Will History Repeat Itself Part 4

                                    Author: Ice

                                    Disclaimer: I own nothing.

~~Chilton Hallways Wednesday~~

                        Lauren Dugrey and Chris Mariano were at Lauren's locker talking, at Chilton Prep School. Standing next to them, was Chris's brown haired piercing blue-eyed twin sister Olivia. Liv was getting books out of her locker that she would need for her homework, and trying hard not to barf at the public displays of affection her brother and his girlfriend of three weeks were showing. Chris turned to his sister.

                                    " Liv, ready to go?" Olivia nodded and closed her locker. They started walking down the hall, when the Headmaster of Chilton came out of his office and blocked their path.

                                    "Miss Mariano. Would you know anything about Mr. Medina being glued to his chair?" Liv smiled innocently while Chris rolled his eyes and Lauren stifled a laugh.

                                    "No sir. Should I?" Headmaster Michaels, looked at her and then to Chris and Lauren, then back to Liv. He sighed, then let them pass.

                                    "Did you do it Liv?" She shook her head.

                                    "Nope. I'm wondering who did though." Lauren laughed out loud. Chris and Liv looked at her, Liv's eyes going wide.

                                    "You did it didn't you?" A big grin spread across Lauren's face.

                                    "I have to keep the Dugrey Legacy alive don't I?" Liv started laughing, Chris just shook his head.

                                    "I think my sister's rubbing off on you." They walked out the Chilton double doors.

                        ~~Luke's Diner~~

                        Liv and Chris walked into their Uncle Luke's Diner and sat at the counter next to their mother and grandmother. Rory Mariano and Lorelai Gilmore were both drinking their precious java.

                                    "Hi kids rough day?" Lorelai asked her grandkids.

                                    "Chris's girlfriend pulled a stunt that was little tame but good for a beginner." Liv told them.

                                    "Yeah. She apparently glued Mr. Medina to his chair." Chris said. He could hear Jess laughing in the back. Lorelai and Rory started to chuckle.

                                    "The Dugrey pranks live on." Rory said.

                                    "What'd you mean Mom?" Chris asked.

                                    "The Evil One used to pull stuff like that all the time." Lorelai elaborated. 

                                    "The Evil One?"

                                    "Tristan."  Liv nodded understanding.

                                    "Nothing worse than what your father did. I think the worst Tristan ever did was take apart a teacher's car and put it back together in a hallway." Rory shrugged.

                                    "Yeah Dad made me have to live up to him….what can be better in this town than a fake murder?" Liv half called into the back where Jess was.    

                                    "Please do not feel you have to live up to your father." Rory warned her. Liv shrugged her shoulders and sipped her coffee.

            Chris laughed, then heard his cell phone ringing. He picked it up as Luke pointed to the no cell phone sign. Chris nodded and went outside as he said "Hello?"

            (Intercut)

                        Lauren: Hey Chris.

                        Chris: Hey. What's up?

                        Lauren: My Dad wants you and your family to come over for dinner on Friday. You free?

                        Chris: Umm, I'll have to check but I'm sure that'll be okay.

                                    He looked to the diner at his mom and dad laughing at something Lorelai or Liv said.

                        Lauren: Great. I'll see you tomorrow in school ok? Give me a definite answer then ok?

                        Chris: Okay.

                        Lauren: I'll talk to you online tonight. Bye Chris.

                        Chris: Bye Laur.

                                    Chris hung up and walked back into the diner.

                                    "Who was that Chris?" Rory asked.

                                    "It was Lauren. Mr. DuGrey wants to know if we want to come to dinner on Friday." Rory and Jess looked at each other and had a conversation with their eyes.  Jess nodded.

                                    "Sure." Rory answered then she smiled at Jess. Liv rolled her eyes.

                                    "Come on Chris, let's go to Grams' house, Mom and Dad are giving each other that look again. Grams, movie night?" Lorelai looked excited.

                                    "Let's synchronize our watches and we'll meet back at the Crap Shack at seventeen hundred hours." Lorelai held out her wrist to show no watch, "Ready? Go!" She ran out the door, Jess, Luke, and Liv shaking their heads. Chris walked out the door behind Lorelai and Rory laughed. Liv followed her brother, rolling her eyes.

                                    "Willy Wonka?" Chris asked.

                                    "Watched it last time."

                                    "American Pie?"

                                    "You mean Stars Hollow actually has it?"  He looks around.

                                    "It might be behind the Rory Curtain."

                                    "Nah. We get looks whenever we go back there."

                                    "Bambi?" Liv just gave him a look.

                                    "I got it. Batman, the first one, and Spiderman." Liv thought it over.

                                    "Okay. Sounds good." They walk up to the front counter.

                                    "Hey Kirk." Chris said putting the videos on the counter.

                                    "Hello. Do you have your video rental card? And your Rory Curtain approval card?"

                                    "None of these movies were behind the Rory curtain Kirk." Liv said.

                                    "They used to be."

                                    "But they aren't anymore." Liv countered. He glared at her. Chris handed him the Mariano family card and they checked out.

                        ~~Friday Night in the Car~~

                                    "Where is this place?" Jess asked, turning around for the third time.

                                    "She said you turn onto Park and then the third street in and the fifth house on the right." Chris read from the piece of paper that Lauren wrote the directions on for the second time. Jess grumbled something as Rory put her hand on his knee comfortingly. Jess looked at her and smiled. Rory smiled back. He finally turned into the driveway of the DuGrey mansion. They stopped at the gate and the intercom crackled.

                                    "Yes?" The voice on the other end of the intercom said.

                                    "Yeah, we're here for dinner with Tristan and Lauren?"

                                    "One moment please." The gates opened and they saw the full view of the mansion. It was huge, although only two stories, you could tell from the outside there were tons of rooms. The grounds were just as impressive. It was just becoming dark but the house was already lit up. The fountain in front had a lighted base and there were blue and white spotlights directed at the house.

                                    "Wow." Liv breathed. They had seen mansions before, growing up with Hartford's social elite, but never have the twins had seen such beauty in a house. There was even a turrent on the side of the house.

                        They drove up the driveway and parked the car. The Mariano's got out of the car and walked to the front door. Before Chris could even ring the bell, the door opened to where a maid was standing.

                                    "Hello. Master DuGrey and Miss Lauren are expecting you. Let me take your coats and I'll show you to the parlor." Jess raised his eye- brows at Rory, saying they have a Parlor? with his eyes. She nudged him gently as if to say shut up and they followed their children and the maid to where Tristan and Lauren were waiting. 

                                    "Rory, Jess how are you? Welcome to my humble abode." Tristan said getting up from his chair.

                                    "Humble?" Jess murmured. Tristan laughed, he walked over and shook Jess and Chris's hands and kissed Rory and Liv on the cheek. Rory smiled.

                                    "I this is a beautiful place Tristan."

                                    "Thanks Rory. Lacey, could you go get Lauren and Colin? They should be up in Lauren's room." Chris stiffened. Colin? Who was Colin? A few minutes later Lauren and a younger version of Tristan only with brown eyes came into the room. The young man took Liv's breath away. It was a good thing she was already sitting on the couch, otherwise she probably would have fallen. Chris got up and gave Lauren a quick kiss.

                                    "Hey Lauren." Liv said.

                                    "Hey Liv. Rory, Jess. This is my cousin Colin. He's going to be staying here for a while. Colin, this is Chris, my boyfriend, and his sister and parents, Liv, Rory and Jess." Colin stuck out his hand for Jess and Jess nodded at him.

                                    "Hello Colin." Rory said.

                                    "Hello." He sat down in a chair near Tristan.

                        ~~After Dinner~~

                                    "So I want to see this humongous library Lauren's been telling me about." Chris said. Liv nodded. She had been quiet through dinner, every once in a while stealing looks at Colin, very unLiv like. 

                                    "Lauren, why don't you and Colin talk Chris and Liv to the library, then upstairs to the theater. I think we have an advanced movie somewhere."

                                    "Okay Daddy." She got up from her chair as did the other three and they followed her out of the room.

~~Walking Down the hallway~~

                                    "So I saw you looking at me at dinner. Like what you see?"  Liv looked at Colin like he was crazy.

                                    "Until you opened your mouth just now, yes." Liv answered, she heard Lauren laugh.

                                    "Hmm…but I bet you've thought about me naked."

                                    "Oh yes, and to finish the movie quote you started, Am I that transparent? I want you, I need you, oh baby, oh baby." She smiled a sarcastically sweet smile at him.

                                    "Movie quote?"

                                    "Ten Things I hate About You, starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. Came out in 1999. Updated version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. You do know who Shakespeare is don't you?" She kept walking down the hall watching Chris and Lauren being lovey dovey. They came to a door and Lauren opened the door.

                                    "Oh my God." The twins said at the same time, looking all around them. There had to be thousands of books.

                                    "My dad inherited most of them from our great-grandfather, but in his travels Dad's come across tons more." Lauren explained.

            ~~Same time in the Living Room~~

                                    "So Colin is your…"

                                    "Brother's son." Tristan finished. Rory looked shocked.

                                    "I didn't know you had a brother Tristan." He smiled.

                                    "You don't know a lot about me Mary."

                                    "With twins she's not exactly a Mary anymore is she?" Jess asked a grin on his face. Rory smiled at him.

                                    "Shut up." Tristan looked semi-uncomfortable.

                                    "So you're a reporter Jess?"

                                    "Yeah. I cover the concerts and stuff in Hartford and Stanford."

                                    "Cool." They sat in silence.

                                    "So have you talked to Paris lately?" Rory asked trying to break the silence.

                                    "Umm, no. She's still kinda angry with me about not being able to be Romeo."

                                    "Wasn't that in your junior year?" Jess asked.

                                    "Jess, you know she can hold a grudge." He shrugged.

            ~~Back in the Library~~

                                    "Ok so what'd ya say. Go up to the theater?" Lauren suggested.

                                    "Sure." Chris smiled at Lauren, put his arm around her and walked out of the library.

                                    "Want to follow them or go find something else to do?" Colin smiled suggestively. She smiled sweetly at him.

                                    "Oh I don't know," she ran her hand through his tousled blonde hair and brought her face close enough so they could kiss if she wanted to, "Maybe we could, talk a walk, go into the garden you could put your arm around me, we could sit on one of the benches, and then you could…" Colin smiled, truly enjoying this, almost too much, "kiss my ass, if you think I'm that easy." She smiled and pulled away. "Shall we go watch the movie?"

                        Colin smiled and shook his head, not believing he fell for that. He held his arm out and said, "After you." She nodded her head and went out the door.