Chapter Eleven

Disclaimer: I only wish I owned Logan…

AN: Hey… I just wanted to get this posted ASAP… I'm not sure if I'm completely happy with it, but it works… I'm still open for suggestions on the second half of the date though…

Colin and Finn

"Tell me again how we got roped into this please." Finn asked Colin with a strong tone of exasperation in his voice

"This is our punishment for stalking Rory all day, which by the way was your idea, so why don't you just shut up and help me." Colin told Finn

Colin walked over to the table that Rory and Logan had just been occupying and started to pick up all the stuff left behind by the two. He disposed of the plates and then went to the pick up the coffee cups. The name on the cups caught his attention and he looked up at Finn. "Where's Luke's?"

Finn who was taking down the playpen and putting all the toys Logan had purchased into a box looked up and said "Huh?"

"Luke's. It's where Logan got this coffee. But I've never heard of it. So again I ask, where's Luke's?"

"How should I know? You and Logan are the coffee drinkers in our little trio. If anyone should know where Luke's is, I would think it would be you."

"You're right I should. I know where every coffee shop anywhere near Yale is, and the ones in Hartford, but I don't know where Luke's is."

"Well we'll just have to ask Logan where it is then won't we. Now all we have left to do is fold the table cloth and get the flowers right?"

"Yea, but Logan left specific instructions for the flowers. They are not to be harmed in any way whatsoever. If there is even a petal missing of Rory's precious tulips we're in trouble." Colin reminded Finn

"You know I'm sorry to say this but this is pathetic." Finn told him as he watched Colin pick up each and every tulip with the utmost care.

"What is?" Colin asked trying to concentrate all his attention on safely removing the tulips from the table

"Logan."

"Ah…And why is Logan pathetic?"

"Ok so maybe pathetic wasn't the best word, but look at us. We are handling a dozen pink and white tulips like they are some fine piece of crystal or something. They are just tulips."

"They're Rory's tulips." Colin reminded him

"Ok so what. If I pick a petal off of them is she really going to notice the difference. And if she did, I could just buy her a new tulip. Its not like they are rare flowers. They're TULIPS. Everywhere I turn I see tulips."

"Who knows. It's Logan. The flowers are then to be delivered to Rory in twenty minutes at her dorm by the both of us with all the toys and the playpen and two cups of coffee, both black."

"Since when does Logan drink black coffee?"

"He doesn't."

"So…."

"They are both for Rory."

Finn just rolled his eyes at Colin. "I changed my mind. Pathetic was the right word."

"Huh?" Colin asked slightly confused

"Logan. He is pathetic. And a liar. There is no way that those two are in a no-strings attached relationship. He's running around here like a lovesick teenager."

"Yea well you tell him that. I'm not getting into this anymore. Which means I am not helping you follow her anymore or helping you do anything else that is going on in that permanently intoxicated mind of yours if it concerns Rory and Logan because I am not a fan of manual labor."

"Yea me either. Come on lets go. We're going to be late and then Logan is going to have a cow." Finn told Colin while picking up the box with the toys and the playpen. Colin picked up the bag of trash and the held tulips protectively in his other hand. They both walked out of the park both thinking the same thing, What in the hell is Logan doing?

Rory and Logan

Rory walked into the hallway with Logan who was holding Gigi right behind her. She stopped short of the door and turned around to look back at Logan. She smiled at him, reached for his hand and took a deep breath. She stepped up to the door and opened it. She walked in and shut the door behind Logan. He put Gigi down on the floor and walked over to the refrigerator to pack up all of Gigi's juice and stuff for Rory. She smiled realizing that he thought to do it and she never even asked. She looked around and didn't see her dad. "Dad." She called out to the common room

She watched as Paris came out of her bedroom. "He said to tell you he'd be right back. He just went to get a cup of coffee." Paris told her. "Does he know Huntzberger is here?"

"Um.. no."

"Didn't your dad walk in on you and Logan…"

"Yes." Rory said quickly interrupting before Paris could finish the question, "He did. But that is beside the point. He came here and he dropped off Gigi with no real explanation and interrupted my life at Yale and that includes my date with Logan tonight. So if he has a problem with it then he'll have to get over it. Because as soon as he comes and gets Gigi we're going back out to finish our date."

"Hey Ace, this grape juice wasn't here before was it? I mean you don't drink grape juice. Is it Paris'?" Logan called back from the other side of the dorm

"No, it's Gigi's." Rory yelled back smiling. She was amazed that he knew she didn't like grape juice

"God Gilmore that smile of yours in nauseating." Paris told her

"Well Geller, get used to it. I plan on doing everything in my power to keep it there for the rest of the night." Logan told her walking up behind Rory and wrapping his arms around her waist before laying a kiss on her collarbone.

Paris was about to make a remark about how the affection between the two was almost as nauseating as Rory's smile when the door opened and Chris walked in. "You two are lucky." Paris said sarcastically, "Rory's dad just walked in. I'll see you two later." She said before exiting the common room and going back into her room.

Logan walked over to where Gigi was and picked her up. Rory was watching him with a smile on her face. Chris had yet to notice Logan but saw his daughter with a spaced out look on her face. "Rory." Chris said to get her attention

"Hey dad."

"Where's my angel?"

"Right here." Logan said standing behind Chris

Chris turned around at the masculine voice and held out his arms for Gigi. She climbed over to Chris. "DADDY!" the little girl yelled excitedly

"Hey pumpkin. I missed you. Did you miss me?"

"Yes." Gigi replied

"Well why don't you go play with your sister for a minute and let me talk to this young man here."

"OK." Gigi said and walked over to Rory

"Actually Gigi I have a better idea." Rory said. She was not anxious to leave the two of them alone unsupervised for very long."You, not a word to him till I get back." She said pointing at Chris and walked over to Paris' door and knocked

"What?" Paris asked

"Watch her for a second please. I think Logan is going to need some help."

"She hates me." Paris said

"No she doesn't." Rory told her before she looked at Gigi, "You like Ms. Paris right?" she asked her

Gigi just shook her head no. "See I told you she hates me." Paris said

"Well tell you what Gigi you go in there with Ms. Paris and I'll give you a treat when I get back ok."

"OK." Gigi said reluctantly

"You owe me Gilmore." Paris said before she shut the door

Rory walked back over to Logan and her father. She took a deep breath and then looked at Chris and calmly said "Proceed."

"You are the twerp I caught with my daughter at the vow renewal." He asked Logan although he already knew the answer.

"Yes sir. Logan Huntzberger. It's nice to finally meet you." Logan said in his best parent pleasing voice

"Christopher Hayden. We met already remember. You were stripping my daughter in a coat room."

"Dad." Rory warned

"Yes sir. I will admit that the moment we met was not my best one. I just meant that it was nice to actually meet you. You know with names and everything, and not just 'hey you boy get off my daughter'." Logan said explaining

"What are you doing here?" Chris asked him

"Me and Rory were on a date."

"You took my baby daughter out on a date."

"Well technically yes, but I wasonly datingRory.Gigi I was merely helping baby-sit."

"Logan actually has been with Gigi most of the day." Rory interjected

"And why is that?" Chris asked suspiciously

"Because Dad I have classes! With tests! And newspaper meetings. I can't stop my life just because you show up needing a baby-sitter for the night and the next day. He offered to help me so I didn't miss any of my tests or my major newspaper meeting this afternoon. The words you should be looking for is thank you Logan, and not some way to insult him or some way to insert some fatherly concern for me."

"What does your mother think about this boy?" he asked Rory

"I'm not sure. But that's not the point. The point is that I needed help and he was here to help me."

Chris just nodded at Rory and looked over at Logan. "Are you dating my daughter?"

"Yes sir." Logan replied unsure of where this was heading

"Exclusively?"

Damn Logan thought The man already hates me. this is just going to make it worse. He looked over at Rory for help, his eyes pleading with hers but all he got from her face was an I'm sorry look. "Dad. Me and Logan aren't that serious. We both agree that we can see other people." Rory said trying to help but quickly realizing that what she said could possibly do more harm than good.

"Aren't that serious?" Chris yelled, "If your mom hadn't walked in on you two you would have slept with him and you aren't that serious! What are you thinking Rory?"

"I'm thinking that I'm 20 years old and can do whatever I want. I don't need your permission Dad, nor do I need your approval. If I want to sleep with half of Yale than I will!" Rory yelled

"No you will not!" yelled Logan and Chris at the exact same time. Rory just looked at Logan. She knew why her father wouldn't want her sleeping with anyone but Logan's outburst confused her. Why would Logan care who she slept with? He probably had a sleeping partner every night of the week.

Logan could feel Rory looking at him and he those nervous feelings jumped from his stomach to his throat. He didn't know why he yelled out at her but he did. Just then he heard a knock on the door and looked at his watch. Right on time he thought. Before Rory could say anything, he looked at her and said, "I got it."

"You answer my daughters door now do you?" Chris said stopping Logan dead in his tracks. Rory just rolled her eyes and looked at Logan.

"Open it."

Logan opened the door and grinned seeing Colin and Finn standing there. Colin holding the flowers and coffee and Finn with the toys and play pen. "Come in."

"Logan man me and you are going to sit down and have a conversation later." Finn whispered loudly

Logan just rolled his eyes at Finn and ushered them in so that he could shut the door. The second Chris' eyes landed on Colin and Finn his head whipped around to Rory and then back to the guys "Who the hell are you two?" Chris demanded

Finn and Colin stopped laughing immediately and looked at Logan. "Don't look at me. I can't help you." Logan told them both laughing, "I can't even help myself."

"DAD!" Rory yelled before turning her attention to the boys, "Hello my stalkers. How are you this fine evening?"

"Rory maybe your sense of humor isn't appropriate here love" Finn said with fear in his voice looking straight at the man who appeared to be Rory's father. "I assure you sir that we were not stalking your daughter today. We were just looking for Logan." Finn added

"I see we can now add janitorial staff to your list of career choices Finn." Rory said laughing "Is that coffee?" she asked Colin

"Yeah it's for you. It's an apology for earlier. One cup from me, one cup from Finn." Colin told her before looking over at Chris. "Hello sir. I'm Colin and this guy over here who is looking pretty scared of you is Finn. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Chris nodded over at Colin and said "Chris Hayden. How do you know my daughter?"

"We're friends of Logan's." Finn said and as soon as he saw Chris' eyes cloud over in what appeared to be disapproval he added, "And I'm thinking that wasn't the best thing to say."

Finn handed the box of toys and playpen to Logan who set them by the door and smiled at Rory. She mouthed I'm sorry to the three boys.

"Rory are you going to answer the phone?" Colin asked noticing the phone ringing

"I didn't even know it was ringing. Let it go to machine." Rory said "Are those my flowers?"

"Yeah. These are the ones off the table. They are in PERFECT condition." He added for Logan stressing the word perfect. "Not a petal missing. Logan assured us death if anything happened to them."

Rory smiled at this. She knew Logan knew that she had loved the flowers and he went through a lot of trouble making sure that she got to keep them. The answering machine message could be heard faintly in the background. The room went silent for a few seconds before a loud voice traveled over the machine "CHRISTOPHER HAYDEN! I SWEAR TO YOU A WORLD OF PAIN IF YOU DON'T ANSWER THIS PHONE NOW!"

Rory smiled and looked over at Logan. "I think its for you dad."

Chris walked over to the room and picked up the phone "Lore?" he paused and Rory cringed at the one sided conversation. She would give anything to hear what her mother was saying, "I understand. She's my daughter too Lorelai! I know that! I know I did. Yes she is a great kid. You don't either?" Logan head popped up. They were talking about him now. Lorelai was telling him that she didn't like him either, Logan realized. "Fine. Goodbye." He said and then handed the phone to Rory. "She wants to talk to you now."

"Yea mom? Ok I will… thank you." Rory said and hung up the phone. She walked over to Paris' door and knocked on it. Paris opened it immediately. "Thank you."

"Don't worry about it. It sounded like you needed help too. Take the girl." Paris said

"Come on Gigi, daddy's ready to go." Rory said. She took Gigi and Paris shut her door.

"Treat." Gigi demanded

"Ok come on." She said walking over to Colin. "Gigi this is my friend Colin he's going to give you one of those pretty flowers in his hand right there."

"What color do you want?" Colin asked Gigi. He couldn't help but notice that she looked a lot like Rory. His mind immediatley thought maybe that's why Logan likes the little girl so much, she reminds him of Rory.

"Pink."

"Ok here you go." He said handing the flower over to Gigi. He reached over and grabbed Finn." We're going to go now ok Rory?" when Rory nodded he looked at Logan and said, "Are you coming man?"

"No, Me and Ace still have half a date to get to." Logan told him. The words were spoken to Colin but tehy were directed at Chris and everyone in the room knew it.

"That dinner was only half of what youy have planned for Gilmore?" Finn said looking shocked. "Ok, see you later man," Finn said and then looked over his shoulder and threw in "Night Ace." And smiled and winked at Logan who was looking at him like he wanted to kill him

"Night Finn." Rory said "Night Colin." The two boys exited the room and Rory walked over to Logan. "Gigi say bye to Logan."

Chris expected his youngest daughter to just say a simple bye but Gigi reached over at Logan who eagerly took her in his arms and engulfed her in a hug. "Bye Wogan." Gigi said with a tear in her eye.

"Bye Gigi. I'm going to miss you little one."

"I visit?" Gigi asked him

"Of course sweetheart." Logan told her kissing her on the cheek. He walked over and handed her to Chris who was starting at him. "There's a box of stuff over there next to the door that I got her today, and a play pen. You can take them or you can leave them. It's up to you. Rory darling, I'm going to go in here and wait for you." He said motioning towards her door, "Come and get me when you are ready to go ok." He said

"Ok" Rory told him

"It was nice seeing you again Chris. Have a nice night. Bye Gigi." Logan said. He walked over to Rory and kissed her on the cheek and then walked into her room and shut the door.

"He's awful comfortable here isn't he?" Chris asked after the door was shut.

"Yes."

" Alittle too comfortable, don't you think?"

"No, I think he's just comfortable enough. And he has every right to be, he's always welcome here."

"I don't like him."

"I don't care."

"Your mother doesn't like him either."

Rory was shocked by the announcement but hid it well and looked at Chris and said, "She'll come around."

"Rory…"

"I think it's time for you to leave Dad."

"Rory…"

"Goodnight Christopher." Rory said and then turned on her heels and walked into her room and shut the door

Chris just stood there for a second. She called him Christopher he thought to himself. She's never called me anything but daddy. I've lost both of my Gilmore Girls. And with that revelation he turned around and picked up the box and the playpen and told Gigi, "Come on baby… its time to go."

AN: Ok I know I said that I was going to have a Lorelai and Rory fight about Logan in this chapter but I decided to save it for the next chapter… Please Read and Review….