Title: A Helping Hand

A.N. I hope you enjoy it. This is kinda different from what I usually write; so don't be too harsh in the reviews

Summary: Rory gets bad news.she's pregnant. With Dean! But she and dean are no longer together! How will she get through this? She gets help from a good friend.. R/T

Disclaimer: Not mine, except for Erica and Micheal and Later Hannah, for now I guess.

Part 1 really short, but it'll work out in the end. (

Prelude:

"Miss. Gilmore. I hate to tell people this sometimes, especially in circumstances like this, but you're pregnant."



P1

"Mom, what am I going to do? Dean won't help. I know he won't."

"Honey, he'll have to. We'll make him. You didn't make this baby on your own!" Lorelei hugged Rory close on their living room couch. Rory had tears in her eyes about the news that they just found out. Rory was pregnant, and with Dean!

"I don't know. I just wanna go to bed." She hugged her mom good night and went to her room. Lorelei sat and watched her daughter go and sighed when she was finally out of sight.

"My baby is going to have a baby." She said to herself.

Rory couldn't sleep; she kept having dreams of what the baby was going to be like. How she'd support it and everything, and most of all what Dean would say. With that, she fell asleep.

P2

"Dean! You have to help me out! This is your baby too, as much as you don't want it to be, it is!" She yelled at him.

"No, it's not, it can't be!"

"It is, you're the only person I slept with!" Rory shot back.

"What?" He asked. "You said it wasn't your first time."

"Well, it was. Can we not discuss that now? I have a baby growing inside of me! Our baby!"

"No, your baby. Not mine. I want nothing to do with it. When I broke up with you, that was for good, and with that I broke up with this baby. Goodbye!" He left her standing alone in the middle of the foyer to the Gilmore house. She kicked the door and sat down next to it crying.

"Why?" She cried and looked up at the ceiling. After sitting and crying for ten minutes, Rory slowly got up and walked into her room. There she saw a picture of her and Tristan at one of Chilton's basketball games. Tristan had become her best friend. (*Lane went to Korea and stayed*) She than remembered how they were supposed to go to the mall that day. With all the news, she totally forgot. She debated whether to call him and cancel. But she decided against it. He was a great friend and he could help. Talking to him always made her feel better.

So she changed and washed up a bit. She didn't want to go out in public looking like a monster. She looked at her slender stomach in the mirror and sighed. "I don't know how I'll get through this, but I will."

The doorbell rang and she gave herself one last look in the mirror before answering it. She swung the door open and there stood a smiling Tristan. "Hey." She said trying to smile the best she could.

He could tell something was wrong. His smile faded. "Rory are you okay?" He asked and walked in.

She closed the door behind him and turned around to face him. "Not really."

"What's the matter? Did Dean do something to you?" He asked very much so concerned.

"Well kinda." She wanted to scream out that yes Dean did do something; he put a baby inside of her.

"Well, are you going to tell me what?" They walked into the living room.

"Yeah." They sat down on the couch and Rory slouched down. "I'm pregnant." She looked him in the eyes to see his reaction. He was shocked. She could tell.

"Wha-what?" He stumbled. "You're pregnant with Dean?" He asked. She just nodded. He sighed and slouched down just like Rory did. Lorelei walked in and found her daughter and her best friend slouched on the couch. But she left them to talk. She knew Tristan could help make her feel better.

"You're disappointed in me." She whispered.

"No. I'm not. Rory you'll get through this. You have so many people that love you, who gives a shit if Dean won't be there, you said it yourself you don't love him. Why do you want someone who isn't going to love your baby to be apart of its life?" He asked and put his arm around her in comfort. "I'll help you too. When ever I can. You know that."

"Yeah, I know. Thank you. You're the best." She smiled and looked at him. "Do you still wanna go to the mall?" She asked him, obviously feeling better.

He smiled and nodded. "Sure, let's go." They got up and left to go to the mall.

(* In Tristan's Car *)

"I wonder if it is going to be a boy or a girl." Rory spoke up.

Tristan lowered the music to hear her better. "Yeah, I know. Have you thought of possible names?" He asked her.

"No! I didn't even think of it."

He chuckled. "You have plenty of time to, don't worry about it."

"Yeah." She nodded and smiled. "I'm kinda excited you know. Buying baby clothes, and everything."

(* Mall *)

The two sat at a coffee shop inside of the Hartford mall and sipped coffee. "When the doctor told me, I was shocked, I could talk. It was as if I stopped breathing." Rory flashed back to the day only two days before.

"I can't imagine. Rory, can I tell you something?" He asked.

"Yeah, sure, you know you can."

"Well, I never told anyone this before, but I'm going to tell you."

"Okay." She nodded.

"About two years ago, I was only sixteen at the time, during the summer I met this girl. Erica. And we went out for most of the summer, and well, I slept with her. Than I went away with, my grandfather for the last two weeks of summer, to California. She called me up on my cell phone and told me that she thought she was pregnant with my baby." Rory's mouth dropped, but he went on. "I got so scared, but I vowed to be there for the baby. I didn't have feelings for her anymore though. It was really just a summer fling you know. I got back to Hartford and she called me up again and told me that it was a false alarm and that I wasn't going to be a father. I was actually very disappointed. In California, I psyched myself out about becoming a father, even though I knew that neither of us was ready, but I was happy. I still remember the excitement that I felt when she told me that I was going to be a dad. I don't know, it just seemed like the right time to tell you this." He looked down at his coffee and then up at Rory to see what her expression was.

She placed her hand on top of his. "That was beautiful. Thank you for telling me." He smiled back at her relieved that she wasn't going to reprimand him about not telling her sooner, or sleeping with a girl that was just a fling. "Have you ever talked to Erica after that?" She asked.

"Yeah, once. She told me that she had gotten pregnant after that, when she was like seventeen and that she was marrying some guy. I told her good luck and to have a nice life." He chuckled. "And that's the end of it." She nodded. "So. wanna go shopping?" He asked.

"Yeah sure." They got up and walked out. "I just shouldn't buy any clothes, I guess, I'm not exactly going to stay the same size much longer." She smiled at him.

"No, I guess not." He smiled back at her. They continued walking until Rory suddenly stopped. Tristan stopped and looked at her. "Ror, something wrong?" He asked.

She pointed to a store with all baby clothes. "Can we go in?" She asked.

"Yeah, why not?" They walked in and she went right for a rack of clothes for baby boys.

"I wonder if it's going to be a boy!" She pulled out overalls, t-shirts, pants, shoes, and everything else a baby wears by the time they left the store. "They were all so cute!"

He laughed at her. "Yeah, they were." He agreed.

"I can't wait to pick out little clothes for my baby." She smiled. The first real smile in the last three days.



A.N. I hope you liked it so far. I am typing up the next part as you read this, so expect another one later today, or tomorrow.but seeing as how tomorrow is x-mas eve, I don't really know! But read some of my other fics while you wait! Enjoy!

I usually write Trories, but I'm thinking of writing a Jess/ Rory fic. Or a Luke/ lorelei fic next. But not until I finish this one and some of my other started fics. !