Whiskey Lullabies

by aayat

ONE SHOT. Trory. Together at the end. A little hard to summerise.

Disclaimer- If I owned Gilmore Girls I would have never taken Tristan off the air.

Gargh. I keep finding mistakes in this stupid fic.

I am like thisclose to just taking it off.

Makes me sad.

Oh and will someone PLEASE become my Beta! Email me at lease Enjoy and Review.

Thank you.

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She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette

She had cheated on him.

She hadn't meant to, it had just happened. She had cheated on him with the one person that he was insecure around. Out of anyone to cheat with, she had chosen Dean.

She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget

Revenge was supposed to be sweet. It wasn't. It had been awful hearing his groans above her. Seeing and feeling his fingers running over her. His lips upon her forehead. She had refused kissing him on the mouth. Her lips belonged to Tristan. She belonged to Tristan.

We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time

He had slowly gotten addicted to the vodka. He had always promised her that he would stop drinking straight liquor. Promises were meant to be broken. She had proven that by what she had done to him.

But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind

It didn't matter what he was drinking anymore. Vodka. Gin. Scotch. He couldn't get the image of coming home to see her with him on their bed. The bed that they had both fought over. The one that they had lovingly christened Kansas. It was supposed to be like home to both of them. The one place that would be completely theirs.

Until the night

In had been sixteen years since that fateful night. Not one of those nights had he completely been able to sleep through. He passed out because of the amount of alcohol he drank each night and day. It was the only way he could try to erase her.

He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory

The neighbors could hear him fall. They had been worried about him since autumn when he had collapsed and had been rushed to the hospital. He was thirty seven and love had consumed his so young. The sound of the glass smashing had been one that had been heard throughout the neighborhood.

Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees

The wail of the ambulance was one that no child should ever have to hear. The look upon his face was one that no thirty seven year old should ever have to make.

We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die

The next morning they found a note on his desk. It was simple and it held everything that he wanted to say in words that he would never again say or even think.

Dear Rory,

I don't regret the day I first saw you.

Nor do I regret the first words I said to you.

I don't regret kissing you.

Nor I do regret telling you that I loved you.

I don't regret asking you to marry me.

Nor do I regret the moment that I saw you walk down the aisle.

I don't regret saying I do.

Nor do I regret seeing you in the mornings like a thief during the night.

However I do regret the day that I came home and found you in our bed.

I regret the day that I came home and made you cry.

I do regret the day I picked up the bottle.

I regret the day that I was separated from you.

And now I will always regret never being able to keep you as my own.

Never been able to just hold you in the mornings anymore.

And most of all,

I regret not being able to tell you that I love you anymore.

I love you.

I have always loved you.

I will always love you.

Tristan.

And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby

They scattered his ashes around the tree where they had re met. The Yale tree. You could still see their initials carved into the trunk, high above the ground. He had spent three hours carving those initials. Rory had laughed at him the entire time and then treated him to a special night at the Gilmore House of Seduction.

The rumors flew but nobody know how much she blamed herself

She sometimes walked by the house that they had bought together. She just needed to be able to see the place where it all ended. Where she had laid the final blow on their marriage.

She just wanted a glimpse of him. Just a glimpse of the man that she loved. The one that she had ruined and killed.

For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath

At around the same time that he had began to drink, so had she. Wine was her choice when it came to death. Even more so now that a year had passed since his death.

She finally drank her pain away a little at a time

She hadn't been able to move on. He had been it for her. The one that she was going to be with for the rest of her life and stay happy with.

But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind

He had left the house to her. Why she didn't know, but she had moved in just the same. She had drank his alcohol and had slept in his clothing. It was something she couldn't let go of.

Until the night

She had always been exceptionally creative. When she slept, she needed the virtue even more than she had when she had been writing. She had not written anything for two years. She barely ate. She barely went out. All she did was drink.

She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory

She had mixed too many drinks that night.

Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees

She had fallen asleep in the spare bedroom. She couldn't bear to go into the room that had ended her life.

We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life

She finally looked peaceful. To any that saw her that morning, the content smile was one that was right for her death. One could even say that it looked as if she had died in his arms.

We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby

Her ashes had been scattered as his had been around the Yale tree.

Their tree was still the same. The light still hit the leaves in the same way. The moss still grew to the north. The colours still changed.

One thing wasn't the same though.

Where it had once said R.G. + T.D. Forever, it now said

They will always love the other.

They will be with each other.

They will always be too proud.

They will always be Mary and Bible Boy.