Chapter 10
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When they made it back to the house they found it empty and assumed Lorelai was still at the Inn. Rory put the ice cream in the freezer and left the rest of the bags on the counter for later that night. Once everything was taken care of the couple made their way into the living room and both sat down on the couch. Logan pulled Rory to his side, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and she leaned into him, laying her head on his chest.
"So I guess you probably know who that was," Rory said.
"Well from what I heard that was Dean, right?" Logan said.
"The one and only," she said dryly. Rory had told Logan all about her ex boyfriends during the month that they were just friends. He knew all about her sleeping with Dean and how much she regretted it. He was shocked at first, he couldn't imagine Rory ever doing something like that, but he didn't judge her or hold it against her. She had been so scared he wouldn't want anything to do with her anymore, but her fears had been unwarranted. "That was the first time I had seen him since he broke up with me."
"Well he's an idiot for letting you go," he said and place a kiss on her temple while he played with her hair.
"We were both idiots for thinking it would work out between us, especially considering how we had gotten together," she said.
"Yeah I guess it's hard to trust a person after something like that," Logan said mused.
"Do you trust me? I mean you know I would ever do something like that, especially not to you," she asked, she didn't want him to be worried about her cheating on him.
"Absolutely Ace, of course I trust you. You've never given me any reason not to and I know that what happened then is no indication of now and our relationship. My record is definitely less than stellar, but I've changed since meeting you and I wouldn't do anything to hurt you or what we have," he told her honestly.
She leaned up and kissed him lightly at first and then deepening it. They both wanted more, to be as close as possible to the other, but Lorelai could be home at any minute so they stayed like that, holding each other and kissing every once in a while.
About 20 minutes later the front door opened and Lorelai came into the living room. She found them cuddled together, both very content with the conversation they had moments before. They ordered pizza, Chinese, and set up all the candy for Logan's first true Gilmore movie night. Logan and Rory often had movie nights but tonight they were pulling out all the stops and they had 4 movies to watch; Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, The Sixth Sense, and The Breakfast Club.
The night past remarkably quickly, the only interruption was Luke coming home and going to bed, and soon Rory was asleep in Logan's lap on the floor. She had been worried about her mom and Logan getting along because her mom didn't like people from society, but they actually had a lot I common and things went smoothly. Lorelai noticed her daughter was asleep and looked incredibly comfortable with Logan, that enough gained her approval. She also saw the way Logan looked at Rory and was playing with her hair. She had noticed that the two were always touching each other, almost uncomfortable when they weren't. All day they were holding hands or Logan had his arm around her, Rory responding by leaning into him and sometimes playing with the hem of his shirt.
Lorelai took her daughter sleeping as an opportunity to talk to Logan. "So what are your intentions with my daughter?" she asked joking, but wanting to know the answer.
Logan chuckled and turned his head to look at Lorelai "I know Rory probably told you about my past and I've got to say I'm not proud of it. I regret that life every second I'm with Ace because I don't ever want her to be afraid to trust me," he said, he looked back at Rory and kissed the top of her head, careful not to wake her up. "I love Rory, and I know it may seem a little soon to know that, but I think I knew it before we even started dating. Even as her friend I knew I loved her. I can't promise you she won't get hurt, but I can promise to do everything I can to protect her from it."
"Good, that's all I needed to hear," she said. A couple minutes went by and the movie kept playing until Lorelai spoke again. "She loves you too you know. She didn't say anything to me, but I can tell, she loves you."
Logan was about to say something when he heard Rory moan in her sleep, her voice muffled by his chest. Silently her stood up, carrying her in arms and after saying goodnight to Lorelai took her into her room. He laid her down on the bed and in her half asleep state she tried to change into pajamas. He laughed before helping her undress and put on her one of his oversized Yale T-shirts she had stolen from him, not that he minded, he thought it was adorable. Once she was under the covers he stripped down to his boxers and crawled in with her. She instinctively moved to lay her head on his chest and he wrapped his arm protectively around her waist. "Goodnight Ace," he whispered and then drifted off to sleep with the woman he loves in his arms.
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The next morning Rory was awake first and she smiled as she felt Logan's arms around her and she noticed she was wearing his T-shirt. She loved it because it smelled like him and she felt safer even if he wasn't with her. She tried getting out of his embrace without waking him up and was planning to return with coffee. She was almost out of the bed when he pulled her back down to him by her waist and she landed on top of him. Giggling she flipped over from her spot on top of him to face him. He placed a light kiss on her lips, "Where do you think you're going missy?" he joked, grinning at her.
"To get coffee," she said in a sing-songy voice.
"And without kissing me good morning? I'm appalled," he said dramatically.
"I have morning breath, you don't want to kiss me with morning breath," she said resting her chin on his chest and looking up at him.
"Well I have morning breath too so we're even," he said and lifted her chin to give her a searing kiss that lasted a full minute at least. When she pulled back out of breath she was seriously questioning why she would have gotten up without doing that.
"Now I need coffee," she told him sweetly.
"Alright Ace let's go," he said, but Rory didn't move. She stayed on top of him and laid her head on his chest. She felt him laugh underneath her and then kiss her hair. "Ace we have to get up for that," he pointed out, amused.
"But your comfy, I don't want to get up," she said. He chuckled again and ran his hand through her hair.
"That's fine Ace but that means you can't have coffee if neither one of us can move," he reminded her, positive she would be up in a second.
"That's fine, this is nice," she told him, breathing in his scent and closing her eyes.
"Rory are you ok?" he asked, shocked.
"Um yes, why?" she asked looking up at him confused.
"Because you just turned down coffee at… 7 in the morning," he said looking at her alarm clock.
"And…?" she asked still confused.
"And, I don't think I've ever heard you turn down coffee, not even to go into the library when they banned food and drinks," he said.
"What's so bad about that?" she asked.
"It was 40 degrees outside and you stood out there with your coffee until it was gone," he reminded her.
"Oh yeah," she said remembering, "Ok that was pretty bad, but I don't see your point right now."
"You are too cute Ace," he told her, now laughing.
"You know it's not nice to laugh at your poor confused girlfriend," she said dramatically and rolling off of him to her side. He took this opportunity to get up and go around to her side to pull her up.
"Come on Ace, let's actually go get coffee now," he told her.
"I don't want to walk," she told him.
"The kitchen is like 4 feet away from the bed," he said incredulously.
"No Kevin broke, we have to go to Luke's," she said.
"You named the coffee maker Kevin didn't you?" he asked knowingly.
"You know me so well," she swooned.
"OK fine, I'll put on some pants and a shirt then we'll go to Luke's," he said, once he was dressed he came back to the bed and Rory who had insisted that staying in sweats to go to Luke's was fine with her. She knelt on the bed and jumped onto his back.
"Ace what are you doing?" he asked turning his head to see her.
"I told you I don't want to walk so your giving me a piggy back ride," she said sweetly.
"You know I would object if Luke's wasn't so close," he said walking out the door with Rory hanging onto him, her legs wrapped around his waist.
"That and I weigh next to nothing," she pointed out with a kiss on his cheek.
"Very true," he agreed laughing.
Soon they had arrived at Luke's laughing at something Logan had said about Taylor and when they walked in all eyes were on them until Logan set her down lightly and she sat on a stool at the counter. He sat next to her and Luke brought them both coffee. "So she made you carry her here?" he asked Logan.
"Apparently she is above walking the three minutes here," Logan said smirking.
"Hey, I'm not above it, I was simply reluctant to do it," she corrected them. "So where's mom, I saw her car outside," she asked, taking a sip of her coffee.
"She's upstairs on the phone, she should be done soon," Luke said before going to take care of other tables.
"So what time do you want to head out?" Rory asked Logan.
"Whenever you want I'm in no hurry," he told her.
"Ok, maybe around 1:30 that way we can do lunch at the Dragonfly before we leave, but we won't get back to New Haven too late," she said just as Lorelai came bounding down the stairs and into the diner. Spotting her daughter she immediately sat down with her and Logan.
"Morning," she said as Luke brought her a coffee. "Thank you, coffee god!" she said. They laughed at her and soon breakfast was over. They ran into Lane as they were leaving and she was starting her shift at Luke's. Rory promised to call her and Lane had given Logan her stamp of approval which made him laugh. Logan and Rory packed up the Porsche and said goodbye to Lorelai before leaving for Yale.