Chapter 2 - June 2007

Rory POV

I couldn't believe it. Here it was two weeks after graduation and I was sitting in the bathroom at my childhood home staring at a positive pregnancy test. Just two weeks ago, I told Logan that I couldn't marry him because I wasn't ready and now here I was pregnant with his child. So much for not ruining his life.

"Rory! Come on! I need to go to Luke's." Mom yelled from the kitchen.

"Just a sec." I yelled back. I stuck the pregnancy test in the bathroom drawer before I walked out to the kitchen. "Before we go…" I trailed off.

Mom looked at me. "What is it? What's wrong?" Mom asked.

I sighed. "I'm pregnant." I told her.

"You're…pregnant." Mom stuttered. I nodded. "Wow…um, okay." She said making her way to a kitchen chair and sat down. "Have you told Logan?" She asked after a few minutes. I shook my head. "Okay, well, are you?"

"Yeah. I'm gonna call him this afternoon. I just hope that he answers the phone. I mean, we kind of left things on bad terms." I said. She nodded.

"Um…why don't I go to Luke's and you can try and get ahold of Logan." Mom said and I nodded.

Mom stood up and started making her way towards the front door. "I'm sorry Mom." I said.

She turned and looked at me. I guess my face said it all. "Oh kid. I'm not upset. I promise. I'm just trying to process. Okay?" She said.

"Yeah, okay." I said. When I heard the front door shut, I headed to my bedroom to grab my cell phone. I went back to the kitchen and sat at the table, scrolling through my contacts to find Logan's number. I stared at the phone for a few minutes before I hit the call button. I sat there and listened to it ring twice before I heard his voice.

"Rory? Are you okay?" He said. He sounded sad but he didn't sound angry.

"Physically? I think so. Emotionally? Not so much." I said. He didn't say anything. "Look I know that we didn't exactly leave things on good terms but I need to talk to you. It's… it's kind of important." I said.

"What's going on Rory? Your kind of scaring me." He said.

"I'm kind of scared myself, Logan. Um…I just found out that…that…" Damn I couldn't even say the words.

"That, what Rory?"

"Logan, I'm pregnant." I blurted out.

"Your pregnant?" He deadpanned.

"Yeah. Look, like I said, I know that we didn't leave things… well good, but I feel that this is something that we should talk about and decide, well, together." I said.

"You want me to be a part of this decision?" He asked me.

I sighed. "Well, yeah. I mean, unless you don't want to be a part of any of this." I said.

"I do. I absolutely do. Where are you?" He asked me.

"Stars Hollow." I said.

"Okay. I um, need to rearrange some things but I'll be there within the next two days. We can talk more then." Logan said.

"Okay. Sure." I said. And with that Logan hung up.

I wasn't sure what was gonna happen. The only thing I knew was that I wanted to make decisions with Logan. Mom had come home from Luke's and asked me if I'd talked to him. I told her that he'd be here within the next two days. I spent the next day and a half making a list of everything that I needed to talk to Logan about. By the evening of the second day, there was a knock on the front door. I made my way from the kitchen to the front door and opened it. Logan looked just as good as he had the last time I'd seen him, two weeks ago. "Hi." I said.

"Hi." He said.

"Come in." I told him, and let him in the house. "Um…Mom's at the inn. She should be home in about an hour or two, unless she stops at Luke's. Apparently, their trying to work things out." I told him.

"Good for her. I'm sure you want her to be happy and I know how much you love Luke." Logan said.

"I do." I said as we walked into the kitchen. "Coffee?" I asked him.

"Sure." He said. I walked over to the coffee pot and poured him a cup, sitting it in front of him, before I sat beside him at the table. "How are you?" He asked me.

"I'm…okay." I said. "I've been throwing up some. But it's not bad." I told him.

He nodded. "Who all knows?" He asked me.

"Just Mom and maybe Luke…I'm not sure if she told him." I said. He nodded again. "Where were you?" I asked him.

"Palo Alto." He said. I nodded. Neither of us said anything for a while. We just sat there, occasionally glancing over at the other. "How do you want to do this?" He asked finally.

"Well…I know where my grandparents are gonna stand on this but, like Mom, I don't feel like we should get married just because we're having a baby. Just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean, that I'm ready." I said, slightly quoting myself from graduation.

Logan nodded. "I feel like I owe you an apology." Logan said, causing me to look at him confused. "The last couple of weeks, I've been doing some thinking. And I realized that when I said that I'd factor you in…we didn't really talk about it. I knew that you were feeling vulnerable about what would happen after graduation and I made all these plans without actually talking to you about it. When I decided to propose, I never thought that you'd actually say no." Logan said.

"I know." I said, looking down at the table. "I need you to know something, Logan. When I turned down your proposal, it was never about not loving you. I hope that you know that." I said looking up at him.

"I know." He said.

"Good." I slightly smiled at him.

"So, now what? I mean, your just starting things in Palo Alto." I said.

"I'll figure it out. Are you planning on keeping it?" He asked.

"I want to. Do you want to be a part of it?" I asked him.

He nodded. "More than anything. I want to be a part of everything. Doctor's appointments, hospital…everything." He said.

"How? You live in California, Logan. I live here." I said.

He sighed. "I will figure it out. I'll have to tell my parents. Dad and Elias will probably insist that I come back to the company." Logan said.

"Logan, no. You worked so hard to separate yourself from that life. Do you really want to go back to that?" I asked him.

He reached across the table and grabbed my hand. "Rory, Ace, if it means that you and our baby are taken care of then I will gladly go back to working for my father." Logan said. The only thing I could do was nod.

Logan and I spent the next hour talking about different things. We decided that he would talk to Mitchum about coming back to HPG but that he'd be working at the Hartford office and that he'd need at least a week's notice for any traveling. I'd told him that I was gonna use part of my inheritance from Trix to buy a house for me and the baby. He tried to convince me that we should live together but technically we weren't together so I didn't want him to think that anything had changed. I also told him that I was looking into getting my Master's degree and that I'd thought about teaching. It was something that had been in the back of my mind ever since that fateful meeting with Mitchum. I tried not to think about that night too much.

By the time that Mom got home that night we'd started forming a plan for co-parenting and Mom said that she was impressed with how we were handling it. When Logan left that night, he'd told me that he'd let me know how everything went with Mitchum and that it would probably take a few weeks to settle things in California and get things packed up while also finding a place to live in Hartford. Mom told him that if he needed, she'd be happy to hold a room for him at the Dragonfly.

It was three in the morning before I heard from him again. I was half asleep when he called. He told me that he'd talked to Mitchum and although they weren't happy about an illegitimate grand-child he would welcome Logan back to the company complying with Logan's demands. We were both completely shocked. Logan said that they'd taken it a step further and offered to find him a small house while he closed things up in California. To say that I was shocked was an understatement.

Logan and I talked off and on for the next two weeks. Then I had my first doctor's appointment. Mom had offered to go with me but I told her that Logan had flown in and was meeting me there. While at the doctor's office they did blood work and we found out that I was almost eight weeks. They did an ultrasound and we were able to hear the heartbeat. When we left the doctor's office, Logan and I went to a small café. We'd just ordered when I spoke. "So, what now?" I asked him.

"I'm finalizing everything in California this week. And then I'll be here." Logan said. I nodded. "Ace, where do we go from here?" I shrugged. "Come on, give me…something."

"Logan, what do you want me to say? I can't do a relationship right now. I need to focus on moving into my house and our baby." I said.

Logan didn't say anything for a while. "Do you need help moving?" He asked me.

"Are you actually going to help or are you gonna make Colin and Finn do everything?" I smirked.

"I'll help." He said.

"Good." I said smiling at him.