TITLE- Could This Be Love (part6)

NAME-Johanna

E-MAIL- Jroses716@aol.com

SPOILERS- none

SUMMARY- predicted future, Rory and Tristan meet again, and they still have their problems.

RATING-PG-13

CONTENT- some sexual content

PAIRING OR CHARACTER- Rory/Tristan

DISCLAIMER-I don't own any of the characters, the WB, Amy Sherman- Palladino, and the real writers of the show own them.

AUTHOR'S NOTE-Will be a few chapters.

Chapter 6: Maybe not

While Rory was trying to find Gene in his office she bumped into someone before she got there. Hannah.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Rory said not knowing whom she had just bumped into.

"Rory, oh, yeah its ok." Hannah said trying to be nice.

Rory hadn't forgotten about seeing her with Tristan this mourning. Who could forget? Everyone could have heard them. "Sorry, I interrupted your conversation with Tristan. It looked like it was very interesting."

"Not really, I am sort of glad."

"What do you mean?" Rory asked, she had no idea what she was talking about.

"Well, Last week, Tristan and I had a really nice conversation. I took it as a real connection. But on Saturday, I went to the movies with a friend and I saw him with another girl." She told Rory, not aware she was talking about Rory.

"Hannah, don't start jumping to conclusions. I mean it could have been his sister." What was she thinking? She just referred to herself as a relative of Tristan's.

"Tristan doesn't have a sister."

"Then it could have been a high school friend. Tristan would never two time a girl like you." 'Me on the other hand' she thought to herself.

"That's sweet of you to say Rory." Hannah said, "It looked like you were going somewhere. Don't let me stop you."

"Oh, you know what, I have to get something from my office. I'll talk to you later." She decided not to go through with changing partners. 'If I don't have Tristan as a lover, I can have him as a friend.' Rory thought, ' Maybe I can even help Tristan with Hannah, just to show him how much I cared.'

~~~~~After Lunch~~~~~

It was about four-thirty she had about 30 minutes until she had to go. She didn't want to work with Tristan on such bad terms, plus she had to ask him something that was important. She was standing at Tristan's office door, she stood there for a second collecting her thoughts. Rory thought. Still thinking, someone tapped her shoulder.

"Excuse me. Can I get into my office?" Tristan had no idea what she was doing there, again.

"Tristan, Hi, I wanted to talk to you about. umm.about the case." Rory was taken by surprise; she didn't have all her thoughts together.

"What about it?" Tristan was fed up with Rory; butting in. He didn't want to see her.

"Well, I don't think we'll finish it up by Wednesday mourning."

"Yeah, so, what do you suppose we do about it?" Tristan said. He actually wouldn't mind Rory and himself pulling an all-nighter. What she had said to him earlier got him annoyed. He can't help it that she had feelings about him, after the date.

"Actually, Tristan, I wanted to tell you that I didn't mean to forget the documents. Seeing as though we didn't get a lot done today. You know I left them at my apartment, so if you wouldn't mind stopping by tonight to pull an all-nighter, I would be greatly appreciated."

"It sound's like a plan, When should I come over?" Just the words 'pull an all-nighter' made Tristan jump at the chance.

"I guess around seven. If it's a problem, you can come a little later."

"No, Seven is fine. I guess I will see you later."

"Ok, later then."