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Summary: To protect his younger sister, Mariana, Tristan sends her to stay with Rory after he gets sent away to military school. AU. TRORY.
Rating: PG-13 for language and mild violence
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Title: That's My Sister: Chapter 4
Tristan's phone vibrated in his pocket. He pulled it out, and checked the screen. 'One new text message' it said. He flipped open his phone and noticed a familiar number that sent it. It read:
How r u mate? Ben awile.
Tristan replied: Hell yea! 2 long!
Wats up? Came the reply. They traded off text messages for almost an hour, and those messages went like this, the friends traded off back and forth.
Rents shiping me away
Y? Ware?
Hit the mega ass and Mom got mad. Stupid drunk. NC. Milit skool
Sry mate. Wat about ur sis?
Staying w/ a friend.
Friend?
Yea
Im hurt
Y?
b/c she's not w/ me!
Im not leving my lil sis w/u
Whos she w/?
A friend.
Wich friend?
U don't know her
Her?
Yea. U don't no her
Try me. I might surprise u
Rory Gilmore
Blue eyes? Brown hair? Real name Lorelai?
U no her?
U think? So Mares w/Rory?
Yep
Good
Y?
No response.
Finn?
Still no response. "Shit." Tristan whispered.
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"FINN!" Rory and Mariana yelled at the same time, stopped, looked at each other, shrugged, jumped up, and ran over to the extremely attractive Australian standing in the doorway, each taking one side.
Finn smiled and looked at Lorelai, "I believe that I just walked into heave. 'Ello darlings," he finished looking down at the two girls in his arms.
"What are you doing here?!" Mariana asked, gripping Finn's shoulder tightly as though she was afraid that he would disappear without any warning.
"Well a little birdie named Tristan told me that two beautiful women were stranded in Stars Hollow without a male escort," Finn started to explain when Rory interrupted.
"Dirty," she giggled.
"Very mature, doll. Like I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," he began again, glaring playfully at Rory. "Tristan told me that these two lovelies were here by themselves and I thought that I would come and keep them company. Wasn't that very sweet of me?"
"Very gentlemanly," Mariana said with a smile plastered on her face.
"Well I am the gentlest."
"And the manliest," Lorelai said, coming to join the hubbub at the door. "Hi Finn."
"Lorelai you look ravishing as always," Finn said raising her hand to his lips.
"I knew there was a reason why I liked men with accents. You're all very charming."
"Come have lunch with us?" Mariana asked, still holding onto Finn for dear life. Rory had already moved away from him and was standing in the conversation of her own free will.
"Well, I could never turn down an invitation for lunch from such a charming child as you, now could I?"
"Who said anything about a child, I'm 16." Mariana looked at him sternly; he was going to understand this alias thing without making a scene.
"When did you get that old, last check I heard you were fifteen, Mare?"
"You know what, let's go outside." Mariana said, looking at Finn again. While they were talking she had finally let go of him and was leading him outside by the arm.
"I guess we'll be right back," he said to the table before the door closed behind him.
"What is wrong, Mare?" He said, after they had stepped outside.
Mariana pulled Finn around the corner and over to a less crowded part of the street. "Listen," she hissed. "I'm not mad at you or anything, but people here know me as Jenn Fallbrook. I'm 16, and drove here myself. I'm here visiting my friends Lorelai and Rory for a couple of weeks while my parents are out of town, okay?"
"Why?"
"Because I've run away, okay? You know what my parents are like you've known me and Tristan for seven years for God's sake. Tristan got sent away and he wanted me to be safe so he sent me here to stay with Rory and her mom, and they don't know about Mom and Dad. Don't blow this for me, please? I've only been her a day, and I think I could learn to like it."
"Yeah, no problem, Jenn." He emphasized her name to show her that he understood.
"Good. You want to go back?"
"Yeah, I think that would be a good idea, love," Finn replied, slinging an arm over Mariana's shoulders on their way back to the diner.
When every one was seated again around a table full of burgers, conversation picked up.
"So how do you two know each other?" Lorelai asked Mariana and Finn.
"Oh, well it's kind of a funny story, you see Tristan was ten and I was eight. We were going to see our grandpa for the first time alone. One day grandpa decided to take us to the park, and while we were there-" Mariana began, but Finn interrupted her.
"The way she tells this story always puts me in a bad light. You see, me and a few of my mates were just having some fun with this guy-"
"It wasn't so much fun as they were practically beating the daylights out of him."
"I never touched him," Finn defended. "I can't say anything for anyone else though."
"Anyways, Tristan went over there to see what was wrong and he found Finn there who said-"
"I said 'we weren't picking on him, really.'"
"And that made Tristan laugh and all of us friends. You could say that the rest is history I guess."
"Wow," Lorelai said. "That really wasn't that interesting, I'm bored again."
"Thank you, love. It makes me feel all tingly inside that I bore you so."
"Your welcome!"
"So, Rory, how do you and Finn know each other? That must have a story too."
"Um, well," Rory said, but Lorelai interjected. This wasn't a story that Rory was proud of.
"What about that tour of the town?" She asked. "I'm sure Finn could help shed some light on it all, couldn't you Aussie?"
"Absolutely, kitten. I would love to give the Stars Hollow exclusive!" Finn said, standing from the table. "Let's go! Oh wait, is that Ms. Patty woman still here? I believe that my rump is still traumatized."
Rory and Lorelai laughed. "She's still here," Rory replied.
"Who's Ms. Patty?" Mariana asked.
"You'll figure it out," Lorelai said. "You kids have fun now. I'll be at the inn if you need me."
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Dean had gone to get coffee, but changed his mind when he noticed the occupants of the diner. Rory was in there with her mother and the girl from the night before. Then he saw another guy walk in there, and he also saw his girlfriend jump into that guy's arms. He was going to have to talk to her eventually, he thought. What were they now? In his mind they were still together, but she cheated on him with the Accountant no less. How could they ever work? But he loved her; he wanted her. He had almost gotten the courage to go into the diner until he noticed the girl he didn't know run out with the guy he didn't know. He followed them around the corner and heard their entire conversation. He ran into Doose's when they turned to leave their hiding spot. Maybe he got something better than coffee.
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"So how should we start this tour?" Mariana asked as they were walking out of the diner.
"Well, you know that's Luke's," Rory said, gesturing behind her to the building they had just exited. "Luke and his nephew Jess live upstairs in the office that Luke turned into an apartment."
Mariana's mind switched to her phone conversation from last night, or rather earlier this morning. She shook her head. It was just a coincidence.
"Now this is basically the center of town," Rory said, moving onto the gazebo after covering the strip next to Luke's.
"Yawn," Finn said. "I think that I might just get some sleep on this bench listening to you talk, kitten." He lay down on the bench and began to snore.
"Am I really that boring?"
"Well," Mariana hesitated.
"Yes, love; you are the most boring tour guide on the face of the planet bar none. And we," Finn pulled Mariana down onto his lap to prove that they were in fact the 'we' he was speaking of, "will not stand for it."
"Well then, what are you going to do about it?" Rory asked, smiling, her hands on her hips.
"We're going to liven it up, of course," Finn said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out his cell phone.
"What're you going to do with that?" Rory asked, motioning towards his newly retrieved cell phone.
"I'm going to call in the reinforcements!" Finn punched a series of numbers into his phone, waited, his phone chimed, he read what it said and then exclaimed," The cavalry has been launched! We're not to leave this spot for an hour."
"Where is the cavalry coming from?" Mariana asked. It only takes twenty minutes to get to Stars Hollow from Hartford. Forty-five they came from Boston.
"Better yet," Rory said, "who is the cavalry?"
"Logan and Colin, my best mates, darling. A charming duo really, you'll love them to death!" He waved his hands around to accent how she'd love them to death.
"Again, where are they coming from? It shouldn't take them an hour to get there."
"They have to get supplies! I can't believe you, doll! You've known me how many years, and you're questioning my doings? I'm appalled!"
"I'm sorry, Finn. I apologize." Mariana bowed her head and looked sorrowful.
"Don't look sad! You break my heart like that!" Finn clutched Mariana to his chest and sang "Don't Worry Be Happy" loudly and off key. The two girls busted with laughter and Finn flashed his charming smile. "Who wants ice cream?"
"Me!" Marian said.
"Don't we have to wait for you friends?" Rory asked.
"They'll find us." Finn said casually and stood, Mariana sliding off of his lap. "Onward!"
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"I'm taking my break alright, Taylor?" Dean asked, slowly removing his apron.
"You've got fifteen minutes, young man."
"Yes, sir." Dean opened the door to the grocer, and not looking, ran into someone.
"Sorry," he mumbled turning to leave.
"No problem, mate."
The Australian accent caught him off guard. Dean turned around and saw the new girl, Jenn or was it Mariana? With her was Rory and the guy whose name he thought was Finn. Now was his chance. "Hey Rory, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?" He asked looking straight at her.
"No," she mumbled.
"What?"
"This is Jenn and Finn." Rory replied quickly, pointing to each of her friends in turn.
"Dean Forester," he said shaking Finn's outstretched hand roughly and looking Mariana up and down.
"Dean, I think we need to talk." Rory said. "I'll catch up with you guys at Fran's."
"Alright." Mariana looked at Rory skeptically. Wasn't this the loon that was calling her names last night? Finn almost questioned the scenario, but he decided to let it be.
"Dean, what do you think you're doing?" Rory asked after her friends left.
"I'm talking to my girlfriend."
"You don't have a girlfriend here anymore Dean."
"What do you mean, Rory? We haven't decided anything." He was getting angry. This isn't how it was supposed to go.
"Decided?! Dean, I decided that we were over when you accused me of not only sleeping with one guy, but five people, male and female!" Rory yelled. Both teenagers were so upset that neither noticed two heads pop around the corner, skillfully eavesdropping.
"I didn't that we'd break up over that!" He yelled back. If she could yell, then he could to.
"You didn't think that we'd break up after you called me a whore in Luke's? How can you be so blind?!"
"You may think that I'm blind, but I'm not deaf. You have no idea what I know."
"What are you talking about, Dean?" Rory asked, thoroughly confused.
"I'm talking about your friend, Jenn, or should I say Mariana."
"Go to hell, Dean." Rory spat and started towards Fran's. She didn't know what she was going to do, but she knew that she wasn't going to do it when he was this angry. Her mother taught her never to pick a fight with someone bigger than her, and he was definitely bigger.
Rory walked right past the two women who had been eavesdropping on her argument, and she didn't even notice when they turned down the other way saying "East side Tilly's got nothing on us."
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"Dish, doll. What was that with Rory and the grocery guy?" Finn asked Mariana when they were safely hidden inside of Fran's.
"As far as I understand, which as you know is very little."
"You rarely do understand, love. I don't know what you keep in your head, monkeys or something I suppose, but no matter. Proceed."
Mariana glared at Finn who just smiled back at her and waved for her to continue. "Anyways," she said. "the Dean guy caught her kissing Tristan as like a good bye thing, I guess, and they, Dean and Rory, were or are dating, I'm not sure which anymore. Dean called Rory on it after she performed her scene that Tristan would've had to do if he hadn't gotten shipped off."
"Wait a sec, wasn't Tristan there? Why didn't he stay?"
"I don't know. I guess he didn't want to be there any longer. Who really wants to sit around school on a Friday night?"
"Good point."
"So anyways, when Rory got done Dean blew up and said that she slept with Tristan and everyone else in on the scene too. Rory freaked out and stopped talking while Lorelai got Dean out of the school. While they were there I was at the diner, by the way. So Dean comes into the diner, I know this part because I lived it just to let you know. Dean comes in, asks for Rory and Lorelai who aren't there. Then when they do get there, Rory won't come in until he leaves so her friend Lane tries to kick Dean out but it doesn't work, and she asks Luke to help who won't do anything without a reason, but then Dean shoots off his mouth calling Rory a whore and stuff and got kicked out. The end."
"Darling, your stories are very rambly did you know that?"
"Yes I did."
"Good, so long as you knew. Then why did she want to talk to him?"
"I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine. We'll have to ask her." Just then, Rory came storming into the bakery red in the face and looking somewhere between bawling and killing. "Hey Finn," Mariana whispered as Rory walked over to the table.
"Yeah," he whispered back.
"Maybe you oughta call off the cavalry." Mariana suggested as Rory sat down.
"Right." Finn said, and began texting Logan again.
"You wanna talk about it?" She asked Rory.
"He knows your secret. I don't know what we're going to do. He kept saying that he didn't think that we'd break up over what he said, and then he said he knew so I told him to go to hell."
"What?!" And astounded Finn proclaimed. "Did you actually say 'hell'? Love, I've known you three years and I've never heard you say anything remotely vulgar! I'm so proud!" Finn pinched her cheeks in a loving manner.
"Yeah, well we're gonna have bigger problems if he tells anyone."
"We'll deal with that when the time comes, love." Finn said, patting Rory on the back.
"It can't be that bad, right?" Mariana asked, looking from face to face. Rory couldn't tell what was going through her head, but Finn could see the horror in her eyes.
"So who's up for a Gilmore movie night? It'll be fun. We'll all unwind and eat copious amounts of crap. Who's with me?!" Finn said putting his hand in the center of the table like in a huddle. Both girls looked at him like he was nuts, but put their hands on his nevertheless.
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