A Fight a Friendship Makes

He came over to her right after Robert went to get her a drink.

"Hi Ace, having a good time?"

"I am thanks." she said

"Good, good. Me too. I'm having a good time too."

"Good." she answered slightly confused.

"Yes it is good." he said. He took a gulp of his drink and continued, "So, I didn't know you knew Robert?"

Oh, so that's what he wants, ´ she thought to herself. What is that about, it's not like he has been keeping to him self since we started dating. And we said no strings. ´

She shot her sweetest smile at him, and answered

"I meet him at the Life and Death Brigade gathering," and she remembered the day she had felt so wrong, coming to his dorm during a poker game and ended up falling asleep on his couch. "And the poker game." she added.

"Oh right, right," he says and smirks "Well he must have made quite an impression."

"He just asked me out, is all" she said and smiled innocently while thinking 'It's not like you did, or where going to´

"Sure," he said and took another big draught of his drink "he's kind of a jerk." The smirk was still on his face.

"Excuse me?" she said, surprised as hell.

"Robert. He's kind of a jerk. Haven't you noticed he's kind of a jerk?"

"Nope!" She said while thinking 'Look who's talking'

"Ah." He said like he was surprised. He finished his drink and put the glass down on the table in front of him.

"Night's young." He said, while he grabbed her hand. "Ok, come on." He pulled her of, before she could do anything but ask where they were going. He didn't answer her, but she found out soon enough when they were out of sight from the main room.

"Logan," she said "I'm on a date, and what about Whitney?"

"What about her?" He said and pulled her towards him, trying to kiss her.

"Don't," she said, and tried to pull loose.

She was sick of this. No longer was she going be like pudding in his hands, just doing what he felt like. She didn't find it entertaining anymore, and the obvious jealousy in his voice did nothing to her. It didn't make her feel nothing. He held on to her quite hard though, and she wasn't able to make him let go.

"Don't fight it, its not like we didn't do it before."

He said and buried his face by her neck. She put the hand he wasn't holding on to on his chest and tried too push him away, but he managed to put his arm around her so she couldn't do anything.

"What's the matter with you," he sounded annoyed "have you suddenly turned all holy on me? It's not like you complained the last time."

He smirked, and she felt like punching him, but she wasn't able to move. He tried to kiss her again, and when she kept fighting he held he so close that she had trouble breathing. She snapped for her breath and quietly said

"Would you, please, let me go now Logan!" There was a threatening undertone in her voice.

When he first saw them his heart started pounding. But then again it always did when he looked at her. Ever since the first time he saw her it had been like that, the only way he could bear being near her was if he was plastered. And to make sure no one guessed his feelings for her, he always pretended not to remember her. Not that it seemed to matter to her´ he thought slightly bitter. She was far too preoccupied with Logan. It was pure torture to look at them, but he couldn't look away. It seemed like something was wrong this time, it looked like they were having a power struggle. Hell, it looked like they were having an actual physical struggle. He got a bit worried and moved closer to them. It didn't look like she was enjoying herself being in his arms, and she moved away when he tried to kiss her. Finn couldn't hear what they said over the music, but he saw her gasp for breath, and he saw the threat in her eyes. And he saw when Logan let go of her, and she almost fell from the sudden lapse of support. They hadn't noticed him moving in on them and now he was close enough to hear what they were saying.

"Why are you like this," Rory said while she rubbed the wrist that he had held on to "we agreed that we weren't exclusive, we said no strings, so you have no right to be this way." Her voice trembled a little.

"Oh, come on," he spat at her "you might as well admit it. You only came with Robert to make me jealous."

She rolled her eyes "Yes Logan and the world revolve around your navel." she gave back.

He saw Logan raise his hand and then he felt flames rise up inside him. Logan was going to hit her; he was going to hit Rory. Finn's heart pounded even harder, and at the precise moment Logan's hand swung through the air he jumped in.

She was so surprised at seeing his hand coming at her that she couldn't react at all. She just thought to herself, this isn't happening; he's not going to take a swing at me. Why should he do that? ´ Then she saw somebody's arm come in to stop the swing. She looked to see Finn stand next to them, anger plastered over his face.

"What's going on here Logan?" he asked, his voice was trembling slightly "This doesn't look like fun, does it?" he said it as a question, but wasn't expecting an answer.

"I was… We had…" Logan stuttered. "I didn't mean to hurt you, you know that, don't you Ace…" he trailed of.

"I don't think we should see each other again." Rory said, "Actually, I don't think I want to see you again ever."

"Don't do this Rory," he begged, "I didn't mean it."

"Save it." she said, "I'm not interested."

Logan slowly turned around and left them, they saw him leave the party without a word to anybody. Rory turned to Finn and she could see that he was angry; his glance was fixed on where Logan had disappeared, and there was lightening in his eyes.

"Sorry Finn, but I think I'd better go, but happy birthday."

He zoomed in on her and the anger turned into worry. It struck her that his eyes were so very blue, and the way he looked at her made her knees feel like jell-o.

"That's alright love, what did you do with your date?"

She looked out in the room, and saw Robert sitting in a corner with Whitney. It looked like they had found each other, when their respectively dates had went a-wall. Finn's gaze followed hers, and he saw Robert and Whitney when they started to kiss.

"I guess he won't be missing me." she said with a smile and added "Good for him."

"That's not a normal reaction, you know?" Finn was surprised.

"It wasn't like anything was going on between us," she smiled "it was just a date. You guys seem to be doing stuff like that a lot, dating I mean"

He wasn't sure what to answer so he just smiled. That made her knees even wobblier; his smile was so warm and caring.

"Yeah, I guess so," he said "come on love, I'll walk you home."

"No, I can't let you miss your own birthday party," she said, "I think I've done enough already."

"It wasn't your fault;" she saw his eyes cloud over at the memory "you're innocent in this."

He looked angry again, and it made her felt sad about the whole situation. She had a feeling that she was going to cause trouble between the boys. And she didn't even understand why.

"I'll walk you home love, no arguments." He held his arm out, so she could link hers into it.

They walked through the Yale grounds without saying much. Rory was thinking about what had happened during the evening. What had come into Logan, she had never seen him like that before. It seemed ridiculous that he had acted up like that, when they had said from the beginning that their relationship was no strings attached.

Finn walked slowly along next to her. He had a feeling that she was thinking about Logan, and he didn't know what to say or do. He wanted her to say something, to notice his presence. Her being next to him made his heart pound, and his palms felt sweaty. He could fell the scent of her hair tingle his nostrils and he inhaled to find vanilla lingering behind her.

She felt his warmth beside her and where their arms touched tingles ran through her body. It made her feel uncomfortable, but not in a bad way. More like when something good was about to happen, like when it started to snow.

When they came to her dorm she opened her door and called for Paris, but there was no answer.

"Is she not there?" he asked, "I thought she never went anywhere."

"She's properly at Doyle's" Rory sniggered "I made her promise not to let him stay here too often, and that almost made me loose my roommate."

"Whish it was me;" Finn grinned, "I hate getting up in the morning and seeing Colin walking around bare-arsed." That comment made Rory laugh out loud.

"Well, it's good that you're never up in the morning then." she said after she caught her breath again.

"Not fair," he said and pouted, "You know my eyes can't take the sun."

"Right," she sniggered "you keep saying that, we might start to believe it."

He felt the sudden urge to lean in to kiss her, but instead he looked down at his feet and shuffled them a little.

"Soo, I'd better get back, who knows they might actually start to miss me back there."

"Yeah, you are usually the life of the party, so who knows." She felt a tension between them that wasn't normally there. "So, I guess I'll see you around." She went into her dorm and started to close the door.

"When?"

The word escaped his mouth before he even considered the consequences. She quickly turned around, with a surprised expression. Since he had already plunged in he might just go on.

"When will we see again?"

"Tomorrow?" she asked. Hoping he would say yes, she crossed her fingers behind her back. "We could watch a movie or something?"

"Deal, I'll be here around 6," he smiled at her "I'll let you pick the movies, and then I'll bring food."

"Just remember," she said with a smirk "I have a very healthy appetite."

"I know." He grinned, and leaned in to place a peck on her cheek. "See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." she said and closed the door.

And on each side of the wall, a very happy person was leaning against it with a very goofy smile on their face.