"Come on, we're going."
"Going where?" Rory inquired tiredly. She didn't feel like moving, and she didn't intend on moving either. Right here was fine, just fine. At least her head didn't feel like it was swimming when she laid with her head against the couch. Not only that, not moving made her feel like she could have a decent conversation.
Luke looked over at Lorelai, "Are you going to tell what's going on, or am I going to have to guess?" as he picked up Rory carefully from her place on the couch. Rory moaned at the movement. Her head was spinning again. She hated the feeling and cursed not ever to feel like this again.
"Probably not something we should tell you while you're holding me."
Gazing down at her, Luke eyes lit up. "Oh right. You probably want to--" When she didn't answer and kept her breath at a steady breathe in, breathe out movement, he rushed her to the door. Lorelai quickly opened the door for them with her free hand.
They followed out in the waiting room almost to the point that it was crowded. "Just visiting the office here people. Nothing to see, move along." Lorelai informed to their stares, rushing past them. She let out a breathe that she didn't know that she had been holding when they reached the outside of the building. Rory was limp in his arms. William whined and squirmed in her arms. His little arms were reaching out to Rory, and when she didn't respond he started to squirm even more. It was heartbreaking to watch his little arms reach out to nothing but broken air, and his little lips pouting in the deepest frown that she had ever witnessed.
"Ry. Ry. Ry!" Ry was William's nickname for Rory when he was younger. Apparently to this day, the name stuck and he kept repeating her name as Lorelai placed him in his carseat on the other side. Luke lifted Rory up in the car, forgetting about his own safety, and nestled her in his lap. If the moment wasn't bittersweet enough, William leaned over, gently touching her cheek softly. The kid was smart. "Ry? sleeping?"
"Yeah." Luke covered up, his voice breaking as he stole a glance at Lorelai who's eyes were glittering with unspilt tears. "Sleeping."
As if catching the exchange, William looked up at her."Mama? What wrong?"
"I wish I could tell you kid." Lorelai spoke truthfully, her fingers brushing through his hair briefly before, then shut the door. After Luke had arrived, Lorelai had stepped out and called Dr. Ferguson, her OBGYN. She explained the situation about Rory, and of course she encouraged them to bring Rory to the hospital, which what they were complying to right now. Fainting was never a good sign and worried both Luke and Lorelai more than they chose to let on.
In fact so much that through the whole ride over, neither one said a word. Even William was quiet, staring out the window nonstop until they had arrived in front of the hospital. Dr. Ferguson came through the sliding doors, gurney and all. Luke exchanged a knowing glance with Lorelai upon seeing Dr. Ferguson; and if he hadn't been getting the picture before, he was sure getting one now.
He gave Dr. Ferguson an awkward glance as he set Rory on the gurney. This whole moment made his own head rush. The doctor specifically being Lorelai's OBGYN meant a lot of different possibilties, but what fit to the strange cravings he saw Rory having, and the only word that popped up in his head was pregnancy. And then the thought clicked as he looked from Rory, to the doctor.
It was an odd sense of familiarity that crept over him as he quickly looked back down to Rory. He had put his hands in his pocket without realizing it. In a way he felt a wave of shock, but shook it off quickly as he looked around for Lorelai and William. He turned around to see that Lorelai was struggling with her emotions and couldn't get the strap unhooked from the harness on William's carseat.
But before he could go over, Dr. Ferguson called out to him. "We'll let you know as soon as we have any news." One glance in Lorelai's direction, she signaled another nurse to help take Rory, and then followed them inside. He nodded almost afterwards and then went to help Lorelai out. He put one hand on Lorelai's shoulder and she stepped back as he stepped in and unloosened the harness clip, easily lifting William into his arms.
"Ry?" his lip pouted out as he pointed with his index toward the doors where he saw Rory dissapear to. All Lorelai could do was lean over and kiss his forehead as they walked into the ER waiting room. Both Luke and Lorelai had their arms wrapped around the other in comfort. "Mama, Ry hurt?"
It was hard to be too serious about the sitiuation because William was still so young; understood a lot, but some things couldn't be explained enough. "Not hurt baby. Rory just doesn't feel well and the doctor is going to fix her up just like new."
"New?" William inquired curiously, squirming to get down.
Luke set him down on his feet quickly. "I'm going to see if there's any paperwork to fill out." He adjusted his cap, then left to walk over to the nurse's station.
"Mama, I play?" William's innocent eyes looked to where all the other kids in the waiting room were playing.
"Sure kid, knock yourself out."
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"So I filled out the paperwork just now--" Sitting down, Luke watched as William played with the toys around the other kids in the waiting room. "He sure seems to like those toys."
"Yep, they almost look like his toys at home." Lorelai quipped, crossing her legs.
"You okay?"
"Me? Not really. I mean Rory was rolled in on some gurney, Luke. She wasn't acting normal because of apparently some lack of communication between her and Jess."
"So that's what happened. I mean that's why Jess isn't here."
"Yeah, sort of. That and a lack of eating and drinking. I'm not sure when the last time she actually had a decent drink of water." Lorelai couldn't help but ramble. She was worried and felt like she just wanted to take Rory and pull her into some big hug.
"So you mean to tell me that because of a lack of communication between her and Jess, she just passed out?"
"No, I mean yes. No. Well kind of. That's part of the reason."
Luke gazed in the direction of the closed doors by the nurse's station. "Care to tell me why your doctor is in there examining Rory?"
"You really want to know don't you?" In a way Lorelai looked almost amused, knowing that he probably already knew from earlier when Dr. Ferguson had met them at the door.
"Yes Lorelai, I really want to know."
"Okay well here's all the juicy details. Rory's pregnant and Jess just up and left without leaving any verbal message for Rory. Rory then freaks out and calls me while raiding Jess' office." She blurted out while lowering her voice so that only he could hear, but she gazed over in William's direction anyway just to make sure, then made a clean gazed sweep around the room to double check. No one had moved, no one was looking.
"Wow, Jeez." Rubbing at his neck, his jaw set. "Jess really did that? Jeez. That's just not like him."
"Yeah well, I'm sure we'll make him give a detailed explanation when he gets back."
"Wait, so you found him? Where's he at? I mean not that I would go there or anything." Luke shrugged, almost as if her indicating some form of innocence if he did.
"He's in New York. Rory found a book on his desk."
"And you're sure that he's in New York."
"I'm pretty sure he is." Putting her bag back on her shoulder, Lorelai grasped her phone in her hand and leaned forward in her seat. "Can you watch William? I have somebody that I need to call." She stood, facing him.
"Sure."
"And you just reminded me again why I love you." Lorelai kissed his lips with a smile, then walked away.