A/N: Hello my pretty darlings (too much?), did you miss me? Because I certainly missed you! Ok, I recently got a new computer and I figured, hey, what better way to get to know it by writing a bunch of oneshots. So i did. And this is the first one, obviously: Rory has an interesting experience at the library one evening.


The secret life of an Australian Yale student

Rory was desperately looking around the library for a place to sit, but everywhere seemed to be taken. Of course it was, she reprimanded herself. She had gotten here late and it was nearing the end of the semester, everyone had finals. She sighed and finally just decided to go sit down at one of the smaller tables where she spotted a darkhaired guy with his head burrowed in books. He probably wouldn't mind, she was a very quiet studier.

"Hi, um, excuse me, do you mind if I sit down. Everywhere else is full and I promise I'm extremely quiet, you won't even know I'm here, in fact you'll might even want to check to make sure if I'm even breathing, which ok, that might be a bit annoying" she rambled.

"Dear god, just sit down love" a familiar voice said, kicking out the other chair for her to sit on.

"Finn?"

"You sound surprised" he said in a tired voice, finally putting the book down.

Rory almost gasped; he was wearing glasses. She had never ever seen Finn wearing glasses (unless you counted his beloved Wayfarers). Come to think of it, she had never even seen Finn the library! "Sorry, it's just…"

"My eyes get tired after awhile" he said, explaining the glasses. "Now, are you gonna sit or what?"

"Oh, yeah, sure. Thanks" she said and gingerly sat down, looking at his books. "You're pre-med?"

"Surprise" he mumbled behind a new book.

Rory blushed a little, this was definitely a new Finn she was experiencing and he didn't exactly seem thrilled to be in her company. "I'm sorry, I just didn't know" she muttered, picking up her own books.

"I'm sorry love, I'm just a tad tired, I've been studying for this test since yesteryear!"

"Sure, I get it. It's fine."

They studied in silence for a while, until Rory got up to use the bathroom. She looked into the mirror afterwards and felt horrified by what was staring back at her. Her hair was frizzy and the bags under her eyes had bags of their own! She tried to smooth her hair a little, but it was a losing battle, and honestly, why even care, she asked herself. She was just going to study. With Finn, granted. Who actually looked really hot with tussled hair and glasses. She gave the hair another try.

When she came back to the table Finn was eating pizza. "How did you have time to get pizza? I was gone for like three minutes!"

"Had it delivered" he said, mouth full of pizza.

"You had pizza delivered to the library?"

"One of the many perks of being an absolute spoiled white kid." He pushed the box towards her. "Have some, it's gonna be a long night."

She sat down again and nervously picked up a piece of pizza. Why was she nervous, all of a sudden? It was just pizza, with her… well not friend, really, Finn was more like an acquaintance, really. So she was just having pizza with an acquaintance. That shouldn't make her nervous, but it did.

"You look a bit ill there, love. Something's the matter?"

"No, no, I'm just tired, I guess. I've been studying pretty much twentyfourseven the last couple of days."

"I know the feeling love" he said with a smile. "I think we should take a break for now. We could play a game."

"Like?"

"Twenty questions" he suggested. "Because, love, I really don't know much about you, except you seem to be oddly fascinated by blond men with weirdly short necks."

"Oh ha ha" Rory said drily and took another bite. "Fine, but only if I can go first."

"Hit me with your best shot, love."

"Hm okay. Why med-school?"

Finn shrugged. "Why not?" Rory raised an eyebrow at him. "Okay fine. When I was fifteen my sister was diagnosed with leukaemia. Apparently it runs in our family. So anyway, she went through this whole ordeal and she's in remission now, but you know, there's always the chance it might come back. So I decided I wanted to be the guy that cures cancer."

Rory gave him a smile. "That's a pretty good reason."

"I know. The chicks love it! So, why Logan?"

"What's wrong with Logan?" Now it was Finn's turn to raise an eyebrow. She shrugged. "I don't know, honestly, he's just really exciting and different from any other person I've ever known."

Finn rolled his eyes. "Trust me, he's not that different."

Rory made a face. "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"I'm in between at the moment. Had a girlfriend, Kendra, back home but… She dumped my sorry ass when I left for Yale."

"Why?"

"That's cheating love, only one question at the time. Do you have any embarrassing tattoos?"

"No. you?"

"One" he said with a smile.

"Where?"

"Cheating again. Favorite movie?"

"Too many to count. Why Yale?"

"I needed to get out of Australia for a while. Relationship with your parents?"

"Mom good, dad bad. How about you?"

"Bad, both, I'm afraid. But I love my sisters. Do you have any siblings?"

"I have a halfsister, GG. How many siblings do you have?"

"Four, to older sisters and an older brother and then a twinsister."

"You have a twinsister?"

"Love, really, the rules! But yeah, I do."

"Does she look like you?"

He laughed at her obvious disregard for the rules and fiddled with his phone for a moment before handing it to her. "That's her."

Rory looked at the picture of a smiling woman with the same dark coloured hair as Finn. She had green eyes as well, although her nose was smaller and her lips fuller. Their smile looked the same, though. "She's really pretty."

"Why thank you love.

"So, do you have like the weird psychic twin-thing going on?"

"That's a secret. Now, favourite pastime?"

"Reading. Do you have any hobbies?"

"Well…" He smirked at her.

"That are PG rated?"

"Surfing, soccer, playing my guitar. And no, that's not a metaphor."

"You play guitar?"

"I think it's quite obvious that there is a lot about me you don't know love, and if you're gonna look all surprised every time you learn something new, you might get wrinkles."

"How nice of you to care" she mumbled, taking another slice of pizza. "Okay, so yeah, maybe I don't know a lot about you, but it's not like you share a lot either. And most of the times I see you, you're drunk."

Finn shrugged. "The only times we meet is in social situations, hence the liquor. And if I don't remember wrong, you did seem to quite enjoy my version of the Passion of the Christ."

Rory smiled. "Well, my boyfriend had just dumped me."

"Oh yes, the Sasquatch, right?"

"Dean isn't a Sasquatch?"

"Are you sure? Because he looked like one. You do have the strangest taste in men."

"Are you jealous?"

"No, I've already had Logan, nothing there to write home about." He looked at his watch. "We should probably get back to the books, I don't want to prolong my rather expensive education anymore than I already have, so I need to pass all my finals."

"Yeah, I guess" Rory muttered, feeling a little disappointed. She actually quite liked talking to him, he was different from the Finn she was used to and he seemed a lot more relaxed when he wasn't around Logan or Colin. "You should wear your classes more."

"Excuse me, love?"

Rory could feel the blood pumping in her cheeks and felt extremely embarrassed she had said that aloud, but it was true, he should. They made him look kinda hot, in a geeky sort of way. "Just… You look sweet with them."

"And isn't that just what every guy strives to look like" he laughed. He looked at his watch again. "Listen love, it was nice seeing you, but I think I should probably head back to the dorm for some coffee and a little last minute panicking. I guess I'll see you the next time Logan brings you around."

Before Rory could even respond, Finn had gotten up and collected his books and was already walking away from the table. Somehow, Rory almost felt rejected. "Yeah" she muttered, "see you around."