Chapter 4
After driving for a while, they finally got back to Rory and Lorelai's house. He parked on their drive and getting out to go around to Rory's side. He carefully opened her door and picked her up bridal style.
He carried her to her front door placing her carefully on the sofa that was on their porch whilst getting the spare keys out of the turtle. Picking her up again, bringing her inside seeing the familiar house.
Carrying her to her room, seeing the door open and sighing in contentment when he saw her room, which now had a double bed instead of a single in it.
He placed her lightly on the bed and moved the blanket over the top of her. He looked around her room, looking for makeup wipes to wipe off her makeup so she doesn't wake up with makeup on her pillow.
He went over to her dressing table and saw pictures taped to her mirror. There were pictures of her and Lane when they were little and pictures of her and Lorelai.
One picture, that was framed and on her dressing table, caught his attention. It was of him and Rory at the Chilton Prom. He smiled at the memory, looking over at Rory seeing her smiling in her sleep.
He quickly spotted the wipes and he walked towards Rory. He took some out and started to wipe Rory's makeup off carefully. She stirred a little and opened her eyes seeing Dean's face.
"Hey, what are you doing?" She asked her voice croaky.
"I'm wiping your makeup off so it doesn't get on your pillow." Dean tells a groggy Rory.
"Aww you're the best, I love you Dean." She says falling back asleep.
He smiles at this. "I love you too Rory." He finished wiping her makeup off. He took his jacket off and sat in her chair and put his jacket over him, not wanting to leave Rory on her own.
In the middle of the night, Dean gets awoken by footprints running out the room. Looking up, Dean notices Rory isn't in bed anymore.
He jumps up and runs towards the bathroom hearing Rory's whimpers as she throws up. He quickly holds her hair back, rubbing her back in circles.
Once she stopped, Dean flushed the toilet and gets Rory a glass of water from the kitchen.
She starts to cry. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm such a mess." Dean kneels, lifting his hand to wipe her tears away.
"You are not a mess Rory. You were having fun and got drunk that's all." Dean says trying to calm her down.
"I wasn't having fun; I wanted to get drunk to forget you!" She sobs loudly.
Dean pulls her into his chest and cradles her until she finally falls asleep again.
He picks her up and places her back on her bed. He starts to make his way back to the chair when he feels a hand touch his hand.
"Lay with me please?" Rory begs Dean, tugging on his hand.
Dean thought about his wife, when he suddenly thought 'why not? She's cheating on me anyways.'
He walked around to the other side of her bed and climbed in next to her, kicking his shoes off beforehand.
She turned around and lay on his chest. He placed his arm around her waist and they fell asleep. They stayed in that same position all night.
Once Lorelai got home she burst through the door, immediately going towards Rory's room to check if she was okay. When she saw Rory and Dean cuddled together, she knew she was in safe hands so she went up to bed herself.