I'm starting a new series. I'm thinking of calling it The Gilmore Universe.

Each fic will be a short drabble about one GG character. I'll be going in alphabetical order through the (listed) characters. So let's start off with April!


Stimulus/Response


She followed in her sister's footsteps. (Well, step-sister, but who's counting?)

She went to Chilton. (Her father paid.)

She went to Harvard. (Majored in biochemistry.)

Then it was time to conquer the world. (Except...)

Part of her wants something different. Something else. (She wants to follow in her sister's footsteps in a different way.)

She sees the way Rory is with her husband. (And their beautiful, olive-skinned children with bluest eyes and mountains of books.)

She wants that. (But she's April Nardini, she's socially awkward and hopeless with boys.)

So she buries herself in beakers and lab reports. (Leaves no time for wishing.)

Then one day she meets him. (Tall and blonde and gorgeous.)

They work together. (Incredibly, he thinks she's interesting.)

He tells her she's funny. (Asks her out.)

And that, as they say, is that. (She'd never tell, but she's hearing wedding bells.)