Summary: Logan breaks up with Rory via his sister and a drunken night could be the best thing to happen to her. [Rory and Colin]
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The Not Jerk
Chapter 1 – Take a Chance on Me
Rory awoke with a jerk, how was it that Colin was in her bed?! She gazed at his form, arm wrapped around her middle. He looked sweet, peaceful and not at all the arrogant prig she knew he could be. She looked around the room and realized it was a hotel. Her keen mind began to stitch the situation back together, she began to collect the information she knew. Slipping from his embrace, she kissed his temple causing him to grin and roll over. Then she grabbed his shirt and buttoned it up a bit so she was covered. Next she crept to the desk and grabbed the pen and stationary that was there. She took herself to the couch, tucked her legs under and began to write her observations about the night before.
Rory and Logan were on a break after a particularly bad fight over her having a casual dinner plan with her friend Jess. Logan was jealous and thought that treating Jess badly and brooding like a petulant man-boy he might not upset his girlfriend. He stormed off and then after a week; over Thanksgiving break his sister calls to apologize that they had broke up. She felt the complete fool, she didn't even know they were broke up. She decided to go to the pub and down a few to numb the pain. She found Colin there drowning his sorrows over his lack of love life. She was drunk enough to tell him, well, everything.
"I do anything he wants, anything, I mean he is only the second man I have ever slept with so what do I know? He has to teach me, so I try to learn, I guess I suck at it. You know he had his sister tell me we were over? I don't even merit a real break up I get it second hand." She drunkenly rambled.
"That sucks; he's a fool you know. The guys in the LDB, HELL, more than half the guys on campus would kill to be your teacher. You are kind and beautiful and you have this unassuming way of just making people feel important. You deserve better. I bet I could find you ten guys here who would want to be the one to take you home tonight and be there for you. You deserve better, you should have your needs met too." He retorted in drunken indignation.
"What about you? Would you want to teach me?" She leaned in and kissed him, then pulled back, "Colin, I am so sorry, I mean you are his friend, one of his best even. I am so..." Her rant was cut off by his mouth on hers, his hands in her hair and his body pressed up against her, his intent known above her navel.
He grabbed her hand tossed a $100 bill on the table then pulled her out the door hailing a cab. He took her to a local hotel and checked them in to a room where he proceeded to show her about her pleasure all night long.
She smiled at the memory, he had been gentle, tender, sweet even, making sure she was OK every step of the way, then he had ravaged her like she could never have read or imagined even the Anne Rampling she had read paled in the debauched way he made her feel. She set the pad down, mind now quieted she removed the shirt, placing on a chair back and crawled back into bed. Instinctively he rolled over and pulled her to him, she felt his interest as he curled her into his form and moaning lightly. She smiled in a newly womanly way and rubbed into him falling into a half-slumber. They slept half aroused half asleep until one got the better of the other. A shrill ringing then thumping of someone at the door rousted them from their double drunk slumber. They laughed about forgetting they had ordered room service prior to their last toss and requested it be delivered 1 hour before check out as the wakeup call. She rose and grabbed his shirt and he grabbed the hotel robe to pay for the meal. To his utter shock and appall, it was Logan, he burst into the room full of jealous fury.
"What the HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!" Logan demanded while Rory clutched Colin's shoulders from behind him in a sad attempt to hide her state of undress and he held her hip keeping her behind him protectively.
Just then the room service they were expecting arrived and they were accompanied by security which kindly asked Logan to leave as he was disturbing the guests. He pulled himself from the grasp of security and glared at Colin then Rory and said "One Hour, my room, ONE HOUR!" Then left in a complete huff.
The server set up breakfast then left quietly, Colin directed Rory to sit holding out her chair, then after seating himself broke out into a complete fit of laughter, she followed suit.
"So, best morning after ever eh?" He joked.
"So much better than my mom walking in post coitus." She demurred.
"You can't say that and not tell me the story, spill. Oh and for the record, you so do not suck at that!" He teased nodding towards the bed and poured her coffee then offering her butter for her scones.
Her mind clicked to her grandmother's lamentation that her grandfather no longer offered her butter, and she reached for it purposely glancing his hand. She felt comfortable, something she had never felt before, not with Dean and certainly not with Logan. This felt different.
"Well you didn't know me in my freshman year, I was a lost lamb, trying to keep my Stars Hollow life while still being at Yale. I was able to do it while at Chilton, but was having no success duplicating the effort. My first ever boyfriend had got married and was working for my mom at her new Inn, I stupidly befriended him. Long story short, I slept with a married man, losing my virginity, escaped to Europe with my Grandma and half of Hartford, hoping we could both forget; then I stupidly sent him a letter of apology that ended his marriage, dated him awkwardly for a bit before he dumped me in front of Logan; you and half of the LDB boys, and then I dated Logan casually, then exclusively now he dumped me and I slept with you and here we are..." He quieted her again with a passionate kiss.
"Whatever you want us to be, look Rory, I don't have a cute name for you, a newspaper background, a thug life nor a poor boy story for you, but I have always looked at you as if you were the 7th wonder of the world, I never acted on it because of Logan, but he obviously blew it beyond proportion, give me a chance. I get that Logan is my BEST friend but you, YOU are worth more. I need to be with you, you can teach me. I see the look in your eyes - it is one of wonder. What can you teach boy #3 - more. You Miss Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore can teach me life. And if being in the LDB teaches anything it is to grab LIFE and give it all you've got. So – What do you say?"
"Colin, that is the most decent indecent proposal I have ever received and I accept!" She wrapped her arms around him and dragged him back to the bed for another round.
They went beyond checkout time which was just fine by them.