17.04.2007, 22:37
Wegen des Total- Ausfalls etwas später, aber dafür gleich 2 Teile 
Bin mal gespannt was ihr davon haltet
Chapter 2: The only option?
While Lorelai was driving back to Stars Hollow she couldn’t really concentrate on the traffic, and for a moment the thought crossed her mind that she maybe should take a taxi, but then another thought entered her brain, overshadowed the rest of sanity she had and she couldn’t even remember anymore that she had thought about calling a taxi.
She would get married on Friday. She, Lorelai Gilmore, would get married on Friday and she didn’t even know her future- husband yet.
She was too confused and distracted by that mere fact to understand the whole absurdity of the situation itself. The only thing she could think about was the fact that she would get married. It didn’t even cross her mind how preposterous it was that she didn’t know the name of her fiancé, that there was no actual fiancé, no ring on her finger, no proposal, not even a first date.
On auto-pilot she reached her home, but remained in the jeep. She turned off the engine and stared at her house, which soon wouldn’t be her house anymore, because her parents would buy them a new one.
She wasn’t even sad or angry, all she was, was confused.
She took her cell-phone out of her bag and called Sookie.
“Hey Sookie, it’s me. Can you come over right now? I have to get married on Friday, otherwise I won’t get any money from my parents”, she said and hung up.
When the light turned on in Rory’s room, she got out of the jeep, dragged herself up the porch- steps and then plopped down on the swing.
She didn’t realize when Sookie’s car drove up to her house or when Sookie walked up to her. She didn’t even realize her friend was there until Sookie waved a hand in front of Lorelai’s eyes.
“What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?” Lorelai asked her, without explaining anything further than she had done on the phone.
“You can have anything I own. My car! Sell my car”, Sookie replied instantly, knowing that she needed to calm Lorelai before she could get something out of her which would actually make sense.
“Oh, sweetie, no one wants your car”, Lorelai smiled slightly and took a deep breath.
“Yeah”, Sookie agreed. “But tell me what happened. Whom should you get married to? Someone you know or a stranger? And where does that idea come from? Did it just pop into your parents heads today or did they have it for longer? And why do you have to marry on Friday? Why not Saturday or Sunday? Will there be a lot of guests? I need to know for the menu and the cake. Do you want a white cake? Or only white frosting and chocolate cake? And…”, Sookie started her questioning.
“Woah Sookie, I can’t even think clear without your questions, but I really can’t deal with the flood of information you want from me. My mother said something about the son of an old friend, who owes them, because they helped him. And that I know him and that there are rumours about us and that he’ll contact me. What do I do, Sookie?” Lorelai asked again and sounded desperate.
“You know they can’t force you to marry someone, those are not the medieval-times anymore. You should marry someone you love and who loves you back and not because your parents force you to because you need money”
“I don’t even need the money for myself, I need it for Rory. It’s for Rory’s future, for their precious, angelic grand-daughter. How can they pull something like that? It’s not even for me…”Lorelai trailed of, anger started rising in her chest.
“Maybe that’s why”, Sookie shrugged.
“Huh?” Lorelai said confused, not able to follow her friend, in the blind rage she was now in.
“They know you would do everything for Rory. If the money would be for yourself you wouldn’t even consider marrying a stranger”, Sookie made her point clear.
“True. But Sookie the thought that I should get married to a stranger is… it’s… I can’t even… it’s not possible. Not even for Rory”, Lorelai said, got off the swing and started to pace.
“Then we need to think of something else”.
“There's something I haven't thought of, I know there is. There's something out there staring me right in the face. I just. . .I haven't seen it”, Lorelai said desperately.
“You know, you might consider really marrying …”
“No”, Lorelai shook her head.
“But I don't think you have a …”
“Stop!” Lorelai said forcefully.
“You can at least meet him and…” Sookie tried again.
“Uh” Lorelai waved her hand.
“Okay, can I say one more thing? I think it's your only option”, Sookie stated the bare facts.
“Sookie, there are several chapters from a Stephen King novel I'd re-enact before I'd resort to that option. I know I was so shocked, I told them I would do it, but I just can’t”, Lorelai said defeated and sat back down on the swing.
“Okay, dropped. Dropped”, Sookie agreed and sat down next to Lorelai, the same defeated and sad look on her face.
“Thank you, I just have to think of something else”, Lorelai said quietly and stared off into space.
~*~
Meanwhile Richard and Emily Gilmore were sitting in their living-room. Emily was reading a book, while Richard studied the newspaper, but he was distracted. Since Lorelai had left, Emily had avoided talking with him, but he needed to know what had gotten into her.
He wasn’t completely surprised by her actions, she had talked about that connection more than once, but he had never thought that one day it would become reality.
“Do you really think Lorelai will let herself be forced into a marriage?” he asked, and lowered the newspaper to look at her.
“She needs the money for Rory and she has no other options, otherwise she wouldn’t have come here”, Emily shrugged and smiled a bit.
“But Emily, a forced marriage?” Richard asked his wife and raised his eyebrows.
“Since we were little kids, Amber and I had the dream that one day our children would get married or be best friends. When she married that hobo and had her boy, I thought I could never give my child to such a man. But after his father’s death we got to know him better and he is a fine young man, must be the McGregor blood. The business he has is questionable, but he inherited his grandmother’s money when she died and as far as we know he hasn’t used it yet. We have it on good authority that he has a thing for Lorelai since he met her for the first time and he owes us. He’s a man Lorelai would go for and if it would only be because she thinks we wouldn’t approve. I am sure once she knows who he is she will agree to marry him. Rory would finally have a father figure, one not as weak and phlegmatic as Christopher and we wouldn’t have to worry about Lorelai anymore. She would be married, would be cared for and she wouldn’t be alone anymore. I think it’s a good thing for all of us”, Emily said and turned her attention back to her book.
Richard gave a sceptical look, remained silent and went back to his newspaper.
~*~
Lorelai and Sookie were still sitting on the swing, starring blankly ahead in silence when Rory came out in her Chilton-skirt.
“Mom? So what do you think?” she asked and turned around one time.
“Wow, it makes you look smart!” Sookie said enthusiastically.
“Okay, no more wine for you. Mom?” Rory wanted to know.
“You look like you were swallowed by a kilt”, Lorelai joked, hiding her worries from her daughter.
“Fine, you can hem it. A little”, Rory smiled.
“Ooh”, Lorelai tried to sound excited.
“Only a little”, Rory reminded her.
“Okay. Or I could hem it a lot”
“No, you're not. I don't want it to be too short”, her daughter disagreed and together they walked inside the house, followed closely by Sookie, who wandered off into the kitchen though.
“I can't believe tomorrow's my last day at Stars Hollow High”, Rory said happily, while Lorelai was searching for needles.
“I know”, she nodded.
“Today I was so excited I dressed for gym”, her daughter confessed.
“You're kidding!” Lorelai exclaimed.
“And I played volleyball”, another confession.
“With other people?”
“And I learned that all this time I was avoiding group sports” Rory started, waiting for a reaction from her mother, who seemed somehow distracted.
“Yeah?” Lorelai said, so Rory would finish her sentence.
“Was very smart because I suck at them”. Rory smiled and stopped fidgeting, because Lorelai had found the needles and started to pin up the skirt.
“Well, yeah, you got that from me”, she said.
“Where's your paté?”, Sookie suddenly asked out of the blue, when she came back from the kitchen into the living-room.
“At Zsa Zsa Gabor's house” Lorelai dead-panned.
“Right. I'm going to the store because you have nothing. You feel like duck?” Sookie wanted to know
“Ooh, if it's made with chicken, absolutely”, Lorelai joked and her problem had slipped her mind for a second.
“I'll be back”, Sookie excused herself, grabbed her things and walked to the door.
“Bye”, Lorelai yelled after her, but her friend was already out the door.
“All right. This will give you an idea. Go see how you like it”, she turned her attention back to her daughter, when she was done with the pinning up. Rory whirled round and started to run off to her room, but stopped in the doorway of the living-room and turned around again to face her mother.
“Okay. I love being a private school girl”, she squealed happily and then continued her way to her room, running and skipping.
Lorelai looked after her daughter and her problem hit her again like a ton of bricks. Her smile transformed into a sad version of one and she put the rest of the needles down on the desk.
With a deep sigh she turned around, facing the mantle and the pictures on it. Baby-pictures of Rory, pictures from her first Halloween, a picture of the two of them in the Inn, one when they had moved into the Crap Shack and finally a picture of Lorelai when she had been a child. Dressed in a black coat, with a black cap, the huge, grey mansion behind her, the gate closed and an unhappy expression on her face.
She didn’t want to get married to a stranger, she didn’t want to give her mother what she wanted. She didn’t want to be unhappy in a marriage she had no say in, but could she be happy knowing that Rory couldn’t go to Chilton because of her, and that she would ruin her daughter’s future?
She needed to talk to the guy and tell him she wouldn’t marry him, but before she needed to find another way to get the money.
TBC
Bin mal gespannt was ihr davon haltet
Chapter 2: The only option?
While Lorelai was driving back to Stars Hollow she couldn’t really concentrate on the traffic, and for a moment the thought crossed her mind that she maybe should take a taxi, but then another thought entered her brain, overshadowed the rest of sanity she had and she couldn’t even remember anymore that she had thought about calling a taxi.
She would get married on Friday. She, Lorelai Gilmore, would get married on Friday and she didn’t even know her future- husband yet.
She was too confused and distracted by that mere fact to understand the whole absurdity of the situation itself. The only thing she could think about was the fact that she would get married. It didn’t even cross her mind how preposterous it was that she didn’t know the name of her fiancé, that there was no actual fiancé, no ring on her finger, no proposal, not even a first date.
On auto-pilot she reached her home, but remained in the jeep. She turned off the engine and stared at her house, which soon wouldn’t be her house anymore, because her parents would buy them a new one.
She wasn’t even sad or angry, all she was, was confused.
She took her cell-phone out of her bag and called Sookie.
“Hey Sookie, it’s me. Can you come over right now? I have to get married on Friday, otherwise I won’t get any money from my parents”, she said and hung up.
When the light turned on in Rory’s room, she got out of the jeep, dragged herself up the porch- steps and then plopped down on the swing.
She didn’t realize when Sookie’s car drove up to her house or when Sookie walked up to her. She didn’t even realize her friend was there until Sookie waved a hand in front of Lorelai’s eyes.
“What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?” Lorelai asked her, without explaining anything further than she had done on the phone.
“You can have anything I own. My car! Sell my car”, Sookie replied instantly, knowing that she needed to calm Lorelai before she could get something out of her which would actually make sense.
“Oh, sweetie, no one wants your car”, Lorelai smiled slightly and took a deep breath.
“Yeah”, Sookie agreed. “But tell me what happened. Whom should you get married to? Someone you know or a stranger? And where does that idea come from? Did it just pop into your parents heads today or did they have it for longer? And why do you have to marry on Friday? Why not Saturday or Sunday? Will there be a lot of guests? I need to know for the menu and the cake. Do you want a white cake? Or only white frosting and chocolate cake? And…”, Sookie started her questioning.
“Woah Sookie, I can’t even think clear without your questions, but I really can’t deal with the flood of information you want from me. My mother said something about the son of an old friend, who owes them, because they helped him. And that I know him and that there are rumours about us and that he’ll contact me. What do I do, Sookie?” Lorelai asked again and sounded desperate.
“You know they can’t force you to marry someone, those are not the medieval-times anymore. You should marry someone you love and who loves you back and not because your parents force you to because you need money”
“I don’t even need the money for myself, I need it for Rory. It’s for Rory’s future, for their precious, angelic grand-daughter. How can they pull something like that? It’s not even for me…”Lorelai trailed of, anger started rising in her chest.
“Maybe that’s why”, Sookie shrugged.
“Huh?” Lorelai said confused, not able to follow her friend, in the blind rage she was now in.
“They know you would do everything for Rory. If the money would be for yourself you wouldn’t even consider marrying a stranger”, Sookie made her point clear.
“True. But Sookie the thought that I should get married to a stranger is… it’s… I can’t even… it’s not possible. Not even for Rory”, Lorelai said, got off the swing and started to pace.
“Then we need to think of something else”.
“There's something I haven't thought of, I know there is. There's something out there staring me right in the face. I just. . .I haven't seen it”, Lorelai said desperately.
“You know, you might consider really marrying …”
“No”, Lorelai shook her head.
“But I don't think you have a …”
“Stop!” Lorelai said forcefully.
“You can at least meet him and…” Sookie tried again.
“Uh” Lorelai waved her hand.
“Okay, can I say one more thing? I think it's your only option”, Sookie stated the bare facts.
“Sookie, there are several chapters from a Stephen King novel I'd re-enact before I'd resort to that option. I know I was so shocked, I told them I would do it, but I just can’t”, Lorelai said defeated and sat back down on the swing.
“Okay, dropped. Dropped”, Sookie agreed and sat down next to Lorelai, the same defeated and sad look on her face.
“Thank you, I just have to think of something else”, Lorelai said quietly and stared off into space.
~*~
Meanwhile Richard and Emily Gilmore were sitting in their living-room. Emily was reading a book, while Richard studied the newspaper, but he was distracted. Since Lorelai had left, Emily had avoided talking with him, but he needed to know what had gotten into her.
He wasn’t completely surprised by her actions, she had talked about that connection more than once, but he had never thought that one day it would become reality.
“Do you really think Lorelai will let herself be forced into a marriage?” he asked, and lowered the newspaper to look at her.
“She needs the money for Rory and she has no other options, otherwise she wouldn’t have come here”, Emily shrugged and smiled a bit.
“But Emily, a forced marriage?” Richard asked his wife and raised his eyebrows.
“Since we were little kids, Amber and I had the dream that one day our children would get married or be best friends. When she married that hobo and had her boy, I thought I could never give my child to such a man. But after his father’s death we got to know him better and he is a fine young man, must be the McGregor blood. The business he has is questionable, but he inherited his grandmother’s money when she died and as far as we know he hasn’t used it yet. We have it on good authority that he has a thing for Lorelai since he met her for the first time and he owes us. He’s a man Lorelai would go for and if it would only be because she thinks we wouldn’t approve. I am sure once she knows who he is she will agree to marry him. Rory would finally have a father figure, one not as weak and phlegmatic as Christopher and we wouldn’t have to worry about Lorelai anymore. She would be married, would be cared for and she wouldn’t be alone anymore. I think it’s a good thing for all of us”, Emily said and turned her attention back to her book.
Richard gave a sceptical look, remained silent and went back to his newspaper.
~*~
Lorelai and Sookie were still sitting on the swing, starring blankly ahead in silence when Rory came out in her Chilton-skirt.
“Mom? So what do you think?” she asked and turned around one time.
“Wow, it makes you look smart!” Sookie said enthusiastically.
“Okay, no more wine for you. Mom?” Rory wanted to know.
“You look like you were swallowed by a kilt”, Lorelai joked, hiding her worries from her daughter.
“Fine, you can hem it. A little”, Rory smiled.
“Ooh”, Lorelai tried to sound excited.
“Only a little”, Rory reminded her.
“Okay. Or I could hem it a lot”
“No, you're not. I don't want it to be too short”, her daughter disagreed and together they walked inside the house, followed closely by Sookie, who wandered off into the kitchen though.
“I can't believe tomorrow's my last day at Stars Hollow High”, Rory said happily, while Lorelai was searching for needles.
“I know”, she nodded.
“Today I was so excited I dressed for gym”, her daughter confessed.
“You're kidding!” Lorelai exclaimed.
“And I played volleyball”, another confession.
“With other people?”
“And I learned that all this time I was avoiding group sports” Rory started, waiting for a reaction from her mother, who seemed somehow distracted.
“Yeah?” Lorelai said, so Rory would finish her sentence.
“Was very smart because I suck at them”. Rory smiled and stopped fidgeting, because Lorelai had found the needles and started to pin up the skirt.
“Well, yeah, you got that from me”, she said.
“Where's your paté?”, Sookie suddenly asked out of the blue, when she came back from the kitchen into the living-room.
“At Zsa Zsa Gabor's house” Lorelai dead-panned.
“Right. I'm going to the store because you have nothing. You feel like duck?” Sookie wanted to know
“Ooh, if it's made with chicken, absolutely”, Lorelai joked and her problem had slipped her mind for a second.
“I'll be back”, Sookie excused herself, grabbed her things and walked to the door.
“Bye”, Lorelai yelled after her, but her friend was already out the door.
“All right. This will give you an idea. Go see how you like it”, she turned her attention back to her daughter, when she was done with the pinning up. Rory whirled round and started to run off to her room, but stopped in the doorway of the living-room and turned around again to face her mother.
“Okay. I love being a private school girl”, she squealed happily and then continued her way to her room, running and skipping.
Lorelai looked after her daughter and her problem hit her again like a ton of bricks. Her smile transformed into a sad version of one and she put the rest of the needles down on the desk.
With a deep sigh she turned around, facing the mantle and the pictures on it. Baby-pictures of Rory, pictures from her first Halloween, a picture of the two of them in the Inn, one when they had moved into the Crap Shack and finally a picture of Lorelai when she had been a child. Dressed in a black coat, with a black cap, the huge, grey mansion behind her, the gate closed and an unhappy expression on her face.
She didn’t want to get married to a stranger, she didn’t want to give her mother what she wanted. She didn’t want to be unhappy in a marriage she had no say in, but could she be happy knowing that Rory couldn’t go to Chilton because of her, and that she would ruin her daughter’s future?
She needed to talk to the guy and tell him she wouldn’t marry him, but before she needed to find another way to get the money.
TBC