Disclaimer: I own nothing but Lotte and Albie.

Note: The rating was only increased because of swearing.

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Logan slowly walked down the long hall to his office; the walk seemed longer than it ever had before. He wasn't sure want awaited him on the other side of the door and he wasn't really sure what he wanted to find. Rory could still be there, still pawing overall the pictures of his Lotte. But of the other hand she could be gone, gone forever, gone longer than when she left the first time. His hand gradually made its way toward the door knob, and turned then pushed in the door. There she sat like nothing had happened, like he was looking at her seventeen years ago. Yes she had never been to this office but it was like looking back in time for Logan, a shiver ran up his spine. There she was just as he had always imagined, sitting there perfect as she always was; his. But she wasn't his; no, she hadn't been his for a long time, she was someone else's now. She wasn't the woman that he love uncontrollably she had gone and become the person who was sitting in front of him now. "She's so beautiful." Logan couldn't say anything he stood there silent; unmoving. "Her eyes; are they still that eerie green?" Rory held the book closer to her face.

"Yes." It was all Logan could muster. He walked the length to his desk, but upon reaching it decided that was not where he wanted to be within the room. He stood by his desk rather confused on what to do with out looking utterly stupid, he walked over to the bookshelf on the other side of his office and removed a book, opening it and pretending to read it skimmed it for some rather interesting piece of information before deciding that he had made a fool of himself for long enough and closed the book placing it back in it's shelf. Looking up he saw that Rory hadn't taken her eyes off the photo album. Rory continued to memorized the face of her daughter, she had never seen a face that captivated her more than this one; her own daughter's. None of her son's faces had ever meant this much to her but as she turned the page to see another smiling face of Lotte, she almost felt a tear stream down her face. She looked up to find Logan standing at the bookcase watching her. "Hey, how about we go and get some coffee?" Rory just nodded.

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"So…Yale? My idea?" Lotte looked at the man sitting on the grass behind her. Albie smiled and nodded. "And this," Lotte pointed up to a large building, "didn't weigh into my decisions at all?" Albie shook his head.

"If I remember correctly you didn't even mention it." Albie stared up at the massive building, in giant letters were written the name 'Rory Gilmore.' Lotte stood in the quad on the edge of the picnic blanket staring up at the massive building before her.

"I think if I come at it from the right angle I won't notice it."

"Yeah sure…I mean if you come at it from…"

"Ah! Fuck! Who am I fooling the letters are thirty fucking feet high!" Lotte walked towards the building, she began screaming. "Fuck you, you fucking…arg…fuck you!"

"LOTTE!" Albie blotted off the blanket. "Lotte! Hey, Lotte! Lotte!" He caught up with her. "You have to come here in like two weeks, so I won't do that; unless you want everyone to think you're crazy before they actually meet you." Lotte had that fire behind her eyes that she got from time to time when she was feeling anger towards her mother. "Hey lets go back, I have some things that I need to do at work, and seeing as how I took off all of today I really think I should get them done."

"Okay." Those were the only words that Lotte said until they got back to Albie's apartment. Lotte walked up the stairs behind him and a few steps behind him as he walked down the hall and when he opened the door to his apartment she stood at the doorway and looked in. Safe: that was the only word that she could use to describe Albie's apartment. The styling left much to be desired, but she still love it because it had nothing to do with her father, grandmother or her mother; this place was where she could be completely her. The her she only could be with Albie.

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Sorry that it took me so long but i had some of this chapter floating around for awhile and I had to get it down even though there wasn't alot. i believe that the next chapter of the story will be longer I just wanted to get this down before I lost it.

I decide to make this chapter short and give a background/recap of the story for those of you who were wondering (this is going to be explained later in the story or at least referenced).

Rory is not married to Jess, but does have children with him. She is an editor of a paper in California. She has a happy life with her children but doesn't feel completely fulfilled with Jess (not meant sexually).

Logan is editor of his father's biggest newspaper, in New York. He has since taken over the business. He is also the owner of many newspapers across the nation and a few abroad. The newspaper that he is at was not the one he was working at when he and Rory were married. After Rory left Logan moved he and Lotte to the city, because he couldn't bear to live in the house that reminded him so much of Rory. He has dated around a lot, but has never remarried. He hasn't been much of a drinker since Rory left and the only reason that Lotte was angry with in the last chapter was because he wasn't home at three in the morning meaning that he had gotten so wasted that he didn't want Lotte to see him that drunk.
Lotte is a confused girl. She is torn between who she thinks her family wants her to be and who she really is. She is deeply affected by the fact that Rory left and the only reason she doesn't talk about how she feels with her family is because she doesn't think they understand her. She doesn't let many people into her own world, she is also slow removing her father from her world/inner circle, not like she is not talking to him just that she doesn't trust him completely. She has many trust issues and also doesn't like many of her 'family' (Finn is a 'family' member since he is her one of her godfathers; Colin and Zach are the other two) members. She keeps the fact that she has a boyfriend secret from her family.

Albie (Albert Boyle) is Lotte's boyfriend he is also the bastard son of Finn Rothschild. Finn and Albie's mother had a series of one night stand ending in Albie's conception. Finn was not the stand up kind of guy who 'did the right thing,' rather he has distanced himself from his son almost entirely; this is one of the reasons that Lotte first went to Albie for comfort which started their relationship. Finn and Albie have never truly gotten to know each other over the years and Albie has a deep-seeded hatred towards him for, not only the fact that he left his (Albie's) mother alone with a small child, but also because he never wanted to get to know his own (and only) son.