Rory walked into her dorm and found Paris on the couch with a huge book on her lap, yelling at the TV.
"Hey, Rory. Where have you been?" Paris said without looking up.
"Getting my ex-boyfriend to beat up my current boyfriend."
"What? What happened? How bad is it?"
"We ran into Dean, who was drunk, by the way, and he started ranting about how I ruined his life and how Logan is too good for me, then he hit Logan and gave him a black eye and busted lip."
"Oh my God. I thought you were done with getting guys to fight over you."
"Well, I'm not."
"Is Logan mad at you?"
"He says he isn't, but I think he should be."
"But if he says he isn't, then he isn't. He's crazy about you."
"But I want him to be mad at me. He's supposed to be mad at me."
"Why do you want him to be mad at me?"
"Because I might not feel so guilty if he blamed me for a little bit of it."
"So it's purely selfish."
"Exactly."
"Ok. Anything else?"
"Nope, that's about it."
"Ok."
Rory went to her room and try to get some newspaper work done, but she was still too upset to get anything done, so she closed her book, grabbed her keys and cell phone, and drove off towards Stars Hollow.
When Logan got back to his dorm, he found Colin and Finn playing a video game.
"Bloody hell, what happened to you, mate?" Finn said when he saw Logan.
"Dean."
"You're gonna hafta elaborate more than that."
"Rory's crazy ex-boyfriend saw us together and got jealous, and accused her of a bunch of crap, then tried to fight when we tried to leave."
"Ouch. What else happened?" Colin asked.
"Rory's mother's boyfriend broke us up, then we went to their house and we watched a movie and we went to bed, got up, had breakfast, and came back."
"Are you still together?"
"Yeah."
"Oh." Finn said, disappointed.
"What?"
"Nothing. You must really care about her if you committed to her, then get beaten up by her ex the next day and stay with her."
"Well, I do."
"Noted."
"I got work to do. See you guys later."
"Bye, mate."
Rory pulled up in front of Dean's parent's house and marched up to the door and knocked on it loudly and persistently. His sister, Clara, answered the door and looked surprised to see Rory.
"Rory. What are you doing here? I thought you and Dean broke up."
"We did, but I need to talk to him."
"He's not here."
"Where is he?"
"I'm not sure." Clara answered, obviously lying.
"Clara, I know you're lying. Tell me where he is."
"In his room."
"Ok."
Rory walked to Dean's room, trying extremely hard not to storm in there and kill him. When she got there, she knocked once, and then let herself in.
"What the hell did you think you were doing last night? Where do you-" She yelled at him.
"Rory." He tried to interrupt.
"No. You be quiet. How cold you possibly do something like that to Logan? To me? And don't even try to blame it on being drunk because that isn't an excuse." She waited for an answer, but it didn't come, so she said
"Well…"
"Well what?"
"Are you gonna answer me?"
"I wasn't sure if I was allowed to." He said, trying to distract her.
"Don't try to joke yourself out of this one. You screwed up. Big time."
"I know. But I couldn't stand to see you with him. I still love you, Rory."
"Too bad. I'm with Logan now, and just because you don't like it doesn't mean that you can try to beat him up to scare him away from me."
"I know. But don't you still care about me a little bit?"
"I did, but after last night, you're lucky I didn't send Luke to kill you."
"I know. But-" Rory cut him off
"Will you stop with the freaking 'I know, but's? There is no way to justify what you did. I just came by to tell you that I never want to see you again and if I do, you'd better hope that I'm in a good mood. And you better not mess with Logan anymore."
"Rory."
"Stop it." I'm done. Good bye, Dean. Forever."
Rory left as quickly as she came; leaving a stunned Dean in his room and a terrified Clara in the hallway wondering what happened.
Later that afternoon, Logan was in his room trying to work, but he kept thinking. He never did that before he met Rory. Now he could never stop thinking. Especially about a certain Gilmore girl with the nicknames Ace and Rory. He decided that he needed to see her again if he was going to get anything done, so he walked over to her dorm. When he got there, Paris answered.
"She's not here. She left about an hour ago with a very determined look on her face."
"Do you know where she went or when she'll get back? Logan asked.
"Nope."
"Can I wait here for her?"
"If you must." Paris said as she opened the door for him to come in.
"Thanks."
"So I see you met Dean."
"Yep."
"He's so charming, isn't he?"
"Yep."
"You know, he didn't use to be like that. He used to be so in love with her. Four years ago, at our winter formal, he almost got in a fight with this guy, Tristan, who had a thing for her. And I'm pretty sure that he fought with Jess after Rory dumped him for Jess."
"So he has always been violent?"
"Kind of. I'm pretty sure that he thought he was defending Rory those times, though."
"So he thought I looked like I would hurt her?"
"Guess so. Now let me get my work done. You know where her room is."
"Ok. Thanks again, Paris."
"It's fine."
Logan went back into Rory's room to wait for her, and saw that she had been trying to work, too. He had to laugh at that. It made him wonder where she had gone, since he came to her when he couldn't work. Then he remembered that she was Rory, and she probably went to get punish Dean, like she had punished him. Only this time, it wouldn't be a joke.
Rory got back about 20 minutes later, and Paris told her that Logan was waiting for her, so she came rushing in and ran into his arms.
"I think I'm finally getting over this thing."
"It took you long enough." Logan said with a smirk, thinking that, even though he had been put through a lot with her, he had never cared about any girl as much as he cared about Rory. And he loved it.
