Title: Strangers
Summary: Sequel to "Just Family". After one hell of a shoutingmatch Rory leaves. Again. Later that night, a stranger knocks on her door.
Disclaimer: I still own nothing but the pictures.
A/N: Been operated on recently, so I can't type very well. Apologies for the short chapter!
She wanted to close the door, but she couldn't. Frozen to the spot her mind furiously tried to find out why he was here.
"Can I come in?"
"How...?"
"Mother gave it to me."
Tristan said impatiently, brushing past her.
"Is he asleep? I want to see him."
"The boy you called disgusting? Yes, he is sleeping. He won't be troubled with the fact that his father detests him."
She spoke bitterly, allowing him access to her home only because she was too fragile to throw him out.
"Your words Gilmore."
He spoke her last name sarcastically.
"My words? What do you mean?"
Anger flared up inside her. How dare he blame her for this; in her own house!
"Is your husband out?"
Tristan questioned calmly.
"Tristan"
"I bet he doesn't know. I bet you didn't know what to say...how he'd react to the fact that you've got a son from your own brother."
"You...you're not!"
Rory protested weakly, tears emerging in her eyes. It was all true, everything he said was true. Except for the fact that she had no husband; not even a boyfriend. But he couldn't know that. He had to think that she had it all, that he hadn't managed to destroy her life completely with his cruel behaviour.
"Yes I am Rory. You said that yourself. You destroyed everything we had with that one single letter. You made your son – our son – an abomination. Not me. You. You did it, the moment you decided to post that letter."
She was crying now. Silent sobs, but tears too real for him to ignore. He wanted to hold her, despite her cold rejection.
"I wrote you hundreds of letters Tris! You never replied to a single one of them; not even when I asked you if your silence meant our break-up. I stopped writing after that. Can you blame me? What was I supposed to do? Be all lovey-dovey in my letters when you were ignoring me? Yes, I regretted ever being with you. I tried to hate you for as long as I could. And then came Jayden. No matter how much I tried to afterwards, I couldn't hate you anymore. Because, no matter the outcome of our relationship, you had given me a son. A perfect little boy. He is my everything Tristan DuGrey, so don't you dare insulting him ever again!"
She looked up at him, determination in her blue watery eyes.
"Hundreds of letters? I only ever received one...years after our break-up. I wrote you letters for two years straight and you were the one that never replied; save that time when you told me to stop writing."
"I never wrote anything like that...I never even received a single letter from you!"
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