Hello sorry for the long delay, life just got in the way and now i have decided to continue with the story however
I have changed the story slightly since the last time i wrote this i have decided to move the story in a slightly different direction and plus the story has incorporated some kind suggestions the readers have suggested to me. I own nothing and i just borrow the use of the character's of Gilmore girls for my stories. The CW owns Gilmore girls sadly i know! Anyways Hopefully the story is still ok and i hope to get some useful feed back thanks.
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Chapter 1: Early days and late nights…
Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he quietly closed the door to his daughter's room. She had finally fallen asleep after crying all night. The reasons were always the same, she missed her mother, and she misses a female's touch at night lulling her to sleep. Her mother had decided that she wasn't exactly prepared for the demands of motherhood on her social schedule and decided to leave one night a few months after Laura turned two and never looked back. How do you tell child that her mother doesn't love her enough to stay and care for her?
With Laura finally deciding to fall asleep, Tristan entertained the thought of sleep. Resting his head down on his comfy pillow on the couch he was able to shut his eyes for a few minutes before someone entered his apartment.
"Tristan is Zach here?"
Without even looking up he replied "Lane hush, I have just placed your niece to sleep, she's exhausted and so am I".
A soft apologetic "sorry" left Lane's mouth
"Its fine, Zach's not here so could I go back to catching a few winks before I go off to court, my case is due in court in a few hours"
"Sorry, I didn't reaRorye, I was just looking for your brother, do you have an idea where he is?" this time in a low whisper only meant for Tristan's ears
"He left late last night saying something about an "Inspiration", haven't seen him since, I gave up trying to understand him long ago"
"Oh ok, why don't you go off and sleep, I'll have breakfast and coffee ready for you when you wake up in an hour or so, and don't worry about Laura I'll keep an eye out for her, she is well my favorite niece"
"More like your only niece" Tristan grumbled
"Technicalities Tristan, now of to bed I'll take care of everything"
Tristan mouthed thank you to Lane as he headed off to his bedroom, however as he closed his door, he had forgotten about Laura and her great hearing abilities that he slammed the door behind him, the sound of WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH rang through the apartment soon afterwards.
Tristan's door opened again but Lane sensing Tristan was going to go to Laura shouted "Ill get it, you back to sleep" as she pointed to his bedroom
Lane rushed to Laura's nursery and looked over her niece's cot, the little girl was so beautiful even though she was yelling her lungs out, lane decided to lift her up and lull her back to sleep. Soon enough Laura fell back to sleep and Lane placed her back into the cot and quietly left the room.
Looking around Tristan's flashy New York apartment, Lane shook her head in dismay. Due to her work she was often away and so Zach would stay with his brother to help look after Laura instead of staying at their apartment. However judging from the state of the apartment she was standing in the word "flashy" would not be used to describe it.
From the state of the place Tristan must have scared off the maid since Laura's baby clothes, nappies and play toys were scattered throughout the apartment. The table wasn't any better then the apartment. Lane could see where Tristan was trying to work on his case since his papers were scattered everywhere, along with pizza boxes, baby bottles and formula. Baby clothes were hanging of the back of chairs and baby toys filled the hallway. Tristan must have had a tough night with Laura if the state of his apartment was any indication.
At times like this she truly felt a sense of pain for her brother in law; Louise had skipped out on him a few weeks earlier leaving him looking after Laura along with managing his pending court case. His friends kept telling him to get himself a nanny to look after her if just only until he finished the important court case he was working on then, he could look after her but he blankly refused to do so.
Lane moved around the apartment set to clean up the mess her husband and Tristan had caused and set off to cook a healthy breakfast for Tristan. Looking as though he could possibly use something healthy, it looked like they had been living of takeout for the past few days while herself and Paris were working and couldn't drop by to help him look after Laura while he worked.
Waking to the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, Tristan was thankful that he had been able to get some shut eye, he had to open up in court today and he was uncertain if he was able to defend his client with only 2 hours sleep prior to his shut eye.
Up and fully awake now, Tristan headed off to the kitchen, which had been cleaned by Lane and let the smell of eggs and bacon fill his mind. "Thank you so much lane, I don't know what I would be doing this morning without you thanks" letting out one of his trademark smile to lane
"Your welcome Tris, however Paris and I won't always be around and so I was wondering about the nanny resolution...?"
"No lane, I know what it was like to be raised by nannies and I don't want my child to go through any of it do you understand?"
"Sorry it was just a suggestion..."
"Sorry for being rude but I don't want her to live the life I had to live, anyway I put her name down for the daycare centre down the road from my work. Im hoping she gets a spot that's all, it's not like a nanny but I'll be able to pop in on her every once and while to check up, plus a good friend owns the place so I know that she's being looked after "
They both looked up as the sound of the apartment door opening "Morning, Tristan, Lane." Paris set an armful of books onto the kitchen table. "Where's my favorite godchild?"
"Your only godchild you mean...?"
"Thut tut technicalities Tristan" as Paris waved her index finger at him to demonstrate her point
Smiling he said "Asleep, finally, don't wake her up, she was up all night."
"When will she be up?" Paris asked, pouring herself a cup of freshly brewed coffee from the machine.
"She was up all night again, hopefully not for a while." Tristan went back to bacon and eggs in front of him reading over his case.
"Why?" Paris asked concerned.
"Why do you think Par?"
"Lou...?"
"Yeah so lets not talk to loudly because you know our Laura has great hearing so no loud noises..."
However Laura's uncle decided to grace them with his presence at that very moment "Hey there's a party and I wasn't invited?"
"Hush" all three in the room whispered and Zach knew why as an apologetic sorry left his mouth but it was already too little to late as another "WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" rang throughout the apartment as Zach could feel three pairs of eyes glaring upon him as he again whispered "sorry...".
Tristan stood over his daughter's cot in her nursery. Her cheeks were flushed from all her crying and now she was soundly asleep. Her blonde curls stuck to her cheeks, caused by the tears on her face. He pulled the blanket off of her face and she shifted. He held his breath scared that she might wake up and he wouldn't be able to go to work, but thankfully somebody up there loved him as she slept on.
He sighed and turned around and left the room, leaving the door open as little as possible so as not to disturb her as he left for work, leaving her with her godmother and aunt as he went off to court.
Rory slipped into an old pair of pig slippers that Dean had gotten for her a few years ago. They were old and worn but she kept them if only for sentimental reasons, rather than the warmth they provided her every morning and night.
As she moved from her room to the kitchen, hoping against hope that Josh hasn't woken up yet, she again had another restless night, unable to sleep, it wasn't usually Josh he always slept well at night, he was a good sleeper, nothing could wake him up from a deep sleep, it was the fact that she hadn't spoken to her mother in months ever since... she wanted to really talk to her to discuss her problems but that was in the past and she knew she couldn't after what had happened. Then the other problem was in a few days it would be a year since Dean... she decided not to think of that and she thought that she had buried it all deep inside of her but subconsciously her brain was telling her otherwise... Every time she closed her eyes the images of the past year flashed through her mind...
"Ring Ring" could be heard in her apartment, as she trod along to pick the phone up, after looking for the phone for a good minute or so, found them under her pile of research for her pending article on the kitchen table.
"Hello"
"Hi Rory"
"JESS???"
"Yeah its me"
"Wow fancy hearing from you, what do I owe the pleasure of this call at this hour?" as she looked down at her watch
"Well can't I call my favorite cousin just to say hi?
"Well more like your only cousin?
"That is a minor technicality Rory"
She smiled as she could hear the smirk he would undoubtedly don on his face
"Well no because its early in the morning and that I didn't expect a call from you Jess, but seriously what's happened, its not my mother, Luke or my grandparents is it oh please jess just tell me?"
"Calm down Ror, nothings happened to either one of those parties except maybe for me"
"Why what's wrong with you, your flight wasn't cancelled was it? Im expecting you in another few hours, what's wrong?"
"Well the only things that wrong is that im at Chicago airport at 3 in the morning with only my suitcase and my butt is freezing"
"Oh, why didn't you tell me earlier..."
"Well because I couldn't get a word in earlier..."
"Sorry"
"That's fine, my flight got pushed forward and I would have taken a cab its just I haven't been to your new apartment ever since you moved... and so I don't know where it is so could you come and get me. I know I was meant to be there in a few hours and you were going to pick me up anyways…"
"Ok Jess I'll come and get you, ill just drop Josh with Colleen next door and I'll pick you up ill see you in half an hour"
"Thanks Ror it would be great because any later here and my butt would be a popsicle..."
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