Lorelai walked into her house, dropped all of the candy from Doose's, and headed upstairs to change into pajamas.
"Rory, I'm home, please don't tell me that Logan talked you out of Casablanca and you brought home Rush Hour 2. If you did, I will disown you and you will never see me again and you will have to live with your grandparents and be paraded around all their snotty parties and be miserable for the rest of your life."
She waited for a response, and when she didn't hear one, she called, "Rory, you home?"
Still no answer. Lorelai grabbed her cell phone and checked her messages. There were none from Rory, so she tried calling her. Lorelai knew something was wrong because she took longer in Doose's than it should have taken to get the movie and back to the house, even if Rory and Logan made a few stops along the way, so she called Luke to find out if they had gone back to the diner after she left.
Rory and Logan left Luke's holding hands, and set off towards the video store.
"So, are any interesting anecdotes about the guy that runs the video store that I should know about?"
"No, but there was this one time that I found some kids looking at a dirty video cover, and I mentioned something about putting kids movies in a certain area and not kids movies in another to Kirk, so the next day, I came back, and there was a "Rory Curtain" separating all the inappropriate movies from the good ones, and there were only two left outside of it."
"Ha. What were they?"
"I think they were Bambi and Dumbo, but I'm completely sure."
"Oh, figures it would be Disney."
They continued their walk, got the movie, and as they were leaving the video store, they almost ran into Dean, who looked drunk.
"Dean. Hi. This is Logan. Logan, this is Dean."
"Nice to meet you." Logan said, again, offering his hand to shake. Dean didn't look at him.
"Rory. What are you doing here with him?" Dean said with his bloodshot eyes flashing between their faces and their hands that were intertwined.
"He's my boyfriend. Have you been drinking?" She stammered.
"You're with one of them? I can't believe you. We just broke up."
"It's been more than 5 months, Dean." Rory said, trying to stay polite.
"So? We still meant a lot to each other. You are such a slut."
"Hey!" Logan cut in. "You can't talk to her like that."
"Oh, like you know anything about this." Dean hissed at Logan.
"Actually, I do. Rory told me all about how you cheated on your wife to be with her, after lying to her about your relationship with your wife, and then left her when she followed through with a family obligation, but she didn't have to tell me about that last part, because I was there to watch you break her heart."
"And I suppose you were there to pick up the pieces, right?"
"In a way. I tried to make her feel better when she was really upset if that's what you mean."
"Ok. Guys, stop it. Let's go, Logan. Bye, Dean." Rory interrupted.
"No, Rory, I don't think I'm ready to stop yet. How could you possibly be with someone like him? He is what you your mother ran away from, and you are just gonna throw away all of the things she has fought for? And what about me? I have loved you for 4 years. Doesn't that mean anything to you?"
"Ok. You know nothing about Logan or my relationship with him. And you obviously didn't love me that much, since were married to another girl less than a year after we broke up."
"You know that I didn't really love Lindsay. I always thought of you. I don't know why we broke up last time."
"Ummmm, how about because you couldn't trust me? And we both know that it never would have worked out. We were living in two completely different worlds, and they didn't work together."
"More like you weren't willing to make them work together. You just wanted to sleep with me and ruin my life with Lindsay."
"You have no right to accuse her of anything like that. She is the best person I know. She would never do anything to hurt anybody." Logan interrupted.
"Stay out of this." Dean said Logan. "You're just another pawn in her evil scheme."
"No. We both really care about each other, and he doesn't fly into a jealous rage when I'm with my friends who happen to be guys like you did."
"Maybe that's because you are such a whore that I didn't know what you were doing with your so-called 'friends'."
"Okay, that's it. We don't have to stand here and have our relationship attacked by some loser who can't decide what the hell he wants with his life."
Logan tried to push past Dean so they could get through the doorway. Dean didn't like this, so he punched Logan and tried to push him to the ground.
"Dean! Get off him!" Rory cried, but neither was willing to stop.
Luke, who was coming to look for Rory before going to the Gilmore house, came around a corner, and saw them fighting, so he came running to pull them apart. Luke got hold of Dean and pulled him back, while Rory tried to do the same with Logan.
"Dean! What the hell was that?" Luke yelled.
"None of your business. Let go of me." Dean answered.
"Are you gonna leave them alone?" Luke asked.
"I guess." Dean said, so Luke turned him around and pushed him away from Rory and Logan, who had a busted lip and a black eye. By then, Rory was crying and trying to look at Logan's injuries.
"Oh, god. Are you ok?" Luke said, then saw the blood. "Guess not. So… you wanna tell me what that was about, Logan?"
"We were leaving the store, and we ran into Dean, who started calling Rory a slut and accused her of ruining his life, and he wouldn't let us through the door, so I kinda pushed my way through, and then he started to hit me."
"I never liked him. Let's get you back to the diner and cleaned up. Rory, call your mom, explain what happened, and tell her that we'll be there as soon as we can."
"Ok."
Lorelai's cell phone started ringing just as she was leaving to go look for Rory. She checked the caller ID and saw that it was Rory.
"Rory, where are you? You should have been here 20 minutes ago. What happened?"
"Mom…" Rory said, still crying a little bit.
"Oh my god, are you crying? What happened? Where are you?"
"We ran into Dean, he attacked Logan, then Luke pulled them apart, and we're on our way to the diner to clean Logan up."
"Omigosh. Is he ok?"
"He has a busted lip and a black eye, but I think he's mostly ok."
"Ok, honey, I'll be over there in a few minutes."
"Mom, you don't have to-"
"No, I'll be there in a few minutes. I don't think Logan will really feel like walking over here, so I'm bringing the Jeep."
"Ok, Mom, thanks."
They hung up and Luke let them into the diner, then went upstairs to get his first aid kit. Rory went to get a paper towel to stop the bleeding.
"God, Logan, I am so sorry. I can't believe he did that. Actually, I can. He was always the jealous type."
"It's ok, Ace. I would probably do the same thing if I lost you to a guy like me. And I didn't like the way he was talking to you."
"Logan…"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you." She whispered.
"Your welcome, Ace." Logan said as Luke came down the stairs and tossed a cloth to Rory.
"Ok. Rory, get that wet for me. Logan, do you think its still bleeding?"
"Ummmm, not as much as before, but its still bleeding a little."
"Ok. Here." Luke said as he handed him the wet cloth. Lorelai came running into the diner.
"Ok, would anyone like to explain to me exactly what happened?"
"I already told you. Dean was jealous of Logan and me, so he attacked him when we tried to leave him at the video store."
"But why?"
"He accused her of being a slut and ruining his life, so we tried to leave and he hit me." Logan said.
"Ok. So, do you still feel like watching the movie tonight, or should we hold it off for next time you guys come?" Lorelai asked.
"Ummmm, how 'bout we finish watching Willy Wonka then call it a night?"
"Ok, where did you leave it off?"
"After Veruca Salt left." Rory answered.
"Oh, I love that part, we have to watch that again!" Lorelai squealed. "But why would you decide to stop it there?"
"We decided to come here."
"Oh, so you love your mommy more than our fair Willy?"
"Of course."
"Good answer."
"Done." Luke said, after he finished cleaning Logan's cut.
"Ok. Let's go." Rory said.
"Why don't you two go on ahead? I wanna talk to Luke for a minute."
"Ok."
As Rory and Logan left the diner and walked across the street to the jeep, Rory said,
"Are you sure you're ok?"
"It hurts a little, but I think it won't if you kiss it."
"It won't hurt you?
"If it does, it will be a pain I would be happy to endure."
"Well…" She said as she moved in to kiss him gently.
"So, is it better?"
"Yep." He replied.
"Ok. Let's get you back to my house."
