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It seemed that for the past week Rory had to look over her shoulder to make sure that she wasn't being followed

She had finished up her classes for the day and was planning on relaxing with Logan, who was waiting for her at her dorm. Walking to her dorm, she looked around and got the feeling that someone was watching her. She bit her lip and got worried as she went into her room. He took note of her face. "What's wrong Ace?"

She sits down next to him. "I have this feeling I'm being watched."

He smirks. "I watch you all the time Ace."

She playfully rolls her eyes. "Clever Mac."

He puts his arm around her and kisses her head. "I thought so. But why do you have the feeling that you're being watching?"

She shrugs. "I saw someone do the quick look away thing several times when I turned around today. I don't know who it would be though." She leans into him. "I just hope it isn't something bad."

He frowns and holds her closer to him. "Do you want me to walk you to class for awhile, just to make sure? Or at least until you feel better?"

She nods and leans into him, kissing his chin. "If you don't mind." She hears her phone ring and sees that it's her mother so she picks it up. "Hey Mom."

"Hey sweets how are you?"

"I'm good, how are you? How are Michael and Dad?"

"They're good, we're all good. Is Logan there?"

"Yeah, he's right here why?"

"Let me talk to him." Rory hands Logan the phone and shrugs, going into the kitchen.

"Hey Lorelai."

"Sorry, no time for small talk. Seems that Dean made parole and was spotted in town, and we think that he's headed to Yale. I need you to watch over her for me."

"I will Lorelai." He heard someone knock on the door. "I better go." He hung up and went with Rory to answer it. When she sees who it is, she screams and slams the door in the person's face. She goes pale and Logan looks at her. "Who was it?"

She looks at him, whispering. "Dean."

He puts his arm around her and brings her into her room, telling her to call Tristan. He makes sure she's safe then goes back out and opens the door. "What do you want Dean?"

"I came back for Rory just like I told her I would. You heard how happy she is, she screamed for joy." He smiled smugly.

Logan glared at him. "One call to the cops is all that it will take for you to be back in jail you know. He smirks. "Besides, Rory doesn't want you."

Dean steps into Logan's face. "You're an ass you've always been one. Rory will see that and even after everything, I'll still take her back."

By this time Tristan was next to Logan and Rory had called campus security. "The man who raped me is outside my dorm room, I need help. I'm in Branford, suite nine." She hangs up.

Logan laughs in Dean's face, shaking his head. "You think that after everything you would still have a chance with her? Wow, you really are messed up. Rory doesn't want you Bean."

Dean punches Logan in the face and tries to get into Rory's dorm. Tristan holds him back and pushes him to the ground, pinning him down.

"Let go of me! I want to see Rory."

Logan goes over to Dean and looks down at him. "You lost that right when you raped her and left her in the woods. I had to go get her and bring her back to the Rory we had before you came along. So I say again, stay the hell away from her."

Campus security came to Rory's dorm and saw the commotion. "We got a call about a Dean Forrester?"

Logan and Tristan both pointed to him and the guards handcuffed him and dragged him away. Dean shouted at them. "I'll be back, just wait and see." The guards pull him away harder.

Logan leans against the door and sighs, looking at Tristan. "What if she had been alone?"

Tristan claps his back. "She wouldn't have been alone, you know that. She's either with one of the girls, or she's with one of us, or she's on the phone with someone. Besides, even if she was, she could have taken him."

He lets out a low laugh. "That's true." He walks into Rory's dorm with Tristan and knocks on her door. "Ace?"

She opens the door and throws herself into his arms. "Thank you."

He holds her close to him and kisses her head. "For what?"

"For protecting me and making sure I was ok." She pulled back and looked at him. "Dean gave you a black eye?"

He nods. "Its fine, it'll go away soon." He looked her over. "You ok?"

She nods. "I'm fine baby." She smiles at Tristan. "Thanks Tris, for helping him."

He nods and smiles. "It was fun watching bag boy get beat." He smirked then left so the couple could be alone.

Rory leaned up and kissed Logan. "Can I get some ice for your eye?"

He shook his head, kissing her back. "My eye is fine Ace. I love you."

She smiled. "I love you too." They went into Rory's room and fell asleep, both holding each other closer then normal as they slept.

It wasn't long after Dean's visit and eventual re-imprisonment for Rory to start traveling around alone – three weeks. Logan told her numerous times that it was too soon. She reassured him several times that she would be ok but he didn't want to listen to her. She found herself being trailed by his friends, even some of their joint friends. It lasted a week before she stormed into Logan's common room then into his room. "Logan Elias Huntzberger!"

He was at his desk, studying when she came in. He looked up at her and frowned. "What's wrong Ace?"

She crossed her arms over her chest and looked at him. "Call off your body guards. I'm a grown ass woman that can take care of herself. I don't need you to protect me."

He stands up and walks over to her so he's standing in front of her. "Ace calm down; what are you talking about?"

"You and your posse protecting me; I want it to stop Logan." She picked her bag up again and looked at him. "I'm going home for the weekend, don't bother calling me."

"Ace, now wait a minute. Why is it so bad that I want to protect you?"

"Logan, I can't talk to anyone that the person I'm with doesn't know. I ran into Marty before when Colin and Robert were with me and he said hi and he wanted to kiss my cheek and Colin pushed him away from me then Robert pulled me away. You can't protect me forever you know." She gave him one last look before leaving.

Tristan came into the room and looked at Logan. "What the hell happened?"

Logan just looked at him and shrugged. "I have no fucking clue." He laid down on his bed and looked up at the ceiling.

"Shouldn't you go after her then?"

"She told me not to call her which means not to go after her."

"Since when do you listen to her?"

He shrugged. "She's too pissed right now. If I got after her, then one of us will say something that we'll regret."

Tristan nods then leaves Logan to his thoughts.

Rory made it to Stars Hollow in forty minutes. She grabbed her bag then went into the house. "Mom?"

"Kitchen!"

Rory walked into the kitchen and kissed her brother's head. "Where's Dad?"

"He's at the diner; he'll be home for dinner."

Rory nodded then sat down in one of the chairs and looked at her mother. "Logan and I got into a fight."

She frowned. "What happened?" She sat down in one of the chairs.

"Well ever since the Dean thing, he's had someone with me at all times. At first I thought it was sweet because it was sweet because it was him, but then last week I told him that I was fine, that he didn't need to follow me. I thought he would let it go, but then he had our friends follow me. Today, I was with Robert and Colin and I saw Marty so I went to say hi. Marty went to kiss me cheek and they flipped on him. I packed a bag then I went to Logan's and I yelled. We fought then I came here." She shrugged.

Lorelai looked at Rory. "You yelled at him for protecting you?"

She nodded. "He can't always protect me Mom. We won't always be together." She got up and went into her room. She sat down at her computer and caught up on some emails and sent her article in to the editor. She stayed in her room most of the weekend, except for seeing Lane and eating with her family.

She left Sunday night and drove back to Yale, stocked with food from Sookie and Luke. She unpacked her stuff and grabbed a book and sat on her bed as she read it. At about ten she heard a knock on her door. "Come in!" She set her book down.

Tristan walked in and sat next to her. "How was your weekend?"

She shrugged a bit. "It was quiet. How was yours?"

He nodded. "It was eventful."

She smiled. "Tell me about it?"

He put his arm around her shoulders as he launched into his tale. "…So then Finn comes out of the bathroom and his hair is orange and his eyebrows are yellow."

She laughs. "What did he say?"

He grinned. "Nothing actually; he just went into the kitchen."

They talked for awhile longer that night until they both fell asleep. Rory woke up first the next morning when she heard someone knocking on her door. She went into the common room and opened the door. "Logan? What are you doing here?"

He took in her appearance. "I came to bring you some coffee and a muffin." He handed her the bag and the tray with coffee on it. "And to remind you of the event this weekend."

She took the coffee and drank one of them, setting the rest down. "Thanks. We leave Friday, right?"

He nodded. "Yeah at five, but we should talk before then."

She nodded some. "Logan, just understand that you can't always protect me. One day you won't always be there to make sure I'm ok."

He looked at her. "Rory, do you honestly believe that?"

She looked down. "It's not what I want to believe, it's what I have to believe."

He stepped closer to her and lifted her chin up. "Rory, you know that's not true. I'm always going to be here for you, no matter what. My life isn't complete without you."

She bit her lip. "Do you think that you'll always feel that way? We're young Logan, we have our whole lives. Do you know for sure that we'll always be in love?"

He let go of her chin and looked at her. He was taken back by her question. "What do you mean?"

"Logan, can you stand there right now and tell me that we're going to be together forever?"

He closed his eyes, taking a breath. He looked at her. "Forever isn't a guarantee."

She smiled sadly. "Now you get it." She kissed his cheek then went back into her room, shutting the door. She laid down on her bed and looked at an awake Tristan. "Hey Tris."

He looked over at her. "Hey Mare. Is everything ok?"

She shook her head. "Forever isn't a guarantee."

He moved out of the chair and wrapped his arms around her as she cried. He rubbed her back soothingly. "Sometimes it can be."

She looked at him. "Not this time."

He held her until she fell asleep. He left her on her bed then went back to his own dorm. He saw Logan sitting on the couch in the common room staring off into space. "You ok man?"

He just shrugged and looked up at Tristan. "You just getting in?"

He ran his hand in his hair. "Ah yeah." He sat next to Logan. "What has you down?"

"Rory and I got into a fight."

He nodded. "About what?"

He sighed. "She was getting tired of me protecting her."

"What did she say to make you think that?"

"She said that I can't protect her forever. One day I won't be here to protect her."

"She is right though."

"But that's the thing, I want to be there for her forever and I thought that's what she wanted too, but I guess I was wrong."

"Did you think maybe she's just giving you an out? Maybe she doesn't want you to feel like you have to be there."

He shrugged. "No, I hadn't but she should know that I want to be with her forever."

"So then what are you going to do?"

"Marry her."

Dun dun dun. How evil was that? Next chapter will be up soon.