Okay, so a few changes to what really happened in the show:
1) Chris bought the dictionary for Rory. He is the owner of a computer business based in Hartford, though he works from Cali. He went to Princeton, which is why Rory didn't see him much during her early years. He and his parents have an on/off relationship, but they get along sometimes. He isn't the Hayden heir because he made his money his own way.
2) Lorelai and Sookie's conversation consisted of trying to figure out if Christopher was going to expose her secret.
3) Paris didn't go to the Bangles' concert – another friend of Madeline and Louise and Rory's went.
4) Rory is 17, as are all of the people her own age in the real show, like Paris, Tristan and everyone.
This is The Truth Comes Out, and I hope that you like it! :)
"I don't know what to call them," Rory muttered to her parents as her grandparents eagerly rushed to the door to greet Straub and Francine Hayden.
Christopher looked at her sympathetically, and Lorelai just snorted.
"Call them what I call them," she said. "Ass –"
"Lorelai," Chris hissed. He looked away from her and turned his attention to his incredibly nervous daughter. "Call them Grandmother and Grandfather unless they correct you," he murmured as he rubbed her back in support. "You'll be fine, sweetie. I promise."
Lorelai downed her martini and went to make herself another one. Chris sighed and Rory gave him a quizzical look, which he just shook his head to.
Emily walked into the room with a black-haired, gray eyed woman, whose hair was the exact shade of Rory and Christopher's, discussing draperies. Trailing behind them was Richard and a tall man with graying brown hair. He turned towards Rory and she felt her heart stop as his sapphire blue eyes – the same exact shade as hers and her mother's, pierced her.
Chris pulled Rory up with him and Lorelai also stood to her feet, grumbling softly so that they could greet their guests. Richard broke off from them and went to the drink cart to get drinks for their newly arrived guests.
"Francine, Straub," Lorelai greeted in a voice that Rory immediately recognized as her society voice, used only when she didn't like someone or when they got on her nerves.
"Lorelai, how are you?" Straub inquired in a pleasant manner.
"Just fine," she answered through her teeth. Rory looked at her father and saw him shaking his head disappointment.
"Christopher, my dear, how are you?" asked Francine worriedly as she quickly hugged him and then held him out at arm's length to inspect him.
"I'm just as fine as I was two days ago when we spoke, Mom," he said with a sigh and an eye roll.
"You never know what could happen in two days' time, Christopher," Francine said, nodding in satisfaction at her inspection. "For all I knew, you could have grown your hair out like a punk rocker's, or gotten a new tattoo."
"Tattoo?" Rory whispered to her dad in a curious voice.
"A story for another time," Chris muttered back to her quietly. He cleared his throat and smiled slightly. "Mom, Dad, I'd like you to meet your granddaughter, Rory."
"We've met her before, Christopher," Francine said exasperatedly. She shook her head and hugged Rory briefly, startling the teenager greatly, though she eventually responded. Francine pulled back and inspected her, as she had done to Chris, nodding to herself. "At least you got some of the Hayden looks, rather than all Gilmore, no offense Richard, Emily."
"None taken, Francine," Emily said with a smile, looking at the woman interact with her granddaughter fondly.
"It's lovely to see you again, Rory," Straub said in a deep baritone voice, walking up to Rory and lifting her chin with his fingers. "We haven't seen you since you had begun to speak in complete sentences. You do look extraordinarily like both the Haydens and Gilmores – enough so that no one will recognize you as easily. That makes everything much easier."
They sat down and began light conversations before dinner began. Straub and Richard began to discuss some matters of friends of theirs and work; Francine and Emily began discussing the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), which they were both members of; Rory and Chris began discussing Stars Hollow, while Lorelai downed another martini.
"So who exactly is this Kirk character?" Chris asked his daughter curiously.
"Ah, Kirk," Rory said knowingly, nodding very seriously. "He is one to make an impression."
"Quite," Chris said, matching his daughter's serious face and tone.
Rory chuckled slightly. "He's lived in Stars Hollow for as long as I can remember," she said. "I met him when I was 6; he was talking ballet lessons with me at Miss Patti's."
"And how old was he?" Chris asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I think he was 20, maybe," Rory said, not looking bothered by it. "He actually wasn't too bad, either. He's pretty flexible."
"I don't even want to know," Chris muttered, looking creeped out.
"That's probably a good idea," Rory said, patting his arm in sympathy. "Kirk is an extremely hard person to understand. He's lived with his mother all of his life; she won't even let him ride a bike."
"She won't let him ride a bike?" Chris asked with his brows furrowed. "As in a bike that you pedal?"
Rory nodded. "She thinks it's too dangerous," she said seriously. "Of course, Taylor would probably write him a ticket if he ever wrote one."
"What for?" Chris asked curiously.
"He's Taylor," Rory explained, as if that clarified everything. "He doesn't have to have a reason."
"Good to know," Chris said, nodding to himself.
At that moment, a maid walked into the parlor, looking slightly uncomfortable. "Mrs. Gilmore, dinner is served," she said quietly before walking, almost running, from the room.
"Well she certainly is a nervous one," Francine remarked as they all stared after the young girl.
"Richard, I'm afraid we're going to have to let her go," Emily said, sighing hugely.
Richard nodded as if that all made sense. "If you feel it is necessary, Emily," he told her.
"Let's go to the dining room," Emily said, ignoring her husband in favor of grabbing Francine's arm. Straub and Richard followed them, while Lorelai, Chris and Rory brought up the rear.
"This should be interesting," Rory told her father, who nodded in agreement beside her as they took their seats next to each other at the table.
That was the first chapter of the rewrite! I hope that you liked it! Review please and tell me what you thought of it, suggestions, and anything that you want to see happen in the next chapter please!
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