Thanks to my beta Bookluvr16 for making the chapter so much better. This chapter is for finnluvers24-7 who asked for it as aChristmas gift.

He looked back again and still saw his arm moving. Rory was about to look back, and he didn't need this right now.

"Nice glasses," She stopped and looked over at his smiling face.

"Yea some jackass gave them to me,"

"Ouch that hurts Rory," She saw his hand was moving towards her leg. He knew that he needed something to distract her so she wouldn't look back. She didn't want to make any sudden moves with her mom and Dean just behind them. He had his hand on her bare thigh and was drawing little circles on the inside. She reached her hand down and sat it on top of his.

"What are you doing?"

"Trying to cop a fill,"

"Well stop that. I have a boyfriend," He removed his hand as they pulled into a parking lot.

"Rory I've never eaten Chinese food before," They were standing at the door and Rory looked up at him.

"Then don't get chopsticks," She took his hand and they walked inside. Tristan and Lorelai were looking at each other ready for a battle. Rory looked at the two chairs that sat together at the table. She could either sit Dean and Tristan together, or Tristan and her mom. Either way would create some major issues. Deciding on putting two lesser evils together she sat down beside Tristan while Dean just looked at her. They all picked up the menus and Tristan didn't even try to mask his laugh as Dean had the menu upside down, which got him a swift kick on the side of the leg from Rory. The waiter walked over to them and Tristan was the first to speak.

"We will start out with Char Siu Bao," He nodded and walked away from them.

"What are we starting out with?" Dean asked looking over at Rory.

"Just barbeque-flavored pork with onions," She felt Tristans hand back on her leg, but this time it was under the bottom of her dress.

"So what schools are everyone interested in?" Tristan laughed a bit knowing she was directing the question mainly at him.

"Seeing as you already know what school Rory wants to go to and you know what trade school Dean over there wants to go to; I take it the question was directed towards me," Rory kicked him again as Dean and Lorelai were looking like they were about to jump over the table and cause bodily harm. "My dad wants Yale, mom wants Stanford, and so I was thinking the United States Naval Academy,"

"You want to be in the navy?" Rory looked over at him and he squeezed her thigh.

"Yea a Navy Seal,"

They were back at Chilton the lunch went alright except Dean tried to us the chopsticks and dropped food all over himself. Rory looked over her shoulder and saw that Tristan was talking to the Navy recruiter and she smiled. He was one of a few kids who parents didn't show up with him and she was wondering why. She walked over to him after he was done talking, her hands behind her back as he smiled at her.

"You know if you keep coming over here I'm going to think you want me,"

"Did you have a nice talk with the man in uniform?" He noticed she didn't answer him.

"Yea I was the first one who didn't hit on him." Rory smiled slightly at this.

"Well they do have the don't ask don't tell," He saw Dean was looking over at them.

"What are you doing tonight?"

"Washing my hair," They both laughed which made Dean's face even redder.

"All right how about after you wash your hair?" Tristan said with a grin.

"Takes all night to wash my hair, why are you asking me out tonight?"

"I'm leaving tomorrow for North Carolina and was hoping to spend my last night next to your naked, sweaty body," She leaned up as he bent his head down.

"Your bed or mine," She looked at his face and saw he was stunned. She was laughing now and he just looked at her.

"Mean, evil women, get a teenage boys hopes up and then throw cold water on him," Tristan said. He looked as if someone had kicked his puppy.

"What did you have in mind other then the naked and in bed part?"

"Just some coffee."

"Alright pick me up at seven," Tristan walked away and she saw Dean walking over to her.

"What?" Rory said defensively.

"What, is that I know this routine. That pretty boy just wants to get you into bed." Rory smiled thinking back on the conversation she just had with Tristan.

"Dean Tristan is leaving tomorrow and wants to have some coffee with me tonight." Rory said starting to walk away.

"And you said yes." Dean said as if this were a massive betrayal on Rory's part. Rory looked at him disbelievingly.

"He's leaving tomorrow Dean. I will probably never see him again, and it's just coffee. It's not like I'm going to end up sweaty and naked in his bed"

"Did he say that?" She just walked away from him with a grin, not saying anything else.

Tristan picked her up at seven and they went out to a diner and got something to eat. He drove back to his place and this certainly wasn't what she was excepting to happen; a coffee shop yes, but not his place. She tuned back into the conversation after she drove all serious thoughts out of her head. She was having fun so far and wasn't about to completely destroy the evening.

"You didn't lock all the boys out of the showers naked," She was laughing as he nodded.

"Yea I lit off some fire crackers and they all took off running. When they figured out it was me I had the door locked and the shower all to myself." She was laughing so hard she had tears running down her face as they walked up to the pool house.

"Why are we here anyways?"

"I get lonely at nights, and hear strange voices coming from my closet. Would you please scare away the monsters?" He pleaded with a puppy dog look on his face.

"That probably sounded better in your head but lacked a certain punch. Now seriously,"

"Relax I have coffee and no one is home," They didn't walk into the main house they went straight out back to the pool house. He unlocked the door and bowed for her to enter first.

"Well I guess chivalry isn't dead. So you stay out here all by your lonesome?"

"Yea I can't stand to be in that house,"

"Well you've got some nice digs yo," She said wryly as she walked over to counter, sat down on the stool, and was watched him.

"First off never do that again. Way too scary and yea it is," His eyes were on hers. She could feel her cheeks heating up with the telltale signs of a blush. He walked over to her and she stood up.

"What are you going to do?" She asked nervously.

"I'm going to kiss you. And I sure do hope that you don't run away crying again," He placed his right hand on her cheek and the other one on her hip. She closed her eyes as his lips touched hers. The kiss was soft and gentle. As she began to kiss him back he pulled back some and she could feel his breath on her lips.

"The coffee is done," He nodded and put his forehead on hers. His thumb was rubbing her bottom lip. He walked over to the coffee maker and poured them each a cup.

"Glad you aren't crying," He stated with a Cheshire cat grin. She just looked down at her cup.

"Don't go," She mumbled with her head still down and he looked at her.

"What was that?" He asked. He had to be hearing things.

"I don't want you to go back to North Carolina," She looked up at him in shock as if she couldn't believe those words were coming out of her mouth. That made two of them.

"Rory there is nothing left here for me. My home is not here anymore it's in North Carolina,"

"I never hated you Tristan," She looked up at him and her eyes were glassy with unshed tears that were about to pour down her face any minute now.

"What do you want me to stay for? I was a complete jerk to your mom, and now she hates me. You already have a boyfriend who, as you already said to the entire student body, that you love. I can't keep doing this. You can't keep doing this to me. You get my hopes up and then crash them down as if I don't have any feelings. I'm not a toy. It may seem to the entire population that I'm a playboy with no feelings but I have a soul and I can bleed with the best of them. You make me bleed and I can't do that and then patch it up everytime you decide that you can't trust me. Hell, your mom has the worst opinion about me, when I drop you off at your house, you will go inside and get grilled by your mom about what happened tonight. Did he hurt you? Are you still a Mary?"

"Mom won't ask me that," Rory replied indignantly.

"No but Dean will want to know that. Your life is so different from mine. This right here is what I'm coming home to," He waved his hand around the room. "Nothing, no one, I have no friends here, my parents are, god knows where right now. I was miserable here, I am miserable here. I'm so glad that I broke into that damn safe. It was the best thing that I've ever done," She looked up and saw he now had tears in his eyes. "My life isn't here. I have friends who like me for being myself, and not because I have money. If I was to stay here I would have to live at this place, be one of them again and I don't want that. I want to show when I'm mad or sad or even happy without being judged," He didn't know when he started to yell, but by the end of his speech he was yelling.

"Then why in the bloody hell did you kiss me?" She yelled back at him and he just looked at her.

"You are my kryptonite Rory Gilmore. Even after everything I just said, if I thought for one minute that I could have a chance at being with you, God knows I would stay. I would give up everything I have just to be with you," She reached her hand up and touched his cheek. He closed his eyes and leaned into her hand. She looked over her shoulder and saw his unmade bed and closed her eyes. She was internally battling herself.

"I don't want to be a Mary." He opened his eyes and looked at her. "I don't want the name anymore Tristan. I don't want to always do the right thing, or what everyone expects me to do. I'm seventeen and only kissed three people who aren't my family. I'm tired of doing the right thing all the time. I just want to act like a normal teenager. I don't want to be scared of having sex, because my mom had a one year old at my age," She kissed him and they were walking backwards towards the bed. Her knees hit the edge of the bed and she sat down on it.

"You know how hard it's going to be for me to leave tomorrow if we do this?" She nodded and pulled his shirt off. Her hands were shaking as he lifted her shit over her head.

She was lying beside him looking up at the fan that was on. This wasn't supposed to happen, not with him and not like this. Her body was still shaking as he pulled her closer to him and kissed her shoulder.

"What are you thinking about?" She rolled over and was now looking at him in the eyes.

"Nothing really," She lied to him not wanting to say this was a mistake.

"You're lying to me. Tell me good or bad what's going on inside that head of yours," He was tapping her forehead and she just smiled.

"What happens now with us? You're leaving tomorrow and not coming back,"

"Ask me to stay and I will. If you can lay here and ask me to stay I will do everything in my power to stay here with you," She closed her eyes and he had his answer.

"I can't ask you to change your life right now. You have friends who you don't want to leave. You even said it yourself you have nothing left here, North Carolina is your home,"

"Then give me a reason to stay here Rory. I said it before if you give me a reason to stay I will,"

"I don't want you to give up your life for me. I'm a wreak right now. I just cheated on my boyfriend twice now. I don't know what I feel for Jess. I just had sex for the first time to someone at one time I thought I hated," She felt the bed moving as he was now getting dressed. His back was turned towards her so she couldn't see his eyes that were glassy now.

"Go get dressed I'll take you home," She wanted to say something to him, but nothing seemed right or comforting so she just kept her mouth shut. She pulled the sheet off the bed and picked up her clothes.

The drive back to Stars Hollow was as silent as the dead. Neither one really knew what to say to the other. Rory was looking out the window at the passing cars. Tristan was continuously looking at the road and over at her. Why she had this hold on him he would never know.

He pulled up to her house and they were both sitting in the car just staring straight ahead, finally it was Rory who decided to talk.

"I'm sorry Tristan,"

"For what?" He looked over at her and she just shrugged her shoulders.

"Everything,"

"Me too,"

"Goodbye Tristan DuGrey," He looked over at her saw the tears running down her cheeks.

"Goodbye Mary," She smiled as he leaned over and kissed her.

"I don't regret it," she whispered into his ear before getting out of the car. She was about to close the door when she saw his open.

"Come with me," She looked over at him.

"What?"

"Come with me. No, I don't have a plan for everything. I just know if you were to come with me I would figure everything out," She looked down at her shoes and then back up at his eyes.

"I can't Tristan. I'm sorry," He nodded and got back into the car. She walked up to her steps and sat down. She pulled her phone out and saw he had put his number in it. Her finger was right above the number, when she closed it.

She walked inside the house and leaned up against the door. The only light that was on was from the tv, her mom must have fallen asleep waiting for her. She walked over to the couch. Her hand came over her mouth as she just ran out the door as fast as she could. She was now crying from what she had seen on the couch. She pulled out her cell phone and pushed the button this time.

"Could…Could yo… you come and get m…me I want to go with you," A few minutes later the black car pulled up and she jumped into the passenger side of the car.

"Rory what happened?" Tristan asked as worry was etched into his features.

"Can we just go?" She pleaded with tears running down her face. He just nodded and drove off.

Thanks for all the reviews for the first chapter. I'll also like to thank everyone who offered to beta the story for me. In the first chapter I said it was two years since she had seen Tristan, but it was only one sorry about that. The next chapter will start six years from the end of this one, and I will be using flashbacks to fill in holes as I go on. Once again thanks to everyone who read and reviewed the last chapter