It was late in February, the newspaper in London was continuing its upward climb in circulation, the air in New Haven was crisp and cool, and Rory and Logan's relationship was better than ever, distance not withstanding. They had managed to see each other on three difference occasions since January, for a total of seven days. All of those were a result of Logan needing to go to The United States for business purposes. Rory had met up with Logan after his business had concluded for romantic weekends in New York, Boston and Baltimore. The weekend in New York came just two weekends after Rory had left London. He was able to persuade Rory to let the car service his family used in the U.S. take Rory to New York, allowing for them to spend the most time together as possible when he was finished. With Rory as incentive, the business meetings were efficient and productive and enabled Logan to greet Rory as she got out of the limousine. They spent the bulk of their weekend in the hotel room, showing each other how much they had missed the other. They went out for their meals, dining at quiet restaurants in the metropolis. Their intimacy, their body language, the expressions on their faces, passers by would never have guessed that as little as ten weeks ago these two were worlds apart.

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Their weekends in Boston and Baltimore followed the same pattern. Logan had business in the morning, Rory met him at the hotel he was staying at, and they spent the rest of the weekend enjoying one another. Where most would have jumped at the chance at experiencing a new city, Rory and Logan were happy to spend it in their room, just as long as they were together, what they did was inconsequential. While their reunions were filled with happiness and joy, their goodbyes were filled with tears and sadness. Both of them took those moments, positive and negative, as a sign that they were doing things right this time in their relationship. If they felt nothing when they saw each other then something would have been wrong. If they didn't feel as though their heart was being ripped out when they had to leave one another something would have been wrong. For two people as in love as Rory and Logan were emotions of such strength in both directions were a sign, that the love they had was still strong, still real and still very much a part of their relationship.

On the relationship front things were going great, they were communicating, they were seeing one another, they were happy and they would do anything to maintain that feeling. It was each other's personal lives away from one another that suffered. For Logan this wasn't that big of a deal. He didn't have much of one in London before he and Rory got back together, so there wasn't much there to lose. Rory, on the other hand, was beginning to feel the strain of needing to prioritize the relationships in her life. The weekends spent with Logan had made her miss out on three Friday night dinners with her grandparents, who were accommodating at first but grew increasingly agitated. They had also cut into the amount of time Rory spent with her Mother. Lorelai had become a great supporter of her daughter's relationship after seeing the change in her mood after returning from London but noticed the price paid for that happiness. Weekends spent in Stars Hollow were on the decline, Rory was spending it with Logan in another city, or catching up on work she needed to do that was interrupted by a phone call from Logan. Lorelai had never really imagined losing her daughter to another person, much less Logan Huntzberger, but she couldn't help but feel happy for her daughter, knowing how happy she felt when with him.

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It was four in the afternoon, and Logan was due to make a call to Rory at any moment. Rory's phone rang and a mysterious voice answered, "Hello?"

That's a man's voice Logan thought, what's another guy doing answering Rory's phone? Logan started to get worried, but decided he needed more information than just a voice to base anything on. "Hey, who is this?"

"Mike. Who is this?" Answered the voice on the other end.

"Logan," Mike? That's the guy who Rory said she was going to study with last week, but she said that's all it was. Why would he have her phone? Logan's thoughts turned to this Mike person. He didn't really think that Rory would be going behind his back, she sounded very happy whenever he called and made no mention of any problems she was having. The feeling he had over the summer wasn't there, nothing he could recollect would point to Rory cheating on him. But yet, there he was, entertaining that possibility, no matter how small. He had told Rory that it would take a while for all his doubts to completely subside, and that time would be the way to have them quenched. Now he was confronted with one of his biggest fears and those doubts started to surface. Calm down, Logan, it's just someone else answering Rory's phone, it happens all the time, Logan thought trying to balance out the negative thoughts.

"Should I know that name?" Mike asked.

If my deepest fears come true and you are the other guy with Rory, then not only should you know that name, it will be etched in your memory forever as the guy that made the rest of your life a living hell, warranted or not, Logan's thoughts were jolted away by a sound telling him he had another call, "You shouldn't. Goodbye Mike," Logan pressed the button and answered the other line. "Hello?"

"Oh thank god I caught you Logan, I was waiting and waiting for your call and then I looked at my cell and saw that it didn't have the chip on it that it got when I thought it was my alarm clock and threw it against the wall during the great sleepless night of October 2006. So in short I have someone else's phone," Rory told him.

"And Mike has yours," Logan replied, immediately put at ease by Rory's hurried explanation.

"Mike?"

"Yeah I talked to him earlier, not the most talkative guy, but he has your phone."

"It must have gotten switched when we bumped into each other coming out of class; I swear the guy is a total klutz. I'll call him as soon as we're done and get the phone back. I hope I didn't mess things up too badly, did I worry you?"

"Of course not, well maybe in that I thought you had a sex change operation without telling me. That would have caused me some concern," Logan heard Rory laugh on the other end and reasoned that this joke was a lot better than telling her that he had entertained thoughts, slight as they might have been about her and Mike, "but shouldn't you really get your phone back sooner or later, I'm sure Mike wouldn't appreciate a long distance call being billed on his service."

"Well then, Mike should have thought of that before bumping into me, now shouldn't he have?"

"You're evil Ace, beautiful, but evil," Logan said as the two quickly began telling each other about the funny things that happened to them this day. With Logan brushing aside the doubts he had as quickly as they appeared, just happy to hear Rory's joy and eager for their next weekend spent together.

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Author's Note: So I was able to get it up before Monday, but that could be partly due to it's length. I swear things will happen next chapter, not sure if they'll be good or bad, but there will be things! I'm thinking there'll be another story coming up this week, that will be short and a bit of a change of pace from this one, so look out for that. Happy reading