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AN: Here another dose of A lifetime Ago. It may be prudent to suggest that you read the AN2 once you're done. So on with the story...

The sun was shining brightly. The temperature was in the seventies. It was by definition a perfect summer day. Jess packed an insurmountable amount of food, all on Veronica's prompting.

They all came in different cars. Jess and Veronica took her LeBaron, Logan, Wallace, Mac and Dick took the Xterra, Eli and Carmen rode his motorcycle and Jess loaned Logan Huntzberger his BMW, in an effort to give him and Rory some privacy on the ride over.

They arrived at one of the private houses by the beach that Dick owned through his real estate agency. The house was huge and one step out of the door was the beach.

"So? Sweet huh?" Dick looked at all of them expectantly, as they all stepped out of the back door and right into the beach.

"Nice digs, as always." Logan Echolls mock saluted him.

"Standard issue for one Dick Casablancas." Veronica commented dryly.

"It's beautiful." Rory smiled in appreciation.

"Yeah, we're actually going to keep this one aren't we Richard?" Mac looked at her husband crossly.

"Why do you think I bought it? It's all for you baby." Dick pulled Mac towards him and enveloped her into his arms, causing her to snort in amusement.

"Enough with the PDA. Not all of us came here with our significant others." Wallace hollered at the rest of the group.

"Listen to the man y'all." Logan Echolls looked up at the heavens as if begging for reprieve.

"You already came with your significant other Echolls." Eli pointing to Logan's left hand, causing Carmen to slap his arm.

"Gross." Veronica wrinkled her nose at Eli's comment.

"Play nice people." Jess interjected.

"He started it." Logan frowned at Jess' remark.

"Wait a minute. We have to clear something up first." Veronica interrupted what would have been an entire day of racial banter between Logan and Eli. "Did we work out how we're going to call the two Logans? Coz, this is going to be a confusing six days if we don't figure it out."

The two Logans looked at each other and then at the rest of the group.

"I never thought of that." Jess smirked at Veronica as he said this.

"She's right of course." Logan Huntzberger finally uttered a sentence.

"How about we call them L1 and L2, like the Bananas in Pajamas show?" Wallace contributed teasingly.

"You're a regular comedian Fennel." Logan Echolls rolled his eyes in irritation.

"Why don't we just call them by their last names?" Mac suggested.

"His last name is a mouthful." Rory nodding in Logan Huntzberger's direction, then she frowned in concentration. "How about your middle names?" she turned to the two Logans hopefully.

"I don't think so." Logan Huntzberger shook his head in reply.

"That bad huh?" Logan Echolls looked at him sympathetically.

Huntzberger smiled uneasily and then looked away from the other Logan.

"I remember Townie calling you something else." Jess tried hard to recall what the name was.

"That could be a number of things; God, Jesus Christ, Oh my, there's just so many I just don't know." Logan Echolls smiled mischievously at Jess.

"I remember she called you an ass hat." Jess contradicted Logan through narrowed eyes.

"Hardly appropriate Jess; besides everyone calls him that." Veronica grinned at her fiancé.

"L-man, that's what we used to call you in high school." Dick loudly recommended.

"Only you called me that dude. I won't be answering to that." Logan replied dismissively.

"Come on there has to be something." Veronica sighed in exasperation.

"I used to be called Hunter. I'll answer to that." Logan Huntzberger finally came up with something.

"Who called you that?" Rory asked him curiously.

"Just someone I used to know." Huntzberger shrugged as he answered.

"And I can answer to Landon." Logan Echolls helpfully added.

"Is that your middle name?" Eli pushed Logan in jest.

"That's it. That's the name that Townie calls you." Jess' face lit up in triumph.

"It's not my middle name." Echolls rolled his eyes at Eli's question.

"So? What's the deal with the name?" Mac bluntly asked him.

"Just an inside joke between Townie and me. Now that I think about it I'd rather not have everyone else call me that." Echolls looked thoughtful.

"How about we call this Logan," Rory nudged Huntzberger, "Hunter and we just let Logan Echolls be Logan. Are you okay with that?" she asked her Logan hopefully.

"Of course Ace." Hunter nodded in acquiescence.

"I'm okay with that too, thank you for asking." Logan jokingly remarked.

"I'm sorry." Rory smiled at him apologetically.

"He's being an ass hat Rory; you don't need to be sorry." Jess rolled his eyes at Logan's antics.

"What he said, Ace." Logan looked at her teasingly and then he winked as he said the word Ace.

Hunter frowned at Logan's use of Ace to call Rory; he was the only person who got to call her that since college.

"Now that's settled how about we start the fun, fun, fun at the beach party." Dick suggested brightly.

Jess and Veronica headed back into the house to organize the food, Dick pulled Mac to the water, she was being difficult so Dick hauled her onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and she promptly screamed ways on how she was going to kill him, Eli held his hand out to Carmen and the two went for a walk, Wallace followed Jess and Veronica into the kitchen to help them with the food, Logan headed back to the car to get his surfboard and Rory and Hunter sat down on one of the lounge chairs by the beach.

"You fit right in with them Ace." Hunter looked at her in curiosity.

"I've spent days with them already, so I guess that's why." Rory shrugged in response.

"That makes sense. I don't think I will though." He turned his gaze into the ocean.

"Why not? They are nice people." Rory's brows furrowed at his remark.

"I just have so much in my mind. Maybe this trip was the perfect cure for that." He took Rory's hand in his and smiled.

"This trip will do you some good. I'm sure of it." Rory stated decidedly.

"How about we join those two?" he nodded towards Mac and Dick's direction

"Last one there is a rotten egg." Rory beamed at him and got up from the chair running. Hunter shouted unfair as he too took off towards the water.


"You're blocking my sun ass hat." Veronica complained from her position on the lounge chair.

"I thought we vetoed that and decided that I get to keep my name." Logan remarked as Veronica tried to use her leg to push him out of the way.

"Besides, the sun doesn't belong to you. It belongs to everyone, the entire solar system shares the sun; so don't go bragging that the sun is your sun." Logan continued to refuse to budge.

"I'd be willing to call Weevil and have him get rid of you for me." Veronica continued to push him out of the way.

"I'm not afraid of Deputy Eli. I can take him on any day."

"I'll call Jess."

"I'm not afraid of Jess either."

"But Jess can make or break your plans of getting laid tonight."

"How is that?"

"Oh he can tell Addy you were mean to me. She'll revoke your privileges for the night."

"Who said I'm getting laid anyway?" Logan asked triumphantly, and then frowned when he realized the implications.

This was enough to get Veronica to sit up and stare at Logan incredulously.

"You're not?"

"I'm perfectly capable of being in a relationship without the sexual gratification part." Logan actually looked offended.

"Get out." Veronica looked unconvinced.

"I know everyone thinks we're doing it because I always sneak out at night, but all we do is talk, maybe make out once in a while and sleep on the same bed, and when I say sleep I actually mean closing your eyes and dreaming." Logan stated condescendingly as he stepped out of the way effectively getting out of Veronica's sun.

"Liar." She accused him quietly as she settled back on the chair.

"Come on, surf with me Ronnie." Logan charmingly pleaded as he sat down on the chair next to her.

"No thank you. I tried it once and I ended up falling flat on my face. Literally." Veronica closed her eyes again and worked on her tan.

"But it's so boring just to sit there and let your skin get darker. Let's go surfing."

"Why are you bugging me?"

"Dick's with Mac. Inside the house. You know what that means." Logan gave her a patronizing look.

"At least some of us are getting laid." Veronica sighed.

"I told you, you should have taken us up on our offer. Addy has soundproofed rooms."

"It's part of the wedding thing. We're supposed to maintain self-control and be celibate for the remainder of the days before the wedding." Veronica recited dully.

"Well good luck with that. Jess is coming and he has that predatory look on his face." Logan looked at Veronica and smiled lecherously.

"Shut up ass hat. Go bother someone else."

"And I see that you won't be practicing self-control from the way you are staring at him."

"Leave me alone. Go bother someone else."

"You said that already. Do you think Rory would try surfing?" Logan asked thoughtfully as Rory appeared in the view and stopped Jess from advancing towards Veronica.

"Maybe you should ask her yourself." Veronica never let her gaze on Jess waver, who was still looking at her even though he appeared to be talking to Rory.

"Maybe I will." Logan huffed and stood up he walked towards Rory and Jess walked towards Veronica.

"Hey Rory." Logan drawled her name out playfully.

"Hey Logan." Rory mimicked him teasingly.

"Wanna go surfing?"

"I don't know how." She shook her head helplessly.

"I can teach you. I'm an awesome surfer." He confidently replied.

"Wow. Did you feel that?"

"Feel what?" Logan looked at her, a confused expression on his face.
"The massive hot air that accompanied your remark." Rory smiled at him prettily.

"I know, I know. I have a huge ego. I didn't think you have it in you. Girl's got claws." Logan grinned.

"You really sure you can teach me to surf?" Rory eyed him critically.

"Am I not Logan Echolls, Neptune's champion surfer of '04, '05 and '06? Logan countered.

"I don't know, are you?" she gave him a quizzical look.

"See, this won't work if you have no knowledge about me." Logan gestured between them.

"To be your student, I have to know these things." Rory looked at him dubiously.

"No, if we are to have a friendship you have to make an effort to find out things about me." Logan wagged his forefinger at her condescendingly and started for the surfboards by the lounge chairs.

"We are to be friends?" Rory asked as she followed him

"Don't you know that's the point of this entire thing? Man, Yale did nothing for you, at all." He teased.

"Hey!" Rory mocked pout.

"Kidding aside, I taught Jess and Veronica everything they know about surfing."

"Which is not at all reassuring. Jess falls five times before getting it right and Veronica refused to surf at all."

"They just didn't want to practice. And practice makes perfect. Besides, I have a feeling you'll like it. Here you can use Mac's board." He gestured to the light blue surfboard while he took the white one next to it.

"Mac surfs?"

"Yup."

"Why?"

"Why did she marry Dick? Why does she continue to be married to Dick? It's all a mystery." Logan replied flippantly.

"Okay." Rory was now officially confused.

Logan looked at her and sighed, "Mac learned how to surf the summer of '06. Dick taught her and she was a natural. It's kind of their thing; I actually think it's sacred for them. They seem so different at times but when they are both out there in the ocean, it's like they are one person."

"That's deep."

"Which is more than we could usually say about them, but they're happy." He shrugged as he finished.

"So surfing?" Rory asked brightly.

"Thought you'd never ask." Logan smiled at her and nodded.


"I'm worried."

Jess looked up from his book to focus on Veronica, who was watching Logan teach Rory how to pop-up from a surf board.

"I'm sure she'll be okay. After all we're alive aren't we?" Jess replied dismissively and returned to his previous preoccupation.

"I'm not worried about the surfing part. I think something's happening there."

"You're worried that your ex and my ex might get together?" he finally put his book down.

"Don't you see they're getting along way too well?" Veronica moved so she could face Jess fully.

"I guess I just don't see it. Rory is nice to everyone anyway. Logan's just probably bored out of his mind." Jess shrugged.

"Aren't you even worried for Addy's sake?" Veronica frowned at him.

"Why should I be? It's not like they're exclusive. They don't even have a real relationship."

"But Logan's already staying over there for the rest of the wedding."

"So…" Jess waited for her to complete her thought.

"Maybe they're taking that time to become a couple again."

"Who knows? You can never tell with them. Besides, it's not like a surfing lesson can jeopardize their non-relationship status." Jess shrugged again.

'They're not sleeping together." Veronica quietly stated.

"I should hope not, otherwise that would be actually the end of Addy and Logan, whatever they are."

"Not Rory and Logan, Jess. Addy and Logan." Veronica playfully pinched him.

"First of all ouch. Secondly, gross, Addy is like my sister, to even suggest that…yuck" Jess remarked as he rubbed the spot where Veronica pinched him

"Come on Jess, Addy is the same age as I am. It'll be dumb to suggest that she's never done the deed before, considering that she and Logan were pretty hot and heavy during sophomore year." Veronica rolled her eyes at him.

"I know that. I'd just rather not know. Besides, Addy has been too busy to get busy." Jess chuckled at his words. Veronica just smiled and rolled her eyes.

"Hmm...I wish we were busy too." Veronica looked thoughtful and then smiled at Jess.

"Do you remember the signal?" Jess smirked at her.

"How can I not remember the signal? I invented the signal." Veronica retorted.

"Maybe we can use it now. No adults over thirty so I think we are safe." Jess whispered as he placed a kiss on her bare shoulder.

"Let's do it." Veronica concurred, her eyes sparkling in excitement.


"I didn't realize how much work it's going to be." Rory remarked as she lay on the board and then got up again, having done it over twenty times already.

"Well you have to learn the basics." Logan looked gleeful.

"You are taking too much pleasure out of this." Rory countered.

"Maybe just a little bit." He smiled sheepishly.

A squeal from Veronica distracted them from what they doing. Jess had his arms around Veronica in a bear hug and looked determined to take her to the water's edge. Veronica managed to wriggle out of his grasp and took off the opposite direction and into the house, with Jess following closely behind.

"Are they going to be okay?" Rory stood next to Logan.

"Yep, they'll be fine. It's their signal." Logan replied casually.

"Signal?" Rory brows furrowed.

"For when they are feeling frisky. That's their way of informing everyone that they'd be other wise 'engaged'." Logan shook his head in amusement as he used the air quotes.

"Oh." A dawn of understanding settled over her.

"Doesn't it bother you? I mean Veronica was your ex-girlfriend." Rory asked reluctantly.

"Not really. It never bothered me. I guess it was because I was with Addy when they got together; but even when we broke up Jess and Veronica being together never bothered me." Logan shrugged.

"From what Jess told me, your relationship with Veronica was intense." Rory tried to make her comment as offhanded as possible.

"I suppose you could even call it epic, which I did during our senior prom. And I meant it too. Don't get me wrong, I was head over heels in love with Veronica. But somehow it became too much, too intense. Then our history with each other seems to get in the way of us being actually happy." Logan looked deep in a thought.

"The first time I told her I was falling in love with her she said something about the things guys say to get past second base. It took her awhile to actually say it back, about a year and six months to be exact. But with Jess she told him she loved him mere months after they started dating, a record for Veronica Mars. That's when I actually knew that no matter how epic our love story is, their story is so much more, I think the exact words for them are massive monumental devotion that can surpass any love story in history."

"Whose words are those?" Rory tried to get his attention for he seemed to have gone to another place.

"Adriana. I read her actual speech for the wedding. Quite a tearjerker I must say." He wiped a nonexistent tear from his eyes.

Rory was quiet as she processed everything. She was truly happy for Jess and Veronica and just a little bit jealous. Not of them personally but of what they have. After all her years with Logan they did not seem to develop what Jess and Veronica have, in Logan Echolls words, a massive monumental devotion to each other.

"See what you did? You've put us in a mood." Logan playfully nudged her.

"So how about we take this to the ocean? Maybe then the water will wash away our envy." Rory moved to pick up the surf board.

"There is not enough ocean to wash away the green in our skin." Logan quipped.

"But it'll have to do." Rory replied determinedly.

"How about we just change the subject? What's the deal with you and Hunter Ace?" Logan raised his eyebrows at her.

"That's weird."

"What is?"

"Hearing you call me Ace. Only Logan, I mean Hunter calls me that."

"Inside joke got it. Can I be frank with you?" Rory nodded when he shot her an expectant look. "It's kind of annoying. Rory is already our nickname right? I can only imagine having to hear Ace over and over again, kind of gets on my nerves." Logan shot her an unapologetic look.

"Can I tell you a secret? It does kind of get on my nerves." She whispered to him conspiratorially. Logan guffawed loudly and Rory grinned in return.

"Come on. Let's try this in the ocean." He gestured towards them and their surfboards.


Hunter blinked repeatedly as he tried to adjust with the brightness of the afternoon. After eating lunch he and Rory decided to go into the house and take a nap. He supposed he was out for quite a while. When he woke up Rory was missing, which prompted him to go look for her.

He stepped out of the beach house and proceeded towards the lounge chairs, no Rory. But sitting on one of them was Eli and Carmen.

"Hi. Have you seen Rory?" He inquired.

The couple looked up at him. Carmen smiled at him and Eli raised his eyebrow at him and then nodded towards the water.

"Look's like Echolls is teaching your girl how to surf." Eli commented wryly.

Hunter looked in the same direction and saw Logan standing a few feet away while Rory was paddling towards a wave. Rory stood up and managed to stay upright while riding the wave for a good thirty seconds. When she finally toppled off the board she resurfaced and her squeal of delight could be heard from where they were. Logan swam over where she was and the two looked quite comfortable with each other as Rory hugged Logan.

"Looks like she's quite taken too. With surfing I mean." Eli looked at Hunter's expression. Carmen whispered his name warningly and he merely grinned.

"Looks like it." Hunter stalked off towards his girlfriend and the man he shared his name with.

The two decided that was it for the day. After a few tries Rory finally succeeded in riding a wave. Logan just told her she had a natural talent for surfing and Rory beamed at him. They walked back to the shore and Hunter was waiting for them.

"You surfed." Hunter commented lightly.

"You saw me? I surfed." Rory smiled happily.

"She's good too." Logan contributed.

"That's great." Hunter replied, a little sarcastically.

Logan was looking off to the neighboring houses and saw someone walking by the shore. He looked back between Hunter and Rory. Hunter seemed angry, while Rory rolled her eyes at him.

"Why don't I leave you two love birds alone?" Logan became increasingly uncomfortable as he could see a fight coming a mile away.

"Thanks for teaching me." Rory gave him an appreciative smile.

Logan was already walking away. He turned back; he was effectively out of Hunter's sight.

"Anytime." He winked at her and mouthed Ace, Rory giggled at his behavior.

He jogged towards the lounge chairs and settled his board on the sand, not bothering to take his shirt with him. Then he proceeded towards the person by the water's edge.

"Rude much?" Rory frowned at Hunter as she too walked back to return the surfboard where she got it. Eli and Carmen looked at each other and decided to give them some privacy.

"I was not rude to him." Hunter followed her as she went to the chairs to grab her towel and dry off.

"Yes you were."

"Look I just did not appreciate some guy groping my girlfriend right in front of me." He crossed his arms across his chest.

"What are you talking about?" Rory looked at him as though he was losing his mind.

"Your little hug back there did not go unnoticed." He looked at her through narrowed eyes.

"What? I hugged him, there was nothing behind it. I was happy that I finally got to surf. End of story."

"We're supposed to spend time together. I wasn't supposed to watch you spend time with some other guy."

"You were sleeping. I didn't feel like wasting my time here indoors. In case you haven't noticed we are in Southern California, in summer time. You're supposed to have fun at the beach."

"I just spent all of last week working 24/7 in London. I think I at least deserve some sleep."

"And I'm not denying you your sleep. But I'm not denying myself the opportunity to have fun especially because we are on vacation. Next week it'll be business as usual."

"Why are you doing this Rory?"

"I am not doing anything Logan."

"This is our second fight. And I've only been here less than forty hours."

"Maybe if you acted more like a human being to my friends then we wouldn't be fighting."

'These people are not your friends. You barely know them." "I know them well enough to consider them as my friends." She retorted and walked away from him and into the house.

Hunter sighed in exasperation. He turned and faced the ocean. Further down the shore he could see Logan walk towards someone and hugged whoever it was from behind.

AN2: Okay, so I thought it's going to be confusing if I don't make a distinction between Logan Echolls and Logan Huntzberger. So in the next chapters Logan H. will be addressed as Hunter while Logan E. will still be Logan. In some cases Hunter will still be called Logan especially by Rory and the Gilmore Girls characters. But with the Veronica Mars cast he will be recognized as Hunter. Hopefully it won't be so confusing. And I'm already planting seeds on how the Rogan with an Echolls twist is going to work out. So watch out for those. That said thanks for reading. To my two reviewers:

tylerhiltongrupie53 : Thanks for the review as always. I'm glad you liked the action hero reference, I remember Keith saying the same thing about her and Jess feels the same way. And just because I love them together so much I can't help but give them moments in this fic even after it is a complete certainty that they are together for good. Thanks again for reading and for the review.

LoVe23: I hope you like this chapter now I'm definitely working on the Logan E and Rory story line. I appreciate the feedback on the Emily thing. I was trying hard to channel her as I was writing the last chapter. But I also tried to make her a little different, her grandsons made her a little less caustic but she still remembers everything and that's why she remembered Jess, this is the very same woman who kept harping on Lorelai that she should have married Christopher when she was sixteen. As for Richard I always thought that if he ever met Jess on the show he would most definitely like him, Jess is after all a literary buff. Thanks for the review, much appreciated as usual.