Time After Time

Chapter 15 - The Dance

Been working all day today and have another update for you guys. This is chapter 15 and it looks like the story is going to be 20 chapters. I'm finishing 19 and starting 20 and need to go back and do some editing, but just wanted to give you some updates on what's happening.

I hope everyone that is still reading is enjoying. This story took on life of it's own. I had some very specific ideas about it when i started and along the way they just didn't fit with what was actually going on, so i appreciate your patience as I've had to rework some of it before it gets posted.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my love of Rogan. My little lesbian heart married my female Logan so I'm always going to be partial to this love story. thank you ASP.

Chapter 15 – *The Dance

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't knowThe way it all would end the way it all would goOur lives are better left to chance I could have missed the painBut I'd have had to miss the dance

Rory is looking out the window of Richie's Nursery, the room which at once been hers at her grandparents house. It has been painted green, with turtles and frogs everywhere. Grandma has done good. The decoration and furniture don't scream Emily Gilmore at all. They were all definitely Rory, simple and fun and livable. Nothing like the untouchable living room that still loomed down stairs. She knows she's going to have to start living off the money left to her by her great grandmother and her grandfather. She's been trying to avoid touching that money. She wanted to make her own living, create her own life, but her life wasn't just about her anymore.

It was about Richie, and he needed things, that her current income just couldn't provide. She knows as she looking out the window waiting for the first glimpse of Logan's car, that if she asks he'll give. But he has a whole life now and she's not sure how she and their son will fit in to that.

As far as she knows he's kept this all a secret from his family for months. He's only told Odette of all people about this situation and she know first hand that the road ahead can be paved with good intentions that maybe not be able to materialize. Her father always had good intentions but very few of those good intentions made it into her day-to-day life.

She perks up as a car pulls into the driveway. It's not one she recognizes, but it's quickly followed by one she does, and she immediately knows that Logan hasn't come here to see her and Richie alone. He's brought Odette, and really why shouldn't he. She's his wife, not her. She's made friendly with the women living with the one who she let get away.

She straightens her shirt. It's dirty and stained with drool, but she doesn't care to even change. She's been taking care of her son, and really, if anyone has seen Odette they know that she can't compete. That woman is on top of her game. She's not a single mom in her 30's taking care of the baby she had with a married man.

She watches from her birds' eye view as the woman approaches and takes Logan into her arms. They embrace briefly and the woman laughs in his arms before taking his arm and heading to the front door together.

She needs a minute to steady herself, so even though she's not sure it's a fantastic idea she lets her grandmother answer the door.

When she makes her way downstairs she finds Emily offering them both a drink and it's the way in which she does it that makes Rory cringe and cheer at the same time. She wants to be fair, and friendly and yet she wants to throw Odette out. Stake her prior claim to both her son and Logan. So she only kind of chides Emily's behavior.