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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The Long Run:

'I'm sorry, but there seems to be a problem.' The old man said.

'But sir, we're getting married in less then a month, we need to get a marriage license.' Rory said.

'It says here you two are married.'

'Yes, wait, we were married but we got a divorce a while back.' Tristan said.

'I'm sorry, but it seems like your divorce was not filed. You might want to check back with your lawyer.' He said before he closed a folder and pushed his chair back.

'Rory, I thought—'

'I did. Thank you.' Rory said as they two walked out of the office. Their next stop was Mr. Joseph Dobkins office. They opened the glass door and headed the waiting room.

'Can I help you?' a receptionist asked.

'Uhh yea, We're here to see Mr. Dobkins, is he in today?'

'Yes, do you have an appointment?'

'No, but it's really important.' The woman nodded and told them to head back to his office. Tristan knocked.

'Come on in.' the voice called. They stepped inside the familiar office and sat down. The man looked up and immediately stood up.

'Now here's a couple I never thought I'd see again.' The man said sitting down in the chair in front of the sofa, which Rory and Tristan occupied.

'We want to get remarried.' Rory said.

'That's great!'

'Yea it is, but there's a problem.' Tristan said.

'A problem?'

'Yea, you see we just went to get a marriage license and apparently our divorce was never filed.'

'Huh, I see.' He said and stood up. He searched a file cabinet and pulled out a file and then returned to his seat. He flipped through it and frowned. He handed them the whole file.

'Take a look.' They looked at it. Their eyes widened at the paper.

'I don't understand.' Rory said confused.

'Your divorce paper's were never completely submitted. I received the whole document and then returned it to you so that you could complete it in the correct way. You had taken them home and then brought them back. Mrs. Dugrey, if I remember correctly, you didn't wait for me to review them to make sure you filled them out correctly. They can be tricky sometimes.'

'But I talked to you on the phone over a year after this.' She said missing the fact that he just called her Dugrey.

'I had called you at work, you seemed overwhelmed so I kept the call short. You seemed to have other things on your mind and seemed to have completely missed the point of the phone call. I maybe should have called back, but you might have thought I was checking up on your divorce when really I was checking to see how well you made up with your husband. I'm glad you did.' He said pointing.

'So we've been married for about 17 years and we had no idea?' Tristan asked.

'That is correct, Mr. Dugrey.' Rory and Tristan looked at each other.

'But—' Rory started but then stopped. She didn't know what to say…neither did Tristan so he stuck with simple.

'Thank you, Mr. Dobkins.' He nodded and watched them leave. When the door such he sat at his desk and laughed.

'There's something you don't see everyday.' He said and continued with his work.

'Wow.' Rory said in a slight daze.

'Yea.' Tristan said also in a daze.

'So umm we're still married.' Rory said laughing slightly.

'Guess so.' Tristan said.

'I thought you said you took care of it.'

'I did, but I didn't want to look them anymore. You thought I'd stick around for him to check for any mistake's?'

'I don't know, Rory.' Tristan said confused out of his mind.

'So where do we go now?' Rory asked after a moment.

'Wedding planner.'

'What? Why?'

'Tell her that we're not having the wedding, and to thank her for her time and effort.'

'No, I'm not going to do that. I put to much work into the wedding to put it to waste.'

'Okay…'

'My grandparents had their vows renewed, why don't we?' Rory asked.

'We could.' Tristan said nodding.

'Come on, I have to get back to work.' Rory said. Tristan nodded and dropped her off at work before going off to his own.

'Gilmore, curtain five!' someone yelled as soon as she appeared wearing her scrubs. She jogged to the curtain and saw a young boy sitting there with a large gash on his knee. He was crying. Rory cringed and advanced towards the boy placing a cloth over it and pressing against it.

'This will hopefully stop the bleeding.' Rory said but found her self actually getting queasy.

'So can you tell me what happened?' she asked. He was running in a store and collided with a metal shelf.' The dad said simply. Rory frowned.

'Does this hurt?' Rory asked the boy. He shook his head. Most of the bleeding had stopped. Rory looked at it.

'The gash isn't big, but it's deep. I'm going to have someone put in some stitches and then clean you up.' Rory said having the boy still hold the cloth against his knee. She ran out the area.

'Robertson, I need stitches in curtain five.' Rory said before she ran to the bathroom and threw up. She felt the contents of her stomach rising as everything in her came out.

'Is everything okay in here?' a woman asked. She had been walking by when she heard vomiting.

'Yea.' Rory said weakly. The woman opened the bathroom door. Rory recognized her as a woman named Kelly. She was one of the nicer woman doctors at the hospital. She kneeled on the floor in front of Rory.

'Rory, are you okay?'

'Yea, I just have a stomach bug, which I thought was gone but obviously not.' she said wiping her mouth.

'How about you go home.' Kelly said.

'I already took off yesterday.'

'You're obviously sick, and plus, you need to have all the energy you can if you're going to continue to plan this wedding of yours.'

'Wait, how did you—'

'There's a giant rock on your left ring finger.'

'Oh.' Rory said quietly.

'So now I get to play doctor—'

'You can come if you want.' Rory said interrupting her.

'What?'

'To my wedding. You're a really nice person and dare I say it, my friend. I'd like it if you would come.'

'Sure.' Kelly said smiling.

'So how long has this stomach thing been going on?' Kelly asked.

'Like a week.' Rory said thinking.

'Any other symptoms?'

'Well I kind of got mad for no reason once…or twice…or a few times.'

'Anything else?'

'I'm eating a lot. My boy…fiancé….no….I guess husband says I'm eating for more then two people.'

'But you're really fit looking.'

'I don't know.'

'So I thought you weren't married.'

'Oh well I kind of am, this wedding is really a vow renewal.' Kelly nodded understandingly but still slightly confused.

'So what's your diagnosis doctor?' Rory asked.

'Sounds like something you can diagnose yourself, now go home and rest.' Kelly said standing up. Rory stood up too.

'Feel better.' Kelly said smiling.

'Thanks.' She said as she watched Kelly leave. 20 minutes later she walked through her front door, right in time to see her daughter's get off the bus. They ran to her.

'Mom, what are you doing home?' Dana asked.

'I got sick at work.' She said.

'You still have a stomach virus?'

'Yup.'

'Gah, stay away from me then! I have a field trip I'm going on in two days and I don't need to get sick!' Tori said backing away. Rory smiled, but it faded.

'So I need to talk to your dad first, but we're probably going to have a serious talk with both of you after dinner tonight. You'll both be around, right?'

'Yea.' Tori said.

'I'll be here too.' Dana added.

'Good.' Rory said walking to her room to lie down. The girls looked at each other confused before going their separate ways to get a jump on their homework. Tristan and Rory didn't talk much until right after dinner.

'Look, I told the girls we'd talk to them right after dinner. I think we should just tell them everything we know.' Rory said nervously. He nodded.

'Okay, let's go.' He said and walked with her to where the girls were sitting on the couch.

'So umm your mom and I went to get our marriage license today, and something very peculiar happened.'

'Did you at least get it?' Tori asked.

'No.' Rory said and then continued.

'They wouldn't give it to us, because apparently your dumb mom never completed the forms correctly so they weren't legalized.'

'So you're both still married?' Dana asked. They both nodded. Dana laughed.

'Do you two realize how weird that is? I mean you're lives since your divorce was a pretty much all fake.'

'Why do you say that?' Tristan asked.

'Just think about it. If you two would've actually been divorced then this whole 15-year absence thing would totally different. I mean neither me nor Tori were born out of wedlock then.'

'You're right.' Rory said thinking about it and then turned to Tristan.

'I messed up, I'm sorry.' Rory said looking down. Tori was quiet.

'So does that mean you're not going to have a wedding?' she asked.

'No, it means that the wedding has turned into a vow renewal. We're going to keep everything the way it is, I'm just going to have to get my dress slightly changed, and you're dresses slightly altered too. But we'll still have the party and service, but it'll be a little different then a wedding.' Rory said.

'That must really be weird for you two.' Dana said.

'A little.'

'What?' Rory asked.

'I said it's a little weird, I mean we've been married for about 17 years when we thought we were married for only two.'

'Are you upset about this news?' Rory asked.

'Of course not, it's just slightly strange.'

'Well I'm sorry, but I find it kind of nice.'

'What's wrong with you? I'm happy too, Rory!'

'Well try and be a little less enthusiastic, okay?' Rory said getting up and walking away. Tristan watched her walk away.

'Did I do anything?' he asked Tori and Dana.

'Not in my book.' Dana said cringing.

'Yea, same. She was sick today. She left work early today because she got sick again.'

'Again?' he asked surprised. They nodded.

'She was fine on Monday and most of Sunday, and yesterday she was fine.' they shrugged.

'Okay, well I'm going to see what I did.' Tristan said standing up and looking for Rory. He found her in, surprise, the bathroom throwing up.

'Rory.' He said sympathetically and rubbed her back. She no longer felt like anything was left inside her when she pulled away and pushed Tristan away.

'Rory, what did I do?'

'You don't want to be married to me, which I'm sorry is slightly bad since we were going to get married in less then a month anyways.' She said pissed off.

'Are you kidding? I love you more then anything, and I'm thrilled, surprised, but thrilled that we're actually still married. I mean it's still slightly hard for me to grasp, but I'm thrilled. I don't know what I did but I'm sorry for getting you mad.' She smiled and hugged him.

'It's okay, I forgive you.' She said smiling and leaving. She took out the leftover cold pizza and started to eat it. Tristan remained on the floor. He was confused out of his mind.

'Uhh dad?' he looked up to see Tori at the door.

'Yea?'

'I need to umm—' she said pointing. He nodded and left the bathroom. Later that night, he climbed into bed. Rory was sitting up reading. The girls had gone to sleep about an hour before.

'Rory, can I talk to you?' she put down her book and gave him her attention.

'Yes?'

'What happened at work today?'

'Oh well I had a patient with a nice cut on his knee and I got queasy from the blood, threw up, invited a doctor to our renewal thing, and was sent home by said doctor.' She said in one breath.

'I see.' He said processing the information.

'I was an ass to you today, I'm sorry.' She apologized.

'Forgiven, you're just…dare I say it, different.' She tilted her head.

'I mean I still you love you and everything, you just don't seem like your self.

'So you've noticed too?' she asked. He nodded.

'My mom said that a few days ago, and restated it today. By the way, she's glad we're still married.'

'Good to know, and did this doctor say anything to you? I mean I would hope she would try and figure it out and such.'

'Yea, but it wasn't anything. I'll give it another few days, see how I am.' He nodded and moved down on the bed. She joined him.

'If I spaz out, I'm sorry.' She said quietly.

'got it.' He said smiling. He kissed her hard on the lips before he pulled back and brought her close to him.

'Goodnight Rory.'

'Night Tristan.' Rory soon fell asleep.

'Hello?'

'Rory, this is Joseph Dobkins, how are you?'

'I'm good, and yourself.' She said into the phone moving a pile of papers on her desk.

'Great, thanks. So I just wanted to check up and make sure everything is going well.'

'Yea I'm doing great.'

'That's good, I'm glad you're happy again, it's important to me when couples—'

'Oh I'm sorry can you hang on a sec?' Rory said dropping a pile of papers.

'Sure.' She put down the phone and picked up the papers from the floor and then pressed send on her computer. Your message has been sent appeared.

'I'm back.'

'Well I was just making sure you were doing well and I'm glad everything worked out.'

'Me too.' She said not paying a ton of attention to the phone.

'Well have nice day, and I hope you don't mind me calling.'

'Yes, Mr. Dobkins…I really appreciate it.' Rory said and hung up the phone and continued with her work.

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I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Mrs Boyscout, is really the one who you should thank for this chapter. She came up with the idea! So anyways, this is chapter 45 and I think I can do the rest of the story in only a few more chapters. I wasn't sure how you get a marriage license so I'm sorry about that, and I tried to do the whole thing about not being divorced, did I do a good job? I hope I did! Thank you EVERYONE! Please review, Kiki.

Mrs Boyscout- I need to thank you so much for your idea. As you can see, I obviously used it. Actually when I read it I was like, "Hey, I have to use this! This is great!". And since I have a lot of surprises in my story, I thought it would be good to keep to that. Thanks so much, you rock!