While Logan was busy dealing with his parents and collecting the engagement ring, Rory had driven straight over to Honor's house to collect their daughter, however, when she had arrived there Rory discovered that Ava wasn't actually there.
"Hi, Rory" Honor said happily "Come in. Ava isn't here right now but she'll be back soon…"
Rory looked at Honor slightly puzzled. "Is she on a date?" she asked.
Honor smiled "She takes after her daddy in many ways, but thankfully her dating habits are not one of them" she winked. "She's out with Josh at the park around the corner. Actually, he's kind of doing me a favour, I asked him to take her as I wanted a chance to talk to you, in private."
"Oh?" Rory said, intrigued as to what Honor might want to talk to her about. She was a little bit tense in these situations because as much as she loved her, Honor was often quite forthright and spoke her mind when she felt it necessary.
"Yeah, well there are two things I wanted to talk about really. The first is just me being a nosy big sister really…I just wanted to know how are things going at the new house?" Honor asked.
Rory relaxed a little. "Oh, really well" she smiled. "I think it's the best decision we ever made!"
"Oh, that makes me super happy. It's such an amazing house and it's so big!" she exclaimed. "Lots of room for future Huntzberger babies. I mean, Gilmore babies….Oh, Gilmore-Huntzberger babies?" Honor said as she shook her head in confusion. "You know what I mean!" she laughed.
"Yes, there is plenty of room but I'm not sure we're at the point of adding any more to the next generation quite yet – even though everyone else seems to want us to!" Rory laughed. She couldn't believe how everyone seemed to have baby fever recently.
"Oh, sad. It would be awesome if you were pregnant though." Honor pouted.
"Why is that?" Rory laughed.
"Because I am pregnant!" Honor said excitedly "That's the second thing that I wanted to talk to you about."
"You're pregnant? Oh, Honor, that's wonderful news" Rory said as she jumped up to hug her.
Honor smiled. "Thank you. It's early days so we're not really telling anyone at the moment, but oh I'm just so nervous about it all, I needed to tell somebody!"
"Why are you so nervous? This is something you wanted right?" Rory asked. She'd always thought that Honor would make a fantastic mom and was only surprised that she'd never done it sooner.
"It's taken us so long to get here. We never really told anyone this but we've been trying to have a baby on and off since the wedding and we just didn't think it was going to happen for us. I had almost got to the point where I was becoming totally content with being Cool Aunty Honor and poof! I am pregnant" she said as she rested her hand on her tummy.
Rory looked at Honor. "I never knew that I'm sorry you have had struggles," she said sympathetically. "Oh! Does that mean I will be…."
"Cool Aunty Rory" Honor nodded with a smile.
"Oh!" Rory clasped her hand to her chest and welled up a bit. "I can't wait to be Aunty Rory," she said proudly. "Logan is going to be thrilled!"
"Will you let me tell him?" Honor asked.
"Of course I will, but you had better do it soon because I am going to be popping with excitement!" Rory laughed.
"It's so lovely to have you back as part of the family Rory." Honor smiled.
"Thanks" Rory smiled back.
After Logan had finished at his parent's house he decided to head straight over to Stars Hollow to do what he needed to do. He was nervous about facing Lorelai but he knew that above all else he needed to talk to her first about asking Rory to marry him. He just hoped that she would be on his side.
When he pulled up outside her house, he quickly realized by the absence of her car that she wasn't at home. Figuring she must be at work, he parked his car carefully and decided to take a slow walk through the town to the Dragonfly Inn. As he walked through Stars Hollow, he took in all the places that Rory had talked about in past – this crazy small town meant so much to her. He'd never really spent any time there when they were originally dating and he'd really only passed through quickly when dropping off or collecting Ava from Lorelai's house, which wasn't really that often at all. As he approached the Inn he took a deep breath. It was now or never he thought as he braced himself to walk up the steps, though he didn't actually have to get as far as the door because just as he was about to walk in, Lorelai walked out.
"Logan! Is everything okay? Rory? Ava?" Lorelai looked at him worried. She was extremely surprised to see him standing on the steps to the inn.
"Don't panic. Everything is fine Lorelai" Logan smiled reassuringly "I just wanted to talk to you if you could maybe spare five minutes?"
"Oh, okay, sure," Lorelai said. She was a bit caught off-guard by Logan's appearance. "Erm, do you want to go inside or…"
"Shall we take a walk?" he asked.
Lorelai nodded. They walked alongside each other in silence, but after a few moments, she couldn't take anymore.
"So Logan, this is pleasant and all but do you want to cut to the chase?" she asked.
They both stopped walking and Logan turned to look at Lorelai. Her took a deep breath. "I am going to ask Rory to marry me" he blurted out. It wasn't exactly how he had intended to share the news with his future mother-in-law but nevertheless there it was.
"You're what?" Lorelai looked at him with open eyes.
"I want to marry Rory" he repeated.
"I heard you…I just…don't really know what to say." Lorelai admitted and it was the truth. She had kind of thought that this was probably going to be on the cards at some point but everything seemed to be moving so quickly.
Logan looked at her in faux-shock "Lorelai Gilmore is speechless?"
She rolled her eyes at him. "I wouldn't go that far. How long have you been thinking about this?" she asked.
"For a while, before I asked her to move in together" he admitted.
"Really? And you're here…why? Asking my permission?" Lorelai asked.
"No, I'm just…well between you and me, I'm a bit nervous Lorelai. I'm not sure whether this is something that she really wants. I'm worried if I do it, she's going to freak out on me and…things have been really good recently. I don't want to upset the apple cart and well you know your daughter better than anyone."
Lorelai pouted slightly. "You're right Logan, I do know my daughter very well"
"And, what do you think?" he asked carefully.
"I think…that you should go for it" she said firmly.
"Yes? Really?" Logan said.
"Logan, Rory loves you. You know that I know that. Despite my many years of trying to help her get over you, nothing has worked. If she doesn't marry you, she'll never marry anyone" Lorelai reasoned.
Logan smiled. "Thanks, Lorelai."
"So, have you planned how you are going to do it?" she asked.
"No" Logan shook his head. "I have no idea, I have the ring…but so far, no clue."
Lorelai cocked her head at him. "Just a friendly word of advice? Forget the expensive grand gestures with Rory. Something private, understated…that would be perfect."
After saying his goodbyes to Lorelai, Logan walked back towards her house and got in his car. He felt like a big weight had come off his shoulders in just speaking to both his parents and Lorelai. The only other person he really wanted to talk to about this was his sister and he knew that she would be pissed if she found out his plans from anyone else.
"Hey…Logan, where are you? Rory just left here, I thought you might have come with her to pick Ava up" Honor said.
"Sorry Honor, I wanted to but well I had a few things I needed to do while Rory wasn't around," Logan said.
"Ooh, mysterious!" Honor laughed.
"Kind of. I went to see dad…to get grandma's ring" Logan paused for his sister's reaction.
"Oh, you're going to do it? You're going to propose Rory" Honor squealed. "This is too perfect…ugh, hang on, how did they take it?"
"Well, Dad took it very well and he handed over the ring willingly, almost too willingly for me to be entirely comfortable and mom, well, she was on top Shira Huntzberger form" Logan scoffed.
"Yikes. But at least you've got the ring" Honor said happily.
"Yeah, and I'm in Stars Hollow right, I've got the go ahead from her mother…" Logan trailed off.
"…so you've just got to do the deed now! Any ideas yet?"
"Nothing. I am totally uninspired" Logan complained. "I want it to be special."
"Aww, well don't worry, I'm sure you'll think of something amazing, and Rory is SO lucky to be getting that Huntzberger ring let me tell you. I bet mom is spitting feathers" Honor laughed.
"Well, she's got to actually accept it first," Logan said.
"Oh, she will! There are no worries there." Honor smiled. "Anyhow Logan, while I've got you captive, I've got some news of my own to share…"
"Oh yeah?" Logan asked intrigued.
"I'm pregnant!" Honor said quickly.
Logan gasped. "Oh wow, Honor, that's…I mean…do you want me to beat Josh up?"
Honor laughed at her brother.
"Seriously Honor, that's amazing news, I'm really happy for you. Wow, I am going to be an uncle" Logan smiled.
"Oh don't you start, I've already had Rory getting teary on me about being an Aunty. You two are a proper pair of sentimental schmucks sometimes." Honor gave her brother a ticking off but she loved how invested they both were in her happiness.
"Rory knows?" Logan asked. He was slightly amused at thinking that she got emotional about being an aunty to his sister's child. It also really warmed him to know that she did consider his family to be hers, well Honor anyhow.
"Only just. She was over the moon that she was going to be Cool Aunty Rory. I fear she's going to wreak her revenge on me for all that sugar and glitter I have foisted on your daughter though…" Honor joked.
"Oh, that's a certainty" Logan laughed. "Look, I had better go, I've got to get myself back Hartford, but it's really great news Honor."
"Thanks, bro, keep me posted about Rory too, okay?"
When he got back to their house, there was no immediate sign of his family but after a few moments, he heard their voices coming from the garden. He walked out of the French doors and onto the patio which looked down onto a vast expanse of grassy lawn. Rory was sitting in the garden with Ava who was running around in her favorite fairy wings.
When she spotted him, Ava beamed up "Daddy!" she squealed.
"Hey sweetie" he called. "Are you having fun?"
"I'm a fairy Daddy! A flower fairy, I'm the queen of fairies" Ava announced proudly.
Rory spun around on her chair to look at him "You're back" she said, trying to search his face to see if the same uncertainty she had seen that morning was still there. "Did you get…whatever it was you needed to do sorted?"
"I did" he smiled. He knew he'd been a little edgy this morning and that she had probably picked up on it.
"That's good" Rory was relieved to see that Logan seemed a lot more relaxed than he had done this morning. Everything seemed to be as it should be again.
"I spoke to Honor," he said with a smile.
"Great news huh!" Rory said, realizing that Honor had obviously broken the news about her pregnancy. "I'm going to be an aunty!"
"You pleased about that Ace?" he laughed.
"Oh, I just can't wait! It's been so long since I had tiny baby snuggles. Oh, I hope it's a girl. Or a boy!" she said excitedly.
Logan laughed "I think there's a fifty-fifty chance it is going to be one or the other…."
"True" Rory laughed.
"So this takeout, should I get it ordered for us?" Logan asked.
"Yeah that would be great" she smiled Logan walked back into the house.
Rory leaned back on the garden chair as she watched Ava run around the garden. It suddenly felt like everything had come together, life was good. In fact, as she sat there in the sunshine, she realized that life was pretty perfect. Rory wasn't sure there was anything that could make it better than it already was.
