One Less Mistake
Summary: What if Lorelai hadn't gotten pregnant until she was 20? What if she had agreed to marry Christopher when she did? AU.
Pairings: Rory/Dean, with Lor/Luke later on
Disclaimer: All of these characters belong to Amy Sherman-Palladino and the WB
Thanks for the reviews, Kiss and make up & born-on-sunday
"CHRISTOPHER!" Lorelai yelled.
"What is it now, Lor?" he asked wearily.
"I want those construction workers gone, and I want them gone now!"
"You said you didn't want to fight about this."
"Yeah, well, that was before I saw one of them standing about six inches away from our daughter."
"You're exaggerating."
"No, I'm not. Okay, maybe it was more like three feet, but that's not the point."
"What is the point then?"
"The point is...he's in his twenties. And he's a carpenter. He'll hold her back. She's going to go to Harvard, she shouldn't be flirting with a carpenter fresh out of community college!"
"Okay, I'll get different people to work on it."
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Rory ran up to her parents room and flopped onto their bed as if she were 7 again.
"You seem happy, Ror." Chris commented as she lay there, grinning.
"I am." she laughed.
"Because of the older worker?" Lorelai snapped. "Because if that's what this is about, you can just forget it. He's fired."
"You can't fire him Mom! He needs this job."
"Yeah, exactly. He needs to work as a carpenter."
"To get through college! It could have easily been you, you know. If you hadn't married Dad, Grandma and Grandpa would have cut you off, and then you would have had to pay for college."
"What did he do to make his parents cut him off?"
"He wanted to go to an actual college instead of a community college. He wanted to be an editor instead of a mechanic. He's been supporting himself for the past three years. Which you would have known if you'd asked him. But you just wrote him off as the carpenter. My god, you're just like Grandma!" she yelled as she stormed out of the room. Lorelai looked after her, then turned sadly to Chris.
"Forget everything I just said." she whispered, and ran after Rory.
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"Rory." she called, banging on the door again. "Rory, I didn't mean it. I just...I saw you talking to him, and a flipped. I would have done that over any guy." Rory opened the door, and let her mother in.
"It's okay. I've never freaked out like that over a guy before." she whispered.
"I shouldn't have freaked out Iike that. It's just...you're growing up."
"I just really like him. And I want you to like him."
"If he's so important to you, l want to like him, too. And I usually get what I want."
"You really are like Emily Gilmore."
"Bite your tongue!"
"Since when do you say things like 'bite your tongue?'"
AN: I was going to have Lorelai say the bit about getting what she wantsto Dean, like she did on the show, but it just seemed to fit here.