AN: My attempt to continue where A Year in the Life ended playing with the parallels of Rory, Logan, and Jess against Lorelai, Christopher, and Luke. I own nothing. This is my first fic. I don't really know where this is going to go but I'm looking forward to the ride. This first chapter is very short and is really only meat to kind of wrap up that initial awkward conversation. Other chapters will be much more in-depth.

Chapter #1 – It was in the cards.

"Do you think that it was it the right decision? That she raise me alone?" Rory remembered asking her father, the day she had gone to visit him in his office. The day she was conflicted about the role Logan would play in her and her unborn baby's life. She was no fool, someone as in love with literature as Rory always had seen the parallels between Logan and her father. Two very men who had never wanted for nothing, two men who oozed enough charisma to lure the Gilmore Girls multiple times, two essentially perfect guys… two guys who wouldn't be the ones to stick around. Who would never be around when it wasn't convenient. She had no doubt in her mind that her father loved her and her mother, she also had no doubt that Logan somewhat loved her… but she knew their habits. That was why she had gone to see her father that day, not only to tell him about the book, but to see their lives from his perspective, ultimately from Logan's perspective.

"I think it was exactly what was supposed to happen… and I think she'd back me up on that." Christopher answered his daughter truthfully.


When Rory had told her mom the words she had been aching to tell her since she had found out she was pregnant… "Mom, I am pregnant." It felt as if a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders, yet at the same time she had released these words out into the world. They were real. They were true. They existed. The two were silent for what seemed like hours but were merely seconds. Rory saw as Lorelai took a deep breath as if taking these words in and bracing herself.

"Logan's?" She asked simply and once Rory nodded Lorelai did as well. "Ah, I see… apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?" Lorelai asked in some awkward attempt to bring humor into the situation but like so many times in her life, it doesn't quite land and Rory remains silent unsure of what to say. "Does he know?"

Rory looked down at the to-go coffee cup her sweaty palm was grasping before shaking her head. "Not yet…" she said looking back up to meet her mother's gaze. "I'll tell him… after the wedding." She explained. "The last thing I want is to tell him and for him to call off the wedding to fulfill some obligation." A situation Lorelai knew all too well. "Someone should be with someone because of a fierce love… not a fierce guilt."

Lorelai listened to her daughter speak and the emotion swirling inside of her body were conflicting to say the least. On one hand, her daughter was pregnant… by a man engaged to another woman… by a man who had represented everything Lorelai had ran away from when she was 16. On the other hand, she was filled with pride at how Rory was handling everything. She was her daughter after all.

"Mom?" Rory said after a few beats too long of silence from her mother. Lorelai blinked realizing she had been staring off a bit. "Can you say something?" Rory asked as she began nervously picking at the lip of her coffee cup with her nail. While logically she felt sound in her decisions… she still need her mother's comforting words. That things were going to be alright.

Instead Lorelai stood and sighed. "We're going to have to get a good lawyer… Luke is going to fly to London and kill Logan." She said before offering her hand to Rory.

"Come on, kid. Let's get a big and greasy breakfast and some decaf coffee." Lorelai pulled Rory up before wrapping an arm around her as they walked to Luke's. It wasn't a big, dramatic, soothing speech but it was the best she could do. The news was a shock and it would take the reigning Lorelai quite a while to digest it. "I thought we were going to have the conversation 15 years ago when I walked in on you and Jess going at it in the apartment above the diner… thank you for sparing me the visual." Lorelai teased before giving Rory a long overdue kiss on the side of her head.


Next Chapter - Rory is pregnant and people are catching on. Jess makes an unexpected visit.