"Come on Mary. Do. It."

"No Tristan! It's going to hurt and I'm not physically or emotionally ready!" Rory said moving out of his grasp.

"Oh come on Ror, it's the summer…live a little." Tristan said pushing her back.

"No! I don't want that thing sticking me….who knows where it has been," Rory said with a look of pure disgust on her face as she stared down at the offending object.

"Oh geez, Mar…you offend me…" Tristan huffed in exertion as he looked down at Rory and realized he wasn't getting anywhere, "Do. It."

"Okay…I guess….but you promise it won't hurt?" Rory said looking up at Tristan with her bambi eyes.

"I'm promise you Rory it wont hurt….and if it does I'm pretty sure you can figure out an appropriate punishment." Tristan said winking suggestively at her.

"God damn it Tristan! Why must you change everything we talk about into a sexual innuendo?" Rory said slapping his hands away from her.

"I'm sorry…did you just curse? Oh. My. damn…all hell has broken loose… Rory Gilmore just cursed." Tristan laughed as he put his hands in the pockets of his shorts.

"What are you talking about…I do it all the time."

"Rory, I hate to be the one to break it to you babe, but heck is not a curse word."

"I hate you so fricken much Tristan. Let's just go over to the Henna tattoo station and get this over with." Rory said as she stomped off with a look of determination on her face, leaving a laughing Tristan behind.

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"Oh you got to be kidding me Tristan…there is no way I am getting that put on my lower back." Rory said as she looked at the picture he wanted her to get put onto her back. It was a T with the devil's scepter rapped around it.

"Oh come on Mare, the longest this henna is going to last is two weeks."

"Tristan, I don't know," Rory said uncertainly as she continued to stare down at the picture.

"How about this, if you get that put on your lower back then I will get the name Mary with the bible put on my chest right on my heart…because I love you so much." Tristan said in a dramatic fashion with a slight smirk.

"No you just want a reason to take your shirt off in public." Rory said giving him the signature, Rory Gilmore, "cut the crap" look.

"That too," Tristan replied with a smirk and a shrug. "Come on Rory…Please" He said flashing her his own set of bambi eyes.

"Fine…but I swear to God Tristan if it doesn't come off in two weeks I'll strangle you with my own bear hands,"

"I don't believe you…you wouldn't have the balls to do it."

"Then I'd get Luke to do it,"

"Okay…now that I do believe."

Rory smiled triumphantly as she walked over to pay the person doing the henna's while Tristan waited out side. 10 minutes later Rory came back outside with her blue tank top tied at the middle of her stomach and an uneasy look on her face. "Okay come on babe, let's see it." Tristan said with an excited expression on his face. Oh Lorelei was so going to kill him for this. Without saying a word, Rory turned around allowing him to see the black letter T imprinted on her back with a bright red devil's scepter rapped around it. "Well Mare, I have to say that it suites you rather nice…now everyone can know that you are mine…" Tristan said with a triumphant smirk.

"Little barbaric don't you think? Anyway enough stalling, take your shirt off and let them brand you too." Rory said motioning to the door.

"Who's the one being barbaric now, huh?"

"Oh just get going…I don't have all day." Rory said growing impatient.

The only response she got from Tristan was his signature smirk as he whipped off his shirt and threw it at her. 'God, he really is perfect,' Rory thought as she watched him walked to the henna station.

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"So Ror, now that we have both be successfully branded, what do you want to do next?" Tristan said as they strolled down the boardwalk hand in hand.

"Oh I don't know." Rory said as she eyed everything there was for them to do. "Oh I know! Let's play a game." Rory said as she ran over to the station where you had to nock down the bottles with a baseball. Tristan went to pull out his wallet but Rory stopped him, "Let me try," Rory said taking out her money and paying for three balls. Tristan just stood there with a bemused expression on his face. "Now Rory, are you sure your going to be able to do this?"

"Yes…why wouldn't I be?"

"Well, if I remember correctly, you're not the most athletic person in the world."

"Shut up….I can so do this." Rory said as she picked up the first baseball threw it at the bottles knocking all three down at once. Smiling triumphantly she looked over at Tristan, who was standing there with a stunned expression on his face with his mouth agape. He only snapped out of it when he realized that Rory was standing there waving something pink and fluffy in his face. Only when he focused on it clearly did he realize that it was a big, pink, fuzzy hat, like the one that Pamela Anderson wore at the MTV movie awards. "Merry Christmas Tristan….I won you a present." Rory laughed as she plopped the hat down on Tristan's head.

As they walked down the boardwalk they went past a jewelry store and a necklace caught Rory's eye. It was a silver coffee mug that dangled from a silver chain. "Hold on Tris, mom would love this necklace." Rory said as she picked it up and went to go pay. What she didn't see was that Tristan was buying something as well. Rory waited outside for Tristan to come out and was startled when someone kissed her neck as they placed a necklace around it as well. "Hold still Mare, while I put this on you." Tristan whispered hotly into her ear (sending shivers up her spine) as he clasped a silver butterfly necklace with a blue stone in the middle around her neck.

"Thank you Tristan!" Rory said as she looked down at the necklace and then pecked Tristan on the lips. "I love it."

"Well I'm glad. What do you say we head back to Stars Hallow? It's getting kind of late." Tristan said reaching for her hand.

"Wait! Hold on lets go take pictures in that photo booth so we have something to remember this day by besides a permanent scar on my back from the Henna," Rory said walking over to the photo booth.

"Again with the henna!" Tristan laughed as he followed her over. Both were laughing as they took four pictures in the booth before going out the get them. They laughed even harder when they saw there faces. Two (the first and the last one) were of them kissing, and then the other two Tristan was showing off his henna tattoo and hat while they both made funny faces at the camera or of Rory kissing Tristan's cheek. "Gosh, what an odd pair we make babe." Tristan said ripping the pictures down the middle so that they could both each keep two.

"Yea but we're cute so it's okay." Rory said as they walked back to the car.

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"Fruit of my loins!" Lorelei exclaimed as Tristan and Rory entered the diner, late that afternoon. "Where were you today? I got so worried that I almost sent out a search party."

"Mom I texted you and told you I was going to the beach," Rory said as she and Tristan sat down at the counter.

Lorelei almost spit out her coffee at hearing that her daughter went to the beach, "I thought you were joking. You never want to go to the beach,"

"Well Tristan wanted to go and we had nothing else to do so I figured, why not?" Rory said as Luke poured her some coffee. Before Lorelei could respond the diner door open and the person behind it shouted, "Oh my God, he fuckin branded you Rory!" This made the whole diner turn around and look at what the person was talking about, the henna tattoo on Rory's back.

"Oh shut up Jess. He did not brand me," Rory said untying her shirt and pulling it down.

"If he didn't, then tell me why do you have a tramp stamp?!" Jess said pointing to her lower back.

"Excuse me a what?" Rory said genuinely confused.

"A tattoo or henna on your lower middle back is what a tramp stamp is," Jess said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Jess, are you gay?" Tristan asked.

"No, I've just been around Lorelei too long." Jess said moving behind the counter to serve coffee.

"Same thing," Rory said sipping her coffee. "Hey!" Lorelei and Jess both yelled at the same time. "I resent that Rory," Lorelei said with mock anger.

"Yea seriously Rory, I am not gay," Jess said pouring her more coffee and then moving to fill Lorelei's coup. "Well I don't know about that," Lorelei said to Tristan and Rory as she rolled her eyes at Jess.

"That's it Lore, I'm cuttin you off," Jess said as he threw down the coffee pot out of Lorelei's grasp.

"No! Luke!" Lorelei yelled into the kitchen.

"What Lorelei?" Luke came out spatula in hand looking very confused as to why she was shouting out his name now.

"Do you know what that devil child did you me?!" Lorelei said as she pointing menacingly at Jess.

"What?! What did he do? I swear to God if he hurt you or Rory in any way I'll kill him. Gosh I just knew that his violent tendencies would get out of control. I'm mean Jess seriously can't you at least try to do something good for once?" Luke said looking wearily at Jess as he thought of all the possible things that he could have done now.

"Oh! No its worse, than hurting me or Rory,"

"Jess…You better pray to God that Liz has good health care," Luke said putting both hands on his sides and giving Jess the death glare.

"He cut me off from coffee for good." Lorelei said looking at Luke as though the world was going to end at that moment.

"Oh well in that case…." Luke said looking over at Jess, "Good job, keep up the good work, and take the rest of the night off." Luke finished as if nothing had happened as she walked back into the kitchen to finish up what he was doing.

"Huh," Jess said smirking as he walked towards Lorelei, "Never saw that one comin," Jess laughed as he continued, "You guys want to go see a movie?" Jess said to Rory and Tristan.

"Sure."

"Sounds good."

"Wait! Rory no! Don't leave mommy!" Lorelei pouted as Jess, Tristan and Rory all walked out of the diner laughing.

Lorelei pouted for a moment and then shrugged as she walked behind the counter to pour herself another cup of coffee only to have Luke come out and catch her. "Lorelei! What do you think you are doing?"

"Getting myself a cup of coffee," Lorelei said sitting back down.

"But Jess and I banned you from coffee…It was final,"

"No…he said that he was cutting me off from coffee, implying that he or you would not serve it to me…but he never said that I couldn't pour it myself." Lorelei said holding up her cup, saluting him with it and then drinking up.

"I swear Lorelei, you and your damn logic….it will kill you some day,"

"What? The logic or the coffee?"

"Both."

"Oh well." Lorelei said gathering up her stuff getting ready to leave.

"Unbelievable, I give up."

"Mmmm…taste good." Lorelei said with a smirk as she finished her coffee and headed out the door.