Time After Time

Chapter 9 - The Only Exception

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Chapter 9 – *The Only Exception

When I was younger

I saw my daddy cry

And curse at the wind

He broke his own heart

And I watched

As he tried to reassemble it

And my mom swore

That she would never let herself forget

And that was the day that I promised

I'd never sing of love

If it does not exist, but darlin'

You are the only exception

Once again alone in her room, Rory lay staring at the ceiling, she's not sure she can pinpoint exactly when her life got so far off track. She'd like to say it was the day she'd said no to his proposal, but if she really thinks about it she knows it was before that. It was the day she had decided that Mitchum was right about her. The day she'd talked Logan into stealing that yacht. It was the day she'd started doubting her self, and in turn that she would ever be enough for Logan.

Sure he told her and more importantly had shown her every day, in every way possible that he loved her, respected her, and only wanted what was best for her, but all she could hear was the sound of Shira saying how she'd never be the kind of woman that Logan needed, the kind of woman that would be able to support him and his business connection. I mean, hell, she reasoned that if her mom of all people hadn't been able to make things work with her dad, let alone Luke, who loved her mother exactly as she was, what in hell did she think she was doing trying to make things work with someone like Logan.

Yet when she'd run into in him a few years later, she hadn't been able to stop herself. He was the only place in her life that felt like Stars Hallow did, like home. Sure he'd had Odette, but at lest she knew where she'd stood, and the fact that Odette and the engagement existed took the pressure off. She didn't have to be the perfect socialite to fit into the Huntzberger fortune. All she had to do was feel herself in his arms and let herself pretend it was forever.

The sexual part of their relationship had never been a problem. From the very start the chemistry between them had crackled in anticipation of what was to come. So it was easy to rationalize that it was only physical, that it was just fun and when she had made a comment about what happens in Vegas staying in Vegas he didn't exactly fight her on it.

Rory knew that her saying no to him that day had forever changed her, and them, but she was willing to take whatever she could have of him.

And then Odette had moved in.

It shouldn't have come as a shock to her system but it suddenly made everything over the last few years so very real. She, the once only woman in his life, was the other woman, a booty call, and even as she knew she wanted to continue to call him about everything, she knew she couldn't. He was really getting married, to someone that wasn't her, and it hurt to the very core of her being.