C2: Laying down the law

"You will not sassy me young lady," yelled Lorelai. "You're…'' Emily took that minute to interrupt.

"Your done Lorelai, with the argument and with retaining custody of your daughter," stated Emily. She shoved documents at her daughter. "No Judge is going to agree with you point of view Lorelai. Rory is leaving with me. Your poor attempt to ground her for taking part in society, in the DAR Debutante Ball that's selfish when one is selfish one becomes a poor parent. Your done forcing people to live by Lorelai's rules on conduct."

"I don't want to speak to you mother, cruel, harsh and uncalled-for actions created more of a divide and solve nothing, please do not call me," stated Rory. She allows Emily to guide her out the door. Before leaving Emily turned to have one last thing to stay to Lorelai.

"You will be hearing from someone to come a pick up the things that Rory wants from her room. You will let the person in, you will go to work, your neighbor Babette can lock up behind the maid or whomever we send once they leave. When an appropriate amount of time as surpassed and you sought some counseling for your control issues Friday night dinner will be re-instituted. You Lorelai will attend without complaint. You will not call Rory until she is ready to speak with you."

Emily followed her granddaughter out of the house. If it were up to Emily, she would have been harsher with the things she said to Lorelai. But Emily was the person thinking about her granddaughter with Rory in mind she said what was needed and nothing more. When Emily came out Rory was standing by the car. Rory had been thinking Logan and hard during her fight with Lorelai. Dean and been the furthest thing from her mind. Rory was about ready to get in the car when saw Dean approaching her mother's home. Rory mind in a way was made up. She felt that maybe she might have a chance to build something with Logan with time with starting out with a real friendship first. The choice to tell Dean what she was about to tell him came pretty easily.

"Grandma I will be ready to go in a minute, I have one last situation to take care of," said Rory. She turned and walked to meet Dean half way from where he was to where she' been standing. She reached him before she spoke again. "I realize this might sound harsh Dean but I just need a clean slate. Things are bad with mom so I moving to Hartford with my grandparents, I'm meeting knew people, experiencing the world mom hide from me. I'm about to be a DAR Debutante and I need to do that single. You were a good first boyfriend Dean but this is what I need to do for me, for my new life and my further as the heiress when I 25 or when I marry to both the Hayden and the Gilmore fortunes. Find the person that's right for you. Grandma's waiting I'm sorry I doing this is such a rush but we want different things."

"Rory please I can be your escort, I can give you the space to figure all this out. While I not thrilled you want to join the world you mom left I'd rather support it than lose you. I feel like that world isn't you Rory but I rather support it than lose us," said Dean.

"I'm sorry Dean that just not an option," said Rory. "I need to take the new step into this new life alone. It's a huge change and I can't be focused on the feeling of others as a make it. This decision didn't come easy for me but I know that I made the right one. As for the DAR Debutante ball there are rules even if I hadn't made the choices rules state that you would not be allowed to be an escort. My grandmother set me up with the son of a friend of hers. Grandma Gilmore's waiting and I need to go."

Rory turned and walked away heading in the direction of Emily. She got into the passenger side of the fancy car. Dean watched as the pulled away. He didn't know what to do next. Lorelai had agreed to the forester family barbeque. Once the car had pulled out of sight, Dean approached the front door. He was at a loss for the next move to make. He'd already shared that Rory would be joining the family and now this has happened.

Back at Lorelai's house in Stars Hollow

Lorelai had let Dean in the moment she seen him standing in the door way. He wasn't sure what to say at first. He finally looked at Lorelai and just started to speak.

"Lorelai I can't tell my parents that Rory isn't coming now, she stood on that drive way and broke up with me before taking off with your mother," said Dean.

"We've got two full months until then, "said Lorelai. "She might not want to speak to me know but I doubt my daughter can keep from talking to me for eight weeks no matter what she feels at this precise moment. She doing things Emily wants because she feels guilty for the way I treat my parents but they more than deserve the fact that I walked out on them."

"So for now," asked Dean.

"We wait out today's tantrum by Rory this will pass," said Lorelai. "I can re-take control of things and I can negate me mother custody order. But for now Dean we simple wait."

Gilmore home in Hartford

Rory made her way up to the room that Emily had redecorated from her. She was pulling clothing out of bags to begin to hang them up. Emily had washed them all yesterday after Rory decided she was sure about keeping things. She was going to think about what she wanted from her mother's place she knew the clothing however that Lorelai bought was not on her list. Lorelai stole her clothing anyone so anything in the Stars Hollow closet clothing wise Lorelai could just have at this point. Rory was lost in what she was doing when she heard the knock on her bedroom door. She turned and smiled.

"Logan, I'm glad you came by," said Rory. "Now that I feel like everything's sorted that I officially moved in with Grandma and Grandpa Gilmore I can put my focus complete on everything surrounding the DAR Debutante Ball. But I glad you here I don't want to think about my mother right now. She had a lot of nerve to try to ground me for taking part in the world, in the Debutante Ball, because I don't agree with you opinion of society."

"Well I'm glad that you are here Rory," said Logan. "I have a question for you and I just want to know if I right or not did Francie and Strobe introduce you to me when you were 7 in Martha's Vineyard as Leigh Rory Gilmore Hayden?"

AN: Please PM Me if you have suggestions I very interested on where readers would like me to take the little cliffhanger I left with Logan's question.