What was suppose to be just family and Lane turned into a whole town screening. Once Lorelai told Sookie, everyone in town knew about Rory's show within the hour. So instead of being in her parent's house she was sitting inside Miss. Patty's studio with Aly on her lap. Kirk and Taylor were fighting between each other about who was going to hit the play button.
"Hey let Rory press the button and sit down so we can watch it." Everyone was looking at Luke as he sat back down beside Lorelai and Rory. Kirk was about to say something when Lorelai stood up this time, he wisely walked the remote over and held it out in front of Rory. Aly grabbed the remote and held it out in front of her. Rory reached around her sister and pressed play. As the black screen, popup and everyone saw the title 'The Journey'
Tristan's voice over. At the end of the long journey the only thing that you can do is look back and see how you ended up here.' As the camera pulled back, you see Tristan walking to a door with his name on it. He nodded to the woman sitting outside of the office.
Forty-one minutes later, the and the final scene was of Louise and Finn kissing and Nicky watching them. Everyone stood up and clapped as Rory wiped her eyes. Lorelai put her arm around her daughter and kissed the side of her head.
"That was great honey." As Lorelai's arm moved Luke's arm took her place.
"That was great Rory I liked it."
"Thanks dad." Aly turned around and hugged Rory's neck. She really didn't know why, but she was following her parents lead.
After staying back and answering some questions about the show, and made sure not to tell Kirk to much since he wanted to start the shows official blog, including spoilers for upcoming episodes. She watched as Luke threaten Kirk about not letting out to much about the pilot. She heard her phone starting to ring.
"Hello."
"Rory it's Logan have you watched the show yet?"
"Yea it turned out great."
"Listen Warners just called and the focus group will be watching it Friday. We need you home by then since Tristan is out of town."
"Yea that's fine Logan I was planning on flying home Friday anywise. Did you like the show?" The silence was her answer as she laughed some.
"Shut up I can be wrong, which doesn't happen that often let me remind you." She heard Madeline say something. "Your husband is on the other line I need to take this."
"Tell him I love him."
"No fucking way am I telling Tristan that I love him."
"But you do."
"See you in a few days." She closed her phone and walked up behind Aly and tickled her.
She opened the door and saw Finn was talking to someone. She looked around and didn't see anyone, walking into the room she saw he was saying his lines from the show as he watched it. Dropping her bags she laughed and he quickly turned the tv off and looked over at her.
"It's not what it looks like Love."
"I think it was Finn." She sat down beside of him and rubbed her stomach.
"You're getting a baby bump." She looked over at him and he closed his eyes.
"To much celebrity gossip wed sites for you." She looked around the house and didn't see anyone here. "Where is everyone?"
"Louise and Jess are in the guess house having sex. Paris is out with a client, and Tristan is well you know where Tristan is."
"I didn't need to know about Jess and Louise. Will you go with us to Warners tomorrow?"
"Sure Love." She yawned. "Go to bed, if anything happens to you Tristan will have my ass." She leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"Night Finn."
"Night Love."
For the first time she woke up in this bed without Tristan holding her. She sat up and saw that she was on his side of the bed instead of hers. She walked downstairs and saw that Jess and Louise were eating. She sat down beside Louise and something shoved into her face. After leaning back she saw what Louise was now holding.
"We are going to get you fitted for your brides' maid dress this afternoon."
"Louise when is this wedding taking place?"
"After we shot the summer end of the show."
"I will be around seven months pregnant and fat." Jess laughed some and they both looked over at him.
"Sorry, Rory you will look great."
"Nice try punk. Maybe you should pick someone else." Louise closed the notebook she was writing in and looked over at Rory.
"I don't want anyone else to stand beside me. I was standing beside you at your wedding and I want you standing beside me."
"You had to be there we needed two witnesses."
"Rory we can wait for the final fitting of the dress. I just want you and Paris to see them today." Rory picked up a piece of bacon and nodded her head. "Good we will be leaving at one."
"What about the meeting?"
"We will be at the studio before four."
"You coming?"
"Yea I want to hear them tell us how great our show is, and how they want the full twenty two." Rory smiled and wished she had that much confidence as her friend does.
"Relax Rory everything will work out. The show is great and they will love it." She smiled over at Jess as he winked at her.
After looking at the dress that she would be wearing in a few months she was now walking into the huge studio. Jess, Louise, and Finn were at the door and looked behind them and saw Rory was walking back to the car. Jess took off running as she was looking for her keys.
"Rory what are you doing?" She unlocked the door. "We have a meeting."
"I can't do it Jess." He grabbed her keys and she looked at him.
"Rory."
"No I know what they are going to say. They are going to tear it up and I just want to skip that."
"Rory they are not going to tear it up. Between your writing and Tristan's directing and all the hard work we have done." He looked over his shoulder and saw Louise and Finn looking at them. "They will love the show Rory. Now we need to get inside so they can kiss your ass and threw even more money at you."
"I can't do this without him here." She almost whispered so low that Jess almost couldn't hear her.
"Rory you can do this without Tristan here."
"He has been around for everything and I just want him here for support."
"I'm not going to say that he is always with you or any other bullshit Rory. You need to step up and do this for both you and him. His name is on this show like yours is. My name is on this show we are going to go into that office and listen to them."
"Fine but the first bad thing they say and we are leaving them." Jess laughed as she closed the door. She wrapped her arm around his as they walked to meet the others.
"Well Mrs. DuGrey we had a test audience of twenty-five watched your show twelve female and eleven male. The people were from ages sixteen and thirty-nine. They rated the show at very different times they had a dial that they used the change the rating. Your average rating from the men was seventeen and a half. The women gave you an eighteen out of twenty." She looked over at Jess who was smiling now.
"What does that mean?"
"We will be giving you an eight episode run with the option to turn it into twenty two." They handed the contract over to Logan who started to read it over. "How many scripts do you have written so far?"
"A lot that's all that I've really been doing lately." Logan reached the contract over to Rory. "What will our time slot be?"
"Tuesdays at eight is what we are shooting for, but it might bee changed. We're looking for a rating to stay around a four with a six share."
"That sounds fare." She singed the contract and they all stood up.
"We would like you to show up for our upfronts next month along with some of the cast." They all shook hands leaving everyone happy.
"Lion's Danes head keeper speaking."
"Not good mom."
"Come on Danes you get it?" Rory rolled her eyes and looked over at the tv. "Our last name is."
"Yea I know what your last name is mom. Can I talk now mom?"
"I guess."
"Stop your pouting."
"But you won't let me talk and I love to talk."
"Thy picked up the show for eight episodes, if the ratings are good then it will become twenty two."
"That's great. Do you know what your sister did today?" She new that the information will sink in later, but for now the only thing she could do is listen to her mom talk.
"What mom?"
"Well it started the night before and we were watching Animal Planet."
"That was out of the blue."
"Well the batteries for the remote quite and neither of us wanted to get up off the couch. We were watching this thing about Meerkats and she started acting like one. Then after a few minutes I was acting like one, well at that time your father came home and he had this friend from high school with him and his face turned so red seeing us on the floor." Lorelai was laughing as Rory rolled her eyes. "Come on that is funny."
"Yea mom I will talk to you later." She hung up the phone and sat it down on the coffee table. Paris walked into the living room and she sat down beside Rory.
"I was going to leak the show out to the press if that's alright with you." Paris was still the only one who hadn't warmed up to Rory so she didn't make anything easier.
"Wow Paris asking me if something is alright to do. I fill like I just won the lottery."
"What is your problem?" Paris stood up and was looking down at Rory.
"This is my problem. You always looking down at me, not thinking I should be here."
"You shouldn't." She mumbled as she turned around.
"What did you say?" Rory stood up and grabbed Paris's arm, turning her around.
"You don't belong here you never will. You will always be the farm girl out here."
"I have been nothing but nice to you since the first time I talked to you. Why don't you like me?"
"You have turned his life to another Hollywood circus act, and I'm the one who has to put everything back to normal. Getting married in Vegas, you having a rich boyfriend who you dumped for him, and now getting pregnant is just the icing on the cake."
"I'm not sorry for anything that happened between us. I love Tristan and he loves me. If you can't handle that then just get out of our lives."
"What did you say?"
"Get out of my house." Pairs smirked and looked over at Finn.
"Funny farm girl this is Tristan's house."
"If I remember what you said before. The only reason I married Tristan was to get everything he owns, so this house is mine and you need to get out."
"You don't want to go against me little girl."
"What are you going to right about that everyone doesn't already know? My dad that was never around, my romance with a millionaire? I want you out of my house before I call the cops." Finn walked over and grabbed his girlfriend leading her to the door.
Just turned out her light and closed the door to her office. After the fight with Rory she came straight here to work. She was about to walk out of her assistant's office when she heard the fax machine. She walked over and picked up the paper and it just had the words on it.
You're fired Tristan.
She looked over the paper a few more times before she let it slip out of her hands. She had lost the only client that she carried about and saw as a friend.
Thanks for the reviews for the last chapter. This was the first time that i have wrote a chapter without Tristan in it. Next chapter PAris and Tristan sit down and talk about everything, and the upfronts. Once again thanks for reading and reviewing.
