Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or any of its characters. If I did I would be rich and Tristan would have never left. Hehe.

Authors Note: Ever since Tristan first made his exit from Gilmore Girls I have played hundreds of different outcomes in my head, these chapters are merely the dreams of a young girl who desperately wanted Tristan to stay just a while longer. Each chapter will be another possible ending.

If there is an ending in your mind you would like me to play out feel free to review and leave your thoughts.


Run Away Little Boy – Goodbye Mary

"I knew he was going to do this, but no one wanted to listen to me, it was all, lets make Tristan Romeo he's hot." Rory could tell Paris was infuriated by the tone in her voice. She couldn't blame her though seeing as this assignment did count as fifty percent of their entire grade.

"What about Brad?" Rory was desperate to calm Paris down.

"Brad transferred schools," Paris started but her attention was quickly averted to the boy walking up to them from behind Rory, "…Where have you been you have to get dressed were on in ten minutes." It was Tristan.

"Can't." was all he mustered out.

"What?" Paris nearly yelled and Rory could tell she was really going to freak now. What did he mean by can't? Why not?

"Actually my dad had me pulled out of school" With those few words Paris was sent over the edge and stormed away. Rory just stood there looking at Tristan with a puzzled look on her face. She had so many questions, what did he do, why is he leaving?

"And is she unhappy"

"What do you mean he had you pulled out of school what happened?" Rory looked up at Tristan for some sort of explanation.

"Nothing just ticked the old man off that's all." That's all? Ticking someone off is not grounds for removal from school it had to be worse, what could he have possibly done?

"By doing what Tristan come on tell me" Rory needed to know.

"I got in some trouble" He was still avoiding the question.

"Trouble involving" Rory kept prying.

"Involving Duncan and bowman and bowman's dads safe"

"Oh no" This was bad, really bad.

"I mean Bowman had a key it was supposed to be no big deal and the crazy silent alarm kicked in"

"You broke into bowman dads safe" Rory was shocked, the Tristan she knew would never have done anything like that before; she knew Duncan and Bowman were no good for him.

"Yes."

"Stupid."

"Yes."

"Well okay you can apologize you can put back the money and you can explain that… I don't know… you were going through something" It was clearly the logical thing to do, and that way he could stay in school.

"I was, I was going through his safe"

"Why would you do this?"

"I don't know I guess that's something I can ponder in military school"

"Military school"

"The police are letting our parents handle it, and in my case that means military school in North Carolina"

" I dunno what to say" For the first time Rory seemed to be at a loss for words.

"Well I imagine you're overwhelmed with the relief of knowing that soon I will be gone" There was the attitude. She knew he didn't really believe what he was saying, it was the type of thing he did to protect himself.

"Im so sorry" She knew he was hurting.

"Well, Im a big boy I can handle it"

"There's nothing you can…" Rory was interrupted when an older mans voice came from the walkway behind them.

"Tristan, come on" She knew it had to be his father, why did he have to be there now.

"I gotta go… so," Tristan looked over to see the one he referred to as stockboy practically hovering over them from his place not to far from where they stood. "…I'd kiss you goodbye but your boyfriends watching" Rory knew he was actually being honest with her, and for the first time he wasn't trying to cause problems.

"Take care of yourself … Mary" And with that, Tristan was gone. Rory watched him walk away, knowing she would never see him again.


pretty much to the storyline, yes, but please read on... NOTE: each chapter is the same scene with alternate endings. Please review.