Title: Time
Disclaimer: I own nothing except Trinity and other unrecognizable people, although I surely wouldn't mind owning GG!
Pairings: Lane/Dave, Luke/Lorelai, Paris/Jess, Rory/? (P.S. Lindsay and Dean wont be in this story really. It'll mainly focus on Rory...)
Summary: In eight years things can change...in a year things can change...heck, in a single night things may change. Read to find out!
Please review and enjoy! Let me know what you think!
Almost identical lives:
Rory was sitting at her desk at work. Tristan had been there for one week, and she hadn't told anyone. She was contemplating whether and how to tell everyone. Her mom was always free on Wednesday nights. She could drop Trinity off and then go out to eat with Jess, Paris, Lane, and Dave. She could bring Tristan along and show them her surprise.
She found herself staring into space again, and needed something to get her mind off everything, so she called her mom to tell her, her plans for that evening.
Phone---------------
L- Hi you've reached the home of the grateful and the home of the Brad Pitt lovers who by the way looked gorgeous in Troy.
R- Hey mom, nice greeting.
L- Oh, why thank you. I really liked it although I got weird looks from that.
R- Oh, well I was just wondering if you would watch Trinity tonight. I wanted to go out to eat with some friends.
L- Sure, sure, that's fine. You know it's not everyday I get to see my granddaughter.
R- I know mom, and I also wanted to know if could go out to lunch maybe one day this week?
L- Friday works for me, how about you.
R- Then Friday it is. Okay, I should get going. I'll talk to you later about where to meet.
L- Okay sounds good honey, and I'll see you tonight.
R- yes.
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Rory called the rest and jess got a sitter for Adele. She told Tristan her plan and he agreed, but she would have to protect him if they lunged at him. She agreed laughing and they dropped Trinity off careful so her mom didn't see Tristan.
They continued to the cozy restaurant. Tristan was wearing sunglasses and a hat, and the others were already there, waiting to see the surprise Rory told them about.
'Hey Rory, so you got a boyfriend? Is that your surprise?' Lane asked discouraged. She noticed that Tristan didn't follow her all the way to the table.
'Well, yea.'
'Well can we meet him at least?' Paris asked.
'See that could be a problem because you may know him. All of you, especially Paris.'
'Rory, we don't bite.' Dave said laughing.
'He thinks so.'
'Does he even know us?'
'Well, you know him. Okay you guys I'm just gonna come out and tell you that he didn't really wanna come tonight, but I thought that because you all are close to Trinity that you should be able to talk to her about it.'
'You've already had a boyfriend though.'
'Not getting my point....' Paris squinted in the direction of Tristan and saw some blond hair sticking out of the hat. She had a very good clue who it was.
'Rory if he has blue eyes, blond hair, and dated every girl in our grade at Chilton, he better have a better have a good reason for being away so fucking long!'
'Rory Paris wouldn't happen to be talking about Tristan would she?' Lane asked.
'He's nervous.' Rory said. Paris rolled her eyes and figured this wasn't going anywhere. She got up from the table and walked over to him.
'Excuse me, sir?' she asked him. He turned.
'Yea?'
'My friends wanna see if you have nice eyes.' She said feeling like she was gonna puke from the act she was putting on.
'I, umm, I have a sty.'
'Cut the shit Tristan.' Paris said. He took a deep breath and took of his glasses.
'Happy?' he asked sarcastically.
'Hardly. Come on, you're here so you should explain,' she said dragging him back over to the table. Rory had taken a seat and was rubbing her face. Tristan slid next to Rory and took off his hat and Paris returned to her original place.
'Well, umm, it's nice to see you all again.' Tristan said consciously. He looked at the expecting faces of his old friends.
'You're all probably wondering why I'm back, and why so long. Well as you all know I was sent to Military School, and then my father made me go to a boarding school college, and then he made me be in the army. It was supposed to be only one year, but it took five. About 3 months ago, I needed to see Rory again, and last week I finally was able to track her down. That brings us up to today.'
'Yea, but how did your father make you join the army? You were older than 18!'
'He threatened to hurt something valuable to me, and the first thing or rather person I thought of was Rory. I loved her and I still do, but I loved her too much to let anything happen to her.'
'Why didn't you tell me all this?' Rory asked confused.
'Every time you tell the story there's more!' she finished,
'I know, but every time I remember something even more dreadful, so one of these days I'll sit down with you and I will tell you everything in complete detail as best as it comes to me.'
'Okay.' She said.
'So Tristan, I never really met you before; I've only really seen and heard of you. Why do you think your good enough for Rory?' Dave asked.
'I don't think I'm good enough for her. I'll try to be because I love her so much, but its her choice to forgive me for my stupid asshole brain for thinking that it would be okay.' Rory looked at him and gave him a sweet smile.
'Well, I guess the good news is that Trinity's met her dad. It's kinda unfortunate though, that she's already ten. Your right on time though for her teenage years.' Jess pointed out. They all laughed.
'Yea, and then you get to go through sex and puberty with her!' Lane said.
'Oh god.' Rory laughed. Tristan smiled remembering the night he had taken Rory's innocence.
'Please don't remind me.' Rory said still smiling.
'Well, there's also that your daughter will have something Rory didn't have much of.' Paris said.
'Love? Cause I had a lot of love. Maybe a little too much.' She said and patted Tristan's arm. They all smiled again.
'No, a dad. Chris wasn't there that often if I remember during college and high school.'
'That is true, Rory.' Jess said.
'So wait, you guys aren't gonna like jump on top of me and strangle me?' Tristan asked.
'That's Rory's job. If she hasn't done it already then why should we? Obviously she wants you around.' Dave said. Rory shook her head. She was glad they were taking this well.
'So, good thing Trinity or Adele aren't here.' Jess said.
'What whose Adele?' Tristan asked having heard that name again and again.
'My daughter, Tristan. I'm married to Jess.' Paris said. Tristan looked surprised.
'Wow, well congrads.'
'Yea, two years ago Mr. Smarty.' Jess said.
'So that was the girl you were carrying when you dropped Trinity off with Rory at the police.'
'Yea, that was my daughter.'
'So anyone else of you married? Lane? Dave?'
'We're married too. I'm pregnant with our first child.' Lane said smiling at Dave.
'Well, then congrads! This isn't something that happened like three months ago is it?'
'No, I just told Dave last weekend, so you're right in there with people giving my their regards.'
'Good, at least I didn't completely miss everything important here.'
'Except for the most important thing.' Paris said smartly.
'None of you have any idea how much that bothers me.' Tristan said sadly. They felt bad for him; he was obviously torturing himself because he had missed his daughters' childhood.
'We understand Tristan. You're really brave too, I don't think any of us would have the courage to stay around like this if we just found out we had not only left the person we loved, but also the kid we helped to make.' Lane said looking at her stomach in sympathy. The others nodded their heads in agreement.
'Thanks.' He said his hand in Rory's under the table. She squeezed his hand. They were all silent for a few minutes when Jess's cell phone rang.
'Sorry.' He said flipping it open.
'Yea?' he greeted.
'Yea, she's right here, hold on. It's Lorelai.' He handed his cell to Rory and gave a confused look.
'Hey...what?...wait, wait, slow down!...who?...what?...Oh my god!...Yea, I'm on my way, what hospital?...okay I'll be there as soon as I can.' Rory's face was pale as she got up after Tristan.
'She's in the hospital. They don't know what's wrong with her.' She said ghostly.
'Who?'
'Trin—we need to get to Hartford Hospital!" she said all of a sudden over her shock. She started to panic and they all left for the hospital. They took two cars arriving there within seconds of each other. They all ran into the emergency room entrance. Rory went up to the registry.
'Excuse me, my daughter she...she was..oh my god.' Rory said breathing heavily.
'Name?'
'Trinity...Trinity is she okay?'
'Trinity Dugrey?'
'Yea, please is she okay?'
'We don't have any information on her. Are you related to her?'
'Yes!! She's my daughter!! Why cant you tell me!!' Rory burst into tears. Tristan brought her into a hug and walked her slowly to the chairs. He sat her on his lap, and rubbed her back unable to speak. They others just stood there feeling hopeless. Lane saw Lorelai and ran up to her.
'What happened?'
'She's fine. She had these sharp pains in her side and she was screaming. I didn't know what to do, so I brought her here. It's her appendix. They say it was serious and I should be glad I got her here when I did. I had to give them permission to operate, oh my god Rory! I hope she doesn't mind!' Lorelai said brining her hands up to her mouth.
'She'll be glad to you did.' Lane said bringing her over to Rory. Rory saw and got up quickly and hugged her mom.
'She's fine Rory. She had severe appendicitis. They are taking it out now, is that okay I mean they said they needed to operate soon and I didn't—'
'No, mom thanks. She's okay? She'll live?'
'She's guaranteed to live, she was just in so much pain, I thought she was gonna die.' Lorelai said. You could tell she had been crying, but was now showing a smile trying to make Rory and the rest of them feel better. Rory's tears subsided and she smiled thanking everything because her daughter was going to be okay.
She hugged her mom and went back to the rest of them. Lorelai saw Jess and walked over to him to talk to him and Paris. Rory walked over to Tristan. She hugged him and told him what happened. She felt his whole body relax as she melted into him. He was sitting and she sat on his lap in his arms. Even though Tristan had only known his daughter for about a week, he had grown to love her as much as Rory did.
'Hey Lorelai.' Paris said hugging her.
'She's okay.'
'We know. Rory told us.' They looked over to her and Tristan. Lorelai still didn't know about Tristan.
'Hey you guys, who's that that's holding Rory?' she asked.
'Oh, him, he's a friend. He was eating with us tonight.' Lane said coming up to them. They all somehow knew without Rory telling them that Lorelai had yet to find out.
'Oh, she never mentioned him to me. Hmm, maybe that's why she wanted to have lunch. Do I get to meet him, since this little incident happened?'
'I think that Rory needs to talk to you in private about him.' Dave said. He turned to Jess and Paris. They understood. Lane and Paris went to Rory and jess and Dave took Tristan out of the waiting area. The two girls brought Rory to her mom. Lorelai was disappointed that she didn't get a good glimpse of the man her daughter was with.
'Hey Rory. Who was that guy?' Lorelai asked gently.
'Umm, I think you should sit.' Paris said quickly bringing Lorelai to the seat. Lane sat down next to Lorelai who was very confused by her daughter and her daughters' friends.
'Rory what's going on? Is there something you'd like to tell me, cause having my daughters friends tell me I need to sit to hear who the guy was kinda makes me nervous.'
'You can't be mad at him.'
'Okay.... but I don't know him.'
'Yes, you do.'
'Rory are you having an affair with an older man?' Lorelai asked thinking she guessed it. Rory let out a little laugh.
'No, I'm not, you don't know him like that, he's someone who used to be in my life. He's also someone who made my life different in one night.'
'Tristan's gone sweetie.' Lorelai said quickly.
'And now he's back.' She said in response. Lorelei's face went into shock. She couldn't move.
'Mom, he's back and he knows his daughter. He wants to stay, he mentally beats himself up every minute of the day for not knowing his daughter until now.'
'And you two are okay with him being here?' she asked Paris and Lane.
'Rory seems happy with him around, and Trinity deserves to have her real father, not just to know him like Rory only did.'
'Yea, I agree with Lane and also, I've known Tristan since we were born, he's always been a good guy. He just got into the bad group of people. And made a mistake. I know him, and that if he had known about Trinity then he would've murdered his father so he could be here for her. He would never just leave Rory on purpose.'
'Oh my god! You guys, you all should remember that night, when he left! He already left, what makes you think he wont again?'
'Jess left and he came back. Did he leave again?' Lorelai looked defeated. She knew she could never win especially with Paris on her daughters' side.
'What ever happened to being to heart broken to take someone back?'
'Love happened, and then I realized I do want him in my life. I'm surprised I made it through it this far without him.'
'Rory, he ruined your life!!'
'That's what I thought, but I was a willing participant. Do you think dad ruined your life?'
'No, but that's different?'
'How's that different? Oh yea, he never came back long enough for me to know.'
'Rory don't do this!'
'Don't make me do this. Why would you even want to have this conversation in a hospital when my daughter is being operated on?' Rory shook her head walked away. Paris and Lane followed shortly after. They brought her to Tristan. They three guys were in a room just talking.
Rory knocked on the wall and came in followed by the girls.
'Hey.' She said to them.
'What happened cause you look even worse.' Jess said.
'My mom, doesn't want you back Tristan. She thinks that everything that happened to her will happen to me, and I don't wanna believe it, but so far I've had almost the same life as my mom. Tristan don't leave okay, prove my mom wrong.'
'I never was gonna leave, even if it means killing my dad.' He said hugging her. The girls started to laugh. He pulled away and looked at her confused. The other two boys had duplicate faces as Tristan.
'When I was talking to my mom, Paris told my mom you would kill your father for me, and I just think it's funny that you just said that not even five minutes after Paris did.' Rory explained.
'Well, Paris knows me well. A little too well. If I'm right, Paris was the one who realized who I was today, and none of you had any idea until Rory told you.'
'That's about what happened.' Paris nodded smiling.
'We just want Rory to be happy.' Dave said.
'If she goes down, then we go down too. We feel what she feels and we don't want to feel the pain of you leaving again. Especially now that it would break Trinity's heart.' Lane said.
'I would kill myself before I left you.' He said sweetly.
'You lied to me.' Rory said thinking.
'I did?'
'Yea, the night you left you told me that you didn't have a choice to stay.'
'I didn't.'
'Well you're not dead, so...' she said before she started to laugh. The others laughed too.
'Very funny.' He said tickling her. He stopped when a nurse came in.
'Excuse me, but are any of you related to a Trinity Ann Dugrey?' the nurse asked looking at a chart.
'We are.' Rory said referring to herself and Tristan.
'Is everything okay?' Tristan asked nervously.
'Yes, she's doing excellent; she'll be out of the OR soon. We just wanted to know if you had any idea about this and what's happening because she was brought in by a distant relative I believe brought her in.'
'Yea, my mom brought her in. She just told us that she had appendicitis, and was going to get her appendix removed.'
'That's not all of it. Come, I will bring you to the doctor. He is out of the room now. They are just cleaning her up and bringing her back to Recovery.'
'Okay.' They waved to their friends and followed the nurse to the doctor.
'So how are you two related to our patient? Are you all siblings?'
'Umm, no, I'm her mom, and this is her dad. I had her in high school.'
'Teenage parents, huh? We see a lot of those these days. Did you graduate?'
'Yea, my mom was there the whole time. I finished and went to college. We both did.' Rory said not bothering to include the little part about Tristan's leave.
'Well, she's a beautiful girl. You did very well with her.'
'Thanks.' Rory smiled. She looked at Tristan who smiled back at her and pulled her close to him. They walked into a small office and saw a man in a white lab coat sitting at the desk looking at a file.
'Dr. Cole, These are Trinity's parents. They were not informed of what happened.'
'Oh, well sit down, I even just took out her file to look at.' He said pointing to the chart that happened to be Trinity's. They took a seat and the nurse left.
'So Mr. And Mrs. Dugrey is it?'
'Umm, no, it's Gilmore. He's a Dugrey, I'm Gilmore.' She corrected.
'Ahh, yes sorry about that. Yes, I just read that you aren't married. Now did you hear anything about what happened?'
'Appendicitis.'
'Well that's the major thing; also we found that she has small tumor in her stomach. Now, your mother, Miss. Gilmore, signed for me to take it out since we would be operating on her in that area any way.'
'That's fine, was it dangerous?'
'It would have been if we kept it in there for very much longer. She would have had some problems, but we caught it very, very early so we were lucky. Now, she'll be awaking soon, but we asked her one thing she wished for when she woke up and she wished for both of her parents.' Rory and Tristan looked at the doctor carefully.
'Did she really say that?' Rory asked softly.
'Yes, now I know that there was some kind of parental issue where one of you weren't here for most of her life and just recently came back?'
'Yea, I got into trouble and had to leave during high school. I met my daughter about a week ago.'
'That's good, but I just think you should keep that in mind when she wakes up. Neither of you should leave the room before she wakes up.'
'When will she wake up?'
'Twenty minutes, about.'
'Can we go see her?'
'Yes, I'll show the way.' The doctor brought them to her room and shut the door behind them and left. They walked over to their daughter. She was hooked up to an IV and was hooked up to a heart monitor. Rory felt tears coming again. Tristan pulled her close again and kissed her hair. They sat there in silence for what seemed like an eternity but looked up quickly when they heard a small voice.
'Mom? Tristan?' Trinity asked groggily.
'Yea, we're both here.' Rory said as they both rushed to her bed.
'How come you both came? I'm okay.'
'Because we both love you very much, and we wanted to be here when you woke up.' Tristan said. Trinity smiled and moved but took in a sharp breath from it.
'You okay?'
'Yea, it's just really sore. I'm sorry for ruining your evening.'
'Oh, babe, no, you didn't ruin mine or your dad's evening at all. We're just really glad your okay.
'Thanks.' She said softly.
'Anytime for you.'
'If you don't mind, can I call you dad?'
'If you don't mind would you call me dad?' trinity smiled at her dad's response.
'I don't mind.'
'hey Trinity, we'll be here, we may go for a walk or something but I want you to go back to sleep okay? You'll probably go home tomorrow.' Tristan said.
'Promise you wont leave again?'
'I promise.' He kissed her forehead and backed away from the bed. Rory gave her daughter a hug and followed Tristan's lead.
'Night beautiful.'
'Night mom. Night dad.'
Lemme know what you think!!!!!
Disclaimer: I own nothing except Trinity and other unrecognizable people, although I surely wouldn't mind owning GG!
Pairings: Lane/Dave, Luke/Lorelai, Paris/Jess, Rory/? (P.S. Lindsay and Dean wont be in this story really. It'll mainly focus on Rory...)
Summary: In eight years things can change...in a year things can change...heck, in a single night things may change. Read to find out!
Please review and enjoy! Let me know what you think!
Almost identical lives:
Rory was sitting at her desk at work. Tristan had been there for one week, and she hadn't told anyone. She was contemplating whether and how to tell everyone. Her mom was always free on Wednesday nights. She could drop Trinity off and then go out to eat with Jess, Paris, Lane, and Dave. She could bring Tristan along and show them her surprise.
She found herself staring into space again, and needed something to get her mind off everything, so she called her mom to tell her, her plans for that evening.
Phone---------------
L- Hi you've reached the home of the grateful and the home of the Brad Pitt lovers who by the way looked gorgeous in Troy.
R- Hey mom, nice greeting.
L- Oh, why thank you. I really liked it although I got weird looks from that.
R- Oh, well I was just wondering if you would watch Trinity tonight. I wanted to go out to eat with some friends.
L- Sure, sure, that's fine. You know it's not everyday I get to see my granddaughter.
R- I know mom, and I also wanted to know if could go out to lunch maybe one day this week?
L- Friday works for me, how about you.
R- Then Friday it is. Okay, I should get going. I'll talk to you later about where to meet.
L- Okay sounds good honey, and I'll see you tonight.
R- yes.
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Rory called the rest and jess got a sitter for Adele. She told Tristan her plan and he agreed, but she would have to protect him if they lunged at him. She agreed laughing and they dropped Trinity off careful so her mom didn't see Tristan.
They continued to the cozy restaurant. Tristan was wearing sunglasses and a hat, and the others were already there, waiting to see the surprise Rory told them about.
'Hey Rory, so you got a boyfriend? Is that your surprise?' Lane asked discouraged. She noticed that Tristan didn't follow her all the way to the table.
'Well, yea.'
'Well can we meet him at least?' Paris asked.
'See that could be a problem because you may know him. All of you, especially Paris.'
'Rory, we don't bite.' Dave said laughing.
'He thinks so.'
'Does he even know us?'
'Well, you know him. Okay you guys I'm just gonna come out and tell you that he didn't really wanna come tonight, but I thought that because you all are close to Trinity that you should be able to talk to her about it.'
'You've already had a boyfriend though.'
'Not getting my point....' Paris squinted in the direction of Tristan and saw some blond hair sticking out of the hat. She had a very good clue who it was.
'Rory if he has blue eyes, blond hair, and dated every girl in our grade at Chilton, he better have a better have a good reason for being away so fucking long!'
'Rory Paris wouldn't happen to be talking about Tristan would she?' Lane asked.
'He's nervous.' Rory said. Paris rolled her eyes and figured this wasn't going anywhere. She got up from the table and walked over to him.
'Excuse me, sir?' she asked him. He turned.
'Yea?'
'My friends wanna see if you have nice eyes.' She said feeling like she was gonna puke from the act she was putting on.
'I, umm, I have a sty.'
'Cut the shit Tristan.' Paris said. He took a deep breath and took of his glasses.
'Happy?' he asked sarcastically.
'Hardly. Come on, you're here so you should explain,' she said dragging him back over to the table. Rory had taken a seat and was rubbing her face. Tristan slid next to Rory and took off his hat and Paris returned to her original place.
'Well, umm, it's nice to see you all again.' Tristan said consciously. He looked at the expecting faces of his old friends.
'You're all probably wondering why I'm back, and why so long. Well as you all know I was sent to Military School, and then my father made me go to a boarding school college, and then he made me be in the army. It was supposed to be only one year, but it took five. About 3 months ago, I needed to see Rory again, and last week I finally was able to track her down. That brings us up to today.'
'Yea, but how did your father make you join the army? You were older than 18!'
'He threatened to hurt something valuable to me, and the first thing or rather person I thought of was Rory. I loved her and I still do, but I loved her too much to let anything happen to her.'
'Why didn't you tell me all this?' Rory asked confused.
'Every time you tell the story there's more!' she finished,
'I know, but every time I remember something even more dreadful, so one of these days I'll sit down with you and I will tell you everything in complete detail as best as it comes to me.'
'Okay.' She said.
'So Tristan, I never really met you before; I've only really seen and heard of you. Why do you think your good enough for Rory?' Dave asked.
'I don't think I'm good enough for her. I'll try to be because I love her so much, but its her choice to forgive me for my stupid asshole brain for thinking that it would be okay.' Rory looked at him and gave him a sweet smile.
'Well, I guess the good news is that Trinity's met her dad. It's kinda unfortunate though, that she's already ten. Your right on time though for her teenage years.' Jess pointed out. They all laughed.
'Yea, and then you get to go through sex and puberty with her!' Lane said.
'Oh god.' Rory laughed. Tristan smiled remembering the night he had taken Rory's innocence.
'Please don't remind me.' Rory said still smiling.
'Well, there's also that your daughter will have something Rory didn't have much of.' Paris said.
'Love? Cause I had a lot of love. Maybe a little too much.' She said and patted Tristan's arm. They all smiled again.
'No, a dad. Chris wasn't there that often if I remember during college and high school.'
'That is true, Rory.' Jess said.
'So wait, you guys aren't gonna like jump on top of me and strangle me?' Tristan asked.
'That's Rory's job. If she hasn't done it already then why should we? Obviously she wants you around.' Dave said. Rory shook her head. She was glad they were taking this well.
'So, good thing Trinity or Adele aren't here.' Jess said.
'What whose Adele?' Tristan asked having heard that name again and again.
'My daughter, Tristan. I'm married to Jess.' Paris said. Tristan looked surprised.
'Wow, well congrads.'
'Yea, two years ago Mr. Smarty.' Jess said.
'So that was the girl you were carrying when you dropped Trinity off with Rory at the police.'
'Yea, that was my daughter.'
'So anyone else of you married? Lane? Dave?'
'We're married too. I'm pregnant with our first child.' Lane said smiling at Dave.
'Well, then congrads! This isn't something that happened like three months ago is it?'
'No, I just told Dave last weekend, so you're right in there with people giving my their regards.'
'Good, at least I didn't completely miss everything important here.'
'Except for the most important thing.' Paris said smartly.
'None of you have any idea how much that bothers me.' Tristan said sadly. They felt bad for him; he was obviously torturing himself because he had missed his daughters' childhood.
'We understand Tristan. You're really brave too, I don't think any of us would have the courage to stay around like this if we just found out we had not only left the person we loved, but also the kid we helped to make.' Lane said looking at her stomach in sympathy. The others nodded their heads in agreement.
'Thanks.' He said his hand in Rory's under the table. She squeezed his hand. They were all silent for a few minutes when Jess's cell phone rang.
'Sorry.' He said flipping it open.
'Yea?' he greeted.
'Yea, she's right here, hold on. It's Lorelai.' He handed his cell to Rory and gave a confused look.
'Hey...what?...wait, wait, slow down!...who?...what?...Oh my god!...Yea, I'm on my way, what hospital?...okay I'll be there as soon as I can.' Rory's face was pale as she got up after Tristan.
'She's in the hospital. They don't know what's wrong with her.' She said ghostly.
'Who?'
'Trin—we need to get to Hartford Hospital!" she said all of a sudden over her shock. She started to panic and they all left for the hospital. They took two cars arriving there within seconds of each other. They all ran into the emergency room entrance. Rory went up to the registry.
'Excuse me, my daughter she...she was..oh my god.' Rory said breathing heavily.
'Name?'
'Trinity...Trinity is she okay?'
'Trinity Dugrey?'
'Yea, please is she okay?'
'We don't have any information on her. Are you related to her?'
'Yes!! She's my daughter!! Why cant you tell me!!' Rory burst into tears. Tristan brought her into a hug and walked her slowly to the chairs. He sat her on his lap, and rubbed her back unable to speak. They others just stood there feeling hopeless. Lane saw Lorelai and ran up to her.
'What happened?'
'She's fine. She had these sharp pains in her side and she was screaming. I didn't know what to do, so I brought her here. It's her appendix. They say it was serious and I should be glad I got her here when I did. I had to give them permission to operate, oh my god Rory! I hope she doesn't mind!' Lorelai said brining her hands up to her mouth.
'She'll be glad to you did.' Lane said bringing her over to Rory. Rory saw and got up quickly and hugged her mom.
'She's fine Rory. She had severe appendicitis. They are taking it out now, is that okay I mean they said they needed to operate soon and I didn't—'
'No, mom thanks. She's okay? She'll live?'
'She's guaranteed to live, she was just in so much pain, I thought she was gonna die.' Lorelai said. You could tell she had been crying, but was now showing a smile trying to make Rory and the rest of them feel better. Rory's tears subsided and she smiled thanking everything because her daughter was going to be okay.
She hugged her mom and went back to the rest of them. Lorelai saw Jess and walked over to him to talk to him and Paris. Rory walked over to Tristan. She hugged him and told him what happened. She felt his whole body relax as she melted into him. He was sitting and she sat on his lap in his arms. Even though Tristan had only known his daughter for about a week, he had grown to love her as much as Rory did.
'Hey Lorelai.' Paris said hugging her.
'She's okay.'
'We know. Rory told us.' They looked over to her and Tristan. Lorelai still didn't know about Tristan.
'Hey you guys, who's that that's holding Rory?' she asked.
'Oh, him, he's a friend. He was eating with us tonight.' Lane said coming up to them. They all somehow knew without Rory telling them that Lorelai had yet to find out.
'Oh, she never mentioned him to me. Hmm, maybe that's why she wanted to have lunch. Do I get to meet him, since this little incident happened?'
'I think that Rory needs to talk to you in private about him.' Dave said. He turned to Jess and Paris. They understood. Lane and Paris went to Rory and jess and Dave took Tristan out of the waiting area. The two girls brought Rory to her mom. Lorelai was disappointed that she didn't get a good glimpse of the man her daughter was with.
'Hey Rory. Who was that guy?' Lorelai asked gently.
'Umm, I think you should sit.' Paris said quickly bringing Lorelai to the seat. Lane sat down next to Lorelai who was very confused by her daughter and her daughters' friends.
'Rory what's going on? Is there something you'd like to tell me, cause having my daughters friends tell me I need to sit to hear who the guy was kinda makes me nervous.'
'You can't be mad at him.'
'Okay.... but I don't know him.'
'Yes, you do.'
'Rory are you having an affair with an older man?' Lorelai asked thinking she guessed it. Rory let out a little laugh.
'No, I'm not, you don't know him like that, he's someone who used to be in my life. He's also someone who made my life different in one night.'
'Tristan's gone sweetie.' Lorelai said quickly.
'And now he's back.' She said in response. Lorelei's face went into shock. She couldn't move.
'Mom, he's back and he knows his daughter. He wants to stay, he mentally beats himself up every minute of the day for not knowing his daughter until now.'
'And you two are okay with him being here?' she asked Paris and Lane.
'Rory seems happy with him around, and Trinity deserves to have her real father, not just to know him like Rory only did.'
'Yea, I agree with Lane and also, I've known Tristan since we were born, he's always been a good guy. He just got into the bad group of people. And made a mistake. I know him, and that if he had known about Trinity then he would've murdered his father so he could be here for her. He would never just leave Rory on purpose.'
'Oh my god! You guys, you all should remember that night, when he left! He already left, what makes you think he wont again?'
'Jess left and he came back. Did he leave again?' Lorelai looked defeated. She knew she could never win especially with Paris on her daughters' side.
'What ever happened to being to heart broken to take someone back?'
'Love happened, and then I realized I do want him in my life. I'm surprised I made it through it this far without him.'
'Rory, he ruined your life!!'
'That's what I thought, but I was a willing participant. Do you think dad ruined your life?'
'No, but that's different?'
'How's that different? Oh yea, he never came back long enough for me to know.'
'Rory don't do this!'
'Don't make me do this. Why would you even want to have this conversation in a hospital when my daughter is being operated on?' Rory shook her head walked away. Paris and Lane followed shortly after. They brought her to Tristan. They three guys were in a room just talking.
Rory knocked on the wall and came in followed by the girls.
'Hey.' She said to them.
'What happened cause you look even worse.' Jess said.
'My mom, doesn't want you back Tristan. She thinks that everything that happened to her will happen to me, and I don't wanna believe it, but so far I've had almost the same life as my mom. Tristan don't leave okay, prove my mom wrong.'
'I never was gonna leave, even if it means killing my dad.' He said hugging her. The girls started to laugh. He pulled away and looked at her confused. The other two boys had duplicate faces as Tristan.
'When I was talking to my mom, Paris told my mom you would kill your father for me, and I just think it's funny that you just said that not even five minutes after Paris did.' Rory explained.
'Well, Paris knows me well. A little too well. If I'm right, Paris was the one who realized who I was today, and none of you had any idea until Rory told you.'
'That's about what happened.' Paris nodded smiling.
'We just want Rory to be happy.' Dave said.
'If she goes down, then we go down too. We feel what she feels and we don't want to feel the pain of you leaving again. Especially now that it would break Trinity's heart.' Lane said.
'I would kill myself before I left you.' He said sweetly.
'You lied to me.' Rory said thinking.
'I did?'
'Yea, the night you left you told me that you didn't have a choice to stay.'
'I didn't.'
'Well you're not dead, so...' she said before she started to laugh. The others laughed too.
'Very funny.' He said tickling her. He stopped when a nurse came in.
'Excuse me, but are any of you related to a Trinity Ann Dugrey?' the nurse asked looking at a chart.
'We are.' Rory said referring to herself and Tristan.
'Is everything okay?' Tristan asked nervously.
'Yes, she's doing excellent; she'll be out of the OR soon. We just wanted to know if you had any idea about this and what's happening because she was brought in by a distant relative I believe brought her in.'
'Yea, my mom brought her in. She just told us that she had appendicitis, and was going to get her appendix removed.'
'That's not all of it. Come, I will bring you to the doctor. He is out of the room now. They are just cleaning her up and bringing her back to Recovery.'
'Okay.' They waved to their friends and followed the nurse to the doctor.
'So how are you two related to our patient? Are you all siblings?'
'Umm, no, I'm her mom, and this is her dad. I had her in high school.'
'Teenage parents, huh? We see a lot of those these days. Did you graduate?'
'Yea, my mom was there the whole time. I finished and went to college. We both did.' Rory said not bothering to include the little part about Tristan's leave.
'Well, she's a beautiful girl. You did very well with her.'
'Thanks.' Rory smiled. She looked at Tristan who smiled back at her and pulled her close to him. They walked into a small office and saw a man in a white lab coat sitting at the desk looking at a file.
'Dr. Cole, These are Trinity's parents. They were not informed of what happened.'
'Oh, well sit down, I even just took out her file to look at.' He said pointing to the chart that happened to be Trinity's. They took a seat and the nurse left.
'So Mr. And Mrs. Dugrey is it?'
'Umm, no, it's Gilmore. He's a Dugrey, I'm Gilmore.' She corrected.
'Ahh, yes sorry about that. Yes, I just read that you aren't married. Now did you hear anything about what happened?'
'Appendicitis.'
'Well that's the major thing; also we found that she has small tumor in her stomach. Now, your mother, Miss. Gilmore, signed for me to take it out since we would be operating on her in that area any way.'
'That's fine, was it dangerous?'
'It would have been if we kept it in there for very much longer. She would have had some problems, but we caught it very, very early so we were lucky. Now, she'll be awaking soon, but we asked her one thing she wished for when she woke up and she wished for both of her parents.' Rory and Tristan looked at the doctor carefully.
'Did she really say that?' Rory asked softly.
'Yes, now I know that there was some kind of parental issue where one of you weren't here for most of her life and just recently came back?'
'Yea, I got into trouble and had to leave during high school. I met my daughter about a week ago.'
'That's good, but I just think you should keep that in mind when she wakes up. Neither of you should leave the room before she wakes up.'
'When will she wake up?'
'Twenty minutes, about.'
'Can we go see her?'
'Yes, I'll show the way.' The doctor brought them to her room and shut the door behind them and left. They walked over to their daughter. She was hooked up to an IV and was hooked up to a heart monitor. Rory felt tears coming again. Tristan pulled her close again and kissed her hair. They sat there in silence for what seemed like an eternity but looked up quickly when they heard a small voice.
'Mom? Tristan?' Trinity asked groggily.
'Yea, we're both here.' Rory said as they both rushed to her bed.
'How come you both came? I'm okay.'
'Because we both love you very much, and we wanted to be here when you woke up.' Tristan said. Trinity smiled and moved but took in a sharp breath from it.
'You okay?'
'Yea, it's just really sore. I'm sorry for ruining your evening.'
'Oh, babe, no, you didn't ruin mine or your dad's evening at all. We're just really glad your okay.
'Thanks.' She said softly.
'Anytime for you.'
'If you don't mind, can I call you dad?'
'If you don't mind would you call me dad?' trinity smiled at her dad's response.
'I don't mind.'
'hey Trinity, we'll be here, we may go for a walk or something but I want you to go back to sleep okay? You'll probably go home tomorrow.' Tristan said.
'Promise you wont leave again?'
'I promise.' He kissed her forehead and backed away from the bed. Rory gave her daughter a hug and followed Tristan's lead.
'Night beautiful.'
'Night mom. Night dad.'
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