Disclaimer: as much as i would love to take any kind of credit for the awesomness that is Gilmore Girls, i am simply an observer with a few random thought.
a/n: Rory's been at boarding school in New Zealand since fifth grade, putting her in her junior year with the older kids in their senior year. i started this story almost two years ago so some of the finer details escape me at the moment, but if i remember anything else i'll be sure to mention it at a later date.
COMING HOME
CHAPTER ONE
"Finn!" Rory yells at the bundle of blankets on the floor of her room that slightly resembles a body. "Get your ass up, my plane leave in a couple of hours." she nudges the pile on her way to the makeshift kitchenette in the common room to get her third cup of coffee.
"Ugg." The Finn shape on the floor grumbles, moving slightly at the interruption. "Is the sun out love?" his voice is muffled by the comforter he's wrapped in.
"Yes." Rory answers, sipping her coffee and stepping over Finn to the chair behind him.
"Then why are you assuming I'm going to get out of my comfy cocoon?" Finn asks her. "Why don't you come down here and join me."
"Because," Rory answers him patiently, pulling her bare feet under her into the comfortable chair and resting her head against the back. "I'm leaving the country in two hours and I need you to carry all my heavy bags."
"Why do you have to go?" he pulls the covers from his face and flinches at the sunlight streaming through the window.
"Because the school doesn't want me here anymore." Rory feels as though she's talking to a five year old.
"That's crap." Finn tells her, sitting up and leaning his back against her chair. "I don't want you to go."
"I don't want to go Finny." it's a good thing she had learned how to handle Finn in his early morning moods or her patience would have worn down years ago. "But I got in trouble and I cant be here anymore."
"Alright." Finn sighs, looking up at her. "Where's everyone else?"
"Logan, Collin and Steph are loading the last of my stuff." she answers him, glancing out the window, taking in the beauty that she would most likely never see again. "They've already shipped most of it and they're meeting us at the airport. So you need to get a move on." Rory taps him lightly on the head.
"Alright love." he grumbles, untangling his legs from his blankets and stands, swaying a little. "Where's my cloths?" he asks, looking down at his state of undress.
"On the common room floor, where you left them after you did a strip tease as my farewell present." Rory says pointing at the door to the common room.
"Ahh." finn walks to the door and stands there for a second before looking back at her over his shoulder. "Did you enjoy it darling?" he wiggles his eyebrows suggestively at rory, causing her to giggle.
"You know it." she answers watching him leave. Rory stands slowly, looking around the now empty room she had spent the last seven years living in. she sighs and picks up the blankets Finn had used with her empty hand and walks to the door. She pauses, taking one final look before shutting off the light.