A/N: It's been a nice journey, but due to lack of response and a passion to start back on track of the Logan/Rory Gilmore Girl goodness, I've decided this is the final chapter, to be short and sweet. Things will end how they end, and if you really enjoy it, please tell me so I can start a spin-off or tell my friend that you are intrigued by her life… Although I exaggerated a lot in this. Anyway, thanks for reading! Goodbye people!

A Happy Medium

It's funny, we never realize how in love we are with a person until their gone and it's too late. We never know how much they meant to us until we're with someone else and have to compare them to the standards we set so high as our first true love or the greatest relationship. The thing is, we never really meet those standards, and it's so hard to actually match them. That one true love was great for a reason, it was meant for you to hurt and be happy, it was meant to mean something and when its over, you screwed it up to go that way. You are the reason it's over, and although it's the blunt truth that hurts, it's just that- the truth.

We have to understand that our fucking up happened and needs to be put in the past. We need to remove our standards, but we can't settle. That's just ridiculous to settle because you'll never find anyone that perfect, or that smart, or that wonderful. Truth be told, you won't, but you can try your hardest to get someone close, to make all the effort to get there, and you will. You can get there, you just have to try. And a little bit of work never hurt anyone. If you only ever remember one thing, remember this: it is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all. Ain't that the truth!

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Eiren was downright nervous. He was walking briskly down the street, hoping, against all hopes that Rory would be home; that she wouldn't have classes and that she'd just accept him. He was hoping that she'd drop her life for him, kiss him passionately and admit her unrequited love for him. But then again, he wasn't so sure she would, and he'd always been big in the dream department!

He just so happened to reach her door now, the dark black paint sucked him in like an endless vortex and he had almost forgotten why he'd come. That is until someone opened the door and ran right smack into the poor fellow. He was knocked back slightly, but the stranger, who now appeared to be not such a stranger, was beaming happily. Rory on the other hand was absolutely hysterical laughing at him, or maybe it was the not so strange guy in front of him. She heard his voice as he leaned against the wall.

"Ben who the hell did you hit?" she asked giggling after hearing a large smacking noise erupt from the hall.

"Oh, let me see. I know you, why can't I remember your name?" Ben asked, looking desperate to remember the guy's damn name.

Rory had now realized that it was Eiren who was up against the wall, grasping at his head to dull the sharp pain from being hit. "Hey Eiren," she greeted cheerfully, but frowned when she realized his pain. "Oh my, are you alright?" she seemed concerned now, as she reached out to touch his hand.

"Yeah I'm fine," he said, holding in the tears he wanted to release but couldn't at the risk of seeming more unmanly than usual.

"Okay, so what are you doing here?" Ben asked trying to join the conversation again.

"Oh…umm…" he tried to formulate some kind of response. He'd been hoping she'd be alone and he could just confess his love for her, but now just didn't seem right, not with Ben there. But then there was the dying urge to tell her, how long was he going to wait, he couldn't wait any longer. For all he knew she was involved with someone.

Funny that he might have known that!

"What is it?" Rory asked, confused at why he was speechless.

"You know Ror, I got to get to my class, so tonight then?" Ben asked, not wanting to waste any time with this weirdo here.

"Hey, you can't go to class after making me miss mine!" she squealed with a giggle.

"Yeah but I did. And I have to go, seriously." He said, pleading with her.

"No seriously, you made me miss my class and now you are going to yours?"

"Yeah, babe, like I told you, my professor doesn't like it when we skip," Ben added, grabbing her for a goodbye smooch. But she wasn't taking, she was utterly pissed off.

"And my classes don't matter?"

"Come on, we both know who would be the provider in the family," Ben said again going for the kiss.

"In all the time I've known you I never realized you were such a chauvinistic pig! We're through you goddamn asshole!" she shouted and went back to her apartment slamming the door.

"She'll get over it, she does this to me like once a week," Ben added before preparing to saunter down the hall.

"You make her do that every week, you are an asshole!" Eiren shouted down the hall and rapped quickly on her door.

"Go away," she shouted and he could hear the sobs on the other end.

"Rory, it's me Eiren,"

"Oh," he heard the familiar clicking of locks and entered into her apartment happy to see she wasn't in a flood of tears.

"Rory baby, you know he's not worth it," Eiren cooed in her ear, wrapping her in a warm hug.

"I know, but he just told me he loved me and it was just to sleep with me basically. I'm so foolish!"

"No your not, he's an asshole and doesn't deserve you!" he claimed as he held her cheek to his own.

"You're sweet for saying so," she whispered as he held her. Long moments passed before she spoke again. "Shouldn't you be with your fiancée?"

"No,"

"Eiren…" she said in that 'you-know-you-should-be' tone.

"We broke up," he admitted and bowed his head in shame.

"Oh my gosh, why?"

"Well I didn't love her, and she was cheating on me, and she wasn't pregnant anymore," he whispered the last part and looked into Rory's shocked face.

"Not pregnant?"

"That's the only reason we were getting married, but she didn't want me and I didn't really want her. We were willing to sacrifice happiness, at least I was, for the baby," he said is hands now in his own lap. "Plus there was someone else I wanted to be with,"

"We are quite the pair. You with your non-pregnant fiancée and ending it and me with my boy toy using me for sex," she laughed and he stared at her solemn faced.

"I love you Rory," he admitted.

"I know you do," she replied staring back at him.

"What?"

"I could tell. I just wanted to ignore it because you ignored it by marrying the biggest Barbie doll I know," she laughed again and fell back onto the couch they were sitting on.

"I don't want to ignore it anymore,"

"Neither do I Eiren, neither do I…"

The End!