Chasing the rainbow

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters or the song, they belong to the WB and Sony/BmG, I just borrowed them for a while.

Lorelai leaves everything behind and starts a new life in Stars Hollow with her one year-old daughter. My version of Gilmore Girls.

Chapter 1: Runaway (based on P!nk's "Runaway")

Today was the day, the day that would change her life forever. From the day of her daughter's birth, she knew that she couldn't let her grow up under Emily's eyes. She would not let her daughter attend to functions and other DAR meetings and she would surely under no circumstances marry Christopher. She loved Chris, but during the last year they had become too different. She had to grow up and become an adult, but he was still the spontaneous and unreliable person he was before. This would be the only way to give her daughter a normal life, yes her daughter, not their, hers.

She packed her things, mostly clothes and stuff for Rory. Her parents were on a function this evening, so this night was perfect, but she couldn't just walk out of the door, though. One of their 50,000 maids would certainly notice her.

I've got my things packed

My favorite pillow

Got my sleeping bag

She took her bags and the baby, who was sleeping in the car seat. Her beautiful daughter, she gave her the strength to take this step. While she was standing on the balcony, she took one last look at her room and she remembered all the nights she spend in her bed, crying herself to sleep. She closed her eyes for a moment and made slowly her way down the balcony.

"Ok, not as easy as I thought it would be." She said to herself.

Climb out the window

All the pictures and pain

I left behind

All the freedom and fame

While she walked down the driveway she wondered how long it would take them to find the note she had left on her fresh made bed. After all the things they've said to each other, would they even care that she's gone?

"That doesn't matter anymore!" she said confirmingly.

The only thing that would matters now is where her running away would take her. Yes, she was running away from home, from this life of controlling, the hypocrisy, the functions, but mostly from her parents.

And I wonder

How long it'll take them to notice that I'm gone

And I wonder

How far it'll take me

All these things, they just weren't Lorelai; she never liked any one of them. Why couldn't her parents just understand that? She had tried again and again to explain to them, that she didn't want to marry Chris, or become something in the DAR. But her parents kept talking about the 'right thing to do'.

"To hell with the right thing to do!" Lorelai kept saying to herself, while she was walking to the nearest bus stop. She would never be the daughter they wanted her to be, she would never fit into this world and this is why the only option she had left was to run away and start all over again.

To run away

It don't make any sense to me

Run away

This life makes no sense to me

Run away

And that was what she was about to do, when she entered the bus.

"One ticket please to wherever this bus drives to." She said, hiding her insecurity.

The driver had surely given her an odd look when he saw the young girl with all the bags and a small bundle what seemed to be a baby, but he didn't say anything and gave her the ticket. It was late and he just wanted to do his job.

When Lorelai took a seat in the back of the bus, she placed Rory on the seat beside her and stared out of the window. A single tear rolled down her cheek. Now sitting in the bus, she suddenly realized she had nowhere to go, she had no friend where she could crash and so she would have to take the last stop of the bus.

I might have nowhere left to go

But I know that I can not go home

But then seeing her daughter's face, seeing Rory smile made it all worth it and she knew she had to do this.

"You'll help me to survive this, right?" she asked her with a small smile, while she brushed away the tear with her thumb and Rory just giggled.

"We'll proof them all wrong and we will chase the rainbow in our mind." She put her index finger in the palm of Rory's hand and she grabbed it. Now Lorelai's smile widened.

"Yes we will." She said almost inaudible.

These words are strapped inside my head

Tell me to run before I'm dead

Chase the rainbows in my mind

And I will try to stay alive

Maybe the world will know one day

Why won't you help me run away

40 minutes later the bus stopped at its final destination and the driver turned to face Lorelai. During the drive he had looked more than once to Lorelai and he'd wondered what it was with the young one that kept him looking at her. Somehow he knew that she was going through a very rough time.

"This is the last stop, kid." He told her softly.

"Where are we?" Lorelai asked while she pulled her stuff together and lifted Rory's car seat.

"This is Stars Hollow, a small but very charming little town."

"Is there a chance you know a place where I could stay, a hotel maybe?"

"I remember a sign of an Inn somewhere around here."

"Ok thanks." And with that she left the bus.

"Are you sure you're gonna be ok, kid?" he asked her a bit concerned.

"We will be." Lorelai assured him and then turned and started walking.

The driver just nodded at her response and then closed the door. She walked around town for a while and like the driver said it was really small town. Seriously, it was so small you could take three lefts and you'd be back where you started. So it didn't take her long to find the Inn.

"The Independence Inn". "Looks nice, doesn't it?" she said to her daughter. She was standing in front of the building, Rory in one hand, their bags in the other.

"This will be our first attempt to start all over again." She said reassuring herself

I could sing for change

On a Paris street

Be a red light dancer

In New Orleans

I could start again

She finally went inside and was standing in the lobby when an older woman approached her.

"Can I help you?" she asked the young lady and looked at her carefully.

"I'm here for a job, any job and a place to stay for a while." Lorelai answered with full self-esteem and a 'who-cares-look' in her eyes.

The older Woman was clearly surprised by the girl's appearance. "Do you have any work experience?"

"No, but I learn fast and I'm willing to work hard."

"Well, you can work as a maid for me and I have an old potting shed. It's not much, but it should be enough." The woman had no reason to hire the girl, but she did it anyway.

"Thank you, my name is Lorelai by the way", Lorelai said relieved and happily "and this is Rory." She looked at the car seat in her hand.

A while later she had made herself and Rory comfortable in the shed.

"This is where we're gonna live." She picked her out of the car seat and started to show her everything. "Look our own bed and there is our own bathroom." Rory smiled, but then soon began to yawn. "Oh are you sleepy sweets? Yes it was a long day", she said with a soft voice and made Rory ready for bed. "Sleep tight sweetie." Then she kissed her forehead. After that Lorelai made herself ready for bed and while she was looking at the ceiling she thought of her parents again. Soon she would contact them and tell them that she had found a place to live and after that she would keep the contact to a minimum, because Emily would sure try to convince her to come back, or force her way into her new life.

I could change my name

Come and go as I please

In the dead of night

You'll wonder where I've gone

Lorelai would try to prevent this under all circumstances, because that was exactly the reason why Lorelai had to run, Emily's habit of controlling her daughter. She just couldn't accept that Lorelai didn't want to be like her, that she wanted her own life far away from her controlling parents.

I could change my name

Come and go as I please

In the dead of night

You'll wonder where I've gone

Wasn't it you

Wasn't it you

Wasn't it you that made me run away

From tomorrow on she would have a new life. And she had found it in a small town named Stars Hollow. From tomorrow on she'd work as a maid, again something that Emily wouldn't approve, but Lorelai would never be the perfect girl her mother wanted her to be.

From tomorrow on Lorelai would live her own life together with her daughter and she would chase the rainbows in her mind.

Sooo…? Tell me whatcha think! Should I continue or should I stop altogether? Please R&R

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