70A/N: Wow, I finally updated. For a while I thought I'd never get around to writing this, something always bothered me, but here it is. Not my best, but an update nevertheless.
"Speaking of motherhood, how is Bizzy? Last time I saw her, she was using me as an excuse to avoid Caroline Holbrooks." Lorelai recalled.
The two friends were sitting in Addison and Derek's living room, sipping from strawberry margaritas.
"My mother loved you more than she loved me." Addison said taking a sip from her drink. "She was so happy when we became friends. Turns out she's gay."
"She's what?" Lorelai almost choked.
"She's been cheating on the captain with Susan." Addison said rolling her eyes.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Why didn't you call me? When did this happen?" Lorelai was stunned. WASP mothers were never gay. Yes, they weren't all madly in love with their husbands, but gay.
"It's apparently been happening for 20 years."
"So the captain?"
Addison nodded. "He knew. He told me he loves her, and he's known forever. In some twisted way he was kind of the good guy."
"Oh my God, I'm never going to be able to look at your mother again."
"You know, Emily might be a bitch sometimes, but at least she loves your father."
Lorelai shrugged. "Does Archer know?"
"I don't know. They only told me because I was refusing to forgive the captain. He came here without her. Wanted to rekindle our relationship. And see his granddaughter."
"How un-waspy of them." Lorelai chuckled and poured them some more martinis.
"Joe, bring this man another beer, he saved my daughter's life."
"Just doing my job man." Derek said to Christopher.
"Nonsense, you saved our girl. You're a hero." Luke for once agreed with Chris. They were never going to be the best of friends, but since the wedding most of the rivalry had gone away.
"Come on Shep, don't be so modest. You're a surgeon. We're the top of the food chain, remember."Derek frowned at his best friend.
"You're so full of yourself."
Mark shrugged. "What's not to love?"
Luke took a big gulp of his beer. This guy was unbelievable. He had never met Mark Sloan before, but the name sounded so familiar and he'd been wondering all night why he was so suspicious of the guy.
"Did you guys actually tell your wives to stay at home with the kids while you guys went out to party?" Burke interrupted Luke's train of thought.
"Of course not, they kicked us out of the house. They're Adilaing." Derek said with a sigh.
"You're so whipped." Mark couldn't help but taunt his friend.
"Didn't I read on Debbie's blog that you're a one-woman man now?" Joe enquired. Mark threw his hands up in the air.
"Women."
"I wouldn't know." The bartender answered smugly.
Burke had finally gotten used to Christina's crazy mcnaming obsession, but it appeared she wasn't the only woman with invented slang. "What's Adilaing?"
"Adisson and Lorelai time." Christopher explained. "Though it used to mean meet-each-other-in-the-toilets when we were in high school. They had an extensive range of code words, came in very handy at boring parties."
"Boring parties?"
"Parties that required us to wear formal clothes while we were forced to smile and listen to our parent's acquaintances. Charity dinners, cotillions, debutante balls, that kind of stuff. Lorelai escaped at sixteen, but Addie and I had to endure it until college. She tripped on her way down the stairs at her own debutante ball, she was so lucky the captain was able to scoop her up before she did any real damage." Chris remembered fondly. Addison would probably kill him if she found out what he was telling the other men, but he lived far away to escape her wrath.
"Bizzy must've been pleased." Mark mused. He'd met Addison's mother on a couple of occasions and the woman scared the hell out of him. Quite literally.
"She ignored it, that's the wasp way of doing things." Chris shrugged.
Meredith, George, Christina, Izzie and Alex were all sitting at a table a bit further.
"So do they all know eachother?" Meredith wondered, looking at the men at the bar.
"I think they do except for McFlannel. From what I hear, he's never met McSteamy, but he knows McDreamy cause he's married to McMom and she's McHottie's best friend." Christina explained.
"What about McDad?" Izzie wanted to know.
"McDad went to school with McHottie, so he was at the McPerfect wedding. McSteamy was the best man and McMom the maid of honor."
Alex frowned. He always had a hard time following when it came to all the mcnaming and this was just plain confusing. "Yang, how do you know all that? It's creepy."
"I have my sources, evil spawn." She shot back.
"Right, sleeping with the boss." Alex snorted.
"You're just jealous."
"Nothing to be jealous off." He retorted, kissing his girlfriend. "But I do think Sloan slept with the mother at the Shepherd's wedding." He added with a grin.
"Just because they were maid of honor and best man doesn't mean they slept together." Izzie told him.
"It is Sloan." George had a feeling Alex was right. And he was standing quite close when the two reunited.
Earlier that day
"Mark Sloan." She couldn't believe he was here too. And she knew, Addison had told her, but it was still surprising to see him.
"Lorelai Gilmore." He turned around and hugged her grinning widely.
"How's the manwhoring going?"
"I'm a one woman man now Gilmore, don't get any ideas." He winked at her.
"I'm married Mark. And not 25 anymore."
"But more beautiful than ever."
"It's good to see you too Marky."
Rory was bored. She'd finally convinced her mother she'd be fine sleeping alone and Addison had taken her home. Her dad and Luke apparently were going to have drinks together with Derek. She really couldn't imagine that. Christopher and Luke had never had drinks together. Rory was still getting used to the idea of her father and stepfather not wanting to kill each other.
So now she was alone in a hospital bed, not being able to sleep and her head hurt too much to be able to read. She loved reading and now she couldn't. It seemed so trivial after having been so close to death, but Rory really could use a good book at that moment. She could always call a nurse, but Rory was not someone to call the nurse just for her own entertainment. Sometimes she was too good a person.
Rory closed her eyes, trying once again to get some sleep, when it suddenly hit her. The memory of the attack flowed over her, how her body had been catapulted into the air, the screaming, the smell, the sound of the paramedics talking about her and she being unable to respond. Quietly, Rory started crying herself to sleep, tears streaming over her face as she held onto the stuffed giraffe Lorelai had bought her from the hospital gift shop.