A/N: How much I love my readers? Let me count the ways... hahaha. No seriously, you guys rock! You're awesome! Thank you for all the great reviews! I'm glad you're enjoying the Rory/Finn moments, I love writing them, hehe. Anyway, here are my personal thank yous!
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Chapter 14: And the plot thickens
Finn's one and only goal was to make the annoying ringing sound that had waken him from his peaceful dream stop. He stumbled out of bed thinking why that damn cell phone had to be all the way over on the desk. He managed to get there though and answered it with a still half asleep voice.
"Lo?"
"Who is this?"
"Who is this?"
"This is Emily Gilmore."
'Oh, shit! I answered Rory's phone!' he thought now wide awake. "Hello, Mrs. Gilmore, this is Finn, Rory's friend, Finn Morgan."
Emily remembered him. "Oh, hello, Finn, how are you?"
"I'm fine, thank you. How about you?"
"Just fine. Is Rory busy?"
"Well actually she's sleeping right now."
"She's sleeping?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"And you answered her phone?"
"Well, it was ringing."
"This is not funny, young man, what are you doing at my granddaughter's dorm room while she's sleeping?"
'Oh, Rory's so going to kill me when she finds out about this,' he thought. "Well, I, uh, was helping her with a paper she had to write for today and, uh, it was late so, uh, we both just fell asleep," he lied.
"A paper?"
"Yes, ma'am."
Finn was already freaked out for talking to Emily on the phone and when the alarm clock went off he thought he was just ready to die. Rory groaned on the bed and made the alarm stop and then turned to the other side, expecting to find Finn there, but the bed was empty. She sat up on the bed and saw him, his eyes wide open in terror, he was on the phone, her phone.
"Who is it?" she mouthed while stretching herself.
"It's for you."
"Finn!" she exclaimed as he almost tossed her the phone. "Hello?"
"Rory, it's your grandmother."
Rory froze. Finn had been talking to her grandmother, he had answered her phone, oh this was not good.
"Interesting talk I had with your friend Finn."
"Oh?"
"Yes, he said he helped you with a paper for today."
"Oh, yes, that's right, we just fell asleep afterwards," Rory lied.
"I'm sure you did."
Rory chose not to register the little ironic tone of this last comment.
"But how are things, grandma?"
"They're fine, thank you. I just called to make sure you're coming to our Thanksgiving Dinner next Thursday."
"It's Thanksgiving already?" Rory thought out loud.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing, it was just a thought. Sure grandma, of course I'm coming to Dinner."
"I wanted to make sure you're coming because I invited some other friends including the Huntzbergers and I'm not sure if you and Logan are on speaking terms after that fight you had last month."
"Everything's fine grandma," she said. She wasn't angry at Logan anymore, not after what he had done. He had given her up, he had brought her and Finn together, she knew how hard that probably was for him.
"Oh, I'm very pleased to hear that! Does that mean you'll be getting back together?"
"That's not what I meant, no. Logan and I are not getting back together, we're just friends now."
"Oh" she answered in dismay.
"Be glad we're in speaking terms grandma, Logan was not the best of persons for a while."
"I'm sure he was just jealous, I mean, this friend of yours, Finn, he seems to be with you a lot, right?"
Rory didn't know what to answer to that. She looked at Finn, he was sitting on the bed with still a panicked look on his face. Emily Gilmore will do that to you.
"Well, grandma, the thing is that,"
Emily didn't let her finish, "is he coming with you to Dinner?"
"Who?"
"Finn."
"Oh, I don't know, I haven't asked."
"Could you ask him now? He's still there, isn't he?"
"Yes, he is."
"So, ask him! I have to know how many people will be coming so I know the amount of food needed."
Rory was surprised at her grandmother's request, but she did it anyway.
"Are you doing something for Thanksgiving?" she asked Finn taking the phone away from her ear.
"What?"
"My grandmother wants to know if you'll be coming with me to Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday."
"Do I want to go?"
"Logan will be there."
"Then I want to go," he answered not really trusting letting his girlfriend alone with her ex-boyfriend in a house where every single person adored him. Rory smiled, she knew bringing up Logan would make Finn accept the 'invitation', she didn't want to be there alone with Logan, she wouldn't know how to act.
"Grandma?" she asked putting the phone back to her ear.
"Yes?"
"He's coming."
"Wonderful! I'll see you two on Thursday!"
"Yeah, see you."
She shrugged her shoulders while walking up to Finn. "I'm sorry," she said really meaning it.
"That's ok, love, it'll probably be very, um, interesting, don't you think?"
"Oh, yeah, I'm really looking forward to it," she joked.
He pulled her towards him making her sit on his lap. "I'm sure we'll get through it unharmed."
"Well, maybe a few scratches, you can never leave the Gilmore Residence unharmed."
"At least no broken bones."
"No, just a few scratches."
"I can handle a few scratches. And if they're too deep, you'll take care of me, won't you?" he asked with puppy dog eyes. She ran her fingers through his hair, "of course" she said placing a light kiss on his lips. "I'm gonna go take a shower now, I've gotta an early class today."
"I'll go get us some breakfast then."
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Logan opened the door to his dorm with difficulties. His coat in one arm and his eyes half closed weren't really any help. It turned out Heather's plans to make him get over Rory also included a large amount of alcoholic beverages.
"Finn?" he called when he finally managed to walk into his dorm. He got no answer, so he went to his friend's bedroom but found his bed untouched, he hadn't slept there either and that thought was like a sting, like a knife inside his heart. He could think of only one place Finn could be this morning. He decided not to think about it anymore since the more he thought, the more it hurt, so he decided to just go take a shower and go get some coffee and cure his hangover.
He was walking like a zombie around campus, in the direction of his favorite coffee stand, he didn't even notice that the person who was standing right in front of him was Finn.
"Logan?" Finn said when he turned around after ordering.
"Finn!"
"You look tired, how was your night? Did you go see that Heather girl again?"
"I'd rather not talk about that if you don't mind. I see you've got two cups of coffee there and I know you're not a fan of this drink."
"One's for Rory, she's in her dorm getting ready for class, the little braniac," he said joking.
"So you slept there? Again."
"Yeah, she had something to do for the newspaper, I just thought I'd hang around I wasn't going to stay the whole night, but I fell asleep on her bed and she didn't want to wake me."
"Oh."
"I better go, she's probably waiting for this, I'll see you later, mate."
"Yeah, see you later." Logan thought if things would ever go back to the way they were, because right now he could not talk to Finn without thinking about Rory and all the things he was going to miss, that he was already missing. He used to be the guy to get her coffee in the morning. He used to be the guy who would fall asleep in her bed while she studied or worked on some project for class or the newspaper. He'd give anything to be that guy again. When this thought hit him he grabbed his cell phone.
"I'm thinking about her," he said after the girl on the other end picked up.
"I'm feeling like an AA sponsor right now," she answered giggling.
"You're the one who asked me to call you whenever she made a special appearance in my thoughts."
"I should be glad you were listening to me then."
"Do you have any meaning hiding behind that remark, dear?"
"No, I'm just glad you called. I was getting ready for class but I could skip it if you need me."
"I do."
"Come on over," she said and hung up.
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"Oh, I never told you," Finn started as he walked Rory to her class that morning, "remember that day after the party" - he said the party with air quotes - "when I went back to my dorm to get the money for the pizza? I talked to Logan that night."
"Oh?"
"He said he was drunk so he didn't remember the party at Colin's, the only thing he remembered was waking up next to some blonde girl named Heather."
Rory's stomach turned but she thought it was better to just ignore it. "He did?" was her only response.
"You'll never guess what happened."
"What?"
"This girl, Heather, offered him sex, no strings attached!"
Now Rory stopped on her track. "What!" she asked amazed.
"What?"
"Did he take it?"
"Well, that day he said he was still thinking about it but I think he's seeing her now, but I'm not sure, he's not really talking about it. Why?"
"I cannot believe it! Why would he do this? This is not Logan!"
"Uh, yes, it is, Rory. He's always been like this, getting free sex from girls he hardly knows. He changed for you, but this is the real Logan."
"No, he's not like this, I know him!"
"Why do you care what he is like now!" Finn asked a little jealous.
"I don't!"
"Oh, I see that!" he said ironically.
"What are you implying, Finn?"
"I'm not implying anything, I'm saying that you're giving this more importance than necessary!"
"Logan's my friend and I don't want him to make a stupid mistake like this."
"Whatever."
"Whatever? He's your friend too! Don't you care?"
"Honestly? No, I don't! It's his life, he can do whatever he wants with it. Neither of us has anything to do with it."
"I can't believe you."
"And I can't believe you! Why are reacting like this? Is it because Logan's sleeping with a girl he doesn't know anything about or is it because Logan's sleeping with somebody else?"
"I'm not even going to bother answering this question, Finn."
"Fine then, you'll leave it open for my own interpretation."
"Suit yourself, I'm going to class."
"Fine!"
"Fine!" Rory almost ran to her classroom leaving Finn standing there thinking about this conversation and her overreaction. He knew why Rory had reacted like this and so did she: she was jealous. What neither of them could figure out was the reason why. Rory didn't have any doubts about her feelings for Finn, she knew she wanted to be with him, but she couldn't help but be bothered by the fact that Logan might be moving on with his life. She never expected him to be hung up on her for the rest of his life, nether did she want that, but she never thought that he would move on acting like this, having meaningless sex with random girls. Finn on the other hand was happy his friend had found a way to get over Rory, what was bothering him was his girlfriend's reaction. He was sure she liked him, she wanted to be with him, but maybe she still had some hidden feelings for Logan inside her heart, some unresolved issue because of how the way things ended with them. Finn was not pleased with this reflection. They had been dating for exactly one month and three days and their first fight was about her ex-boyfriend and his best friend. Not the way he was expecting things to start out. He went through his day, going to his classes, trying not to think about it or it would just upset him more and more.
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"Rory, it's for you!" Paris yelled as she opened the door and saw Finn standing there.
"Who is it?" Rory yelled back from her room.
"Do I look like a butler? Just come and see!" Paris yelled back and went to her room where Doyle was waiting. As soon as Rory opened her door she saw him standing outside, both hands behind his back, with a very sad look on his face. She didn't walk up to him.
"Come in," was all she said.
Finn came in closed the door behind him with his feet, both his hands still behind his back.
"What are you hiding there?" Rory asked curious.
"My peace offering," he said showing her a cup of coffee.
She smiled, glad he knew her so well.
"Not fair," she said taking the drink from his offering hand.
"I thought it was the only way to get you to talk to me."
"Our fight wasn't that bad!"
"It was our first fight."
"So maybe we should celebrate!" Rory joked.
"Our first fight was about Logan," Finn said serious.
Rory looked at him, she hadn't realized.
"I'm sorry," they both said in unison after a moment of complete silence.
"Ladies first," Finn said pointing at her.
"Fine, I'm sorry I overreacted when you told me about Logan, I didn't mean to."
"Then why did you?"
"Do you really want to get into that now?"
"I just don't want you to think that you have to keep things from me, things concerning Logan."
Rory hesitated. "I think I was jealous..."
Finn looked hurt. "You were?"
"But not because he was sleeping with somebody else."
"Why then?"
"I don't know, because he seems to be moving on I guess."
"You don't think that's a good thing?"
"No, I do, it's just happening too fast."
"What? You want Logan to love you forever?"
"Of course not!"
"What then? I'm really trying to understand," Finn said raising his voice.
"Don't yell at me!"
"I'm not yelling at you, Rory, I'm just trying to understand."
"I don't know, Finn, I don't know why I was jealous, I just was! It doesn't change what I feel for you!"
"I'm sorry, but I think it does! How can you like me when you're still hung up on Logan?"
"I'm not still hung up on Logan."
Finn didn't answer right away, he ran both his hands through hair and then his face and then looked at her.
"Why do we do this?"
"What?"
"Less than 12 hours and we're already fighting again. And fighting about Logan."
"I know..."
"I think he'll always be an issue between us, won't he?"
"No, Finn, I don't think he will. I know we have a history but that's past, he's not in my life like that anymore, you are. We'll fight again, we'll fight about him again, but believe me when I say that none of it will change the way I feel about you."
"Really? And how's that?" he asked walking up to her and putting his hands around her waist.
"Well, I like you very, very much," she answered.
"Do you?"
"Yes."
"I like you very, very much too," he answered and kissed her. He groaned when she pulled away.
"I think you were going to apologize too?"
"Oh, yeah, that. I'm sorry."
"And for what?"
"For getting mad at you getting jealous of Logan, I should have understood."
"No, you shouldn't. I had no right."
"Yes, you did, he was you boyfriend."
"Was being the operative word. Past tense, Finn. I don't want to think about the past anymore, only about the present. And the present is you."
"Glad to hear it," he said kissing her again. This time she didn't pull away.
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The rest of the week went by much like this last Monday, minus the fighting between Rory and Finn. Clever as he was Finn kept Logan's outings to see Heather to himself, not wanting to see Rory's reaction if she found out that Logan was going over to the girl's dorm pretty much every night. It didn't bother him so much, except for the fact that he knew Logan was doing that just to try to get over Rory. Somehow Finn knew that was not the best way to do it
Heather's proposal was to help Logan get over Rory and he took it, thinking that she could help him. But he was wrong. Nothing the girl did could take his mind off of Rory. It was Wednesday night and he found himself once again in Heather's bed.
"I'm seeing her tomorrow night."
Heather groaned. "I have tried everything to try to make you not mention this girl every single night, but seriously, what else can I do? Tell me, please, I just can't take your whining about this girl you love, who doesn't love you anymore, and is sleeping with your best friend, blah, blah, blah!"
"You offered to help me!"
"I offered you sex! You want a therapist look on the Yellow Pages!" Heather said putting her clothes back on.
"What are you doing?"
"Getting dressed."
"Why?"
"We're done for the night, dear."
"Oh, come on!"
"Come on yourself! I really am not in the mood for whiners tonight. Just leave."
"Are you seriously kicking me out?"
"Looks like it."
Logan put his clothes back on. "Thanks for nothing!" he said and then left, slamming the door behind him. 'Stupid bitch!' he thought and decided to go to the pub before packing his bag to go to Hartford for Thanksgiving. There he found Colin and Stephanie already half drunk.
"What you drinking?"
"A lot of things," Colin answered.
"I'll just grab myself a beer then," Logan said rolling his eyes and heading for the bar. Minutes later he was back with two bottles of Guinness.
"Aw, thanks, man," Colin said reaching for one of the bottles.
"Get your hands off my beer," Logan said slapping Colin's hand.
"Someone's in a bad mood tonight," Stephanie commented.
"He needs to get laid," Colin responded making Stephanie giggle.
Logan just gave them a disapproving look, making the both of them put their hands up in surrender.
"What are you doing for Thanksgiving?" Colin asked after Logan finished with his first bottle.
"Hartford."
"Oh?"
"Party at the Gilmores' house."
"Oh?" Colin asked interested.
"And you're going?" Stephanie asked.
"Can't get out of it."
"Is Rory going?" Colin asked.
"Yes."
"Is Finn going?"
"He said he was."
"Are you taking anyone with you?"
"No."
"What are you going to do there, Logan?"
"Eat turkey?"
"Funny. Beer having its effect already?"
"No, sometimes I'll turn to humor when I'm nervous."
Colin rolled his eyes to Stephanie.
"When are you going to let it go?" she asked.
"I didn't know we could program these things."
"Humor," Colin said looking at Stephanie.
"We'll drop it," she said.
"Thank you. Can we just go back to the drinking?"
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Rory was probably the only one who saw him leave the living room and go into the patio. All the other guests were too much engrossed in their own conversations with each other to notice him just standing in the corner alone, drinking a glass of wine after the other. He hadn't looked at her all night, he didn't want to watch her with Finn, so he didn't see her observing him when Finn went to talk to her grandfather about interest rates and other uninteresting things. She thought that was the perfect time to go talk to him, and it was even more perfect when he walked out, nobody would see them outside. She took her coat from the coat room and grabbed one for him too, the night was cold and there was a chance of snow.
"Here," she said handing him his coat after closing the door carefully so not to raise any attention.
"Thanks," he said taking the coat and putting it on.
"What are you doing here? It's freezing!" She said hugging herself.
"Go back inside."
"I thought you might like some company, you've been alone all night long."
"I'm fine, thank you."
"Logan..."
"Just go back inside, Ace."
She chuckled, "it's been a while since you've called me Ace. I kind of missed it."
"Maybe you could get Finn to call you that," he answered a little resentful.
"Come on, Logan, work with me here."
He sighed. "I'm sorry."
She stood next to him, stared at the sky and breathed in deep. "I wish I had my mom's power to smell snow."
"Your mother smells snow?"
"Yep, she could tell you right now if we're going to have snow tonight or not."
"I hope we do. Everything feels so much better when it's snowing."
"You sounded like my mom there."
He smiled.
"It's a nice night though," Rory said after a silent minute.
"Yes, it is."
"Why did you come here alone, Logan?"
"What?"
"Well, you're just standing in the corner drinking. If you knew you weren't going to talk to anyone here, you could have brought some company."
"You mean a date?"
"I mean a friend."
"Why not a date?"
"You could have brought a date if you wanted. I just meant someone to talk to."
"Right. How do you know I'm just standing on the corner drinking?"
"I saw you."
"You did?"
"Yeah."
"Where's Finn?" he asked after a moment.
"He's inside talking to grandpa."
"Go back inside, Rory."
"You called me Rory. This is what, the fourth time you call me Rory?" she said smiling.
"Just go back inside."
"Why? You're not enjoying my conversation? I could change topics, what do you want to talk about?"
"Ace, please."
"What's wrong, Logan?"
"I've had too much wine."
"What has that to do with anything?"
"I'm not thinking straight. Just go back inside, please."
"Logan?"
He turned to her, she was looking at him with a questioning look on her face. He traced her face with his fingers, she didn't stop him but maintained her expression. He sighed. "I'm begging you," he whispered, "I don't want to do this."
"You don't want to do what?" Rory asked clueless. Logan's face was so near hers she could smell the wine from his breath.
He still had his hand on her face and he looked at her sweetly, making her remember her moments with him. When he licked his lips she figured out what he didn't want to do.
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A/N: Ok, yeah, I am stopping now. Who thinks Rory's going to kiss Logan raise their hands! Haha Don't forget nothing has happened yet! Maybe there's still hope for Rory and her messed up head! Just kidding! For those of you still wondering this is definitely PDLD! YAY! I can't help it, I love Finn, hehe. Now, I give you guys two options: one, I end this by the next chapter, fixing everything so we can have that beautiful happy ending I promised, everybody's friends again and the couple's walking into the sunset, that kind of thing... Lol Now, option number two: I don't finish this on chapter 15, but go till 20, which doesn't mean I won't fix things by the next chapter! Maybe we can see Rory and Finn together minus the drama, and maybe I'll come up with something for Logan to do, besides getting in the way of Rory and Finn! Anyway, it's up to you! Oh, yeah, please review! Byee!