"Your wish is my command" Lorelai cheerily answered the phone.
"Mom," Rory exclaimed, "I cannot believe you pick up the phone like that! What if there are crazy axe men on the other end?"
"Oh, New York really sucked all the fun out of you" Lorelai mock-pouted.
"Well, not totally…." Rory began.
"Oh, right!" Her mom interrupted, "Your fancy party! How'd the slate grey work out?"
"Yeah, it was fine, Mom," she sighed. "Look, I met someone," she stated matter-of-factly.
"Oh." Her mother was shocked. As far as Lorelai knew Rory hadn't been with anyone since Logan. If Lorelai only knew – but Rory could not bring it to tell her Mom she slept with half the men on the campaign trail.
Her mother was happy Rory was ready to date again, but the fact the she said it like that made Lorelai wonder if something, more was going on.
"So?" Lorelai questioned. "What's this boy toy like? Does he have a brother?"
"Mom! You can't be asking about other boy's brothers! You're with Luke now, remember?"
"Oh, darn it! Lorelai teased. "I was looking forward to the awkward getting-to-know-you-and-your-crazy-habits stages of dating.
"Mom." The seriousness was back in her daughters voice. "It wasn't just some guy. It was Logan. Logan-I-want-to-make-you-my-wife-love-me-love-you-forever. That Logan!"
"Oh, that Logan," her mother deadpanned. "I did not know how many Logan's you knew."
Lorelai frowned. It had taken her a long time to warm up to Logan and she was never really too happy that he proposed. She just did not want to see her daughter be crushed again.
"So, tell mommy what happened"
Rory explained everything to her mother. How she looked like a dream in the gray dress, how hot he looked in the navy blue suit, the champagne, the coffee, the talking, the crying, the making up, the sex. Her mother listened the whole time, without interjecting. Once Rory finished it stayed quiet on the other end for a few minutes.
"Mom, you still there?" Rory questioned.
"Yeah, hon. I'm here. It's quite a story. I don't know what to say," she sighed, "I mean, obviously you aren't over him and he isn't over you, but what's to say you won't get hurt again?"
Now it was Rory's turn to stay silent for a while as she mulled over her mother's words.
"Look, Mom. I know it's sudden and weird and unpredictable. I don't know. I, I guess I still love him. Maybe this is just for closure, maybe it'll stick. But I want to find out," she finally replied.
"Okay, then. I trust you," Lorelai said. "Just one more question."
"Yeah?"
"You were safe, right?"
"Mom" Rory sighed. Mothers will always be Mothers. "Of course" she answered firmly. She glanced at the clock; she was going to be late for that stupid teambuilding thing.
"Look, Mom. I have to go! Talk to you!" And with that she was out the door.
Logan returned from Boston a few days later. Rory had gone over to his place for dinner on the eve of his return and the pair had talked more about their past. They agreed to let the past behind them.
They were young, too young to commit and too young to know better. They had blamed each other for things no one could have been blamed for. Now, they were two years older and two years wiser. They had agreed on taking it slow, dating as they had in college and seeing where the road would take them. As a result of them taking it slow, Rory returned to her own apartment that night and all of the sudden her Mother's question hit her: "You were safe, right?"
A wave a panic washed over her. Were we safe? Did we use a condom? She dashed over to her night table and counted the condoms in a box she kept there – twenty-four of them. No, that could not be right. She stood up and let herself fall on the bed.
She thought.
Before Logan she had slept with Dennis, some guy from some bar. Not one of her finest moments, she winced as she thought of it. But, he came with a condom and before that she had bought new ones. So, twenty-four had to be right, if Logan also used one of his own. There was no way she could find out, either, since she had just taken out all her trash.
She would have to ask Logan. She bit her lip. Could she be pregnant? She thought it over and she honestly didn't know. If she was, it was too late to do anything about it. The morning after-pill wasn't a possibility anymore so she would just have to wait and see if – no, when, - her period came. Until then, she decided, she would not tell Logan. No need to worry him, and besides he probably used a condom, right?
Logan and Rory were lounging on the couch. Rory was watching E's 101 Best Celebrity Weddings, and he was playing with her hair, pretending to be interested in the show.
He let his thoughts wonder. He and Rory had been back together for a little over two weeks. Hell, they were practically living together. Half his stuff was at her place and they were just so comfortable with each other, it was as if they had never broken up. They spent most of their time being together like this, watching a movie, eating or playing in bed. The show ended with one of Donald Trumps' weddings, and Rory exclaimed: "When I get married, I'll never spend that much money! What a waste!"
He laughed; she looked so cute when she was all worked up like that "Good to know, Ace," he laughed as he eyes followed her as she moved away from he couch.
"Oh, seriously need some coffee," she yawned as she shuffled over to the kitchen. "You know," she started to say as she looked around the apartment.
One of Logan's overnight bags was on a chair in a corner, another one on the floor and she knew there were two more in her, or should she say their, bedroom.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"You should move in here" she stated matter of fact-ly. "All your crap is here anyway!"
He deadpanned, "Well, that's seems like a good reason to me, you know – not that we love each other or anything – but, hey, if my crap is here, might as well stay, huh Ace?"
They both laughed; a loud cell phone buzz put an end to the laughter.
"Hey Mom," Rory said into the phone. "Yeah, Logan's here. Yes, again," she sighed.
Lorelai had thought Rory was moving too fast with Logan. Of course, they knew each other, they were comfortable but to jump head of heals into a relationship could not be good Lorelai reasoned.
Logan knew that Lorelai was not really thrilled about the rekindled relationship so he jotted something on a piece of scrap paper and tossed it to Rory.
"Really? That Taylor would say such a thing…." Rory said absentmindedly to her mother as she unfolded her boyfriends note:
Ask Lorelai if she wants to meet us for dinner soon, or we meet with here. We should meet!!!
Rory read the note, and shrugged.
"Oh, Mother" she sang into the phone. "My bo…. she hesitated – she didn't really want to call him boyfriend yet to her mother, …"Logan," she corrected, "wants to know you'd like to meet us for dinner sometime soon, or would you be willing to have us? I have not been to Stars Hollow in ages!"
She waited a beat before turning to Logan, ""Wednesday, seven pm at Luke's?"
Logan nodded confirmatory. "Works for us," Rory said with a smile. "See you soon, Mom!"
Rory poured her coffee and made her way over to Logan, placed her mug on the coffee table and sat on his lap and looked him in the eye.
"Well, Mister, that was mighty nice of you," she said in her best Southern accent.
"Yeah, well," he responded somewhat sheepishly. "I don't want to be living together without your Mom being cool with it…"
He looked up to see her smiling. "That's why I love you," she said sincerely and crushed her lips against his for a passionate kiss.
The following Wednesday the couple made their way from New York City to Stars Hollow. A long the way they picked up some doughnuts for Lorelai. The first ten minutes of the get-together between mother, daughter and the previously ex-boyfriend were somewhat awkward, so when Rory got up to use the restroom Logan had made it clear that he and Rory had closed that chapter and moved on.
They had found peace with the past, she was sticking around and so was he. Lorelai was not impressed by his words so much, but more by the passion in his eyes and especially after Rory returned she was touched by they way they acted around each other.
It was not young love, as it was the first time he came to Stars Hollow. It was serious, grown up, his-and-her towels kind of love. It was what she and Luke had. It took a long time for them to reach it, so Lorelai could relate to this couple's situation.
The rest of the dinner went smoothly and just as Lorelai was getting pie and ice cream Lane and her boys' barged in.
"Auntie Rory!" they yelled. The two old friends took over pie slicing duties from Lorelai, who, in turn sat down next to Logan.
Using her sincerest voice she looked the young man in the eyes and said: "She's all yours" and smiled.
Logan breathed out, as if he had been holding his breath for the whole evening, kissed Lorelai's check and thanked her.
That weekend Rory, Logan, Colin and Finn moved the rest of Logan's stuff to Rory's. Logan and Rory had decided on temporarily keeping Logan's apartment the way the housing market was, Logan was subletting it to an older couple whom had always wanted to live in the city.
That night, in between moving boxes, Logan opened a bottle of champagne and they toasted to the future, he kissed her and as the kiss grew into more, he picked her up and carried her to the bedroom.