Chapter 12: Dealing With A Miserable Gilmore
Previously….
"She may have been drunk last night but that doesn't mean she doesn't care about you. She wasn't drunk when we arrived. She wasn't drunk when she called you that first time and she hasn't been drunk all the other times you guys have talked," Honour pointed out.
"I know, I know I just…"
"Go and see her Logan," Honour said quietly going to sit next to him on the couch.
"I…I can't. I can't go to her," he whispered. "I'm scared."
"Scared of what?"
"Rejection. Never before in my life has a girl ever said no to me. And Rory, the girl I'm in love with, she said no, Honour. She said no to spending the rest of her life with me."
"Logan, she was scared, she wasn't ready but I think she does want to spend the rest of her life with you and I think you need her to. Fix this or you'll regret it for the rest of your life," Honour said giving her brother a hug. "She's already come to you once Logan. Now it's your turn."
Logan took a deep breath and looked up into his sister's eyes, nodding.
"I love you, you know," Honour said with a smile.
"Love you too, and thank you," he replied.
"Anytime," she said kissing his cheek and standing up. "Well crisis over, I have to go."
Logan stood up too and followed her to the door. He walked her out and to her car opening the door for her and leaning against the open window when she was seated.
"Let me know how it goes," Honour said before she pulled away and headed home.
Finn drove the 20 minutes to Stars Hollow faster then he should have, looking over at Rory every few minutes. She stared blankly out the window the whole way. She didn't even look up when Finn pulled up in her driveway. He looked over at her anxiously before he hurried out to open her door and lead her inside. He carried her bag in fishing her cell phone out as he went. "You sit her and watch some T.V. love," he said worriedly before walking into her kitchen with her cell phone. He opened her phone and called Lorelai.
"Fruit of my loins!" Lorelai answered after a few rings.
"Not exactly darling," Finn replied.
"Rory? When did you get a sexy Australian accent? Or a sex change for that matter?"
"It's Finn. I'm at your place with Rory, she's not great, I gotta say. I've never seen her like this," Finn said. "Not that that's saying all that much…but there's something not right."
"Oh the thing with Logan didn't go too well huh?"
"Nope."
"I'll be there in 15 minutes," Lorelai promised hanging up.
Finn walked back into the other room and sat down next to Rory, putting her phone on the table. "Anything I can get you?" he asked.
"I'm fine," she said. "Really," she added looking at him for the first time.
"Haven't got me convinced love," he muttered. "I called your mom," he told her and his brows furrowed in worry when she simply nodded.
Finn had spent a large amount of his teen years comforting his 3 sisters. Two of them were younger then him and one older. He'd had a lot of practise in comforting distraught girls after they'd been dumped by their boyfriends. But all the practice in the world couldn't have prepared him to deal with this. A miserable Gilmore. He had never been in a situation like this before, never seen someone so down. Then again, none of his sisters had ever been dumped by the man they loved who said he loved them too, who also happened to be his best friend. Except for that one time with Lauren and Colin…not that they had been in love or anything…but that's a story for another time. Finn gave Rory a hug before looking out the front window, impatient for Lorelai to arrive.
Lorelai arrived in 10 minutes with 2 giant cups of Luke's coffee. She greeted the lanky Australian with a nod before rushing into the living room to see her daughter. "Rory?" she asked cautiously. "Want some coffee hon? Luke made it especially for us. A new pot and everything." Lorelai held out a large coffee cup in front of her daughter but Rory ignored it. Lorelai's face fell and she stood up and headed to the kitchen with Finn on her heels.
"I didn't know what to do," he rambled as Lorelai sat down at the table. "I have sisters and I've comforted by them but none of them have ever been pushed away by the man that proposed to them…who happens to be my best mate, so I decided to bring her here. It seemed best."
"Thanks Finn," Lorelai said looking up at him. "I really appreciate you bringing her here, though I hate seeing her like this. What happened?"
Great, Finn thought as he waved good bye to Lorelai and shut the front door behind him. I'm stranded in the middle of Hicksville. No car. No cell. Not that I'd have anyone to call anyway... He groaned and headed in the direction Lorelai had pointed him. Just a few minutes later his eyes set on Stars Hollow town square. He noticed the 'Luke's' sign remembering Rory raving about the coffee. He opened the door and walked up to the counter. "One coffee thanks mate," Finn said to the grumpy looking man dressed in flannel with a backwards baseball cap on his head.
Behind the counter, Luke stared at the tanned, dark haired well dressed young man with the Australian accent. He shook his head dismissively and turned to put on a fresh pot, Lorelai having cleaned him out of the last one. "Have here or take away?" Luke asked.
"Have here," Finn said with a sigh. "May as well, I'm pretty much stranded here anyway," he added under his breath.
"So what brings you to Stars Hollow?" Luke asked gruffly curious as he put a full coffee cup down in front of Finn.
"Helping out a friend," Finn said taking a sip of his coffee. Wow reporter girl wasn't kidding. This coffee IS the best in world.
Luke looked up from his order in surprise. "Do they live in Stars Hollow?" Luke asked shocked. Who lived in Stars Hollow that was friends with someone so obviously rich?
"Yeah," Finn said taking another sip. "Rory Gilmore."
Luke dropped the salt shaker he had been refilling.
Finn started at the sound and looked up at the, now scary looking, diner owner. "You know her," he said as more of a statement than a question taking a sip off his coffee.
"Yes," Luke replied shortly. "I'm her…" he paused for a moment, searching for the right word to describe what he was to Rory. "I'm her step-father. Is she okay?"
Finn looked up at him, comprehension dawning. "You're Luke?" He looked Luke up and down again. "Well I do get what Lorelai sees in you, you are kind of sexy in a gruff cave man sort of way."
Luke looked abashed before he shook his head. "Rory? Is she ok?"
Finn looked down at the floor. "Uh…she's not great," he admitted. "I took her home to Lorelai. Things didn't go too well with Logan."
Luke erupted in anger, you could almost see the smoke pouring out of his ears. "LOGAN!? WHAT THE HELL DID THAT UNDESERVING SPOILED LITTLE RICH KID DO THIS TIME!?" he thundered. The other diner patrons looked up in shock at Luke's outburst. Miss Patty, sensing a story leaned closer to them. Dimly, in the back of his mind, Luke realised that this incident would be all over town by lunchtime.
Finn jumped and fell off the back of his chair in shock. "Undeserving? That's a little harsh isn't it? He's done some pretty bad things by Rory, I'll admit, but he's only human," Finn said jumping to his best friend's defence.
"ONLY HUMAN!" Luke thundered again. "HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER!"
Finn stood up, his loyalty pushing anger to the surface. "He IS good enough for her! They're good for eachother."
"Then why is she at home crying over him!?"
"Why is he at home kicking himself for making her cry?" Finn yelled. "You think he doesn't care about her? She means the world to him. There is nothing he wouldn't do for her. Nothing!" Finn threw the money for his coffee down on the counter and stormed out.
Luke followed after him. "I'm taking the day off, Caesar," he called over his shoulder as he wrenched the diner door open. He got into his truck and slammed the door so hard the whole truck vibrated.
Both men headed back to Lorelai's house, Finn on foot, Luke in his car. Finn arrived just as Luke was opening the front door. Luke turned around and glared at him as Finn came tumbling threw the bushes swearing.
The lanky Australian dusted himself off and walked up the steps and through the open door after Luke. They both noticed Lorelai sitting on the couch, her head in her hands. Luke rushed to her side and pulled her into a hug.
"I don't know what to do," she sobbed. "She's not saying anything to me."
"Shh," Luke soothed her patting her back. His eyes found Finn's, all animosity gone. Now they were bound in an unlikely alliance with the sole purpose of helping Rory, and Lorelai who was distraught over her daughter's despair.
"I can't relate. I don't remember ever being this miserable," Lorelai cried. "I don't remember ever being-" She stopped as the memory she'd been searching for hit her. She remembered when she'd been this heart broken. It hadn't been over Christopher, Jason, Max or any of the other men she'd ever dated. It had been over Luke. She sat up out of Luke's embrace and looked around for her bag.
"Lorelai what is it?" Luke asked her as she got up and started to retrace her steps in search of her bag.
"I remember. I remember being this bad," she said distractedly. She walked to the door and looked under her jacket finding what she'd been looking for. She fished her cell phone out of her bag and walked into the kitchen, Luke and Finn trailing behind her. "The only thing that fixed it was having you back," she said to Luke. Lorelai leant against the bench and flipped open her cell scrolling through the phonebook until she found the entry she was looking for. She pressed the call button and held the phone to her ear.
Luke and Finn looked at each in confusion, realisation only dawning when Lorelai spoke. "Logan, it's Lorelai."
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