Chapter Eleven: There Will Be NO Wedding
Rory had grabbed her purse and her coat and went outside to wait for Logan. She got into her car and turned the radio on without actually starting the car so she didn't attract Emily's attention. She searched the radio stations for some insanely upbeat song to detract her from the sorrow filled mood she was in but had no luck. She placed her face in her hands and began to sob. After a little more than five minutes of crying she got angry with herself. She forced herself to stop crying and turned the car off slamming the door behind her. She slumped against the car sliding down to the ground sobbing once again, which is where Logan found her.
He had gotten out of his car and started to walk towards her car when he saw her get out slamming the door. He hung back for a second trying to get a little bit more control over himself and the anger that was coursing through his veins thanks to his family. When he saw her slide to the ground sobbing his heart broke. He couldn't bare to see her like this. It literally hurt seeing her so upset. He walked over to her quickening his pace. Once he stood in front of her he dropped down to his knees pulling her to him. Her arms flew around him, her body searching for the comfort it so desperately needed. The only thing he could do was pull her closer and hold onto her tighter, rocking her gently as she sobbed, knowing that after they told Richard and Emily there would be much more of this same behavior in the cards for them tonight. After about five minutes of silently rocking his crying girlfriend he heard her sobs slow and realized that she was beginning to calm down. He pulled back and looked her straight in the face. "I love you Rory." he whispered not trusting his voice to say anything else.
"I love you too Logan." she whispered back
He smiled at her and began to pull her up with him as he slowly stood. He entwined their fingers and brought her hand up to his lips kissing it gently. "You wanna go get this over with and then go home and just cuddle up in bed and sleep?
"I changed my appointment time to later in the day tomorrow."
"Why?"
Rory sighed and started walking towards the front door pulling Logan behind her. "Because we are going to be here for a long time. Let's go Huntzberger." she said opening the front door.
xxxxxx
"Lorelai where is your daughter?" Emily demanded. "It's getting late."
"I have a meeting first thing in the morning." Richard said unemotionally
"Mom, it's not that late it's only eight thirty, and I'm sure she'll be in here any minute now." Lorelai said looking at the watch on Luke's wrist.
"Was she ok?" Luke whispered to Lorelai
"No. I don't think she is, but I don't know. She might be. She kept saying she was. When I came back in she was calling Logan."
Emily heard the word Logan and her head shot up. "Logan, what about Logan?" she enquired suddenly interested
"Is here." Rory said in regards to Logan.
Emily turned around and came face to face with Logan and Rory, both who looked very serious. "Why Logan this is a nice surprise. Should we have been expecting you?" Emily asked excitedly
"It's nice to see you too Emily, and no I suppose you shouldn't have been expecting me. I hadn't planned on being here tonight." Logan said politely. He forced himself to let go of Rory's hand and walked toward Richard. "Good evening Richard. How's the business?"
"It's going well Logan. Thank you for asking." Richard said shaking his hand
Logan turned to Lorelai and extended his hand. "Hello Lorelai."
Lorelai rolled her eyes but stuck her hand out to meet his for Rory's benefit and smiled. "Hi Logan. How's the family?"
Logan nodded slightly so that Lorelai knew he had acknowledged her attempt to get to him. "They are fine. My sister's got engaged a few days ago actually." Then he turned to Luke. "I'm not sure what to call you, Mr. Danes, Luke, sir..."
"Luke will work just fine." Luke said shaking his hand. "I've heard a lot about you."
Logan's face paled slightly but recovered remarkably fast. "As I you. I heard you have the best coffee on the eastern seaboard."
"Thank you." Luke said trying hard to be nice
Rory noticed the tension towards Logan coming from Luke and Lorelai and turned to Richard. "Grandpa do you think that we can go sit down in the living room? I have something that I would like to discuss with you and grandma."
"Of course Rory. Let's all go to the living room for drinks. Logan would you like something?"
Logan smiled at Richard. "Thank you. I'll take a glass of water." he told him pulling Rory closer to him and walking towards the living room
"What no scotch?" Rory whispered smiling at Logan
"I think I've had enough to drink this weekend Ace. Finn takes everything much better with alcohol and he can't ever drink alone." Logan whispered back.
Once Richard had handed out all the drinks he took a seat in his chair and watched as Logan made sure Rory was comfortable before he sat down. It was obvious to him that Logan was very much in love with his granddaughter. "So... Rory you said you had something to discuss with us?"
Rory squeezed Logan's hand a bit tighter and Logan took a deep breath. He knew Rory wanted to be the one to tell them but he could tell she wouldn't be able to so he decided to do it for her. "Actually Richard it was really something that we wanted to discuss with you and Emily." Logan said
"Oh My God! Are you two getting married? Richard they're getting married!" Emily said excitedly
Lorelai groaned. "Mom he never said that." She muttered knowing that Emily didn't hear her anyway
"Now Emily, the boy never said they were getting married. We mustn't go jumping to conclusions." Richard reminded her
"He's right." Logan said, "We aren't getting married. I haven't proposed to Rory."
"Oh well then what is it?" Emily said clearly unhappy that she was wrong
"Mom would you stop it and let them tell you what they want to tell you." Lorelai said loudly
"Lorelai you will not raise your voice to me in my own home." Emily warned
"Well I am so sorry mother but you keep asking them what they want to tell you and yet you won't just let them tell you! If you could be quiet for two seconds and stop looking at them like you are filling out their wedding invitations in your head…" Lorelai shouted at Emily
"Honestly Lorelai you act as if you don't even want them to get married. Logan will make a fine husband to Rory and she a fine wife to him!" Emily screamed back
"Not today and not tomorrow! They haven't even been together that long and already you're planning the damn wedding!"
"You didn't deny the fact that you don't want them to get married." Richard said stepping in to defend his wife
"You're right! I don't! I don't want them married. I don't want them together. He's not good for her. He's not good enough for her!" Lorelai yelled back clearly ignoring Luke's pleas for her to stop
"Of all the things to say in front of company! The boy is sitting here in front of you and you say things like that!" Emily shrieked
"Like you did that time I brought Luke to dinner. You basically called him a filthy pathetic excuse of a man who ran a diner that served road kill ! You let him know that you thought he wasn't good enough for me, why in the hell shouldn't I let Logan know that I would rather see my daughter alone than with him!"
Rory looked at her mother in awe. She was so angry she couldn't see straight. She felt herself shift uncomfortably on the couch when her mother had said Logan wasn't good enough for her and let go of Logan's hand standing up. The second Lorelai said she would rather Rory be alone than with Logan her rage took over. "WHO IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!" she yelled
Lorelai took a step back and looked Rory in the eyes. "You don't want to do this now kid. We can fight later." Lorelai said calmly
"No I'm sorry, we can fight about this now!" Rory yelled
"Ror…" Logan started but was quickly shot down by her.
"No, Logan I got this. I can do this now." She said confidently before turning back to Lorelai. "You always complained about how Grandma wouldn't let you be happy. That you thought she didn't want you to be happy. You were so hurt when she didn't approve of Luke, because you love him. Well you know what I love Logan, and it hurts that you don't approve of him. But you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take a page out of your book and tell you the same thing you told Grandma. You and me, we're done. I can see now that I should have never expected you to support my decisions."
"Rory you don't mean that. You're just upset, we're not done…" Lorelai started tears brimming over her eyelids
"No, I don't want to hear it. You made your choice. All you had to do was give him a chance, but you couldn't do that. You couldn't get over the simple fact that you hated your childhood, hated growing up here in all the Hartford society light, and that maybe just once in my life I wasn't just like you. I like the life I live here mom. I like the life I live with Logan and just because you don't want me to become on of these brainless Hartford society trophy wives you refuse to accept that I have changed. That I'm not the same little innocent lamb Rory that you sent off to Yale last year. I grew up and that terrifies you…"
"Now wait just one minute here you two! Someone tell me what is going on this instant or else you two can continue to fight this out somewhere else." Emily yelled over them
Rory turned to Emily and then to Logan who was standing up. "Come on Ace sit down and take a few deep breaths. This isn't really good for you." he said softly enough so that Richard and Emily didn't hear but Luke did.
"He's right Rory, you need to calm down." Luke said before turning to Lorelai. "You too. Sit down." He told her ignoring the evil looks she was shooting his way
"Richard and Emily might I suggest you two sit down as well. You may want to." Logan said politely giving Rory a moment to contain herself.
Richard and Emily sat down and looked at Rory and Logan. Rory had clutched to his hand tightly and Richard could see the poor boy's hand turning red. "Ok, now what is this all about? Rory you never fight with Lorelai like this? What is going on?" he asked
"Isn't it obvious Richard? Lorelai wants Rory to break up with Logan." Emily said her voice coming out mean and nasty
"Emily let the girl speak." Richard said trying to diffuse another argument that would spring up between Lorelai and Emily
"Yes, you're right. I'm sorry. Rory what is that you two want to talk to us about?"
Rory took a deep breath and let the words fall from her mouth before she could lose her nerve. "I'm pregnant."
The whole room went silent. The only noise heard was Emily's glass shatter as it hit the ground. Lorelai looked over at Rory and Logan. She saw the scared look on Rory's face and the worried look on Logan's face as he looked at Rory and only Rory, and sighed. She moved off the couch and walked to where Emily was sitting and began picking up the broken glass. Richard muttered something under his breath and stood up slowing beginning to pace. Emily hadn't moved an inch but there were tears falling from her eyes.
Logan looked over at Rory the second he realized she was going to just blurt it out like that and his eyes hadn't left her since. He barely noticed when Emily dropped her glass. He was focused solely on Rory. Her eyes shut and tears began to slip down her cheeks. He quickly brought his hands up to cup her face and brush her tears away with his thumbs. He could feel her body shaking beneath his touch as she cried, although silently this time, again tonight. After this I am going to do everything in my power to make sure I never have to see her like this again unless they are happy tears Logan said to himself.
Luke glanced over as Lorelai shifted to pick up the broken glass and went into the kitchen to get a dust pan. When he returned and handed it to Lore, she smiled softly and he sat back down. He looked over at Rory and saw her crying. His heart broke watching her like this. He had always thought of Rory as a daughter and right now he saw his daughter suffering in the arms of a man that Lorelai thought wasn't good enough but seemed to genuinely love Rory. He looked over at Emily whose face had gone from the silent shock it was when she dropped the glass to deeply sad.
Emily couldn't believe her ears. Her granddaughter was pregnant. This is all wrong. Rory wasn't supposed to get pregnant. She was supposed to graduate, become an overseas correspondent, then marry Logan and then after she accomplished all of that and only after she accomplished it all was she to have children Emily thought to herself. She looked over at her granddaughter and Logan. He was wiping her eyes as tears fell from them and she couldn't help but let out a sigh. She looked over at Richard who was staring intensely at the young couple as well.
The silence was deafening to Rory. She just wished that someone would say something, even though she knew it would be cruel. Logan was trying so hard to comfort her and she loved him for it. Not wanting to be the one to break the silence but wanting it end even more desperately she sighed. "Grandma? Grandpa?"
When no one said anything Logan leaned into her and whispered, "So far infinitely better than my parents."
A laugh escaped her mouth before she could suppress it. "Do you think this is funny young lady?" came Emily's shrill voice
"And we're off." Lorelai muttered to Luke
"No. I don't grandma. I wasn't laughing at this." Rory said quietly catching Logan's gaze
"And you," Emily said pointing at Logan, "I suppose you think this is joke as well."
"No Emily I don't. I'm taking this very seriously." Logan said defensively
"This is all your fault." Emily said to Lorelai
Lorelai's face fell open in shock, "How in the hell is this my fault?"
"You set a horrible example for the girl. She probably thought it was going to be ok to get pregnant out of wedlock."
"Grandma this isn't Mom's fault. I did this on my own." Rory said trying to defend Lorelai, "This is all on me and Logan."
"How could you have been so irresponsible?" Emily yelled
Logan looked over and watched Rory's expression sadden. "With all due respect Emily, I don't think yelling is going to help any."
"Logan, do shut up." Emily said loudly looking over at Richard. "Richard say something!"
Richard sighed. "This is going to be ok."
Emily's jaw dropped. "Richard Gilmore how on earth can you possibly think this is going to be ok?"
"It's simple. They'll get married and raise the baby together. They both will continue school as expected and then Logan will go to work for his father, Rory will get a respectable job if she decides that's what she wants to do." Richard said calmly
"No."
"Excuse me young lady I don't think I heard you properly. You did not just tell me no." Richard said angrily
Rory took a deep breath. "I'm sorry Grandpa, but I did. Me and Logan will raise the baby together but we are not getting married."
"Rory come one be serious here. You two have to get married." Emily said loudly
"No we don't." Logan said
"Young man I think it would be beneficial for you to keep your mouth shut." Emily snapped at Logan
"You don't honestly expect me to just sit here and be quiet and watch you two tear her down do you?"
"I think it would be safer for you to sit there and look handsome." Lorelai snapped
"Don't snap at him!" Rory yelled at Lorelai
"I can have the entire wedding planned by the time you start to show…" Emily said ignoring everyone else
"Mom stop…" Lorelai said even though she knew she wasn't listening
"We can give you the new house we acquired on Cape Cod as a wedding present…"
"GRANDMA! Stop it!" Rory screamed, "Every one of you are going to back off now! Mom you are going to quit talking to Logan like he's dirt, and Grandma, Grandpa we will not and I repeat WILL NOT accept a house from you as a wedding present because THERE WILL BE NO WEDDING!"
"You can not honestly expect to raise what could very well be the Huntzberger heir out of wedlock, Rory. Now that is just ludicrous." Richard snapped
"I guess she does then because we are not getting married. We aren't ready to get married." Logan said
"But you both felt you were ready to have a child?" Emily asked
"Right because I'm sure they set out to get pregnant Mom. They both woke up one day and said how can we ruin our lives, oh I know let's have a baby!" Lorelai said sarcastically
"They don't need your help Lore. You're only going to make this worse on them." Luke said to Lorelai. He then turned to Logan. "Logan why don't you drive Rory back to Yale."
"My car is here." Rory said
"I'll drive it back for you." Lorelai said, "Luke can follow me in the jeep and take me home. Just take my baby home Logan."
"Now hold on one second no one is going anywhere. We are not finished discussing this." Emily shouted
"Yes we are." Rory said standing up and pulling Logan towards the door. "Thanks for dinner."
Lorelai looked back at her parents and for the first time in her life she sympathized with her parents. Once Rory and Logan were out the door she sent Luke to go get Rory's keys. She walked back over to her mom and dad and looked at both of them. She knew that they were reliving the day they found out Lorelai was pregnant, refusing to marry Christopher. "Mom." Lorelai said quietly
"What is it Lorelai?" Emily snapped
Lorelai sighed. If it wasn't hard it just wouldn't be my parents Lorelai thought to herself. "Look I know what you must be thinking because I feel the same way. I'm not even close to happy about this. But you can't force her to get married. You know Rory as well as I do and she's stubborn. But if it makes it any easier, if they love each other as much as they say they do, they'll probably get married after the baby is born." She said watching both her mother and father stare at her. She then turned on her heels and walked towards the cars.
xxxxxx
The car ride back to Yale was silent. Neither Rory nor Logan said a word to each other. He just held her hand constantly massaging the back of her hand as he drove. He parked his car and turned to Rory. "Your place or mine?"
Rory sighed. "Mine. I just want to go to sleep."
"Ok. Come on let's go. Lorelai will be here any minute. It would be nice to get to your room before her. Paris would prefer it." Logan said getting out of the car and walking around to open Rory's door.
Rory smiled as Logan opened her door. "Have I ever told you that you are the perfect man?"
"No Ace. I don't believe you have." Logan said helping her out of the car
"Well you are. You are the perfect the man. You're selfless and honorable, you're loyal and loving, and you can afford to keep me in coffee for the rest of my life." Rory said while walking towards Branford.
Logan smiled as he listened to her talk. "Well you Rory Gilmore are the perfect woman."
"Am I?"
"Yes. You are extremely intelligent and beyond beautiful. You're driven and focused. You know what you want and you go after it. You're strong…"
"No I'm not." Rory interrupted
"Not what?" Logan asked confused
"Strong. I'm not strong."
Logan stopped dead in his tracks. He reached out and grabbed her stopping her from walking. "Look at me Rory. You are so much stronger than you give yourself credit for. If you weren't such a strong person there is no way that you could have gotten through tonight. You stood up to everyone, you didn't let a single person push you into something you didn't want."
"Only because you were there with me."
"And I will always be there with you. I'm not going anywhere unless you ask me to." Logan told her
xxxxxx
They had been back to the dorm for about ten minutes when Lorelai showed up. She knocked and in less then a minute the door was opened by Logan. He moved to the side so that her and Luke could come in. "Here." Lorelai said handing him Rory's keys.
He took them and walked into Rory's room placing them on the dresser. He came back out and said, "Rory's in the shower. She said to tell you that she'd call you sometime tomorrow and to have a safe drive home."
Lorelai sighed. "Whatever." And then stormed out of the dorm.
Luke shook his head slightly and looked at Logan. "You do realize I am going to need your help fixing this rift between them right?"
"The thought had crossed my mind. I'll work on Rory but not until tomorrow and not until after her doctor's appointment either."
"Make sure she calls Lorelai tomorrow." Luke said "Goodnight." And then walked out the door.
AN: So I didn't really let Richard and Emily get to nasty, well Rory didn't. I like writing the brave Rory… read and review… oh and I already have the babies names picked out. I'm not sure if the baby will be a boy or a girl yet..