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13. Back to East
"I can feel the wind of the Atlantic." Rory stated when she and Logan stepped out of a plane in Hartford.
"The Atlantic is miles away." Logan told her.
"I know but it's windy and the Atlantic is closer than the Pacific." Rory explained like it was the most simplest thing in the world.
Logan only rolled his eyes to her logic and grabbed her hand. "Come on, my little scientist. Let's get our bags. Your mom is waiting for us."
They got their luggage from the conveyor belt and headed to the lobby to meet Lorelai. Logan still had his prejudices what came to Lorelai and her opinion in his and Rory's relationship but Logan knew that this trip was important to Rory. She had missed Stars Hollow, her family and her friends, especially Lane. And meeting Finn, Colin and Honor didn't sound bad at all to Logan either. Honor was already seven months pregnant and ha hadn't seen her since last autumn.
They looked around in the lobby and saw Lorelai standing near the doors.
"It will be fine." Rory assured Logan when she saw the look on his face.
Hand in hand they walked to Lorelai.
"Hi mom!" Rory greeted.
"Hi Hun." Lorelai answered and enveloped her daughter into a tight hug. "Hello Logan."
"Hi." Logan greeted back but didn't know what else to say.
Rory sensed the awkward atmosphere and decided to open her mouth. "Let's go. I want to see if anything has hanged in Stars Hollow since I left."
They walked out of the airport and piled into a car.
"Could you drive us to the inn first so that we can leave out bags there?" Rory asked.
"Are you sure you want to stay there? You can stay at the house too. Even though Luke has moved in, there's plenty of room for you. Your room is still there just the way you left it." Lorelai said.
"I know that we could stay there. You got the trundle bed and all but the inn has a real bed. So we prefer the inn. It's hard to cuddle if the other sleeps twenty centimetres higher or lower than the other." Rory told her.
Logan smiled to Rory and her explanation. After she had moved in they had quickly gotten used to living together again. Someone might say that they were like an old married couple with their own habits and rituals but what came to sex they were far away from an old married couple.
"Well if you are sure." Lorelai agreed but looked disappointed. She wanted to her daughter to stay with her. Although she wasn't so keen on accommodating Logan, she knew that she couldn't be with her daughter with out playing nice with Logan.
The rest of the drive Lorelai told Rory all the latest news in Stars Hollow. it was a safe topic so everyone was contended with it.
When they arrived to the Dragonfly inn, Lorelai showed Rory and Logan their room. They decided to meet at Luke's in two hours. Lorelai left the couple in their room and went to do some work. Rory and Logan decided to take a nap but ended up doing something else since there were just two of them in a room that contained a bed.
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Lorelai was sitting at the table by the window at Luke's waiting for Rory and Logan to arrive. She dreaded the lunch in head of her because she still thought that there was a better man for Rory than Logan. Someone like Luke, modest and simple. But Rory seemed to think otherwise and that's why Lorelai needed to act like she was okay with her being with Logan. Last thing she wanted was to make her only daughter leave.
"Or at least the only daughter that has born yet." She thought and put her hand on her still flat stomach. She looked at Luke who was standing behind the counter and smiled to him.
She needed to tell Rory about her pregnancy but she wanted to do it without Logan being there.
She saw Rory and Logan walking down the street towards Luke's and took a deep breath. "Just remember: play nice and watch your big mouth." She silently reminded herself when she heard the bell above the door ring.
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The lunch went fine. They kept the conversation in light topics and avoided everything that could have caused an argument.
"Do you have anything planned for today?" Lorelai asked after the lunch.
"Nope, not for today. Tomorrow we are gonna visit Honor but today we are free." Rory answered.
"Could I maybe spend some time alone with you?" Lorelai asked her daughter before turning to Logan. "Would it be okay to you? All I need is like half an hour."
"Yeah, sure. It's okay with me." Logan answered. What was he supposed to say? He wasn't head over heels happy about his girlfriend spending time alone with her mom who hated him but how could he say no? She was Rory's mom after all.
Lorelai saw that Rory was going to protest leaving Logan alone even if he had said that it was okay so she spoke up. "There's just something I want to tell you about. Not a bad thing but something that I would rather tell when we are alone."
"Fine." Rory finally agreed. "Logan, you can go back to inn and I'll come afterwards."
"Okay." Logan said and gave Rory a small kiss before saying his goodbyes and leaving.
After he had left Lorelai turned to Rory. "Let's go to the house so we can talk in private."
Rory just nodded and followed her mom. She wasn't sure whether or not this was going to be a conversation she wanted to have with her mom. She knew that her mom still hadn't fully accepted her relationship with Logan and she didn't want argue about it. She wanted to be with Logan whatever her mom thought about that.
They walked to Lorelai's house in silence. It wasn't normal for them to not talk but things had changed since Rory left Stars Hollow after her graduation.
They went inside the house and sat down on the couch.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Rory asked reserved.
"It's more like I want to tell you something." Lorelai started.
"Okay. So what do you want to tell me?" Rory said trying to get Lorelai continue.
"As you know Luke has moved in here and we are together again."
"Yes. I knew that."
"Good. We… hmm… have talked about marriage and stuff but not that we are engaged or anything. As you know I don't have the best track record what comes to marriage and neither does Luke." Lorelai babbled.
"So that's what you wanted to tell me? That you and Luke are doing fine and planning future together?" Rory asked confused. Her mom was acting especially weirdly.
"No. That was just the introduction to the real topic."
"Which is?"
"I'm pregnant." Lorelai blurted out.
"Wow." Was all Rory could say first.
After a short silent moment Lorelai spoke up. "So what do you think?"
"I just… wow. This is huge." Rory stammered out. "You are gonna have a baby with Luke."
"I don't want you to think that I'm some weird way replacing you with the new baby. That would be impossible. We are the Gilmore girls." Lorelai told her.
"I know and I don't feel like you're replacing me or something. I'm happy for you and Luke." Rory assured her mom. "It's just weird."
"What's weird?" Lorelai asked.
"That you're gonna have a baby now and probably in few years I will have children with Logan. Our kids are gonna have an aunt or uncle who is only few years older than them." Rory explained.
"You and Logan are planning having children?" Lorelai asked surprised. She hadn't expected then to be that serious already.
"Yeah, well we have talked about it in general but not trying to get pregnant or anything. Maybe in few years or so…" Rory said.
"You just need to be completely sure before you have a baby with Logan. The child will connect you to him for the rest of your life." Lorelai said and right after saying it she realised her big mouth had said too much.
Rory felt her blood boil. "I want to be connected to Logan for the rest of my life. I want to have his children, our children. I want to grow old with him and share everything with him."
"I just…" Lorelai started but Rory interrupted her.
"I know that you don't like him or want us to be together but it's not for you to decide. I love him with all my heart and there's no way you could convince me otherwise."
"I just want you to be happy. I have had my share of wrong men in my life and I don't want you to make any mistakes." Lorelai tried to explain.
"Logan is not a mistake. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. He is the love of my life." Rory said and stood up. "I haven't criticized your decisions what comes to men so don't criticize mine!"
Having that said she stormed out of the house.
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Logan was reading a book while waiting for Rory to return. He sat on an armchair and tried to concentrate on his reading but he had a bad feeling about what Lorelai wanted to talk Rory about.
He heard the door open and then be slammed shut. He looked up to see Rory burst in and straight to him. Her face expression told him that she was upset. She sat on his lap and snuggled close to him. He put his arms around her and she started sobbing.
"What's the matter, Ace?" He asked softly.
She opened her mouth to talk but all that came out was a series of heavy sobs.
He pulled her even closer to him and whispered. "Shh… Just cry. You can tell me later."
He felt her nod her hear.
Almost fifteen minutes they just sat there before Rory's sobbing had subsided.
"You want to tell me what happened?" Logan asked her.
Rory nodded and took a deep breath. "Mom once again said something about you not being the right guy for me. I told her that we have talked about having kids someday and she told me to think again before having your child since that would connect me to you for the rest of our lives. How could she not see that I want to be connected to you for the rest of my life?"
"Don't let her get to you. She doesn't know a thing about our relationship anymore." Logan tried to comfort her.
"I know but it still hurts to hear her say stuff like that. We were so close and I was able to talk to her about anything. Now I feel like all she does is to criticize my life choices." Rory said sadly.
"So she wanted to talk to you alone to tell you what she thinks about me and our relationship?" Logan asked thinking how he should have said no when Lorelai wanted to talk to Rory alone. He hated to see hi Ace upset.
"No, the conversation only led to that. She wanted to tell me that she is pregnant." Rory answered.
"Lorelai is pregnant?" Logan asked surprised.
"Yeah. She and Luke are gonna have a baby."
"How do you feel about it?" Logan asked.
"I'm happy for them. Before we got back together I some how felt like an outsider in mom's new life and maybe then this kind of news would have upset me. Now I feel like it's time for me and mom to go our own ways. It was only two of us for twenty years but that's past now. She belongs here with Luke and their unborn baby. I belong in San Francisco with you." Rory explained.
"I like the sound of that." Logan said and gave Rory a kiss. "Maybe when time goes by you and your mom will become closer again. This could be some phase. Your mom probably has hard time letting you go."
"Maybe." Rory agreed. "For the first time in my life I feel that I don't need her. I have you and that's all I need."
"And all I need is you" Logan said before bursting into laughter. "God, we are cheesy."
Rory started laughing with him. "That we are."
After their laughter had died down Rory raised her palm to Logan's cheek and looked him into eyes. "I love you."
Logan turned his head so that he was able to kiss Rory's palm. "I love you too, Ace."
Rory leaned to Logan and they shared a sweet kiss.
"You wanna go for a walk?" Logan asked.
"Yeah. We could go and see Lane, Zach and the twins." Rory answered excited.
"Sound's good. Let's go."
Hand in hand they left the room. Maybe there were people who didn't think should be together but they knew that they were made for each other.