The Past Always Returns Pt 6
by Curlsue24
Curlsue24@aol.com

Here's part six, if you haven't read the rest, it's in the archives. I hope you like....

..She hugged Christopher, and whispered in his ear 'thank you', he shook his head not understanding why she was thanking him, but she knew. He gave her the world, he gave her Rory...

Lorelai came out of her bathroom looking at the positive test she held in her hand. There was a knock at the door and she dropped the test.

"Lorelai, dinner! Come down."

"Uh yeah, uh okay Mom." Lorelai was on the floor looking under her bed for the test. She picked it up and laid down on her bed. She took a pillow clutched it to herself and cried.

"Lorelai! Dinner! Now!" Emily yelled up the stairs.

"Coming, Mom." Lorelai wiped the tears from her eyes, trudged downstairs, and sat at the dining table.

Richard sensed something wrong, "Lorelai, are you okay? You've been crying."

"Oh, uh, I stubbed my toe on my bedpost." Lorelai picked up a fork and looked at her plate of food, but laid her fork back down. "You know, with all this excitement, I mean with the dress and everything, I'm not really hungry. Is it okay if I go to my room and start on my homework?"

Richard looked at her and said, "Sure Lor, I guess that would be allright."

Lorelai stood up, "Thank You, uh, I'm sorry about dinner and everything." She walked upstairs and to her bedroom. In her room, she grabbed her coat and climbed out of her bedroom. She had to tell Christopher.

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Christopher was dancing around his room, listening to his walkman, singing "Born To Run", when Lorelai climbed into his window unnoticed by Christopher. She walked behind him and tapped his shoulder. He jumped a mile and turned around. "Lorelai, you scared the shit out of me." Christopher pulled his headphones off. Lorelai sunk to his bed and started to cry. Christopher sat down next to her and brushed his hand through her hair trying to calm her down.

"Hey Lor, what's wrong? Did another one of the Beatles die?" Lorelai shook her head no, mumbling, "I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry," over and over, and crying even more. Christopher kept trying to calm her down, but when that wouldn't work he tried a whole new approach.

"LORELAI! What the Hell is wrong with you?!" Christopher shook her trying to get her to calm down.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? I'm pregnant that's what's wrong and here you are asking me if I'm upset over the death of the fucking Beatles." Lorelai stopped her aggressive rambling and sat back down on the bed. Then she calmly said, "I'm, she paused, "I'm upset over the death of my childhood." Lorelai started to cry again. "I can't take care of a child. I can't be a mom."

Christopher was completely taken aback. "Whoa. A baby." He thought for a second, "You know you don't have to be a mom Lorelai. You could give the kid up for adoption, or I hate to say it, you could have an abortion."

"I don't know, I guess you're right. We shouldn't be parents, not now anyway. Maybe we should have an abortion." Lorelai wiped her tears away from her eyes, Christopher sat down next to her and hugged her.

Okay, tomorrow instead of going to school, I'll drive you to a clinic in Bridgeport. Okay Lorelai? It's going to be allright." Lorelai gave him a hug and stood up.

"I better go home now." Lorelai walked to his window and climbed out.

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She climbed into her balcony window with a look of shellshock on her face. The day was hell and Lorelai didn't know how to take it.

"Lorelai." She looked up to see her father sitting on her bed.

"I thought you said you would never do this again."

Lorelai's heart sunk, " I know I did Dad, but I really had to see Christopher. It was important."

"What was so important?"

"I... I can't tell you Dad." Lorelai sat down next to him.

"Fine, I'll give you one more chance, but don't do it again. Lorelai because I want to trust you." Richard gave his daughter a small hug and left her room. Lorelai sat at her window sill and looked out at the stars and cried.

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Lorelai pace back and forth in front of the high school waiting for Christopher to arrive. She saw his car pulling on to the street and she ran to it. He opened the door and she got in as it reached the front of the school. There, in the car, they sat for awhile. Their silence was interrupted.

"Lorelai are you sure this is what you want to do?"

"I don't know, I can't be a mother but I think I have feelings for this child."

There was another pause of silence. "I can't do it." Lorelai sobbed, jumped out of the car and ran into the school.

Christopher got out of the car and ran into the school after her. He say her crying, gathering books out of her locker. He walked up to her.

"I can't, I can't."

Christopher hugged and rocked her. "It's okay. I didn't want you to have an abortion. Now we can raise our child and maybe get married."

Lorelai pulled away. "What did you say?"

"Come on, Lor, you know what I said, Will you marry me?"

With Lorelai's look of shock, the bell rang.

"Chem, I gotta go." Lorelai ran off to class, leaving Christopher standing alone in the middle of the hall.

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Lorelai arrived home with blood shot eyes. She had avoided Christopher all day at school. Now she had to tell her parents that their Camelot was scorned, their daughter was pregnant with an illegitimate child. She opened the door, dropped her bookbag at the coatrack and ran to her room. She only had a couple of hours left until she was going to turn the Gilmores upside-down.

END PART 6