A/N: Okay guys! Here's Chapter 3. I feel like a lot happened in this chapter but I also think that this is my favorite chapter so far. I hope that you guys like it too. This story just keeps flowing. I hope that you guys are enjoying this story. Don't forget read, review and favorite.

Chapter 3

Rory POV

The next morning, when my alarm went off I got up and went about my normal routine. Tristan didn't have to get up as early as I did, so I left for work leaving him asleep. I had stopped at my normal coffee shop to get a cup of coffee on my way to work when, my cell started ringing. I pulled it out of my purse and saw that Honor was calling me. I quickly answered it. "Hey girly, what's up?" I said.

"Logan called me late last night." She said.

I paid for my coffee. "I'm sorry Honor." I said. I continued toward my office building.

"He said that you and Tris are together?" She asked me.

"Yeah we are. I can tell you the whole story if you wanna meet for lunch today?" I asked.

"Sure thing. You wanna meet at that Deli around the corner from your office?" She asked.

"Sounds good." I said.

When I hung up the phone with Honor, I realized that this was going to be a busy week. When I walked into my office, Michelle brought in a copy of today's newspaper, a cup of coffee and my messages. "Welcome back, Rory." Michelle said.

"Thanks Michelle, it was definitely a much needed vacation." I said.

"Mitchum Huntzberger has already called three times this morning for you." She said.

"Sorry about that. He's kinda impatient." I told her as I dialed Mitchum's number on my desk phone.

"Good morning Rory." Mitchum said when he answered.

"Mitchum, you know that I don't get to the office before 8:30, so when you realized that I wasn't at the office why didn't you call my cell?" I said.

"Oh Rory you know me too well. It wasn't an emergency. I just heard that you finally took a much needed vacation." Mitchum said.

"Yes, I did. And you were right. It was definitely needed." I said. My conversations with Mitchum were usually pretty short unless he was calling to ask for a favor. Ever since Logan had taken over at HPG, Mitchum had become a much more laid back person. He stayed on over at HPG to help Logan with the transition but once that was over, Logan asked him to stay on as a consultant. After talking to Mitchum, I spent most of the morning in meetings. I was in charge of Editing, so it was my job to make sure that every one in the editing department was staying on top of everything. My desk was the last stop before they went to the printers. Honor called me half an hour before we were supposed to meet for lunch to say that she had to cancel. I told her that it was fine and that I'd see her Saturday.

The afternoon seemed to pass quickly. I tried to get through as many articles as I could, but I just had so much work to catch up on. I called him to tell him that I was going to be working late. I was in the middle of proofreading an article when I heard a knock on my door. I looked up to see my Dad standing in my doorway. "Dad, hey. What'cha doing here?" I said.

He walked in and sat across from me. "I called your apartment some guy answered. I'm assuming that's Tristan?" He asked me and I nodded. "Anyway, I wanted to talk to you and Tristan said that you were working late so you probably hadn't stopped for dinner yet." He said and handed me a bag of take-out.

I opened the bag and smelled. "Mmm. Smells good. So…" I said.

"Grandma said that your bringing a friend to the party Saturday."

I nodded taking a bite of my cheeseburger. "Yep. Tristan's coming with me."

"He's from Hartford?" Dad asked.

"Yep. We went to Chilton together…well, at least until he got sent to Military school."

"Ror! Your bringing Tristan Dugrey!" Dad seemed a little upset by this.

"Yeah, so what?" I asked, eating a couple of french fries. He didn't say anything. "Dad, look. I know that Tristan doesn't exactly have the best reputation but he's not the same person that he was when we were teenagers. Mom's willing to give him a chance, can't you?" I asked.

"Yeah, but Ror, he's related to the Huntzbergers." Dad said.

I glared at him. "Only by marriage. Tristan's mom and Shira are step-sisters." I said. We sat there for a few minutes in silence while I ate. When I finished eating, I looked at Dad. "I know that your trying to protect me from going through what I went through with Logan, but Dad, it's like I told Mom…I've loved Tristan since I was sixteen. It's actually Logan's fault that Tristan and I didn't get together before now." I said.

"How so?" He asked.

"Well, Logan found out that Tristan had been in love with me since high school…" I said as I told him the story about how Logan lied to me about Tristan being his cousin. Dad couldn't believe it. "Dad, all I'm asking is that you just give him a chance."

Dad sat there and then after a few minutes, he smiled at me. "For you kid. Anything."

After Dad left, I finished reading a few more articles before I finished up for the night and headed home. When I walked into my apartment, Tristan was sitting on the couch watching tv. I dropped my bags near the front door and went to sit by him on the couch. "Long day?"

"Yep. I didn't think that my desk would so piled up. It didn't exactly help that I spent half an hour on the phone with Mitchum this morning." I said.

"Why?"

"Well when he had his mild heart attack last year I was the one that the hospital called. It was right around the time that Logan was getting ready to take over at HPG. Mitchum actually lived with us for a while because Shira didn't give a rat's ass. Anyway, ever since Logan and I separated, Mitchum calls periodically to check in and see how I'm doing." I told Tris.

"That's definitely a different side of him that I've never seen."

"Yeah not many people have. Did you finalize the plans with your Dad for Friday?" I asked.

"Yeah. He's fine with us staying at the house. He said if we didn't want to stay in the main house that we could use the apartment above the garage. I used it some when I was home from college." Tris said.

"It's up to you. I don't care either way." I said. Tristan and I spent the rest of the night cuddle up on the couch watching tv.

The rest of the week seemed to pass pretty quickly. When Friday came, I only worked half a day so that I could get home and get my stuff packed for our trip to Hartford and Stars Hollow this weekend. I had just finished packing and sitting my bags by the front door when Tris came walking in. "Hey babe." I said and kissed him.

"Hey." He saw my bags and stared at me. "Do you think that you packed enough?" He asked.

I laughed. "Yeah but it's not all coming back. There's some stuff in there that I'm going to leave at Mom's for my Step-sister." I told him.

"Okay well I'm going to put these in the car." He said and I smiled.

Even though Tristan and I had only been together for three weeks I was so much happier than I had ever been with Logan. It also helped that my friends (including Honor) were okay with me and Tristan.

Tristan POV

I was putting Rory's bags in the back of my SUV when my cell started ringing. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and saw that it was Finn calling. I answered it. "Hey man." I said.

"Hey. Are you guys gonna be in Hartford this weekend?" He asked.

"Yeah. We're having dinner with my Dad tonight. Lunch with Lorelai tomorrow and then Rory's Grandma is having a party tomorrow night and we're going. Why what's up?" I said.

"Colin and I have a problem that we could use your help with and we don't want to tell Steph or Rory." Finn said.

I had a bad feeling that this was going to involve Logan somehow. "What's going on?" I asked.

"Okay so Colin went over to Logan's last night to check on him since neither he nor I had talked to him since he got mad at us for not telling him that you came to Australia with us and that you and Rory were together. We tried to tell him that it wasn't our place to tell him who Rory was dating. Well that pissed him off even more." Finn was rambling like Rory at this point.

"Get to the point Finn. Rory's waiting for me upstairs." I told him.

"Right. Anyway, Colin went to check on him and he had drank himself into a stupor."

"That's nothing new. Remember when Rory gave him the divorce papers to sign. It took me and Colin four days to sober him up." I said.

"Yeah, but dude. It's bad this time…and I don't know if the three of us can handle it by ourselves."

"What're you thinking?" I asked.

"I think that we're gonna need help. And as much as I hate to say it…but I think that we might have to involve Rory and Steph. I think that they may be the only ones that can help him right now."

I looked at my watch. "I can be at your place in 45 minutes if I can get Rory in the car. You know that she's not going to be happy about this right?" I said. "I mean, she's already had one argument with him this week."

"Just get her here. We'll deal with it like we always do." Finn said and hung up.

I put my phone back in my pocket and made my way back upstairs to find Rory sitting on the couch. "We have to make pit stop on the way to my parents' house." I told her.

She raised an eyebrow at me. "What's going on?" She asked.

"Come on, I'll tell you in the car." I said and she nodded. Rory locked up her apartment and we made our way back down to the car. Once we were on the road, I knew that I would have to tell her what was going on. I wasn't going to be like Logan and lie to her about what was going on. "So, while I was putting your bags in the car Finn called me. Apparently, Logan's is in pretty bad shape. Colin went to check on him last night because nobody had heard from him and found that he had drank himself into a stupor." I said. I looked over and Rory was shaking her head.

"How bad?" She asked.

"Finn said it's pretty bad. He thinks that you and Steph are the only ones that can pull him out of it." I said.

"Hopefully, it's not as bad as last time." She said.

I was confused. Had Finn and Colin told her about when she gave him the divorce papers? "Last time?" I asked.

"Yeah. Steph and I had been out shopping a week or two before the wedding and when we got back to the house we found Logan passed out on the couch. We assumed that it had something to do with work but we never found out." She said and I nodded. "It took me and Steph, throwing him in a cold shower and making him drink three pots of coffee to get him to sober up enough for us to make him go to bed and sleep it off." She said.

"Was it like that a lot?" I asked.

"A good bit yeah. It was worse in college. Valentine's day weekend before he graduated I found out that Mitchum had decided to send him to London for a year after graduation and then dragged him off to a board meeting. It was hard because, he hadn't even mentioned it. We were living together off campus at that time and when he came home he was completely trashed. His father had dropped him off in front of the building and he had walked over to the pub. So when he came home he didn't stop drinking. I had to call Colin and Finn to help me get him into bed so that he could sleep it off." She said.

Rory POV

When we got to Finn's, I bust through the door to find Colin, Finn and Steph sitting on the couch. They were staring at me. "How long?" I asked, staring at Colin.

"I don't know." Colin said. "I went to check on him and found him." All I could do was shake my head.

"I'm supposed to be done with this crap." I said.

"We know Ror. I'm sorry. We just didn't know what else to do." Finn said.

I shook my head. I couldn't believe that Logan was doing this to me again. "Alright lets go." I said and everyone followed me out of Finn's apartment. The five of us went over to Logan's and I started banging on the door. "LOGAN ELIAS HUNTZBERGER! I KNOW THAT YOUR IN THERE. OPEN THE DOOR BEFORE I BREAK IT DOWN!" I yelled. I turned around and Tristan looked terrified. I smiled at him. A minute or two later, Logan opened the door.

"What do you want, Rory?" He slurred.

"God! You smell like a bar." I said, pushing him out of the way. "Colin, Finn get him in the shower and cleaned up. Tris, start the coffee. Come on Steph, lets get started."

"You got it." Everyone said.

"I don't need you guys to take care of me. I'm a big boy." Logan said.

I quickly turned around from where I was standing and pushed Logan against the wall. "You listen to me. We may not be together anymore but I'll be damned if I'm going to sit by and let you drink yourself to death." I said. I think that by this point, I had everyone scared. Steph and Tris had never seen me like this before and it had been a while since Logan, Colin and Finn had seen me like this. "Clean yourself up, Logan. I don't want to see you like this and neither do your friends. And you sure as hell better not show up to my Grandmother's party like this tomorrow night." I said as Colin and Finn were practically dragging him up the stairs.

A/N: Okay guys that's chapter 3. Big shocker Logan begin drunk right? Okay so next chapter, Rory and Tristan are meeting the parents. Will Logan show up to the Hayden party sober or drunk? There might even be a surprise in store. Who knows? Anything can happen.