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.
My writing site is finally up! Please check it out. The URL is in my profile. Some of my fan fiction not posted here is (or eventually will be) posted there.
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Chapter 14
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Emily Gilmore reached for her phone as it rang.
"Hello, Gilmore Residence," She said in a very proper voice into the phone.
"Is Rory there?" an echoing voice asked indicating that the call was being made from a payphone or a cellphone.
"No," Emily said. "She doesn't live here anymore."
"Could you please give me the number of where she is?" the voice repeated. "It's very important, this is her brother."
Emily sighed as she gave the number to the boy and saying a polite good-bye hung up.
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Rory ran around frantically looking for the phone while Lorelai made coffee in the kitchen.
"Hello?" she asked exausted after picking up right before the answering machine.
"Rory?" an echoing voice said into her ear.
"Jake?" Rory asked him.
"Yeah," Jake said. "Rory, you need to come home."
"What?" Rory said. "Come on Jake, I need to get to know my mother, you know that."
"Rory," Jake said softly. "Dad's dead."
"What?" Rory shrieked into the phone. "He can't be dead, he's not dead. Jake, stop teasing me."
"I'm not teasing you Rory," Jake said sniffling. "There was a shooting at his school again and he was shot and he died this morning and we tried to reach you when the shooting happened but our phone is out because we couldn't pay the phone bill and the heating bill for the past two months and we didn't want to use the money to call you on the payphone unless it was really serious. Rory, he's dead."
Rory felt tears welling up in her eyes and she blinked carefully and they fell quickly down her face. "Jake," she managed to get out. "I'm coming back, meet me outside the house."
"Rory," Lorelai said. "Who died?"
"My dad," Rory said. "Back in New York. I've got to get there." Rory ran into her room and grabbed her backpack she had brought with her and she threw some clothes into it including one of her newer dresses for his funeral.
"Rory," Lorelai said. "Slow down. Let me get packed before you run out of the house."
"You're coming with me?" Rory asked slowly.
"Of course," Lorelai said. "Now wait a few minutes and then we'll go catch a train to New York."
Rory nodded slowly.
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Author's Note: Hope you like it! I'm coming down to the end of what I've written already, I did just finish a chapter today but it's only 15 chapters so far. 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.
My writing site is finally up! Please check it out. The URL is in my profile. Some of my fan fiction not posted here is (or eventually will be) posted there.
****
Chapter 14
***
Emily Gilmore reached for her phone as it rang.
"Hello, Gilmore Residence," She said in a very proper voice into the phone.
"Is Rory there?" an echoing voice asked indicating that the call was being made from a payphone or a cellphone.
"No," Emily said. "She doesn't live here anymore."
"Could you please give me the number of where she is?" the voice repeated. "It's very important, this is her brother."
Emily sighed as she gave the number to the boy and saying a polite good-bye hung up.
***
Rory ran around frantically looking for the phone while Lorelai made coffee in the kitchen.
"Hello?" she asked exausted after picking up right before the answering machine.
"Rory?" an echoing voice said into her ear.
"Jake?" Rory asked him.
"Yeah," Jake said. "Rory, you need to come home."
"What?" Rory said. "Come on Jake, I need to get to know my mother, you know that."
"Rory," Jake said softly. "Dad's dead."
"What?" Rory shrieked into the phone. "He can't be dead, he's not dead. Jake, stop teasing me."
"I'm not teasing you Rory," Jake said sniffling. "There was a shooting at his school again and he was shot and he died this morning and we tried to reach you when the shooting happened but our phone is out because we couldn't pay the phone bill and the heating bill for the past two months and we didn't want to use the money to call you on the payphone unless it was really serious. Rory, he's dead."
Rory felt tears welling up in her eyes and she blinked carefully and they fell quickly down her face. "Jake," she managed to get out. "I'm coming back, meet me outside the house."
"Rory," Lorelai said. "Who died?"
"My dad," Rory said. "Back in New York. I've got to get there." Rory ran into her room and grabbed her backpack she had brought with her and she threw some clothes into it including one of her newer dresses for his funeral.
"Rory," Lorelai said. "Slow down. Let me get packed before you run out of the house."
"You're coming with me?" Rory asked slowly.
"Of course," Lorelai said. "Now wait a few minutes and then we'll go catch a train to New York."
Rory nodded slowly.
****
Author's Note: Hope you like it! I'm coming down to the end of what I've written already, I did just finish a chapter today but it's only 15 chapters so far. Please review!
~Emily Carol