I do not own any characters, plots, or anything else pertaining to "Gilmore Girls". First, I'd like to apologize for accidentally naming Logan's daughter Lily and then naming Jess and Rory's daughter with the same name. The mistake was brought to my attention in the review section and I've now changed Logan's daughter's name to Elizabeth. I hope I didn't ruin the name for everyone because I only intended there to be one Lily in this story, and that's Lily Victoria Mariano. Thanks for reading.

Chapter 25

Abby's Declaration

Jess takes Abby to bed and tucks her in. He stares at her for a minute, praying that Logan won't fight them on this. Jess knows the jerk has lawyers in his pocket and the case may be difficult to win. Especially, since he's not married to Rory and therefore, doesn't have any legal rights to her. Jess sighs, as he pushes a piece of long blonde hair away from her eyes. He bends down and gives her a soft kiss on her forehead. Jess turns to walk to the door and then takes one last look at his daughter. The only sound is her little snores filling the room and Jess knows without a shadow of a doubt, that she's his little girl, no matter what that dick tries to do.

He cracks the door and walks back downstairs where he knows Rory is waiting for him to talk. He wishes they didn't have to talk about this, he wishes a lot of things. Jess reaches the bottom of the stairs and makes his way to the kitchen, where Rory is sitting there with her head resting on the table. He knows she's beating herself up, as he takes a seat next to her and pulls her into his arms. Rory snuggles into him and he holds her for a few moments, hoping that they'll come up with some type of plan to stop Logan from taking them to court. She finally pulls back and they lock eyes. Jess can see how stressed this is making her and it makes his heart sink. The idea that that guy can destroy the family that they've created together because he has deep pockets and a big ego makes anger flare up inside of him. "We could elope." Jess stares at Rory for a moment, trying to gage if she's being serious.

Her eyes stare back at him, with so much conviction, he knows she means it. "It's perfect Jess, Logan doesn't pay me child support and you've been in her life since she was born. You're her father and we've built a stable environment for her and the babies. All that's missing are the rings." Rory gives him that smile of hers and he shakes his head. "No, I'm not marrying you like this, you deserve a real wedding." She looks back at him with a small smile and grabs his hand in hers. "Abby deserves a real father more." Jess can't help but smirk at her. "Alright Gilmore, if we don't hear from his lawyer in a few days, I'll become your ball-in-chain." Rory smiles wide and gives him a kiss. Jess hopes that this all works out somehow, just like the rest of his life with Rory has.

Abby wakes up the next morning, smelling her daddy's bacon. It's the best in the world, right after her grandpa's, but that's her secret. She walks down the stairs and hears her mommy talking. "Should we tell Abby?" Abby wants to know what they're talking about in their grown-up talk, so she decides to play superspy again. "I don't think that's a good idea Rory, we don't want to crush our kid's hope, if things somehow end up going South." Her mommy and daddy are quiet for a few minutes. "You really think us getting married won't help our case?" Abby creeps a little further down the stairs and she can see her daddy shaking his head. "It's not that I don't think it'll help Rory, it's that I think he'll somehow find a loophole that we don't see coming and pay off someone to get what he wants. Richie Rich has always gotten everything he wants, why not Abby too?" Abby feels mad at Logan for taking her away from her mommy, daddy, Lily, and Ollie. She rushes back upstairs and closes the door to her room. She won't let Logan take her away, he's mean and not her daddy. Abby sits at her table and grabs a red crayon.

Half an hour later, Abby finishes what she's doing and puts her crayon down. She grabs the pretty paper that her great grandma got her for Christmas and stomps down the stairs. Abby walks to the kitchen and sees her mommy and daddy holding Lily and Ollie. She stops in the middle of the kitchen and puts her hands on her hips. Her daddy turns to her and smirks. "Oh oh, she has her hands on her hips. We were just about to come up and get you. Long night, kid?" Abby is so mad at her daddy right now that she gives him a mean look. Her daddy's smirk goes away. "Abby, honey, what's wrong?" Abby looks at her mommy and shakes her head. "I want to call Logan." Her mommy and daddy are quiet. She looks at both of them and then Ollie starts crying. She gives him a mean look too. Her mommy bounces him up and down. "Why do you want to call him?" Abby looks over at her daddy, who now looks sad. "I don't want him to take me away." Her daddy shakes his head. "He's not taking you away, where did you get that idea?" She locks eyes with her daddy and feels sad. "I was playing superspy and heard you and mommy talking." Her daddy looks over at her mommy. "Can we see what you wrote, Abby?" She hands her mommy the pretty paper. Abby watches her look at it and then look over at her daddy again. Her mommy walks over to her daddy and gives him the paper. She watches her daddy read it and sigh to himself. Her daddy looks at her. "Are you sure you want to call him?" Abby nods and he hands her the pretty paper back. Her mommy walks over to her and presses a button on her phone. "You don't have to do this, sweetie." Abby looks at her mommy. "Yes, I do mommy. Grandma says Gilmore women are strong." Her mommy gives her a small smile and hands her the phone. Abby hears a ringing sound for a minute. "Rory, why are you calling me?" She holds her pretty paper up. "This isn't mommy, this is Abby." Logan is quiet and she starts reading:

Logan,

I don't want you to take me away from my mommy, daddy, Ollie, and Lily. They are my family and I love them. I don't want you to be my daddy because I already have one. He's the best daddy ever and you're the meanest. Go be a daddy to your other kids and leave my family alone.

Abby Mariano

Abby waits forever for Logan to talk. "Give your mom the phone." She turns to her mommy and holds her phone out. "Abby, I can't hold the phone because I'm holding Lily, can you hit the speaker button?" She looks for the button her mommy showed her one time, when she needed to talk to her grandma on the phone and she was driving the car. Abby hits it. "Logan, what do you have to say?" She looks at her mommy and hopes her note worked. "Did Jack encourage this?" Her mommy sighs. "No Logan, Jess had nothing to do with Abby's letter. Now, are you going to continue to act selfishly and ruin Abby's happiness or are you finally going to be an adult for once?" The grown-ups are quiet again and Abby plays with her favorite hair tie around her wrist. "As far as I'm concerned, she's no longer my daughter, if that's what she wants. Just know, I'm not doing this for you or Jack, I'm doing this for Abby." Her daddy makes a weird sound behind her and she looks at him. He gives her a big smirk and she runs towards him. Abby looks at Ollie and puts her hand on his chest. "Did you hear that Ollie, I'm staying here with you, Lily, mommy, and daddy?" She looks at her baby brother and wishes he could talk back to her. Oh well, she knows he's happy because he's a Mariano too.