Chapter 9: Angry works for Her
The next morning Tristin and Rory both woke up well rested, well as rested as one could be after you were shot. The orderly brought them their breakfast on trays, told them to eat up and he would be back in about an hour to pick up their empty trays. When the orderly left a nurse came in and helped them sit up in their beds.
Once in a sitting position Rory glanced down at her food. She picked up her spoon and started to poke it. It was a gray blob, kind of chunky and very sticky. What was this goop? She looked over at Tristin and he was eating quietly and it looked like he was enjoying it. Tristin felt her eyes on him and he looked up. Rory was looking at him and she had a disgusted look on her face. Tristin realized it was about the porridge and smirked at her.
"Eat up Mary, it will make you strong!" Tristin said and smirked again.
'Oh I hate when he does that it makes me so mad, although it is kind of sexy' Rory thought to herself. Shaking that thought out of her head she got back to the matter at hand, this goop.
"How can you eat it? How can they even serve their sick and dying patients this? Are they trying to kill us, because if I eat that I will die." Rory responded, looking as distressed as possible.
"Oh Mar, such a drama queen. It's good for you; there is brown sugar in it so it's sweet. Just like you." Tristin said with a wink.
"Shut up Tristin, don't wink at me and I am NOT a drama queen." Rory said turning away from him as best as she could. She crossed her arms and made a huffing sound.
"Mary" Tristin said
Rory did nothing.
"Mary" he said again a little softer this time.
And again Rory did nothing.
"C'mon Rory look at me. Please" He said even softer then before
Rory turned around and looked at him.
"Fine I'll look at you, but I'm not eating this." Rory said giving into him pushing her tray away.
Tristin just smiled at her, he loved it when she was angry, it really worked for her. He was about to respond when there was a knock on the door.
The door was pushed open and 2 people walked in, a man and woman both looked like they were in their early thirties. Tristin noticed Rory was looking a little frightened, so he whispered that everything will be ok and she nodded in response.
The 2 people walked closer to them and introduced themselves to the teenagers.
"Hello Tristin, Rory. I'm Detective Michael Williams, and this is my partner Detective Sarah Madden." Detective Williams said, he held out his hand and shook Tristin's and Rory's. Detective Madden did the same and Tristin and Rory said hello.
"Your parents told us we could ask you a few questions about what happened." Detective Madden said to them.
"Sure well tell you anything you want to know." Rory said Tristin nodded in agreement with her.
The detective's pulled up some chairs and pulled out 2 laptops to take notes on.
"Can you tell us what happened the day you were shot?" Williams asked
Rory nodded and started to tell her tale of Dean. By the time she got to the moment before Dean fired his gun at Tristin she stopped and looked at him with tears running down her cheeks. She was remembering what happened and the fear she felt that day came back.
Tristin was looking at her; he could hear the fear and pain in her voice. He wanted to be able to go over to her and comfort her but he couldn't get out of this stupid hospital bed. So he decided to comfort her with words as best as he could.
"Hey" He whispered "it's ok, I'm right here and I'm fine, so are you. I won't let anything happen to you, neither will the detectives."
Rory nodded and finished her story. She wiped her tears away and smiled a small smile at Tristin. They then looked at the detectives waiting for them to ask some more questions.
"Well those are all the questions we have for you at the moment, but if you have anything you'd like to add, feel free to call us anytime." Madden said before getting all of her stuff together. "We gave your parents our phone numbers" Rory and Tristin just nodded.
"Since we can be here to protect you all the time, we will post 2 armed guards outside your room at all times. Your parents thought it would be best, and no one will be allowed is unless they have been previously approved by you or your parents." Williams added.
"Well see you guys soon, Bye" Madden said
"Good-bye" Williams said
"Bye" Rory and Tristin replied
The 2 detectives walk out the door, and close it behind them.
"Finally I thought they would never leave." Rory said flopping down into her pillows.
"Couldn't wait to get me alone Mar?" Tristin said smirking, making Rory blush
"Nope, I couldn't wait to get back to sleep"
"Your gonna have to come up with better excuses than that."
"It's not an excuse, I fully intend to fall asleep."
"Fine" Tristin said
"That's right" Rory replied
"Hey Ror?" Tristin said
"Yeah?" Rory responded
"I'm sorry that we can't go out on our first date." Tristin said with disappointment
"It's ok, Tris, it's not your fault, we can go when we get better." Rory said trying to make him feel better.
"I guess so."
"What were we gonna do?" Rory asked
"I'm not telling because we can still do it, when were out of this joint" Tristin said smiling.
"Please tell me"
"No"
Please with a cherry on top?"
"Nope"
"Fine be that way" Rory said and crossed her arms.
"I will" Tristin said smirking at his beautiful girlfriend. He thought to him self she really does look hot when she's angry.
Tristin was also thinking about what he could do to make up for missing there date. Then an idea came to him but he would need some help to pull it off.
Just then the door opened and Lorelai and Tristin's parents walked in.
"Hey Babe, I brought you some coffee and a danish from Luke's, I figured that the hospital food would suck." Lorelai said handing the food to her daughter "Oh and there's some for Tristin as well"
"Thank you so much mom, you have no idea what they served us for breakfast. It was all gray and lumpy." Rory said squishing up her face, while remembering the grossness of it.
"Eeww how do they expect you to get better, if they feed you stuff that will kill you?"
"That's what I asked Tristin, but he just told me to eat it"
"Ick"
Rory then looked over at Tristin and his father they were talking about something quietly and they both had smiles on there faces. This made Rory wonder where Chris was and why he wasn't with her to see if she was ok. She thought to her self and then decided to ask her mom about it.
"Mom?" Rory asked
"Yeah sweets?" Lorelai replied
"Where's dad?"
"Oh my God, I totally forgot to call him, he's gonna be so mad that I didn't tell him. I'm so sorry Hun, I was just so worried about you."
"It's ok mom I forgive you because you brought me the elixir of life, and a wonderful yummy danish, but could you go call him now?"
"Sure thing babe I'll be right back."
"Ok thanks mom" With that Lorelai ran off and called Chris. Rory was feeling tired so she decided to get some more sleep.
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When Lorelai returned from calling Chris who said he would be there as soon as possible. She noticed her daughter was sleeping soundly, and Tristin was reading a book because his parents had left.
"Hey Tristin, how are you feeling today?"
"Pretty good, it hurts a bit though."
"I bet it does"
"Lorelai can I ask you a question?"
"Sure thing, kiddo" Tristin smiled at this
"Well I was wondering if you could help me out with something, you see I was planning on taking Rory out on a date last night but then this happened and now were here. So I was thinking we could have dinner here and watch a movie. My dad is getting me a DVD player to hook up to the TV, so I was wondering if you could pick up her favourite food from Luke's and her favourite movie."
"Aww she'll love that, Of course I will get you this stuff" Lorelai said
"Thanks" Tristin said and handed Lorelai some cash to cover the dinner and movie.
"Now there is one thing that I need to discuss with you young man." Lorelai said with a smile on her face.
"Ok" Tristin said getting a bit nervous.
"Now since your dating my daughter, you two are dating right?" Lorelai asked Tristin nodded "Well then I just have one thing to say, If you ever do anything to hurt her physically and/or emotionally you will have wished you were dead, in fact you may just hunt Dean down yourself and ask him to shot you again," Lorelai said with a joking tone in her voice. "Because if you do hurt her everyone in the town of Stars Hollow will be after you, and that's a lot of people, got it?"
"Yes I understand, and I don't ever want to hurt her, she's had enough of that for a lifetime. I intend to keep her safe." Tristin replied
"Good, I'll see you later." Lorelai said and got up to leave.
"Bye" Tristin said.
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Tristin had it arranged so the nurse took Rory out of the room for an hour so he could set up for their date. His father and Lorelai showed up with everything he asked them to bring. His dad set up the DVD player and Lorelai set up a table in between their beds. Tristin also had his father get some sunflowers for her and he placed them around the room.
When Rory came back from getting her X-rays done, she was speechless when she entered the room. The whole room was covered in Sunflowers and there was some soft music playing in the background. Tristin was sitting on his bed smiling at her and in front of him was food.
"Oh Tristin" Rory breathed out, she was so happy.
"Hey Ror, I thought we could still have our first date, just in not out." Tristin said smiling
"It's amazing Tristin, how did you get all this stuff?"
"My dad and your mom helped me out a little"
The nurse helped Rory back into bed and then left the two lovebirds alone.
"Care to join me for dinner?" Tristin asked her
"I'd love to." Rory responded.
The two ate their food, and then Tristin buzzed for the nurse to come in, she moved the little table out of the way and she pushed the beds closer together. Tristin started the movie and Rory was so excited to watch it. They both fell asleep happy that night.
A/N: Thank you for all of the reviews. I'll try and get the next chapter up faster.
CarpeDiemB120 – I'm glad you liked the last chapter, I hope you like this one as well, its definitely not intense just a cute filler.
Beggingforabetterstory – I'm sorry you hated my story so much. And an FYI for you I know how Rory's first day at Chilton went but I decided to make her start a year later, so her day could be different and I also wanted her to have a better start to her day, so she would be so pissed off for when she met Tristin. But if you want it to be like the show, then watch the show, don't read peoples fanfictions because they are bound to be different. Thanks for your opinion though.
