Title: Back to the Beginning
Disclaimer: owns 1-5
Someone comes back in town Rory's junior year of college. And he's here to stay. What does Rory's Heart want, and will he be there when she needs him the most?
Rory was coming from her first class of the day when she heard a familiar voice, "Hey Mary." She decided some guy was talking to some girl named Mary. So she kept on walking.
"Hello? Mary? You in there," someone said jumping in front of Rory.
"Hey do you mind. I'm going to run you ov…," Rory was about to finish when she looked up, "Tristan?"
"Yeah I can see you missed me Mary," Tristan said.
"I thought you were in military school," Rory said still in disbelief. She didn't realize how much she had missed him.
"Well I got out of military school and started going to college, but I decided to transfer. So now I'm here at Yale surprised to see someone from Chilton."
"Well you know Paris is here to. I'm her roommate."Rory said starting to walk.
"Really? I would have never thought of it. You two never did get along in high school," Tristan said walking beside Rory.
"Well that was mostly because she liked you and you seemed to flirt with me."
"So it was all my fault that she didn't like you?" Tristan teased.
"Yes pretty much," Rory laughed.
"Hm… well anyways I was wondering if you would like to have dinner tonight to catch up."
"Sure I'd love to, 7:30 okay?"
"Yea that's fine. I'll pick you up then. Wait, you're not dating that Dean guy still, are you?"
"No I'm not," Rory said failing to mention Logan.
"Good I'll see you then."
Rory and Paris's Apt.
Rory was wearing a baby blue, silk shirt, which Logan loved, and brown pants. She had her hair done in a half ponytail, light brown eye shadow, and some lip gloss. When she walked out of her bed room Paris was sitting there in sweats watching T.V.
"Why are you all dressed up? Logan coming over?" Paris asked looking at her briefly.
"No, I'm going to have a catch up dinner with Tristan," Rory said putting on her brown shoes.
"What?! Tristan, you mean the Tristan that went to Chilton, the Tristan that called you Mary, that Tristan?" Paris said jumping out of her seat.
"Yeah, why?"
"I have to hide. He must know that I have a boyfriend. Tell him whenever he comes that I'm out with Doyle."
"Okay, but I don't think he'll care."
"Well so what. Will you tell him that? Please," Paris said heading to her room.
"Yes I'll tell him."
"Okay and if the date goes good, knock on the door before coming in so I can go into my bedroom."
"Paris, this isn't a date. It's a catching up gathering."
"Rory, this is a date. You may not think it is now, but it is. Tristan does not ask someone to have dinner and catch up unless he knew he could end up at her or his apartment."
"Well this is just a catch up gathering. Besides I'm going out with Logan. I would never do that to him," Rory said as someone knocked on the door.
"Oh my god it's Tristan," Paris said running and closing her door.
Rory opened the door to see Tristan standing there with a dozen roses. "Oh my god, Tristan, you didn't have to get me theses," Rory said taking them.
"Well I felt bad about leaving you when we were about to do our scene that we had be rehearsing for weeks, so I was hoping you would forgive me."
"Well I don't know. I did have to do the scene with Paris as Romeo. That made me scared for life, but oh well, I forgive you," Rory said closing the door.
"Good, okay well I found a great Chinese place close to here. Do you wanna go?" Tristan said as they walked down the stairs.
"Yeah that'd be great."
Chinese Restaurant
Tristan walks over and opens the car door for Rory. "Why thank you, good man," Rory said getting out of the car.
"Don't mention it."
Rory and Tristan walked inside the restaurant. They got a booth for two and sat opposite of each other. Tristan ordered a bottle of wine and two glasses.
"Wow, wine. Nice touch to the evening," Rory said sarcastically.
"Well I thought it would be a nice touch," Tristan said gazing deep into Rory's eyes. "Wow, you have amazing blue eyes."
Rory ducked her head smiling, "Thanks."
Tristan smiled back, "So how's Yale so far?"
"It's hard, but I like it. Oh have you seen the library? It's amazing," Rory said excited.
Tristan laughed, "Yeah I thought I read that somewhere. Wow, Rory, I've missed you."
"What? You've missed me? Out of everyone that used to go to Chilton, you missed me?"
"Well no, I've missed a lot of people, but I've missed you the most. You had something about you that just caught my attention."
"Yeah I noticed that when you and everyone else started calling me Mary."
"Yeah sorry about that, but it was more. You were just amazing, you are just amazing," Tristan corrected himself. "You're beautiful, smart, caring, and you put up with me. I wished I didn't pick on you then because I really liked you. Maybe if I didn't you wouldn't have cried when we kissed and you wouldn't have ran back to Dean," Tristan said angrily looking down.
"It wasn't your fault the night I cried. I had just broken up with Dean the day before. Maybe if you were a little nicer to me, I might have not ran back to Dean."
"Really?" Tristan said looking up.
"Yeah I might have," she said as the wine came to their table. The waiter poured it into two wine glasses and took their order.
"Here's to you," Tristan said raising his glass.
"I'll drink to that," Rory said taping her glass with his. A little while later the food came. They talked about what they have been doing since high school and who they dated. Rory still left out Logan. After they finished their food, Tristan payed the bill. On the way home, they talked about what classes they have, and what they are aiming to be.
Rory and Paris's Apt.
Tristan walked Rory to her apartment. "So was this a fun night?"
"Yeah it was really fun," Rory said as the reached the top of the stairs.
"Good," Tristan said. All of a sudden he kissed Rory lightly. She kissed him back at first not knowing what was happening, but then realized. She didn't pull away. After a minute or so they pulled away for a breath.
"I have to go," Rory said turning towards the door.
"Okay, I'll see you around," Tristan said turning and starting to walk down the stairs.
"Tomorrow night?" Rory blurted out.
Tristan turned around quickly. "Yeah tomorrow. Seven okay?"
"Yeah that's great," Rory said turning to her door and opening it. When she got in she was surprised to see Logan sitting on the couch next to Paris. Rory had totally forgotten about him. "Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Do I need a reason to see my girlfriend? I was a little surprised to hear that you were out," Logan said getting up and kissing Rory.
"Yeah I went to the library for a little bit."
"This dressed up?"
"Does a woman need a reason to get all dressed up?" Rory said walking over to the couch and sitting down.
"No, I was just wondering," Logan said watching her. "Okay well I didn't know you were going to be gone that long, and I have a long day tomorrow so I'm going to go. Bye Rory, Paris."
"Bye hon."
"Good-bye Logan, and next time call before you come over," Paris said not looking away from the T.V. After Logan left Paris got up and locked the door and ran back to the couch. "I thought Logan was you coming back from you date. I was surprised at first consider you only left an hour before so I ran into my room, but then he knocked again so I opened. Anyways how was your date?"
"It wasn't a date, but it was nice. We talked about what we have been doing since we had last seen each other and we talked about the people who we used to go out with."
"So you left out the part about you still going out with Logan," Paris said walking over to the kitchen to get her and Rory some coffee.
"No, why would I do that?" Rory said hoping Paris wouldn't read her to tell that she was lying.
"Just making sure, but if this wasn't a date how come he came here with a dozen roses?"
"He said it was so I could forgive him for ditching us on the Romeo and Juliet night."
"Sure. Did you kiss him whenever he dropped you off?" Paris said handing Rory a cup of coffee.
"No!" Rory said taking the coffee and taking a sip.
Paris looked at her and didn't believe which Rory was hoping wouldn't happen. "Paris I have to go talk to my mom. I told her I'd call her."
"Sure, and don't forget to tell her about you date!" Paris yelled as Rory shut her bedroom door.
Rory jumped on her bed not knowing what to do. It was 11 o'clock and she wasn't sure if her mom would still be up. She needed to talk to her and tell her about Tristan showing up and her kissing him and asking him out. Finally Rory decided she call.
"Hello," said a weak voice.
"Luke?"
"Yeah. Who is this?"
"Rory, can you put my mom on?"
"Yeah, here Lorelai, Rory's on the phone," Luke said.
"Hello."
"Hey mom we need to talk."
Lorelai could tell that something was troubling Rory, "What is it hon?"
Rory told Lorelai about Tristan and dinner and after dinner. Lorelai was surprised that Rory would kiss Tristan when she knew she was with Logan. She told Rory that she had to make up her mind about who she could see herself with and who she thought would treat her right. Lorelai knew Rory would make the right decision. Though secretly Lorelai hoped she'd pick Tristan because she thought he would stay by Rory more the Logan since she knew what Logan use to be. They said good-bye and Rory went to sleep.
The next morning Rory went to her class and was surprised to see Tristan there.
"Hey, you didn't tell me you had this class last night," Rory said walking up to him.
"Yeah I thought it would be more fun this way," Tristan said taking a seat. After class they walked together to the coffee stand. After they got their coffee they walked around campus for awhile.
"So how do you like the best coffee on campus?" Rory asked as they walked around the courtyard.
"I like it," Tristan said as he put it down.
Rory laughed. When she looked at her watch she noticed that she should be at the paper. They said good bye, but not before Tristan kissed her quietly on the check.
Yale's Paper
Rory walked in taking her a seat at her desk when Logan came and sat on the top of the desk.
"So my friend told me he saw you with some guy last night at a Chinese Restaurant."
A/N: hoped you like the first chapter. Sorry to all you Rogan fans, I like them together too I just felt a need for a Troy story. Reviews Please!!!!!