Hey beautiful people this is a new one. Rory has been brought up as a semi-socialite. Her and Lorelai are still the same and whatever but they do go to more parties and regularly see the Hayden's. What happens when Rory escapes from a party to talk to Tristan and runs into Finn sneaking drinks out of her grandparents kitchen.

Big shocker here people - I own nothing.

Suitable suitors.

Rory sat smiling in a suitable dress holding a suitable conversation in suitable company. That was until her phone rang. She smiled apologetically and ducked out of the Hayden's ballroom before flipping her phone open she answered to find it was Tristan. She smiled and sunk to the floor "shouldn't you be here to smile at all the petty ladies and save me from all the suitable suitors?" she hadn't paid attention to the place she was in and so didn't know that there were a pair of males watching her as the hair fell in front of her face as she laughed and exclaimed "dirty!" the two boys holding bottles of champagne were still there a minute later when she hung up and bothered to look around and realize she was in the corridor between the kitchen and the ballroom. She also noticed the two boys. Diverting eye contact she stood and brushed off her outfit, repositioned her shawl and then smiled at the two of them. "Hello love. I'm Finn Morgan at your service. This is Colin Mcrae."

"Rory"

"Well kitten – do you make habit of getting lost in large houses to talk to the boyfriend?"

She chuckled "he's not my boyfriend"

"ahh….well from memory the door to your left will lead you back to the hellish boredom of being dragged around to acceptable suitors and old clientele and connections of your family." he took a step closer and smirked as he saw her eyes roll "however for something a little more….boisterous…a little more risqué….and may I suggest actually fun."

Colin sniggered and Finn added "well as much fun as there is to have in the place of Francine and Straub walk this way."

At this Rory chuckled and with both sets of eyes on her she raised an eyebrow "so tell me more about this fun?" she asked as she looped arms with him and slipped her mobile phone away.

They walked up the stairs and after few minutes the boys paused Rory laughed slightly "lost?"

"No kitten! Were not lost…just cant remember which way we want to turn" Finn mumbled unwrapping his arm from hers and hanging it around her waist.

She smiled "so where are we going?"

Colin turned and, with his nose still in the air he looked at her briefly "we're fine."

Rory's smile became Tristan's smirk but she didn't say anything other than "ok"

Her phone rang again. Sighing she flipped it back opened "hello this is Rory?" she smiled "I thought you were out getting laid or something to avoid this party– why are you calling me again Tristan?" she sighed "its quiet because I'm no longer downstairs. An Australian and his friend are taking me to a sub party but they got lost. However I am away from the suitable suitors."

Tristan smirked on the other side of the phone "you're lost at the Hayden's?"

"Them not me."

"Do they know who you are? Do they understand you've known your way around that house since you were five?"

"Neither." Rory replied as they wandered around another corner with Colin in the lead and Finn still by her side.

"And what mar? You didn't feel the need to say hey tell me what the room looks like and I'll tell you where, on this side the equator it is?"

"Hmm considered it….maybe when my feet get sore."

Tristan chuckled and after goodbyes they hung up.

She turned back to Finn "sorry he just needed to run something past me about the weekend."

"That's ok love. Your back to talking to me now so I feel a lot less neglected."

She smiled and chuckled slightly "well I doubt ET will call back so ill keep neglect to a minimum where ever possible."

They turned another corner and Rory turned her attention to Colin "ok…hmm. Are you sure you know where you are going? Because-"

She was cut off by a slight glare and a triumphant "ahuh!" as Colin strode a few steps forward and opened a door to reveal another half a dozen people.

After few minutes Rory was sitting comfortably by Finn who had just passed her a champagne when a blonde came in a and slouched between herself and Colin and huffed. Finn lent over and passed her a drink "what's wrong?"

"I can't get any food for us."

Logan lent over from across from them "I thought you had it set? You disappeared ages ago."

She sighed dramatically. "You cant get food out of that kitchen."

Rory bit her lip and mumbled a meek "I can." Into her glass.

Steph turned and smiled slightly in a somewhat doubtful and somewhat intrigued voice she questioned Rory who in turn just shrugged "I can get food out of that kitchen."

"How? I've been doing this for years."

Rory nodded and stood up "ill need an extra set of hands or two and any preferences we have?"

Five minutes later Rory was standing outside the kitchen with Finn, looking in through the jarred door for a few seconds before she ducked in and left Finn standing there. After another few moments she reappears and passes serving trays to Finn and puts another on the side table beside him "will we need more bubbly anytime soon also?"

"There are never too many drinks. How much will you need for them?" he asked pulling out a money clip.

"How much?"

"Nothing comes free and silently from society's maids. And I for one kitten would rather silently than free."

"I don't need money."

Finn watches in awe as she disappears for another second or two reappearing with another three champagne bottles. As there climbing the steps again Finn comments "so Steph's been doing this for …. years now. It took Colin and me a good part of our pockets to get what we got. How did you do that?"

She shrugged as they turned another corner, her a half a step ahead as they balance bottles and serving trays. "It's a gift."

He leaned in suggestively "does that include sexual favors for the help because really I see no other way to work so smoothly and I kind of like the idea of you doing something that dirty."

She chuckled slightly as she stood with her back to the door "sorry Finn – no sexual favors tonight." She revealed before walking into the room backwards and flashing a Tristan smirk.