The life I was destined for

Taking action

Finn is telling everyone what I remember, why I forgot them. While that is happening I'm prepping dinner in the kitchen and my cell rings. I grab it and a smile forms on my lips.

"Hey Mia, how are you?"

"I'm good, Luke called me. How are you?" Mia asks worriedly. I sigh

"I'm good I hired a PI to find out why the judge let me stay with mom. It's time I recover all my lost memories. I remembered one this morning so far and it happened when I was five at the inn. I have all the records and we're searching for more from the hospital, things like that." I ranted

"Rory" Mia says sadly

"Mia what's wrong?" I ask worriedly for the woman she looked up to as a grandmother.

"I'll be in town tomorrow I have a few things for you, to help recover your memories. Including some tapes from the inn, it's security footage. I transferred five years' worth and I found some that would probably help you." Mia says

"We're trying to get a restraining order against mom also I would love to tell you I'm officially dating Finn." I tell her happily

"It's about time!" Mia says excitedly. We chat about everything while I work on dinner in the kitchen the group is being told of what I remembered in the living room by Finn. It breaks their hearts to hear what I remembered.

"When you say she was hurt badly, how badly are we talking?" Tristan asks. Finn runs his hand over his face and sighs

" According to the hospital report some lacerations, a broken arm, bruised ribs and a concussion that caused swelling to the brain. She doesn't remember what happened and it's noted in the report." Finn says sadly. You can hear Steph, Honor and Paris gasping and tears running down their cheeks.

"How can she be so cruel?" Robert asks

"She was just a child" Josh says. Tristan stands up his fist balled

" That woman will stay the hell away from my sister, she has hurt her for the last time" Tristan says angrily.

"Who would want to hurt someone like Rory?" Logan asks. Unbeknownst to them I walked back into the room.

"Hey guys" I say and they all say "hi" back.

"Listen Mia just called and umm" I say sadly.

" What is it love?" Finn asks worriedly. They all look at me with concern.

" She says she's coming to town and has some surveillance tapes from the inn for me to look at. She also says she has a few other things that were mine that mom threw away and Mia saved for when I was ready. Luke called her and told her what happened with Dean and mom." I ranted. They all nod in understating except Logan who asks

"Who's Mia?"

"She helped raise Rory" Tristan answered

"She let them live in the potting shed at the Independence Inn. She made it into a home for them to keep them close" Honor says

"She's another grandmother to Rory" Josh says

"She also witnessed some of Lorelei's actions" Paris says sadly

"She tried to protect Rory she called social services and they didn't do anything "Colin says.

"We really need to find out how the hell she got away with so much as you said she wasn't wealthy "Logan yells frustrated.

"Your right she didn't have much money so what did she do?" Tristan asks. As this question is thrown out there they all look at me.

"What do you remember of when you were younger with your mom?" Finn asks me, and I began to think

" Umm she dated our English teacher dumped him and then got back together then engaged and the day before the wedding it was called off" Rory said offhandedly. Paris and Tristan both yelled "WHAT??"

"I thought you knew?" Rory asked. They both just shook their heads no. I just shrugged.

" Anything else you remember?" Josh asks. I started to think and few minutes later I remembered something

"Yeah umm there was this guy that usually came around when I wasn't there. The only time I saw him was when he asked me tons of questions." I replied

"What do you mean asked you questions?" Colin asked.

"Are you happy? Is someone hurting you? things like that but that was right after we moved out of the potting shed." I tell them.

"Do you think?" Finn asked. I give him a puzzled look.

" Think what?" Rory asked. Tristan stands up and comes over to me and holds my hand.

"He might have been a social worker Ror" Tristan says to me softly. I sat there shocked, I don't know what to think.

" Umm I'm gonna go finish dinner" I say and walk back to the kitchen. The group sat there and thought about what they were just told. As I'm working away in the kitchen cooking my mind starts running a mile a minute

'maybe someone remembers something in the hollow when I was younger. They all practically raised me granted most don't know what she did to me'. Deep in thought my phone starts to ring I look down and see its Dean. I send it straight to voicemail. My phone keeps going off between Dean and my mom I get tired of it and just shut it off. I'm putting the finished touches on dinner and put the dessert in the fridge. I call everyone to the table saying it's dinner time. There's only small talk as we are all lost in our own thoughts. When dinner is done we clear the plates. The girls help me get the dessert ready and bring them to the table when they are done.

"Good god" Robert says

"Mmmm" Honor and Steph say

"Amazing" Josh said

"It's heavenly love" Finn says with a smile on his face

"So Ror your birthday is coming up soon. What would you like to do?" Tristan asks me.

"No idea" I reply.

"Leave it to us" Colin and Finn say and everyone at the table nods in agreement. After dessert and all the dishes are done I bid everyone goodnight. I need to know what I'm missing, and I hate knowing that I have some memory loss. As I'm deep in thought Finn wraps me in his arms and kisses me passionately.

" Love don't worry we'll get to the truth" he says softly. We start to get ready for bed and Finn leans forward and gives me a sweet kiss. I deepen the kiss, our hands start roaming each other's bodies and soon we are out of breath.

" Love?" Finn asks

"Mmmmm" I respond

"We need to stop, I want our first time to be special you deserve it. I love you too much not to make it special" Finn says huskily

"I love you too finny, goodnight" I say to him as I lay my head on his chest and he wraps his arms around me holding me tight. He kisses my forehead and whispers

"night kitten" and we fall into a peaceful sleep in each other's arms. A smile gracing both of our faces.