Author's Note – Sorry for taking so long and I just noticed that I put William as Rebecca's cousin when he would be her uncle sorry about that. Also I'm sorry if I change from present to past tense at times I'm not the best at grammar but I'll try to get everything as close as I can and sorry if I misspelled anything wrong as well.

Also I've never been to Connecticut or anywhere other than here Arizona or to California to go to Disney land. So I'm making up what the place looks like please just kind of deal with it.

Ok sorry about not updating in a really long time I am so sorry but I had track for the past few months and I would get home around 5:00p.m. Then eat dinner do my homework and everything else by the time I finished it would be to late to type and school has been very hectic but since the end of the year is getting closer I have more time so here is chapter 8 and I'm already working on chapter9.

Previously on Once Together Always and Forever

Rory's bedroom

She closed the door and sat on her bed. "Hey Logan."

"Hello Rory so uh I was wondering what am I supposed to do I'm sorry but do I just come and say 'hey I'm your father and I didn't know about you until last night I'm so sorry' because I really don't want to do that." Logan said he had being worrying about that the whole night.

"Uh I don't know um I am going to tell her about everything and tell her you are coming over but just let me call you when to come over because I don't know how she will react." Rory said

"Ok I guess so you will call me when I should come over then?"

"Yeah," Rory said

"Good that's good. Well I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah you too."

"Wait Rory."

"What?"

"Just...just tell her I love her ok?" Logan said

"Don't worry I will bye Logan." Rory said

"Bye Ace... I love you too. I never stopped." Logan said whispering the last part thinking Rory had hung up but she heard what he said and they both hung up and sighed.

Chapter Eight – Lily's Bookstore

Rory and Rebecca's apartment

After about five minutes of just sitting on her bed Rory got up took a quick shower and got dressed in a semi-long black skirt with brown boots, and a red sweater. She then spent some extra time on putting make-up on even though Logan had seen the way she looked last night. There was a knock on her door and Rebecca opened it.

"Hey mom can we go now I want to see if they have any new books." Rebecca said smiling, she was wearing a pair of dark jeans and a light blue t-shit that had a little cloud on it and written in the middle was 'Angel' with a halo over the A. With a black headband on but she had her bangs showing.

"Sure let me just get my jacket and get yours too it's probably cold outside." Rory said and got her black jacket out of her closet and closed the door to her bedroom after turning of the lights and making sure she had everything she needed and placed the phone on the hook in the living room as Rebecca came out now wearing her black jacket that had a hood and sipped up in the front. It had a little picture Scooby Doo and the Scooby gang on the left side of the jacket.

"Ok I'm ready." Rebecca said smiling and heading for the door.

"Do you have to wear that jacket?" Rory asked her daughter while locking the front door and they started down the stairs. Looking at her daughter's jacket slightly shaking her head but smiling.

"Yes only because I can't find my other ones or they are dirty and I don't want to make a bad impression on the books besides I could get something on the books." Rebecca said as they walked through the lobby of the building and headed down the street.

Hartford, Connecticut

It was a busy day in Hartford and people were walking all around trying to get to were they needed to sometimes it seemed as if it were New York at times. There were buildings up and down the streets and in the middle between the two lanes were trees separating them. As Rory and Rebecca turned the corner you could see a park on the other side of the street and a big lake. On the other side of the lake were tall white walls and big rich houses beyond it.

"I hate that." Rebecca said out of nowhere

"You hate what?" Rory asked

"That stupid wall and those people who think they are better than us. It's like they are the Kings and Queens and we are simple commoners or peasants like in the olden days. One day for all we know people might be getting there heads chopped off because of that stupid good for nothing high society." Rebecca said in a mocking voice as she spat out the last two words. Then she looked at her mother sighing and then glanced across the lake with disgust, they had stopped walking and were sitting on a bench across the street from the park.

"Hey I highly doubt people will be getting their heads chopped off any time soon. Besides they aren't that bad." Rory said to her daughter only partly meaning what she was saying about Hartford's high society.

"Yeah right mom they are mean and cold hearted people Mr. And Mrs. 'We have a stick up our but' grandparents of yours won't even talk to you." Rebecca said and then mumbled, "because of me." She thought her mother hadn't heard her but she had.

"Hey, stop talking like that it's not your fault ok and lets forget it and go look at the books remember we like the books and are happy around them." Rory said standing up putting her arm around her daughter and moving a piece of Rebecca's hair out of the face and led her towards the bookstore.

"And besides you dad's sister is from that world and she is really nice." Rory said and Rebecca smiled.

FLASHBACK

After Rebecca had been born Rory had made one last attempt to contact Logan and she had taken Rebecca with her to Honor Huntzberger and her husband Josh's apartment she had gone to Honor's since she hadn't seen Rebecca since she visited Rory in the hospital a little over a month and wanted to check up on them.

It was a somewhat cold winter day and Rory was standing outside of Honor's apartment door and knocked. At least it wasn't the Huntzberger mansion were she had gone many times over the past nine months and Honor had been the only one who actually cared about Rory and Rebecca from that family. She would have and wanted to tell Logan so many times but Mitchum and Shira(or is it Shria?) wouldn't have it and threatened her with money and other things.

Honor answered the door and smiled, "Rory come on in it's so good to see you." Honor said and she ushered Rory into the apartment and into the living room Rory put the baby carrier on the coffee table after asking Honor if it was ok and she checked on Rebecca.

"I hope we aren't bothering you but we were in the neighborhood and thought we would drop by." Rory said.

"No problem at all I've been wanting to see you both anyway can I hold Rebecca?" Honor asked.

"Sure." Rory responded and took Rebecca out of the carrier and gently handed her over to Honor.

"She's so cute with your hair and Logan's eyes." Honor said smiling and then looked at Rory. "I'm sorry I shouldn't of…" Honor started

"No it's ok I show her a picture everyday of him. Even if she is this young I want her to know what her father looks like at least." Rory said and smiled back at Honor.

"Well that's good because I have something for you." Honor said and she gave Rebecca back to Rory and went into the other room and came back with a large envelope.

"What's this?" Rory asked she opened the envelope and it had some pictures of Logan in California in his new apartment and with a small golden retriever. He was smiling but you could tell he wasn't happy there. "Oh he looks happy…" Rory said not knowing what to say. She put Rebecca into the carrier and then looked at the pictures again.

"Rory, can I tell you something about him?" Honor asked

"Yeah sure but um can I have these?" Rory asked she closed her eyes and sighed willing herself not to cry. It still hurt to think that he was so far away from here and was probably never going to go back to her.

"Yeah go ahead and what do you mean by he looks happy he misses you a lot and called me yesterday and talked about how he hated himself and our father for making him leave and banning him from calling you at all." Honor said and handed Rory another envelope. "This is from me and Josh." Honor said and Rory opened the envelop ad took out a saving bond and check out of it.

"I can't except the Honor it's too much." Rory said looking at the amount of money that was on the check.

"It's a saving bond for Rebecca for when she gets older please just take it Rory." Honor said

"Ok but I'll pay you back Honor." Rory started

"No, you don't have to its not that much money." Honor said and shook her hand.

"It's $1,000,000! Honor that's a lot." Rory stated

"Anything for my niece isn't too much money she deserves the best and so do you." Honor said.

END OF FLASHBACK

Lily's Bookstore

Rory had found Lily's bookstore many years ago and loved going there it had mismatched furniture and a cozy home feeling to it. It was two stories filled with books on each floor and rows filled with different kinds of books. Some old some new hard back covered books and paperbacks. To Rory and Rebecca it was like heaven on earth to them.

The owner's name was Lily and is a friend of Rory's she had known her since Rebecca was 2 ½ years old and had given Rory a job there. Rory still works there when she isn't working for the Hartford newspaper. A smile spread on both of their faces.

"Later mom." Rebecca said and ran up the stairs towards the fantasy section. She enjoyed reading books about things that probably could never happen with magic and fairies. Sure she knew it would never happen but still she could get lost into that world. She was in the middle of reading all of the Harry Potter books again.

Rory made sure that Rebecca had gone all the way upstairs then sighed. She stood next to the counter and put her head in her hands.

"What's wrong?" Lily the storeowner and Rory's friend asked

"Her father came back." Rory stated simply.

"What? As in the Logan?" Lily asked in shock, Rory nodded. She had told Lily the whole story a long time ago.

Rory just nodded again after seeing Lily's face and said, "Do you think you could watch her for a moment for me I need to call my mother and talk to her." Rory said.

"Sure you can go in the back and call if you want." Lily said smiling sympathetically.

"Thanks" She went into the back of the store were all of the new shipment of books were and she pressed speed dial on her cell phone.

Luke's Diner

Lorelai was sitting inside of Luke's diner with William and eating when her cell phone went off.

"Outside!" was the first thing that came out of Luke's mouth but Lorelai ignored him.

"Hello." Lorelai said answering the phone.

"Mom," Rory said sighing she sat down on a chair next to a table back there.

"Rory honey are you ok?" Lorelai asked worried by the tone of her voice. "Is Rebecca ok?"

"Yeah she is fine but mom I don't know what to do."

"Do about what? You need to give me more details Rory."

"Logan's back." Rory said.

Lorelai was silent thinking she hadn't heard her daughter, "WHAT!" Lorelai said loudly into the phone she was inside Luke's and unfortunately a lot of the towns people were there including Miss Patty, Lane, Zach, Brain, Kirk, Luke, Babbette, William and Andrew. They all looked at her with interest. Luke had stopped telling her to take the phone outside side and said, "Is everything ok?"

"I don't know," Lorelai said to Luke and then into the phone not noticing most of the town inside of the diner. "What did you say? Did you say Logan was back as in Rebecca's father Logan?"

There were gasps through out the whole diner, everyone knew about the situation with Rebecca, Rory and Logan. They also knew not to mention Logan to Rebecca unless she had asked.

"Yeah, he came by last night and we talked about Rebecca and he saw some pictures of her and took a glance at her while she was asleep. He wants to be a part of her life mom. You should have seen the look in his eyes. It made me feel like I didn't try hard enough to find him and tell him. It's my fault he didn't know he had a daughter for over ten years, it's my fault." Rory said her voice was shaky as she talked wiping away her tears that had fallen.

"Oh honey, do you need me to come over there?" Lorelai asked standing up and grabbing her jacket.

"No mom it's ok." Rory started but was cut off by Lorelai.

"No buts were are you?" Lorelai said

"Lily's bookstore." Rory replied

"I'll be there in 20 minutes." Lorelai said and hung up and looked at Luke.

"Logan's back." Lorelai said to him.

"I heard and so did the rest of the diner." Luke said and asked, "Is Rory and Rebecca ok?"

"She says they are but I'm gonna go see if they really are." Lorelai said she kissed Luke and gave William a kiss on the forehead.

"Tell them I said hi." Will said and Lorelai left.

Author's Note – Ok short chapter and it was just a filler I guess anyway the next chapter will have Logan in it. I just wanted to post this because I haven't updated in a while. Also sorry about where I stopped the chapter. It's been hard to write because of school and having tons of homework and projects plus this is the end of the 3rd quarter and I've really had to do a lot of extra credit and I am on the track team and we have practice every day after school so I don't get home until five then I have to do my homework eat dinner take a shower and everything else.

-Rebecca