Oh, That Daughter of Mine
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls, you know that.
A/N: This will probably go until either the beginning of the show or all the way up to the latest episodes, or it will juts stop, depending on reviews. It probably won't have too much of a real plot, because it is just telling what Emily thinks of Lorelai, and then of Rory, and of their lives. It is sort of like a diary, and each paragraph is at a different time, a different thought in Emily's head.
Chapter One: Someone Else Lives Her Life Instead
I can't believe her, acting this way, staying out so late and climbing in through her window. She spends so much time with Christopher, too! He's a nice boy, but he's so wild. If I'd acted that way at her age, my mother would have killed me! She's always at parties, and she always acts as if Richard and I don't know anything about what she's doing. I'm afraid she might go too far with Christopher soon, and I can't allow that to happen. I'm calling the minister tomorrow, to ask if he'll come and talk to her. Perhaps I'll call a priest and a rabbi too, the more religion the better; and it can't hurt. Surely having all of them there will make her think about this first!
Oh my God! Lorelai is pregnant! How could this have happened? What about the minister? This can't happen! Lorelai's life is ruined! My life is ruined! Everyone will see the Gilmores differently now, think "Their daughter got pregnant at sixteen, they must be terrible people." All these years, all I've wanted is the best for her, and then she goes and ruins it all! How could she spoil such a beautiful life? She was going to have it all, the perfect debutante ball, she was going to go to Yale, and get married to someone who could take care of her and give her the life she's always had, the life of a society lady like all the Gilmores have had. How could she ruin everything like this?
I have had it up to here with those Haydens! Obviously the only thing to do is have Lorelai and Christopher get married, but they won't see it that way! "Isn't there some place you could send her? A home for girls… like her?" Honestly, that terrible twittering woman! I must admit that this is a horrible situation, but she is my daughter, and I am not sending her away to get rid of my grandchild! The Haydens just don't want to spoil Christopher's future by having him married so early, but Lorelai's future, oh, hers can be totally ruined! Even though this child is half his fault!
Lorelai has been staying home from school for the past three months, because her school uniforms don't fit anymore, and the school doesn't want her to be a bad example for other students. All she does all day is listen to her silly music and watch television and eat junk food. The baby is due in two months, and we don't know what will happen after that. I suppose we will wait until they are eighteen, and Christopher and Lorelai will be married. I know they don't want it, but it is the only way. When you get pregnant, you get married! It's what you do!
I can't believe it! Richard and I were having tea with some friends on the patio, and Lorelai was upstairs in her room, and then she went into labor! And she didn't even tell us, she just left a note on the table. Honestly! You don't just leave a note and drive to the hospital, you come and tell your parents and ask them to dive you. And I told her that when we came to the hospital and caught up to her just as she was going into the delivery room. She didn't even respond except to tell us to go away! Goodness!
Well the baby was born an hour ago, and I went in to see Lorelai, and tell her that since she and the baby were fine we should go home soon. She was still a bit off because of the drugs, and she said she'd named the baby Lorelai, and ranted on about how men named their children after themselves all the time, why couldn't she? She kept talking and finally she said, "I think I'll call her Rory because wouldn't it be confusing to have two Lorelais around all the time? I don't know why Rory, but it makes sense and look at her; she looks like a Rory, doesn't she?" Then she held out the baby for me to see, and I picked up the little girl, and suddenly I felt just the same way I did after I saw Lorelai for the first time. This was my granddaughter. I have a baby granddaughter and I love her, I thought. She was so tiny, and so beautiful. I'd forgotten how it felt to hold a baby in my arms. But I couldn't show this to Lorelai! Lorelai must stay as detached from this child as possible, if she is to have any kind of successful life after this. If the nanny raises this girl, and Lorelai isn't too troubled by her, then she could still go to college and, maybe find a good husband, and have a good life. So I can't show Lorelai how I feel about this little girl. No matter how much I want to hold this baby and nurture her and care for her myself, I can't let Lorelai see. I have to do what is best for the Gilmores.
I don't see why Lorelai won't just do as I ask and go to school and act normal. I hired a nanny for Rory, I bought her everything she needed, but Lorelai refuses to let the nanny care for her child. When I ask her why, she screams at me. "She's MY baby, I should take care of her!" "I don't want her not to know me!" All I want is for Lorelai to go back to being a society girl. I've tried so hard to restore her life to normal, and she doesn't even want it back. All I want to do is help! And she won't let me!
Rory is crawling all around the house now, and wreaking havoc on my decorative china. But Lorelai won't let me and the nanny keep her in the nursery. She is nine months old now. Lorelai takes her out walking every day after school, and the stroller hasn't left the front hall since the week Rory was born. Lorelai still won't act like a normal girl her age, and hasn't gone out to a party since her pregnancy. I try so hard to make it easy for her, and she just throws it away, coming whenever Rory cries. She doesn't seem to understand that's why we hired the nanny.
Rory is 11 months old now, and stands up if she holds on to the sofa. It's so amazing to watch her grow. I'd forgotten what it felt like to have a baby. I try not to show this love to Lorelai, though, because she's already so obsessed with caring for Rory herself that she barely lets the nanny do anything. I just want to help her be normal again, so I try to show her that she can be Rory's mother without being there every second, without cuddling and coddling her every three minutes, without not having any social life.
Rory will turn one tomorrow, and Lorelai insists, on a party, though it will only be her, Richard, me, and of course, Rory. The cook is making a little cake with "Happy 1st Birthday" on it, and Lorelai wants to put in a hot pink candle. We'll see about that. Rory is growing so fast, it's amazing. Every day it seems she does something new. I can't wait to see her grow up.
A/N: Well, that's it for this chapter! Please review! Tell me what you think of my idea, my grammar, this chapter, the way I'm writing Emily, or anything else! Please, please, please review (good or bad. I hope good, though.) I won't even start another chapter until I get reviews! (At least 2)