About two weeks had passed between Finn coming home, talking to Rory about that event, they both had settled down a little bit more into their normal lives now that the whole group was back together. However, Finn still noticed a bit of a change with his fiance as well as his best guy friend Steve. Logan would help out whenever possible, but at times even he couldn't help the couple get past things.

*At the Photo Studio*

"You NEED to talk to him as soon as possible, Steve."-Logan

(sits down at his desk and starts working on a photo project from a month ago that he and Rory had done)

"How do you bring up something like that, Logan? It's not like it's a topic that is so easily brought up in a conversation you know?"-Steve

(sighs and decides to put his friend a little bit out of his misery) "He already knows."-Logan

(looking up from editing a fashion shot) "What?"-Steve

"He already knows. He has a few questions for you obviously. But at least the hard part is over."-Logan

(just looks defeated) "Who told him?"-Steve

"Steve, you know Rory she is pretty good at covering up certain emotions but not when it comes to you. And certainly not after a one night stand with that said person."-Logan

(just sits quietly for a few moments)

"Can I ask you something"-Logan

"What's up?"-Steve

"Why did you do it?"-Logan

"What do you mean?"-Steve

"You and Rory haven't been together for a while now what almost four years, you have only ever been friends, nothing more nothing less. What changed?"-Logan

(starts pacing the room, the photo project long since forgotten) " You didn't see her that night, Logan. The way she looked dressed in those dark skinny jeans, with a form fitting top, the high heels, her body may have screamed confident but her eyes. They were so broken, empty of the spark of life that she had had for a long time, while she was with me. You don't know the extent of the damage that Finn has done to her. I just. I wanted her back in that moment. I wanted to help her feel better, feel whole, I wanted her to be happy and have me be the cause of it."-Steve

(holds up in hand in order for Steve to stop pacing for a minute) "What about the extent of the damage you have now caused her, Steve?" Have you thought of that? The consequences that come with the action that you took."-Logan

"What damage has been done? We were both consenting adults in the situation. It seemed like something we both wanted at the time."-Steve

"Steve, be honest truly honest with yourself right here right now. Are you still in love with Rory?"-Logan

(stops in his tracks) "Yes, I never truly stopped."-Steve

(the two of them get back to work on their projects but still talk about the situation at hand) "What are you going to do?"-Logan

"I don't know man. I really don't. She's with Finn now, they are finally getting a proper and real chance at being together at being in love. And."-Steve

"And what? Steve, you know I like Finn. Care about him like he is my own brother but at the end of the day I never truly thought that he was good enough for Rory. Not only that but I don't think that she has truly been in love with him for some time now. I think that the accident was the final straw for her at the risk of being candid. I know that she cares about him, wants him to maintain her sobriety but I think that at the end of the day that she wishes she had left him truly walked away in that three month period that they weren't together."-Logan

(putting the finishing touches on the photos for the very woman they were speaking of) "That still doesn't give me the right to destroy their relationship for my own selfish needs."-Steve

"It wouldn't be destroying it, by any means. It would be saving her, fighting for her happiness for a change. That is all she ever wanted and NEVER got from Finn."-Logan

(closes out the program since he had finished the edits for Rory as well as a few other clients) "I know that, and logically she does deserve it she really does. But."-Steve

"No, I don't want to hear anymore but's, or doubt from either one of you. Finn isn't going to love her the way that she needs it and you can. You have and you always will. Go talk to him and her as soon as possible."-Logan

(gives in because at the end of the day he knows that Logan is right)

"Fine, I'm going to approach him first though. See if he knows the full story. Thanks for the advice, and listening man."-Steve

"Hey, it's what friends are for. Keep me posted."-Logan

"I will."-Steve

(he leaves the studio and heads over to Finn's house. Relieved to see that Rory wasn't home yet he knocked on the front door and waited with bated breath for the life altering conversation he was about to have)

*At Finn & Rory's Place*

"Hey, Steve. Come on in."-Finn

(after going inside the two are in the kitchen) "Rory's not home. She won't be for a few more hours actually."-Finn

"I'm not here to see her. I want to talk to you about the night that Rory and I had together about eight months ago."-Steve

(visibly tenses but keeps his cool) " What about it?"-Finn

"I know that you see it as a mistake or a one night stand, but I do and always have loved her."-Steve

"That doesn't change the fact that it was wrong of you to do though. What I don't get is why you did it."-Finn

" It is kind of complicated but to shorten my reasoning for it, you didn't see her that night. It may have almost been a month since the two of you talked but pain that you could see underneath her facade looked like it had happened yesterday. Also, the way she looked dressed in those dark skinny jeans, with a form fitting top, the high heels, her body may have screamed confident but her eyes. They were so broken, empty of the spark of life that she had had for a long time, while she was with me. You don't know the extent of the damage that you have done to her. I just. I wanted her back in that moment. I wanted to help her feel better, feel whole, I wanted her to be happy and have me be the cause of it."-Steve

(with a cold and rather harsh edge to his voice) "Consequences, reactions, be damned. It didn't matter who got hurt in the process right?"-Finn

"Finn, you aren't good enough for you. You haven't been for a while now. She stays by you out of loyalty and a desire to keep you healthy but beyond that there is nothing and hasn't been for a while now. You know that, deep down you know it."-Steve

(Rory had just walked into the house to hear the end of their conversation)

"What the hell is going on here?"-Rory

*Author's Note: While editing this story I noticed that it may seem a bit out of character and left field for Steve to accuse Rory of having a lack of actual feelings for Finn. I promise it will make sense soon.*