Chapter 19: Come Home

Outside the crap shack…

Detectives Sarah Madden and Michael Williams were coming out of the Gilmore home. Both of them were exhausted, waiting for Dean to show up and preparing for his arrival had taken a toll on both of them physically and emotionally. They were both glad the hard part was over. Neither one of them had to tell Dean family that he died; the morgue attendants will take care of that. Now all they had left to do was inform the Gilmore's and DuGrey's of what happened and tend to the massive amounts of paper work that needed to be completed.

The two detectives set off in the direction of Luke's Diner to inform Lorelai and Luke about what happened.

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Luke's Diner…

Lorelai was sitting at the counter trying to act as normal as possible. She had heard from on of the undercover officers stationed in the Diner that Dean was in town. When she heard that she wanted to run to her house and kill him herself but Luke calmed her down and told her to let the police handle it. So she sat there drinking cup after cup of coffee, waiting for the news, dying to know if she could see her daughter again.

Luke was looking out the window when he saw Williams and Madden walking up to the diner. He asked Lorelai to go up to the apartment with him.

"Hey Babe, the detectives are coming, lets talk with them upstairs."

"Good idea, I'm going up now bring them up with you when they come in." With that she leaned over the counter for a quick kiss and headed upstairs. Luke got a bunch of coffee's ready and a tea for himself as the officers walked in to the diner. With a quick nod to the undercover agent in the room he got up and left.

"Good morning Luke, is Lorelai around?" Williams asked.

"Yeah, She's waiting upstairs for us. Let me just finishing getting these coffee's and I'll take you up." The two detectives nodded in agreement.

Luke grabbed the freshly poured coffee and headed upstairs with Williams and Madden right behind him.

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"Lore, I brought you some coffee." Luke said as he walked into his apartment.

"Thanks Luke. Hello Detectives." Lorelai said

"Good morning Lorelai." Both Williams and Madden said.

"Here we can all sit down." Luke motioned to the kitchen table and everyone followed. Once they were all seated Sarah started the conversation.

"I know you heard that last night Dean came back into town."

"Yes I was aware of that fact." Lorelai answered cautiously

"Well as expected he came to your house and through Rory's bedroom window. We left it open to lure him in." Mike cut in for Sarah.

"What happened after that?" Lorelai questioned impatiently. Mike looked to Sarah for an answer obviously since she was in the room when it happened.

"Well after it happened he saw the dummy in her bed and he assumed it was her. He told her how much he loved her and how happy he would have made her, then he said good-bye." Sarah paused for a moment to let that sink in. Lorelai had started silently crying and Luke moved his chair closer to her in order to comfort her. Sarah looked at Lorelai for confirmation for her to continue her tale. Lorelai nodded her head yes.

"Well after he said good-bye he raised his gun and shot at the dummy. That's when I jumped out of the closet and revealed my presence. I told him to freeze, it startled Dean and he tripped and fired his gun in the process. I fired my gun in self-defense and I shot and killed Dean. Later we found Tristin DuGrey's address and map of the grounds in Dean's pocket, we're assuming that he was headed there next." Sarah finished. Lorelai was now crying on Luke's shoulder however they were tears of joy and not pain. Her daughter was now safe and she will be able to return home.

"Thank you so much for everything you have done for my family and Tristin's family. I don't know how we will be able to repay you, but we will find a way."

"Your welcome, but we were glad to help you, after all it's what we do." Mike said with a small grin on his face trying to cheer Lorelai up a bit. She smiled in return. "Well we should be going now we need to go and inform the DuGrey's now. Thank you for the coffee it was very good." Sarah said.

"I know isn't it the best you ever had, I think I need to get some more." Lorelai said with a genuine smile on her face one Luke hasn't seen in a long time.

"No I think you've had enough, that stuff will kill you." Luke said to Lorelai.

"But at least she'll die happy." Sarah said with a smirk. Luke looked shocked and Lorelai looked like she wanted to marry Sarah.

"Oh God not another one." Luke mumbled as he walked downstairs and back to the diner. He left Lorelai and Sarah laughing and Mike just shook his head and followed Luke downstairs.

Once everyone left Lorelai grabbed Luke's phone and dialed Rory's phone number that she had memorized for this specific day.

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Rory and Tristin had spent the morning lounging by the pool. They were getting ready to go and get some lunch. Miri had prepared them an assortment of sandwiches, salads and desserts. Just as they were sitting down at the table the phone rang.

"Don't worry kids, I'll get the it." Miri yelled from the kitchen

"Hello?" She said

"Hello, can I please speak with Rory Gilmore?" The person on the line said.

"Sure, may I ask who is calling?" Miri replied

"It's her mother, Lorelai Gilmore." Lorelai said

"Oh Lovely, I've heard so much about you, I'm Miri the children's cook."

"I should have guessed, I have also heard, well read in emails all about you, I want to thank you for taking such good care of Tristin and Rory."

"Oh it was no problem at all, they are wonderful to spend time with. Let me go and get Rory for you."

"Thank you Miri."

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Miri walked into the dining room with a jump in her step. Which didn't go unnoticed by either the two teenagers. Rory gave Tristin a look and than confronted Miri about it.

"Who was on the phone Miri, you look all happy and stuff, was it a boy?" Rory said in a teasing manner. Miri just ignored her and said in a very monotone voice

"Rory your mother is on the phone." Rory just stared at her blankly

"Rory, I said your mother is on the phone." Miri said again this time with a smirk.

"Wha! OHMYGOD MY MOTHER IS ON THE PHONE! THAT MEANS DEAN IS….NO LONGER A…." Rory didn't finish her sentence she just got up and ran to the nearest phone. Tristin got up and followed her.

"MOM!" Rory screamed into the receiver.

"WHOA there babe take a breath." Lorelai said smiling.

"Mom I can't believe I'm hearing your voice, I miss you so much."

"I miss you to kiddo, but I'm calling for a purpose."

"And that would be?"

"It's a long story are you sitting down and do you have a speaker phone so Tristin can listen to."

"Sure let me just put it on." Rory pushed button. "Okay we're listening."

"Okay first off Hi Tristin."

"Hello Lorelai, it's good to hear your voice."

"Yours too. Now sit tight it's a long story." Lorelai started in on the story about how the police trailed and caught Dean Forrester. Once she got to the part where he entered Rory's room she paused because she thought she heard her daughter say something.

"Ror, Hun are you okay?" Lorelai asked

"Yeah mom I'm fine, what happened next?"

"Well he climbed in through your open bedroom window. Sarah was hiding in your closet and there were other agents in the kitchen all ready to arrest him. He saw the dummy that they put in your bed and he started talking to it. He said how much he loved you and that no one would be able to love you like he did, then he said good-bye to you." Rory interrupted her.

"I hope no one ever loves me like he did, because he didn't love me he was obsessed in a bad way." Rory shouted at the phone.

"I know Sweets, you don't have to worry about him anymore." Lorelai replied.

"Yeah because I really love you, and you don't have to worry about me going psycho on you." Tristin said as he wrapped his arm around her

"Whoa, you guys are in love?" Lorelai asked

"Yeah we are mom."

"Oh honey that's so great"

"Yeah it is now finish the story."

"Okay, are you still sitting down?"

"Yes we are still sitting down, stop stalling, what happened that you don't want to tell ma about?"

"Okay here is goes, I'm just gonna say it straight out so don't interrupt me. After Dean said his good-byes he pulled out a gun and shot the dummy, when he did that Sarah jumped out of the closet and yelled freeze, this startled Dean and he tripped and fired his gun. In self-defense she shot at him and he died on the spot. After they found Tristin's address and a map of the grounds in his pocket the police figured he was headed there next. There, that's it." The line was silent after that.

"Ror, you still there?" Lorelai asked

"Yeah mom, I'm here. I can't believe that he's dead, he died in my room, that so.. so.. I don't even know what it is, its just so."

"I know, you don't have to sleep in there if you don't want to, we can work something else out." Lorelai said.

"Tristin how do you feel about this?" Lorelai asked after a moment

"I don't know what I feel, I'm glad he's not gonna be able to bother us anymore, but he died in her room, it's kinda creepy." Tristin replied

"I know but you guys will get used to it. Soon it will be like nothing ever happened."

"I don't know mom."

"Trust me Hun everything will be fine, now lets talk about something happy!" Lorelai said.

"Like what?" Rory questioned

"Like you and Tristin coming home!" Lorelai cheered, "Aren't you guys excited!" There was silence on the other end of the phone. Rory and Tristin weren't excited, not in the least bit.

"Hello? Is the phone not working? Did we go through a tunnel? What's wrong with you two." Rory sighed on the other end.

"Mom, I'm not sure that I'm ready to come home." There she said it. She didn't know if she was going to be able to get it out.

"WHAT!" Lorelai yelled on the other line "What do you mean you don't want to come home?"

"I mean that I want to deal with everything here, not in Stars Hollow. There's two many memories there and I really like it here. I've been really happy here."

"Tristin how do you feel about this?" Lorelai asked him.

"I feel that I'm going to be where Rory is and if that's here then I'm happy with that, if it was in Stars Hollow I'd be happy with that as well."

"So are you two really set in your decision?"

"Yeah, mom we are."

"Well then I guess I'm okay with it for the time being. I guess you can stay there for now, we'll discuss this again at the end of this semester."

"Thank you so much mom, you don't know what this means to me."

"I know it means a lot to you, I know you need to feel safe right now and if you feel safe in Canada than I'm going to be happy for you, but I will be coming to visit as soon as I can, and that will be soon."

"Good, because I can't wait to see you, that's the only drawback of being here, but I need to be here right now."

"Okay Hun, I'm gonna go and talk to Tristin's parents and all the grandparents."

"Okay I love you mom, See you soon." Rory said.

"I love you to Sweets, you too Tristin, your family now."

"Your like family to me too, will you ask my parents to call me after you are done talking to them?"

"Will do, bye."

"Bye mom."

"Bye Lorelai."

A/N: Okay that is the final chapter. I do want to do a sequel, however I only have ideas for the first chapter, I'm not sure if I can stretch it into a multiple chapter story and if I leave it as only one chapter it will sound/be unfinished and I don't want that. So if anyone has any good ideas please share them with me. That is if anyone wants me to write a sequel.

Please read and review this chapter as well, I know it's the last one but I would love to know what everyone thought of it!

Thanks so much for all of the reviews.

Gilmoregirl7878 – At the end of that chap I was so torn myself I can't believe I made a decision. LOL.

Michaelover101 – I hope you liked Rory's reaction.

LoVe23 - For now they will stay in Canada.

Kylie1403 – I'm going to hold off on the epilogue until the sequel is done.

PrincessRandom205 – I totally agree that Dean is an idiot. For now they will stay in Canada. As for what they are going to tell their friends in Canada I think that will be in the sequel. But at the moment I have no ideas for one. I need some ideas!

purplelollipop17 – I'm glad you liked the story. I think I'm going to put the family reunions in the sequel.

Bethany Inc – I agree YAY DEAN'S DEAD!

IloveJMAC – I'm soooo sorry but this is the last chapter. However I want to do a sequel.

vm1fan225 – I did a happy dance!

ETB4670 – Lets make it a holiday! The Dean DIED today day.

joellekyle0712 – Thanks for reading and reviewing.

Eternalgorithm – ah, I said it to.

Fashiongurl3188 – As you have read, Rory did not want to return home.

tickle582 – Gone forever! Muahahahaha(me laughing with an evil grin on my face)

Gilmorefan31 – It doesn't sound bad at all

StreetRacinChiki – Watch out for the sequel. Although nothing is planned for it.

Salazar Slytherin's Heir – Thanks for reading and reviewing

Gilmoreaddict – I'm glad that my story was able to cheer you up. Just reading your review cheered me up!

Potagia – I'm glad you liked it. I hope you like this chapter just as much.

Jessobsessed09 – I didn't want Tristin or Rory to have to kill him either.

KarahBella – Glad you liked it!

Princetongirl – I hope you loved this chapter just as much.

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