AN: So this is a Future Fic. I was so disappointed when the series ended and i think there was still so much more they could have done. I love Logan and Rory together and wanted to play with the idea of what would happen in the future. I apologize that i am not quite as witty as the Shows writers but i will try my best to get the witty banter in there. I love reviews they inspire me to write more so Please let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or anything affiliated with the show. ... although I would not mind having a Logan of my own.

Chapter 1

"Lorelai, it's Paris I'm on my way to Stars Hallow. Are you at the inn or at home? We need to talk." Lorelai Gilmore was for once at a loss for words. Although Paris' abrupt personality often stunned her at first.

"Paris? First why are you on your way to Stars Hallow and second I am at Luke's I needed coffee but I'm on my way back to the inn." She answered.

"Like I said we need to talk I'll meet you at the inn. See you in a bit." With that Paris hung up the phone leaving Lorelai to stare at her phone.

She sighed picking up her to go cup of coffee saying goodbye to Luke and heading off to the Dragonfly hoping she could make it there in time to prepare for what was sure to be an interesting conversation. It was not unusual for Paris to contact her. She had often turned to Lorelai since starting medical school. With Rory away on the campaign trail Paris needed someone to vent her frustrations to.

It had been four months since Rory left to cover the presidential campaign. Lorelai missed her daughter, her best friend dearly but was so proud. This is what they had planned Granted there was some deviation from the plan, Yale instead of Harvard but the final result was the same. The plan had always been Chilton, Yale (well Harvard but oh well) , become a reporter, and then hopefully work for the New York Times or as an overseas correspondent. Everything had fallen into place just like the Gilmore Girls had wanted. The experience Rory was getting would help her to her final goal. Lorelai knew that she could stand her daughter being away if It meant she would have her dream.

She was taking out of her thoughts as she walked in the front door of her inn when Michel grabbed her arm.

"Where have you been? Do you know what I have been dealing with?" Michel asked

"Um skipping around town singing Bright Sunshiny Day, and a half deck of cards?" Lorelai asked in response. Michel rolled his eyes at her sarcastic and asinine remarks.

"Honestly Lorelai you know that if she is coming here I need warning, scary, girl."

Lorelai's eyes went wide. Paris was already here, geez what was she a mile away when she called?"

"Where?" Lorelai asked simply.

"I told her to wait in your office before I went to hide with Sookie in the kitchen." He replied hastily before retreating again to the kitchen.

She sighed wishing she had a chance to refill her coffee before going to speak to Paris but knowing it would be unwise to make her wait. When Paris is worked up over something it is never smart to let her stew.

"Hey Paris, did they finally use those ivy league brains at Harvard to make teleportation possible? How did you get here so fast?"

"I told you I was on my way. And this is important we need to talk!" Paris ranted

"Okay Okay" Lorelai answered sitting down next to Paris. "What's up?"

"This is getting ridiculous I want my best friend back! You" Paris pointed at Lorelai, "Need to fix this."

Lorelai was confused to say the least but she often was when it came to Paris. "Paris, I know things at med school have been hectic for you but it's not like Rory is somewhere that she needs a pair of ruby slippers to get home. She will be back in a month for a small break."

"I need you to be her mother not her fairy godmother and I'm not talking about her coming home."

"She was the good witch of the north not a fairy god mother." Lorelai said before seeing the annoyed look on Paris' face.

"Whatever." Paris said

"Okay if you're not talking about her coming home then what are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the fact Rory is not the Rory Gilmore I know and love and I want her back. She's different Lorelai. As long as I have known Rory she has always been smart, witty, sarcastic, and most of all she was good at putting up with my crap. Now when we talk or email she is… bland…no that's not the right word she's apathetic."

Lorelai looked at Paris completely lost. She and Rory talked at least once a week, not nearly enough if she was being honest, but everytime they spoke Rory was happy. She was full of stories about other reporters and the experiences she had. She always sounded like she was making good contacts and getting the work experience she needed. Rory was always asking how things were back home and enjoyed any news her mother shared with her about the goings on in Stars Hallow. Lorelai could not understand what Paris was talking about.

"Paris, I don't know what to tell you maybe you have just been catching her at the wrong times. You know lack of sleep, no readily available supply of coffee." Lorelai shrugged. "She always sounds like the same old Rory to me."

Paris sighed and shook her head. "You really don't see it do you? Rory is not the same and I think…" she paused. "Look Lorelai you know I have nothing but respect for you. Your relationship with Rory has always been something that I envied so I hope you understand where I am coming from when I say this. I think you don't want to see the changes in Rory. You two had a plan and that plan has worked out almost perfectly, some things may have varied but basically everything happened how it was supposed to. But, what neither of you ever factored in was love."

"Love? Are you telling me that Rory met someone on the trail and didn't tell me?" Lorelai asked

"No I'm telling you that she met someone and because he didn't fit into the blueprint you both drew up for Rory's life she walked away from him." Paris said as bluntly as she could.

"So we're talking about Logan, you realize that was Rory's choice? I had nothing to do with that decision." Lorelai answered.

Paris shook her head sadly. "You think you had nothing to do with that decision but I think you had more to do with it than you realize." Paris stood. "You did everything you could to not be like your mother, but Rory did everything she could to be like you. Think about it and then fix it. I miss the real Rory."

Lorelai wanted to be offended but she knew Paris meant well. She did not agree with Paris' assumption. She raised Rory to be independent. Even though she would come to her for advice Rory always made her own decisions in the end. Rory was her own person no matter how alike the two were and Lorelai knew that if she had truly wanted to accept Logan's proposal she would have. She knew this because when she wanted her mother to be able to open the Dragonfly Rory went against her wishes and asked her grandparents for help. She made the decision to apply to Yale even though it didn't fit the plan. She made the choice to drop out for a semester leading to the longest separation they had ever had. Lorelai shook her head, no it had been Rory's decision and it was her own.

Lorelai had a long day after Paris left. The inn was doing exceptionally well and they were booked solid for the next two months, having to turn down reservations. She had little time to think about her conversation with Paris. Now that she was at home sitting on the couch with a cup of coffee watching Pretty in Pink she could not help but think about what Paris had said.

She knew that Rory loved Logan she could see it in everything they did. She may have not been Logan's number one fan, hell most of the time she could not decide if she wanted him to be with Rory or not, but she knew that he loved her daughter. Rory had never been one to do anything half way she was a serious relationship kind of girl. Yes Rory had made her mistakes. Lorelai knew that the biggest relationship mistake Rory had made was probably the affair with Dean. That had been one of the only times she saw her daughter act completely rash. Yes Rory had her rebellious phases, she believed that Rory's relationship with Jess was just that, and needless to say the yacht incident with Logan was well there are just no words. Thinking of all these things she had to admit to herself that Logan truly was her best match out of all the relationships her daughter had.

Logan was rebellious when they had met but he had grown up during their relationship. Somehow he had found a way to balance being a fun loving sometimes careless twenty something and being a responsible stable man. He allowed Rory to be the driven academic while bringing out her playful side. He could match her wit and understood that despite Rory's family connections she did not conform to the stuffy often manipulative world of the Hartford elite. Logan truly did fit Rory perfectly, he understood her. He understood and accepted both of her worlds. He was raised in the Hartford elite society that Rory was involved in due to her grandparents. He rebelled against his father and families notion of what was proper and fitting of him so he could see why Rory preferred the way she was raised.

As Lorelai sat and pondered these things something occurred to her and she was not sure how she felt about this revelation. Logan reminded her very much of Christopher. Christopher Hayden had been almost exactly like Logan. He rebelled against his family and understood the desire to be away from the pressures that came with money. As teenagers he and Lorelai had been on the same level with wit and intelligence. These were the reasons she had been interested in Chris in the first place. Lorelai knew a part of her would always love Chris. She had often wondered if it was the connection she still felt for her daughter's father that kept her from truly being able to commit to anyone else.

Christopher was not always the most reliable and was certainly not someone whom she could always count on. But he had really become more responsible since the death of his father. Maybe this was where her reservations about Logan had come from. Chris had often run when things got too serious or difficult. Logan had also done that on occasion.

Lorelai had gotten up and walked into Rory's room during her musings. She sat on the bed simply enjoying being close to Rory's belongings. So many things were still boxed up. Rory had only unpacked the necessities when she first moved home after graduation. She smiled looking at all of Rory's books and music posters. Her eyes settled on the rocket that Rory had placed in the corner. When Rory explained the meaning of the rocket to her, she started to understand just how much Logan had grown up.

Still for all these considerations she did not see what Paris meant. Every time they spoke Rory seemed like her normal energetic self. She sighed and decided to call Rory to see if she could catch any hints as to what Paris had been saying.

"Hello?"

"Ah my darling daughter, oh how I have missed the sound of your voice it has been entirely too long." Lorelai sing songed into the phone.

"Mom you just talked to me like two days ago." Rory laughed. "So what's up you usually wait for me to call?"

"Well sorry, I'll go out and see if they have a new phone that only allows you to make calls then all of our conversations can be initiated by you. Hey you know that would be an interesting gadget to have then I would never have to worry about my mother calling me." Lorelai rambled

"Ah yes but then what happens when someone important wants to call? I mean like you never know that long awaited phone call from Brad Pitt could come and then you would never know." Rory responded.

"Eh, naw I'd much rather answer a call from Ashton Kutcher, I want to be the new Demi"

"Mom I'm not sure if you're old enough to fit cougar status." Rory laughed.

"Oh I could totally do the cougar thing, I mean that Finn guy was really cute and we definitely share a love for all things alcohol."

"I'll be sure to relay your interested the next time I email him. Although he may request you dye your hair red."

Lorelai was surprised she knew that Finn was one of Logan's best friends and she had not realized that Rory had been in contact with him. "Oh you keep in touch with Finn?"

"Yeah I mean he is my friend. We don't talk often but we randomly exchange emails." Rory said a bit uncomfortable. Her and her mother had never really discussed the breakup. She told Rory she had thought she made the right choice and then they moved on. Lorelai had not even suggested wallowing. Since she stated working the topic of Logan or the proposal had not been brought up.

"I didn't realize you still talked to him, um isn't that a bit awkward?"

"No, not really. It's … it's ok." Rory answered '

"Ok? What does that mean like ok like everything is like it always has been happy happy joy joy or ok as in the correspondence is generic 'hi how are you I'm good' kind ?"

"I don't know mom somewhere in between I guess. We don't talk all that much and of course it isn't like it used to be." Rory explained a bit frustrated.

Lorelai saw her chance to ask about Logan and maybe see if Paris was right that Rory did still want to be with him. "So you haven't talked to him about Logan at all?"

Rory sucked in a breath. She did not want to discuss Logan. "Mom please can we not talk about Logan I want to hear about what's going on at home."

Lorelai could tell Rory was avoiding. It was a normal tactic for her. Maybe she was missing something but she changed the subject anyway."Well Kirk wants to propose to Lulu."

"Really!" Rory gasped

"Yeah except he spent most of his day surveying everyone in town on their thoughts about the best way to propose and then going home to ask his mother if they could expand the house for him and his future wife."

Rory groaned. Talking about someone proposing was not what she needed to hear right now but the fact it is Kirk and that he is taking surveys made things a little easier. However she really wanted to end this call before this conversation went any further. The last thing she needed to hear was proposal ideas no matter how odd they were. "Well you'll have to let me know what happens. Listen mom I have to go I need to finish an article."

"Alright sweets, call me soon. Love you." Lorelai said

"I will love you too." Rory answered before quickly hanging up the phone.