Not too long after this they were lying in bed together, cuddling up against each other. Rory was surprised that Logan didn't seem angry with her. He hadn't really seemed angry with her at all even though she knew how terrible it was to have left him like that and shut him out of her life for so long.

"So do you want to savor this or should we start talking now?" she finally asked.

"One more second." said Logan, crushing her to him. Then he released her a little. "Okay, lets talk now."

"Where do you want to start? The apology? The explanation? The questions?" Rory asked.

"Well I think you apologized when you first got here, so I guess first the explanation and then the questions." said Logan.

"Well I freaked out and left, that part you know. So what else do you want me to explain?"

"What made you come back?" asked Logan, looking at her intently.

Rory took a deep breath. "I talked with an old friend."

"Old boyfriend?" asked Logan.

"Yeah. Dean. But nothing happened. We had just been hanging out and he asked me what was wrong and I told him and I tried to tell him that I was over it all but he didn't believe me. He kept insisting that I still love you."

"Does he still love you?" Logan asked with a hint of jealousy.

"No, he loves his ex wife. He just knows me really well. And he knew that I was just shutting myself off from everything. And then I cried finally, and for the first time I started to feel better."

"Then what?"

"I panicked. I realized what I had done to you, to us, and that I still loved you and wanted to be with you so I tried to find you as soon as possible. I'm really really sorry Logan. I can't believe that you are even willing to talk to me, much less forgive me."

"I believe that was an apology, which we've already covered. And I guess you've explained, so what questions do you have?"

"Why are you living with Marty?" she asked. "I didn't know you two were even friends."

"Well a lot has happened since you left. Marty and I became friends on the day that I helped him to bartend and I've been working with him a lot since, and he asked me if I wanted to move in. He's a really cool guy."

"What happened with my grandmother?" Rory asked, having a million questions and wondering in what order to ask them.

"The day after you left she came out and fired me with no explanation. I figured she heard about us and was all too willing to get rid of me." he said.

"Oh. Sorry about that. I didn't mention anything to her, but maybe something got around. She probably figured that I wouldn't want to see you around there.

"Yeah well it doesn't matter. Something better came along." Logan smirked. Rory couldn't believe how much like his old self he was again. He was cocky, confident and definitely teasing her.

"What? What happened?" Rory squirmed in his arms, trying to turn to face him.

"Well I found a way to screw over dear old dad a little bit and make some money in the process." Logan grinned, it had felt good, damn good to stick it to Mitchum Huntzberger, even just a little.

"What did you do?" Rory asked, shocked.

"Well it wasn't too much, its just a drop in the bucket to him, but still it showed him that I wasn't about to crawl under a rock and die. I found out that in trying to excise me from his life he missed a couple spots. I was so close to graduating and after graduation I was supposed to learn the family business. Well it turns out that he had already turned over a couple of the smaller newspapers to me, just put them in my name so I could really start learning what it was all about. He put them in my name because he wanted me to take responsibility for them, and also because they were pretty small, so their success or failure didn't really matter to him. They were just supposed to be practice. I sort of remember him telling me about it on one of the trips, but I didn't pay much attention at the time. Hell I was probably drunk. And when all the craziness started he forgot to get my name back off them because they were such small affairs. So now, I am the proud owner of 2 small newspapers. There were three but I sold one to raise some cash. I took legal possession of them, and everything was legit so Mitchum can't say anything about it." Logan smirked.

"Oh my god, I can't believe it!" said Rory. "You own papers?"

"Yeah, I own papers."

"What papers?" Rory asked, excited.

"Well one of them is the Stars Hollow Gazette. Mitchum had just recently acquired it but it was so far under his radar that he completely forgot about it. Now the reader base is very small, but I'm sure we could increase it."

"The Stars Hollow Gazette? You own the Stars Hollow Gazette!" Rory exclaimed.

"Yeah the whole thing went pretty well. I got a call from one of the papers asking about an offer to buy it, which was how I found out I owned it in the first place. The first thing I did was make sure that there was no legal recourse Mitchum would have when he found out that I was taking possession and then I checked out the offer. It was a pretty good offer so I sold that paper and I've been looking into the other two."

"What's the other paper?" Rory asked.

"The Hartford Courier. That was the biggest one of the three. The third one was in Nevada so I decided to keep the ones that are nearby and see if they can become at all profitable. I figured I'd hang on to them until you came back and took a look."

"Didn't you ever think that I wasn't coming back?"

"Of course I did. I thought everyday that there was a good chance that you were never going to come back and that I had lost you forever. I just realized that I need to live for me. I can't depend on you all the time. And I was determined that if you did ever come back I was going to have something to show you."

"How did you get to be so mature?" Rory wondered, looking at him with admiration. "I completely fell apart."

"I don't know. I guess there was more to me than I thought."

He gave her a quick kiss, still holding on to her as if he could physically prevent her from ever leaving again.

Suddenly there was a sharp, impatient knock on the door. Rory jumped a little, startled, as Logan got up, pulling on his pants as Rory slipped into a robe. Logan was finally decent enough to answer the door.

As the door swung open Logan's mouth dropped open in surprise.