Chapter Six:
A.N. I suck I know. My updating skills lack..now they go beyond lacking they just straight up suck. But If you haven't read this author's note in my other stories, I've started an updating rotation so hopefully updates will be fairly regular for this story.
"Sir, if there is anything I can do..." Logan begins.
"You, listen to me." Luke's voice is low and threatening and Logan is nervous and it shows. "I love Rory, I've watched her grow up and I swear to God if you hurt her I'll pull your spleen out through your nose with a coat hanger."
"Sir," Logan's voice is shaky, "I assure you I have no intention of hurting Rory."
"I don't care what your intentionsare," Luke states, "I'm talking about the end result here. You've already causes her mother pain and for that alone I should..."
"Mr. Danes," Logan realizes that interrupting Luke mid-threaten might only bring about more violence but he takes the chance away. "I've only ever loved one girl before, that's Rory, I have no intention of harming here and if I do I may very well pull my own spleen out through my nose."
Luke seems satisfied with this and then he states, "well, you better make things right with Lorelai, introduce yourself, because this keeping you're a relationship from her hurt her more then just about anything else Rory could have done."
"Yes, sir," Logan nods shortly.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Rory stares fearfully at her mother, afraid that something had happened to the baby. "Is everything...I mean is the baby..." she's not sure what to say, what if the life of the baby, or her mother, is hanging in the balance? She can't force negative thoughts on it by asking if something was wrong. But Lorelai remains in a stony silence and Rory can feel her panic rising. "Mom, say something," Rory begs.
"It sucks being left out of the loop, doesn't it?" Lorelai asks.
"Mom..." Rory blushes, immediately knowing what her mother was getting at, she'd been stupid to think she could get away with her mother not finding out on her own.
"Don't Mom me, Rory, I had to find out from Jess. Jess of all people."
"Jess?" Rory is shocked about this, she hadn't even thought he would pass along the news when she'd run into him in New York.
"Yeah, he came to Stars Hollow when he found out Luke and I were engaged, he's been staying with Luke." Lorelai informs, her fight draining out of her.
"Oh," Rory swallows hard, out of all of the ways she'd thought of telling her mom this was the one she hadn't wanted. The one where Lorelai found out first and Rory had to try and explain her reasons for not telling her mother, but the question comes up immediately.
"Who is he?" Lorelai asks, "why didn't you tell me about him? And why the hell would you tell Jess before me?"
"He's," Rory sighs and drops into a chair by her mother's bedside, "his name's Logan Huntzberger." She swallows and here was the part she'd always been afraid of telling her mother, "he's the son of a friend of Grandma and Grandpa's."
"What?" Lorelai's face flushes red, "you let them set you up? Theyknow about him and I don't? I'm just left in the dark about all of this but you told my parents first?"
"Grandma and Grandpa don't know," Rory assures quickly, "I promise. Or if they do I didn't tell them."
"Of course they know," Lorelai responds, "you're dating the son of one of their friends, they've known about it probably from the start." Lorelai sighs and then asks, "okay, so why didn't you tell me about Logan in the first place?"
"Because I was mad that you were going to react like this."
"Like what?" Lorelai asks, "mad that you didn't tell me in the first place? Cause, sorry kid, but that theory doesn't make much sense."
"No," Rory shakes her head, "freak out about who his parents are, who their friends with. Logan isn't his parents but I didn't think that you would be able to understand that, because of Grandma and Grandpa."
"Kid..." Lorelai sighs, she doesn't know what to say because every part of her knows that Rory is probably right. "Just...don't keep me in the dark anymore."
"I'm sorry," Rory moves out of the chair to sit on the bed next to Lorelai."
"I know, and I'm sorry that I've made you feel like you had to lie to me just because he has a connection to your grandparents."
Rory hugs Lorelai, "how 'bout we just don't talk about it, it was stupid on both of our parents. Tell me why you're here."
Luke sticks his head in the door in time to hear Rory gasp and say, "no!"
"Everybody okay in here?" Luke asks.
"Yeah," Lorelai nods, "we're fine. If you don't count the many, many, french fries I won't be able to consume in the next seven months."
"Good," Luke nods, completely ignoring the comment about the fries, "there's someone here to meet you."
"Oh!" Rory scrambles off of the bed, "I forgot."
"He's here?" Lorelai asks sitting up straighter in bed.
"Yeah, hang on," Rory ducks out of the room and reappears a second later with Logan's hand clasped in hers. "Mom, this is Logan, Logan this is my mom, Lorelai."
"It's good to finally be able to meet you Lorelai," Logan shakes Lorelai's hand.
Lorelai nods, "sorry it had to be under these conditions."
"Lorelai should get some rest," Luke suggests.
"But I don't wanna," Lorelai pouts.
"Knock, knock," a nurse sticks her head through the open door, "everyone has to clear out, doctors orders."
"You're in cahoots with him, aren't you?" Lorelai jerks her thumb in Luke's direction.
"Nope," the nurse shakes her head, "with the doctor."
"You get some rest, Lorelai," Luke gently kisses her forehead.
"Mean," Lorelai continues to pout.
"I'll pick you up first thing in the morning and you can have breakfast at the diner."
"Less mean," Lorelai amends, "but the only way you can full redeem yourself is if Logan and Rory eat with us too."
"We'll be there," Logan assures, "all Rory does is talking about the diner, I can't wait to check it out."
"I'll see you tomorrow," Rory kisses Lorelai's cheek.
"Yeah, yeah," Lorelai sighs, "leave me all alone."
"You'll be fine, get some rest," Like reaches into his pocket and produces a pocket sized baby name book. "Andrew had about thirty suggestions when I bought this, I figured you had to get a head start on thinking up some names, since you resorted to naming your first born after yourself. And since you can't do that with this one I thought you could use some help."
"I could," Lorelai states, "we could call her Lai or Lai Lai or something."
"No," Rory and Luke shake their heads quickly.
Lorelai smirks, "fine, I'll look at the book, although I am interested in what names Andrew had in mind."
Luke rolls his eyes, "get some rest and I'm sure he'll be in the diner in the morning."
"You do realize," Rory states as they walk out of the hallway, "that I was almost named Susanna Hoffs Gilmore right? If she hadn't decided at the last moment named me after herself?"
"I guessed something along those lines, but she's your mom and that's what I love about her. I'll see you guys tomorrow?" Luke asks as he gestures to the location of his truck.
"Yeah, we'll be there," Rory nods.
"So that was your mother," Logan comments, "explains a lot."
Rory looks up at Logan, "what's that supposed to mean?"
He wraps an arm around her waist, his hand gently resting on her hip, "nothing," Logan laughs. "You're just your mother's daughter, a little crazy is all."
"Ha ha," Rory grins, "if you think we're crazy wait until you meet the other residents of Stars Hollow."
"I'm excited to see the town you grew up in Ace."
"Tomorrow," Rory informs, "keep repeating that to yourself, because when they find out that my mom is getting out of the hospital and I'm bringing home a boyfriend, well everyone is going to be there."
"Got it," Logan nods.
"Rory's got a boyfriend?" Babette questions Miss Patty in the diner the next morning.
"Apparently," Miss Patty nods, "I don't know much beyond that, except he's coming here for breakfast with Rory, Lorelai and Luke."
"Rory's never brought a boyfriend home before," Babette states, "he must be pretty serious."
"That's because all of her other boyfriends have lived here," Gypsy responds with a sigh and a roll of her eyes.
"Here they come," Babette announces causing most of the residents of Stars Hollow to rush to the window of Luke's Diner.
The diner is still chattering about the positive and negative aspects of Logan's appearance when Logan and Rory walk in, but the instant the door shuts behind them the diner falls silent. "I feel like I'm an exhibit at the zoo," Logan whispers to Rory.
Rory gently pats him on the arm and then leads him to a table at the diner ans signals for everyone else to take their seats. But before they sit Rory gives Logan's hand a squeeze, "everyone this is Logan, Logan this is, well, most of Stars Hollow."
"Ace, I thought you were kidding!"
Rory grins, "nope."
"Are they going to stare at the two of us the entire time?" Logan asks as he and Rory take their seats.
"Well, if it helps when my mom and Luke get here they'll be staring at the four of us, instead of the two of us."
"Very comforting, Ace."
"I'm ba-ack," Lorelai announces as she pushes the door of the diner open, causing the talking to start again as she attempts to field the questions regarding her health and the health of her baby.
"Alright, alright!" Like raises his voice, "enough! We're going to eat, and if you aren't here to eat then leave, if you are here to eat then sit down and shut up."
"He knows how to shut them up," Logan comments as the diner falls silent again, soon to be replaced with chattering at the individual tables.
"Hi Mom," Rory stands up to hug both Lorelai and Luke.
"Hi hon," Lorelai returns the greeting, "I'm starving and Luke promised me chocolate chip pancakes if I eat a bowl of fruit first."
Rory grins at Luke, "you got her to agree to that?"
Luke nods, "I have my ways of persuasion."
"Ooh dirty," Lorelai responds.
Rory crinkles her nose, "to much information, Mom."
Luke glances at Logan who is watching the exchange between the two, "welcome to the crazy world of dating a Gilmore girl."
"Thanks," Logan responds as Rory and Lorelai begin dueling with spoons, "I think."