Chapter 4
Rory and Dean gather her belongings in silence. Each lost in their own thoughts.
With the suitcase packed Dean takes it from Rory. "Rory why don't you check out and I will put your suitcase in the car."
Rory silently nods her head in agreement. The emotional pain of her recent loss has muted her.
She has no desire to speak; afraid that speaking would loosen the torrent of pain she has bottled up.
Rory walks out into the bright sunlight and spots the car with Dean leaning on the car.
As she approaches he opens the passenger door for her. Quietly he speaks to her. "Rory I have your suitcase in the trunk with ours."
Again Rory nods her in assent. As she enters the car she notices that May, John and Clara are already seated.
She gives them a warm smile and weakly says "Hi", then turns and stares out the window lost in thought.
Rory was so lost in her thoughts that she did not even realize that the car had started its journey to Georgia.
Vaguely Rory knows someone is talking, but she does not care. Her thoughts are with her lost child and the day she found out she was pregnant.
Flashback - Rory find out that she is pregnant
It was a month after Rory's graduation and she is in her 4th week on the campaign trail in Chicago.
Rory has been sick for the past 2 weeks, and at first Rory thinks that it is just all the traveling she had been doing, but after she misses her period she starts worrying.
It is her first day off, and Rory make's a doctor's appointment for four o'clock.
At 4 o'clock, Rory goes to the her doctor's appointment. She is sitting in the waiting room, waiting for her name to be called.
"Lorelai Leigh Gilmore-Hayden" The doctor says to the room full of awaiting patients.
"That's me" Rory says, standing up, and following the doctor to her office. "But I go by Rory"
"Ok thank you for telling me your preference in name, Rory. I appreciate it." the doctor says as they enter his office.
The doctor shuts the door and puts his hands out, beckoning Rory to take a seat in the empty chair.
"So how can I help you today?" the Doctor asks patiently, who sits across from her patiently.
"Well I have been sick for the past two weeks, but at first I thought it was just the traveling, but I haven't had my periods as well. I think I may be pregnant" Rory says calmly, a smile on her face.
"Okay, so have you taken a home pregnancy test?" The doctor asks her.
"No I haven't yet. Will that be a problem" Rory says, unsure what the procedures are, to these kind of things.
"Okay, I'll get you to take a urine test right now" The doctor says, offering her a cup with a yellow lid on it. "then I want you to come straight back to me so I can test it with this litmus paper" she takes the cup and heads for the door, very anxious to find out the results of her urine test.
She walks towards the toilet's, and pee's in the cup, as the doctor directed, washing her hands, then quickly making her way back to the doctor's office.
She hands the doctor the cup, and he sticks the litmus paper into the yellow liquid. They both wait a few minutes as the liquid travels up the paper (which felt like a millions years, instead of the seconds it really was).
"Well Rory, looks like you are having a baby!" he tells her happily, he always loves to watch his patience reactions to the news. "Congratulations, Rory!" he beamed proudly as her grin seemed to grow bigger every second.
"So secondly I will need to check your blood pressure and weigh you. I will be doing this every month, to keep track of how you will be progressing." He guides her to his surgical table, and begins his test.
"Your blood pressure is good, now try and keep away from anything stressful, and your weight is perfect for your size." He says happily for her. She nods her head.
"I will send you off for a blood test to see how you are going and you will come back next week for the results. I want you to go buy some antenatal vitamins which will help the baby and yourself to grow. And stop some defects from happening. Such a Folic acid, that prevents the baby from getting spina-bifida, iron which without it you will be even more tired than you already will be. Amongst other vitamins and minerals that is good for the baby".
(One week later)
"Your blood test came back great. You are very healthy Miss Gilmore, which is great when you are pregnant. Here is a list of the things that you should
and shouldn't eat." He hands her a white piece of paper.
"I want to do an ultrasound today see how far along you are" and he prepares the special machine, and offer's Rory to lie down on the lays down and lifts up her shirt, letting the cool gel spill gently over her still flat stomach. The Doctor guides the want around her flat belly, and she smiles in awe as she witness her child's heartbeat on the screen.
"Congratulation's Rory, you are six weeks pregnant, your due date is 25th of June 2011" the doctor says happily. He loves being the bearer of good news!"
"Thank you" Rory says, grinning so much, her heart doing flip flops in her chest. She couldn't wait to tell Logan the fantastic news!"How many copies do you want?" The doctor asks her.
"Four please" Rory replies, smiling at the news of having her own copy to look, at over and over again. The doctor prints the copies off and hands them over to Rory.
End Flashback
The constant ringing of her cell phone snaps her out of her thoughts.
Surprised, she realizes that the car is moving and all were looking at her with concern, except John who was driving.
"Hey Rory, your phone's ringing" Clara says pulling her out of her thoughts.
She looks at who is calling, and it's Stephanie and she ignores the call, sending it straight to voice mail.
"Aren't you going to answer your phone?" Dean enquires her worriedly.
"It's not important, just a friend from college. I can call her back later" Rory assures Dean leaning on him tiredly.
Stephanie hears her phone go to Rory's voice message, but she doesn't leave a voice message.
'Hi this is Rory, Sorry I can't come to the phone right now, but I'm working on the trail campaign'
"Sorry Logan, it went to her voice message" Stephanie says "I guess she hasn't changed it"
"I don't get it, why would she just leave?" Logan asks curiously.
"Mate, I don't know, just give her time" Colin reason's with him. "She has a lot to deal with right now, losing the baby"
"Yeah but I want to help her" Logan says in a strong voice.
"Maybe that's not what she needs from you right now. Maybe she wants or needs to do this on her own" Colin consoles his friend.
About two hours into the trip to Hinesvile, Georgia. Rory, Dean and Clara start falling asleep.
Rory lies with her head on Dean's shoulder going to sleep because that is the only comfortable position she can find and Dean lets her.
While Rory is sleeping she doesn't have a dream of being shot.
Rory dreams about her and Logan as a married as couple and with two daughters and a son.
Dream
Rory is working on an article for the Hartford gazette on Friday night, when Logan comes home fom work an picking up the kids from school.
"Mum" Ivanna , Connor and Melanie say to their mother happily.
"Hey Ivanna , Connor, Melanie how was school?" Rory asks her children in the same tone. Glad to see her children.
"Awsome" Melanie and Ivanna answer together. Bringing out fits of giggles from each child.
"All right" Connor says, trying to sound tough like his dad. His father brings a hand to ruffle his sons head.
"Mum, Kelly is having a party on Sunday night for her birthday, can me and Mel go, please?" Ivanna begs her mother.
"Sure Sweetie" Rory says, "We can go shopping tomorrow and get Kelly a birthday present. How does that sound?" the two kids beam and jumping up and
down, clapping their hands excitedly.
"Kid, why don't you wash up for dinner and I will order the Pizza" Logan says to the kids.
"Ok Dad" Melanie, Connor and Ivanna says, running up stairs to wash their hands.
Logan orders the pizza's and sits on the couch beside Rory.
"Hey Ace, can you believe that we have been married for five years now?" Logan asks kissing his wife passionately on the lips.
"No" Rory says "I thought I would never see you again after graduation" she says with all honesty, tears clouding her eyes from the memory.
"Well I'm glad I came back" Logan says "I love you Ace"
"I love you too Logan" Rory says with so much love and devotion.
End of Dream
They eventually arrive at May's parents, Katherine and Tyler. Dean wakes Rory up when they get there because she is still sleeping.
Rory wakes up, and hops out of the car and Katherine and Tyler comes out to greet them.
"Hi you must be Rory, It a pleasure to meet you" Katherine says "My names Katherine, Dean's grandmother" she introduces herself with a handshake.
"Hello Rory, Nice to meet you" Tyler says, "My name is Tyler, Dean's grandfather"
"Nice to meet you both, Tyler, Katherine" Rory says awkwardly, feeling a little out of place.
"So tomorrow night we are having a Christmas Eve Party, your welcome to join us Rory" Katherine says, winking at Clara. "Well come on in" she usher's the
family and Rory in.
"Thank you" Rory says
All the females enter the house first, while the men are left to carry all the suitcases in.
Katherine shows them all to their rooms, and Rory is in between Dean's and Clara's room.
They all have a nice dinner that Katherine made and they sit down to eat.
"So Rory tells us about yourself?" Katherine asks, trying to make Rory feel more at home there.
"I attended Yale University in New Harven, Connecticut. And a few months ago in October, I was doing journalism as my major. I then got a job working on the Obama campaign trail. I lived in Stars Hollow, with my mum since I was two, and my dad lives in Boston with my six year old half-sister, Gigi" Rory says to them all.
Rory takes a short breath. "I better call my mum" Rory says, needing an excuse to leave.
"You can use the landline if you need" Katherine offers, signalling to the hallway.
"My cell will be fine" Rory says, and leaves the room to call her mother.
Rory goes up stairs and calls her mum and talks to her for a while. While she is up there she has one of her pain killer to help with the pain.
Rory is about to go back down stairs when her cell rings and it is Logan. She decides to answer it this time because he deserves an answer.
"Ace, why did you leave without telling me?" Logan asks worriedly, "I told you that I wanted to help you get through this" anguish strewn through his voice.
"I just need space Logan, I need to deal with this on my own, there is nothing you can do to help right now" Rory says with emotion, lying down on the bed.
"Where are you Ace? Stars Hollow with your mum?" he enquires.
"No, I'm with a couple of old friends and at their grandparents place" she answers him.
She pauses for a second before speaking again.
"Sorry Logan, but I've got to go, we are having dinner" she says, needing to have the space that she was talking about.
"OK, bye Ace, I love you" Logan quickly adds in, before Rory hangs up on him and has tears in her eyes.
Rory wipes the tears from her eyes, and then goes back downstairs, and join's May and her family.
Rory is downstairs with them all for a while before she heads back upstairs to go to sleep.
Dean, follows Rory then Clara, May, John, Tyler and Katherine goes up to bed a while later.
They all go to sleep.
Unknowingly, next door, lives Stephanie's Aunty and Uncles and all her friends: Finn, Colin, Logan, Stephanie, Rosemary, Tristan, Lindsay, Julie (Stephs Grandma) and Graham (Stephs Grandpa).
Rory wakes up at 5am because she can't sleep, thoughts of the baby in her head.
Logan also does the same thing he can't sleep because he is worried about Rory.
Rory gets dressed and goes down stairs quietly, and sits out on the balcony just thinking.
Logan comes out on to Stephanie's Aunties balcony, dressed and sits down.
Logan turns to the balcony to see Rory sitting there. Rory looks up to see Logan.
"Ace" he says with surprise.
"Logan, what are you doing here?" she asks curiously, "Are you following me or something?" she asked shocked.
"No, of course not, Stephs spending Christmas with her grandparents, and she invited us all along as well" he informs her with a grin.
"I thought you were with a friend?" he questions.
"I am, this is where there grandparents live" she answers.
"Ace, I know that you're hurting, since you lost our baby, but I want to help, be there for you, so you need to stop pushing me away" he tells her, hoping that she will finally let him in.
"You don't know how I feel at all Logan, you haven't been around for the last three months so how could you know at all how I feel.
You walked away not me Logan. There is nothing you can do to help" Rory yells angrily to Logan. Stephanie, Tristan and Lindsay walks out from behind Logan.
Dean and Katherine walks out behind Rory.
"Rory, you need to keep your voice down or you will wake Clara, my parents and grandfather up and Im sure you wont want
them to hear all this yelling" Dean says quietly to Rory, putting his hand on Rory's shoulder.
Rory turns around and goes back inside, followed by Dean and Katherine.
Katherine closes the door behind them leaving them all standing out there.
"I'm sorry Katherine, I didn't mean to wake you or Dean up" Rory says apologetically, "I couldn't sleep"
"You didn't. I was already awake and had come down stairs. You just started yelling at that guy" Katherine says,
"Dean also came down at the same time, he's always up at this hour"
"So what was that about?" Katherine enquires with concern.
Rory tells Katherine and Dean the whole story and explain about Logan and what happened outside.
"May said you have been having a tough time, but she didn't say why" Katherine says. "I'm sorry" she says empathically.
"That's ok" Rory says.
"Would you like some Coffee?" Katherine asks
"Yes please, I would love some" Rory jumps at her favourite words and Dean smiles
"Dean?" Katherine asks
"Yes, please Grandma" Dean says, "Thanks"
"So you okay now Rory?" Dean asks Rory just nods.
"So how come your always up at this time?" Rory asks him.
"I usually up at this time for work, or I go for a run sometimes, if I'm not working in the mornings" Dean tells Rory.
"So are you going to go for a run this morning?" Rory questions.
"I don't have to" Dean says wrapping his arm around her "I can be here with you"
"I don't mind if you want to go for a run. I don't want you not to go for a run just because of me" Rory says
Katherine returns to the lounge with 2 cups of coffee and hands one to Dean and the other one to Rory.
Rory, Dean and Katherine then have breakfast. A while later May, John, Clara and Tyler are coming downstairs dressed and has breakfast as well.
They hang out at the house most of the day, and Tyler and Dean later shows Rory around Hinesvile, Georgia.
They return back to Dean's grandparents place at 4:00pm and gets ready for the party Dean's grandparents are throwing.
Rory is just finished getting changed and Dean knocks on her door. Rory opens the door and walks down with Dean and guests start arriving.
Stephanie, Logan, Lindsay, Finn, Tristan. Roesmary and Colin are all there with Stephanie's grandparents Julie and Graham.
Rory ignores them all, most of the night. About at 9:00pm Rory goes outside on to the balcony to get some fresh air and also in some pain from being shot.
Logan follows her out on to the balcony and starts talking to her.
"Rory.." Logan says but she cuts him off first.
"Logan, please don't. I am too tired of arguing" she says breathing in between the pain.
"Rory, you're the one who said no to me remember?" he reminds her
"Yeah but I said to do long distance" Rory reminds him, "And I tried to contact you, but you never called me back, for all I knew, you could of been in a ditch somewhere"
"I was hurting Ace. I wanted to marry you and you said no" he says sadly.
"Logan, please don't call me Ace anymore, we aren't together" Rory says, "and I didn't say no I said I wasn't ready. There is a difference"
"Well we both made mistakes. Can't we just forget about them and move on and try again?" he asks
"No, I can't do this Logan, especially since your Dad has had a private detective following me. I can't be around you, it hurt too much" Rory says and walks off back inside, past Finn and Tristan, leaving Logan outside.
Finn and Tristan go outside to where Logan is.
"What happened?" Tristan asks
Logan explains what happened and is still confused by it.
Inside Rory is walking around, trying to find Dean, then finally sees him talking to Colin, Stephanie and her grandparents.
Rory waits for Dean to finish talking to them, and Dean walks over to Rory and he is walking around.
"Do you think your grandparents would mind, if I just left the party and went upstairs?" Rory asks Dean quietly.
"Sure they wouldn't mind" Dean says "They understand. You sore?" Dean asks
"A little" Rory says "also have a little headache and a little tired"
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