While this writing I had my own soundtrack that inspired me, my choices are not necessarily what Amy Sherman Palladino would choose however I think the emotions invoked by the songs fits my theme and chapter.

Soundtrack Chapter 5

Cherish by Kool & The Gang

Baby Can I Hold You Tonight by Tracy Chapman

Day Dream Believer by Mary Beth Maziarz (This song is here for no particular reason than I love this song and it always brings out a nostalgic kind of melancholy within me)

Songs can be found on youtube

Note: Unfortunately fanfiction dot net doesn't react well to youtube hyperlinks; as a result I am unable to provide direct links to the songs here.

Review Questions from Chapter 4

Swtchks – The reasons for Rory's uncharacteristic behaviour will reveal itself in the next few chapters. And as we know from canon Rory has rare occasions of behaving out of character, I hope this helps in clearing things up.

rossnrachrock – bradleyairport dot com seems to indicate that there are no flights from San Francisco to Hartford's International Airport, so my assumption was that Logan would fly to Logan International Airport, Boston Massachusetts instead which is about 24 miles from Hartford, I hope this helps in clearing things
up.

Gratitude/Thank yous'

Thank you all for your reviews so far, I'm glad you are enjoying reading this. Your reviews have been a great motivation, thank you again for all your kind words.

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Chapter 5 - Smoking Aces

January 23, 2009 – Hartford

Logan was chuckling at Colin behaving typically like Colin; he missed this, his friends' goofiness, and just earlier Finn was doing his renactment of Passion of Christ before he had to step out to take another phone call. Knowing Finn it was bound to be a girl, a redhead. He was going to tease him when he returned to the pool house.

"Sorry guys," said Finn as he walked back into the pool house holding unto a slender hand. As the slender hand fully emerged into a woman, Logan was about to make a witty comment about Finn being whipped, when the emerging figure caused blood to drain from his face.

The laughter and clink of glasses permeating the surrounding and that could be heard from outside was now silenced as her figure fully emerged in the pool house. To say they were shocked was putting it mildly and they were now looking between her and Logan, mostly at Logan for a cue on how to behave, what to say, etc.

Rory was ignorant to her surroundings and only had eyes for him. She removed her hand from where it held Finn's and walked over to him. Logan was still in shock at seeing her that he hadn't realised that she had advanced to standing quite close to him. It wasn't until he heard her say his name, in that breathy way she did, that he broke out of his reverie, jumped from where he sat and practically ran out of the room.

I need to breathe, he muttered to himself as he rested against the side of the pool house. He felt a hand touch him which caused him to jump out of his skin because he didn't think or realise that he had been followed. To be honest, he had not thinking of anything but getting out of the pool house and didn't think anyone would follow him.

Before he could do or say anything, she planted her lips on his and whispered, "Don't speak," his mind kept telling him to run, but his body betrayed him by yielding to the kiss and putting his arms around her.

With ragged breath, they broke the kiss coming up for some air

"Rory we can't do this we…"

"Lets go somewhere private" she whispered against his lips. Her hands were holding his in a clasp and in a trance he felt like he was in an out of body experience and he saw himself leading her towards the main house, to his old room via the fire escape into the bedroom window.

Once they got into his room, Logan went to lock the door and switched on the bed side lamp from the main switch by the door. Still in a trance, he advanced towards her and proceeded to kiss her like she kissed him outside by the pool house.

This is intoxicating she thought, so intoxicating she wanted to drown in it.

Some time later, Rory and Logan were in a dazed lethargic state lying on the bed, recovering from their mutual consummation, it had been a quick, raw experience and they still had their clothes on. Logan moved off Rory and lay beside her in drawn out silence. Rory was the first to get up, reaching for her bag as it was vibrating.

The caller was Finn. She was about to pick up the call when she saw Logan get up. She didn't want him to bolt again and if she was on the phone she couldn't concentrate and he might bolt before she could stip him. She cancelled the call and sent Finn a quick text saying "With Logan, talking" that should placate him for a while.

She dropped her phone and bag on the floor and walked to where he stood and she cupped his face in her hands.

"Rory!" he groaned, "We can't do this" moving away from her embrace.

"Logan, whether you like it or not we need closure, a proper one and not an abrupt one like at my graduation. Right now it hurts too much to talk and we are not in the right mental state to do so, however our bodies just talked in a raw urgent way earlier and I don't know about you but I need this."

"I want to feel you touch me and kiss me like it is the last time. I want you to hold me like it's the last time. I want you to make love to me like it's the last time and maybe, just maybe, my heart and all of me can have closure and maybe you can have some closure too," she said with tears streaming down her beautiful blue eyes.

He didn't even try to process things and just dived in there kissing her like he was a starving man eating his last morsel of food.

Over in the pool house, the occupants breathed a sigh of relief, as Finn read out the contents of Rory's text. At least they were okay and were talking, that was good right?

After about two hours waitng and not hearing back from either Rory or Logan, they all concurred that they were still talking and decided not to bother looking for them. Each party then left the pool house, made their way to their separate cars biding each other farewell.

Logan woke up first, gradually adjusting to his surroundings and the person on the bed beside him. The events of last night came flooding back to him. They had said their goodbyes to each other with tears intermingled in their love making. Rory was right, they needed closure and last night was a good thing for both of them. For the first time in 2 years he had gotten a good night's sleep and it felt refreshing. He looked at the bedside lamp and saw that it was 6am; it seems his body clock woke him up at its usual time. He gently extricated himself from Rory and went into the adjoining bathroom to take a shower.

Rory gradually woke up due to the loss of Logan's body heat, she heard the splatter of water and realised that Logan was in the shower and smiled that he hadn't left. She got out of bed and made her way to the bathroom.

When she got into the bathroom, she saw Logan's back was to her and without thinking got into the shower with him and embraced him from the back and started to place kisses on his shoulder, back, neck, wherever she could kiss really. His body responded to hers and it did not resist her ministrations, but welcomed them.

About an hour later, they got out of the shower. Logan dressed Rory in a robe then put one on himself and proceeded to towel her hair dry. After towelling her hair, he gave her his toothbrush while he took out his spare shaving kit he kept in the cabinet below the sink and proceeded to shave while Rory brushed her teeth.

They went back to the bedroom to get ready and Logan helped Rory into her dress.

She turned towards him and on tip toe gave him a kiss. She broke the kiss while looking into his eyes and said, "When are you going back to San Francisco?"

"My flight is at 11 o' clock this morning," Logan replied.

As she kissed him again, looking into his eyes into his eyes as she did this she whispers against his lips, "May I have your number?"

He groaned, "Rory I thought we…."

She interrupted him with a smile and with her lips still on his, said "Yes this is closure, but it'll be nice to be able to call you and say hello sometimes."

Still in an embrace, he gave her his number. While she used one of her hands to find her mobile and key in his number, they continued their kiss for a while and then a few minutes later bade each other farewell.

Rory crawled out via the fire escape, ran to her car and drove back to Stars Hollow.