Disclaimer: I do not own the Big Time Rush characters, or Piper, Lila, Mel and Erika.
Last night could have not gone worser. At least to Logan that's how it felt. He couldn't believe...well actually he took that back. He could believe his father would do something like that. Once he got that thought in his head he wouldn't give it up.
Logan wants to become a doctor, he does. It's always been his dream to become a doctor, he wanted to be like his dad without the superiority complex. He remembered the first time his dad took him to see a kidney transplant when he was 7. All the doctors were so concentrated and determined to save the patients life and he realized that's what he wanted to do with his life.
He wanted to save lives.
His dad thought hockey was a distraction. But Logan was a straight A student, and Vice President of his class. So, he had a little leeway to have an extra-curricular that would also show his diversity for his college applications.
Logan did love his dad, despite his need for routine and mind-set on what was best for Logan. But sometimes he just wished he cared about what Logan really wanted.
Josh Mitchell thought he knew what was best for Logan and no matter how many times Logan told him that he would continue to become a doctor, it wasn't enough for his dad.
When he first talked to his dad about going to L.A. and starting the band, he was supportive in a way that he believed they would fail and be back in Minnesota by the end of the three months. And now that it has been nearly three years and the band is still going strong he felt being in a band wasn't a practical career choice.
Doesn't even matter that Logan is only 19 and has plenty of time to go to school, then med school and residency.
Logan ran a hand through his hair before he got up and took a quick shower and changed. He had already packed his duffel bag last night. A horn honked from his driveway. He grabbed his duffel bag and came down the stairs. His dad had already went to the hospital for his shift and his mom was getting ready to head out.
He kissed her cheek and walked out before she could apologize for his dad one more time.
He put the duffel bag in the before sliding in the back seat next to Carlos.
"Hey, Logan!" Carlos said happily.
"Hey, guys. I hope I didn't ruin dinner last night."
Kendall shook his head. "No, you didn't. Between your dad and James's mom, it was a disaster."
"What happened with James mom?" Logan asked in confusion.
"Let's just say James finally said no to his mom."
Logan eyes nearly popped out of his sockets at that news.
James smiled shyly. "Yeah, Mom said she doesn't want me with Mel but I told her no. That she would have to get used to having Mel in my life because she wasn't going anywhere."
"I'm proud of you." Logan told James.
"I was scared as hell but it gave my mom a lot to think about. Not to mention she'll probably be planning her wedding so she won't have much time to think about me telling her no." James reminded them.
"Wait, Brooke Diamond, queen of cosmetics is getting married?"
Everyone nodded. "To the owner of the coffee shop."
"Mr. Hopkins, very intriguing."
"Yeah, I mean I'm happy for my mom, I really am. She deserves to be happy."
"We all do, James. And I bet by the end of this Christmas we'll all be very happy. Even Logan." Kendall predicted.
"Yeah, that is if my luck can change. My dad has been driving me nuts." Logan stated.
"Come on, Logan, your dad always drives you nuts. Hell, he even drives us nuts and we don't have to live with him." James reminded him.
"Yeah, I mean your dad has always been focused on his only son becoming a doctor. We all know that the only reason he agreed to let you come with us to L.A. was so that you could fail but we didn't. We actually became a band and have had three tours so far. He's becoming anxious that you won't fulfill his dream of having another doctor in the family." Kendall explained.
"I've already told him that I will be going, why is that not enough." Logan asked rhetorically.
"Your dad won't be happy until you apply to a college and your major is pre-med. That's when he will believe you." Carlos answered.
Logan sighed. "I don't want to talk about this anymore. This is supposed to be a guys day so let's keep it like that. Nothing going to change now, we're still going to be a band, we're going to keep working on our 3rd album and its going to be the best one yet."
The others nodded and smiled because it was true it was going to be their best album ever but Logan was wrong when he said that nothing would change. Everything was about to change in his life.
Kendall pulled into the rink's parking lot. They each grabbed their duffel bags and headed inside to change. The others were done before Logan since he took his time to get all his stuff on. He came out of the locker and turned the corner and crashed into someone.
The impact caused him to hit the lockers and the person to fall to the ground.
Logan looked down and saw a bunch of curly dark brown hair with very bright pink highlights that stood out against her hair. When she looked up, his eyes met her brown eyes behind her wired frame glasses. The eyebrow piercing through him off slightly though it seemed to fit her whole persona.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." He said.
"It's okay. You'd think with having glasses it'd actually help me watch where I went." She spoke.
Logan laughed. "Yeah, you'd think so. But I should take the blame for this one. I crashed into you." He held his hand out to help her stand.
"I'm Logan."
"Raina Ariadne." She introduced herself.
"So, did you come here with some friends? Should I worry about getting chewed out for nearly maiming their friend?" Logan asked her.
It was her turn to laugh. "No, actually, I'm here by myself. My brother dropped me off. Though why he dropped me off here I'll never know."
"Why do you say that?" Logan was intrigued.
"Well, skating isn't really my thing. Its going to sound weird but I'm not much of a skater of anything." She confessed.
"Then why would he drop you off at a skating rink?"
She sighed. "I guess it was his way of getting me to interact with others. I've never been much of a sociable type."
"So, what's your job, Ms. Non-Sociable?" Logan joked.
"I'm an analyst, sort of. I help people track others down. And I'm really good at it. My home life wasn't the greatest." She said.
"Yeah, I understand on a level. That's why I joined hockey, I got to be active and I didn't feel a lot of pressure that I did at home." Logan admitted.
"You mean, getting thrown into glass, yelled at by your coach, teammates, a crowd and falling on ice isn't a lot of pressure?" She asked in mock confusion.
He nodded. "Yeah, it was. But it was a different type of pressure. Because here, we were always a team and I had other people to take off the slack when things got rough and had my back."
"I can see that. I guess people cope in different ways. With computers, I usually know exactly what I'm getting into. People...now they are hard to understand." She theorized in a way to explain her work with computers.
"How about after I play this game, you'd want to come hang out with me and my friends. We're really great guys and I can promise you'll know exactly what you get when you hang with us." He offered.
Before she could answer, James somehow put himself between the two and struck up a conversation with Raina, but before Logan could figure out what that was about Carlos came up to him.
"Hey, Logan, remember that present I told you about?" He asked.
"Yes, I remember." Logan said, waiting for Carlos to continue.
"Well, it's here but the only thing is you have to grab it from the concession area now before its gone. Please, go get it, it took a lot for us to get it and we'll promise to look after your friend." He pleaded and then stared with his puppy dog eyes.
Logan caved. "Okay, since you went to all the trouble I'll go and get my present." He threw his hands up as he walked to the concession area.
Carlos was beyond proud of himself for having accomplished his task.
When Logan finally got to the concession area, he had to wait until there was nobody else in front of him before he could get to the counter.
"I'm supposed to have a present here?" Logan asked the cashier.
The cashier looked confused and annoyed. "I don't have any present up here. All I have is food so are you going to buy anything or not?"
Now, he was even more confused, the weird way James and Carlos was acting, plus now there seemed to be no present up here, he turned to go as Carlos as if he was sure that that's where they put his present.
"Special delivery for Hortense Mitchell." Logan stopped in his tracks instantly when he heard that voice. It was a voice he'd recognize anywhere. He heard it every time he went to sleep.
He turned to stare at the red-head in front of him. "Piper," he whispered.
"Merry Christmas, Einstein." Piper smiled coyly.
"You're my present?" Logan asked, even though he had already figured it out himself.
"But of course." She said. "I wrote to them and explained that I wanted you to hear it from me that I was back and not from anyone else."
He shook his head slightly. "You know if this was a movie and I was the girl, I'd slap you for leaving the way you did, for being gone as long as you were, and then we'd kiss."
"Yet, this isn't a movie." Piper replied.
"Yeah, and since you're a girl me hitting you wouldn't be respectful or right." Logan stated.
Piper laugh with no humor. "I've had worse things done to me."
"Yeah, I know I remember." Logan reminded her. "Do you have any idea how much you put me through? How much you put all of us through? How much pain and agony I was in not knowing if you were alive or dead? Did you care?"
She looked down at her feet, swaying from side to side before her eyes collided with his. Logan could see her pain, and her vulnerability all in that one look. She was letting him willingly see past her tough girl exterior than. Something she kept close to her heart.
"You don't think I felt pain? You have no idea how many times I wanted to come back to you. How many nights I slept in your cardigan because it smelled like you. I cried myself to sleep that first month after I left." She confessed to him.
"You took my cardigan?" Logan asked.
Piper laughed. "Of course I took your cardigan. Who did you think took a the laundry fairy?" It was her turn to ask a question.
"I had hoped it was you. That maybe I didn't imagine what we had." Logan replied.
She took a step towards him. "You didn't imagine anything. I never ran away from anything in my life. Well, that's not exactly true. I ran away from my feelings for you. I ran away from what we had because that little girl was scared and didn't feel worthy to have you in her life." Piper had tears in her eyes. "I was afraid that I would ruin your life the way my parents had ruined theirs."
Logan pulled her closer to him and grabbed her face between his hands.
"I hope this is the last time I have to tell you this. But I will repeat it to you everyday for the rest of my life if I have to." Logan paused, looking into her eyes to make sure she understood what he was about to say. "I love you. It's always been you. You are worth a lot more than you realize. You deserve to be happy, you deserve my love and you belong right where you are...with me." He spoke with such conviction, that it warmed Piper's heart. "You are not your parent's. You have more love in your body than they could have ever hoped for. You are Piper. My Rebel!"
"I know that now. I'm not afraid of my feelings for you anymore. I'm not scared and I'm so tired of running and being away when truthfully I never wanted to be anywhere else but where you are." Piper said firmly.
Logan was through with talking. He pulled her face closer to his, and closed his mouth over hers.
She was shocked but didn't waste any time before kissing him back. They both waited a year and a half for this. Everything around them faded away as they continued to kiss.
"Excuse me, I'm sorry but you're going to have to take that outside." The cashier's voice broke their bubble they had created. "This is a family establishment."
They both reluctantly broke the kiss.
"Does that mean you'll give me a second chance?" Piper whispered.
"We'll have to take it slow, but Piper, will you be my girlfriend again?" Logan asked her.
She smiled brightly at him and his heart thumped rapidly against his chest. He'd never get tired of getting those rare smiles from her.
"Now, that's the best Christmas present I ever got."
They heard clapping coming from in front of them and turned their heads to see their gang standing watching.
"You guys planned this?"
"Well, it was Kendall's idea and I tweaked it to fit." Lila admitted to him.
"We all met up at the coffee shop yesterday." Erika told him.
"While you were with your parents." Mel added.
"Yeah, I can't wait until you meet your.." Carlos was bounced but Erika quickly covered his mouth with her hand.
"Meet my what?" Logan asked, looking at all of them.
"Thanks, Carlos." Piper said.
"Sorry," he told her.
James pulled Mel closer to him so that she stood right in front of him, and farther away from Carlos. Mel might have told Piper last night that it would take a lot for her to forgive Piper, but James knew that Mel would always love her like a sister.
Logan looked at Piper waiting for her to fill him in on what he was missing.
"After I left, those first three months I had planned on coming back. I missed you and everyone like crazy. There's a reason it took me longer to get here." Piper started.
Logan stared into her eyes. "So, you weren't scared?" He questioned.
"No, no, I really was at first but it wasn't my only reason for staying away for so long." Piper said. "You have to see it for yourself. But you're going to have to change first."
Logan looked down and he was still in his hockey gear along with his skates. He nodded. "I'll be right back."
Logan got out of his gear, and took his skates off as fast as he could. Something inside him was telling him that whatever she had to show him would change his life forever. Good or bad, he didn't know yet but he wouldn't if he stayed.
He threw his duffel bag over his shoulder and headed out. "I guess that's a rain check to hang out huh?" Raina asked.
Logan looked to his left and saw her leaning against the stack of lockers.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that something came up." Logan said.
"I understand. From what I witnessed, you have more important things to do than playing hockey. Bedroom playing is much more fun anyway." Raina said.
Logan smiled. "Yeah. But if we come back tomorrow we'll definitely hang tomorrow and I can introduce you to the gang."
"We'll see. Go to your girlfriend, because she doesn't look too anxious that you're talking to me."
Logan didn't need to look over his shoulder to imagine the way Piper looked. Being an ex-spy she had more of an advantage and if she believed that his well-being or any other aspect of his life was in question she wouldn't hesitate to cause some serious damage.
"I'll probably see you around." Logan nodded before he ran over to Piper. He threw his arm around her shoulder as they walked out.
"Sooner than you think." Raina said to herself as she watched them walk away.
She made her way out five minutes later and got into the car that was parked behind the building. "They're back together."
"That's okay. I've already set things into motion for tomorrow." He told her. "Back to the bed and breakfast please." he informed the driver.
Raina rolled her eyes. She was spending her Christmas Eve and Day helping a brother she hardly knew anymore, to ruin a families life because he was obessed with Logan's girlfriend. If this wasn't a great episode plot for Criminal Minds, she didn't know what was.
Piper drove towards Kendall's house. Once they got there, she pulled into the driveway and turned the car off.
"We're at Kendall's house." he stated.
"Correct." She nodded. "Look, when I left I really was scared of my feelings for you and of continuing to be a spy when I never wanted to become one in the first place, but after that third month I was planning on coming back but something happened." She told him as they walked to the door, she continued before he could knock on the door. "The reason it took me so long to tell you this right now is because I had to be sure you still loved me and wouldn't just stay with me out of obligation."
"Piper, we've been over this already, I love you and nothing will change that. I'm not leaving you, but you are confusing me even more now." Logan admitted to her.
Piper knocked on the door. "There's someone you should meet. He's been waiting a whole year and a half to meet you."
Before he could ask her what she meant, Katie opened the door and let them inside. Piper brought them into the living room and the image in front of Logan shocked him even more than when he first saw Piper standing behind him with red hair.
"Logan, meet your son. Cole Mitchell."
Logan stared at Mama Knight holding the baby in her arms and then back to Piper, and then back to the baby. He was suddenly caught with a memory from yesterday, when he had thought he had seen Piper, but it must have not have been a hallucination. It really was Piper he saw yesterday, with a baby. His baby.
Everything around him started to fade as everything went black.
A/N: Merry Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas, and Feliz Navidaz! I hope you all have a great holiday. I wanted to get this chapter out as a sort of Christmas present, from me to you! I hope you guys like this chapter! :)
The mystery girl has a name and its Raina, PrefectingImperfections character she created from my mini contest I did in my earlier chapters. Again I hope you all have a great holiday and continue to read and fall even more in love with these incredible characters.
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