Prologue

Mitchum Huntzberger sat in his office late on a mid summer night. As he mulled over the situation he slowly sipped on his scotch. This was a very big problem, and one that he wasn't sure how to fix. Mitchum always had a solution but this time there wasn't one that stood out in his mind.

His mind drifted back to a meeting that had taken place many years ago. Strobe had been so secretive about it's purpose but once they were alone in the secluded corner of a small Hartford diner he had been blunt and gotten right to the point. He had grounds for a major lawsuit against Huntzberger publishing. He was offering him a deal. Logan would marry his granddaughter by the time she was 25 or he would sue. At the time he had never met this Rory Gilmore, but as he began to research her he saw that this would be a perfect match, from a business perspective of course. Even though Strobe had died Mitchum had been informed in no uncertain circumstances that his firm still had the power to enforce this deal.

Knowing his son, as well as the way Rory had been brought up he hadn't told them of the arrangement. He simply made sure that they met and thankfully they took it from there. He had expressed dislike for the match simply because he knew Logan was still in his rebellious phase and wouldn't like anything he approved of. So Mitchum sat back and happily watched as his heir found his partner. He had no doubt that with his mind for business and her mind for journalism they would take this company to places that he couldn't even dream of, and they would do it together, something he was truly jealous of.

However in the last few months his plan had gone into a tailspin. It had all started when Logan quit the company. He knew he pushed him, but he never figured he would have pushed him so hard that he would just walk out on everything. This he could fix. Given time he knew his son would come back, he loved the journalism industry and he knew he couldn't stay away forever. The other problem was worse, much worse. After receiving a job offer he proposed to Rory at the same time asking her to move across the country with him.

He couldn't believe how much of an idiot his son was. Of course she had said no. Rory was slow to accept change so if he had done one or the other Mitchum was sure she would have said yes but both! What made things so bad was that since she had turned him down they hadn't spoke once. Rory was off following Barrack Obama writing for some two-bit online magazine and Logan was still in San Francisco. Mitchum would have to act.

A plan began to form in his mind. He would have to be covert, if either of them knew he was interfering then they would run in a heartbeat. This would take every conniving drop of blood he has, which was of course most.