Chapter 7

Finn stood at the door thinking of everything he needed to tell Rory, he was prepared to start spewing out words as soon as the door opened but it was Rory that answered. It was an older version of her.

"Well hello beautiful?"

"Hello, strange Australian boy."

"Let me introduce myself, I'm Finn, a friend of Logan's…and you are?"

"A person who is about to close the door in your face."

"Wait, please. I come in peace. It was my fault Logan flew off the handle; he was only trying to protect Rory."

"How by saying he liked her so she would sleep with him?"

"Rory didn't hear the whole conversation between Logan and Drew, Drew set Logan up to make him out as the bad guy but Drew's the one not to be trusted."

"Okay fine, come in and tell me the story and then I'll decide if I'm going to kill Logan later tonight…By the way. I'm Lorelai, Rory's mom."

"Wow, those are good genes."

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He told Lorelai the whole story and then repeated it to Rory. He thought she would burst out crying but all she asked was "How many points I'm I worth?"

"Excuse me?"

"Finn, this isn't the first time I've heard of this game and I want to know if I'm still worth the 200."

"Kitten I would think you're worth thousands."

"Thanks you sweet, but just tell me."

"Yes you are still 200...You don't seem upset."

"I've thought a lot about the past few days and I kind of knew that Drew wasn't as perfect as he pretended. He mentioned a sick grandfather but after my talk with mom I talked to grandma and when I mentioned Drew's grandfather to grandma she said he was as fit as a fiddle and playing golf with grandpa. I hadn't had a chance to say anything to Drew since I hadn't spoken since I found out but at least I know it was all a lie…and even though I hate to admit it he had me going."

"Rory, I have an idea if you're up for it." Lorelai said with a glint in her eyes

"You know me, I'm always up for a challenge."

"Well Finn mentioned that Drew would lose whatever he accumulated last month what if he thought he was about to get the full 200? You lead him on and shoot him down. You know dress sexy and get him all worked up go skinny dipping…"

"Have someone take his clothes and walk away." Rory added with an evil smile.

Finn was shocked that Lorelai would suggest such a thing, most mom's did not want their daughters swimming naked. "You do realize you're telling your daughter to strip off her clothes in front of a jerk."

"It's not like he'll see that much of me besides the bikini's I've been wearing leave little to the imagination."

"You two are cruel …Remind me never to cross the two of you."

"Finn, would you mind helping me out a bit?"

"What do you need kitten?"

"Well I'll need someone to take his clothes, make sure you're around in case things don't work out correctly and lastly I need Logan to be sober."

"I'll be at the beach and I'll get Colin to work on Logan."

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That night Rory wore a pair of short dressy shorts and a loose halter top that completely exposed her back and on her feet her sexiest pair of sandals. Her hair was in loose waves and she looked good.

The doorbell rang exactly at seven; she gave the thumbs up to her mom took a breath in and prepared herself for the night.

She had a smile on her face as she opened the door. She saw his eyes roam over her body..

"Wow Rory, you look great."

"Thank you, you look nice too."

"Shall we go?" He offered her his hand and they were off.

The night was pretty much as she expected, the place he took her tonight was a little nicer then that place last night and he was telling her all the standard how beautiful she was and how he couldn't believe that a girl like her existed and how they could visit each other when school began since it would be just a train ride over. She just kept up the act then after dinner she suggested going back to beach.

They walked hand in hand until she stopped at the lounge chair she left earlier. She pushed him down and climbed onto his lap, she wasn't too thrilled with this part of the plan but she had to work him up to succeed. They started making out and she rubbed herself against him, it didn't take long for him to get to the stage Rory wanted, she pulled back with a smirk on her lips "You know I've always wanted to go skinny dipping…are you up for it?"

He stammered as he answered "yes". He couldn't believe how easy this was going to be. He thought he would have to work to reach his goal but here she was throwing herself at him and now offering to remove her clothes on her own.

She got off his lap and began to run down the beach discarding her clothing in the process, next thing he knew he saw her glowing skin submerge in the dark water.

"What are you waiting for?" she yelled and next thing he knew he was rushing out of his clothing and running out to meet her.

He was in the water searching for her, completely unaware that someone was collecting all the discarding articles of clothing. He spotted her and started swimming toward her, but it seemed every time he thought he would reach her he still had a distance to go.

"Drew, what's taking you so long? You know if you don't get to me soon I may have to take care of things myself."

His mouth flew open at those words and filled with the salt water, he spit it out and continued his pursuit. He swam out farther to get to her and just as he thought he reached her she was gone.

It was at this time that Rory took a huge breath and dove under the water, she was very happy that swimming was her forte in sports. She didn't like the darkness but she was determined to go through with this plan. She followed a buoy line she new about to the shore where she found her towel, thanks to Finn.

Drew had noticed her emerge from the water and began the long swim to her. "Rory…Rory…what are you doing? I thought you wanted to have some fun."

"Oh, I'm having the most fun."

He was approaching the shore but kept his lower half submerged scanning the beach for his clothes but also trying to talk to Rory. "Rory what is going on, I mean you were all over me and now."

She cut in. "And now I'm completely over you. You think I'm some stupid bimbo who couldn't figure out what you were doing?" She turned her back to him and started to walk away but stopped and made one last comment. "By the way I am so worth the 200, but these are points you will never get and after I post about this on my facebook page you'll be lucky to get 5 points. You'll be surprised how many 200 pointers I know"

She proceeded to run to her house laughing the whole way. She was met by Finn who handed her her clothes. "Thanks Finn, I owe you."

"Watching you run into the water and then emerge is payment enough." Even in the dark he could tell she was blushing.

"You watched? You told me you would turn away!" She hit him while laughing, she was definitely happy that she decided to wear a nude color thong.

"Well I did but I had to check and make sure everything was okay and I might have caught a glance or two…It's not my fault the moon was really bright and your skin is really fair…I can't wait till I tell Logan" He smiled devilishly.

"You may want to let me tell him, this way you won't get hurt. Well, I'm going to go put something on and go talk to him…I just hope we can be friends again."

"Don't worry kitten, everything will be okay." He gave her a hug; he knew everything would turn out right with Logan and her. "Now go before Drew emerges, I don't think you want to see him in his full glory but then again the stories you could tell especially with the shrinkage…you know my camera phone is pretty good."

She laughed. "I think I'll pass but I won't stop you from doing whatever you want with those pictures…Thanks again Finn."

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She was nervous as she approached the front door. She knocked and Colin answered. "How is he?"

"He's fine, we hid the liquor so he only had a couple of drinks and he's been nursing that beer for about an hour."

"Would you mind if we had some privacy?"

"Not at all, I'll go find Finn and make sure he isn't getting into any trouble."

"He's at the beach near my house…he's waiting for Drew to emerge and laugh about the shrinkage."

"It takes so little to entertain him." Colin laughed and headed out.

She walked in quietly watching him as he stared on the TV. She apprehensively approached the end of the couch when she finally made herself known. "Hey."

He was brought out of trance when the word was spoken, he quickly stood up "Rory…what…what are you doing here?"

"I came to apologize to you."

"Rory, you don't have to."

"No, I do. I was wrong today I should have talked to you and found out what happened instead of jumping to conclusion. I came here to ask for your forgiveness."

"Ace, I went over what was said and I can understand how it must have sounded and I'm the one who is sorry."

"Well since we both sorry, I accept your apology and I assume you accept mine…So friends?"

She stuck out her hand but instead of shaking it he used it to pull her to him and wrapped his arms around her.

They held each other for a few moments when Logan whispered into here ear "Ace."

"Yeah." She pulled back to look at him.

"Would you maybe consider being more then friends?"

She looked up to meet his eyes, she smiled and without saying another word she kissed him, once breathing became a necessity she pulled back and responded "Come on let's go to our place."

"Rory I'm not saying this as a come on line."

"Logan I know, I just think we need to go somewhere private to talk, I want to tell you what happened tonight with Drew and…why Finn has seen me almost completely naked." She mumbled the last part quickly.

"He what?!!! I'm going to kick his ass back to Australia!!"

"Come on it's really not that bad when you hear the whole story, really he was just watching out for me."

"Drew, Finn, naked…why I'm I having a hard time believing it's not that bad and what will your mother say?" He knew she told her mom everything.

"Nothing, it was basically her idea." She smiled as she pulled his arm and grabbed a blanket as they made their way to the alcove. "Come on…trust me."

They talked, laughed, kissed and held each other till the sun came up that night and many nights that followed.

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Well that's it.

Thanks to all those who read this. I know Rory was not like the Rory we knew, but this was AU and she had a little more confidence. I hope you all liked it:)