He took another drink from the bottle. The whisky burned all the way to his stomach. He wiped the tears from his face and looked up at the dark sky. Stumbling to his car, he unlocked the door and sat down. He started up the black sports car and revved up the engine. He saw headlights coming down the road and stopping in front of his car. A bright light shined from the door of the car. He downed the last drink and threw the bottle at the light. Red and blue lights were now flashing as he saw two cops walking towards him. He closed the door, reached over and put the car into gear and slammed his foot down on the gas peddle. He looked behind him and saw the car was closing in on him between the adrenaline rush and the alcohol he was flying high right now. The last thing he saw was a huge tree that was right in front of him.
He opened his eyes and saw a nurse standing at the foot of his bed. He tried to swallow but the tube down his throat stopped him. He reached up and grabbed the tube and was about to pull it out when the nurse grabbed his hand.
"I'll get the doctor to do that for you Mr. DuGrey." She walked out of the room and Tristan looked around the room. His back and chest were hurting him as well as his head. The door opened and a woman walked in wearing a white coat.
"Tristan I'm Dr. James. Do you know where you are at?" He nodded his head. "Do you remember how you got here?" He moved his head side to side as much as he could. "You were in a car wreck you suffered deep lacerations to you back and chest. We had to operate to stop some internal bleeding. We're going to take the tube out of your mouth now." The nurse walked over with a trey and they sat the bed up. "I need you to take a deep breath in." He did as she grabbed the tube. "Now I want you to cough for me." She pulled the tube out and he coughed some more. The nurse wiped off his mouth.
"What happened?" His voice was horse and cracking.
"You drove your car into a tree and you flew out the windshield." He closed his eyes trying to remember what had happened that night.
"They are charging you with under age drinking, DUI, evading the police, speeding, not wearing your seat belt, assaulting a police officer, and position." Tristan was sitting up in his hospital bed eating as the public defender was talking to him. "I suggest using some of that money you have coming from your parents to hire you a good lawyer."
"How much time am I looking at?" He sniffed what was supposed to be eggs before putting it into his mouth.
"Seeing as this is you first brush with the law and after what happened, the judge might give you probation and order drug rehab."
"Then why can't you handle my case?" Tristan pushed the trey of half-eaten food away from him. "Just make a deal and get everything over with." He nodded and picked up his briefcase. The doctor walked into the room with another woman.
"Tristan this is Mrs. Goldman she is your case worker."
"I don't need a case worker."
"You're underage with no living relatives." She sat down on the couch as Tristan moved some. "You have shown the state that you can't take care of yourself.
"I was doing fine before those cops showed up." She pulled papers out and handed them to Tristan. "What are these?"
"Legal papers saying you now belong to the state of Nevada until a judge can hear your case."
"You're being released today to the care of Mrs. Goldman." Tristan looked over at the doctor. This day was just getting better and better.
"So the charges will now be underage drinking, DUI, and evading the police. The DA will ask for probation and rehab." Tristan was sitting in the kitchen of his foster home. "The reading of your parents will is tomorrow at one." He nodded and stood up. "Do you know of a family friend who lives in Stars Hollow Connecticut?"
"Um yea Luke something we stayed at some Inn for a week when I was like five."
"Well your mother had it in her living will that if anything was to happen to her and your father you were to live with him."
"What about my dads?"
"Since he died first everything falls back to her will. Mrs. Goldman is trying to get a hold of him right now and ask him if you could live with him."
"This is bullshit. I don't need anyone I've lived on my own for years now." Tristan got up and moved in front of the window looking outside.
"I'm just your ten dollar an hour lawyer." He closed his briefcase and stood up. "All I can say is that you need to get ready for a move." He walked out of the house and Tristan slide down to the floor.
Tristan walked into a bar and flashed his fake id and a hundred dollars and the bouncer moved to the side. Tomorrow was going to be a bad day for him his court date and he was planning on making it worth his wild tonight.
He woke up with a pounding headache and a naked woman at his side. After the first couple shots the rest of the night was fuzzy to him. He walked over to the closet and grabbed a dress shirt and pants before walking into the bathroom. After twenty minutes he walked back into his room and saw the people who were running the foster home was waiting for him.
"Tristan we don't condone what you did last night and this morning here. We have a lot of young kids who look up to the older kids."
"No really I never noticed the twenty little brats running around the house." He grabbed his sunglasses. "Hey I never asked to come here you guys were the ones who made me."
"When you leave here today take all of your things with you since you are no longer welcomed here." He walked over to the three bags of clothes that he never unpacked and grabbed them.
"Rise Mr. DuGrey you're being charged with on count of underage drinking, one count of driving under the influence of alcohol, and evading the police. How do you plead?"
"No contest your honor."
"Pleading no contest is just like entering a plea of guilty. Do you understand that?" Tristan looked over at his lawyer and he nodded his head.
"Yes sir."
"I was ready to sentence you when the foster family you were staying with called my office and told me some news." Tristan closed his eyes knowing that this was coming. "They said you sneak out after curfew and got drunk bring a woman home with you." The lawyer looked over at Tristan. "With this new evidence I will take it into effect on my ruling. Mr. Dugrey you will be sentence to one month in a juvenile detention center. After your release, you will be placed on probation until your eighteenth birthday. You will have to attend Alcoholics Anonymous courses. You will be subjected to random drug testing while on probation." The judge turned over his paper. "The terms of your probation will be as follows. You must be at home before eleven-o'clock every night and cannot leave before six o'clock in the morning unless it is school related. You must notify the court if you leave the state of Nevada for any reason. You must stay away from any drugs that are not proscribed to you by a doctor. Any violation of these rules will result in you going to jail for the remainder of the time you still owe to the state. Do you understand everything that I have just read to you?"
"Yes sir."
"Good now Mr. DuGrey if you follow the guidelines then this will be taken off your juvenile record even after it's been sealed. This is a gift that I'm giving you Mr. DuGrey. I hope to never see you back in my court, or hear anything about you in anyone else's court room." He banged the gavel and everyone stood up. Cops walked over and cuffed Tristan and lead him out of the courtroom.
Luke was putting up the chairs when a woman in a suite walked into the diner. Luke put the rag that he was holding in his hand down and looked at the woman.
"Sorry we're closed for the night."
"I'm looking for a Mr. Lucas Danes."
"I'm Luke Danes something wrong?" The man sat his brief case down and opened it.
"Did you know a Mrs. Janet DuGrey?" Luke thought about it for a few minutes and nodded.
"She used to live here before moving to Hartford when she was a teenager."
"She has been involved in an accident that's all I can say right now. She left in her living will that her son Tristan DuGrey was to come live with you if anything were to ever happen to her."
"What happened to her?"
"Sorry sir I can't go into that since it's an open investigation in the state of Nevada. All I can say is that her son is homeless and needs a place to live. I must warn you that he is in trouble with the law as we speak."
"What kind of trouble?"
"He has had a run in with the law. That's."
"All you can say right now yea I know your routine. Why did she pick me for?"
"I don't have any idea Mr. Danes. It just says that if anything were to happen to her that he was to live with you." He looked at his PDA and saw the judges ruling on Tristan's case.
"What if I say no?"
"Then Mr. DuGrey will be placed into a group home where he my or my not be placed into a home."
"Can I think about it?"
"Yes sir you have one month before we need an answer."
Lorelai opened the door and saw Luke was standing outside. She grabbed her jacket and walked out to the porch.
"Do you remember Janet DuGrey?" Lorelai sat down and Luke followed seating down beside her on the swing.
"Yea her and her family stayed at the Inn what ten years ago. Why are you bringing this up for?" Luke closed his eyes still not believing what had just happened with the lawyer.
"She died and she wants me to take in her son."
"Tristan?" He nodded and looked over at her. "It's just that Tristan was Rory's first ever boyfriend, and I believe her first kiss too."
"What they were what five?" She nodded remembering seeing them kiss right before Tristan had left. "What should I do?"
"What do you want to do?" Luke took off his hat. "Janet was always nice to me and helped me out after my dad had died."
"Maybe she wants you to just help out her son now." He nodded and stood up.
"I'm going to help the kid anyway that I can. Thanks Lorelai for listening."
"It was the hardest thing that I had to do not talking." He laughed before leaning down and kissing the top of her head.
"I'll see you in the morning."
"Yea." Was all she could say as she watched Luke walking away from the house. The door opened and she looked over at Rory who was wearing her pajamas and holding a bowl of popcorn.
"Mom the movie is about to start." Lorelai looked over and nodded her head. As she pulled the jacket closer to her body.
"I'll be right in." Rory closed the door as Lorelai moved on autopilot into the house.
He stepped out of the car with his new caseworker and probation officer. It has been a over month since his trial and hospital stay. He looked around the town that his mother grew up in and laughed to himself she wanted them to move back here but his father would always say no that the town was to small for him to live in. They walked into the diner and everyone stopped talking and was looking at him. Luke walked over and the four of them walked upstairs.
"Mr. Danes I'm Larry Spencer Tristan's probation officer. Here are the terms of Tristan's probation and I will be checking up on him randomly." He handed Luke the papers and Luke nodded. "Well I will let you two get settled in. I will be seeing you later Tristan."
"Thank you." Luke said as Larry walked out of the door along with the caseworker who had already made sure that this was a proper living environment for Tristan. Luke turned towards Tristan who was looking around. "Your bed is over here." They behind a bookcase and Tristan saw a single bed. "Sorry about the lack of room."
"Not a problem." He sat his bag on the bed and walked over to the window and looked out. He saw two women walking towards the diner.
"I need to get back downstairs. If you need anything."
"I know where to find you got it." Luke nodded as Tristan sat down on the bed. The door closed and Tristan pulled off his boots. He saw a mirror hanging on the wall. He pulled off his shirt and saw the scars that were on his chest and stomach. He ran his hand down them and closed his eyes. They had become a reminder to what had happen in his life.
"Rory to you remember Tristan DuGrey?" She looked over at her mom wondering where this was going.
"Totally random. Yea mom I remember the boy whom I got my first kiss from."
"Yea you were a little slut back then."
"We had just got married and I just remember that at the end of every wedding they kissed so I kissed him." Lorelai laughed remembering that Rory said she needed a white dress. "Kirk even singed his name to the paper that Lane made up for us."
"How did you talk Kirk into doing that for you?"
"Tristan gave him his ice cream cone." Rory took a drink of her coffee. "Why did you bring Tristan up for mom?" Lorelai pointed and Rory turned around and saw a guy walking out from behind the curtain. "Tristan." She whispered and he locked eyes with her. She noticed the ring around his neck and she smiled. He shook his head and walked over to Luke. She saw Luke nod and Tristan walked out of the door. She looked at her mom who just smiled at her.
"I think I know where he is going." Rory nodded and stood up and walked out of the door.
Tristan was looking at the potting shed. So many good memories were here this was his fresh start and he was going to take full advantage of it.
"You know when a husband leaves his wife for eleven years without calling or writing she has no option to move on." He turned around and for the second time in the last ten minutes locked blue eyes with Rory Gilmore.
"Mary." She smiled and walked closer to him.
"I see you remember my name I made up when some little boy made fun of Rory and you defended my honor by pushing him off the swings."
"I couldn't let him say that about my wife now could I?" She reached her hand up and he flinched. She kept her eyes locked on his as she ran her finger over the ring.
"Why didn't you call me?" He smiled and she got mad.
"When I left I do believe that you didn't have a phone so I could call you."
"I missed you Tristan." She looked down to the ground. He lifted her chin up.
"Rory trust me on this one I'm not the same little boy that I was back then. I've done some trouble things lately. Just forget all about me."
"Why what happened to you Tristan?"
"I've done some terrible things in my life
"Just move on with what ever image that you have of me in that head of yours." He saw the tears in her eyes as he moved his hand away from her face. He closed his eyes before walking away from her. She walked over and got inside of the shed and sat down.
"Rory is that you?" Lorelai was sitting at the table when she saw her daughter running into her room and closing the door. She walked over and knocked on the door. "I'm coming in alright." She opened the door and saw Rory was curled up on her bed crying. She sat down and rubbed Rory's back. "You want to tell me what happen between you and Tristan?" She shook her head no. Lorelai laid down behind her daughter. "I'll be here when you're ready to talk about it." She whispered to Rory.
Tristan walked inside right before his curfew. After talking to Rory, he just walked around the small town trying to justify what he had just done. Luke looked over at him as he laid down on his bed and covered his face with his arm.
"You want to talk about anything?" He shook his head no and Luke sat down on the couch. "If you want to talk I'll be here listen."
Here is the first chapter. If anyone would want to beta this story for me let me know. I want someone who will stick with the story and not just do one or two chapters. Next chapter will be about what happened to make Tristan act out like he has been. The title of the story comes from Staind Break the Cycle.