Disclaimer: Still don't own GG. Can we just make this a blanket statement for the whole fanfic?

Chapter 1: So, this is how it starts?

"You amaze me Rory Gilmore, every day." His proposal kept running through her head, like a constant loop while she packed more and more boxes. They had been through more together than she would have thought possible, hell they stole a yacht together. They had been talking about the future, even beyond that "I'll factor you in." Yeah, some factoring in he did. Couldn't have given me a little heads up? But it's not like she was giving much heads up anyway, was she? Because there, on top of the last box of books, and placed right next to the ring box was a pregnancy test. A positive pregnancy test. She had taken it this morning, way before the botched proposal, way before the stress of tomorrow set in. She was planning on having him come back to her apartment that night, spackle some more, pack, and after making it to bed she would tell him and hope for the best. Good news, she knew he wanted to marry her before he found out. That's a good sign, right? She had to call him, they can't have this conversation on Yale grounds where she graduated, where he bought her coffee, where the made out under the tree she spent $20 on to study under. No, this needed to be in private.

"Logan, please, just sit down."

"SHE HAS TO THINK ABOUT IT?!"

"Come on, you know Rory, she gets like this. She has to plan things out and you dumped everything onto the table and expected her to pick it back up."

"Do not take her side Colin!"

"There are no sides! There is me, telling you, to calm the hell down and give her a few minutes." Colin had been trying to reason with Logan for an hour and was not able to get through to him at all. Why did he have to propose like that? Why didn't they discuss shit? And why the hell did Finn disappear. Logan's phone ringing brought him out of his thoughts along with Logan's exhausted face as he stared at his phone where Rory's face flashed across it. "Well, aren't you going to answer it?"

"What if she's calling to say no?"

"She has more respect for you guys than that. Just answer." But before Logan could, the phone switched over to voicemail. Only to ring a few seconds later.

"Um, hello?" Logan tried to sound confident but there was so much vulnerability in his voice that Colin would have mocked him mercilessly if the situation was a tad more appropriate.

"Hey Logan, it's me. Can you come over? I just think we need to talk this over and I'd really like to do it together."

"Of course, I love you, I'll see you soon."

Colin didn't even register he was leaving until he heard the door slam and Finn magically reappeared out of the back room. "Oh, so now you show your face?"

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As Rory waited for Logan to make his way over, she was more nervous than she had anticipated. This is Logan, your Logan, why do you think he'll run from this? He loves you, and babies like California and sun, right? Before she could delve deep into the idea of a sun-bleached baby boy with his dad's golden locks, she heard Logan coming up the steps. Before he reached her door, she opened it and ushered him in but just as the door was starting to close he was already off and ranting.

"Rory, I need to know what the hell is going on here! I told you I loved you, I told you I want to marry you, I committed and now you're pulling the breaks! Rory, I'm terrified and now I'm even more scared because it's just the two of us here and what you didn't want an audience while you rip my heart to shreds?"

"Are you done yet? Because I couldn't follow that for anything. Calm down, breathe, take a seat on one of these boxes. There's a lot we have to talk about. For one, I love you, I want to be with you more than I can ever describe to you. You think I haven't thought of you asking me before? There were some days I wanted nothing more than for you to ask me. But you chose the moment, in front of my grandparent's friends to ask me and quite honestly that threw me because that is not at all how I pictured that you would do it. We deserved better than that Logan. Then, not only is that how you proposed but you tell me all about uprooting our lives to California. A place I have never even travelled to before you expect me to move without questioning it? Where was the factoring in part Logan? Where did you sit down and think about me and what is next for me? Logan, I graduate tomorrow, and that's not even the most life changing thing happening in the past 24 hours."

"I know, I know the proposal was way off. I know that there were things I could do differently, but God Rory, I was, actually I still am, so scared of losing you. Yes, the job in California is great but if you don't like it then I'll say screw the job, screw the avocado tree, screw it all I just want to be with you."

"What if I'm saying that you can't be with just me?"

"What are you talking about? Rory, why not?! I told you! I told you and I've proven to you that I can be with just you, that I want to be with just you. I proposed for God's sakes, why are you trying to throw it away? You know what? Fine, I'll just walk out, I have some friends that are graduating tomorrow so I'll be there to see them, but I will avoid you and we can have a clean break." As Logan turned on his heel after pacing for what felt like hours during his rants, he made his way towards the door.

"Would you stop only hearing what you want to hear? It's infuriating."

"You told me I couldn't be with you!"

"No, you miscreant. I said it's not just me." With her eyes focused solely on Logan with an intensity and vulnerability he had never seen before she slowly lifted the pregnancy test that had been sitting on one of the boxes. Hidden in plain sight as Logan was to distracted by the emotions and fear running through him.

"Wait a minute, wait, what is that? Is that…." He trailed off as he looked at her with as much fear as he had before but with something bubbling underneath. It wasn't until he saw that the hand holding the test had the ring he had spent hours searching for was placed directly on her left ring finger. He didn't know what really made him run over to her and hug her, he wasn't sure if it was the ring that finally silenced (almost) all of his fears, or if it was the fact that she was pregnant, something he didn't realize he would even be okay with, let alone happy about, until now.

"So, does that house with the avocado tree have room for another one of us? Oh god, another one of you. Help us all if this child is anything like you."

"Another one of us. Holy cow Ace. We're actually doing this? And you're sure about your answer? Actually, on second thought give me back the ring?"

"What, now that there's a baby you're taking back the proposal?" She tried to hide the worry in her voice, but it slipped in there. She knew absentee fathers happened, hell just look at her dad who didn't even show up to her hometown until she was 16. She slipped the ring off and handed it to him.

"Of course not! But I'm doing this right Ace." He put the ring back into the blue velvet box and got down on one knee. "Rory Gilmore, from the girl who yelled at me outside of her dorm room, to the brave soul who jumped off a platform with me for reasons I will never understand, to the woman who stood by when I burned my whole world down, to my Ace. This is how I should have done this or rented out the New York Library or through a sky diver, regardless, I'm hoping I'm doing this right this time. Lorelei Leigh Gilmore, will you marry me?"

"Without a doubt."