A/N: Thanks once again for the fantabulous reviews. I love constructive criticism, so thanks for that to. You guys are the best! Ok, I have a little problem though that I need your guy's help on. Well, I need you guys to help me by telling me what TASK Rory should have to do for Steph's challenge. I know everyone else's Challenges and all but the TASK for Stephanie is just not coming to me. If you have any suggestions, I would LOVE to hear all of them. Well, thanks ever so much in advance. You guys are always a great help.

mochaddicted79- Yes I totally agree with you! I too thought about that. I promise that I will not have Logan be in denial that long at all (muahahahahahaha).

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Chapter 9 Switching Slides

Rory found it very hard to sleep that night, because of what had gone on a couple hours ago. She was so excited about what she had to do, but on the other hand, she was extremely nervous. She had never done anything remotely like this before, and she was scared that she would not finish the Challenges. At about 4:30 am, she finally fell into a conscious slumber.

Logan on the other hand, fell asleep right away, but had a very strange dream that made him wake up at around 5 am. He dreamt that he and Rory had gone to a party when someone broke in and kidnapped her. He screamed out her name as he chased after the kidnappers, but they got in a car and left. He took some random persons car, and drove after her like a maniac. He was freaking out; he looked insane. He caught up with the car and demanded that they give her back, but they pulled out a gun and shot and killed her. Logan woke up with beads of perspiration on his face and panted like he was out of breath. He didn't sleep for the rest of the night.

At 9:30 am, Rory's alarm clock rang, and she grumbled out of bed to take her shower. As she shampooed her hair, she remembered what was happening today and began to hurry to finish her shower. When she got out, she finished getting ready. She decided to wear a pair of black pants and a white blouse with a pretty burgundy sweater over it. The sweater hugged her body in all the right places to make her look very pretty and very sophisticated looking. She grabbed her matching burgundy purse and went downstairs to meet with the other LDB members. She had decided last night, while she was trying to get to sleep, that if she needed anymore items from her backpack, that after they gave her the Challenges, she could go up and get what ever else she needed.

When she got downstairs, the entire LDB was sitting in the Ballroom, eating breakfast. Rory walked inside the room and sat down next to Stephanie and Logan who were munching on eggs, bacon, and pancakes.

"Hey Ace." Logan greeted after he finished his bite.

"Hey Logan." Rory said back, giving Logan a peck on the lips.

"I'm glad you're up Ror, Finny and Col still haven't come down yet." Steph said as she got up from the table to get more food.

"Ya hungry Ace? Cause the buffet is over there." Logan said, pointing to a table in the corner.

"Great, I'm starved. I will be back in a minute." Rory said, walking to the buffet table.

Just then, the 2 remaining brigadiers came into the ballroom, walked up to the table Logan was at, and sat down.

"The party has officially begun. Colin and I have arrived." Said a loud, Australian voice.

"Thank God for that." Logan said sarcastically.

"Sarcasm doesn't become you, mate." Finn said hotly.

Logan rolled his eyes and kept eating his food. His dream was still bugging him. He wasn't sure exactly what it all meant. He knew that it had to do with his feelings for Rory, but he was confused over them as well. He knew that he love spending time with her, and that every morning when he woke up, he thought about her. He never had to do much with Rory, as long as they were together, he was happy. He never liked to go to a party, unless she was there and every time he heard a love song on the radio, he always thought about her.

"Oh My God!" Logan said, his eyes opened very wide.

"What?" Finn and Colin said together, confused about their best friend's sudden out burst.

"I think I'm in love with Rory." Logan said, lowering his voice a little bit.

"Really?" Finn said, a little shocked at the news.

"Well, well, well, Huntzberger has finally fallen." Colin said with a smirk on his face.

"Oh My God, Are you serious?" Stephanie said as she sat down at their table.

"Steph, where's Rory?" Logan questioned.

"Don't worry Huntz; she didn't hear your little confession of love. She is over there, next to the coffee machine, getting herself some." Steph said pointing to the edge of the table where Rory was standing.

Logan visibly relaxed and started eating his toast. When he looked up, he saw three pairs of eyes watching his every move.

"So, when did you know that you loved her?" Steph asked.

"I just figured it out now. And you three better not tell Rory. I want to." Logan warned.

"Of course we won't." Stephanie said.

Rory looked over to her table. Her 3 best friends were all crowed around Logan with excited looks on their faces. I wonder what their talking about. Rory thought as she grabbed her coffee and walked back toward the table. She kept looking at Logan. She realized that he was the only one with a kind of surprised look on his face. When he looked back at her, she felt her heart start beating faster and her mind go blank. They looked at each other for about 5 seconds until she looked away. She started to panic. What the heck is happening to me? She thought. Why am I acting like this?

"Get a hold of your self Gilmore. Calm down." She told herself, as she exhaled a breath.

Rory sat back down at her table and everyone was staring at her. Then about 2 minutes later they all went back to eating their food, while Finn and Colin snuck some off of Rory's plate.

"Finn!" Rory said, hitting his hand away.

"What! I'm not that hungry, and anyway, Colin was doing it to!" Finn said.

"Great friend you are." Colin said sarcastically to Finn.

" Col, if I'm going down, so are you." Finn replied.

"Ok, you guys, its time to get this show on the road." Stephanie said standing.

"But I haven't finished eating yet!" Colin said standing.

"Here, now come on." Stephanie replied giving Colin some toast before rising and going over to the main table in the front of the room.

The 3 guys followed her as Colin finished his toast. When they were up there, the LDB stopped talking and turned to face the four. Stephanie glanced at Rory. She was looking at Logan with a smile, but when she looked over at Steph, her face suddenly got pink and she looked down at her feet. Stephanie smiled. Well, well, well. She thought.

"Ok Everyone, It is time for Rory's fist task." Stephanie said, moving toward the table, that the boxes were on.

"Rory, Colin is your companion today since the first challenge is the Rockefeller Challenge." Logan said.

"Yes. So Rory, please come up here." Colin asked.

Rory stood and walked over to the table he was at. Colin gave Rory a small box and an envelope.

"Rory, remember that you have until midnight, to finish this entire Challenge. This card that you hold in your hand is the task to help you find out what to do for the test." Finn reminded her.

"Are you ready?" Colin asked.

"Yes, I think so." Rory replied.

"Then, let the Challenges begin." Stephanie shouted.

All the LDB cheered as Rory and Colin walked out of the ballroom door. When she was in the hallway, she looked at Colin.

"Am I aloud to open this now?" she said, pointing to the box and card.

"Yes, when ever you like." Colin said smiling at Rory.

"Ok." Rory said, eagerly ripping the envelope open.

The card said:

Go to a movie theater.

Buy a ticket for the movie Just Like Heaven.

Find a way to sneak into the film room and switch out that movie, for the movie in the box.

Watch the film and it will help you to figure out what your test is.

Good Luck

And,

In Omni a Paratus



"Ok, now how am I supposed to do that?" Rory asked as she reread the card.

"It does sound a little bit tricky, doesn't it?" Colin asked, smirking.

"Oh, shut-up Colin. I can do this. I just need to think about my strategy." Rory said reading the card for the third time.

"Well, it's almost noon, how long do you want to think for?"

"Shoot! Are you serious? Let's go." Rory said, pulling Colin out of the door.

Saturday 12:39pm

Rory and Colin drove to a near by movie theater and parked the car. They got out, walked to the ticket booth, and Rory bought 2 tickets to see Just Like Heaven. Then they walked inside and went to their movie. When they got there, they climbed up the stairs until they got too the last row and sat down in 2 of the seats.

"Ok, the move starts in thirty minutes." Colin said, checking his watch.

"Perfect, it will give me more than enough time." Rory said.

Rory and Colin stood up and turned around. There was a black door right behind them that said Employee's only. Rory opened the door very slowly and looked inside. No one was there, so they both snuck in. She looked around the room. It was covered with shelves and shelves of different films. The wall with the door had a little window which had a giant, black movie projector in front of it. Rory looked at the box that she was carrying, and opened it. When she looked inside, she saw a big roll of film, like the ones that were on the wall.

"Shoot, I was hoping it was like a DVD or something." Rory said as she walked up to the projector.

"That would make things a whole lot easer, I imagine." Colin said leaning on a bookshelf.

"I don't know how to work these kinds of machines." Rory said, walking around it.

" I guess they can't be that hard." Colin said.

Rory turned her leg, to move it closer to her, when she banged her knee on the table that the projector was on.

"Ouch!" She said, grabbing on to her knee.

Colin let out a wail of laughter.

"Colin, shut-up, or someone will hear us." Rory said as she continued to look at the projector while babying her knee for a second.

Rory's knee "healed" and she pressed a couple buttons, to try to figure out how to work the projector.. She found a handle bar that released the film it was currently holding and pressed it. The lever moved toward her and she slid the film out. Just then, she heard voices, and saw that the door handle was moving.

"Shoot." She said. "Colin, come over hear."

Colin and Rory ran under the desk just as the door opened, and 2 employees came in.

They walked over to the projector and noticed that it had no film in it. Meanwhile Rory saw that she left her film right by the projector.

"Hey James." one employee said. "Where is the film for the next movie? Didn't you put it in already?"

"Ya, I did." The other said.

"Well it's not here."

"Um, yes it is, its right there you moron!" The employee said pointing to Rory's film.

"Oh, I saw that!"

"No you didn't."

"Whatever."

Rory looked at Colin with a triumphed look on her face.

"Ha! I got it in."

"Yes, but now you have to watch It."

"But how are we going to get back to our seats?"

"I don't know, it's your task."

"But these 2 morons won't leave!"

"I guess they won't, hum." Colin said. He was having too much fun messing with Rory.

Just then, Rory thought of something. She reached in the desk and took a stapler out. Then she threw it on the other side of the room.

"Man, what was that?" one employee said.

"I don't know. One of the movie films must have fallen. Come on, let's go pick it up." The other said as they walked to the other side of the room.

"Come on!" Rory whispered as she and Colin tiptoe towards the door. Rory opened it and was about to leave when one of the employees saw them.

"Hey, no one is aloud back here."

"Sorry, I thought it was the bathroom." Rory said as she and Colin ran out the door.

The employees just looked at each other.

When Rory and Colin sat back in their seat, the theatre was beginning to fill up.

"What time is it, Colin?" Rory asked.

"Umm, it's five after one." Colin said after looking at his watch.

"Ok, they should be starting the movie any minute now." Rory said.

And right on cue, the theatre got dark and Rory's movie began to play. There was a Legally Blond trailer that played first. A commercial for West wing came next. A commercial for Law and Order came after that and finally a Just Legal commercial played. Rory had a pen and was writing on the box that previously held the LDB film. Colin watched as she hurriedly wrote down a premise of what the movie or TV show was about and the characters that were in it.

After the film finished, they quietly got their things, stood up and exited the theater. When they were outside, they got back into Colin's car.Now all Rory had to do was figure out where she had to go and what she had to do. This was going to be very difficult.