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So here is the next chapter. Thanks for all the reviews. And another special thanks to gilmoreluver06. I hope that you all like this chapter. Sorry for any grammar problems that you might find.

When Rory finally woke up it was after three. She looked around for Tristan, but there was no sign of him. He must have changed his mind about staying with her. Rory was sad for reasons she didn't rightly understand. She hadn't eaten anything since that morning so she decided to try and make it into the kitchen.

"You're finally awake."

Rory jumped at the voice. There he was sitting at her kitchen table, holding a book.

"Don't do that. Are you trying to scare me to death?" Rory gasped.

"Sorry I didn't mean to." Tristan said as he placed a piece of paper in the book to hold his place.

"What are you reading?" Rory recognized the book that he was holding, but couldn't quiet make it out.

"Atlas Shrugged, I found it on your bookshelf. I hope you don't mind. You were sleeping and I didn't want to wake you. So I picked out one of your books and started to read." Tristan explained.

"No that's fine." Rory sat at the table across from him. So he had come back and if the duffle bag sitting by the door was in indication he planned on staying the whole time. Rory knew that she should try and get him to leave. But she knew that once Tristan set his mind to something he kept after it. Plus she knew that she might need someone to take care of her and Tristan was as good as anyone.

"Are you hungry?" Tristan asked glad that Rory had yet to argue with him about staying with her.

"Starving."

"Want some ice cream?" Tristan had stopped at the store on his way back from getting his stuff.

"That would be awesome. But it has to be kind of melted or I'll have to hold it in my mouth till it softens and that would lead to brain freeze and more head pain." Rory rambled not realized that with her swollen mouth the words came out in a complete jumble.

"Alright I'm not exactly sure what you just said, but I heard something about melting the ice cream." Tristan found a bowl and put three scoops of pain vanilla ice cream in it. Rory watched as he put the bowl in the microwave and gave it 30 seconds. He sat the bowl of slightly melted ice cream in front of her.

Rory was about to dig in, but Tristan stopped her. With a smirk he pulled out a bottle of chocolate syrup. With Rory's spoon he stirred the chocolate around till the vanilla ice cream had a chocolate swirl.

"Nice." Rory tasted the improved ice cream. It was really good, better than the stuff that you could buy at an ice cream parlor. The cool ice cream felt good on the places where her wisdom teeth used to be. Tristan had made himself a bowl of ice cream so they sat and ate in a comfortable silence.

"Why don't we watch a movie?" Tristan said after he had rinsed out their bowls.

"Sure, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Rory smiled and stood up. Slowly she made her way to the living room and the couch. She curled up on one end with the blanket around her. Tristan found the DVD and put it in the player. As he was about to sit on the other end of the couch he noticed a tape recorder sitting on the coffee table.

"Rory is there any reason that you have that out?"

"Mom recorded what I said on the way home from the doctor. You know when I was still under on that stuff that they use to put you under." Rory explained. Lorelai had said that she wanted Rory to know just how crazy she sounded.

Tristan gave Rory a grin and hit play. There was a moment of silence then all of a sudden Rory's voice could be heard. It was sluggish and muffled.

"TACO!!!!!!!!!" Was suddenly shouted over the recorder.

"You know that I lu lu love you very mu mu much mommy." Came after the sudden taco shout.

Tristan was laughing his head off. Rory tried not to laugh, but between how stupid she sounded and the warm feeling that Tristan's laughter caused she couldn't help it.

"Can we watch the movie now?" She asked once the recording was done.

Tristan didn't answer he just hit the play button and sat back to watch the movie. He hadn't watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factor since he was a little kid. But the movie seemed perfect for Rory.

The movie had just ended when the phone started ringing. Rory thought that it might be Lorelai, she had said that she would call to check on Rory every night at nine, but the clock above the TV said that it was only 8:30. Lorelai was never early.

That's when it hit Rory. They had forgotten to call the Gilmores and tell them that they were not going to be able to come to Friday night dinner. That had to be Emily calling to check up on them.

"That's my grandmother." Rory practically shouted at Tristan who was about to pick up the phone.

Tristan's hand stopped in midair. He looked at Rory for some indication about what to do.

"Don't answer it, let the machine get it."

Tristan backed away from the phone and watched it ring. He wondered how Rory knew that it was Emily calling. Maybe it was some innate Gilmore thing. Finally the phone stopped ringing as the answering machine picked up.

"Lorelai pick up the phone. You better not be just standing there lessoning to this message. You have missed two dinners in the past mouth. And this time you didn't even bother to call. That is just rude Lorelai. I had the cook make a whole turkey, now that is just going to go to the waste. I thought that you had at least matured enough to call and let me know when you have decided to break our dinner arrangements. Lorelai I'm going to hang up the phone right now and if you don't call me back in the next ten minutes I'm coming to Stars Hallow to see what exactly kept you away from dinner tonight." Tristan was amazed that the answering machine didn't blow up after a scolding like that.

He look up at Rory, who was sitting on the couch wide eyed, "What do we do know?"