Hey everyone!

Thanks for the reviews again:

imcck - You're right, but she is already divorced. Well, thanks for the review anyway.

Curley-Q - Thanks, I couldn't help myself I just needed to write that ;-)

Jeremy Shane - Thank you

snarkNsass - Thanks for the review, and I'm glad I'm doing such a good job. And on one side, you're right, they should have done more with him. On the other side, if they had done any more we couldn't add so much imagination to him and make him to the one he is. I don't think my Finn would be the one in the show. Or maybe he would be, I don't know.

So, again this is mostly flashback. I just can't help myself. I want to get in as much Rory and Finn from the past as possible before something actually happens in the present, which will for sure in Australia. I hope you all like it and hit that cute little button to review. Take it as a birthday gift for me, because my b-day is on saturday.

Hugs und kisses to everyone,

Susu :-)

„Wake up, kitten, we're there" Slowly Rory opened her eyes to look into Finns smiling ones.

"Have I ever told you, that you look cute, when you're sleeping?" he asked.

"No you haven't, but that may come from the fact, that you usually saw me asleep after I cried myself to sleep. Are we really there already?"

"Yup, come on let's go!" He held out his hand and she gladly took it, still a little dizzy from sleeping. But this faded the moment she got out of the plane and the sun shone brightly out of the blue sky. Half an hour later they sat in a cab and were on their way to the hotel (which not surprisingly was owned by Finn's family). They had booked the honeymoon-suite, which was the biggest suite in the hotel, but had only one bed, a fact neither of them minded. They were used sleeping in one bed anyway.

"Alright, I want to go to the beach and we'll go shopping today" Rory set plans for the rest of the day. When she saw his face light up, she quickly added:

"Wait, I will go shopping and you will come with me and carry my bags. Another shopping tour with you I probably won't survive."

"Now I'm hurt! That would mean I'm worse than Steph, and I know for certain, that I'm not that bad!"

"You're close, Finny. I never knew for sure, if I should thank your father for giving you his feminine touch or course him, but I think it's a little bit of both."

"Remember that you like my parents, love. By the way, they want us to visit some time this week." He saw her eyes light up. She had liked his parents since she first met them. That must have been about three years ago, when they visited him during Christmas.

Flashback

"Do you really need to work at Christmas?" Rory asked disappointed.

"I'm sorry, Ace. I know, you had it all planned, just the two of us and all, but I can't do anything against it. My father sends me to London and I can't make it back until the 30th. But I promise New Years Eve will be all yours and I will get you something in London, okay? Maybe you can ask Colin and Steph, if you can have dinner with them? Well, I need to go now. Bye, I'll call you, when I'm there!" With that he kissed her goodbye and was out the door, before she even could say a word. Sighing she took out her phone and pressed the one button. Colin and Steph would have dinner with their parents, so she didn't want to disturb this rare occasion.

"Hey, kitten!" The cheery voice of a certain Australian greeted her. Immediately a smile stole itself on her lips.

"Hey, Finn! Listen, I wanted to ask you something. Logan's away for Christmas and I don't want to be alone, so I thought if you and I maybe …"

"He leaves you alone at Christmas? Huntz is a real idiot sometimes. But I would love you to join us for Christmas! And I mean not only dinner, but the whole holidays."

"Us?" she asked, not quite sure, who else he could mean.

"Yeah, my parents are coming here to celebrate with me. Since Trish and I are both away they felt alone, so I invited them. They would love to meet you anyway."

"Really? You told your parents about me?"

"Yup. You're one of my best friends, of course they know about you!"

"I would love to meet them, Finn! I'll see you tomorrow, okay? You promised me a movie night!"

"Of course, kitten. See you then!"

Smiling she shut her phone again. Maybe Christmas wouldn't be so bad.

On Christmas Eve Rory looked at herself in the mirror one last time. She wore a dark red dress and her hair swung in shiny locks around her shoulders. She smiled at the mirror and then made her way to Finn's apartment. There she was greeted by a stressed out Finn. His shirt wasn't buttoned right and he wore only one shoe.

"Come here, I'll help you" Rory said, while seating him in a chair after buttoning his shirt right. She found his other shoe and then ran a hand through his hair affectionate, like with a little boy. After that she looked around in the apartment. They had decorated the tree and the whole place together the day before and it looked really good. Finn's room was a mess, as usual, but she figured that his parents knew this side of him.

"Now, we're ready to go." Finn let out a deep sigh.

"Sometimes I don't know what I'd do without you, love."

"Still searching for your right shoe, I think. But we need to get to the restaurant now, come on!"

"Mom, Dad!" Rory could see, that Finn was really happy to see his parents. She watched them hugging each other. Finn looked much like his father, they even had the same black nail polish on their fingers, except for his eyes, which he got from his mother. The scene in front of her made her somehow sad. She missed her mom terribly, especially on holidays and days they used to be together all the time, like the day of the first snow. But she ignored the upcoming sadness, because now Finn turned to her and introduced her smiling.

"Mom, dad, this is Rory. Rory, these are my parents."

"Hello, Mister and Misses Morgan" she said shyly.

"Oh please, that's way too formal! Call us Andrew and Carolyn, dear" Finn's father said, before they both came up to her and hugged her just like they had hugged Finn. With that a wonderful evening began. After dinner they went to Finn's apartment and just said in the living room and talked. Rory heard a lot of tales about her friend and told Carolyn and Andrew some things about their son as well. Altogether it had been the best Christmas since she had left Stars Hollow.

"I like your parents" Rory announced, when they lay in Finn's bed that night (she stayed there, because Finn wanted to hold his promise and give her a full Christmas).

"They like you too, love."

"And you have such a great relationship … and …" With her words her eyes started to water and finally she began to cry. Finn, surprised from her reaction, held her close and let her sob into his chest.

"What's the matter, love?" he whispered.

"It's just … I've seen you and them … and … and it just made me miss my mom so badly. We should be … be together now, but we don't even talk. God, I miss her!" she explained sobbing. Finn just kissed her hair and still held her close.

"It's going to be okay, kitten. I promise."

End Flashback

It nearly had killed him to see her like this that night and he still remembered his mother's words, when he quietly got out of bed the next morning to make coffee for Rory. She had sat in the kitchen and looked at him with a soft expression in her eyes.

"You heard us, didn't you?" his voice wasn't more than a whisper. She nodded and watched him, while he started the coffee maker.

"Finn? Do you love this girl?" she had asked, her tone was the same as his had been. He had avoided her eyes and stammered a little bit, which mad only made her smile.

"The heart is something you can't control, honey. You can try to deny it, but it will always be there. You care for her, I have seen the way you look at her. You can't get as close to her as you want, but you can take care of her. Be there for her, when she needs you. It will make both of you happy in the end."

He was sure, he wouldn't ever forget those words. She had been right in the end, and seeing Rory happy was all, that counted for him.

Oh yeah, and "The heart is something you can't conrtol" isn't originally mine. I took it out of "Voices off camera" by Rise Against. It just seemed to fit there.