OK so I wasn't sure how I wanted to end this chapter and the title pretty much speaks for itself. I was actually tearing up when I wrote the ending for the chapter. I did however have a little fun with the chapter and the Huntzberger's Christmas Party. We never really knew about much about Logan's aunts and uncles only that Mitchum was 2 of 4 kids. I had to make one of his aunts closer to his age. Please please review! Love to read them! Next chapter will be Gilmore Christmas Party and the following chapter will be Rory at work and also Lorelai having her baby. Need ideas for names for Rory's brother :D Anyway, read and review!
I'm standing in front of my mirror in my room in Stars Hollow. I'm examining the dress I'm wearing from all angles. It's a deep crimson silk dress with ruffles. Logan is changing into his suit and watching me twirl around in front of the mirror.
"What are you doing?" He asks as he pulls me to him and wraps his arms around my waist from behind.
I pull away from him and turn around to face him. "Do I look pregnant in this?"
"You are pregnant, Rory." He points out as he finishes tying his crimson tie. We don't normally dress to match but with it being Christmas and all we thought it would be festive.
"But your parents don't know that, Logan." I remind him and ask him again. "So do I look pregnant in this?"
He grins as he pulls me to him again. "No, you don't look pregnant. You do, however, look beautiful." He leans down and kisses me.
"Thank you." I blush. "You look very handsome yourself."
"Well, thank you. So are you ready for us to tell them?"
I shrug. "We have to tell them sometime. Want to make a bet on how they're going to take the news?"
Logan shakes his head. "Nope, mainly because I think we're thinking the same thing."
I sigh. "I really hope this doesn't go bad, Logan."
"I know. Me too. I mean, I'd love to believe it's going to go great, Ace but we both know better."
I nod. "Oh yeah, we know better."
"You know, they're going to think we did this on purpose, right?" He tells me quietly.
"You mean in order to break the prenup? Yeah, I'm sure they will. It was super fast that it happened already."
"Sure you don't want to skip it?"
I laugh. "Of course I do but we can't run away forever."
"We can try."
"Don't tempt me."
Mom told me that she has no plans tonight so she is letting us take her Jeep. It should be interesting arriving at the Huntzbergers in her Jeep. I'm not superficial enough that it matter to me what vehicle we show up in but the Huntzbergers are. Remember the comment Shira made about the house we rented?
Christmas is still 3 days away and Logan has next week off. He's pretty lucky with his job. We have Logan's parents' Christmas party tonight and my grandparents' party is tomorrow night. None of them were informed about the pregnancy. We did, however, include it in the Christmas card along with our wedding picture. We're hand delivering some of the cards for this reason.
We arrive at Logan's parents' house at 7:30. There are already 20 cars parked in and around their driveway. I get out of the Jeep and pull my wool coat closer together. God, it's so cold out! There's a definite chill in the air; well, then again we are at Logan's parents' house. Right now it's hard to tell if it's due to the weather or just the fact that we're here.
"You OK?" Logan asks me.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I tell him as we head for the door. I thread our fingers together. "Do you think we need a signal?"
"How about if you just give me one of those looks you give me like when you're going to die from boredom?"
I start laughing. "Do I give you this look often?"
"Umm…it's not frequent but over the last 4 years I've seen it several times. Of course the last time was at your graduation party at your grandparents' house. You were surrounded by the DAR ladies."
My eyes light up. "Oh, right."
We get to the door and we stand there for a moment before we ring the doorbell. He looks over at me and grins. "You look gorgeous."
I blush. "You already told me that Logan but thank you."
He leans down and kisses me and his hand goes to rest on my coat clad stomach.
"Stop it." I whisper as I take his hand off it.
"What? Kissing you? Never." He declares as he kisses me again and again puts his hand on my stomach.
"Logan, stop putting your hand on my stomach."
"Why?"
"When did you ever do that when I wasn't pregnant? That's right; you didn't. It's a little obvious." I point out.
"No, if we're going for obvious I would be kissing your stomach."
That's a good point. He's only recently started to do that and the only time he does it is when we're in our bedroom. But then he's not only kissing my stomach, he talks to it too. It. We're still debating whether or not we want to know the sex of the baby. I'd like to know but then again there's something to be said about being surprised. We still have a little time before the time comes when we would be able to know.
"Ready?" I ask him.
"As ready as I'll ever be."
I ring the doorbell and a few moments later, the butler opens the door for us and takes our coats. Logan escorts me into the parlor room. Everyone is scattered about the room and it takes us a minute to even locate Honor.
"Nice shade of lipstick, Logan." She teases him. "I think I have the same color."
"Ha, ha, Honor." He smirks. "Ace, did you want club soda, water, or Coke?" He heads to the bar.
"Water's fine." I tell him.
"So how are you?" She whispers.
"I'm doing OK. We're doing OK." I tell her in a low voice. "Everything is going good so far."
"That's great."
"Yes, it is." I nod. "Especially given how things were in the beginning."
"I'm sure."
Logan returns with my water and a scotch for himself. I thank him and take a sip of my water.
"So what are you talking about?" He asks as he takes a drink of his scotch.
"The baby." I tell him.
"Baby?" I turn around and see Shira standing there. "What baby?"
"Hello Shira. My new little brother or sister, actually." I'm not going to tell her 5 minutes after walking in the door. "My mom's due in the middle of February."
"Oh, that's wonderful." She tells me. Even after all this time, I still can't tell when the woman is serious or not. She then greets her children politely. Not warmly; politely. We very cordially chat for a few moments and then she excuses herself.
"Good thing your mom's pregnant right now." Logan says.
"Yeah, no kidding."
"When are you going to tell them?" Honor asks as she takes a drink of her martini.
"Well, tonight but we're going to tell them when they are together." I inform her as I sip my water.
"When do you start your job?" She asks.
"January 7th." I tell her. "I just got done with interviews and hiring my staff last week."
"That's great. How many people did you hire?"
"Twenty five. " I take a drink of my water. "Thirteen men and 12 women. Let me tell you it was rewarding but it was also tiring."
"Didn't you help her?" Honor frowns at Logan.
"Of course I did." He tells her.
"Yeah, he did." I quickly assure her. "He had to; we had over 150 people come in and interview."
Her mouth drops open. "Oh my god! Are you serious?"
Logan nods. "Oh yeah me, Rory, and my boss Scott spent the first week doing back to back interviews. We had cut from 150 to 50. Then the last week and a half Rory did the last round of them. That's where the final cut was done from 50 down to 25."
"Wow! That does sound tiring."
"It was. Logan was trying to help with that too but I reminded him that I didn't get to help him pick out his staff."
"Very true." Honor nods.
"Hello Rory, Logan, Honor." Logan's dad now makes his appearance.
"Dad." Honor and Logan answer in unison.
"Hello, Mitchum." I politely smile at him.
"How is everyone?"
"Good." We all seem to reply in unison.
"How was your flight?" He asks.
"Good." I tell him.
"Uneventful." Logan adds.
"That's the best kind." I inform my husband.
He nods. "Especially since it's winter."
"No kidding." I smile.
"So have you been mingling?" Mitchum asks and Logan responds. "We haven't gotten a chance to yet. We will in just a minute."
Mitchum nods and leaves and I glance around the room. I do recognize a good majority of the people; most of them are Logan's relatives. His dad has 2 sisters and a brother and his mom has 3 sisters and 3 brothers. Huge family. Trying to keep Shira's family straight has been a bit of a challenge. Well, except for Shira's youngest sister, Maya. I can remember her because she's only 6 years older than Logan. Shira's mom was well into her 40's when she had her.
We meet up with Maya a few minutes later after Honor excused herself to find Josh. "Oh thank god you're here." Maya exclaims as she comes running up to us. "I was worried you wouldn't be."
"Why?" Logan asks then takes a drink of his scotch. "What's going on?"
"Nothing. I'm just bored out of my goddamn mind." She admits. "Besides you always make these parties entertaining."
We laugh.
"What do you have planned for tonight?" Maya asks eagerly.
Logan and I exchange amusing looks and I respond with: "You'll just have to wait and see."
"Oh Rory!" She exclaims again. "I had been meaning to talk to you."
"Really? About what?"
"I just wanted to tell you how much I loved your wedding dress. It was absolutely gorgeous."
"Oh." I answer, surprised. "Thank you. That's sweet of you to say."
"Who designed it?"
"Maggie Sottero. It was the 6th wedding dress I tried on. I got it at this cute little wedding boutique in Manhattan."
"Any reason you're curious, Maya?" Logan raises an eyebrow.
"No, not really."
"Are you and Ben finally engaged?" He asks her. Ben has been Maya's boyfriend on and off for the last 5 years according to Logan.
"Ben? Ben who?" She huffs and Logan sighs.
"What happened?"
"Does it matter?" She grumbles.
"Of course it does." I tell her. "What happened?"
"Nothing. He's just a jerk. He tells me we're serious and then I find him kissing this other chick. So I confront him and he says he wants to date me but not exclusively."
"Well, that's slightly reminiscent of someone I used to know." My gaze drifts over to my husband.
"Hey, hey." He starts to argue. "You know we were different than that. I was completely upfront about my dating life."
"That's true. You were." I agree. "Look, Maya, you can't change him. If there's one thing I've learned from how my relationship with Logan started it was that. He has to want to change. Now, for Logan, that took the prospect of me walking away from him."
"It was a real eye opener." He admits to her as he polishes off his scotch. "No one had done it before."
"Your ego won't admit to it but I'm sure there are ones who have." I inform him. "Are you going to do the casual dating thing?"
Maya shrugs. "I don't know. I haven't done that since my late teens or early 20's. I think I'm too old to do casual dating."
Logan and I laugh at this. "Maya, you're still in your early 30's. Why couldn't you?" Logan asks.
"I guess I could. I'm just not sure I want to."
"Well, you're going to want to debate whether or not you want to or if you just want to walk away. If you do that though and he walks away, it's probably for the best. I will tell you that I found out pretty quickly that I wasn't suited for the casual dating scene. As soon as I saw Logan with another girl…"
He cuts me off and smirks. "You mean Megan?"
I groan. "I don't care what her name was, Logan." I inform him and he laughs.
"My Ace…" He kisses my forehead. "Still jealous after all these years."
"Maybe I was but you're prone to jealousy too." I remind him. "Of course if you're going to do the casual thing, I'd say the one pro to it is that you get to make him jealous, especially if you choose to go out with one of his friends."
Maya laughs. "So who did you pick?"
"Robert."
"Robert?" She raises an eyebrow. "You mean his frenemy Robert? The one he's in the Life and Death Brigade with?"
I nod. "Yep, that's him."
"Wait, how do you know Robert?" Logan stares at his aunt suspiciously.
"I've known him since you were at Yale, Logan." She reveals. "In fact, I caught up with him at your wedding."
I think Logan's speechless based on his expression.
"Maya!" I hear a high pitched sing-song voice and I hear Maya groan.
"Why must your mother talk in that annoying voice when she calls me?" Maya grumbles. "I'll be back."
Maya leaves to head over to the group of people that Shira's with. I turn to Logan and he still looks genuinely concerned.
"What is it, Logan?"
"I just have the creepiest feeling that Robert slept with my aunt."
"So what? They're both adults." I remind him.
"That just creeps me out." He admits.
"More than if I would have slept with him?" I ask him bluntly.
"No, that would have been about 10 times worse."
"Yeah, I figured that you would say that." I smirk. I never would have slept with Robert, though. He's a pretty nice guy but it really was for jealousy purposes that we even got together.
He grins at me as he wraps his arms around my waist. "How are you doing? Are you doing OK?"
I nod. "Yeah, so far, so good."
"Good." He leans down and kisses me. Once again, he puts his right hand on my stomach which I quickly remove.
"I have told you more than once not to do that." I remind him sternly in a quiet voice.
"Rory, they're all going to find out soon enough. Relax."
"Logan! Rory!" We turn and see Mitchum's sister Olivia call to us and wav us to come over.
"Ready?" Logan asks as he threads our fingers together.
"Lead the way." I tell him.
We greet Mitchum's side of the family. His two sisters and their husbands and his brother with his wife and of course Mitchum and Shira.
"So how's work?" His aunt Grace asks him.
"Good. Everything's good. Rory's going to start her job in about 2 ½ weeks as the editor in chief of the online magazine."
"Are you liking California?" Olivia's husband Dan asks.
"Overall it's been good. What do you think, Ace? Have we adjusted to the California way of living?"
"Oh yeah." I nod as I take a drink of my warm water now that the ice has melted. "Everything's great. Work's going to be good, our condo is awesome…"
"Our condo's fabulous." Logan concurs.
"Where are you living?" His uncle Griffin asks. "What area?"
"The Russian Hill area." I tell him.
"That's an incredible area." His uncle nods. "I lived in San Francisco for a number of years before I came back to New York."
"We love the area." I tell everyone. "It's a little bit of a drive to work but that was really the only downfall."
We give them the highlights that we have found out from living in San Francisco. All of them appear to be enamored. Honor and Josh soon join the conversation and the next topic we cover is Christmas and what other plans we have.
About 20 minutes later, Logan has gotten himself another scotch and got me another water.
"So what are you drinking tonight, Rory?" Logan's aunt Olivia asks me.
"Oh, just water." I admit. "I'm not much of a drinker."
"Oh, I thought it was maybe because you were pregnant."
I nervously laugh at my husband.
"Have you two talked about having kids?" His aunt Grace asks.
"Oh, yeah. We have." Logan tells them.
"Any time soon?" Griffin asks.
"Yeah, actually the middle of June."
Everyone breaks out in squeals of delight and Maya rushes over. "OK, you just made this party entertaining. What did you do?"
"I just told them that Rory's pregnant." Logan admits.
Maya then squeals and gives both of us big hugs. "Oh my god, congratulations you guys! That's amazing news."
"Logan…" I tell him in a hush voice.
"What?" He frowns. "We were going to tell them tonight." He reminds me.
"Yeah, we were but I figured we would tell your parents privately first." I whisper to him. "I was trying to avoid having them look like this."
Mitchum and Shira look stunned to say the least. Everyone else appears to be excited and happy for us. Logan whispers in my ear. "They were going to look like that regardless of if we told them in public or in private. They're not going to start lodging complaints in public. It wouldn't be polite."
"Excuse me…" I announce to everyone. "I'm going to get something stronger to drink." I head towards the bar.
"Rory…" Logan calls after me.
"Sugar, Logan." I turn around and call back. "I need something with sugar. I'm not an idiot. Of course I didn't mean alcohol."
I head over to the bartender and tell him I want a Shirley Temple and to go heavy on the grenadine. I now need a sugar fix. God only knows what his parents are going to say. Logan comes over to me a couple minutes later after I have downed half of my drink.
"Are you trying to make my stress level skyrocket?" I glare at him. "Because you are."
"Rory…" He starts.
"Logan, you really had no intention of telling them in private, did you?"
"Hell no I didn't." He admits. "I figure this way it'll get set in their heads and give them time to adjust to the news."
I take another drink. "This is really good." I turn around to the bartender. "Can I get another one and could you make it the same way too?"
"Absolutely." The bartender smiles at me while my husband frowns.
"What the hell are you drinking?"
"Shirley Temple. Why?" I ask as I take another drink of it.
"That's awfully dark for a Shirley Temple." He concludes and I groan.
"Then watch him as he makes it if you don't believe me."
And so he does. Good God, he's acting like I'm trying to poison the baby or something. Although I'm sure that huge amounts of sugar are not good for it.
"Jesus Rory! Why the hell is there so much grenadine in it?"
"Because I requested it that way." I polish off the first one as the bartender hands me the 2nd one. "Thank you." I tell him as I head to the rest of the crowd. Logan is trailing behind me.
I catch up to where Honor and Josh are. They seem to have separated themselves from the group. "What happened?"
"Well, mom asked what I thought of the news and I told her I was happy and thrilled at the idea of being an aunt. She asked why I wasn't showing it and I told her I've known since the beginning of November. She stomped away from me."
"I bet she loved that." I say.
"Yeah. She'll get over it, though." Honor tells me.
I somehow don't foresee that happening tonight. I glance over at Logan who is talking to Josh about sports. I whisper to Honor asking where the bathroom is. She directs me as to where to go which is right around the corner. I just need a minute by myself. I'm OK but I can't get that look out of my head. The one that I saw flash across his parents' faces. After I take a few deeps breaths, I open the door and gasp. Yeah, Logan's mother is standing right there. And the look on her face is less than pleased.
I'm looking around for my wife and I can't seem to find her. She disappeared on me. I know she wasn't happy with how I told my parents but I honestly thought it would be easier doing it the way I did it. Maybe I was wrong.
"Honor, where did Rory go?" I ask her.
"Bathroom."
She's been gone a long time. I have the creepiest feeling right now. And my suspicions are confirmed when I can't find my mother.
"I have a really bad feeling, Honor." I admit.
"Why?"
"Mom's disappeared."
Her face turns worrisome. "Come on. We better go find Rory."
It didn't take long. Right before we hit the doorway I hear from the hallway them yelling at each other. Honor and I rush out into the foyer.
"What the hell is going on?" I demand.
"Nothing. Your mother and I are just having a discussion about why we didn't tell them sooner about the baby."
"Because we had our reasons." I tell my mom coldly. "Why does it matter?"
"I'm just curious why your sister has known for almost 2 months and you just inform us now. Why were we the last to know?"
"You're not the last to know. Richard and Emily don't know yet; they'll find out tomorrow."
"I still don't think that's fair. Especially since you decided to make that announcement in front of everyone. You should have informed us before everyone else."
I groan. "Honor…" I turn to my sister. "Take Rory upstairs to my bedroom."
"Logan…" Rory starts to protest.
"Don't argue, Ace. You remember what the doctor said. I can tell you were getting worked up." I give her a quick kiss. "Go upstairs with Honor. I'll be up in a little bit here."
She reluctantly follows my sister upstairs.
I turn to my mom after I see that Rory and Honor have rounded the corner. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I demand. "Quit being mean to my wife!"
"She was pregnant when you got engaged, wasn't she? That's why you demanded all the changes in the prenup, wasn't it?"
"One, I demanded all the changes in the prenup because it was a joke. She deserved better than what that stupid thing said. Two, have you forgotten how to do math? Rory and I got engaged in May, the baby is not due until the middle of next June so unless the term is now 13 months, not 9 for a woman to have a baby she was not pregnant. " I tell her loudly.
"What is going on here?" My dad comes out of the party. This is just perfect.
"We're having a talk about the baby." I inform him. "So what is your opinion?"
"Why don't we all go into my office?"
"Yeah, why don't we?" I follow him in and my mother's behind me.
He closes the door and takes a seat and so does my mom. I however remain standing and pace.
"Logan, sit down." My dad says.
"No thank you. Why don't you just tell me what you're thinking."
"Well, I'm shocked and appalled at the way you handled things."
"What did you want me to do? Lie?"
"No but you could have at least given us the courtesy of telling us first instead of announcing it in front of everyone."
"You're right; maybe I should have but maybe I thought if you found out in a group that it would prevent us from having this conversation. Apparently I was wrong."
"Yes, you were." My dad tells me bluntly. "How did this happen?"
"We had that talk when I was 10 years old." I retort. "It happened the way all babies are conceived naturally."
"Logan…"
"What do you want me to say, dad? It was a birth control slipup. Rory warned me about the potential of it and I didn't take it seriously enough."
"Well, that was very stupid of you." He reveals. "Why don't you ever think before you go and decide to make a mistake like this?"
My eyes are set ablaze now. "My baby may be a lot of things but it's most certainly not a mistake. It's a surprise and while we weren't expecting it for at least a couple years, we would never call this baby a mistake."
"Are you trying to get me to believe that you didn't do this on purpose to break the prenup?"
"This was not planned!" I scream at them. "Jesus! Why can't you understand that? Do you think that if it was planned I would have spent the last 4 days of my honeymoon reassuring Rory and myself that we could do this? Or watching her cry at the fact that we were pregnant already? We're both happy about it now but it took us almost a week to become completely comfortable with it."
"Logan…" My mom starts.
"No this is what's going to happen. I'm going to tell you why you were kept in the dark and when I get done, I'm going upstairs and getting Rory and we're leaving."
"Why is Rory upstairs?" My dad asks.
"Because I sent her up there. She's already been in the hospital once because of her stress level. I'll be damned if I'm going to let you do anything that will cause her to go back."
"Wait, she's been in the hospital?" My mom asks.
"Yes, she has. A few days after we found out she was pregnant we were in Venezuela and she collapsed due to severe dehydration. Her stress level also played a factor in it."
"That's terrible." My mom comments.
"Don't say that unless you actually mean it because I'm getting really sick and tired of people acting under fake emotions."
"Logan…" My dad starts.
"No what's really terrible, mom is before she collapsed Rory saw blood trinkling down her leg. We thought she was having a miscarriage."
I've stunned my parents into silence. "And you honestly wonder why we didn't tell you privately? So why did Honor know? Because we stayed at her house the night Rory was released from the hospital. Besides, she's the only one out of this whole family that I trust. And she's the only one could reassure me I would not turn out like you." I glare at my dad.
"What the hell does that mean?" My dad roars.
"What that means is that my worst fear is becoming you. You have never cared about your kids. You've only cared about yourself." I throw back.
"You know damn well that's a lie. You have had everything you've ever wanted because of me."
"Yeah, except a father." I inform him. "This kid is going to have a father every time he or she needs it. I'm going to be there for everything." I declare. "Believe it or not, the cliche is true: money can't buy happiness.
I hear a knock on the door and Honor comes in. "Hey." She gives me a small smile. "Rory heard you all screaming and sent me down to check on you."
I smile back at her. "Tell her I'm fine and I'll be upstairs in a minute. Are you keeping her calm?"
"As much as I can." She confirms. "Maya's upstairs right now with her. Don't take too long because the only way I was able to stop her from coming down here herself was that I told her I'd do it for her."
"I'll be up in a minute. I promise."
My sister leaves and I turn back to my parents. "Honestly, I'm so sick of this. I'm sick of you treating Rory like crap." I glare at my mom. "And you treating me like it." I turn to my dad. "So now I've come to a decision. I'm tired of giving you chances to redeem yourselves. Every time I think you've changed all you do is prove how much you haven't. So as of right now, I'm officially leaving this family. We're not speaking. I don't want any communication with you and as far as the prenup goes, take it and do whatever the hell you want with it. It's not going to matter. We'll make due just fine without the money. I'm not putting up with this anymore. You've now officially lost your heir. I hope you're proud of yourselves." I storm out and slam the door. As soon as I leave, I see Honor waiting for me.
"Hey." I tell her.
"Hey." She gives me a hug. "Are you OK?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." I assure her. "Why didn't you go back upstairs?"
"Well, Maya's up there with her so figured I'd stay down here in case you needed me."
"Thanks. Come on. Let's go."
We head upstairs and as I get closer to my bedroom, I can hear Maya and Rory talking.
"So which one do you want?"
"Oh, either one is going to be great. It doesn't matter. They'll be gorgeous no matter what."
My face breaks out into a huge grin. I wholeheartedly agree.
"So is Logan pretty excited?"
"Oh, you wouldn't believe how much." Rory gushes. That's true; I'm beyond ecstatic about it. "Want me to tell you a secret?"
"Sure." Maya tells her.
"He's already talking to the baby."
"Aww…that's sweet." My sister whispers.
"How cute." Maya tells her.
"Then of course there's the other thing he like to do."
"Really? What's that?"
I decide it's time to make my appearance known. "OK, Ace. I don't think Maya needs to hear about that."
"Oh sure I do."
"I'll tell you what. Rory can tell you what it is but first you get to tell me what is going on with you and Robert."
"You and Robert?" Honor raises an eyebrow. "Like his sometime friend Robert?"
"Yep, that's him."
I look around my room and realize then that I want to get out of this house. I don't want to be here a second longer than I have to. "And I want to hear about it but let's all go someplace else and get some coffee or something. I just don't want to stay here any longer."
"OK, I'll go get Josh and meet you at the front door." Honor takes off then. Maya excuses herself to go get her coat.
I turn back to Rory who has made herself comfortable on my bed. "How are you doing?"
"I'm better now that I see you're in one piece." She gives me a small smile.
"Yeah it was a rather heated conversation." I admit.
"I heard screaming Logan." She tells me.
"I know you did." I nod.
"What happened?"
I sigh. "Let's talk about it later."
"Logan…"
"Hey." I lean down and kiss her. "Everything's OK. I just want to get out of here."
"OK." She nods as I help her up. "Let's go." I thread our fingers together and lead her downstairs and I see my sister, Josh, and Maya waiting for us.
"Ready to go?" Maya asks.
"Yeah as soon as we get our coats." I tell her.
"Logan…wait a second." I see my dad come rushing to us.
I sigh and turn back to everyone else. I get the coats my parents' butler and help Rory put her coat on.
"Hey Logan, we'll meet you outside." Honor tells me.
After they leave I turn my father and stare at him. Rory's still standing beside me. "So what are you just going to leave now?"
I nod as I put my coat on, "Yeah, we are. I have nothing left to say to you." I tell him bluntly.
"I really don't want things to turn out like this." He tries to tell me.
"Yeah, I really didn't want them to either but I'm not going to let you insult my wife and my baby."
Rory clears her throat and I correct myself, "Sorry, our baby. You may not approve of the timing in which this child was conceived but that not does mean that we don't love it and it most certainly will never be considered a mistake in our books." I head for the door.
"Logan, wait please."
"No, I'm tired of waiting." I turn around and tell him. "I'm tired of waiting for the miraculous day that will have all of us happy and joyous and free from ridicule. That day isn't going to exist, I've found. I've given up on it. I'm tired of this family. I can't and I won't do this anymore." I turn around and storm out.
I come out of the house and see Maya, Honor and Josh standing there.
"Logan…you OK?" Honor asks me.
I nod.
"You sure?" Josh asks.
"Yeah, I'll be OK." I then turn around and see it's just me. "I lost Rory." I realize.
"Rory, wait please." Mitchum begs me.
My hand is resting on the doorknob. I turn around to look at him. "What Mitchum?"
"I don't think that your baby is a mistake." He admits to me.
"I'm glad to hear it." I tell him sadly.
"Please I don't want things to end like this."
"I know you don't." I whisper. "But Logan's my husband and I won't go against him." I tell him honestly. "He's been through a lot, Mitchum. This baby came out of nowhere. We weren't expecting it regardless of what you may think."
"I believe you." He assures me.
"Thank you. I've pushed him. I've pushed him all these times to reconcile with you especially when you and Shira came out to San Francisco. He really didn't want to do it. I wanted us to make a fresh start. I haven't given up on that yet. But right now, I can't and I won't go against him."
Mitchum stares at me sadly.
"Maybe someday things will be different. I hope so. But right now, I have to stand by him and honor his decision. Especially considering how he's always stood by me."
"What do you want me to do?"
"You need to give him time."
"How much time?"
"As much as he needs." I admit to him. "You can't force him into a reconciliation and this time I'm going to let him decide if and when he's ready. I really hope that things will be better by the time the baby comes but that's going to be up to you and Logan. You need to wait until he comes to you."
"And what if he doesn't?"
I tell him the truth. "I don't know but I think he will. But like I said, I'm not going to force him to do it before he's ready and it's going to have to be on his terms. He just needs time, OK?" I can hear talking outside the door. "I need to go. Take care Mitchum."
"You too Rory." I'm about out the door when I hear him call my name again.
"Yeah?"
"Take care of my son."
I smile. "I will."
"And my grandchild." He adds.
"I will, I promise."
Kind of sad...well bittersweet is the perfect word for it. Like I said, next chapter will be at Richard and Emily's party. The following chapter will be Lorelai having her baby. Remember need names! Also I wanted to tell you all. I'm writing another Logan/Rory story. It's a rewrite of You Jump, I Jump Jack. Everything is the same except when in the SUV with everyone, Dean calls Rory. I got 35 pages into the story and decided I didn't like how it was written. I'm still going to write it but I need to do some rewriting. It is going to be OOC for Rory. At least parts of it will. Anyway, I'll get the next chapter out ASAP. Also, do you want the next chapter to begin with everyone having coffee or just that night after they back to Lorelai's house? Please please review! I really do love them!
