Lorelai was startled awake by the ringing of the phone. Sitting up to listen to the conversation she wasn't surprised to hear Rory say hello to her grandmother.

"Hello?" Rory said, answering the phone.

"Hello Rory how's your mom? I understand she was discharged today?" came Emily's voice.

"Hi, Grandma we got home a couple of hours ago. Sorry I didn't call it was a bit of a rough start," Rory explained.

"That's okay; can I speak with your mother, please? Actually both Richard and I would like to talk to her," Emily said.

"Sure hold on, let me see if she's awake," Rory replied as she walked to her room and opened the door. A smile came to her face when she saw her mom sitting up in bed trying to listen to the conversation.

"Who is it?" she asked her daughter.

"It's Grandma she wants to talk to you," Rory told her. Nodding, Lorelai reached for the phone. She had been surprised that her parents had believed her and sided with her when she had told them about the rape when she called them from the hospital.

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(flashback)

Taking a deep breath Lorelai reached for the phone. She knew Rory was right and that she should tell her parents what happened. Everyone had left her alone for a few minutes so she thought it was now or never. Quickly she dialed the number before she could chicken out.

"Gilmore residence," came the maid-of-the-weeks voice.

"May I speak to Richard or Emily Gilmore, please?"

"May I tell them whose calling?"

"This is their daughter Lorelai," she answered.

"Hold on, please," the maid answered before putting the phone down. Emily's voice came on the phone a few moments later.

"Lorelai? This is a nice surprise. How are you?" Emily asked. Hearing her mom's voice, Lorelai had to fight not to cry. All she wanted right now was to be held in her mother's arms like Emily used to do when she was little.

"Not good, Mom. I'm in the hospital."

"What are you okay, is Rory okay? Do you want your father on here as well?" Emily rushed out.

"Yes," Lorelai whispered.

"Richard! Pick up the phone it's Lorelai something's wrong!" Emily called into her husband's study.

"Lorelai? What's wrong, sweetheart?" asked her father as he picked up the extension.

"Chris raped me tonight. He came to the house drunk and angry and r-r-raped me. Rory was at Lane's. Jess found me, got me to Luke's then they drove me to the hospital. Luke called Rory and Lane brought her to the hospital," Lorelai explained as the tears began to fall once again. Both parents were silent completely in shock at what their only child had just told them.

"Where's Christopher?" Richard asked.

"I d-d-don't know," Lorelai answered.

"I'll call our lawyer and make sure the police pick him up as soon as possible. He'll pay for this he'll be charged and punished," Richard said vehemently. At this Lorelai began to cry harder.

"What is it, Angel?" Emily asked, using her nickname for Lorelai when she was a small child.

"I d-d-didn't think you'd believe me," she cried.

"Of course we believe you. I'm so sorry this happened to you," Emily replied as she to began to cry.

"We love you and will support you through all of this," Richard said softly as he tried not to cry. Lorelai was crying too hard to speak. The sound of her crying caught the attention of the three people walking down the hall and they hurried into the room. Rory rushed to her mother's side and placed her hand on her mom's shoulder but pulled back when Lorelai shrank back. Tears filled Rory's eyes. Jess's heart broke at the lost look in his girlfriends eye's so he pulled her into his arms and tried to soothe her. Noticing the phone in Lorelai's hand Luke reached for it and it slid out of her hand.

"Hello?" Luke said into the phone.

"Luke? Is that you?" Richard asked.

"Yes what's going on? What's wrong with Lorelai?" he questioned.

"She told us what that son-of-a-bitch did to her and I told her that I'll call our lawyer and ensure that Christopher is punished for his crime," Richard informed the other man.

"She didn't think we'd believe her," Emily added.

"I see, well I think she needs to rest so maybe you can call tomorrow? I think they're going to release her sometime tomorrow," Luke said.

"Okay and Luke?" Richard called just before they hung up.

"Yeah?" Luke answered.

"Thank Jess for us, will you? Lorelai said he found her, and thank you for taking care of both of our girls," Richard said gratefully.

"No thanks necessary, but your welcome," Luke said as he hung up the phone and turned to try and comfort his clearly distraught girlfriend.

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(present day)

"Mom, you with me?" Rory asked as she held the phone out for her to take. Lorelai snapped out of her thoughts and reached for the phone.

"Yeah, sorry, sweets," she said.

"Hello?" she said into the phone her voice thick with sleep.

"Hi, Lorelai, both your father and I are on the phone," Emily explained.

"Hi, Mom, Dad. How are you?" Lorelai asked.

"We're okay, how are you?" Richard asked.

"I'm doing okay. A bit better I just had a nap," Lorelai answered.

"That's good, well I've gotten in touch with our lawyer and the local police have picked Christopher up. He'll be arraigned Monday morning at 9:00 A.M on the charges of sexual assault, physical assault and breaking and entering," Richard explained.

"Will I have to see him?" Lorelai asked fearfully.

"Not for the arraignment, but for the trial you will if it goes to that point. Herb Jackson, our lawyer, will do everything to see that this is settled out of court if at all possible, but with Christopher's connections through Straub I'm not confident that this will be settled out of court. I'm sorry for that, Lorelai," Richard said with regret.

"There's nothing you can do about that," Lorelai assured him.

"You're excused from Friday night dinner this next week, so you can rest," Emily told her. Lorelai was bewildered to be disappointed by that.

"I might come anyway. I'd like to see you and Dad," she answered. Rory stared at her mother in shock was she voluntarily telling her grandmother that she didn't want to accept a get-out-of-Friday-night-dinner-free card? Had hell truly frozen over? Emily was clearly shocked as well.

"We'd like that but we understand if you're not up to it," she added softly.

"Okay, we'll wait and see," Lorelai said as her stomached growled. Looking at the clock she noticed that it was already almost 5:00.

"Well we should go for now, but we'll be in touch. I love you, sweetheart," Richard said.

"I love you to," Emily said softly.

"I love you both to, talk to you later," Lorelai said as she hung up the phone and handed it back to Rory.

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"Did you really tell Emily Gilmore that you want to come to Friday night dinner even when she was giving you an out?" Rory asked still confused.

"Yeah... I did... didn't I? I can't believe I did that, maybe it's the pain killers for my wrist," Lorelai said absently.

"Maybe," Rory agreed.

"I'm hungry," Lorelai said rubbing her stomach. As if on cue someone knocked on the door. Rory tried not to notice her mother's gaze sweeping the room frightened that her father was coming back.

"I bet that's Luke," Rory said as she got off the edge of her bed and headed to open the door for the diner owner. Smiling, Lorelai carefully rose to her feet and followed her daughter into the living room just in time to catch the smell of hamburgers and fries wafting from the bag that Luke held in his hand.

TBC?

A/n, please read and review.