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Chapter Nine
Logan turned around and left Colin and Finn but he still caught the last part of their conversation. "I think our dear Huntzberger is a goner." Logan smiled at this and couldn't help but think that they didn't know what they were talking about. He walked back over to Rory but the sad tone in her voice stopped his feet from moving any closer. He stepped back near a tree before she could see him. He could hear her talking to Gigi.
"What do you think Gigi? You like Logan?" he heard Rory ask the toddler
"Yea" Gigi said excitedly
"Did you have fun with him today?"
"Yea."
"What did you do?"
"Swing."
"Oh that sounds fun. Anything else?"
"Slide."
"Sounds like you had a pretty interesting day. You wanna know a secret?" Rory asked her with a mysterious tone in her voice that caught Logan's interest.
"Yea."
"I like him too…" Rory responded barley loud enough for Logan to hear, "but it would probably be a good idea not to get too attached to him ok…" Rory said sadly
"Why?"
" 'Cause the men in our lives always leave us Gigi."
"Oh."
Logan was unsure why but this conversationwas upsetting him deeply. He felt bad for her, and even though he wasn't sure he wanted any kind of a committed relationship with this girl, he couldn't figure out why anyone in their right minds would ever leave her. For the hundredth time today he thought that maybe Paris had been right and that they couldn't make this no-strings attached relationship work. That no matter how bad they both want it to work it probably wouldn't. The sad, melancholy look on her face pulled strangely at Logan. And for a split second he could almost feel his heart breaking. He had never felt anything quite like that and the mere fact that he was feeling like this now wasterrifyinghim. He took a deep breath planning on returning to her and his breath caught in his thought causing him to have to clear his throat. The noise caught Rory's attention and a smile leapt to her face. "Did you get rid of my stalkers?" she asked him smiling
Logan realized how quickly her mood changed as soon as he stepped into her line of vision and smiled at her. The fact that he had that kind of affect on her delighted him. "Oh course I did Ace. You didn't think I'd ask them to join our date did you?"
"No. Did you find out why they were following me?"
"Me." he answered as if it explained everything, "Now, how about we start our date?"
"Ok, what do we got?" Rory asked eagerly
Logan reached under the table somewhat surprised that Ace, his star reporter, hadn't even snooped around while he was gone. He pulled out a picnic basket and pulled out two plates. He put one in front of her and one in front of him. "Close your eyes." He instructed her and smiled when she complied reluctantly.
"This better not be a trick Huntzberger." She told him looking slightly scared
"No tricks, just treats." He said laughing. He pulled out a take out bag and pulled two boxes out of it. He pulled the food out of her box and set it on the plate and did the same for himself. He then pulled out two to-go cups of coffee and set them in front of her and pulled out one for himself. "Open your eyes Ace." He told her when everything was set up.
Rory opened her eyes and looked slightly stunned. "Cheeseburgers!" she asked suprisingly.
"Don't you like cheeseburgers?" he asked although he already knew the answer
"I love cheeseburgers. Wait, how did you know I liked cheeseburgers?"
"I have my sources."
"How?"
"I called your mom." He said smiling
"You called Lorelai? The Lorelai that caught you undressing her daughter at a vow renewal service. The Lorelai that refers to you as Limo Boy? That Lorelai?"
"Yes. Yes. And yes,but I didn't know that she referred to me as Limo Boy, when I called her she referred to me as Logan, the rich Yale boy who was trying to worm his way into her daughters bed, but yes that Lorelai. How many other Lorelai's do you know?" Logan told her with a smile on his face
"Well I did know one more, since I'm Lorelai Gilmore the third, but my great grandmother died last year, so I guess she doesn't count anymore now does she?" Rory told him babbling slightly
"No I guess not." Logan told her laughing slightly and then added, "I'm sorry to hear about that. I'm sure she was a wonderful lady. Much like the other two Lorelai's that I know." Logan told her. "Now eat your cheeseburger." He said getting up and walking over to Gigi. "Now… these missy are for you." He said handing Gigi some French fries that she scooped up immediately, "Eat up Gigi."
Rory picked up her cheeseburger and went to take a bite but then set it back down on her plate and looked over at him. "This was sweet of you Logan."
"Well I figured you bribed me with a lunch that I didn't buy today, so I'd do dinner."
"But you made me breakfast this morning too. And you know you never told me how you got all the stuff to make that delicious impromptu breakfast."
"I bribed Paris."
"What did you bribe her with?" Rory asked Logan suspiciously
"Breakfast. I saved her a bunch and put it up before you got up."
"Oh, so you made her breakfast too?" she asked him teasingly
"Only so that I could make you breakfast. Now eat your cheeseburger." Logan told her for the second time
Rory took a bite of her cheeseburger and a smile crept up to her face. "Logan," she said suspiciously
"Yea Ace?"
"How did you get cheeseburgers from Luke's?"
"Not only did I get cheeseburgers from Luke's... how about you use that beautiful mouth of yours andtaste your coffee." He said grinning
Rory took a sip of her coffee and then smiled the biggest smile Logan had ever seen on a girl before. "You got me coffee from Luke's?" Rory asked not even bothering to hide the surprise from her voice
"Well you did say that Luke made the best coffee in the state of Connecticut. I myself had to try it out." He told her as if it were the most obvious thing in the world
"Yea. It is the best but how did you…"
"Ace, why do you have to ask so many questions?" Logan asked interrupting her
"It's just that I haven't had a cup of this since my mom and Luke broke up, and I'm not quite sure how to react to the fact that my first cup of this magical elixir of life was obtained in a manner in which I am unaware of." Rory told him
"Well if you must know… I called you mom right after you left today for the paper and after ten minutes of listening to a lecture about where and when inappropriate times and places to be undressing her only child are, and how the best way to avoid a repeat performance being witnessed by herself, your father, and the much scarier Luke would be not to undress her daughter, I got her to actually listen to the words coming out of my mouth. I apologized for the way we met and I told her that I would make it up to her, and then I explained that I had somehow managed to end up babysitting Gigi. And of course now I know where you get that awful habit of never letting me finish a conversation because she immediately jumped in and asked me where you were. When I told her that I offered to watch Gigi so that you could go to the paper, a place in which I strive to avoid, she interrupted me again and said that she had changed her mind and that she loved me. Your mom is quite the character Ace." He said smiling at the beautiful girl next to him that was trying to appear as if she was patiently waiting for him to finish his story, "Then I told her that I was planning a surprise dinner for you and asked her what your favorite thing to eat is. She asked if I wanted something expensive or something sorta sentimental. I told her sentimental. And she said that she would go with Luke's infamous cheeseburgers and coffee and then gave me the number for the diner."
"Ok, so that explains that but how did you get the food here? Luke's is in Stars Hollow and I wasn't gone long enough for you to drive there and back, set all this up, and still actually do all the things you did with Gigi today."
"Well that part is just as simple too. I called the diner and Luke answered. I told him who I was and then he, who I'm guessing has spent far too much time with the two of you, interrupted me too. He yelled at me for "the incident"." Logan said making air quotes, "Then he very bluntly asked me what I wanted. So I told him that I wanted to get you a cheeseburger and some coffee as a surprise and he told me that he'd make it and that he could deliver it if I wanted him to. I told him that it was unnecesary, because let's face it Ace, the man scared me to death the last time I saw him, I'm not about to approach him without you, and that I'd send someone up there to get it. He asked me why I wasn't coming to get it and I told him that I was watching your little sister and I didn't have a car seat or anything. He said that was responsible of me, although it didn't sound as nice coming out of his mouth as mine." He said laughing, "So then I hung up with him, and called Stephanie."
"Stephanie? You sent Stephanie to pick up my food?" Rory asked unbelievably
"She was the only one I could think of that wouldn't say a word to Colin or Finn about it. Plus she likes you, and she owed me a favor. Then while Stephanie was gone I set up this and went and got the flowers."
"Let me guess you asked my mom what my favorite flowers were?"
"Yea, and she said sunflowers. But since I didn't think that sunflowers would work so I asked her what your next favorite flowers were and she said…"
"Tulips. Pink and white tulips." She interrupted
"Exactly."
"Logan I mean it. This is amazing. No one has ever done anything like this for me. No one." she ephasized the last no one just to make sure she got her point across
"Well Ace, it seems like you were dating the wrong kind of guy then doesn't it?" he said cockily "Now eat your cheeseburger. It's going to get cold, and I went through a lot of scary phone calls with people who don't like me at all to get this food."
"Yes Master and Commander." Rory replied picking up her cheeseburger and starting to eat it.
AN: Another chapter done... I promise some Rory and Lorelai interaction in Ch. 10 and maybe even some Luke and Lorelai.. if not in 10 definately in 11... Read and Review please... your reviews keep me going...