Title: Come Home Little Girl
A/N: They will be OOC, I can't help it
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Sorry to all of those who love Rogan or Trory. I am a tried and true Literati!
Ok, the parts will be shorter; I can't do that much typing at once.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, and everything belongs to somebody, but that doesn't mean I am not jealous! Some things are taken out of the latest episode, too lazy to write out the whole title.
Thanks to:
Sarai: Thanks, I do try. And I am fine. I swear dire things happen when I am into writing. But I am fine. I just broke my clavicle, so typing is a little difficult, but I shall overcome!
Kylie1403: Yes, I do believe he is creepy. But when are stalkers not creepy? There is this thing I saw on t.v, where this guy was complaining that as a stalker, he never got to go where he wanted. It was funny, I don't know. Keep a reading'
Gilmore Girl Fan: whew, your name is always so hard to type, so I shall call you GG&LF, I hope you lurve it! And I shall update as soon as possible.
LitGG1982: I am not revealing who it is until next post, but I am glad that my stalker is keeping you thinking about it. Thanks for the review.
AnneTrinityRGJM: hehe spaz, that's awesome! Like I said above, next post you will find out who the person is. Moohawhahwahahawhaw evil cackle (but not the strange cackle, cause I am not the stalker!)
CoffeeJunkee06: well well well, you always have the best reviews. I hope you like this part just as much, although I admit its not the best. It's more action than anything else. Well not really.. how about I change the subject. You shall learn soon!
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Nessquick13: I am incapable of doing anything else. I don't like Logan, Dean is Mr. Creepy man, Tristian doesn't even bleep on the radar and it's Jess, only Jess. Sigh! This is Literati insured.
Ok here is the story on the car accident. (I am fine I swear!) so I was driving with my friend Jacqueline. (We were on our way to Gilmore girl night, the best night of the week.) And we were driving on Briar Road and wanting to cross Avenue Rd. A very busy street, it was rush hour, and instead of driving out of our way to get to the light streets, we want to go straight. So the guy gestures for us that he is letting us cut through and we go and we are only one lane from crossing the intersection then WHAM! This mad BMW X5 driving maniac t bones us on my side. His bumper was wedged into Jacq's car. (An yellow Nissan x terra supercharged, a big honking car!) And the license plate is embedded into the side of the car. I broke my clavicle, and Jacqueline broke her chest plate, but other than that we are fine. Stupid Toronto rich snob drivers with customized plates. Sorry, but I could have died.. Well to me I could have, but I am a smidge drama queen, and I am freaked. What if I have a final destination situation, where I have cheated death, and now death is coming for me. Well this was supposed to reassure you, and now I have ranted WAY too long on this, so here I say adieu and enjoy the story. Peace!
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I stumble out of my room and I see Luke sitting at the kitchen table staring at some report. He doesn't hear me or notice me and he rubs his eyes tiredly. 'You ok?' I ask and he looks up and is clearly startled and he tries to move the report so I wouldn't notice it.
'I'm fine.' Luke says curtly and I look at him in surprise. I don't say anything else and go over to turn on the coffee maker. The kitchen is quiet and you can hear the ticking of the old fashioned clock that sat on the mantle in the living room. My feet were cold and I tried to warm them up and I saw that Luke moved from the corner of my eye.
He came and stood beside me and he handed me my slippers that Paul Anka had been worshipping the day before. 'I'm sorry for snapping.' He says and I shrug. 'It's ok.' Mom said that Luke had been acting weird, like he was hiding something, but they both agreed to be open and honest.
'Can I ask you a question?' Luke says and he divides the coffee and his secret ingredients into the coffee filter. 'Yup.' I reply. He sighs and shoves the coffee filter into the slot and then watches as I get out my mug. 'How do you tell Lorelai something that could possibly ruin everything?' He looks miserable and more prominently frightened.
'It depends on what the news is, is it really bad?' I ask and find myself resorting back to when I was a child. I remember once we went to New Jersey to visit my dad at school. I must have been four, and the entire time people stared at me like I was something to laugh at. I heard my Dad and Mom yell at each other and I hated that feeling. I remember that I didn't feel safe and everything was tumbling around me. That was the last time we went to go see Dad at school.
'Did you um. Cheat on mom?' I ask and Luke looks up at me in wide-eyed shock. 'God no Rory, never. This has to do with me 12 years ago.' He says and I nod and go and sit at the kitchen table. 'Did you hurt someone?' I ask and Luke has the same reaction. 'No, not at all.'
Luke is silent looking at his mug of tea (it's manly mom had said) he looked at me like he was trying to figure out how to break it to me. Mom had to do that so many times that I just welcomed whatever dire thing Luke had coming.
'This was way before I knew your mom, I had opened my diner two years back and I was still in a bad place, and I would go out occasionally to this Sports Bar in Woodbury. My life that I had dreamt of my whole life was gone, and I was in this town that I hated. I met Anna there and we had some sort of fling, and then it was over before I knew it.'
I looked at Luke in shock. I can't see Luke doing anything that had a fling in it. He was a steady, granite kind of guy that was all in. 'I haven't thought of Anna Nardini or anything from that time in a long time and now it appears I have a kid.'
Luke looked miserable but I could see the pride in his eyes when he had said the word 'kid'. I wanted him to look at me like that. 'Oh, a kid. Wow!' I managed to squeak out and I went up and poured an entire cup of coffee and I poured it down my throat and it burned a path to my stomach. 'Yeah. A daughter, her name is April, and she is brilliant. I don't know how to tell your mom.'
I go to make more coffee but Luke gives me this strange look and I sigh. 'Tell her the same way you told me, just try to not make it seem like you are sleeping with eastside Tilly alright?' I say and he nods and then he goes to make some Eggs. 'You want an omelette instead.' He says and I shake my head no. 'suddenly I'm not very hungry.' I softly walked into my room and shut the door and all I could think of was that now he didn't need to love me like I was his own.
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I was silent all day, I hardly quipped with Mom as she and I worked to organize a wedding that was happening in a month at the Inn. Over lunch with Jess I tried to be engaging and tried to be myself, but it bothered me that Luke, who I had known for so long, who I had counted on, had a daughter, a real daughter who had a claim on him, when really I didn't.
'You ok Rory?' Jess asked after I had started to make ketchup designs with my fries on my plate rather than eating them. Something that wasn't very Gilmore Girlish. 'I'm fine.' I say and I can tell he's looking at me but I don't even respond.
Finally Jess forced me to look at him 'is this about yesterday? Cause if you weren't ready..' I shake my head no. 'No, that was perfect, this has nothing to do with us. I can't tell you yet, but I promise you I will tell you later.' I say and Jess looks at me like I am hiding something.
'Hey guys.' Luke says and I look up startled. 'Uh hi. Jess I gotta go.' I say and lean in for a quick kiss and bolt out of the door. I just couldn't deal with Luke and knowing his secret. Jess chased after me but I just waved him off and went to the inn. Mom had gone to some meeting at her accountants and so I manned the front desk.
It was pretty quiet and then Luke bursts in and I pick up the phone and randomly dial and start a conversation so he can't talk to me. Why was I acting so mental?
'Rory, is your mom around?' Luke asks and I shake my head and put my finger up to indicate that I was busy. He taps his fingers fast and loud on the desk and I try so hard to keep my act going. Finally he just takes the phone out of my hand and hangs it up. 'Is your mom around?' he asks and I just shake my head no and look at the screen.
'Oh ok.' Luke says and he backs away from the desk and I look up and he is hurt. 'She's at a meeting with her accountant.' I say and he nods and he turns to leave but then he looks at me and says 'I'm sorry I disappointed you.' Like a child says to the parent and I look up at Luke's retreating form and all I want to do is scream out for him and run and get hugged by him. (Even though he feels utterly awkward doing it.)
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Mom returns and says that she has to go meet Luke. He has big news and I bite my lip and not blabber the news. I know mom will be a little shocked, and deep down a little hurt that she can't give Luke his first child, but she will understand. That's the way mom's mind works. As she leaves she looks so excited and I hate to see that disappear.
Jess comes to pick me up and he immediately crushes me to him and kisses me. 'God your beautiful.' He whispers harshly and I smile and kiss him back. I felt weak reacting the way I did to Luke's news, and I am sure that once I meet April that I will like her. She has to have some Luke in there, even though he just found out about her.
He and I walk hand in hand from the Inn to the house. It starts to snow and Jess starts skipping much to my amusement and he and I start making snow angels and we frolic to the house. When we get there, Jess runs into the house and bangs doors, but I knew that Luke was going to tell Mom so I am quiet.
Luke and Mom are seated on the couch, with Luke's arm draped over mom in a protective gesture. Mom's eyes are red and you can tell she has been crying.
'Rory?' she asks, and I go over and she immediately hugs me. Jess looks concerned. 'What's going on? Are you guys ok?' Jess asks and Luke pulls him into the kitchen while mom continues to hug me. 'Mom, it's going to be alright.' I say and mom nods her head. 'I know.'
Mom holds onto me so tight and I close my eyes and just enjoy the hug. Mom and I were really close, closer than any other mother and daughter, but it was rare to really be hugged by her. 'I love you kid!' mom says in my ear and I hug her tighter. 'I love you too Mom.'
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Mom and I slept together in my room that night. I think Luke understood why she was upset. He went upstairs, and as he was going upstairs he looked at her like his heart was breaking and Mom reached up and touched his hand and said. 'Just give me some time to process.' And Luke nodded and went upstairs.
Mom whispered to me that night that she was just grieving for the dreams she had, but when and if she was to meet Luke's daughter, she would treat her like she was the most precious gift. 'Kids should never feel unwanted, I hope you were never made to feel that way.' She whispered and I told her that I had always felt wanted in her house.
I woke up and Luke was sitting at the table again, and I had such a sense of déjà vu. He looks up and sees me and immediately stands up and is about to run out of the room, and I can't hurt him like I had been doing the day before. 'Luke wait!' I say and he stops and turns around.
There I was in my p.js and my slippers, and I felt like the kid again. 'I'm sorry about yesterday. I just can't believe that I am losing you.' I say and he comes and hugs me. (Something that I don't think has ever happened to me before.)
'No, you're still my Rory, that won't change.' He says gruffly and I smile at him. 'Your sure? I finally got the father.' I say and he smoothes my hair in a rough way that I had imagined happening to me when I was a child. 'Nothing will change that.' He says and I sniff and he whispers at the sight of my tears. 'Ah jeez!'
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Days had gone by after the announcement of Lil Danes. Or as mom liked to call her. Luke had told mom about how he wasn't sure what to do, and Mom pretty much told him that he needed to be there, whether Anna liked it or not. He was a father, and he wanted to be one, so go out and do it! So Luke had a tense conversation with Anna Nardini, and April was set to arrive in Stars Hallow for a day's visit today.
Mom had several plans, depending on April's interests. She had the girly girl plan, the reader, the sports maniac, and etc. and I have never seen Luke so appreciative in his life. He barely knew how to deal with Jess when he came, and Jess was a boy. Luke had told Mom that he wanted nothing more than for M om to be a mother to any child of his, which made her cry and they rushed off somewhere to do things that I don't want to think of.
Jess and I were due to move to our apartment any day and it was weird to pack up things again. I had grown to love living at home, but it was just to far for me to do the commute every day. I was excited about Jess's and I new life. And I was especially excited about sleeping with him, because frankly, he made my nerve fire off in the most awkward times.
'You sure you want to do this now?' Jess asked me as I boxed up another huge load of books. 'Yeah, it's not like it was before, Mom can come visit and call me and see me when she wants.' I say and Jess mutters something about having us time.
We go and deliver some of our boxes to the apartment. 'I want to sing a song about mountains and hills' Jess says and I start to laugh. 'You would be a dashing Von Trappe.' I say and he starts singing.
Days went by and as we were slowly unpacking more and more of our stuff I opened a box and I saw a whole collection of Disney classics. Dumbo, Cinderella, all the movies that I had loved as a small girl. But they weren't mine.
'Jess, is this your box?' I asked and Jess looked alarmed at what I was looking at. 'Uh no, aren't they yours?' he says and I smile at him.
'Do you like Disney movies Jess?' I say and he shakes his head no and tries to look tough. 'No, I like the classics, those have won hundreds of awards I'll have you know.' He says and I just give him a look.
He picks up Dumbo and points to the cover. 'Look, he is a misfit, and yet he makes it in a way we all want. He loves his mother and he is taken away. He is just a fighter.' He says and I nod at him while trying not to laugh.
'What about Cinderella, are you interested in it because she has gone through adversity?' I say and he mumbles something and I go over and I tickle him. 'What was that?' I say and he rolls his eyes. 'I like the talking mice, you got a problem?' I giggled and made sure that I teased him all night.
That night as we watched snow white, Jess held me and kissed my temple every few minutes. 'This is the life I've dreamed of.' He says in the dim room and all I do is curl up to him and think that I've never been so happy.
The man sat at his desk and planned out how he was going to win his prize. He knew that she seemed to think she was in love with this guy, but she was naïve. She was blinded by the bad boy, but soon he would realize. He would approach her and she would see the truth. He would get her and he would never let her go!
Next Part: As Rory and Jess settle into domestic bliss, and Lorelai meets April, the stranger makes his first move to split up the happy couple. Emily makes a reappearance that unsettles the couples.
Authors Note: So I was quicker, wasn't I? Hope you guys like it, and if not, sorry! It seems disjointed somehow and I can't figure out how to fix it. But oh well. Happy Late Turkey day my neighbours to the south.
Authors Note part 2: I am thinking of having a pure fluff part, but don't know if I can do it, I love the angst. So I will try!