AN: Wow! Thanks for all of the wonderful reviews everyone I love you guys! This is the initial hook up then it goes into some filler and some Rory/ Summer rivalry. Hope you enjoy, I promise to keep up the frequent updates too!
Italics are thoughts of flashbacks.
I don't own Gilmore girls!
"Logan?" Rory whispered over the bodies of Madeline and Louise.
"You're still awake Ror?" his voice whispered back.
"No, I'm just talking in my sleep," Rory said giggling. Suddenly, she felt his hands on her waist pick her up and throw her over his shoulder. Rory made a mini- squeak but covered her mouth with her hand so that she wouldn't wake anyone. Logan carried her back up to the balcony, eager to talk now that things were out in the open. He put her down gently on the bench and he sat next to her. "You heard about Marissa?" She nodded.
"And you heard about Austin, Jess and Dean," Rory stated. Both of them sat silent with things running through their heads that they couldn't put into words.
He won't hurt you Rory. He's different. Take a risk, put your heart on the line one more time, and if this time it doesn't work ...Then join a convent. But you can't let something that can be so great get away because you're scared. If anything, he's as scared as you are, but he's all in. You're ready for this.
She isn't Marissa, Huntzburger. She's different. She's better. And she has feelings for you. Who gives a damn about your reputation, she's worth the trouble. She's worth the world. You can't be scared; if she's scared you have to be her rock. You have to prove her wrong. Show her that you're not going to run away like those other jack asses. You're ready for this.
It was Rory's turn to confess her feelings, even though she knew very well that he was already aware of them, "Logan, I have feelings for you, and I'm tired of trying to fight them because of my fear. I'm putting myself on the line here, for a chance at something. I don't really know what, but I know that it's something."
"So you're saying, you want to be my girlfriend?" Logan said with his cocky smirk in place.
There it was, the cockiness Rory loved and hated at the same time, "Dates would have to be involved before the whole girlfriend thing Logan."
"The point of a date is to get each other is it not?" Logan asked her with a scheme on his mind.
"Yes it is," Rory said,not quite grasping the purpose of the stupid question.
"So you're saying we don't know each other enough. Hm. That's funny since we've already shared two amazing kisses and just fully opened up to one another as well as our friends, I would think we know each other pretty well."
Rory sighed, "Logan it would be too much of a risk not dating and jumping straight into a relationship. We still don't know many things about her, and we may find something out that we don't like about the other, and just end up hurting. It's a big risk." She turned her head to face the sky, not wanting to see what reaction Logan had.
Logan looked at her and when she didn't turn to face him, he cupped her chin with his hand turned her face towards him. He looked longingly into her sparkling blue eyes, as if he were searching for something. He had no clue in the world what that something was: assurance, hope, love? He truly had no idea, but he looked into her eyes and found something he hadn't seen in Marissa's and before he could lean in to kiss her, she pulled him towards her and kissed him with all she had.
As Logan looked into Rory's eyes, Rory felt like she had everything she ever needed before, that her life was complete. She couldn't take waiting for him so she just pulled his lips to hers and kissed him with all she had, and he returned it. When the need for air came, they both pulled apart but leaned each others foreheads together. Ok maybe a risk wouldn't be too bad.
"Rory, I'm willing to take a risk if you are," Logan said looking into her eyes.
Rory stared at him, attempting to make a pro-con list in her head but unsuccessful. It's almost as if Logan had removed the need for that. With Logan everything was con. Rory sighed, "Ready for anything," she said to him smiling, saying a phrase that would mean a lot more in her future.
"Ready for anything," Logan said echoing the expression that started something new, but definitely something lasting between the two teens.
It was Monday. Two days ago Rory had been trying to control unexplainable feelings for a pompous blonde she barely knew. One day ago, Rory had kissed someone with all she had, and felt things she had never felt before. And today, she was a taken girl, with doubts from past relationships gone. She had a fresh slate.
After spending another hour on the balcony just holding each other, Rory and Logan had gone back downstairs and fell asleep in each other's arms for the first time. They both woke up to find their 6 friends, and four parents staring at them intensely. Rory and Logan had brought the guys and the girls into two separate rooms, so that they could talk to them about what had happened the night before.
"… and then he repeats it 'ready for anything'," Rory said with tears gleaming in her eyes. All of the girls awed at the end of the story. Liz and Lorelai loudly blew their noses while Louise, Madeline, and Stephanie looked with admiration at the girl who had tamed their man whore of a best friend.
"Rory, just promise us you'll be careful with him," Lorelai said. She knew what drama she went through with her past boyfriends and it broke her heart to see her daughter after those experiences.
"I promise," Rory said intending to keep her promise.
After, the girls just sat in silence for a while, eating their breakfast pancakes and looking around when out of the blue Lorelai exclaimed, "LET'S GO TO NEW YORK!"
The girls just looked at her like she had gone crazy, but Liz only had a look of pure excitement, "OH MY GOSH CAN WE STAY AT THE WALDORF!" The girls put on even more confused looks and then progressed to laughing.
"They think we're joking," Lorelai said to Liz. Rory, who was sipping on her coffee, nearly spit it out. "Are you serious!"
"As serious as a funeral," Liz said.
"As serious as the cancellation of friends," Lorelai shot back.
"As serious as Rory during finals!" Liz said with a smirk on her face. Rory just rolled her eyes at this while her friends let out a couple chuckles.
"Oh oh! As serious as a coffee shortage!" Lorelai said causing Rory to gasp, "Don't even joke about that!"
"As serious as Paris Hilton's newest engagement!" Liz said spitting out the only thing she could thing of.
"Aw you lose Liz. That's not serious at all," Lorelai said causing the room to erupt in laughter.
After they had calmed down and finished their food, Lorelai brought it up again. "I was serious though. We should all go, make a big road trip out of it. We can go for New Years, and then stay in the Waldorf go to time square, spend everyone's money but our own. What do you say?"
The girls other than Rory watched Lorelai with pure reverence and respect in their eyes. This was the first mom they had ever met who was part of the social class circle who didn't have a stick up their but. All of their mothers never even said 'Good Morning' to them, they simply didn't care like Lorelai did about Rory.
"Sounds great mom," Rory said, from the looks on the faces of her friends, she could tell they approved.
"You'll just have to ask your parents ladies, or if you're not up to asking me and Liz will," Lorelai said kindly to the 3 girls that were staring at her.
"It shouldn't be a problem, they won't even know we're missing," Stephanie said with some spite in her voice. Lorelai felt sorry for these girls, never experiencing the love that Rory had. She wanted to change that.
"Alright, sounds good, now me and Lorelai are going to go plan. You girls have fun! Love you," Liz said getting out of her chair followed by Lorelai. "Love you girls!" she said giving them each a hug and kiss on the cheek.
As the two walked away, they heard an assortment of heartfelt I love you too's and even a couple of sniffles.
It was Monday, another day of hell for Logan Huntzburger. Wait no it's not because Rory's going to be there with me. He smiled to himself. He wasn't going to screw this one up, he cared about her too much to do that. The fact that he got threatened multiple times the day before also pushed him to stay on his toes, but his feelings for Rory was most of the reason.
"So then I asked her out," said Logan as he sipped on his coffee while watching the Tivo'd basketball game with his friends, Eric, and Christopher.
"Nice," said Tristan, not even taking his eyes off of the big screen TV in the den.
"Did you get any?" Finn asked stupidly, forgetting the fact that there were two very over protective fathers in the room. Logan froze and Christopher and Eric looked at him with a threatening gaze that said "If you say yes, you'll die."
"Finn you idiot, her two father figures are sitting right there!" Colin said smacking him on the head.
"I'm not going to
push her to do things Finn, so no," Logan said nervously. "Did it
get hot in here all of a sudden?" he thought.
Christopher suddenly got out of his seat and reached for the remote, shutting off the game. "Alright we need to talk." Tristan groaned, he knew what was coming and although he thought it was very important, the game was also the first game of the season.
"What is it sir?" Colin asked. Of course he knew what was going on, but he had to support Logan some how. Chris glanced at him and looked back at Logan.
"I love Rory very much," Chris started. "We both do," said Eric. "We all do," Tristan corrected, standing up next to his father and Chris to look down at the guys.
The three gulped, all looking very nervous and very intimidated.
"Now I understand that you all think my daughter is… good-looking, and I'm fine with you dating her, you seem respectable enough and deserving enough of her," Chris said trying to be nice, but still using his fatherly voice, "But I don't want her to be used like a… like a… like sun block during the summer!" Chris exclaimed. This idiom caused Tristan to snort, only to receive a glare from Chris.
"My point is, if ANY of you hurt her… I will how you say," Chris paused to pretend to ponder, "I will kill you. Slowly and painfully. And if I am not able to fulfill these duties, then Eric will, if Eric can't, Tristan will. Now, if by chance all three of us can't, then there's Matt and Austin. Or we can get our parents on you, which would be just at bad…" Chris had no idea he was bantering, but the others did and Eric cut in.
"His point is, that if you hurt Rory, be prepared for the consequences. It's fine you date her, but we certainly do not want to know if you 'got any'," he said this with air quotes, "or anything that has Rory and sex or kissing or tongue or anything relative in the same sentence, no paragraph, no dialogue!"
The three boys this whole time were looking very scared and disturbed. They came to realize that Rory was a much loved girl, and although they had no intention of hurting her, it was still very scary.
"Understood fellahs?" Tristan said, trying very hard not to laugh at their terrified faces.
"Understood," said Logan with confidence in his voice, looking Chris straight in the eye.
"Yessir!" said Finn and Colin with a salute and a slight smile, knowing most of the heat was on Logan.
"Good," Eric Dugrey said, "Now back to the game," he stated turning the TV back on and sitting down followed by Chris and Tristan.
Rory and Tristan arrived at Chilton. Rory looked at the school differently now, instead of hell, it was more like an excuse to hang out with her dear friends. When Rory and Tristan got out of the car, Rory noticed the three girls that she had become so close with in short period of time were waiting for her with anxious looks on their face.
"Go ahead of me, I don't see the guys so obviously they're here to talk to me," Rory said to Tristan. Tristan reluctantly left Rory with the girls and went to go find the guys in their corridor. He knew something was up, he just didn't know what.
Rory watched Tristan walked off, and turned to walk towards her friends, but immediately found herself face to face with them. "Guys what's wrong?"
"She and her little posse walk into our hallway and starts flirting with our guys, and we tried stopping her but she completely ignored us!" Louise said with anger spilling over in ever word.
"Who?" Rory asked a little worried. She trusted Logan, but it had been a while since he had been in a real relationship, and it might take some getting used to.
"Summer and her little side kick skanks," Stephanie replied, "There are four of them, and Summer is apparently the leader, and she still had this idea that she's the queen and Logan's her king. Obviously she doesn't know about the events of the weekend, but we figured we had to tell you ASAP and you can show her who's queen."
Rory just looked at her. By claiming herself as queen, which would mean she would be the leader of the girls of this little clique that her new friends had going. Who could it hurt? "Are any of them responding to the flirting?" Rory asked getting a little annoyed at these bimbos.
"No, but we told the guys what they were trying to do, and they just told us we were crazy," Louise said rolling her eyes. "They can be really stupid."
"Ok," Rory said straightening herself out, "Let's do this." Rory applied some shiny lip gloss and unbuttoned one extra button. The other girls followed suit, apparently using Rory as a model. "Are we looking for hardcore bitches look or are we looking for we're cooler than you clique or not?" Rory asked them.
"Let's shoot for in between," said Stephanie taking a spot to the left of Rory as they entered the school. The girls walked down the halls of Chilton receiving many hoots and low whistles. While the other three girls openly winked and blew kisses at the guys they passed, Rory completely ignored them. She was a faithful girlfriend and wouldn't flirt with other guys.
The four reached the end of their hallway to see Summer and 3 other girls talking to the guys and the guys laughing at something. Rory immediately felt jealous, but remained poised and told the girls to follow her lead. The four walked passed the guys, giving their hips an extra sway as they pretended to not notice them. Louise even went as far as to pretend she was on her cell phone. The four went straight to Rory's locker and immediately noticed the guys watching them. They all smirked with satisfaction.
The guys were laughing at something stupid Summer said when they saw the other half of their group appear at the end of the hall. They were ready to greet them as they made their way towards them, but to the guys' surprise, they just walked right past them and to Rory's locker. All the guys had their eyebrows raised and were now completely ignoring Summer and her group.
Rory felt Logan's eyes on her, and as much as she wanted to claim her territory, she had to play it cool. She wasn't going to be over protective irrational girlfriend. Yet. At the moment, the girls were all pretending there was something very interesting in Rory's locker, and had yet to face the guys. "Now," Rory whispered, and all at the same time they turned to see the guys staring at them. Rory smiled sweetly at them, and let her head shoot to a very green-eyed looking Summer. This is going to be fun!
The girls approached the guys, but instead of addressing the guys, they turned to the girls that were giving them death glares.
"Hi!" Rory said perkily while tilting her head, "I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting your friends before Autumn!" Stephanie, Louise, and Madeline all smirked at her comment, while the guys looked on with great amusement.
Summer's eyes turned to slits as she spat back, "It's Summer, bitch, and you know that."
"Now, now no need to get all touchy. Just trying to be amiable," Stephanie said in a similar sprightly voice from behind Rory. "Ah, so they're taking the perky road," Tristan thought. He knew that Rory had different approaches for different things, but this one where she played perky cheerleader type was his favorite.
"Whatever, can't you see we're busy talking to our men," Summer said grabbing the hand of Logan. Logan looked to Rory worried, he didn't want her to get pissed, but to his surprise she stood there with the same bright smile she had on since she walked down the hall.
"Oh I'm sorry!" Rory said in her still annoyingly lively voice. This apology surprised Summer. "Maybe she's given up," she thought naive.
"I just wanted to introduce myself and my friends to your companions."
This time Rory turned to the very confused girls standing next to Summer, "Hi I'm Lorelai Leigh Gilmore Hayden," she began, and all of a sudden their smiles all turned to threatening glares synchronized.
"This is the best part," Tristan thought anticipating the change of mood.
"I'm Lorelai Leigh Gilmore-Hayden the 3rd, and I'm the fucking queen of this school," she said in an intimidating whisper. "Now, since you girls don't really know me that well I'll give you a fair warning: Stay away from these boys if you know what's good for you." The three girls looked extremely scared, and Rory felt a twinge of guiltiness come over her which was taken away when Summer's annoying voice sounded.
"Don't listen to her girls. This bitch doesn't know what she's talking about, everyone knows that I'm the queen here, and Log-Log is my king."
The girls had to try very hard not to laugh. Log-Log. Now, while the girls didn't laugh the guys all let out audible snickers before coughing to cover it up.
"Summer, what did I tell you about messing with me or any of my friends?" Rory asked, "Oh wait you must've forgotten, yeah that's what happens when your skull is constantly banging into headboards." This comment made the Louise let out a wicked chuckle and the guys to straight out laugh. Logan smiled, "My girlfriend is so clever."
Summer just stared at her, not able to think of a intelligent comeback to Rory's wit. "As I was saying, don't touch or mess with my friends, my boys, or my boyfriend Logan." Rory smirked and waited for the shock to register in Summer's face, along with the girls behind her. "This might take a while," thought Rory. Suddenly, Summer's face paled and her eyes went wide. Hm quicker than I thought.
Logan pulled free of Summer's tight grasp on his hand and slid his arm around Rory's waist by giving her a sound kiss on the lips. At this point Summer looked like she was faint as she and her friends stormed out of the hallway with stomps of anger. She glanced back one last time at Rory to give her a death stare but Rory only smirked and yelled, "Love you!" With that said, the group erupted in laughter.
"Rory love," Finn said pulling her from Logan's arms and wrapping his around her, "that was an amazing show. If you weren't Logan's I would kiss you right now!"
"Aww Finny you're such a cutie," Rory said giving him a quick peck on the lips. Finn smiled, "Logan wouldn't mind if that kiss were a little longer love…" he said suggestively.
"Hey !" she heard Logan say from behind her. Rory and Finn laughed.
"Finn's right though that was a pretty good show Ror, I'd love to see more of that!" Logan said.
"Dirty!" both her and Tristan chirped causing the group to laugh.
"Finny, you're giving Rory all the love and not leaving any for me, Maddy, and Stephy," Louise said pouting.
"Oh my gosh love how could I forget! My mind has forsaken me," Finn exclaimed dramatically.
"This isn't the first time," Colin mumbled to Tristan and Logan who smirked.
"I'm going to choose to ignore that comment mate. Now ladies how bout an Aussie sandwich!" he said out stretching his arms wider. The girls quickly ran into his arms next to Rory and they all buried their heads in his chest. "Best day of my damn life mates," Finn said winking at the guys. The guys just rolled their eyes, Logan had no problem that his girlfriend was a part of that sandwich, he trusted Finn and he trusted Rory. Unfortunately, Finn's moment was short lived, because the bell rang pushing them all into homeroom.
AN: Review pleasee! Next chapter will have some angry Rory and then more playful stuff, I want to give the new couple at least a couple chapters with everything going good before I put in crazy drama.