Da Capo Al Fine II
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cassievalentineI know, I know, I posted the first part AGES ago, but no one responded, so what the hell do I care? Gonna try to post a part a week until I'm caught up with what I'm posting at ff.net.
Title Da Capo Al Fine
Season 1
RatingPG-13
Fandom Gilmore Girls
Parings Rory/Dean. Mentions of Lorelai/Chris, hinting towards Lorelai/Luke
****
The number you have dialed has been disconnected. Please hang up and try your call again. If you think you have received this message in error. . .
Lorelai hung up the phone in frustration. His number was out of service. Again. He also wasn’t answering his cell phone and he hadn’t left a forwarding number or address. She tried each number once more before she hung up in frustration.
“Well?” Rory asked when Lorelai finally stormed downstairs.
“I hate that recording a little more every time I hear it,” she grumbled as she flopped down on the couch beside Rory, taking the book from her hands. “I’m bored now.”
“Well,” she said, snatching her book back. “Watch a movie. Watch TV. Follow my example and read a book."
“SUGAH!”
“Oh no,” they both muttered when they heard Babette call out moments before she burst into the house.
“Sugah! Oh, hey Rory. Sugah, are you alright?” she asked as she sat herself between Rory and Lorelai. “I saw Sookie leavin’ earlier today and she wasn’t lookin’ too happy. And she’s usually all smiles when she leaves.”
“Everything’s fine Babette,” she said, smiling and trying to assure her. “She was just tired, we had a long night.”
“Ahhhhh . . . “ she said, with a knowing smile. “The girls will play while the baby is away. Gotcha!” she said, nudging Lorelai with her elbow before standing up suddenly. “Well, carry on then, you two. MOREY! I’M COMIN’ HOME!” she yelled before she took off. Lorelai and Rory both winced at the volume and the door slam.
“You’re going to have to tell them too,” she said, referring to Babette and Miss Patty.
“I know, I know,” she said. “But I should track down your father first.”
“How did you tell him about me?”
“I convinced him to skip 4th period, dragged him into an empty classroom and trapped him.”
“And then?”
“And then I just blurted it out. He was quiet for a moment and then the freak out started,” she said with a smile.
“And you stayed calm?”
“Of course, I had been freaking out for at least a week already, since my debutant dress didn’t fit anymore.” Lorelai looked at Rory and pulled her close. “I shop lifted a test from a small store around the corner from the school and took it between 2nd and 3rd period. I hid it in a tampon wrapper and threw it in the trash.”
“Wow. How very. . . MacGyver of you,” Rory concluded.
“Thanks,” she said with a laugh. “So once again. . .”
“MacGyver marathon? I saw some tapes at the video store.”
“Really? What are we doing standing around here then?” she asked as she jumped up from the couch and grabbed her coat and purse. “Come on, come on, come on!” she called to Rory, clapping her hands to try and make her move faster.
“Hold your horses, missy!” she said as she carefully marked her place in Huck Finn before heading to put it in her room and grab her own coat. “Money?”
“Check!”
“Keys?”
“Check! Let’s go mom,” Lorelai said as she grabbed Rory by the shoulders and steered her out of the house and towards town. “Oh, Luke’s first,” she said as she started to turn.
“Are you supposed to be drinking coffee?”
“You’re no worse for wear, are ya?” Rory shrugged and followed her mother. “Coffee!” she demanded.
“In cups!” Rory tacked on. Luke glanced over at the pair and raised an eye brow at their antics.
“Here or to go?” he asked, pot in hand. The girls looked at each other, considering their options.
“Pre-marathon snack?” Rory asked.
“For here,” Lorelai called as they sat down and took their coats off.
“Cheese burgers?” he asked casually as he filled their cups.
“Yes!”
“No,” they said at the same time. Rory and Luke stared at Lorelai for a moment. “I feel like a change,” she said with a shrug, grabbing a menu. Luke stood at the table still blinking.
“You hate change,” he said calmly. “You hate change so much that you almost cried the last time I changed your furnace filter,” he commented, putting the pot of coffee down on the table and taking a seat. When he looked over at Rory, she grabbed a menu too.
“Some times change is good,” she said with a shrug as she buried her head in it. Luke shook his head and stood up again.
“I guess I’ll come back,” he said, grabbing the pot and going off to make the rounds with one last look over his shoulder at the pair.
“Inconspicuous is SO not our last name,” Rory whispered to her mother.
“I can’t help it. The thought of all that greasy meat made my stomach turn. And not in the fun ‘Yay! We’re on a roller coaster!’ kind of way. Soup to obvious?”
“Unless you can make up a sick story. Have a sandwich. And extra fries. Turkey, extra mayo.”
“Oh Burger Boy!” Lorelai called, waving her hand in the air.
“What now?”
“Cheese burger, extra fries!” Rory asked with a smile.
“Turkey sandwich. On white, extra mayo and double the fries.” Luke bobbed his head as he wrote the order down.
“Hang on,” he said, actually reading what he had written. “Are you still sick?” he asked. “You told me you shook that bug.”
“I’m not, I did. . . Change! Good!” she repeated, shooing him from the table. “I should add him to the list too, right?”
“I’d put him near the top. How long are you going to wait?” Lorelai sighed.
“Not here. The walls have ears,” she finished as she jerked her head slightly towards Miss Patty’s table.
“Subtle,” Rory remarked as a gigantic plate of fries was placed on the table.
“Appetizer, then burger. . . And sandwich,” he said, almost like the last word left a bad taste in his mouth.
“I thought you’d be proud of me. Branching out, something kind of healthy.”
“When you branch out, I worry,” he said, pointing a finger at her.
“He’s such a softy,” Lorelai remarked with a smile as she and Rory attacked the french-fries.
***
“Coffee,” Lorelai muttered as she stepped into the kitchen at the Independence Inn a few days later. Sookie eyed her carefully for a moment.
“I’m taking it upon myself to limit your coffee while you’re here,” she said as she came to stand in front of Lorelai. “How much?”
“None officer, I’m sober. You can even smell my breath!” she said with a fake smile. Sookie eyed her a moment longer before heading to the coffee pot.
“1/4 cup,” Lorelai called. Sookie dropped the cup in surprise.
“What?”
“Can only handle a taste these days,” she muttered. She never had gotten a hold of Christopher and word had inevitably leaked out around the Inn about her predicament. “Very sad,” she said as she accepted the 1/4 cup of coffee from Sookie.
“Any news?” Sookie asked as she cleaned up the broken mug, thankfully with out injury.
“Not yet, but the mail hasn’t come yet. Hopefully today is the day. Fingers crossed!” she said with a thumbs up before heading back out to the front desk.
***
Later that afternoon, Michel casually handed over a stack of letters.
“Sookie!” Lorelai called as she rushed into the kitchen. “It’s here! It happened! She did it!” she gasped excitedly, nearly dropping the bag she had with her.
“Okay, I’m gonna need a little bit longer sentence. . . “ Sookie said with a smile, wiping her hands with a towel.
“The Chilton school. Rory got in!”
“Oh my God!” Sookie exclaimed, bouncing in place slightly. She moved quickly to Lorelai’s side as she read the letter, snickering at Lorelai’s admission that “I offered to do the principle to get her in,” before pulling her best friend into a tight hug.
“Mom?” Rory called as she wandered into the kitchen.
“Oh!” she exclaimed.
“You’re happy. Did you do something slutty?” Rory asked, making a little face.
“I’m not that happy,” she replied as she and Sookie both giggled. “Here,” she said, handing over the bag.
“I’m gonna be in a Britney Spears video?” Rory asked as she pulled out a plaid skirt.
“You’re going to Chilton!” Sookie blurted out before apologizing. Rory looked to Lorelai for confirmation.
“You did it, babe. You got in,” she said, pulling Rory in for a hug.
“You didn’t. . . with the principal, did you?” Rory asked after pulling back slightly from Lorelai. Lorelai assured her that she hadn’t and informed her that she was starting on Monday.
“I don’t believe this! Oh my God, I’m going to Chilton!” Rory exclaimed, hugging both Sookie and Lorelai again before rushing out of the kitchen to call Lane. Lorelai and Sookie shared one last moment of pride before Lorelai headed out to the front desk where she was presented with a second letter from Chilton. This time, it wasn’t all good news.
***
Still fretting over the fruitless call to Chilton about tuition fees and having rejected Sookie’s idea of asking her parents for money, Lorelai hemmed Rory’s skirt and at Rory’s comment that she loved being a private school girl, she knew she had no choice but to ask for money.
“Hi mom,” Lorelai said when her mother answered the door. After the perfunctory greetings and the jabs at Lorelai’s reasons for being in Hartfort, she received a promise of tuition and enrollment fees in return for Friday night dinners. Who said selling your soul to the devil wasn’t fun?
***
Lorelai breathed a sigh of relief after leaving her parents house. It was a perfect ending to a perfect day, especially after that fight she’d had with Rory over a boy and Chilton.
“They don’t know, do they?” Rory asked.
“Not now Rory,” she said as she headed into Luke’s for an after dinner meal.
“I mean, she wouldn’t have brought up dad like that if she had.”
“Rory, she would have brought him up either way. Can we drop it now?” Rory nodded and the conversation shifted to how much of the conversation between Lorelai and Emily that Rory had heard.
“Can’t let a perfectly good plaid skirt go to waste,” she reasoned with a shrug.
“Oh, honey. You won’t be sorry,” Lorelai assured her as they entered Luke’s. After the pleasant surprise of Luke in a button down shirt and no baseball cap, the pair ordered and Lorelai began to pump for information on this boy that almost had Rory reconsidering her future.
***
Title Da Capo Al Fine
Season 1
RatingPG-13
Fandom Gilmore Girls
Parings Rory/Dean. Mentions of Lorelai/Chris, hinting towards Lorelai/Luke
****
The number you have dialed has been disconnected. Please hang up and try your call again. If you think you have received this message in error. . .
Lorelai hung up the phone in frustration. His number was out of service. Again. He also wasn’t answering his cell phone and he hadn’t left a forwarding number or address. She tried each number once more before she hung up in frustration.
“Well?” Rory asked when Lorelai finally stormed downstairs.
“I hate that recording a little more every time I hear it,” she grumbled as she flopped down on the couch beside Rory, taking the book from her hands. “I’m bored now.”
“Well,” she said, snatching her book back. “Watch a movie. Watch TV. Follow my example and read a book."
“SUGAH!”
“Oh no,” they both muttered when they heard Babette call out moments before she burst into the house.
“Sugah! Oh, hey Rory. Sugah, are you alright?” she asked as she sat herself between Rory and Lorelai. “I saw Sookie leavin’ earlier today and she wasn’t lookin’ too happy. And she’s usually all smiles when she leaves.”
“Everything’s fine Babette,” she said, smiling and trying to assure her. “She was just tired, we had a long night.”
“Ahhhhh . . . “ she said, with a knowing smile. “The girls will play while the baby is away. Gotcha!” she said, nudging Lorelai with her elbow before standing up suddenly. “Well, carry on then, you two. MOREY! I’M COMIN’ HOME!” she yelled before she took off. Lorelai and Rory both winced at the volume and the door slam.
“You’re going to have to tell them too,” she said, referring to Babette and Miss Patty.
“I know, I know,” she said. “But I should track down your father first.”
“How did you tell him about me?”
“I convinced him to skip 4th period, dragged him into an empty classroom and trapped him.”
“And then?”
“And then I just blurted it out. He was quiet for a moment and then the freak out started,” she said with a smile.
“And you stayed calm?”
“Of course, I had been freaking out for at least a week already, since my debutant dress didn’t fit anymore.” Lorelai looked at Rory and pulled her close. “I shop lifted a test from a small store around the corner from the school and took it between 2nd and 3rd period. I hid it in a tampon wrapper and threw it in the trash.”
“Wow. How very. . . MacGyver of you,” Rory concluded.
“Thanks,” she said with a laugh. “So once again. . .”
“MacGyver marathon? I saw some tapes at the video store.”
“Really? What are we doing standing around here then?” she asked as she jumped up from the couch and grabbed her coat and purse. “Come on, come on, come on!” she called to Rory, clapping her hands to try and make her move faster.
“Hold your horses, missy!” she said as she carefully marked her place in Huck Finn before heading to put it in her room and grab her own coat. “Money?”
“Check!”
“Keys?”
“Check! Let’s go mom,” Lorelai said as she grabbed Rory by the shoulders and steered her out of the house and towards town. “Oh, Luke’s first,” she said as she started to turn.
“Are you supposed to be drinking coffee?”
“You’re no worse for wear, are ya?” Rory shrugged and followed her mother. “Coffee!” she demanded.
“In cups!” Rory tacked on. Luke glanced over at the pair and raised an eye brow at their antics.
“Here or to go?” he asked, pot in hand. The girls looked at each other, considering their options.
“Pre-marathon snack?” Rory asked.
“For here,” Lorelai called as they sat down and took their coats off.
“Cheese burgers?” he asked casually as he filled their cups.
“Yes!”
“No,” they said at the same time. Rory and Luke stared at Lorelai for a moment. “I feel like a change,” she said with a shrug, grabbing a menu. Luke stood at the table still blinking.
“You hate change,” he said calmly. “You hate change so much that you almost cried the last time I changed your furnace filter,” he commented, putting the pot of coffee down on the table and taking a seat. When he looked over at Rory, she grabbed a menu too.
“Some times change is good,” she said with a shrug as she buried her head in it. Luke shook his head and stood up again.
“I guess I’ll come back,” he said, grabbing the pot and going off to make the rounds with one last look over his shoulder at the pair.
“Inconspicuous is SO not our last name,” Rory whispered to her mother.
“I can’t help it. The thought of all that greasy meat made my stomach turn. And not in the fun ‘Yay! We’re on a roller coaster!’ kind of way. Soup to obvious?”
“Unless you can make up a sick story. Have a sandwich. And extra fries. Turkey, extra mayo.”
“Oh Burger Boy!” Lorelai called, waving her hand in the air.
“What now?”
“Cheese burger, extra fries!” Rory asked with a smile.
“Turkey sandwich. On white, extra mayo and double the fries.” Luke bobbed his head as he wrote the order down.
“Hang on,” he said, actually reading what he had written. “Are you still sick?” he asked. “You told me you shook that bug.”
“I’m not, I did. . . Change! Good!” she repeated, shooing him from the table. “I should add him to the list too, right?”
“I’d put him near the top. How long are you going to wait?” Lorelai sighed.
“Not here. The walls have ears,” she finished as she jerked her head slightly towards Miss Patty’s table.
“Subtle,” Rory remarked as a gigantic plate of fries was placed on the table.
“Appetizer, then burger. . . And sandwich,” he said, almost like the last word left a bad taste in his mouth.
“I thought you’d be proud of me. Branching out, something kind of healthy.”
“When you branch out, I worry,” he said, pointing a finger at her.
“He’s such a softy,” Lorelai remarked with a smile as she and Rory attacked the french-fries.
***
“Coffee,” Lorelai muttered as she stepped into the kitchen at the Independence Inn a few days later. Sookie eyed her carefully for a moment.
“I’m taking it upon myself to limit your coffee while you’re here,” she said as she came to stand in front of Lorelai. “How much?”
“None officer, I’m sober. You can even smell my breath!” she said with a fake smile. Sookie eyed her a moment longer before heading to the coffee pot.
“1/4 cup,” Lorelai called. Sookie dropped the cup in surprise.
“What?”
“Can only handle a taste these days,” she muttered. She never had gotten a hold of Christopher and word had inevitably leaked out around the Inn about her predicament. “Very sad,” she said as she accepted the 1/4 cup of coffee from Sookie.
“Any news?” Sookie asked as she cleaned up the broken mug, thankfully with out injury.
“Not yet, but the mail hasn’t come yet. Hopefully today is the day. Fingers crossed!” she said with a thumbs up before heading back out to the front desk.
***
Later that afternoon, Michel casually handed over a stack of letters.
“Sookie!” Lorelai called as she rushed into the kitchen. “It’s here! It happened! She did it!” she gasped excitedly, nearly dropping the bag she had with her.
“Okay, I’m gonna need a little bit longer sentence. . . “ Sookie said with a smile, wiping her hands with a towel.
“The Chilton school. Rory got in!”
“Oh my God!” Sookie exclaimed, bouncing in place slightly. She moved quickly to Lorelai’s side as she read the letter, snickering at Lorelai’s admission that “I offered to do the principle to get her in,” before pulling her best friend into a tight hug.
“Mom?” Rory called as she wandered into the kitchen.
“Oh!” she exclaimed.
“You’re happy. Did you do something slutty?” Rory asked, making a little face.
“I’m not that happy,” she replied as she and Sookie both giggled. “Here,” she said, handing over the bag.
“I’m gonna be in a Britney Spears video?” Rory asked as she pulled out a plaid skirt.
“You’re going to Chilton!” Sookie blurted out before apologizing. Rory looked to Lorelai for confirmation.
“You did it, babe. You got in,” she said, pulling Rory in for a hug.
“You didn’t. . . with the principal, did you?” Rory asked after pulling back slightly from Lorelai. Lorelai assured her that she hadn’t and informed her that she was starting on Monday.
“I don’t believe this! Oh my God, I’m going to Chilton!” Rory exclaimed, hugging both Sookie and Lorelai again before rushing out of the kitchen to call Lane. Lorelai and Sookie shared one last moment of pride before Lorelai headed out to the front desk where she was presented with a second letter from Chilton. This time, it wasn’t all good news.
***
Still fretting over the fruitless call to Chilton about tuition fees and having rejected Sookie’s idea of asking her parents for money, Lorelai hemmed Rory’s skirt and at Rory’s comment that she loved being a private school girl, she knew she had no choice but to ask for money.
“Hi mom,” Lorelai said when her mother answered the door. After the perfunctory greetings and the jabs at Lorelai’s reasons for being in Hartfort, she received a promise of tuition and enrollment fees in return for Friday night dinners. Who said selling your soul to the devil wasn’t fun?
***
Lorelai breathed a sigh of relief after leaving her parents house. It was a perfect ending to a perfect day, especially after that fight she’d had with Rory over a boy and Chilton.
“They don’t know, do they?” Rory asked.
“Not now Rory,” she said as she headed into Luke’s for an after dinner meal.
“I mean, she wouldn’t have brought up dad like that if she had.”
“Rory, she would have brought him up either way. Can we drop it now?” Rory nodded and the conversation shifted to how much of the conversation between Lorelai and Emily that Rory had heard.
“Can’t let a perfectly good plaid skirt go to waste,” she reasoned with a shrug.
“Oh, honey. You won’t be sorry,” Lorelai assured her as they entered Luke’s. After the pleasant surprise of Luke in a button down shirt and no baseball cap, the pair ordered and Lorelai began to pump for information on this boy that almost had Rory reconsidering her future.
***
