"Oh Boy, Oh Boy, The Hits Just Keep On Coming"
Two days later Rory was alone at her place putting some last minute wedding details together when Logan arrives and he was acting strange, stranger than usual.
Knock Knock…
"Hi hon." greeted Rory as she answered the door and moved aside to let him to enter.
"Hi." was Logan's only answer which she knew was odd.
"You ok, you're not your normal cocky self?" she asked worried.
"What hon?" he asked distracted.
"What's up, you seem off today, did something happen?"
"Umm.. I just came from an urgent meeting with my father and grandfather."
"Oh ya, business or pleasure?'
"Business."
"Dad and grandfather have some business concerns about the baby."
"About the baby; what are they afraid that once the baby comes you'll be so tired from changing dirty diapers that you won't be able to take over the family business?"
"Not quite."
"Logan, com'on, you're being so cryptic, tell me, after all, I am the mommy."
"Ok, but I don't want you to get upset."
"Get upset, why would I get upset?"
"Well, you know how misogynistic the great Mitchum and the even greater Elias can be."
"Ya, so?'
"Well, they said that the baby will only be entitled to anything and everything if it's a boy."
"What?" she asked not fully grasping what he was saying and quite frankly getting annoyed.
"Well…" Logan started when Rory interrupted with new clarity.
"So if this baby I'm carrying is a girl, than she gets nothing?"
"Am I hearing you correctly?" she said now screaming.
"Crystal."
"Rory, simmer down, it's not good for either you or the baby for you to get so upset.
"On what planet would I not get upset."
"You just basically told me that I am expected to give you sons and if I don't comply, than our daughters will be worth nothing, get nothing."
"Not nothing, it doesn't matter to either you or me what the baby is, we will love and support and protect our child no matter what, right?"
She stayed silent and pouting as he waited for a response.
"Right, Rory?" he asked again as he snuck up behind her and put his arms around her waist.
"Right."
The next day the topic was still not put to rest. This time Richard and Mitchum got into it over these ridiculous rules. Everyone was fighting when Rory walked in and screamed at Mitchum.
"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you Mitchum, but my baby is a girl and I don't care, do whatever you want to do, we love and want this baby no matter what." she said pointing to herself and his son.
"I think it's really crappy and stupid of you to make up these rules that only the Huntzberger men are entitled to the privileges that come with it."
"I don't understand how you can do this; Shira's your wife, your partner, and I would hope that you would see her as your equal."
"Honor is your daughter and what because she's a female she doesn't have the option of holding any power at one of your papers?"
"You had a mother, she was a girl, a woman, didn't you respect her?"
Rory was on a rampage like no one, not her mother nor Logan nor her grandparents had ever witnessed in her before. Things were different now, this was way too important. She was like a mother lion coming in to pounce on the prey in order to protect her cub. Rory didn't even recognize herself in this moment; she had never felt this way before, something in her just took over and she all of a sudden felt like a mother. A few moments later both Logan and Lorelai called her on it.
"Wow, what was that?" asked Lorelai obviously surprised, but proud.
"I don't know, something in me just kind of went off when I heard Mitchum talking about our baby that way."
Turning towards her and taking her in his arms Logan asked with a smile on his face.
"We're having a girl?"
"We're having a girl." she answered.
"We're having a girl." Lorelai repeated.
"We're having another Lorelai!" she exclaimed.
"I don't know mom, we'll have to see, Logan and I haven't discussed possible names for the baby yet, let's want until after the wedding."
"Let's take one thing at a time, slow, but steady."