NO LONGER:

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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Can't be, Won't Be:

-A LITTLE LESS THAN A MONTH LATER-

Rory and Tristan got a little more comfortable with each other, Dana and Tori became even closer with Tristan, and Tori was doing better with the death of her best friend. Rory had called Lorelai and told her about Tristan so now most people know that Tristan is with his daughter's.

Tristan, Tori, and Dana were eating dinner at a nicer upscale restaurant. Rory was to meet them there.

'You were there when mom made her movie, right?' Tori asked.

'Yea, we were married then.'

'What was that like? I mean was there paparazzi everywhere?' Tori asked. Dana stifled a laugh and continued to drink her soda.

'Uhh no, not really. We weren't together when the name Rory Gilmore reached the public's eye. I did however see her name in the paper several times. Dana was even the cause of one rumor.' She looked up at that.

'Hello.' Rory said appearing then plopping down in the empty chair next to Tristan.

'Did you order yet?' Rory aside and got her answer when the two girls shook there heads. It was quiet for a moment when Rory spoke.

'I sense I interrupted something…' Rory stated.

'No, Tristan was just telling us how I was a reason you were attacked by the rumor mill when you were well known.' Dana supplied.

'Huh.' She said looking towards Tristan for clarification.

'Keep talking!' Tori pushed.

'Okay well your mom and I weren't exactly best buds when we weren't together. Your mom got pregnant with Dana and in her self-bashing and misery of not wanting to tell me, she went into hibernation of only eating grapefruits thus losing a lot of weight. That got rumors of being on drugs, anorexic, etc. When her mom took her to a rehab center so she wouldn't lose more weight, the rumor's came full blast.'

'Can I tell this part?' Rory asked.

'Uh sure.' He said.

'Well, a woman came to interview me while I was at rehab and instead of telling them the real reason I was there, I told them I was there to manage my coffee addiction.' The two girls started to crack up.

'I'm glad some people think it was funny!' Rory said looking at Tristan.

'' Hey you'd been ignoring me for like two months! Plus considering the circumstances of how I found out the truth weren't so funny.' He sent back. Tori and Dana stopped laughing and watched the exchange between their parents go on.

'You think I wanted to tell you like that?'

'No, you didn't want to tell me at all.' He said just realizing how true his words were.

'Excuse me.' He said standing up and walking outside. A few minutes passed.

'Mom?' Dana asked cautiously. Rory's head was resting in her hands.

'Stay here.' she ordered and ran outside to see Tristan exhale a cloud of smoke and then flick the ashes from the end of his cigarette.

'I thought you quit!' she said. He snapped his head up and laughed bitterly.

'When I was with you, yea. I smoke about once a month now. Helps the nerves.'

'Can I sit?'

'Are you going to push me away?'

'I never have!' he let out a scoff and rolled his eyes.

'Fine.' She grumbled. He moved over on the bench to allow her to sit.

'Did you come out here just to sit?'

'Did you come out her just to smoke?' he glared at her then stood up.

'I'm sorry but are you not the Rory Gilmore I just spent a month with trying to get to know again or did she replace herself tonight with her evil twin?'

'I take offense to that?'

'Yea well, welcome to me world Rory.' He spit back.

'I really hurt you, didn't I?' Rory said softly.

'At which point are you talking about?' he asked calmly.

'How I didn't tell you about Tori, nor would I of told you about Dana if I hadn't of been in the news.'

'So I was right then…you weren't going to tell me.' He said. She nodded her head. He bit his tongue so he wouldn't yell.

'I'm sorry.' She said.

'I don't know. I mean I would have no way of knowing what Dana looked like now, but Dana could've. You never eve showed her what I looked like?' He said trying to reason with her.

'I don't cry very often but when I showed her a picture of you, I cried.'

'What's that supposed to mean?'

'It hurt!'

'I know it may be a shocker, but I was hurt too! If I were you, my kids would have known what their father looked like, and regardless of my relationship with him; he would have been in their lives since day one.' She looked down, took a deep breath and took the cigarette inhaling one deep breath then gave it back. He looked at her confused as she exhaled.

'I haven't touched a cigarette since college.' She admitted. It was quiet.

'There's a reason we have two kids.' Tristan said.

'Yea, we had sex.' She said and took another puff.

'Okay yea, but there's gotta be more'

'Oh?' She gave him the cigarette back. They made a routine of take a puff and pass it.

'There must've been a reason we one, got married; two, had sex after we were divorced; three, almost got back together; and four, still missed each other even after 15 years.'

'And got a divorce in the first place.' She tried.

'Which we both agree was a mistake, so let's just ignore that fact.'

'You're supposed to be mad at me, not trying to make things make sense.'

'One of the first times I met Dana she told me I made you smile and that you grandmother thought I was the one who would break you of your non dating habits.'

'A coincidence.'

'No, I don't think so.'

'What's your point?' she asked annoyed.

'I'm not sure, but I feel like were making progress.'

'I don't get it.'

'Let's try it.'

'What?'

'We, us, we have kids together.'

'Uhh…?'

'All kids want their parents together, or we know that our kids want us together.'

'That's not a good enough reason, Tristan. I wanted my parents to be together, but they wouldn't have been happy together.'

'I'm not asking you to marry me, just a nice dinner, the two of us.' He said taking her hand.

'I don't get it.' She asked referring to this whole situation.

'I mean, why me?' she added.

'I don't know. You can think about it and we can talk when we go out.' He suggested. She rolled her eyes but smiled slightly.

'Okay. Just tell me when.' She said standing up bringing him with her. He kissed her forehead and led her back inside to the table. When the girls saw them they stopped talking. Rory and Tristan sat down in their spots. Rory's cell rang.

'Are you kidding me?' she complained while picking up her phone up from the table. She shook her head disapprovingly and hung up.

'Well apparently one of my patients decided they needed to take a walk and fell down getting out of their bed.' She said dully and getting up.

'Sorry guys. I'll see you later.' She said regretfully and left.

'This sucks.' Tori commented.

'Yea.' Dana said shaking her head. Tristan noticed she was fidgety.

'Dana are you okay?' he asked. She nodded and took a sip from her Diet Sprite. Tori looked and her eyes went wide.

'Dana when was the last time you ate?' Tori exclaimed.

'Not long ago.' She said, which really meant, "a few hours ago and I only had something very small".

'Dana!'

'I'm okay, really!' Dana said shrugging it off. Tristan swallowed and stood up and ran to a waiter. He returned quickly with a few sugar cookies.

'Eat.' He ordered.

'I don't want it.' She said turning her head. Tori looked scared.

'When she's really low mom takes her to the hospital because she refuses to eat or drink.' Tristan nodded and took Dana out of her chair. Tori followed. He put Dana in the back with Tori and quickly drove to the hospital. He pulled into the emergency entrance and went through the automatic doors. Dana was rushed to a room and a doctor immediately followed. Tristan and Tori were not permitted to go in with her so they slowly walked to the waiting room. He noticed Tori's pale face.

'Are you okay?' he asked her.

'Yea I just, I worry about Dana. Mom never brings me with her to the hospital.'

'When was the last time this happened?'

'About four or five months ago.' He nodded and brought Tori into his lap. She put her head on his chest while his arms held her to him. About five minutes later they saw Rory run to them.

'Tristan! Tori!' she called.

'Hey.' Tristan said.

'What happened?'

'She got really low.'

'How was she when she got here?'

'Shaky, a little dazed it seemed.' Tristan said.' Rory shook her head.

'Okay, I'll go check on her.' Rory said leaving. Rory walked to her curtained off area and looked for her chart but was stopped when a doctor came out.

'Rory?' the doctor asked. She looked at him.

'What are you looking for?' he asked.

'Her chart.' She told him. He looked at her strangely.

'She needs me!'

'You're not her doctor.'

'Dana is my daughter.' Not many people in the hospital knew that Rory had kids.

'You don't have a husband.'

'I did, but I'm divorced.' She said even though she knew that didn't matter.

'No.' he challenged. This particular doctor wasn't all that nice to Rory since Rory was a newer doctor yet much better than him.

'So how is she?' Rory and the doctor turned to the voice and saw Tori holding Tristan's hand.

'I don't know, are you going to let me see my daughter?'

'Who's that?' the doctor asked.

'Her dad and sister.'

'Dad, you may come.' The doctor said opening the curtain slightly.

'Can I go in alone?' he asked. The doctor nodded and walked away giving Rory a smug look.

'Go on Rory.' Tristan told her. She smiled and thanked him with her eyes as she disappeared through the curtain. Dana was awake and looking at her hands.

'Well Dana, thanks for the scare.' Rory said. Dana cringed.

'Sorry.'

'Yea well I'll get over, at least your okay.' Dana nodded.

'So how was your blood sugar.

'I don't know, but I think I heard around 57.'

'DC!' Rory said shocked.

'I know I could've died.'

'You need to be careful.' Dana nodded, leaning back and shut her eyes.

'I'll let you sleep but we need to talk about this.' Dana nodded as Rory kissed her forehead and left.

'She's okay. They have to keep her overnight to make sure no long term damage was done.' Rory said and kept walking. Tori and Tristan followed.

'Rory what are you doing?' Tristan asked stopping her.

'I'll stay here with Dana tonight, Tori, go with your dad tonight.' Rory said then stopped by the nearby desk, picked up two charts and kept walking.

'Should we get flowers?' Tristan asked.

' If all of the flowers Dana has gotten over years were still alive, we'd own the largest horticultural center in the world.' Tori said.

'Sick of flowers?'

'Yea and I'm also allergic to pollen.'

'Yea me too.' Tristan smiled.

'I'm hungry.'

'We never ate dinner.' Tristan remembered.

'Come on, we'll pick up some food on the way home.'

'This is going to be the first time I'm going to be spending the night at your place by myself.'

'We can go to your mom's house if you prefer.'

'No, I like your house. I've been living in mine for 11 years and I think your house is the one I'd rather have.'

'Your mom said you were me, just a girl, and I didn't believe her. Now I do.'

'From appearance to house.' Tori said.

'Yea. Come on, let's get out of here.' he said taking her hand and leaving the hospital.

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Okay, so I liked this chapter too….kinda. lol. I've been thinking, I had this idea to have Rory work in a restaurant, and then I realized I have two stories where this is true. Remember Eternity? Yea well it was supposed to be finished by now…anyway, I'm either going to just delete that story, or I'm going to make a sequel. I haven't read that one in a while so I don't know what shape its in. Don't worry, I'm going to get this one done! I don't know when I'll have the next chapter up…hopefully soon. Review please, Kiki.