10. A nice welcome

A little before 5 pm Logan decided to wrap up his work and head to Rory's place. His day hadn't been very productive if you don't count sending text messages to Rory as an accomplishment. He knew that he wouldn't get much done even if he stayed because he was too anxious to see Rory. So he shut up his computer and organized his papers. He was about ready when James, one of his co-workers, walked into his office.

"Logan, do you have time to look through this financial statement with me." He said without lifting his eyes from the papers in his hand.

"Can't it wait until tomorrow? I was just about to leave for today." Logan asked. He wasn't very keen on staying when he knew that Rory was waiting for him.

"You were leaving already? You hardly never leave before seven and even then someone has to kick you out." James asked surprised.

"Well I have a feeling that's going to chance." Logan answered with a smile as he thought of the reason why he now wanted to go home early.

"Is that so? Let me guess. You are seeing someone."

"What makes to think that?" Logan asked nonchalantly.

"Your sudden anxiousness to go home and the goofy grin on your face. So are you saying that there is no woman?"

"No. There is." Logan told him.

"Congratulation man. She must be special because it looks to me that you got it bad. So it's serious?"

"Yeah it is."

"So you have been seeing her for a while already. How come you have never talked about it before?" James asked.

"We started dating just on Saturday but…" Logan started.

"Saturday? This Saturday? Two days and you're already so whipped?" James interrupted.

"Yes but as I was saying we dated for over two years before I moved here. We broke up last spring but now she moved here too and we got back together." Logan explained.

"Well don't let me keep you here. We can go through these tomorrow. You go home and have a nice evening with your girl." James said.

"Thanks. I will. I'll see you tomorrow!" Logan said and left the office.

"Bye" James called after him.

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Rory had arrived home a little bit over 5 pm. She had chanced into some sweats and made some coffee. Now she was just pacing around and waiting for Logan. Logan had said he would come at six at the latest, probably earlier. It wasn't even half past six yet so Rory decided to watch some television while waiting but after only few minutes she heard the doorbell ringing. She hurried to entrance and jumped into Logan's arms as soon as the door was open.

"This is a nice way to make someone feel welcome" Logan chuckled.

"I missed you today." She said while hugging him.

"I missed you too, Ace" Logan said and gave her a kiss.

"I suggest we continue this inside." Rory said and pulled him in. She shut the door and barely managed to turn back to Logan before his lips were onto hers.

Logan moved his lips to Rory's neck. Rory moaned in pleasure and whispered "Bedroom".

He scooped her up and carried her to the bedroom to show her how much he had missed her during the day.

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Rory walked into the bedroom with her hands full of Chinese food.

"Our dinner is served." She said and put the food down onto bed.

"Ridiculous amount of Chinese food in bed is a certain sign that there's a Gilmore girl nearby." Logan joked. "You could feed a whole football team with all this food."

"Well I have to gain back the calories I lost when I did some very pleasuring exercise. And some extra calories in case we start exercising again." Rory answered playfully.

"Who knew that it would be possible to turn you to an exercise freak?"

"I just had to find the right sport for me."

They ate their dinner in bed in silence for a while. Rory knew she needed to tell Logan about her conversation with her mom or it would bother her even more.

"I called to my mom today." She started.

"How is Lorelai?" Logan asked.

"She was her crazy self. I told her about us."

"What did she say?"

"She… um…"

"Rory, just tell me. I'm not expecting her to be head over heals about us."

Rory looked at him and bit her lower lip before answering. "She questioned whether or not I did the right thing getting back together with you. She said that you can´t be the mister right for me because I turned your proposal down. And to make matters even worse she implied that I just got back together with you because I was lonely and I should find another man to date since there are so many other men in this world."

"Oh." Was all Logan managed to say. Hearing all this made him nervous. What if Lorelai made Rory believe in all that stuff?

"Yeah. I don't understand why she can't be happy for me? That's what a mother should do." Rory's mind went to ranting mode. "I explained to her that I made a mistake when I turned you down but did she listen? Or does she even care at all whether or not I'm happy? I don't think so because if she cared, she would accept you since you're the one that makes me happy. And I told her that. I told her that I don't need her approval and I'm going to be with you no matter what she thinks of it. I love you and she should…"

Rory's rant was interrupted by Logan's lips on hers.

"I love you too, Ace." Logan said when their lips parted. "I'm sorry that you had to hear your mom saying those things to you. I know you hate it when she criticizes your decision."

"I just want you to know that it doesn't matter what ever she says, I'm going to be with you. I'm not going to let her opinion break us apart." Rory said looking into his eyes.

"I know that." Logan said and gave one more kiss to her.

Rory wanted to lighten to mood so she decided to change the subject. "I also told Lisa about us. You know the middle-age lady who is one of my co-workers and my friend and lives next-door to you."

"Yeah I remember her. I don't know her well but she seems like a nice lady. What did she say when you told her?"

"She was excited for us. She hopes that there would be more children in the neighbourhood and there doesn't live so many young people so she pins all her hope on us."

"Well you can tell her that at least we are practicing the baby-making a lot…" Logan said with a smirk.

Rory chuckled. "I told her that we just got back together and there will be no babies at least in the not too distant future."

"But maybe some day there will be a blond-haired, blue-eyed baby…" Logan said.

"I really hope so." Rory said sincerely.

"Me too." Logan answered.

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"Lorelai!" Luke shouted when he stepped into crap shack.

"In here!" He heard Lorelai answer. He followed her voice and found her in Rory's room.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"She hates me." Lorelai said like she hadn't even heard what the question was.

"Who?" Luke asked puzzled.

"Rory."

"What? Rory would never hate you. Why do you even say something like that?"

"You didn't what she said to me when we talked today on the phone. I'm a horrible mother. My only child hates me. And all I want is to prevent her from making a mistake."

"You're a great mother. What ever fight you guys had, you are going to make up and everything will be fine again." Luke tried to comfort her.

"It won't. She'll just move further and further away from me because of him."

"Because of whom?" Luke asked confused.

"Logan."

"She broke up with him. How can he still affect your relationship with Rory?"

"They're back together."

"What?"

"You heard right. And when I expressed my doubts about her decision, she yelled at me."

"Oh Lorelai. You do know that it's her decision to make not yours? If he makes her happy then you should just let it be."

"I just don't want her to get hurt."

"I know but you can't know that being with him means that she will get hurt. You just have to try and accept that she wants to be with him."

"Why are you defending him?"

"I'm not defending anyone. I know you want what's best for Rory but she's a big girl and you have trust that she knows what she's doing. She obliviously still loves him and you're hurting her if you don't accept him. Don't push her away or make her choose between you and Logan. At least you can think that she could have chosen someone a lot worse then Logan. He seems like a decent guy if you look past his over privileged family background."

"When did you get so smart?" Lorelai asked with a small smile.

"I must have hit my head to a dictionary or some book full of guidelines in life. So you're going to try to be okay with Rory being with Logan?"

"Yes. I'm going to try. But only because I don't want to push her away." Lorelai said defeated.

"You're doing the right thing." Luke assured her.

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Next morning Rory was getting ready to leave for work. Logan had already gone because his early meeting. Rory's cell rang and she looked the caller ID. It was her mom. She considered rejecting the call but she knew it would have been childish.

"Hello." She answered.

"Hi honey. I'm I calling on bad time." Lorelai asked.

"I was just getting ready for work but I have few minutes."

"I just wanted to talk to you about what we talked or argued about yesterday." Lorelai started.

"I meant it when I said that I don't want to hear you criticizing my decision." Rory said.

"I understand that. It's your decision and even if I don't agree with you, I have to let you do what you want to do."

"I would appreciate that."

"As long as you are happy and he treats you right, I'm going to accept your decision. So we're good?" Lorelai asked hopefully.

"Yes, we are good." Rory answered. She knew that her mom still didn't like her being with Logan but a weak peace was better than a war.

AN: After this chapter there will be a little jump in time because I don't want to write chapters which would be only fillers. This doesn't mean that this story is nearly done. I still have a lot of ideas for it…