Colin McCrae set his phone down and Googled Rory's name. Then he sighed. Loudly. He clicked on the first link that popped up.

There she was, smiling back at him. He grinned at his iPad thinking about all of the fun their friend group had together. Colin chuckled to himself thinking about how much she changed while they knew her. He shook his head thinking about how much they all changed - and grew up - while they spent time together and finished college. His best friend had gone from drifting and searching for his purpose in life. It turned out that Logan decided that his purpose in life was to build a life with Rory. He wanted to be a husband, a father, a homeowner and a business man. He wanted a yellow Labrador retriever, a white picket fence, and a family SUV to go with their avocado tree. Logan wanted to build Barbie Dream Houses and pillow forts and bookcases for Golden Book collections. Colin remembered all of this vividly because Colin was shocked the night Logan divulged all of this information to him. About a month before Rory graduated Yale, Logan ended up in Vegas with Colin and Finn after a business deal went horribly wrong. 3/4's into a bottle of scotch, Colin finally asked Logan what was going on. Then the dam broke and Logan waxed poetically about Rory and the life he dreamed of with her for over 2 hours. Colin stared at him most of the time as he spoke. Colin was also fairly inebriated so its possible that he also spoke about a woman, but at the time, Colin was more interested in quantity than quality when it came to the women in his life.

Stuart Anderson was the name of the boring-looking man with his arm around Rory. John's Hopkins, Harvard and St. Marks were all places that Anderson had been educated. Colin giggled to himself and couldn't help remarking out loud, "Did that miserable haircut come with the suit?" He looked like a Ken doll come to life. He zoomed in on the photo, he zoomed WAY out on the photo, and zoomed in again. He was trying to figure out what Rory saw in this guy... Finally he gave up and read the write up instead. It seems that the guy was at Harvard while their crew was at Yale, but that didn't bother Colin. He had cousins who went to Harvard. If he needed to dig up dirt on this guy, he could ask around without much trouble. His cousin Sarah always seemed to have dirt on anyone and everyone - that reminded him to be extra nice to Sarah. There was no need for any of Colin's secrets to ever be revealed.

Blackmail and manipulation could wait. Colin thought that there had to be a better way - ideally a way that wouldn't cause him to risk his law license. Colin believed that if he could get them in the same room and recreate enough old feelings, he might not need to intervene any further. 'But how?' he thought.

He went back to Google to his Rory search. The second item was the Lorelei Gilmore Planetarium, a constant source of embarrassment for Rory - between the gigantic letters on the building and the fact that Rory had never expressed any interest whatsoever in astronomy, other than the occasional Milky Way candy bar. Colin never did understand why the Gilmores decided she needed that particular building with her name on it, but he never claimed to be able to decipher that generation. It was likely that someone else wanted to purchase the naming rights for THEIR family member and Emily and Richard swooped in and purchased it out from under the other people. They were big swoopers, never mind their appalling taste in scotch. He skipped around the website for the building, looking for anything that might give him a clue about Rory's current life.

'Annual Fundraising Gala' grabbed his attention rather quickly. In six weeks, the annual gala would take place in the ballroom of the planetarium to raise funds for the building and Yale in general. 'She would have to attend, right?' is all he could think. Colin wanted to know more about this guy, and why Rory was willing to settle down with him.

It was never a secret that the elite families of society in Hartford weren't exactly close with the next generation. Children were expected and born to become the next leaders of the family business, mostly to continue to generate revenue for the families as the current generation retired. It wasn't bad or good, its just the way it was. Colin's father was a powerful attorney, like his father before him, and like his father before him. Growing up, Colin was never asked the question, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' Since before Colin could remember, he knew he was going to be an attorney and work at the family firm. Finn was eventually going to run his family's chain of hotels. And Logan was going to take over for his father as CEO of Huntzberger Publishing Group. This was all decided before the boys were born and they never remember actually receiving the information - it was WAS understood. So, their families were never warm and fuzzy. No one was baking cookies with their kids or taking them to Disney. Well, maybe a favorite nanny or valet but never the parents. If something didn't serve the business, the parents didn't bother doing it themselves. Because of all of this as well as spending most of their youth in boarding schools, the boys became like family to each other. When birthdays and milestones went unnoticed by their actual family, the boys celebrated together.

Logan was the first of the three to fall in love. Well, not exactly. Finn fell in love at least 3 times a week since he was 12. But this was the first for the trio that the love was more than superficial and definitely the first time that the love was reciprocated. Once Logan loved Rory, she became family to Colin and Finn as well. She was adored and treated like a cherished sister to Colin and Finn - and fiercely protected. When Logan and Rory broke up, it was devastating for Colin and Finn as well. She didn't answer their calls or texts either. They tried to check on her but she never responded. Colin eventually reached out to Paris Gellar later that summer to ask her about Rory, but only received a snarky, abrasive reply.