Sorry this took me a while to get up, I've had most of it written but just never finished it.

Thanks to my beta Tiffanie

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

"Steph, you've gotta calm down. Deep breaths." Rory tried to sooth her friend.

Logan returned to the common room with two cups of coffee. He handed Rory hers and set Steph's on the coffee table.

Steph continued to sob uncontrollably, babbling incoherent sentences.

"You've gotta calm down, Steph. You're going to make yourself sick." Logan told her rubbing small circles on her back.

After about ten minutes, Steph had finally relaxed a little. Her tears were still flowing but were silent.

"What did Finn do?" Rory asked softly.

"You know how the day after we had sex, he had to leave?"

Rory nodded, it was hard to forget that winter break. Steph had barged into her room at nine in the morning telling her that she had sex for the first time but refusing to divulge his name.

"He had told me he had to get back to school, but while we were at the restaurant tonight, this girl came up and said that they had spent the whole weekend together." Steph said as the tears began to fall faster again.

"Oh my god." Rory muttered and pulled Steph into her arms.

"That doesn't sound like Finn." Logan told them.

"He-he didn't deny it, he just said that it was history." she sniffled.

Logan was about to say something when a loud ringing came from his cell phone "I'll be right back." he said walking into Rory's room and closing the door.

"Hello?"

"Logan, it's me. Where are you?" Colin said from the other end of the phone.

"I'm at Rory's trying to comfort a hysterical Stephanie and you?"

"I'm at our dorm, trying not to make eye contact with Finn."

"Why?" Logan questioned confused.

"Well, he walked into the dorm and I asked him how his date went, which he ignored then he sat on the couch. He hasn't spoke, moved, drank or anything for the last hour. Not to mention his hand is all bruised and puffy. I don't want him to go all psycho on me."

"That's un-Finn like." Logan muttered "He's not drinking."

"Did I mention that he looks like he's been crying?"

"Crying?" Logan said worry growing with every passing second.

Finn had never cried. The one and only time he had ever shed a tear was when his grandmother had passed away. Finn had fallen into a spiral of depression after that. He wouldn't eat or sleep, he'd just stare blankly into space.

"I'll be there soon." Logan told Colin and hung up his phone.

He walked back into the common room to see Stephanie asleep on Rory's lap and Rory reading a book.

"I guess our alone time is no more." He said quietly.

"We love our friends." Rory reminded him.

"Yeah, I suppose, but I love you too and I'd like to spend some alone time with my girlfriend."

"Tomorrow night, you and me. No crazy friends, no family, nothing but you and me." Rory told him. "How's that sound?"

"Like a plan. What time?"

"Pick me up around…sevenish."

"You, Miss Gilmore, have yourself a date." Logan smiled leaning down to kiss her. "I've gotta go do damage control on the other half of our star-crossed lovers."

"Ok, call me with any interesting details that might give me a bit more insight on the situation." Rory requested pressing her lips firmly against his.

"Will do, but a fact for you to ponder while you wait for some information, Finn's hand is apparently swollen and he isn't drinking."

"Not good."

"No, not at all. I'll see you later, I love you." he smiled and pressed a kiss to the top of her head again.

"I love you to." she said as she watched him walk out the door.

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Logan entered his dorm to see Colin sitting on a stool by the small kitchen and Finn sitting on the couch staring blankly into space.

"Hey, Finn." Logan said cautiously, slowly moving to sit next to him.

Silence.

"I just saw Stephanie." Logan said hoping that would get a reaction.

"Steph?" Finn whispered. "How is she?"

"A mess, just like you." Logan informed him "What'd you do to your hand?"

"She deserves better than me, you know?" Finn said ignoring Logan's question. "She deserves someone who isn't always drunk, someone who cares about her."

"Finn, you care about Stephanie. You care about her more than you care about anything else in the world." Colin interjected moving from the stool to a chair closer by.

"It's not enough. There are too many things against us."

"Finn, you and Steph are meant for each other, this is all a misunderstanding."

"No, it's not though. It's exactly what it sounds like. I slept with Stephanie, the only girl I have or will love and then the next day got piss drunk and slept with some slut."

"You were drunk, your judgment was impaired." Colin reasoned.

"Stephanie deserves someone whose judgment is always fucking impaired!" Finn spat angrily.

"What did you do to your hand?" Logan repeated.

"Punched my car." Finn said emotionless.

"You had to have broken something, your going to the hospital." Colin told him.

"No, I'm not. I don't deserve to be taken care of."

Finn felt as though he had betrayed the only thing in his life that had meaning. Sure, he had his friends but they could only understand so much. Stephanie made him feel like all of his family issues and all of his insecurities could be solved by just one kiss.

"Your going to get your ass in the car because STEPHANIE would want you to go get your hand looked at." Colin yelled tired of Finn throwing himself a pity party.

Finn knew he was right, Stephanie would want him to get his hand looked at. So, grudgingly, he got up and walked out to the car.

"I'll be right out, I've gotta call Ace." Logan said and Colin nodded before walking out of the dorm.

He hit speed dial number one and Rory immediately picked up not even letting it ring once fully. "She's a sobbing wreck."

"He's not much better. We're taking him to the hospital to get his hand checked out. He punched his car."

"What's with angry guys and hitting things?"

"I'll discuss it with you later. But the information I did scrounge up was that he was drunk when he slept with the girl which I am assuming means the girl took advantage of his inebriated state."

"He still should have known better." Rory pointed out.

"Yes, any other circumstance I would agree. But there is a piece of the puzzle that's missing. One of them has a piece of information they aren't giving up."

"What do you mean?" Rory questioned.

"Finn drinks, that's known far and wide but usually unless he's with his friends he keeps his alcohol level down to barely legal. Even then his judgment is pretty good, can walk in a straight line and everything. But if he was out on a date with this girl, he must have been drinking…a lot. The question, my dear Ace, is why?" Logan explained.

"Why was he on a date or why was he drinking a lot?"

"Both."

"I knew you reading all those Hardy Boy's mystery books would do you good." Rory teased.

"I was just trying to keep up with you and the knowledge you were acquiring from Nancy Drew."

Logan laughed "I've gotta go before Finn decides he's not worthy of going to the hospital."

"Pity Party?"

"It's more than a party, it's freaking New Years Eve in Times Square. I'm surprised Dick Clark wasn't in my dorm broadcasting it."

"Alright, I'll let you go. I love you."

"Love you too, Ace."

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Rory hung up her phone and set it on the table. She was hoping Steph and Finn's problems weren't going to affect her and Logan's relationship.

"He loves you." Steph whimpered from her position on Rory's lap.

"Who?"

"Logan and Colin and Finn and Jess and Tristan…They all love you." Steph babbled "You're loved by everyone. Logan would never sleep with someone the day after he slept with you. The day after you went down on Jess he practically professed his undying love for you. Do you think you could tell me what you do while you blow a guy…maybe I can try it and then they might stick around and not go sleep with someone else."

Rory winced at Stephanie's crude wording, what happened with Jess was a mistake. She hadn't meant for it to go that far. Steph was the only one who knew about it and it hurt Rory to see her throwing it back in her face.

"Look, Steph. All those people love you to. Logan, Colin, Jess and Tristan love you and Finn would buy the world if it would make you happy. Wires got crossed, mistakes were made."

"He slept with another girl, Rory! It's like he didn't think I was good enough. I couldn't even hold his attention for 24 hours before he was off screwing some whore…Of course, the whore had to look like a model. Tall, thin and beautiful, no shocker…I never could compete with any of Finn's other love interests."

"Finn thinks you're gorgeous."

"That's not true." Steph denied "I want you to call him and ask him if I am the prettiest girl he's ever slept with, I bet I am not."

"I'll call him when he gets back from the hospital." Rory said dryly before she realized what she had just said.

"HE'S AT THE HOSPITAL?" Stephanie said instantly sobering from her tears and sitting up on the couch.

Rory cursed under her breath and ran her hand over her face "Yes, it's nothing too serious. He did something to his hand."

"I want to go to the hospital." Steph said firmly while standing up and looking for her purse.

"You're in no condition to drive." Rory said taking the keys out of her hand.

"Then you drive because I am getting to that hospital one way or another."

"Stephanie! He probably fractured his hand, that's it."

"I don't care if he has a paper cut! I am going to the hospital to be with him!"

"Why?" Rory questioned.

"Because I love him, he may not be my favorite person at the moment but he's in the hospital and I want to be with him, he'd be there for me."

"Doesn't that knowledge make you feel a little better? Knowing that he'd be there for you, that he wouldn't do anything to intentionally break your heart?"

"Yeah…maybe, I guess. I'll think about it later. Can you please, just call Logan and find out what hospital he's at? I want to be there."

Rory nodded and pulled out her cell phone as they walked to her car.

"Miss me already, Ace?" Logan answered.

"What hospital are you at?"

"Hartford Memorial, why?"

"I accidentally let it slip that Finn is there and Stephanie is adamant about being with him."

"But she's the one who-" Logan began but Rory cut him off.

"I know, she's mad and hurt but she still loves him."

"I'll be waiting outside emergency for you but I am not telling him that she's coming, he'll bug out and it took us ten minutes to get him out of the car."

"Alright, we'll be there soon." Rory said and hung up.

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Twenty minutes later Rory pulled into the Hartford Memorial Hospital's parking lot and Stephanie bolted out of the car.

They noticed Logan leaning against a cement pillar "Has he seen a doctor yet?" Steph asked.

Logan shook his head "It's a Saturday night, a fractured hand is low on the list of priorities. He's still waiting in triage."

Stephanie nodded and walked into the hospital. Logan wrapped his arms around Rory and she rested her head on his shoulder as they followed her.

"Finn! What did you do?" She asked as they approached a hunched over figure.

Finn's head immediately shot up as he heard her familiar voice. "I-I…" he stumbled over his words.

"You hurt yourself, how in the world did you hurt yourself?" Stephanie said sitting in the chair next to him.

"Ipunchedmycar" He muttered under his breath.

"Excuse me?"

"I punched my bloody car."

"I don't even want to know." Steph smiled warmly at him.

"Why are you here? You made it perfectly clear you hated me."

"Finn, I could never hate you. You hurt me, a lot and that's not something I can get over right away but you're hurt, you needed me."

"I do need you." he agreed.

"We'll talk about it later…Right now I am going to sit here with you until you get your hand looked at." Steph told him as she carefully took his injured hand and placed it on her lap to gently rub his palm. "Does that hurt?"

"No." Finn said quietly still in shock that she was here, with him.

"We're going to go get some coffee, do you guys want any?" Rory asked the three sitting in the chairs.

"Can I have a coke?" Colin requested.

"Coffee would be great." Steph smiled kindly at her friend.

"Finn?" Rory questioned.

"I'm fine, Love. Thanks."

Logan and Rory walked to get coffee with his arm still wrapped around her waist.

"Do you think that would ever happen to us?" Rory asked.

"I'm pretty sure I won't sleep with anyone the day after we have sex. So, I'm going to have to say no."

"That's not what I meant, I meant…even if we weren't together would we still be there for each other?"

"Rory, you took care of me when I was sick and I know that had someone told me about your car accident, I would have been on the first flight back to the States."

"I love you." She said placing a tender kiss on his lips.

"I love you too, Ace, more than anything."

They had gotten the drinks in silence just enjoying being with each other until they were on their way back to their friends.

"You said sex so definitely." Rory pointed out.

"What?"

"You said after we have sex, what makes you think we'll ever have sex?"

"I…umm…I well…" Logan stumbled over his words unsure of what to say.

Rory just laughed at her boyfriends attempts to justify himself.

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