"Closing the Deal"

One month later, Rory was standing in front of a mirror in her Grandmother's bedroom dressed in her wedding gown and veil. She couldn't believe it; today she would become a Huntzberger, Lorelai Huntzberger, Lorelai Leigh Huntzberger, Rory Huntzberger, Mrs. Logan Huntzberger, she stood there thinking about all the different combinations for her name. She wouldn't actually be taking Huntzberger for a last name, because they weren't really getting married. Married, this whole thing was nothing like Rory had ever thought that her wedding would be. Years ago Rory had said that she wanted to wear her Grandmother's dress when she got married, but that would just have to wait until her real wedding. Instead she had Lorelai make her a dress; a long, silk, plain white gown which clung tightly to Rory's limber physique. She paired the simple dress with the same jewels and tiara that she had donned the night of the "Yale, male party" as her mother had called it. Rory had also thought that when she got married she would do it at either the Independence Inn or her mother's inn. The Independence Inn, Rory's first home, the place she had taken her first steps and said her first words and first dreamt of her wedding day, had unfortunately been destroyed by fire a few years back. As for the Dragonfly, that too would have to wait until her real wedding. Instead she and Logan were tying the knot in her Grandparents living room and being married by a very well known judge, a friend of both the Gilmores and the Huntzbergers. Everything was turning out wrong for her and for Logan. Rory was certain that this was not the wedding day that her mother had envisioned for her, nor the one Richard and Emily had counted on. And this could not compare to the High society wedding that Mitchum and Olivia had dreamt of for their precious only child. All of society would surely not be attending this wedding, if you could even call it that. In attendance, along with Luke, Lorelai, Christopher, Richard and Emily and Mitchum and Olivia were Finn and Colin serving as Logan's best men and Lane and Paris serving as Rory's maid and matron of honor and the rest of the Life and Death Brigade and mostly all of Stars Hollow. Rory had even chosen to walk down the aisle alone; having Lorelai and Christopher give her away would also have to wait until she was really getting married. The truth is that Rory was going into this alone, along with Logan, they had made the decision to enter into this deal and no one could know how it felt, to be auctioned off to a biker gang from Sausalito, as Lorelai would say.

Suddenly there was a knock at the bedroom door which suspended Rory from her thoughts.

"Yes, who is it?"

"It's me Ace, can I come in?"

"Ya, sure come on in Logan"

"Wow, you look beautiful, thank God I'm not getting me an ugly wife" said Logan

"Thank you, you don't look so bad yourself" replied Rory

"So, you ready to be married to me?" he asked

"Well, I could do a lot worse you know?"

"Why thanks Ace, I appreciate it, and I could definitely do a hell of a lot worse. But hey, at least we're already friends, and are going into this arrangement as friends"

"Well, I better get out of here, and leave you to finish getting ready, because you know I only deserve the best, so I want you to be looking gorgeous for me"

Rory simply rolled her eyes and smiled

" So,I'll see you out there in a bit?" Logan asked

"You most certainly will, I'll be the one in the veil"

"I look forward to it" responded Rory

And then Logan gave her a kiss goodbye and left the room

A minute later Emily, Richard, Lorelai, Luke, Christopher and Lane and Paris entered the room to see how Rory was doing and to wish her well.

"Well kid, you ready to be a married lady?" asked Lorelai joking and mocking

"Let's get this show on the road" responded Rory

With that everyone, minus Lane and Paris, gave Rory a kiss and left to take their places in the audience.

Before she knew it Rory was nearing the top of her Grandparents steps, ready to descend and become Logan's wife. Suddenly the music started and she heard Paris say

"I guess that's my cue" and with that Paris gave her best friend a smile and blew her a kiss, said "good luck" and went to walk down the aisle.

Next came Lane and than it was her turn. Unexpectedly Rory was trembling the entire way down, but her nerves calmed a little when Logan took her hand I his. She seemed to tune everything out until Logan gave her a squeeze signaling that it was time to say the vows and the 'I do's' and to put on the rings. They said traditional vows and placed matching platinum and diamond rings, engraved with "In omnia paratus", which seemd to fit on many different levels, on them on one another's finger. Rory's ring just sat on her finger alone; since she and Logan were never really engaged and now not really married she had never gotten an engagement ring.

Both Rory and Logan were apprehensive about the kiss that would officially unite them as husband and wife, when it was finally upon them they faced one another and just did it, fast and simple. And then there was a roar of applause from the audience. For they had really just gotten married.