Disclaimer: Don't own Veronica Mars nor Harley Quinn from Batman...just Tracy and Harley.

AN: I had in mind this story for a long time but I didn't know how to start it. However, I've just started reading Nineteen Minutes by Jody Picoult (great book, READ IT) and saw in the character of Alex, Veronica. So this first part is pretty much the same to a chapter in the book. Enjoy

Prologue

Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd

Tracy Bickfield had met many pregnant business women while working as a midwife. However she never met someone as hectic as Veronica Mars.

"Do not believe everything you read on books. You're not all going to drop dead or have a hemorrhage. Yes that could happen, but not always!" Tracy observed the women in her class and noticed a petit woman, dressed in a black suit with her blond hair pulled into a high neat ponytail, holding her side and immediately worried; she watched the young girl pinch her side a few more times and as she was about to ask if everything was alright the blond pulled out a beeper that was attached to her black skirt and got up to her feet.

"I uhm...I'm sorry, I have to leave."

"Can't it wait a few mintues? We're about to go on a tour of the birthing pavilion" She handed Tracy the paperwork she'd been asked to fill out.

"I have more pressing matters." She said her goodbyes and hurried off. Tracy glanced at the information on the paperwork. Veronica Mars, she read. And then thought: I'm gonna have to watch this one.

"So," Tracy started. "how did that pressing matter turn out?"

"We caught the bad guy." She answered crossing her arms.

"The bad guy?" Tracy asked curiously.

"Yeah, I'm a federal agent." She raised an eyebrow at Veronica's words.

"Really? That must a demanding job, does your boss know you're pregnant?"

"Yeah, but it's not an issue. I won't go on maternity leave, I'll just move from the field to the office when I'll get too big." She said as if it was nothing

"You might change your mind as-" Veronica interrupted her.

"I'm not keeping this baby." She announced.

"All right." Tracy sat back in her chair, it wasn't her place to judge this woman. "We can talk about different options then, like-"

"I was going to have an abortion." She said interrupting once again. "But I missed my appointment, thrice."

"Well then I can give you some information about adoption, if you haven't contacted any agencies yourself." She handed Veronica some pamphlets. "But for now lets focus on you...how are you doing."

"I'm great!" Veronica answered smoothly. "No pain, no morning sickness and I'm not tired." She looked at her watch. "However, I'm late for a meeting."

"You should try to slow down...rush and pregnancy don't get along."

"Thanks, but I can take care of myself." Tracy sighed.

"How about you let someone else do it once in a while?" Irritation spread all over Veronica's face.

"Look, I appreciate the concern but I'm fine. I don't need anyone nor these stupid therapy sessions. I've gone through worst things and-"

"Does the father agree with the decision of putting the baby up for adoption?" Lacy asked interrupting the blond. Veronica looked away and before Lacy could find something to gain her attention again, Veronica answered.

"There's no father, just me."

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

When Veronica first heard the baby's heartbeat she realized that maybe she could keep it, but it was when she felt the first kicks against her abdomen that she decided she was going to have this baby. Her little girl.

She never thought she was going to have kids. She hoped to die alone, no kids and no husband. But if she was going to have a child she wasn't going to give her some girly girl name like Amber or Tifanny, nor names like Brandy, Lola, Brooke, Honey, Daisy and especially Madison.

She knew her daughter's middle name would be Lilly or Lillith, even though Lilly's real name was Lillian...Lillith is way more bad ass. She expected to give her child a name like Lila, Sarah or Kristin or even Jane (as plain as it sounds), however two days after Baby Girl Mars was born, while watching a Batman cartoon, Veronica thought that her baby's blond hair and light coloured eyes resembled Harley Quinn's (and also Joker was quite similar to the baby's father); therefore she decided that her baby girl would be named Harley.

Harleen 'Harley' Lillith Quinn Mars.