Part 2 'The Return'
A long black limo pulled up in the dead of night outside of Lorelai's house. A tall smartly dressed driver stepped out and opened the back door. Out stepped Logan, tall and handsome, his blonde hair shining in the light. He looked older and maturer but his face had not aged a bit. The driver closed the door behind him and returned to the car. Logan stood tall wearing a navy blue suit with a blue shirt and navy blue tie underneath. His hair looked the same as it always had and he was carrying a large present. It was square and wrapped in pink glittery paper with a fluffy ribbon tied tightly around it. Logan moved away from the car and approached the house.
(I wonder if she has been back. Its been 3 months, well 3 months and 4 days to be exact since I was last here. She might have been, just to see how they were all doing. But then again why would she, if she did come back Lorelai would probably never let her leave again. Oh god what if she's in there right now. No, don't think like that, and get your hopes up, there's no chance, maybe there was last year or the year before but its been to long, she's too far away now, its just up to my lawyers to find her. I just wish I could talk to her about everything, the way we left things, well more like the way she left things, just to leave like that, what did I do, was everything too much for her? I just don't understand why she couldn't talk to me, what happened, I haven't seen her for 4 years, 4 long years, 4 years I spent waiting for something that never came.) Logan knocked on the door and stood confidently on the porch and waited.
Lorelai got up from the sofa where she was sitting next to a flat out sleeping Luke. They were watching 'Showgirls', well Lorelai was, and Luke had been a sleep for most of the movie after a long day at the diner. She stumbled sleepily to the door not really stopping to think who it could be, just Taylor or Babette not really anything important. When she opened the door a look of great surprise came across her face and then a look of great joy, she reached out to hug Logan and he happily hugged her back
"Did we, erm did we know you were coming" Lorelai asked clearly still in shock
"Well, I'm sorry I forgot to ring, I thought it would be a nice surprise" Logan said calmly
"Well, yes what a nice surprise" Lorelai turned her head and shouted into the main room" Luke wake up, there's someone at the door"
Luke quickly stood up and hobbled to the door "I'm up" Luke reached the door and peered around it "Logan, wow, did we know you were coming" Luke looked as surprised as Lorelai as he glanced Logan up and down
"No, sorry, a bit of a surprise visit, with some very good news" Logan smiled, that smile, the one that always got Rory and made her melt.
"Good, come in we were just watching a movie" Lorelai smiled and led Logan to the main room
"Showgirls again" Logan smiled widely at the thought of Rory and him watching that movie together, it seemed so close being here in this house
"Really how do you do that" Luke looked surprised that Logan could just reel off what movie they had been watching without even looking at the TV screen
"I guess its just a gift" Logan shrugged the question off loosely, he tried his hardest not to think about Rory anymore.
"So what's the news" Lorelai broke the short but uncomfortable silence. Luke sat in the armchair and Logan perched on the end of the sofa next to Lorelai.
"Well, this may come as a shock to you but, I'm getting married" Logan said proudly
"Wow, that's great, so who's the lucky girl" Lorelai looked genuinely pleased even though there was a thought behind the smile of Rory In her mind, and how she didn't get to see Rory's wedding day.
"Congratulations man" Luke stretched out his hand and shook Logan's.
"Thanks man. Her names Sara and she lives in New York, well we live together and we're getting married in 6 months, I brought you an invite." Logan smiled as he spoke of Sara and passed Lorelai the invitation.
"Wow, this is great, so is this all you came for?" Lorelai smiled but she had a thought that maybe there was more to this surprise.
"Well, not really" Logan continued starting to look nervous.
Luke sat back in his chair getting the feeling that something he loved so much was about to be taken away from him, right before his eyes.
"Ok, so what else did you some for?" Lorelai asked the question. She knew that what she had feared the most for sometime now was about to happen.
Luke began to squirm in his seat, wishing there were something he could do to stop Logan from doing what he was about to, but he couldn't. After all, it was Logan's legal right and no one; not even Luke and Lorelai could take that away from him. Wait, except from one person, and Luke realised that if Logan said what he thought he was going to say, then Luke had to find and get to this person before Logan and his lawyers.
"Ok, now I realise this may make you very upset, but I told you to begin with, this day 4 years ago that this day would come" Logan stepped straight into it and said what he needed to
Lorelai's eyes began to fill up with tears but she turned strong suddenly and managed to hole them back.
"I erm, I came tonight, to tell you that, I would, sometime I don't know when, well I do really, well not exactly but I know that it will be soon. That I'm going to come, soon, and get Skye" Logan couldn't help mumbling, he was so nervous to tell Lorelai and Luke. He knew that this would break their hearts. After all, Skye was the one thing holding Lorelai together after Rory had left and no, when Skye was gone, Lorelai could fall apart at any time.
There it was plain as can be, what Lorelai and Luke had spent so many long years preparing for, but they never realised that it would be this heartbreaking.
They're all staring at something up in the skyI don't see it and I wonder why
Maybe its just because I'm colour blind