AN: I have been working on this fic for a couple months now and have serveral chapters written. I know basically everyone has done there own version of a post season seven fic and this is one of mine. It just popped into my head and wouldn't leave me alone and still hasn't so I decided to post it and see what everyone thinks. So here is the first chapter of Twist of Fate, hope you all enjoy, let me know what you think!

Chapter One: Late!

Rory Gilmore groaned as she flopped down on the hard lumpy mattress in her hotel room. She'd had a long day, or rather evening, Obama's rally that night. It was now ten o'clock in Arizona, where the trail currently was, which meant it was midnight in New England and too late to call her mom or best friends. She'd been on the trail for six weeks now and she was finding more and more that it wasn't quiet the life she'd thought it out to be.

She hated being in stuffy, crappy hotel rooms that she swears are against every health and building code that existed every night. She hated never seeing her mom or best friends. She hated even more that with sometimes four hour time differences and hectic schedules she barley got to even speak to them. It had been almost a week since she'd talked to her mom and longer since she'd talked to Lane or Paris. She hated eating fast food constantly, which seemed to not be agreeing with her stomach most days, bad hotel room coffee and even worse gas station coffee. She hated being a packed, loud, usually stinky, dirty bus with all the other reporters who just gossiped about each other. She really just wanted to go home!

She was sick, in every since of the word. She wanted to throw up but had nothing in her stomach since she already had thrown up twice, it was odd she'd never been car sick before but found she was a lot lately. She was home sick, missing her mom, her home, her books, her own bathroom, her own bedroom, her own bed! She was also heart sick, she still missed Logan so much it physically hurt at times and often cried herself to sleep. This life was definitely not what she envisioned at all and she wonders how long she can keep it up before deciding to quit. She'd never been a quitter before but this was just too much.

"Hey Rory, do you have any tampons, I'm almost out?" Her roommate and only friend on the trail Renee called from their hotel bathroom. She walked out dressed in boxers and Princeton T-shirt. She had her dark auburn hair up in a messy pony tail and her deep green eyes behind a pair of thinly rimmed glasses as opposed to the contacts she usually wore. "Oh Rory, sweetie what's wrong?" Renee said rushing over to Rory's bed seeing her friend in obvious distress. Rory had begun crying at some point during her mental freak out but she's not sure when.

"It's all wrong...I can't do this...I don't want to keep doing this," Rory sobbed and Renee silently shushed her and attempted to sooth her but Rory knew it would be no use.

She cried herself into exhaustion and just before darkness consumed Rory Renee's earlier question hit her. Tampons. Oh my god! She would have thought further but she was much too tired and was dragged into sleep.

Rory woke up early the next morning. She showered and dressed, today would be their day off because they didn't need to leave for the next rally until tomorrow. She sat down on her bed and opened her computer on her lap and started checking her emails. She found she had a couple dozen from her mom, about a dozen from Lane all with baby picture attachments, a handful from Paris. She quickly emailed back her friends and decided she would call her mom later. She then started doing a little research online and the more she read the more anxious she became. It was all adding up.

It was probably an hour later when Renee stirred in the bed beside her. She quickly closed down her computer and hopped over to the other bed.

"Hey, rise and shine! I have to talk to you," Rory said.

"What's the matter?" Renee mumbled.

"I'm late," Rory stated.

"What do you mean late? How late? Late for what?" Renee asked tiredly.

"Oh about seven weeks late, I haven't had my period since May," Rory answered.

"That's..." Renee started to mumbled sleepy then she looked at Rory stunned, all sleep gone from her mind. "What?" Renee shrieked sitting up quickly. "You're pregnant?" she asked.

"Well that's my obvious conclusion. I'm sick all the time when I've never been car sick before, despite not holding anything down my clothes barley fit anymore which I had chalked up to fast food and no exercise, my boobs are gigantic and sore which I actually between everything else hadn't noticed. However now I'm noticing everything including the fact that I haven't had my period in over two months and hadn't noticed until last night when you asked for tampons. I need to take a test and I'm freaking out so will you please come with me. I don't want to do pee stick test, I want a doctor to tell me and also make sure that the baby is ok if I am in fact pregnant. I found a clinic a couple blocks from here and they take walk ins. Will you please come with me," Rory pleaded.

"Of course I will and on the way you can tell me all about daddy," Renee stated getting up and getting into her bag she grabbed a change of clothes.

Rory hadn't told anyone about her and Logan, after all even if he had quit he was still a Huntzberger. You say that name around reporters and you get eaten alive. "Only if you swear not to tell anyone," Rory returned.

"Would I do that?" Renee asked in return, completely serious and Rory had to smile at her friend. She was really down to earth, loving, caring, compassionate and she never joined in the gossip mill, she respected peoples privacy, that's why the two got along so well. So Rory would tell her but not here, the walls tended to have ears.

"Good point," she returned. "Now get ready," she said and Renee went into the bathroom.

Thirty minutes later the girls were walking into the womens clinic. Rory went over to the desk and told the nurse what was going on and she assured her it would only be a ten minute wait and gave Rory papers to fill out. She joined Renee in the waiting room and quickly filled out the three pages of paper work. She took them to the nurse then sat down by Renee again.

"Alright so the guy?" Renee asked, Rory sighed.

"My ex-boyfriend Logan. We met my sophomore year of college. He was a trust fund baby and at first I thought he was like all other men like him: spoiled, rich, self-centered snob. However as I got to know him I found this whole other side to him. Yeah he was spoiled and cocky 99.9 percent of the time but he was smart, I mean unbelievably smart, and he was great to hang out with. Of course he was one of those playboys, he didn't do relationships. I decided I wanted to be with him, even if I wasn't the only one with him, so we started a 'no strings' relationship in our second semester. Then toward the end of April I realized it just wasn't for me, I was a girlfriend girl, I had boyfriends not escorts. I told Logan we could go back to just being friends but he didn't want that, instead he decided to commit," she stated.

"Wow," Renee said, Rory nodded.

"We dated until November of the next year. I had a lot of family stuff going on and his father was pressuring him, it was his senior year and his father was making him take on more responsibilities in the family business and making Logan do things he didn't want to do. Logan's way of dealing was partying all night with his friends. Then my ex-boyfriend came into town and Logan was away on a business trip and I made plans with Jess, my ex, to have dinner. Logan came back early, saw us leaving to go out and decided to join us. That did not go well, Logan was an ass, he was drunk and upset and completely attacked Jess who rightfully left. I went after Jess, he and I got into a fight and then I went back into the bar to find Logan and he and I got into a fight and he ended up storming out. We didn't talk again until January, however his sister, who had always liked me despite the rest of his family hating me, called me at Thanksgiving and told me how sucky it was that Logan and I had 'broken up'. He broke up with me, through his sister," Rory stated.

"Wow. Wait why would his family hate you?" she asked.

"I'm not what they pictures for their son/grandson. I'm a career woman, I want to have a job and life outside planning tea parties and business functions. I wasn't brought up in 'their world' I apparently don't understand the expectations and family obligations. They told me all of this right at the dinner table just days after Logan and I became an official couple. His sister had invited us because she was announcing her engagement and wanted backup, Logan, and distraction, me. I think if she knew that it would have turned into a shanghai against me she never would have insisted we be there, it was awful," Rory explained.

"Yikes. Ok so you 'broke up' in November, what happened after that?" Renee asked.

"Well I had moved home for break and when I got back to Campus in January Logan was waiting for me at the coffee cart. He would bring me coffee, entire coffee carts, donuts, flowers anything he could think of to try and make it up to me. He went so far as going to my mother and pleading with her to help him. I eventually caved and we talked and got back together. A few weeks later Paris, my good friend I've mentioned, who was my roommate at the time kicked me out of our apartment. She had been editor of Yale Daily News and she was ousted and I was named the new editor and Paris is...territorial and it doesn't take much for her to feel like you stabbed her in the back and she thought I lobbied for it, that I stole it from her so she kicked me out. I couldn't find anywhere to live and Logan asked...more insisted, I move in with him. Things were good, we were good. There was a small disaster with his sister and brides maids and Thanksgiving and Christmas when we were 'broken up' but we got past it. Then when Logan graduated his father sent him to London, it was supposed to be for a year. We did long distance, it was really hard, it sucked. Then Logan did some business deals and he ended up moving to New York in November. We continued to date and see each other, I moved back in with Paris, who had made up with me, because me staying in an apartment Logan was paying for when he was just a couple hours away paying for another place was a tad ridiculous, it felt wrong. Before when he was in London our apartment was still his home when he visited, but then when he was in New York it was his home, not our place in New Haven. Anyways he made a bad business deal, got into some legal trouble and ended up quiting the family company. He wanted to go out and do something on his own away from the family, he wasn't happy, and the only way to change it was to stop working for his father, so he did.

"This was around April. Then he started doing these job interviews in California and mean while I'm trying to figure out where I'd be after graduation. Logan he told me he didn't want me to factor him in, he would factor me in. I needed to make my choice based on what I wanted without him influencing it. Then the night of my graduation party my grandparents planned, he proposed. He got the job in Palo-Alto, this new tech company that still being built and he would be a partner, he said we could rent this house with an avocado tree in the back and I could work at one of the papers in San-Fransisco. It was all just...sudden. We'd never talked about marriage before, never, not once. Then suddenly he wants to get married and has all these plans and I just froze, I didn't know what to say. He told me I could think about it and I did. I was scared and I didn't know what I wanted and I wasn't ready to settle down roots. So the day of graduation I said no. I told him that I wasn't ready, I said we could do long distance, I was willing to try until I figured out where I was going, what I was doing, he wasn't. He didn't want to do long distance, for him it was all or nothing. I said I couldn't do it and he walked away, I haven't talked to him since," Rory stated.

"Oh wow, oh honey, I'm so sorry," Renee said completely and utterly stunned, she wrapped her arm around Rory.

"I miss him so much that it hurts, it physically hurts, I feel like I'm dying sometimes, like I can't breath. Sometimes I understand it and other times I'm just so angry at him. I mean after everything we've been through, everything I've waited through for him, when he was being a jerk and an ass and off partying with his friends and throwing his life around like it was nothing and forgiving him when he basically cheated on me and waiting when he gets shipped off to another country for six damn months that was supposed to be a year and he can't give me a few months to figure out my life? He can't wait for me to be ready? What is that?" Rory stated going from upset to angry and Renee sighed.

"Well honey I think some of that is hormones but you're right. What he did it wasn't fair, it was down right selfish and disrespectful of you and your dreams and you have every right to be hurt and upset," She stated, Rory sighed heavily.

"Rory Gilmore," A nurse called before Rory could say anything and she stood up.

"Want me to come with you?" Renee asked.

"Yes please," Rory answered and Renee stood as well and they headed back to an exam room.

-TBC-

AN2: So there is the first chapter. Next chapter is the actual doctors appointment. Please review.