Chapter 38
"He actually gave you his proxy?" Finn asked astonished
Logan nodded. "Yeah. Granted I can only use it as a last resort but still. And you know the kind of weight the legacy members carry let alone the kind the elder legacy members. He's gone."
Finn sighed. "And Colin?"
Logan frowned. "I'll just have to cross that bridge when I get to it."
Finn nodded. "So how was the trip to Stars Hollow?"
Logan sank into the sofa. "Fine." He said rubbing his eyes tiredly. "What are you doing here anyway? It's the weekend shouldn't you be out somewhere trying to coax some loose and/or drunken redhead that you really are as charming as you think you are?" he asked smiling brightly
Finn scoffed. "You mean I'm not?! Remind me to be offended later on." Finn said before adding, "So Lorelai still hates you huh?"
"Finn..." Logan said his laugh dissipating
Finn laughed. "My God, what does the bloody woman want you to do?"
Logan shrugged. "I don't know. What did you do to make her like you?"
Finn shrugged. "I don't know. I'm exotic. Women love exotic men." he said smiling then sighed when he saw Logan not smiling. "I think it helps that I'm not sleeping with her daughter."
Logan rolled his eyes. "I'm not going to quit having sex with Rory just so Lorelai will like me."
Finn laughed. "No, I don't suppose you would. It probably doesn't help that Emily and Richard like you either."
Logan shook his head. "They like you too."
"Again, I'm not sleeping with her daughter."
Logan groaned and ran his hand through his hair frustrated. "Rory keeps saying that it doesn't matter to her. That it doesn't bother her at all that Lorelai hates me. And I don't know... maybe it doesn't right now..."
"But what happens later on when it does?" Finn asked finishing his thought
Logan nodded. "Exactly. I can't even imagine being without Rory. And eventually she's going to get tired of hearing her mother talk about me like I'm dirt. And she's going to grow tired of having to choose between me and Lorelai."
"And if she doesn't choose you..."
"I'll be devastated. And what if she chooses me and her relationship with Lorelai never recovers. She'll end up resenting me and I don't want that either." Logan said sadly
Finn sighed. "I don't know what to tell you to do mate."
"I keep thinking that if I try harder, if I show Lorelai that I'm not going anywhere she'll eventually have to give in. Which is why I went to Stars Hollow to begin with. But my presence there just infuriates her even more and the whole day backfired."
"If it's any consolation , Luke likes you now." Finn said trying to look on the bright side
Logan nodded. "Well at least there's that." he said jokingly
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"Freezing him out isn't going to make me change my mind, or make him stay away. He's going to keep trying. He's not going to stop trying to win you over. But eventually I will. I suggest you come to terms with that. I'll only play this game for so long before I give up, and you won't like the choice I make." came Rory's voice from Lorelai's answering machine the next morning.
Sookie sighed as she listened to the message. "Lore, seriously maybe you should just cave on this." she said trying to help. She hated to see or hear Rory and Lorelai fighting.
Lorelai shook her head. "Sook..."
"No, I met him. He seems like a good guy. And he loves Rory. And she loves him."
Lorelai groaned. "I know she loves him, but I don't trust him. He pushed her into that ridiculous no strings attached thing, introduced her to Robert, who ended up bruising my baby..."
"He babysat so that she could take her exams and go to the newspaper, he punched Robert on several occasions defending her honor, he won Luke over and we all know just how impossible that is, he's only dating her now..." Sookie reiterated
"He's manipulative, violent, rude..." Lorelai argued
"He's sweet, kind, considerate, loving..." Sookie opposed
"He's a Huntzberger." Lorelai said with disgust
"That's not his fault." Sookie countered
"He.. He's... OK I'm tapped." Lorelai admitted with a groan
Sookie let out a sigh of relief. "Thank God, I was too."
"He's just... he's not right for her." Lorelai said softly
"And who is? Dean?" Sookie asked
Lorelai sighed. "Dean isn't right for her either. But you have to admit he was the perfect boyfriend."
Sookie shook her head negatively. "No. Hun. He really wasn't. Remember you told me how he humiliated her in front of all those people when he broke up with her. He made her feel bad for pursuing her dreams, plus there was the whole married thing..."
Lorelai nodded. "Ok, ok so he's not perfect. But she deserves someone perfect."
"Lore, she'd get bored with someone perfect. Besides she loves Logan. And he loves her..."
"I really wish you quit saying that!" Lorelai snapped
"The sooner you accept it the better. You heard her. She won't play much longer, and she's going to choose him." Sookie said before getting up and walking out the front door.
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Logan and Finn looked up as soon as they heard Colin walk into the dorm. "Hey." Finn said before turning back to the card game he and Logan had started earlier that morning
"Hey." Colin said back before heading into his room. He came back out less than five minutes later. "What's this?" he asked
Finn looked up again. He saw the engraved invitation in Colin's hand. "It's a notification that your presence is required at an LDB meeting tonight." he said flippantly
Colin shook his head. "But we had noting planned until next month." he said confused
"Hence the notification." Finn said smiling
Colin looked at him curiously. Logan had yet to say a word and somehow that didn't set well in Colin's head. "What's the meeting about?"
"Inducting a new member." Finn said returning to the cards
"Who?" Colin asked "I wasn't aware we had been looking for new recruits."
"We haven't."
"Well then who?"
"Just wait and see Colin. It's a surprise." Logan said a small smile on his face
If the fact that Logan hadn't spoken had been gnawing at his stomach the small smile was now taking huge bites out of it.