A Study of a Relationship in 100 Parts

by Pari Passu

My stab at the Fanfic 100 challenge. Rory and Logan in all their resplendent, functional dysfunctional glory. They range from drabble to one-shot, but are all meant to be snapshots of the same relationship.

1. coffee and bulletin boards

Title: coffee and bulletin boards
Prompt: 001. beginnings
Word Count: 146
Rating: K+
Summary: the beginning of it all.
Author's Notes: I'm trying my hand at the Fanfic 100 project. This may not end well, but hopefully, it'll sort itself out well enough. And standard disclaimer (disclaiming all ownership of anything remotely connected to Gilmore Girls) applies from here on out.

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001. coffee and bulletin boards

In hindsight she should have paid more attention to their initial encounters. She should have known from the instant that he casually dismissed her at the coffee kiosk that she would be drawn to him. Or even at the bulletin board at she posted the news of the wake. Yes, that exchange should have spelled it all out.

Men who were too accessible did nothing for her. Just look at the way her relationship with Dean had crashed and burned. Sweet and safe might as well have been predictable and boring.

Logan Huntzberger was decidedly neither. He used O'Brian against her in their first argument, for heaven's sake. She should have recognized her hectic pulse as lust, not anger. She should have kicked him in the shin and stuck her tongue out. She should have turned and ran.

She sighed. She should have gone to Harvard.

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