disclaimer- If I owned Gilmore Girls, Jared Padalecki would be in every episode, and Jess wouldn't exist.

He needed to talk to Rory. The only thing that Logan knew for sure was that he needed to see her. He needed to know how to be a father, he needed to just see her. Because the only other person he ached to see was Lindsay, and he didn't even know if she knew how to be a parent. If he saw Rory, he could ask her about parenting, and make the ache go away, at least for a little while. Besides, she had already broken his heart as much as she possibly could. Anything she said or did to him couldn't hurt more than what she'd already said or done. Anything Lindsay said or did could break his heart all over again. He got in his car and drove to Stars Hollow.

He got there in the early afternoon, and realized that he had no idea where she lived. Or where she worked. Or whether she worked. He walked over to Miss Patty's. She would know. But she would tell the whole town that he'd been looking for Rory. It was a risk he was just going to have to take. He pulled the door open and slipped in, only to see Lindsay looking at something, tears in her eyes.

"Lindsay?" he asked.

"Oh, hi. What are you doing here?"

"I was...looking for Miss Patty."

"Do you live here?"

"No. Do you?"

"I grew up here. I'm just visiting for a couple weeks."

"What are you looking at?" she stepped out of the way, and pointed to a picture from Rory and Dean's wedding. "Oh." his voice caught, and he looked sad, too.

"You don't know why that would be sad! It looks like a happy picture. Nice try, there, but I'm not falling for it."

"Why is it sad for you?"

"Because I was married to him. I loved him. But he cheated on me with her. Your turn." her voice was bitter, and full of hurt.

"I was engaged to Rory, but she ran away with him the night before our wedding."

"Wow. That doesn't sound like her."

"You knew her?"

"Only a little. Mostly only what Dean told me. I guess he loved her all along." he pulled her close to him, letting her cry into his shirt. He didn't even realize he was crying too until he felt her wet hair against his cheek.

"She loved him all along, too. And she's the only person I've ever really loved." but as soon as he whispered it, he realized it wasn't true. He had fallen in love with Lindsay. And she would never hurt him, because she knew what it was like to be hurt. All thoughts of meeting Rory flew from his mind as he leaned down and kissed Lindsay.

He spent the whole afternoon with her, forgetting about his work. They talked, about their lives, about Rory and Dean, about what they wanted, what they liked. They went to a restaurant in Hartford, then went back to her parents house and played board games. He stayed until after nine, joking and being childish. He kissed her goodbye, knowing that he had found the only person in the world who could match Rory in any way. He didn't know that she was thinking that he was the only person that could match Dean in any way. That was the only thing they hadn't discussed.