"The Perfect Merger"

The next day, promptly at one o'clock Rory and Logan arrive at the Gilmore mansion and are escorted into Richard's study by a maid. Once they walk thru that door, their lives will NEVER be the same.

"Grandma, Grandpa, we're here!" exclaimed Rory as she walked into her Grandfather's crowded study followed by a nervous Logan

"Hello Rory, always a pleasure to see you" said Richard, giving his Granddaughter a kiss on the cheek

"Logan, how good to see you, how are you young man?"

"I'm fine Sir, thank you, just a tad nervous about why you called us over here"

"No need to be nervous son, it's only the seven of us coming together to have some tea, coffee and brandy, just a get together of some good, old friends" explained Mitchum Hutzberger as he rose to greet his only son.

"And this lovely young lady must be Rory, you're even more beautiful than your Grandparents had told me my dear, I'm Mitchum Huntzberger and this is my wife Shira, it's a pleasure to finally meet you"

A flushed and embarrassed Rory shook both Mitchum and Shira's hands, trembling inside, she was actually standing in the same room with the great Mitchum Huntberger, and she could hardly believe it.

"It's an honor to meet you too Mr. and Mrs. Huntzberger" said Rory politely

"Please Mitchum and Shira, Mr. and Mrs. Huntzberger makes us feel old"

"And I'm Lorelai, I'd be your mother" exclaimed Lorelai as she got up and came up to her daughter

"Mom, I didn't even know you were here, I didn't see you, what are you doing here?" stammered a confused and now quite nervous Rory

"Well, honey I had my clocking devise activated again" stated Lorelai who was starring directly at Logan

"And you must be Logan, I'm Lorelai Gilmore, daughter of Pickle Puss and Sauerkraut over there and mother of the lovely Rory, and I'm sorry, but I've heard absolutely nothing about you"

"It's nice to meet you Ms. Gilmore" stammered Logan shacking Lorelai's hand

"Lorelai, please, I insist"

"Well, it's a pleasure Lorelai, I certainly see where Rory gets her beauty from. But if we're finished with the formalities people, I'd certainly like to know, Dad, why the hell you dragged us all over here. I have things to do, places to go, people to see, and I'm not in the mood for any of your games" shouted Logan who had obviously returned to his cool, confident, cocky self.

"Yes son, I know that you are extremely busy drinking, and partying with your friends, destroying things and costing me money" Mitchum shot back at his son

"Ok everyone, we are here for a reason, Richard, tell the kids why we asked them to join us all here" said Emily, wanting to calm the situation and be the peace maker.

"Ya Dad, I'm dying to know myself, why the sudden and urgent need to bring us all over here at one o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon?" asked Lorelai

"Well, the truth is, business isn't going so well lately, we're in some financial and possibly legal trouble"

"You going to have to have a yard sale or stand in line for government cheese anytime soon Dad?"

"This is no joking matter Lorelai, we could be in real trouble, but Mitchum thankfully thinks that he may be able to help; we have discussed it, and concocked a plan of defense".

"Alright, but I don't see what this has to do with us Richard" interrupted Logan pointing to himself and Rory.

"You just wanted to let everyone in both families that my Dad's going to be helping you out, your friend, that's what friends do, good for you."

"No, Logan, you and Rory fit into our plan of defense" stated Mitchum

"We do" said Rory and Logan in unison "How?" "Why?"

"What are you getting at Dad, spit it out, what do you want from them, because I get a very bad feeling about this" protested a concerned Lorelai

"We need to form an alliance of the two families, a union, the perfect merger of the two families; Gilmore and Huntzberger, and the best way to merge the two families is through a wedding, a Gilmore-Huntzberger marriage."

"What!" asked Logan, Rory and Lorelai

Lorelai pipped up, "and who would this merger as you call it, this marriage be between, whom are you marrying off Dad?"

Everyone in the room stopped and looked over at an unsuspecting Rory and Logan standing idly by in the corner.

"What?" "No, no, no, no, you are not marrying my daughter off for some business deal Dad, I won't have it"

"Lorelai, it's the only way to save the company, do you want your father to loose everything that he's worked for, do you want us to loose our home, everything we have, our livelihood, is that what you want Lorelai, for us to have nothing left, for the Gilmore name, everything we stand for, our entire lives to be destroyed, is that what you want Lorelai?" screamed a now hysterical Emily

"Of Course Not, but I won't let you sell your Granddaughter, my daughter, I won't let you sell Rory off to the highest bidder Mom. I can't believe that you would make her prostitute herself to save Dad's career Mom!" screamed back a now equally hysterical Lorelai

"I'm not even sure that you have any kind of business problem" said Lorelai now standing, facing the Huntzbergers, her parents and Logan and Rory "I think you just want to find Rory and Logan good spouses from fine families"

"Mom, STOP!" screamed a now tired and irritated Rory

"I just want the insanity to stop, ok, it's giving me a headache"

"Look, Grandma, Grandpa, I don't understand how or why our getting married would help Grandpa get out of this trouble that he's in"

As usual Rory had managed to calm everyone in the room down, now they were all sitting down listening to Richard and Mitchum explain the need for the merger.

"It wouldn't be forever" said Richard trying to convince, reassure and calm down his daughter, granddaughter and Logan.

"A year, two at the most, maybe not even, six months maybe, and than we would have the marriage annulled, it would be as if the two of you were never married"

" Rory, nothing would change, you would both still go to Yale, live in your respective dorms, you wouldn't have to change your last name, the two of you would be married only on paper, it wouldn't be a real marriage, you would both however, need to sign a prenuptial agreement" stated Mitchum

"For legal reasons only, part of the process, just a precaution, just to be safe" piped in Richard hoping and believing that they had sold the kids and hopefully even Lorelai in on the deal.

Minutes later Logan and Rory had actually agreed to this deal, to this alliance, this perfect merger, or whatever you want to call it. Rory did it to help her Grandparents and Logan agreed because he felt that he had no other choice.

That day Rory and Logan had both signed prenuptial agreements, just to be safe, and in a month or two, these two would become Mr. and Mrs.