Title: Friends 23/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.com) oh and if want an instant response from me like during the week then email me at (23405@sjamail.net)
Disclaimer: These Characters belong to Gilmore Girls except anyone you do not recognize.
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"Dad, what are you doing here?" Rory asked shocked.
"I came to talk to Sasha, what are you doing here?"
"I was… I was exhausted from a funeral that I went to last night so Jess let me sleep in his bed for a little while."
"Why didn't you just go home?"
"I was too tried to walk home. I even fell asleep on the bus ride home and if it wasn't for Jess I would never have gotten off the bus."
The phone rang and Sasha went to answer it.
"This true?" Christopher asked Luke.
"I don't know. All I know is I found them asleep on his bed a little while ago." Luke said.
"Nothing happened, this is your daughter we're talking about nothing would ever happen." Jess said.
"Are you implying something?" Rory asked mad.
"I'm just stating a fact." Jess said back.
"Ok, wait just a minute…" Rory started to say.
"You can't argue the truth, Rory. You know and so does everyone who knows you." Jess said before she was able to finish.
"Rory!" Christopher screamed.
"Jess!" Luke screamed.
"What?" Both of them asked quickly and still mad.
"Excuse me?" Christopher asked shocked by Rory's tone.
"Jess, let's go downstairs, you've got a shift and I've got a couple of things to settle with you." Luke said trying to let Christopher and Rory be alone.
"Wait, Lorelai's on the phone." Sasha said.
"I'll take it." Christopher said as he went and picked up the phone. "Lorelai, calm down. Rory's here with me. She's fine, I promise you. I'll bring her home after I talk to her. It won't take that long, we just have something to discuss. Yes, I'm back in town again. Look, Lorelai if I don't get off the phone with you Rory will never come home so how about you let me go? Ok bye." Christopher said as he hung up the phone.
"Mom's really worried?" Rory asked.
"Yes, she was freaking out." He turned to Sasha. "Can I speak to Rory alone?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'll be downstairs working so find me, I think we need to talk." Sasha said.
"You'd actually talk to me?" Christopher asked shocked.
"Yeah, sure but talk to Rory first." Sasha said as she headed down stairs.
Christopher turned to Rory. "Maybe we need to talk."
"Look Dad, I'm sorry I screamed at you, really I am." Rory said quickly.
Christopher smiled. "Sit down." He said pointing to the couch. "I'm not mad at you. And you know this isn't the first time you attacked me recently."
"That's true." Rory said smiling.
"But that doesn't mean that I'm happy with it." Christopher pointed out.
"I didn't think you would be." Rory said back.
"So don't you think we should try to fix this? So we're not screaming at each other every time we see each other?"
"Yes, I think we do need to fix this."
"So I guess I should start… Look Rory I'm sorry about everything that happened when I first came back here. See I first came to see Sasha but I'm staying because of you."
"You're staying?" Rory asked shocked.
"I'm taking some weeks off to just be here with you. I don't like the way things went down when I was here earlier."
"Me either."
"And I don't want us to ever be so mad at each other that we're at each other's throats."
"Me either. It just… just now any way. I knew what you and Luke had to be thinking and I freaked."
"You freaked out? I freaked out too. I just the idea of you and…" Christopher started to say nervously.
"Nothing happened and Jess is right nothing will ever happen. It was just a big misunderstanding, one horribly big misunderstanding."
"So you don't like him at all?" Christopher asked smiling.
"Ok so maybe I do but still I'm really not going to have this conversation with you about anyone." Rory said nervously.
"Well we can prevent that easily by just making sure that I don't ever walk in on something like that again ok?"
"Deal, but I've got a question."
"What?"
"You aren't going to tell mom right?"
"She doesn't like Jess very much does she?"
"No and she'd kill him if she knew…"
"I won't tell her but why don't you make sure Luke doesn't either."
"Will do, and dad are you back here for Sasha too?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because I think she really needs you right now, with the baby and all."
"It's not my baby."
"I know but she still needs you." Rory said as they walked out of the apartment.
"Ok what is it you have to settle with me?" Jess asked sarcastically.
"Number one: she is never to be in your bed again. Is that understood?" Luke said mad.
"Why do you even care?"
"Because I don't want something to happen to her."
"And you think I'd do something to her?"
"I didn't say that."
"But you implied that. You must really think horribly of me, if you think I would do anything to Rory."
Luke looked at for a second. "You like her, don't you?"
"What! Are you insane or something!" Jess defensively.
"Now I get it, why else would you go to a funeral for someone you didn't even know? Why else would you follow her around like a dog."
"I don't follow her around like a dog!"
"Sure." Luke said smiling. "You and Rory. I never would have imagined."
"Good then stop imagining it! There's nothing going on!"
"Then why are you so defensive?"
"Why does this idea make you so happy?"
"Avoiding the question, is another way of saying yes."
Jess started to think. "I get it, if I get with Rory then you think that means that you and Lorelai have a better chance."
"I never said that!" Luke said now defensive.
"Now who's defensive?" Jess asked with a smile.
"Well she's ok, I know that now." Lorelai said sitting down.
"That's a good thing right?" Max asked.
"Yeah, but she was at Luke's with Christopher."
"And?"
"And I don't Christopher sounded…"
"Sounded like what?"
"Sounded stressed, something must have happened."
"You don't that."
"But I do know Chris and he wouldn't be stressed unless something happened."
"What do you think happened?"
"I don't know but I'm going to find out." Lorelai said and then she heard the door open.
"Mom?" Rory asked as she came in.
"Rory?" She said as she hugged her. "Thank God you're ok. I was worried"
"She was freaking out, literally." Max said as he came in.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you worry." Rory said.
"Well then what happened?" Lorelai asked. "And how did you find her?"
"She was at Luke's. I went there to find Sasha." Christopher said.
"What were you doing at Luke's?" She asked Rory.
"Truthfully, she had fallen asleep at one of the tables." Christopher said lying.
"You fell asleep at Luke's?" Lorelai asked shocked.
"Yeah, I did." Rory said.
The phone rang.
"Max, can you…" Lorelai started to say.
"No problem." Max picked up the phone. "Hello? Sure." He walked back to where everyone else was. "Rory, it's for you."
"Who is it?" Rory asked.
"Tristan."
"Can I take this?" Rory asked her mom.
"Sure, your dad will fill me in on the rest." Lorelai said as Rory walked into her room.
"So when does our daughter sleeping make you so upset?" Lorelai asked Christopher.
"Tristan?" Rory asked as she sat down on her bed.
"Rory, took you long enough. What's going on there?" Tristan asked.
"One big misunderstanding." Rory said sadly.
"Don't tell me you fell asleep again?" Tristan asked smiling.
"Yeah, I almost didn't get off the bus. Jess had to wake me up."
"So where was the misunderstanding?" Tristan asked confused.
"Well that's not all that happened."
"Oh do tell."
"Well I couldn't make it home so Jess let me sleep in his bed but he was so exhausted that he fell asleep too. Then Luke walked in and woke us up and then my father came in."
"Your father has horrible timing doesn't he? First he almost saw us kissing and now this?" Tristan said almost laughing.
"I forgot about that but one good thing came out of it."
"Really and what was that?"
"My father and I talked. It was nice, really nice." Rory said smiling.
"I'm glad, you two needed to talk."
"So let's stop talking about my life, how are thing over there?" Rory asked lying down on her bed.
"Really well actually. My grandfather and I have talked a lot. Almost too much."
"What's too much?"
"Too much is when he starts to make a studying schedule out for me."
Rory laughed. "Doesn't he know that you don't do well with schedule's?"
"Yeah well he now has a goal for me: Harvard."
"Well to say the least if it works we'll be at the same collage, if I get in that is."
"Now if that ends up happening then this stupid schedule would be worth it."
"Oh really?" Rory asked smiling.
"Yes really which remind me, my grandfather wants to meet you."
"Why?" Rory asked worried.
"He'd like to get to know the only friends of mine that I cared enough to invite to the funeral and that was nice enough to hide me out."
"Well I guess…. I don't know I'm kind of scared."
"Scared of what?"
"Your grandfather, you've given me a bad image of him."
"His bark is worse than his bite at least to those who he likes."
"And you think he'll like me?"
"I sure hope so."