Title: A few years on
Rating: PG-13 (to be on the safe side)
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plotline. Characters, names, places, all do not belong to me. Except those that you do not recognise. I do not own the Gilmore girls, I am just using the characters as a reference for my stories so please don't sue me. I don't own any of these characters they all belong to the WB.
This is my first ff and im new to all of this, so please review and help me out with any comments about my writing it would be greatly appreciate thanxs :)
A Few Years On
Chapter2: She's gone for 3 years and now she's right in front of me, that's just Dandy…
She had left 3 years ago and now she's back in his life just like that, he couldn't believe it but the women he saw in front of him was the girl that had ran out on him all those years ago without a word without even telling him why she had broken up with him and left him heartbroken, this was the same girl that was standing in front of him with a new life and worst of all a new boyfriend who happened to be his business associate.
Great he thought, and worst of all she doesn't even remember me, just great, that's just dandy.
He felt the same pain and hurt he had felt when she had decided he was no longer the one she wanted to spend her life with. He had felt his heart rip in two when she told him she couldn't be with him any more, that day and its events was etched in his memory forever, no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't get that fateful day that ruined his life.
*Flashback*
She stood at the bridge waiting for him to arrive, she just felt awful she had just found out that her life, her whole existence was a lie and she had to leave, but first she couldn't just leave without doing this, she had to, she just couldn't hurt even more then what she was going to do. She knew he loved her, she loved him with all her heart but just couldn't hurt him if she left without saying anything, he would wait for her and wouldn't continue living his life, he had to continue living his life so this is what she had to do. She could feel her eyes swell up with tears but had to keep her composure she had to tell him everything before she freaked out and just leaves. No she had to tell him if not for his sanity but for hers, she had to make sure she left without any strings she would regret later on in her life. She had to tell him before she looks into his blue shining eyes shining his love for her and she would melt and then it would hurt them both. She stood there watching the fish swim by and just hoping that this would go well, she needed this to.
She heard footsteps running towards her, "Hey Ror what's up, you sounded upset on the phone, you weren't very specific but I guessed something was up".
He came up to give her a kiss but she flinched and moved away from him,
"Tristan we need to talk" was all she said and he knew that something was really not right. "
Ok Rory, tell me what's wrong please let me know why your upset" he felt his heart drop when he saw her upset and wished he could just brush away the pain or whatever she was feeling but she was cared at the sight of him. That just broke his hurt and he cursed himself for whatever he had done to make her feel that way.
"Tristan you know how much I love you right? and I would never do anything to hurt you, but please promise me you wont say anything until I finish what im trying to say and try to be calm its not very easy for me to do this"
"Rory what's wrong, please just tell me, I know you love me I love you too" Tristan asked confused.
"Please just promise me Tristan I want you to not be upset with what im gona say" Rory was close to tears and she could feel them upon her eyes.
"Ok I promise you whatever you're about to say I wont get upset and ill let you finish now can you please tell me what's up?" Tristan tried to keep calm but couldn't he knew that something must be up or she wouldn't have told him to let her finish.
Rory spoke with the softest voice "Tristan I found out today that my whole life and existence is all a lie, I can't stay here anymore, I cant have anything of my life to remind me of this lie, im sorry Tristan but I …I – I – I think we should go our separate ways… I love you so much but if stay im gona regret this for the rest of my life and I cant live with that, I cant let you stay with me and let me drive you away and then regret ever being with me, it would just hurt us to much and I cant deal with that, goodbye Tristan and I love you…" With that she leaned up and kissed him on the cheek before running out on him…
He just stood there on the bridge trying to let what had happen sink in, and to make matters worst the skys decided it would be the perfect moment to rain on him to make him feel even more loved. She Didn't love him anymore? Her life and existence a lie? What did she mean and why had she thought that he would ever regret being with her and how could she drive him away? He stood there his legs wouldn't even allow him to run after the women he loved
*end flashback*
It was 3 years ago, and ever since she left he just couldn't believe it, he had rang up her grandparents and Lorelai but she didn't know where she had gone, she had left a note saying she's safe and she's gone to a place where she can move on and live her life.
I had literally died the moment she had walked out, she just took my heart with her and without my heart I cannot live. 3 years I have poured my life into my work, being a lawyer I found plenty of excuses to hid my feelings stating to those who found the time to have any concern for me was that I am thinking about my case.
Everyone knew that she had walked out on me and was careful not to mention her around me, her mother calls constantly to tell him that she was okay and that she was moving on and told me to continue with my life but she has my heart how can I move on?
I loved her, she was the only one I loved, my first true love had broken my heart not once but three times, first when she said that our kiss at Madeline's Party meant nothing to her
Secondly when she stood outside of Chilton and told Dean the bag-boy that she hated me and then thirdly she walks out on me this time with my heart ripped to pieces.
Why did I love her I ask myself constantly ever since she walked out, I love her because she, made my heart flutter just by being around her, she made my toes tingle by merely touching me. She made me weak in the knees and she just seemed to believe in me when my parents didn't even knee I existed except to tell me I was the future heir to their Dugrey enterprises and that was it, I work my way up the corporate ladder in my father's company and one day I would be its CEO and run its operations. He no longer cared what he did he just did because people wanted him to do it.
Lorelai had told him that a friend of Rory's had told her that she was in Perth, and when he found out this information he had convinced his father to let him make a business deal with this consulting firm in Perth called ASTEC incorporated in which they would try to branch of Dugrey Enterprises in Australia.
His father was very suspicious and asked why Perth, why not Sydney, Melbourne or Queensland three respectable cities which had a larger population and held more business prospects then a lousy isolated city which had just over 1 million occupants. However he had convinced his father that starting out small would lead to bigger deals in the future and so his father had agreed and arranged for a business representative form ASTEC incorporated to fly over from Perth to New York where the meeting was to be held.
Once there Tristan drew out the plans and after a few days said that he would fly over to Perth and finalize the deal and also go for a holiday as he had never traveled to Australia. Jason the representative from ASTEC had agreed to let him stay at his hours rather then him staying at one of the hotels, saying if you want to holiday you have to come with me ill show u the best places Perth has to offer, and he agreed.
He hoped that he could be able to find Rory and make her see what Im going through and then change her mind and come back with me, and he was hoping that Jason knew where to find this "Sunday Times" she was working in.
Of all things fate was playing the upper hand when it lead to Rory Gilmore, because it certainly knows how to make a guys hurt break even more. She was with HIM, he couldn't even look at them without his heart breaking, kissing and hugging and talking and now he knew who the girl was this guy had talked about all the way back from New York because he knew that he had fallen for this girl too, he knew exactly why because he too had fallen for her.
He had just walked of the plane and Jason was leading him to his friends, then he saw something that looked like his Rory, no it couldn't be he told himself as he walked over to them. Jason ran up and gave her a long kiss and he took her into a bone crunching hug
" Hi I have missed you heaps, how have u been?",
"Um I would be a lot more betta if I can breath Jas, but Im good, I have missed you too". She then looked up and saw him,
"Um Guys this is TJ he'll be staying with us for a few days, my company is doing business with him and he has to fly over to finalize the deal so I told him he could stay with us if that's ok?"
They all mouth their acceptance and hellos and they all started to walk towards their cars. Jason stopped then Leigh while the others walked to their car,
"Um TJ I'd like you to meet my girlfriend Leigh".
All he could say was "Hi I'm TJ its nice to meet the person that Jason cant stop talking about" he said putting out a hand for her to shake but even then he couldn't even say it, he had a lump at the back of his throat, here was the woman who had walked out on him 3 years ago and now he had to keep his composure so she wouldn't see how hurt he was.
She hadn't even recognized him which just made it even worse or was it better that way? He was confused but all those years of being the cold hearted man that he had become he soon learnt how to put up a front and never showing his emotions in public, he could thank her for that.
"Hi Im Leigh", Um I think you will like Perth its nice I like it, its not like where I cam from but its nice and peaceful, I hope u will like it and I hope we can get along well too", he tried to ignore the spark he felt upon contact with her hand, he shook his head, she still had that kind of affect on him after all these years.
He replied back "I hope so too" He thanked his after for allowing him to go by the name TJ instead of Tristan or Janlen which would make it easier for him to meet people without them automatically assuming he was a the rich boy jerk he once was.
They had all walked of leaving him behind to compose his thoughts, Oh I think we are going to get along quite well Leigh, you can count on it, he mumbled under his breath as his new friends escorted him out to their car. He was going to have a great time here in Perth, he had told his father he would be staying in Perth for a month or maybe longer to try and find Rory but now he had found her, what was he going to do???
He hadn't thought about ever finding her, he just wanted to know that she was out there living her life he never really wanted to find her, now he had all the emotion he had been bottling up was resurfacing and he was afraid he might lose it if he wasn't careful.
He knew that this wasn't going to be easy … life never was he kept telling himself as he approached the couple,
"So where bouts u guys live anyway? Is it far from here?" he tried to muster up a conversation but could feel his voice breaking from his hurt.
"Um its only bout 20minutes away, we hope u like it man, its kinda small but it seems to fit us all perfectly" a guy he remember as Clayton said finally,
"Yeah im sure it would be more homely then any hotel hey?". "Yeah it would be" Nick replied.
"Well we hope to make you feel more at home TJ, ull be one of us in now time" Jason pat him on the back and they all climbed into the 4wd. The males were going in one car while the females in the other and all the way back to their house he couldnt think of anything but her, why had she moved, why had she left and why was she so distant to her mother?
These question he was sure to ask when ever the opportunity arised he told himself. He was so in thought that he nearly didn't even hear Mark ask
"so where abouts in the states were you from?"
"Oh im from Connecticut" he seemed to muster up…"
Jason spoke up as soon as he heard "Oh Leigh comes from Connecticut…."
TJ couldn't say anything but "wow maybe we might know each other" inwards he felt his stomach somersault as Jason replied " Wow wouldn't that be wired hah? My mate and my girlfriend knowing each other, weird anyways well soon find out hah?"
Yeah TJ thought, grinning to himself well soon find out…. Trust me we will find out once and for all….
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Why had she left all those years ago? Why did she move away from her life in Stars Hollow? What happened between her and Lorelai? R&R to find out :)
