TITLE: No Longer

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

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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THIS CHAPTER HAPPENS ABOUT A MONTH AFTER THE LAST ONE!

Make It A Nightmare!:

'Hurry up!' Rory screamed at Tristan as she pulled her shirt over her head. Tristan jumped into his shoes and helped Rory into hers.

'Are you going to tell me what happened?' he asked frustrated.

'In the car, right now we just need to get to Lane's house.'

'The Lane?' he asked opening the car door and hopping in and then starting the engine once Rory's door was shut.

'Yes.' Once they were on the road, Rory started to cry.

'What happened?' he asked his heart beating profusely.

'Why didn't I listen to you?' she cried.

'Why did I have to say you were crazy when you were only looking out for her!'

'Rory calm down, what happened? Why did Lane call?' The tears were running quickly and heavily.

'Tori tried to commit suicide.' She said letting her head bang on her side window in attempt to make her body stable. She felt Tristan's body stiffen at her words.

'Oh god.' He said the color draining from his face. Lane's lit up house came into sight. The two ran to the front to see an ambulance and EMT's walking around a stretcher.

'Tori!' Rory screamed and ran the rest of the way with Tristan right behind her.

'Ma'am, I need you to back up.' An EMT said pushing her away.

'No! That's my daughter!' she yelled pushing her way through. When she got through she gasped when she saw Tori's limp body. (A/N: I don't know if what I'm going to have happen is possible, but for now, please just go with it.)

'Rory!' a voice called. She turned around and spotted Lane running to her. At Lane's touch Rory collapsed onto Lane making them both fall. An EMT suddenly was at their side with a wet compress for her forehead. Tristan had managed to stay on his feet and walked over to Tori. He tried to swallow the lump in this throat but it didn't work. He'd always been able to somehow read people to a certain degree.

'Sir—' some interrupted him.

'No, she's my daughter. What happened?' he asked not moving an inch.

'We pumped her stomach and we found a nice amount of aspirin. If the girl's friend hadn't arrived to this lady's house at the time she did, she wouldn't of made it.'

'Oh my god.' He said steadying himself on the side of the stretcher.

'But she'll be okay?' he asked afraid.

'If her body cooperates.' Tristan gave him a pleading look.

'She's got a 97 chance of making it. Sometimes, overdosing can get to you quicker than you think. My guess is that because it's not 100 certain, the overdose had already started to slow her body down.' Tristan nodded slowly and walked over to where Rory was groggily coming back.

'She's okay. She's got a pretty good chance of making it.' He told her.

'I need a toilet.' Rory said but then threw up into the grass. Lane massaged Rory's shoulder's staring at Tristan. An EMT came over to them.

'She's fine; she's going to make it. You'll be able to bring her home tonight. But once she's awake we're going to need to ask her some questions. Rory and Tristan nodded.

'Come here.' Tristan said bringing Rory into her arms. She held onto him tightly until her tears subsided.

'Mom? Dad?' They heard a soft voice ask. They quickly got up and ran to Tori's side.

'Tori, oh my god, are you okay?' Rory asked.

'I feel dizzy.' Tori said blinking her eyes several times.

'We're just so glad that you're alright.' Tristan said smoothing down her hair.

'I'm sorry.' Tori said her voice cracking. They looked at her for more detail.

'I heard you and Dad talking about me about a month ago.'

'And you ddnt say anything?' Tristan asked.

'I didn't need to. You were right, mom you just didn't listen.'

'But why did you do it? You know we're always there for you.'

'I'm sorry! I know you told me never to do it, but I wanted to be cool.' She said frowning.

'What?' Rory asked confused.

'They offered and I thought it by doing it, I would be cool and stuff, but from what I can see, those weren't sugar pills.' Now Rory and Tristan were incredibly confused. Had they not gotten a call saying that Tori tried to commit suicide?

'Sorry to interrupt, but Ms. Dugrey is free to go home.' A man said walking off. Tristan lifted her off the stretcher and into his arms then carried her to the car with Rory right beside them. Lane followed. Once Tori was in the car safely, Tristan shut the door leaving Tori in the car alone.

'Thank you so much Lane.' Rory said tiredly.

'Yea, it's been a long night.' She said.

'Is Dave alright?'

'Oh yea, he's inside with Adele.' She said referring to their youngest child. Rory nodded her head.

'Oh, Lane, Tristan's back.' Rory said remembering.

'Yea I thought that was you.' Lane said giving Tristan a hug.

'So are you two together now?'

'Yea.' Tristan answered. Lane gave them a knowing smile.

'Well I have work early in the morning but I'm glad Tori is fine.'

'Me too, and thanks again Lane. I'll call you tomorrow—err today, or tomorrow.' Lane nodded and walked back to the house as the ambulance and officials left her driveway/house. Tristan and Rory got into the car. The car was silent until they got back to the house. Tori walked in and sat on the floor. Rory and Tristan sat in front of her.

'Umm, so right before 4 am I get a call saying that my daughter tried to commit suicide. You wanna explain that?' Rory asked calmly.

'Suicide!' Tori asked utterly confused.

'Yea.'

'I might be really sad and stuff, but I've thought about committing suicide and every time I thought I was going to go through with it, I backed out. Life is to precious to throw away. I may spend months getting over my best friend, but I would never get over myself if I did that.' Tori said.

'Okay…' Rory persuaded.

'Life is an amazing thing. As much as I hate her, Dana being alive is an amazing thing. Life is too short to waste on sadness. I know what Beth put me through with her stunt and I couldn't imagine doing that to anyone. You have to be careful, because you never know when something will go wrong. In three seconds we could have another terrorist bombing. It could be bigger then 9/11, and then what are we going to do? We're going to mad at ourselves for not living life to its fullest. There, I'm done.' She said taking a deep breath.

'So you want to explain what happened?' Tristan asked.

'I used to be friends with this girl named Nadia. She's this or was this awesome girl, but she's a little bit of a troublemaker but totally popular. I wanted her to think I was cool, so I took the pills she gave me. All of them, but she told me they were sugar pills. I started to feel sick and dizzy, and all of a sudden I got this panicky feeling. I knew if something didn't happen I was going to die, I think Nadia knew that so she ran to the nearest house and get help.'

'So you didn't try to commit suicide?' Tristan asked.

'Nope. By the way, what did I eat?' she asked scrunching up her eyebrows.

'Umm aspirin. You had a major overdose of aspirin.' Rory said clearing her throat.

'Oh my god, I'm so sorry.' Tori said her eyes full of shock. Rory and Tristan shook their heads and brought Tori to them both hugging her at the same time.

'I think this is enough Drama for one night.' Rory said.

'Yea, I'm exhausted.' Tori said nodding her head. They both helped her to bed and fell onto their own bed afterwards.

'You know, I'm starting to think having sex with you is a bad omen.' Rory said shaking her head.

'At least we know she didn't mean to.' Tristan said.

'She's right you know.' Rory said.

'About what?'

'Life. That a terrorist bombing could happen in three seconds and most of the US would hate themselves for not living life to its fullest. That we should all take what we get and run with it.' She said looking into Tristan's eyes.

'Since when have you been so philosophical?' he asked smiling.

'Blame Tori.' Tristan laughed and brought her close to him pulling the covers over them.

'G'night Mary.'

'I love you Tristan.' She said quietly.

'I love you more then life itself.' Tristan said back. Rory smiled at this and kissed him quickly before snuggling down into his embrace, silently falling asleep. At least they had something to look forward to tomorrow…the girls would show them their favorite two houses.

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Oh, I so did not expect this. I was planning on having Tori actually committing suicide, but that involves to many stringy details of therapy and psychological reports and I really didn't want to include that. Plus, I like this better. Suicide has already happened in a story of mine (Letting My Soul Free), and it may happen in another one. Thanks as always and please REVIEW! Kiki