Summary: After her job is over, Rory is returning home. Set after Bon Voyage.
Pairings: You'll find out soon (:
Rating: T
Disclaimer: ASP is my hero, I own nothing!
Basically this is my take on the eighth season of Gilmore Girls
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Chapter One
She couldn't help but frown as the whirling colors passed by her as she stared out the window. The whole atmosphere was gloomy. The weather, the people, and even the driver seemed to be aware that things were not pleasant all around. She was supposed to be working a great job, reporting on all the doings of Barrack Obama's political campaign, but that had failed, and now she had no job. So far she had endured 12 agonizing hours on the small, cramped bus with only her thoughts to accompany her. She had tried calling her mother when they had stopped for gas, but all she got was her voicemail. The bus lurched to a stop and the passengers slowly started disembarking, all heading towards the uncertainty that awaited them when they stepped off of the bus. They were all unemployed now, and their opportunity of a lifetime had been ripped away from them.
She grabbed her carry-on bag and slung it over her shoulder while pocketing her cell phone and disembarking the bus. When the doors closed behind her, she felt the tears growing in her eyes. She had failed, her first real job in the real world had been a bust, and now she was back to where she had started. All newspapers would have started filling up their positions in September, so she would have to wait a whole year before she could even start applying again. With another sigh she pulled out her phone and dialed her mother's number, hoping that she would pick up. The phone rang and rang, no one answered. She frowned and dialed their home number, shocked when her battery suddenly died on her. With a groan she wandered through the airport in search for a payphone so that she could call her mother to come get her. Finally after searching for 20 minutes she found one, inserted a quarter, and dialed her home number.
"Hello?" said a voice that was most certainly not her mother
"…Kirk?" She asked in disbelief, wondering what he was doing in her house.
"Oh…hi Rory" Kirk said, sounding just as confused. "Why are you calling me?"
"Uh, I thought I was calling my house, I must have dialed the wrong number." She stammered, shocked that she had dialed the wrong number.
"Oh no you didn't, I just assumed you knew. Well I guess it makes sense that you didn't know since you've been gone all summer and oh what a summer it's been, I mean, Lulu and I have been so excited and the baby is going to be amazing and—"
"Wait, what?" Rory screeched as Kirk's rambling finally started making sense. "Did my mom sell you our house? And is Lulu pregnant?!"
"Yes, your mother sold us the house when she moved in with Luke, and yes, Lulu is pregnant. She's having triplets!" He gushed, as he continued on about how they wanted to name the babies after historical town landmarks. Rory mmed and aawed without really listening to what he was saying, she was still in shock.
Her mother had sold their house. To Kirk.
She made up an excuse for Kirk and hung up slowly as she stuck a quarter into the payphone again and dialed a number.
The phone rang twice before it was picked up.
"Richard Gilmore" her grandfather said as he picked up the phone.
"Grandpa, where's mom?" Rory asked quietly
"She's living with that diner owner, Duke" Her grandfather replied hotly, not seeming too pleased with his daughters living arrangements. "They went off on that boat after you left and they haven't been back since. She didn't even leave any sort of contact numbers or anything, just gave her house to that Dirk, or Mirk, whatever his name was, and took off."
"Kirk" Rory replied, "His name is Kirk, and it's Luke not Duke"
"Right, Luke. Anyway, your grandmother and I haven't had any contact at all with her. But enough about you mother, how is your job?"
Just asking about the job was enough to make Rory break down into tears. She explained everything to her grandfather, including Barrack's remove from politics and then the bus ride back and having nowhere to go. Sometime in the conversation her grandmother had picked up a phone and listened in on the conversation. She invited Rory to stay with the two of them and she agreed, considering as she had nowhere else to go.
AN: Sorry it's a little short, just had to get a little back story out before the real story stars, of course I'm going to give you guys another chapter in a few minutes because this one is a little disappointing. XD