Trapped In A Stoned Cage
Rating: R in prologue everything else is PG-13
Pairing: L/L is already established; definitely a Trory
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine; everything belongs to the Gilmore Girls people (pathetically, I don't know the production name); the storyline but is mine!
Summary: [AU] A past waiting to be confronted but yet the owner does not wish for it to be uncovered. Rory walks through life with a mask of happiness which can only be real through one person, Tristan. The fear of being known and knowing pain again is something Rory never wishes to live. Prologue is R, the rest PG-13.
Author's Note: I am sincerely sorry for any offence the prologue may bring to anyone; I don't mean to offend or hurt anyone! If you think this is incest its not; its just people usually call other grown ups who are friends "uncle" or "aunty" usually if known long enough. This is NOT incest! If you think otherwise tough luck.
Prologue
It is truthfully acknowledged in the universe that every woman and man needs someone, no matter how much she/he tries to deny it…
She choked back her sobs as she felt the most gut-wrenching sickening pain one can only feel when the grown man above her proceeded his malicious actions. She tried to block it out but all she can do was painfully be aware of what that man was doing to her, what he had been doing for the past five years since she was six years of age. Although this time was different, the pain, the feeling of death riding over her was overwhelming to the point of no return. He had threatened her, mocked her, beaten her and now he had ripped out her inner being, her soul and killed it. He hit her, her pleas falling onto deaf ears. "Please no, no more, I won't tell, I won't tell! Stop please sir," were the pleas…
"Uncle Rob!" 17 yr old Rory Gilmore was shattered out of her hideously real nightmare with that last blood-curdling scream. Sweat and tears covered her body and bed sheets and her gasps for a breath combined with sobs filled the still midnight air. "It was just a dream, just a dream. He can't hurt you anymore," Rory repeatedly tried to reassure herself but to no avail the tears refused to stop. Her body broke down as her sobs for help cried out like it was her first plea. Realistically, it was one of the many pleas she has called during the nights. Her mother, Lorelai never knew what happened to Rory in her childhood years and Rory liked it like that. She has a torturous secret buried within her that she refused to let out but the secret yearned to be freed. Rory, still breathing heavily was relieved that her mother had stayed with Luke that night as this dream…nightmare seemed to be the worst. She tried, she tried so hard to let it all go, to bury it but it never did.
"Don't worry! You graduate within a few days, you'll be leaving everything that reminds you of…him," she whispered to herself.
Chapter One: Looking Through Your Eyes
~GRADUATION DAY~
"Aww…look at you, my daughter…you're growing up, you're leaving me!" wailed Lorelai as she saw Rory in her graduation robes. Rolling her eyes, Rory smiled at her mother's continuos wailing of Rory leaving. She had been dealing with it for a week already but she knew she'd miss Lorelai, not only her mother but also her best friend. Rory smiled as she surveyed her surroundings and had inwardly jumped for joy at the fact she'll be leaving the dreaded Chilton Academy and moving on to her first love, Yale. Although there was a disappointed tug within her as she thought she'd no longer be with her mother. Catching sight of her nemesis turned friend, Rory was surprised to feel a pang of longing and disappointment but she didn't know why…
["She even looks beautiful in robes,"] Tristan thought as he caught sight of Rory Gilmore across the grass, laughing. Tristan DuGrey the so-called stud, player, rake of Chilton Academy was consumed in an infatuation, which he had been caught in for 3 years already. Even though he had gone to Military School he had still thought of her…her wit, laugh, beauty…life. He was in love but he didn't want to admit it because he was scared…
"Lorelai Leigh Gilmore!" the announcer called out her name to come up and receive her graduation certificate. Walking up there, Rory felt success running through her veins; shaking the principal's hand Rory had every intention of looking back at her mother for the sign of victory but alas her eyes met with another…
["Oh damn, you're so beautiful,"] was the first thought that came to Tristan's mind when her intense deep smoky blue eyes met his own longing filled one's. Tristan kept his eye contact with her until she had walked off the stage and had a sense of release, disappointed release when she finally looked away.
"Tristan DuGrey!" the announcer called out his name to come up and receive his graduation certificate. Strutting his stuff up to the stage, Tristan felt a pair of eyes staring into him; turning his head he saw her looking…
No thought, no breath was Rory's reaction when he looked into her, just the heavy beating of her heart as he seemed to be able to provoke the greatest need within her. Rory had never felt like this, ["why did it have to be him?'] As he gave her a tender smile with the twinkle of his eyes that held an unspoken promise that has not yet been defined to either of them…