A/N: Hello! I know I only updated earlier today but I'm on a writing binge at the minute (that's what I do when I'm upset so you can always tell how downhill things are going in my life by how often I update, although I still update a lot when I'm happy too but more when I'm upset, I tend to dive into any writing I can get my hands on even if its beta-reading other peoples stuff). Next is Christopher (suggested by Iscah McKrae and Miguel51). I always hated him; he kept getting in the way of Luke and Lorelai. Speaking of, I might be doing some Lorelai/Luke stories soon. Let me know if you think I should. Anyway, these a/ns seem to be getting longer and longer as we go through the chapters. And the story continues.
Chapter 7: Christopher Hayden.
"Daddy can we go see wowy and lowelai to day?" Gigi asked Christopher, she couldn't pronounce certain things yet so 'wowy' meant 'Rory' and 'lowelai' means 'Lorelai'.
"I'm not sure sweetie, I'll call em and make sure it's ok by them and if Rory's in Stars Hollow, if so then I don't see why not." He replied. He hoped Lorelai would say no, he really didn't want to see Luke. He hated the guy, and he didn't think jess was right for Rory either yet Lorelai seemed to be fine with him which Christopher didn't get. A couple of years ago, she was talking about killing the little punk. He had to pretend to like him, at least around her, Luke and Rory or both the girls would try beat the crap out of him for trying to 'make him uncomfortable' as they'd said last time when he started 'practically interrogating him' as Rory put it, he personally didn't see the problem he was just asking questions like where he grew up and if he had past girlfriends and why he wasn't with them anymore. He really didn't see what the problem was.
Ring, ring. Ring, ring. "hello?" Lorelai.
"Hey Lor, it's Chris. Um, Gigi want to know if we can come down and visit for a while, she misses you and wants to see Rory if she's there."
"Oh, um, yeah Rory's here but ill have to ask her first, she's still not very happy with you for how you treated jess and to be honest neither am I." She said sternly.
"I know, I shouldn't have said what I said to him, I had no right but this isn't for me, it's for Gigi, she misses you and Rory," Guilt trip. Always works with Lorelai.
"Fine, ill ask her, one sec…. RORY! YOUR DADS ON THE PHONE HE WANTS TO KNOW IF HE CAN BRING GIGI TO VISIT FOR THE DAY…" Christopher could hear Rory reply but couldn't make out many of the words. He could vaguely hear something that sounded like "…still mad at him about Jess!"
"I KNOW SWEETIE, HE SHOULDN'T HAVE STARTED ON HIM, HE SAID IT'S NOT FOR HIM, IT'S FOR GIGI!" Wow Lorelai had a set of lungs on her, She could really shout when she wanted to.
"OK SWEETIE I'LL TELL HIM! Am back. She said yes but jess' here too so DON'T start anything, I mean it Chris! He's a good kid now, he's changed! You do I'll swear to any god you want, you will never be welcome here again! Go it?" She was so strict lately, must be hanging around with Luke too much.
"Okay, okay, calm down I wont say anything to him, well I obviously have to at least say hello but nothing unpleasant, I promise," He said in his most innocent voice.
"Okay, good, when will you get here?" She replied, quieter this time, calmer.
"Be about an hour or so, ill text you when we're close by,"
"'Kay. I mean it Chris play nice, to Luke too, he's been sick a while he's just got better he cant be dealing with you right now," Luke was sick?
"Okay, see ya," He hung up and turned to Gigi waiting impatiently.
"Wew?" well. She said as soon as he looked at her.
"They said we can come but you remember Rory's boyfriend? Jess? He's going to be there too," He sort of hoped it would put her off going and he wouldn't have to see him again and try and refrain himself from saying what he's constantly thinking whenever he's around the kid.
"Yey! Jess is fun, he always reads to me and he's really nice and funny! And Rory really likes him!" she jumped up and down in excitement. Christopher sent her to get ready while he hunts down his car keys.
Great.
He texted Lorelai when they where 20 minutes away.
When they pulled into the driveway of the 'crap shack' Gigi was out the car before he'd even put the hand break on and race up to the door.
Christopher ran after her and the door opened just as he got there. Jess.
"Oh, hey, come in," He moved out of the way for them to come in and started talking again before Christopher could say anything "Rory's in her room, she wasn't sure weather Gigi would be staying the night so she got the trundle out then put it away again in case she wasn't about 5 times before I was called to help Luke in the diner an hour ago. I came back 5 minutes ago and she was still getting it out and putting it back away. Lorelai's in the shower so I'll, um, go get Rory for you." He said it all without stopping for a second to let him say anything back and walked away before he could even register everything he'd said. Jess definitely had the Gilmore speed-talk thing down. He had smiled at Gigi when he'd first answered the door but that was it.
"Hey Gigi!" Rory beamed as she ran up and picked her up, hugging her close.
"Oh, hey dad," She said a lot less enthusiastically, as if she didn't realized he was there before. He knew she was just pretending. Rory was smart, she'd know Gigi couldn't get here without him.
"Hey sweetie, don't I get a hug?" He tried to be chirpy to show that he wasn't going to dwell on last time and try cheering her up.
"Sure," She lent forwards, still holding Gigi, and hugged him but it was awkward and rigid.
The night went okay, Christopher didn't really have to stay in the same room as jess on his own much, and he thought Rory made sure he didn't to avoid unnecessary conflict.
Until dinner.
They ate at the diner because they actually had edible food there. Jess was staying in the apartment upstairs since Luke was living at the house with Lorelai. Rory was going to stay with him to keep him company but he said he'd be fine and they where both going to be at the house all the time anyway so I'd make sense that Rory stays there so she doesn't have to walk in the dark to get to a bed. She argued, saying it was Stars Hollow, the safest place ever and no one in town would hurt anybody but he said people could come to town to murder people, it had happened in other small towns around the country lately, Christopher agreed with him but didn't say it out loud. He was too stubborn. Then, Rory argued that if there was a murderer it'd make more sense for them to stay together, also a valid point, but Christopher didn't like the idea of Rory walking round in the dark even if it was Stars Hollow and even if she did have jess with her. Jess had continued his argument by saying if she was walking with him he'd be so paranoid something would happen to her that it would be difficult to look out for himself too because she'd be top priority and he wouldn't be much use protecting her if he was murdered first and it was easier on him if he just had himself to be paranoid about.
Christopher's head hurt. Stupid smart people.
Rory gave up.
They ate in moderate quiet. Except for the separate conversations. Rory was talking to Jess, Lorelai was talking to Luke and Christopher was talking to Gigi. Lorelai had asked jess what he wanted for his birthday next month and he had replied by saying "Oh, I didn't even realize it was that close. It's okay Lorelai, you don't have to get me anything."
"Oh, shut up, we're getting you something!" Lorelai said, referring to her and Luke, who nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, come on. You got any new books you want?" Luke chimed in.
"Nope, I got a load not long ago, should keep me going for a while, thanks anyway but you really don't have to get me anything," Jess said again.
"Oh, what was that new band you was listening to yesterday? They're new right? They can get you some new CDs!" Rory suddenly exclaimed, making everyone jump.
"What new band? I wasn't listening to anything new. New music sucks," He said, confused.
"Yes you were, I'd never heard it before. It said 'if you want honesty, all you have to do is ask' or something…" she trailed off trying to remember.
"You mean 'If you wanted honesty, that's all you had so say'?" He said after a minute of quiet thinking.
"YES! That one!" She shouted again, "who was it?"
"My Chemical Romance, They're not new. I just haven't listened to them in a couple of years since I lived in New York so I started up again. Forgot how much I used to like them." He replied sounding slightly defensive. Only slightly.
"Yeah get him some My Chemical Romance stuff for him birthday," somehow, Jess had been excluded from the conversation about himself as Rory and Lorelai talked among themselves. He shot Luke a bewildered look, to which Luke just smiled, sighed and shook his head, continuing eating.
"My Chemical Romance? Aren't they emo?" Christopher decided to speak up.
Jess just looked over calmly while Lorelai's, Rory's and Luke's heads all shot up to glare at him
"Actually, they're Alternate rock, Pop Punk or Post hardcore, depending on how you personally look at it," Jess seemed to loose interest half way through his own sentence because his voice became more bored around the word 'Post' and he had looked down at his plate and started playing with some of the food before he was finished speaking, as if he'd explained this many times before to many different people and it had just become tiresome and an automatic response.
"Ok. Have you ever cut yourself?" He asked, bluntly. The other's heads shot up again but jess (again) just calmly looked up and said, "yes," and looked down again. He offered no explanation or further information, just continued eating.
Rory, Luke and Lorelai were staring at Jess and Christopher guessed none of them knew that. They stayed like that a while. Jess oblivious to the fact everyone was staring at him.
"Christopher! Out! Now!" Lorelai shouted at him standing up and pointing at the door of the diner. Luke and Rory were both trying to get Jess to talk, each holding an arm each.
"But-" he started before Lorelai cut him off.
"NOW!" She startled him slightly with how serious she was before standing and grabbing Gigi's hand.
"Fine. Come on Gigi," he said tugging her arm slightly when she didn't stand up.
"No! I don't wanna leave! Auntie Lowelai didn't say I had to go!" she looked close to tears but Christopher didn't care.
"Gigi! If I have to go, so do you!" he practically shouted at her. She started crying then.
"Gigi, you don't need to go. If you want, you can stay in Rory's room with her and I'll drive you back to your dad's in the morning, okay?" Lorelai said soothingly. She stopped crying and nodded.
"The girl's spoken, Chris! Leave. I'll bring her back in the morning." Gigi tugged free and took Lorelai's hand, standing next to her; she reached up to just bellow her hip.
Christopher turned round and stormed out without another word.
He drove out of Stars hollow as quickly as possible. He was so mad at Lorelai! How could she take jess' side over his? Besides, its not like he was trying to start something, he only asked! She'd known and liked him longer than Jess! She hated the kid until not long ago, why did she suddenly give a crap about him now!
It was raining.
Badly.
Very badly.
So badly Christopher didn't see the approaching car breakdown truck until it was too late.
A/N: Hope you liked it, if you want to know what conversation Rory, Jess, Lorelai and Luke had after Christopher left, I'm posting a oneshot about it soon, it'll be called The truth comes out. Let me know if you'd be interested so I know weather to bother or not. Sorry the death was boring I'm running out of stream I think. The next ones should be more creative. Review as always! Xx
