AN: sorry it has been so long since I last updated, but life got in the way – well the navy anyway, which is basically my life now, ugh. I don't know when my next update is going to be, I'll try and be quicker but no promises.
The Gilmore Girls is not mine or any of the characters that star on the show.
Tristan was in shock; when he had left for Europe almost three months, the current gossip was that Logan's longtime girlfriend – a thought that still baffled him – had just turned down his marriage proposal. So when he got back, he expected to find a moping Logan, after all Logan had been with this Ace person for three years.
It was to his surprise that not only had Logan been asleep at midnight, but there was a woman standing behind him. It was even more of a surprise that she apparently knew who he was. He looked at her more closely and thought that she looked familiar, but he couldn't figure out where he had seen her before, or how he knew her so he concluded that she was probably one of his one-night-stands that he had had over the years.
"Tris, what are you doing here?" Logan asked snapping Tristan out of his thoughts about Logan's mystery girl.
"I just got back from Europe and I wanted to see how you were doing," Tristan said, again shooting a confused look at Rory.
Logan stepped out of the door way and said, "Well come on in." Leading Tristan into the sitting room, Logan asked, "Can I get you anything to drink?"
"A scotch would be nice, thanks," Tristan answered, sitting on the love seat.
Logan who had seen his cousin's confusion trying to figure out who Rory was decided to have some fun and confuse him even more. "Do you want anything baby?" he asked turning to face Rory and wink at her.
Rory had also seen Tristan's reaction to her and thought it would be funny to have him struggle with figuring out who she was and decided to play along with Logan when she saw him wink at her. "Orange juice please sweetheart," she said to Logan in her most Barbie like, society bimbo, voice, and gave him a quick peck. She then turned to Tristan and sat down in one of the arm chairs across from him.
The two sat in silence while Logan was getting the drinks. "Baby, can I get a little help?" Logan asked, walking back into the sitting room. He was holding two glasses of orange juice, a fifth of scotch and a decanter. Rory got up and took the glasses of juice, while Logan handed Tristan the decanter and put the scotch on the coffee table. Logan then sat in the chair that Rory had just vacated and pulled her onto his lap, and took one of the glasses of juice.
Tristan watched the interaction between the two with interest. Many things about it confused him, but the thing that was confusing most was how Logan seemed so comfortable with the woman sitting on his lap, when not so long ago he had proposed to his girlfriend, and was turned down. "Not drinking tonight?" Tristan asked, expressing one of the many questions going through his mind.
"No, I promised my girl here that I would stop drinking," Logan said looking at Rory. Turning back to Tristan, he asked, "So how have you been cuz?"
"Good, really good. I graduated Princeton cum laude," Tristan replied with a smirk.
"Oh wow, that's great Tristan," Rory said. "I remember you not doing very well at Chilton, slacking off more than this one here," she said looking at Logan, "but I'm glad that things turned around for you."
Tristan just nodded, thinking, 'at least I now have a time frame from when I knew her.'
"So you said you just got back from Europe? Did you have fun?" Rory asked.
"Yeah, it was great. It was a graduation present from my parents. I had a great time, got to see a lot of different places. And I met some really interesting people."
Logan snorted at that comment.
Rory slapped his arm lightly and said, "Be nice Logan."
"Sorry," Logan said, looking anything but.
Tristan scoffed and said, "I did meet this really nice Swiss milk maid. We traveled around for a while; I almost brought her home with me. I couldn't understand anything she said, but we really hit it off."
By the time Tristan had finished, both Rory and Logan were laughing. "You don't think?" Logan asked looking at Rory.
"It would be kinda funny," she said still laughing.
"Oh she would never let him live it down," Logan said. That sent Rory into another laughing fit.
"Someone want to let me in on the joke?" Tristan asked looking annoyed.
"Sorry," Logan said, "it's just that about two years ago Colin met a Swiss milk maid and they hit it off right away and she followed us around for the next three weeks, and then Colin brought her back with us. But she went back a few months later. Personally I think Steph scared her off."
"Oh," was Tristan's only reply. "So you hung out with Logan in college?" he asked Rory.
"You could say that," Rory smirked.
"Rory? Logan? Everything ok down there?" Finn called.
Sighing and shaking their heads, Rory and Logan yelled at the same time, "Yeah Finn. We didn't wake you up did we?"
"No love, was just gonna grab a snack real quick and then I heard a lot of laughing," Finn answered, walking into the sitting room.
"OH MY GOD! Mary!" Tristan yelled, finally figuring out who Rory was.
"My name is Rory," she said, getting the same affronted look on her face that she used to get whenever he called her Mary at Chilton.
"You're with Huntzburger?" Tristan asked, amazed that she would be with someone with a reputation like Logan's, even if that was years ago.
Rory just smiled and laughed.
"Hey!" Logan said. Then he turned to Rory, "Stop laughing Ace."
"Wait, wait, wait, Ace? As in the same person that I've heard of nonstop for three years? The same person that two months ago turned down your proposal?" Tristan asked. Then he took a closer look at Rory and Logan and noticed that Rory had an engagement ring on.
"Hey now," Rory said. "That was a misunderstanding on both of our parts. Why does everyone always mention that?" Rory added looking at Logan. "I mean it was only three weeks apart, not even that really."
"I don't know Ace. I really don't know."
"Wow Mare, never thought that you would go for someone like Huntz here," Tristan said, breaking them out of their trance.
"Other way around there mate," Finn interrupted, "we never thought that Logan would land Reporter Girl here; especially after the way they started off."
"Now Finn, it's not nice to go and tell all the stories before the wedding." Rory chided.
"But love, that is months away. And I won't be able to get that drunk either, can't be making a bad impression on the baby."
"Baby?" Tristan asked, confused.
"It won't even remember anything Finn. It won't even be three months old," Rory said.
"You're pregnant?" Tristan said, causing all three of them to look at him.
"Yes," Rory said. "Twenty weeks pregnant actually."
"So you'll be able to find out the sex soon?" Tristan said.
"Yeah, in two days. How did you know that?" Rory asked.
"My ex-girlfriend was pregnant," Tristan explained.
"Ohh," Rory said, looking shocked, noticing that Logan and Finn were wearing the same shocked expressions as she was.
"So you have a kid?" Finn asked.
"Finnegan, don't be rude," Rory chided, although she wanted to know the answer too.
"Nah, it ended up not being mine. It's cool though, we were only together for a few months - you remember Frannie right?"
"Hard to forget the person who kidnapped me in the middle of the night and convinced me to break into the school," Rory said with a frown.
"Really Ace? And here I thought that I was the only one you ever did anything illegal with." Logan smirked at the shock he could see coming from his cousin. "Anyway since you're here now, and I don't want to have to track you down in the next few months – wanna honor that pact from when we were younger and stand up with me in the wedding Tris."
Tristan looked confused for a minute before remembering what him and Logan had agreed to when they were younger, before replying, "Sure, but I'm guessing since you're having a kid that strippers are out?"
"They better be if Finn knows what's good for him," Rory said with a yawn. "Now I'm going back to sleep, I have to go into the paper tomorrow. Tristan there is an extra room if you want to stay for a while." Rory got off of Logan's lap and kissed him.
"Night Ace," he said kissing her back. "I'm going to show Tristan to the spare room and I'll join you."
"Night little sister," Finn said, kissing her forehead, before walking upstairs with a bag of chips and a soda.
"Night Finny, I'll see everyone in the morning."
Logan and Tristan watched her walk up the stairs before Tristan turned to his cousin and asked, "How did you end up with Rory?"
"It's a very long story, which I think we should tell you together. Are you ok? I mean I know you had feelings for her but you haven't seen her in what almost six years," Logan said.
"Yeah I'm fine, a little shocked. I mean I tried my hardest to get her to go out with me but I'm over her."
"I'm glad to hear that. Now I don't know about you but it's late and I'm tired, so I'll show you to the guest room and then I'm going to sleep," Logan said motioning for Tristan to follow him.
"You just want to join your gorgeous fiancé in bed," Tristan said following Logan upstairs.
"Of course," Logan said smirking. Stopping in front of the guest room Logan opened the door and said, "Here you go; I guess we'll see you in the morning."
"Night cuz," Tristan said walking in and shutting the door.