Rory stood still on the path and watched as Logan's car disappeared far into the distance. She took a long deep breath before she headed back inside her mom's house.

"Everything okay?" Lorelai asked. "Where's Logan?" she said looking slightly puzzled.

"He's gone," Rory said as she walked into the living room and looked towards Jess with a face like thunder.

"Rory, I'm sorry" Jess started to say as he put his hands up in defense. "I didn't mean to cause any trouble…"

"I am SO mad at you right now!" she screamed, "Of course you were causing trouble!"

"The guy was being a jerk!" Jess shouted.

"Will someone please tell me what is going on!" Lorelai shouted louder.

Rory ignoring her mother continued ranting at Jess. "We agreed that what happened was between us and it would stay between us – and for good reason. Look what you've done Jess" she said as she threw her hands up in the air. "He's gone off and I don't know where!"

"Kid, what happened between you…" Lorelai said as she looked from Rory to Jess.

"Nothing," Jess said quickly and firmly.

"Oh it's too late for that!" Rory scoffed "Mom, a few years ago, Jess and I…well we kind of slept together and for some unknown reason Jess just decided that it was a great time to inform Logan of that fact" she said throwing herself down on the sofa.

"You slept with Jess?" Lorelai said in surprise.

"Who slept with Jess?" Luke wandered in to see what the fuss was about.

"Rory did," Lorelai said.

"What?! Jess…." Luke said warningly.

"Do you see Jess? SEE? This is why we didn't tell anyone" Rory rolled her eyes.

"Okay, you really need to calm down a bit Rory" Lorelai said as she tried to assess the situation. "So, Jess told Logan and I'm guessing that Logan had no idea that you…had a history…and is upset about it…where is he now?"

"I have no idea. I wanted to go with him but he wouldn't let me" Rory said sadly.

Lorelai looked at her daughter and shrugged. "Well, in which case there's not a lot more that can be done tonight is there? So why don't we just all calm down a bit and eat dinner? Let's try and forget about this all for now."

"I can't, I need to find Logan…" Rory started to protest.

"We've already established you're not going to be able to do that tonight. He obviously wants to be on his own right now. Just let him be." Lorelai said.


The next morning when Rory awoke, the first thing she did was check her cell phone for messages. She was bitterly disappointed to discover that there was nothing from Logan and she sank back onto the pillows, frustrated to the core. After a few minutes of lying there she decided that she really needed to take matters into her own hands and so she picked up her phone to call him. She was annoyed when it went straight to voicemail but she left him a short message asking him to call her back but it was late afternoon when she finally heard from him.

"Hi," she said eagerly as she picked up the call "Where are you?"

"Hey, I'm in New York," Logan said.

"Okay, well I'll leave soon and…" Rory stopped as Logan interrupted her.

"I'm going to be heading back to Seattle in a few hours."

"Oh" Rory said, trying to mask her disappointment. She really hadn't wanted him to go back to Seattle when she hadn't yet spent any time with him. "I'm not sure I'll be able to make it back into the city before then. I guess if I leave now I might get there in time…"

"It's okay," Logan said.

"So…" Rory paused.

"So…?" Logan questioned.

Rory bit her lip. "Where do we go from here?" she said quietly.

"What do you mean?" Logan asked her.

"I mean, you're going back to Seattle and you're still mad at me. When am I going to see you again?" she asked.

Logan paused for a brief moment before he answered her question "I'm not really sure."

Rory sighed. She had so many thoughts whirring around her head but she didn't really know what to say and so for a moment, they both sat in silence on the call. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she spoke.

"Maybe this long distance thing just isn't working for us Logan," she said quietly.

Logan inhaled sharply. "What?"

"We hardly talk or even see each other anymore. You're mad at me about Jess, about something that happened years ago. We're engaged but we've not even started to talk about the wedding…do you want more reasons?" Rory took a deep breath and swallowed hard as she could feel the tears forming.

"Rory, this is just a fight, it will blow over and we'll move on…" Logan tried to appease her.

"This is about more than just Jess, we both know it. Perhaps this distance is just a step too far for us." She said quietly.

"Don't do this Rory," Logan said firmly.

"Do what?"

"Run when things get too difficult," he said frustratedly.

"I'm not running Logan, but I'm not happy with the way things are between us right now, are you happy? Can you honestly tell me that this…our relationship is how you want it to be?" she asked.

Logan sighed. "Look, Rory, I don't have time to do this right now. I have to get to the airport for my flight. Let's talk about this later okay?"

Rory ended the call and leaned her head back against the chair. She couldn't help but think everything had turned into a big old mess. Things had been going so well for them until Logan moved to Seattle. All she really wanted was to have that back again.


Logan settled back in his seat to get himself comfortable for the flight back to Seattle. He was so frustrated at the situation that they now found themselves in but he was more frustrated about the fact that he'd not seen Rory or straightened everything out. He knew that was, for the most part, his own fault and that annoyed the hell out of him. He hated the stubborn streak that he had inherited from his father.

He had been slightly blindsided by Rory telling him that things weren't working and that she wasn't happy. He didn't really know what to do with that. Was she telling him she wanted to end their relationship? Logan ran his hand through his hair. That was definitely not something he wanted. He was confident that they could iron out their issues and get back to where they were originally and a big part of that was that he needed to get back to Manhattan. Things had been going pretty well at the Seattle Times and were definitely more settled – he resolved to speak to Mitchum about it as soon as he could. He wanted to go home to his fiancé.


Rory sat at her desk at work the next day. Logan hadn't called her that night but she figured he would have got back to Seattle quite late and it was probably unreasonable for her to have expected him to call and inevitably get into another heated discussion after a long flight. She was so very tired that day that she'd almost contemplated taking a nap at her desk over lunch. The past few days she had been feeling absolutely exhausted, the emotion and the stress of their situation were obviously taking their toll on her – she was already counting down the minutes until she could crawl into bed later that day.

"Miss Gilmore, there is someone here to see you" the secretary Stacey said as she popped her head in the door "A Jess Mariano?"

"Oh? Please send him in," she said, surprised that Jess would show up at her office when they were still barely talking. Nevertheless, she knew she wouldn't stay mad at Jess for long.

Jess casually walked into the room "I just wanted to see if you've calmed down yet…"

Rory stood up and walked over to shut the door behind him, gesturing for him to take a seat.

"I'm a bit calmer, yes." She said taking her own seat at her desk.

"Look, Rory, I'm sorry for what I said, telling Logan like that…"

Rory looked at Jess and shook her head. "You know, I guess it's not really your fault. I probably should have told him at some point. Things are just a little…off at the moment and I think he probably overreacted because of that."

"Off?" Jess questioned.

"Just a bit weird you know? As in – things are really not going so well right now." She sighed "Not going well at all"

Jess looked at her with concern. "It's not terminal though right? You guys will sort it all out?"

"I don't really know" Rory admitted. "We ended our call a little abruptly yesterday and I guess I thought he was going to call me but I've not heard anything from him yet." She shrugged.

"He'll be in touch," Jess said. "You love him right?"

Rory smiled weakly "I absolutely do, more than I can tell you."

"And you still want to marry him?" Jess asked.

Rory nodded. "I want to be with him more than anything. For better or for worse. Sure, of course, knowing us it will probably be for worse" she laughed "but I knew that the day I met him."

"Then fix it with him," Jess said simply.

"I don't know how" she shrugged sadly.

Jess and Rory were interrupted by a sudden knock at her office door.

"Oh, Jess! I wasn't expecting to see you here, I was just stopping by to see if Rory wanted to nip out and get lunch" Kate said cheerily.

Jess and Rory locked eyes, both of them realizing in that moment that neither of them had actually been honest with Kate about their history either but now really was not the time to get into that.

"And I was just stopping by to see if you wanted to go for lunch but thought I'd pop in and say hi to Rory first," Jess said with a smile.

"Well isn't that nice! How about we could all together right, Rory?" Kate asked.

"Sure, I could definitely eat right now," Rory said rubbing her grumbling tummy.

"Why not, let's go then," Jess said standing up.


"So how was Luke's birthday meal?" Kate asked as they all sat around the table.

"It was…good" Rory hesitated.

Kate picked up on her friend's tone "Uh-oh, what happened?"

"Well…" Rory started, wondering how much of the story she should let Kate in on, "Logan turned up in the end, totally out of the blue, but we ended up having a bit of a fight and well things are just kind of strange between us right now."

"Oh no!" Kate groaned.

"Yeah, it all got a bit messy and we've not really had chance to talk properly yet…He's gone back to Seattle. I'm sure everything will get straightened out though." Rory smiled as the waitress brought over their order.

They all chatted casually while they ate, Rory absentmindedly picking through her chicken salad, her mind somewhere else altogether.

"Are you okay Rory?" Jess asked, noticing that she wasn't really present in the room.

"Huh?" she looked up at him.

"You kind of spaced out there a bit and you've not eaten very much." He gestured at her plate.

"Yeah, I'm fine… actually no I am not. I'm just feeling a bit funny. " Rory said holding her head as she felt a little dizzy.

"You do look a bit pale Rory, let's get you some water," Kate said calling the waitress over to bring some water. "Here" Kate handed her a glass.

Rory took a sip "Thanks…I think I'm just going to go to the bathroom for a minute" she said as she stood up, a little wobbly on her feet.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Kate asked her friend with concern.

"No I'm fine," Rory said with a weak smile. "I'll be okay, honestly."

Jess and Kate looked at each other as Rory walked away. When she hadn't returned for over five minutes, Kate decided that it was definitely time to go and check on her.

"Rory?" she said as she called out into the bathroom "Are you in here?"

"Yes," Rory said weakly as she pulled open the cubicle door.

"Are you okay?" Kate gasped as she looked at Rory's teary eyes. She'd heard someone violently retching as she entered the ladies room and it now became apparent that it was, in fact, Rory who was being sick.

"No" Rory shook her head, looking a little shell-shocked, "I think I'm pregnant."


A/N: I just wanted to say thank you for all the reviews on this fic. I hope you're enjoying it, your feedback means everything. I don't reply to all the reviews and if you're a guest this is even harder to do but please know that I take everything you say into consideration and it even sometimes shapes the story - unlike ASP I don't have a definite ending in my mind when I start a story. Thank you everyone!