Intro: Lorelai and Chris are married they live in high society in Hartford, they have a vacation homes in Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod, and of course Stars Hollow! Rory Gilmore-Hayden, Logan Huntzberger, Stephanie Vanderbuilt, Collin McCrea, Finnegan Morgan all go to Yale and have known each other since they were born all parents are friends. Rory is also friends with Paris Gellar due to the fact that they are both competitive when is comes to school and the paper. Rory is on good terms with both sets of story starts during the beginning of summer after their sophomore year at YALE. Honor is 2 years older than Logan and has just finished YALE. Her boyfriends name is Josh. With out further explanation I hope you like the story and remember read this "IN OMNIA PARATUS..."
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I could say I own Gilmore Girls I don't. I borrowed all characters, setting, and some dialogue from the show, I don't own anything besides the story line I created. :)
Chapter 1: Coming Home
Rory and her mom were watching movies the night she had finally moved all her stuff home after her first year being in college. Her father was in his study with Logan's Dad finishing up some last minute plans for the party that they were throwing for Honor's graduation tomorrow.
Rory turns to her Mom to ask her something about the party the next day. "hey mom are what time are we leaving on sunday to go to Martha's vineyard?" Ummm...I think 6:00, but don't worry your father promised that we would both have huge coffees to start off the day because God knows we will need it to deal with all the lovely people in society" says Lorelai sarcastically. "I'm with ya there, I hate these parties...they are so boring!"
"I know hun, gosh you know when I was your age the parities were just as bad! believe me I know your pain" Lorelai said laughing at a funny memory in her head remembering a graduation party with all of her friends at the Vineyard and then she remembered the pool house that she threw the best sub party she had ever been to. "you know rory its not all bad!" said Lorelai with a huge mischievous grin on her face "your friends will be there and you do know that we had the pool house up there redone this past year for the summer"
Lorelai looked at her daughter and at that exact moment Rory looked at her mom and they knew they were thinking the exact same thing!
"Mom I'm sure the others are already planning a sub-party, you know how logan, colin, finn, and steph are! But mainly you know how finn is! Plus Logan wouldn't make Honor suffer all night long at the party"
"yes but what is we beat them to it, we could decorate the pool house and stock it fully with all the essentials! What do you think?! Please lets do it you can shock your friends and we continue the tradition of the gilmore-hayden ladies being the best party throwers!Plus it would be at our house, and if logan plans t you guys will technically still be at the party, so you can't be as wild and crazy, well not that it has ever stopped them before" lorelai said laughing
Rory looked at her mom laughing at how excited she was to do this and although it really wasn't her style she did want honors graduation party to be fun and memorable. "Well...I guess we can't go back on a tradition, I mean we have to be the best at everything right mom?!"
"ohhh yessssss! Okay lets make a list of everything we need to bring!" The mother-daughter team began listing everything they needed to make this a great party. Lorelai was so happy to do this for Rory because no one knew better than her what it was like to be trapped in this world and not be able to have any fun when you felt like you needed to most.
"okay so mom shall we review the list?"
"yes, ohhhhh but before you do let's get your dad although I love the girl power we have going here on the slim chance that asking a male for help and him having a good suggestion we should probably have him see the list also because of course your dad wasn't nearly as good as me at throwing subparties, he did have some experience with them and on the off chance we may have forgot something which would be terrible lets go review" Rory looked at her mom in amazement at how even the simplest things could make her rant.
"Wait mom mitchum is in there, we can't go in yet."
"Oh right well, then I guess we will just have to wait, a bit. Well I guess I will go get all the necessities for our movie night, Ill be back in a half hour, do you want to come?"
"No it's okay I think I'm going to catch up on some reading, I've been so busy these past couple days, and I'm going to do some more planning"
"Okay bye sweets, don't burn down the house! love you"
"Bye mom, love you!" Rory went into the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee, she was excited to do this for Honor, she was like an older sister to her and she wanted her to have a fun graduation and not some stuffy boring party.
She smiled as she saw the caller ID of the person calling.
"Hey Logan!"
"Hey Ace! How's it goin?"
"nothing just making some coffee, did you know your dad was here by the way"
"Yeah I did, I guess he wanted your dad to read the speech he was going to say about honor tomorrow, plus I saw the light on in your room and in the kitchen and figured you were still up!"
"wait you saw the light on in my room? are you here?" rory opened the back door near the kitchen and saw Logan's car in the drive way.
"logan why didn't you tell me you were coming" rory quickly walked outside. She gave him big hug, which he reciprocated equally.
"Miss me ace? its only been about 10 hours since I last saw you!" said logan
"what I can't miss my best friend?
Logan smirked at rory and took her hands in his.
"Of course you can I just didn't know I had such an affect on you." said logan with a smirk They walked inside and rory poured logan a cup of coffee as well.
"So whats up, just came to say hi"
"yeah i was in the neighborhood, and thought I would come say hi!" They began to walk out of the kitchen when logan spotted the list in rory's hand.
"Hey Ace whatcha go there?"
"Oh, well it was supposed to be a surprise, but nothing really gets past you, plus i could use your help"
"what is it for?"
"well I know tomorrow night we will obviously be having a sub party, but i though it would be nice to spice it up alittle, make it special for honor, so my mom thought we could go down to our house at the vineyard since its down the street from yours and have it there."
"Ace! Of course I will help you, She's going to love it. Well tell me what you have so far."
Just as rory was about to read off the list, Logan and Rory's fathers came out of the study.
"Mitchum turned to the pair, oh i didn't know you were here logan."
"Hey logan, it's good to see you!" said Chris
"Hey chris, and dad yeah, umm rory invited me over."
"Yeah, for a movie night."
"Oh fine then, how are you rory, glad to be home?" Mitchum said smiling at rory.
"Very, It's good to see you! I'm excited for tomorrow!"said rory
"As am I, Well I should be going. I'll see you all tomorrow" said mitchium grinning
"I'll walk you out, hey rory where your mom" said chris
"Oh, she went to go get the essentials she will be back soon." said rory
The two men exited and the room.
"Okay so let me hear this list Ace!"
"Wait lets go in my dad's study because i'm sure he can help too." Logan smirked at the fact they were walking over to her dad's study to ask for his support in throwing a party.
"RIght, lets go" Chris entered the room about 15 mins later with Lorelai and found the pair sitting down.
"Oh hey mom your back, oh and by the way logan's here"
"Hey Lorelai!" he said smiling
"Ahhh logan! I'm surprised you weren't here earlier! We've missed you guys around here! I assume rory filled you in on my idea for tomorrow"
Chris looked at them all confused. "As a matter a fact she did, and I gotta say i think its a great idea!"
"Wait what else is happening to tomorrow" said chris
"well Chris, the day is finally here that our smart little pro/con list making, careful, thoughtful decision making, structured, and innocent daughter has come to us the masters of getting through the hell of the place known as hartford society to ask for tips on how to throw an amazing sub-party!"
Chirs looked at Rory and then back at Lorelai and then started smiling and laughing. "Our little girl is finally seeing reason!" turning form lorelai to rory "So sweetie I assume your mom and you have begun making a list lets here it" Rory and Logan laughed at how amazing her parents were and how they wanted to help her in throwing a party and how proud they were that she would be doing something reckless. Even though her friends were very outgoing she was always the more careful and innocent one in the group. But at her father's words she suddenly felt very excited about what her mom and her had come up with. Rory took out the list.
"Okay well here is goes:
Honor's Grad Party
-class of 2005 decoration
-yale decorations
-a banner that say 'congratulations honor!'
-cake
-candy
-appetizers/snacks
ohh and all food for us will be provided by sookie
-scotch, logan i think you and my dad can handle that. (logan and chris nodded and smirked)
-Champagne which mom is going to take care of
-vodka and tequila and any other types of alcohol that you both see fit, ohh and one of the most important things
-music which between the 4 of us shouldn't be hard to make a great playlist! So anything we missed?"
"no i think thats everything important and let me just say I envy you because we have to eat fancy food all night and you get to go off and eat everything sookie make!"
Rory laughed and her mom looked proudly at her daughter and then to logan. She wanted to have her daughter experience high society but be able to know that her home was not the same as all her friends it was safe and it was a home not just a house. At that moment she knew that Rory knew that. She knew that logan felt the same way as well, as did her other friends, but logan in particular. Lorelai and Chris both knew how mitchum and shira could be and Lorelai and chris from experience knew that being there for him was what he really needed when his father pounded it into his head that he wasn't good enough.
"So girls what will the movie be tonight" "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and I would say that we should do our traditional gilmore-hayden movie night with 3 movies but since we need to get all the stuff for tomorrow lets just watch one!" said rory
Rory and logan trailed behind her parents and rory could tell that something was off with logan, he was being to quite. "Hey logan, are you okay" rory asked with a concerned look.
"yeah ace i'm fine, i just can't help but think about how amazing your parents are. Sometimes it just gets me."
"I know they are great, and i know yours aren't the best, but you know that my parents see you are like their son, and you should see them like your parents too."
Logan smiled at the caring girl next to her. He went in to give her a hug."Thanks Ace, I should probably go though, I have to pack and stuff and were leaving super early tomorrow."
"Oh come on Huntzburger, you have your whole life to sleep, isn't that what you always tell me, plus were only watching one movie! Can't you stay, please please please please" she said with her puppy dog eyes.
Well now there was no way he wasn't staying, there was no way he could say no to her with those eyes.
"Alright ace, ill stay"
"ahh yay! okay lets go" with that they walked arm and arm to the movie screening room they had. Chris had made it when lorelai and him had first moved into the house.
Rory fell asleep on logan and lorelai did on chris. Chris noticed how logan was looking down at rory and running his fingers through her hair soothingly. Chris saw the same look in logan's eye in how he used to look at lorelai. Chris suspected that logan had always had a special place for rory but that he just didn't know it yet. Logan felt eyes on him a couple mins later and looked up to meet chris' gaze.
"Don't worry, I won't say anything" was all Chris said
With that logan gave him a understanding look, and said I should go its almost 2 am. Ill see you tomorrow.
"Logan" chris said
"It's a good thing"
"bye chris" logan said with a smirk