The Yearly 365 Challenge

Prompt Number: 130 (Action) Lying

Eyes slanted. "Why are you here?" He hissed through his teeth.

"You know why." She spoke calmly as she leaned forward.

His head tilted. "Actually I don't know."

"Stop lying." She glared through the bars.

He smirked.

"I want to know why did you do it!" She demanded.

"You know why." He answered as he leaned back against the wall. "You know why." He repeated.

"No I don't know why." She snared. Her hands gripped the bars.

He lifted his right eye brow. "What have I told you about the dramatics Veronica?"

"Don't even." Veronica glared into her father's steel eyes. "Don't you fucking dare."

"Language." Hiram's eyes narrowed. "I'm still your father young lady; and you will not speak to me in that fashion."

Veronica's lips thinned. "You are no longer my father Hiram Lodge."

Hiram sighed. "It doesn't work that way Veronica. You may cut me out of your life and heart. But my blood and DNA runs throughout your system." His eyes soften. "You can never erase your body of me."

….

Veronica looked at her silent father sitting at the head of the dining room table. "You shouldn't have come to Riverdale Hiram." She spoke in a rough voice.

Hiram turned and faced his daughter. "You need me."

"No I don't." She kept her firm eyes on him. "Neither does Mami." She smirked. "You need us … but we don't need you." Her hands gripped the coffee cup. "Matter of fact I'm shocked that we allowed you in the Pembroke."

Hiram smirked. "You don't know every thing yet little girl." He lifted his own cup to his lips. He took a calm sip. "You still have much much more to learn about this life. But you have time. You are still young." He set the cup back on the saucer. He looked over to where his wife was quietly sitting. "Isn't that right Hermione dear?" He smiled.

Hermione sighed. "I may allow you to have a room here Hiram; for a tempory soluation." Her eyes grew hard as steel. "But as soon as the divorce is final then I want you out." Her head lifted high. "By then I'm sure that you'll be able to unlock even more of your secret hidden accounts that the law haven't found yet."

Veronica's heart harden against the man whom fathered her. "You are sick." She said as she stood to her feet. "I have to get out of here."

Hermione turned her eyes from her soon to be ex-husband; over to her daughter. Her eyes soften. "If you stay at Betty's over night; then let me know." She nodded to her child.

Veronica nodded and blew a kiss at her mother before leaving the room.

"Looks like Veronica still needs to learn that good manners still do count in this life." Hiram's hard voice spoke.

Hermione turned to her husband. "Do shut up Hiram Lodge." She stood to her feet and walked from the room.