Chapter 10

Logan walked into their home at half past 5, he had stopped to get Rory another slushie just to be sure, but then he got stuck in traffic. The guilt of having her have to put up with the boy's behavior longer than he anticipated was at the forefront of his mind as he walked in to a very quiet house. As he set his keys on the key ring and his laptop bag in the kitchen he looked into the living room to see a very quiet Finn and Colin. "Good evening men." He spoke in a normal tone, not feeling there was a reason to do any differently until they both shushed him quickly. It was then that he looked down and saw a sleeping Rory on their couch. Well, at least they were quiet for her.

As they all three made their way into the kitchen Logan got out 3 scotch glasses and filled them all up. They all went to take a drink when Logan finally decided to break the silence and have a little bit of fun. "So, which one of you checked out my fiancé's legs?" He had expected both of them to look flustered or embarrassed, a part of him was hoping for a moment of spit-take theater or a choked-out apology. Instead they both just shrugged their shoulders.

"Wouldn't be the first time we've checked her out." Logan stared at Colin amazed that he would be the one to say that and not Finn.

"'Tis true mate. Don't get me wrong, we'd never act on it, actually we checked her out before you ever did at the coffee cart!"

"Still, I'd prefer that if she's not wearing pants you don't stare." Colin and Finn shared a guilty smile before they stared back into the glasses. "What, what could that look possibly mean?"

"It means that you were a moron who gave them keys to our apartment and your dorm and there had been many times I'm sure that they had walked in when we were asleep and not exactly decent." A very tired Rory came and wrapped her arms around Logan who extended her new drink of choice out to her. She mumbled a thank you into his chest.

"Oh yeah, there was plenty of those times. I was more thinking of when you were in London and we went to go check on her and she was in the shower." Three heads all whipped around to stare at Finn.

"WHAT?!" Logan and Rory had the same reaction while Colin screamed, "We weren't supposed to tell them that!" Suddenly the focus was back on Colin now.

"Okay, now that you two own the house across the street, neither one of you is trusted with a key. Do you hear me?" Rory then looked at Logan who was turning a new shade of red that she hadn't seen. "No keys for them, got it?"

"Oh, don't worry, I've got it." Logan's voice was angry, but the more he thought about the situation the more he was thankful it was the two of them. Unfortunately, they didn't hear the humor in his voice, so Colin and Finn swallowed the lumps in their throat and Colin started to work on damage control.

"I swear Rory, we didn't see anything much and we left very quickly after, I swear." Colin quickly stammered out.

"Wait, you guys are moving across the street?" Logan finally registered what Rory had said earlier. There had been a lot of developments for a Monday evening. "I feel like I'm missing a lot of information."

"That's because you're a work dork." Rory settled her back against his front while he wrapped his arms around her front cradling the bump she had been admiring not to long ago. "How about you guys go out, have a night out on the town, turn on your red lights, whatever." Logan opened his mouth to protest while Finn and Colin had their mouths open in anticipation. "I'm serious, I've been babysat for 72 hours, I need space and now that these two will be within a hundred feet of me at any given time I really need the space. So, go, get changed, get all gussied up and leave me be."

"Damn, she's hot when she's bossy, remember when she bossed around for that London party?"

"Not the time Finn." Both Logan and Colin gave him a look. Colin kept up though, "She does have a point, plus buddy, we have some business to discuss with you." Logan groaned, but a part of him was thankful for the evening out.

As he stepped out of his closet he saw Rory waiting for him in their room. "Well you look handsome." She was smiling, she was happy, and he actually felt relaxed for the first time in a long time.

"Well thank you, you look good too. A little grungy but good." Rory stuck her tongue out at him and he smiled, gave her a kiss and walked out to join Colin and Finn for their evening out. As soon as she heard the door close she quickly made her way to the window. She waited until she saw his tail lights turn the corner off their street before she jumped in the shower, making it quick she wasted no time and grabbed her keys and got in her own car. Thanking god he actually left for the evening.

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"What made my two best friends grace me with their presence?" If the look they shared earlier about Rory was one of guilt, there was no word to describe the lack of eye contact they were exhibiting now. "Wow, didn't know that was such a loaded question."

"It's not, it's just, well, Mitchum."

"What about him?"

"He 'gently persuaded' us to come out here. Convince you to leave California, and to leave—"

"FINN!"

"What?!"

"We weren't going to mention that part."

"What part?" Logan tried to interject, to no avail.

"No, we said we weren't going to mention it to Rory because of the baby. But we never agreed not to mention it to Logan."

"Mention what guys?"

"Why would we mention it to Logan? It's not an option, it's not going to happen."

"Guys!" Still no luck on Logan's part.

"Because he deserves to know."

"Really, you want to be the one that tells him that his father wants him to leave Rory?" Colin finally let out with exasperation before he turned to look at Logan who radiated more anger than either of them had seen, even including the earlier secrets that were revealed.

"He what?"

Colin sighed and dropped his head in his hands, he was about to speak up when Finn decided to dump out the can of worms he had opened. "Mitchum, he wanted us to convince you to leave Rory, to show you what all is out there and what you may be missing."

"He wanted me to abandon Rory, and the baby?"

There were no words spoken for quite some time, but 2 more rounds were ordered before Logan finally spoke up again. "Why did you come here to do his bidding? Is it to break Rory and I up? Because if so, get the hell out of this booth and cancel the purchase of that house because I don't want you anywhere near her."

"No, Logan, that's not it. He just threatened to press charges on some legal things that you had taken the blame for, but we told him we'd come out here. We made no promises. We're here for the both of you. And we know Finn can't hold down a job, so he can watch Rory if need be, no, we're here to support you guys. We just honestly used this an excuse to get out here and the fact that it was on Mitchum's dime made it better."

Logan had no choice but to believe them. They hadn't done much wrong, they had gotten into bed with the devil himself but were smart enough to keep their chastity belts on so not too much damage could be done. "If I hear that you guys promised him anything, I swear."

"Nothing else mate, I swear."

Logan sighed and cracked his neck from side-to-side, "So, may I ask why you didn't have pants on in my house this morning?" And just like that, the tension at the table had been lifted.

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Logan set the boys up in the two guest rooms they had in their house. Apparently, the boys had to stay there for a few weeks before they closed on the house. Quite frankly Logan had stopped paying attention long before they had given an explanation. It wasn't until he crawled into bed and went to snuggle in closer to Rory that he looked around and felt something was different.

"Hey, Ror?"

She barely opened her eyes and looked at him. "Yeah babe?"

"Do we have a whole new bedroom set?"

"Oh yeah, I went to Ikea after you guys left."

"We've been gone for 6 hours, how did this all happen?"

"It's the hair twirl, now shh, go to bed."