An: this is almost the end of this story. i also hope that this chapter makes up for the last, some said it was horrible. Please review and let me know what you think
Ch 36
They just rolled Ace into surgery and my heart is constricted. There's nothing more I can do. No money in the world can help her now. It's all up to the doctors. Sure, I paid top dollar for the best surgeons in the world for her, but that doesn't even help the uneasy feeling that the love of my life is getting cut opened. I look around the empty waiting room and that's exactly how I feel alone; no one there to aid this pain not that it would help me. Surgery was moved up to 6am instead of 9, Ace didn't want anyone there.
Flashback
"Hey, what did Dr. Klein say" I question Ace walking into the bedroom Sunday night. All the kids are in bed and asleep.
"They have an opening for the 6am surgery tomorrow and wants us there a 4:30. I called Mom she'll be here to watch the kids until Colin and Steph arrive a 8" she says laying on her side as I bend down to see her.
"Are you sure you want to do that, you wanted to see the kids in the morning" I question pushing some stray hair behind her ear.
"I helped put them to bed tonight and I watched them sleep, Logan" she says tearing up.
"You'll be fine Ace. You'll be walking back into this house tomorrow night and within a few days you'll start feeling better" I say rubbing her arm trying to comfort us both.
"But Logan…" she says crying now.
"No! I refuse let you think like that. I refuse to think that. I need you Ace. I can't all this alone. You'll be fine, I refuse to leave that hospital without you" I state firmly and she cracks a smile.
"You need me" she says rolling on her back.
"More than you possibly know Ace" I say caressing her cheek as I stare into those blue eyes I fell in love with almost ten years ago.
"Make love to me" she says and I look at her. The doctor warned us not to, he doesn't want her in any undue stress or pain.
"You'll going to have to come home for that to happen" I state getting up before smirking.
"You're denying your sick wife of sex" she mocks me.
"Yep" I state walking to the dresser to change.
"Logan" she whines and I shake my head. "Don't you miss me" she says coyly and I look at her.
"What do you think" I question and she smirks.
"What if we go really, really slow?" she questions sitting up a little.
"Not going to happen" I say walking into the bathroom shutting the door. Odd, but I don't hear a smart comeback or witty remark.
"What if I refuse to let you shower alone" she says walking into the bathroom.
"We can shower, but no sex" I state.
"And when was the last time that happened Huntz" she smirks starting the shower. She just won't give up will she; it's good to see her this way.
"Ace, I'm not having sex with you in the shower" I say watching her pull the tank off her. I closed my eyes because that was not fair. It's been two weeks since we had sex, mainly because it hurt her so much.
"Logan" she calls me sweetly and I open them and look at my naked wife leaning on the door frame of the shower. I groan and smirk at her.
"You're not playing fair Ace" I say walking to her and she runs her fingers down my bare chest, the tips of her fingers drawing small circle on it.
"I only married a Huntzberger, but I was born a Gilmore, we don't play fair MAC, you should know that" she says too seductively for me to resist her much longer and she used MAC, which barely happens now. I laugh a little reminding standing by her dorm room and debating with her and telling her to call me her master and commander; little did I know then that I would fall madly in love and marry that brunette. I breathe in sharply when I feel her hand playing with my shaft and I look down at her.
"What" she says innocently and I shake my head. Her hands are still moving up and down my erection and I want her so bad.
"You really want this don't you" I question and she smiles. She stops her hands and looks at me.
"I want something to dream about tomorrow and what could be better than making love to the man that's my world" she says standing up and wrapping her arms around my neck.
"Slow" I say pulling her closer feeling her naked form against mine. We fit perfectly together.
"Slow" she says leaning up on her tippy toes and kissing me.
End of Flashback
We made love last night and I took my time. Everything else was erased from memory when I was kissing every part of her, cementing it into my memory forever. I held her close to me all night. Memories of Yale flooded my mind, my first thought when I saw her in the store with Alex, everything from the last year. I love this woman, more than I ever thought possible. She's my heart and world, without her nothing makes sense.
I pull my phone out and flip through the pictures I had stored. Pictures of Rory and kids in Australia playing on the beach come up first. Alex loving the sand and the water so much that Rory promised him that we'll go to the beach this summer. Next of Rory holding Lexie the first time she breastfed her in the hospital, she was so beautiful that moment she was looking lovingly at the baby girl in her arms. We finally had our perfect little family complete with a boy and a girl. Looking at that makes me want more kids. The nest picture of us is at Honor's before the christening. Rory still pregnant but gorgeous, she had this glow to her that radiated off her everyone said it. She was so happy about the baby and that it was ours. I was threw the roof everyday watching her stomach grow knowing that our daughter was in there. The next is Rory's favorite; it's of Alex kissing Rory's stomach as she slept on the couch at the penthouse. We walked in and she was asleep. He kisses Rory's cheek and then the stomach. He loves her so much, she everything and more that I could have wished for in a mother for him. Hawaii is the next; it's Rory standing by window of the hotel waiting for the wedding. Chris had my phone and captured her as the sun hit her through the window. I never knew until the following day but she looked like an angel in that white dress and veil holding her hand out and staring at her engagement ring. I still wonder what she was thinking about. The next is of the kiss at the engagement that Colin took at Yale. Rory in her old dress and me in a tuxedo surrounded by candles, it captivates us and I love it. Everything was coming full circle. I always laugh at the next one; my own personal Tinkerbelle fairy form Alex's birthday that was a day to remember. She went above and beyond that day to give him the best birthday a little boy could ask for. Rory and Alex at our first Christmas they were sitting by the tree and smiling at me came next. Even then you can see the love her eyes for the both of us.
Wiping the tear that escaped, I look up and see some nurses walking around, but no news yet. It's been about an hour since she went in. I continue on with the picture, remembering every moment. Rory and the girls dressed up at cowgirls for Steph's birthday two weeks before graduation was after that. Square dancing drunk is never good when Finn's involved. She had a ball then and laughed all night. The next is of Rory sitting on my lap during that party. Steph stole my phone and took it. We're looking into each other's eye and not even paying attention to camera. Our foreheads are pressed up against each other and we're smiling. That was the night I told the boys about the engagement ring. They were shocked but knew it was coming. Next were some random picture throughout Yale of us and Rory with everyone, it really makes me miss the simple days. The days where we could just be crazy and free, without a care in the world but each other, but I was a jerk back then. I screwed up so many times with us and she always stood so strong, not giving up on us. I don't deserve her. The last or first picture whichever way I go is my screen saver of her. We're at the pool house at the Gilmores. I came back early to surprise her from Europe and we made love earlier on her couch. She's lying on the bed in nothing but my shirt but it's open at the top showing just enough cleavage to make me want her. Her hand is stretched above her head and her hair grazing the pillow behind her. She's so relax and contented. She's smiling at me, the smile that always made me know that I was only one for her. It's the one that I always dreamt about when we weren't together.
"Mr. Huntzberger" a nurse says and I look up.
"You're wife is being wheeled into her room" she says and I jump up.
"Is she okay" I question desperation in my voice.
"Why don't you go ask her" she smiles at me. My heart and breathing feels like they're finally starting again when she says that. I rush down the hall to her room and stop short when I see her sleeping. I walk quietly into the room but she turns to look at me.
"Hi" she says smiling at me just like the picture.
"Hey beautiful" I say my voice cracking a little.
"Are you getting soft on me Huntzberger?" she smirks and I laugh.
"Considering my wife just had surgery I'm allowed" I say sitting on the edge of the bed, taking her hand in mine and kissing it. She's awake and alert, she'll be just fine.
"I guess I'll let it slide this time" she says yawning.
"Sleep Ace" I say caressing her face. The doctor warned us that she would be tired especially right after surgery.
"Be here when I wake up" she questions me.
"Nowhere else I rather be Ace, but with you" I say kissing her forehead as she shuts her eyes.
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