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Chapter 8
A couple of weeks after Rory and Paris went to Stars Hollow to support Jackson, they found themselves waiting to find out what section of the Yale Daily News they were going to be assigned.
"I had a dream about you last night." Paris said, as she walked over to the desk Rory was sitting at in the news room.
"If this gets dirty, feel free to keep it to yourself." Rory said with a roll of her eyes.
"I dreamed that in spite of the fact that you knew I wanted to be assigned the religion beat, you went behind my back to Doyle, cooked him dinner and stole it from me." Paris stated seriously.
Rory rolled her eyes again at Paris, "It's just a dream, Paris."
"You made veal parmigiana, and it felt very real" Paris said, sitting on the edge of Rory's desk.
"I don't make veal parmigiana. I don't make anything, and I don't want the religion beat. I want feature, you know that." Rory said, getting frustrated.
"You say you want features -" Paris started, before Rory cut her off.
"And I mean it."
"Dreams tell you things. It's our subconscious talking to us. Warning us, telling us about things that are happening." Paris told her.
"Paris, seriously -" Rory tried to say.
"My dream was telling me that you are stabbing me in the back with your veal parmigiana." Paris said with a huff.
"Well, I must have really overcooked it then." Rory deadpanned.
"Let me smell your hands." Paris said, leaning toward Rory.
"Oh my God, go away!" Rory exclaimed.
"Rory, listen to me. We're close, like, friends, and I would hate for something as trivial as competition for the religion beat to come between us." Paris reasoned with Rory.
"Paris, seriously, I don't want the religion beat!" Rory said, fed up with what Paris was saying.
"We could end up like the Van Burens." Paris said, still in the delusion of her dream.
"As in Mr. And Mrs. President?" Rory asked, not sure what Paris was talking about and where she was going with it.
"As in Abby and Ann." Paris said, making it seem as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Right." Rory said dryly.
"Sisters in blood, but bitter rivals. They don't even speak anymore." Paris said, gaining momentum again.
"That's 'cause one of them is dead." Rory said to her.
"You don't want the religion beat?" Paris asked Rory, looking her in the face.
"Oh! I'm sorry, you meant the religion beat – No! I don't!" Rory said, hoping to get Paris off of her back.
Paris was about to say some more, when she set her sights in on some other poor unsuspecting person. Rory let out a sigh of relief as Paris walked off.
Rory sat at her desk, waiting for Doyle to make the announcement, since she had some time she decided to see if Logan was going to come by the newsroom.
Hey! What are you doing?
-Ace
She didn't have to wait long before Logan sent a text back to her. She smiled when she read it.
Hey Ace! I am on my way to the news room. Gotta torture Doyle a little.
-LH
What your not coming just to see me?
-Ace
Seeing you is a bonus.
-LH
Aren't you sweet. How long til your here?
-Ace
Soon. I had to do some stuff with Colin and Finn. I will probably be late.
-LH
Ok. I will see you in a little while then. Doyle is about to start. Coffee and Scotch.
-Ace
Coffee and Scotch, Ace. See you soon.
-LH
Rory smiled and put her phone away just as Doyle started the meeting.
"Lena, economic development. Seng, Woodbridge Hall. Benji, legal issues. Paris, religion beat." Doyle started.
"Me? Really? Huh, I hadn't thought. All right." Rory rolled her eyes at Paris' attempt to be surprised at getting the religion beat.
"Jerry, city arts; Rory, features; Glenn, crime," Doyle looked up when Glenn cleared his throat, "What, Glenn, you don't want crime?"
"I don't care. Marureen Dowd told me it's all the same, not that that flirt has any idea what she's talking about." Glenn said to Doyle.
"All right, that's it. Congratulations if you got what you wanted, and if you didn't, I could care less. Get cracking." Doyle said and finished the meeting.
Rory walked over to Doyle, "Thank you so much for features beat. I can't tell you how excited I am."
"And please don't try." Doyle said uninterested.
"No, I'm gonna kick butt. You just wait and see." Rory told him, determined to be a good reporter.
"You're a reporter now, Gilmore. You've gotta learn to say ass." Doyle said to her.
"I'll work on that. Hey, listen, um, I have about a million ideas for my first story, so I was wondering if I could run some of them by you, see what you think?" Rory asked, a little shy.
"Two minutes. Go." Doyle said to her.
"Okay, well, first I thought I could do an update on unionizing the janitorial staff, you know, a classic power struggle; haves versus the have-nots." Rory explained to him.
"Okay." Doyle nodded his head.
"Or – and I already have the headline for this one – 'Yale's Liberal Activist Network: A thing of the past?'" Rory said.
"Catchy, catchy." Doyle said and nodded his head thinking over what she said.
"Then there's the issue of illegal music downloading on campus, which I imagine is a major –." Rory stopped her sentence short, when she noticed that Doyle was looking towards the door. She turned to see Logan walk in, with Colin and Finn right behind him.
"Oh no." Doyle breathed out.
"What?" Rory asked, confused at Doyle's reaction.
"He's back." Doyle mumbled, just as Logan walked over to them.
"Doyle, my friend," Logan said and shook hands with Doyle, "You're looking very, very well, how ya been?" Logan sneaked a quick glance towards Rory. He noticed a slow smile come across her face as she watched him interact with Doyle.
"I've been great, Logan. Great to have you back." Doyle said with a nervous tremor in his voice.
"Yeah, well, I stayed away as long as I could, but the Yale Daily News called me." Logan said, as he watched Rory hold in a laugh out of the corner of his eye.
"Oh, sure. So how's everything? How's the family?" Doyle asked.
"Everything's fine," Logan looked around and caught Rory's eye, "Fine" she mouthed to him with a raised eyebrow. Logan smirked and shrugged, "The family's the family...Ah, my desk. Beautiful."
"Um, you know, Logan, I didn't know exactly when you were coming back, and I gave out the beats." Doyle said to Logan, as he walked around his desk and pulled the chair out.
"That's fine, Doyle, I'll take whatever you've got left." Logan said and propped his feet up on the desk.
"Actually, there's none left." Doyle said nervously.
"Perfect, just the one I wanted," Logan saw Rory roll her eyes, "Relax, Doyle. I'm just here for the pretty picture in my father's head," Rory gave him a sad smile when he talked about his father, "I'm not going to be any trouble at all." Logan gave Rory a small nod, that Doyle missed, to let her know they would talk later about the lecture he had got from his father earlier.
Rory gave him a sweet smile, to let him know she understood him. She scoffed internally at Doyle's next statement, "Oh, Logan, please. You, trouble? Stop. We're just glad to have you here."
Logan hated when people kissed his ass just because of his last name, "Careful, boy, you might hurt yourself, kid. Better get back to work, right boss?" Logan looked over at Rory, "Rory, nice to see you." He winked at her and almost laughed out loud at the fact that he could still make her blush.
Doyle hurried over to Rory's desk, "You know Logan? How do you know Logan?"
Rory, a little shocked at Doyle's interest in the fact that she knew Logan. She couldn't tell him exactly how she knew Logan, even though she would probably enjoy the look on Doyle's face when he found out just how she knew Logan, she quickly came up with something to tell Doyle, "No, I don't know him, I met him," Rory said, going off the story they came up with when they returned from Europe, "A friend introduced us." Yeah, he introduced me to my husband, after we were already married, Rory thought sarcastically, as she looked over at Logan, who was trying not to pay attention to them.
"So you're not friends." Doyle asked, still trying to figure out just how she knew Logan.
"No, definitely not friends." Rory said, Well not just friends anyway. Rory almost laughed at the expression of mock hurt on Logan's face. 'We're not friends' he mouthed to her, and pouted a little. Rory rolled her eyes at him, but had a smile on her face.
Doyle didn't notice her and Logan's silent interaction, "That guy's a real piece of work. He took last year off with a bunch of his friends. He was going to sail Daddy's yacht around till he sank it." Doyle said in a hushed tone.
Actually it was Finn who sunk the yacht, Rory said to herself, "He sank his father's yacht?" She asked Doyle, out loud, pretending that she didn't already know the details of that event.
"Right off of Fiji. They spent six months of gallivanting and partying and God knows what, till Daddy sent one of his planes to bring him back." Doyle said with slight indignation.
"I'm guessing his father's rich." Rory stated, having a hard time keeping the bored tone out of her voice, since she already knew all of the things that Doyle was telling her.
"His father's Mitchum Huntzberger." Doyle said, in a tone that made it almost sound like he was talking about royalty.
"The newspaper guy?" Rory asked, already knowing the answer and wanting to end this conversation as soon as possible. She looked over at Logan again, he was looking at her. He gave her a wink and rolled his eyes at Doyle. It took all she had to not burst out laughing.
"The newspaper magnet. The man owns at least twelve different papers. I've spent two years kissing Logan's butt." Doyle explained to her.
"Don't you mean ass?" Rory deadpanned.
"Whatever. Guess it's time to pucker up again. Man, I hate those kind of guys." Doyle said, looking over at Logan, who relaxed back in his chair with his feet on his desk and his hands behind his head.
"What kind of guys?" Rory asked, getting annoyed at Doyle.
"Those privileged, white males." Doyle told her.
"Doyle, you're a privileged white male." Rory said frustrated.
"Well, he's more privileged. And way more whiter," Doyle said, then realized that he was not going to get through to her, just how important Logan or his father was, "Why am I talking to you? Meg, why am I talking to Gilmore?"
"My story – we were picking a story." Rory reminded him.
"Right. Well, they all sound fine to me." Doyle said, waving his hand dismissively in the air.
"Then I think I'll go with the downloading story." Rory said to him.
"Good. Go with your gut. And get to work." Doyle said as he walked off.
Logan, having had enough of Doyle decided to cut the tension in the room, he put on an old 'press' hat that was in his desk drawer, picked up the phone and started talking in a 1920s reporter voice, "Hello, city desk? Smitty here, take this down. I got a hot scoop on a gorgeous brunette and I gotta put it to bed on the double!" He hung up the phone and laughed at the look on Doyle's face. He winked at Rory, who had a huge smile on her face. He leans back in his chair and puts the hat over his face. He didn't see Rory gather her things and head for the door.
Rory walked behind Logan and looked around before leaning in close to his ear, "Hey Smitty, do you want to go bed the gorgeous brunette?" She licked the shell of his ear, before turning and walking out of the news room.
It didn't take long before her cell phone started ringing, "Yes." She breathed into the phone, already knowing who it was.
"That was cruel, Ace." Logan's voice came through the phone. She had to laugh at how rough his voice sounded.
"Yeah, but you enjoyed it." Rory said with a laugh.
"That I did, Ace. Where are you going? Do you want to go get some lunch?" Logan asked, walking out of the newsroom.
"Yeah. That's fine. Do you want to go to that burger place we went to back when school started?" She asked him, knowing that they needed a private place so they could talk.
"Yeah, that sounds perfect. I will meet you there in about 10 minutes. Coffee and Scotch." Logan said, heading towards his car.
"Coffee and Scotch." Rory hung up, just as she reached her car. She got in and headed towards the restaurant. Ten minutes later, she pulled into the parking lot, she saw Logan pull in just after her. They both got out of their cars and headed towards the front door of the restaurant.
They sat down at a booth in the back and a waitress came over and took their orders, when she walked away, Rory was finally able to let her frustrations out about Doyle, "Ugh...Doyle was being so damn annoying."
"I only caught bits and pieces of what he was saying. What were you two talking about anyways?" Logan asked her, putting his arm around her shoulders. He smiled when she leaned into him.
"He was telling me all about what you have been up to. He told me about Fiji and the yacht, about your father, and how he has to kiss your ass," She looked up at him and into his chocolate brown eyes, "Do you know how hard it was to not correct him when he was saying that you sunk the yacht?"
"People like Doyle, really annoy me. They tend to only be nice to me because of my last name." Logan said with a frustrated sigh.
"I know, Logan, I know. I am in the same boat you are sometimes. I am just lucky enough that no one really knows for now." Rory said to him, not looking for the day that the world finds out she is the Hayden heiress.
"I know, Ace, and I will be there every step of the way." He reminded her and gave her a small kiss, just as their food arrived.
"Hey, did you get a phone call from your father today? Is that why you made an appearance at the newsroom today?" Rory asked him, then took a bite of her hamburger.
"Yeah. Gave me the same old lecture. Told me that I needed to be more active at the paper this year," Logan sighed and ran a hand through his hair, "Let's talk more about that later. Now let's talk about what you are going to write for the paper."
"Oh, yeah, I wanted to talk to you about something. You can say no if you want, but I was wondering if you would consider letting me do a piece on the Life and Death Brigade." Rory said, not looking at him.
Logan put stopped eating and looked over at Rory, she wasn't looking at him, so he cleaned his hands off with his napkin and tilted her face towards him, "What kind of piece?"
"Just an exposé. No locations, names, or anything like that. You know I wouldn't do that to you." Rory said to him with a smile on her face.
"I know you wouldn't. I know you would write a great article about the LDB. Your a legacy, Gilmore and Hayden, though no one knows about the Hayden part. I need to talk to the guys, but you need to come to us first. I know you have done some research about us, right?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I know that your father and grandfather were a part of it. There were six founders, Huntzberger, Hayden, Gilmore, Morgan, Vanderbilt, and McCrae," She told him, "And I know that your slogan is 'In Omnia Paratus', which means 'Ready for Anything' in Latin."
Logan thought over how he was going to go about bringing this up with the guys, "How about I talk to the guys about maybe finding the last two founders. We all know that you are now at Yale, you would have been inducted last year, but since we took the year off, it didn't happen. They just don't know who you are or that you are both a Hayden and a Gilmore. That is going to shock the hell out of Colin." Logan said with a chuckle.
"Okay, I will give you a couple days to talk to the guys. Then I will approach you, when I see all of you together." Rory told him, nodding her head.
"That's fine, just text me or something when you plan on approaching us," Logan said, giving her a kiss, "I can't wait to tell more people that we are together. This whole secret thing is seriously cutting into our time together, out in the open." Logan said with a sigh.
"I know, maybe, by my birthday we can let Colin and Finn know, it will be easier once they find out." Rory said to him, cuddling into his side, as they finished their lunch.
"I think I am going to start hinting around to them, that I am only interested in one girl and then go from there." Logan told her as he paid for their lunch and reached a hand out to help her out of the booth.
They walked back to their cars, "That sounds like a plan to me." Rory said as she put her arms around Logan's waist.
Logan pulled her close to him and he inhaled her perfume, "I'm going to hang out with Colin and Finn tonight. Maybe drop some hints about both thing we talked about."
She pulled back, but kept her arms around him, "That's fine, I was going to work on another article about downloading."
"I probably won't be able to come by tonight, but I will call you and let you know how things went." Logan told her, as he pulled her into a deep kiss.
"Mmmmm...I'm going to miss you tonight." Rory said as she pulled out of the kiss.
"Me too," Logan told her, "I will call you later, okay. I love you."
"Okay. I love you, too." Rory gave him one last kiss before getting in her car and driving back to campus.
Later that evening, Rory was interviewing someone for her downloading article, when she decided to take a break. She was in the bathroom, when a girl in a ball gown and a gorilla mask walked in. The girl didn't notice Rory at first, just as she was getting ready to leave, she saw Rory, "Oops!" The girl giggled, "Didn't see you there." Rory followed her as she rushed out of the bathroom.
Rory watched as the gorilla girl, got to a black SUV, yelled 'In Omnia Paratus', then jumped in the back. Rory smirked as she watched the SUV speed out of the parking lot. She pulled out her phone and texted Logan.
Just saw a blonde girl in a ball gown and gorilla mask. You don't know anything about that do you? -Ace
Damn it! That was probably Steph. But this does make it easier to get you to an event.
-LH
I will probably approach you, Colin, and Finn about seeing her and the SUV and the stuff I researched.
-Ace
Okay, Ace. I will call you later. Coffee and Scotch.
-LH
Coffee and Scotch.
-Ace
Rory walked back to her dorm, tired and ready to just crawl into bed. With it being too early to go straight to bed, she decided to do some more research on the LDB. She knew they did crazy stunts and was excited and scared to be inducted. But she knew that with Logan by her side, she would be just fine.
AN: Not really my favorite chapter. Just a filler in a way. The next few chapters are the LDB event and then Colin and Finn finding out about Rory and Logan. Read and Review.
