Summary: Future Rory and Tristan are in Harvard. They're "friends" now.
Rory finds herself thinking of Tristan and try's to fight the attraction.
An obstacle will get in the way.
Pairing: Trory (though some of you might kill me for the ending)
Rating: PG (mild language)
Disclaimer: I own nadda! Zip, Zilch! I wish CMM was mine though... but he's
not :(
A/N: So this is it, the last chapter of my first FF! *sniff sniff* so sad. Again, this chapter's timeline will be really fast, I'm not really going to go into detail unless it's necisarry.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~ Tristan and I didn't really have much of a honeymoon. With me sick, there weren't many places we could go. It had to be somewhere close, incase something happened to me and because I couldn't really travel. So we decided to go to a cottage that was owned by Tristan's family. It wasn't too far from Hartford but it was nice and quiet for us to spend some much needed time together. We spent a wonderful week up there where all we did was cuddle close.
* * *
After we got home, we sat down and inspected some of the girfts we had received for wedding presents.
"Hey Ror, this one's from your mom."
"What is it?"
"Let's open it and see."
After 8 layers of wrapping paper, 2 white, 3 green, 1 red, orange and yellow, we finally found the box. After opening it, we found ourselves with an ice cream maker.
"Wow, it's a Musso Lussino 480! I haven't seen one of these in like 10 years. Where would your mom get one? I mean it's an Italian design, with a stainless steel body and a chrome finish-"
"Fernando?" She looked at the appliance strangely.
"What?" I asked.
"I just had deja- vous. Say all that again."
"Say what? That it's a Musso Lussino 480, Italian design, with a stainless steel body and a chrome finish?"
"Ha! I knew I recognized this thing!" She got up and picked up the phone. I just followed her still extremely confused.
Rory/ Lorelai Intercut:
L: Hello, Coffee Queen speaking!
R: Hi mom.
L: RORY! You're back! How was your trip?
R: It was good. Tristan and I were just opening our wedding presents.
L: Oh, presents!!! And you didn't invite me over to open them?
R: Considering that they're OUR wedding presents, no. Anyways, we were opening yours, which, by the way was quite amusing with the different coloured paper and the 8 layers, and found something interesting.
L: And what would that be?
R: Mom! You know what I'm talking about! Fernando!
L: Huh?
R: The ice cream maker!
L: Oh...
R: Yes oh! I thought you had gotten rid of it. AND your not supposed to give your own wedding presents away!
At this point my ears had perked up, actually I was in the other room on the phone listening.
T: Yes you're really not supposed to do that!
R: Tristan! (She said sternly)
T: What? Hi Lorelai
L: Bible boy! Have you been listening?
T: No! What made you think that?
R: ANYWAYS, why did you give us Fernando?
L: Wait! How'd you know about Fernando? I never told you I named it Fernando!
R: Sookie told me
L: Fine, yes I had donated it to the inn, but the inn didn't need it anymore, so I brought it home and stuck it in a box and stuffed it in the storage room. By the way, technically, I didn't give away my wedding present. Max and I never got married remember?
R: Whatever you say mom. But we have to go and finish opening the other ones. Bye.
T: Bye Lorelai
L: Buh bye children of mine! Well not really, but technically you, Tristan, are by law, but you know what I mean and I'm going to stop talking. BYE!!
I walked back into the living room and saw Rory sitting on the floor with a present in front of her.
"Are you just going to stare at that one all day or are you going to open it?"
"I was waiting for you."
"You didn't have to. Come on."
We went through all of the presents and by the end of the afternoon we had everything from napkins to a microwave and crystal. After setting everything to the side we spent the rest of the night just watching TV.
* * *
"Where is she?" I asked running down the halls that had come so familiar to me. Rory was in the hospital again and this time it was more serious. I had just gotten a new job about a month ago and was in the middle of a presentation when I got a phone called saying that Rory was admitted into the hospital again. I ran out of there without hesitation. I didn't care if they fired me. What mattered was that my wife was in trouble.
"Tristan, she's fine now. She's resting in there." Lorelai said pointing to the behind me.
"Can I go in?"
"Not yet. The doctor said that we should wait until she wakes up herself. He doesn't want any of us to wake her."
"OK." Just then my phone rang.
"DuGrey."
"Tristan! You owe me big man! After you ran out of the office I filled in for you and luckily the client agreed and signed with us."
"I'm sorry Derrick."
"What's up anyways?
"My wife's in the hospital."
"I'm sorry man. Do you want me to explain to Wolf? I mean he was pissed when you just left today."
"Would you? That would be great. Thanks Derrick."
"No problem. Later."
"Bye."
"So is everything all right Tris?"
"Yeah, everything's fine. Thanks. Where are Luke and Zach?"
"Zach's still at school and Luke's watching the dinner until Zach's done school. Then he's going to close and pick Zach up and come here."
"Mr. DuGrey? Mrs. Danes?"
"Yes"
"You may go in now if you wish."
"Thank you."
"Mind if I go in first Lorelai?"
"No, go ahead. I'll be out here when you're done."
I walked in and found Rory on the bed with her eye's closed. I made my way to her and pulled a chair up beside her.
"Hey you." She said looking up at me.
"Hey. How you feeling?" I leaned down and kissed her lightly.
"Better. How'd you're presentation go today?"
I didn't want to tell her that I might possibly be fired for running out, so I simply said,
"It went great! The client decided to sign with us."
"That's great Trist! Um, I have something to tell you and mom. Do you think you could get her for me?"
"Sure." I walked over to the door and opened it. I looked out and saw Lorelai sitting on one of the chairs.
"Lorelai? Rory wants to talk to you."
She got up and made her way to the room. As soon as she entered it, she smiled brightly at Rory.
"Hey sweetie! How are you feeling?"
"Good, but I have something to tell you and Trist mom." She looked at us to make sure we were listening, and then continued. "I've decided to get the operation that Dr. Phillips mentioned to me."
"What? When did you make this decision?" I asked a bit loudly.
"Before today. I was thinking about it all week and then this happened and it just makes me more determined."
"Fine. I'm going to get some coffee. Do you want any?" I asked them both.
"I'm not supposed to have any until tomorrow."
"No Thanks Tristan."
"All right, I'll be back in 5 minutes."
* * *
"Mom, there's something else I need to tell you."
"Go ahead hunny. What is it?"
"It's about the operation, you see...."
* * *
It was the day of Rory's operation. Everyone was a wreck. No one had gotten very much sleep that night. Even Zach knew something was wrong. We were all gathered in the hospital, Lorelai, Luke, Zach, Christopher, both set of grandparents, Lane, Sookie, and my parents. One by one, everyone went into her room to say something to Rory before she had to go in. After Lorelai was done, I went in to talk to her.
"Hey hun." She said sweetly to me.
"Hi." I walked over to her and kissed her.
"What's wrong?" She reached for my hand.
"I'm scared. How can you be so calm? Aren't you scared?"
"Yes, but I know everyone here loves me and I'll be all right."
"I wish I had your confidence."
"I'll be fine OK? Stop worrying."
"I can't help it. You mean everything to me."
"I love you Trist." She squeezed my hand.
"I love you too." I bent down and kissed her again. The door opened and I reluctantly pulled away from her.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but it's time." A nurse said to me.
I walked out and watched as they started to push Rory out of her room. Just as she was pushed past us she lifted from the bed and mouthed, "I love you" and then she was through a pair of swinging doors and slowly pushed further away from me.
*~Waiting Room, After the Operation~*
Lorelai approached me as I buried my head in my hands. She sat down beside me, her eyes just as red and swollen as mine from the tears that had been shed.
"How are you Tristan?" She asked me. She wrapped her arm around me and tried to comfort me.
"It wasn't supposed to be this way. We were... we were supposed to have a 'happily ever after' ending"
"Tristan..." She looked down at the ground.
"Lorelai... what is it?"
"She knew..."
"She knew what?" I knew what she was going to say, but I needed to hear it.
"Rory knew that there was a chance that she might not have made it."
"What are you talking about? She told me that she was going to be fine. That everything was going to b all right." Not wanting it to be the truth I got up and started to pace.
"She was given a 50/ 50 chance and she took it. When you went to go get coffee that one-day after she told us she was going to have the operation, she told me that she knew she might not live. And in the event of that happening, that I told you."
"Why didn't she tell me?"
"She didn't want to worry you. She knew you already had enough stress with her and work. I'm sorry Tristan." She got up and went to Luke and everyone else. I just sat there, alone with my thoughts. I thought about everything we had been through. I thought about everything that had gotten in the way of us being happy together and what we had to fight to achieve that. Fighting to be together, against everyone that didn't believe that we could work, and against Rory's cancer, was worth it, because all I know is that love is worth fighting for... no matter what the cost.
THE END!!!
A/N: yay i'm done! *fights off the flames* yes i'm sorry about rory dying at the end. That's how this story was originally planned, and you can blame my friend Leslie for that! but that's it! no more of this story, and there's not gonna be a sequal b/c let's face it, rory's not coming back from the dead. Much thanks to all you loyal readers and reviews tho!
A/N: So this is it, the last chapter of my first FF! *sniff sniff* so sad. Again, this chapter's timeline will be really fast, I'm not really going to go into detail unless it's necisarry.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~ Tristan and I didn't really have much of a honeymoon. With me sick, there weren't many places we could go. It had to be somewhere close, incase something happened to me and because I couldn't really travel. So we decided to go to a cottage that was owned by Tristan's family. It wasn't too far from Hartford but it was nice and quiet for us to spend some much needed time together. We spent a wonderful week up there where all we did was cuddle close.
* * *
After we got home, we sat down and inspected some of the girfts we had received for wedding presents.
"Hey Ror, this one's from your mom."
"What is it?"
"Let's open it and see."
After 8 layers of wrapping paper, 2 white, 3 green, 1 red, orange and yellow, we finally found the box. After opening it, we found ourselves with an ice cream maker.
"Wow, it's a Musso Lussino 480! I haven't seen one of these in like 10 years. Where would your mom get one? I mean it's an Italian design, with a stainless steel body and a chrome finish-"
"Fernando?" She looked at the appliance strangely.
"What?" I asked.
"I just had deja- vous. Say all that again."
"Say what? That it's a Musso Lussino 480, Italian design, with a stainless steel body and a chrome finish?"
"Ha! I knew I recognized this thing!" She got up and picked up the phone. I just followed her still extremely confused.
Rory/ Lorelai Intercut:
L: Hello, Coffee Queen speaking!
R: Hi mom.
L: RORY! You're back! How was your trip?
R: It was good. Tristan and I were just opening our wedding presents.
L: Oh, presents!!! And you didn't invite me over to open them?
R: Considering that they're OUR wedding presents, no. Anyways, we were opening yours, which, by the way was quite amusing with the different coloured paper and the 8 layers, and found something interesting.
L: And what would that be?
R: Mom! You know what I'm talking about! Fernando!
L: Huh?
R: The ice cream maker!
L: Oh...
R: Yes oh! I thought you had gotten rid of it. AND your not supposed to give your own wedding presents away!
At this point my ears had perked up, actually I was in the other room on the phone listening.
T: Yes you're really not supposed to do that!
R: Tristan! (She said sternly)
T: What? Hi Lorelai
L: Bible boy! Have you been listening?
T: No! What made you think that?
R: ANYWAYS, why did you give us Fernando?
L: Wait! How'd you know about Fernando? I never told you I named it Fernando!
R: Sookie told me
L: Fine, yes I had donated it to the inn, but the inn didn't need it anymore, so I brought it home and stuck it in a box and stuffed it in the storage room. By the way, technically, I didn't give away my wedding present. Max and I never got married remember?
R: Whatever you say mom. But we have to go and finish opening the other ones. Bye.
T: Bye Lorelai
L: Buh bye children of mine! Well not really, but technically you, Tristan, are by law, but you know what I mean and I'm going to stop talking. BYE!!
I walked back into the living room and saw Rory sitting on the floor with a present in front of her.
"Are you just going to stare at that one all day or are you going to open it?"
"I was waiting for you."
"You didn't have to. Come on."
We went through all of the presents and by the end of the afternoon we had everything from napkins to a microwave and crystal. After setting everything to the side we spent the rest of the night just watching TV.
* * *
"Where is she?" I asked running down the halls that had come so familiar to me. Rory was in the hospital again and this time it was more serious. I had just gotten a new job about a month ago and was in the middle of a presentation when I got a phone called saying that Rory was admitted into the hospital again. I ran out of there without hesitation. I didn't care if they fired me. What mattered was that my wife was in trouble.
"Tristan, she's fine now. She's resting in there." Lorelai said pointing to the behind me.
"Can I go in?"
"Not yet. The doctor said that we should wait until she wakes up herself. He doesn't want any of us to wake her."
"OK." Just then my phone rang.
"DuGrey."
"Tristan! You owe me big man! After you ran out of the office I filled in for you and luckily the client agreed and signed with us."
"I'm sorry Derrick."
"What's up anyways?
"My wife's in the hospital."
"I'm sorry man. Do you want me to explain to Wolf? I mean he was pissed when you just left today."
"Would you? That would be great. Thanks Derrick."
"No problem. Later."
"Bye."
"So is everything all right Tris?"
"Yeah, everything's fine. Thanks. Where are Luke and Zach?"
"Zach's still at school and Luke's watching the dinner until Zach's done school. Then he's going to close and pick Zach up and come here."
"Mr. DuGrey? Mrs. Danes?"
"Yes"
"You may go in now if you wish."
"Thank you."
"Mind if I go in first Lorelai?"
"No, go ahead. I'll be out here when you're done."
I walked in and found Rory on the bed with her eye's closed. I made my way to her and pulled a chair up beside her.
"Hey you." She said looking up at me.
"Hey. How you feeling?" I leaned down and kissed her lightly.
"Better. How'd you're presentation go today?"
I didn't want to tell her that I might possibly be fired for running out, so I simply said,
"It went great! The client decided to sign with us."
"That's great Trist! Um, I have something to tell you and mom. Do you think you could get her for me?"
"Sure." I walked over to the door and opened it. I looked out and saw Lorelai sitting on one of the chairs.
"Lorelai? Rory wants to talk to you."
She got up and made her way to the room. As soon as she entered it, she smiled brightly at Rory.
"Hey sweetie! How are you feeling?"
"Good, but I have something to tell you and Trist mom." She looked at us to make sure we were listening, and then continued. "I've decided to get the operation that Dr. Phillips mentioned to me."
"What? When did you make this decision?" I asked a bit loudly.
"Before today. I was thinking about it all week and then this happened and it just makes me more determined."
"Fine. I'm going to get some coffee. Do you want any?" I asked them both.
"I'm not supposed to have any until tomorrow."
"No Thanks Tristan."
"All right, I'll be back in 5 minutes."
* * *
"Mom, there's something else I need to tell you."
"Go ahead hunny. What is it?"
"It's about the operation, you see...."
* * *
It was the day of Rory's operation. Everyone was a wreck. No one had gotten very much sleep that night. Even Zach knew something was wrong. We were all gathered in the hospital, Lorelai, Luke, Zach, Christopher, both set of grandparents, Lane, Sookie, and my parents. One by one, everyone went into her room to say something to Rory before she had to go in. After Lorelai was done, I went in to talk to her.
"Hey hun." She said sweetly to me.
"Hi." I walked over to her and kissed her.
"What's wrong?" She reached for my hand.
"I'm scared. How can you be so calm? Aren't you scared?"
"Yes, but I know everyone here loves me and I'll be all right."
"I wish I had your confidence."
"I'll be fine OK? Stop worrying."
"I can't help it. You mean everything to me."
"I love you Trist." She squeezed my hand.
"I love you too." I bent down and kissed her again. The door opened and I reluctantly pulled away from her.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but it's time." A nurse said to me.
I walked out and watched as they started to push Rory out of her room. Just as she was pushed past us she lifted from the bed and mouthed, "I love you" and then she was through a pair of swinging doors and slowly pushed further away from me.
*~Waiting Room, After the Operation~*
Lorelai approached me as I buried my head in my hands. She sat down beside me, her eyes just as red and swollen as mine from the tears that had been shed.
"How are you Tristan?" She asked me. She wrapped her arm around me and tried to comfort me.
"It wasn't supposed to be this way. We were... we were supposed to have a 'happily ever after' ending"
"Tristan..." She looked down at the ground.
"Lorelai... what is it?"
"She knew..."
"She knew what?" I knew what she was going to say, but I needed to hear it.
"Rory knew that there was a chance that she might not have made it."
"What are you talking about? She told me that she was going to be fine. That everything was going to b all right." Not wanting it to be the truth I got up and started to pace.
"She was given a 50/ 50 chance and she took it. When you went to go get coffee that one-day after she told us she was going to have the operation, she told me that she knew she might not live. And in the event of that happening, that I told you."
"Why didn't she tell me?"
"She didn't want to worry you. She knew you already had enough stress with her and work. I'm sorry Tristan." She got up and went to Luke and everyone else. I just sat there, alone with my thoughts. I thought about everything we had been through. I thought about everything that had gotten in the way of us being happy together and what we had to fight to achieve that. Fighting to be together, against everyone that didn't believe that we could work, and against Rory's cancer, was worth it, because all I know is that love is worth fighting for... no matter what the cost.
THE END!!!
A/N: yay i'm done! *fights off the flames* yes i'm sorry about rory dying at the end. That's how this story was originally planned, and you can blame my friend Leslie for that! but that's it! no more of this story, and there's not gonna be a sequal b/c let's face it, rory's not coming back from the dead. Much thanks to all you loyal readers and reviews tho!
