Summary: A week in the life of the Gilmore Girls.
Rating: PG
Content: A tragedy, friendship and pain.
Pairing: Lorelai, Rory, Paris, Tristin, Emilie and Richard
Disclaimer: None of the characters used belong to me, no profit is made from this stories and no infringement is intended.
All feedback can be sent to me at: Dphoenix@videotron.ca, this is my first real attempt at a big story / fanfic! as always sorry for errors in spelling.
And What If
By
Andre Tetreault
dphoenix@videotron.ca
Foreword
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I hope you enjoy this story, I might not have all the characters personality, exactly right but you will get the idea, and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
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This story takes place a couple of weeks after the New Year and it is a tragedy.
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I don't own the Gilmore Girls characters Amy Sherman-Palladino, Dorothy Parker Drank Here productions, and the WB do. No copywright infringement intended.
Started on the 12 January 2001
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Chapter 1
Monday
Everything started well enough for Rory this Monday morning. She got up, put her pink robe on, stepped into her matching slippers and went through the door into the kitchen. Seeing her mother dressed in a blue robe siting at the table eating toast with jam and drinking coffee, she sat next to her smiled and took one of her toast and started eating it. Lorelai filled another cup with coffee and passed it to her beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter, both of them smiled at each other. A bit later they started getting dressed for the day, both of them checked each other out to make certain everything was ok and in no way out of place. Then proceded to leave the house. When Rory got to the bus stop, she sat on the wooden bench waiting for the one guy who makes her happy. She took out of her backpack a book of poetry and continued reading from where she had left off. A few moments later, a young man of about seventeen stood in front of her blocking the sun. And looking down at her, a smile on his face. She stared back at him smiling and seeing in his eyes the love and devotion all women wish for and a willingness to die for her.
"Hey there beautiful what are you reading, today" Dean says with a small smile.
"It's a book on poetry, my grandfather got it for me in Hamburg" looking at the book and feeling the antique binding and cover with her fingers.
Dean sits next to her on the bench and starts to kiss her as she starts to respond to his caresses the bus arrives and she has to go. She had to leave for school.
Arriving at Chilton, and looking at the old grey stoned building, giving her the impression of an ancient european castle, and with the gargoyles on top of the buildings giving her a feeling of being watched, the only thing missing would be, a hunchback in the bell tower. Smiling at herself and thinking back to the first day, here at Chilton Prepatory School, when her mother made a comment about the hunchback. Going through the doors, she went up the stairs to the second floor towards her locker and got ready for English class with Mr. Medina. Naturally, when she got to class, Paris was there smilling at her while talking to Madeline and Louise, Rory sat at her place and Tristin Du Grey entered the room.
"Hello Mary"
"My name is Rory, not Mary" she responds.
"Yes, but you look like a Mary to me", he rebukes.
"What do you want Tristin?" she asks with her cold blue eyes staring at him.
Tristin opened his mouth to say something, but by the way she was looking at him, he reconsidered. He then scowled at her and left for his desk, angry at the way she could make him feel nervous, uneasy and full of doubts.
"What's wrong with you! He's trying to be nice, why can't you be nice to him?" Paris asks.
"He's not being nice, he's insulting", Rory snaps back.
"But he still is cute", responds Paris.
"Not by any of my standards", says Rory.
Mr. Medina enters the classroom and everybody gets ready for class.
"Hello students, I hope you had a nice weekend," he says with a smile.
"This week, we will be doing a study on male & female relationships, the assignment will be a two student project. I will assign your partners, and both must contribute to the project."
Paris raises her arm in the air.
"Yes, Miss Geller", answers Mr. Medina.
"How many pages must it be?" she asks him.
"Minimum of ten pages. Now, for the assignments, Rory Gilmore with Paris Gellar".
Damn. Rory thought.
While Mr. Medina continued with the assignements, Rory was contemplating a week of hell with Paris.
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Later that day, Rory went through the cafetaria doors, looking into the room: which contained many long tables for the students. Sitting at one of the tables was Paris waiting for Rory to work on the project. She sat with Paris to talk about the work and arrange to distribute it so that they would not have to see each other too much.
"Hello Paris".
"Yeh hi!" answers Paris.
"Ok, lets get this thing done so it doesn't have too last long".
"With pleasure", Paris replies.
While siting in front of Paris, Rory thought about the week before when Paris's parents were having a very public divorce.
"Paris, you know the offer to talk is still open, right" Rory says reluctently.
"Yeh I know. Thanks"
For the next hour, both girls didn't talk much, but work moved at a fast pace. Rory then went to the rest of her classes, to finish the day at Chilton.
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Later on the bus ride home, Rory was silently thinking about what to to about Dean's birthday on Saturday. What should she buy him? A book or some type of jewelery or maybe something for his bike. Maybe Lane could help me with this one? Looking out the window of the bus, she observes the trees and farmland go by, more trees than farmland. Once at Stars Hollow she went to see Lane.
"Lane", after entering the antique store.
"Here", answers Lane.
"Where's here?", replies Rory.
"Near the kitchen".
After getting to the kitchen.
"Hi there! How are you?", asks Rory.
"Oh Fine, my mother got me diet food again, very high fiber, tastes like paper".
"Poor you, here take this", Rory hands a chocolat bar to her friend.
"Don't let my mother see you with this! Remember last time, she called it devil food"
"Yeh, I remember, I also said with a caramel middle".
"So how was your day at Chilton Rory?"
"I got paired with Paris, for a project".
"How did it go, did you get in a fight with her?" she smiles and laughs.
"No we just did the work as fast as possible so it wouln't take too long. Let's do our homework, ok?"
"Sure", Lane says with a smile.
An hour goes by and Rory looks up from her history book and says, "I have to buy a gift for Dean, but I don't know what to get him."
"How about a leather jacket, that would be cool"
"Yeh right where would I get the money for that"
"Maybe you could ask Lorelai, or you could buy something small but romantic"
"Mom would probably give me the money, but I know that were not rich, so I'll go with something smaller, but what"
"Maybe a bracelet with your name on it"
"Maybe... We'll see" looking at Lane and smiling.
"Oh I got to go, have to meet mom at Luke's" Rory then get's up and leaves to meet her mom.
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While walking on the sidewalk through the town of Stars Hollow, she relaxes seeing how peaceful her town was. Nothing big really happened in her town, except that the people here are really weird and bizarre, but that's the charm of the place she thought. Looking at Luke's diner, a brown building of wood with the old hardware store sign still above the door, Rory became nostalgic thinking about all the meals her and her mom ate at this place. It's almost a second home to her, and Luke is like the father she rarely sees. Looking at her watch she says.
"Ho shoot' I'm gonna be late to meet mom" starting to hurry.
Arriving at the diner she sees that customers are coming and going and the restaurent is currently busy. She opens the door and goes in, her mom is siting at the table dressed in her blue suit and matching short skirt, which shows off her legs. And at this moment she is arguing with Luke, who is dressed in a flanel shirt and a pair of jeans, with his reversed baseball cap on his head and as usual they are arguing about coffee. Luke doesn't want to give any to her because he thinks she is addicted to it, wich is probably true anyway, but I won't tell her.
"Come on Luke I need this coffee. You know that it will relax me so I can be human again" smiling up at Luke.
"Like anything can make you human" smiling back.
"Don't you two ever get tired of arguing" Rory replies
"What... and ruin a perfect friendship, not including the fun" Lorelai said with a big smile on face while looking at Luke.
"Grrrrr... Ok so what will it be, the usual"
"Yes please, burgers and fries and don't forget the coffee". Still smiling, she hears him growling while he goes to the kitchen to get their food and coffee.
Rory sits down looks at her mother, then says.
"Mean" while smiling.
Her mother smiles back while singing under her breath, at the same time that she is looking at Luke, waiting for her coffee, Luke arrives and deposites the coffee on the table, Lorelai grabs her cup smells the perfume and smiles.
"Now this is heaven sent"
"Your Sick" answers Luke.
"Yes, but you still like me this way" looking into Luke's eyes.
"Yeh right!" smiling as he leaves for his counter.
Lorelai smiles while watching Luke leave with his face bright red, Rory asks her mother.
"What is going on between you two, mom?" looking at her mother with suspicious eyes.
"Nothing really, we just like to attack each other with words that's all." Trying to look elsewhere.
"To me it's starting to look like foreplay, but if you say so, I'll beleive you" still watching her mothers reactions to her comments.
"So how was school Rory?" changing the subject.
"It was ok, I got paired with Paris for a project."
"I'm so sorry for you honey" smiling at her.
"Ha ha ha very funny, you know that we don't exactely see eye to eye"
"Yes but maybe some good will come from it, maybe you could come to an understanding between the two of you"
"Everything is possible in this little world"
they then proceded to eat their dinner drink some coffee and leave for home, where Lorelai sat on the couch and watched tv while Rory was doing some homework.
END OF PART 1.
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This From a Dedicated Fan of Gilmore Girls
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Andre Tetreault near Montreal
Dphoenix@videotron.ca