Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. The play Much Ado About Nothing belongs to William Shakespeare
After her confrontation with Rosemary and her little speech to the unconscious Finn, Katie pulled out a worn out copy of Much Ado About Nothing. Katie started to read the play out loud to the man lying in the bed next to her, she paused as she reached act four and smiled. This was one of Finn and hers favorite plays. When they had first been introduced to it in high school they were determined to hate it, seeing how it was Shakespeare and what high school kid liked Shakespeare? They had to interpret an act in the play and present it to the class in an interesting way. Most of their classmates had done poster boards and power points explaining the significance of the act or scene and summarizing it. Her brother, Stephanie, Finn, and herself were the only ones who had the actual guts to put on a small performance. Finn played Benedick to Katie's Beatrice. That was when things started to change between the two of them. Finn thought it was amusing to call Katie Lady B and when he was drunk enough to want to act things out, that scene was one of the things he acted. When Katie returned to the play and started reading the words between Benedick and Beatrice she could have sworn that she saw movement out of the corner of her eye. Movement coming from the bed, but when she looked up Finn was still out cold. So she continued her reading. The second time she saw it she was positive that it happened. Despite Finn still lying motionless on the bed she swore that he moved.
"It is a man's office, but not yours." Katie watched Finn as he opened his eyes for the first time in almost a week. In true Finn style he had a smile on his face as he looked her in the eye.
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is that not strange?" Katie almost cried when he responded with Benedick's words.
"Thank god you're alright! I was so worried Finn. Do you need anything? Water? Are you in any pain? How do you feel? I am going to go get the nurse and let them know you are a wake." Katie started rambling in a way only the McCrea twins could. After she left Finn couldn't help but wonder what was making her so nervous because Katie only rambled when she was nervous. He had been awake since she came back into his room earlier, but when he saw her pull out their favorite play he decided not to let her know. Instead he laid there listening to her read. He loved the sound of her voice always had. He didn't know what it was but it captured his attention and made him want to listen to whatever that angelic voice was talking about. When Katie reached the scene in the play that he loved most he couldn't resist responding to that line. He knew it by heart and he had asked her that same question many times during their own relationship. By the time Katie came back into the room with Margret, Finn was sitting up reading the book she had abandoned.
"Well Mr. Morgan I see you have decided to return to the land of the living. I can't tell you how happy the rest of the nurses and I are to have you back. Now maybe this young lady can go and get a decent night's sleep in her own bed. I'm Margret by the way. Your doctor will be in shortly to check on you. How do you feel?" as the older woman spoke she went about her routine of checking Finn's vitals.
"In all honesty Margret? Like I was hit by a car." Finn told her with a laugh. Katie who had been silent since coming back into the room, once again made her presence known.
"That is not funny Finn Morgan! You could have died! You scared me half to death! How do you think it felt being told you were hit by a car? Well let me tell you something mister, it wasn't a good feeling! I was worried sick! Don't you ever do that to me again. Do you understand me?" Finn just nodded not wanting to make Katie more upset then she already was.
Down the hall from Finn's room Colin heard his sister yelling a shot his cousin a grin.
"You know what this means don't you Huntz?" the brunette asked his friend. The blond man shook his head and returned the grin.
"Yeah. It means two things. One we won't have to hear Finn whine about not having someone other than us to argue with. Two now we are going to have to put up with them fighting again."
"Now at least we can have another form of entertainment then drunk Finn." Stephanie added. As Rory listened to her three companions she couldn't believe what they were saying. Their best friend in the entire world had just woken up after being unconscious for a week and all they could talk about was having to put up with Finn and Katie's fighting? What was wrong with them?
"Guys, you best friend just woke up from a coma and all you can talk about is having to deal with Katie and him fighting? What the hell? Shouldn't you be running in there to see him and make sure he's alright?" the coffee addict asked the trio. Logan smiled at his Ace. Of course she wouldn't understand what they were thinking, she didn't start hanging out with them until after Katie. She had never seen Finn and Katie together before, so she didn't understand their relationship. So she was bound to be a little confused.
"Ace, Katie and Finn have a very weird relationship. If Katie is in a place to yell at him the way she is right now then that can only mean two things. One she has forgiven him for what happened seven years ago. And two he us most likely conscious enough to do something Finn, which means that he is fine. So yes if these were normal circumstances and anyone other than Katie and Finn then we would be running. After hearing what we just heard, we know both of them well enough to know that Finn is fine and we should take our time getting there so Katie can finish yelling at him properly." Rory seemed to accept this answer and the foursome continued on their way. When they got to the room they saw the friendly day nurse leaving and she gave them a smile.
"Those friends of yours certainly are something else. I hope they make it." The group returned her smile and walked into Finn's room.
What they saw as they walked in made them laugh. Finn was holding Katie's book hostage and despite being the one not confined to a hospital bed, Katie was having a hard time getting it back. The couple looked up when they heard their friends.
"This is something I didn't think I would ever see again. Katie how is it that you can't get your book back when Finn is the one stuck in bed?" Colin asked his sister in between laughs. The young woman glared at her brother for a brief moment before returning her attention to getting her book back.
"Finn give it to me!"
"No. I think this copy is mine. I lost it a few years ago and now I know it was stolen by you! Get your own."
"I do have my own! But somebody won't give it back to me!" the two other couples in the room laughed as Katie tried to get her book back. The fun only stopped when Finn's doctor arrived.
"Well this certainly looks like a lively group. Mr. Morgan I'm glad to see that you are awake and feeling better. Now before you ask no you can't go home. Not yet anyway, I want to keep you a few more days for observation. I also want to make sure that you can walk steadily before I release you. The walking part shouldn't be too bad because you were only in the coma for five days. I do want to make sure that when you do go home someone is there with you for at least a couple of weeks. Over the next few days the nurses will help you get use to walking again and then if nothing else presents itself I will release you. I'll check back with you tomorrow unless you have any questions." Finn said that he didn't have any questions and after the doctor told him to ask the nurses if he did he left. The Australian looked at his five friends with a grin and asked.
"So who do I get to stay with?"
It was almost dinner time when the group left the hospital. Colin and Stephanie went home. Katie stayed behind with Finn so that left Rory and Logan with the chance to spend some real time alone since getting back together. The couple decided to rent movies and order in Chinese food for the night. It was something both of them were comfortable with and it would give them a chance to talk if they wanted too. They were almost half way through Shakespeare in Love, when Rory spoke.
"You know I missed this. I missed just having a night in with you. Sometimes when I had nothing to do in London, I almost picked up the phone to call you. I never could finish dialing the number though."
"If you had stayed you wouldn't of had to miss nights like this Ror." When he said it there was no anger in his voice just a calm matter of fact tone. She sighed.
"No I still would have missed these nights. We weren't the same Logan. After our anniversary everything changed and we tried to pretend that it didn't. We stopped having these nights Logan. You pulled away from me and it hurt. I couldn't stand to know that you so close yet so far away. You weren't my Logan anymore and the apartment just started to feel so empty at night because you were at work still. I wanted to fix it then but I didn't know how. Not even Lorelai had any words of wisdom for me. All she said was that I had to talk to you about it. I didn't know how to talk to you anymore, about anything least of all our problem that we were pretending didn't exist. I was so tired of feeling alone. So I figured that if you wanted to work all the time and leave me alone. Then I would go somewhere and actually be alone. Leaving that day was the hardest thing I ever did and I don't remember what I was thinking when I did it." Rory paused for a moment but Logan didn't say a word. He knew that she needed to get this out without him interrupting. He would get his chance.
"We had just had that stupid fight about you making plans with Colin and Stephanie that weekend. We were suppose to go to Stars Hollow to see Mom and Luke, but you forgot or I forgot to mention it. I was so mad at you for doing that and demanded that you call and tell them we couldn't make it. You didn't want to. You said that we always went to Stars Hollow for the weekend and for once you wanted to stay in Hartford. You told me that I should call Mom and tell her we weren't coming. I refused. In the end you ended up staying here while I went to see my mom. I was so mad at you. That night I decided that I had had enough. That something had to change and I was the one who needed to do the changing. So, the next day at work I requested the transfer and asked my boss to process it as quick as possible. At the end of the day he called me into his office and said that he was sorry I was leaving and should I ever decide to come back I would have a job. He also said that he talked to the London office and they said that I could start next Friday if I wanted. I thanked him and left. You weren't home when I got there. I packed more of my stuff then usual to take with me. When I got to the Hollow I cried and yelled and screamed with Mom for two days. She asked me over and over if I was sure London was the right thing to do. Each time I said yes. She helped me book my flight and pack my things that day while you were at work. She took a lot of them with her promising to send them to me later. Working for the Chronicle was amazing. I loved the atmosphere of the place and it helped me forget just for a little while what I had done. What I ruined. It was hard and I was hurt but I was determined to get over you Logan." After Rory finished it was silent for a long time. Logan didn't know what to say to her. He had no idea that she had been feeling that way. He knew that they were having problems but he didn't realize that he was pulling away from Rory like that.
"I'm sorry Rory. I had no idea that I was hurting you that badly. I guess in some way I was doing it on purpose. I was a little mad at you and I guess I was just trying to make you feel as rejected as I did when you said no. I wanted to talk to you too, but I had no idea how to tell you how much it hurt when you said no. I never meant to push you all the way to London." After his confession they smiled at each other. They realize what their biggest problem was.
"We need to communicate better. No matter how hard it is to talk about we need to talk about it. We can't ignore it for six months Logan. If we do then things start to fall apart. So how about we promise to talk to each other no matter what? No secrets." Logan agreed with what Rory was saying. After they both promised each other to not keep secrets from the other and talk about what was bothering them, the couple continued to watch their movie.
I am a million, trillion times sorry for taking so long with this. I don't have any excuses for you except for work, school and writers block. I had a really hard time figuring out how Finn and Katie should react after he woke up. I suck I know. I sat down many times to write this but nothing was coming to me. I did however get inspiration to write several oneshots. I believe I finished two of them and posted them. They were for Gossip Girl though. I am in the process of writing an oneshot Rogan. It is in Finn's point of view though. So that means you get to see a little bit of Katie and their kids. It is in no way connected with this story though. Except that Katie is the same pretty much. I hope I still have readers for this. I promise that I will finish this story. I just ask that you hang in there with me. I would like to thank MegaMe15 for giving me some ideas for this chapter and letting me bounce ideas off of you. You really help me get this chapter going. Now I ask that you review please and let me know what you thought.
Brianna
P.S. I would still love to hear any ideas that you guys may have.
