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Chapter 3
"Okay so, I'm thinking we can do something in the middle of town since there's no use in having a small wedding now." Lorelai explained as she went over wedding plans with Sookie.
The two were sitting on the couch excitedly going over plans while Luke and Jess sat on chairs opposite the two chatting woman, rolling their eyes and sighing tiredly every now and then. Wedding planning was definitely not their game. Despite that, Sookie and Lorelai had gotten out of work early to start planning right away. Deciding that Luke and Jess should be a part of it too, they stopped at the diner and forced the two to close the shop early, but not before Lorelai could weasel a cup of coffee out of her fiancé first. They wanted to wait for Rory's return but were much too excited and started without her.
"Okay what about the gazebo! It's perfect! That's where you two got together and where he proposed." Sookie exclaimed happily.
"No." Luke chimed in for the first time in a while.
This perked Jess's interest.
"Why?" Sookie questioned.
"Because, it's elevated. In order for the rest of the audience to see us they'd have to either be elevated too, which would take too much effort or they'd have to stand." Luke argued.
"Yeah, I kind of agree with Luke." Lorelai nodded. "Plus, there are those posts holding up the roof, those would obstruct someone's view for sure."
"I never thought of that." Sookie agreed.
"Plus, there'd be no room to move with the whole wedding party up there. The gazebo's too small for that." Jess added.
The three adults turned to him with shocked expressions.
"What?" he asked defensively.
"You spoke. It was intelligent." Luke said gruffly.
"Hey, don't insult my soon to be nephew." Lorelai exclaimed smacking Luke's arm lightly.
"Yeah. But anyway, the gazebo is okay if you wanted just the priest and you two, but I'm assuming you also want to have the bridesmaids up there, plus an usher or two."
"Oh that reminds me, we need to select the bridal party!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Let's focus first on…" Sookie began but was interrupted by an opening and slamming of the front door.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!" Rory said quickly as she pushed Tristan inside of the living room.
"Please Mare, it's just a little…"
"Don't even say it!" Rory exclaimed.
"What happened?" Lorelai said interrupting the two.
"Huh?" They two teens said in unison as if noticing the four other people in the room for the first time.
"What happened? Why is my daughter pushing Scott into our living room in disgust?"
"Scott?" Rory asked.
"Dr. Evil's son." Lorelai answered.
"I thought we agreed Tristan had too many nicknames."
"You gave him 'Mac' aren't I allowed to squeeze in one more?" Lorelai argued.
"Good point, although…"
"Hello! Hi, have a problem here!" Tristan exclaimed, interrupting Rory.
"Oh yeah sorry." Rory said sheepishly. "Let's get you cleaned up." she began pushing him in the direction of the kitchen.
"Hold on! Story time isn't over yet! Explain why cleaning is in order." Lorelai said childishly.
Jess snorted. "Maybe they did something that caused Tristan to get a little…"
"Jess, it is so important to your health that you don't finish that sentence." Rory snapped. "Anyways, Tristan offered to drive me home because I missed my bus because someone," she threw a pointed look at Tristan, "decided to amuse himself and hide my Lit book."
"All in good fun!" he said in defense.
"So we went to Luke's for coffee only to find it closed."
"Your mother's idea." Luke said pointing the blame.
"Well, we turned around and walked back down the steps when Tristan fell…"
"You pushed me!" Tristan exclaimed.
"Did not!" Rory shot back.
"There was definite shove-age involved!" Tristan argued.
"Whatever." she said rolling her eyes. "Besides, even if I pushed you, which I'm not saying I did, you deserved if for walking so slow. So anyway, he fell rather ungracefully to the ground…"
"Which is to be expected when one is shoved." Tristan interrupted in a sing- song voice.
"You know the sooner I finish the story the sooner you can get cleaned up."
"Continue, but hurry, it's starting to sting."
"Oh, poor baby can't take the pain." she said mockingly. Tristan glared back at her.
"Hello, still waiting here!" Lorelai said interrupting the banter.
"Anyways, he fell and received a rather large scrape in the process."
Tristan held up his right hand to reveal a large gash running down from the base of his pinky to just below his wrist. Blood was already running down his arm, staining his school blazer. Everyone recoiled back. Rory moaned.
"Blood, I hate blood." she said in despair.
"What? This make you queasy?" Tristan taunted.
"Shut up!" she snapped.
"It's just a little blood and a little scrape."
"Little! You're a few steps away from the opening scene of 'Saving Private Ryan'! And that wound makes the gash that sunk the Titanic look like a pinhole!" she exclaimed.
"Sorry to break up this little love fest but wonder boy is starting to drip blood on the floor." Jess pointed out.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!" Rory whined.
"There's band-aids in the bathroom." Lorelai told her.
"Got it." Rory affirmed steering him in that direction.
"You know, actually contrary to popular belief it wasn't a two hundred foot gash that sunk the Titanic but rather a series of short small gashes and punctures." Tristan said as they walked out of the room.
"Shut up." Rory grumbled.
"Okay, well, I'm going to go get a paper towel to get that blood on the floor, Luke why don't you come help me." Lorelai said.
"You need help getting a paper towel?" Luke asked in disbelief.
"No, I just want the help." Lorelai said pointedly.
"Fine." he grumbled.
Once they were in the kitchen and out of hearing range Lorelai turned to him.
"This is perfect, did you see those two arguing in there!" Lorelai whispered excitedly.
"Yeah, I know, they didn't even notice anything else." he whispered back.
"Like they were in their own little world and no one could touch them." she said, turning around to get a paper towel. "I have an idea to how we can get them together."
Luke groaned. "Are you still sure you want to interfere with them?"
"Of course!" she answered, turning to the sink to dampen the towel. "Okay, here's the thing. Make Tristan one of your ushers!"
"How will that help?"
"Because, everyone knows that they have to help do errands for the wedding that the couple doesn't have time to do so that means he and Rory would be spending a lot of time together."
"Because we would be sending them out together." Luke said, catching on.
"Yeah, we can do all sorts of crazy things to make them spend time with each other and pretty soon the wedding bells will be ringing. Well, actually of course they will, for us. But for them too, but they're too young for that. Of course it's a metaphor." she rambled. "Maybe I should choose another metaphor."
"Lorelai, this is all great, well except for the wedding bell metaphor but there's a little problem in your plan." he said taking her by the shoulders.
"What? No, it's perfect!"
"Except for the fact that, the whole errand running thing. The maid of honor and the best man are the ones who run the errands."
"Yeah, well Rory will be maid of honor and your best man will be…oh!" Lorelai understood.
Luke nodded. "Jess."
"Well, I'll think of something else."
Luke and Lorelai headed out of the kitchen to find Tristan and Rory had returned and were engaged in a casual conversation, which now included Jess. Lorelai's eyes immediately went to his hand that was wrapped in gauze and held in place by assorted bandages with different animals on them. Sookie was in her own little world as she brought out a pad of paper and a pencil and was hurriedly scribbling out wedding ideas. Luke took the paper towel out of Lorelai's hands and went to wipe up the small mess.
"Where'd you find the gauze missy?" Lorelai said, causing Rory to stop talking and looked up at her mother.
"In the cabinet, amazing huh?"
"I didn't know we had any. In fact, I can't remember ever buying gauze in my life."
"Yeah, well, we had the gauze but we didn't have tape so I had to hold it together with some band-aids." she said.
"Love the patterns." Luke smirked, returning back to the conversation.
"Yeah, thanks." Tristan answered sarcastically.
"What's wrong with them?" Lorelai asked defensively.
"Well…" Tristan held up his hand for her to see. One band-aid was light blue and covered with several tiny penguins and another was pink with little pigs scattered around. Other band-aids followed the same patterns with other animals.
"Again, I see nothing wrong." Lorelai said.
"Well, I can't go to school with pink pig bandages."
"What, you don't think it will attract the ladies?" Rory teased.
Tristan gave her an annoyed look.
"Well, ladies and gents. We have more to plan!" Lorelai exclaimed. "So, let's get to it. Tristan, I'd love it if you can stay."
"Yeah, I don't have anywhere I need to be."
"Okay, so right now we need to discuss who will be part of the bridal party." Luke said sitting down on the couch. Lorelai did the same.
"Well, that's a no brainer for me." Lorelai said. "Rory, maid of honor and Sookie, I would love you to be my other bridesmaid."
"Of course." and "Sure." Were their excited replies.
"Now, about my side." Luke sighed. "Jess, I want you to be my best man."
"I have a problem with that." Jess replied.
"What? Why?" Lorelai asked with wide eyes.
"Well, the best man has to go do all those errands and stuff. Do you really want to trust me with something that important?" he asked.
"But Jess!" Lorelai whined. "It wouldn't be right if you weren't the best man!"
"Well, now wait a minute." Luke said putting up his hands to silence both parties. "What if we do this, Jess, you're still best man, but what if you divide the responsibilities with Tristan. That is, if you don't mind Tris. I'd really like you to be my usher."
"I wouldn't mind. I could give all the important stuff to DuGrey." Jess said with a nod.
"Tristan?" Luke asked.
"If you really want me to. I mean I'm not exactly family or anything. I'm hardly even connected to you or this town." Tristan replied hesitantly.
"Well, you're wrong about that. I talked to Miss Patty earlier. She and Taylor officially adopted you into Stars Hollow. They're writing you down as a resident." Lorelai said happily.
"Since when did this happen?" Tristan asked in surprise and amusement.
"Since 7:45 the night of your birthday." Jess piped in. "Lane and I called it. After, we told Miss Patty."
"So, what do you say? Will you be an usher but with the responsibilities of the best man?" Lorelai asked, putting on a puppy face.
"Well…" Tristan began hesitantly.
Rory turned to him with a face matching her mother's. ~That look will be the end of me~ he thought silently.
"Okay." he answered.
"Yay!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Okay, I think that's enough for today. How about we all meet tomorrow to survey the park to see where we can have the ceremony." Luke said standing up. Jess and Sookie followed.
"Okay, we need to work in a way to get the gazebo in there though." Lorelai reminded.
"Of course." Luke nodded.
"I have so much to do and so little time." Sookie said worriedly.
"Sookie, you have nine months!" Rory exclaimed.
"Is that all? I've got to go!"
With that Sookie ran out the door.
"So, are you two coming to the diner for dinner?" Jess said as they walked the rest to the door.
"You betcha!" Rory assured him happily. Then she whispered so Luke couldn't hear. "Have a couple cups of coffee waiting for us will ya?"
"Sure." Jess smiled.
"I love you." Lorelai said kissing Luke gently.
"I love you too. See ya tonight." Luke said before leaving with Jess.
"Well, I guess I better go home too." Tristan said coming up behind Rory and Lorelai. "Chilton teachers don't know how to give a guy a break! I have homework that needs to be done."
"Ugh! You're starting to sound like Rory!" Lorelai moaned.
Tristan twisted his face in horror. "Guess she rubbed off on me. Oh well, I'll be sure to leave a little bit undone." he assured the elder Gilmore.
"Har, Har, very funny." Rory said sarcastically as she slapped him gently on the arm.
"Later Lorelai. Later Mare." he said winking at her and continuing his walk to his car.
"Tomorrow Mac!" she called.
"Coffee will be waiting." he added.
One he was gone the two women returned to the living room and sat on the couch sighing tiredly.
"You like him." Lorelai teased.
"Who?"
"Duh, Mr. Hottie himself! Tristan!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"I do not!" Rory exclaimed.
"Yes, you do. But it's okay I won't tell anyone."
"That's because there's nothing to tell."
"Denial m'dear is not just a river in Egypt." Lorelai sighed.
"That is such an old line." Rory retorted.
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Chapter 3
"Okay so, I'm thinking we can do something in the middle of town since there's no use in having a small wedding now." Lorelai explained as she went over wedding plans with Sookie.
The two were sitting on the couch excitedly going over plans while Luke and Jess sat on chairs opposite the two chatting woman, rolling their eyes and sighing tiredly every now and then. Wedding planning was definitely not their game. Despite that, Sookie and Lorelai had gotten out of work early to start planning right away. Deciding that Luke and Jess should be a part of it too, they stopped at the diner and forced the two to close the shop early, but not before Lorelai could weasel a cup of coffee out of her fiancé first. They wanted to wait for Rory's return but were much too excited and started without her.
"Okay what about the gazebo! It's perfect! That's where you two got together and where he proposed." Sookie exclaimed happily.
"No." Luke chimed in for the first time in a while.
This perked Jess's interest.
"Why?" Sookie questioned.
"Because, it's elevated. In order for the rest of the audience to see us they'd have to either be elevated too, which would take too much effort or they'd have to stand." Luke argued.
"Yeah, I kind of agree with Luke." Lorelai nodded. "Plus, there are those posts holding up the roof, those would obstruct someone's view for sure."
"I never thought of that." Sookie agreed.
"Plus, there'd be no room to move with the whole wedding party up there. The gazebo's too small for that." Jess added.
The three adults turned to him with shocked expressions.
"What?" he asked defensively.
"You spoke. It was intelligent." Luke said gruffly.
"Hey, don't insult my soon to be nephew." Lorelai exclaimed smacking Luke's arm lightly.
"Yeah. But anyway, the gazebo is okay if you wanted just the priest and you two, but I'm assuming you also want to have the bridesmaids up there, plus an usher or two."
"Oh that reminds me, we need to select the bridal party!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Let's focus first on…" Sookie began but was interrupted by an opening and slamming of the front door.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!" Rory said quickly as she pushed Tristan inside of the living room.
"Please Mare, it's just a little…"
"Don't even say it!" Rory exclaimed.
"What happened?" Lorelai said interrupting the two.
"Huh?" They two teens said in unison as if noticing the four other people in the room for the first time.
"What happened? Why is my daughter pushing Scott into our living room in disgust?"
"Scott?" Rory asked.
"Dr. Evil's son." Lorelai answered.
"I thought we agreed Tristan had too many nicknames."
"You gave him 'Mac' aren't I allowed to squeeze in one more?" Lorelai argued.
"Good point, although…"
"Hello! Hi, have a problem here!" Tristan exclaimed, interrupting Rory.
"Oh yeah sorry." Rory said sheepishly. "Let's get you cleaned up." she began pushing him in the direction of the kitchen.
"Hold on! Story time isn't over yet! Explain why cleaning is in order." Lorelai said childishly.
Jess snorted. "Maybe they did something that caused Tristan to get a little…"
"Jess, it is so important to your health that you don't finish that sentence." Rory snapped. "Anyways, Tristan offered to drive me home because I missed my bus because someone," she threw a pointed look at Tristan, "decided to amuse himself and hide my Lit book."
"All in good fun!" he said in defense.
"So we went to Luke's for coffee only to find it closed."
"Your mother's idea." Luke said pointing the blame.
"Well, we turned around and walked back down the steps when Tristan fell…"
"You pushed me!" Tristan exclaimed.
"Did not!" Rory shot back.
"There was definite shove-age involved!" Tristan argued.
"Whatever." she said rolling her eyes. "Besides, even if I pushed you, which I'm not saying I did, you deserved if for walking so slow. So anyway, he fell rather ungracefully to the ground…"
"Which is to be expected when one is shoved." Tristan interrupted in a sing- song voice.
"You know the sooner I finish the story the sooner you can get cleaned up."
"Continue, but hurry, it's starting to sting."
"Oh, poor baby can't take the pain." she said mockingly. Tristan glared back at her.
"Hello, still waiting here!" Lorelai said interrupting the banter.
"Anyways, he fell and received a rather large scrape in the process."
Tristan held up his right hand to reveal a large gash running down from the base of his pinky to just below his wrist. Blood was already running down his arm, staining his school blazer. Everyone recoiled back. Rory moaned.
"Blood, I hate blood." she said in despair.
"What? This make you queasy?" Tristan taunted.
"Shut up!" she snapped.
"It's just a little blood and a little scrape."
"Little! You're a few steps away from the opening scene of 'Saving Private Ryan'! And that wound makes the gash that sunk the Titanic look like a pinhole!" she exclaimed.
"Sorry to break up this little love fest but wonder boy is starting to drip blood on the floor." Jess pointed out.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!" Rory whined.
"There's band-aids in the bathroom." Lorelai told her.
"Got it." Rory affirmed steering him in that direction.
"You know, actually contrary to popular belief it wasn't a two hundred foot gash that sunk the Titanic but rather a series of short small gashes and punctures." Tristan said as they walked out of the room.
"Shut up." Rory grumbled.
"Okay, well, I'm going to go get a paper towel to get that blood on the floor, Luke why don't you come help me." Lorelai said.
"You need help getting a paper towel?" Luke asked in disbelief.
"No, I just want the help." Lorelai said pointedly.
"Fine." he grumbled.
Once they were in the kitchen and out of hearing range Lorelai turned to him.
"This is perfect, did you see those two arguing in there!" Lorelai whispered excitedly.
"Yeah, I know, they didn't even notice anything else." he whispered back.
"Like they were in their own little world and no one could touch them." she said, turning around to get a paper towel. "I have an idea to how we can get them together."
Luke groaned. "Are you still sure you want to interfere with them?"
"Of course!" she answered, turning to the sink to dampen the towel. "Okay, here's the thing. Make Tristan one of your ushers!"
"How will that help?"
"Because, everyone knows that they have to help do errands for the wedding that the couple doesn't have time to do so that means he and Rory would be spending a lot of time together."
"Because we would be sending them out together." Luke said, catching on.
"Yeah, we can do all sorts of crazy things to make them spend time with each other and pretty soon the wedding bells will be ringing. Well, actually of course they will, for us. But for them too, but they're too young for that. Of course it's a metaphor." she rambled. "Maybe I should choose another metaphor."
"Lorelai, this is all great, well except for the wedding bell metaphor but there's a little problem in your plan." he said taking her by the shoulders.
"What? No, it's perfect!"
"Except for the fact that, the whole errand running thing. The maid of honor and the best man are the ones who run the errands."
"Yeah, well Rory will be maid of honor and your best man will be…oh!" Lorelai understood.
Luke nodded. "Jess."
"Well, I'll think of something else."
Luke and Lorelai headed out of the kitchen to find Tristan and Rory had returned and were engaged in a casual conversation, which now included Jess. Lorelai's eyes immediately went to his hand that was wrapped in gauze and held in place by assorted bandages with different animals on them. Sookie was in her own little world as she brought out a pad of paper and a pencil and was hurriedly scribbling out wedding ideas. Luke took the paper towel out of Lorelai's hands and went to wipe up the small mess.
"Where'd you find the gauze missy?" Lorelai said, causing Rory to stop talking and looked up at her mother.
"In the cabinet, amazing huh?"
"I didn't know we had any. In fact, I can't remember ever buying gauze in my life."
"Yeah, well, we had the gauze but we didn't have tape so I had to hold it together with some band-aids." she said.
"Love the patterns." Luke smirked, returning back to the conversation.
"Yeah, thanks." Tristan answered sarcastically.
"What's wrong with them?" Lorelai asked defensively.
"Well…" Tristan held up his hand for her to see. One band-aid was light blue and covered with several tiny penguins and another was pink with little pigs scattered around. Other band-aids followed the same patterns with other animals.
"Again, I see nothing wrong." Lorelai said.
"Well, I can't go to school with pink pig bandages."
"What, you don't think it will attract the ladies?" Rory teased.
Tristan gave her an annoyed look.
"Well, ladies and gents. We have more to plan!" Lorelai exclaimed. "So, let's get to it. Tristan, I'd love it if you can stay."
"Yeah, I don't have anywhere I need to be."
"Okay, so right now we need to discuss who will be part of the bridal party." Luke said sitting down on the couch. Lorelai did the same.
"Well, that's a no brainer for me." Lorelai said. "Rory, maid of honor and Sookie, I would love you to be my other bridesmaid."
"Of course." and "Sure." Were their excited replies.
"Now, about my side." Luke sighed. "Jess, I want you to be my best man."
"I have a problem with that." Jess replied.
"What? Why?" Lorelai asked with wide eyes.
"Well, the best man has to go do all those errands and stuff. Do you really want to trust me with something that important?" he asked.
"But Jess!" Lorelai whined. "It wouldn't be right if you weren't the best man!"
"Well, now wait a minute." Luke said putting up his hands to silence both parties. "What if we do this, Jess, you're still best man, but what if you divide the responsibilities with Tristan. That is, if you don't mind Tris. I'd really like you to be my usher."
"I wouldn't mind. I could give all the important stuff to DuGrey." Jess said with a nod.
"Tristan?" Luke asked.
"If you really want me to. I mean I'm not exactly family or anything. I'm hardly even connected to you or this town." Tristan replied hesitantly.
"Well, you're wrong about that. I talked to Miss Patty earlier. She and Taylor officially adopted you into Stars Hollow. They're writing you down as a resident." Lorelai said happily.
"Since when did this happen?" Tristan asked in surprise and amusement.
"Since 7:45 the night of your birthday." Jess piped in. "Lane and I called it. After, we told Miss Patty."
"So, what do you say? Will you be an usher but with the responsibilities of the best man?" Lorelai asked, putting on a puppy face.
"Well…" Tristan began hesitantly.
Rory turned to him with a face matching her mother's. ~That look will be the end of me~ he thought silently.
"Okay." he answered.
"Yay!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"Okay, I think that's enough for today. How about we all meet tomorrow to survey the park to see where we can have the ceremony." Luke said standing up. Jess and Sookie followed.
"Okay, we need to work in a way to get the gazebo in there though." Lorelai reminded.
"Of course." Luke nodded.
"I have so much to do and so little time." Sookie said worriedly.
"Sookie, you have nine months!" Rory exclaimed.
"Is that all? I've got to go!"
With that Sookie ran out the door.
"So, are you two coming to the diner for dinner?" Jess said as they walked the rest to the door.
"You betcha!" Rory assured him happily. Then she whispered so Luke couldn't hear. "Have a couple cups of coffee waiting for us will ya?"
"Sure." Jess smiled.
"I love you." Lorelai said kissing Luke gently.
"I love you too. See ya tonight." Luke said before leaving with Jess.
"Well, I guess I better go home too." Tristan said coming up behind Rory and Lorelai. "Chilton teachers don't know how to give a guy a break! I have homework that needs to be done."
"Ugh! You're starting to sound like Rory!" Lorelai moaned.
Tristan twisted his face in horror. "Guess she rubbed off on me. Oh well, I'll be sure to leave a little bit undone." he assured the elder Gilmore.
"Har, Har, very funny." Rory said sarcastically as she slapped him gently on the arm.
"Later Lorelai. Later Mare." he said winking at her and continuing his walk to his car.
"Tomorrow Mac!" she called.
"Coffee will be waiting." he added.
One he was gone the two women returned to the living room and sat on the couch sighing tiredly.
"You like him." Lorelai teased.
"Who?"
"Duh, Mr. Hottie himself! Tristan!" Lorelai exclaimed.
"I do not!" Rory exclaimed.
"Yes, you do. But it's okay I won't tell anyone."
"That's because there's nothing to tell."
"Denial m'dear is not just a river in Egypt." Lorelai sighed.
"That is such an old line." Rory retorted.
AN: I hope ya'll liked it! Please remember to check out "The Princess and the Pauper" which was recently updated. Please leave me a line by clicking that wonderful little button below!
