"Welp, thank you everyone. This is a nice surprise," said Rory beaming. "A little predictable, because how Honor abruptly ended the phone call this morning and how everyone seemed to not minded where we are today. I would've expected full melodramatic blow from at least you, Ruth..." she pointed to her mother.
Finn pretended hurt when Rory didn't mention him too in the same sentence with melodramatic. "But this is so nice, all of our dearest dearest friends and family gathered here today. Thank you. It really makes the job easier to tell you the news!" She announced, grabbing Logan's hand.
"Honor already did!" Paris deadpanned.
"Sorry," Honor grinned without any hint of remorse.
"Did she?" Logan smiled mischievously, unable to hold his excitement.
"Did I miss something?" Honor asked suspiciously.
"Nothing much, just..." Rory adjusted her thumb and index finger to a size of a bean. "This size,"
As much as they enjoy the attention, all the creased foreheads in front of them are starting to get impatient. Logan decided he was feeling generous enough to end their misery, and he fished his pocket and held up a piece of printed black and white picture.
"Everyone, meet Bean Huntzberger. That's not her real name, just a temporary name we came up with," he announced proudly.
The room was silent for a second along with the deepened of the creased foreheads, but when Honor shrieked the acknowledgement started to seep through their brains, and the room instantly blew with cheer, laughter, congratulations, hugs and kisses, and in Robert and Finn's case; arguing who's going to be the godfather.
"I'm gonna be an auntieeee!" Honor confirmed excitingly.
"Okay, well... technically that's gonna make me a grandma, and I'm not ready to be a grandma, I'm too young to be a grandma. Maybe I can be a Lorelai?" Lorelai asked in between happy tears.
"No, you can't, Lorelai!" Rory answered. "You can be Nana? Or Grams?"
"Yeah, I'll think of something. Probably something with a little x at the end to make it sound cool and all,"
"That you can," Rory approved.
"Aaagh! I'm so happy for you!"
"Thank you, Mom!"
Lorelai, Honor, and Clarissa wrapped Rory in a group hug full of shrieks, Logan decided to move away to protect his ears. He was then approached by his parents who to his surprise, gave him a heartfelt hug. Super weird. Shira looked so excited, probably thinking of all the parties that she will be throwing. Mitchum was relieved his son finally will secure him an heir.
After a short conversation covering the proposal and the doctor's appointment, his parents moved along to Rory, no doubt filling her with their wedding and baby ideas. Logan looked around and his eyes caught Chris'. The man was glistening with happy tears as he approached Logan.
"I just never thought this day would come. Thinking back when she was a little girl and I was an absent father, I never thought there was even a slightest chance for me to be a part of this incredible thing. And then I was back into her life, but she was not the same anymore, and I never thought that she would be back. And like this. Thank you, this is the happiest day of my life..." Chris said while giving him a fatherly hug.
"Thanks, Chris. Your support means a lot,"
"This is my happiest moment too, apart of the fact that I'm gonna be a grandma." Lorelai chimed in. "I'd lost hope. All these years I had settled to just having her again, whole. I didn't let myself hope or dream of something more. But this is amazing. You are officially my favourite son in law," she said while moving forward to gave her hug.
"I'm your only son in law," Logan reminded her, returning the hug.
This was just felt surreal he kind of waiting for the moment he wakes up and realizes this was all just a dream. Because it was just too good to be true.
"Congrats, mate! It's a long time coming. And for your sake, I wished the kid will have more Rory in him than you..." Finn congratulated him with a hug. Fiercely believing that the baby was a boy.
"That's nice, Finn. Thanks," Logan responded with a grin.
"Listen, babies are awesome, but I don't know how to act around them. So congratulations, but maybe it's best if I meet her at her third birthday, or fourth just to be sure. They can communicate when they are four, right?" Robert asked hesitantly, insisting that the baby was a girl. He had a bunch of nephews and a niece, but he wasn't close to them when they were babies.
"They can communicate since they were born, you baboon! And don't worry, they won't need you. They won't even care if you're around," Colin bit.
"How did you know? Did you even see your babies?" Robert bit back.
"Of course, when they ask for money..."
"Babies know how to ask money?" Robert asked amazed. "Well then, count me in. I can deal with them if money is in the card,"
Logan laughed out loud while shaking his head.
"Congratulations, man. Things are really great for you both. I am a little envious at you to have found her at a very young age, and it took a special kind of luck to found her again. I hope you know that you're a very lucky man. Take a good care of them, man! That's a rare gem you have..." Colin said heart-fully, handing him a glass of whiskey.
"Oh I know exactly how lucky I am, man. Thanks for sticking by me through all of this..." Logan raised his glass for a friendship of a lifetime.
"Yeah, same to you..." Colin clinked his own glass.
"Logan, come here!" Mitchum called from his conversation with Rory. Something has made him looked happier, if that's even possible.
"I just agreed to come work with HPG," Rory said as he arrived by her side.
"Really? What closed the deal?" He asked interested.
"He gave me your position!" Rory cheered.
"What?"
"Well, actually, half your position. Mitchum came up with a great idea to divide your workload to technical and management. So, I'll be handling the technical."
"This is great news! He actually already talked to me about lightening my workload, since we're getting married. And now that we're having a baby, this is just perfect! The technical part of the job is to oversee the program and the writers, and it's perfect for you. It's basically editorial job that you're already good at, and I wasn't really enjoying it. I'll be happy to have you, Ace!" he gave her a kiss on her head and turned to shake his father's hand.
"Yes. And with me retiring, you both can permanently take office in the Hartford Headquarters..." Mitchum added.
Rory and Logan both beamed at that, the thought of commuting from Hartford to New York on a daily basis seemed appalling, and raising a baby in their New York apartment seemed impractical. Things are really looking up for them.
"So, have you had given any thoughts about the wedding? When or where you wanna do it? Or how?" Shira asked curiously.
"Oooh! The wedding! Yes, count me in!" Honor chimed in, attracting the others who immediately turned their attention to the group.
"Whoa, slow down. We just got engaged. And with all that's happened yesterday, we haven't really had..."
"Actually, I have." Rory cut in.
"You have?" Logan didn't even bother to hide his surprise.
Everyone around them suddenly fell quiet hanging on Rory's next words.
"Yeah, I mean, I want it big, in honour of Grandma Emily, she always wanted this. And I want it to be in our new home. Put up a huge tent and make it like English royal's garden party. The guests can even enjoy a string quartet, or uh! I want Drella and her harp there too. And the swans on the lake..."
"Whoa whoa, swans?" Logan asked amused.
"Yeah, you not like swans?"
"No, no. Swans are nice." Logan quickly responded, not wanting to break her concentration telling everyone her dream wedding.
"Great! And we can have the ceremony in the gazebo!" She added.
"Right. Right." Logan responded making a mental note to check the progress of the gazebo.
"What's the matter? You don't like the idea?"
"No, no, no. I like the idea. I like the idea of you getting excited about our wedding. The wedding itself, I don't really care, as long as we end up husband and wife," he grinned and stole a kiss.
"Okay. So, gazebo, swans, harp, tent... What kind of flowers are you thinking about?" Finn emerged at her side with Macy taking notes.
"What? You're writing this down?" Rory asked surprised.
"Of course, we don't want to miss anything..." Macy answered, busy scribbling on her note.
"Yes, yes..."
"Oh, I don't... These are just my thoughts, I mean... aren't we suppose to, I don't know... How exactly someone plan a wedding again?" Rory stammered, caught unprepared by the attention.
"Ask Colin, he's had three..." Robert deadpanned.
"Whoa, I wasn't involved in the actual planning, if you remember... I only went to tux fitting and sign all the checks," Colin defended himself.
"Okay, so... what? We're doing this now?" Logan asked excited.
"Yeah yeah yeah, now is good." answered Finn who were busy dictating things to Macy.
All of a sudden the engagement party turned into a wedding planning meeting. And Rory and Logan was forced to choose a date.
"Well, I guess... I don't know? The sooner the better?" Rory answered hesitantly.
"Got it!" Colin said and instantly busy on the phone making calls.
"I can put up the guest list with your mother," Shira offered.
"And come up with some invitation ideas..." Lorelai chimed in.
"I'll call my bridal shop and see if I can squeeze us a fitting," Clarissa said, equally excited.
"Wait! Stop! Are you guys being serious?" Rory asked, still trying to wrap up her head around the pop up wedding planning.
"We are! And don't worry about a thing, we have more than enough black cards to cover for five weddings," Robert confirmed.
"Whoa whoa, I am more than capable to pay for my own wedding!" Logan cut them.
"But I want to pay for my daughter's wedding!" Chris said.
"Well, of course you can't deny us the fun of throwing our only son a wedding he deserves, can you now?" his Dad also added.
"What? We can't possibly..." Rory tried to reason.
"Please, Rory... let us do this. We want to be part of it," Shira persuaded.
"We've waited a long time for this..." Lorelai backed her up.
"If they can, then I want to be put in charge of the entertainment!" Finn announced.
"Oh, God! Fine, but no circus clowns, or exotic dancers!" Rory agreed reluctantly.
"Fine. But I will make sure that the bar will never dry,"
"Sure, just make sure there's an ambulance and fire truck ready," Robert added.
"Haha! We'll see,"
"Well, if you guys are recruiting yourselves into our wedding, then I expect it to be held... four weeks from now?" Logan challenged.
Everybody gasped.
"Four weeks?! Logan don't you think this is too soon?" Rory asked surprised.
"Oh come on, you're underestimating them. Think of the Avengers full of David Tuteras... they will own all the tutus and tulle skirt before you know it," he answered full of confident.
"Six weeks!" Colin called. "Six weeks is how long the gazebo will be ready for the ceremony, the rest of it will just have to be paid extra."
"Six weeks is reasonable," Honor agreed.
"Yes, yes! We can make it. And I will take care of the catering," Lorelai added. "Sookie has been dreaming of cooking for Rory's wedding since she could walk,"
"Fine by me, just don't let Finn test it. He over-salt everything," Logan agreed.
"I'm Australian,"
"Still not touching the food." added Rory to the pouting Australian.
"Right, so we've covered the invitation, wardrobe, music, venue..." Logan started listing.
"Drinks..." Finn added.
"Right. Drinks, and food... I think we have most of it." Logan concluded. "Now, I lend you my assistant Macy to be the coordinator. She will follow up everything from everyone. And I give her permission to put pressure on you guys. You can be creative and throw some ideas, but all final decisions must be under the approval of Rory and me of course, but we're not that hard to pleased and most of you had known us your whole lives so it must not be too complicated, okay?"
All heads nodded.
"Great! We'll get to work tomorrow. Today, can we finally enjoy the party?" he asked.
"Yeayyy! Let's party!"