The Legend - A Gilmore Girls Fan Fiction

Chapter 94

Finn's POV

I pushed through the crowd, no one knowing or caring that my world could very well be falling apart around me.  "Move!  Please!  Get out of my way!" He called out, pleadingly, trying to find Rory, all the while trying to hold onto the small shred of composure I had left.  I was terrified.

"Steph!  Have you seen Rory!?" I begged her.

"Oh, so now you want to go talk to Rory?" she started and I grabbed her shoulders, startling her.

"My sister's going to the fucking hospital, Stephanie!  I need you to help me find Rory!" my voice boomed.  She nodded obediently, and went off to help me look.

"Rory!  Ror – Finn needs you!  It's Poppy!  Something's wrong!" Stephanie called and her eyes grew wide.

"Where is he!?" Rory cried.

"I don't know, I lost him!  He's looking for you!" she cried.  Rory nodded, not knowing where to go, and so she headed for the door so she would be easy to find.  She stood there, anxiously waiting, looking around the room on pins and needles.

"Rory!  There you are!  We need to go, NOW!" I cried, taking her by the hand and dragging her out the door.

"What's going on!?  What's happening!?" she asked me as we waited for the elevator in the hall.

"I don't know.  I have no idea, I just know Charlie called, and he was upset, and they're on their way to the hospital.  I'm scared, Rory" I whispered and she pulled me into her arms, holding me until the elevator came and I pulled away abruptly.

"Do you need me to drive?  There's no way you can concentrate on the road right now" she said.

I nodded absent-mindedly, panic consuming me, but I couldn't let it.  Not yet.  Not until I could get there and see my baby sister.

We'd gotten in the car, and she started to drive off when she put her hand in mine.  "I can't promise you that everything's going to be okay, Finn, but I can promise you I'm going through it right along with you.  No, she's not my sister and I would never even begin to compare it that way, but she's my friend, and I'm scared for her, too" she promised me.  I nodded in acknowledgement of what she said, and then I turned to watch out the window, growing more and more frustrated that I wasn't there with her yet the more time that passed.

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Rory's POV

We got to the hospital waiting room, but due to her condition, they wouldn't allow Finn or me in to go see her, which only made Finn grow even more upset than before.

"This is bullshit!  I can't believe they're making us stay out here!" he growled in frustration.

"Let's try and get you calmed down a little in the meantime.  What do you say?  Why don't you tell me about your new girlfriend?" I asked him.

"Not now, Rory.  This is hardly the time or place for that" he said.

"No, but you need a distraction, and I want to help give that to you.  Tell me about her" I said.

He sighed, still angry and ready to burst, but he tried to distract himself.  "Her name is Elora" he said.

"Elora?" I asked, trying to keep myself from giggling.

"Yeah, Elora.  Elle for short.  And she's really smart.  And funny" he said.

"Yeah?  Good.  Can't have you slumming it with a dumb, boring girl" I teased him.

"And she's really pretty" he continued.

"Of course" I said with a laugh.

He chuckled lightly and then he about jumped out of his chair whenever his text alert sounded.  "It's Charlie.  He said they've got her into a room and hooked up to machines, and are planning to run some tests immediately to see if they can find out what the problem is" he told me.

"Hey.  I know it's hard, but don't automatically go to the negative, okay?  You've got to think positive thoughts.  She needs those most of all" I told him, holding his hand again comfortingly.

"Thank you, for being here with me" he whispered.

"Finn, you couldn't keep me away.  I love Poppy like a sister.  She's always been so warm, and inviting, and welcoming – I feel like I've known her all my life" I told him.

He nodded and Charlie walked out and came over to us.  "They're taking her for quite a while for back to back testing.  They told me they'd call me when she's back in her room, so I came out to be with you guys.  I'll go crazy if I'm forced to sit in that room all alone with my thoughts" he said.

I stood up and hugged him tightly.  "I'm so sorry you guys are going through this" I whispered.

"Thanks, Rory" he whispered, exhaling quickly, and drawing in another shaky breath.  I pulled away from him, and brought him down to sit in a chair beside us.  I was going to have my hands full, keeping both of these guys calm, but I had to try.  This could easily become the worst night of their lives...

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"So tell me what happened?" Finn asked a while later, after they had had a chance to settle a bit.

"At the party she was saying that she was feeling nauseous, and so I took her home and she was getting ready to go to bed, but then she started having these terrible chest pains and was throwing up, and she couldn't stop.  She wound up throwing up so much, that she started throwing up blood, and then she got so weak, then she fainted, and I found her lying on the bathroom floor" Charlie whispered.

"Oh my gosh" I whispered.

Finn was trying to hold himself together, but I could tell he was trying to blink back tears.  I rubbed his arm, trying to comfort him, and he sighed heavily.  "I'm going out of my mind not knowing what's wrong with her" he whispered.

"I know you are.  I am, too" I whispered and he nodded.

Finnick and Evelyn walked through the door to the waiting room and came over to us.  It was clear that Evelyn had been crying nonstop since she got the news to meet them at the hospital.  "Oh, Rory, honey, I'm so happy to see you here sweetheart" Evelyn sobbed, pulling me in for a hug.

"Of course, I wouldn't be anywhere else right now" I promised her.  She nodded and hugged Finn and Charlie as well, and then they were seated, asking for details.

"My poor, sweet baby girl" she sobbed.

Charlie got a phone call to come back in, that Poppy was heading back to her room, and so he left the four of us and went in to be with his wife.