Title: When People Change

Author: Tristanluvr

Disclaimer: This is entirely my own work- no need to sue me. All characters belong to Amy Sherman Palladino except the ones I put into the plot.

Rating: PG-13

Summary: When Tristan goes off to military school all he can think about is the evasive girl he could never get a date with...Rory Gilmore. So when he gets a call from her he takes his chance at reconciliation

A/N: Hey everyone thanks for reviewing I know that it kind of starts like so many other stories but I am planning to make it different believe me I hate stories that are so much like each other it makes you want to hurl so PLEASE bear with me. Keep reviewing I accept all criticisms.

Chapter 2

9 Months Later

Rory and Tristan had been conversing civilly for coming on 9 months now and Rory decided that maybe it was time that she came and visited him in North Carolina, he offered to pay of course and she was in no position to say no seeing as her mother and her were saving up for their trip to Europe when Rory graduated. So she accepted and at that very moment she was on her way to see Tristan.

Tristan was on edge pacing around the waiting room as he waited for her, he was so nervous. What would he do if she realized that she had made a big mistake and they went right back to square one. Her hating him and him obsessed with her. Well that wouldn't do he set his jaw and sat down waiting anxiously for Rory.

He picked up Military Training Magazine and started to read it when he heard the door open. He glanced up to see Rory walk through the door.

'Oh my God' Tristan thought as his eyes raked down her body she has changed so much since I saw her last. Rory had changed her style completely the modest girl that he remembered was now somebody completely different.

She was wearing a white mini skirt with a red tank top that showed about an inch of skin between the skirt and the tank where he saw she had gotten her belly button pierced. It wasn't just the clothes either that made her seem like a changed person she had gotten. She had a new air about her that told him she was more comfortable with herself.

Rory looked around and saw Tristan gaping at her. She smiled at him when she saw the look on his face. Complete and total bewilderment, she grinned slightly to see that the effect he usually had on her had been turned back on him.

She walked over to him and said sarcastically, "Well are you going to even say hi. Last time I remembered I came down here to see and talk to you not for you to sit there and gawp at me."

He stood up, and she gave him a hug he was stunned at first but then slowly responded with a small squeeze and then pulled back, "Well that was sudden, last time I knew you didn't like to set one finger on me and now you are hugging me? Wow I am completely and utterly shocked." He grinned at her.

She smacked his arm lightly and said, "Well for some reason unknown from me I think I actually missed otherwise why would I be here?"

"Hmm…. I don't know?" He put his finger to his head and pretended to ponder this question. "It may be that I am completely charming and irresistible and you just couldn't stay away from me." He smirked at her after he said this he was sure that she would get annoyed with him and want to leave immediately but then she surprised him.

"Yea, I am completely and utterly obsessively in love with you and just had to see you before I exploded." She looked at him with an amused look and then grabbed his arm. "Well we aren't going to stay here are we? You are going to right?" She looked up at him expectantly.

"Uh, yea come with me." He took hold of her hand and led her through the door to the open room that housed about 50 guys. A few of which were in there right now and turned to see who had come in. They looked at her and there eyes swept over her body and she felt like a specimen on display. Tristan put his arm around her waist when he saw the way they were looking at her. He wasn't the only one that liked her new look. Rory only glanced at the other guys in the room and ignored them. Somehow he thought that she had gotten used to the way guys looked at her.

She looked around with a puzzled look on her face. "This is where you live now? Well I knew this was a military school but this looks like a prison room. Considering how rich your family was I would have at least figured that you would get your own room," she waved her hand towards the cots when he gave her an amused look and said. "Well that was at least how I pictured it." She said with a sigh.

"Well Mary I didn't know you pictured me in bed, I am surprised I never thought you would have such naughty thoughts." He had to laugh at the look on her face and the blush creeping up her face when he said that.

"Well…I….I… don't get too ahead of yourself there Mr. Dugrey remember you have to be civil or I won't come back and what did I say about calling me Mary!" She said defiantly with her hands on her hips.

He looked at her and grinned, "You are so cute when you do that."

"Do what talk?" She looked at him with a 'you're crazy look.'

"No, that look that you get when you get mad its just so adorable." One of her eyebrows raised up and he cleared his throat and said, "Well to continue our tour this is the common room/dorms." He gestured over towards the over side of the room where there was a pool table and a few board games.

"Hey Robby come over here I want you to meet someone." He yelled over the din of the room. Robby walked over while trying not to stare at Rory.

"Hey Tristan who's your friend? Oh wait your not the infamous Rory Gilmore are you?" He looked at Tristan with a look that said, 'dude you have been holding out on me she's hot!'

"Well as a matter of fact this is Rory Gilmore. Rory this is Robert AKA Robby Falconer." She put out her hand and he shook it lightly.

"Nice to meet you I have heard so much about you. All he does is talk about you and getting out of here and then you some more." He chuckled lightly when he saw the heated flush on Tristans face. "Hey man I am only saying things that are true." Robby said holding his hands up in defense.

Tristan just glared at him and looked at Rory's face, she seemed to be on the verge of laughter, she looked at him and while trying not to laugh said, "Well, well, well Tristan Janlan Dugrey I never would have thought of you as the type of guy who would talk about a girl nonstop."

Tristan frowned and said, "Well I don't really have anything else to look forward to its not like I want to get out of here to see my parents." A cold look swept across his face. Rory and Tristan had talked about Tristans distaste for his parents and so she understood where that look came from.

She looked up at him with a playful smile and linked arms with him, "Well I guess we'll just have to give you something to look forward to." She took his face in her hands and can him a small peck on the lips that seemed to linger there even after she pulled away. He didn't understand why she had done that but then again I guess she didn't realize how much that really affected him.

"Did that just happen?" He asked Robby, Robby grinned and nodded. He looked down at Rory and smiled. "Well I guess that is something to look forward to."

"Hey Dugrey, mail for you," Tristan looked over at Rory and she had a puzzled look.

"Hey don't look at me I didn't send you anything." She looked at him with a smile. Tristan looked at the stack of mail in the majors hand. He took it from him receiving the normal amount of letters from the girls in Chilton and then he saw a letter to him from his parents. He opened it and scanned the length of the page with his eyes.

"What does it say?" Rory asked trying to see the letter over his shoulder.

"Its from my father, he says that I can leave this place next week because he thinks I have behaved my self well enough." Tristan frowned and make a annoyed face. "Yea well that's bull shit. I know just as well as him that the social season starts in two weeks, starting with a stupid DAR function that my mother wants me to go to. I am not as dumb as he thinks I am."

"I mean what is he trying to get past me. He doesn't care if I am good or not he just wants me there so that he can show me off and I can make appearances." Tristan had an irritated look on his face the whole time he was ranting. "Well who cares at least I can get out of this place," He sighed and ran his hand through his blonde hair and looked over at Rory and grinned slightly.

"I guess this means we get to see each other more often." He smirked at her as he ran his eyes over her length suggestively. He had a teasing look in his eyes as he said this and she looked into his ocean blue eyes and smiled.

"Well I guess it does," She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and he smiled at her.

He looked at his watch and his eyes widened. "Geez, I guess since you got here so late that I didn't realize how much time we had. Visiting hours end in ten minutes, I guess you have to go now."

"I guess I do," She looked at him a little sadly and gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek.

"Oh yea I forgot I never got you some coffee I know how much you love that stuff." Tristan reached into his pocket for his wallet and pulled out a 20 dollar bill.

"Hey don't worry about I get enough coffee at home and there is coffee at the hotel I am staying at." She gave him a funny look, "Anyway why would I need a 20 for a 2.00 coffee, you don't need to spend you're money on me."

Tristan looked at her and remembered that this was the Rory that he remembered the one that was modest and wasn't a gold digger like many of the girls he had gone out with before. He smirked at her and said, "Don't worry about it this is Daddy's money who cares how much I spend." She looked at him with a question in her eyes.

"Well I guess I should get going I have to go like now," she said looking at the clock on the wall behind Tristan. "Well, I'll see you next week bye." She turned around and Tristan watched her walk away and said to himself, 'what am I going to do with this girl, I don't know what I am feeling about her this is something that I have never felt before.'

A/N: Hey Guys I hope you guys like it and that you to all the people who have reviewed my story so far I appreciate all comments! I will try and update soon.