Finding her Romeo
Summary: The night of the play, Tristan never went through Bowman's dads safe and therefore did not get sent to Military school. Rory never told Dean that she was doing the play, let alone that she was doing the play with Tristan. One more thing… Jess never came to Stars' Hallow (please don't kill me)
Pairing R/T it might be R/D for the first couple of chapters but then it will be R/T, I promise.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Gilmore Girls, I asked for them for Christmas but sadly I didn't receive them *tear tear*, but I wish that I did (don't we all?) They belong to the great people of the WB.
Authors Note: Sorry for the long break in between chapters, but I have one word for you…school. More specifically…exams, but now that they are over and done with (YAY!) I will try to get a new chapter up every couple of days or so. I know that the title of this chapter is kinda strange but it made sense to me when I wrote it. It is about something ending (duh) but that's all I am gonna tell you, ok may be I can give you a little hint…It is about two people. You will know what I am talking about once you read the chapter. I have to warn you though…some parts of this chapter are kinda cheesy, but hey that was the kind of mood I was in when I wrote the chapter so you will just have to bear with it. (It won't be that bad lol) Ok I will stop my babbling now, because I and sure that you are getting sick and tired of it.
Thank you's:
è Babyblugoddess7389- Thank you soo much for bugging me about writing my story faster, although sometimes it made me want to hurt you. (J/K J/K) LOL
è CoffeeAddict4life- I can not thank you enough for all of your help on this story. You are wonderful.
è Thanks to all of the other reviewers, I am to lazy to sign on right now and find out who you are…but you really make my day when you review
Recap: Tristan and Paris are over Rory's house when Dean comes home and he blows up at Rory. Tristan comforts her and takes her to Luke's. While at Luke's Dean finds them together and storms out. Rory chases him (leaving Tristan) and he won't talk to her. She runs home crying.
Chapter 3: All things must come to an end, & now is the time
~ Stars' Hallow ~
Lorelai POV
*I ran into Tristan on my way home and he told me everything that had happened that day. When he came to the part where Rory had ran after Dean and left him in the diner, I saw it in his eyes…the hurt. I knew that he was trying to hide the hurt that he felt, but I saw it. He loved Rory, I could see that too. It was real love, not the 'hey you're my girlfriend I love you' kind that Dean felt, no not that, the real I want to spend the rest of my life with you kind. But of course Rory being…well Rory she didn't see it. Getting back to Dean, I like him, I mean he is a good kid. But I can tell that Rory doesn't like him anymore. She thought that she did but she didn't. I never really thought that Dean was the best thing for Rory anyway…in the beginning yes, he was great…but lately they have been fighting all the time and he doesn't even trust her. Oh and lets not forget his jealousy. *
Lorelai gets home and all the lights are off in the house. She walks to the kitchen and starts a pot of coffee. She then walks into Rory's room and sees Rory sleeping. Lorelai bends down and kisses her on the forehead. Only then does she notice Rory's tear streaked face. * Awww she cried herself to sleep. I will let her sleep now, but first thing in the morning I am going to find out what's wrong. * Lorelai walks out of Rory's room and pours herself some coffee. Just as she is about to take the first sip the phone rings and she gets startled and spills the coffee all over herself.
"Stupid phone! This shirt is ruined…oh well it was Rory's anyway, but what is really bad is that I wasted a perfectly good cup of coffee, and now I can't find the phone. I have to go wash this shirt, I will just let the machine get it."
Answering machine: "hi you've reached coffee-holics-anonymous…we can't get to the phone right now because we are out somewhere, probably getting coffee, so if you leave your name, number, and problem we MIGHT get back to you IF you bring us coffee. What did you think it was going to be free, we are not a charity you know?
MOM! Ok fine…leave a message after the beep, there are you happy that's so boring. Mom what else. Fine you don't have to bring us coffee, but you can if you want to." BEEP
(AN: Thank you to Julz for helping me write this, it was a lot of fun. hehe)
"Hi Rory, this is Paris…we have to get to work on our project, Tristan and I are coming over tomorrow at 1:00. There is no getting out of it either because we have to work and your house is the only place we can do it. Oh and Tristan wanted me to tell you that he would bring the coffee. See you then, bye"
*Great just what Rory needs right now…Paris* thought Lorelai
~ The next morning ~
"Morning sunshine"
"Coffee!"
"Here you go" Lorelai hands Rory a cup of coffee
"Thank you!"
"So Rory what happened yesterday? I ran into Tristan on my way home and he filled me in up until the diner. What happened after that?"
"Well after Dean ran out, I ran after him. I told him that I wanted to talk and he said that he couldn't talk to me right now and that I would have to wait till he calms down. Then I came home and cried myself to sleep."
"Oh Rory"
"It was my fault, how could I do this to him?"
"Your fault!? Please tell me how any of this is your fault, you didn't do anything wrong. Dean was the one that didn't trust you and jumped to the wrong conclusions."
"I know but I still feel bad."
"You shouldn't…you are allowed to hang out with Tristan."
"Yea, but…wait! Tristan! I left Tristan in the diner all alone!"
"Yes you did, but you can apologize to him today."
"Today? Why today?"
"Oh that's right, you didn't hear the message, Paris called and she said that her and Tristan are coming over here today to work on the project. She also said that they had to come here because there was no where else to go. They will be here at 1:00 and Tristan is bringing coffee."
Rory's eyes lit up. Lorelai thought *hmm, I wonder if her eyes lit up because I mentioned Tristan or because of coffee? *
*Why am I so happy…because Tristan is coming or because I will be getting coffee, or maybe it is because Tristan thought enough to get me coffee. I don't know. ARGH! Why is this so complicated, I shouldn't be happy when I think about Tristan, I mean I hate him…don't I?
'No you don't and you always knew that you didn't hate him.' Shut up you stupid voice, no one asked you.
'You're just mad because you know I'm right. You don't hate Tristan.' Fine well maybe hate was too strong a word, I mean I don't really hate anyone, not even Paris. But I don't like Tristan.
'Yea you just keep telling yourself that' *
"ARGH!!!"
"Rory are you ok?"
"Oh umm, yes I just need some coffee."
"Ok, so Rory what are you going to do about Dean?"
"I am going to talk to him and tell him that nothing happened"
"Ok but Rory if he is not understanding, I think you should end it with him. He should be able to trust you even if you don't tell him what happened."
"I know mom but he will understand." *I hope *
"Well I have to get ready because Tristan and Paris will be here soon." Rory said
~ 1:00– Crap Shack ~
The doorbell rings and Lorelai answers it.
"Come on in. Rory, Paris is here."
"Thank you Mrs. Gilmore"
*AHH! She called me Mrs. what a rotten, rotten child. Come on Lorelai, let it slide, you don't want her to get mad at Rory because you blew up at her. *
"It was very kind of you to let us practice here again Mrs. Gilmore" Paris said in an overly fake cheerful voice
*Bite your tongue, let it go. You can do it…does she really think that I look like a Mrs.? *
Meanwhile Rory was in her room where she could hear everything that was being said. She thought *Oh man, this must be really hard on mom, she just hates to be called Mrs. She is trying so hard to be nice and not flip out on her. I better go in there and save her…or I could let her sweat for a little while longer. Yea that's what I'll do, payback for breaking the coffee maker. *
"You have a beautiful house Mrs. Gilmore"
*OMG! This kid is such a suck up. I mean doesn't she know that I can tell that she is being fake? Where is Rory? She knows that Paris is here, why has she not come in to save me? Ooooh that rotten little mini me, she must be paying me back for breaking the coffee maker, grrrr I have taught her too well. *
*Ok, I think that she has suffered enough, time to go save her. *
"Hi Paris"
"Hi Rory"
"Well, I am off to the Inn, so behave and call Babette if you need anything. Oh and by the way mini me, I have taught you well, I am very proud" smiled Lorelai
*I knew she would figure out what I was doing, she is the best at it after all. *
"Bye mom" smiled Rory (AN: see I told you it would be cheesy, but the worst is over. lol)
"What was she talking about, 'I have taught you well'?"
"Oh nothing" Rory said
The doorbell rings and Rory goes to answer it
"Hi Tristan, come on lets get to work."
"Hi Mary, but before we work could we have a little break for…"
Before he could finish Rory interrupted him. "You have not even been here two minutes and you already want a break!? No we need to get right to work on the play"
"Now, now Mary, I know that this is hard for you. You must be dying to jump right into the kissing scene with me"
At this Rory rolled her eyes and started to say a comeback but Tristan cut her off.
"But what I was going to say before you interrupted me was, before we get to work can we have a little break for coffee."
"And I said no breaks because we have to get to wor…did you say coffee. Well I guess one little break wouldn't hurt. What's five minutes, right?"
"That's what I thought, Mary"
"Ok cut the chit chat, where's my coffee?"
"Come on Mary is that the way to speak to the god of coffee?"
"Shut up and wipe that smirk off your face, we need to find a way to deflate that ego of yours before you come in the house."
"Keep this up and I might just decide to drink all of your coffee myself."
"You wouldn't"
"Oh I would"
"Evil, that's what you are…evil. Fine, what do you want?"
"All that I want is…for you to be nice"
"Fine, done, now give me my coffee"
"First of all, I was not done, and second that did not sound very nice"
"I'm sorry, can I please have my coffee. What else were you going to say?"
"I was going to say that in order to get your coffee you have to promise not to run away at all today"
"About that…I am really sorry Tristan, I didn't mean to leave you there all alone"
"Rory it's fine, I was just kidding"
"I know but I am still sorry"
*Wow he called me Rory again. Twice in one week, that must be a record! We are also having what seems to be a nice moment. Things are really looking up; maybe we can try to be friends after all. *
"Hey Rory, I was wondering since we are doing the play together, could we try to be friends, it would make things a lot easier on all of us"
*Wow he read my mind * "Ok Tristan, I will give it a try…friends" Rory said sticking out her hand
Tristan shook her hand and said "Friends"
"Well ok then friend, may I please have my coffee now?" Rory said trying to ignore the electricity that shot through her hand the moment it touched tristans. The electricity that was still running through both of their bodies.
"Sure, it's in my car, I'll go get it"
He came back with two cups. Rory grabbed both of them and drank them in a matter of seconds
"Thank you" Rory said
"No problem" Tristan replied
Just then Paris came out of the house and shouted "Sorry to interrupt the party out here, but I was under the impression that we were here to work on the play…inside…with me!"
"Ok, calm down Paris, we are coming inside right now" Tristan said
"Yeah, I just came outside to get my coffee" Rory added
~ 3 hours later ~
"Ok this is coming together, lets go through it one more time" Paris said
"Come on Paris, we have done it dozens of times already. We have it down cold" Rory said
"Yea we have everything down cold, except the kiss, we haven't even practiced that yet" Tristan said
"Tristan, I don't think that you will have any problems at all with the kiss. I just wanted to concentrate on the more important aspects of the scene." Paris stated
"I know that the three of us have our parts down cold, but what about the others?" Rory asked
"I have personally made sure that they know their parts as well. The only reason that we could not get together all at once was because all of our schedules conflicted. Well I guess that there is nothing else that we can do." Paris said
They all got up to leave. Tristan was about to make a remark to Rory about privately practicing the kissing scene so they would not make any mistakes, but thought better of it *You don't want to go and ruin the fragile friendship that you have going with Rory, do you? *
Right after Paris and Tristan's cars pulled away from Rory's house, Dean pulled up
"Who was that Rory?"
"Hi Dean, that was Paris and Tristan, but before you say anything, they were just here to practice the play."
"Rory how could you do this?"
"How could I do what Dean…work on a project for school? You're right, I don't know what I was thinking. Oh wait…maybe I was thinking that I wanted to get an A. Crazy me!" Rory screamed
"That's not what I mean Rory. What I mean is how could you do this with him?"
"Dean I told you nothing happened between Tristan and I. The teacher put him in my group and there was nothing that I could do about it"
"Well, I don't want you to see him anymore…even for the project!"
"Well then, what would you like me to do, get an F"
"If that's what it takes" Dean said
"I can't believe this, why don't you trust me? Tristan and I are just friends"
*Friends, I thought that she said she hated him? *
"I do trust you Rory, it's him that I don't trust…and since when are you two friends, I thought that you said you hated him?" Dean said angry and confused (AN: When isn't he angry and I know that he is almost always confused…sorry but he doesn't seem too bright)
"We decided that it would be easier on both of us, since we were doing the project together, if we became friends"
"Well now that you are not doing the project with him anymore you can go back to hating him"
"Well good thing that it's not your choice, it's mine and I am still doing the project with him"
"No you're not"
"Yes I am"
"Rory, I am your boyfriend and I am telling you that you are not"
"Well Dean if that's how you feel, maybe you shouldn't be my boyfriend anymore" Rory said walking away (AN: YAY! this was my favorite part of the chapter. Sorry to you dean fans out there…but this is a trory after all)
TBC
AN – And that's the end of chapter 3. So what did you think? Let me know. I live on feedback, without it I will parish. Ok so maybe I am exaggerating…but just a little. Did you get what the title was about by now? I sure hope so! I will try to get chapter 4 up relatively quickly but I am starting two new stories and I am going to post Authors notes for them very shortly. The new stories are going to be titled Escaping her Problems or Creating more? and Just Another year at Chilton…Right? They are both going to be Trories so keep an eye out for them. As always please email me with any ideas for the story or anything.
Email- chelle2006@aol.com
IM- chelle2006
Preview: Chapter 4 The Play – This chapter is going to be about (drum roll please)…the play! (I know big shocker there LOL)
~Michelle~