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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Beginning Of Now:

The room was bright and well decorated. Rory and Tristan were sitting at a smooth round table with several books on it. A bubbly light brown haired woman entered the room carrying a pad of paper. She set it down on the table.

'You must be Rory and Tristan.' The woman said. They nodded.

'Good, my name is Lisa. Shall we get started?' she asked making a motion to the books and sitting down her self.

'Sure.'

'So for planning weddings, I usually start with approximations.'

'Oh?' Rory asked confused.

'Like how many people you are planning to invite, how many of them you think will actually come, type of wedding, if you want a certain kind of scheme. That sort of thing.'

'We were thinking around 150, I think, and then it would probably be around 135 that come.' Tristan said. Lisa wrote it down on her pad.

'Scheme?'

'Nothing too girly.' Rory said.

'Or sporty.' She added. They talked wedding details for a while after and returned home around 5pm.

TWO MONTHS LATER

They walked through the door after another wedding planning session and heard silence. They looked at each other.

'Girls?' Tristan called but they heard nothing. They walked to Tori's room and looked in. She was sitting on her bed doing homework. Next they went to Dana's room. No Dana.

'Hey Tori, have you seen your sister?' Rory asked.

'She wasn't on the bus home.' Tori said shrugging.

'Okay.' Rory said walking the living room and picking up the phone and dialing Dana's cell phone.

'Hello?'

'Dana, where are you?' Rory asked into the phone.

'I'm at the library.' She said.

'It would have been nice if your would've told someone that.'

'I told Ben.'

'And that would've helped me how?'

'Sorry. I'll be home in about 30 minutes okay?'

'Alright, see you then.' Rory said hanging up the phone.

'Library.' She said to Tristan.

'I'll go start dinner, okay?' he said. She smiled and nodded. Rory walked into Tori's room.

'So…Victoria, how is the sixth grade treating you?' Rory asked sitting on her bed.

'Uhh, it's really no different then fifth.'

'Oh come on!'

'I had Gym today. That didn't go so well.' Tori frowned.

'Well my dear, I hated gym too.'

''It sucks! I mean if I wanted to play soccer, I would've signed up for soccer, not Gym!'

'Well what kind of sports do they have for the winter?'

'Dance, Basketball, Volleyball, Swimming, Squash, Diving, and Cross Country.'

'Running in the winter?' she asked.

'They're crazy.' Tori said.

'Well, you only have like a month left of gym, and then you can sign up for a sport.'

'Like?'

'Uhh, well Dana could help you with dance, your dad could help you with basketball, swimming, and running, and I can help you with…uhh sitting and watching.' Rory said nodding.

'What about Diving? That doesn't seem to intense.'

'True. Well you still have awhile, unlike me and wedding plans.'

'How's that going?'

'We're finishing and booking minor details. We're going back on Monday.'

'Can I ask you something?' Tori asked getting quiet.

'Anything.'

'Could I maybe be a part of your wedding?' she asked softly.

'Like being a bride's maid or something?'

'Yea.'

'Of course. You and your sister, will be right there with me.' Tori smiled and hugged her mom.

'Well I'll let you get some more work done.' Rory said standing up. Tori smiled and watched her mom leave before returning to her math problems.

'I don't want a big wedding.' Rory said walking up next to Tristan. He turned off the stove and turned to her.

'Why?'

'Because our last one was huge, and I want this one to be small and intimate. I felt lost the first time.' Tristan looked at her and then rubbed her cheek.

'I always thought you wanted it to be big.' He said. She shook her head.

'Of course we can have a small wedding.' He said smiling. She smiled too and kissed him softly.

'Thank you.' She said.

'Your welcome.' He said laughing.

'Mmm, that smells really good.' She said smelling the sauce.

'I try.' He stirred the sauce again and turned off that burner as well. Rory strained the pasta and put it into a bowl.

'Mom, dad, I'm home.' Dana said walking into the kitchen.

'Is dinner ready? I'm starving.' She said sitting down waiting for dinner.

'Go get your sister, and then we'll have dinner.' Dana got up and went to Tori's room. The two came back and sat down at the set table. They ate their dinner without much talking. Rory pushed her chair back as she was the last one to finish and also have eaten the most.

'That was yummy!' Rory said approving. The girls nodded in agreement.

'Glad you liked it.'

'I liked it! How about you? Did you like it?' Rory said looking and talking to her stomach. The other three looked at her like she had three heads.

'Mom, what are you doing?'

'My stomach has feelings too!' Rory defended.

'What?'

'I wanted to see if my stomach liked the dinner as much as I did. I mean it does have to digest it and everything.' There was dead silence.

'So how about some ice cream?' Rory said.

'Rory, you just ate three portions of pasta! How are you still hungry?'

'That was rhetorical, I know it was.' Rory said standing up and taking $10 from her purse.

'Ready to go?' she asked. They didn't move.

'How about a quick game of surfing?' Tristan said referring to a video game. The girls got excited and ran to the living room to set up the PS2.

'They like you better.' Rory said frowning.

'No, they don't, but I don't blame them for not wanting to get ice cream.'

'They like your idea's better.'

'Rory, are you seriously still hungry?'

'Yes.' She said nodding. Tristan's eyes went wide. He went over to her.

'I'm not sure that's possible because I know what you ate for lunch since I was with you, and you practically ordered two dinners and an appetizer and ate it all.'

'What, I'm hungry.' She said shrugging.

'Tell your stomach to crave less.'

'Are you saying I eat too much? You're calling me fat!' Rory said frowning.

'No, I'm not you just—you're eating a lot, and while you normally eat a lot, it's like your eating for more then two people.'

'Your calling me fat.' She accused.

'Ror—'

'No!' she huffed and walked away. Tristan rolled her eyes and went to join Dana and Tori who had a controller for him set up. He first went against Dana. Winner would go against Tori and so on. Rory walked into her room and plopped onto the bed. She picked up the phone.

'Hello?' a woman answered.

'He called me fat.' Rory said into the phone.

'Rory?'

'Hi.'

'Why would Tristan call you fat?'

'You've known him longer, Paris. You tell me.'

'You probably took it the wrong way.'

'He said I was eating a lot, and then said I was eating for more then two people.'

'Well you do eat a lot.' Paris said.

'Paris!'

'Okay, well what did you eat today?'

'Uhh for breakfast, I had four pop tarts, then for lunch I had a sandwich, French fries, half of a hamburger, and nacho's. Then for dinner, I had three helpings of spaghetti, and I'm hungry.'

'Jeez, Rory! I would call you fat today if I were Tristan!'

'Hey!'

'Relax, go talk to him. He probably didn't mean it like that.'

'Okay.' Rory frowned and hung up the phone. She rolled off the bed making her way to the others.

'Tristan, can I talk to you?' Rory asked appearing. He nodded and handed Dana his controller. He walked to her and she walked into the bathroom shutting the door behind Tristan.

'The bathroom?' he asked.

'I like this bathroom.'

'Okay, go ahead.'

'I think I took what you said the wrong way.' She said.

'So do I. Rory you're not fat in the least bit, and I hope you know that. Your thin.'

'So now I'm anorexic?' she asked getting mad again.

'Rory slow down! I don't know where you're coming up with this stuff! You're the perfect size, okay?' she waited for him to continue.

'All I meant, was that you're just eating a lot lately.'

'So? It's a phase. I've been through it before, the girls have, I'm sure you have.'

'Okay.' He said putting his hands up. She nodded feeling content.

'So how's Paris?' Tristan asked.

'How? What?' Rory asked surprised.

'That's who you called right?'

'Yea, but how did you know that?'

'Psychic. Now come on, you get to play winner.' Tristan said leading her out to the girls.

'Why, so then I can be the loser?'

'No, so you can improve your skills of faux surfing.'

'That makes me feel so much better,' Rory said sarcastically.

'It's just a game, now go!' he said moving her more.

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Don't get any ideas yet! lol. So I'm going to do I think about two more chapters and then take a break for a couple of weeks. I'm thinking about working on "From War To Family" but that could change, but I won't be starting a new story, it'll be a shelved one. Thanks for the reviews! (I'll do personal reviews again next chapter since my Internet isn't working to well right now. PLEASE REVIEW! Thanks, Kiki.