Chapter ONE

AN: No Jack or Will or Elizabeth in this chapter. Too bad, so sad. AND, just to inform you, when Rory goes back in time, it's not like, "Hey, I'm in the movie!", it's like "Hey, I'm stuck back in time and that guy does not look like Johnny Depp!" Get what I'm saying? If not, you soon will. By the way, I need a betta who knows about punctuation. One who knows how to spell wouldn't be bad either. Thanks, please review. And constructive critism will be cherished. And signifies a time laps.

Oh crud. I should not have eaten that burger. It may have been from Luke's Diner, but that didn't make the thing harmless. I needed some form of medication and I needed it now. I had puked several times already because of that burger and I was determined not to do it again. Maybe eating something would help.

I slowly peelled myself off of the flowered love seat, walked equally slowly to the mini-fridg and opened the door to see what was inside. Nothing. I should have known. The intelectuals at Yale sure liked to eat a lot.

I picked up the phone and dialed my mother's cell. She picked up on the first ring.

"Hey babe," she said into the phone.

"How'd you know it was me?" I asked, getting suspicious.

"Calm down horsie, I finally got you saved in this damn thing."

I could just imagin her glaring at the cell.

"You sound nasty," she said, "Somethin' wrong?"

"Word to the wise, Luke's burgers should not be saved for later."

There was silence on the other side.

"Hellllllooooooo?" I asked, "What happened?"

"Yeah, remember when I came over yesterday and all you had in the fridg was a week old burger and that other one from Luke's?"

"I ATE A WEEK OLD BURGER? But, it didn't even look spoiled!"

Mom sighed, "That's the magic of Al's Pancake House. Listen babe, I'll just come on over with any drug of your choice, heroin, speed, PeptoBismal, anything, and some really good food too. God knows you need it." With that, she hung up and left me to die. She didn't even let me give her my drug of choice.

Mom had come bearing vegitables. No, not vegitables, A vegitable. Bowls and bowls of colliflower.

"Mom! Have you gone insane!" It wasn't really a question, but a statement. My mother didn't usually answer questions seriously, so you had to bait her with a statement.

"Shh babe. It's supposed to clean out your crap canal. Can't ever remember if it's the large intestine or the small one...." She mumbled to herself.

"Here," she said as she came up to me, "Lay your head on my lap and I'll tell you a story."

"While feeding me colliflower?" I asked hesitantly.

"Yes, I'm going to stuff your face with this discusting white vegitable." she said as she sat down on the love seat. She patted her lap, signalling me to lie down.

As soon as I put my head on her lap, she broke off a piece of colliflower and literally shoved it into my mouth.

"Now," she began "And if I die before I-"

"I've seen the movie." I interrupted, which was kind of hard considering the bumpy lump inside my mouth.

"Shh babe, it's a classic." She said, gave me a pat on the head like I was Buttercup, our dog that we got rid of after a week of him living with us and proceded to tell me the story of Carrie and her oh so tragic death.

I don't know for how long she had been telling me the story when I slipped off into that place between being awake and asleep. Where everything was blury and perfect. Where you felt like you were watching yourself from above. Between awake and asleep, you felt people's touch and you heard them talk, but you didn't REALLY feel or hear anything. And suddenly, I was falling! Not falling asleep, but actually falling! I curled myself into a ball, brasing myself for impact, when as suddenly as it started, it stopped, and I was back on my mother's lap being fed colliflower.

"You okay babe?" she asked, "You kinda went all fetil on me."

"I'm fine, actually, I'm feeling a lot better." And I was. Amazing, what a little bit of colliflower can do to a person.

"Yay!" mom clapped her hands like a little six year old, "Oh babe, I gotta go and okay the new stove for the inn now. You gonna come home for Spring Break?"

"No," I said, "I think I'm just going to stay here and study for that English Lit test after break."

"For a week?"

"You should know be by now, Lorelai Victoria Gilmore" I said to my mom.

After my mom left, I put my head on one of the love seat's itchy lace pillows and closed my eyes for a while.

When I decided I was feeling better, I left the dorm with some books and headed towards the big Oak tree I always studied under. The minute I sat down, I was inbetween the worlds again. I couldn't feel the tree anymore, I couldn't make out what the other kids were saying, and I was falling again. Except this time, I was also being pulled! Some cosmic force was pulling me down through the grass and soon, I saw dirt and disturbing images of worms and bugs crawling through it. Everything was moving in a jumpy motion, like it was being filmed by one of the ealiest cameras made.

Soon, I landed on something soft and green. I knew it was grass, but I couldn't see it very well, I was still between awake and asleep. Everything was blury and the sound seemed to be moving in slow motion, but I could still make out people. People who looked to be wearing big blobs. Silly me, those were probably skirts. Extremely full skirts.

stealling that idea, you know, about transporting through that way, from a book I read. Can't really remember it's name. But the description is mine.

I don't know what kind of tree it really is, so let's just call it Oak.

And as a treat, here are a couple of Gilmore quotes.

[Lorelai's having Rory]

Lorelai: Okay, this is a big pain and I'd really like it to go away, please.

Nurse: Just breathe deep, honey.

Lorelai: Breathing doesn't help, can I hit you instead?

Paris: Maybe I shouldn't go. I mean, what if I fall for him and he doesn't like me?

Rory:Then you'll find someone else.

Paris: But what if there is no one else?

Rory: Then you'll buy some cats.