A/N Grrrr you guys are so smart. I should have known. Oh well, here is chapter 20. Wow 20 chapters already. I think I should tell you now that I am planning on having 30 chapters total, I think. It all depends on how much I write. And after this story is done, I will have a sequel. R and R. BTW I like this chapter. It made me and my beta laugh. Hope you guys like it.
Chapter 20: Man Eating Owls and 2 Colin's.
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"What the Hell?" Logan yelled, taken by surprise.
"Oh hey Mate; Luv." said a very familiar Aussie.
Finn was currently lying in Logan's trunk with his left arm under his head and his other holding a turkey sandwich with a bite taken out of it.
"Took you long enough." He said nonchalantly.
"Finn, what do you mean took me long enough?" Logan asked, annoyed and confused.
"Well, I've been in this trunk ever since Rory went on her task. You know, it really starts to get hot after 12pm"
"Maybe it's because that's when the sun is fully out and shining." Rory laughed.
"Could be. And another thing…"
"Finn!" Logan interrupted, just noticing the sandwich in his hand. "Why are you eating my sandwich?"
"Mate, I was just going to tell you before you very RUDELY interrupted me. I was just saying that the heat made me hungry. I found this sandwich just lying around and decided to eat it. Quite good, by the way." Finn said, taking another bite.
"Finn, it was in the basket." Logan said rolling his eyes.
"Right. It was lying around in the basket." Finn agreed.
"Aww Logan, you put our lunch in a basket? How very old movie-ish of you." Rory said half seriously.
"I thought you would like it." Logan said with a smirk.
"Apparently I'm not the only one." Rory laughed.
"Apparently." Logan agreed.
"Hey, do'ya think you could get the rest of the food before Finn eats it all? I'm really hungry." Rory asked.
"Yeah sure, Ace. So am I."
"Then off to The Secret Garden, Colin!" Rory squealed excitingly.
"Uh Ace, I'm Logan. I don't think I like you getting my name mixed up with Colin's."
"Tell me you've seen The Secret Garden!" Rory looked at him with big eyes.
"Yes…but I don't see…" Logan said slowly.
"My God Logan, you are slow. Even I know that one. Colin's the boy who can't walk. The sick, homely one." Finn laughed.
"Shut up Finn." Logan told him, taking the basket and shutting the trunk with Finn still in it.
"How long are'ya planning on keeping him in there?" Rory asked him shocked.
"I don't know, maybe a day or two." Logan smirked.
All of a sudden they heard muffled screaming and thumping from inside the trunk.
"Looooooogan!" thump "Rorrrrrry!" thump "Soooomeone! Get me out of this bloody car!" thump thump "Trunk! Whatever the hell I'm in. Please!" thump "Logan, you're not dumb. Please, please God, please."
Logan let out a snort before slowly unlocking the trunk. "God Finn, you're so annoying."
"Oh thank God for the sun." Finn said dramatically, stretching his arms out in worship of it.
"I don't think I have ever heard him say that." Logan said shocked.
"Oh come on, Finn. You were in the trunk for all of five seconds." Rory scoffed.
"You mean after that THING closed it on me." Finn scowled.
"One more remark and I don't care how much you scream, you're staying in the trunk." Logan warned him.
"Fine." Finn pouted, crossing his arms.
"Ready to get out?" Rory smiled, offering him her hand.
"ABSO-BLOODY-LUTLY!" Finn groaned.
Logan and Rory helped Finn out of the trunk and the three walked up to the moss and leave covered wall. When they stopped, Rory looked impatiently at Logan and Finn did the same. Logan fumbled for a key and when he found it, shoved it into the wall and turned it. Then with a push, he opened the door and the three walked inside. Rory and Finn walked around with their mouths hanging open. Inside, there was a small valley with crisp green grass and a little stream running across the middle. By the stream there were neatly arranged flowers of all colors. There were tons of trees on the other side of the stream that made into a forest. The sun was shining and made the water and grass sparkle. Logan shut the door and the three walked deeper into the beautiful secret area.
"How the hell did you find this and why didn't you tell me?" Finn asked, his eyes still opened wide.
"Finn, if I would have told you about this, then it wouldn't be a secret anymore. Everyone would know about it." Logan told him.
"I take offence to that, Mate. I wouldn't have told anyone about this place. I am really good at keeping secrets."
"Yeah, until you're drunk."
"I have not told people's secrets no matter what state I'm in."
"Oh come on Finn, you know that's a lie." Rory ginned.
"Name one time, Gilmore."
"Well, how bout when you told everyone about me and Paris on Spring Break when I specifically told you not to tell anyone. Or after finding the picture of Colin in Stephanie's drawer, you told all your friends. And remember when Logan…"
"Alright, Alright. Maybe I have a hard time keeping secrets."
"Told you." Logan smirked.
"Whatever, ex-friend." Finn said sulking.
"Oh, come on Finn, We're just joking around."
"I know. I just wanted to get the last word." Finn said with an evil glint in his eye.
"Figures." Logan muttered.
"But, anyway Mate, how did you find out about this?"
"My mom's brother Brian helped me fix it up."
"You mean you did all of this by yourselves?"
"Yeah we did. Just my uncle, 2 gardeners who were sworn to secrecy and I worked on it."
"How long did it take?" Rory asked.
"It took like two and a half months to finish it all. I wanted it to be like my secret hideaway."
"Wow." Finn and Rory exclaimed.
All of a sudden Rory started to skip towards the stream.
"I'm in the garrrrrden with Colllllin." She sang yelled in a sort of British accent.
"Can I be Colin, Luv?" Finn yelled to her.
"Sure, but you need a wheel Chair." She yelled back.
"I'll be Colin after he walks again." Finn decided.
"That could work, but we would have to cut a lot the lines out from the movie."
"Plus I couldn't do the crying bit." Finn said disappointed
"Or the I can walk scene." Rory agreed walking back to the two.
"Ok, so let me get this straight. You're talking about the Colin in the movie, not our best friend Colin, right?" Logan asked the two.
"Wow, Mate, you are smart." Finn said sarcastically.
"Poor Logan. You know, you really should get out more. You live a very sheltered life, Huntzberger." Rory teased him.
"Is that so?" Logan asked, pulling her closer to him.
"Yes, I think it is." Rory said playfully.
"Well, in that case…" Logan said pulling her into a deep kiss. Rory was a little startled at first but it didn't take her long to return it. They both felt the burning sensation on their lips as they kissed. Rory gently bit on Logan's bottom lip and made him pull her even closer to him. She felt shivers down her back as he moved his hands to her lower back.
Suddenly they heard gagging noises and broke apart to see Finn clutching his throat with his mouth open and a disgusted look on his face.
" Uhh, too much affection. Please stop before I hurl." Finn said pretending to gag.
"Finn, we can do whatever we want. You weren't supposed to even be here. By the way, why are you?" Logan asked with mock annoyance.
"Because. I knew it wasn't fair to me that you got chosen so, I did something about it." Finn answered in a you should already know that tone.
"So…you hid in the trunk?" Logan asked.
"Exactly. Pretty effective, huh?"
"Finn, you know you can't be with us, it's against the rules." Rory pointed out.
"Oh come on luv, live a little."
"I don't know…"
"Relax; no one knows that I'm with you guys. No one except the "real" Colin." Finn smirked at Logan.
"Ok, I guess. If it's alright with Logan."
Finn looked at Logan. "Well Mate, is it alright with you?"
"Yeah sure. Why not. I mean he's already here." Logan sighed.
"Great. Now how bout lunch." Finn said happily as he started to spread out the picnic blanket and food.
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After Lunch, the three lay next to each other on the grass. Soon Finn fell asleep. Rory was playing with a leaf when Logan moved himself to where he was on top of her.
"Hello." He said
'Hey." She smiled.
He dipped down and kissed her passionately. This time she being ready for the kiss, kissed him back and felt her body start to melt. She started to feel light headed. This time he bit her lip and she gasped. He took full advantage of her opened lips and deepened the kiss. She teased him pulling back just as things were heating up and he moved his head lower and started sucking on her neck.
"Logan." She moaned. She felt him smirk against her neck but he kept on sucking, a little harder this time.
"Logan, don't." She said again. "You're going to give me a hickey."
"Now who leads a sheltered life?" He said, his lips talking against her skin.
"What's Finn going to say when he notices a big old mark on my neck?" Rory asked, closing her eyes.
"He won't say anything. He'll just know what it is and who gave it to you." Logan grinned. A little while later he rolled off of her to his side. He looked at her neck, and sure enough, there was a hickey a little smaller then a silver dollar, on her neck, a little above her collar bone.
"Logan, now you're the annoying one." Rory laughed as she got her mirror from her purse to check the spot.
"God Logan, It's huge!" Rory gasped as she touched the mark.
"Dirty." Logan laughed. He had definitely been spending too much time with Rory.
"I'm going to have to wear turtle necks for a week!" Rory groaned.
Just then Finn woke up and groggily looked around.
"Where am I?" He asked.
"Why Colin, you're in the secret garden." She said in her "British accent" to Finn.
"Oh, Right. What time is it?" Finn asked, rubbing his eyes.
"4:45-ish, why?" Logan asked
"No reason, I just wanted to know. When are we doing Gilmore's challenge, anyway?" he asked.
"Uh…at 9:30. The library closes early today cuz it has some sort of meeting or something."
"We're going to a library?" Rory asked, perking up.
"Yeah Ace, but it's not what you think. Great, now you're going to know where to go." Logan groaned, putting his head on Rory's stomach.
"And thank you so much for that." She smiled patting his head.
"Mate, you haven't said the worst part of Reporter Girl knowing."
"And what's that, Finn?"
"That she is going to be non stop asking us questions until 9:30 rolls around." Finn grinned.
"Oh, we'll see about that." Logan said with an evil smirk starting to form on his face.
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"Come on Ace; Hurry up!" Logan called to the already slow Rory. Logan had decided to take her through the woods. Finn had opted to stay in the "warm, safe automobile" as he put it. Rory had wanted to join her boyfriend thinking that they would have a nice little walk. Little did she know that they would be going through very scary woods and that it would be very dark with god knows what living in it.
"Logan, don't leave me. Slow down!" Rory yelled as she grabbed her purse; which had fallen on the ground, and ran to catch up with him.
"You slow down, you die, Ace."
"Yeah and you speed up, fall in a deep ditch, and kinda die too." Rory grumbled catching up to him.
"Whoo…Whoo…"An owl cried in a high screechy voice.
"Aah…Logan, what's that?" Rory whispered.
"I think that would be an owl."
"Oh. But could it be an evil man-eating owl?" Rory asked.
"A Man-eating owl? I don't think there is such a thing. But if you find any, let me know so I can make sure not to go there." Logan chuckled.
"Huntzberger, this is serious! My mom told me about how there are a secret colony of miniature owls that eat people who go into the woods. They have a cult and everything."
"The owls had a…cult? What was it called? Hoot of Death?" Logan laughed.
"Whatever. Obviously you never heard the story."
"What story?"
"Hansel and Gretel."
"I've heard of that story. Isn't it about how they go to an old witch's house and she tries to eat them?"
'That's not what really happened."
"Then what really happened, Ace." He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"They got lost in the woods and the man eating owls ate them."
"Do you seriously believe that?" Logan asked, trying not to laugh.
"Yes I do."
"Come on, it's getting late, lets go back." Logan grinned grabbing Rory's hand and leading her back towards the Valley.
As they were walking, Logan suddenly got a worried expression on his face. He could hear footsteps behind him. The two quickened their pace and so did the footsteps behind them. He thought that he was just imagining them, so he decided to slow down. But something in his gut didn't feel right, so he stopped walking.
"What's wrong, Logan?" Rory asked a little worried.
"Just making sure there aren't any man eating owls around." Logan joked so that Rory wouldn't get scarred. Deep down he was scared himself.
"Shut up, Logan." She shot him her best death glare.
Logan didn't hear the footsteps anymore so he continued to walk with Rory.
All of a sudden he
heard the steps growing faster and the within a half-second, someone
tackled him to the ground.
A/N Reviewing time! Ok, whoever can guess who tackled Logan will get a cookie! Ready…set…GO!
