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Chapter Thirty Four – Daddy Desires

Lorelei smiled as she looked back at Rory from the decaf tea. She had said that the coffee was always going to be hard to resist but she knew that Rory wouldn't be able to enjoy it. She had had headaches in the past and was counting down the days to her grandchild, now known as her grandson, and the time when she could go back to binging on her favorite amount of coffee.

"You were really doubting my reaction to you're having a boy?" Lorelei asked with a soft laugh before reaching out for Rory's hand. "Honey, I am just excited to be having a grandchild, as long as you're happy then I'm happy."

"And the fact that you don't like some of the things that Logan does," Rory said uneasily.

Lorelei sighed and exhaled whilst looking at her daughter. "I think that Logan has a lot of good qualities but I think there are some things that he could change about himself, I'm not going to lie. I was really happy that he stood up for you and us at that dinner and I need to give him more of a chance but listen to me, I don't have a say about some of the rash and stupid things that Logan has done but I do get to have a say if my grandson does stupid and foolish things like jumping out of planes and jumping off high places with parachutes and if he gets hurt I get to voice my opinion."

"Most grandmothers would want to -" Rory said but was cut off by her mother.

"I get to tell that boy when he needs to change his behavior, I'm going to be his grandmother and yes, that gives me a reason to spoil him and leave the discipline up to you and Logan but that boy is not going to get away with everything. I love him already and I hope he has all the best traits of Logan in him."

Rory smiled at her mother as she thought this over. She couldn't argue. Her mother had had plenty to say about both Jess and Logan and even Dean – although she was more reserved on her thinking when it came to Dean – she probably would be more caring and show a softer side to her grandson but she would still try to show him the right path to take.

"If…if our son wanted to do something like…" Rory took a deep breath in, "own a franchise like a fast food restaurant or ice cream parlor or something, you wouldn't act like grandma, right?"

Lorelei laughed and ran her thumb over the back of Rory's hand, "You think that I could criticize someone for wanting to have food as their career. No, even if your son wanted to open a porn shop," Rory looked around, nearly spluttering out her water. "I'd be supportive of him. I mean, I might ask him if he's being careful and I'd do all that is in my power to keep him from breaking the law but I'll still love him."

"And if he needs somewhere to run away to?" Rory asked as she looked at her mother nervously.

"Then I would tell him that his parents love him but that if he needed a place to crash, I would always give him somewhere to go. I probably wouldn't try to accommodate him if he didn't need somewhere else like your grandmother did to give you that room all to yourself but I'd prefer if he came to us than going off on his own. L-Luke was upset at Jess leaving so suddenly and I would try to track him down before he got too far. No matter what, that boy, that little unknown boy inside of you will be so loved."

Lorelei smiled and watched Rory as she said that. Though she had been hoping to continue the tradition of having Gilmore girls, she couldn't fault her grandson for growing genitalia. Things like this weren't up to the mother or even the baby. Plus, who was to say what the little boy would be into. Maybe he would enjoy some of the same things Rory liked and maybe he wouldn't. She just had to trust that both Rory and Logan had his best interests at heart.

"You know the grandparents are going to love having a great grandson," she told Rory and she nodded. She could imagine Emily's and Richard's responses. She was sure that her grandfather had kept some items for a son or grandson or in this case great grandson to inherit.

One thing was certain though, their little boy really was going to be loved.

34.2

"So," Logan said as the two walked hand in hand into the Yale student store. "There is nothing that I can buy you, no textbooks, no notebooks, nothing?" he asked before gesturing to the stationary section. "Come on, Ace, let me buy you some pens at least."

"I like a certain type of pen," Rory told him and Logan shook his head already knowing this but he still wanted to do something for his wife to be. "I'm going to pick some things out and buy them with my own money and why don't you look at the gift section and afterwards we'll go out and have something to eat."

Logan gave her a puppy dog look before sighing, "Anything of choice, Ace. I mean, I don't think I can get us actual tickets to Wonka's factory but something short of that sure. Just try me," he said and Rory kissed his cheek.

"Ice cream," she told him and Logan nodded. There were some places he could think of that served that. "With hot fudge and one of those little cherries."

"Okay. How much are we talking, a bathtub or I could arrange for us to go to Serendipity and eat ice cream there," he joked and Rory kissed his cheek.

"Just a classic ice cream around here will be fine, now go, look," she said as she gestured to the gift section. Logan rolled his eyes. He hadn't spent much time in that section as a student. His father was a Yale alumnus, he pretty much had everything vintage and everything that the schoolboard tried to send him for his donations to the university over the years. His friends would get things from relatives or they would be uninterested and unimpressed by this type of thing.

He sighed as he walked past the pens and notebooks with the Yale insignia on it, his eyes glazed over the numerous sweatshirts, t-shirts, and hoodies. However as he neared the back, right next to the plush Handsome Dan toys there were some onesies for a baby. He picked one up for a newborn and smiled as he looked at it. He had never paid attention to these but now he felt desperate to ask Rory her thoughts. She had been told her whole life that she was Harvard-bound and though the stars had aligned and she had come here and met him, was it right to try to force a school on a child.

Then again, he had been told since he was a newborn that he would follow his father and grandfather and attend Yale. He hadn't hated it but he had been bored by the school. On the other hand, just as Rory wouldn't have met him if she had gone to Harvard, he would have never met Rory if he rebelled against his parents and never came to Yale and then he wouldn't be having a baby with a girl who was out of his league. Who cared about social status? Rory was kind, smart, beautiful, and more than he deserved.

He sighed and picked up some Yale booties and Yale bib, leaving the onesie on the shelf. Price wasn't a concern for him but he hoped Rory didn't have some objection to the insignia.

He heard someone cough from behind him and turned around to see Paris there with notebooks, Post It notes, and an array of other supplies in her arms. "Excited to be a new dad?" she asked him.

Logan raised an eyebrow, "Ecstatic to be honest, Paris," he said and he heard her clear her throat. "For a start, I'm not going to make the same mistakes that my parents made in raising me. I intend to be present for my child and I don't want them getting confused about me, resenting me, or trying to live up to any perceived perceptions of what I want from them. I also fully intend to support Rory and her career. My work can be done from home and I'll even be working in the same room as the baby when I can be. Rory and I have already discussed this."

"Well…" Pairs said, a little taken aback that Logan had brought some of those issues up himself. "I hope you know that all of your immature stunts might put a baby at risk and though I wouldn't normally judge someone when it wasn't my child, this child."

"My son is going to have a mature and responsible father. I intend not only to love my son but to actually guide him and listen to him," Logan said before he saw Rory approaching them. "I know that having a baby, raising a baby, in a joint venture between both the mother and father and I'm still here. I came back especially for Rory and our son."

Logan walked over to Rory who was looking between him and Paris. She saw Paris staring at Logan as if she hadn't expected this kind of maturity from him. Logan put his arm around Rory after taking her basket from her. Rory grabbed it back.

"I said I'd pay for it myself," she said and then almost melted when she saw the baby items that Logan had chosen. She kissed his cheek and Paris turned to her.

"Rory, if this guy doesn't' pull his weight, contact me immediately. I might not be good with babies but I'll do my best and I won't be putting the child at risk. So, I hope things work out for you but -"

"But Logan is mature and responsible and has already proven that to me," Rory said before giving an apologetic smile to Paris. "I do appreciate it though, knowing that we have friends who we can rely on."

Paris sighed and nodded, "Well don't get taken in by a pretty face," she warned Rory before pointing a finger at Logan who felt himself swallow deeply. "Just know that I'm watching you. I'm going to keep watching you to see if you make any attempts to run from this situation." She said goodbye to Rory and the Gilmore girl turned to her fiancé.

"Does everyone just expect me to run?" he asked and Rory hugged him before kissing him.

"I don't," she reassured him.

"Thanks, Ace," he sighed before looking after Paris. He knew he needed to do something to prove himself as a capable father, he just didn't know what he could do just yet.

End of Chapter Thirty Four

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