The Beginning

"Finn, how could you do this to me?", Rory started to sob, "You promised me forever. Colin, someone, please help him!" Rory took out her phone and dialed 911. As she talked to the kind operator, she watched Colin try to help her best friend get up off the floor and into a chair without hurting him even more that he already was. "Finn, stay with me!", Colin shouted in his ear. That didn't seem to work, Finn passed out right then, the ambulance pulled up at that moment, ready to take him to the hospital. Colin motioned for Rory to go with Finn and that he would take the black SUV, she tossed him the keys and clambered into the back of the wailing vehicle. She closed her eyes and leant her head against the "wall". She tried to convince herself that, even though her gang had fallen apart and only her two best friends had stood beside her as the world around her crumbled to the ground, the shooter hadn't meant to kill Finn and had aimed for a part of his body that would only injure him…

1 year earlier

She sat on the floor in the hall of Zuberg, staring blankly at the wall in front of her. Tears started to run down her cheeks as she started to absorb the news that she had just been given; her best friend, her partner in crime, her rock, her mother was no longer part of this world. Rory decided that she would try to do things "Lorelai" style now that she was the only one left. As she got up from the floor, she felt a pair of arms encircle her waist.

"What's wrong love? You seem a little bit more than upset." His voice was all she needed to start crying again, her mother had loved the accent in his voice. "She- she's- g-g-g-gone!" Rory became more and more hysterical as she turned and saw Finn. "She's gone! My best friend, who's next? You? I don't want to lose you Finn! Don't take Colin away either! Please, no! I love you Finn, I need you. Don't leave me…." He didn't know what to do, should he find help? Should he get Colin? What about the rest of the gang? "I'll never leave you love. I'm sure Colin won't either. Shhhh…..babe you need to calm down." "Calm down?!? You expect me to calm down?" She was shouting at him now, staring at him with sad blue eyes. "Breath, Rory, breath. I promise that I'll always be here for you, no matter what happens." "You swear?" "On my honor as an Aussie, I Finnegan Morgan Rothschild the 8th promise to you, Lorelai Leigh Gilmore the 3rd, that I will never leave you and will stick to you like a burr through thick and thin."

The two heard footsteps coming up from behind them and turned around. "and I, Colin McRae, swear on my trait of being tight assed and on my precious sweater vests that I, like Finn, will always be here for you.", Rory smiled. She like that her two favorite people (not to mention her 'other' best friends) were as dedicated to her as she was to coffee. "Thank you both very much. We'll need to find a way to remember this……any ideas?" "Welll. we could go to a parlor and get a tat.", Finn was grinning when he mentioned the thought. "Or, we could do the whole mixing of blood thingy." "Ugh! Definitely not, that's disgusting Colin!" "It was just an idea!" "Idea, shmidea, we'll never come up with anything if we keep coming up with ides like that!" Rory wined while trying to find something inside her brain that wasn't completely out of line. "Maybe mom will have some ideas! I'll call her right- oh." She burst into tears a she realized what she was saying. Finn sat down on a nearby bench and rocked her back and forth, swaying ever so gently as if he was holding an thin piece of glass that had a sharp edge, already starting to cut deep into the hearts of the three teens. "Darling, it will all be ok. Life won't be the same but she'll live on inside of us. If we really try, we probable could become the three sides of Lorelai." Rory hiccupped and gave a small chuckle "I'm not sure how much she would like to have heard you say that there are three of her. She only has one clone who just happens to be right here!" She jabbed her chest with her fingers and then sat up, resting with her back against Finn's chest. She patted the seat next to her, indicating that Colin should sit down. She whispered something in the latter's ear and he nodded. "So, Finn, do you know where the nearest parlor is or are you just guessing like last time we went looking for something?" Colin seemed to love teasing Finn about the time where he had gotten them lost because he had no clue in hell where to find the bar that they were looking for. "Oh, I know where it is. I'll be able to find it in a snap once we are outside the door. Maybe I should go and look it up," Finn pushed Rory off of his lap and into Colin's, "Here, you can have her. I'm going to go find a couple of designs and a place where we can get them done."

AN: That's all for now folks! I hope you have enjoyed this first chapter. I'm not sure about what the design should be….I have one designed for A is for Ace (I guess I sorta have an obsession with tattoo's to symbolize a certain thing) but I'm not sure if I should do something like In Omnia Paratus or E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one). Got any suggestions. Should I have a pairing for this? PDLD, Cory, I'll do anything except for RoryDave, Literati (RoryJess), and Narco (RoryDean). One more thing, I am going to be using a way of writing so that I write a little about the present and then go on with what I was talking about in the prev. chap. Does that make any sense? If not, you get it once I have done another chapter. Bye For Now.