By Stew Pid
Rating: Should be okay.
Disclaimer: I only own the Stew Pid stuff.
A/N: Okay. I'm experimenting with different forms of fic and this was a new idea I had. It's not really my style so I don't know if I pulled it off, but I hope you like it.
Lorelai and Rory sit together on the front steps looking out on the night after watching sappy classic movies, those movies of graceful romance, eternal love, and happiness that, once attained by the close of the film, will last forever. Those are the movies that, after the warm, dreamy feeling has subsided and consciousness of reality returns, produce a sense of melancholy. Lorelai and Rory rest their heads on each other.
"Is it really the end?" Lorelai breaks the silence.
"I can't really say, but I like to think the earth's still got a few billion years left."
"No, I mean the movie."
"Still don't know what you mean."
"What if Cathy gets that part as Zelda's kid sister and some guy named Jack, playing Zelda's boyfriend or something, decides he's going to get Cathy. Don becomes jealous because he notices Jack's advances and he harasses Cathy so much that she decides to give him a reason to and has an affair with Jack. Cosmo catches them fooling around one day behind one of the sets and he goes and tells Don. Don can't believe Cosmo would accuse Cathy of something like that and he in turn accuses Cosmo of loving Cathy. Cosmo admits that he did but swears he isn't lying and Don punches Cosmo for admitting to the accusation. Right there, the best friends are no more. The girl that plays Zelda busts Cathy too and tells not only Don, but Lina Lamont. Now Don is upset but he doesn't want to have to divorce Cathy because they never signed a prenuptial agreement, not to mention all the bad publicity, so he gives in to Lina, who since she heard the news has been chasing him like a dog in heat. Lina talks to the tabloids about everything and Cathy gets upset. Don and Cathy have a huge argument and decide they are going to deny the allegations made on both of them and remain married for convenience but there's no love and when they look at each other their stomachs turn. In the end you have two people alone, without love, without friends."
"And then with the Depression no one can afford to go see Lockwood and Lockwood, and no one wants to anyway because they've lost their chemistry, and Don and Cathy even lose the money that was the only thing holding their marriage legally together. Cathy becomes some old has-been movie star smoking cigarettes in a cramped apartment watching old videos from when she was beautiful. And Don sits in a park playing Chess by himself joking with Cosmo who died two years ago, having never seen Don since the fight."
"So much for 'singing and dancing in the rain.'"
"You know, I think our version of the story could be a bigger hit than the actual movie."
"What could we call it?"
"The Last Song in the Rain."
"Ooh, that's nice. I knew there was a reason I agreed to Friday night dinners in Hartford."
"To every cloud there's a silver lining."
"But not in our movie, babe."
"No. Not in our movie."
"Ours is going to be realistic."
"But is it?"
"Well, we'll have to work out the anachronisms if we don't want Paris on our backs. I don't think VHS cassettes have been invented by the time Cathy's smoking in her cramped apartment."
"No, I mean, do you really think there is no true and lasting love, practically speaking?"
"Hmm. I think that practically speaking, nothing lasts."
Rory drops her head in silence, thinking of the bridge and the decomposed war heroes at the bottom of the lake.
"But I also think there's nothing very practical about love. How's that for you, kiddo?"
Now Rory looks up pensively.
"I don't know."
"You're thinking about Dean, aren't you?"
She doesn't answer.
"Look, just because you two broke up doesn't mean it wasn't love. First of all, it might still last. No one ever said anything about breaks in between. And if not, well it just wasn't that lasting love."
"Too practical, huh?" Rory smiles.
"Well, you gotta admit, he was very useful around the house."
They laugh and spell of the classic romance movie is broken.
A/N: I know this was a weird chapter, but it's supposed to work later. I hope it does.
