Author's Note: Two updates in less than two months! Haha. I hope you enjoy this. It certainly took a lot of thought before it cold actually happen.
Rating: Uh let's go PGish. I probably will use foul language, be forewarned.
"I've got a very deep secret that you two can not, I repeat not, tell the girls." Finn whispers as he sits at their usual corner booth in the pub they're becoming too old for. He takes a long pull of his Wild Turkey before he continues. "I think I'm in love."
Logan almost spits his bourbon out in shock. In all the time he's known Finn he's never said love in such a somber tone. At least not when referring to himself. He looks at him quizzically, waiting to see if maybe he'll crack a smile. Instead he just sits there looking rather bewildered by the whole thing. "Well with who?"
Finn sighs. This is the hard part. In the two month since he'd first brought James home he'd somehow fallen in love with Camille. At first he thought it was just lust, it'd been a horrifically long time since he'd been with a woman. But that'd all changed though when he'd gone on a date with a particularly "friendly" redhead named Vivian, who'd been particularly interested in his "assets". At the end of the date he'd known she wanted him to come back to her place. She'd done everything but beg him. Instead though he'd simply kissed her on the cheek and told her thank you for such an enchanting evening. That night he'd gone to sleep by himself thinking not of how crazy he'd just been, but rather of Camille. And that was when he knew. He knew he'd gone from needing her because she helped him so much to needing her because she made his life worthwhile.
"Earth to Finn who are you in love with?" Colin demands impatiently. He hates when Finn zones out as he relives the moment that lead him to his discovery. He wished he would just spit out.
"Sorry mate." Finn mumbles and then takes another swig of his Wild Turkey while simultaneously ordering another. "Camille." He whispers the name so softly he's not sure that he even actually said it.
"What?" Both of his best mates ask simultaneously. Neither sure they heard right.
"Camille." He says a little louder this time and with more confidence. "The girl I'm in love with is Camille."
Neither Logan or Colin say anything for a second. Rather they let this new information sink in first. Finally Logan responds to his friends' admission. "Good. Camille is a great person. She obviously cares about you. Have you told her yet?"
"Are you bloody mad?" Finn has yet to even consider telling her how he feels. "What if she sees me as nothing more than a friend and it ruins our relationship. If I can't have her love as least I can have her friendship."
Colin has to admit that he's slightly taken aback by Finn's worry over this situation. Finn doesn't worry. In fact Finn's least favorite word is worry. "Well maybe you should ask her out to dinner, take her dancing. Chalk it up to repaying her for everything she's done for you. If she's interested you'll know. If she's not well again you'll know."
Logan can see Finn start to hesitate. "You can't just go without knowing."
He takes a long pause before finally giving in. It'd be hard to go without knowing.
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"I don't see how people have more than one child." Stephanie grumbles. She's gained thirty nine pounds over the course of the last eight months. She pees constantly. The worst part though is the fact that she can't find a single pair of designer shoes that look good on her swollen feet which makes the pedicure she was currently getting worthless.
Lorelai can't help but smile at Stephanie's groans. She remembers all too well the discomfort that comes with being pregnant. "It'll all be worth it once she's born. I promise."
"It's true. Once you hold her and you look into her eyes you'll forget that you ever hated being pregnant. In fact you'll swear it's the best thing you've ever done." Rory remembers just how emotional she got the first time she held Lo. She'd been so tiny. She'd seemed so fragile. Looking into her eyes had seemed like looking into her own.
"If you say so all I know is I can not wait to lose this weight. It's killing my fashion sense." She's already compared and contrasted celebrity diet plans to see which one suits her the best. So far she was definitely leaning towards Jennifer Garner's after Violet.
"So how's my dear Finn doing?" Lorelai still can't believe that he is a father. She always thought of him as a Peter Pan type.
"You should see him with James. It's too precious. They are spitting images of each other. It helps that Camille is there to help him if he needs something." Rory can't help but gush. Just the other day she had popped in on them to drop off a book Camille had asked to borrow and she'd found Camille taking a picture of Finn asleep on the couch with James sleeping peacefully on his chest.
"Well you must bring both James and Lo by the house one day. Your father and I would love to watch them. It'd be exciting. The house is too quiet sometimes." She often misses the days when her house was full of rowdy teenagers. "We can dress them up in costumes and pretend they are acting out scenes from our favorite movies. I think first we'll do "Singing in the Rain". How do you think James will look in a miniature trench coat?"
Rory starts to shoot back a clever response, but is interrupted by her cell phone. She glances at the caller ID and is surprised to find Remy calling her. Remy rarely calls. "Hey Remy what's up?"
"Hey Rory I'm sorry for calling. I know you're having mother/daughter time plus Stephanie, but it's Lo. She's running a fever and keeps crying. I'm not sure if it's an ear infection or what, but I called Dr. Powell just in case because she's usually not this fussy. He suggested that I bring her in. I thought I should give "
"Yeah no it's no problem Remy. Thank you for calling. I'll meet you at the Doctor's office." Rory groans. "Actually I'll have Logan meet you there because we're reviewing for the final." She can't wait to be done with college.
"Okay. I'll keep you posted."
"Thanks Remy. Bye." She closes her cell phone and sighs. "Lo might have an ear infection. Remy's taking her to the doctor just in case. Am I a bad mother because I have the nanny taking her and not me? I feel like a bad mother."
Stephanie shakes her head no. "Rory you are not a bad mother in the slightest. You just have a lot on your plate right now. We all know that."
"Yeah kid no one expects you to be perfect when it comes to juggling family and school."
"I just…what happens when I actually start work? I just I don't know. I don't want to fail her. I don't want her to always take backseat to my work life." It's no secret that Rory has always felt like she wouldn't be enough.
"You'll figure it out Rory just like we all do. You'll make mistakes, but we all do. God knows how many times I felt like I failed you when you were a child, but you turned out just fine."
"Now call Logan and let him know what's going on." Stephanie instructs.
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Remy lets out a sigh of relief when Logan walks into the Dr. Powell's small waiting room. She can tell that he's worried by the look in his eyes. She's happy that Lo has seemed to wear herself out and is now sleeping peacefully in her stroller. "She tuckered herself out."
"I can see that." Logan whispers as he bends down in front of the basket. "How many people are in front of us?"
"We're next. Actually we should have already been in there but there was a little girl who kept throwing up and I thought she might need to get in there before us. I hope you don't mid." The little girl's mother had seemed shocked when Remy gave up her spot.
"Thank you for bringing her. I think I can take it from here. You should go take a break for a while. I know it must have been stressful dealing with all that on your own."
Remy smiles appreciatively. "Are you sure? I mean I can stay here and wait with you that way once she's done you can go back to the office. I know you probably had a lot on your calendar."
It was true that Logan had a pretty important meeting today with a Japanese advertising firm today, but he had it rescheduled. He'd instructed Margot, his assistant, to send them his deepest apologies as well as numerous amenities. Right now there was no else he needed to be than with Lo. "I'm sure. I already took the day off. You do too much Remy. In fact you should do a spa day. Treat yourself to a little R&R. I'll have Margot set it up for you."
It's moments like this when she wonders how she got so lucky as to work for the Huntzbergers. They were the kindest family in Hartford. She'd met many other nannies in her travels with Lo and none of them led the kind of life she did. Rory and Logan paid for her to take creative writing classes, gave her three weekends off a month, and supplied her with very comfortable accommodations. All in all she was living the good life. "Thank you Logan. I'll pick up dinner for the two of you on my way home. I know Rory is going to be stressed about Lo. Maybe I'll pick up a bottle of wine as well."
"That'd be great." He told her which bottle of wine to grab and then sat down beside Lo's stroller. She looked so sweet wrapped up in the purple blanket Christopher had picked out for her all on his own. Moments like these made him wonder how he had gotten so long. When Rory had agreed to marry him in Las Vegas he had thought life would never get any better and then they had Lo. Every so often life seemed unbearably hard. They were cocktail parties, weddings, family days, business meetings, and in Rory's case finals. It seemed like there wasn't enough time at the end of the day. Still as long as his right arm was wrapped around Rory when he went to bed everything was okay. At least that was his theory.
"It's Lorelai Huntzberger's turn to see Dr. Powell." A tiny red haired woman wearing pink scrubs announced.
"Did you hear that? It's our turn beautiful." Logan whispered as he pushed her to the examination room.
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"How's she doing?" Rory asks as she rushes through the back door. Going to the review session for her final had proved pointless because the whole time all she could think about was Lo. She figured that if something important or life altering had happened she would have found out.
Logan smirks, "It's good to see you too."
"I'm sorry." She kisses him softly on the lips. "It's good to see you. Now how's she doing?"
"It was just an ear infection. Dr. Powell prescribed her some antibiotics which I already picked up from the drug store. All in all she'll be completely fine. She's upstairs asleep right now." Logan is trying to pretend that in the moment he wasn't freaked out like she was when she came in.
"Good. I can't believe I wasn't there for here."
"I was there and she's fine Rory. Don't dwell on this." Logan knows how she can get when she dwells. "Let's enjoy a little dinner and wine. Then we can watch a movie with Lo once she wakes up."
"You're such an old man." Rory jokes.
"And you love it."
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"So how's Lo doing?" Camille asks as she cooks dinner for her and Finn while Finn feeds James a bottle.
"She's good. It was just an ear infection. She got some meds and should be 100 in no time." Finn has been trying to figure out the right moment to ask her out. Logan had reminded him about their decision before getting off the phone.
"That's good. Stephanie told me that Rory was pretty upset she couldn't be there."
"Yeah well that's just Rory being Rory." Finn jokes. "On a side note I was wondering if maybe this weekend you might want to grab dinner and maybe go dancing."
Camille's heart skips a beat. "Uh yeah that'd be great." She doesn't want to seem too eager.
"If you'll just pick the date I'll handle all of the other details. You do enough."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah love I want to do this for you."
If Finn had been able to see the look on Camille's face he would have known right then and there that she was in fact in love with him also.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT! I TRIED TO GIVE YA'LL A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING! IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF CHAPTERS I'LL TRY TO INCORPORATE SOME BALCONY BUDDY! PLEASE REVIEW AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! WHO KNOWS MAYBE I'LL UPDATE AGAIN SOON! - KRiSTiNEDAHLiNG