WOW! What a response! Hehe, I have a lot of you scared, good. Seriously though, that was a great response for the last chapter but someone pointed out a mistake in continuity so for arguments sake, the janitors closet happened the Tuesday they came back. This is now the following week, meaning that Rory and Tristan have been avoiding each other for over a week. The only reason Rory took the test was because they hadn't used protection, so she just wanted to be sure.

'So.' Tristan said, breaking the awkward silence that had descended upon him and Rory. They were walking along the bridge in Stars Hollow, supposedly talking.

'So.' Rory replied.

'Someone really needs to add a new word here.'

'Yeah.'

'Did you mean what you said?'

'About what? I said a lot of things.'

'About sleeping with me was the only stupid thing that you did?'

'No. I was angry and I was trying to hurt you.'

'Good job.'

'Sorry. But in my defence, you hurt me too.'

'I know, I got scared and I was stupid and a jerk and I'm sorry.'

'So we're both sorry.'

'We're both sorry.'

'On a scale of one to ten, how relieved are you?' Rory asked, changing the subject.

'Honestly? About a hundred.'

'Me too. No baby. Very very good.'

'Not yet anyway.'

'What do you mean not yet?'

'Well someday...' 'Omigod, am I hearing Tristan DuGrey talking about starting a family?'

'Tell anyone and die.'

'Your secret is safe with me, if mine is safe with you.'

'What secret is that?'

'Well that I'm a total spas who freaks out about stupid things. And that when I looked at that test, for a second I was disappointed.'

'You were?'

'Yeah, I mean don't get me wrong, someday yes in the very distant future, I would love kids but today, I was for the tiniest fraction of a second, disappointed.'

'I think everyone feels that. I kind of did I will admit, Paris telling me that you might be pregnant, not one of my finest moments but, it wouldn't completely suck.'

'What are we doing Tristan?'

'Walking and talking?'

'I mean us.'

'Do you not want there to be an us?'

'I do. But I do want to slow things down.'

'Okay. We can do that.'

'You're not going to get mad and freak out at me?'

'Can I still kiss you?'

'Yes, just no sex for a few weeks.'

'Okay, I can live with that.'

Tristan smirked as he closed the massive distance that had been between them and kissed her. Rory's hands flew straight to his hair as he wrapped his arms around her. Rory had never been kissed with such force before. She had thought that last week at the lockers too but this time was worse. They had gone a week and a half without so much as talking and by the way Tristan was kissing her and exploring her back with his hands, he needed her just as badly. Then Rory pulled away from him.

'What's wrong?' Tristan asked breathless.

'Nothing but if you keep kissing me like that, we'll have a problem.'

'What kind of problem?' Tristan asked smirking.

'The sex ban will be banned.' Rory said blushing.

Tristan entwined his fingers in hers and sat down on the edge of the bridge, effectively pulling her down on top of him.

'Is is weird that it took a pregnancy scare to get us to talk?' Rory asked.

'Probably.'

'Doesn't that bother you?'

'Not really, I'm just happy we're talking again.'

'Normal couples don't do things like this.'

'We were never normal Mary.'

'I can't really argue with that.'

'Who wants to be normal anyway?'

'Me.'

'What? You shouldn't want to be normal, you are way better than normal.'

'As my boyfriend, you have to think that but some normal stuff would be good.'

'Like what?'

'Like being able to hang out at school, go out on proper dates, kiss in public.'

'That's really an issue with you isn't it?'

'I want to say no but I wouldn't mean it. It just sucks, I hate it.'

'Trust me, so do I.'

'I feel so weird right now.'

'Why?'

'Because here I am complaining about not getting to kiss you in public and everything when not so long ago, I wouldn't have given you the time of day.'

'That is slightly weird but I have to say, I'm not complaining about your change of heart.'

'Good because now you're stuck with me.'

Tristan grinned and kissed her again, running his hands through her hair. He was so happy that he got to do this again; he thought it had been bad in England but to know that he had Rory and had lost her; that was worse. Rory kissed him back for a few minutes before pulling away again.

'What time is it?' she asked.

'Just past six, why?'

'I have dinner with my grandparents at seven, I have to go.'

'But we just made up.' Tristan pouted.

'I know and believe me, I want to stay here but I can't, I really have to go. I'll call you tonight.'

'I guess I'll have to settle for that then.'

'Yes you will.' Rory grinned before kissing him briefly and standing up. She didn't even wait for Tristan to get up before running off, leaving Tristan to walk back to his car, grinning like an idiot.

Rory walked back to her house feeling like a huge weight had been lifted. She wasn't pregnant and she and Tristan were back together. She was humming as she walked through the door, something that didn't go unnoticed by Lorelai.

'Hey sweets. What's with the smile and the humming?'

'Tristan and I have sorted things out.'

'Really? That's good.'

'Say it like you mean it.' Rory told her mom.

'What?'

'Mom, you forget that I know you. You're not happy we sorted things out.'

'Hey if you're happy, then I'm happy but I just don't get it, I mean he wouldn't even agree to the no sex thing and-'

'You don't have to finish that sentence. I thought that too at first, that he was just using me but he's agreed to it now and we talked and we're okay.'

'Well forgive me if I don't welcome him with open arms just yet.'

'Okay but don't be rude to him.'

'Me rude? Never!'

'Mom!'

'Fine, I will be all that is polite and nice and all that crap.'

'Thank you.'

'You're lucky I like you.'

'I know; I'm very grateful.' Rory replied sarcastically before going to her room to get changed.