Title: L is for Leaving
Author: all things holy
Rating: PG
Character: Emily-centric
Email: allthingsholy[at]yahoo[dot]com; feedback is grand
Disclaimer: Oh, if wishing made it so.
Summary: "She can be as practical as he pretends to be."
Spoilers: Set during Afterboom
A/N: This was written for the TWoP Ficathon Challenge Season: Summer 2004 Alphabet Drabble Challenge. It is just one of many fantastic stories that can be found at geocities[dot]com[slash]ficathon2004 so check it out. Good stuff, all of it. (There, I go by Chiaroscuro. Yeah, I'm a bigwig.)
A/N 2: Much love to Lula; she suggested a little change that made a big difference.
"I'm doing what I have to do," he says. He sits there with his book, jeopardizing the finally-formed bond she's worked so hard to create. He's driven out Lorelai once, she's not about to let him do it again. (She absolves herself in moments like this.)
She makes up her mind, quickly and without consulting him, just like he's done to her. She takes her favorite sweater and good pearls, and leaves him with his secret lunches and shameful business deals.
She can be as practical as he pretends to be. She's doing what she has to do, too: leaving.