Colin, Steph and Finn, filed into the room and watched as Logan took the baby from Rory's arms and turned to face them,

"Guys, I want you to meet Lorelei Rose Honor Huntzberger"

"Can I" Steph asked Rory as she reached for the baby, Rory nodded and Steph sat when she was handed the baby, "She is so beautiful, she looks just like you Rory" Steph smiled at the little baby and ran her fingertips along her nose. Steph kept her in her arms for short while and Rory could see Finn becoming impatient.

"My Turn" Finn almost yelled, Steph stood and waited for Finn to sit in her place before handing the baby over, "Oh love she is the spitting image of you, oh look she is opening her eyes" everyone leaned over to look as the little baby opened her big brown eyes and a little smile formed on her lips as she looked up at her Uncle Finn, Finn couldn't look away and only when the baby closed her eyes again did he look up to find everyone smirking at him,

"What?" he asked,

"Your crying" Colin pointed out,

"Am not"

"Are too"

"Am not"

"Are too"

"Colin do you want to hold her?" Rory asked breaking up their childish argument,

"No its ok, she is so small"

Steph dragged him to the chair, waited for Finn to stand and pushed him to sit down, before Colin could protest anymore Finn placed the tiny girl in his arms, Colin looked down at her and once again she was awake, reaching his hand up to touch her face, he stopped when a tiny hand wrapped around his finger, smiling down at the baby he realised like Finn he was also crying. He had always thought that if any of them got married and had kids that they would be old and boring and now looking around the room he realised he already had a family he just needed to add to it.

The five friends spent a long while passing the baby to one or the other, each becoming more lost in her every time. Rory took time out to feed and change her and afterwards a nurse came and took the baby back to the nursery to sleep. Rory looked at her friends and saw that they all loved her and now they all loved Rose, wiping the tears away that had began to form she sat up straighter and decided she was going to have to talk to them.

"I owe you all an explanation, please listen to me first and i will answer your questions after" she waited whilst all of them nodded in response,

"It all started when i had to interview some business owners in San Fran, I had been given a list and Logan was on it...

"You can skip right to the 'I need space' bit if you want love" Finn interrupted, Rory eyed him then Logan and took his suggestion,

"well ok, so Logan had just told me he needed some space so my original plan was to go back to my hotel and wait, but after thinking for a bit i decided i would come back to connecticut, before boarding the plane i left Logan a voicemail, a couple of weeks later i threw up at Friday night dinner and my mom bought me a pregnancy test, you can probably guess what it said, at first i was confused because i was on the pill but then i realised that about a week before i had gotten an ear infection and had been taking antibiotics, they screwed with their effectiveness I was later told, anyway i spent the first three months worried, I didn't know what to do but i hoped my baby would make it, i have spent my pregnancy deciding what to do, i decided that once she was born i would tell Logan about her, I really wanted to keep my baby and i didn't want the pressure and the stress of Logan or his family trying to get me to get rid of her..."

"I would never have done that"

"I'm sorry, i just couldn't take that chance, I figured that you would have less say if she was already born and then if you don't want anything to do with her its fine"

"What are you talking about, thats my daughter, my little princess and she will have both her mother and her father"

"I'm so glad anyway, thats why i didn't tell anyone but my family, the town found out as i got bigger but they were all sworn to secrecy to outsiders and now she is here i love her so much" Rory was crying by now and so was Steph, everyone came to hug her and assured her that she would be ok and they would help her, Steph and the boys decided to go home not long after, Logan and Rory had things to discuss.

"I want to be a part of my daughters life, I'm not saying that will mean us getting back together because when you refused my proposal you hurt me Rory, I felt my heart break into a million pieces and I'm not sure i can let you do that again"

"Its ok, i understand, I have Rose to focus on now and i know i hurt you but you hurt me too, i was more than willing to move to San Fran with you and get a job over there but you wanted all or nothing and i couldnt give that to you, i wasnt ready that seems stupid saying that now, because i have a daughter with you, which is a much bigger step than getting married but I would really like you to be in her life and be her Daddy. Can I ask why you didn't call when I left"

"I was really scared, we had just had a night of mind-blowing sex, the connections were still there the fireworks but I was too scared to let you back in my life, i felt like i was dying the first time and i didn't know if i would survive that again."

"I never meant to hurt you Logan, I still loved you"

"I still loved you, anyway thats in the past, and we have Rose to think about, hows this going to work Rory i have a business in San Fran i have a home, I know you can't leave here, all your family is here and you need the support."

"I don't know Logan"

Logan stood from his chair and told Rory he needed to make some calls and that he would be back soon, he walked around outside the hospital for a while before making his decision, his business partners had discussed building an East Coast office, he had been putting them off because he knew that they would want him to run it, but now it seemed like the best idea in the world because he needed to be with his daughter. Calling them he made the arrangements and told them he would be back in San Fran next week to finalise everything and to arrange the movers. Walking back into the hospital he focused on Rory's room, walking straight in he didn't realise that Lorelei, Luke and Rory's Grandparents were with her, but before he had time to make his escape they had seen him.