AN: Hi everyone! Here is the latest chapter! Only a few more chapters to go before this wraps up. I'm currently working on my next story, but it may be a few weeks before I'm ready to start posting it. In the mean time, to fight the writer's block I ended up writing a one shot called "Swiping Right". I'd really appreciate if you could take a read and let me know what you think of that too! Thanks!
Logan Huntzberger woke the next morning with excitement. After Finn finally freed them from his apartment, they grabbed a quick dinner at a restaurant near Rory's hotel. By the time he arrived home, it was nearly midnight, but Logan was too wired to sleep. He couldn't believe the night's events. He knew he had to make tomorrow special he just wasn't sure how. After mulling it over for a while he had an idea and set to work.
After only a few hours of sleep, Logan groggily pulled himself out of bed, showered and was ready to go in about twenty minutes. Thankful for being in New York, where he could find 24 hour groceries in every neighbourhood, the plan was set for the day. He took one last look at his place, and smiled, heading outside and hailing a cab to go meet Rory.
About 30 blocks away, Rory was getting ready, a little unsure of what to expect. Logan wouldn't tell her anything, other than to be ready at 8am. She had told him "you better bring coffee mister."
At 8:05 her cell phone rang, it was Logan. He was in the lobby. She made her way downstairs, and her eyes went wide when she saw him.
He was holding two cups of coffee, a normal sized one that he was sipping, and in his other hand, he held, the largest cup of coffee that she had ever seen.
"Logan Huntzberger I think I love you" Rory said as he passed her the cup of coffee, instantly blushing, when she realized what had come out of her mouth.
"Well, I am pretty loveable." Logan chuckled with a big smile on his face.
"Come on Ace, Coffee is serious business to a Gilmore, and I promised you a day to remember. I thought you should have a coffee to remember too. Let's go or we're going to be late for our first stop."
"And where might that first stop be?" She inquired.
"You'll find out when you get there." He told her, "come on keep up, or we're going to be late."
"Huntzberger, in case you have forgotten in the last eight years, Gilmore's do not run."
Logan smiled, took her hand and and said "Come on Ace."
Their first stop, it turned out, was the Central Park Zoo. "It's a little cliche, Ace, but it's fun" he told her and so, they spent the next few hours exploring the zoo, and then Central Park.
Their second stop was to the Museum of Natural History, it turned out that neither had ever been, and they found themselves lost for hours in the exhibits.
By this point it was early afternoon, and Rory's stomach began to rumble. Their next stop as it turned out, was for food, but Logan cautioned her not to eat too much, they had more food plans for later.
"Logan, when have you ever seen me have difficulty eating something?" Rory asked.
"Fair point Ace, order whatever you want." He replied.
They were in this little hole in the wall restaurant that Logan promised her would have the best taco's she had ever tasted.
Half an hour later, and feeling sufficiently nourished, Rory had to agree with Logan on the taco's. "I'm going to need to tell my mom about this place." She told him as they headed out of the restaurant.
"How is Lorelai, anyway?" Logan asked.
"She's good" Rory told him.
"She and Luke got back together right around the time that, well, we broke up. They got engaged about six years ago, but have no plans to make anything more permanent. He's living at the house now, though Mom has been dividing a lot of her time between Stars Hollow, and Hartford. Grandma is still having a pretty hard time."
Logan nodded, understanding, as they continued their walk to the next destination. Before, she knew it, they had stopped in the middle of the sidewalk.
"We're here" he told her.
"Where are we?" She asked.
"Turn around and take a look" he said.
Turning around slowly, Rory realized that she was standing outside quite possible the largest used bookstore she had ever seen. She grabbed his hand in excitement, and squeezed, maybe even a little harder than she intended, and dragged him into the store.
An hour and countless piles of books later, she finally was satisfied with her choices. She had no idea how she was going to carry them all, but she couldn't whittle the pile down any more. When she arrived at the cash register, Logan pulled out his credit card.
"Logan, no! I can't let you buy these for me." Rory insisted.
"Ace, I told you that this would be a day you would never forget, that means everything is my treat."
He turned to the cashier, and asked him. "Would it be possible to get these packed up and shipped? I'll pay extra."
The clerk nodded, and Logan turned to Rory. "Where do you want these to go?"
"Umm… Stars Hollow is probably the best place. I don't actually have a place of my own, I'm on the road too much. I usually just crash at mom's when I have a few days off." She turned to the cashier and rattled off the address.
"Can I take, just this one with me now?" she indicated to the cashier. "No, two" she grabbed another and Logan laughed.
"Ok Rory, you must be dying for another cup of coffee." He hailed a cab as they stepped out of the store.
She nodded, as they climbed into the cab and headed toward Logan's neighbourhood.
The coffee shop was a block from Logan's brownstone. They went in, Rory found a table and Logan went to order their drinks.
When he returned, Rory looked at him and said "so tell me about California"
"There's not much to tell. Honestly, I spent most of my time at work" he told her.
"And the house with the avocado tree?" she asked.
"Never happened… Not without you."
"There must be more to your story than that… You were there for eight years." Rory responded trying to change the subject.
"There was someone" Logan told her, leaving it at that.
"What happened?" Rory asked.
"To be honest, she wasn't you."
Rory tried to hide her smile, but failed.
"Her name was Elizabeth, we dated for four years. I always kept her at arm's length though. When I knew that the New York office was going to happen, I used that as my out. She thought I was going to ask her to come with me, to marry her, but I never saw a future for us."
Rory looked uncomfortable.
"Enough about that though, this is supposed to be a happy day, let's not dwell on that. Come on, it's time to prepare for our last event of the day."
Rory looked at him curiously.
As they arrived at his brownstone, Rory smiled.
"Logan, this place is amazing!" Rory told him.
As they entered the house she was delighted to discover that his kitchen was covered in all her favourite snack foods.
"I thought there would be nothing better than to end this day than with a good old fashioned Gilmore movie night." he told her.
There was a pile of DVD's stacked next to his newly assembled TV. On the coffee table were a pile of take-out menus, pizza, and chinese food to name a few.
"Pick whatever you want, and we will order it." Logan told her.
"I've got some old sweats from our Yale days, if you would like to wear something more comfortable." He told her.
Rory nodded and went into the bathroom to change.
An hour later, with their chinese food in hand, they settled in to start their movies.
Ten minutes into the third movie, Rory had fallen asleep on the couch. Logan grabbed a blanket, covered her with it, turned off the movie, kissed her on the forehead and climbed into the armchair and promptly fell asleep himself.
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Rory awoke with a kink in her neck a few hours later. Disoriented at first, she panicked a little. When she sat up and saw Logan sleeping in the chair next to the couch, she smiled, thinking abou the day's events and settled back into the couch and promptly fell back to sleep.
The next thing she knew, she awoke to the smell of coffee brewing, and the sound of bacon sizzling in the frying pan. She got up off the couch and walked out to the kitchen.
"Good morning Ace, I hope you slept ok." Logan greeted her. "Coffee?" He asked.
"Yes, please" she responded.
Soon she had a steaming plate of bacon and eggs in front of her which she dug into eagerly.
"Logan, this is fantastic!" She said in between bites.
He shrugged. "It's only bacon and eggs."
"Logan, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to put you out, I fully intended on going back to my hotel last night." Rory told him.
"Nonsense Ace, last night was great. It felt so normal, so natural. So us. Yesterday was the most fun I've had in a long time." He told her.
"So what's the plan for today?" She asked.
"To be honest, I was hoping we could lay low here. Just spend time getting to know each other again. After all, it's been eight years." He told her.
Rory nodded in agreement and they spent the day discussing their lives, their careers and everything in between. Before they realized it, it was getting late, nearly 8pm and Rory had an early start for Virginia. It was time to say goodbye.
"Off to Virginia to do a story about the Virginia Lake festival." She snorted "If they wanted a story about a festival, I don't know why they didn't just let me go to Stars Hollow. There's a new festival there practically every week." She laughed, but looked sad.
She looked at Logan and asked "so what is this? Where do we go from here?"
"Rory, I'm not willing to let you out of my life again, not without a fight. I think we need to give this another shot. Please tell me you agree."
Rory nodded "I think we need to take this slow though. I don't know how long it'll be before I can make it back to New York."
Logan smiled, "Anything. For you. I can always come visit you somewhere too. Now, can I please give you a goodbye kiss?"
Rory leaned in and kissed Logan, it was a chaste kiss, but it was definitely a kiss full of promise.
She broke the kiss, stepped back and promised that she would call Logan soon.
As she stepped out onto the street, it was a beautiful July evening. She needed some time to process everything, so even though it was 30 blocks, she started back to her hotel on foot.
She knew what needed to come next, and which made her more nervous than she had been about meeting with Logan in the first place. Pulling her cell phone out of her purse she called her mother and told her everything.