SUMMARY: After leaving for eight months, Tristan comes back home from War to find his Mary with a surprise and missing him.
PAIRING: Trory, like I'd actually consider doing anything else!
RATING: PG-13…I think.
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Rory finished her last class that winter while Tristan still studied like crazy but was ahead of his whole class because of his efforts. By the end of the summer, Tristan only had a year and a half to go through. The teachers saying if he worked hard enough, he could get it done in a little more then a half a year. Rory was a fulltime mom and surprisingly loved it. Finally a little more then a year passed making it January 9th. A neighbor that Rory and Tristan liked very much had offered to watch Josh so Rory and Tristan could have some alone time. Rory was dropping him off.
'Okay umm, if you need anything you know our number, umm, Josh should be put to be around 7 or 8 and if he wakes—"
""Rory?" Mrs. Evans asked.
"Yea?"
"I had children too! They're just grown up."
"I know. Thanks again for doing this."
"Sure, he's a sweetie."
"Yea he is, but we're keeping him."
"Oh if you must!" the two woman smiled.
"Diapers are—"
"I can do this."
"Right."
"I'll see you on the 11th!"
"It's so far away."
"Anytime, you can call."
"I know."
"Have a good night Rory."
"Thanks Mrs. Evans, you too." Rory kissed her son goodbye and ran to the house where Tristan was setting up and finishing making dinner. She slipped inside and immediately smelt the delicious smell of dinner. She walked into the kitchen and saw him stirring a pot.
"I wont see my son for a whole day and a half!" Rory complained. Tristan looked up and turned off the stove heat. He walked over to her and put his arms around her waist allowing her to lean back in his arms.
"But it'll go by so quickly."
"How do you figure that?"
"Oh I can think of a few ways."
"Not tonight." She said getting out of his grasp and walking o see if he finished her started dinner correctly. Tristan looked at her confused.
"Babe, you okay?" he asked.
"Oh, uh yea." She said putting it on plates and bringing it to the table. They both sat down and started to eat.
"So what should we do tomorrow?" she asked.
"Tomorrow is a special day." He said smiling.
"So we have to do something special!"
"Yea. So when would like your gift?" he asked.
"Gift?" she asked brightly.
"Yea."
"When I give you mine!"
"Which is when?"
"Umm…tonight!"
"Okay." They finished dinner and went their own ways to get each other's present. They met up in the living room and both sat down.
"So you want your present first?" Tristan asked.
"Yea!" Tristan handed her the two neatly wrapped boxes. She eagerly opened the bigger one. The box said 'Victoria Secret' on it. She opened it and took out a silk bathrobe and a sexy over revealing nightgown.
"Nice Tristan, so when our son finds this, what will we say?"
"Rory, he's only 13 months!"
"I'd just rather not have it." She said putting it completely back in the box. She opened the other one. The small box had some kind of local store name on it. She opened it and gasped. It was a tennis bracelet, with diamonds going all the way around the band.
"Tristan, can we afford this?"
"Don't worry about it, we have enough money."
"Thank you so much Tristan! I love it all…well except the one thing. She gave him a quick hug and handed him his gift. He smiled and opened it. It had many small gifts inside. One was the first time they kissed in college in a beautiful frame, another gift was a tie that had little stethoscopes on it and the last gift was 2 pairs of jeans, four shirts, and a sweatshirt.
"Thanks Rory, I love it all…a lot." She smiled at this and allowed him to kiss her but broke it off before it became too intense.
"What's wrong?" Tristan asked,
"Nothing, can we just watch a movie?"
"Okay, you can pick." Rory picked Dr. Dolittle II. The two fell asleep on the couch, waking up only the next morning. Rory was the first to wake. She kissed his forehead and got up going to the bathroom quickly. Tristan started to stir no longer feeling Rory's warmth. He woke up to find her gone.
"Rory?" he called. He heard her muffled reply coming from the bathroom. She came out and smiled slightly before turning away. Tristan turned her to him.
"Happy Anniversary, Mary." He said tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Happy Anniversary." She said then walked away. Tristan let it slide a little longer. He made some coffee and handed her a mug before pouring himself some too.
"Thanks." She said as she sipped out of her mug.
"Mhmmm. So today is the day we got married…2 years ago! I think we should celebrate in the bedroom." He said seductively.
"Uh, it's kinda early." She said making an excuse.
"That's not true! It's never too early!"
"I say there is."
"How about later?" he asked.
"I don't know. I'm not really in the mood anyway."
"Then let's make out.' He suggested, seeing how far he could push her.
"A good morning kiss would be fine." he took what he could get but tied to make it more by deepening the kiss only to have Rory pull away. He looked at her funny and lifted her onto the counter.
"Talk.' He demanded.
"It looks so wintry outside."
"You know what I meant!"
"So what do you want me to tell you?"
"Why you're acting so strange would be nice!"
"Look, I—' Saved by the phone. Tristan sighed and picked it up. While Tristan was on the phone, Rory quietly slipped away to the bathroom and slid to the floor crying. About 20 minutes later, Tristan found her. Immediately he went to her side and took her in his arms.
"Baby's, what's wrong?"
"Today is our anniversary!"
"I know, so why are you sad?"
"Because we're supposed to have sex and spend all day making out and whispering dirty things in each others ears!"
"Rory you've seen 'Just Married'! We don't have to do any of that stuff. There's no law that says you have to make out and have sex on your anniversary."
"I know but I want to! My hormones are just everywhere!" she wasn't crying anymore, but she was sniffing back her tears.
"What do you mean?"
"You know, one moment I'm happy the next I want to kill something."
"You've never wanted to kill me though, right?"
"Only ravish you." She said blushing.
"Then be my guest." He smirked.
"I can't. Not now at least."
"You don't have your cycle now do you? You told me you wouldn't get it for another four days."
"I can't."
"Yes you can, you haven't stopped yet, and you're way to young."
"August." She said simply.
"Okay, you've lost me."
"Our lives will be a little different in August, at least the later parts."
"Rory that's," he calculated it in his head, "8 months from now."
"So?"
"How can you be so sure—" he stopped and gave her an unidentifiable expression.
"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked.
"I couldn't."
"Why?"
"Because you have midterms next week and you have to study for them and stuff!" he thought about it then spoke thinking out loud.
"So you couldn't tell me or wouldn't tell me?"
"Kinda both, Tristan don't be mad!"
"I'm not, I just wish you would have told me. I mean this is big and it killed me to see you acting so strangely."
"I'm sorry."
"I know but I don't want you to worry about me. I'm doing really well and the professor wants me to intern at the hospital as my final. Rory if I do well, I may be done school!"
"Wow!"
"Yea, so don't worry about me!"
"I wanted to tell you so badly."
"When did you find out?"
"Last week."
"Wow. So we're really doing this again."
"Yup and Josh will get a playmate!"
"Next time, if there is one, tell me immediately or even if you suspect it! I already missed out on most of your pregnancy with Josh."
"Forgive me?" she pleaded.
"Yea just as long as we can leave the bathroom." She laughed and he helped her up and led her to the living room. She didn't sit down but turned around and hugged him. He smiled and happily hugged her back. She pulled away slightly and happily kissed Tristan letting her self get carried away with his intoxicating kiss. He lowered them to the couch and leaned on top of her. He broke away.
"It's amazing what talking can do!" she smacked him lightly.
"What? It's true. Not even 30 minutes you would barely let me touch you and now we're kissing on the sofa, a sofa in which so much has happened before." She blushed but he kissed it away.
"I'm hungry." She stated.
"Well I can't let you starve…especially not now!" she smiled and ruffled his hair.
"No, not the hair!" he joked.
"Then get me food."
"How about we go get some bagels?"
"And coffee?"
"One cup."
"Three!"
"One."
"Two?"
"One."
"No fair!"
"Rory, your pregnant! I don't want all of our kids to have coffee addicts."
"We'll discuss this at a later time." Rory concluded. Tristan snorted. They quickly got dressed and drove to the small bagel shop in the middle of Hartford. They walked in.
"I know what I want." Rory said.
"Okay, I'm just gonna check the menu." He said walking a few feet away.
"Yea, can I have a, hmm plain bagel with whipped cream and chocolate chips?"
"And to drink miss?"
"One cup—" she looked around, "three cups of coffee."
"Anything else?"
"Yea, Tristan, ready?"
"Yea." He came over.
"I'll have a poppy bagel with cream cheese and one coffee."
"Is this for here or to go?"
"Here."
"Alright, here are your four coffee cups."
"We only need two—"
"Thank you!" Rory said smiling and taking the four cups. Tristan rolled his eyes and paid. He walked over to the coffee station and whispered in her ear.
"You're a bad girl." She laughed and walked away from him bumping into a woman missing her with a spilled coffee by a few inches.
"I'm sorry." She apologized.
"It's okay. Rory?"
"You know me?" Rory asked. Tristan walked over to them.
"Yea, it's Jessica. Jessica Lopez." Rory thought and smiled.
"Oh my god!" Rory said.
"It's been a while, huh?" Jessica said laughing.
"Yea, what tenth grade?"
"Must've been!" Tristan nudged her with his elbow.
"Oh umm Jessica, this is Tristan, Tristan this is Jessica. Jessica went to Stars Hollow High." They shook hands.
"SO how did you know each other on 10th grade?" Tristan asked.
"I was there for about two weeks before Chilton."
"Oh yea."
"45!" a worker called.
"Oh, that's us. I'll go." Tristan said excusing himself.
"So how are you?" Jessica asked.
"I'm actually really good, how about you?"
"Doing good."
"Good."
"So why were you walking so fast?" she asked Rory.
"He wouldn't let me get more then one cup of coffee."
"What? Why?"
"Because I'm not 'allowed' too says Dr. Tristan."
"Hey!" Tristan said setting down the bagels on a nearby table.
"Fine, Dr. Dugrey. Happy?" Rory said.
"For now." Rory snorted.
"Hey Jessica would you like to join us?"
"Oh I'm actually waiting for a friend."
"Wait with us then." Rory suggested. Jessica nodded and sat down with them
"So how's school?" Rory asked,
"Good. Tristan where do you go?"
"Yale's medical school."
"Oh okay, and Rory I haven't seen you at Yale."
"Yea I'm actually doing some at home courses so I can spend time with my family."
"Oh okay. You live off campus right?"
"Yea me and Tristan live about 10 minutes."
"Cool."
"So, Jessica what are you majoring in?" Tristan asked.
"Law."
"That's tough."
"Yea."
"Now you live on campus?" Rory asked. She nodded.
"Yea Rory and I only had to deal with that for a little while. We got a joint dorm at first and then after we got married we moved off campus."
"Oh…you're married?"
"Yea."
"So young?"
"Well love is unpredictable."
"Yea well at least you don't have kids. Wait a little longer, you know? Settle into married life." Rory and Tristan looked down.
"Oh no, I said something wrong!"
"I'm just pregnant, that's all and we have a one year old at a baby sitter's house."
"Oh, well you know with everyone it's different. I didn't mean to offend you."
"It's okay."
"So that's why you can't have coffee." Jessica said now realizing it.
"Yup, that would be why."
"Oh there's my friend. Well it was nice to see you again Rory, and nice to meet you Tristan."
"Same here." She got up and walked over to a girl standing in line. Rory and Tristan were done eating. Rory looked like her head was in space.
"Baby, you okay?" She snapped back to reality.
"Yea."
"Okay." It was quiet.
"We're so young."
"Okay, we're not old." He said slowly.
"I'm not even 23 and I'm going to have another baby."
"You think we're to young?"
"You don't find it weird?" Tristan sighed. He knew this would come up eventually.
"Rory, I love my life."
"I do too but—"
"No as long as you're happy, nothing else matters." Rory frowned. "Can we at least enjoy today?" he asked hopefully. She nodded.
"Where too?" she asked.
"You wanna go bowling?" he asked smirking.
"Bowling?" she asked not comprehending it.
"Yea."
"I…can't bowl—you know that." She said.
"I'll help you." She mumbled something but gave in. He smiled and held open the door for her. About 20 minutes later they arrived at the Bowling Lanes. They were directed to a lane, lane 6. They put their shoes on and started to bowl, Rory going first. Rory threw her ball down. It went 10 feet before it went into the gutter. She frowned.
"Just try again." He encouraged. This time she accidentally threw it right into the gutter. Tristan laughed quietly.
"Okay Mr. Hot shot, let's see what you've got." Rory said sitting down. Without much effort, Tristan bowled a strike. He turned around to see Rory's wide eyes.
"How…how'd you do that?" she complained.
"Come." He said/ She took her ball and went to stand next to Tristan. He brought her in front of him and brought her against himself. He guided her hand and told her to let go. She managed to knock down 7 pins. He then helped her once more making her get an 8 in total. She smiled.
"I did it!" she said excitedly. He just nodded on agreement. Tristan bowled a 9-1 spare. This went on for the rest of the game. Finally Rory started to complain of boredom.
"I wanna go now!" she complained.
"Okay, we each have one more turn though." Rory frowned and looked at the screen. She got up and pushed a ball down the gutter, then proceeded to do it again before Tristan stood up and stopped her. She managed to get another one down the gutter without his interfering. He just gave up and allowed her to finish it off. They started to walk out hand in hand.
"Good game Mary." He said. She stuck her tongue out at him. He wrapped his arms around her as they continued out into the cold snowy air.
Way to long since I've updated this story! Umm so yea, I'm going to be continuing Time. I just don't have an inspiration right now for this story. Please review, thank you.
BETA ALERT: If you're interested in being my beta when I do my next story (not sure if I'll use an already started one or not) lemme know. You're not committed to anything if you say you're interested. Just so I know who to send an email about it. Thanks, Kiki.