AN: I'm still trying to focus on updating fics by the amount of hits they had on them but was feeling writers block so reset my list a little bit earlier. Hope you enjoy

AN2: Also, my little brother sent me a sonogram of the first new-generation for my family. I don't want kids of my own but I'm so excited for him and his wife and to be an aunt so I guess that's why I wanted to use Honor so much here.

Chapter Thirty-Five: Force Them To Believe

35.1

Logan frowned as he finished the files for the presentation, passcoded them, and then sent them in a zip file to his dad with that file also having the companies code attached. He looked to the side where there was a picture of the sonogram on his desk and also a small dry erase board where he could erase the work he had to do for that day with conference calls and other work being later scheduled

He looked at the picture of his unborn son again and took a deep breath in. "I'll make sure that they all know how loved you are," he said as he tried to think over everyone's reactions even Colin who had said that it was too bad that it was not a girl because Logan would have spoiled a young girl like crazy, you could spoil boys too.

He wanted to figure out things to do with his son, show his son, but his son wouldn't be able to do very much at first. Maybe he would be interested in something small like remote control cars or maybe even just toy cars or a toy train. Or was that too traditional?

Opening up a new browser window, Logan did a search for some toy trains that a baby could have and had been distracted by a site for nursery items and had clicked on a mobile that had some planes and birds on it. It wasn't as cute as the circus animal ones or one of the handcrafted ones but it made sense to him, planes and birds on a mobile. Maybe it was a common place view of the world but he liked it.

He heard a knock on the door and his back straightened as he tried to cover up what he was looking at but failed to do so. He smiled when he saw Rory enter the room and stood up. "Hey, Ace, you feeling okay?"

"I brought you something to drink," Rory told him as she handed him a cup of some organic juice that they had found and one kind Logan really liked and they made sure to stock up on. It was amazing what you could buy when you didn't worry as much about money. "That's really cute," she said and Logan froze as he looked at the mobile.

"I don't think they are fighter planes," he said quickly as if that was what Rory was going to ask. She gave him a confused look before he kissed his cheek.

"I think it's cute. Do you like it?" she asked him before picking up his hand and grinned. "I think you're going to be an amazing dad, Logan," she told him before putting a hand on her belly. "This little guy is really lucky to have both of us. That's not an attack on my father. I just get really happy when I think about how much you are going to love one another and the photographs I'll have to take."

"I wish that those who you love didn't think so badly of me," Logan said awkwardly.

"My dad does admire you," Rory commented but she wrapped her arms around him in a quick hug and then pulled back, kissing his lips and seeing his light smile as he watched her. "I thought that you didn't care what other people thought of you. I thought that you liked to defy other's opinions."

"Maybe so, Ace," he said before looking at the sonogram again. "But being a father is different. I'm not only wanting to prove everyone wrong but I want to prove myself right, our son needs me to prove that I can be a great dad and I want it all, I want the joy that a baby can give you as well as learning how to deal with all the stress and exhaustion and frustration of being a parent. I'm just really glad that you'll be able to give the baby a sense of purpose and belonging that a lot of other women can't."

Rory smiled before walking out of the room, "Honor has told me that she's taking you out for the day. I'm going to rest before classes start,"

Logan stood as he watched her go. "Do you want some time for yourself, Ace?" he asked, "Anything that I can do for you?"

"I think you should buy the mobile," she told him and he nervously took a look back at the computer and smiled. "Our son will love it."

Logan went to the computer and managed to order the item to be sent to them. Maybe it wasn't the most expensive or well-made one but it didn't just have balls on it or any of those wooden shapes that would be better presented on an ink blot test. At least it allowed his son to open his mind and to wonder about things. Logan sighed, he hoped his son asked them lots of questions about the world, it would be good to have another person in their world who understood it at a more grounded level.

35.2

As Logan followed Honor down the street outside of Yale, he kept seeing people staring at him with most of them trying to run up to him and say hello or that he hadn't been there for a while or how his summer was. It wasn't something that he prided himself on having all of these people interested in his life. He wasn't someone who wanted to control a nation but he did want to have a secure family and now he hated how insecure he felt.

"Honor," he coughed and she stopped and walked back to him.

"Hey, you're slowing us down," she said as she came back to him. "You've always been a lot more decisive than Josh so I thought that you'd be quicker as well. Josh needs to get things just right before we do them whilst you're a dare devil, a thrill seeker."

"With the majority of that thrill seeking not taking place in the next twenty or twenty-five years," he coughed and Honor nodded and rolled her eyes.

"Right, I understand," she grinned. "As soon as he graduates college you'll be on one of those huge air swings where you just drop for a few hours. I can try to make a booking for one."

"A little less thrill than I'm used to, honestly," Logan replied with a grin. He frowned and looked at his watch before looking up at Honor and masked his emotion so that she wouldn't worry about him.

"What is it?" she asked as she tilted her head to the side. "And don't tell me nothing, you know that the best thing about having a sibling is that they are almost always able to see through your crap. Is something wrong with Rory or the baby?"

"It's nothing, Honor," Logan told her before laughing bitterly. "It's…well, didn't you ever get the feeling that our loving and devoted mother and father wanted us to rule empires, be titans of industry, make our presence known in a crowded room."

"The opposite of the last one….well, unless there was a sought-after-suitor in the room," Honor told him she sighed and nodded. "I know what you mean though. You were unfortunately the heir to the name and mother and fa-"

"Honor," Logan attempted to argue afraid that he had hurt his older sister's feelings. He had always grown up following those archaic rules just as in royal families, the boy must inherit the position of power whilst the girl could be traded away to another nation.

"Listen, I don't care as long as the two of us are happy and I'm happy. Maybe they never took me to the workplace and put me in one of the chairs and told me that one day I would be running the business. I was told that this color of dress would make me look like a whore, this shade of lipstick would make my lips un kissable." Honor laughed at that. "If you object to my nephews fashion choices for any other reason than what is really best for him meaning that he might get hurt or might be confused for a gang member, I will be in charge of his wardrobe and he'll get to pick whatever he wants as long as it's not going to get him killed."

"Do you think that I want that much control over my son's clothes?" Logan asked taken aback slightly and Honor hummed.

"Pink shirt," she pointed a finger at him, "What do you do if your son wants to wear a pink shirt."

"There are some men who look great in pink," Logan told her. He laughed and looked away, "Now, are we talking about a salmon, or like a pale pink, or something hot fuschia because the last one…"

"You'll figure it out, you idiot," Honor smiled as she playfully ruffled his hair. "So, what was the point of this conversation anyway?"

"Am I going to be a bad father?" Logan asked, "Do I just give off the sense that I'm going to run from Rory and from our son."

"They're the stupid ones to think that," Honor said as she rolled her eyes. "Yes, you have a reputation for doing some kind of ridiculous things in the past and after she was with me when I was getting my makeup done, Rory had a right to get angry at you for being a playboy but that was who you were and not who you are. So you've got to redefine yourself. You've got to know who that is," Honor said before kissing Logan's cheek.

"I believe in you little brother," she told him and Logan nodded.

As much as he hated hearing that he would run away, he had given people evidence that that could happen and whilst he didn't want to care what a random person thought, he was more terrified that Rory would believe them. He just had to remember that to become a new person – the person he knew himself to be – he had to put one foot in front of the other and just continue walking.

35.3

"Are you sure that she can eat this much?" Honor asked as she held two of the five bags of Chinese takeout they had. Honor hadn't heard of the night when Rory and her mother and her roommates had been ranking delivery food and delivery drivers but Logan knew all about that.

"Rory can eat all this and more, even though I'm a guy, I definitely envy her metabolism. If I tried to eat all this I'd -"

"I don't think you'd die, not after all the crap that you, Colin, AND Finn put into your bodies, especially Colin," Honor laughed before they saw someone standing outside the front door of the house. Logan sighed as he remembered this boy very well.

"You're J-"

"Just checking up on Rory," Jess said as he looked over at Honor. "Are you thinking that you'll sneak in and then dash off before -"

"No, Ace wasn't feeling her best so we got takeout so she wouldn't feel a need to go out or to entertain," Logan said and Honor put a hand on his shoulder to get him to calm down. Her brother was so easily challenged, this was a chance to show that he wasn't going to be affected by it.

"So, who is this floozy?" Jess asked and Logan punched him in the face, "Are you cheating on Rory with this, with her, with -"

"She's his sister," Rory said as she exited the house before looking between the three of them. "What's going on here?"

End of Chapter Thirty Five

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