Logan stared at Rory watching her sleep peacefully. He loved it when something in her dreams made her smile. He often hoped that it was something he'd done in her dream that made her that happy. It was moments like these that he thought about his relationship with her. He would watch her and wonder if he wasn't doing more harm than good. He knew that part of the reason she was estranged from her mother was him. When it was quiet like it was right now he would couldn't help but think about a conversation that they had had a few weeks ago.

Logan walked into the pool house to find that it appeared to be empty. If it hadn't been for the fact that he knew Rory was here he probably would have left. Instead of leaving he quietly walked around the room and listened for her. It only took him a few minutes to realize that she was sitting on her bathroom floor crying. He gently walked into the room and lifted her off of the floor. "Ace what's the matter?" His voice was soft and filled with worry.

"I just can't believe she's turned her back on me. I just can't believe it. I've tried to make her understand that this isn't about her it's about me, but she doesn't get it." Rory sobbed into his shoulder.

Logan didn't really know what to do so he just held her close and softly ran his fingers through her hair. "I'm so sorry Rory. I'm so sorry for all of this."

Rory gently pulled back from him and looked at him. She couldn't believe that he was apologizing. "You have nothing to be sorry for."

Logan shook his head. "Yes I do Rory. I shouldn't have tried to pull that stunt at your grandparent's house. I shouldn't have let you go work for my father. I shouldn't have helped you steal that yacht. I should have been more responsible. I should have impressed your mother instead of turned her off. I should have been more like that guy you were dating before me. What was it Dean I think."

Rory scoffed. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. He was taking all of the blame for everything that had happened recently when in fact he had been the only thing saving her. "Dean was a married man Logan. We dated in high school and he was my first love. We broke up and I started dating this other guy Jess, who too was completely wrong for me. Dean married this girl named Lindsay right after high school. I guess it was really doomed from the start with or without my help. One night I slept with him. It was my first time. To this day I can't explain why I did it. I left right after it happened and went on this journey of sorts with my grandmother. When I came back he told me they were getting divorced. We started dating. Still we were older and things were never the same. My mother and I were never the same after everything that happened with Dean. She became consumed in her relationship with Luke and when she had time to see what I was doing she missed the fact that there was sill something emotionally wrong with me. Everything else doesn't bother her as much as the fact that I slept with a married man does." Rory avoided his gaze. She didn't want to see the look of disgust that she was sure would be present in his eyes.

Logan gently grabbed her chin so that she was looking at him. "I can't promise you things are going to be better with your mom. I just can't do that Ace. Still I can promise things are going to be better with us. I'll be a more suitable boyfriend. We'll do couple things. We'll have couple friends. It'll be great. Very traditional I think would be the right description."

"Why would you want to be traditional?" Rory whispered seductively. She felt better after admitting to him that she wasn't always so perfect. That she wasn't really an angel like everyone assumed of her.

Logan smiled. "Mothers love traditional. You love your mother. I love you. It's a whole big triangle. Keep up with me Ace."

He couldn't lie and say that he wasn't relived to find out that she didn't blame everything on him. Still he couldn't deny that he didn't feel like he wasn't helping the problem any. If he wasn't so selfish he would leave her, and let her get back to that happy place she was once lived. Sadly he was selfish and he couldn't let her go. There was no way in the world that he could let her go. He saw her eye twitch and it was then that he knew that sometimes Rory wasn't asleep. Sometimes she laid there in his arms thinking just like he did. That was comforting to know. "I know your awake Ace." He whispered quietly into her ear.

"What gave me away?" she asked as she began to smile. She was thinking about them and how good it was to be with someone who didn't make you feel like a bad person.

Logan shook his head. "The eye twitch totally killed it for you. So last night was pretty interesting."

Rory sat up and stretched. "So you finally met my father. Did you he surprise you?"

Logan laughed. "Nope he was a lot like you in fact. You share a lot of the same mannerisms. You have the same smile. Your mother has this big mega-watt smile, but you and your dad have this small much sweeter smile."

"You really think we have a lot in common?" she asked as she began to fiddle with her hair.

"Yeah you too seem to be a lot alike. I mean I don't really know him that well yet, but you seem to have a lot in common. You both are much quieter people. You both have this tendency of biting your lip a little when you aren't sure what to say. I mean just little things like that I guess. What hasn't anyone ever told you that you were alike before?"

Rory scoffed as she got out of her bed to get her robe. She motioned for him to follow her into the kitchen area so that she could get some coffee made. "Most people don't really know my father. We weren't exactly close when I was growing up. Still I can't believe you got all those things in from such a short meeting."

Logan laughed and shrugged. "What can I say other than that I'm observant? What was he like a dead beat dad when you were a kid or something?" Logan and Rory had never really discussed her father before. They'd briefly discussed her mother a few times, but not really her father. It always seemed a discussion about Christopher Hayden was off limits.

"My mother and my father were high school sweethearts. They were kind of like the perfect couple growing up. They did everything your normal Hartford couple would do. My mom ended up pregnant but I guess you already guessed that part. My father wanted to marry her. He asked her I think it was supposed to be like nine times or something he even had a ring. Still she always said no. My father ended up following his parent's plan and instead of marrying my mother he went to Princeton. He used to come back and visit every weekend. He would take me to the park. At least that's what my grandmother said." Rory abruptly finished her story and began to drink her coffee and check the refrigerator for something to eat.

"That's it? That was your whole relationship. It sounds like you're missing a lot of information. Actually Ace I'm pretty surprised your journalistic instincts didn't kick in so that you could find out the whole truth." Logan stated as he poured himself a cup of coffee.

Rory cringed a little when he made the remark about her journalistic abilities but quickly hid it. She wondered if there was more than she knew. It made sense that no one had really finished the story for her. She thought about who to ask. She couldn't go to her mother. Her grandparents were visiting friends at Hyannis Port this weekend. Her father was her only real option. "Fine let's get dressed and go over and ask him for the rest of the story."

"Huh?" Logan asked. He'd simply made the comment. He hadn't really expected her to go through with it. He was sure that she wouldn't go snooping around. Rory wasn't that type of girl. She simply often just accepted things. She was very fatalistic that way.

"I think it's brilliant. I mean I've never really talked about the early years with him. It's like there's this whole chunk of my life that I'm missing. I'm sure he was there. He had to be. My grandmother who was never a fan of my father even pointed out that he always made a point to see me. He was a freshman in college and still took the time to be with me. I think you're onto something. We totally could have this whole Katie and Matt thing going on, Finn could even be our Al and seeing as we have to give Colin a part we'll make him Harry." Rory joked as she went into her bedroom to find something suitable to wear. She wanted to look nice. She wanted him to see that when she wasn't in sad mode she actually cleaned up really well.

Logan followed her to her bedroom. "Did you just compare us to people from the Today Show?" Logan couldn't help but smile. Slowly but surely he felt her returning to him. It was the first time in a while that Rory had talked about having a real job. She was talking about being a reporter again. He knew not to read into it too much, but still was she finally going to give up on being a lazy bum. "If so I think you're right. Colin is too much of a tight wad to be Al. Plus if anyone we knew could be black it would have to be Finn. Remind me to make him to show you his Barry White impression."

"Is it as bad as his "Passion of the Christ" re-enactment?" Rory asked as she found a plain white dress from the back and proceeded to take it into the bathroom with her. "There are a couple of your shirts and pants hanging in the back of the closet. I suggest you put on new clothes seeing as my father saw you in the ones you were wearing yesterday."

"Oh my God Barry has to be worse but in a less offensive manner. When did my shirts and pants get into your closet?" Logan asked as he went in there to retrieve them in disbelief. He must have been really drunk that night. He didn't even have the vaguest idea of doing it.

"Stephanie brought them over the other day. I swear she's one of the only other people who doesn't think I'm a complete moron for taking a year off." Rory called from the bathroom.

Logan opened the bathroom door to join her. "I don't think you're a moron."

"You agree with my mother on the fact that I should stay in school. You don't think I can do this." Rory replied as she started the shower.

Logan kissed her bare shoulder softly and then whispered in her ears. "It's not that I don't think you can do it's that I don't want you to do it because I'm selfish and I want my girlfriend with me at college. I want to be able to bust into your classes and to meet you at coffee stands. Plus God help me I think I've grown fond of Paris' death threats."

Rory kissed Logan and pulled him into the shower with her. "We'll still have that even if I'm not at Yale. Okay well maybe not the death threats. Still you can burst into the D.A.R. office and embarrass."

Logan kissed her forehead before responding. "Promise me you'll think about coming back. Just promise me you'll think about it. It's not as if I'm asking you to sign an organ donor card or anything. I'm just asking you to think about coming back to school."

"And if I refuse?" she asked coyly.

"Well then maybe I'll just stop doing this." He kissed her passionately on the lips. It was actually so passionate that it shocked him. He couldn't believe that the once timid Rory Gilmore was making out with him in her shower. Rory was living proof that people change.

When Rory was finally done kissing him she found it hard to breathe. There was something about Logan's kisses that left a person feeling light headed. "Well if you put it that way then I guess I'll have to promise to think about it."

Thanks for reading. I love that so many people like this story. I hope that this chapter was good enough for all of the Rogan fans. The next chapter will make Christopher even more human. Please tell me what you think. I love to read the reviews. They just make my day.