Lorelai slammed her door a little harder than necessary. She bypassed the TV and instead picked up a book, very out of character for her but she wasn't really in the mood to watch anything. But she couldn't really concentrate on reading. She read the same sentence twelve times before noticing. She threw the book down and just sat in her living room, the only sounds coming from her clock. After an hour of sitting there with her angry thoughts Lorelai gave up and went to bed. But she couldn't even sleep. The arguments rang in her head. Words bounced back and forth like ping pong balls until Lorelai had a headache.
Somehow Lorelai slept that night, despite the tennis table match in her head. Lorelai got up and shuffled to her kitchen. She opened her cabinets and then remembered that it had been weeks since she had been grocery shopping with a groan, she grabbed her keys and drove to Luke's.
Lorelai didn't really know how to treat Luke. She had thought that it would be awkward after what happened between them but Lorelai's last encounter with him seemed to counteract that. Lorelai settled on the safest bet and decided to treat Luke just like she did before anything happened between. "Luke. Coffee." Luke turned toward her and then seemed to be scrutinizing her. Lorelai was a bit worried that she had chosen the wrong attitude to take with him until he spoke to her.
"Are those teddy bear pants?" Lorelai looked down and realized that she hadn't changed out of her pajamas.
"Yes they are, but if you look really closely it looks like the bears are flipping you off. They go well with my shirt." Lorelai unzipped her jacket and held it open so that Luke could see it.
"I feel whoreable," he read. "Geez put your jacket back on." He looked around the diner. Lorelai giggled as she zipped her jacket back up.
"Does the word whore make you feel uncomfortable?"
"No, but the last thing I need is for Taylor to see you wearing that shirt in here. Next thing you know he'll be telling me that my diner promotes sex to minors or something crazy like that."
"Had a Taylor encounter already this morning?" Luke nodded as he poured his coffee.
"It seems that there's smudge on my side of that stupid window. And Taylor says it detracts from the appearance of 'his' shop."
"Why can't he clean it himself?"
"Because it's technically my property and he can't touch it."
"So you're going to leave it smudged as long as possible," Lorelai assumed as she sipped her coffee.
"Hell yeah."
"Hey mister don't use that kind of language in here. Impressionable ears," Lorelai whispered the last part.
"There aren't any kids in here." Luke began to change the coffee maker liner.
"I was talking about Kirk." Lorelai looked over at the man at the end of the counter. Kirk was making airplane noises and waving his spoon around in the air. Lorelai tried to hide her laugh as she ducked behind her coffee cup.
"So that was quite a night we had last night," Marty whispered to Rory as he kissed the top of her head.
"Which part?" she joked.
"Well I was really talking about the fights, but the other part was pretty good too." He kissed her. Rory laughed and then rolled off the bed.
"I'm glad I meet with your approval. But I don't really think that the other part of the night was so grand." Rory pulled the blanket off the bed and wrapped it around herself. "I'm going to get a shower." Marty began to get off the bed. "Alone," Rory clarified.
"Tease."
"Does that turn you on?" Rory walked over to the bed and leaned down so that Marty could feel her breath on his cheek.
"If I say yes will you…"
"Oh yeah," Rory whispered in his ear.
"Then heck yes."
"Well if being a tease turns you on then I guess I should just keep on doing it." She pulled back and walked to the bathroom.
"Damn that logic!" Marty sighed and then rolled over in bed to go back to sleep.
"And don't you go back to sleep!" Rory called to him from the bathroom. "I was hoping we could go out to breakfast together." Marty heard the tap turn on. He groaned and sat up.
"The least you could do is let me get a shower too!" Marty sat up groggily and slowly. "Think about the water and how much we could save." Marty heard her sigh.
"Well since you put it that way. How can I argue with an environmental issue?" Marty pumped his fist in triumph and then moved much quicker out of bed and into the bathroom.
"Hello beautiful," he said as he opened the bathroom door.
Lorelai slammed her phone down. It had been three days since the big fight and Logan still had not called her. He hadn't even answered her phone calls. Lorelai was beginning to think that their relationship might be over, again.
Moments later her phone rang and she snatched it up quickly, thinking that it might be Logan calling her back. "Hello?"
"Hello is this Lorelai?" It was a young male, but certainly not Logan.
"Yes, who is this?"
"Collin." Collin, Collin. Lorelai racked her brain, but she was sure that she had not ever met anyone named Collin. Though the name did sound familiar. Where had she heard it before? And then she remembered Logan mentioning one of his friends named Collin once.
"Are you calling for Logan?"
"No I'm actually calling for you, from Logan. Well not really from Logan."
"He's dumping me isn't he? You know what, tell him that if he's going to dump me he has to do it, he can't get his little minions to do it for him."
"Wow he told me that you were a firecracker, but wow! I saw a picture though, not bad." Lorelai didn't really know whether to be offended or flattered.
"Thanks, I guess."
"Actually the reason I'm calling is to ask you to come down to the hospital."
"The hospital?" Lorelai stood up.
"Yeah, Logan's here he…" but Collin didn't get to finish because Lorelai had already hung up and was out the door.
"Where is he?!" Lorelai was frantically walking around the hospital. On the ride over a million different scenarios had run through her mind each one worse than the previous one. A nurse looked at Lorelai.
"Can I help you miss?" she asked.
"Yes, where is he?"
"I'm sorry but who?"
"Logan! Logan Huntzberger!" The nurse recoiled a bit.
"Are…are you his mother miss?"
"No, I'm his girlfriend." Lorelai wondered why this woman did not comprehend.
"Well I'm sorry then, I can't…"
"Lorelai!" A boy about Logan's age strode towards her.
"Collin I assume. Where is he? What's wrong with him?" Colin put his hands on her shoulders.
"Relax gorgeous. Have a seat." He helped her to a couch. "He's in the ICU they're running some tests."
"Tests? What kind of tests? What's wrong with him?"
"Well we were on a Life and Death Brigade event. We were jumping off the cliff into the shark infested waters…"
"You were what?!" Lorelai stood up.
"Relax it was a fairly harmless stunt. We did test runs with dummies, the sharks didn't attack once."
"That's because sharks are attracted to blood. Did the dummies have blood in them?" Collin shook his head. "Ok other than you being a complete idiot, what else happened?"
"Well ten guys jumped in, nothing happened to them and they were all swimming around in the water and then Logan jumped in. And he happened to land on one of the sharks." Lorelai gasped. "The shark was a little fazed at first, so Logan tried to swim away, but then the shark came to his senses and attacked. We pulled Logan away as quickly as we could, but the damage was already done. They brought him here by helicopter and took him straight to ICU. That's when we called you and Rory." For a moment Lorelai was distracted from her panic.
"You called Rory?"
"Yeah after we called you."
"So is she coming?"
"I think so."
"Oh." Lorelai nodded. "Can I see him?"
"Yeah, right this way." Colin stood up and led Lorelai to the ICU. He pointed to a door and let Lorelai go in alone. As soon as she walked in she was afraid. Logan lay on the bed, bandages on every part of his body. His face was bruised and there were deep gashes on his scalp. Monitor beeped. Logan seemed to be asleep.
"Logan." Lorelai walked over to the bed and grabbed his hand. "Logan. I'm so sorry, for everything. I love you." Lorelai thought she felt his hand squeeze hers. His eyes opened a bit and she swore she heard him tell her that he loved her. But then his eyes closed and his hand fell limp once again. Lorelai just sat with him, holding his hand for what seemed like forever. Suddenly Collin came in.
"Sorry to barge in Lorelai, but Rory's here."
"Oh." Lorelai nodded. She stood up, kissed Logan on the forehead and then walked out the door. Rory stood in the waiting area with Marty at her side. "Hey." Rory just nodded. She looked a bit sad, but not angry.
"So what happened?" Marty asked.
"Well he jumped into shark infested waters and was attacked." Rory's eyes widened as did Marty's.
"That's pretty…" he searched for an adjective. "Bizarre."
"Well we're all pretty bizarre," Lorelai quoted.
"Some are just better at hiding it," Rory finished for her. Lorelai looked at her daughter and the two of them made eye contact. And in that moment, without any words, that two of them communicated everything they were feeling. And just like that the two of them forgave one another for everything that was said. Lorelai ran to Rory and hugged her. "I'll be here for you mom. Until he gets out, I swear." As they pulled back from one another a doctor walked towards them.
"Anyone here for Logan Huntzberger?" She looked around the waiting area.
"I am," Lorelai walked towards her.
"Ma'am I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there was nothing we could do. He was too badly injured. He's gone." Lorelai couldn't speak, but instead just shook her head. Then she began to cry. Large sobs shook her body. Rory put her arms around her and Marty hugged Rory. The three of them stayed in the hospital until Logan's family showed up to claim the body. Then Rory drove a sullen Lorelai home.
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil. Depart in peace." The coffin lowered into the ground slowly and Lorelai began to blubber even more. Rory's tears began falling down her face and Marty put his arm around her. The man next to Lorelai handed her a tissue.
"Thanks Luke." He nodded at her and put his arm around her shoulders. The crowd began to depart. Now only Luke and Lorelai remained. "Do you think you could give me a moment?" He nodded again and left her alone with the grave.
Lorelai looked down at the coffin. There were so many things that she wanted to say, but she couldn't put anything into words. "I love you. Goodbye." She threw a rose down onto the coffin and then went to join Luke, Rory, and Marty; leaving Logan forever.