Rory sat on the bench in the park cuddling up to her extra large coffee. It was a bitingly cold day but she had been cooped up inside for the past two days studying and she thought that it would do both her and Lily some good to get out and have a breath of fresh air. It had been exactly a week since she had met with Logan. She had replayed their conversations in her head over and over again. Had she missed the perfect opportunity to tell him?

Lily started to grizzle in the stroller next to her. Rory looked at her watch. "What is it, Lily? Is it your time for a snack too?" she said unclipping her daughter and picking her up out of the stroller. She sat her on her lap and reached into her bag for the milk that she had packed in there earlier. As Lily hungrily devoured her bottle of milk, Rory started rethinking things over again. She was so deep in thought that she didn't notice that someone was approaching her.

"What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"

Rory's head snapped up in panic when she recognised the voice. "Logan! I didn't expect to see you here."

"I can tell! Didn't mean to scare you there Rory!" he smiled.

"Oh! Honor. Wow. It's great to see you" Rory smiled at Logan's sister "I'd get up but…" she gestured at the small person attached to her.

"Ha don't worry, I know all about it" Honor laughed, pointing at the little girl in the stroller that she was pushing. "Look, Rory, I don't mean to be rude but I've really got to rush as I am meant to be meeting Josh and I am already late, but I'd love to catch up with you sometime, we'll do lunch yes?"

"Lunch would be great Honor" Rory smiled.

"Fab, I'll call you. Logan, are you staying?" Honor asked. Logan nodded and said his goodbyes to his sister and niece before turning his attentions back to Rory.

"Lily, we really need to stop meeting like this" Logan said as he reached into tickle her chin and was rewarded for his actions with a dazzling smile from the little girl. "Lorelai roped you in for babysitting duties, one of the perks of having a grown up daughter to help out I guess" Logan laughed.

Here goes nothing, Rory thought as she shook her head. "Logan…" she paused slightly before continuing. "I need to tell you something. This is a little hard to explain. Lily…she's not my sister…she's my daughter."

"She's yours?" Logan sat down next to Rory on the bench, looking confused and ever so slightly shell-shocked. "I thought when I saw Lorelai last week…I mean she never said…"

"No" Rory smiled sadly "She wouldn't have" she shook her head.

"So, she's your daughter, wow," Logan said looking at Rory holding on to Lily, trying to take it all in. He had, of course, noticed the trademark Gilmore blue eyes last week but he had figured that she had got them from Lorelai, but now he could see that they were a perfect match with Rory's own sparkling blue eyes.

"And she's yours too" Rory added quietly as she looked down at the floor.

"What?" Logan said questioningly.

"Lily is your daughter," Rory said as tears started to fall down her face.

"WHAT?!" Logan repeated and jumped up from where he was sitting.

"I'm so sorry Logan, please don't be angry with me" Rory pleaded with him as she carefully clipped Lily back into the stroller.

"Don't be angry with you?! Why didn't you tell me? You had a baby? MY baby, and you never even told me you were pregnant!" Logan said slowly as he started to move away from Rory.

Rory grabbed his arm to stop him "I wanted to tell you about it, but I was hurt and confused and…." She stopped when Logan shook her off.

"That's bullshit, Rory. You know it. That's a bullshit excuse. I can't believe this is happening." Logan said rubbing his head with his hands. "I can't believe that you kept this from me all this time. Were you ever going to tell me?" he asked her.

"Yes, I…of course I was. When I had the right opportunity but…" Rory sobbed.

"Last week," Logan said resolutely.

"What?" Rory looked at him with confusion.

"Last week when we met for coffee. When we were alone and you told me all about your life since graduation, that was the perfect opportunity. You never even mentioned that you'd had a baby – that's no small insignificant detail, Rory. You just airbrushed over a major part of your life like it was nothing."

"I didn't know how to tell you. It's been this huge secret for so long; I didn't want you to be mad at me. I don't know why I didn't say anything, I should have said something but I was scared of how you would react."

"Somebody finds out that they have a child they never knew existed – how do you think they're going to react Rory? I just can't believe this, from you of all people. I never ever expected that you would do something like this to me."

"I never meant to hurt you, Logan," Rory said quietly.

"But you still did a great job of it anyhow huh," Logan said with venom in his voice. "I'm leaving." He said first looking at Rory and then down at Lily sitting in her stroller.

"Logan stop, we need to talk about this"

"I don't know what to say to you Rory" Logan shouted throwing his hands up in the air.

"Logan please stay" she begged him but she knew it was pointless.

"I can't." He shook his head as he turned away.

And for the second time in her life, Rory once again had to watch a heart-broken and dejected Logan walk away from her.

Rory felt emotionally drained as she dropped Lily back home to the au pair Marta. There was only one place she wanted to be. She got in her car and drove the short distance to Stars Hollow, sobbing all the way.

Lorelai heard a car pull onto the driveway. She pulled back the nets to see that it was Rory's car. Somewhat surprised as she hadn't expected to see her today, she went to the door and walked out onto the porch to greet her. When she saw Rory step out of the car, Lorelai felt her heart break.

"Rory, what has happened!" she said as she rushed over to her daughter, who was crying so hard she could barely speak. "What's the matter, is it Lily?" she asked concerned.

Rory shook her head and buried her face in her mom's shoulder.

"Oh! He knows!" Lorelai gasped. She hugged her daughter tighter and rubbed her hair gently. "It will be okay Rory" she soothed "It will all be okay," she said as she walked her into the house.

Lorelai settled Rory on the sofa with a big mug of coffee and a warm blanket. It had been a long time since she had seen her so upset. "Do you want to talk about it Ror?" she asked gently.

"What's to talk about? Logan knows about Lily now and he hates me." Rory said sadly.

"C'mon, he doesn't hate you."

"You didn't see him mom" Rory shook her head.

"He doesn't hate you. He's just processing. It's a huge shock for him." Lorelai said. "What actually happened, sweetie?"

Rory explained how she'd been out with Lily when she bumped into Logan in the park and he'd talked about her being Lorelai's daughter.

"I just couldn't let him continue to think that, you know. It was going to get too messy. I mean, it's messy enough as it is."

Lorelai nodded. "You did the right thing, hun."

"Are you sure about that, because it doesn't feel too good right now?" Rory said sadly.

"He needed to know Ror. However and whenever he found out, he was likely to have the same reaction." Lorelai said as she rubbed her daughter's arm sympathetically.

"But what do I do now?" Rory looked at her mom.

"Just give him some time kid".

Later that evening, while Lorelai was out walking Paul Anka, Rory toyed with her cell phone. She dialled Logan's number nervously. She wasn't sure what she would say to him but she needed to make sure he was okay. It rang twice before switching to his voicemail. Rory knew that Logan had diverted the call. She sighed and tapped out a message instead.

"Please call me Logan"

She waited a few moments but there was no response so she tapped out another message and again pressed send.

Logan didn't know how long he had been driving for or even here he was going, all he knew was that he had to get away and clear his head.

The realization that he had a child had hit him like a steam train and with Rory Gilmore no less. She was the absolute love of his life; the one that had got away, the one that had told him that she couldn't marry him because she wanted to keep her options wide open. He'd always thought that one day Rory would be the mother of his children, he could never have imagined going through the experience with anyone else but that was before they had broken up and it wasn't meant to happen like this.

He couldn't wrap his head around why she had kept such a big thing from him. Did she hate him that much? They had loved each other, hadn't they? Whatever had happened between them in the past, Rory should have known that he would have been at her side in an instant.

Logan was so angry about the situation he could barely see straight. He pulled his car over to the side of the road and dropped his head onto the steering wheel. He had no idea what he was going to do or how he should be dealing with a situation like this. What does someone do when they suddenly find out they have a nine-month-old daughter with the girl who completely broke his heart.

The sound of his cell phone ringing snapped him out of his thoughts. He picked it up and looked to see who was calling. Rory. He pressed the red button to reject the call and within seconds, it beeped with a message.

"Please call me Logan"

Logan frowned at the message. He was in no way ready to talk to Rory right now. He knew if he did he would end up saying something that he would regret. He needed time to simmer. Within a minute another message came through.

"Logan, I am worried about you. Just let me know that you are okay."

Logan sighed. Despite being more angry with Rory than he'd ever been with anyone in his life, he didn't want her to be worried. He certainly wasn't prepared to talk to her but he'd let her know that she needn't worry about him.

"I'm okay."

Rory immediately replied.

"Can we talk?"

Rory held her cell phone in her hand awaiting his response. She didn't have to wait too long before her phone beeped back into life.

"I don't think that's a good idea"

She sighed and dropped her the phone onto the couch. Having never had to break the news to someone that they had unwittingly become a father, Rory didn't really know how she should have expected Logan to react, but she hadn't banked on his sudden gush of fury and vitriol.

She just hoped that given time, he would calm down and listen to her.