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Discliamer: ASP is a goddess and yet i hate her all at once.
Chapter 7 – All You Had To Do Was Stay
People like you always want back the love they gave away
And people like me wanna believe you when you say you've changed
The more I think about it now the less I know
All I know is that you drove us off the road
Stay
Hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well, it could've been easy
All you had to do was stay
"Hello Lorelei." Logan said as he walked towards the Gilmore women. "Emily." He nodded.
"Logan?" Emily responded. "It's about time you got here. Your parent's may be idiots, but I know you were brought up better."
"Excuse me?" Logan said. What was Emily talking about?
"Logan," Lorelei interrupted. "It's nothing, just you know us Gilmores girls, just yapping and eating the food, and you know drinking the coffee, nothing to see here, move alone sir."
Emily gave her daughter a look that chilled Logan to his core. She was one scary woman but he couldn't help the nagging pit in his stomach. "Is everything ok Lorelei? Is Rory ok?"
"She's fine no thanks to you." Emily adds.
"Lorelei?" he says
"There you are mate, your sister is going to make Colin stay in the room as she feeds Elias, and I fear he may pass out." Finn says as he saunters up to the group. "Lorelei?" He says surprised.
"Finn." She acknowledges as Emily give Finn her most disgusted look. "Honor had a baby?" She asks.
"A couple of days ago." Logan rushes, "But…"
Before he can speak any further Rory's mothers ushers he and Finn down the hall with promises that if Colin is anything like Rory has told her it was an emergency that they get back to his sister.
Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to say
I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made
People like you always want back the love they pushed aside
But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye
Stay
Hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well, it could've been easy
All you had to do was stay
Standing outside Honors room, Logan watches Lorelei as she rushes back to her mother, who is standing with her hands on her hips looking at Logan like he's the ant-Christ. He glances at Finn who raises an eye before simply saying, "On it mate," and walks away as Logan goes into the room.
"It's about time little brother." Honor says. Little Elias, lay in her arms, feeding.
Colin however is turning green. "That's not what those things are suppose to be used for." He says, "It's not what they are suppose to be used for."
His mantra makes Logan laugh. It's not exactly something he wants to witness, considering it's his sister doing the feeding, but it's one of the most natural things in the world, so of course it makes Colin freak out.
"I got it from here Colin. I think Finn might need your help with something out there." He says.
"Oh thank God." Colin exasperates as he leaves the room in a rush.
"Please tell me Josh will be here soon."
"He's on his way. Stupid layovers. I miss my husband." Honor smiles.
Logan laughs, "I miss his too."
"So what mischief do you have Colin and Finn getting into for you?"
"Me?" he says innocently.
"Yes you. I know when something going down with you. So.. "
"So?"
"Spill."
"I don't know Honor." She gives him a skeptical look. "I really don't know." He insists. "When I came in just now I ran into Emily and Lorelei."
"Gilmore!?" She said a bit louder then she intended to, startling the baby. "As in Rory Gilmore?" she says softer.
"I only saw them."
"And?"
"And, I don't know. Emily looked like she wanted to throttle me and Lorelei acted like she couldn't get rid of me fast enough."
"They are aware that she broke your heart right." Honor says. She had always loved Rory, and she loved Rory and Logan together, but after watching Logan try and pick up the pieces of his heart both times, she was currently not Rory's biggest fan.
Logan shook his shoulders. "I didn't get any information from them."
"Thus Finn and Colin are hot on the trail. Logan don't do this again."
"Do what?"
"Get yourself caught up in her. I know how much you loved you, I mean I know, but your married now, and Odette is good to you. Don't mess that up."
He smiles, but it doesn't reach his eyes. Honor loved him, he knew that, and he also knew that Odette had been good to him, but he had to know what was going on. It was simply going to be an information mission. "I have no intention in messing things up. I actually have no intention of actually seeing Rory, but there's something that;s not making sense here, Honor."
"And you won't rest till you know what it is.." She laughs. "You know I got your back no matter what, right?"
"I do." He takes his nephew in his arms and places the sleeping baby in the bassinet so that Honor can get some rest. It's time to go home. Forget the office he tells himself. He needs to see his wife.
He kisses Elias and Honor on the forehead before making his quick exit out of the hospital. No sign of Lorelei or Emily in sight, he texts Finn that he's leaving and Finn promises to keep him abreast of anything they find out. He heads home, kissed his wife and together they laughed at the story of Colin watching Honor breastfeed. He has no idea that his life is about to change, and even if he did he doesn't know just how drastically it would.
Let me remind
You this was what you wanted
You ended it
You were all I wanted
But not like this
Not like this
Not like this
Oh, all you had to do was stay
Hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well, it could've been easy
All you had to do was stay
Morning came and went and Logan knew he should get out of bed, check his phone and emails, maybe go see Elias and Honor, but right now he was confortable and warm in bed with Odette. They'd made it through dinner with Mitchum last night without much fallout. Thankfully Mitchum loved Odette and all it took was a smile and slight touch of her hand of his arm to disarm him.
The two men closed the deal with promises of contract signing on Monday morning. Then on the ride home Logan decided to let Odette in on his day.
"So, when I was at the hospital today visiting Honor I ran into Lorelei and Emily Gilmore." He said without taking his eyes off the road.
He could feel her tense beside him, "As in Rory?" she asked gently.
"Yes." He glanced at her briefly, unable to read her eyes in the dim streetlights.
"Did you see her?"
"No", he responded taking her hand in his. "I don't even know exactly what they were doing there, but I didn't want to keep anything from you."
She squeezes his hand, "Thank you. So that means you've got at lest Finn checking out the situation?"
He chuckles, "You think you know me so well?"
"Yes I do." She says smiling in response. "You gonna tell me you don't?"
"Ok, I give. Finn and Colin are going to do a little peaking into it. Something didn't seem right."
"Mmm.." she says quietly.
"What are you thinking?" He says, taking her hand to his lips and kissing it gently.
"I just want to make sure you don't get hurt."
"Me?" He says in surprise, "I just told you, my new wife that I'm looking into my ex girlfriend and you're worried about ME getting hurt?" He laughs lightly.
Odette adjust herself in the passenger seat so she is facing him, he refuses to let go of her hand as she says, "I knew what I was getting into Logan. We are friends, and partners, but love was never part of the deal. I knew that when I agreed to marry you."
"Okaaay" he drags out unsure of where she's going with this.
"But I do love you Logan, maybe not the way we both could have loved other people, but I do love you and I care about what happens to you. You kind of save me you know. After James passed, I was a mess. I didn't think I would ever be happy again, but then you came along, and you were honest with me from get go about everything. Rory, and marriage, and I get it, because as much as you love her I loved him. The thing is with James and I, we didn't have time to screw things up the way you guys did. We loved fast, and hard and intense, and then in one instant it was all gone. He was gone, and it kind of broke me." Logan pulled into the parking garage at their apartment and turned the car off and turned to face her.
She continued, "I saw that kind of pain in your eyes Logan. Not just the pain of a break up, but the kind of pain that never goes away. I'd like to think that it's moved to the back burner and your smile finally reaching your eyes again, is at lest in part due to us."
"It absolutely is." He reassures her.
"I'm glad. So, I understand that you want to know she's ok. It's not like you saw her on a street somewhere, it was at a hospital, but I'd like to keep seeing the happiness in your eyes."
He didn't know what to say. He'd been unbelievably lucky with Odette. It was not a fact he dismissed lightly. They walked hand in hand to the elevator and rode in silence all the way to the penthouse.
Inside they both walked directly into the bedroom, their nightly ritual fully in sync. He took off his tie and dress shirt and changed into a pair of sweat pants. He climbs into the bed and beside him, in an old t-shirt Odette crawls in. He opens his arm and she lays her head gently on his chest. The wounds, still fresh for them both, have been laid open tonight, and together they do what they need to forget.
Her hair falls gently against his face as she leans in for a kiss. It's better then remembering the pain and he takes off her shirt and together they forget about time, and place and reveal in the sweat off their bodies and the gentle tick of the clock on the wall. They were both on the same team.
When he finally sat up and checks his phone. The time said 1:10 pm. Odette was no longer next him, but he could smell the coffee from the next room.
"Morning Babe." He kissed her gently on the cheek as he poured himself a cup.
"Morning." She was reading the Sunday paper. "I can't believe we slept that long."
"I can. You gave me quite the workout last night." He laughed.
"And I didn't once call you daddy." She retorts.
He sat down opposite her at the small table. She laid down her slice of toast and paper and looked him directly in the eye, "So.."
"Yes?" he responded concerned.
"Any update on Rory?"
He froze with the cup at his lips. "Odette…"
"What?"
"I just woke up." He says trying to stall the conversation.
"So you're saying you haven't talked to Finn yet?'
"I'm saying I just woke up."
She shakes her messy hair from side to side. "You can't fool me Huntzberger."
"Can I at lest get a full cup of coffee in my system before my wife asks me about my ex girlfriend." He laughs.
"Ok, I guess you can." She smiled. "Actually I have to run a few errands today. You want to tag along?"
"Have I ever wanted to run errands?"
"Fine, leave me all alone. I'll just go shopping and spend more of your money."
She stands and he smiles up at her. He leans over to his wallet on the table and hands her his black card, "If it means I don't have to spend hours in a store, enjoy."
She snatched the card playfully and tosses it back at him, "Silly boy, I don't need your black card. You forget, as your wife, I have my very own." She walks sassily into the bedroom to dress.
He smiles as he places the card back in his wallet. He checks his phone again, no signs of missed calls or text. Knowing that if he doesn't distract himself he'll do nothing but obsess about Finn's call, he decides that he will spend the afternoon in the home office taking care of whatever small business he can.
Hey, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well, it could've been easy
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
*Lyrics are Stay by Taylor Swift
