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Chapter 18- She Can't date him!

Matt woke up rather late the next day, this was most probably due to the amount of alcohol he'd consumed the previous night. He had come down in the early morning to find his dad sitting at the kitchen table with a bottle of scotch in front of him. Between the two of them they consumed the entire bottle in less than an hour, not a wise move on either part.

So Matt trudged his way to the kitchen once again, once again he found his dad there immersed in thought only this time there was a mug of coffee in his hands. Matt walked slowly over to the coffee pot and poured himself a large cup of the deep brown liquid. He took a large gulp, it was strong, but nicely so. He took a seat at the table with Christopher.

"So dad" he began, "I was hoping we could begin working on the restaurant plans straight away, possibly today"

"Yeah, I'd like to get started too, but I think we should wait for Rory. She'll want to be included in all of this, she missed you so much whilst you were in hospital. She only went out today because Tristan came round and whisked her off to go see a movie."

Matt was suddenly reminded of the previous nights dream, and the following train of thought, which had caused him to go to the kitchen last night in the first place. "Look dad, you have to know something about that guy Rory is seeing" he started

"Like what?" Chris asked.

"She shouldn't be dating him, he's trouble"

"Me and your mum thought so too at first but really he's an all right guy. He's been there for Rory all the time you were in hospital"

This made Matt stop and think for a while about what he was about to tell Chris. Could people change, sometimes, maybe. No! he wasn't going to let Rory get dragged into this. He continued…

"You know when I was about Rory's age I dated a girl called Marie? Her full name was Marie Dugrey… Yeah it was his sister. Well of course Tristan was only ten or eleven at the time. But when me and Marie broke up it was on such good terms that were able to keep in contact, she told me all about her brother and the mischief he'd been getting up to that week. To start with it'd be nothing serious you know the odd bit of vandalism, a scrape with the police for minor shoplifting…"

"What?" Chris demanded.

"That's not the worst of it." Matt told him in resigned tones.

"You mean there's more?" Chris asked perplexed, how bad could it get?

"Well just over a year ago it got worse, Marie told me he was getting a reputation as a bit of a playboy around school. He was dating a new girl every week. She said she felt so sorry for them because they hadn't got enough sense to see past his charm and good looks to see he was using them. Then the idiot went and got one of them pregnant. It blew up into a huge scandal. I wonder a bit about how Rory hasn't already heard about it. Surely people at school must know about it. Anyhow, this girl was pregnant and both sets of parents were horrified…"

"Reminds me of when me and your mum found out you were on the way"

"But this is different, Tristan refused to have anything to do with this baby, insisted that it must be some body else's. In the end the girl had an abortion and the family moved away to get away from the rumours and stares. But even after that he's still been dating girls left right and centre, one after the other, no considerations for their feelings. I'm sure Rory's just another one of these girls, once he's got what he wants from her he'll toss her aside like she never existed and find a new conquest." Matt finished. Just talking about the guy made his blood boil.

Rory and Tristan didn't get back until the evening. Tristan pulled his car up ouside the Gilmore home and got out to see Rory to the door.

"So Mary, how'd you like my special birthday treat?" he asked her smiling

"It was lovely, thank you." She said. She felt the happiest she had in weeks. Her brother was ok, and back home were he truly belonged. And on top of that she'd spent a whole day with this amazing guy who treated her like royalty. They'd been to a top resaurant that served beautiful food, and then a movie where they'd laughed at all the same things. Then once that was over they went to a bookstore where Tristan had asked her to pick something for her birthday. In the end they left with a few novels authored by people Tristan had never heard of. Then to round it all off they'd gone to this place where they made fantastic coffee. It was actually that good it rivalled that made by Luke, not that she'd admit that out loud of course. Now Tristan was dropping her home and it was time to say goodnight. She wanted to tell him what a great time she'd had and how much it had meant to her, and thanks for the books. But she realised words weren't really needed as she brought her lips up to his.

The kiss was perfect; to both of them nothing else existed because they were just so immersed in what was happening right now. Rory always felt slightly giddy at Tristan's kisses but now her knees were trembling as she deepened it. He responded to this very enthusiastically letting his hands move from her waist to her back and wondering if she'd let him they slowly made their way up the front of her shirt. She didn't protest. She was enjoying this way too much to let it stop. Unfortunately though it had to stop.

Tristan felt something yank the back of his top, pulling him away from Rory so fast he almost bit her lip in shock. He was spun round quickly and was faced with a ferocious looking Matt. "Keep your filthy hands off my sister" he spat.

"What?" he asked breaking out of his grasp looking horrified.

"You heard I want you to leave her alone. You've hurt enough girls already don't you think?"

"What are you talking about" Tristan asked looking outraged.

"Yeah, come on Matt what the hell as he done to deserve you treating him this way? Huh?"

"He got a girl pregnant Rory" Matt screamed.

Rory's face crumbled and went though a serious of emotions, disbelief cam first, then anger as her eyes flared up at her brother, confusion as she looked at Tristan, then finally hurt as she asked fearfully "Is it true?" looking up at his eyes.

This was it he was going to loose her forever now "Yes" he said slowly.

Thanks for reading please review, oh and as I post this I'm also posting the first chapter of my Gilmore girls/Harry Potter crossover please take a look at it if you get the chance its called 'It's a kind of magic' Thanks all.