Disclaimer: I don't own Gilmore Girls, but I do own Vanessa Gilmore and Angie, Ginger, and Justin. They are made-up by me, so they're mine. Also, this is kind of bashing on Logan, calling him a Yuppie. NO FLAMES, PLEASE. It's only for the sake of the story. I think Logan rocks, but if he ever cheated on Rory, then and ONLY then will I ever truly think of him as a Yuppie.
Shirley Temple Wonder Woman
Vanessa woke up super early that Friday morning to the refrigerator door closing. She groggily blinked and glanced over at her clock. It screamed 6:20 AM.
"Too... early," she whined. She literally rolled out of her bed and shuffled downstair, pulling her hair into a messy bun. Thinking that Lorelai was awake, Vanessa whimpered, "Mommy, it's 6:20 in the morning, why the hell are you..." She trailed away as she saw Rory taking out a gallon of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
"Umm... Rory... what are you doing?" Vanessa questioned her older sister, scratching her head.
"I'm getting ice cream," Rory responded perkily as she searched for a spoon.
Vanessa shuffled over and took the spoon out of her hand. "Rory. No. No one in this house is up before seven in the summer. Even if they are pregnant."
Reaching for the carton, Rory defended herself, "I'm pregnant. I'm starving. I'm craving for it. Don't deny me this one pleasure in my life."
"Rory. Sweetie. What are you doing to yourself?" Vanessa asked Rory. "Look, I know that Logan cheated on you, but don't pretend that nothing happened. Go to your house and get your stuff. Let him know you mean business. Go kick some Yuppie ass."
"Excuse me?" Rory questioned.
Vanessa sighed and pushed her older sister down into a seat at the table. She sat beside her sister and started, "Rory. Logan hardly ever made time for you. He was always busy at work. It was always you at work, that is until you were pregnant with Amanda."
"Then he was home with me a lot more," Rory pointed out.
"Yeah, until Amanda was born, then you both worked too much! Seriously, sometimes I feel like I raised Amanda!" Vanessa replied.
Rory looked down at her hands. Vanessa, feeling horrible, sighed and started again, "But now, you can find someone better, someone who will love you and cherish you! Someone who will sing The Bangles to you when you're sad, someone who will hold your hair back when you're puking up that ice cream... what I'm trying to say is you deserve someone who will do just about anything for you."
Rory looked longingly at the ice cream and informed her baby sister, "No matter how hard you try, you know I'm gonna eat that ice cream anyway."
Just then, the doorbell rang. Vanessa groaned loudly and angrily. She shuffled over, running her fingers through her hair. Opening up the front door, there stood Logan with pink roses in hand.
Logan began, "Hey, Ness," but Vanessa slammed the door before he got any further. As she headed back to the kitchen, Logan pounded on the front door, screaming. Vanessa sat down and started eating the ice cream.
"Yum. Ice cream," Vanessa hummed happily. "Yummy yummy in my tummy."
Rory stood up, begging her sister, "C'mon, Ness, let him in."
Vanessa shook her head. "No. Rory, you wanted the best, it wasn't him. You give him your trust back, he takes the lead."
"OK, you totally stole that from All-American Rejects and changed the words!" Rory snapped.
"Even so, Rory, if you give in, he's just gonna do it again and again!" Vanessa barked, standing up, her temper flaring. "I'm not saying he's a bad person, but what he did is completely unforgivable! You deserve SO much better, Rory! Don't forget that! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go curse out your soon-to-be ex-husband!"
Vanessa stomped away to the front door, where Logan was still banging on the front door. Vanessa put both her hands on his shoulders and turned him forward. "Move it, Yuppie," she demanded.
"What are you doing?" Logan asked.
"You, my ex-brother-in-law, are going to go to your BMW and drive the hell away from our house!" Vanessa commanded.
"You can't tell me what to do!" Logan bellowed.
"Oh, you don't think so? Well, let me tell you something, bub, Rory is my sister and since you hurt her, I will find someone to kick your ass and he will probably be from the Mafia and he will probably be carrying a baseball bat the size of that nice BMW and he'll probably say that you'll be sleeping with the fishes a lot. Bet you didn't think of that when you cheated on her with a two-dollar whore!" Vanessa opened his car door and shoved him into the driver seat. "Have a nice drive. Could you lose your way for me, please?" She started striding back towards the house when Logan got out and grabbed her shoulder, turning her around.
Vanessa slapped his hand away. "Don't you touch me!" she screamed.
Inside, Lorelai snapped awake and shook Luke awake.
"No, I don't want any muffins," Luke muttered, still asleep.
Lorelai hollered in his ear, "WAKE UP! THE YUPPIE IS HERE!"
That woke up Luke. The two concerned parents hurried down the stairs with Rory and Amanda following. Everyone entered as Vanessa hollered in Logan's face, "How could you do that to her! Huh! Tell me why you thought for even a SECOND that you could better than Rory! Just try me, asshole!"
Dead, awkward silence followed. Finally, Lorelai hurried towards her daughter, wrapping her arms around her youngest daughter's shoulders. As they headed back towards the house, they both glared at Logan evilly. It was almost alarming how alike the two looked. Luke and Lorelai took their angry, sleep-deprived, kicking daughter into the house, avoiding Logan.
Rory gave Logan a blasé look. Logan gave her a sad puppy dog one. Amanda hugged her mother's leg in fear. In her world, Mommy and Daddy weren't talking and that was a scary, but not an unfamiliar thing. Rory took her daughter and closed the front door.
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After Lorelai got ready for work, Vanessa had calmed down a little bit and decided to help out her mom. She pulled her black hair back into a low ponytail, wore a white button-up shirt with a skinny pink tie, a tiered black miniskirt, and white leather pumps with little buckles across the front. Maybe if she told Ginger what happened, she could get her anger out.
But Vanessa had a lot on her plate that day. Sookie was short a maiter'd for the lunch hour, so Vanessa clipped her ponytail up and seated people for a while. Ginger even helped out. She was polite to everyone: "Hi, I'm Ginger Harman and welcome to the Dragonfly!" Finally, the two got a break and Sookie came out with two tall glasses of Shirley Temples.
"Oh, Sookie, I love you, wonder woman," Ginger thanked, taking a glass.
"Well, I try." Sookie stood there with the tray in her hand, pursing her lips like she wanted to ask something, but knew she should keep her mouth shut. Vanessa noticed this and said, "Sookie, I know you're gonna implode if you don't say something, so tell me."
Sookie sat down beside Ginger, her voice in a low whisper. "Is it true Logan cheated on Rory?"
"I wish it wasn't, but sadly, that Yuppie indeed two-timed our sweet little Rory," Ginger answered.
"May that Yuppie die a painfully pathetic death, like tripping over his shoelaces and drowning in a huge puddle of bird poo," Vanessa announced, raising her Shirley Temple up high as a toast.
"Here, here!" Ginger announced, clinking her glass against Vanessa's.
Sookie asked, "How is she?"
"Well, she was fine, until he came over early this morning, begging her for forgiveness," Vanessa stated, turning to Ginger. "They shoot cheaters, don't they?"
"I hope she's OK. I mean, your mom told me she's got another kid on the way, right?" Sookie questioned.
Vanessa choked on her drink. When she got her breath back, she choked out, "You realize she could carrying another one of THEM?"
"My God, they're multiplying," Ginger responded, grabbing Vanessa's arm in fear.
"I'm so sad for Rory... and yet I'm so mad at Logan. I'm smad at Rorgan," Sookie stated.
"Who are we smad at?" Lorelai asked, appearing out of nowhere, sitting down beside her daughter, who then used her mother's lap as a footrest.
Vanessa shrugged and drank the rest of her Shirley Temple. "I don't know and I don't care." She whined, "Mom, my feet hurt. Can I work with my shoes off?"
"No, then people will think you're really Britney Spears and that this is really a yucky old gas station."
Vanessa corrected, "You mean Taylor will think."
Lorelai let out a laugh. "Please! As if Taylor would come within ten feet of this 'hazard.' I'll tell you what. You can go roaming around the field if you want to."
"Have I told you lately I love you?" Vanessa responded, hugging her mother.
"No, but you told me," Sookie added.
"Well, Sookie, you know I love you. Remember, you are the Shirley Temple Wonder Woman, minus the Lasso of Truth and the so-called Invisible Jet." Vanessa picked up her heels and hurried outside into the warm June afternoon. She started heading towards the field, but saw a familiar figure. She sighed and hurried up to it.
"What do you want now?"
to answer my loverly reviews:
ponderesque- justin t.? as in timberlake? oh god, no way! actually, when i wrote this, jake epstein was my inspiration for justin! (if you don't know who he is, go to and click on Degrassi, then when you get there, go to Craig Manning. That's his character.)
See, aren't I nice, I'm giving the chapter to you ONE DAY EARLIER!