Rogan Series: Slow and Steady Rush Story 3
[ I am re-working this series at the moment... it will start with S1 this time for those readers who like to read in order. This will remain S3 with some minor changes to account for events that occur in Stories 1 and 2. This Series is Rogan start to finish. The Genres will be Romance, Humor, Hurt, Comfort Drama. The Hurt comfort and Drama relate to Rory's relationship with Lorelai and Logan's with Shira. Odette will attempt to provide drama but will be contently outsmarted. I am in the process of re-vamping all my stories as some storylines were two similar. Please be patient. I do have some completed chapters. My brother is editing some of them for me.]
Story one is this series is probably going to be Isn't that the way Love's suppose to be
Love's Gonna Change Everything I Feel
AN: This is set during 7x21 [unto the breach] forward. Logan starts to walk away after Rory's comment of not yet. He loves Rory but doesn't know if there's a compromise to be made. Rory sees the reality of what could happen if she doesn't go after him. How that would turn her into exactly who she didn't want to be [selfish, Lorelai]. However, is Rory loving her mother while putting Logan first enough for Lorelai Victoria Gilmore?
Chapter 1: My life, my Choice
Rory was standing there watching Logan walk away. She couldn't do it not even preserve her repaired relationship with Lorelai. She found herself running not caring that Lorelai was yelling after her. She reached Logan just before he reached for the driver side door of his car. Rory was willing to put everything on the line to keep him from walking away.
"Logan, wait, please just wait," said Rory. "I love you I'm not lying about that but I scared. I am so scared of taking that jump but not because I don't want to have that with you. All I've ever seen is mom's relationships failing. We're young, I've gotten no offers for jobs at all. Mom doesn't know I overheard her call Mitchum. She asked that he cut off certain opportunities to be so I'd be more unsure of following my heart and would go with my head. But Logan even in my mind when I saw you turn and walk away I knew I could just leave it where it stood. I love you. But none of my worries mean that I don't marriage and forever with you because at some point I want that Logan. You've always been the only person I see that future with, as hard as Dean tried to push that conversation I just never saw it."
"Then marry me Ace," said Logan. "We don't have to set a date now or even within the next year or even the next two. I willing to take a route while engaged that's comfortable for you. Both comfortable with the idea of having a secure job before we get married and with the timing of the wedding itself. Getting engaged right now and giving our selves some time in new jobs is enough for me right now Ace. I just need us to take some kind of step forward. I love you and you're my whole world Ace. I need for you to see me that same way. I get you and your mom have a bond that unlike most mothers and daughters. I can't ever replace her but at some point Ror I need to be more important than your mother. I know I cannot replace her but the choices made need to take me into account before her. This is not about destroying your bond with Lorelai, if she chooses to take it that way it's on her, it about strengthening the bond we share."
"We can really wait with a wedding date and settle into life wherever we go? We can wait to settle into or find jobs before we talk about a wedding date getting set? I really do want that future I need to know you can wait Logan is we do get engaged now because we are so young. But by the same account I don't want to be my mom late three something with a half-hearted very short attempt at marriage and multiple failed engagements either. I want to find that middle ground that she's never really tried to find," asked Rory.
"Yes we can," said Logan.
"Then yes I'll marry you. Logan you've matter more to me than mom since you went to London. The day after your graduation I had to figure out if this future was what I wanted. It's the only way I could deal with the long distance for the five months we did. I think that what bothers mom is when you were in London school kept me here. But I graduated today, nothing ties me to Stars Hollow or the State of Connecticut now. That is unless I make the choose to let it. I suspect mom wanted to help that choice along. Attempting to convince me of the need to have some wide-open future by limiting jobs. She seemed to attempt to limit anything that didn't fit into the life plan she claimed I formed at age 4. She limited anything not directly related also to the path toward foreign correspondences field of journalism," said Rory. "When Lane wanted to offer her advice to me I really should have had that conversation because maybe I would have figured this out without you nearly walking right out of my life."
Logan took the engagement ring from the bridal set back out of the blue velvet box. They were out of Lorelai's sight so she didn't know what was happening and she didn't like that. She was sure her call to Mitchum would resolve the problem. She was alway certain that she hung up before Rory could hear her side of the conversation. Mitchum was attempting to keep Logan from officially walking from HPG which had been his reason for helping the request that Lorelai had begged of him. Logan slipped the platinum infinity diamond engagement ring out of the box and onto Rory's left ring finger. This glamorous setting features delicate strands of diamonds and emeralds twisting together to create a stunning band (0.20 total carat weight). The stone in the center was a marquise shaped diamond that was ¾ of a carat. It was part of a bridal set of rings, the wedding band was a Platinum infinity contoured diamond ring. It was a perfect fit to the engagement band and had diamonds embedded into the wedding band that were .30 karts worth in total all together. The Emerald's in the engagement ring held important memories of moments of his relationship with Rory. Starting from the time the officially became a couple after Rory's freshman year at Yale ended in May. When the first meet in May when Rory was 15 years old and Francine had set Logan up at her escort for the October Daughters of the American revolution ball. May held important moments that Logan wanted to think about that led up to this one. But so, did many other months from the years they were friends to the moment that committed. Logan and Rory officially became an item in May of her sophomore year. While they'd had gotten together a year earlier that didn't define their relationship that first year. Rory wasn't one of many but they both had their reason for not labeling it. As Logan put the ring of her left ring finger Rory really looked at it. She wiped any opinion her mother might hold out of her mind and realized how well her boyfriend of three years and friend of 7 years really knew her. Rory considered the fact that Logan understood her in a way that Lorelai might never. Rory hated Lorelai's nicknames for her of mini me and fruit of my loin. She was sure going against Lorelai's life plan would cause an argument but for once Rory didn't care. If Lorelai choose to ask like a child, that was going to be her choice. Rory wasn't going to make Lorelai's mistakes.
"You and me, from here on out Ace," said Logan. "I'm not telling you to make and issue out of this with Lorelai. If it's going to becomes one let your mother make it that. But decisions that affect us should be talked through with each other. I know you've spent your life depending on Lorelai's opinion. I'm asking you to depend on mine without destroying things with Lorelai. May she'll destroy it herself but let her look like the child Ror."
"I am sorry Logan, and I do love you," said Rory. "I should have known that the pro/con list should have matter more that mom's damn plans especially given that it came out strongly into you favor. Despite all our mistakes and things, we had to work through to get to his point the pro/con list directed me towards saying yes. Mom had to do her own list to dissuade me that was all about some life plan I don't remember making as a young child. When you started to walk away Logan I saw what made me run after you. I had this horrible imagine of me being next generation Lorelai who ran from everything she wanted for in my case a journalism career. I love writing but that's not more important than us. For my mom building her own Inn, being a business owner caused her to run from love. She bailed on her short marriage to my dad then blamed him. She bailed on Luke when she didn't like waiting when he discovered April was his daughter and he was never told she existed until April did it herself. She also walked away from Max, my high school English teacher literally the night before their wedding. She called dad and used that as an excuse to end the engagement and everything with Max. Giving in to her would mean turning into her. I might love her but I don't respect the kind of person she been in her personal or love life."
"Ace," said Logan.
"There a lot more I want to share with you. I think I should share with you about what been going through my head since last night," said Rory. "For now, we should go before Dad or Grandma come looking for us. They the two who will be curious enough. Know this mom might react badly but I'm sure of what I said after I followed you Logan. I just needed to know that I could still have a career. Not that you wanted a trophy wife, but Grandma and Shira would love if you would push for that once this becomes public knowledge. Knowing something and hearing it from you though Logan are two very different things."
"I love you baby," said Logan. He walked to the side of Rory so he could take Rory's left hand in his. They were going to leave her family guessing for now. Lorelai was bound to cause a scene.
Logan was ok with the outcome of everything that happened over that last 15 minutes. Rory talked to him and agreed to marry him. She truly talked to him in the end, and they compromised. They were officially engaged but would hold firm about setting a wedding date until they were both ready and so that Rory had time to find a journalism job. What started out as only an offer in California, Logan now had offers from a paper in London, Boston, New York as well. This was on top of Mitchum wanting to negotiate terms that Logan would be happier with to stay at Huntzberger Publishing group to work out of Boston. Regardless of Lorelai's opinion Logan knew that he wasn't going to stand by this time and let Lorelai hurt her daughter's feelings. Logan knew Lorelai would do it simply because the life Rory saw for herself didn't match the life Lorelai saw for her.
If Rory could have picked the ring herself, she admitted that she would have picked the one Logan gave her. Rory had only told Lane about her dream ring. At some point Rory would have to ask how Logan knew what to select. She knew for a fact Logan had been showed what Lorelai had wanted Rory to get but Logan didn't think it spoke to who Rory was or who they were as a couple in and out of society. Lorelai pick showed just how little she knew her daughter.
Rory stopped Logan about 15 feet short of where her family was standing. She couldn't figure out how it was possible that Luke, Max and Chris the bulk of Lorelai major romantic mistakes could all be standing there at once. Logan turned Rory to face him.
"Ace what's the matter," said Logan speaking quickly so the group could not hear him.
"This is my graduation day," said Rory. "And mom has every romantic large mistake she's made standing right there is Max, dad and Luke. This day is supposed to be about my achievement not her failures romantically."
"We will walk the fifteen from here to them, announce our engagement," said Logan. "The attention she seeks should be put back onto you with the announcement. Even if not I'm proud of you Ace, as are all our friends. Colin, Finn and Steph all want to throw you a graduation party one that not your mother vision or Emily's."
"I'd like that," said Rory. "Do you mind holding off on sharing the next step we decide on later until we have the whole gang together?"
"No problem at all Ace," said Logan as he leaned in to kiss her. Lorelai was watching it seemed as if they had not yet spoken about Logan's proposal. She gets her child back once they did of that Lorelai was sure. After all Lorelai need some romantic assistances from Rory as far Chris, Luke and Max were concerned. They had all proposed to her a second time.
Rory and Logan walks the short remaining distance to her family. It was Rory who decided to make the announcement. "I appreciate that you all came for my graduation. I have news to share with you all. Logan and I are engaged, while I don't know what jobs offers I'll get Logan and I have agreed weather he takes the one in California will be a decision we make together. It a possibility, it's not off the table. Your opinion is not welcome mother, your advice was cruel, selfish and all about you and your view for my life. I'm not you mini me… not fruit of your loins. I am your daughter but my own individual. Dad I'm glad you found someone to watch Gigi thanks for being here. Max, and Luke I'm very surprised to see both of you but thanks for being here. Grandma, Grandpa and Dad I appreciate you all paying for Yale and the support you gave me during the semester I took off. Now we can do lunch if you're interested but Logan and I are meeting up with our friends at 5:30 tonight to share the news of our engagement.
AN: I intentionally left a cliffhanger. I wanted to pull readers in so they wonder if Lorelai even bothers to listen to a thing Rory says. This was not the story I intended to get back up today but it's the one that got completed. Updates as well as edits are coming to my other stories. The process might be slow but they are not forgotten.
Edited with Dragon on 8-9-2017 [Chapter also expanded slightly before reposting.] Chapter 2 should be up on this story tomorrow. I can't promise it will be edited yet since I going back attempted to work through all unedited chapters I have posted, but it will be up.
READER Please response to the question below. I try really hard to make Each story different.
Should Rory face a confrontation when she goes to see Lorelai in Stars Hollow the day after her graduation?
Why should Lorelai be stuck on her love life mattering more than Rory's?
Who should Lorelai be with Max, Luke or Chris?
What should bring Rory and Logan to Boston, how should a compromised work deal with Mitchum factor in?
Mitchum offers Rory and job while revealing who was really behind his editor telling her she didn't have what it took to be a journalist, what should Mitchum's offer to Rory be? Why does she accept it what advice does Logan offer make Rory feel like it the right choice?
How does dinner with the Yale Gang, plus, Honor, Josh and Lane go?
Does Rory cross paths with anyone from her past, as the walk by the table the same moment the news of her engagement to Logan is shared? If so should it be Dean, Tristan, or Jess? Should they voice an opinion?
How should Mitchum reach out to speak to both his son and Rory? What should have cases his change of heart to consider that not everyone wanted his life style even if they were willing to be a business man?
Should Mitchum have a love that Shira destroy bring news of the fact she was pregnant with honor? Should an affair with that woman resulted in Logan? Should Mitchum and Elias forced Shira to raise Logan as her own because she was unable to give Mitchum a second child?
What would readers like to see happen? [I try very hard to take each story is a different direct, which is why I ask for readers input.]
How does Mitchum prove that he truly turning over a new leaf and starting fresh in his relationships with Rory, Logan, Honor and Josh? Does kicking Shira to the curb finally and acknowledging his truly love factor in?
Should Lane be paired with someone other than Zach if so who? [Colin, Dave R. or Finn]?
Why does news of Rory's engagement leave Lindsey finally forgiving Rory [not Dean] for a one-night stand Rory knew was a mistake the moment the sex was done?
How does Lindsey letting go of the past open the door making the woman friends after so much animosity?
