What Might Have Been
Set: Post Season 7
Rory Gilmore leaned her head against the window of the bus and watched the scenery fly by. She'd been on the campaign trail for a month, and she'd learned a few things. First, some reporters would do anything for a scoop. Second, she HATED traveling by bus. And third, she had way too much time on her hands.
The song changed on her iPod and she closed her eyes having seen enough cornfields to last a lifetime.
Sure I think about you now and then
But it's been a long long time
I've got a good life now I've moved on
So when you cross my mind
I try not to think about
What might have been
'Cause that was then
And we have taken different roads
We can't go back again
There's no use giving in
And there's no way to know
What might have been
The song filtered into her brain as she began to hum along. She hadn't heard it in years, her mother must have some how slipped it into her playlist and it just hadn't come up before now.
As a general rule, she tried very hard not to think about the past, there was no use in it. It was not like she could go back and change anything, but now, with all this time for reflection, she couldn't help but wonder… What Might Have Been.
Okay I know I have two stories going already, but I heard this song the other day, and I can't get it off my mind. So here's the plan… this is a short story, about where Rory would be instead of sitting on the bus following the campaign had she stayed with any of the significant men in her life. There are some people that will get two chapters based on break ups and being different the second time around. They will go chronologically in the following order:
Dean I
Tristan
Jess I
Dean II
Marty
Logan I
Jess II
Logan II
The chapters in this will be much shorter than Winning Back the Gilmore Girls, probably along the length of the chapters in Blood Is Thicker Than Water or Stars Hollow On Shuffle.
So what do you think? Like it? Hate it?
Oh and the song is What Might Have Been by Little Texas.
And thanks to DramaQueen1103 - again, for reading this ahead of time, and encouraging me to post it.
S