Breakups and makeups

"I can't believe you broke up."

"We weren't really together" Rory muttered. She was sitting on the floor, trying not to feel too sorry for herself (all the while feeling terribly sorry for herself), while Stephanie was lying on the couch, trying to cheer her up (and failing miserably).

"Of course you were. I don't think I have ever seen Finn so committed."

"We were together for less than two months" Rory said, resting her head on the couch. She shouldn't feel like this, but somehow the thought of not kissing him the next time they saw each other made her stomach feel like it was full of worms. No, snakes. Evil, poisonous mutant-snakes!

"I think that's like seven years in Finn-time" Stephanie said. "I'm really sad about it. What happened?"

Rory shrugged. She actually wasn't sure herself. They had fought, Finn had wanted to go away together during their summer holiday and Rory had said no. She wasn't even sure why she said no, there was just something about Finn that made her nervous and she was starting to fall for him, really fall in love, and it scared her. So they had fought and she had said stupid things and then Finn had stormed out and that was it. "It just didn't work out."

"But why?"

"Because…. Because Finn is Finn and…"

Stephanie moved so her head was closer to Rory's. "You chickened out."

"No I didn't."

"Of course you did!" Stephanie sat up. "Oh it's so obvious, you did the same thing with Logan, you didn't trust him and then Finn tried to take your relationship to the next level and you got scared."

"It was going to happen sooner or later anyway. He'd see some redheaded girl and forget all about me."

"Rory, you're being so unfair right now, that's not true. He's completely nuts about you."

"I don't want to talk about it" Rory muttered, biting into another donut.

A week after the breakup Rory's luck ran out as she literally ran into Finn outside class.

"Sorry" she mumbled, picking up her books.

"It's fine" he said in a low voice, handing her a book and moving on without even looking at her.

"That looked weird" Marty said from behind her.

Rory suddenly remembered she hadn't told Marty that she and Finn had dated. He had been so angry over the whole Logan thing and they had been out of touch for a while and when they finally reacquainted Rory had already ended things between her and Finn.

"Isn't he like one of you ex's friends?"

"Logan was never my boyfriend" Rory said, still looking at Finn's quickly retreating back. "But yeah, he's a friend of Logan's."

"That's kinda lame, huh? Ignoring you because of Logan."

"I don't think he's ignoring me because of Logan" Rory muttered, as they made their way to the coffee-cart.

"So I was thinking, maybe tonight we could go watch a movie or something" Marty asked.

"Yeah sure, I even think Paris is out tonight, so we can have some peace at my place."

"Awesome" Marty said with a big smile. "I'll see you around seven then?"

Rory just nodded.

Halfway into the first movie Rory seriously contemplated throwing herself out the window! Marty had made several hints that this was supposed to be a date and what made it worse was that he had chosen a movie she had gone to see with Finn a month ago. Everything just felt wrong and she wasn't sure what to do about it.

"You seem kinda out of it. Is something wrong" Marty asked.

"No it's just… I'm just tired, it's been a long day" Rory excused herself.

"Oh okay, well… If you wanna take a nap or something…"

Rory was saved by her phone. "I'll just get that. Hello?"

"Rory you need to come down to Yale-New Heaven Hospital right now."

"Steph? What's going on?"

"Finn crashed the Maserati."

"What?"

"I'm here with Colin, just hurry!"

Rory stared at her phone for a second. Did that just happen? She turned to Marty. "I have to go."

"What? Why?"

"My… Someone's been in a carcrash."

"Rory" Marty called as she started running around the dorm, frantically trying to find her jacket and shoes and keys. "What happened?"

"I don't have time to explain" Rory said, on the verge of tears as she fought to get her jacket on.

"Ok, well you can't drive like this, I'll drive you. Where are we going?"

"Yale-New Haven Hospital" Rory said, almost barging out the door, followed by a confused looking Marty wearing only one shoe.

"Is he alright" Rory asked, as she found Stephanie and Colin in the waiting area.

"Broken ribs and a concussion" Stephanie said. Her eyes were red and her mascara smeared. "But it looked so bad" she sobbed and hugged Rory.

Rory always felt like crying whenever someone else was crying and her feelings had been all over the place all night, so this was just the last straw and she started to sob as well. "What happened?"

Colin sighed. "He was acting really strange when he got back from class and I don't know, Logan said something and they started arguing and then Finn left. I called Stephanie and we followed him and I don't know, he suddenly swerved the car and it hit a road block."

"The car is completely wrecked, he'll be devastated" Stephanie said with a small smile, although tears was still rolling down her cheeks.

"But… But he's going to be okay, right?"

"Yeah. Rory, you friend is staring at us" Colin said.

Rory had completely forgotten all about Marty. "I'm really sorry Marty but…"

"Are these like your friends now?"

Stephanie turned around. "We've always been her friends! Who are you?"

"I'm Marty. What's going on?"

"Our friend, Rory's boyfriend" Colin said with emphasis on the last word, "was just in an accident. So maybe you should go mope somewhere else? And maybe find another shoe?"

Marty looked at Rory. "You have a boyfriend?"

"No, we broke up, it's just…"

"So you've been seeing one of them again?"

"Hey" Stephanie called out. "Could you please not do this right now!"

"Marty, maybe you should go? I'll call you later" Rory said, feeling awkward. This whole situation was just becoming too much for her to handle, and if Marty was about to engage in an argument….

Marty nodded and left and Colin sighed. "Really, Gilmore, you need to a better friend-filter."

"Colin just shut up" Stephanie said and put an arm around Rory. "We called Finn's dad, he's in New York on business and should be here soon, but you could probably just sneak in and say hi before he gets here."

"Yeah" Rory said in a dry tone. Now that she was actually there, she wasn't so sure what to do, although it was pretty obvious that both Colin and Stephanie felt like Rory and Finn had reconciled and were now back together (although neither had actually made any sort of move). Stephanie almost dragged her towards Finn's room and had to actually push her inside.

Rory took a nervous step towards the bed where Finn was lying. "Hey" she said in a shaky tone. He didn't look too bad, but it was still uncomfortable to see him like this.

"Am I dying" he croaked.

"What? No! Why would you say something like that?"

"I figured I must be dying if you're here."

"Steph called me. I was so worried."

"Don't be love, I've survived worse."

Rory smiled nervously. "How are you feeling?"

"A little better now. How's the car?"

"Oh… I think… Maybe…" Rory bit her lip nervously. "Steph said it was wrecked. I'm sorry."

"My dad will murder me when he finds out!"

Rory sighed. She was apparently appointed the bearer of all things bad news this evening. "He's actually…" She was interrupted as the door to the room almost flew from its hinges and someone yelled: "Well he's my bloody son and I'll bloody well murder him if I bloody well feel like it!"

Rory gaped at Finn, who was busy trying to yank out his drop and get out of bed, while a rather tall man entered the room wearing what could only be described as an extremely angry face. "Would you like to hear about my day" he asked no one in particular. "It started out pretty grand, actually. Had brunch with a business associate, went for a run, met with some potential clients and just as I am about to sign the deal that could catapult me onto the Forbes 500 list, your hysterical blonde monkey friend calls me and tells me that not only have you managed to wreck my car, but you've landed your surf-bum ass in the bloody hospital! Again!"

Finn seemed to find something on the wall very interesting, as he mumbled something that sounded like "hello dad." It could have been "don't be mad", but Rory wasn't really sure. She had never ever seen Finn so demure.

"Explain" the man, that apparently was Finn's father, demanded.

"There was a cat…" Finn was still staring at the wall with an almost vacant expression in his eyes.

"A cat? You wrecked my car for a cat? A cat?"

"Dad I'm sorry."

Mr Morgan seemed to cool down a little after that. "Your mother is on the way!"

"You called mum?"

"I decided it would be the most fitting punishment." He gave his son the once-over and sighed a little. "Finn, you promised…"

"I know. I lied."

"This has to stop Finn, you do understand that, right?"

Finn finally looked at his father. "It's my life" he said, although he didn't seem quite convinced it actually was.

"That's not how this works! You're almost twenty-three and you're the heir to a million dollar company! This extreme behaviour will stop, or else…"

"Or what, dad?"

"I will simply…" Mr Morgan took a deep breath and gave his son a challenging stare, "deny you the company and live forever!"

"Yeah? Okay have fun with that, I don't want the company!"

"You truly are your mother's son!" He sighed. "I'll go sign your papers now, try not to damage yourself too much in the next fifteen minutes." He left the room after that.

Rory gave Finn a nervous glare. "Wow."

"Yeah, the Bruce-effect. Never seize to be great fun for me."

Rory chose not to comment on the fact that Finn's father was apparently named Bruce (although she did briefly wonder what his mother's name was). "He seemed really angry."

"He is" Finn said. "Just ignore him, I usually do." He patted the bed. "I'm really happy you're here."

"Steph made it sound like you had lost an arm, at least" Rory said and sat down on the bed, careful not to aggravate his bruised body.

"Sorry to disappoint."

"No, don't say that. I'm really sorry… About everything."

"How sorry?" He narrowed his eyes at her, but his smile gave him away.

"Really truly honestly sorry" Rory said with a smile. "I was being stupid and insecure."

"Yes you were, but I accept your apology. On one condition, though."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. First, you have to ask me to take you back." He gave her a huge smile.

"Seriously?"

"Yes, seriously! You have to work a little bit for it, I don't want to get a reputation for being easy!"

"I think that ship has sailed" Rory noted dryly.

"Honestly Gilmore, if this is you trying…"

"No, okay fine… Finn, will you please be my boyfriend again?"

"Well…" She gave him a light nudge. "Ow, don't hurt an injured man! Yes, it will be my delight… On one condition!"

"What? But, I just did what you asked…"

"And now I'm asking you for more." His smile grew. "Listen love, any second now my dear dad will burst through the door an announce that he has managed to move my last exam and therefor I will be going home with him and mum next week."

"What?"

"They're gonna take me back home for the summer" Finn said and his smile faltered a little. "I want you to come too."

"Finn I can't…"

"Yes you can! I'm not asking you to spend your entire summer down under, no pun intended, but I want you to come for a couple of weeks. I think you owe me that. I'll take care of the tickets and crap like that, just… I want you to come."

"Will your father be there?"

"Yes, and my mum and my extremely annoying sisters and my dog."

"You have a dog?"

"You'll just have to come and see for yourself."

"I can't believe you're blackmailing me to go to Australia" Rory said with a smile.

"Is that a yes?"

She rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll go!"

Finn closed his eyes and rested his head back on the pillow. "I should have crashed that stupid car a lot sooner."

A/N: I was thinking of making this a two-shot, the second part obviously being their time down under. Let me know what you think. And as always, I'm a review-junkie, so please feed my addiction! Lots of love