TITLE: No Longer

PAIRING: L/L, J/P, R?

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing, just this story and the made up stuff about this show…such as Tristan Dugrey this late in the show or them getting married.

SUMMARY: Tristan divorces Rory, but fate disagrees.

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Rigid Breathing:

Dana, and Jen were eating at a small diner, but unknowingly Tristan and Kyle were at the same place. It was towards the end of the meal and Dana excused herself to go to the bathroom, which she had claimed she'd been holding in over three hours. At the same time Kyle was coming out of the restroom and they saw each other.

'Kyle?' Dana asked surprised.

'Wow, Dana!' Kyle said hugging the girl.

'What are you doing here?' she asked.

'I'm out with a friend. He's having some family problems.' Dana gave an apologetic look.

'How about you?' he asked her back.

'My mom is on business again so I went out to eat with my friend, Jen.'

'She's away again?' Dana nodded her head.

'Jeez. Well anyways, I need to get back, but how was your birthday?'

'We had to go home early so my mom could pack.' Kyle gave her another hug.

'Will I be seeing you guys at all this summer or…?'

'No, definitely. The kids are actually with Liza at her parents right now.'

'Oh okay.' Dana said nodding.

'All right, well I'll be calling you for a babysitter, kay?' Kyle asked.

'I'll look forward to it.' Dana said smiling and entering the girls' bathroom.

LATER THAT NIGHT

'So, what did you do with Jen?' Tristan asked making them both Coke Floats even though it was Diet Coke (for Dana).

'Ehh, we talked and then got some food, then played some games and junk. You?'

'We talked, and then grabbed some food. We then went to play some old fashioned pool.'

'That's cool.' She took her glass and led Tristan to the main room to watch a movie.

'So which movie is on the agenda today?' he asked.

'Summer Boys.' Tristan's head shot up.

'Which movie?' he asked.

'Summer Boys…why?'

'Oh-uhh, umm no reason.' He said stumbling. He settled back onto the couch uncomfortable with the movie his sit in daughter had picked to watch. Now that was a freaky coincidence. (Summer Boys was the movie Rory was in, just so you remember.)

NEXT DAY AROUND 10:00 AM

Dana had gone over to Erika's house, where Dana conveniently decided to try on Erika's clothes. Erika was well aware of the surprise party that day and planned to get Dana ready for it hopefully not leading onto something.

Meanwhile, Tristan was running around the small restaurant trying to get everything in place. Fifteen wasn't an exciting age (A/N: Although I got two shots when I turned fifteen….but that's kinda irrelevant…now back to the story…sorry) but her mom practically missed her birthday. Kyle had arrived at about 10:30 and volunteered to pick up the balloons Tristan had ordered from the Party store.

11:30 was rapidly approaching as Erika and Dana unanimously decided they would get all pretty in make up and clothes. They had done that on numerous occasions so Dana didn't suspect anything. Erika had just gotten her make up finished by Dana and now Erika was reciprocating the favor, picking out the colors that would match the outfit Dana picked out. She was wearing Erika's white frilly skirt, with a hot pink tank top and light pink bra which straps were kinda showing. On her feet she wore her own white flip flops. Erika decided with wearing her own black frilly skirt and a pretty green short sleeve shirt that had a V-neck. The make up went with the outfits quite well.

They decided to "go out to eat", and headed in the car towards the restaurant.

Tristan had just finished the final touches when the guests started to pile in around 11:30. It was nearing 12 and Tristan asked them to find some kind of place to possibly hide. Erika and Dana walked through the door moments later, only seeing party supplies, but all the lights seemed turned out and the restaurant seemed closed.

'See Erika, it's closed.'

'Dana, maybe the lights are out of power of something.' Erika said. Erika's mom was right behind them when Tristan came into view and turned on the lights. No one came into view yet.

'TC, what's going on?' Dana asked suspiciously.

'Well, if I was Ashton Kutcher, I'd say you've been Punk'd, but in reality you really haven't. And in reality I'm really not Ashton Kutcher and you are not being secretly filmed. Okay that was a really bad example.' Tristan said cringing. Dana looked so confused. Erika decided to help.

'You've known him a little more than a month and do you really think he wouldn't do something for your birthday?' Erika asked.

'We celebrated last night.' Everyone stood up from their places.

'And we're celebrating even more today.' Tristan said turning on the final lights allowing Dana too see the whole room lighted up. Dana's mouth immediately dropped open. Dana looked around the room noticing that there had to be more than 12 dozen balloons around the room, and that almost all the people who he had invited were her best friends, although one face stood out in general. Her beautiful blue eyes and wavy blonde hair was down around her shoulder's. She smiled brightly, and came out and hugged Dana.

'Tory, what the hell?' Dana asked reciprocating.

'He called the camp. I may hate you sometimes DC, but you're my sister and I can't forget that.' Dana pulled away.

'Thanks.' Dana said wiping the tear from her eye.

'Plus I heard about mom, and I thought you could use me as a friend right now, since she couldn't be here.' Dana nodded and looked at Tristan who was talking to an adult. It was only then that she realized the shocking resemblance between Tristan and Tory. The blonde hair, the amazing icy ocean blue eyes, the face, the smile was almost identical. Dana shook her head and took a deep breath erasing and refusing the possibility that Tristan could actually be her father.

To say she was surprised about the turnout of this very unexpected party was the understatement of the century. She couldn't believe that he would do this, and to invite her sister! Not even she would have thought of that. She decided right then, that whoever his daughter was, and it certainly wasn't her, that she felt really bad that they never really got to meet their father.

She smiled at her sister before going over to Tristan giving him a hug.

'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' She whispered so only he could hear. He smiled.

'For you, anything.' She pulled back.

'You don't know how much this means to me, and to add to that, you called or invited my sister to come.'

'I thought you might like her to come. You know, added support.'

'Thanks, Tristan.' She smiled and went to see her other guests when she saw Kyle.

'Kyle?'

'Dana?' They said each other's names at the same time.

'What are you doing here?' Dana asked.

'So you're the Dana that Tristan is taking care of.'

'Yea, what are you doing here?'

'Oh uhh Tristan knew that I knew you. At the restaurant, he found out so he invited me to come.'

'Well thanks for coming!'

'Mhm.' He said hugging her. She smiled and went to greet her other friends. Kyle shook his head. Those two had NO idea, and to tell you the truth he thought it was somewhat funny, yet somewhat heart wrenching. Here a father and daughter had the relationship they were supposed to have, but didn't know it.

The party was over a half an hour later, 4:30. Kyle had to leave right at 4:30 to go see Liza, but the rest of guests were out by 5:00 leaving Tristan, and Dana. Tory had to leave right away as well, but she promised she'd write to Dana.

'So what did ya think?' Tristan asked. It was around 5:45, and they were almost done gathering everything together to bring back to the house. The balloons had been taken in several cars and dropped off at his house for him.

'What do I think? I think that I want you to be my dad.' Tristan was surprised by the straight comment.

'I meant the party, but okay.'

'I thought party was amazing, and my own dad could never top you. I don't think I'd want him too.'

'Good, I'm glad.' He smiled and pulled her into a hug.

'What about me?' Dana asked.

'What about you?'

'Do you want me as a daughter? Or would you want me as a daughter?'

'I thought that it was obvious that I did.' Dana smiled and hugged him again.

'So what did you think of my sister?'

'Honestly, I didn't meet her. I was busy talking with people and I couldn't find a way to escape. I saw you hug a girl with blonde hair so I'm guessing that was her.'

'Yea she was wearing the plaid pants with the chains.'

'Yea, that's who I thought she was.'

'So umm thanks—for everything.' Dana said tears falling down her cheek.

'Are those happy tears?' she shrugged.

'There is only one face I didn't see.'

'Oh no, I forgot one of your friends. Dana I'm sorry I didn't—'

'No, every single one of my PA friends were here. I was talking about my mom.' She said wiping away a tear. Tristan's face fell. He had hoped that the party would take her mind off that, but he hadn't thought it would make it worse. He opened his mouth to speak.

'I—'

'EHHH! If the next words out of your mouth are I'm sorry, then you need to leave. My mom is her own person, she isn't controlled by anyone. She made this choice herself. This way I don't have to question her priorities.' Tristan nodded.

So kiddo, ready to head back?' Tristan asked.

'Yea, let's get out of here.' she said picking up some stuff and walking after Tristan to the car.

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Hopefully more soon! By the way, my friend told me today how it wasn't fair that I was taking so long or that I haven't updated one of my stories for a long, long time, so if someone would like to help me write it (Rich And Famous and/or Candles) I'll know I can come to or go to when I'm ready. My email is so email me and don't forget to review! Thanks, Kiki.