Rory's Rivalry

Summary: Tristan and Logan haven't met. Tristan is Rory's best friend, and has been for years, and Logan wants to be with Rory. When Tristan is transferred to Yale he and Logan meet and it doesn't go the way Rory wanted.

I don't own Gilmore Girls, just the computer I'm typing it on.

Chapter One

"I still can't believe Tristan bailed on me." Rory pouts into her pink razor phone. She glances behind her, to see a jerk in a tiny black sports car riding her bumper. "Hold on mom." She drops her phone into her lap and pushes on the gas pedal and she goes into the next lane.

When she picks her phone back up her mom is singing along with the Oompa Lumpa's. "Back."

"Well Tris has had a lot going on this year. He's going to college too." Lorelai's being rational for once. "I know it's weird for me to say this but maybe he wanted to go visit his family this year."

There was a moment of silence and then they both laughed. "Alright serious moment over. He's probably working on a huge surprise for you."

Rory shook her head slightly and pulled into the familiar parking place in front of her Yale dorm building. "Alright mom, I have to go, but I'll see you at Friday night dinner?"

Lorelai groaned dramatically, "Unless Adolph sends her DAR friends to get her revenge on me."

"Love you."

"Love you too kid."

Rory shuts her phone and plops it into the side of her computer bag. She can see Paris' car parked beside hers and she knows she should probably get some coffee before going inside. This year Paris went to meet Doyle's family and Rory wasn't sure if she was ready to hear about the disaster yet.

So she got out of her car, hugged her winter coat closer, and started towards one of her favorite coffee carts. "Morning Tim." She greets to the coffee guy as she gets in the back of the line.

"How is my favorite customer, how was your Christmas?" He asks with a smile.

Rory smiles, "It was great." Tim goes back to making coffee for the person who is ahead of Rory. So Rory takes time to look around campus. Snow has taken over, and with that thought she smiles even brighter. The snow always makes her think of her mom and all the good things that have happened to her when it has snowed.

She first met Tristan when it snowed. She got to go to Bush Gardens when it snowed. She had her first Chocolate Coffee when it snowed. And every Christmas morning it snows.

"Your usual Rory?" Tim asks when Rory doesn't tell him what to make.

Rory snaps back to reality and nods, "In the largest cup you have."

A few seconds later she pays and is turning around, inhaling the wonderful scent. With her eyes closed she doesn't see someone standing in front of her, and she walks right into him.

"Oh, sorry!" She jumps back, guarding her coffee cup.

The guy turns and smirks at her, "Why Mary I'm shocked. I thought you'd be extra careful walking around when you have the elixir of life in your hands."

Rory jumps up into Tristan's arms, with an enormous smile on her face. "When did you get here? What happened to Harvard?" She let him twirl her around while she was in his arms, and then finally he gently placed her down on the ground.

"Well Yale has great business courses." Tristan smiles gently as Rory takes a long drink of her coffee, "And besides, Yale brings me closer to my best girl."

Rory gently hits his shoulder playfully, "Who me?"

They start walking away from the coffee cart, "Oh no. I was talking about Lorelai. We all know how much she loves me."

Rory hits his shoulder hard, "Oh I'm sure my dad will love that." She says with her voice dripping with sarcasm.

Truth was that Christopher looked at Tristan like he was his son.

"Come on, show me your place." Tristan draped his arm around her shoulders, pulling her closer to him.

Rory smiles and applies a bounce to her step, "Yeah, you can see Paris."

"Oh I already have." Rory looks at Tristan confused. "I went to ask her where I could find you."

Rory nods, "Well I'm sure she'd love to see you again."

They start back to her dorm room, and didn't notice that both Colin and Finn were watching them from across the yard.

"Who the bloody hell was that?" Finn throws his arms into the air and yells at Colin.

"How am I supposed to know?" Colin stares at Finn blankly.

"Well what do you know?" Finn glares at him. He has started to be very protective of Rory lately and hated the fact that she was around another guy.

Colin shrugged, "I know that Logan is going to kill that guy when he sees them together." He pulls out his cell.

"Not if I get to him first." Finn whispered harshly, forming fists with his hands.

Colin rolled his eyes, but knew Finn spoke the truth, "Logan, we have a situation."