Chapter 8
On Friday Rory gets up at 8:00am and goes and has a shower then gets dressed.
Rory has breakfast and waits for her dad to pick her up.
"Hey Kiddo" Christopher says hugging Rory when he comes to pick her up at 9:30am
"Hey Dad" Rory says after the hug
"Hey Chris" Lorelai says
"Hey Lore" Christopher says "Rory you ready"
"See you Sweetie" Lorelai says
"Bye mum" Rory says
Rory's father picks her up for her grief counsellor's appointment, that Dr Wilder had suggested she attend to help her cope with her losing her baby.
They make their way to the local counsellor's office where they patiently wait for her hour long session.
"How you doing sweetie?" her father asks her nervously, trying to be strong for his daughter. She smiles at her father, showing him all the strength she could master.
"I'm okay dad…" she says, as they look up to see the doctor walk in with a clipboard in hand.
"Rory Gilmore" the counsellor calls her name out, waiting patiently for her, as she hugs her father for comfort and support. He kisses her gently on the cheek for that extra egging on.
"Love you sweetie! Good luck in there!" he whisper's encouragingly to his daughter.
"Love you too! Thanks dad for all this!" She smiles weakly at him and follows the counsellor into her office.
"Hello Rory, I am Angela Cross. But please, call me Angela. Let me tel you a little about myself before we begin. I have been a grief counsellor for the past ten years now, and I am happily married with two kids. I have been working at these office for the past four years. And I am enjoying my job here very much. I feel like I am doing very good work with helping people." the brown hair woman said to her in an even, trying to make her as comfortable as she could.
"Thank you for telling me that" Rory said humbly, playing with her bag, as the counsellor looks on with patience.
"Dr Wilder gave me a brief summary of what has happened to you for the last couple of weeks. So what are you hoping out of this counselling sessions with me?" she asks me, watching the way she absentmindedly runs her fingers through her hair, thinking about the question.
"I hope to be able to cope with losing the baby better, being able to move forward, and easing the role-back that I often do throughout the day in my head" she says with such honesty, she seems like a little kid again. Talking about something she didn't like. "I know that things will never be the same in that aspect. But I want to be able to have some sort of normalcy in my life again. Function better" she adds in.
"Well that is good to hear. It is always hard losing a child, especially one that you never got to know, or hold. One that you were carrying inside of yourself" she eyes Rory the entire time she is saying this, wanting to connect with Rory, so she could bare everything that she is feeling.
"So tell me Rory, how are you feeling at the moment?"
"I feel alright, a little tired, but good I guess"
"So tell me what you were doing when things turned for the worst?"
"I was on the campaign trail as one of the reporters, watching Obama's speech, when a man was talking loudly on the phone, and I couldn't hear a thing, so I politely asked him to take the call somewhere else, and he responded by shooting me, which I was hit in the abdomen…" Rory's voice broke as she spoke, tears forming in her eyes. Angela waited patiently for her to regain her composure before going further. She handed the young girl a tissue.
"So how did you feel when you were shot?" she asked her, watching Rory's reporter eyes scan around the room.
"Thoughts of being in unbearable pain, about the baby's safety, about Logan not even knowing that I was pregnant with his child felt the worst…" she sniffed, and whipped her nose, grabbing more tissue as she whipped her eyes.
"So tell me about when you found out that you had lost the baby?" she watched Rory, feeling so horrible for the young woman in front of her. She knew all about losing babies, but to lose a baby through such a traumatic experience. She covered her thoughts, waiting for her reply before going in deeper about her experience.
Everything spills out of her, telling Angela about everything that has happened in the last couple of weeks; her quitting her job, and hoping on the first available plane to Orlando, Florida. About Josie and Jessie's reactions to her quitting. Her check in at the Boulevard, seeing her old friend from Yale, about seeing Logan again, and spending the night with him, just talking. Her holiday away with Dean's family, and realising that she didn't have any feelings for him, and that she was still in love with Logan and more.
"Good first session Rory, I think with more time together, we can really get you dealing with things in a much better way. Thank you for trusting me with everything we have spoken about today. I'll see you same time next week" she informs Rory, she offer's her, her hand which Rory takes. Smiling at each other before walking out to the waiting room where her father awaits her.
"Want to get some lunch?" Christopher asks wraping his arm around his daughter
"Yes" Rory says walking to her dads car
"So where's Gigi?" Rory asks
"With my parents for the day" Christopher says "They where happy to look after her. They knew you need me today"
Christopher and Rory hops into the car and drives to a cafe.
At lunch time Lorelai goes home for lunch and when she gets home she goes in.
A few minutes later Logan arrives and knocks on the front door.
Lorelai goes and opens the door and sees Logan there.
"Hi Logan" Lorelai says
"Hi Lorelai, I was wondering if Rory was home?" Logan asks
"Not at the moment, she had a couple of things to do" Lorelai says
"Do you mind if I wait then?" Logan asks
"Sure, come in" Lorelai says
Lorelai lets Logan in and he sits down on the couch.
Rory and Christopher arrive at a cafe and they go in and sit at a table.
Rory and Christopher order lunch and Rory orders a coffee, Chris orders a hot chocolate.
They are sitting at the table and the waiter brings theire lunch and drinks over.
They eat their lunch and then Christopher is heading out to the car when they bump into Honor.
"Don't take to Long" Christopher says to Rory before leaving
"Hey Rory, Logan told me what happend" Honor says
"Hey Honor" Rory says
"You Okay now?" Honor asks
"Getting there" Rory says "My dad is waiting for me out at the car so I better go"
"Ok. Rory, Logan's in town; you should talk to him" Honor says just as Rory leave
"Thanks and Bye Honor" Rory says
Rory goes out to her dads car and hops in and Christopher drives her to the Hartford Gazette.
Rory goes in and meet Jasmine and she offer Rory a job there as a reporter and she starts on Monday.
Jasmine introduces Rory to everyone and shows her around the place, it is big.
"See you Monday" Jasmine says
"See you" Rory say "and Thank you"
Rory leaves and goes back to her dads car and tell him.
"I got a job at the Hartford Gazette" Rory says
"Thats great sweetie" Christopher says
Christopher drives Rory home to Stars Hollow and drops her off in the town square because she want to walk the rest of the way.
"Ok, see you Kiddo" Christopher says
"Bye Dad" Rory says hugging him before hopping out of the car.
Rory walks down the road on the nice summers day and she see's Beth and Dean together holding hands
"Hi Beth, Dean" Rory says "So Beth I see you like Stars Hollow since your still here"
"It's a great little town" Beth says "I see why Dean like it"
"Dean can you thank your grandmother for introducing me to Jasmine" Rory says
"I will, so did she offer you a job?" Dean asks
"Yeah" Rory says
"That's great" Dean says "Well we got to go, see you Rory"
"See you Rory" Beth says
"Bye Dean, Beth" Rory says and Beth and Dean walks off
Rory continues her walk home and Lorelai is leaving when Rory gets home.
"Hey sweetie. I got to go back to work and you have a visiter waiting for you" Lorelai says
"Bye Mum" Rory says
Rory walks into the house and goes into the kitchen.
When Rory enters the kitchen she sees Logan there sitting at the dinning table.
"Ace" Logan says seeing Rory walk in
"Logan" Rory says walking over to him and hugs him "Im so sorry Logan for pushing you away. I was and am still hurting from losing the baby, I thought
It would be eaiser to push you away then to deal with the pain. I didn't mean anything I said to you."
"It's ok Ace. I know you where hurting" Logan says wrapping his arms around Rory
"I do want to be with you Logan" Rory says "I love you"
"I love you too Ace" Logan tells Rory and kisses her
Rory kisses Logan back passionatly and wrapping her arms around Logan. Rory sliding her hands up under Logan's shirt and pushing him into her bedroom.
"You sure?" Logan asks pulling away from the kiss for a few seconds
"Yes" Rory says nodding kissing Logan again
Logan removes Rory's clothes at the same time Rory is removing Logan's clothes.
They both hop onto Rory's bed and Logan gently makes love to Rory not wanting to hurt her.
Thank you for reading
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with some of this chapter and others