Title: Taking a header or staying the course
Author: Joy
A/N: This chapter is my attempt to explain where Rory is coming from on the relationship history / fidelity thing, but also give back-story to Logan's player ways. I have yet to meet a guy or girl for that matter that is that serious of a player that doesn't have a reason behind it.
PLEASE READ: There will be mature themes (i.e. sexual references) toward the end of the chapter. It is bracketed off. Please note.
Chapter 7: Pillow talkRory woke to the wonderful sensation of her neck being kissed and fingertips touching her arm. "Hmmm Finn," she murmured.
"WHAT!" Logan snapped.
Rory laughed, "Gottcha!"
Logan started tickling her sides, "That is so not funny, ACE!"
"UNCLE!" she squirmed until he relented. "I was just teasing you."
"Don't tease about that," he said with slightly pained eyes.
Rory got worried and pet his face, "Hey, I was just kidding around. I thought Finn would be better than Dean, Jess or even Tristan."
Logan raised an eyebrow, "I know who Dean is but not the rest."
"We haven't exactly talked about the past," Rory murmured. "Truthfully I don't think I want to know yours."
Logan had convinced himself long ago that his actions with women wouldn't in the long run matter because he would end up with some trophy wife to make the media happy. He never really considered getting together with a girl of any sort of substance. This was the first time he actually felt guilty about his past...seeing the insecurities that it caused in Rory.
He sighed, "Ace... I think I need to tell you a story to make everything else make sense."
"Okay," she said bracing herself for what was to come.
"We weren't always the three musketeers."
"You weren't?"
"No... There was another guy...Scott. He was always the most down to earth of us all. He would talk us out of scrapes, make sure nothing ever went too wrong, that kind of stuff."
Rory was looking at him with big eyes. I can do this, his brain whispered.
"Scott also made sure that none of us did anything stupid when it came to girls...or tried to at least. There was this girl Heather that I started dating that was bad news and he knew it. Caused this major rift between us...but he was right. After that he was my best friend in the group." Logan swallowed. "I had always just dated. Nothing serious. Scott and I normally would trade off girlfriends... it wasn't that big a deal."
"Until?" Rory asked quietly kissing his temple.
"Until Sarah... I fell hard for her and fast too. She was smart, and funny, and exciting..." Logan cut himself off. "Scott knew she was different to me...he had to. But he flirted with her and teased her...like Finn last night. It just struck a bad cord with me."
"I'm sorry," she whispered lightly touching his arm before he pulled her closer.
"It's okay. I know Finn was kidding, for the most part. He is the most loyal friend in the world. But he could go for you. Any guy could... I just..."
"Finish the story."
"I had set up this huge romantic thing for me and Sarah for the whole day. I went to surprise her to pick her up and..." Logan stopped talking. Rory kissed his brow. He sighed, "I was let into the house. I knocked on her door... I shouldn't have..."
They sat in silence as Logan remembered the day he became a permanent player.
"Scott was there...in her bed. He had snuck in the night before. She had been dating both of us, but had just started sleeping with him. It turned out she just wanted to go out with a Huntzberger. Sarah had liked Scott all along... After that I just stopped caring. Scott was ousted from the group, never to be spoken of again..."
"Oh Logan," Rory whispered.
"I just went nuts trying to make the pain stop anyway I could. I stopped trusting that any girl could actually like me... It's why I didn't want to get involved with you. It's why I said you were great, that I would love to ask you out but..." Rory kissed him slowly. "Promise me if you ever want out, you'll break up with me and not cheat on me."
Logan's plea drove a knife in Rory's heart. She didn't exactly have the best track record with fidelity. "I promise...but I need to tell you a story too... and you won't like this story, Logan. I hope you'll still want to be with me after its over but I'll understand if you don't."
"Rory?" he whispered slightly scared.
"Dean was my first boyfriend, he was first kiss, first heartbreak, first everything and I mean everything."
Logan nodded.
"There was this guy at my school named Tristan, a lot like you actually. Rich, preppy, God's gift in his own opinion, blond, blue eyed...the works. I couldn't stand him."
"You cheated on Dean with a guy you couldn't stand?" Logan questioned.
"No... We went to this dance and Dean and Tristan nearly came to blows. Dean insisted that Tristan had a thing for me. I just thought I was a conquest since I refused to date him. Anyway, Dean and I dated for three months. He built me this car for the occasion... and he told me he loved me. I couldn't say it back. I wasn't ready to...so he dumped me." Logan looked at Rory confused. "So Tristan..."
"I went to a party that Tristan got dumped at in front of everyone. It would have been like someone dumping you in front of all your friends... I was trying to hideout from the party and found him in the music room. I was nice to him because that is who I am. We talked about my break up, his break up, and a little while after I said I didn't think Dean and I were getting back together he kissed me. I kissed him back for a couple seconds before I ran away crying. Tristan and I sort of became friends after that but then he started pushing for us to date again, deliberately hurting Paris for some odd reason."
"Your roommate?"
"Yeah. It was odd... Anyway Dean showed up at school and saw that Tristan had my books...because he had taken them like we were five again. I said I hated Tristan and love him and we started making out in the front of school. We got back together that day. Paris insisted I warped Tristan for life by doing that. I guess in some ways its true because he kept screwing up and got sent to military school the next year. I was the last person he spoke to before he left... he wanted to kiss me goodbye but Dean was watching. I have thought about it later and realized I probably would have been okay with that...but Dean. Tristan is this very weird unfinished chapter person... I think that's why things with you and I were so weird at first. It was de'ja'-vu."
"Okay," Logan didn't see the connection totally but he went with it.
"Dean and I were going a long fine until Jess showed up. Jess is Luke's nephew. There was always an attraction between us but I just moved it into the friendship realm. It drove Dean crazy. He was so jealous. Eventually Jess pressed the point by making out with another girl in front of me to get me to wake up to the feelings I had for him. Dean lost it and broke up with me in front of the entire town. A while after that Jess and I started to date, sort of. Problem was Jess had no aspirations of anything and had a nasty habit of just leaving without saying goodbye."
Rory fidgeted, "This is where I get really uncomfortable."
Logan kissed her forehead, "Go ahead. I'm right here."
She sighed, "Dean got married..." She watched his eyes get big. "We sort of stayed friends. That was a mistake. At the end of last year at Yale Jess came back and asked me to go to NY with him. He wanted me to leave my life here and..." She averted her eyes, "And Dean and I nearly kissed a couple times."
Logan held her gently playing with her hair. "There's more," he whispered.
She shut her eyes tight, "One night, we talked. He said it was over with his wife. Neither of them was happy..." Rory began to cry.
"What happened?" he whispered.
"We...I..." she gulped. "I lost my virginity to a married man," she muttered with bile in her throat. "My mom is the only one other than Dean that knew...she was so angry with me."
Logan was trying to keep up. It was a lot to take in. His perfectly innocent girlfriend had been the other woman. It was hard to comprehend. "You were together at the party," he uttered softly.
"Over the summer we were apart. His wife found out and threw him out. We dated I think mainly because we thought we had to...until that night when he broke up with me for the third time."
Fingers traced Rory's cheek causing her to look up at him. "I love you," Logan whispered. "That hasn't changed in the last fifteen minutes."
"It was just so stupid... I was so stupid..."
"Ace?"
"Yeah."
"Do you forgive me for every stupid girl that has ever come before you?" Logan asked plainly.
"What right do I have..."
"Just answer the question," he instructed.
"Yes," she replied without thought.
"I forgive you for every stupid guy before me... so there you have it. Clean slate. Past is past. Okay?"
"Okay."
"Good...now onto more pressing matters like showers, toothbrushes, and getting a bigger bed," Logan stated in no uncertain terms.
Rory laughed, "Bigger bed?"
"We'll go shopping for one back at school since I think your town is a little too gossipy to handle the information."
"Too true... doesn't help for school though."
"I already have a solution for that...but it's a surprise."
"I get nervous with your surprises," Rory admitted.
"Nothing harmful or embarrassing. I cross my heart," Logan muttered.
"We'll see."
Logan looked over at Rory as she pulled on her robe. "Ace?"
"Yeah."
"Before we get completely off the old boyfriend thing...I think you should know Dean came up to us last night."
"What?" she said sitting down next to him.
Logan shrugged, "He asked what I was doing there. I said getting ice cream for my girlfriend. I asked what he was doing there because he looked familiar but I couldn't place him."
"What did he say?" Rory questioned.
"He said he was there because the love of his life with sleeping with a Yale boy or something like that... Colin insulted him. I fussed at Colin."
"Why?"
He shrugged, "I was afraid you would take it as insulting your town or something. Anyway Finn stopped him from taking a swing at me."
Rory looked shocked, "Oh my...what the hell was that?"
"I don't know, but I thought you would probably like to know...you like to be in the know," he explained.
"Thanks...I do like to be in the know. I can't believe he did that. I'm sorry... I don't get it. He broke up with me. Not that I would want him back. That was probably the worst mistake of my life...I just don't get it," she stated in confusion.
"Come on...Let's go get a shower," Logan said tugging Rory to her feet.
"Us...take a shower? That's a little..."
Logan smirked, "You were a little...last night. I must say I was impressed...in your mother's house and all."
Rory blushed a bit, "It had been a weird day."
"Lets have another weird day," he said kissing her neck.
"I don't want to wake anyone," she muttered.
He smiled sinfully, "We can be quiet. You can bite my neck to keep from moaning too much."
"Is that so? And what will you do to keep from groaning?" she countered.
Logan worked his way inside her robe, "I will bite my knuckles or kiss your lips or bite your shoulder."
"That sounds like fun," Rory whispered before plundering his mouth. "Toothbrushes...we need toothbrushes."
Logan just laughed.
MATURE THEME WARNING MATURE THEME WARNING MATURE THEME WARNING MATURE THEME
The mirror in the bathroom was completely fogged up by the steam of the shower and the activities going on inside the shower. Logan learned where the stash of condoms was in the bathroom for future knowledge since they didn't end up playing a game that needed one. The shower turned out to be an excellent place for Logan and Rory to learn each other's bodies a little better with the lights on.
Under the shower spray, Rory wrapped herself around Logan from behind before whispering to him a naughty little request to see just how he liked to be touched. Logan took it a step further by putting his hand on top of hers to give her a demo of his favorite technique. Logan of course is a man that believes that turn about is fair play so Rory got her fair share of attention as well. She confessed that her proper technique usually involved a vibrator, which was not on hand at the moment. Logan made due with his own expertise to give Rory an even rosier glow than the shower.
"I am never going to be able to sit on that again without blushing," Rory murmured as she came down off her high sliding to the floor.
Logan smirked, "Then I must have done something right."
"Right...and then some..." she panted. "I am seeing spots," she pouted.
"I would think that would be a good thing," he said helping her to her feet.
Rory gave him a look, "I am not nearly as practiced as you are in this area so forgive me for being a bit jelly legged. That's never happened before."
Logan looked at her oddly, "I've done that to you before."
"No...I mean...the twice..." she whispered shyly.
A devilishly wicked grin unfurled on Logan's face before nipping her ear, "Not even with your vibrating friend that you hide under your bed."
"No...I never tried," she squeaked.
"Well, I now have something to shoot for," he uttered before cinching her robe closed.
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Rory screamed when she opened the bathroom door and found her mother standing there.
Lorelai looked past Rory to Logan and said, "Remember how I told you if you were going to 'make up' I didn't want to hear it?"
"Yes...I take it you heard."
"The vents from this bathroom let sound travel to my room," she growled.
Rory stood there put out, "You talked to Logan about us having sex?"
"Of course. You were asleep... now get going. The guys brought you some clothes Logan and you Missy are in hot water with a small Korean girl that did not meet your boyfriend yesterday."
"Shoot!" Rory groaned shutting her eyes.
"Yeah and the guys need to take a leak," Lorelai stated before moving off from the door.
The couple gingerly came out only to be met with angry glares and 'pee-pee' dancing. Rory pulled Logan into her room and said, "Well you got your wish."
"How's that?"
"It's going to be another very weird day."
TBC...
So...It mainly a Rory / Logan chapter, I think that deserves some REVIEWS. Alright I am begging...PLEASE REVIEW. It makes me happy even though everything else sucks right now. So PLEASE REVIEW. Thanks.
