Disclaimer : I own nothing or no one having anything to do with the show or North Carolina places. Rating: PG at least for now Summary: Lorelai and Rory leave Stars Hollow and completely start over to escape a dark secret from Lorelai's past. They move to North Carolina were they run into Tristan.

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Present day

The Secretary handed the teacher a piece of paper and left.

"Class, we have a new student, Rachel Davis. Would you like to tell us anything about you, Ms.Davis?"

"Ummm, not really..........no" She said.

Tristan's head shot up at the sound of that voice, it was one that had haunted his dreams every night since being sent to North Carolina. He was confused when he saw a girl with curly dark blond hair. But when he looked into her eyes he was positive that he was right. He could never forget her blue eyes. He was sure of it. So the question was, What was Rory doing here? And more importantly, what's with the alibi?

Past-

"Mom, where are we going?" I asked fear now coming into me.

"Away Rory, we have to get away." She replied.

"But...."

"Rory, I told you you we might have to leave one day." She said..

"Yes, but why now when...?"

"Rory, it isn't safe anymore, we have to get out while we still can."

"Where are we going to go?" Was the only thing I could say.

"I think we should travel around a little bit before deciding on a specific place, we need to throw them off our trail. I think we should change our appearances too, so that it will make it harder for them to find us."

"O.K." I responded. After driving for about eight hours, we stopped at a convience store to buy the necessary products. We chose a dirty blond color and got a cheap motel for the night where we decided to do each others hair. We decided to cut my hair to my shoulders and then curled it. I layered her hair and put the dye in. She also put in color changing eye contacts, so it would look like she had green eyes. She said no one would notice mine and it should be safe, for now. We then put on fake tanning cream to make it look like we were really tan people, since we were both pale. I then went on my laptop to try to find a mother and daughter who had died that fit our desciption so we could take over there identities. After two hours of searching, I found out about a family named the Davis's who had died in a car accident two years ago. Stacy was a 34 year old mother and Rachel was her 15 year old daughter when they died. This meant that mom would be thrity-six, three years older than she actually was and I would be seventeen, like normal. The following day we walked into the Indiana office (near where we had driven to) and claimed to have lost our birth certificates in a house fire. No one questioned us, they just re-snapped our pictures and gave us new documents. After having the jeep painted red and getting a new license plate number with the jeep registered to 'Stacy Davis', we decided we needed to find a place to live. So we took out a map of the United States and she told me to point. And I did, at North Carolina. We got an enlargened map and I pointed again, this time at Wilmington. So we decided we would move there. My mother had a decent amount of money saved up since she never put any thing in banks. We decided to stay at a bed and breakfast until we found an apartment. After a little researching we decided on the dragonfly inn because of the familiar name. We drove the ten hours to Wilmington. After arriving there, I immediatly wanted to know if school was possible, so I applied and got into Capefear Academy. It was a private school, kinda like Chilton, except it held grades pre-k to 12. Luckily for me Rachel Davis was a straight A student so I obtained a full scholarship, with her school records. The day before I was suppose to start school, we moved into an apartment building. It was called Twinswood Apartments and had 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and a fireplace. It was a cozy little place, that we made as comfortable as possible. Mom had gotten a job at the Dragonfly Inn as a receptionist while we where staying there so we now had a source of income. I was nervous and wasn't sure how I should act at school. Should I be over-confident? Should I be shy? Should I just stay unoticeable? I didn't know if I should risk calling attention to us, so I figured I should just act normal so no one would be suspicious of anything. After all the last thing I needed was someone checking into "Rachel Davis' " background and finding out that my mother and I supposedly died in a car accident two years ago.

"Rory? Are you ready to go?" My mother called to me from inside the bathroom.

"Yeah." I yelled while adjusting my tie on my new uniform. Blue, White, and Red were the schools colors, so it didn't vary that much to Chiltons.

"Alright, let's go Ror...Ahhhh.....Rachel."

"Right away, Stacey." I replied.

"Do you have a middle name?" She asked me as we were walking down the steps to the car.

"Yeah, its Elizabeth, why?

"Well, first day of school and all, you know if they have me fill out forms and I don't know your middle name, could be a little weird, you know considering I'm your mother and was suppose to name you."

"Oh, Then you should probably know that your middle name is Ann, in case you have to fill out a form too. Oh, and before I forget, I put our social security numbers in your purse in case you need them too."

"Smart daughter, I knew I would one day reap the benefits of sending you to smarty pants school." She said as we started driving to the school.

"So now Chilton is smarty-pants school?, I don't even go there anymore and you still mock me endlessly for it."

"Well, don't even get me started on the name, 'Capefear' it sounds like some creepy ocean town. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the school was haunted."

"Oh, great, one more thing I need to worry about." We pulled up to a huge red brick school.

"C'mon lets get you signed in, i've got to get to work today." The bell could be heard ringing as students ran off to there homerooms, clearly late.

"Umm, Hello I'm Ms.Davis and this is my daughter, Rachel who is suppose to be starting here today." My mother said, walking into the main office.

"Oh right, Ms.Davis, the forms are right here, she can just go to class while you fill these out."

"O.K." She replied.

"C'mon Rachel, right this way." The secretary said, showing me to my classroom. We walked down two hallways to my locker. "Just put your books away quickly and your first hour class is right across the hall." I put them away quickly, after struggling with the locker to open for a couple seconds and then she brought me into the classroom.

(Which brings us to our present day problem.)



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