The Real Thing
C2: New Life, New school, Same old Town!
Rory was looking over all her schoolbooks after her and Logan interrupted their mother's conversation with Luke. Rory left with her brother and was spending the weekend out in Hartford. While Mitchum was keeping the house out their they would be living in Stars Hollow in the old Twickham house which happened to be only weeks away from the construction add on being completed. They turned a 12-room home upstairs and down stairs in to a small 36-room mansion. With three rooms added on to the downs stairs… expanding the basement and then the rest of the rooms added on where rooms upstairs mainly bedroom, one which was a nursery for the start.
Lorelai was still at Luke's diner getting ready to share her news with him as Rory and Logan were on their way to Hartford. Rory was really attempting to get to know Mitchum for both her mother's and Logan's sake. Luke was still sitting at the table since the dinner was very quiet. Lorelai looked over at him again but he was the first of the two of them to speak since Logan and Rory had left 10 minutes earlier.
Luke: "So what's the news you wanted to share with me and who was the blond boy with Rory?"
Lorelai: "Well I'm pregnant and getting married. My fiancée, Mitchum and I share a son who is older then Rory, Logan; he's the blond who you saw with Rory. They are half siblings. It has been three months since things got serious with Mitchum and I, we actually bought the old Twickham house so we could live here, in Stars Hollow. I really wanted to do it and Mitchum was fine with that."
Luke: "Married and a Son? Wow, Lore I've know you for what 7 years and I am just finding this out now?"
Lorelai: "Yes, and it is complicated. Mitchum let me see Logan a lot but his family placed Logan in Mitchum's custody when they learned I was pregnant with Rory at 18, Logan wasn't even two years old yet at the time."
The conversation between the two friends seemed to go on forever. Other towns people like Kirk heard parts of the conversation here and their so wondered what the news was all about that Lorelai was sharing her life with Luke. Stars Hollow was a town of weird people for the most part but it always had a few members who happened to be major gossips. Around the same time in Hartford, Logan and just pulled into the driveway of the mansion only weeks early Mitchum opted not to sell. He figured there would be certain times of the years they could actually live in Hartford, while living in Stars Hollow for the majority of the year.
Rory looked at the house as they arrived. She had been here with Logan and her mother on more then one occasion in the past 5 to 6 months but each time it struck her how enormous the house was it had to be at least 3 times the sizes as the one her mother currently owned and had just put up for sale earlier that day. The two siblings entered the house to find Mitchum talking to a neighbor and a friend, Shane DuGrey. Logan was the first to notice the friend and next-door neighbor of his father present along with his son. Tristan.
Logan: "Good afternoon, Mr. DuGrey, Tristan… Hi dad."
Mitchum: "Logan, hello…" he looked behind his son and noticed the presents of his step daughter A.K.A. adopted daughter to be. "Hi Rory… I'd like you to meet my friend Shane DuGrey …" Mitchum, pointed towards the older man and then at the blond haired male who was not much older then here. "And this is his son Tristan, who's about the same age as you he'll be starting at Chilton in the fall as well. Tristan and Shane this is Rory, Lorelai's daughter, soon to me my daughter as well."
Rory: "It's very nice to meet you and my full name is Lorelai but so there no confusion with my mom and me she gave me a short nickname which most people use".
Tristan: "It's nice to meet you too Rory, and Logan, it's nice to see you again."
Shane: "Pleasure to meet you Rory. I've meet your mother a couple of times she spoke a lot about you."
Tristan, Rory and Logan left to go see a movie about half an hour later while Shane and Mitchum went back to talking business. The DuGrey's owned a large law firm, the biggest in the state and each year dealt with a lot of high profile cases, but the DuGrey law firm was also the law firm that work for Mitchum's business from the legal end at Huntzberger Media Publishing.
After the movie's which last for about 2 hours, Logan had left to answers his cell phone while Rory and Tristan stayed at their table at the coffee shop. Both having coffee and cake. Rory looked over at Tristan and smiled, which was not something she had done a lot of recently. She was still with Dean, but she felt like he had been keeping secrets from her for the last month or so. He was busier the he normally would be with the school year two weeks around the corner.
Tristan: "So, you're starting at Chilton in the fall?"
Rory: "Yeah. I am actually excited that I don't have to go to Stars Hollow High, it's the public high school in the town I live in. We're still going to live there after my mom and Mitchum are married but still Yale is were I want to go to college and lets just say the local Public High school won't get me in there. Oh and if you hear Rory Huntzberger referred to early in the fall it's because Mitchum asked and wanted to adopt me. So how about you? I know from Logan, you grew up in Hartford, but…"
Tristan: "Well I was sent to Military school, by my father, who died last May. My mom and uncle were married about 3 months later and they brought me home before high school began. And to my surprise, I've learned my mother kept this little secret all these years, it seems my uncle Shane is apparently my biologically father. What I know of now is Shane's brother the man I grew up thinking was my father was married 2 months after the affair with Shane started and it lasted the entire time my mom was married to Barrett Henry DuGrey. "
Rory: "Yes, I get it. Families can be confusing. I mean Logan he is my brother, but we share a mother. My father as been well sort of like a yoyo in my life sometime he's their for a very short while then he's gone for long periods of time. Part of the reason I agreed in letting Mitchum adopted me is because I would finally have stability in my life, a real father figure. I know he travels a bit but he always been around and Logan really needed him so I know it will be the same for me."
Tristan: "I know from Logan, that you have a boyfriend, but would you like to be friends? I sort of lost contact will all my old friends when my uncle sent me off to Military school against the wish of my mom and Shane, well who I thought till maybe a month ago was my uncle."
Rory: "I'd like that … friends it is. I don't know any one from around here. I'm only here for the weekend. I have to go home to help my mom get ready for the wedding which is next weekend and 4 days before school begins."
They weekend went smoothly, Mitchum after a few more long talks with Rory filed papers to adopted her. Tristan and Rory hung out for the majority of the weekend and Logan spent a lot of time with them as well. Logan's two best friends, Colin and Finn would not be back from Australia until the day before Lorelai's and Mitchum's wedding.
Early on Monday Mitchum, Logan and Rory were on their way back to Stars Hollow to meet Lorelai for breakfast. They were meeting a Luke's, as the first family breakfasts of which there would be many to come. Rory was getting out of limo, since Mitchum's car was getting fixed and Logan did not feel like driving this particular morning. They three of them were heading into Luke's Diner when she saw him. Rory could not believe it she thought they were happy yet on the other hand, she felt like there was something he had not been telling her. It seems that she was right that he had kept a secret from her. She stopped dead in her tracks as the tears came and Rory did not care who saw. Mitchum walked over and acted like a father to her while Logan headed right for the mopey brown haired guy who stood kissing a blond that Rory had never before seen.
C3 coming soon…
Who has Rory found? How does her first day at Chilton go? And of course the wedding of Mitchum and Lorelai were Rory meets Logan's two best friends Colin and Finn?