AN: Here you go! It's a little shorter than the last few chapters but I hope the content makes up for it. I actually do love Lorelai and Rory's relationship but I think that Rory needs to break away from Lorelai a little and that would make Lorelai completely lose her mind.
Hold on to your hats people, this chapter is going to be a ride.
On with the show!
The next few days flew by in a flurry of activity. Rory spent the majority of her time packing the last of her things and loading them into Luke's truck and her Prius. She had never seen her life packed away like this and it was interesting to see. She only ever took her essentials before but now she had packed up her entire life and was starting new. Stars Hollow had always been her home base and she was finally, permanently leaving and she was glad.
Lorelai on the other hand, not so much. Rory knew that Lorelai was upset about her moving, but Rory was sensing something else happening with her mom and she hadn't pointed out what exactly it was. Rory sighed knowing that laying in bed longer wasn't going to solve her problems, so she got up and finished the last of her packing.
There wasn't much left, just the last of her clothes, a few books, and her laptop. She packed everything up, stripped the bed and put the sheets in the wash and headed to the crap shack.
The last of her things were loaded in, then they headed out. Luke was driving his truck, while Lorelai rode up with Rory in her Prius.
Rory and Lorelai had spent the first half hour or so of the drive bantering and bickering over music. They had pulled over for a caffeine refuel and got back on the road, they had been back on the road for fifteen minutes before Lorelai changed the subject.
"Are you sure about this, babe?"
"What do you mean, mom? Rory said distractedly.
"Are you sure about moving? I always said that you should put yourself before a boy, and here you are, moving to be closer to a boy! A boy who has treated you terribly more times then I dare to count! You shouldn't be doing this, you should come home." Lorelai had somehow managed to go from calm, to hysterical and back to calm in four sentences. After Lorelai's outburst, Rory was starting to think that Lorelai's behaviour had less to do with her moving and more to do with the choices she was making.
"Mom, I'm not moving to be closer to Logan. It's a definite bonus but it isn't the only reason and you know this. I'm moving because I got a good job in New York." Rory said calmly, she wanted to avoid getting a reaction out of Lorelai.
"A job he set up for you!" Rory sighed, she pulled over into a gas station and pulled out her phone to text Luke that she had to pull over for a minute because she and Lorelai had to talk.
"Mom, the journalism business is run on nepotism, especially now and I have the best contact in the business. Logan may have called me first and didn't put out a wider job posting until he offered it to me, but it doesn't make me any less qualified. I've wanted a job like this since Yale, and I may have gotten it in an unconventional way but I have been handed an opportunity and I'm not going to turn it down." Rory was still trying to stay calm but was getting more worked up by the second.
"You have always wanted to be a foreign correspondent! You never wanted to settle and let other people do the writing and the dirty work."
"No, mom," Rory said finally giving in to her anger. "My dream changed. I am a person who likes stability and routine, I like having somewhere to go and assignments to complete then be able to come home to the same place every night. Sure, I wanted to travel and see the world, but I need somewhere to call home. It was you who wanted me to be a foreign correspondent. I tried to tell you that I had different dreams for my life, but it was as if you didn't hear me!"
"When did you tell me that you wanted to do something else? I would have listened!"
"When I first graduated, that day I met Christiane Armanpour. I told her I wanted to write for a major daily and when we got home you started talking about a day when I could rival her and that I'd be a better correspondent then her. Then later when I was on the trail and when I was freelancing. You kept pushing me towards something I didn't want."
"If you didn't want it, why didn't you come home?"
"Because I didn't want to come home! That's your life mom, not mine. I didn't want to spend my life in Stars Hollow. I wanted something more!"
"What's wrong with my life? With our life?" Lorelai said heatedly
"Nothing. I loved my childhood, but it isn't what I want forever."
"You're turning into one of them! Someone who doesn't have to work for anything and expects the world on a silver platter!"
"Maybe this job did just fall in my lap and I have definitely had my spoiled moments, but I'm not turning into some trust fund brat. I did that, it wasn't a whole lot of fun. Don't think for a minute I haven't had to work for my successes. I have spent the last ten years running in circles and working my ass off to compensate for Mitchum blacklisting me. I'm finally getting rewarded for my effort mom. The nepotism in journalism has been working against me for years, now it's doing me a favour and I am taking advantage of it. I thought you knew this?"
"I do! But it makes me angry that you are taking advantage of connections that others don't have! I didn't get my first job through connections."
"No, you didn't, but you didn't put in an application and have an interview either. You showed up at the Independence Inn and Mia felt bad for you. I at least have the resume, experience, and qualifications to back up my position." Rory said confidently.
Lorelai was quiet after that. Rory was proud of herself for making Lorelai see reason, or at least get her to be quiet for a minute. Rory started her car back up and pulled back onto the interstate. When Lorelai noticed the direction, they were headed she finally spoke up, "Where are we going? Stars Hollow is the other direction." Lorelai had hoped that her silence would sway Rory into seeing her side, but it had backfired.
"I know. Brooklyn is this direction, which is where I'm moving too, and you said you'd help me. I will not drive the 45 minutes back to Stars Hollow to drop you off then drive to Brooklyn. You can pout if you want to but today is moving day and I am going to move." Rory spoke with such a finality to her voice that it startled both her and Lorelai.
Lorelai was silent the rest of the ride, but Rory could tell that this wasn't over.
They had finally gotten to the apartment in Brooklyn after a very silent car ride. They pulled up behind Luke who was looking a little out of his element. Rory got out of the car, while Lorelai stayed behind and glared at Rory out the windshield.
"Hey, Rory. How was the ride?" Luke glanced towards the car and a confused look crossed his face as he saw Lorelai in the passenger seat. "What is she doing?" He said nodding towards the car.
Rory shrugged. "Pouting. She told me that I was turning into a trust fund brat by using nepotism in my favour I told her that I was taking the job whether she liked it or not and I wasn't going home so now she refuses to get out of the car."
"Seriously?" Luke said angrily
"Luke, don't. She does this thinking that it will make me bend to her whim."
"Rory," Luke said startled. "She is giving you the silent treatment. The last time you did this to me you were 16 and I had tried to give you decaf coffee."
"Yeah, she does this sometimes."
"Well, she can't stay in there all day."
"I'm not bending to her whims, I've done enough of that. If she wants to stay in the car, then she can, I'm not her mother." Luke looked at Rory carefully, he normally tried to stay out of Rory and Lorelai's fights. But he could tell that Lorelai was not being fair to Rory and Rory had bent to Lorelai's whims a lot more than was anywhere near healthy.
"Ok, you don't have to bend to anything but I'm going to try to get her out of the car. I've got a secret weapon." Luke then produced a couple of travel mugs of coffee. "It's my special blend. I was going to use it get her to leave but I think I'll use it now."
Rory laughed, Luke did know Lorelai well and he came planned for having to lure Lorelai somewhere and the best way has always been with coffee. "You came prepared."
Luke shrugged defeatedly and went over to the car. Rory couldn't hear but she watched the interaction as she rummaged through Luke's truck bed. Luke had leaned into the car through the open window and said something to Lorelai. She adamantly shook her head in the negative, clearly angry with what Luke had said. They were clearly arguing and continued to do so for a few minutes. As they did so the building manager came up to her to give her the keys, sign a few papers and tell her that the furniture she ordered from her shopping trip with Lane had been delivered and that everything was done according to her instructions. Once Rory was done with the building manager, she looked back towards the car to see Luke pulling the travel mug out from behind him and Lorelai perked up. He waved the mug around a little and Lorelai moved to get out of the car.
Rory tried to make herself look busy as they walked over to her. "I haven't forgiven you. But my husband is sneaky, he brought coffee and who am I to say no to the elixir of life."
"Duly noted. What are you taking up?" Rory said chuckling a little
"I think I'll supervise. I could almost be a professional by now and who am I to break what up until now has been a flawless system."
Rory rolled her eyes and Luke protested. "Lorelai, she shouldn't be lifting anything."
"Alright, calm down. I'll take something. But I want to see the place first." Lorelai said in a way that Rory couldn't quite define.
"That's actually a good idea. Open the doors, make sure it's structurally sound and I can change any light bulbs as we see them." Rory laughed and went to open the doors and clear a path. The delivery people should have the larger furniture set up and it would be good to see what they did before they started bringing in boxes.
When they walked in Rory saw that everything was in more or less the right spot, the sofa was against the far wall with the small tv stand across from it. "Kitchen, Living Room, and breakfast nook" Rory pointed out to Luke and Lorelai as she walked through her new home.
She had told the delivery men to put the kitchen table and chair next to the island and the desk under the window until she could take the bench seating out of the breakfast nook. One of the bookshelves was corner to the desk, one was next to the tv stand which meant one was in the bedroom. There was an armchair next to the bookshelf.
"Walk-in closet, pretty much what sold the place. Laundry room and storage, bathroom, future nursery with a walk-in closet." Rory said as she opened the miscellaneous doors branching off the hallway behind the kitchen. "And this is my bedroom. Complete with walk-in-closet and en-suite bathroom." When Rory looked in the bedroom she saw her bed assembled next to the door, the matching dresser on the opposite wall, an armchair in the corner by the window and the bookshelf in the corner by the bathroom.
"Everything seems sound," Luke said as he swung the bedroom door open and shut, before heading into the bathroom to do whatever he thought was necessary. "Is there anything you need me to do before we start hauling things up from the truck?"
"Yeah actually. Can you pull the benches out of the breakfast nook? It's just big enough for a little home office. Then can you move the desk in there so it's opposite the window and one of the bookshelves along the far wall?"
"Are you sure?" Luke said a little apprehensively. He had never lived in a place like this, but he figured something like that would be a big deal.
"I'm sure. I already talked to the building manager and they okayed it. Other people have done bigger renovations then that. Logan suggested it actually, I was on the fence between this place and another that had real office space, but the closets were almost non-existent and it only had one bathroom."
Luke shook his head and muttered what sounded a lot like 'women and their bathrooms' before leaving to get his tools.
Rory quickly hollered "Thanks, Luke!" Down the hall after him.
Rory turned to Lorelai who hadn't said anything on her little tour to ask her opinion. "So, what did you think?" Rory said hopefully.
"It's nice," Lorelai replied shortly. "How about you give me a tour of the neighbourhood? Give Luke a chance to unload the truck and rip out those benches." Lorelai wanted to get out of the apartment, hoping that the neighbourhood would give a better impression then the apartment did.
Rory took Lorelai to the diner a few blocks away and to the park to give her a tour of the area, the conversation was abnormally stilted, Rory was trying to avoid an argument with Lorelai, while Lorelai didn't want to have a fight with Rory in public.
They had eventually made their way back to the apartment and started unpacking boxes. Luke could feel the tension between mother and daughter and it was starting to make him uncomfortable. For the first time in years, he tried to break the ice. "So, how'd you find this place?" Luke cringed, he was never good at small talk and found it pointless.
"The usual way, online. I just googled condos for sale in Brooklyn and went from there." Rory said looking up from the box of books she was sorting.
"You told me you weren't ready to buy a condo." Lorelai said in a confused manner from her spot at the kitchen table. Luke had moved the furniture around so that the table was by the window and the office furniture was in the breakfast nook turned office.
"I wasn't then, I am now."
"I thought it was because you couldn't afford it." Lorelai said snippily
"Not with my meager paychecks. But I now have a reason to live permently in the city, so I need a place. I thought about renting but it cost the same to rent a place with two bedrooms in a nice area then to buy one." Rory knew what was coming the moment she mentioned money, so she stood so she could square off with Lorelai properly.
"How much did this place cost?" Lorelai said flippantly
"1.5 million dollars," Rory said pointedly
"1.5 MILLION DOLLARS!" Lorelai shouted. Luke and Rory both sighed at Lorelai's reaction. "How did you pay for that huh? You use your trust fund, or did you dip into your inheritance?" Lorelai said heatedly
"Yes, mom. I did use a little bit of my inheritance to pay for a nice place for me and my child to live. This place was the least expensive of the places I looked at too." Lorelai silently glared at Rory, hoping that Rory would cave. Much to Lorelai's horror and Luke's amazement and pride, Rory glared right back. The silent staring contest went on until Lorelai looked down at the mug in her hands. Rory smirked in victory and went back to unpacking some boxes.
"What's wrong with renting? Or somewhere less expensive? Is the working class not good enough anymore? Who needs to work their way up in the world or do things for yourself when you have millions of dollars at your disposal! What's next? Mansions? Estates? Hired help? Oh, I know you could mooch of my Inn staff since you already know they've got the credentials! Have a nanny raise your kid because why do it yourself if you could pay someone to do it for you!" Lorelai hollered
"Mom!"
"Lorelai!" Both Luke and Rory chastised her.
"What?" Lorelai said looking at Luke. "You don't need to spend millions on a good place to live. I proved that. Most people on the planet prove that everyday. We could help you find somewhere just as nice, and for less." Lorelai pleaded with Rory.
"No mom. I like this place, Logan was here when I saw it and helped me decide between this place and another. I trust his judgement mom, he was the one who suggested I turn the alcove into a office. I don't need somewhere cheaper, I like this place. And anyway, I start my job on Monday morning, I don't have time to move again. So, just stop it!"
Lorelai was quiet for a few minutes before speaking up, "Where'd this furniture come from?"
"I bought it with Lane. I told you we were going shopping." Rory said confused.
"I thought you were going browsing. This stuff isn't to your taste! There isn't one piece of funky or tacky furniture here." Lorelai said frustrated.
"Mom, it isn't to your taste." Rory said pointedly. "But this is all stuff I like. Plus, I went shopping with you for other things."
"That was all small things. Now that we're on the subject, how did all of this get here anyway?" Lorelai said suddenly coming to a realization.
"When I went into Pottery Barn and bought the furniture, they saw the name on my credit card. They asked if I was related to Emily Gilmore and when I said I was they insisted on delivering even when I said they would be bringing it here. They were so thrilled to be getting society clients."
"Society clients!" Lorelai shrieked. "We aren't society, we hate the type of stuff they sell in those stores."
"Mom. Enough! You were allowed to decorate your home in your style, and I'm allowed to decorate my home in mine. It's classy and a little funky. Just the way I like it. Classic and vintage looking furniture with funky accessories. Now either be quiet and help me unpack or leave."
Lorelai glared at Rory and seethed for a minute before stopping to the kitchen and started roughly unpacking the boxes. Rory sighed and let Lorelai slam her way through the kitchen. A few minutes passed when Rory saw Lorelai go for a light pink box that Rory had put next to the fridge.
"Wait!" Rory yelped as Lorelai went to grab the box.
"What now?" Lorelai snapped.
"Be careful with that! It's breakable." Rory carefully took the box, placing it on the bar part of the counter. She unwrapped the tissue paper and pulled out an antique Royal Albert tea pot, creamer, sugar bowl, and four tea cups and saucers. All light blue and decorated with white polka dots, extremely detailed light pink roses and 22 karat gold trim.
"What is that?" Lorelai said shocked as Rory carefully put the tea set on the counter.
"It's a tea set." Rory said simply, knowing it would piss off Lorelai that she didn't launch into a ramble.
"I can see that!" Lorelai heatedly yelled. "Where'd you get it?"
"Grandma gave it to me." Rory replied relaxed against her mother's glare.
"Oh." Lorelai said relieved. "Of course, its from my mother. Only she would give us a teapot." Lorelai laughed, not noticing that Rory disagreed with her. "It's so ugly and we have no use for a tea pot. Gilmore Girls only drink coffee, you would think she would know that, but the woman doesn't listen." Lorelai said snidely.
Lorelai thought that maybe Rory was still her mini-me, and that things weren't changing as much as they seemed at first. How wrong she was.
"I like it." Rory said confidently. "I think it's pretty, and it's an antique. It's made out of fine bone china. Apparently, it was a Royal Albert set from 1942, Grandma's mom got it as a gift after Grandma was born. The story goes that your great-grandfather was so pleased about grandma's existence that he got a first edition tea set to celebrate her birth."
"Stupid society people. What's wrong with a pair of booties or a onesie?" Rory rolled her eyes thinking that Lorelai would take issue with those as well. "That's what he chose. I like it." Rory repeated slowly, as she carefully put the set away.
"But, it's a teapot." Lorelai said disgustedly.
"I have nothing against tea or their pots, I'll drink it sometimes. I always have. Plus, the baby hardly tolerates coffee so I drink it more often now." Rory said flippantly. Lorelai gapped open mouthed at Rory, not believing what she was hearing.
"You drink tea?" Lorelai said baffled by Rory.
"Yeah, just a little. It's better for my stomach, heart rate and I can't have much now that I have the bean to think about." Rory smiled as Lorelai just stared at Rory shocked.
Lorelai was silent looked around the apartment confused for a few minutes. It was almost as if she wasn't believing what was in front of her. Eventually, Lorelai pulled herself out of whatever trance she was in and looked at Rory. "I'm going to go." Lorelai said angrily. Lorelai quickly gathered her things and went to the door. She looked back at Luke who was on the floor in front of the couch assembling the miscellaneous tables Lorelai and Rory had bought when out shopping. "Are you coming Luke?" Lorelai said easily.
"No, I'm going to help Rory put the rest of this together then move in the rest of her things. You can go bug the owner of the diner down the road and I'll get you when I'm done." Luke said dismissively. Lorelai huffed and left.
Rory sighed and slumped down on the couch finally letting herself relax. She put her head on the back of the couch and closed her eyes. Letting herself fully process what happened and she realized how exhausted she was.
After a few minutes, she relaxed and got back up to unpack more boxes.
Rory started sorting the boxes that had been put in her bedroom when she heard voices coming from the stairs. She knew Luke wasn't one to start talking to just anyone so she walked out to the main area to find Logan putting down the grocery bags he just brought up.
"Logan" Rory spoke softly
"Hey, Ace. Looks like I got here just in time for the fun to start." Logan smirked as he gestured to the piles of boxes and bags piled around the apartment.
Rory smiled, blown away that he had come to help move her in on a Thursday afternoon. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to help my girlfriend move into her new apartment."
"Shouldn't you be at work?" Rory said stunned
"That's the nice thing about being the boss, I can take some time off when I want too. The place looks good Ace." Logan smirked at Rory knowing he surprised her.
"You sure?" Rory questioned quietly. "It's not too big or too expensive? You don't think I should find a cheaper place somewhere else? I mean, I don't need to spend over a million dollars on an apartment! I certainly don't need an antique tea set from the 40's!" Rory had started to tear up a little as her ramble went on, startling Logan.
"Whoa, Ace." Logan came closer to Rory and gripped her shoulders tightly and looked her in the eye. "What's going on? What happened?"
"My mom asked me if I was too good for working class people now and if I was going to start poaching her staff for hired help and have a nanny raise the baby." Rory chocked out between sobs.
Rory slumped forward into Logan's arms and he wrapped his arms around her, so he was holding her up. Logan sighed frustrated with Lorelai. He knew something was going to happen, but he had been hoping that he would be there for Rory when it did, he was secretly hoping he was wrong and that there wouldn't be any type of blow up.
"It'll be ok." Logan gently whispered to Rory as he kissed her head.
"What's wrong with teapots?" Rory muttered into his shirt.
"Absolutely nothing, baby." Logan was still confused about the teapot issue, but he knew better then to interrupt her meltdown to ask about it. Logan gently rocked Rory trying to get her to calm down. When she had relaxed a little, he lifted her into a bridal carry and moved over to the couch, sitting down with her on his lap. She curled into him and kept crying, every once in a while, mentioning mansions, nannies and teapots. Logan just held her, let her cry and would whisper reassuring words in her ear.
As she started to calm a little Logan shifted so that he could rain kisses down on Rory's face. He kissed both eyelids, her cheeks and the tip of her nose. He noticed that she smiled when he kissed her nose then leaned down and kissed her lips.
After the kiss, he leaned is forehead against hers and smiled at her. "Feeling better?"
Rory smiled and nodded backing away from Logan a little so she could focus on his face. "Yes I am, thank you."
Logan cocked his head to the side and smiled slightly at her. "You're welcome." He said softly
Rory untangled herself from Logan, so she was sitting next to him, that was when she saw Luke silently observing the whole scene from the hallway. "Oh, sorry Luke." Rory said slightly embarrassed that Luke had witnessed the whole display.
"No, that's ok Rory." Luke paused a second glancing between Rory and Logan. "Can I ask a question?"
"Sure."
"What was that back there, with you mom?" Luke said concerned
"It was her just her usual nonsense." Rory replied
"Her usual nonsense? You had a massive meltdown!" Luke said shocked
"Pregnant lady hormones." Rory said dismissively "But, Luke," Rory looked at Luke. "You've been married to my mom for close to two months and you've been essentially married for ten years. Why are you so confused? You should know that she does this."
"I knew she didn't always react well when things didn't go her way. But that looked suspiciously like a temper tantrum."
"That's because it was. It took me a while to figure out that it's not best to engage when she throws one of those, it's best to stand your ground."
"She does like to throw those." Logan added. Luke took in the man next to the girl he always thought of as a daughter and realized something. Logan really loved her, even after all these years and she would be safe and loved with him. He didn't need to worry about him breaking her heart.
"When did you learn that?" Luke said focusing on the conversation at hand.
"I had a loose understanding of it by the time I was twelve or thirteen, but I fully figured it out when I went to Yale. When I left the tantrums became more frequent."
"Especially after we got more serious, right?" Logan looked at Rory for confirmation.
"Yeah. She didn't like that I was falling for a society boy and liked to show me just how much she disliked it."
"The most spectacular one was after the Grand Theft Boating incident." Logan said referencing her time off from Yale.
"That wasn't exactly my crowning glory, but it could have been handled better."
Luke just stared at Rory in disbelieve. "You parented your parent." Luke said suddenly
"Yeah, and no one really parented me. I figured it out on my own. I was never really a wild kid but when I had my wild moments I wasn't really kept in check."
Luke nodded his head in agreement and got lost in thought. "That would explain so much. I'm a little impressed you turned out so well after all that."
Rory shrugged casually "It happens. Way worse things happened to Jess then happened to me. I had questionable parenting from a young and immature mom who never fully grew up. Jess' mom was actually negligent, and an addict, how he turned out so well is amazing."
Luke sighed "I should have done something earlier." Luke said remorsefully
"What's done is done, Luke. We survived."
Luke was quiet for a few minutes and surveyed the half-unpacked apartment. "What are you going to do about Lorelai?"
"Not much you can do. Just hold on and brace for hurricane Lorelai."
"What do you mean by 'brace'? Wasn't that hurricane Lorelai?"
"Nope. That was just the first few gusts of wind. Something more is coming, I'm just not sure what."
Luke looked at Rory and then he did what he always did when he was uncomfortable, he started to repair things. He got back on the floor and finished putting together the furniture. Rory smiled at the man she had always considered a father and thought about how grateful she was to have him in her life. "Thank you, Luke."
"Anytime Rory."
Luke finished up putting together the last of the furniture, he was about to move it to the proper spots before Logan stopped him and told Luke that he'd move the furniture.
"Well, I'm going to go Rory. I'll talk to you later."
"Thank you, Luke." Rory said as she gave him a hug. Luke awkwardly returned it, glad that she was comfortable enough to do that
"You're welcome." Luke backed up a little and grabbed his tool box and headed towards the door. "I'll try and calm down your mom."
"Thanks, for trying." Rory smiled sadly knowing that Luke was likely going to end up getting caught in the cross fire.
"And you," uke looked sternly at Logan, not being able to help the protective father routine. "Take care of her, and if you hurt her or that child, I will kick your ass."
"Understood, sir. But I'd never hurt her or our child." Logan wrapped one arm around Rory's waist, dropped a kiss on the crown of her head and extended the other hand to shake Luke's hand.
Luke nodded as he shook Logan's hand, knowing that he could trust him with Rory. "Bye Rory. I'll see you soon."
"Bye Luke, thanks for everything."
"Anytime, I mean it." With another round of goodbyes and another hug, Luke left to track down Lorelai and give her a piece of his mind.
Logan led Rory back to the couch and they sat in silence for a few minutes.
"Ok, I've got to ask Ace, what is the deal with a teapot?" Logan said hesitantly, he didn't want to spark another meltdown, but he really did want to know what she was talking about.
"Grandma gave me a family heirloom as a house warming present. She said now that I had a place of my own, she was giving me this tea set from the 40's."
"Oh." Suddenly the meltdown made more sense. Lorelai must have had a bad reaction to the heirloom and how much Rory paid for the apartment and then his comment about the apartment was the final straw. "Would you tell me about it?"
Rory smiled, nodded and wandered into the kitchen getting out the Gilmore tea set. "My great-great-grandfather was so pleased when grandma was born that he bought her mother a first edition, Royal Albert tea set."
"An original Royal Albert from the 1940's?"
"1942. But grandma said something about this set not being released until '43."
"It's beautiful."
"I think so. I'm glad Grandma trusted me with the family heirloom."
Logan smiled as Rory started rummaging through some of the boxes strewn about the apartment, he noticed that she looked absolutely exhausted and wondered if she had sat down at all today. He was about to ask if she wanted to sit down when he saw her yawn and sway a little. Logan rushed over to her side so that he was supporting her weight. "Are you ok, Ace?" He said concerned.
"Yeah, I'm just exhausted and hungry." Logan nodded as he gently led her to the couch and sat her down.
"When was the last time you ate?"
"I had breakfast at Luke's before we left." Rory said sheepishly
"Rory, that was almost five hours ago."
"Closer to six I think."
"Have you had anything to drink?" Logan said sternly. Rory just shook her head and tears started to well up in her eyes. "Oh, Rory." Logan said gently noticing she was getting upset. He kissed her forehead quickly before going to the kitchen to get her some juice.
When he returned, he sat nest to her put the glass of apple juice in her hands. "Drink up." He gently added and smiled slightly when she drank the glass.
"I'm sorry." Rory said softly.
"What are you sorry for?" Logan said honestly confused.
"I should've taken better care of myself and noticed that I hadn't had anything to eat or drink since this morning."
"It's ok. It was an easy fix." Rory shook her head adamantly and looked like she was going to cry again. "Ace, baby, look at me please." When Rory still wouldn't look at him he gently guided her chin so that she was facing him. "Hi," He smirked at her which got her to smile a little, which had calmed him down. "You said you were hungry, what do you want to eat?"
"Do we have any chicken?"
"Yeah, I can grill it up for you if you point me in the direction of your pans."
"Try the boxes that says 'Luke's property.'" Rory said with a smile.
"Lorelai?"
"Yep. You should've heard her when she found out I owned kitchenware. She nearly had a heat attack. Logan laughed, fully believing that Lorelai would be horrified at the idea of Rory owning pots and using the kitchen for more then just storage.
They ate quietly and when they were finished Logan told Rory to stay put and he'd deal with the dishes and the mess.
"Are you planning on unpacking my boxes because that is the majority of the mess." Rory teased as she went to break into a few more boxes.
"No, no, no." Logan gently said from the kitchen. "You sit and relax and I'll unpack."
"Seriously?"
"Seriously. I won't let our precious cargo get bounced about because you're be stubborn. "
"Logan, I'm pregnant, not sick. I can help unpack the apartment."
"Well, you've had a long day as it is and I'm pretty sure you only sat when it involved unpacking. So, sit and you can bark orders at me from the couch."
"Well if you're not going to let me help and are banishing me to the couch, you're going to have to get me whatever I ask for." Rory smiled as she teased him.
"Yes dear." Logan smiled as Rory barked out a laugh as Logan started unpacking the piles of boxes and cleaning up the lunch dishes.
The day had gone on in a similar fashion, Rory wanting to help, Logan not letting her off the couch then Rory demanding food and drink every time Logan told her to stay put. It was oddly domestic and both Logan and Rory revelled in the feeling of being together properly once more.
Rory woke up suddenly, briefly confused as to where she was. After a brief moment of panic, she remembered that she was in her new apartment and that likely Logan had put her to bed before he left.
She stretched out in order to roll over and she hit something warm and soft on the other side of the bed. She looked up and saw that it was Logan fast asleep. She rolled over so she could look at him better while he slept. He looked so peaceful while he slept. She had missed this, falling asleep next to him, her books on her nightstand and his papers on his. It was a small and simple thing but it was those little things that she missed the most.
She smiled and snuggled into his side thinking that this was where she belonged and that she might just get her happily ever after, after all.
AN: Next chapter, dragons den with Shira Huntzberger. Also, that tea set really exists! It's part of a 100 years collection from Royal Albert and it was based on the 1940 designs, I just tweaked it so it really was from the '40s
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