AN: Every time I re-enter the world of fan fiction, I need to start a new story; it's just me. This one came to me as a what-if…a lot of people have brought Tristan back through Logan so I've done the same starting with an episode rewrite…the first chapter is short because I wanted to get the story started – the rest will be longer

AN 7/12/16 – 8 years later – I am going to edit the first 4 chapters, then plan to add more to this story!

Disclaimer: Amy owns 'em even if she left

Spoilers: everything up to 6.16 Bridesmaids Revisited

Ships: Rory/Tristan

Summary: Rory sat there listening to the stories out of Honor's bridesmaids, but what happens when she hears a name from the past then runs into him at the wedding…

Brothers and Bridesmaids

Rory Gilmore sat quietly in a chair in Honor Huntzberger's dressing room watching the bride get ready to walk down the aisle. At the same time she was listening to the bridesmaids talk about all of the men at the wedding because they needed to get laid so desperately. Rory felt content in a serious relationship with the bride's brother, Logan. Things were right between them even after a recent break up. Rory recently moved in with Logan and was very happy with everything. She felt that she and Logan were on the same page. The four girls, Alexandra, Walker, Megan, Gwen were listing through what seemed to be every man on the guest list; they started with the groom's, brother and moved on to the first one that sparked Rory's attention.

"There's always Logan," Alexandra said.

"Been there, done that," was Walker's response.

Rory started to pay complete attention at this point; had Honor not been busy with her hair and getting ready she might have done something to make Rory feel less awkward. Instead the conversation continued even after Gwen informed Walker that Rory was Logan's girlfriend. Walker told Rory not to worry, that it was before they were dating; she had slept with him around Thanksgiving. Then as Rory was looking in shock, she and Logan weren't even officially broken up around Thanksgiving, but apparently Alexandra had messed around with him and Gwen, his old girlfriend, hooked up with him in December. Rory began to wonder how many other girls Logan had been with during that short period, or even how many it was in the time they were seeing each other before they became official. He could never go without sex, without having a girl to mess around with always there. Rory tried to hide her tears as the bridesmaids finally moved on to another victim, leaving Logan to their pasts…possibly to Rory's past as well.

"You know," Alexandra started, "there's always that brother of yours, Gwen."

"Please don't."

"Why?" Megan asked, "she has a point Tristan is hot."

"He's my brother!"

"So you can all sleep with my brother, but you get grossed out if people find yours attractive? Nice, Gwen," Honor threw in. So she was paying attention after all.

"He is following in your father's footsteps after all," Alexandra said, "and we all know your father will do anything that walks. It's DuGrey blood…even you got some of it."

Rory thought she was hearing things; Megan had said Tristan and Alexandra added DuGrey. It had been four years since Rory had last seen or heard from Tristan DuGrey. She hadn't even thought of him after he let the Chilton auditorium that day – after he'd been stupid and gotten himself kicked out of school. She didn't know why she cared, but Tristan's name had struck something in Rory's head – perhaps it was just the bad memories she had of him. That name he always called her, Mary, she wondered what he would think now. The Virgin Mary had slept with a married man then gotten into a relationship with the player known as Logan Huntzberger.

"Gwen, do you remember that game our brothers played when we were like eighteen and they were fifteen?"

"Who can sleep with his best friend's sister first?"

"Logan won," Honor informed everyone else.

"You still slept with Tristan."

"I was eighteen, we all did a lot of stupid things," she laughed.

The bridesmaids started reminiscing about their childhoods and Rory was learning a lot about both Logan and Tristan that she didn't need to know. She was already seeing her boyfriend in a different light and wanted to end things; she could never be with someone who would just climb into someone else's bed when times were a little bit tough. Then Rory realized what had been said…Logan and Tristan were best friends? Why had she never heard anything about this before? The only ones of Logan's friends that she knew were the ones at Yale, but every story is about Colin and Finn, they're never about anyone else. She started to wonder if Tristan was going to be at the wedding…she'd find out very soon because she needed to go take a seat in the church for the ceremony to begin.

Rory sat in the back of the church, not smiling, and avoiding all eye contact with Logan. The ceremony was beautiful and Honor and Josh both looked as happy as they should. Rory only wished she could be that happy…with anyone. Logan watched her from the altar, but Rory could barely even look up at him. She was still angry with him for all of Honor's friends – it wasn't even that he slept with one girl, but there were at least two. In the short time they were broken up, when he supposedly still cared about her, Logan was sleeping with other girls. Rory didn't even want to face him, but she stayed at the wedding because she didn't want to be rude to Honor.

When the ceremony ended, Rory went outside to call Lorelai to tell her about what she heard. It was nice to talk to Lorelai again after their long split over the past months. She missed her mother and the sense of humor that Lorelai had over difficult situations. For this one, all she said was that maybe Logan wasn't worth it – but to at least talk to him, don't let things just go away because they won't.

Logan started to walk towards his girlfriend, not knowing anything was wrong, when he noticed Rory's glance go elsewhere. She was looking at a striking man walking towards the bride to congratulate her. His head was shaved, but his blue eyes were glowing in the sun of the beautiful spring afternoon.

"Earth to Rory, are you ready to go to the reception?"

"Oh…" she came back down, "yeah, sure."

Logan noticed that Rory was acting a little distracted, but it didn't stop him from putting his arm around her and escorting her to his car to head to a very fancy catering hall. Rory thought about what Lorelai had said to her, but she was avoiding conflict with Logan just as she did with most people.

Once the party got started, both Logan and Rory had a few drinks and she was smiling again, forgetting how much she wanted to scream at Logan, at least for a short time. She just wanted to ask for a total number, but at the same time she didn't want to know what that number was. After working for the DAR, Rory knew that this was not the time or place for conflict. Logan asked Rory if she wanted to dance and she accepted leaving him to escort her to the dance floor. On the way there, they walked past the blonde boy from earlier.

"Huntzberger," he said casually.

"DuGrey."

That was it, the only exchanges between them. Rory could have sworn that Honor said they were best friends, it sure didn't seem that way. Tristan DuGrey looked different than the last time Rory saw him; the shaved head a sign of the military, but he looked stronger…physically and mentally.

"Why did Honor invite him?" Logan asked to no one in particular?

"Is he an old friend?"

"That's Tristan DuGrey, we were best friends all our lives then…forget it, I've only seen him a few times since he got back from military school."

"In North Carolina."

"How did you know that?"

"I went to high school with him."

Logan dropped the subject, Rory could tell that something happened between him and Tristan, but Logan wasn't going to share. A server walked by with a tray of drinks and Rory helped herself to a cocktail, then went to the bar and had a few now. She had a lot on her mind and needed to feel better.

"Whoa there, Ace, I think you've had enough."

"Like you're one to talk?"

"What are you talking about?"

"All you do are stupid things. How many of your sisters friends have you slept with?"

"What are you talking about?"

"They were all talking; you slept with the bridesmaids…all of them, Logan."

"We were broken up. You're the only one I care about, Ace."

"Nice way of showing it."

Rory wasn't feeling too great and she didn't want to fight anymore so she went outside for some fresh air. She felt someone else's presence there and turned her head – sure enough Tristan DuGrey was sitting in a chair staring off into the waterfront view.

"A little drunk?" he asked.

"Yeah," she laughed.

"Do I know you? You look really familiar…wait, Rory? Rory Gilmore?"

"That's me, glad to know some people don't forget me."

"What are you doing here?"

"I used to date Logan Huntzberger…then he slept with your sister."

Tristan looked at Rory and laughed, his sister had slept with anyone – though he believed Walker might have her beat. Rory saw a puzzled look in Tristan's eyes; she wasn't sure if it was about his sister or about Logan, but she knew it was there.