Crossover of Gilmore Girls (end of season 3) and Doctor Who (10th Doctor, end of season 4).

I haven't seen season 4 of GG, so this is what I think Lorelai and Rory would get up to in Europe, or something close to it. This story crosses over with the end of the 4th season of Dr Who, after he has left Rose and left Donna.
I do not own any characters from Doctor Who or Gilmore Girls, and I don't own Bill Bailey either. I don't know if he played the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003, it's just a made up performance. I do not own the Edinburgh Fringe Festival either or any rights that go with it.

Dr Gilmore (title pending)

Chapter One

" If we see one more cathedral, Rory, I think I'm going to cry." Lorelai and Rory Gilmore were on their trip throughout Europe as backpackers. When they landed in London, they had thought that they would have more time to visit each and every country that they wanted to. But several of Rory's persuits led them elsewhere.
Cathedrals, places where famous writers and painters once lived, places mentioned in books and famous sights. Lorelai had had enough. She had wanted to have some fun on this trip as well as giving her daughter plenty of time to see all her historical relics.

"Come on mum, there's so much history there! Just imagine the times in which these buildings were made"
Rory insisted.

" I don't think you understand me sweetie, mummy is bored." Lorelai told her daughter.

" Fine. That's enough then. I've seen all I wanted to. It's a shame to miss out on Santiago as well, I've heard it's really beautiful."

" You're kidding, right?"

" No, I...-" Rory saw the look on her mum? face. "- I'm finished, mum, really. Whatever we miss now, we can do next time."

" Next time?"

" Yes, in a few years, I'd like to come back and do the non-tourist routes. And hopefully be fluent in a few languages. It might end up being a project of mine, for later research."

"Oh yes, when you're a foreign journalist. Okay, well, can we do something fun now?"

" What did you have in mind?"

"Can we go back to an english-speaking country? As much as I love all the men swanning over me here, I'd love to be able to understand what they say."

" Our flight leaves from London Heathrow in two weeks. I think we might have time."

" I think that's enough time to fit five small countries in, don't you?"

" The United Kingdom and Ireland? There's a lot there." Rory frowned. "You knew that was on my list all along, mum."

" I also remember that you're at the right age for drinking here. We are both single girls, we could go clubbing, British style."

Rory rolled her eyes. " I don't think they do it much differently to us. But if you want to, we can try it. But can we leave some time to see some of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival? That's known worldwide."

Her mum looked at her curiously. "Okay, fine, maybe not known in Stars Hollow or Hartford, but I saw a flyer for it when we visited Harvard that time."

" What is a Fringe Festival then?"

" A mix of music, dance, plays, prose, poetry, mime... all sorts. There are shows and things like that you'd have to pay for, but I've heard the street talent is the best. They give you previews of all sorts of shows happening, and that way you can see what you want to see before you pay for it."

"Rory, I know what a preview is. So how long do you want to leave for us to visit your festival?"

" Well, it finishes on the 22nd, which would give us five days to work our way back down to London."

" Then it's settled. All we need to do now is find an internet cafe here to book our accommodation ahead of time. I hear Edinburgh gets booked up really quickly around festival time."

"Fine. Let's go."

Rory and Lorelai found an internet cafe quite easily, as there was one right beside the tourist information where they were in Amsterdam.

" Are you sure you don't want to live in Amsterdam for ever, mum?"

"And learn Dutch? Give me English any day!"

" Okay, you made your point. Let? book some accommodation and find a way to get to Edinburgh."

" Do you want to skip England entirely or are we stopping on the way? I'm all for a road trip. You know me."

" According to this website..." Rory stated, scrolling down a page, "... the train would be much quicker than driving. Sorry, mum. It says here that the train takes four and a half hours from London straight up to Edinburgh.
How about we see some of the festival, we don't have to see it all, and then we can make our way up or down as we want at the time. There's this comedian I? like to see. It's advertised here that he's playing at the festival and there's still tickets left."

" Whats he called then?"

" Bill Bailey. He's a regular on this British show I've watched online called Nevermind the Buzzcocks. He's very funny. To me, anyway."

" Book two tickets for him then, I trust your judgement, obi wan."

" Sure thing. Since when were we back to Star Wars quotes?" Rory asked her mother.

After a quick visit to the cafe, Rory had booked them into a backpackers in Edinburgh starting two nights from now,
two tickets for Bill Bailey, and some cheap train tickets up to Edinburgh from London for the next morning after they arrived in London. They had one more night in the hostel they were in and then they were off to England.

The flight to London didnt take so long, as it was really only over one stretch of water. What they found on the other end however, was that they had lost an hour.

" That always feels strange." Remarked Rory.

" That? true. Remember when I was half in Portugal and half in Spain. I was in two places at once. Said to be impossible, but not for Lorelai Gilmore!" Lorelai praised herself.

" No more time changes now until we get off that plane in Boston. Are you okay with me visiting Dad when we get back?"

" I will have had you all summer. Three days is alright for me. Although, I beg of you, call up your grandma and grandpa before I get home, and tell them how the trip was. Otherwise they will be bombarding me with questions."

" Fine. But they?ll probably manage to corner you anyway."

" Don't remind me."

The Doctor was getting lonely. Rose was now in a different, unattainable world with his other self. Donna was now back to her old self, and he could never see her again. The Doctor Donna combination worked out worse for her than he had imagined, and it had been destroying her. The Doctor could not let that happen, and in turn, he had to let her go. All his past companions and friends made from the past were now gone. Jack and Martha in Torchwood were still contactable, but it wouldn't be the same.

He needed to go back. Back before he asked Rose Tyler to join him on his adventures. Of course he would remember, but he needed to find something in the past that was comforting to him. What had he done before he met Rose? He had bounced from planet to planet, occassionally coming back to Earth to refuel the Tardis. For some reason, the Tardis only refueled completely when near the rift.

He needed some laughter. He hadn't laughed in so long. He needed some good old British comedy. Who was now famous but tickets were so hard to get... There was the Little Britain sketch show, they started a while bag but didn't get fame until much later... no, he thought, too stupid. Ah Ha! An idea! Bill Bailey! He was good. He still is!
But tickets were so hard to come by, and his blue box would no longer fit on empty seats, as there were none!

He quickly found out that Bill Bailey played the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003 for just 12 British pounds a ticket. Nice and cheap, especially for how famous good old Bill Bailey was to become. He booked tickets for the second night he was playing. First and last nights were always too loud. The second night was quieter as he remembered. He would park the tardis a little away from the theatre. It would be safe there.

Please R & R...