Rory followed Logan up to the heart ward where they were keeping Mitchum. A doctor spotted them entering his room and made his way over. "Mr and Mrs Huntzburger, I assume? I'm Doctor Davis" he asked shaking Logan's hand.

"Oh, uh we're not married." Rory said, her cheeks turning red.

"I just assumed, you came in together and were here together last night. My apologies." He flipped through a couple pages of the chart he held in his hand. "If you're not family, I can't go over his chart with you present." He said in a semi stern vocie looking at Rory.

"That's fine, I'll go down to the gift shop, come get me when you're done Logan." Rory said squeezing his hand before she made her way to the elevators to find the gift shop.

The doctor looked at Logan and nodded towards the slightly open door leading into Mitchum's room. "Let's go in there and talk. I'm afraid it is worse than we thought."

Logan followed the white coated gentleman into the small pooly decorated hospital room where his father laid covered in wires and blankets in a slightly elevated hospital bed. Shaking his head slightly he turned his attention back to the doctor.

"The tests show multiple blockages, and he needs bypass surgery. We tried to get ahold of his wife." Dr. Davis paused scanning the notes before continuing. "But couldn't get ahold of her. We need you to sign off since you are his other emergency contact."

Logan nodded, his dad had had high cholesterol and blood pressure for as long as he could remember so the current situation wasn't exactly a surprsie to him. "Of course. I'll do whatever I need to do. Will surgery happen today?"

Dr Davis nodded, "As soon as we get these papers signed and submitted, I have booked an ER for 12:30 this afternoon, it should take about four hours." He paused. "Unless we get in there and find something else. Then he will be here for about five days to recover before we can send him home. Of course those are just estimates, he could stay longer depending on how he heals, and how bad the damage really is in there. I along with my team will be performing the surgery, and we will keep you updated as much as we can throughout the surgery."

Logan nodded, absorbing what he had just heard. His dad had never really had major illness or health problems before, at least not that he knew about. The last time he had really spent any time in the hospital was when his niece and nephew were born, and before that was when Rory's grandfather had a heart attack. "Well, if you have those papers, I'll read over them and then we can go from there, I guess."

"Wait here, I'll go get the releases and forms and be right back." Dr Davis excused himself and Logan stood at the foot of the hospital bed his father laid in. Arms folded he stared at the man that had been anything but a father to him his whole life and sighed. He knew the old man couldn't hear him, and there wasn't anything Logan really wanted to say to him at the moment so he just stood there amid the beeps and whirs of the machines, watching the elder Huntzburger sleep. A few minutes later Dr. Davis returned and handed over a clipboard. Logan thanked him and walked over to a chiar, reading through the stack of pages signing and dating whem where it was notated. After several minutes he stood, and handed it back to the doctor who had busied himself checking Mitchum's stats. Logan and the doctor exchanged a few more words before Logan excused himself and headed downstairs. On the elevator ride down he pulled out his phone and sent Rory a message. "Where are you?"

Rory was sitting outside the gift shop the chair next to her full of bags when her phone beeped in her pocket. "Right outside the gift shop."

Logan found her a few minutes later and laughed shaking his head when he saw the pile of bags next to her. Approaching her he grinned. "Did a little shopping while you waited?" He asked extending his hand to help her up.

She took his hand and stood smiling. "Well no-one shops quite like a Gilmore, besides I wanted clean clothes. I found some cheesey Hartford t shirts, a pair of jeans that I paid way too much money for. Who knew they sold jeans at hospitals, and I even got you something." She laughed as she grabbed the bags and looked at him. "So what's the deal with your dad?"

Logan ran his hand through his hair, something Rory knew he did when stressed. "They are doing surgery in a few hours this afternoon. They couldn't get ahold of my mom, and so I had to sign papers. He's asleep, probably sedated until surgery. I saw him for few minutes." He shrugged. "Other than that, there's not a whole lot to report."

"So...do you want me to stay?" Rory asked as they looked into each other's eyes.

"Rory Gilmore, you know that I always want you to stay. But if you need to get back to something or someone, then you can. I'm not going to force you to stay here if you don't want to be here." Logan said softly.

Rory shook her head. "There is no-one. And I can do anything I need to do for the gazette here. I'll stay if you want me to."

"Thank you, it means more than you know for you to be willing to stay here." he glanced around and shrugged. "I can't see a reason for us to hang out here. I know that's a horrible thing to say. Any one else would be at the hospital pacing, or sitting with their father while they were waiting for him to go into surgery, but the thought of doing that seems so foreign to me. So whaddya say we go back to the hotel, and then figure out what to do while we wait."

"Sounds good to me. As long as you're sure you don't want to stick around here." Rory responded.

Logan just shook his head and they were off. As they walked to the car Logan smiled. "I have an idea of where to go after you get changed."

Rory's eyes lit up a little bit as she wondered what he was planning. "Okay, but remember I'm pregannt so no skydiving and bounce houses."

Logan laughed as they made their way to the car and he took her bags putting them in the back seat before opening the passenger side door for her. "Okay, I will make sure that neither one of us has to jump out of airplane or ends up in a bounce house."

Once they were both in the car and Logan had backed out of the parking spot he looked over at her and smiled. "I have one stop I want to make. Nothing too exciting. I'm just tired of wearing these dress pants." He said as he glanced down and the increasingly wrinkled pinstripe pants he was wearing.

Rory nodded, "Wherever you need to go. My fate is in your hands." She teased as she buckled her seatbelt and they were off.

"That makes it sound so much worse than it is. I just want to go to Gap and pick out some jeans and a couple tshirts. It looks like I am probably going to be here for a few days." Logan responded as he pulled the car out of the parking lot and glanced at Rory.

"You know, you don't have to stay here. You can come to Stars Hollow with me. My mom knew I was coming here, she told me to tell you. I'm sure she would let you come and stay at the house. You'd have to sleep on the couch, but it's better than being in a hotel."

Logan thought about what Rory had just said for almost a full minute before responding. He hadn't seen Lorelai since her father's funeral, and even then it had been in passing. They hadn't spoken since the night at Rory's graduation party when Rory had turned down his proposal. He wasn't sure things would be awkward or not,but the offer was sweet and he figured he didn't really have anything to loose. Looking at Rory as they sat at a red light waiting for it to change he smiled. "That sounds good to me. And you know me, I can sleep on any couch. I can sleep just about anywhere." He joked.

Rory smiled as she pulled her phone out and dialed from memory her mothers cell phone number. Even though it was programmed into her phone, she rarely used the contact and instead dialed it. It had been the same number since Rory was a freshman in highschool. After a few rings Lorelai answered. "Don't call me that mom." There was a pause during which Rory laughed and then asked. "Hey Logan's dad is in the hospital. They are doing surgery today and Logan was going to stay at a hotel, but I thought that was a waste of money so I offered him the couch at the house. Is that okay?" Rory listened for am minute and then with a smile on her face responded. "Thanks mmom, I'll let him know. We will be there sometime later." She said goodbye and hung up the phone before turning to face Logan who had driven them to Gap and parked while she had been on the phone. "Everything's good. She said to come whnever we were ready."

"Thanks Ace." Logan said before he shut off the car and they got out. "Just like old times, you telling me what will and won't look good."

Rory laughed as they walked into Gap together. "I still stand behind the fact that that purple shirt looked really good on you." she said referring to a shopping trip they made together years ago where they had spent twenty minutes arguing about if he should or shouldn't wear a lilac shirt she had picked out for him.