The Road You Should Have Taken
Chapter 19
By Cathy - Cathy002@hotmail.com
Rating: R
Content: some swearing and mentioning of sex. No actual sex in it (yet perhaps)
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the story line, which is probably not that great. Oh I also own some of the characters ( the ones that came out of my big head)
Pairing: people read it… or read some of the earlier chapters and it will become obvious.
Note: Thank you so much to all of you who have reviewed, I am going to try harder to take in some of your constructive criticism. I am also stopping with the codes, someone said it was confusing so I will try to de-confuse you. (sorry if any of the word in this chapter are made up but it is very late and I am running off of the last bit of energy from my spring break) Please read and review this. I love reviews (the nice ones not the grr grr ones.) One last thing before I start the story read and review my other story Big SURVIVOR: I promise that it will get better in the next chapter or I am thinking about re writing chapter one with a more "Dean Friendly" point of view. Email me and tell me what you think.
Chapter 19
Later on that morning the police arrived at the Gilmore abode – where the sleepy teens (and adults) were relaxing on the couches. There were two police officers at the house a woman (constable Jacobs) and a male (constable Homely). For the first twenty minutes the whole group of people had been sitting in the living room talking to the police as a group when const. Jacobs had stood up. "Excuse me Lorelai is there someplace that I can go in private to question people individually?"
Lorelai thought for a second and answered " I guess you could go into the kitchen that's private enough"
"Thanks, I'll go into the kitchen and call you in one by one, then" const. Jacobs took her things and went into the kitchen.
For the next hour, const. Jacobs took different peoples point of view as to what had happened the night before. Lastly it was Rory's turn. She stood up shakily and made her way into the kitchen.
" Okay, Rory I have to ask you some questions so we can try to figure out exactly what happened and whether or not we can get a restraining order on Dean. Other people have mentioned that you and he had dated in the past. I'm taking this to be true?"
" Yes it is true."
" Can you tell me a little about your relation ship? When it started, when it ended, how close you were, anything that comes to mind."
" We started going out in about February of 2001. We broke up once at about the beginning of may and got back together about a month later." Const. Jacobs made a note in her notebook. " We got back together and it was different he was really jealous over me talking to any other guy. And it just got worse when jess came to town, Dean thought that I liked jess, I didn't but I liked him as a friend. It wasn't my fault that he and I had more in common then Dean and I did. We broke up for good about a month ago I think? Maybe shorter."
" Good. Now why did you two break up the first time that you broke up?" The constable asked while making notes in her notebook.
" We broke up on our three month anniversary because He said I love you to me and I couldn't say it back to him." Rory frowned at the thought.
" And the final time why did you break up then?"
" We broke up then because I realized that I wasn't in love with him and that we had grown apart. He didn't take it too well."
" So tell me more about last night what happened?"
"Well we were all at the park playing truth or dare. Jess and Louise had slipped away by then and were probably doing each other somewhere. Well we were playing and we heard a voice call out asking us to pick a number. Between one and a million and whoever was closest he would kill. I recognized the voice and said 'Dean?' he retorted with something like we could have been great together and that he didn't want me to be with Tristan. I think that is what set him off. He hates Tristan and I am now dating Tristan. Well he got everyone to pick a number and then he said that the one that Tristan had picked was the exact same as the one in his head he aimed at Tristan and was going to shoot him I pushed Tristan out of the way and got shot. He was freaking out and was going to shoot someone else when jess came up behind him with a crowbar and hit him on the head so that he couldn't shoot anyone else. Will we be able to prosecute Dean?" Rory took a deep breath and realized that she had said almost all of that without breathing.
" Well from the stories that we have heard yes on some major offences. The phone at the police station has been ringing off the hook since last night filing minor offences against him. Disrupting the silence bylaws, making a threat against someone who has lived in stars hollow longer then him and my personal favourite, swearing in front of ladies."
" how very 'to kill a mocking-birdish'" Rory giggled.
" The court date is set for a week from Wednesday. Some of you will be called upon to testify can we use you as a witness?"
" Yes you can. I'm getting some coffee you want some?" Rory got up and went to the pot.
" Certainly. I hear that you will have quite the team of lawyers behind you. Some of the best in the state. I want you to relax until then and try not to disrupt your routine too much. I have a feeling though that Dean may still be a problem though he didn't seem like he was finished with his plan. I want you to be very careful and to call the police if he contacts you or comes near you."
" Dean is out? I thought that they would keep him in lockdown or something."
" He was released on bail last night. His parents paid. He is staying at his house until the trial and he has a curfew. I just want to say you are lucky that jess and Louise got there when they did. Dan has a pretty bad bump on his head. Thank you for talking to me Rory you are free to go."
Rory walked into the living room where everyone was waiting for her. " I've got bitter sweet news guys. Which one first?"
Lorelai yelled " BITTER IT MAKES THE SWEET TASTE BETTER!"
Everyone else in the room gave Lorelai odd looks and Rory continued. " Bitter is that he is home and do what he wants until the trial. The officer thinks that he might still try to hurt us. Sweet is that the trial is a week Wednesday which is sooner then it would be if some of us weren't so important."
Lorelai looked stunned at the news that the boy who had shot her daughter the night before was free to walk the streets and do more harm. " I can't believe that the little punk is free."
" I know mom," Rory chimed " I can't believe it either. If he comes near any of us or try's to contacts us we are supposed to call the police."
Lorelai got a look in her eye. For anyone who knew her well they could recognize it even though it was hardly ever seen there. Fear. " Maybe Rory do you want to see if we could stay at Grandma and Grandpa's house until the trial. I would feel safer there I think the more distance between me and that creep the better."
Rory walked over and sat on Tristan's lap " I think that is a pretty good idea mom. You and I will go to Hartford until the trial. Jess you look after Lane."
Someone other then Rory and Lorelai spoke up – Tristan " I think that is a good idea. We can hang out together at Chilton in case he tries to come there. Jess can look after Lane- not that you need someone to look after you Lane it is just better to have someone watching your back. Luke can you call this ms. Patty and Taylor that I have heard so much about and have them spread Rory's cell number? So that if they see dean going into Hartford or near Rory's house, they can call her?"
Luke nodded and Lorelai jumped up " ohh I like him. You heard him. You see dean set the cell phones a working. I need coffee after all of this. Luke you come with me to the diner and we'll get everyone some. And try not to get shot while we are separated Rory eh? Everyone start packing our stuff so we can leave for Hartford as soon as we're done."
Luke and Lorelai left and everyone else started packing up their things. Rory pulled jess into the kitchen. " Jess please don't let anything happen to you or Lane."
"I promise you Rory. Nothing will happen to Lane or I."
Tristan walked into the kitchen. " Jess will you give us a sec I need to talk to Rory."
" No problem man. I'll go pack you some books Ror."
" Finally I have you alone this weekend hasn't gone exactly the way I planned it. Do you still want to go away with me Rory after all that has happened?"
"Of course I do. I am going to be alone that weekend anyways. Mom will be at an inn convention."
" I had an idea. What if we brought everyone with us. They would be in different Hotel rooms of course."
Rory smiled " Did I mention how much of an awesome boyfriend you are in the last five minutes? I do want them to come"
" Great let's go ask them." The two of them walked hand in hand to Rory's room where everyone was packing things for Rory (The girls and Jess) or sitting on her bed (The boys). Tristan cleared his throat and then proceeded to talk " We are going to Toronto next weekend and we wanted to know if all of you guys wanted to come with us. Just to get away from all of this crap."
" I'm in all I have to do is mention that I am going with a Dugrey and my mom will be doing back flips." Paris said.
" Same for me and Madeleine" Louise said.
" Rory if you help me with my mom I'm definitely coming. You know what this means you guys ROADTRIP!!" Rory and Lane started jumping up and down and doing a version of the "happy" dance. Lorelai walked in and saw them jumping.
" He why are you guys doing the happy dance I want to be happy too." She said with a mock pout.
Rory laughed at her mom and said " We're doing the happy dance because we're going to Toronto on a road trip next weekend. You can't come you have an inn convention."
" That sucks. Why do I have to be the grownup? Oh well. I guess I'll finish packing and then we'll head off. Can we use all of you Hartford kid's vehicles to put our stuff in? You can drop it off when you come back into Hartford."
" You can use mine Lorelai. Are you going to call and see if your parents will let you stay though?" Paris said.
" Nope they won't mind because it is an emergency and all." Lorelai said as she walked out of the room.
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A/N: No cliffhanger this time you guys. I hate big ones that you read and then have to wait a week and a half until the author decides to update their fic. Grrr. Well coming soon in the lovely world of Cathy's imagination :The trial of Dean, Road trip to Toronto. And much much more Stay tuned! - he he I just decided I want to be a Television announcer. That is my future profession I think I'll do a dang good job at it to. It will be a while before I get Chapter 20 up. I'm thinking about a week, I have a ton of school work due soon so I can't spend all of my time typing my stories. On my evil evil computer (named Chucky).
Chapter 19
By Cathy - Cathy002@hotmail.com
Rating: R
Content: some swearing and mentioning of sex. No actual sex in it (yet perhaps)
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the story line, which is probably not that great. Oh I also own some of the characters ( the ones that came out of my big head)
Pairing: people read it… or read some of the earlier chapters and it will become obvious.
Note: Thank you so much to all of you who have reviewed, I am going to try harder to take in some of your constructive criticism. I am also stopping with the codes, someone said it was confusing so I will try to de-confuse you. (sorry if any of the word in this chapter are made up but it is very late and I am running off of the last bit of energy from my spring break) Please read and review this. I love reviews (the nice ones not the grr grr ones.) One last thing before I start the story read and review my other story Big SURVIVOR: I promise that it will get better in the next chapter or I am thinking about re writing chapter one with a more "Dean Friendly" point of view. Email me and tell me what you think.
Chapter 19
Later on that morning the police arrived at the Gilmore abode – where the sleepy teens (and adults) were relaxing on the couches. There were two police officers at the house a woman (constable Jacobs) and a male (constable Homely). For the first twenty minutes the whole group of people had been sitting in the living room talking to the police as a group when const. Jacobs had stood up. "Excuse me Lorelai is there someplace that I can go in private to question people individually?"
Lorelai thought for a second and answered " I guess you could go into the kitchen that's private enough"
"Thanks, I'll go into the kitchen and call you in one by one, then" const. Jacobs took her things and went into the kitchen.
For the next hour, const. Jacobs took different peoples point of view as to what had happened the night before. Lastly it was Rory's turn. She stood up shakily and made her way into the kitchen.
" Okay, Rory I have to ask you some questions so we can try to figure out exactly what happened and whether or not we can get a restraining order on Dean. Other people have mentioned that you and he had dated in the past. I'm taking this to be true?"
" Yes it is true."
" Can you tell me a little about your relation ship? When it started, when it ended, how close you were, anything that comes to mind."
" We started going out in about February of 2001. We broke up once at about the beginning of may and got back together about a month later." Const. Jacobs made a note in her notebook. " We got back together and it was different he was really jealous over me talking to any other guy. And it just got worse when jess came to town, Dean thought that I liked jess, I didn't but I liked him as a friend. It wasn't my fault that he and I had more in common then Dean and I did. We broke up for good about a month ago I think? Maybe shorter."
" Good. Now why did you two break up the first time that you broke up?" The constable asked while making notes in her notebook.
" We broke up on our three month anniversary because He said I love you to me and I couldn't say it back to him." Rory frowned at the thought.
" And the final time why did you break up then?"
" We broke up then because I realized that I wasn't in love with him and that we had grown apart. He didn't take it too well."
" So tell me more about last night what happened?"
"Well we were all at the park playing truth or dare. Jess and Louise had slipped away by then and were probably doing each other somewhere. Well we were playing and we heard a voice call out asking us to pick a number. Between one and a million and whoever was closest he would kill. I recognized the voice and said 'Dean?' he retorted with something like we could have been great together and that he didn't want me to be with Tristan. I think that is what set him off. He hates Tristan and I am now dating Tristan. Well he got everyone to pick a number and then he said that the one that Tristan had picked was the exact same as the one in his head he aimed at Tristan and was going to shoot him I pushed Tristan out of the way and got shot. He was freaking out and was going to shoot someone else when jess came up behind him with a crowbar and hit him on the head so that he couldn't shoot anyone else. Will we be able to prosecute Dean?" Rory took a deep breath and realized that she had said almost all of that without breathing.
" Well from the stories that we have heard yes on some major offences. The phone at the police station has been ringing off the hook since last night filing minor offences against him. Disrupting the silence bylaws, making a threat against someone who has lived in stars hollow longer then him and my personal favourite, swearing in front of ladies."
" how very 'to kill a mocking-birdish'" Rory giggled.
" The court date is set for a week from Wednesday. Some of you will be called upon to testify can we use you as a witness?"
" Yes you can. I'm getting some coffee you want some?" Rory got up and went to the pot.
" Certainly. I hear that you will have quite the team of lawyers behind you. Some of the best in the state. I want you to relax until then and try not to disrupt your routine too much. I have a feeling though that Dean may still be a problem though he didn't seem like he was finished with his plan. I want you to be very careful and to call the police if he contacts you or comes near you."
" Dean is out? I thought that they would keep him in lockdown or something."
" He was released on bail last night. His parents paid. He is staying at his house until the trial and he has a curfew. I just want to say you are lucky that jess and Louise got there when they did. Dan has a pretty bad bump on his head. Thank you for talking to me Rory you are free to go."
Rory walked into the living room where everyone was waiting for her. " I've got bitter sweet news guys. Which one first?"
Lorelai yelled " BITTER IT MAKES THE SWEET TASTE BETTER!"
Everyone else in the room gave Lorelai odd looks and Rory continued. " Bitter is that he is home and do what he wants until the trial. The officer thinks that he might still try to hurt us. Sweet is that the trial is a week Wednesday which is sooner then it would be if some of us weren't so important."
Lorelai looked stunned at the news that the boy who had shot her daughter the night before was free to walk the streets and do more harm. " I can't believe that the little punk is free."
" I know mom," Rory chimed " I can't believe it either. If he comes near any of us or try's to contacts us we are supposed to call the police."
Lorelai got a look in her eye. For anyone who knew her well they could recognize it even though it was hardly ever seen there. Fear. " Maybe Rory do you want to see if we could stay at Grandma and Grandpa's house until the trial. I would feel safer there I think the more distance between me and that creep the better."
Rory walked over and sat on Tristan's lap " I think that is a pretty good idea mom. You and I will go to Hartford until the trial. Jess you look after Lane."
Someone other then Rory and Lorelai spoke up – Tristan " I think that is a good idea. We can hang out together at Chilton in case he tries to come there. Jess can look after Lane- not that you need someone to look after you Lane it is just better to have someone watching your back. Luke can you call this ms. Patty and Taylor that I have heard so much about and have them spread Rory's cell number? So that if they see dean going into Hartford or near Rory's house, they can call her?"
Luke nodded and Lorelai jumped up " ohh I like him. You heard him. You see dean set the cell phones a working. I need coffee after all of this. Luke you come with me to the diner and we'll get everyone some. And try not to get shot while we are separated Rory eh? Everyone start packing our stuff so we can leave for Hartford as soon as we're done."
Luke and Lorelai left and everyone else started packing up their things. Rory pulled jess into the kitchen. " Jess please don't let anything happen to you or Lane."
"I promise you Rory. Nothing will happen to Lane or I."
Tristan walked into the kitchen. " Jess will you give us a sec I need to talk to Rory."
" No problem man. I'll go pack you some books Ror."
" Finally I have you alone this weekend hasn't gone exactly the way I planned it. Do you still want to go away with me Rory after all that has happened?"
"Of course I do. I am going to be alone that weekend anyways. Mom will be at an inn convention."
" I had an idea. What if we brought everyone with us. They would be in different Hotel rooms of course."
Rory smiled " Did I mention how much of an awesome boyfriend you are in the last five minutes? I do want them to come"
" Great let's go ask them." The two of them walked hand in hand to Rory's room where everyone was packing things for Rory (The girls and Jess) or sitting on her bed (The boys). Tristan cleared his throat and then proceeded to talk " We are going to Toronto next weekend and we wanted to know if all of you guys wanted to come with us. Just to get away from all of this crap."
" I'm in all I have to do is mention that I am going with a Dugrey and my mom will be doing back flips." Paris said.
" Same for me and Madeleine" Louise said.
" Rory if you help me with my mom I'm definitely coming. You know what this means you guys ROADTRIP!!" Rory and Lane started jumping up and down and doing a version of the "happy" dance. Lorelai walked in and saw them jumping.
" He why are you guys doing the happy dance I want to be happy too." She said with a mock pout.
Rory laughed at her mom and said " We're doing the happy dance because we're going to Toronto on a road trip next weekend. You can't come you have an inn convention."
" That sucks. Why do I have to be the grownup? Oh well. I guess I'll finish packing and then we'll head off. Can we use all of you Hartford kid's vehicles to put our stuff in? You can drop it off when you come back into Hartford."
" You can use mine Lorelai. Are you going to call and see if your parents will let you stay though?" Paris said.
" Nope they won't mind because it is an emergency and all." Lorelai said as she walked out of the room.
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A/N: No cliffhanger this time you guys. I hate big ones that you read and then have to wait a week and a half until the author decides to update their fic. Grrr. Well coming soon in the lovely world of Cathy's imagination :The trial of Dean, Road trip to Toronto. And much much more Stay tuned! - he he I just decided I want to be a Television announcer. That is my future profession I think I'll do a dang good job at it to. It will be a while before I get Chapter 20 up. I'm thinking about a week, I have a ton of school work due soon so I can't spend all of my time typing my stories. On my evil evil computer (named Chucky).