AN: Perhaps a bit schmaltzy, but I had to end it like this.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Gilmore Girls, duh.
The limo's pulled up out the front of Lewitzan. It was a dark club a few miles from Chilton. They had used to sneak out o their dormitories and walk there along the main road, which was bordered by thick woods they took cover in when cars would travel past, chances were it would be a teacher. They all climbed out and people turned to look. They were so young, so beautiful, and so perfect. They radiated in the gloomy night and passers by were fascinated. Theo took Tristan's hand and led him towards the club, running so they didn't get too wet in the rain. She was laughing and leaning forward, looking…amazing.
The old group made their way through the club to the bar where more were meeting them. But for now it was them. All back together. The music pounded, they were so alive. How did they all seem younger tonight than they had years ago when they had been here last like this? Theo looked around at them all in satisfaction. Paris and Doyle stood stiffly next to each other, but everyone knew they would be okay. Louise had already dragged Rupert onto the dancefloor and they were grinding up against each other. Maddy was giggling against Harry just like a million years ago. Even Wills and Lisa were talking. And she and Tristan? She smiled at where he stood near the bar. It may not have been exactly like old times, but it was pretty perfect.
They had found a table they all gathered around and that was where they were standing when two more arrived to join their little group. Half drowned, Rory and Logan made their way over, arms around each other, Rory's cheeks flushed and a smile surrounding her. She hugged Theo.
"He loves me!" She exclaimed and Theo smiled before hugging Logan.
"Are you sure it's enough?" He whispered to her. She smiled over his shoulder.
"I told you on the phone, if you really love her that's already too much" She whispered back and he hugged her tighter.
Theo was still amazed. How had this all worked out so well. At the start of the summer it had seemed as dreary as a Connecticut winter but now the clouds had broken and everything was beautiful. Others were still pouring in, kids from the ball, still in their suits and dresses. Finn, Colin and Steph clapped Logan on the back and congratulated he and Rory. Summer and Alexis stood by the bar with their college football-star boyfriends. Some things never change she thought. She saw Keegan and Dick, Keely, Veronica and Warren wander past. They stopped to hug and kiss each other on the cheek.
Suddenly a familiar melody started to play. The girls all started squealing. It was the song that had changed their lives in highschool, the song that had brought them all together on this same dancefloor. Not separate and secluded but a part of something bigger than their dormitory pairings, or class groups, the school or society. It was what had been the welding iron of their friendship.
Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe we're in heaven
They led the exodus onto the dancefloor. The girls all stood together.
"Seeing each other can be painful" Theo screamed.
"But healing!" Rory added her voice to the cacophony. Tristan, Logan, Finn and Harry made their way to where the girls were standing. Theo and Tristan locked eyes.
"Ask yourself why there is no freedom" Louise threw in and Rupert wrapped his arms around her."Truth!" Theo screamed as Harry picked her up, spinning her around.
"For yourself…only you" Paris screamed with reckless abandon. They all looked at her, shocked and she smiled, blushing.
"Judge…no fear!" Mads cried, smiling shyly at Harry.
"Be yourself…" Louise yelled again.
…Light!" Rory an Theo screamed together, hugging each other.
We're in heaven
Roy looked around her in amazement. She hadn't thought she'd ever see them like this again. She had always accepted the idea that once you finished high school, no matter how hard you tried, old friendships would slip away from where you had kept them tied around your wrist. She had thought she was the only one who still played this song every so often from the mix CD Theo had made in junior year. The only one to still remember the extra lyrics.
Oh thinking about our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free
Theo started to sober, thinking about their younger years. There had only been them, against the world. They hadn't told anybody…why? She couldn't remember any more. It wasn't just because of Rory. Maybe just life, that they didn't know what to tell people. And they had been wild…but free? She didn't know. Plunging off that balcony she had felt free. And yes, yes, even enveloped in his sweaty arms on her bed, something in her had felt freer than she had since. She felt someone touch her face. He had slipped his finger under her chin and tilted her head up to meet his eyes as he mouthed the words of the next verse.
Now nothing can take you away from me
We've been down that road before
But that's over now
You keep me coming back for more
She grinned and threw herself at him, he caught her. Why did he always do that? He slipped his arms around her waist and she remembered the night they had danced to Scars, when they had fitted together so perfectly. It was different now, but they still fitted somehow. They danced together like that.
Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe we're in heaven
Paris and Doyle were dancing stiffly, but they were still dancing. While Louise ground up against a grinning Rupert. It was funny that he was so much older than them, but he fit as well. Somehow, Theo mused, this group of misfits; the sluts, the bitches, the pom's, the mary's, magdalene's, players and drunks, they all fitted.
Your love it's all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see we're in heaven
"You know I was in love with you at high school!" Madeline looked up at Harry as a grin spread from ear to ear.
"Really? Why didn't you tell me idiot?"
"Because you were way too sexy for me" She grinned.
"Well, maybe it was better that way, that we ended up as friends" He looked crestfallen before brightening, hell, at least they were friends…for now.
Now nothing can change what you mean to me
There's a lot that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way
Lisa was dancing wildly with Finn when Wills joined them.
"I never said sorry"
"What?"
"For breaking up with you, like I did…at the Prom" Lisa smiled genuinely.
"You know what Wills? I've been waiting for two years to hear that. Come here you ass" She pulled him in to dance with her. Rory and Logan looked on and he ran his fingers through her still damp hair.
"I love you" He said quietly.
"I know"
"I love you!" She laughed.
"I know!"
"I know you know…but I just love saying it" He kissed her.
…heaven
It was the night that they would all remember when they thought back to that summer. The first time they had all been together since senior year, since the blot on their collective history. The night that secrets were spilled and old wrongs righted. The night when realisations were made along with promises that would be kept. It was the night that they knew that dreams would come true and that when they did and didn't, this would remain.
Now our dreams are coming true
Through the good times and the bad
I'll be standing there by you
We're in heaven
AN: Obviously, the song that's playing is DJ Sammy's "Heaven". The alternate lyrics the girls are screaming out, are the words that play throughout the video-clip which is awesome. Well, it's been great writing this but the last chapter must be posted.