I was putting my purse into my Jeep, and I turned back to face my mother, who was less than impressed with me, and Luke stood with Lena. Jess had left to go hang out with his girlfriend, and probably feeling awkward with Logan there considering their last interaction.
"Okay sweetie, I'm going to come and pick you up tomorrow. We don't have to see Grandma on Friday." I kneeled down to her and she nodded,
"Will you and Hogan come?" she asked me, I looked over at him,
"Of course I'll come." Logan smiled at her, she ran up to him and held her arms up,
"Hogan, hug." She said looking up at him, and I've never seen Logan speechless as he looked down at Lena, "Hug!" she insisted, he knelt down and she couldn't wrap her arms around him she just held on to his shoulders and nuzzled into his shoulder, "Bye Hogan." She waved at him as she walked toward me,"Hug Mommy!" she smiled and I picked her up, holding her tightly,
"I love you honey, so much." I smiled and kissed her nose,
"I love you Mommy!" she smiled as I put her back down she ran to Luke and he took her inside,
"Rory?" Lorelai motioned for me to come toward her,
"No Mom," I shook my head,
"Excuse me?"
"I'm not 16 anymore; I can leave if I want to."
"You just expect me to take care of her?"
"No," I laughed breathlessly, "I expect you to take care of her because you begged me to have her over this weekend. You don't want her here? I'll take her right now, the last thing she needs is another person thinking she's a mistake."
"You know I don't think that,"
"Then why are you acting this way,"
"You know why!" she snapped back at me, we stared at each other for a moment, I came close to her and spoke very softly,
"You know what, if Logan somehow turns out to be a worse dad then Christopher did, you can go ahead and say I told you so. Now, do you want to have Lena for the weekend or should I take her home right now?"
"This doesn't count as a home?"
"This is the same place the Gilmore's was to me. Do you want her to come with me or not?"
"She's welcome to stay here, and you said I could have her for a weekend."
"She's not some doll Mom, she's my daughter."
"I'd like her to stay." She spoke through her teeth,
"Fine." I snapped and walked back to my sedan, "Car, now." I barked at Logan, and he got into the car quickly, I pulled out of the driveway, gripping my steering wheel tightly as I drove,
"Where do you want me to drop you?" I demanded,
"Uhm, Ace-,"
"No! You don't get to call me that." I snapped at him, blinking tears from my eyes, "I am not your Ace anymore."
"What is wrong with you?" he demanded,
"What's wrong with me? Everything is going wrong!" I yelled and slammed my hand against the steering wheel,
"Okay, calm down. Pull over Rory." Logan spoke softly,
"No!" I yelled at him, "Just where do you want me to drop you off."
"Rory, its 3 o'clock. We can still do an interview if you want, and discuss-,"
"What? Discuss what? Discuss how your family is going to hate me and Lena? How they are going to demand a paternity test? How the Gilmore's are going to demand one too! They are going to try and take Lena away, and my mom fucking hates me. She doesn't trust you either. Everything was fine until yesterday!" I yelled, slamming my hand against the steering wheel,
"Rory please!" he shouted, finally getting my attention I pulled out just outside of Stars Hollow next to a field, "What is wrong with you?"
"You're not supposed to be here." I whispered,
"Yes I am." He said sternly, I looked up at him, his eyes shining, "I'm her father, I was always supposed to be here, but you screwed it up. You think I'm being hot and cold? You clearly don't want me to be here, and yet you want Lena to have a dad but you're waiting for me to go? This isn't going to work unless you make a damn decision, we've already told Lena who I am, she's going to get attached, and do you want me to disappear all of a sudden? Do you want to do that to her? This isn't about you Rory, this is about Lena." He said to me, I just looked at him for a second and I realized...he was right.
"I-I'm sor-,"
"I know." He cut me off, saving me from having to apologize, "My family is a reasonable concern, but...I never really cared about their opinion before so I don't see why that should change now."
"Because I couldn't live with both sets of grandparents hating her."
"You know your mom doesn't hate her."
"My Grandma does,"
"Yeah, your grandma. Her Great Grandma, she doesn't have to have any attachment to her. Lorelai loves her, Luke loves her, you love her... I already love her."
"What?" I whispered,
"She's my little girl, took my heart the second I knew she was my daughter."
"Which was?"
"When she said 'Only daddy called you Ace.' You told her about me?" he asked, I blushed and picked at the hem of my shirt, "You told her about me."
"Of course I did," I laughed breathlessly, "I kept an album of pictures of you and...us. I was going to give it to her when she turned 13 and could understand things a little better."
"You really weren't going to tell her about me?"
"I tried-,"
"I know...I'm, I'm sorry." He sighed. We sat there for a moment in the car,
"Do you want to make a deal?" he asked,
"Last time we made a deal, it didn't work out." I reminded him of our 'no strings attached' deal from about 4 years ago,
"I thought it worked out," I thought I heard him say, "Okay fine. Her is my promise to you. No matter what my parents or anyone says I am going to be in Lena's life. I am going to be a father to her, and that means paying for her expenses, setting up a bank account for her, not a trust fund and I promise to never enroll her in anything involving a white fluffy dress, unless is her wedding." He smiled,
"That sounds good." I sighed, "I told my mom you were in rehab."
"She would have found out eventually. I'm not mad." He replied. We slipped into the comfortable silence similar to when we were dating,
"I need you to make one more promise, and I have to make it too." I insisted,
"Okay,"
"We can't start anything up again, I watched my mom and dad do that too many times. I don't want that for Lena."
"That sounds...fair. I also request that she doesn't me my family for as long as possible, or at least until I develop some relationship with her."
"You're going to hold off Honour?" I laughed,
"Okay, one exception." He smiled, "Let's go, don't you need an interview with the famous Logan Huntzburger."
"Infamous maybe" I smiled and pulled back onto the roads.
YOU ARE READING
3 Years After
FanfictionIt's been 3 years since Rory walked away from Logan's Proposal, a little surprise was hidden from him though. Its 3 years later, and Rory is working at the New York Times, and imagine her surprise to see Logan, and imagine his to see Rory's daughter.
