Don't own Gilmore Girls. Safe to say I never will. Now onto the long awaited chapter.

Chapter 6: And So it Ends

"Is it really you?" Logan and Rory asked through the phone both disbelieving.

"No, it's the sandman. I was just calling to inform you that your man will be in the mail soon." Logan laughed at her at Rory's statement. Apparently this situation called for humor.

"I don't really swing that way, sandman. But you sound pretty sexy when can I have you…again?" He joked along with her. Lorelai looked at him perplexed. He mouthed Rory to her and she leaned in closer to him so she could listen in.

"I'm not up for sale. I'm still in love with a dead man."

"Rory?" He laughed again.

"Lee." She corrected. She winced when she realized what had done. She covered her mouth with hand in surprise. Tristan grinned and silently mocked her.

"No, it's Rory." Lorelai interrupted. She reacted much like Rory did by covering her mouth with her hand. Logan shot daggers at her and she winced.

"Mom?" Rory asked, and then she remember what was missing from her life, her daughter. So she choked in her sobs and tried to remain calm. They didn't know about baby L. Or at least that's what she thought.

"Hey sweetie." Lorelai responded. Logan glared at his almost mother in law and handed the cell phone to Lorelai. This conversation would no longer include him. And he was pissed because he deserved to talk to her too. Lorelai had spoken to her just recently.

He walked out of the room and picked his baby up. She started crying so he closed the door to the nursery.

"Are you ready to come home now?" Lorelai asked. She watched as Logan stormed out of the room and naively woke his daughter up.

"Um." She paused. She thought she heard a baby cry. But it stopped just as suddenly as it started. She could no longer prolong the inevitable. She started bawling tears of loss.

"Rory?" Lorelai called her daughters name not really knowing what was making her daughter cry so much.

"Do you want to talk to Logan again? I shouldn't have butted in on this conversation." She acknowledged her daughter wanting to talk to Logan but didn't seem to think about the baby girl in the other room. She knew she was her granddaughter but she never questioned how Logan got it. She was ignorant to the evil nature in Mitchum Huntzberger.

"It's not that." Rory barely coughed out between tears. She was hysterical again and Tristan had run out of the room looking for a doctor to giver her a sedative. When the doctor came in he was carrying a huge needle. Her eyes opened wide in surprise and fear. There was no way that doctor was coming anywhere near her with that needle. She threw the phone at the doctor when he was close enough. She didn't hit him hard but enough for him to drop the needle and the little jar of medicine.

"Hey!" The doctor exclaimed. He bent down and picked up the needle and deposited it in the trash. Tristan hid his amusement. When the doctor left he burst out laughing.

"I can't believe you threw the phone at him, Ror." He laughed.

"Lee." She corrected and laughed along with him. It was highly amusing. The door opened again and Rory grabbed the TV remote and aimed it at the general direction of the door.

"You better not be throwing that at me, young lady." An elderly lady uttered with a clear yet unvoiced threat attached to the statement.

"Regina." Rory stated. Regina was the nonfiction version of Molly. She smiled at the old lady who had helped her so much. She put the remote down and explained that she thought it was a doctor returning with the big needle.

"Yes, well that is explainable. So tell me, how is that baby of yours?" Regina asked and Rory crumbled up again and started crying.

On the other line of the phone, which was still laying where it landed at the foot of Rory's hospital bed and had not hung up, Lorelai had heard everything and was finally slapped in the face with realization. She started to scream into the phone hoping they would hear her so she could Rory that her baby was safe.

Regina heard some noise from the phone on the foot of the bed and picked it up. She brought it closer to her ear to make out some of the rambling which reminded her a lot of Lee when they got more comfortable around each other.

"No need to shout Lady, this is a hospital. Not only is it loud and annoying but it is disrespectable." Regina lectured. Lorelai hated this woman already. She hated that she seemed to be close to her daughter. She hated that she was being lectured. She suddenly realized why her parents hated Mia so much.

"Well listen hear old lady, I don't care. I want to talk to my daughter." Regina almost interrupted the lady but stopped when she heard daughter. She immediately handed the phone to Rory. She knew Rory needed to go back to her family.

"Rory, honey? Talk to mommy." Lorelai coxed to her crying daughter. Logan came out carrying his, who had stopped crying.

"I…uh…" Rory cried. She missed her baby so much. The only reason she had made it this far without falling apart was because she concentrated on her story and was sedated most of the time. It killed her that she knew how much pain her own mother was in when she ran away.

"Rory. Listen to me. Logan and I, well I don't know how or why, but we have your baby. She's right here, I'm looking at her and she is so beautiful." Halfway through her speech she heard Rory stop crying. Lorelai thought she heard a sigh of relief but she couldn't be so sure.

"Is she okay?" The question seemed forced to everyone listening. Tristan looked down, he would have thought Rory would have made an excellent mother. Regina sighed but understood that Rory was new to this and hadn't ever had to ask someone if her daughter was okay. Lorelai thought she heard wrong. Surely the tone in Rory's voice was forced because she wanted to control her emotions. They were all right in their assumptions.

"Yeah, honey, she's okay, she's sleeping right now in her daddy's arms. But she misses her mommy." Logan looked at Lorelai and smiled, he liked being called a daddy. He didn't so much like the institution, but he didn't really have a choice in the matter.

"Oh." Rory relaxed at the thought that he baby was in good hands but she wouldn't be okay until she saw if her baby was okay for herself.

"Rory, come home please. I'll throw a party. Or not. I miss you and Logan misses you, he thought you were dead, you know. Come home and be with your family." Lorelai pleaded. Logan looked on hopeful that Rory would agree to come home. Although if she didn't he would just go there and drag her ass home.

"Um, I don't know." It wasn't a yes, but it wasn't a no either. Lorelai looked hopeful, but she didn't say anything else.

"I sort of have a life here, now." Upon hearing that Regina shook her head and stomped out of the room looking for the doctor with the big needle. Tristan also shook his head but took action. He grabbed the phone out of Rory's hand, she growled at him and yelped a few swear words at him which he ignored.

"Don't listen to her. She's depressed and hurt. It's has to be the drugs." He glared daggers at Rory while he spoke into the phone.

Lorelai was a little taken aback upon hearing a male's voice on the other end of the phone. She was relieved slightly that he was taking her side, pushing Rory back home. She heard some hushed arguing over the phone and then heard the male exclaim "Ow." She smiled for her daughter who had obviously won, or was winning. But then she heard something even worse, her daughter crying out in pain. After twenty years with her daughter she could easily differentiate her cries.

"Rory!" She shouted the way any mother would when her daughter was in pain and couldn't do anything.

"She's fine." The male voice told her a few minutes later.

"She's a little reckless, for some reason she doesn't want to obey the doctors orders to not move too much. I'm surprised she lasted this long."

"Where is she? If she's not coming home, I'm going there" Lorelai wasted no time with this self confident jerk on the other line. She had a hunch that the man wanted to ruin everything.

Tristan complied with Lorelai's questions and told her where they were and which room in the hospital. He explained that she was there for internal bleeding caused by fighting with her daughter's kidnappers, plus the added bonus of internal wounds that were never properly healed. He went into details that Lorelai didn't want to know. She just wanted to hang up and get on the soonest flight to Arkansas.

She looked at her granddaughter and smiled. She hoped that Rory would be glad to see her baby. She hoped Rory would be happy to see her and Logan as well. And she really hoped that Rory would stop calling herself Lee.

"So who wants to go to Arkansas?" Lorelai asked the room when she hung up the phone. Logan silently nodded. He knew that the reunion between the two of them would be downplayed because of the baby and Lorelai. And the truth sucked. He loved Rory and for all he knew she didn't love him back.

"We can use the Huntzberger jet." He offered ten picked up his phone and dialed the number to the airport.

"It'll be ready in an hour." He told Lorelai when he finished making the arrangements.

"Maybe you should just go. I'll stay here with the baby. You go see her." Part of Logan really wanted to take her up on that offer. To have a weekend or more to just the two of them. But he figured that Rory wouldn't be so willing without her baby. He also knew Lorelai should go see her daughter as well.

"No, no. We'll all go." He relented, forgetting his own needs. His needs. Yeah he had moved on in a way. He had had sex with lots of women since Rory's so called death. He feared that since he was able to move on then she probably did too. And it hurt. It hurt to think of Rory being with another man, it killed to think of her falling in love with another man. But then it hurt if she didn't move on because that mean she had loved him more then he loved her. Guilt would swallow him alive. He wasn't worthy of her love.

"Maybe you should just go. You and the baby." He suggested to Lorelai. He scrunched up her face in wonder. Or was it disapproval?

"No, no. I see what your doing. And you are just being a donkey."

"A donkey?" He asked. "What kind of insult is that."

"There is a baby present. And you know what a donkey is, smart a-donkey." He laughed at her absurdity. She reminded him of Rory. He knew he had to go.

"I'll go." He grabbed his coat and started for the door. Lorelai didn't follow him. She stood her ground with the baby in her arms.

"Go, Logan." He opened the door with a nod. "Bring my baby home." She called out to him. The door closed and she hoped she was doing the right thing. She hoped the presence of the other man wouldn't deter him from the task at hand.

"Oh shi-oot!" She cursed when she realized that she was sending a man to do a woman's job.

Logan ran into the Scott County Hospital much like his predecessor Tristan. He ran to the elevator but stopped when he saw the flowers in the gift shop. He stepped into the little store with astronomical prices and bought a bundle of flowers. He ran back out to the elevator and stepped in. He took the time to flatten his hair and catch his breath. He stepped out onto Rory's floor…

Inside Rory's room Tristan and Rory were staring at each other. He smiled at her that cocky I-know-you-want-me grin. She smiled her no-chance-in-hell smile. Tristan let the last few days fly out of his head and pretended like they were still in the halls of Chilton Preparatory Academy bickering about something as stupid as concert tickets. He leaned in and kissed her…

Logan stepped into her room and his heart broke seeing Rory kissing another man. He dropped the flowers on the ground and left without a word. He left without seeing Rory push the man and the kiss away…

Rory saw a shadow near the door and looked up and saw a ghost. But it wasn't a ghost, it was Logan. She pushed the kiss away, partly because of Logan but mostly because she didn't want to be kissed. She called out for Logan but he was gone all that was left was a bouquet of flowers laying on the floor in her doorway…

Tristan got up after his rejection and left the room in search of Logan. He knew that the kiss must have hurt him. He wandered around the floor until he saw a figure slumped up against a corridor wall on the ground. It reminded Tristan of Alexia in Rory's story right when she found out Rupert was dead. He could imagine that seeing the kiss probably killed Logan. He hovered over the lost figure.

"I'm a jerk. A jerk and a jackass, and probably more." Tristan introduced himself. Logan looked up at him and stood up to get eye level with the man trying to steal Rory.

"I'll fight for her, DuGrey." He hissed at the blonde self acclaimed Adonis.

"No need, Huntz, she's still yours." Tristan remarked then walked away. Logan stood there for awhile before heading back to Rory's room.

"So, um, not the welcoming I expected…" He trailed off as he picked up the flowers he looked at her and took a sharp intake of breath. She was still beautiful, after all these months she was just as gorgeous as ever. Her hair was shoulder length and died a mahogany red. Her blue eyes were bluer then ever. She looked like heaven.

"Hi…" She sniffled. He noticed that she was crying and stepped closer to her.

"I hope those aren't for me." He whispered to her while wiping her tears away with his thumbs. She shook her head not really knowing what else to do.

"Logan…" She started. He stopped her by putting his finger to her lips.

"You don't have to explain. I know you were just practicing for me." He quietly laughed. She smiled in response.

"Your baby… Our baby" They smiled together. "Is with your mom in New Haven. I've been sent to take you home." He finished. She looked up at him, he couldn't read her expression.

"I love you." She told him. She looked down not knowing if he could return the sentiment.

"I never stopped." He told her before taking her lips as his. He simply kissed her. They weren't devouring each others faces. They weren't exploring each other's mouth. They were simply kissing. But it was a good, passionate kiss that they would remember forever.

"What's her name?" He asked her after the kiss referring to their daughter.

"Oh. Um I don't know. I've just been calling her baby L." She sheepishly replied.

"You know I really like the name Lee." He told her. She grabbed him by the collar of his leather jacket and pulled him into a hug.

"I was hoping you'd say that." He leaned in to kiss her again when she stopped him.

"I've been waiting so long to name her, I just wanted you to…"

"I know." He deepened the hug.

"So…" He whispered into her ear. "I never got a chance to say this, or ask this. But," He paused. "Will you marry me?" He pulled back from the hug to see her reaction only to see a sad smile.

"I don't want to be a Huntzberger." She looked down at her suddenly very interesting hands.

"Then I'll gladly become Mr. Rory Gilmore." He understood that she wanted nothing to do with his evil family and he had no problem joining hers.

"Really?" She asked him skeptical if he could really turn away from his family.

"For you and Lee, anything." He told her. She responded to him by kissing him.

Epilogue

Two months later they stood outside the Dragonfly Inn saying I do. The minister pronounced them woman and husband. He became a Gilmore. His mother, although she disapproved, allowed him to do so. He turned his back on his inheritance and started a humble little paper in Stars Hollow.

Rory had a hard time adjusting back to her old life. She would still tell people her name was Lee only to be corrected. She finished her book. Actually Logan wrote his half of the book so they wrote it together. He mocked her endlessly on the fictional names she chose. At night in bed he would call her Alexia, she'd glare at him and then refuse to have sex with him. He always called her bluff.

Tristan wasn't around at all. After he left the hospital that day he never looked back. In a way he had gotten his closure. He no longer pined for Rory Gilmore. He got a thank you card in the mail from her and then a wedding invitation. He didn't respond to either but appreciated the gesture. He eventually found a wonderful woman in Stephanie. They were quite serious. Colin was quite furious.

Finn was Finn and still went after the red heads until the night of Rory and Logan's wedding. He glanced across the room and their eyes met and he vowed to straighten up for Lane, who had broken up with Zach a while ago. They made an interesting couple.

Colin was upset after Stephanie chose Tristan over him but rebounded with Paris who had just gotten out of her relationship with Doyle. They bickered as is expected when one dates Paris Geller. They had gotten together about a year after Rory and Logan got married. They were, for the most part casual until Paris found herself pregnant and forced Colin down on one knee. He complied, saying he had wanted to propose for a while which Paris assumed he said to try and save his balls "which are mine" she had told Rory and Lorelai.

Lorelai didn't have any life altering events happen in her life except for Rory coming back into her life. She never mentioned anything about those thirteen months she had spent mourning Rory. She pretended like it never happened. She would make up stories of bringing a pregnant Rory some iced tea. She and Luke were still married and had decided not to have any kids. Lorelai felt that since Rory had a kid it was too late for her. Luke grumbled a bit then went to play with his granddaughter.

Mitchum got off. His plan worked fine. He wasn't a part of his sons life anymore. He backed off. He hung up his bad guy cape and went into early retirement. He willed away his media empire to his son. But surely there were strings. Which ones, nobody knew.

Rory started writing fiction books, saying that it was relaxing and allowed her to spend more time at home with Baby L, as she still called Lee Alexia Gilmore. One day while Logan was at work and she was cleaning the house she decided she wanted to try for another baby.

And that is where the story ends.

So this is it, the end. But that's okay cause i've two other stories I want to work on. Hopefully you'll like them too, they're both R/L. Anyway I just want to say thanks for all of you who have read it, and then special thanks to those who reviewed. I'm really grateful for your kind words.