Hiya all! Sorry for the long update. Just had nothing say. Unless you all wanted a blank chapter, then that's very easy. I could post a 1000000000000000 of them right away. I mean, seriously, how is it that sometime, you brain is so productive and might I say BRILLIANT and some other times, it becomes stupid and infirm. Well, I will never understand my brain. ButI do know that it is very complicated. HA!HA! As if you guys didn't already knew it.

so...here we..go...I do know own, anything...again.

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CHAPTER 9 "Timeless Time"

"I'm going to Harvard" Rory said it another time, thinking it might be easier to repeat it over and over, awaiting desperatly a sign of recognition from Lorelai or something that tells her her mother approuves.

Lorelai looked at her daughter blankly, as if to see it was a joke or not. It was not. It was the truth. She did not know what it made her feel like. Was she angry? Was she sad? Neither of them.
Neither anything else. It really didn't matter what university Rory went to as long as she liked it.

"Mom" Rory wailed

Lorelai looked at her again and knowing how much her silence destroyed Rory, struggled to find something to say.

"Why? Why now?" she asked her daughter. Her voice was clear and held no emotion what so ever.
Rory felt a little more ease that her mother was not judging her or comdemning her for her choices.

"Because I hate Yale. I hated that place since last Christmas when I discovered it's not a university. It's a shopping center full of grandma's spies and secret detectives." Rory ranted and stopped to breath.

"What? What are you saying?"

"She knows every single professor I have and most of the people are her friend's children. She told them to keep an eye on me."

"What?" Lorelai had seemed to regain her emotions since she was slowly starting to get angry. Nothing new. Somehow the word Emily related always to frustrating and endesleslly unhopeful situations.

Rory smiled a little. Her mother became herself again. "Everybody is watching me all day long. Sometimes, when I spot someone watching me I don't know, I know what he must know grandma."

"Wow!" Lorelai sighed "She's really getting terrible with the age and everything. I taught she would get a rest now that she's a little older but it doesn't seem like it."

"And some of my teachers gave me high marks because apparently, Grandma invited them to dinner. I hate it. I just hate it. What am I supposed to think? I don't know if the work is good or if I deserve it. I just know that everything will be allright because grandma is controlling me."

Lorelai followed her words, being victim severeal times of her very egocentric mothe.

"Mom?"

"What?"

"You did not tell me the most important"

"Oh! Right. Sorry. Well, I don't know. I don't think anything." admitted Lorelai. There was no need of pride or stubborness.

"Are you happy?" came Rory's anxious reply.

"Well, will you be happy when you go there?" questionned Lorelai

"Yeah. So much more then Yale."

"Okay then. Harvard. We gotta go and get you new clothes for the occasion."

"Yeah" said Rory dreamily.

A couple of minutes later, they both got out of daydreaming and found themselves locked in a terribly serious eye contact.

"Rory, why did you leave and treat me like dirt?" inquiered Lorelai, this time more irritably.

Rory looked at the floor. She had naively taught no questions would come her way. Wrong. Lorelai wanted answers and she wanted them now.

"Because I was being...being..."

"Barbie like?" suggested Lorelai "thinking you can move from place to place and hurt people on your way only of a small disagreement?"

"Yes!" Rory was completly red on the outside and trying to kill her self in the inside. She had finally realised how much pain she inflicted on Lorelai.

Lorelai kept her mouth shup. If she let one of her smartass replies, she was afraid Rory would evaporate again and this time, she might never see again.

"Why don't you say anything?" Rory demanded "The last time I dared to open my mouth, you left the day after."

Rory got up and walking fastly around the room, starting putting everythig in order.
"Rory, hun, what's going on?

"Just tell me what I have to do. I'll do anything. Just tell me." Rory kept putting everything in order, trying desperatly to make her mother understand how sorry she was.

Lorelai got up too and gently stopped Rory by taking her hand in her owm. "Rory, honey, please stop"

Rory did not look at her and Lorelai noticed the beginning of tears. "How can I arrange the mess I put myself in?"

Lorelai sighed, wanting desperatly to hug her, but being prevented from her strong character.

"Time. Give it time"
"Mom, I won't become a cast away, will I? YOu won't adopt a daughter and forget everything about me."

Lorelai laughed out loud for the first time and squeezed Rory's hand affectionaly. "No,honey"
Rory's eyes were swollen, she wanted to hug her mother but she didn't either.

"Then what can I do mom"
"I have to learn to trust you again. It will take time but someday, we will have our big secret reading each other's mind thing back."

Rory nodded, but did not moved. She liked having her mother's touch. Her touch was gentle and very comforting. She always liked being near Lorelai, but knowing she was there, taking in her coffee smell always gave her strengh to do anything she had to do.

"You have to go back. You can call me tomorrow." Lorelai said after a couple of minutes. She feinted not seeing the big hurt on Rory's eyes. But after all, it was the best thing to do.

"Okay." Lorelai dropped her hand and Rory suddenly felt cold.She did not know what to do. So she quickly kissed her mother's cheek and raced out of the room.

Two seconds later, Lorelai's cell ranged. She saw the caller ID. It was Chris again.

"Oh, Chris. You're gonna pay for this." She answered the phone, and went outside. she was looking for Rory.
She found Rory in her car, not gone yet. While she was making small talk with Chris, she mentionned for Rory to get out of her car and not to make any noise.

Chris had began his lies again.

"What did I told you Lorelai? You're hurting Rory very badly. She belongs with me, not you. Do not talk to her, understood?" Chris was practically yelling in the other line.

Rory's eyes widened when she heard this. This was her father. When Rory had heard enough to understand,
Lorelai shut the phone and looked at her daughter.

"Dad? What did he say to you? Did you actually believe him?"

"No. I really didn't but I tough he was true when he called me yesterday. It's the second time he's telling these lies. You didn't know?"

Rory shook her head no. "What a jerk!"

"Rory"

"Mom. I am so sorry. please, understand. Please."

"I do understand, do not worry, kid. I understand. I just need time."

"Yeah, okay." Rory agreed sadly and very quickly, before Lorelai could protest or she lost her courage,
she hugged Lorelai and got in the car and drove off.

Lorelai looked after the car and smiled sadly. Maybe this time, the fights were really over and she could have her little girl back. I hope so, whispered Lorelai.

On the drive back to Boston, Rory's mood was intolerable. She had opened the stereo out loud and preparing herself for the big yelling her father was going to get.

"How dare he? I tought he was my dad and he loved, not plotted in my back and try and make my mom turn against me..."muttured Rory over and over again.

Maybe her madness gave her even more energy but before she knew it, she had arrived and parked. She got out and marched to the house.

"DAD!" she yelled when she got inside. "DAD! I need to talk to you. NOW!

Christopher rushed to meet his yelling daughter. He taught she was hurt of something. Nothing had prepared him for what was to come next.

Before he even got to voice his concern, SLAP! Rory slapped him ferocely accros the face.

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