Author: Lady Eliza
Characters: All Characters
Rating: T
Summary: Total AU Rory and Logan Spoiler Warning
Disclaimer: I do not own Gilmore Girls or any of its characters.
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Chapter 23: A Family Affair
Emily, Shira, and Francine arrived at the Gilmore house to receive news that Rory and Logan were awaiting them in the parlour. The three women were ecstatic to the unannounced visit of the power couple. But when they got to the parlour, Rory and Logan looked at them with angry faces.
Logan was the first to speak, "Do you know what Rory and I have been doing for the past three hours. We have been trying to explain to our former friends that she is not in fact pregnant with our first child. Then when we were forced to go to the church by a gun totting Finn; we were forced to beg the priest to call Richard or my father. Finn had me at gunpoint and demanded that Rory and I stand at the alter hands joined, on standby for the priest to marry us. Thank god Father Michaels got a hold of Richard or else we would have been married at a shotgun wedding and I mean that in the literal sense of the word."
The three women were stunned into silence after Logan's rant. Then one by one they started to laugh and by the end of it they had tears running down their faces. Emily was leaning on Francine who was leaning on Shira who was holding the back of a Chippendale table. They made an odd picture, but looks were the furthest thing from the three women's minds.
"Really, if the three of you were going to plan our wedding you could have informed us. Or when you found out I wasn't really pregnant you could have called it off. I can't believe you humiliated us by having Finn point a shotgun at Logan to get us to the church," admonished Rory.
"We're sorry Rory darling, after we found out you weren't really pregnant we were going to call the whole thing off. But we got sidetracked. I don't know why your friends don't watch the news, they repeated it on CNN far too many times for my tastes," said Francine.
"We're sorry dears, we had an important matter to take care of that needed our undivided attention," said Emily.
"I don't see why you gave Finn a shotgun. He's clumsy and accident prone without a deadly weapon in his hand why give everyone a heart attack? I thought it would accidentally go off during his rendition of bawdy wedding songs on the way to the church," said Logan.
"I don't know why Finnegan had a weapon in his possession. But it wouldn't surprise me if Portia wanted to keep you in line by arming her son. I'm sorry the two of you had to go through that," chastised Shira.
"So what was this urgent matter that needed your undivided attention? Why was it more important than your son and granddaughter?" asked Rory.
The three society matrons looked at each other and nodded their heads then Francine said, "Well it started with a call from the private investigator I hired…"
Christopher was on his way to the Gilmore mansion to drop Gigi off with her sister and Logan. Chris had asked the couple to watch little Gigi two weeks ago so he could go out of town on a business trip because the nanny was on vacation. He was really supposed to drop Gigi off at Yale but Rory had left a message on his cell phone telling him that she and Logan could be found at the Gilmore home.
Chris didn't like imposing on Rory, he would have asked his mother to watch Gigi but Rory had insisted she be the one to watch her sister when he was away on business. He liked that he and his daughter were building a relationship of some sorts and that Rory and his mother had a solid foundation.
He, Christopher, was quite embarrassed to say that when he had seen the tabloid picture of Rory leaving the doctor's office he freaked out and called Lorelai. He was a step away from driving down to New Haven and punching someone, preferably Logan for putting his daughter in that situation. But Lorelai had set him straight and now he felt stupid for having reacted that way.
"Dada," said Gigi.
Chris smiled at his youngest child and told her that they would be seeing Rory and Logan soon. He knew that she might not understand him that well, but he still liked to talk to her. She was so cute with her collection of stuffed animals, thanks to Logan, and her favourite blanket. If Christopher regretted anything in his life it would be that he hadn't seen Rory grow up like he was watching Gigi develop.
He tried to think about the good things like Logan's attachment to both his daughters. He knew that Logan loved Rory but he seemed to have a special place in his heart for Gigi as well. Chris had a feeling that the reason that Logan was affectionate towards Gigi was due to the fact that she resembled Rory and Logan both. With her blond hair and blue eyes Gigi was a mixture of the couple and, Christopher had to admit, what Logan and Rory's children will look like. That scared him most of all.
He parked his car in front of the Gilmore home and got Gigi out of her car seat and headed towards the main door. Before he could knock the door was opened to him by a stoic looking maid. It freaked him out that the maid had opened the door at the precise moment that he had put his hand up to knock. "Mrs. Gilmore and her guests are in the main parlour," said the maid and turned and marched, yes marched, to the kitchen area.
He let Gigi down and held her hand. When he walked into the parlour he noticed three things: his mother, Shira, and Emily on one side of the room, Rory and Logan looking grim faced on the opposite side, and a shotgun on the priceless Louis XIIII table in the centre of the room. He picked Gigi up when he noticed the shotgun. "Hello everyone, why is there a gun on the table?"
Everyone turned there heads toward the new occupants of the room and smiled. "Christopher, how are you, darling boy?" asked Francine.
"Christopher, how nice to see," said Shira politely.
"You look well Christopher, and would you look at Gigi she's gotten so big since the last time I saw her," said Emily.
"Hello mother, Shira, Emily. Now would someone like to explain why there is a gun in the middle of the Gilmore parlour," asked Chris.
"Dad it's a long story, which I will tell you later. Now, How was your trip? Grandma get rid of the weapon," said Rory.
Emily promptly picked up Portia's shotgun and returned it to the case in Richard's study.
Everyone exchanged pleasantries and the usual greetings when Gigi started fussing to get down. When Chris put her down she went obediently to her grandmother and kissed her then repeated the routine with her sister. After Gigi got her obligatory kisses out of the way she ran to Logan and jumped on his lap and gave him a big smacking kiss on the cheek. "Loogie," said Gigi.
Everyone in the room smiled at Gigi's name for Logan since she still couldn't pronounce his name properly. Actually she still couldn't say any name properly so she had many pet names for them instead.
Christopher was quickly filled in on all the things he had missed during his time away from Hartford. He was furious about Susan Lister and her deviousness he was glad his mother had been around to give Rory a hand. He burst out laughing at Finn's antics to get Logan to the church for the 'shotgun wedding.'
While Chris was ranting about Susan Lister the three women's gazes were locked on the scene that was taking place in front of them. Logan had Gigi in his lap and was talking to Rory while the little girl was trying to get their attention. She finally succeeded by pulling on Logan's shirt and he gave her his undivided attention. Gigi started babbling to Logan in baby language and Rory joined in on the fun. They made the perfect picture of a happy family.
Shira had tears in her eyes. Her little boy was all grown up. This picture was of things to come with his relationship with Rory. She couldn't wait to be a grandmother.
Emily was trying not to let her lips quiver. She could see Rory and Logan and a little baby with his blond hair and her blue eyes. She couldn't wait for the wedding in Cape Cod or Martha's Vineyard. She'd been waiting 36 yrs to have a society wedding and now she would finally have one, not her daughters but her granddaughters.
Francine wiped the tear that fell from her eyes. She found it touching that both her granddaughters were enthralled with the same man, but for different reasons of course. She could now picture Logan and Rory with her great-grandchild.
The minute Rory looked up she knew exactly what was running through the women's minds. She turned to Logan and said, "I bet you anything that my grandmothers' and you mother are all picturing our wedding and our children."
Logan chuckled, "I have no doubt that seeing us with Gigi might make them yearn for grandchildren and great-grandchildren."
"Well, if yearning was all they did I would be fine with it. But those three are plotting, I can smell it a mile away."
"You sound paranoid there, Ace," said Logan.
Before she could answer the women started monopolizing the conversation. "Francine, get the camera. I want a picture of Logan, Rory and Gigi before they leave. You never know with the rate with which Logan is taking to propose I might be dead before I can see my great-grandchild. I just want this picture to pretend that they are a family," said Emily. Now, that wasn't subtle was it?
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Logan and Rory arrived in Stars Hollow with Gigi and went to Luke's. When they arrived Jess was just placing an order with Cesar. He looked up to see who had entered the establishment and noticed whom it was. He was startled to see that they each held the hand of a little girl that was in between them. Jess looked at the toe head and noticed that she looked like Logan with all that blond hair. He was walking over to their table when the little girl happened to look up and he stopped dead in his tracks.
Jess hadn't seen her eyes when she'd come into the diner, but now he had and unobtrusive view of her. She was the mini version of both Rory and Logan; if she hadn't been a few years older he would have assumed she was their child. To a stranger who didn't know how old Logan and Rory were or how long they had been going out, they would have assumed that this was a family outing.
Jess told himself to calm down and went to take their order. "What can I get you," asked Jess gruffly.
Rory cringed; she had hoped that Jess had had today off, but apparently not. She looked at Logan and he nodded at her. "I will have a hamburger, fries, side order of bacon and side order of barbeque sauce. Logan will have a cheeseburger, onion rings, side order of salad and side order of mayo," said Rory. Then she looked at Gigi and asked, "Gigi, what would you like to eat today?"
Gigi who had been too busy with a mini teddy bear Logan had given her on the car ride to Stars Hollow looked up when her sister called her name. Rory had opened the menu and all Gigi had to do was point. She perused the menu before she made her choice. Ultimately it came down to a tuna sandwich and a plate of cheesy fries. The cheesy fries won out of course.
Logan smiled, "The young lady will have a plate of your finest cheesy fries. Isn't that right Gigi?"
Gigi giggled, "Loogie swilly."
Jess watched the interaction with Logan and the child and wanted to throw something. It was so unfair for Logan to have Rory and now it was being thrown in his face. He didn't like that Rory softened every time Logan did something nice for the toe head. "Whose the kid?" he asked without thinking.
"Jess I'd like you to meet my sister Georgia Hayden, Gigi this is Jess Mariano," said Rory.
Gigi turned her doe eyes on Jess and smiled at him. Jess knew that if Gigi were anything like her sister she would have men eating out of the palm of her hand. He melted when she smiled at him and called him 'Ress.' He said hello to her and got out of there before they could see how painful it was for him to watch them.
While Rory, Logan, and Gigi were eating their meals there were several people that entered the diner. They came up to Rory and Logan's table and pulled up chairs to sit down.
"We're sorry we didn't believe you," said a bashful Stephanie.
"Yeah, I feel dumb," said Colin.
"You should. How many times did we tell you that I wasn't pregnant and there was no need for a wedding," said Rory. They heard plates being dropped and then the sound of footsteps on the stairs that led to Luke's apartment.
"We really are sorry for what we did," said an apprehensive Seth.
"I actually feel remorse about what happened. Can you believe it?" said Robert.
"Wow Rob, you actually feel something," said a sarcastic Logan.
"Mate there is no need for sarcasm. We feel bad for what we did, especially me with the gun totting. All I say in my defence is I had your best interest at heart," said Finn.
"NINNY," yelled Gigi.
Finn's eye's widened and he looked at the little girl who had gotten off her chair and climbed into Finn's lap. If Gigi was attached to Logan, she was in love with Finn. She once refused to go to sleep until Finn agreed to tell her one of his over-the-top stories.
"Oh my god, Rory you didn't tell me Gigi was in town," said Finn. Then he proceeded to hug her and give her a peck on the cheek. He had a little soft spot for the little girl.
"Sorry Finn, I haven't felt like talking to you," said Rory.
"No need to get testy. Gigi, why is you sister so uptight? Maybe she needs to get la-"
"Finish that sentence in front of Gigi and die, Finnegan," said Logan.
Finn smirked, "Guys did you hear that. Who hear says Logan needs to get laid as well?" He asked the group in general.
"I do," said an amused Stephanie.
"I think it'll do him some good," said Colin.
"I would have to agree with the rest of you on this," said Seth tongue in cheek.
"I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I think Logan needs to get laid," said an embarrassed Robert.
Rory was bright red and Logan wanted to swear but knew he couldn't in front of Gigi.
Finn was about to say something when Gigi interrupted him, "Butiful," she said this while caressing Finn's face.
"Awe, Finn has a little girlfriend," said Robert.
"So what if I do?" joked Finn.
"Gigi you should have better taste in men," Rory said playfully.
Finn sniffed, "She has great taste in men, if I do say so myself. Come on Gigi I'll take you to a bar and buy you a Shirley Temple," said Finn.
Everyone at the table chuckled as they pictured Finn with a little Gigi at a bar.
"Rory Logan, we want to make it up the two of you. We have decided that the two of you need some time alone. So for the next two days you will go to the Huntzberger Home in Martha's Vineyard. No need to worry about Gigi because I will watch her," said Finn.
"You want to take care of Gigi?" asked Rory.
"Yes," said Finn.
"And will she be in one piece when we return?" asked a sceptical Logan.
"I resent the fact that you don't trust me to take care of Gigi. I took care of my pet chipmunk in the fifth grade and he was only lost for fifteen days," said Finn.
"You lost your pet chipmunk for fifteen days?" asked Rory cautiously.
"Yeah, poor Chippy I think I scarred him emotionally for the rest of his life. But that was just psychologically not physical," said Finn as if that made a difference.
"I don't know if that's a good idea Finn. Would you be able to handle Gigi?" asked Logan.
"Of course I will. She will be great to attract chicks. Did you know kids are a great chick magnet?" asked Finn.
Stephanie stepped in before Rory and Logan cancel, "Don't worry we'll be there to look after both Finn and Gigi when you are away."
"Well I don't know," said Rory.
"Come on Ace, this is a break we need to take. Besides Finn won't be watching Gigi the others will. Right guys?" asked Logan.
"Right," said everyone but Finn.
"Don't worry Gigi you and I will have our fun," said Finn. He winked at Gigi and she laughed at him the got comfortable in his lap.
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