"The door is open, just come right on in" Rory shouted from the bedroom when she heard a knock at the door. Rory was was busy packing an overnight bag for Lily. Logan had asked if he could take her to stay at his parent's house for the night and now she was busy trying to sort out everything she might need, and then some. "I'm in the bedroom."

"Now there's an invitation…" Logan shouted as he walked into the bedroom to find Rory surrounded by piles of stuff.

Rory looked up at Logan and threw a stuffed toy at him. "If I'm not allowed to work blue, neither are you Huntzberger"

Logan laughed. "Erm, Rory, you do realise she's just coming to stay for just one night don't you?"

Rory stood back and assessed the piles of baby gear in front of her. "Am I packing too much?" she wrinkled her nose "It's just she's never slept over anywhere other than here and my moms. I just wanted to make sure that she had everything she needed."

"And more?" Logan smirked.

"You just wait Huntzberger, she's been good for you so far but one day you'll find out just how messy babies can get and then you'll be grateful I packed three sleepsuits! Oh did you remember to pick up a travel cot?" Rory asked.

"I did" Logan nodded "It's all assembled and ready and waiting."

"Great. Well, I guess that's all you need" Rory said handing over the bag.

"Apart from the lady herself?" Logan asked.

"Oh right, yes, duh," Rory said slapping her forehead. "She's in her playpen in the living room," she said as she followed Logan out of the bedroom.

"So, what are you doing with your night of freedom?" Logan asked Rory. He slowly took in her appearance, she was dressed rather casually in her old Yale sweats and her hair was piled up high on top of her head in a messy bun. Logan always loved this version of Rory – the relaxed, dressed-down style. "Hot date?"

"Because this is how I always dress when I am going on a hot date?" Rory rolled her eyes. "No, I have much more exciting plans for Friday night that involve me, a giant pizza and the remote control"

Logan looked at her surprised "I thought you'd take the opportunity of a night off to go out with whatshisname."

"Carter, you know what his name is Logan. And no, that's done."

Logan looked at Rory and raised his eyebrow. "Done?"

"Yeah, it wasn't really working out for me…" Rory trailed off, not sure it was a topic she wanted to discuss with Logan.

"Oh, sorry to hear that."

"No, you're not" Rory laughed.

"Well, okay maybe I'm not sorry but…you seemed to like him," Logan said kindly.

"Ah, he was a nice enough guy but there was something missing you know?" Rory chewed her lip.

"No spark." They both said at the same time and smiled.

"Jinx," Rory said and laughed. "Exactly. I didn't really want to lead him on when I knew it was not going to go anywhere other than the friend zone. Hence…" she gestured down at her outfit "my Friday night attire"

"You could always come with us if you're at a loose end?" Logan said quickly, before wondering what on earth he was thinking. Of course, she was not going to want to go with him to the Huntzbergers, he barely wanted to be there himself.

"No! It's fine, I don't need a pity date Logan. You get going" she said ushering them out the door.

"It's not pity, or a date" Logan shook his head.

"It's fine, off you go, have fun. Give me a call if you need anything okay?" she said giving Lily one last squeeze.

"Okay, see you tomorrow Rory," Logan said before leaning in a giving her a chaste kiss on the cheek.

Rory closed the door behind them and touched her cheek where Logan had just kissed her. It was such an innocent kiss between friends but she felt like her skin was burning from his touch. Do not read too much into this, Rory Gilmore! She thought to herself and she went into the kitchen and poured herself a glass of wine.

Logan walked away from the house towards his car wondering what on earth had possessed him to kiss her like that. Sure, it was a friendly kiss, certainly no romantic intentions could be implied or taken from that sort of kiss but it felt like a step towards something – he didn't really know what, but it definitely felt outside the territory that they were currently in.

Logan arrived back at the Huntzberger mansion. He was just opening the door when Shira rushed to greet Lily.

"Here Logan, let me take her," Shira said, arms outstretched.

Logan smiled as he handed over his daughter. Despite never having been a big fan of Rory, Shira had warmed quickly to Lily. She had already spoilt the little girl rotten and she had her own extremely well-stocked wardrobe of clothes and toys in situ at their house. Logan hadn't the heart to tell Rory this when she was busy packing up piles of clothes for him to take with him as he wasn't sure how she would feel about it.

"Oh Logan, you're here. Can you come into my study for a minute there's something I need to talk to you about."

"Dad, can it wait, I've got Lily and…."

"It's fine Logan" his mother interrupted "me and Lily are fire, aren't we sweetie!" she smiling at Lily "you boys go discuss business or whatever it is you need to talk about. The girls are going to go and catch up, aren't we? Yes, we are!" Shira said tickling her granddaughter under the chin.

Logan sighed and rubbed his hand through his hair. He never had a great feeling about being summoned to his father's study. It had been the scene of many a volatile dressing down.

"Come in, sit down Logan. No need to look so nervous"

"What is this about Dad?"

"We have set Lily up with a trust fund"

"What?" Logan looked at his father taken aback. "You didn't have to do that".

Logan wasn't sure what Rory would think of this news – despite them both being trust fund kids themselves. He was well aware that Rory had been brought up outside of that environment when Lorelai had decided it wasn't the life she wanted but Rory had slipped back easily into society life once she had got to Chilton and then Yale. He really wasn't sure where she would stand on the subject.

"No Logan, we didn't have to do that but she's our granddaughter. She's a Huntzberger!"

Logan smiled. He had been amazed at just how pleased his parents had been when he had told them Lily wasn't actually a Gilmore as they had presumed and that she officially carried with Huntzberger name. He had been overjoyed himself – he was surprised how much it had meant to him that his daughter had his name. Logan never really knew why Rory had chosen Huntzberger over Gilmore but he had wondered if she'd known that it would probably go some way towards Lily gaining his parents acceptance in the future.

"All the paperwork is done, it's just going to need yourself and Rory to sign it to finalise it all"

"Okay," Logan nodded. "That's really generous of you Dad".

Mitchum shrugged "Lily will get exactly what Ophelia does, I don't see why it should be any different, and of course the same will apply if you and Rory should have any further children" he smiled.

Logan had never thought that his parents would treat Lily with the same love and affection as they did Honor's daughter and it made him really happy that after the initial shock of discovering they had another granddaughter they didn't know about, they had welcomed her in with open arms.

He walked out of his Mitchum's study and back into the living room where he was pleasantly surprised to find that Honor had arrived with Fifi.

"Well look what the cat dragged in!"

"So nice to see you too my dear brother" Honor rolled her eyes and laughed. "Josh has taken himself away playing golf this weekend and mom said that you had a little visitor so I couldn't resist bringing Fifi over for a play with her cousin. I think they're going to be great friends. Just think! They can go to school together…and maybe one day they'll even go to college together."

"I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself Honor." School, college…it all seemed like such a long way off. Logan found it hard to look too far into the future. He and Rory weren't together and to try and predict what might happen in the future was just something he didn't like to think about. He was only just getting to know his daughter but it worried him that Rory would definitely want to pick up with the career aspirations one day and that might result in her taking Lily away. It was far easier to push all thoughts of the future far to the back of his mind and focus on each day as it came.

"We thought we'd go for a swim in the indoor pool," Honor said "Are you going to join us?" she asked.

"Oh, I hadn't thought of that. I don't think Rory will have packed a swimming costume and I'm not sure if mom's expensive shopping habit extends to swimwear…" he joked.

"Don't worry about that, I have spares with me. I have spare swim nappies too." Honor said picking up her bag.

Logan looked confused "Swim nappies? What on earth… "

"Ah, you have so much to learn Logan. Come on!" Honor laughed as they walked off to the pool.

"Knock knock, anyone in?"

"My baby is home!" Rory squealed as she walked out of the bedroom.

"Well, you've not called me that in a while, but okay, I'll take it" Logan smirked.

"How was she?" Rory asked eagerly.

Lily was generally very well behaved and amenable but Rory had been a little on edge as she really wanted everything to go well at the Huntzbergers. It was strange how all of a sudden it had become really important to her that they thought well of her but she knew it came down to the deep-rooted issues she had about her own father's family reluctance to accept her. Rory had always taken it for what it was and while hurtful at times, it never overly bothered her, she'd always been surrounded by love but now she found herself in a similar situation she just couldn't understand how or why any grandparent could take out their resentment on an innocent child. She'd thought a lot of things about the Huntzbergers over the past few days, the majority of which weren't very flattering but she had been pleasantly surprised with how they were responding to her daughter.

Logan smiled "She was a complete angel"

"Aww mommy is very proud of you," Rory said as she took Lily from Logan and gave her a big squeeze. "And mommy missed you a lot!"

"Honor came over with Fifi so we had a nice time playing together and we even got in the pool didn't we Lily."

"Wow, sounds like someone had lots of fun….and I don't mean Lily" Rory winked.

"It was a lot of fun." Logan agreed "How was your evening?"

Rory bit her lip. After Logan had left with Lily she hadn't really done much more than obsessively overthink the kiss on the cheek.

"It was fine, just a quiet one, I had an early night." She smiled.

"Before I go, can I talk to you for a minute?" Logan asked

"Sounds…ominous" Rory said sitting down.

"It's not really, but I'm not sure how you'll take this…" Logan said as he started to explain to Rory that his parents had set up a trust fund for Lily.

"Wow. Okay" Rory said, "So let me get this straight – Lily now has her own Huntzberger trust fund…"

"Yes, which she will get access to when she is twenty-five." Logan shook his head as he tried to comprehend ever having a daughter that old.

"I never thought my child would end up a trust fund kid…" Rory grimaced.

"But you're okay with it?" Logan asked gently.

"Yeah, I mean, my mom will freak out when she hears about it, you know what she's like but, yeah I'm okay with it. It's kind of nice in a way to know that your parents view her as part of your family." Rory smiled.

Logan nodded "Yeah, I have to admit, I thought the same. Dad said that she would be treated the same as Fifi. Oh and don't worry, our future children will get exactly the same" he smirked.

"Our future children?" Rory raised her eyebrows at Logan.

"Yes, well, of course, it only applies if they're mine and yours…"

Rory put her hand up "You can stop right there mister because I am not doing that again. I've done the childbirth thing, ticked it off my bucket list and now I am moving on. Believe me, once was enough."

Logan smiled. He still felt a little uncomfortable that he had missed out on the birth but it secretly felt pleased that Rory's concern was specifically childbirth and not them having more children together…

"Anyway, we just need to sign some paperwork but we can do that in the next few weeks."

"Okay," Rory nodded.

It was kind of weird for her to know that Lily had been so accepted into the Huntzberger family. Honor had said that they'd mellowed a bit but she hadn't quite believed her. She was still kind of waiting for that sucker punch to hit at some point.

Logan stood up "Right I had better get going"

"Before you do Logan, there was something I wanted to talk to you about too"

"Oh?" He said sitting back down.

"As you know, Lily's first birthday is coming up and well, I wanted to plan to have a bit of a party for her here. Sookie wants to make the cake and I'm sure grandma will take control of the caterers, that's her domain after all, but I just wanted to make sure you were fully involved but I also don't want you to feel awkward about it so I just wanted to check with you first and make sure…" Rory rambled.

"Why would I feel awkward?" Logan looked at Rory.

"Well it's just that it's going to be the first time that anyone will really see us together in public, and I know we're not together together, but you know what I mean" she wrinkled her nose.

"It's fine Rory. Of course, I want to be involved, I wouldn't miss it for the world" Logan smiled "Who cares what anyone else thinks"

"Great, well we're going to do it here and of course you should invite your family and anyone else you want to come along…"

"I'm looking forward to it already" Logan smiled as he got up to leave. "Though this time last year, if you'd told me that in twelve months time, I would be planning a birthday party for my one-year-old daughter I'd have never believed you." He said as he walked out the door.

Rory thought back to how she felt a year ago. "No, I don't think I would have believed it either," she said quietly.