Potential Good Company

Dean wasn't interested in more than a one night stand with Rory, much to her devastation. Deciding not to let it destroy her, she goes back to Yale and lets loose a little by spending a night with a random guy, Colin. Things get complicated, though, when she meets his friend Logan and they fall into an awkward threesome.

PS: Takes place in season five.

PS2: Plenty of sexual situations.

PS3: Bad language (I think Paris would have a dirty mouth for one).

PS4: I came to the conclusion I don't care for Dean, so some bashing ahead.

PS5: This does eventually feature a threesome. Don't like it, don't agree with it, don't read it.

Notes:

"Words" – regular conversation

'Words' – quotes and such, thoughts too

Chapter 0003: A Nice Break

Though Lorelai was loath to do it, she encouraged Rory to go away with her grandmother to Europe for the Summer. The girl didn't want to stay in Stars Hollow so soon after what happened, and Lorelai didn't blame her at all. She hadn't really seen Dean around, which was good, because she still wanted to cut his head off.

Rory wrote to her dutifully through e–mails and postcards regaling her with stories about 'doing Europe right', as Emily put it, which really just meant fancy hotels and restaurants and nowhere near as much excitement as backpacking had been, but Rory seemed better about Dean. Some of her melancholy seeped through, Lorelai had anticipated it, but her personal notes were always warm and light nevertheless.

Things with Luke were... Good, so good. There had always been something there, a spark, a chemistry she never wanted to admit to, but that they were 'them', she had no problems daydreaming about her downright handsome he was, and sexy (damn, he was sexy), and kind, the kindest, and patient (so damn patient). She didn't know how, but she was in love with Luke Danes.

She couldn't wait to tell Rory all about it. An e–mail just didn't seem the right way to tell her that she may have found the One across a cup of coffee so many years prior and she hadn't even known.

However, while Dean had been pretty much MIA, Lindsay had definitely not.

Lorelai saw the unhappy housewife all around town with her mother, mostly, telling her and everyone within hearing distance all about how Dean was so much more interested in her, in their marriage, how much more loving and energetic he was of late, and it was all Lorelai could take before she burst into their little tête–a–tête to say that, yeah, Dean was actually a cheating bastard who stole something precious from her daughter because he could, because she was too trusting of her first boyfriend.

She didn't do it, though, of course. Rory didn't want a scene, and Lorelai wasn't going to let her nerves get the best of her, no matter how satisfying it would no doubt be (that and, if she were to do it, Rory would have to be beside her to enjoy Dean being eviscerated for being a douchebag).

So she worked. She opened the inn for the public and worked her ass off to make sure it was successful (and by God it was), and she tentatively dated Luke. She went to see her father every Friday like clockwork, and was saddened by how upset he was but pretended not to be. Her parents had always been authoritative and smothering but they loved each other, they had always been the Gilmores, Richard and Emily, and now they were Emily with Rory in Europe and Richard at Home. It was so wrong, but she didn't dare tell her father that, she didn't think she would care to see him blow up – or worse, break down.

The Summer came to a close and Rory finally returned home.

Then Dean decided to make an appearance in their lives again.

It occurred to me that it would be a nice thing to warn people that Colin only comes into the story starting on chapter 07 (so two weeks from now). Until then, it's all groundwork and dealing with the Dean situation. This chapter and the next are kinda boring, all narration and no talk, but it kinda builds up to chapter 05 and blows up in chapter 06.