Move Along

Gilmore Girls

A/N: hey guys! So, this is the one shot I was talking about that I needed the divorce information on. So, I was writing it and it go super long, so I've decided to break it up into three parts. The whole thing is complete, but I want a whole lotta reviews before I post chapter two, because I really like this story. So, here's the summary, enjoy chapter 1.

Summary: Six years together. A beautiful daughter, and a lot of love. A marriage? No. But a relationship? Definitely. Eventually RoganSophie.

Background Information: Rory and Logan started dating her Freshman year of college, his sophmore. They met at the coffee cart after he bumped into her, spilling coffee everywhere. He immediately apologized and bought her another coffee. She accepted the apology but only because it included another coffee. They talked for a while and eventually became friends. They quickly developed feelings for each other, but didn't admit it them to anyone. Logan wasn't to much of a playboy, but he still had his fare share of girls. That pretty much changed after he met Rory, as it always does. (lol) After finally going out on a date with each other, they realized they were meant to be. They of course dated exclusively and during her sophmore year, Rory found herself pregnant. She decided to keep the baby and Logan agreed. He knew he was a bit young to be a father, but there was no way he could give up his child. After their daughter was born, they continued to go to school and graduate when they were supposed to. Lorelai would watch the baby during the day, taking her to the inn and letting her play with Davy, Sookie's son who was there sometimes. After college, Rory got a job at a Hartford paper and Logan did as well, starting out as a reporter. They never got married, but they did live together. And then it happened. Mitchum sent Logan away and Rory ended up with someone else. Now, this part is only temporary of course, and everything should make more sense as the story progresses. So, enjoy!

Disclaimer: Absolutely nothing. It's disappointing.

Part 1: The Situation

Six years together. A beautiful daughter, and a lot of love. A marriage? No. But a relationship? Definitely.

So what went wrong? Why did he leave it all behind? Why did he leave the two people that meant the most? Oh yeah. Because his father made him. His mother begged her husband not to. To not send her baby boy away. Let him stay with the family he had made with the woman he loved. But did he listen? Of course not. He's Mitchum Huntzberger. He listens to no one but himself.

So he left. Logan left. But he did it to protect his family. To protect Rory and to protect Emma. Three little words made him leave.

'I'll ruin her.'

Mitchum was a monster. His father was Satan. A hell beast, the First Evil, the Source, the Triad, Balthazar, and Angel without a soul, all rolled into one. He was a beast who cared about no one but himself.

Logan remembered when his father spoke those three evil little words to him.

Flashback

"Hey dad, what's up?" Logan asked. He had just entered his father's study. Mitchum had called him to come over. He had something important to discuss with him.

"I need you to go to California, Logan." Mitchum said.

"Ok. How long? Two days? A week?"

"I need you to move there permanently."

"What?" Logan asked.

"This is permanent Logan."

"Dad, Rory is not gonna go for this."

"Rory will not be going with you. You'll be going by yourself."

"What?" Logan yelled. "Dad, I have a family here! A family I have to take care of! A girlfriend and a daughter! How can you ask me to leave that behind?"

"The way I just did." he said, completely emotionless.

"No." Logan said.

"You will go." Mitchum said.

"No, I won't. I'm not leaving my family."

"You'll go Logan, or I'll ruin her."

"What?" Logan asked, his jaw dropping.

"I'll ruin her." Michum repeated. "If you don't go, I'll ruin Rory's career and make it so she can't get another job in journalism."

"Why would you do that?" Logan asked.

"Because it's time for you to finally take over for me, and she'll just hold you back."

"Are you kidding me?" He shouted. "She doesn't hold me back, dad! She pushed me forward. She makes me work and I love that about her. She pushes me to be better."

"You're going Logan. You leave Friday."

"I'm not going." Logan said firmly.

"You are." Mitchum said. "I'm serious Logan. I'll end her career in the journalism field, and I'll make it so she can't support that little girl."

"You really are a monster, you know. You wanna drag me away from my life! From the woman I love and my daughter! You're tearing me apart dad!"

"I'll see you Friday morning at nine. Don't be late to the air strip."

"I'm not going!" he shouted again.

"Yes you are. You'll go to protect her. You won't let her career end at your hand. You won't let your daughter go unfed. You'll leave to protect your family. Now, I'll see you Friday morning." Mitchum said before leaving the study.

Logan stood there, staring at where his father had just been. Mitchum was right. As much as he loathed the idea of leaving his family, he would do it to protect them. He wouldn't let Rory go without a job and he wouldn't let his daughter go unsupported by her mother.

He would have to leave them. There was no way they could go with him.

Rory would take this hard. He would have to leave her and Emma. She would hate him for it, but he could deal with that. He could deal with her hatred of him way better than he could handle her being without her dream job.

And Emma. His sweet little girl. He had to leave his baby. His five year old daughter who would understand perfectly that daddy wasn't there anymore. But he would still be in her life. He would not let himself forget about her. He would always take care of his little girl. He would protect her.

Just like he would protect Rory.

He would leave.

He did leave.

End Flashback

And then there was Rory. She had cried her eyes out when Logan left her. He seemed heartbroken about leaving, but she felt that when she asked why, he wasn't telling her the whole truth. He was leaving out little bits and pieces and that bugged her. Almost as much as how her situation now bugged her. She wondered why she did it. Why did she marry him? Why him? Oh, that's right. Because he told her he loved her. And she thought she still loved him too. She was wrong though. He wasn't Logan, so she could never really love him. She could never love Jess Mariano the way he claimed to love her.

"Emma Victoria Mariano!" Jess called up the stairs of his house. "Get your little but down here now!"

"That's not my name!" he heard a little voice shout back.

"Yes it is!" he shouted.

"No it's not!" she yelled, louder.

"Just get down here!"

Emma left her room and marched down the stairs in huff. She hated Jess. He wasn't her dad.

Emma was almost seven years old now and her mom had been married to Jess for almost two years. They got married only six months after her daddy had to go away. She missed her dad. She talked to him twice a day and saw him twice a month, but it wasn't the same as having him there. It wasn't like all her friends who had their mothers and fathers.

"What?" she asked, angry Jess had called her away from her desk. While she was only six and three quarters, she was smart as a whip. She could already read a little and write pretty well. She was a Huntzberger, it was in her genes. "I was writing a letter to my daddy." she stressed. "What do you want?" she asked in her little voice.

"Did you hide my cell phone?" he asked.

"No." she said, looking innocent.

"Emma, where did you put my phone?"

"I didn't put it anywhere. I don't have it." she said.

"Are you lying?" he asked.

"No." she said.

Just then, the front door opened and Rory came in. "Mommy!" Emma said as she ran to her mother who immediately scooped her up into a hug.

"Hi baby." Rory said, kissing her daughter's head of blonde hair. Emma looked just like her mother but had her fathers blonde hair. Her blue eyes sparkled as she began to tell her mother about what she did that day. "That sounds great sweety. Are you ready to eat?"

Emma nodded her head as she got down and went into the bathroom to wash her hands for dinner.

"Hey." Rory said as she put her bag down on the table and gave Jess a quick kiss.

"Hi." he said gruffly.

"What's wrong?" Rory asked.

"She hid my cell phone."

"No she didn't." Rory said.

"Rory, she did. I know she did. I can't find it anywhere, and she was the only one here today besides me."

"So you're accusing my daughter?"

"It had to have been her, but she says it wasn't. I know it was though, Ror."

"Or I could have taken it."

"What?" he asked.

"I picked it up on accident this morning. I thought it was mine and then I got to work and saw it was yours." Rory said, getting angry.

"Oh." Jess said.

"You owe my daughter an apology."

"Our daughter." he said.

"No, my daughter, Jess. You didn't adopt her as your own."

"Well, she's really not mine, now, is she?"

"No Jess, she's not. Not biologically at least." Rory said before getting out plates to set the table for dinner. She had brought home Chinese for dinner. "She's Logan's daughter and she's my daughter, but that doesn't mean I don't want you to act as her father, because I do. Treat her like she's yours, even if she isn't. You accepted the fact I had a child when you married me."

"I know I did! I do act like her father, Rory. I do. She hates me though."

"She does not hate you." Rory said.

"Yes I do." Emma said, coming back into the kitchen.

"Emma!" Rory exclaimed.

"What? Mommy, he's mean! He doesn't even know my name!"

"Of course he does!" Rory said

"Then why does he say my last name is Mariano! Its not! You said it was Huntzberger! Just like daddy."

"Baby, your last name is Huntzberger." Rory said, leading her daughter into the living room. "I'll talk to Jess about that. He shouldn't be calling you a Mariano."

"Mommy, I want daddy to come back. I don't like Jess."

Rory sighed. "I know baby."

"I miss daddy." Emma said quietly as she hugged her mother.

"I do too honey." Rory whispered as she cried silently. "I miss daddy too."

"Good night Emma. Sleep tight baby." Rory said after tucking her daughter in.

"Night mommy." Emma said before kissing her mom on the cheek.

Rory left the room and Jess said his goodnights.

"Night angel." he said as he kissed Emma's head.

"Don't call me that." Emma said. "My daddy calls me that. You're not my daddy."

"Emma, you're daddy is in California and he's not coming back. Not to stay at least. So get used to me, because I'll be around forever. I'll always be in your life."

"No you won't." Emma said. "My mommy misses my daddy. She doesn't want you anymore."

Jess glared at the little girl before leaving the room and going down to the living room where Rory was reading.

"Did you tell her you don't want me anymore?" Jess asked when he walked in.

"What? No, I never said that."

"She told me you did."

"Jess, she's a little girl. She doesn't know what she's talking about half the time."

"She told me I'm not her daddy."

"I thought we already determined that biologically, you're not." Rory said with a small smirk.

"I want her to like me." Jess said.

"She will eventually. She just needs time. She misses Logan. She hasn't seen him in two weeks."

"Maybe we should send her to see him."

"What? No." Rory said.

"Come on Rory! We could have a week to ourselves. She could spend a week with her father."

"Jess, I'm not sending my six year old daughter on a plane to California by herself." Rory said, shaking her head no.

"Rory, they have that thing where the flight attendants watch the kids under 15 the whole flight and then walk them off the plane after everyone else gets off. She'd be fine!" he exclaimed.

"I'm not doing it Jess." Rory said.

"Rory, we need time for us! You have all next week off! Spend it with just me."

"I need to spend time with my child Jess."

"Why can't you just let Logan spend time with her! She misses him, and I bet he misses her too."

"Jess, I'm not home every day this summer like you are. I have to work, I have a job, unlike you. I need this time off for Emma. I don't get to see her as much as I want to and I feel terrible about it. I took this time off of work so I could spend every day with her."

"Are you saying I don't have a job?" he asked.

"You don't!" Rory exclaimed. "I make all the money in this relationship. I provide for everyone. You won't get a job Jess. You're too busy working on your novel."

"That is a job Rory! I'm an author!"

"You're not an author until you get published!" she shouted.

Meanwhile in her room, Emma had been listening to her mother and Jess scream at each other. She was getting scared as Jess's voice raised with every sentence he spoke. She climbed out of her bed and grabbed the phone that was in her room. She dialed her father's number, hoping he would pick up.

"Hello?" Logan answered.

"Daddy." Emma said quietly.

"Emma? What's wrong?" Logan asked, hearing the worry in his daughters voice.

"I'm scared." she whispered. "Mommy and Jess are yelling really loud."

"Ok, it's ok Emma. Take the phone to your mom. I wanna talk to her."

"Ok." Emma said as she walked out of her room and down the steps into the living room. Logan could hear the yelling through the phone.

"You're just jealous Jess! You're jealous because I actually have been published! In fact, my stuff is in the paper every day! You haven't finished anything in the two years we've been together!" Rory shouted.

"Mommy." Emma said from the bottom of the stairs. Rory took her eyes off of Jess and looked at her frightened daughter.

"Emma, what's wrong? Why aren't you in bed?"

"Daddy wants to talk to you." she said, handing Rory the phone. She accepted it and started leading Emma upstairs, following behind.

"Oh sure, go talk to him." Jess muttered.

Rory stopped for a brief moment and glared at him before continuing up the stairs.

"What Logan?" she said into the phone.

"Stop scaring our daughter." he said.

"Excuse me?" she asked.

"You and Jess fighting is scaring her. Stop fighting. Stop scaring her."

"Hold on." Rory said. She tucked Emma back in bed and kissed her head. "I love you baby. Go to sleep." she said before leaving the room. "Ok." she said into the phone. "Did she tell you she was scared?"

"Yes." Logan said.

"I didn't mean to scare her." Rory said quietly as she walked into her and Jess's bedroom and shut the door.

"I know you didn't. What were you fighting over anyway?"

Rory sighed. "Everything. Jess wants to send Emma to California next week to stay with you since I have the week off, but I took the week off so I could spend more time with her. I mostly only see her on the nights and weekends now. She's still asleep when I leave for work in the morning."

"You could send her out if you wanted to. You know I would love to have her for a week. I really miss her Rory."

"She misses you too. We both do." she said quietly.

"You both should come out here. That way I could see her and you could still spend the week with her too."

"I don't think that's such a great idea."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm married, Logan. Because of why you left in the first place. I can't come because of me." she said.

"Ace..."

"No!" She shouted into the phone. "You don't get to call me that anymore. You aren't with me anymore. My name is Rory. You left me Logan, and you said it was because of me that you had to leave."

"Rory." he said, trying again. "I did leave because of you, but it's not the way you think it is." he said.

"It's not?" she asked with a scoff.

"No." he said.

"So, you didn't leave me because of me? You didn't leave our daughter because of me? You did, Logan. I'm married to Jess because of me! I'm married to him and not you because of me. I don't want to be married to him anymore Logan! He's becoming an asshole. No, he's always been an asshole, but you left me Logan! You left me and Emma! So I found someone else who loves me. Someone who's always loved me and I married him! I married the wrong guy because of me!" she spat. "It all has to do with me, Logan. That's what you said the day you left."

"Rory, if you come out here next week, and you bring Emma with you, I'll tell you the whole story as to why I left."

"I knew you left something out." she said.

"I had to, because if I hadn't left this part out, you would have begged me to stay more than you already did, and you would have hated yourself for it."

"You don't think I hate myself already?" she asked. "Did you not hear that little rant I just had? I hate myself because I was the reason you left. I hate myself because I'm married to Jess. And I hate myself because I still love you." she said quietly.

"Rory. Come to California." he said. "Let me see you and our daughter." He said, changing the subject.

She was quiet for a second. "Ok." she whispered. "We'll come see you."

"I'll book your flight and call you back tomorrow."

"Ok." she said. "Bye."

"Bye. Oh, and Rory?" he said. "I still love you too."

A/N: that's the end to part one. I hope you all liked it. Now, remember the second and third part are already done, so send me lots of reviews and it can be up later. So, I feel really proud of this chapter and it's kinda long, so please, send me reviews and the next part will come. Thanks! Review.