Ok, this is my first Gilmore Girls fic and my first fic in general so
please review, constructive criticism is most welcome and if you have any
idea on where I should lead this too please say. But be nice ^_^
Oh, and I own nothing to do with Gilmore Girls.
~Alyssa~
It was a normal Saturday morning, or say afternoon, as Lorelai and Rory made their way to Luke's for breakfast. The bell chimed above the door as the pair walked in, arguing the lyrics of the 'Umpa Lumpa' song from Willy Wonka. A sigh of relief came from Luke's behalf as he saw them entering and if their arguing wasn't covering it up both would have found it odd.
Lorelai and Rory took their usual seats at the counter but became oddly quiet as Luke set two cups of coffee in front of them.
"What's this?" Lorelai asked looking strangely at the coffee.
"What do you mean what is it? Its coffee" Luke replied.
"Well I know its coffee, but why is it here?"
"You weren't going to ask for coffee? Well fine I'll take it back" Luke reached for the cups.
"No" both Lorelai and Rory grabbing them back. Luke shrugged and turned towards the kitchen as an evil smirk appeared on Lorelai's face.
"Luuuukey?"
"What? And don't call me that"
"What do you want?"
"Huh?"
"What do you want?"
"Still not getting through"
"This is like a reenactment of the day you wanted me to skip work to go to some conventiony thingy with you."
Luke sighed, he knew it wouldn't work "fine fine you win"
"Always do." Lorelai stated
Luke ignored that comment and continued "You see that girl sitting by the window?"
Both Lorelai and Rory turned around to see a small girl that had previously gone unnoticed, the girl was huddled with her knees against her chest reading an old book with a battered and torn cover.
"Who is she? She must be freezing, its like minus 400 in here" Lorelai whispered.
"Gee thanks" Luke sighed again "Her name's Alyssa, she's my second cousin or something"
"You have a second cousin?" Lorelai sounded amazed. Rory elbowed her in the ribs and asked "But what is she doing here? And why have you left her all alone?"
"Yeah Lukey why?" Lorelai added.
"I. I don't know, I'm not sure if she even is, Jess said a woman just dropped her off this morning around 6, she has hardly moved at all."
"You haven't talked to her?" Lorelai asked incredulously.
"Well. No." Luke looked at his hand like a school boy who just got caught.
Lorelai sighed a small sigh "You want me to talk to her?"
Luke looked up coyly "Would you?"
***
Alyssa sat at the table for what seemed like hours, and probably was. People came and went, but it wasn't until the two ladies came in that she was noticed or at least acknowledged. It didn't bother her that her mother just dropped her off in a town she had never heard of nor did the fact that she didn't know if she'd ever see her again, on the contrary that fact was quite comforting.
Alyssa had stopped reading her book since the Ladies had walked in, instead she was just staring at the same page and listening to them talking. When their voices had turned to a low whisper Alyssa dared to look up and studied the backs of the woman. Both wore coats that hung a bit bellow their waists and one also sported a beanie. Seeing them dressed like this made her realize how cold she really was and she shivered. Suddenly the older woman, probably in her early 30's stood up. Alyssa abruptly turned her head back to her book so they wouldn't notice she was watching.
Alyssa listened to the footsteps come closer and closer and with every step she cowered a little bit more. Finally they stopped, there was a ruffling sound and the lady sat down on the chair opposite her.
"Hi" the lady said "I'm Lorelai" Alyssa didn't move, she felt her face turning red and she didn't know why.
"Hey, are you ok?" her voice was strangely soothing. Alyssa didn't move, she didn't say anything or even look up, her eyes were stuck on the page. Slowly a gentle hand glided over the book, fingers curled at the end and pulled the book back. Alyssa know looked up and snatched the book back, holding it to her chest protectively.
"Hey, hey, I'm sorry" Lorelai said quietly then paused "What's your name?" she asked. Alyssa mumbled something that not even she could hear, Lorelai didn't say anything "Alyssa" Alyssa whispered wishing she could just disappear and fly away.
"Well Alyssa, as you know my names Lorelai, but you can call me Lorelai and I'll be your guide for the next few days" Alyssa giggled, she looked up and her eyes shone like magic as her gentle red hair waved slightly.
"Would you like to come and have some food with me?" Lorelai asked Alyssa nodded. "Excellent"
***
Luke read and re read the letter, no, it wasn't even a letter, it was a note. He sighed and said "Why..." then shook his head and again read the note.
"Let me see that" Lorelai said trying to grab the note.
"Get away" Luke said gruffly, scratching the back of his head. He looked up at Alyssa asking "Is this true?" Alyssa shrugged not really knowing what he was talking about, she hadn't read the note and didn't dare to. Luke sighed for what seemed like the thousandth time that day "Rory?" he asked "Can you take Alyssa out for a while? Here" He handed her some money "go to Doose's and get me some eggs"
"Uhh, sure" Rory said uncertainly, she looked at Alyssa and held out her hand indicating for her to take it. Alyssa looked up at Rory and then at Lorelai who nodded then took her hand and they made their way to the door.
"Oh wait!" Lorelai called and took off her coat "Here, its freezing out there" she put her coat on Alyssa, it hung right down to the ground "Don't worry, it's an old coat"
"So... Luke" Lorelai said sitting back down at the counter. Luke looked up at her, Lorelai was astonished to see that his eyes actually portrayed some emotion, concern, almost fear. Luke handed over the note and poured more coffee into Lorelai's cup. She took a deep breath when reading the note and slowly let it out. She looked up at Luke "Well..."
"Well what? I can just have a girl running around the diner, Jess is bad enough!"
"But Luke, she's..."
"She's what?" Luke snapped.
"Never mind" Lorelai said softly
There was an awkward sort of silence. "Lorelai?" Luke asked
"Mmm" she murmured staring at her empty coffee cup
"Do you think... that you..." he paused "nothing"
"No Luke, what?"
"Do you think you could... lookafterher" he rushed.
"Sure" Lorelai shrugged off handedly.
"What?" Luke looked puzzled
"Sure, no problem, ok" Lorelai smiled brightly and Luke felt his heart melting. Blushing he turned around to get some more coffee as Rory and Alyssa walked back in with a carton of eggs.
***
Alyssa felt odd walking into the big house, it was huge, bigger than any house she had ever been in, but then she hadn't been in many houses.
"Alrighty passengers" Lorelai said with her best air hostess impression "To your left you will see the lounge and just through that the kitchen, Ms Rory's bedroom is situated just through that door and there's a bathroom. Hmm, bathroom. Moving on up stairs we have my room! A second bathroom and this" Lorelai opened a door "With a bit of cleaning will be your room." Alyssa looked into the room, it was nothing like her bedroom, there was a large window here and she could see some willow trees outside. The bed was covered with a baby blue quilt and two large fluffy looking pillows sat at the head. Alyssa's mind ran rampant, this was like nothing she had ever seen before, it was like... a movie. Her hand ran up her arm and pressed just below her elbow, a pain shot up her arm so it wasn't a dream.
"Hellooooo?" A hand touched Alyssa's shoulder and she escaped from her thoughts looking up to see Lorelai looking at her "You ok?" she asked.
Alyssa nodded. "Well good, now I was thinking that we could go find you some clothes or something before it gets too late, k?" Again Alyssa nodded. "You know you'll have to talk one day" Lorelai winked and walked downstairs.
***
Luke was having a having a hard time serving customers, his mind was running too fast and he kept mixing up orders and bumping into people. In the end he told Caesar to close up and went up to his apartment. Jess had left that morning for work, but it was now 4:30 and he was lying on his bed reading when Luke walked in. Jess could see that Luke was distracted and deep in thought.
"So what's with the girl?" He asked
"Alyssa" Luke said absently
"Whatever... so?"
Luke sighed "not now Jess" Jess looked at him, about to say something but let it go "I'm going out" he said and left.
***
Alyssa ran down the isles, she had given up on hiding her feelings there was just so much excitement in this shop. Lorelai smiled as she watched the small girl running through the shop her long red hair trailing behind her, finally she thought.
After a few minutes a shop assistant came up to Lorelai "Excuse me Miss, but can I ask you to control your daughter please?"
"Ohh, she's not... ok" Lorelai paused "Alyssa honey?" Alyssa stopped in her tracks and the shop assistant looked expectantly at Lorelai. "Come here" Lorelai said a little too firmly. Slowly Alyssa made her way back, eyes glistening with tears "I'm sorry" Alyssa said, her first words "Please..." a single tear ran down her cheek. Lorelai looked down at her, "Hey, it doesn't matter" she bent down to hug her and picked her up. Alyssa flinched a bit but didn't fight it. "Now, let's go find you some clothes!"
***
The pair returned an hour later with three bags of clothes and other items, Alyssa felt like a princess. Lorelai had ordered pizza and decided to go to Luke's to get some coffee for that night and asked Rory to clean up Alyssa.
As Lorelai left Rory ran a bubble bath taking extra care that the water wasn't too hot. "Alyssa" she called. Alyssa poked her head through the door "You gonna come have a bath?" Rory asked gently. For a second Alyssa hesitated but she almost trusted Rory and walked into the room and stood there expectantly. Rory wasn't sure what to do, she had never really looked after a kid before and didn't know if she should leave. Thinking better of it Rory started to untie Alyssa's shoes and take them off, then her jumper but when she pulled her top off to leave only a singlet she gasped.
She pulled out her cell and called Lorelai. "Mom, come home now, bring Luke" and she hung up.
A/N: that little purple-y button is begging for reviews!
Oh, and I own nothing to do with Gilmore Girls.
~Alyssa~
It was a normal Saturday morning, or say afternoon, as Lorelai and Rory made their way to Luke's for breakfast. The bell chimed above the door as the pair walked in, arguing the lyrics of the 'Umpa Lumpa' song from Willy Wonka. A sigh of relief came from Luke's behalf as he saw them entering and if their arguing wasn't covering it up both would have found it odd.
Lorelai and Rory took their usual seats at the counter but became oddly quiet as Luke set two cups of coffee in front of them.
"What's this?" Lorelai asked looking strangely at the coffee.
"What do you mean what is it? Its coffee" Luke replied.
"Well I know its coffee, but why is it here?"
"You weren't going to ask for coffee? Well fine I'll take it back" Luke reached for the cups.
"No" both Lorelai and Rory grabbing them back. Luke shrugged and turned towards the kitchen as an evil smirk appeared on Lorelai's face.
"Luuuukey?"
"What? And don't call me that"
"What do you want?"
"Huh?"
"What do you want?"
"Still not getting through"
"This is like a reenactment of the day you wanted me to skip work to go to some conventiony thingy with you."
Luke sighed, he knew it wouldn't work "fine fine you win"
"Always do." Lorelai stated
Luke ignored that comment and continued "You see that girl sitting by the window?"
Both Lorelai and Rory turned around to see a small girl that had previously gone unnoticed, the girl was huddled with her knees against her chest reading an old book with a battered and torn cover.
"Who is she? She must be freezing, its like minus 400 in here" Lorelai whispered.
"Gee thanks" Luke sighed again "Her name's Alyssa, she's my second cousin or something"
"You have a second cousin?" Lorelai sounded amazed. Rory elbowed her in the ribs and asked "But what is she doing here? And why have you left her all alone?"
"Yeah Lukey why?" Lorelai added.
"I. I don't know, I'm not sure if she even is, Jess said a woman just dropped her off this morning around 6, she has hardly moved at all."
"You haven't talked to her?" Lorelai asked incredulously.
"Well. No." Luke looked at his hand like a school boy who just got caught.
Lorelai sighed a small sigh "You want me to talk to her?"
Luke looked up coyly "Would you?"
***
Alyssa sat at the table for what seemed like hours, and probably was. People came and went, but it wasn't until the two ladies came in that she was noticed or at least acknowledged. It didn't bother her that her mother just dropped her off in a town she had never heard of nor did the fact that she didn't know if she'd ever see her again, on the contrary that fact was quite comforting.
Alyssa had stopped reading her book since the Ladies had walked in, instead she was just staring at the same page and listening to them talking. When their voices had turned to a low whisper Alyssa dared to look up and studied the backs of the woman. Both wore coats that hung a bit bellow their waists and one also sported a beanie. Seeing them dressed like this made her realize how cold she really was and she shivered. Suddenly the older woman, probably in her early 30's stood up. Alyssa abruptly turned her head back to her book so they wouldn't notice she was watching.
Alyssa listened to the footsteps come closer and closer and with every step she cowered a little bit more. Finally they stopped, there was a ruffling sound and the lady sat down on the chair opposite her.
"Hi" the lady said "I'm Lorelai" Alyssa didn't move, she felt her face turning red and she didn't know why.
"Hey, are you ok?" her voice was strangely soothing. Alyssa didn't move, she didn't say anything or even look up, her eyes were stuck on the page. Slowly a gentle hand glided over the book, fingers curled at the end and pulled the book back. Alyssa know looked up and snatched the book back, holding it to her chest protectively.
"Hey, hey, I'm sorry" Lorelai said quietly then paused "What's your name?" she asked. Alyssa mumbled something that not even she could hear, Lorelai didn't say anything "Alyssa" Alyssa whispered wishing she could just disappear and fly away.
"Well Alyssa, as you know my names Lorelai, but you can call me Lorelai and I'll be your guide for the next few days" Alyssa giggled, she looked up and her eyes shone like magic as her gentle red hair waved slightly.
"Would you like to come and have some food with me?" Lorelai asked Alyssa nodded. "Excellent"
***
Luke read and re read the letter, no, it wasn't even a letter, it was a note. He sighed and said "Why..." then shook his head and again read the note.
"Let me see that" Lorelai said trying to grab the note.
"Get away" Luke said gruffly, scratching the back of his head. He looked up at Alyssa asking "Is this true?" Alyssa shrugged not really knowing what he was talking about, she hadn't read the note and didn't dare to. Luke sighed for what seemed like the thousandth time that day "Rory?" he asked "Can you take Alyssa out for a while? Here" He handed her some money "go to Doose's and get me some eggs"
"Uhh, sure" Rory said uncertainly, she looked at Alyssa and held out her hand indicating for her to take it. Alyssa looked up at Rory and then at Lorelai who nodded then took her hand and they made their way to the door.
"Oh wait!" Lorelai called and took off her coat "Here, its freezing out there" she put her coat on Alyssa, it hung right down to the ground "Don't worry, it's an old coat"
"So... Luke" Lorelai said sitting back down at the counter. Luke looked up at her, Lorelai was astonished to see that his eyes actually portrayed some emotion, concern, almost fear. Luke handed over the note and poured more coffee into Lorelai's cup. She took a deep breath when reading the note and slowly let it out. She looked up at Luke "Well..."
"Well what? I can just have a girl running around the diner, Jess is bad enough!"
"But Luke, she's..."
"She's what?" Luke snapped.
"Never mind" Lorelai said softly
There was an awkward sort of silence. "Lorelai?" Luke asked
"Mmm" she murmured staring at her empty coffee cup
"Do you think... that you..." he paused "nothing"
"No Luke, what?"
"Do you think you could... lookafterher" he rushed.
"Sure" Lorelai shrugged off handedly.
"What?" Luke looked puzzled
"Sure, no problem, ok" Lorelai smiled brightly and Luke felt his heart melting. Blushing he turned around to get some more coffee as Rory and Alyssa walked back in with a carton of eggs.
***
Alyssa felt odd walking into the big house, it was huge, bigger than any house she had ever been in, but then she hadn't been in many houses.
"Alrighty passengers" Lorelai said with her best air hostess impression "To your left you will see the lounge and just through that the kitchen, Ms Rory's bedroom is situated just through that door and there's a bathroom. Hmm, bathroom. Moving on up stairs we have my room! A second bathroom and this" Lorelai opened a door "With a bit of cleaning will be your room." Alyssa looked into the room, it was nothing like her bedroom, there was a large window here and she could see some willow trees outside. The bed was covered with a baby blue quilt and two large fluffy looking pillows sat at the head. Alyssa's mind ran rampant, this was like nothing she had ever seen before, it was like... a movie. Her hand ran up her arm and pressed just below her elbow, a pain shot up her arm so it wasn't a dream.
"Hellooooo?" A hand touched Alyssa's shoulder and she escaped from her thoughts looking up to see Lorelai looking at her "You ok?" she asked.
Alyssa nodded. "Well good, now I was thinking that we could go find you some clothes or something before it gets too late, k?" Again Alyssa nodded. "You know you'll have to talk one day" Lorelai winked and walked downstairs.
***
Luke was having a having a hard time serving customers, his mind was running too fast and he kept mixing up orders and bumping into people. In the end he told Caesar to close up and went up to his apartment. Jess had left that morning for work, but it was now 4:30 and he was lying on his bed reading when Luke walked in. Jess could see that Luke was distracted and deep in thought.
"So what's with the girl?" He asked
"Alyssa" Luke said absently
"Whatever... so?"
Luke sighed "not now Jess" Jess looked at him, about to say something but let it go "I'm going out" he said and left.
***
Alyssa ran down the isles, she had given up on hiding her feelings there was just so much excitement in this shop. Lorelai smiled as she watched the small girl running through the shop her long red hair trailing behind her, finally she thought.
After a few minutes a shop assistant came up to Lorelai "Excuse me Miss, but can I ask you to control your daughter please?"
"Ohh, she's not... ok" Lorelai paused "Alyssa honey?" Alyssa stopped in her tracks and the shop assistant looked expectantly at Lorelai. "Come here" Lorelai said a little too firmly. Slowly Alyssa made her way back, eyes glistening with tears "I'm sorry" Alyssa said, her first words "Please..." a single tear ran down her cheek. Lorelai looked down at her, "Hey, it doesn't matter" she bent down to hug her and picked her up. Alyssa flinched a bit but didn't fight it. "Now, let's go find you some clothes!"
***
The pair returned an hour later with three bags of clothes and other items, Alyssa felt like a princess. Lorelai had ordered pizza and decided to go to Luke's to get some coffee for that night and asked Rory to clean up Alyssa.
As Lorelai left Rory ran a bubble bath taking extra care that the water wasn't too hot. "Alyssa" she called. Alyssa poked her head through the door "You gonna come have a bath?" Rory asked gently. For a second Alyssa hesitated but she almost trusted Rory and walked into the room and stood there expectantly. Rory wasn't sure what to do, she had never really looked after a kid before and didn't know if she should leave. Thinking better of it Rory started to untie Alyssa's shoes and take them off, then her jumper but when she pulled her top off to leave only a singlet she gasped.
She pulled out her cell and called Lorelai. "Mom, come home now, bring Luke" and she hung up.
A/N: that little purple-y button is begging for reviews!