Well I keep thinking that I have reach the half way point of my story, but then I look at the page count and realize that this chapter makes it 17 pages that I've published out of 35. I still have lots of fleshing out to go on the remaining pages. I know where this is going, but I'm still working on how to get there. Thanks for still reading my fic, feed back as always is welcome. I will try to get one more chapter up before the weekend is over. And just because I haven't said it for awhile, I don't own the Gilmore Girls, I'm just playing with them.

Advising of the Scoop

Rory was sitting under a tree finishing her latest article. Hugo had been giving her great feed back about her writing. He said that with her good humor and wit she was starting to carve out her writing identity.

"We come bearing gifts." Rory looked up to see Kerry and Bennie walking towards her. Bennie was carrying a tray with three coffees in it. Kerry was carrying a take out bag.

"We bribed the Chinese Restaurant down the road to cook us food even though they stopped serving lunch two hours ago."

"Thanks." Rory took the coffee and placed it on the ground next to her, so that Bennie could sit down without it spilling.

"No problem, you own me fifty bucks for you share of the bribe." Kerry said as she gave out the food. They sat in silence eating for a few minuets.

"Sooo are you going to tell me what happened this morning? Or am I suppose to ignore it?" Bennie asked as she picked out the broccoli from her beef in black bean.

"I would prefer it if you could ignore it." Rory didn't look up so she missed the look passed between Kerry and Bennie.

"Well I'm working on being the Worlds Greatest Reporter cos I want your hat, so I can't let it go." They sat in silence a few minuets longer.

Kerry was first to break the new round of uncomfortable silence. "Rory I know we haven't know each other long but, I think that maybe you need to talk. And I'm great at giving advice. I used to write the advice column for my home town paper." Kerry said this very enthusiastically. "It was called Kerry's Karing Korner. I always hated that they changed all the C's to K's. K.K.K. what was my editor thinking?" Rory normally found her bubblyness intoxicating. Today it just gave her a hang over.

Rory tried to sound strong and together, "I don't need to talk, everything is fine." After she said it, Rory knew that it made her sound like an impudent child.

"Yes because the definition of fine, is me waking up finding you crying and huddled around a pillow and then acting like a zombie for the rest of the day."

"Hey! I haven't asked to eat anyone's brains, have I?" Rory waved her fork which was loaded with a giant shrimp accusingly.

"No but I think you brains checked out for the day and that your running on auto pilot." This shut Rory up. She really couldn't think of a come back for what Bennie had said because she knew it was true.

"Common Rory you have to tell us what's going on." Kerry looked at Rory. It wasn't a hard look it was more like a look that said, I can wait for all day and I will if, you need me too.

"It's nothing." Both Bennie and Kerry gave Rory a hard stair that clearly stated that they didn't believe her.

Rory caved. "I just got in a fight with my boyfriend, well with my ex-boyfriend."

Kerry burst out with, "Oh god! Your pregnant and he is saying he wants nothing to do with you."

"Nooo! I'm not pregnant." Rory was shocked at that. She had always been especially careful in that area, as her mother said she was a very loving reminder of what happens when you're not careful.

"What on earth would make you say that? My skins not glowing, my ankles aren't swollen and I don't have cravings for weird ass food."

"Say's she who introduced me to dessert sushi," say's Bennie.

"That's not weird. That's inventive." Rory said defensively.

"Well the only two reasons that a self respecting woman contacts her ex-boyfriend is if she's pregnant or..."

"If she's still in love with him." Rory says. She looks down not wanting to meet there eyes.

"But you've been on two dates since joining the campaign trail. You've never even mentioned him." Bennie was leaning forward her food long forgotten.

Even though Rory was single, she still felt a need to justify her actions. "Well I didn't mean to go out on the dates."

"How do you not mean to go out on dates? It's a very deliberate thing."Bennie deepens her voice. "Hi Rory I was wondering if you would like to go out some time."Bennie now switches to a higher pitched voice in what was a very bad imitation of Rory. "Sure, that would be great."

Bennie goes back to speaking normally. "I was there on at least one occasion when you were asked out, it seemed very deliberate to me."

"Well to be honest. I wasn't really listening when I said yes. It wasn't until after I said yes, that I realized what I had said yes to and then it was too late to back out."

"So who is this mystery ex-boyfriend? How long had you been going out? Why did you break up?" Kerry felt that they were on a roll for getting information out of Rory and hoped that it would keep going.

"Logan, almost three years and I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know. How could you not know why you broke up?" Bennie finished her coffee and focused on Rory.

"It was the job wasn't it? He didn't like you traveling. So many men are like that. It's ok for them to travel all over the place following the Arizona Diamondbacks. But if you have to travel they turn around and say, But how can you leave me like this? How is it going to work? You really don't need to travel for you job." Kerry looked around her."Sorry did I just import my problems into this conversation?"

Rory nodded, "I don' think that the travel was the problem, it was just… complicated. I just think that it finally dawned on me last night that I wasn't going to see him again. We've broken up before but we always got back together. Always." Rory started to cry.

"Gezz you got it bad. You sure it's over?" Bennie moved next to Rory and put her arm around her.

Rory lent forward and hid her face. Her voice came out muffled, "Well it sounded really final to me over the phone."
"What made it so final this time?"

"The way he spoke. In the end he was calm, he wasn't emotional. In the past we were always emotional. It was like the time he was resolved not to work for his father anymore. He wasn't upset, he didn't yell, he was calm."

"That doesn't me squat. Father issues and girlfriend issues are very different. The more sure my husband sounds the less he knows." Bennie smiled to herself, remembering some of the disagreements that her and her partner had had over the years.

"You think?" Rory looked up at Bennie. Bennie was glade to see that there was a glimmer or hope in Rory's eyes.

"What you need is some inside info. You need to talk to someone that he would talk to about this kind of stuff. You know, get the inside scoop." Kerry said very thoughtfully. Rory had never heard a real reporter say scoop seriously.

"So find myself a scoop and ask away?" Kerry nod's her head, Rory looks to Bennie hoping to find her disapproving of the scoop idea.

"I can't do that! I don't think any of his scoops would talk to me?"

"But that's you job, to get scoops to talk to you. You do it all the time." Kerry said.

"And why wouldn't a scoop talk to you?" Rory knew that Bennie would ask the right question. Man it was hard keeping secrets from reporters, they could smell a lie.

"Because, well I turned down his proposal," Rory bit her lip and once again found it very hard to make eye contact.

"Ohh it's all coming clear now." Kerry says very seriously.

"Well I'm glade it is to someone."

"Think about it, he thought that you were the love of his life. He was prepared to make the ultimate commitment to you and you said no. He's probably thinking that he was just kidding himself that you were the one, now he feels like a fool. So when he speaks to you, he sounds so sure of himself because he doesn't want to loose any more face with you."

Rory looked at Kerry in shock. "You really did run the advice column didn't you?"