(Here it is! Chapter 10. We have reached double digits with this story. I am proud of myself. I know the last couple of chapters have been a little boring and a little slow. But they will all be worth it soon. Here's another kind of slow chapter. There's some cutesy Rogan scenes in it though, which I am sure you will appreciate. The next chapter things will take a turn. Once again I need to edit it, which will happen tomorrow!)
"Well that was an experience." Logan exclaimed as the duo walked towards the books store. After deciding that was a good starting point for their tour of Stars Hollow. It had been several years since the blonde had last set foot in the small town that his ex girlfriend and the mother of his child had grown up in. Even so the town hadn't changed all that much. Although he did notice WiFi signs in the windows of some of the businesses.
"Well, I should of guarded you from it. But once Babette sees a guy that she likes, she sinks her teeth into you." Rory said with a small smirk as they stopped in front of the book store. Logan opened the door and then followed Rory inside.
"It's okay. Thanks for getting us out of there before she started undressing me with her eyes." he chuckled.
"Oh it was probably too late for that already. At least it was just her, and you weren't tag teamed by her and Ms Patty."
Logan stuck his tongue out at Rory and then laughed. "Gee thanks for your support."
"Anytime." Rory retorted as she led Logan towards a display of used books off to the side of the best sellers display. Shuffling through the books she pulled one out of the stack and immediately started laughing when she realized what she had chosen.
"What? What's so funny Ace?" Logan asked looking over at what she was holding.
She turned the book around so the front cover was facing him. "Asher. It's Asher Fleming's book."
Logan chuckled. "Well that's a sign if I've ever seen one." He said a twinkle in his eye. "Do you remember that day?"
Rory flipped through the book before looking up at him and nodding. "Of course I do. How could I forget. That was the first conversation we had. When you asked me to call you Master and Commander."
Logan smirked slightly. "Well I remember you actually doing so a time or two." He said nudging her.
Rory turned bright red and shoved him playfully. "Logan! This is not the place to make sexual innuendo comments."
"But it makes you blush, and you are so cute when you're embarrased." Logan teased as he gazed at her. "So, I think I need to buy that book. Baby's first book written by a creepy old guy who's now dead."
Rory laughed. "I don't think that has ever been used to describe a baby's gift before." Things with Logan were definitely going a lot easier than she could of ever dreamed, and she was so relieved. She smiled and handed the book over.
Logan looked around. "Anything else you just can't live without Ace?"
Rory shrugged and shook her head. "You've already spent too much money on me. I don't need anymore books right now."
"Those are words that I never thought I would hear you say." he smiled as he walked over the the cash register with Rory following.
"Hi Rory." Andrew said taking the book that Logan had slid over the coutner to him. "And Logan is it? I didn't know Rory and you had gotten back together."
"We aren't." Logan and Rory said almost in unison.
"Sure. Sure." Andrew said as he scanned the book and slid it into a bag. "Seven ninety five."
Logan smiled and pulled a twenty out of his wallet handing it over. After getting his change and putting it in his wallet he pocketed it and grabbed the book, telling Andrew thanks before he and Rory left the store.
"So I see that they still know who I am around here." Logan said with a mischevious smile.
"Well, I am the princess of Stars Hollow" Rory joked.
"Not the queen?"
"We both know nobody could possibly dethrone my mother of that title."
"Ah, well. Is it wierd that I'm here?" Logan asked, he loved being around Rory especially in her natural enviroment, she was so much more relaxed in Stars Hollow, but the last thing he wanted to was make her uncomfortable by being there.
"It might be to them, but to me no." She said reassuringly as she shook her head to drive her point home harder. "But you are an outsider, so I'm sure every one is going to ask you the same questions for as long as you are here."
Logan nodded and was about to respond to what Rory had said when his phone chirped in his pocket alerting him of a missed call. "Well that's werid." he said pulling it out and looking at it. "I didn't even hear it ring."
"Probably the spotty cell reception. It's not great in most of the stores here." She sighed. "Who called?"
Logan groaned as he hit the redial button and listened to it ring. "The hospital."
Rory nodded and waited to see what information he would find out on the phone call.
"Hello. I just recieved a call from you." he paused, obviously listenting to the person who answered on the other end. "That's right Mitchum Huntzburger's son." Another several seconds of silence as Logan listened to what the hospital staff member said to her. "Okay, thank's for letting me know. I'll call and check back in a few hours." He ended the call and slid it back into his pocket before turning his attention back to Rory. "He's in surgery. They found more damage than they had thought they would find. So surgery is going to be a little more intense." He paused and shrugged. "But they haven't been in for very long, so there wasn't very much they could really tell me."
Rory nodded as she listened to Logan talk, when he was done she tilted her head just slightly trying to think about what she shoud say in response. "Should you call your mom?"
Logan sighed and then frowned. His brow furrowing as he thought about it. "Yes, probably." he retrieved his phone and hit the speed dial for his mother. Shaking his head when it went straight to voicemail, he left a short mesasage after the beep. "Mom, it's Logan. They've started surgery on dad. Thought you should know. Bye." He clicked the phone off for the second time in as many minutes and put it once again back in his pocket. As his gaze reached Rory's she could instantly tell that he needed some distraction adter the last few minutes.
"Okay, well no more phone. Let's go do something fun." She pondered the last visit that she had taken to Stars Hollow with Logan and remembered his favorite parts of the trip. "There's no hay maze this time, but we could go see the house mom just bought to expand the inn." She shrugged, knowing since it wasn't ideal tourist season, there wasn't really any big events or excitement planned.
"Sounds good to me." He knew his voice matched the glum mood having to deal with his parents, even if not in person or directly had put him in. He shook his head. "Sorry Ace, I just hate having to deal with this."
Rory shrugged and smiled. "It's okay Logan, families are stressfull and yours is more so than normal ones."
"You can say that again." Logan said as he shook his head once more. "Let's go see this new inn of your moms. And then maybe I'll take you out to lunch. Since breakfast was rudely interrupted."
Rory smiledd as they headed off in the direction of the house that had up until recently housed the town's aging and elderly. "It's not much yet, they stripped a lot of the rooms down to the bare bones so they could redecorate, but it's going to be something and the library room is already half done." She smiled, trying not to bore Logan. "Plus if you're lucky you might get to see me using a hammer." She teased as they crossed the street together.
"Rory Gilmore with a hammer. Not something many get to see." Logan teased.
"It's like a unicorn." She teased right back as they approached the house. "Don't worry, there won't be that many townspeople in here for you to fend off. My mom's here." She said nodding to the brown upgraded version of her mother's ancient jeep. "And Tom, the contractor probably is. Other than that, you shouldn't have to worry about anyone groping you."
"That's always good. I think I've already reached my quota of contractors groping me for the year." Logan teased as he followed her up the steps that led up to the open door of the house.