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Chapter 19 – *Fall For you

The best thing about tonight's that we're not fighting
It couldn't be that we have been this way before
I know you don't think that I am trying
I know you're wearing thin down to the core

But hold your breath

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day
I swear its true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You're impossible to find

The week at work has been long and lonely. Logan wants to text Odette and see if she's ok, and he wants to call Rory and check on Richie, but he's caught in limbo. He knows he loves his Ace, but he knows he made a promise to Odette. It's Friday night and he's suppose to go to dinner at Rory's like usual, but he's decided he's not going go. She'll just ask where Odette is and he doesn't want to lie.

He sits in his office way past the end of the workday, and past the time of the usual start of dinner. In fact he stays in his office late into the night, finding project after project to catch up on, and to finish drink after drink. It's nearing midnight when he gets a call from the security desk telling him he has a visitor.

"We missed you at dinner my friend." Colin says as he and Finn enter the boss's office.

"Yeah, I was busy. Sorry."

"He was busy Colin." Finn comments

"Busy he says." Colin adds

"Yet, somehow in his busyness he's had the time to drink most of this very expensive scotch." Finn paces the room.

Colin feigns hurt, "And without us."

"You wound me my friend." The Aussie chimes in

"Very funny boys." Logan laughs, "How was dinner."

"Informative."

"Is that right?" Logan asks Colin.

"Very." Finn pours himself a drink from what's left of the offending scotch.

"And what news did you two feel the need to run over her to tell me?'

"We assumed you knew that was why you missed dinner." Finn says shocked

"You don't know?" Finn asks.

"Clearly he doesn't Colin. He's willfully uninformed." Finn holds the glass up to Colin to ask is he wants one. The other man nods affirmative and Finn pours him one.

"Willfully." He concurs.

Will you two idiots just tell me what's going on?" Logan says, laughing as he hands his glass to Finn to add the last of the liquid.

"Mother is leaving." Finn says as he hands the glass to Logan.

"She's what? Where's she going?"

Colin takes a swig of the alcohol, "California my boy."

"What?!" Logan has been totally blindsided. She'd seemed like she wanted to talk about more then just Richie on the few occasions they'd spoken but she'd never said anything.

"For the book series. It's supposedly just a tour but it starts Monday morning so she's flying out tomorrow to sunny California to prep for the first stop with her agent."

"Is Finn shitting me?" he asks Colin, now in a panic.

"I'm afraid not. She'll be gone for at least 8 weeks but they way she keeps talking about needing a fresh start I wouldn't be surprised if she stays."

"Is she going to be traveling with that jackass James?!"

The two friends nod in affirmation.

"What about Richie?!" He suddenly says. He's not ok with not seeing his son or her for 8 weeks. That's a lot of time.

"She said it was all worked out. Like we said, we figured you knew and skipped the goodbye celebration, mate."

"Odette said you guys had it under control."

"Odette was there?" Now Logan's really confused.

When the two nod that, yes in fact, Odette was there he grabs his jacket. "I have to go."

Logan leaves the two men standing in his office as he texts down to the car service and Frank meets him downstairs. That man has been a godsend to Logan over the years and he's just as thrilled to tell the man where to head now as he has always been there when Logan's drank too much to drive himself.

Frank knows him well enough to know when he was chatty and when like now he wanted to be alone. Once the address had been given the man who recognizing it, smiles and closes the divider in the limo and leaves Logan alone with his thoughts.

This is not what I intended
I always swore to you I'd never fall apart
You always thought that I was stronger
I may have failed
But I have loved you from the start

Oh, but hold your breath

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind
I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
It's impossible to find

The house is dark and it's near midnight by the time he pulls into the driveway. He knows that by now, his son should be deep asleep so he dials her cell phone in hopes of avoiding waking up the sleeping toddler.

"Logan?" she answer groggy with sleep.

"I'm down stairs."

"At my house?"

"Yes."

"It's midnight."

"That's why I called instead of knocking. Let me in please."

"Ok, hang on." She says and hangs up the phone.

Moments later the porch light in front of him turns on and he hears the door lock unlatch. She stands there drowsy and confused and she looks absolutely adorable, but he's angry and even though he won't admit it, scared.

"What the hell, Ace." He says as he walks in before she can even say hello.

"Hello, to you too."

"Really?" Is all he says as she closes the front door.

"Really what, Logan? It's midnight, I was asleep as is your son so please keep the volume down."

"You're leaving. Just like that. Without talking to me, without telling me." He accuses.

"Logan…"

"And you're leaving with him."

"With who?"

"James." He accuses

"Not with him Logan, he's my editor and my friend."

"No one is just friends with a girl like you ok."

"What the hell does that mean?!" she starting to get angry now.

"Just that you're the kind of girl that you don't let get away and I know you're gonna throw jess in my face but that boy took years to get over you."

"You did."

"I did what?"

"Let me get away."

"That's not the same thing. You left. I didn't LET you go anywhere."

"But I'm not running now. I'm here. I've been here, every day. I'm not going to run away. I was young and stupid and I didn't realize that when I said no to you that meant saying no forever."

"I didn't know that, Ace. All I knew was that I poured my heart and soul out to you and you said no."

"I had a lot of issue, still do, but I've learned that maybe things don't always have to play out the way my mom's life did. Maybe not all men are like my father."

"You thought I was like Christopher?" Logan sounds hurt and it kills her.

"Not just you, ok. I just, what I thought, what I knew, other then Luke, who really didn't even become this massive part of my life until high school, was that men don't stay? My dad, he just, he never… I always wanted him to love me, to want me and mostly I felt like he only every wanted my mother, and I was a means to an end."

"You deserved so much better than that."

"Yes you have always had similarities to his, and maybe that's what drew me to you initially. You were playful, and took chances and you pushed me to take those chances too, but you weren't immature when it mattered, you were ALWAYS there when I needed you and I was an idiot, ok. I was wrong. I should have yes, and every time I go back to that day I do. I say yes and it's you and me, always."

"You can't just say these things, Ace, especially when you're leaving again. It's you who keeps walking away."

She closes the distance between then and put her hand on his chest. "I'm not running from you. I'm going on a book tour, I'm getting my career started, but I'm not running, and really if I'm honest I don't want you to not let me run anymore because I'm still scared. What if you choose me and then change your mind."

"I won't." He says.

"Won't?" she questions.

"I thought you were leaving me." He says sounding like a scared little boy.

"You're not mine to leave." She says softly.

He looks her directly in the eyes, his hand holding the one she has lying over his heart. "If you'll still have me I am. I feel like I have always been yours, Ace."

Rory leans up to reach Logan's lips and she kisses him. It's tentative at first but when he doesn't pull away she puts her hand on the back of his head and steps closer.

He closes his arms around her waist and pulls her into him. It feels like he can finally breath for the first time in years.

They continue to kiss until she pulls back from him, and out of his arms. He wants to pull her in again and not let go but she takes his hand as she begins to walk away and pulls him towards the stairs.

"Are you sure?" He asks.

She kisses him again and again begins to lead him to the stairs.

"Ace, are you sure?" He needs clarification. Not just her consent to take anything further, he needs to know if she's really ready.

"Logan, this thing we're doing here, me and you I'm in. I am all in."

Logan is speechless as he can see it in her eyes, and feel it in his heart that this time, she's really ready, so he lets her lead him upstairs. They both pause by their son's door and look in to make sure that he's ok, before closing her bedroom door behind them.

He feels like he can't get close enough to her, can't touch her enough or kiss her enough as they each begin to take off the others clothes. The movements aren't frantic or rushed, though they each thirst for the other like a person whose been lost in the desert for days without water, neither of them want to lose this moment and he kisses each of her shoulders as he removes her night blouse. Each button he loosens shows him more of her skins.

She shivers beneath the heat of his lips on her skin as she lets him take his time unbuttoning her shirt and removing it from her body before she begins to undo with dress shirt, each button like a binding that has been around her heart being cut loose. She returns the kisses on his shoulder as she pushes off the offending clothing piece. She runs her hand down his toned chest and is amazed that this man can look just as good if not better then the boy she met all those years ago, the boy who challenged her to jump.

He knows he's coming undone as she lowers her hand to his slacks and starts to unbuckle the belt. All he can do is watch the passion rising in her eyes and feel the silk of her hands on his abdomen. He kisses her as they walk back towards her bed. Touching the edge they lay down and he can feel the swell of her breasts on him and it feel like heaven.

He's pushed off his slacks and pulls down the shorts of her nightclothes and suddenly she feel self-conscious. He can feel it and he leans up on his arm next to her. "What is it, Ace?"

"I just, I mean look at you, you look better if that's even possible than the last time and I've, well I've had a baby, I have stretch marks and my body is, it's just not the same."

He hands are covering her stomach and he reaches down and moves them away form her body. He runs his fingers over her stomach and it makes her tremble. He leans down and gently kisses her stomach, that one that housed his son. "All I see if the beautiful women that I love."

He leans down and kisses her again and she wraps her arms around his neck and he moves himself to kneel between her legs. He's leaning over her, both of his arm holding him up with their presence on either side of her arms. She run her hands up his arm and over his back as he positions himself to finally be inside of her. He pushes and she arches her back. It's been so long since they last felt this close, this in tune and feels like two puzzle pieces fitting perfectly together.

She closes her eyes, and he watches her face, the face of his Ace as he begins to move. First slowly and then as they both begin to want more and want it faster and harder he picks up the pace matching each of her thrust from beneath him.

She can taste saltiness of the sweat dripping off of his body as he fills her again and again, with each movement and it feel like she's falling in love all over again. This is the boy, the man that taught her what real love is, what a real partner and father can and should be. And she wants nothing more then to let go of the past and the shit that life has thrown at them and become a family, to let her inhibitions down and lock away her fears for this man that has always wanted only the best for her.

She reaches her climax first and she softly cries out, so as not wake Richie, and Logan is holder her shaking body to him, "I've got you Ace. I've got you." He says as she allows herself to let go of it all and cum around him, her body tensing and then releasing and relaxing immediately.

As she soaks the sheets around him Logan loses any type of composure he has on himself as he says, "I've got you." Though he's not sure if it's to reassure her or to remind himself that she's the one here in his arm. A place he never imagined her to ever be again.

Now spent the two of them lay side by side on the bed. She rolls over and lays her head and hand on his chest and he covers her shoulder with his arm and hold her close.

"I definitely need to thank Odette." She says.

"What the fuck?!" he says confused.

She laughs. "We've been plotting, trying to get you here to talk to me but every thing we tried failed, you never seemed to take the bait. So when this tour came up she said that this was it. That you'd freak if you thought I was leaving so we decided to fill Finn and Colin in on the plane and send them your way."

"You planned this?" He laughs.

"Well not this, I figured you'd wait till morning." She gestures to the messy bed around them, "This, was a surprise, but yes we sent Finn and Colin to your office to lay the news on you."

"You know that woman never ceased to amaze me." He says.

"I know. She's pretty amazing."

"Do you want me to leave?" He asks.

"Leave?"

"I mean if this wasn't part of the plan, I don't want to …"

"Logan I want you to stay, tonight and forever."

"How did I get so lucky?" he kisses the top of her head.

So breathe in so deep
Breathe me in
I'm yours to keep

And hold onto your words
'Cause talk is cheap
And remember me tonight when you're asleep

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind
I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find

The morning comes and Logan wakes up to the sound of Richie in the next room. He disentangles himself from his sleeping Ace and pulls back on his slacks. He'd give anything for some sweatpants right now.

He brings his son downstairs to make breakfast. He plans on surprising her with breakfast in bed with him and Richie. He gives his son a few toys to play with and starts to cook when he hears vibrating coming from the hallway. He finds Ace's phone lit up, a text from Odette shining in green. "Did he come by yet?!"

He laughs and rolls his eyes. This woman will just not let him make his own decisions concerning Rory, probably because she knows he'll talk himself out it. He can't help but pick up the phone, which thankfully doesn't have a security lock. The phone belongs to a girl that grew up in Stars Hallow; he's surprised when he finds her door locked on the house. He presses reply and types in, "I'm here. You win, I give." And hits send.

"I KNEW IT!" comes back almost instantly.

"Hey O?"

"Yes, Logan?"

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. Now get off Rory's phone. You don't know the kind of wrath a woman will bring down on the man that touches her phone."

He puts down the phone and laughs. For the first time he thinks things might actually work out ok. He finishes breakfast for his girl and gives Richie some oatmeal. After having to clean up every surface of the kitchen to clear away oats he and Richie make their way back upstairs with the tray of food and a picture Richie drew for mom.

He knocks on the door before opening it. She's just walking out of the bathroom as he sets the tray down on the side table.

"Come on Ace we made you a special breakfast in bed and if you don't go back to bed it's going to a special breakfast in bed at a desk and what's special about that?"

"You made cinnamon rolls."

"I can make anything that comes in a tube." He jokes.

"Mommy! Mommy!" Richie runs from behind Logan and hands Ace his picture.

"Wow! Mommy feels so special this morning." She says as she kisses Richie and then leans in to kiss Logan. "Thank you."

"EEEwwwwwww! Mommy don't kiss daddy!" Richie says and pushes Logan a few steps away from her.

The parents laugh and Logan picks up Richie playfully hanging him upside down, "then I guess we're just going to have to kiss you." He says righting the boy and they both pelt the child with wet kisses on his face.

Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you
Over again
Don't make me change my mind
I won't live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You're impossible to find

* Lyrics are Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade