Tomboy
By Emily Carol
Summary: AU - Richard and Emily forced Lorelai and Christopher to put Rory up for adoption after she was born. Now Rory's 16 and living in a family full of boys on the outskirts of New York City. A search for her actual mother on her 16th birthday throws her into a life she never expected. Can a tomboy like her stand it?
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls (and I didn't last chapter either... life can be so unfair)
Author's note: Thanks to all reviewers!
Still looking for betas for On Eagle's Wings, e-mail me if interested. Or leave a note in your review.
Yeah, I have no life, I'm becoming a nocturnal freak... and I'm adding a bunch of chapters tonight because I have writer's block.
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Chapter 7
Lorelai and Rory walked across the dining room at the Independence Inn. They reached Emily's table and Lorelai asked for a word with her.
Emily looked shocked. "How...how..." she stammered. "I thought you were off today."
"Well finding out that my mother had my daughter and wasn't allowing me to see her got me pretty pissed off so I decided I'd come to work and talk to Sookie and piss off Michel some to get my anger out," Lorelai said. "And lucky me, you just happend to drag Rory along with you to your meeting today. So now if you excuse us I'm taking Rory home with me now."
"Oh no you're not," Emily said. "She is staying with me until Thanksgiving, we made a deal, didn't we Rory?"
Rory groaned.
On the way to the inn Emily had told her that they needed to make a deal, Rory would stay with them until Thanksgiving and then she could live with her mother, just so Emily could 'refine' her a little more.
"You didn't," Lorelai said. "Did you?"
"I did," Rory said with another groan. She sunk into a chair and slouched.
"Sit up," Emily instructed her. She did. "Now if you'll excuse us Lorelai," Emily said grabbing Rory's hand. "We'll be leaving now."
Emily dragged Rory out before she could even say goodbye.
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"You knew there was a chance she'd be there today didn't you?" Rory accused Emily on the car ride back to the Gilmore mansion.
"So what if I did?" Emily asked.
"You knew that unless you made that deal with me that I'd be gone out of your life forever," Rory said.
Emily pulled over and turned to Rory. "So what if I did?" she asked tears brimming her eyes. "I never wanted you to be put up for adoption but Richard insisted. I'd agreed with him until I saw you. You were so perfect that I never wanted to give you up. I wanted you and Lorelai to stay with us and Lorelai could continue high school and go to a good college and we could raise you with all the love you needed. I didn't even come and formally hand you over to your new parents, I hid around a corner and watched Lorelai, Christopher, and Richard hand you over. I wanted to run out and take you back and keep you, I didn't want to give you up.
"I didn't talk to anyone for days. I don't even know why because I didn't like the fact that you were coming in the first place. I even hated my life because you were coming.
"But then I held you in my arms and it all changed. But Richard wouldn't be persuaded to let Lorelai keep you and let her and you live with us. Although now I realize that would never have stayed with us for more than a year because the year after you were born Lorelai left. Ran away and only talked to us on holidays."
"If you never wanted me to be adopted then why didn't you want me back?" Rory asked confused.
"Because I knew you'd find Lorelai eventually and go back to her and I didn't want to loose you again," Emily said starting up the car again.
Rory stared at her and awkwardly reached across the front seat to give her a hug, "I'm sorry Grandma," Rory said. That was the first time she'd called her Grandma. She'd always been Emily to her in her mind. And now, it just felt right.
Emily hugged her back, "It's okay," she said. "It's not your fault."
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Author's Note: Hope you like it! I"ve got most of it written and I'm just gonna post when I have time. Please review!
~Emily Carol
By Emily Carol
Summary: AU - Richard and Emily forced Lorelai and Christopher to put Rory up for adoption after she was born. Now Rory's 16 and living in a family full of boys on the outskirts of New York City. A search for her actual mother on her 16th birthday throws her into a life she never expected. Can a tomboy like her stand it?
Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls (and I didn't last chapter either... life can be so unfair)
Author's note: Thanks to all reviewers!
Still looking for betas for On Eagle's Wings, e-mail me if interested. Or leave a note in your review.
Yeah, I have no life, I'm becoming a nocturnal freak... and I'm adding a bunch of chapters tonight because I have writer's block.
****
Chapter 7
Lorelai and Rory walked across the dining room at the Independence Inn. They reached Emily's table and Lorelai asked for a word with her.
Emily looked shocked. "How...how..." she stammered. "I thought you were off today."
"Well finding out that my mother had my daughter and wasn't allowing me to see her got me pretty pissed off so I decided I'd come to work and talk to Sookie and piss off Michel some to get my anger out," Lorelai said. "And lucky me, you just happend to drag Rory along with you to your meeting today. So now if you excuse us I'm taking Rory home with me now."
"Oh no you're not," Emily said. "She is staying with me until Thanksgiving, we made a deal, didn't we Rory?"
Rory groaned.
On the way to the inn Emily had told her that they needed to make a deal, Rory would stay with them until Thanksgiving and then she could live with her mother, just so Emily could 'refine' her a little more.
"You didn't," Lorelai said. "Did you?"
"I did," Rory said with another groan. She sunk into a chair and slouched.
"Sit up," Emily instructed her. She did. "Now if you'll excuse us Lorelai," Emily said grabbing Rory's hand. "We'll be leaving now."
Emily dragged Rory out before she could even say goodbye.
***
"You knew there was a chance she'd be there today didn't you?" Rory accused Emily on the car ride back to the Gilmore mansion.
"So what if I did?" Emily asked.
"You knew that unless you made that deal with me that I'd be gone out of your life forever," Rory said.
Emily pulled over and turned to Rory. "So what if I did?" she asked tears brimming her eyes. "I never wanted you to be put up for adoption but Richard insisted. I'd agreed with him until I saw you. You were so perfect that I never wanted to give you up. I wanted you and Lorelai to stay with us and Lorelai could continue high school and go to a good college and we could raise you with all the love you needed. I didn't even come and formally hand you over to your new parents, I hid around a corner and watched Lorelai, Christopher, and Richard hand you over. I wanted to run out and take you back and keep you, I didn't want to give you up.
"I didn't talk to anyone for days. I don't even know why because I didn't like the fact that you were coming in the first place. I even hated my life because you were coming.
"But then I held you in my arms and it all changed. But Richard wouldn't be persuaded to let Lorelai keep you and let her and you live with us. Although now I realize that would never have stayed with us for more than a year because the year after you were born Lorelai left. Ran away and only talked to us on holidays."
"If you never wanted me to be adopted then why didn't you want me back?" Rory asked confused.
"Because I knew you'd find Lorelai eventually and go back to her and I didn't want to loose you again," Emily said starting up the car again.
Rory stared at her and awkwardly reached across the front seat to give her a hug, "I'm sorry Grandma," Rory said. That was the first time she'd called her Grandma. She'd always been Emily to her in her mind. And now, it just felt right.
Emily hugged her back, "It's okay," she said. "It's not your fault."
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Author's Note: Hope you like it! I"ve got most of it written and I'm just gonna post when I have time. Please review!
~Emily Carol