Email: detour_black@hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Pairing: R/T
Starring: Rory, Tristan, Lorelai, Luke
Guest starring: Dean, Paris, Lane
Summary: Rory is very sick and what happen when Tristan finds out that she's not going to get better?
Disclaimer: Oohhh damn. You caught me! No, they don't belong to me and of course everyone knows that duh!
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Senior year, here we come. Rory thought as she stood in front of the Chilton building. Chilton students were everywhere greeting each other, sharing stories and laughs on their first day back to school. Rory took a deep breath and entered Chilton minding nothing around her surroundings and headed for the office to get her schedules and locker. When she got to her locker, lot of thoughts were running in and out in her mind wondering what will happen to her later on. She have many hopes and wishes but there are couple of her wishes she knew that it would never happen. And she was deeply devastated and angry at herself.

Rory let out a sigh and closed her locker when she got her books for her class and started walking down the cold Chilton hallway. Around the corner came Louise, Paris and Madeline and she paid no attention to them until Paris called her attention.

"Why Rory, I see that you're being ignorant now, what's the change?" Paris said sarcastically

Rory rolled her eyes and faced her with folded arms, "what do you want Paris?"

"well, I hope you had a good summer with your bag boy boyfriend and I'm glad that you asking that Rory. Since we're seniors, I'm warning you not to get into my way for becoming a valedictorian and I'm the editor-in-chief for the Franklin, and if you try to get into my way, I'm gonna make your life turn to hell, do you understand?"

"Paris, why, thank you for the warnings but I have no intention of becoming a valedictorian because it's not my dream and also, you don't have to make my life turn to hell because I'm already in hell," Rory said and walked away leaving a bewildered Paris

"okay fine if you say so! I just want to know if you're going to work for the Franklin," Paris called after her

"I'm not going to," Rory said over her shoulder and went into the classroom. Paris frowned, she wondered what's with Rory since Rory worked for the Franklin since she first came to Chilton.

"Hello Mary,"

"get lost Tristan," Rory said without looking at him from her locker as she continued to get her stuffs

"how would you know it was me?" he smirked, leaning against the locker

Rory slammed her locker shut and turned to him, "because Tristan, there is only one loser in the whole school who doesn't know how to say my name," she said and started to walk away

"what the…?"

"you got struck too eh?" Tristan turned to see Paris approaching to him

"what's with her? I never saw her like that before,"

"me either. Surprisingly, she's not going to work for the Franklin. If there is another newspaper…I'm not going to be happy about it and I don't wanna know if she joined or not,"

Tristan smirked, "since when did you want her for your newspaper only Par? Maybe something happened to her during the summer,"

"hmmm…enough about Rory. It's good to have you back Tristan, military school finally let you out?" she said

"well, I talked to my dad about coming back so he allowed me to come back and it's good to be back. I would be better if Mary welcomed me back too,"

Paris rolled her eyes, "you haven't change Tristan, do you know that?" she said "and it looks like you still have a thing for that girl eh?"

"me? No I don't, I just enjoy tormenting her," he smirked

Paris smirked back at him, "and finally she'll snap back at you for sure,"

"no, never and I bet on that,"

"and I won't because I know who wins," Paris said and walked away.

"Luke, coffee," Rory grunted as she entered the diner and found her mom waiting for her at the counter.

"Rory dear, how was first day of school?" Lorelai asked when Luke poured Rory a mug of coffee

"bitchy," she mumbled and drank her coffee. Lorelai can't blame her for her words because Rory is not in a good mood and she hasn't been in a good mood for a while.

"Remember, less stress," she reminded

"I quitted working on the Franklin so no worry and I better get home and work on my homework,"

"alright, see you at home," Lorelai shrugged and turned to Luke

"less stress? Is senior year tough for her?" he asked

"hmmm no, it's…um, it's like a new school year resolution and lot of stress is not good for Rory," Lorelai replied

"huh? She had a lot of stress since she started going to the prep school, and she's manageable, what changed?" he said

"well, I know that but then something happened, I told her not to put too much stress with her work and last year she almost collapsed, I don't want that to happen again,"

"collapsed? How come I don't know this…"

Lorelai sighed, "well Luke, I don't want to talk about it and I better get back to the Inn, I'll see you later," Luke watched her leave the diner and wondered what she is hiding. Luke strongly cared for the Gilmore Girls ever since God knows when and he loves Lorelai more than a friend and Rory like she was his own daughter.

The next day, Rory was running late for her French class and when she got there, the class was interrupted.

"Nice of you to join us Ms. Gilmore, do you have an excuse?" Mrs. Whitman asked, she shook her head, Mrs. Whitman sighed, "well, then you will have to serve detention after class Ms. Gilmore and try to be on time next time," she told her and Rory went to her seat passing a few snickering students and a smirking Tristan.

Tristan leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "I hope you're feeling much better than yesterday Mary,"

Rory just ignored him and paid attention to Mrs. Whitman and until then when he won't stop bothering her and she was getting a headache, she raised her hand

"yes Ms. Gilmore?"

"can I have a nurse pass? I need a Tylenol…" Rory said, starting to feel uneasy and Tristan noticed it

"sure," Mrs. Whitman said and handed her the pass. Rory picked up her bag and left the class. She went to the nurse office and stayed there to rest after taking the Tylenol. It was a painful headache and it's a side affect of her sickness. And it's a sickness that would never go away.

* A/N: Please review and I want to see if I should continue or not…if you want me to continue this story, convince me :) *