A/n: People are going to hate me for this chapter, and that's ok.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Rory

I woke up determined Friday. This was going to end today. I wasn't going to stand by and let him do this. I got up and dressed and went through my normal morning, as normal as it got anyway. Lawrence screamed from the second he got woken up, Cameron was sick and staying home. Plus, we ran out of coffee. Logan had to go and get more, per my loving, subtle request. He walked through the door, bag of coffee in one hand and take out coffee in the other. I kissed him and he handed me the cup. We sat there and stared at each other.

"So today?" I asked him. Today we found out if Jason was his son. He was nervous, I could tell by his tone of voice.

"Today will be fine, everything will work out." He kissed me. The bell rang, telling us Ms. Thomas, our babysitter was here. We kissed again at the cab. I got in the backseat. The driver started going towards the paper, but I had him turn around and go towards the park that Jacob was waiting for me. I paid the cab and scanned the park. There he was, just sitting there waiting for me.

"You're late." He greeted me.

"Cameron is sick and Logan had to get more coffee." I excused myself, I wasn't sure why. I didn't owe him anything.

"You could have called or something. I've been waiting for 20 minutes." He raised his voice. I looked around, seeing the kids with her parents.

"Let's go for a walk." I offered.

Logan

I walked into the office, not really knowing what to expect. There're a few people in the waiting room. I signed in and waited for my name to be called. My leg shook and my heart pounded. I didn't think I would be this nervous, I mean I did have two kids already, maybe Rory and I would have more, or not. But I wanted to decide, with Rory. I turned my phone on silent and I knew I would get through this. We could handle this, no problem. Rory and I could handle anything. I looked up when I heard the nurse call my name, she lead me to a room where I sat awkwardly. A Doctor came in and took some blood from my arm. The whole appointment didn't take more than an hour and a half. I decided to bring Cameron soup and take Ace to lunch before going to work, but I knew I'd have to call her to make sure she's not busy. I pulled out my phone and saw that I had 8 missed calls, 5 from Lorelai and 3 from an unknown number. Someone was really trying to get a hold of me. I called Lorelai and waited for her to answer.

Lorelai

This could not be happening again. Things were so right in her life. Why now? We got rid of him years ago! Why did he have to ruin everything! If I ever saw him again, I would kill him, no doubt about it. It's a mother's prerogative. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I saw that it was Logan's cell. Thank god. He needed to be here.

"Lorelai?" He said when I picked up.

"Where are you?" And why the hell didn't you answer your phone? This is an emergency, didn't he know? Oh that's right he didn't.

"I'm getting soup for Cameron."

"You have to come to the hospital right now."

"Why, what happened?"

"It's Rory. Someone found her in an alley, pretty badly beaten. She's in bad shape Logan."

"I'm on my way." He said quickly before hanging up. I sat down and waited for Logan, trying to convince myself that there is something worse than getting a call from the hospital. I couldn't think of anything. I sipped on bad hospital coffee and thought about how I could have prevented this situation from happening. Jacob had called Rory not long after Lawrence was born. I properly just pissed him off when I intervened the phone call. And the worst part about it was I never told Rory about it. We could have stopped him from his specialty, tearing lives apart. I could have prevented this, and I didn't this was my fault.

"Lorelai." Logan said, hurrying to where I was. I stood and hugged him. "What happened?"

"I haven't heard the whole story, but I know she meet up with Jacob."

"Who?" How could he not know who Jacob was. Rory told me she told him.