Chapter 13
"I really wanted to spend the evening at the hospital Mom." Rory sighs as they sit in the car heading toward her grandparents house.
"I know," Lorelai responds, "but they wanted us to come and Luke is spending the evening with Jess. You've hardly seen them since you've been here and I figured that it was easier to just give into Emily Gilmore's demands than to fight them."
Rory leans against the headrest exhaustion slowly washing over her, she'd spent most of the night before at the hospital only to be woken up early by Georgia who'd had a nightmare nearing three in the morning and then couldn't sleep. "Georgia was pretty shaken about her nightmare."
"You used to have them when you were her age," Lorelai assures, "it's just her age. Did she tell you what they were about?"
"She just said that she had a dream that a fire monster was eating everyone." Rory sighs, "the fire really shook her up, but I think she's more afraid of losing more people she cares about."
"Probably," Lorelai nods turning onto the exit, "she's a little girl and she's been through a lot all ready."
"I know, so I was thinking I was going to find her a therapist. I know she's young but I want her to grow normally and losing both your parents at such an early age can do some psychological problems I don't want her to have to deal with when she's older."
"You mean when you get back to New York." Lorelai urges Rory to confirm her plans to return to the city but Rory remains silent.
"Rory, dear hello." Emily greets after greeting her daughter and commenting on her bandaged hand.
"Hi Grandma." Rory greets, relieved to be out of the uncomfortably silent jeep.
"I'm glad you decided to come to dinner, where's Georgia?" Emily questions.
"She's actually at Dean's," Rory responds, "she likes to play with his oldest son, so they were going to hang out while we came to dinner."
"Dean, that nice young boy you dated when you were younger?" Emily inquires.
"Yes," Rory nods.
"Are you guys..." Emily lets her suggestion trail.
"No," Rory shakes her head adamantly, "not at all. He's divorced, he has a son Georgia's age, but there is nothing between us."
"Well that's a shame." Emily comments, "why don't we come into the living room and talk some more."
"So Rory when do you and Georgia return to the city? I imagine her school must be starting soon." Richard asks once everyone has settled onto the couches.
Rory can almost feel her body go limp, there was no getting around this topic tonight, "actually I've gotten some school applications around Stars Hollow."
"I thought you would be returning to the city once the summer was over?" Emily questions Rory.
Rory shakes her head, "things have changed, I have to stay with Jess."
"Rory I know you have deep feelings for this boy but you can' put your life on hold while you wait for him to figure out if he will ever walk again." Emily's words are blunt and they sting, but Rory's been expecting them but the one thing she wasn't expecting was the look of disappointment on her mother's face or the words that come with the look.
"Rory, I think your Grandmother is right."
"You what?" Is the only response Rory can muster.
Richard watches the group of grown women in a situation none of them have been in before, for once in her life Rory's mother and grandmother are siding against her. "I think we need to talk this out rationally, I'm sure Rory has some valid reasons for wanting to stay."
"Jess needs me," Rory states simply.
"Rory, sweetie," Lorelai takes a deep breath, "I know how you feel about Jess. But you have a life in New York, and a job, and friends and an apartment."
Rory listens quietly as her mother lists these things and then she simply shakes her head, "I'm an adult and I can make this decision. It's not just about Jess either, obviously he's the factor that convinced me to stay, but Georgia loves it here she has friends here and she loves the town she doesn't want to go back to New York City so I'm not, we're not."
"Hi Rory," Dean pulls his front door open when Rory reaches his house around 9:30, "you look tired."
"It's been a long couple of days." Rory comments, "is Georgia ready?"
"Yeah hang on a second," Dean calls up the stairs, "Donny! Georgia! Rory is here!"
The two come thundering down the stairs, white sheets draped around their clothes, "Rory! You're all ready here?" Georgia pouts.
Rory nods, "yes, and it's past your bedtime."
"Dad, can Georgia spend the night?" Donny asks facing Dean.
"Yeah, can I spend the night Rory?" Georgia turns her pleading blue eyes on Rory.
Dean looks toward Rory, "your call."
Rory shakes her head, "I'm sorry guys but not tonight, Georgia didn't get much sleep last night and it's all ready past bedtime. We'll have to try for another day."
"But Rory..." Georgia crosses her arms over her chest, "please, I'm not even a little bit tired."
"Not tonight Georgia." Rory sighs, "don't fight me on this and let's just go."
"But..."
"No buts," Rory responds, "now let's go."
"Fine." Georgia scowls as she stalks after Rory calling over her shoulder, "bye Donny!"
"You're going straight home and to bed." Rory insists.
"Fine, whatever." Georgia snaps.
Rory eyes her little sister, the girl was asking for a fight and Rory was itching for one after having been attacked at dinner. "Loose the attitude."
"I don't have to if I don't wanna." Georgia's tone is mutinous.
"Oh yes you do," Rory responds, "I'm not in the mood to deal with your attitude problems." The two continue toward the house in vexed silence.
"I'm sleeping on the couch." Georgia declares, "I don't want to sleep in any room you're sleeping in."
"Fine," Rory responds, "the couch is all yours."
Georgia slams the door after they have walked in and then storms to the bedroom the pillow and blankets on the cot she had been sleeping on before stomping back into the living room and arranging the blankets on her own.
The next morning was no better than the night before, the entire house was chilly with hurt and annoyed feelings and no one could wait to get out of there. Lorelai had left early with Luke to get breakfast and then he was heading to talk things over, again, with the insurance company and Lorelai was going to the inn, there was a huge wedding to be held at the inn the next day and she had a lot of things to keep her busy. Lane had stopped by just after Lorelai left to pick up Georgia whom she had offered to watch while Rory headed to the hospital for awhile.
"She seems to be in a good mood this morning." Lane comments while Georgia waits for her on the sidewalk.
"She's mad at me," Rory responds, "but she should be fine for you."
"Why's she mad?" Lane questions.
"Everyone's tempers were flaring last night, Georgia's mad at me, my mom and I aren't speaking..." Rory sighs, "maybe it's just me."
"You look tired." Lane comments, "and that's understandable you've had to deal with one thing after another the last week."
Rory's sigh is much deeper this time, "I've guess I've just got to learn to deal with everything better than I have. I can't keep falling apart, and as for the fire, I don't know, things here are starting to make New York look slow."
"Ready to get back there?" Lane asks.
"I'm not going back," Rory shrugs, "but we have to talk about this later, I don't want to explain it to anyone else right now."
"I'm staying here with you." Rory declares, so much for not explaining everything again.
"No, you're not, you are going back to the city where you can have your job and the life you deserve!" Jess yells.
"I want to be here." Rory declares.
"No." Jess states firmly.
"Who are you to make my decisions for me?" Rory asks.
"When they are made because of me then I am." Jess responds, "you're not giving everything up for me. You've all ready been through too much because of me."
"And I thought we just realized that running away wasn't the answer."
"This isn't running away, Rory, this is walking away and there's a difference."
On the next Gilmore Girls:
"So you're staying?"
"No."
"You're not staying."
"No."
"Then what are you doing Rory?"
"I don't know anymore."
"I thought you weren't putting her in that school in New York?"
"I'm still not sure what I'm doing, she needs to at least go to the interview."
"Oops." Georgia turns an innocent smile on Rory as the headmasters face goes red.
Sorry it took so long to update, things are getting crazy around here with only 32 days left in my high school career. But I promise I'll update as often as possible, there's still so much left to do in this story and yet...not...all right that makes no sense...But look for an update I hope one will be coming soon...It's also kind of getting hard for me to do the emotion Jess and Rory stuff so there probably won't be much of that in the next chapter but don't worry there will be more stuff coming because as a sneak peek Rory still hasn't told Jess everything there is to tell...
"I really wanted to spend the evening at the hospital Mom." Rory sighs as they sit in the car heading toward her grandparents house.
"I know," Lorelai responds, "but they wanted us to come and Luke is spending the evening with Jess. You've hardly seen them since you've been here and I figured that it was easier to just give into Emily Gilmore's demands than to fight them."
Rory leans against the headrest exhaustion slowly washing over her, she'd spent most of the night before at the hospital only to be woken up early by Georgia who'd had a nightmare nearing three in the morning and then couldn't sleep. "Georgia was pretty shaken about her nightmare."
"You used to have them when you were her age," Lorelai assures, "it's just her age. Did she tell you what they were about?"
"She just said that she had a dream that a fire monster was eating everyone." Rory sighs, "the fire really shook her up, but I think she's more afraid of losing more people she cares about."
"Probably," Lorelai nods turning onto the exit, "she's a little girl and she's been through a lot all ready."
"I know, so I was thinking I was going to find her a therapist. I know she's young but I want her to grow normally and losing both your parents at such an early age can do some psychological problems I don't want her to have to deal with when she's older."
"You mean when you get back to New York." Lorelai urges Rory to confirm her plans to return to the city but Rory remains silent.
"Rory, dear hello." Emily greets after greeting her daughter and commenting on her bandaged hand.
"Hi Grandma." Rory greets, relieved to be out of the uncomfortably silent jeep.
"I'm glad you decided to come to dinner, where's Georgia?" Emily questions.
"She's actually at Dean's," Rory responds, "she likes to play with his oldest son, so they were going to hang out while we came to dinner."
"Dean, that nice young boy you dated when you were younger?" Emily inquires.
"Yes," Rory nods.
"Are you guys..." Emily lets her suggestion trail.
"No," Rory shakes her head adamantly, "not at all. He's divorced, he has a son Georgia's age, but there is nothing between us."
"Well that's a shame." Emily comments, "why don't we come into the living room and talk some more."
"So Rory when do you and Georgia return to the city? I imagine her school must be starting soon." Richard asks once everyone has settled onto the couches.
Rory can almost feel her body go limp, there was no getting around this topic tonight, "actually I've gotten some school applications around Stars Hollow."
"I thought you would be returning to the city once the summer was over?" Emily questions Rory.
Rory shakes her head, "things have changed, I have to stay with Jess."
"Rory I know you have deep feelings for this boy but you can' put your life on hold while you wait for him to figure out if he will ever walk again." Emily's words are blunt and they sting, but Rory's been expecting them but the one thing she wasn't expecting was the look of disappointment on her mother's face or the words that come with the look.
"Rory, I think your Grandmother is right."
"You what?" Is the only response Rory can muster.
Richard watches the group of grown women in a situation none of them have been in before, for once in her life Rory's mother and grandmother are siding against her. "I think we need to talk this out rationally, I'm sure Rory has some valid reasons for wanting to stay."
"Jess needs me," Rory states simply.
"Rory, sweetie," Lorelai takes a deep breath, "I know how you feel about Jess. But you have a life in New York, and a job, and friends and an apartment."
Rory listens quietly as her mother lists these things and then she simply shakes her head, "I'm an adult and I can make this decision. It's not just about Jess either, obviously he's the factor that convinced me to stay, but Georgia loves it here she has friends here and she loves the town she doesn't want to go back to New York City so I'm not, we're not."
"Hi Rory," Dean pulls his front door open when Rory reaches his house around 9:30, "you look tired."
"It's been a long couple of days." Rory comments, "is Georgia ready?"
"Yeah hang on a second," Dean calls up the stairs, "Donny! Georgia! Rory is here!"
The two come thundering down the stairs, white sheets draped around their clothes, "Rory! You're all ready here?" Georgia pouts.
Rory nods, "yes, and it's past your bedtime."
"Dad, can Georgia spend the night?" Donny asks facing Dean.
"Yeah, can I spend the night Rory?" Georgia turns her pleading blue eyes on Rory.
Dean looks toward Rory, "your call."
Rory shakes her head, "I'm sorry guys but not tonight, Georgia didn't get much sleep last night and it's all ready past bedtime. We'll have to try for another day."
"But Rory..." Georgia crosses her arms over her chest, "please, I'm not even a little bit tired."
"Not tonight Georgia." Rory sighs, "don't fight me on this and let's just go."
"But..."
"No buts," Rory responds, "now let's go."
"Fine." Georgia scowls as she stalks after Rory calling over her shoulder, "bye Donny!"
"You're going straight home and to bed." Rory insists.
"Fine, whatever." Georgia snaps.
Rory eyes her little sister, the girl was asking for a fight and Rory was itching for one after having been attacked at dinner. "Loose the attitude."
"I don't have to if I don't wanna." Georgia's tone is mutinous.
"Oh yes you do," Rory responds, "I'm not in the mood to deal with your attitude problems." The two continue toward the house in vexed silence.
"I'm sleeping on the couch." Georgia declares, "I don't want to sleep in any room you're sleeping in."
"Fine," Rory responds, "the couch is all yours."
Georgia slams the door after they have walked in and then storms to the bedroom the pillow and blankets on the cot she had been sleeping on before stomping back into the living room and arranging the blankets on her own.
The next morning was no better than the night before, the entire house was chilly with hurt and annoyed feelings and no one could wait to get out of there. Lorelai had left early with Luke to get breakfast and then he was heading to talk things over, again, with the insurance company and Lorelai was going to the inn, there was a huge wedding to be held at the inn the next day and she had a lot of things to keep her busy. Lane had stopped by just after Lorelai left to pick up Georgia whom she had offered to watch while Rory headed to the hospital for awhile.
"She seems to be in a good mood this morning." Lane comments while Georgia waits for her on the sidewalk.
"She's mad at me," Rory responds, "but she should be fine for you."
"Why's she mad?" Lane questions.
"Everyone's tempers were flaring last night, Georgia's mad at me, my mom and I aren't speaking..." Rory sighs, "maybe it's just me."
"You look tired." Lane comments, "and that's understandable you've had to deal with one thing after another the last week."
Rory's sigh is much deeper this time, "I've guess I've just got to learn to deal with everything better than I have. I can't keep falling apart, and as for the fire, I don't know, things here are starting to make New York look slow."
"Ready to get back there?" Lane asks.
"I'm not going back," Rory shrugs, "but we have to talk about this later, I don't want to explain it to anyone else right now."
"I'm staying here with you." Rory declares, so much for not explaining everything again.
"No, you're not, you are going back to the city where you can have your job and the life you deserve!" Jess yells.
"I want to be here." Rory declares.
"No." Jess states firmly.
"Who are you to make my decisions for me?" Rory asks.
"When they are made because of me then I am." Jess responds, "you're not giving everything up for me. You've all ready been through too much because of me."
"And I thought we just realized that running away wasn't the answer."
"This isn't running away, Rory, this is walking away and there's a difference."
On the next Gilmore Girls:
"So you're staying?"
"No."
"You're not staying."
"No."
"Then what are you doing Rory?"
"I don't know anymore."
"I thought you weren't putting her in that school in New York?"
"I'm still not sure what I'm doing, she needs to at least go to the interview."
"Oops." Georgia turns an innocent smile on Rory as the headmasters face goes red.
Sorry it took so long to update, things are getting crazy around here with only 32 days left in my high school career. But I promise I'll update as often as possible, there's still so much left to do in this story and yet...not...all right that makes no sense...But look for an update I hope one will be coming soon...It's also kind of getting hard for me to do the emotion Jess and Rory stuff so there probably won't be much of that in the next chapter but don't worry there will be more stuff coming because as a sneak peek Rory still hasn't told Jess everything there is to tell...
