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A/N: sadness... last chapter...Epilogue...ok, so this is the last chapter of These Walls. Thanks so much for all previous reviews, and please review at the end of this...Thanks!
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Chapter 25: Junk Food Junkie...Seven Years Later...
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" the little four year old girl screeched, running through the front door to the house.
"Hey baby." Rory Huntzberger said, scooping up her little girl. "Did you have a good day with daddy?"
"Yes. It was a great day!" she said excitedly.
"Where is daddy?" Rory asked. The little girl was silent. "Lo, where's daddy?" she asked, getting impatient.
"He said not to tell you. He has a surprise!" the little girl said excitedly.
"A surprise?"
"Yes!"
"Do you know what the surprise is?" Rory asked. Lo shook her head yes. "Tell me."
"But daddy said not to." Lo said, getting confused.
"Oh, come on. You can tell mommy." Rory said, carrying her little girl over to the couch and sitting down with her.
"Daddy said not to." Lo repeated.
"Oh come on. Mommy hates waiting for surprises. I'll give you ice cream before dinner if you tell me." Rory said, smiling at her baby girl.
"That is so wrong." A voice said from the doorway. "Bribing our daughter with ice cream."
Rory looked over to see her husband leaning in the doorway. She stood up, her daughter still in her arms as she walked over and kissed Logan.
"What's the surprise?" she asked after pulling away.
"Well hello to you too." he said sarcastically before kissing her once more. "And hello again angel." he said, kissing his daughters head. "And hello to you." he said, kissing his wife's pregnant stomach.
Rory put Lo down and she ran to play with her toys for a while. Logan pulled Rory into his arms.
"What's the surprise?" she asked again.
"Are you feeling ok today?" he asked as he rubbed her stomach.
"Answer the question Huntzberger." Rory said.
"No way Huntzberger." he said with a smirk. "Be patient." he said before kissing her again and then going into the kitchen to get a bottle of water. "What do you want for dinner tonight?" he asked when she followed him in.
"I don't care." she said. "You and Lo can decide. I'll eat anything. Well, except chicken. Or pickles. I don't get why everyone thinks pregnant women always want pickles. I'm finding them revolting right now." she said with a shudder.
"Ok." he said. "Lo, sweetie can you come here for a minute?"
"Yes daddy?" she asked, coming in the kitchen.
"What do you want for dinner angel?"
"Hm." she said, putting her tiny hand up to her chin and biting her lower lip, thinking about it. He always smiled when he saw her do this. She had obviously inherited it from Rory. "Pizza?" she asked.
"Ace?" Logan asked. Rory nodded. "Pizza it is." he said reaching for the phone. Lo went back into the living room to play more until dinner. Logan ordered a large pepperoni, a large cheese, and a large bacon and onion from Pizza Hut. Rory got out the salad fixings to make a salad to go with the pizza. Ever since she was pregnant the first time, she had been trying to eat some healthy things. She still loved junk food and take out, but she tried to eat a little more healthy, and cook meals more often. They had the money of course to have a cook, but Rory enjoyed doing it herself. When she was pregnant with Lo, she had taken classes, and now she was pretty good. Logan helped her cook sometimes too.
He worked for his father at one of the Hartford papers. Rory worked there too, but at the moment she was on maternity leave, being seven months pregnant. Logan had convinced his father to let him be a reporter at the paper and write articles instead of being the CEO. He still made extremely good money as did Rory, plus he had his trust fund. They did however have a maid. Cooking was something Rory liked, but cleaning just wasn't. She hated getting on her hands and knees and scrubbing things. Plus being pregnant made it hard for her. She wasn't like her grandmother though. They had had the same maid for five years. The same amount of time that they had been living in their Hartford home. It wasn't anything too huge like the Gilmore House, or the Huntzberger Mansion. It had a living room, study, kitchen, and dining room downstairs, and upstairs it had four bedrooms, a master bathroom connected to the master bedroom, and a smaller bathroom connected to each of the other bedrooms. One for Lo, connected to her room, one for when the new baby got older, and the final for the guest bathroom when Finn crashed there after getting trashed, or when anyone else came to stay with them.
Rory started cutting the tomato to put in the salad. Salad was one of the healthy things she had grown to like, and surprisingly, her daughter loved a good salad. She must have gotten that from Logan. He liked fruits and vegetables and he was always trying to get Rory to eat more of them. Lo did still love all kinds of junk food though, pizza being one of her favorites.
She finished cutting the tomatoes and put them in the bowl on top of the lettuce. As she set the knife in the sink, she felt two arms go around her waist and a kiss be placed on her neck. She leaned into her husband and smiled.
"How was your day?" she asked him.
"Good. Everyone in the office enjoyed seeing Lo. They all love her."
"Well who wouldn't love her? She's a bouncy little girl with your blonde hair and my blue eyes. She's sweet, and beautiful, and witty at the age of four."
"She's pretty damn smart to." he said as he kissed her neck. Rory turned around to face him and kiss him on the lips.
"She's very smart." she said after breaking away. "I hope this one is just as smart." Rory said, putting her hand on her stomach. Logan placed his hand over hers.
"Baby number two will be equally smart. It's got us for parents." he said with a smirk. She laughed and kissed him again. The doorbell rang a few minutes later.
"Pizza!" Lo said as she jumped up and ran towards the door.
"Ok you little junk food junkie." Logan said as he picked her up. "Let's get the pizza." he said as he opened the door.
Rory watched Logan with their daughter. He was a wonderful father. Nothing like Mitchum. He was always there for Lo. He never missed anything she did, whether it was dancing in one of the programs Miss. Patty had in Stars Hollow, or having a movie night with her and Rory. She remembered the day when she told him she was pregnant the first time.
Flashback
"Logan Elias Huntzberger." the dean of Yale said. It was graduation day. "Lorelai Leigh Huntzberger." he said next. Rory walked up after Logan and collected her diploma.
After everyone else was called, their families came to congratulate them before heading back to Stars Hollow for the big party that was being thrown in the town square. Rory and Logan were taking their last walk around campus before getting in Logan's car and driving to Stars Hollow.
"I'm gonna miss this place." Rory said.
"Yeah. It held a lot of great times. Some bad ones..." he said as they passed the classroom he had been shot in. "But mostly good."
"So, your sister won." Rory said.
"What?" he asked.
"Honor won the poll."
"You mean...the...baby, poll?" he asked.
"Yeah." she said. "Honor guessed right around now."
"You're pregnant?" he asked with a smile.
"I am. We're having a baby." she said with a smile.
He picked her up and twirled her around once in a totally cliche motion, but he didn't care. He was going to be a father. "You do realize we were exactly on our target, right?" he asked with a smirk.
"What?" she said with a laugh.
"You said I could knock you up right before graduation." he said with a smirk.
"Well then I guess you really did, because I'm about two months. I went to the doctor yesterday, and he confirmed it." she said with a smile.
"We're gonna be parents." Logan said.
"We're gonna be parents." she repeated before kissing her.
End Flashback
"Here we go." Logan said, carrying the pizzas in one hand while his other arm was around his daughter as he carried her into the kitchen, over to her seat. Her little arms were wrapped around his neck. He placed her in her chair and sat down in his. Rory brought the salad over and served some to Lo, then Logan, and then put some in her own bowl. They ate as they talked about their days.
"So then Jenny gave me some crayons and paper she had in her desk and I colored while daddy worked." Lo said, a big smile on her face. Jenny was the elderly woman who worked as a secretary at the office. Both Rory and Logan thought of her as another mother, even though she was almost 70.
"Sounds like you had fun honey." Rory said, taking a bite of pizza.
"I did." Lo said as she nodded her head and ate her dinner.
After dinner, Logan cleaned up. It was the deal they had. She would cook and he would clean up, or he would cook and she would clean up.
Rory followed her daughter into the living room and sat on the couch as she watched Lo go back to her toys. She watched with a smile on her face, remembering when Lo was born. Her birthday was coming up soon. In a week she would be five years old.
Flashback
"Logan, I hate you!" Rory screamed in pain. She was in labor.
"That's not what you said nine months ago." he said with a smirk as he held her hand.
"Shut up." she screamed, another contraction racking her body. "You are never doing this to me again!"
"Rory, you need to push." the doctor said.
"I am pushing." she said through gritted teeth.
"Push harder!" the doctor said.
She pushed as hard as she could and a few seconds later, a cry erupted throughout the room.
"It's a girl!"
Logan kissed his wife's head. "You did it Ace." he said. "We have a baby girl."
Rory smiled as her breathing returned to normal. She was tired. The doctors cleaned the baby up and then handed her to Rory in a pink blanket.
"She's beautiful." Rory whispered as she looked at her baby.
"Do we have a name yet?" One of the nurses asked.
"Yes." Rory said. "Lorelai Elizabeth Huntzberger."
"Beautiful." the nurse said as she wrote it down along with all the other information about the new baby.
"She's got your eyes." Logan said as he looked at his wife, holding their daughter.
"She's gonna be like you. I know it." Rory said as she smiled up at him. He kissed her and then laid down beside her.
End Flashback
'You're never doing this to me again!' She remembered telling him that, yet here she was. Pregnant again. She was hoping for a boy this time. Then they would have one of each, and it would be like how Logan grew up. The older sister, always looking out for her baby brother. She laughed when she thought about how Honor still called Logan 'baby brother' even though they were grown up now.
She remembered telling him that, yet here she was. Pregnant again. She was hoping for a boy this time. Then they would have one of each, and it would be like how Logan grew up. The older sister, always looking out for her baby brother. She laughed when she thought about how Honor still called Logan 'baby brother' even though they were grown up now.Logan came in a few minutes later and sat down next to Rory, putting his arm around her as she leaned into him. He kissed her temple.
"What are you thinking about?" he asked.
"Lo. The day she was born."
"That was a good day." Logan said as he kissed her again.
"One of the best days of my life." They say there for a while before she spoke again. "Logan?" she asked.
"Yeah?"
"What's the surprise?" she asked.
He laughed. "I'm not telling you anything more than the fact that you are getting the surprise tomorrow." he said before kissing her and getting up. He picked up Lo from the floor and kissed her head. "Time for bed angel."
"Do I have to daddy?" she asked, pouting and giving him her version of the bambi eyes.
Rory laughed at the expression. That was something Lo inherited from her. Rory knew Logan couldn't resist that look.
"Lo." Logan whined. "Don't give daddy that look."
"But mommy says you can't re sit, no, restit, no wait..."
"Resist." Rory whispered.
"Resist! Thanks mommy. Mommy says you can't resist it." she said, giving it to him again.
"Well, mommy is right, but you have to go to bed little girl. Remember what's happening tomorrow?" he asked.
Her eyes lit up. "The surprise!" she whispered in her cute little voice.
"That's right. So, lets get you to bed. The sooner you sleep, the sooner you can wake up."
"Ok daddy." Lo said as she wrapped her little arms around Logan's neck and he carried her upstairs with Rory following.
When they got to her room, Logan put her down and she ran into the bathroom. Rory got out her pajamas and then followed the little girl. She closed the door, and proceeded to give Lo the bath she took every night before bed. They had a routine. Once they both had brought her upstairs, Rory gave her a bath and helped her change into her pajamas. Then they went back into her room where Logan was waiting to read her a story. She would pick one out and then they would all huddle together on Lo's bed, the little girl sandwiched between her parents. Logan read to her while Rory stroked her pretty blonde hair. By the time the story was done, she would be asleep. Rory and Logan would get up and each give her a kiss before wrapping her up in her blankets. Then they would turn out the light and leave the room. The rest of the night, the two would spent together, watching t.v. or reading. Sometimes they did a little work for the paper, but not usually.
Rory had been tired that night, so after tucking in Lo, she went to change into her pajamas and lay down as well. Logan changed and joined her. They watched t.v. in their bedroom before drifting off.
Logan woke up the next morning and got up, careful not to wake a sleeping Rory. He went into his daughters room to wake her up so he could put his surprise into action.
"Lo, sweetie wake up." he said as he kissed her forehead.
"Daddy?" she mumbled as she rolled onto her back.
"Yeah angel, it's daddy. C'mon. Time to get up."
"Ok." she said as she sat up and yawned, stretching her little arms above her head. Logan picked her up out of bed and set her on the floor before getting a pair of her jeans and a little pink sweater out for her to wear that day. She went into the bathroom and got dressed all by herself and then came out to sit back down on her bed. Logan helped her put on her socks and little gym shoes. He tied the laces, kissed her cheek and then took her to the kitchen to have breakfast.
"What do you want this morning Lo?" he asked.
"Cereal." she said.
He poured her a bowl of lucky charms and put it in front of her before starting the coffee. Lo had learned to love coffee at her young age so Logan had compromised with Rory. Until she was older, she could have three fourths milk with one fourth coffee, although he knew Rory and Lorelai both let the little girl sip from their pure coffee when they thought he wasn't looking. "Here baby." he said placing her special coffee in front of her. She drank like her mother always did. It was gone in three sips. He laughed. She was really her mother's daughter. After she ate, he helped her brush her teeth and comb out her hair so the loose curls were falling at her shoulders. There was a light knock at the door, so he picked her up and went to answer it.
"Grammy!" Lo said when Logan answered the door.
"Hi sweets! Ready to go?" Lorelai asked.
"Yes!" Lo said as Logan handed her over to Lorelai.
"Ok. Let's go." Lorelai said.
"Bye daddy." Lo said.
"Bye angel. Be good for grandma. Have fun." he said, kissing her cheek.
"Oh, we'll have fun." Lorelai said.
"Thanks for taking her today Lorelai." Logan said.
"No problem sweetie. I needed my Lo fix." she said as she kissed her granddaughters cheek.
"Ok, we'll see you two and Luke for dinner at six?" he asked.
"We'll be here." Lorelai said with a smile.
"Ok. See you later. Bye angel." he said as he closed the door. He went back upstairs and laid back down next to his wife, putting his arms around her and pulling her close. He then fell back asleep for a few hours.
Rory woke up three hours later and glanced at the clock. It was ten a.m. She usually didn't sleep this late except for weekends, but since her maternity leave, she had enjoyed sleeping in, especially since Lo seemed to enjoy it too. She felt two arms around her and turned to see Logan. He usually had to be at work by eight thirty, but today he was here.
"Logan." she whispered.
His eyes opened and he smiled at her.
"Hey Ace." he said, kissing her.
"What are you doing here? What about work?" she asked.
"Are you ready for the surprise?" he asked.
"Yes, but..."
"No buts. This is the surprise. I took the day off so we could spend it together. Your mom came to get Lo, so don't worry about her. Today it's just me and you. Whatever you wanna do." he said as he kissed her again.
She smiled and kissed him back. "Good surprise." she said.
"You like it?" he asked.
"Spending a day with my husband, just us. Hm. I think I love it." she said before kissing him again.
"I love you Ace." he said.
"I love you too Logan."
Two months later, their second baby was born. A little boy they named Elias, after Logan's grandfather. Eli for short. He was the spitting image of his father, even as a baby. Their family felt complete now. Rory, Logan, and their two beautiful children. It was perfect, they couldn't ask for anything better.
A/N: the end. Did you all like it? I think this was one of my favorite chapters to write. I love writing my favorite Sophie ship with kids! Lol. I think Logan would be an awesome dad. He'd be so caring, and protective. And I think Rory would be the cool mom like Lorelai, wanting her child to indulge in coffee and books. Lol. So, I hope you all liked 'These Walls' and please send me a review. I'll say exactly what I said at the end of Kill Me Now. I hate having to beg for reviews, but I'll still do it. Lol. I don't care if you've read this whole story and not reviewed once. All I ask is you leave something for the last chapter. It can be as simple as you want or it could be some long thing about how this story changed your life, cause you know, there's that one book or story out there for everyone that changes your life! Lol. Ok, just kidding, you don't have to say this changed your life, but if it did, I wouldn't mind reading that in a review. Lol. Ok, so thank you to every single person who has ever reviewed, or read this. If you criticized, whether it was good or bad, I thank you because every little review helps. A nice review can do so much for a person. I know they always make me smile:) lol. So, please leave me a little feedback. Thanks! Review.