Chapter 11
Rory smiles, "You trying to remind me of the good times." She laughs.
"Seriously Ace, you were I think hinting to this at one time but I just realized it. Everything that identifies you to the world changes. Your school papers, financial documents, passport even allowing you to come back home from abroad. Seriously men are done with the wedding when we say I do it's just a party from there."
"Now do you see why so few women want to take their husband's name anymore? It's a pain in the ass. That's why I nominated you to plan our wedding because I'll probably still be changing my name a year from now."
"Ace we can hire you a personal assistant."
"I wouldn't trust them with all my private information."
"How much of this do you have to do in person Ace." Logan asks trying to help her find a solution.
"Drivers license and social security I had to do in person. My birth certificate will always be Haden-Gilmore."
"How much more is there?" Logan asks not even realizing how much she'd have to do.
"Well school is done, all my credit cards, checking and savings accounts, utility bills like my cell, insurance documents, all power of attorney and living will paperwork. Plus I'll have to have the name changed on all the Gilmore and Haden inheritance stuff I bet. All the companies I have accounts with like the local bookstores, all the libraries, my mom's paperwork I had to sign for her medical and legal POA."
"Damn woman stop you're making me tired. Honey let me pay someone to help you with this." Logan would then get brilliant, "How about Lane? You trust her explicitly; she and Zach could use some extra cash its win-win."
"Yes I do, but all new brides have to do this it's like a right of passage or something." Rory explains, honestly she just felt awkward approaching Lane about money.
"I know that & there will still be tons of it that she won't be able to do, you'll have to do in person, I just vote Lane handle everything that can be done over the phone or via mail. If it would make you feel better I'll call her and ask and talk money so you don't have to." Logan would again encircle her in his arms and kisses commence. He'd then pick Rory up and carry her to bed.
"When's your doctor's appointment?" Logan would ask while helping his wife out of her shirt.
"Wednesday." Rory answers while kissing his neck.
"Do you want me to go with you?"
Rory would turn around and show him her shoulder.
"OH it was last Wednesday huh?"
"Yes it was." She smiles.
Logan would rub his finger over the patch. "So when did you put this on?"
"Thursday after class before I jumped in the limo."
"So we change it every Thursday when you get to New York." Logan clarifies. He uses 'we' because he remembers their conversation that she'll wear it if he remembers.
"Yes and it can't go in the same place twice in a row. So this week is my shoulder, next week is either my stomach or my butt."
"Oh this is such sweet torture. Ace you know I have no problem playing with either."
"That's what I figured." Rory kisses him before he pulls his own shirt over his head. "OH sexy." She groans.
Logan just grins, he loves the fact that she finds him attractive. "I really love it when you're home."
"So do I Logan." She kisses him and removes her pants and panties. She then slides into bed naked. Logan quickly follows suit. He starts kissing her shoulder and runs his hand up and down his wife's thigh.
"I need a nickname for you." Rory tells him between kisses.
"Bad timing Ace can we talk about that tomorrow?" Logan kisses her neck starting to nibble just a little bit.
Rory would smile and allow all conversation to end, making love to Logan for the rest of the night.
In a matter of months Rory is a Yale University graduate. She's worried at first that Logan won't show up but he doesn't disappoint her. Unlike his father he actually knows the company has a place in his life and it is not now will it ever be ahead of Rory. He is front and center with Lorelai smiling proud and clapping for his wife. She even manages to graduate with honors in true Rory style.
Their lives fall into a pattern. Logan actually uses the fact that Rory is in New York now to bring most of his companies up to speed on technology. He makes them start using conference calling for weekly check ins. Instead of traveling all over the country like Mitchum did Logan virtually makes his business unit leaders come to him and Rory via technology. They sit down together and plan that once a quarter they will go to each paper, together, to show a unified front but also so that it doesn't break up their marriage.
Week after week Rory and Logan find it easier to work together, they fall into a comfortable pattern. Some social events come up and remarkably Rory's Grandma Hayden is the one trying to force her to go. Telling her if she doesn't then she won't be the heir to the Hayden fortune.
Rory by this point has managed to take on a snooty voice from some of the company she's been forced to keep so she answers her grandmother in a tone reflective of what she just heard.
"Mrs. Hayden, while I appreciate the attempt to manipulate and control me with the promise of money. I can not be bought. Either I am your heir because I am legally the rightful person to be in that role or I am not. But please know something. I am Lorelai Leigh Huntzberger, not Gilmore and not Hayden; I own the largest media conglomerate in the country. I am a millionaire more times over than I care to count, therefore any attempt to use my future inheritance may have worked when I actually needed the money or when I wanted you for a grandparent but at this rate I've survived 24 years without your money and I'm pretty sure I'll survive the rest of my life without it. Good day Mrs. Hayden."
Logan walks in as he hears that last sentence and takes her in his arms. "Hey do you need a pick me up?"
"Yes Logan you have perfect timing."
"Ok well my love, start packing we're leaving on a vacation."
"How – why – where?"
"Actually there are 5 important questions any reporter should ask, you missed what and when." He laughs.
"Brat." She smacks him lightly on the arm.
"Ace, you know you love me for that. It's time for our wedding. Everything is all set I just need you to pack and let's get out of here for 2 weeks. I've got people covering all our meetings and setup temporary leaders of the company so we are all set."
"Are you going to tell me where we are going?"
"Since it was all left to me, I wanted to see you with as little clothing as possible so Ace we're getting married in the British Virgin Islands, on the beach."
"Logan that sounds so wonderful." She then kisses him and runs to find some of her skimpiest bikinis.
On the way down to the islands Logan hands Rory a paper with her vows on them, "I'll be saying the same thing so if you want to tweak them now's the time."
Rory doesn't even want to change anything in the vows; she had told Logan months ago he had to plan this wedding. She honestly hadn't thought about how their marriage had started in months. She just knew that Logan was an extension of her and it felt right to be with him.
The morning after they arrived at the Islands Logan was gone from the room when Rory woke up. A beautiful white summer flowing dress hung in the closet with a note on the bathroom mirror.
'I love you Mrs. Huntzberger, I can not wait to fulfill my promise I made you a year ago today, I want to make you my wife in style. Please enjoy your morning, what's left of it anyway, I have coffee being delivered at 1130. Our wedding is at dusk on the beach. Just head downstairs around 5; someone you recognize will bring you to me. I love you Rory thanks again for the sacrifices and standing by my side through all this,
I love you.
Yours Logan'
Rory enjoyed her relaxing day for the first time in months. She sat on the balcony sipping her coffee, reading a book. She had taken a long leisurely bath and washed her hair. She even sat and painted her nails. Dressing in the gown Logan had chosen she headed downstairs at 5.
To her surprise Luke stood in the lobby in a pair of khakis and a button down navy shirt.
"LUKE" Rory runs and hugs him.
He takes her in his arms and softly kisses her forehead and then they head out.
The beach is decorated perfectly. There are 5 rows of seats on each side of an aisle. Only select close family or friends were invited. The aisle is lined with candles in little paper bags so they are protected from the wind but also so they glow better. There is a row of multi colored rose petals intermingled with the candles. Rory's breath is taken away as she approaches the makeshift alter and Logan who is dressed in his most casual black suit. He isn't wearing a tie which is what makes everyone know for sure it's casual.
Rory is taken back by the beauty of the ceremony, so much so that she almost doesn't hear Logan's vows.
From this day on, I choose you Rory. To live with you and laugh with you; to stand by your side, and sleep in your arms; to be joy to your heart, and food for your soul; to bring out the best in you always, and, for you, to be the most that I can. I promise to laugh with you in good times, to struggle with you in bad; to wipe your tears with my hands; to comfort you with my body; to mirror you with my soul; to share with you all my riches and honors; to play with you as much as I can until we grow old; Respecting each other, we commit to live our lives together for all the days to come. I ask you to share this world with me, for good and ill. Be my partner and I will be yours. Now we stand together; may it always be so. I offer myself to you today. I will always love you, respect you and be faithful to you. Wear my ring, as a sign of my love and commitment.
Today I join my life to yours as your friend, your lover, and your confidant. Let me be the shoulder you lean on, the rock on which you rest, the companion of your life.
After he recites his vows and she repeats them, no rings are exchanged because they already wear them. He doesn't say another word except he hands her two intertwined roses, one red and one white. She knows of course from their first wedding this means unity.
Rory truly feels married to Logan this time when the minister announces them as husband and wife and Logan kisses her. After they walk up the aisle Logan looks at Rory, "Was it the wedding of your dreams Ace?"
"Logan you outdid yourself. It was perfect, you caught everything I wanted, something extravagant but casual. Something I'll never forget but intimate. Thank you."
"There is no need to thank me Ace. Over the past year more than anything else you helped me figure out my destiny."
She smiles and kisses him, "To run an empire."
"No Ace my destiny has always been to find the one woman in this world who would do anything for me. I found her. I love you Rory Huntzberger, now and forever. Thank you for being my destiny."
