I'd rather be in Fez
"Have I told you about the first time Grandpa and I really got together?"
"Think so. You played golf together at his club, and you wore a funky little knitted golf cap."
"Huh. I told you about the cap?"
"Rory, you're wearing the cap."
"Well, I thought it might cheer him up when he sees me wearing it. When he wakes up…" Her voice trailed off, as the thought came, unbidden. If he wakes up.
Logan took her hand and squeezed it, kissing her knuckles briefly before tugging at a strand of her hair. "You do look cute."
"I told him I wanted to go to Fez, and he seemed taken by that. I think that was the very first moment we…connected, you know? I'm sure it wasn't my golfing prowess." She smiled at the memory. "I think I surprised him. Maybe I wasn't what he was expecting. He surprised me too. I really had no idea what he would be like, except from what Mom told me…and I'd never had a man in my life to really talk to and look up to before him, if you know what I mean."
Logan looked at Rory's profile as she stared at Richard on the hospital bed, all manner of tubes running in and out of him. "You do have a lot in common with Richard. You both love to travel, you both like to read, you're both crazy about all things Yale…But more than that, I can see how much you matter to each other."
There were a pile of newspapers on the bedside table, ever ready to be picked up and read aloud to Richard by Rory.
"We do kind of get each other."
"Hey, remember when he gave me a little talk about your future plans when you lived at the pool house, and I thought he was interrogating me about my 'intentions' with you," he chuckled, making air quotes with his fingers. "Man, that scared the shit out of me…Yeow!" Logan exclaimed, rubbing his arm where Rory boxed him, as she stuck her tongue out at him.
"That matter is pretty moot now, Ace, okay? Actually the point I was making is that he really was worried about you at that time, and I saw that. He's always thought highly of you and wanted what's best for you. I'd never want to cross him when it comes to you."
"He might have killed Mitchum you know."
"Which would have endeared Richard more to me."
"Oh, stop."
Logan distractedly picked up and began leafing through that day's Wall Street Journal, as Rory looked on pensively at Richard.
"I think, that when Grandpa is well enough, he and I will go to Fez together."