Title: Too Late to Forget
Author: coffeechick87, a.k.a. Jayde.
Disclaimer: I own it! I own It all!! Which is probably why I live in a room with padded walls... they're nice and squishy. So, as you probably figured out, I own nothing! Well, except Asia, who actually is my cat.
Pairing: Rory/Jess.
Rating: Pg-13 - to be safe.
Summary: AU. Raised in LA, 17 year old Rory Hayden runs away to Stars Hollow to find her mother. There, she meets the quirky townspeople, and finds herself drawn to one in particular.
A/N: Ok, some of you might be wondering about the time-line, well the season line, actually. This chapter is set around a month after the last update in the middle of the month of May. And please, ignore the movies in the theaters, I'm just throwing movies in there, I really don't care about when they were really in the theaters, thanx.
Thanx for all the reviews, I love them all! And someone was wondering how Chapter 6 was related to Ch 5, Ch 6 was the conversation that Rory and Jess had about the kiss that Rory gave him in chapter 5. I pretty much used it as a way to get them together quickly.
Jayde Too Late to Forget
Chapter 7: The Elders
"God, you two, get a damn room!" Luke yelled from the kitchen to the currently deserted - save the two teenagers who were devouring each other on the counter -- diner.
Rory pulled away from Jess, flushed. "But then you'd dock our pay." She shook her head solemnly, her eyes twinkling. "If you said you'd still pay us if we got a room." She trailed off hopefully as Jess's hand snaked under her shirt.
Luke stuck his head out to look at the couple. Rory was perched on the counter with Jess standing between her legs. One of her hands was stroking his nephew's chest; the other was resting on his shoulder. Jess's hands were splayed on Rory's abdomen, under her shirt, bordering on indecent. Luke shook his head. "I won't pay you Unless you get a room. Now go play upstairs unless you want to end up on the dessert menu."
Jess raised an eyebrow. "Getting a little kinky there, aren't you Luke?"
He flushed. "I meant you two. and menu. groping." Luke shook his head helplessly. "You two get your butts up there before I advertise for tickets to the next show you guys put on." He watched as the blissfully in-love couple ran up the stairs, then grabbed a rag and disinfectant. "People actually eat on this counter, y'know." He grumbled into the silent diner.
"Lukey! I need my coffee!" Lorelai burst through the diner door, the bell ringing merrily behind her.
"No."
"Awww. Come on. Pretty, pretty, pretty please?" She pouted.
"No.
"Please?"
"No.
"Please?"
"No.
"Please?"
"Let me think.. No."
"I'll start singing!" Lorelai jumped up, and started to dance around the diner while 'singing' a song that only lyric was 'COFFEE'!!
The diner phone rang, Luke walked over and answered it, ignoring Lorelai. "Luke's"
"Luke, give my Mother Coffee." Rory stated flatly before bursting into giggles, he heard a loud crash, and then Jess came on the line.
"Sorry 'bout that, Rory, uh, dropped the phone. Anyway, give Lor the coffee, we can hear her up here, and frankly I don't particularly like the sound of my girlfriends mother in my ears when we're... well..." Luke heard Rory's squeal, then the click, and then the dial tone.
"Huh." He looked at the phone and hung-up, shaking his head. He turned around to find a grinning Lorelai, coffee pot in hand, in the process of refilling her bowl. "Grrrr." He growled and went into the kitchen.
*~**~*~**~*
"I'm soooo bored." Rory groaned.
She was stretched out out on her bed, her head half off, and her hair dangling on the floor. The solitary fan was blowing across her body from beside her, and she was watching as Asia attempted to stop the whirring plastic blades with his paws. She was desperately waiting for the clock to read 6 o'clock, which was when Jess got off work. She had been banished from the diner 2 ½ hours ago because, apparently, she was too distracting. Really, was it Rory's fault that one of the customers' orders went cold because Jess was in the storage room with her and didn't hear Luke ring the bell. 8 times? Ok, so she might have been a bit of a distraction. but just a little one.
"Knock, knock." Jess said and opened the door to Rory's bedroom. Rory quickly sat-up and looked at the clock, 5:23. "Luke let me off early, the only people there are Lorelai and Kirk, who is moping because his mom took away his scooter." He grinned as her pulled Rory into his arms and kissed her hungrily.
"Have I told you today how much I love you?" Rory asked once it was becoming imperative that they breathe.
"Yes, I do believe I heard that today from you."
"It better have been from me." She grinned.
"I love you too." He tucked an errant strand of hair behind her ear, and kissed her nose. "So, what are our plans for tonight?" Jess asked, nuzzling her neck.
"Hmmmm.. I was thinking we could grab a quick bite here, then go to Hartford and catch a movie around 7. That sound good with you?" She looked up at him from within his arms.
"Sounds perfect." He reluctantly let her go and started towards the door, "I'm gonna' tell Luke to start cooking, then I'll have a quick shower, do you want the usual?"
"Nah, I'll have a Hawaiian Burger instead of a cheeseburger, the rest the same, though. Oh, I'll have an Iced Mocha instead of a hot coffee, I love Luke for finally ordering that machine, don't you, Jess?" She grinned.
"The only reason that he did end up ordering the damn thing was because you threatened to quit if he didn't." He chuckled.
"Well, it wasn't only me, Mom said she'd never come to the Diner again if he didn't order it, too!" Rory laughed as she opened her closet and pulled out a long black denim skirt, and a ¾ pale blue top, she held them up to her body and turned to Jess.
"And we all know that Lorelai couldn't stay away from Luke's coffee for long." He looked over the outfit and nodded approvingly.
"She could if I gave her the special blend." She grinned triumphantly.
"No-one knows his mix, not even me."
"I spied." He could hear her laughing as he went down the stairs to the Diner.
*~**~*~**~*
"I can't believe I let you drag me to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, again! How many times have we seen that movie now?" Jess groaned as he and Rory walked out of the theater.
"Only 3, I saw Lord of the Rings 7 times in the theater, 3 isn't that bad." Rory defended her current favorite movie.
"Ok, this time, I'll admit defeat, 3 isn't that bad compared to 7. One question though, How the hell did you sit through Lord of the Rings *7 Times*?!"
"Very easily, I sat down with a refillable bucket of popcorn, and a gigantic cup of a certain caffinated cola, and looked up at the big screen in front of me. All very simple, really." Rory patted his hand in mock sympathy, "It was pretty much what we just did, can you remember that? Keep that memory for safe keeping until next time." Rory took out her keys, and pressed the automatic unlock.
Jess just shook his head as he walked over to the passenger side door of her car. "So, anything interesting happening in the near future?" He tried to change the subject before she started to rant.
Rory stilled in the act of getting into her car. She took a visible deep breath, "Yes, actually." She got the rest of the way in, closed her door, and nervously did up her seat belt. Jess reached over, and clasped her clenched fist, she refused to turn and meet his eyes.
"What is it, Rory?" He was automatically thinking the worst, that she had been in contact with her father and was leaving Stars Hollow, that She was going to move out of the apartment above the diner and move in with Lorelai, that she had found---
"I'm going to see my grandparents this week." Rory interrupted the flow of thoughts whirring inside his head.
Now that was a shock, "What?! Lorelai's parents, the ones that took you from Lorelai and gave you to Chris?!"
"Yea. Of course, they don't know it yet. I think I'm just going to casually drop by one day with mom, and do the full frontal assault thing. I just don't know what to expect from them. I mean, all I've heard about them makes them sound cold, unfeeling and callus. But, they're people too, ya' know what I mean, Jess?" Rory looked at him, her face utterly miserable.
"Rory, some people are just like that. They don't care about anyone but themselves, or they just don't care at all."
Shaking her head, Rory replied, "I just can't imagine anyone being that heartless." She looked at their entwined fingers, tears in her eyes.
"I think you can. From what you've told me of your father, that's exactly how he is." Jess tenderly turned her face so she had no choice but to look at him, a single tear trailed down her cheek and he gently brushed it away with his thumb.
The words, 'That's exactly how he is' ran through her head, and as much as she hated it, she couldn't disagree.
*~**~*~**~*
"I can do this, I can do this, I can do this." Rory chanted to herself as she and her mother parked in the driveway of the Gilmore Mansion in Hartford a few days later.
"Yes, We can do this." Lorelai caught her daughters' eye, and they nodded at each other, then got out of the car. They walked up to the door, and Rory rang the bell.
Lorelai looked at the empty coffee cup in her hands, "I'll put this around the corner, be right back." "Kay."
Just then the door opened to reveal a statuesque woman in her fifties. Her hair was expertly coiffed, and she looked don her nose at Rory. "I do not require anything that you are selling, and please never come here again." With that, Emily Gilmore shut the large oak door in the face of her granddaughter, just as Lorelai rounded the corner.
"So."
"So."
"That was my grandmother."
"Yep, that's her."
"How charming." Rory replied flatly.
"Isn't she? Now, lets try this again." Lorelai leaned forward, and pushed the bell repeatedly.
They could hear some undistinguishable mumbling through the door then it swung open again. "I told you to go away!" Emily screeched before she saw Lorelai, the she clutched her chest in surprise. "Lorelai," She gasped then looked at Rory again, her mouth twisted in disgust. She made a visible effort to control herself, then her mouth formed what they supposed was her attempt at a smile. "Come in, come in." She opened the door, turned and walked into the parlor, then yelled, "Richard, we have visitors, it's our daughter and ---" She broke off, and swallowed thickly. "Our Granddaughter." She finished.
A few seconds later, a man in a tweed suit and a rather ostentatious bow tie entered the room, and frowned at the sight of the two younger generations of Gilmore's. "Lorelai." He nodded stiffly at his daughter, then studied Rory carefully, a scowl on his face.
"Richard." Lorelai returned his greeting coldly.
"Well. Would anyone like a drink?"
*~**~*~**~*
"Oh Jess, it was so awful, they were so cold. They did al of the formal pleasantries. 'Please, sit down. Would you like a drink?'" Rory mocked her grandparents later that day from the comfort of Jess's arms. "Mom and I bulldozed right through that load of shit. We said what we went there to say, and I upended Emily's glass of Perrier on her when she said that all Mom was was a worthless whore. I was this far from slapping her." Rory held her fingers millimeters apart. "The only reason I didn't is because she would have sued me, Heartless Bitch."
Jess smiled and let Rory continue, he knew that she had to get all of it out,
"So while they were telling us whatever they said, I can't remember, I really wasn't paying any attention, I looked around their place. It's sterile! I looks like no one had touched a thing since the 40's! Not one homey touch. Expertly decorated, and even the little porcelain figurines are perfect! And Emily! God, she looks like a mannequin, Emotionless face, unless she's scowling, and not one hair out of place! I'd love to know the amount of hairspray she uses, It'd probably last me a year, if not more!" Rory stopped talking for a minute, tears in her eyes.
"It reminded me so much of where I used to live, when I was with my father. I used to stand so still I doubt anyone saw me because I was so afraid that I'd ruin something, and if I did mess something up, my nanny would lock me in the tiny closet in her room for hours at a time. Once she put me in there after lunch one day, and didn't let me out 'til after breakfast the next morning. I could picture Mom going through that when she was a 5, too, and it made me so angry. No one deserves to be treated like that, no one." Her voice broke on a sob, and Jess held her tighter, and kissed her head.
"No, no one should be treated like that. And I'll make sure that no one ever treats you like that ever, Ever again." He leaned down and kissed her softly.
"Thank You."
*~**~*(*)*~**~*
***** That Evening*****
"Hello, I'm Rory. May I take your order?" Rory asked another patron in the diner.
The man looked up. He was wearing and expensive designer suit, and had stylishly cut dirty blond hair, he smiled at her and showed off a set of perfect white teeth.
"Are you Miss Lorelai Leigh Hayden-Gilmore?" He asked in a smooth as velvet voice.
"Um. Yes. Who are you?" Rory was looking at him carefully now, there was something familiar about him.
"I'm Bradley Shipley, your fiancé."
*~**~*(*)*~**~*
I know, you all hate me for the ending of this chapter, right? All will turn out well, eventually.
Sorry it's been so long since I updated, I don't have the net. I'll try to update sooner.
Thanx 4 readin!
Jayde
Author: coffeechick87, a.k.a. Jayde.
Disclaimer: I own it! I own It all!! Which is probably why I live in a room with padded walls... they're nice and squishy. So, as you probably figured out, I own nothing! Well, except Asia, who actually is my cat.
Pairing: Rory/Jess.
Rating: Pg-13 - to be safe.
Summary: AU. Raised in LA, 17 year old Rory Hayden runs away to Stars Hollow to find her mother. There, she meets the quirky townspeople, and finds herself drawn to one in particular.
A/N: Ok, some of you might be wondering about the time-line, well the season line, actually. This chapter is set around a month after the last update in the middle of the month of May. And please, ignore the movies in the theaters, I'm just throwing movies in there, I really don't care about when they were really in the theaters, thanx.
Thanx for all the reviews, I love them all! And someone was wondering how Chapter 6 was related to Ch 5, Ch 6 was the conversation that Rory and Jess had about the kiss that Rory gave him in chapter 5. I pretty much used it as a way to get them together quickly.
Jayde Too Late to Forget
Chapter 7: The Elders
"God, you two, get a damn room!" Luke yelled from the kitchen to the currently deserted - save the two teenagers who were devouring each other on the counter -- diner.
Rory pulled away from Jess, flushed. "But then you'd dock our pay." She shook her head solemnly, her eyes twinkling. "If you said you'd still pay us if we got a room." She trailed off hopefully as Jess's hand snaked under her shirt.
Luke stuck his head out to look at the couple. Rory was perched on the counter with Jess standing between her legs. One of her hands was stroking his nephew's chest; the other was resting on his shoulder. Jess's hands were splayed on Rory's abdomen, under her shirt, bordering on indecent. Luke shook his head. "I won't pay you Unless you get a room. Now go play upstairs unless you want to end up on the dessert menu."
Jess raised an eyebrow. "Getting a little kinky there, aren't you Luke?"
He flushed. "I meant you two. and menu. groping." Luke shook his head helplessly. "You two get your butts up there before I advertise for tickets to the next show you guys put on." He watched as the blissfully in-love couple ran up the stairs, then grabbed a rag and disinfectant. "People actually eat on this counter, y'know." He grumbled into the silent diner.
"Lukey! I need my coffee!" Lorelai burst through the diner door, the bell ringing merrily behind her.
"No."
"Awww. Come on. Pretty, pretty, pretty please?" She pouted.
"No.
"Please?"
"No.
"Please?"
"No.
"Please?"
"Let me think.. No."
"I'll start singing!" Lorelai jumped up, and started to dance around the diner while 'singing' a song that only lyric was 'COFFEE'!!
The diner phone rang, Luke walked over and answered it, ignoring Lorelai. "Luke's"
"Luke, give my Mother Coffee." Rory stated flatly before bursting into giggles, he heard a loud crash, and then Jess came on the line.
"Sorry 'bout that, Rory, uh, dropped the phone. Anyway, give Lor the coffee, we can hear her up here, and frankly I don't particularly like the sound of my girlfriends mother in my ears when we're... well..." Luke heard Rory's squeal, then the click, and then the dial tone.
"Huh." He looked at the phone and hung-up, shaking his head. He turned around to find a grinning Lorelai, coffee pot in hand, in the process of refilling her bowl. "Grrrr." He growled and went into the kitchen.
*~**~*~**~*
"I'm soooo bored." Rory groaned.
She was stretched out out on her bed, her head half off, and her hair dangling on the floor. The solitary fan was blowing across her body from beside her, and she was watching as Asia attempted to stop the whirring plastic blades with his paws. She was desperately waiting for the clock to read 6 o'clock, which was when Jess got off work. She had been banished from the diner 2 ½ hours ago because, apparently, she was too distracting. Really, was it Rory's fault that one of the customers' orders went cold because Jess was in the storage room with her and didn't hear Luke ring the bell. 8 times? Ok, so she might have been a bit of a distraction. but just a little one.
"Knock, knock." Jess said and opened the door to Rory's bedroom. Rory quickly sat-up and looked at the clock, 5:23. "Luke let me off early, the only people there are Lorelai and Kirk, who is moping because his mom took away his scooter." He grinned as her pulled Rory into his arms and kissed her hungrily.
"Have I told you today how much I love you?" Rory asked once it was becoming imperative that they breathe.
"Yes, I do believe I heard that today from you."
"It better have been from me." She grinned.
"I love you too." He tucked an errant strand of hair behind her ear, and kissed her nose. "So, what are our plans for tonight?" Jess asked, nuzzling her neck.
"Hmmmm.. I was thinking we could grab a quick bite here, then go to Hartford and catch a movie around 7. That sound good with you?" She looked up at him from within his arms.
"Sounds perfect." He reluctantly let her go and started towards the door, "I'm gonna' tell Luke to start cooking, then I'll have a quick shower, do you want the usual?"
"Nah, I'll have a Hawaiian Burger instead of a cheeseburger, the rest the same, though. Oh, I'll have an Iced Mocha instead of a hot coffee, I love Luke for finally ordering that machine, don't you, Jess?" She grinned.
"The only reason that he did end up ordering the damn thing was because you threatened to quit if he didn't." He chuckled.
"Well, it wasn't only me, Mom said she'd never come to the Diner again if he didn't order it, too!" Rory laughed as she opened her closet and pulled out a long black denim skirt, and a ¾ pale blue top, she held them up to her body and turned to Jess.
"And we all know that Lorelai couldn't stay away from Luke's coffee for long." He looked over the outfit and nodded approvingly.
"She could if I gave her the special blend." She grinned triumphantly.
"No-one knows his mix, not even me."
"I spied." He could hear her laughing as he went down the stairs to the Diner.
*~**~*~**~*
"I can't believe I let you drag me to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, again! How many times have we seen that movie now?" Jess groaned as he and Rory walked out of the theater.
"Only 3, I saw Lord of the Rings 7 times in the theater, 3 isn't that bad." Rory defended her current favorite movie.
"Ok, this time, I'll admit defeat, 3 isn't that bad compared to 7. One question though, How the hell did you sit through Lord of the Rings *7 Times*?!"
"Very easily, I sat down with a refillable bucket of popcorn, and a gigantic cup of a certain caffinated cola, and looked up at the big screen in front of me. All very simple, really." Rory patted his hand in mock sympathy, "It was pretty much what we just did, can you remember that? Keep that memory for safe keeping until next time." Rory took out her keys, and pressed the automatic unlock.
Jess just shook his head as he walked over to the passenger side door of her car. "So, anything interesting happening in the near future?" He tried to change the subject before she started to rant.
Rory stilled in the act of getting into her car. She took a visible deep breath, "Yes, actually." She got the rest of the way in, closed her door, and nervously did up her seat belt. Jess reached over, and clasped her clenched fist, she refused to turn and meet his eyes.
"What is it, Rory?" He was automatically thinking the worst, that she had been in contact with her father and was leaving Stars Hollow, that She was going to move out of the apartment above the diner and move in with Lorelai, that she had found---
"I'm going to see my grandparents this week." Rory interrupted the flow of thoughts whirring inside his head.
Now that was a shock, "What?! Lorelai's parents, the ones that took you from Lorelai and gave you to Chris?!"
"Yea. Of course, they don't know it yet. I think I'm just going to casually drop by one day with mom, and do the full frontal assault thing. I just don't know what to expect from them. I mean, all I've heard about them makes them sound cold, unfeeling and callus. But, they're people too, ya' know what I mean, Jess?" Rory looked at him, her face utterly miserable.
"Rory, some people are just like that. They don't care about anyone but themselves, or they just don't care at all."
Shaking her head, Rory replied, "I just can't imagine anyone being that heartless." She looked at their entwined fingers, tears in her eyes.
"I think you can. From what you've told me of your father, that's exactly how he is." Jess tenderly turned her face so she had no choice but to look at him, a single tear trailed down her cheek and he gently brushed it away with his thumb.
The words, 'That's exactly how he is' ran through her head, and as much as she hated it, she couldn't disagree.
*~**~*~**~*
"I can do this, I can do this, I can do this." Rory chanted to herself as she and her mother parked in the driveway of the Gilmore Mansion in Hartford a few days later.
"Yes, We can do this." Lorelai caught her daughters' eye, and they nodded at each other, then got out of the car. They walked up to the door, and Rory rang the bell.
Lorelai looked at the empty coffee cup in her hands, "I'll put this around the corner, be right back." "Kay."
Just then the door opened to reveal a statuesque woman in her fifties. Her hair was expertly coiffed, and she looked don her nose at Rory. "I do not require anything that you are selling, and please never come here again." With that, Emily Gilmore shut the large oak door in the face of her granddaughter, just as Lorelai rounded the corner.
"So."
"So."
"That was my grandmother."
"Yep, that's her."
"How charming." Rory replied flatly.
"Isn't she? Now, lets try this again." Lorelai leaned forward, and pushed the bell repeatedly.
They could hear some undistinguishable mumbling through the door then it swung open again. "I told you to go away!" Emily screeched before she saw Lorelai, the she clutched her chest in surprise. "Lorelai," She gasped then looked at Rory again, her mouth twisted in disgust. She made a visible effort to control herself, then her mouth formed what they supposed was her attempt at a smile. "Come in, come in." She opened the door, turned and walked into the parlor, then yelled, "Richard, we have visitors, it's our daughter and ---" She broke off, and swallowed thickly. "Our Granddaughter." She finished.
A few seconds later, a man in a tweed suit and a rather ostentatious bow tie entered the room, and frowned at the sight of the two younger generations of Gilmore's. "Lorelai." He nodded stiffly at his daughter, then studied Rory carefully, a scowl on his face.
"Richard." Lorelai returned his greeting coldly.
"Well. Would anyone like a drink?"
*~**~*~**~*
"Oh Jess, it was so awful, they were so cold. They did al of the formal pleasantries. 'Please, sit down. Would you like a drink?'" Rory mocked her grandparents later that day from the comfort of Jess's arms. "Mom and I bulldozed right through that load of shit. We said what we went there to say, and I upended Emily's glass of Perrier on her when she said that all Mom was was a worthless whore. I was this far from slapping her." Rory held her fingers millimeters apart. "The only reason I didn't is because she would have sued me, Heartless Bitch."
Jess smiled and let Rory continue, he knew that she had to get all of it out,
"So while they were telling us whatever they said, I can't remember, I really wasn't paying any attention, I looked around their place. It's sterile! I looks like no one had touched a thing since the 40's! Not one homey touch. Expertly decorated, and even the little porcelain figurines are perfect! And Emily! God, she looks like a mannequin, Emotionless face, unless she's scowling, and not one hair out of place! I'd love to know the amount of hairspray she uses, It'd probably last me a year, if not more!" Rory stopped talking for a minute, tears in her eyes.
"It reminded me so much of where I used to live, when I was with my father. I used to stand so still I doubt anyone saw me because I was so afraid that I'd ruin something, and if I did mess something up, my nanny would lock me in the tiny closet in her room for hours at a time. Once she put me in there after lunch one day, and didn't let me out 'til after breakfast the next morning. I could picture Mom going through that when she was a 5, too, and it made me so angry. No one deserves to be treated like that, no one." Her voice broke on a sob, and Jess held her tighter, and kissed her head.
"No, no one should be treated like that. And I'll make sure that no one ever treats you like that ever, Ever again." He leaned down and kissed her softly.
"Thank You."
*~**~*(*)*~**~*
***** That Evening*****
"Hello, I'm Rory. May I take your order?" Rory asked another patron in the diner.
The man looked up. He was wearing and expensive designer suit, and had stylishly cut dirty blond hair, he smiled at her and showed off a set of perfect white teeth.
"Are you Miss Lorelai Leigh Hayden-Gilmore?" He asked in a smooth as velvet voice.
"Um. Yes. Who are you?" Rory was looking at him carefully now, there was something familiar about him.
"I'm Bradley Shipley, your fiancé."
*~**~*(*)*~**~*
I know, you all hate me for the ending of this chapter, right? All will turn out well, eventually.
Sorry it's been so long since I updated, I don't have the net. I'll try to update sooner.
Thanx 4 readin!
Jayde