outside. The garbage bag he quickly deposed of, heaving in into a dumpster a few blocks away. He took the suitcase and threw in into the back of his car. Then he went back to Rory's dorm. Colin and Finn were waiting for him. Without a word, the trio entered the dorm and lifted the still sleeping Rory off the couch.

"Huh?" Rory's eyes fluttered open. She didn't recognize her surroundings. Her first thought was panic. She was in a car, a moving car, how many explanations are there for waking up in a moving car? She could see stars in the dark sky beyond the window. Rory looked around at where she was some more. It was a limo, the kind where the two rows of seats at built into the wall so they face each other. Rory tried to sit up when she noticed that there were people seated on the other seat of the limo, looking at her. She found that she had almost no control over her own movements. Her body seemed to be made of lead.

"Your awake" one of the shadows said solemnly

Rory tried to talk, but found that almost equally difficult, "Where am I? Who are you?" She managed to rasp

"That might be considered rude" the same shadow said cockily, "You don't recognize me? You must have been really upset today"

"It's me Ror, Stephanie" the shadow next to the first said softly

"Steph?" Rory's voice was full of panic, "What's going on?"

"Shh sweetie, every thing's going to be ok. We're finally going to help" Steph soothed

"Ace?" The first shadow said, his voice full of caring, "It's me, Logan. Your not going to be sad anymore. We're going to show you how life was. We already spoke to your teachers and parents, though it doesn't seem that you care what they think anymore, but they said they were all for this"

"What's 'this'?" Rory asked, some spite that had become a second nature, clinging to her words

"Hey, if I told you, would that be any fun?" Logan smirked

Rory was silent for a moment, "You know Logan, you keep telling yourself you've changed, but you really haven't. Stop lying to yourself" Rory smiled, "Oh, and would one of you mind telling me why I can't move and can barely speak?"

"Well, we all know that, um, you haven't been using the best way to get out of your depression" Stephanie said carefully

"Steph, stop skipping around. We've had this conversation before, I've told you I can handle myself" Rory said irritably

"No Rory, you can't" Logan said firmly, looking at Stephanie to continue

"We'll, Logan knows some people, and we kinda gave Paris this stuff to put in your drink" Steph said

"Oh don't go espionage on me" Rory said sarcastically

"Ror, please, we're trying to help. Anyways, I don't know exactly what we gave her, but it's a type of anti-drug. Like the stuff they give smokers to stop. Hopefully it will keep you off. Besides, you don't need that stuff anyways, Dean is a bastard, forget about him. Logan's back, and we're doing something for you know. We love you Rory" Steph said

"Don't forget about us, give us some credit too" Finns head appeared in the window between the back cabin and the drivers cabin of the limo, "Colin's the one driving" Finn reassured their worried expressions

"You still haven't told me why I feel like I'm frozen" Rory looked at Stephanie

"Well let's just say Paris likes taking things into her own hands. She said it was just a sleeping pill, but she's pre-med, she knows her stuff" Steph shrugged her shoulders

"I knew we should have been suspicious when she said we wouldn't have a bit of trouble with Rory for the whole trip" Logan joked

Rory laughed with him. It felt good to laugh, and good was a feeling that had been long forgotten by Rory. "I'm sorry guys. I know I've been crabby and haven't made the right decisions. I'm going to try, really I will. Right now, I really want to get some sleep though, Paris sure knows which sleeping pills knock a person out best" Rory yawned and was asleep before she knew it

Flashback

Rory lay on her bed, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling was the only section of her room that didn't have books covering it. Rory stared at it, the only empty spot in her universe, until now. Just thinking about it made tears well up in her eyes.

"Ror?" a voice at the door asked timidly, "You alright?"

"Oh of course I am, I'm just fine and dandy, I just happen to like crying myself to sleep when I'm happy" Rory replied sarcastically, rolling over on her side so the girl in the doorway couldn't see her face

"Hey, it's ok Ror," The girl said soothingly, coming to sit down on Rory's bed, "You have a lot of friends, your smart, your pretty, you can still talk to him whenever you want. I'll bet he will come and visit every chance he gets" The girl reassured her

"It's not that easy Rache," Rory still didn't face her sister, "He's on a different continent, halfway across the world, they didn't even speak the same language over there. Besides, he was really close to me, irreplaceable"

"I know, you forget I grew up with Logan as well. I know I don't hang out with you guys as much anymore, I have other, different friends, but that's what happens with time, we grow apart. Still, I care about him and you and everyone else just as much" Rachel began to massage her sisters shoulder in a caring, soothing way

"We had plans Rache, we had plans for the last year of high school, we had plans for college, now there's nothing"

"Your only starting your third year at Chilton, your just a Junior. Stop that waterfall before you drown me" Rachel tried to make Rory smile, "Well, you can do whatever you were planning when he gets back, or with your other friends. You have Finn, Colin, Steph, a lot of people who care about you"

"They were going to participate anyways, but it won't be the same without Logan" Rory turned over to face Rachel, wiping the tears from her eyes, "As soon as we graduated college, we were going to jump on a plane a fly away. We were going to go anywhere, and everywhere. We would stop in Australia for Finn, because it's his home country. Mexico for Steph, because of the beaches. Russia for Colin, who knows why. Africa for Logan, because he wanted adventure and a change of pace. And then Paris for me, so I could sit on the riverbank, where so many stories where thought of and paintings were set, to be in a place of true beauty. We were going to see the world and have fun together"

"Hey, just you wait. I promise you, when we graduate college, just you and me, we'll fly away to Paris, just the two of us, alright?" Rachel smiled at Rory

"Promise?" Rory asked hopefully

"Scouts honor" Rachel laughed

"You were never a scout so I want that in writing" Rory laughed and hit her sister with a pillow. The two girls began to hit each other with pillows, laughing and smiling all the while

End Flashback

Rory woke with a start. Her dream had caught her off guard. She had been able to block out any thought about Rachel for the last few years, why did that memory suddenly come to her? Rory's eyes swelled with tears, but she smiled through them, remembering Rachel and how she was always the perfect sister when she was needed to be. Rory's tears flowed, her smile changing to a frown, recalling her pact she had made with Rachel. She would never go to Paris with her sister, she would never again even see her sister.

"Logan" Rory said to the darkness, when she had stopped crying and calmed down enough to speak steadily

"Oh, your awake again" Logan said, happily

"Want to go to Africa with me?" Rory asked him

"Wha..." Logan sounded confused, but then it dawned on him, "If I can come to Paris" He said, smiling, feeling proud of himself that he had remembered Rory and his graduation plan

"I'm holding you to that" Rory said

"Same for you" He replied

"Where are we going now?" Rory asked after a moments comfortable silence, remembering that she still hadn't been told

"A nice, peaceful place, where you can forget about everything. I'm back now, and I'm going to make sure everything will be fixed"

"Not everything can be fixed" Rory said quietly, "Some things are forever"

Logan mentally slapped himself for letting such a stupid thing slip. Of course not everything could be fixed! Rachel was dead! And nothing could bring her back. Logan felt like an idiot. "I... I know, but I promise you, I'm going to try. When I'm done, we'll go to Paris"

"Thank you Logan" Rory said quietly, before turning over into the darkness

Ok, I know, Logan keeps saying basically the same thing to Rory, I promise, I will not make him a wimp. I hoped you liked my little Rachel flashback, I enjoyed writing it. Yes, Rory will get better, calm yourselfs, did you really think I was stupid enough to let her suffer? Anyways, I'll try to update soon, in the meantime, review!