8. I will make this right again
Summary: Rory and Jess go to a reunion and meet Tristan, who brings up some strange feelings. It is a Literati though.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of this, just writing a story and borrowing them for a while
A/N: Here's chapter 8. To the one person who asked me to turn this into a Trory, I've been reading quite a bit of Trorys lately and I must say I like them a lot. But I started this as a Literaty and I am going to finish it as a Literaty, sorry.
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Rory felt frightened, but didn't know what she could do to save herself. She wished she was in another place at that moment or that Jess would appear and make everything all right again. She looked down the cliff and could see nothing. She tried to make herself belief that the reason she couldn't see anything was because it was so dark, but to no avail. She knew it was a long way down there. She started pondering in what way she would prefer to die, if she'd rather be shot to death or if she'd prefer to jump down and break every bone of her body before she died.
Gabriela studied the fear on Rory's face. She couldn't help but liking that look. She wasn't a bad person, she told herself, she just needed to do everything necessary to achieve her goal. And if that scared Rory, she couldn't help it. Besides, Rory deserved it for taking what wasn't hers. She too was pondering what the best way of dying was. Having to fall to your death or being shot.
Rory decided she'd rather be shot do death. At least that way she would still have some hopes of surviving, if the bullet missed. And if it didn't, she at least wouldn't have to endure those horrible seconds, knowing she was going to die. If she plummeted to death, she would fall through the air and see the ground come closer. She was sure those couple of seconds would be the most terrifying seconds ever.And the seconds she was going through right now were already very terrifying.
Gabriela decided that the best way to die was to fall of the cliff. If you fell off of the cliff at least you would feel free for a couple of seconds. Granted, you could be sure those were the last seconds you would be alive, but you would die with dignity. You would die without anyone having done anything to your body, but yourself. And since she wasn't such a bad person, she decided that she would grant Rory that privilege. She would give her the chance to jump off of the cliff by herself.
Suddenly Rory snapped out of her thoughts. What was she thinking about? She shouldn't be concentrating on dying. She should be concentrating on surviving. She looked at Gabriela, but couldn't quite read her face, it was blank. Maybe she could talk to her. Maybe she could convince her this was all a mistake. She could at least try to stall. Maybe by some miracle someone would come bye, see what was going on, and safe her.
Rory: 'Gabriela.'
Rory tried to get her attention, but Gabriela didn't respond.
Rory: 'Gabriela.'
Again no response. Rory looked a bit more intently at Gabriela's face. It almost seemed as if she were staring to something behind her, into the darkness of the night. Maybe she could take a chance and get run away. No, that wouldn't be a good idea, since Gabriela had a gun and she had no idea how good se was in handling it. No, she had to someone get the gun away from her. That wouldn't be easy though, since her hands were still tied up. But she had to try. She started to move towards Gabriela.
Gabriela: 'Where do you think you're going?'
Rory was shocked. How could she be aware of what was going on around her if she had this blank look on her face and her eyes were looking into the darkness? She had been almost sure of the fact that Gabriela was so deep in thoughts that she wouldn't even have noticed. The little bit of self confidence that she had just regained disappeared quickly.
Rory: 'Ehm.Nowhere..'
Gabriela: 'You think I am stupid right?'
Rory: 'No, of course not.'
Gabriela: 'Look, I don't like what I have to do either. But I have to. It is my destiny. Tristan is my destiny.'
Rory: 'You don't need to do anything to me to have Tristan. He loves you.'
Gabriela: 'I told you once already, do not tell me anything about Tristan's feelings, because you don't know them!'
Rory: 'But I do. He told me tonight, when he took me to dinner. He told me he loved you.'
Gabriela: 'Yeah, right.'
Rory: 'Why don't we just forget about this whole meeting and go on with our lives. You guys go back to California and Jess and I stay here.'
Gabriela: 'I'm afraid that will not be possible.'
Rory: 'Come on, you owe me.You slept with my boyfriend.'
Gabriela: 'That was only sex!'
Rory: 'Still, you did sleep with him. And I haven't even slept with him yet.'
Gabriela: 'Rory, I am not here to talk about you or your sex life with Jess. If you didn't want to go to bed with him, that's your loss. I can tell you he is wonderful at it. You should have taken advantage of it while you still could.'
Rory: 'If you love Tristan so much, why did you sleep with Jess?'
Gabriela: 'Like I said, that was just sex!'
Rory: 'Then why do you have a problem with Tristan just wanting to have sex with me?'
Gabriela: 'He doesn't want to just have sex with you.He wants to make love to you.'
Rory: 'Of course not. All he's ever wanted is my body, since we were in high school.'
At this Gabriela snapped. She started walking towards Rory, still pointing the gun at her.
Gabriela: 'I told you not to talk about Tristan's feelings!'
When she had reached Rory she slapped her in the face. Rory started to fall over. Gabriela kicked her and started pulling her hair.
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Meanwhile Tristan had arrived at Stars Hollow and picked Jess up.
Jess: 'Now tell me again why I couldn't call the police.'
Tristan: 'Gabriela is ill. She's mentally not completely in check. If we got the police involved in this she could hurt Rory.'
Jess: 'Oh, and she won't hurt Rory if it's just you and me appearing there, wherever it is you think she has her.'
Tristan: 'I have a plan.'
Jess: 'A plan? Enlighten me. And I hope this is better than that whole scheme you had going to get Rory.'
Tristan: 'What? Look, no, never mind. I know what Gabriela wants.'
Jess: 'How can you know what she wants if she is as mentally delusional as you claim?'
Tristan: 'I know her. I know how her twisted mind can work. I think she just snapped right now. Normally she can keep her fantasies just that. But now apparently she doesn't know how to deal with them anymore.'
Jess: 'Stop talking cryptically and explain yourself already.'
Tristan: 'I think Gabriela considers Rory to be a problem in her path to me.'
Jess: 'You really do have a huge ego, don't you? Newsflash, the world does not revolve around you!' Tristan: 'Jess, I'm serious. She left me this really odd note. It's in the dashboard. Read it.'
Jess grabbed the note and started reading it. With every sentence her read, he looked more puzzled. What was Gabriela talking about? He should understand this. He had read and analyzed so many books in his life, that a simple note like this one shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Jess: 'This place she's taking her.Where is it?'
Tristan: 'It's a cliff with this beautiful view. We used to go there because it's so solitary. We could talk and think and do other things without being bothered. I think she labeled it our place, because that is were we could always just be ourselves and not hold up any appearances. It is also the first place I took her to when she visited here.'
Jess: 'Do you think she could seriously hurt Rory.'
Tristan: 'Honestly, I don't know what she is capable of.'
Jess: 'How much further is it?'
Tristan: 'About 5 minutes.'
Jess: 'I'm going to call the police.'
Tristan: 'Jess, no, you can't.'
Jess: 'The whole story about you not knowing what she can do is bullshit. You know very well she is capable of hurting her, maybe even killing her. The only reason you don't want the police to get involved, is because you don't want Gabriela to get in trouble. Get your priorities straight! Rory is an innocent girl, trapped in a game between two twisted minds. She doesn't deserve this. The police can handle this better than the two of us.'
Tristan sighed in resignation as Jess took out his cell phone and started to dial 911. He knew Jess was right, he knew Rory deserved to live more than Gabriela. He knew that it wasn't worth risking her life, because either way Gabriela was going to need a lot of professional help. Maybe having the judge order her to do so, would make her stick with the program. And if they could get there before she really did anything to Rory, she could pick up her life soon after her therapy.
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Rory felt her head pound. She thought this was definitely going to be it. She thought she was going to die, the pain couldn't get any worse. She felt so helpless. She was at the mercy of this twisted woman. She just hoped it wouldn't last long. She closed her eyes and tried to get her body to relax and adjust to the pain. At that moment Gabriela saw the lights of a car coming. She lifted up Rory and tried pulling her being her so the people in the car couldn't see what was going on. The car came to a stop and Jess and Tristan jumped out. She started laughing hysterically.
Gabriela: 'Oh, this is just perfect. The two young lovers have come here to see the end of their shared heart!'
Jess: 'What is your problem? Let Rory go. She has never done anything to you. If anyone has done anything bad here, it was us by sleeping together. We are the ones that hurt her.'
Gabriela: 'Jess.It's such a pity to know you are so much in love with this thing to stay with her even though she won't sleep with you. You know, I warned you. I told you to stay away from her, because she would only bring you pain.'
Jess: 'Please don't hurt her.'
As Jess was saying this, Tristan started to walk slowly towards Gabriela, hoping she wouldn't notice. But she did.
Gabriela: 'Tristan, as much as I would love to touch you right now, I have more pressing matters, so stay where you are. Don't come any closer.'
Tristan: 'Gabriela, please. Why are you doing this? Why are you hurting our chances of being together? Don't you realize that by doing this it will be even more difficult for us to love each other?'
Gabriela: 'Love each other? All you love is this bitch I've got in my arms here.'
Tristan: 'No, that's not true. I love you. And I want to make everything better.'
Gabriela was stunned by what Tristan was saying. She was getting so into the conversation that she loosened her grip on Rory. Rory took her chance and kicked her hard. This made her drop the gun. Before she realized what was going on Tristan had picked up the gun. Rory couldn't get away soon enough though. Gabriela had recovered and held her. She dragged her closer to the edge of the cliff.
Gabriela: 'Well Rory, I guess you're still going to get the death I wanted to give you before. I'll give you the ability to be free and fly for a while.'
Rory: 'No, Gabriela, please, I beg you.'
Jess: 'Let her go!'
Tristan couldn't belief what Gabriela had just said. In his heart he had known she was capable of doing that. He just hadn't wanted to belief it. Gabriela was almost pushing Rory over the cliff. He didn't know what to do. He had the gun. He could shoot Gabriela and save Rory. But how could he shoot someone he just realized he loved so much?
Jess: 'Tristan, what are you waiting for? You have to shoot her.We cannot get close to her, or she'll drop Rory.'
Gabriela: 'Jess, I'm sorry I have to do this, but I need Tristan. I need for us to be together.'
It was like time was standing still for him. It was like it was a movie he was watching. Things just happened. He got that feeling that he was having a dream. Everything was hazy, but he knew that when he'd wake up, everything would be alright again. He aimed, and he pulled the trigger.He knew he wouldn't miss, he was good at shooting. At military school he taken several classes. And he kept it up after starting college.
To Jess everything happened extremely fast. He saw Gabriela starting to push Rory and then he heard the shot. He saw Gabriela fall down and Rory running towards him. He looked to his right and saw Tristan. His face was blank.
After a couple of seconds Tristan walked towards Gabriela and took her in his arms. He started to cry.
Tristan: 'Why did you make me do this? Why didn't you give us a chance?'
Gabriela was shot in her side. She was still conscious. She grabbed the gun Tristan had laid down next to her, without him noticing.
Gabriela: 'I'm sorry I messed up. But I just needed you. I wanted us to be together.'
Tristan: 'Why didn't you believe me when I said I loved you?'
Gabriela: 'I will make this right again.'
Rory had run to Jess and was hugging him tightly.
Jess: 'It's ok now, you're alright. And you're safe. Gabriela won't hurt you anymore.'
As Jess was calming down Rory they hurt the sirens of the police cars arriving. As the first cops got out the also hurt another shot. Everyone turned to look at Tristan and Gabriela.
Summary: Rory and Jess go to a reunion and meet Tristan, who brings up some strange feelings. It is a Literati though.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of this, just writing a story and borrowing them for a while
A/N: Here's chapter 8. To the one person who asked me to turn this into a Trory, I've been reading quite a bit of Trorys lately and I must say I like them a lot. But I started this as a Literaty and I am going to finish it as a Literaty, sorry.
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Rory felt frightened, but didn't know what she could do to save herself. She wished she was in another place at that moment or that Jess would appear and make everything all right again. She looked down the cliff and could see nothing. She tried to make herself belief that the reason she couldn't see anything was because it was so dark, but to no avail. She knew it was a long way down there. She started pondering in what way she would prefer to die, if she'd rather be shot to death or if she'd prefer to jump down and break every bone of her body before she died.
Gabriela studied the fear on Rory's face. She couldn't help but liking that look. She wasn't a bad person, she told herself, she just needed to do everything necessary to achieve her goal. And if that scared Rory, she couldn't help it. Besides, Rory deserved it for taking what wasn't hers. She too was pondering what the best way of dying was. Having to fall to your death or being shot.
Rory decided she'd rather be shot do death. At least that way she would still have some hopes of surviving, if the bullet missed. And if it didn't, she at least wouldn't have to endure those horrible seconds, knowing she was going to die. If she plummeted to death, she would fall through the air and see the ground come closer. She was sure those couple of seconds would be the most terrifying seconds ever.And the seconds she was going through right now were already very terrifying.
Gabriela decided that the best way to die was to fall of the cliff. If you fell off of the cliff at least you would feel free for a couple of seconds. Granted, you could be sure those were the last seconds you would be alive, but you would die with dignity. You would die without anyone having done anything to your body, but yourself. And since she wasn't such a bad person, she decided that she would grant Rory that privilege. She would give her the chance to jump off of the cliff by herself.
Suddenly Rory snapped out of her thoughts. What was she thinking about? She shouldn't be concentrating on dying. She should be concentrating on surviving. She looked at Gabriela, but couldn't quite read her face, it was blank. Maybe she could talk to her. Maybe she could convince her this was all a mistake. She could at least try to stall. Maybe by some miracle someone would come bye, see what was going on, and safe her.
Rory: 'Gabriela.'
Rory tried to get her attention, but Gabriela didn't respond.
Rory: 'Gabriela.'
Again no response. Rory looked a bit more intently at Gabriela's face. It almost seemed as if she were staring to something behind her, into the darkness of the night. Maybe she could take a chance and get run away. No, that wouldn't be a good idea, since Gabriela had a gun and she had no idea how good se was in handling it. No, she had to someone get the gun away from her. That wouldn't be easy though, since her hands were still tied up. But she had to try. She started to move towards Gabriela.
Gabriela: 'Where do you think you're going?'
Rory was shocked. How could she be aware of what was going on around her if she had this blank look on her face and her eyes were looking into the darkness? She had been almost sure of the fact that Gabriela was so deep in thoughts that she wouldn't even have noticed. The little bit of self confidence that she had just regained disappeared quickly.
Rory: 'Ehm.Nowhere..'
Gabriela: 'You think I am stupid right?'
Rory: 'No, of course not.'
Gabriela: 'Look, I don't like what I have to do either. But I have to. It is my destiny. Tristan is my destiny.'
Rory: 'You don't need to do anything to me to have Tristan. He loves you.'
Gabriela: 'I told you once already, do not tell me anything about Tristan's feelings, because you don't know them!'
Rory: 'But I do. He told me tonight, when he took me to dinner. He told me he loved you.'
Gabriela: 'Yeah, right.'
Rory: 'Why don't we just forget about this whole meeting and go on with our lives. You guys go back to California and Jess and I stay here.'
Gabriela: 'I'm afraid that will not be possible.'
Rory: 'Come on, you owe me.You slept with my boyfriend.'
Gabriela: 'That was only sex!'
Rory: 'Still, you did sleep with him. And I haven't even slept with him yet.'
Gabriela: 'Rory, I am not here to talk about you or your sex life with Jess. If you didn't want to go to bed with him, that's your loss. I can tell you he is wonderful at it. You should have taken advantage of it while you still could.'
Rory: 'If you love Tristan so much, why did you sleep with Jess?'
Gabriela: 'Like I said, that was just sex!'
Rory: 'Then why do you have a problem with Tristan just wanting to have sex with me?'
Gabriela: 'He doesn't want to just have sex with you.He wants to make love to you.'
Rory: 'Of course not. All he's ever wanted is my body, since we were in high school.'
At this Gabriela snapped. She started walking towards Rory, still pointing the gun at her.
Gabriela: 'I told you not to talk about Tristan's feelings!'
When she had reached Rory she slapped her in the face. Rory started to fall over. Gabriela kicked her and started pulling her hair.
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Meanwhile Tristan had arrived at Stars Hollow and picked Jess up.
Jess: 'Now tell me again why I couldn't call the police.'
Tristan: 'Gabriela is ill. She's mentally not completely in check. If we got the police involved in this she could hurt Rory.'
Jess: 'Oh, and she won't hurt Rory if it's just you and me appearing there, wherever it is you think she has her.'
Tristan: 'I have a plan.'
Jess: 'A plan? Enlighten me. And I hope this is better than that whole scheme you had going to get Rory.'
Tristan: 'What? Look, no, never mind. I know what Gabriela wants.'
Jess: 'How can you know what she wants if she is as mentally delusional as you claim?'
Tristan: 'I know her. I know how her twisted mind can work. I think she just snapped right now. Normally she can keep her fantasies just that. But now apparently she doesn't know how to deal with them anymore.'
Jess: 'Stop talking cryptically and explain yourself already.'
Tristan: 'I think Gabriela considers Rory to be a problem in her path to me.'
Jess: 'You really do have a huge ego, don't you? Newsflash, the world does not revolve around you!' Tristan: 'Jess, I'm serious. She left me this really odd note. It's in the dashboard. Read it.'
Jess grabbed the note and started reading it. With every sentence her read, he looked more puzzled. What was Gabriela talking about? He should understand this. He had read and analyzed so many books in his life, that a simple note like this one shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Jess: 'This place she's taking her.Where is it?'
Tristan: 'It's a cliff with this beautiful view. We used to go there because it's so solitary. We could talk and think and do other things without being bothered. I think she labeled it our place, because that is were we could always just be ourselves and not hold up any appearances. It is also the first place I took her to when she visited here.'
Jess: 'Do you think she could seriously hurt Rory.'
Tristan: 'Honestly, I don't know what she is capable of.'
Jess: 'How much further is it?'
Tristan: 'About 5 minutes.'
Jess: 'I'm going to call the police.'
Tristan: 'Jess, no, you can't.'
Jess: 'The whole story about you not knowing what she can do is bullshit. You know very well she is capable of hurting her, maybe even killing her. The only reason you don't want the police to get involved, is because you don't want Gabriela to get in trouble. Get your priorities straight! Rory is an innocent girl, trapped in a game between two twisted minds. She doesn't deserve this. The police can handle this better than the two of us.'
Tristan sighed in resignation as Jess took out his cell phone and started to dial 911. He knew Jess was right, he knew Rory deserved to live more than Gabriela. He knew that it wasn't worth risking her life, because either way Gabriela was going to need a lot of professional help. Maybe having the judge order her to do so, would make her stick with the program. And if they could get there before she really did anything to Rory, she could pick up her life soon after her therapy.
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Rory felt her head pound. She thought this was definitely going to be it. She thought she was going to die, the pain couldn't get any worse. She felt so helpless. She was at the mercy of this twisted woman. She just hoped it wouldn't last long. She closed her eyes and tried to get her body to relax and adjust to the pain. At that moment Gabriela saw the lights of a car coming. She lifted up Rory and tried pulling her being her so the people in the car couldn't see what was going on. The car came to a stop and Jess and Tristan jumped out. She started laughing hysterically.
Gabriela: 'Oh, this is just perfect. The two young lovers have come here to see the end of their shared heart!'
Jess: 'What is your problem? Let Rory go. She has never done anything to you. If anyone has done anything bad here, it was us by sleeping together. We are the ones that hurt her.'
Gabriela: 'Jess.It's such a pity to know you are so much in love with this thing to stay with her even though she won't sleep with you. You know, I warned you. I told you to stay away from her, because she would only bring you pain.'
Jess: 'Please don't hurt her.'
As Jess was saying this, Tristan started to walk slowly towards Gabriela, hoping she wouldn't notice. But she did.
Gabriela: 'Tristan, as much as I would love to touch you right now, I have more pressing matters, so stay where you are. Don't come any closer.'
Tristan: 'Gabriela, please. Why are you doing this? Why are you hurting our chances of being together? Don't you realize that by doing this it will be even more difficult for us to love each other?'
Gabriela: 'Love each other? All you love is this bitch I've got in my arms here.'
Tristan: 'No, that's not true. I love you. And I want to make everything better.'
Gabriela was stunned by what Tristan was saying. She was getting so into the conversation that she loosened her grip on Rory. Rory took her chance and kicked her hard. This made her drop the gun. Before she realized what was going on Tristan had picked up the gun. Rory couldn't get away soon enough though. Gabriela had recovered and held her. She dragged her closer to the edge of the cliff.
Gabriela: 'Well Rory, I guess you're still going to get the death I wanted to give you before. I'll give you the ability to be free and fly for a while.'
Rory: 'No, Gabriela, please, I beg you.'
Jess: 'Let her go!'
Tristan couldn't belief what Gabriela had just said. In his heart he had known she was capable of doing that. He just hadn't wanted to belief it. Gabriela was almost pushing Rory over the cliff. He didn't know what to do. He had the gun. He could shoot Gabriela and save Rory. But how could he shoot someone he just realized he loved so much?
Jess: 'Tristan, what are you waiting for? You have to shoot her.We cannot get close to her, or she'll drop Rory.'
Gabriela: 'Jess, I'm sorry I have to do this, but I need Tristan. I need for us to be together.'
It was like time was standing still for him. It was like it was a movie he was watching. Things just happened. He got that feeling that he was having a dream. Everything was hazy, but he knew that when he'd wake up, everything would be alright again. He aimed, and he pulled the trigger.He knew he wouldn't miss, he was good at shooting. At military school he taken several classes. And he kept it up after starting college.
To Jess everything happened extremely fast. He saw Gabriela starting to push Rory and then he heard the shot. He saw Gabriela fall down and Rory running towards him. He looked to his right and saw Tristan. His face was blank.
After a couple of seconds Tristan walked towards Gabriela and took her in his arms. He started to cry.
Tristan: 'Why did you make me do this? Why didn't you give us a chance?'
Gabriela was shot in her side. She was still conscious. She grabbed the gun Tristan had laid down next to her, without him noticing.
Gabriela: 'I'm sorry I messed up. But I just needed you. I wanted us to be together.'
Tristan: 'Why didn't you believe me when I said I loved you?'
Gabriela: 'I will make this right again.'
Rory had run to Jess and was hugging him tightly.
Jess: 'It's ok now, you're alright. And you're safe. Gabriela won't hurt you anymore.'
As Jess was calming down Rory they hurt the sirens of the police cars arriving. As the first cops got out the also hurt another shot. Everyone turned to look at Tristan and Gabriela.