Disclaimer: The regular, I own Theo, her parents and a few others, obviously not The Gilmore Girls

Rory and Theo were high on life as they made their way up the driveway of Theo's house.

"No, you're getting it wrong" Theo was loudly telling her best friend. "It's did she hear about that brand new benz you just bought for me not did she hear about those brand new things you just bought for me?" Rory just giggled.

"Whatever…sounds like you and Nate with all that car buying" Theo fell silent and Rory realised her faux pas. "Oh I'm sorry to bring him up"

"No it's okay it's just that he can be such a jealous bastard at times. He makes me…"

"What?"

"Oh I don't know" Theo frowned and kicked a pebble.

"You'll ruin your shoes"

"This is true"

Tristan and Theo stood in the deserted parlour staring at each other.

"Well?" She asked, waving her arms about her. "What did you need to say?" He stared at the floor before looking up at her.

"Theo," He began "…I know that our history isn't great." She laughed ruefully. "But it's ours," He continued, "and I don't want how it ended last time to be the last chapter of us"

"What are you trying, very ineloquently I might add, to say Tristan?" He rolled his eyes heavenward and shuffled his feet.

"For God's Sake Theo I'm saying that I want us okay. I want us to be back together. I want you" He started to move toward her until he heard Nate.

"What the hell's going on here?" He demanded from the entry way. Theo turned to him.

"Nothing darling" She said calmly. "We're just talking"

"Like hell you are" He crossed to her and grasped her forearm. "You," He said, pointing to Tristan, "stay the hell away from my girlfriend. And you are coming home with me, now" He said to Theo. She looked at him in shock.

"Excuse me?"

"We're leaving!" He hissed. She shook her arm free.

"You might be but I'm not going anywhere" He looked from her to Tristan and then back to her before throwing his arms up in defeat.

"Fine Theo, fine. Suit yourself, you always do" He stormed out leaving a shocked Theo.

Tristan smirked at her.

"I knew you couldn't resist me" She moved closer to him and he inhaled deeply before he felt the stinging slap across his face. She stormed out as well, going in search of Rory.

The two girls got changed into sweatsuits and set themselves up on the chintz sofa in Theo's suite. Theo had put her Dirty Dancing DVD on, then they'd watch Havanna Nights.

"I've had the time of my life, and I owe it all to you" They sang as the film started before the started giggling. They watched the first few minutes before Rory turned to Theo.

"Will you and Nate be ok?" Theo nodded.

"Yeah, he'll call tomorrow and apologise. He knows which side his bread is buttered" Rory giggled.

"I like it when you're drunk. You're like the old Theo" Theo was taken aback.

"What do you mean?"

"You know…you've changed since high school, your quiet, withdrawn, you're me except more society" Theo laughed softly.

"Don't be an idiot"

"I'm being honest!" Rory protested. "Don't worry I've changed too…mom and I have a falling out"

"What?" Theo exclaimed.

"Well…you know about Dean," Theo nodded, she had been the first Rory had confided in. "Well she thought it was morally the wrong decision. And she hates Logan, just hates him and now I'm thinking of dropping out and…"

The two best friends finally did their real catching up while the movie played in the background.

Back at the house on Babylon Drive the next week, Theo was swimming laps in the pool in the conservatory. Her sleek body cut silently through the water in her athletic black two-piece. The house was empty, her parents were in New York until the next morning. She surfaced at the end of the pool and screamed when she saw Tristan crouched there.

"How the hell did you get in?" She demanded.

"Come on Theo, I've always been an expert at getting into your house undetected" He replied with an evil smirk. She climbed out of the pool, feeling his eyes on her and reached quickly for a towel.

"Do you remember our night in this pool?" He ask quietly, almost seductively. She shuddered.

"I try not to" Was her cool response.

"Why are you resisting me?" He cried in frustration. She wheeled on him.

"Because, Tristan, everything you were is dead to me. You're the one who blamed me then ran away. Why on earth do you think that you can come back out of the blue with not a phone, not a letter in all this time, when I'm with someone else – your best friend to be exact – and get me back?" He stared at his feet and she pushed on. "Face the facts DuGrey, this isn't a teen movie where the two leads get back together to sell more tickets for the happy ending. You and were never friends, now whatever it is we were is gone, there's nothing left for us. Accept that, I have. You know the way out" And with that, she left.

AN: For anybody not understanding Theo, the next chapter goes towards trying to understand her better