We used to be friends…
This is my attempt at season 4 of Veronica Mars. All the main characters from the show will be making an appearance. There will be plenty of mysteries for Veronica to solve, while she sorts out who is a friend and who is a foe, and attempts to make sense of her love life.
Italics are for Veronica's inner monologue. Bold is for author's notes.
Reviews are welcome
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"Hello dear." A 300 pounds bouncer addressed a girl walking up to the door of a rather shady looking drinking establishment
"Hi" The girl responded in a very young voice. She was 5 feet tall or so, blond and very cute. The girl was wearing a catholic school girl uniform that complemented her figure quite nicely "Jack talked to me about this modeling thing…" she said shyly
"Of course" he responded pointing to the door "come on in" right at the entrance there was a metal detector
A metal detector at a bar? Not suspicious at all…
"Jack, hi!" the blonde said excitedly once a tall dark haired man appeared.
"Cindy, I am glad you came." He said "Would you like a drink before we start?" Jack pointed towards a bar
"I am sixteen…"
"I won't tell if you don't!"
The girl nodded excitedly. Jack assumed she hasn't tried alcohol before and brought her a cocktail.
"It's called a Manhattan" Jack said and watched her take a sip "Enjoy"
"Yummy" she said
"Follow me" Jack said and turned around leading her towards the back "We are a fairly new modeling agency so we have to share our space with 'tipsy goat' downstairs."
"No problem" The girl spit out the drink onto a napkin as soon as Jack wasn't watching and dried her lips with it so that none of it got into her system. The napkin turned red.
Gotcha!
"So we are going to start with some shots for a perfume commercial. Why don't you wait in this room?"
Yeah like I'd let you lock me in.
"Could you point me towards the ladies room?"
"Sure" Jack said somewhat disappointed
The girl got into the bathroom and closed the door behind her.
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"Sam?" she said in an adult voice into a microphone she had hidden on her
"What you got Veronica?" she heard a voice in her earring
"Positive for GHB." She responded
"Good job. Get out of there."
"Can you hear it?" Veronica asked "I think I heard a shriek."
"We have enough for a warrant." Sam responded "We'll shut them down."
"There is a defenseless girl in there Sam" Veronica whispered "She will be raped by the time we come back… or worse!"
"Mars…" "Mars!" Sam stopped once he realized Veronica was now in the hallway "Fucking interns" he thought as he got out of the car parked a block away.
Veronica sneaked out of the bathroom realizing Jack wasn't looking and went up the stairs. Calculating which room the shriek came from she opened the door… She has seen things in her life but the scene in front of her shocked even her. Inside an amateur crew was filming a barely conscious girl aged 14 at the most getting roughly undressed by a guy wearing a mask. The girl protested at first, but he gagged her mouth as he took off his pants… Veronica lifted her necklace. Inside a hidden camera was taking pictures.
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"Are you getting this?" she whispered into intercom "They are filming right now…"
"Cindy!" she heard Jack yell.
"I am a little dizzy." The Veronica complained as Jack ran up to her. She pretended not to see anything.
"Fuck." He said as he roughly grabbed her arm "Let's go!"
Jack led her into another room and threw her onto a bed.
"Stay here!" he ordered as he motioned a couple of guys to guard her
Veronica was doing her best pretending to be drugged as she curled into a ball.
"I am sleepy…" she complained
A few minutes passed until another man walked into the room.
"So what's the problem?" By his tone he seemed to be the boss
"She saw the filming" Jack responded
The boss walked over Veronica and looked her over. He grabbed her face and turned it towards himself. Veronica smiled pretending to flirt. He pushed her legs away from her chest looked over her body and turned to Jack.
"Well at least she is smoking."
Gee thanks. Still picking winners Veronica!
"Let's do her next." He resolved "Give her another tablet and she won't remember a thing."
I wish I didn't know what 'do her next' meant.
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He turned towards the door as a drunken man stumbled in. The man had dark hair; he was roughly six feet tall and underneath his loose shirt one could recognize an athletic build. The stranger was in his late twenties and had a completely dazed look. He had a bottle of beer in each hand. The man's eyes made contact with Veronica for a second, and then looked around the room.
"Who the fuck are you?" The boss asked angrily as the man was stumbling closer to the group
"This isn't the man's room." The drunk stumbled closer
"This is a private party sir."
"Dude." He got closer until he was in the middle of the group "I really gotta pee!"
One of the guards put his hands on the stranger's shoulder. In one move the stranger turned around and broke both bottles on the guard's face. The other guard went for his gun, but the stranger was faster. One broken bottle sliced the guard's hand causing him to drop the gun, while the other sliced his throat. Jack was next, and he went down just as fast with several deep wounds to remember the night by. The boss didn't get very far either. Veronica bolted off the bed and grabbed the gun. By the time she pointed the gun at the room the stranger was the only man left standing. Reading the Miranda rights to them was apparently not on his list.
"Fuck Mars" The stranger said angrily as he relieved the four other men in the room of their weapons not even looking at the girl "Do you ever follow orders?"
"I…" Veronica's famous wit has failed her this time "You killed him…" she pointed to one of the men on the floor. He wasn't moving.
Sam grabbed two guns off the men and turned to Veronica. He was covered in blood and must have looked quite scary. Looking over the girl who was doing her best to look calm his gaze softened. "This is her first assignment after all, and she did better than expected." he thought
"Probably." He walked over and put a hand on her shoulder looking into her eyes "They are child pornographers, rapists and murderers." "I will not lose sleep over this, and I suggest you don't either."
Veronica nodded as he checked the safety on his guns, made sure they are loaded and than did the same for the gun Veronica was holding.
"They have a girl upstairs" Veronica said regaining her composure "We need…"
"Stay here, guard these four." He said in a tone leaving no room for negotiation. "I'll take care of it." Veronica nodded. "Back up is on their way." "So are the paramedics." He said pointing to the four men on the floor and left the room.
He called paramedics before walking into the bar. Great, I am teamed up with Dirty Harry.
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Somewhere in Africa.
Several men were sitting inside a conference room listening to a presentation. The youngest of the group, a tall white man 20 years old or so was at the head of the table, and though he said nothing he seemed to be the one person everyone was addressing. Next to him a well groomed black man called Warren in his early thirties was whispering something into his ear, while asking questions about the presentation. The presenters were giving a passionate presentation about micro lending and how it could lift thousands of people out of poverty. The rich white boy they were trying to sell on the idea showed no sign of emotion. Then out of the blue he said:
"Ok."
"Ok?" the presenter was startled
"I'll do it. Two million sound reasonable?" The young man asked calmly.
"Two million US?" the presenter asked with his eyes widened.
"Yeah, I'll have my lawyers look over the documents."
"Thank you Mr. Smith!" the group shook the boy's hand excitedly. After pleasantries and goodbyes only Mr. Smith and Warren were left.
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"You are a good man Duncan." Warren said approvingly
"Please, I am filthy rich and have absolutely nothing to do with my time."
"Hit the books bud, you are a high school dropout after all!" Warren teased him
"I have a better idea, you, me, a six pack of beer and the NBA playoffs on my satellite TV." Duncan suggested. "Kobe is looking great this year!"
"You really need to find yourself a girl Duncan…" Warren shook his head
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"Besides, I need to catch a flight to Uganda – I actually got work to do." he paused "You'll love this: the daughter of a local leader is set to marry some old rich guy…" "Instead she runs away with her 'soul mate' " Warren emphasized the word sarcastically "not to be seen again."
"So besides not believing in true love, this is your problem how?" Duncan asked
"Well the only guy who gets caught is this college kid who helped them from the good ole US of A." "And yours truly, being the consul, needs to go bail this…" Warren looks over some papers in his briefcase "Wallace Fennel kid out before the local authorities dispense their idea of justice..." Warren shook his head "You don't want to know…"
At the mention of the name Duncan jerked towards Warren looking into the documents
"Wallace Fennel from Hurst College in Neptune California?"
"You know him?"
"We used to be friends…" Duncan responded "A long time ago."
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A few days earlier. Virginia.
"Veronica, come on in" Agent Farrell, one of the mentors for the FBI internship invited her to sit down. Next to her there was another agent – an attractive man in his twenties. The man carefully looked Veronica over from head to toe, shook his head and said:
"A bit too old."
"Cute and charming" Veronica said sarcastically as she sat down "How do you keep the ladies away?"
"Mrs. Mars!" The woman said sternly. Veronica mumbled a clearly insincere apology while the man suppressed a half smile
"Your options are rather limited here agent Daniels." She told the agent
"Options for what?" Veronica asked
"I am investigating a child pornography website." The man turned to Veronica and said "We believe they kidnap pretty girls as young as 12 from this area, drug them, rape them, film it and kill some of the victims."
"Oh my god!" Veronica exclaimed shocked at both the information and the calm way agent Daniels talked about it
"This is very unorthodox Veronica. Interns usually…" agent Farrell started
"Organize files and get people coffee?" Veronica interjected. So far her dream job hasn't been very exciting. Daniels chuckled again
"Don't go into the field…"
"A girl was kidnapped from a town nearby. She was 14." Daniels said
"Was?" Veronica asked not sure if she wanted to hear the answer
Daniels looked her over again "None of the field agents here…"
"Could pull off a scared 15 year old?" Veronica asked in a baby voice.
He nodded. "You are quite…" he looked for the right word "petite" he says satisfied that he didn't offend the intern "which will make you seem younger with the right choice of clothes. And you have the right look."
"The right look?"
"Small, thin, blonde, pretty, seemingly defenseless."
"I am in agent Daniels." Veronica said with determination
"Sam." He said extending his hand for a hand shake.
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The new Kane estate.
"Jake!" A man slightly older then Jake Kane walked in
"Senator!" "I wasn't expecting to see you" Jake approached the man slightly surprised
"I always have time for old friends Jake" The senator walked in and headed towards the living room with Jake following "We are friends, aren't we?"
"Sure." Jake was confused as to where this was going
"Would you say I have been supportive of Kane industries?"
"Definitely." Jake responded "The R&D tax credit bill you supported in the senate…"
"That saved you what? Hundred, hundred fifty million?"
"I am grateful senator." Jake responded "And I have been generous…."
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"Then why are you trying to fuck me?" The senator suddenly turned around and threw a newspaper onto the table. On the front page was an article on the 'Castle'. The names of the senator and several mob bosses including Vladimir Sorokin were highlighted as members.
"Remember Vladimir?" "Because I don't. I haven't seen the man in twenty years, now I need to go on TV and prove that I am not connected to the Mob." The senator lightened up a little seeing as Jake was getting angrier by the second. Without responding Jake dialed and number and said
"Clarence. I need you here ASAP." Then Jake took a deep breath turned around and said
"I swear to you I didn't leak it. I have nothing to gain from this scandal."
"You have the only copy of our archives."
"Somebody broke in…" Jake took another deep breath "Veronica Mars… She…" seeing as she was a rather long story Jake decided not to get into it "Look, I'll handle it."
"You better. Because I am holding you responsible if this escalates." With that the senator turned around and stormed out of the mansion.
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A party on the beach.
Logan was sitting on a rock away from the crowd drinking a beer and looking at the ocean. It has been 3 weeks since he saw Her that day in the cafeteria. Three weeks since she said she wanted him out of his life, yet he couldn't get her out of his. She wasn't responding to her email, unless you include a three line response couple of days ago… She was fine as far as he knew… Mac was the only common friend they had who would even talk to him. Maybe he should invite Mac to their next kegger…
"Logan!" Dick approached already quite drunk with two girls on either side of his arm "There you are dude!"
Logan turned around and acknowledged his friend with a nod
"This is Molly and Jenny" he pointed to the girls "They enjoy longs walks on the beach and meeting movie stars."
"You must be thinking of my father."
"Oh my god I had such a crush on him in elementary school!" Molly confessed "So sad how he died!"
"Quite a tragedy!" Logan said sarcastically "If he was alive I am sure he would be happy to film having sex with you and kill you."
The two girls stood there stunned for a second not knowing what to say, then Dick came to the rescue
"Don't mind him, his girlfriend just broke his heart." Dick told the girls as Logan's gaze softened "He saved her from a mobster, but she still won't talk to him."
"Oh my god, I've read about this in the Hearst Free Press." "The fight in the food court" Jenny ran up and put her hand on his back "You were defending that poor girl's honor" Molly not wishing to be left behind soon followed and sat on the other side of Logan
"Yeah that's me…" Logan nodded his head. It would seem that Veronica was the only girl in the school who didn't think what he did was courageous or romantic. Of course Veronica was the only girl whose opinion mattered to him. "Saving damsels in distress since 2003." At least something good came out of that. Gorya was a well known bully, so the students at Hearst increasingly saw Veronica as a victim.
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Once the girls were not looking, Dick performed a dirty dance suggesting Logan finally make a move. Logan could get so much tail if he wanted, but he seemed unmotivated to do so.
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Sometime later Dick was chatting up some honey next to a campfire when he spotted a group of 6 guys walking up to the party.
"Cool party" One of the newcomers said in a sharp Russian accent "Who is in charge here?"
"That would be the Dickster" Dick stood up and pointed both thumbs towards himself "Sorry bro, private party."
"Well I am sure you can make an exception." With that the guy grabbed a liquor bottle nearby and threw it into the fire. It went up in flames. "We are looking for Logan Echolls."
"Chill out dude!" Dick put a hand on the guy's shoulder. The Russian turned around and punched him in the stomach. The hit took the air out of Dick's lungs as he felt to his knees gasping for air. The stranger was wearing brass knuckles on his right hand. The rest of the party took a couple of steps back as the intruder said:
"Logan Echolls. Is he here?"
"Did my pizza delivery finally arrive?" Logan said defiantly walking towards the group. The people at the party were backing away except for Dick who wobbled next to Logan "I know 15% is not a very generous tip, but aren't you overreacting?"
"You funny guy Echolls" the stranger said "Maybe I break only one leg"
"That's does it!" Logan said "I am ordering from Pizza Hut from now on."
The guy jumped closer when suddenly Logan pulled out a gun and pointed it at the intruder's face.
The 6 men stopped in their tracks.
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"Give me a reason comrade!" he dared "I am having a Really bad month!"
Logan looked like he meant business. Even Dick was a little scared.
"Friend of Gorya?" Logan asked. He has been waiting for Gorya to make a move for a while
"Relax man!" the Russian backed down with his hands up "He just wanted to scare you a little."
"Tell Gorya that if he wants a rematch, he knows where to find me." Logan said "Now get out of our party!" the strangers lingered for a second
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"In ten seconds I will stop asking nicely." Logan added menacingly aiming his gun "Do Svidanja!" The attackers took off
"Mazel tov" Logan said in a suddenly calm voice "let the debauchery resume" putting his gun away as if nothing happened
"Dude" Dick said extending his fist "that was badass."
Logan tapped Dick's fist with his own, and Dick made an explosion sound.
"Thanks for having my back Dick." Logan said with a sincere look in his eyes "You are a good friend."
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Let me know what you think! I wanted Veronica to do something awesome, and this seemed like the only mission the FBI would send an intern on... I also think that Veronica leaking the Castle member's list to the press was not a good move... since the 'powerful men' would know who did it and fight back... Stay tuned for more, and please review!
