The wonderful shows Moonlight and Veronica Mars are owned by companies and people other than me. They are just places I go to play.

This is a Moonlight / Veronica Mars crossover. The series starts with Who Are You?

This takes right off from where The Fountain of Youth ended.

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The first time he wakes up, it's with a pounding fear that someone is trying to hurt him, maybe kill him. He realizes he doesn't have a clue as to where he is or how he got here and the panic sits on his chest like a half ton truck. His mind flashes to a small boy, battered by the adults in his life, locked in a closet. His eyes blaze with intensity as he tries to push against the walls of the freezer. From his place across the room Gabriel's attention snaps to the freezer. He's stayed close these few days while Logan's been sleeping, his body healing from the injuries that forced his unique DNA to turn him into a vampire. Gabriel grabs the waiting glass of blood from the small refrigerator and quickly moves to the freezer. He sets the glass down on the side table and lifts the freezer lid. Logan feels the change in air movement as the lid lifts. He quickly sits up reflexively gulping air he doesn't need. He feels a hand on his arm and tries to pull away.

Gabriel watches the wild look in Logan's eyes and knows he's trapped in some terrible nightmare. It isn't much of a wild guess to believe it's about his childhood. "Logan, it's ok, you're safe. I'll protect you. Nobody's going to hurt you." softly he tries to reassure Logan that the devils that plague him aren't going to hurt him.

Logan hears the soft male voice and turns his head, a snarl quickly makes his way to the surface. No one's ever protected me. He tries to talk, but another snarl is the only sound that escapes. He looks at Gabriel but Gabriel knows he isn't really seeing him. When Gabriel fails to calm Logan, he waves the glass of blood under his nose. Gabriel smiles as he watches instinct over ride all the other emotions as Logan stills and then takes the glass drinking the blood down in one long swallow.

Logan feels the tension, the fear, all the wild emotions drop away.

Gabriel smiles as he watches Logan's eyes once again start to close. "That's right. Go back to sleep. You're safe. I'll be here when you wake up and we'll talk then."

Logan nods and slides back into the freezer.

Gabriel watches him as he closes the freezer lid. Seeing the calm settle in over Logan's face he moves back across the room and resumes his book.

The next time Logan wakes he only panics for a moment. Gabriel senses this and decides to let Logan come awake at his own pace. Logan begins to calm when he realizes he's in a freezer and even though the room is dark he can see the frosted glass clearly. He touches the glass and suddenly feels the cold all around him, as more and more awareness infiltrates his waking mind. He feels the crystals on his eyes lashes, the coldness on his skin as he touches his face, surprisingly it's not unpleasant. He stares into the darkness in wonder as a new kaleidoscope of images flash through his mind. He tries to sort them out, trying to remember the last few days. He dredges up vague memories of his turning. What he remembers most is the pain and hunger. His rational mind keeps him from concentrating too hard on that moment. He steels himself as he tries to remember more without the edge of fear.

He sees a flash of his father and Mick covered in blood. Somehow he knows it's his own. He guesses from living around vampires that the course of action would have been to feed him blood and then tuck him away in a freezer. He doesn't really remember it, but he knows that's what they would have done. He would have had to heal from wounds that were apparently lethal enough to turn him. His memory is clearer after that. He remembers waking and wanting nothing more than to go back to sleep but the thrumming vibrations that were assaulting his head were too much. It frightened him, making him wonder if there was something wrong with him that even vampirism couldn't cure. He smiles as he remembers the look of surprise when he found his way down to Josef's study. He thinks of Vanessa protecting his mind and the relief he felt once the pain was banished. Whatever she did it must still be there because the pain hasn't returned. He remembers Vanessa and Veronica going with him back to Josef's freezer. He knew he wasn't whole yet and his instinct was to let his body heal. He suspects Vanessa helped him a long to that end with another soft touch to his mind. He drank some blood, reluctantly said good-night to Veronica and he went back to sleep.

He doesn't know how long he's been asleep this time. He feels a vague hunger but he's not sure what it's for. He reaches out with his senses for Veronica or Josef and shakes his head not sure if the presence he feels is either of them. He hopes its Veronica. Now that his mind is clearing she is quickly becoming the only thing he can think of. He has to see her, to taste her the way she tasted him but he knows there is more than the need to taste her at work here. He knows that whatever he feels now, the two of them left things in a precarious place, and it makes him feel edgy. He's sure one more slip and she could be lost to him forever and he can't let that happen. He remembers Derrick trying to take her from him and his desire to claim her as his own becomes overwhelming.

Logan pushes up the freezer lid and sits up. He realizes he's not in his own wing at Josef's mansion. He sees Gabriel sitting across the room. "Where's Veronica. I have to see her."

Gabriel shakes his head. "Well, hello to you too." Gabriel ignores the request for Veronica in some slim hope that he can change the subject. "Let me get you some blood. You need to feed."

Logan steps out of the freezer. He scowls at Gabriel. "Where's V? Is she coming back soon?"

Gabriel sighs and pours a glass of blood. "I sent her home. She can't be here. You're stuck with me for the foreseeable future." Gabriel holds out the glass of blood.

Logan shakes his head and turns away from the offered glass. He sees some sweats on the bed and grabs them up, getting dressed as he continues. " No. I want to see her now." Logan clicks his fangs together and smiles. "I need to taste her. I'll get my blood from her."

Shit Gabriel points at Logan. "Stay here and drink your dinner. I'll be right back." Gabriel quickly moves to the kitchen, knowing he can't be heard from the upstairs freezer room. He punches up Grant's number. "This is Gabriel, how soon can you get over here and take some of Logan's blood? I just realized it needs to be tested."

Grant had felt a great deal of relief that he was right about Logan's turning when Josef had told him what had happened to Logan. "He's awake then? He's ok, there are no complications?"

Gabriel thinks about it for a moment. "None that I can see, but he wants to see Veronica, to drink from her."

Grant blanches. "It's a good thing you called. You can't let that happen. He could end up in a coma the way Sarah did or worse it could kill him. I'll be there as soon as I can. I shouldn't be much more than twenty minutes."

"When you get here stay outside until I call you. I don't know how this is going to go with him and seeing you before he's ready might make it worse. At this stage there is no way to tell what he can or will do." Gabriel disconnects and prepares to tell Logan all the things they should have discussed when he was still human. He gets to the top of the stairs and finds Logan putting on his shoes, the blood still not touched. Logan looks up from where he's sitting. "Where are we? Can you drive me to Mick's?"

Gabriel shakes his head slowly. "We are in Josef's guest house and you're not going anywhere."

Logan stands up and prepares to move past Gabriel but before he can take two steps Gabriel flips on the bedroom light and Logan quickly closes his eyes and grabs his head in pain. "Turn it off." he snarls.

Gabriel flips off the light. "Logan, I don't want to hurt you, but you have to realize just how unprepared you are to leave this house. You just woke up. You need to calm down, drink a couple of glasses of blood and listen to me."

Twenty minutes later when Grant pulls up outside, Gabriel and Logan are still arguing, the only difference is they've moved down stairs to the main living area. Logan won't drink and won't let Gabriel close enough to entice him with the more blood. With every minute that passes his temper worsens as do his sensitivity to his environment. There is no way at this point Gabriel is going to get him calm enough for Grant to take a blood sample. Gabriel finally gets tired of arguing. "Logan you can do this the easy way, or the hard way, but you're going to do it."

Gabriel is met with a snarl of fangs. The anger rolling off of Logan is almost palatable. Gabriel knew when he offered to take charge of Logan it wouldn't be easy. Logan has always been a wild card. Gabriel's sure that most of the time Logan doesn't know which way he's going to jump until he does. Which is exactly why his control issues have to be addressed right away. The problem in dealing with Logan has always been how to get him where you need him to be without farther harming the boy's psyche. He may not be able to drink himself into oblivion anymore but Gabriel is sure if this isn't handled right Logan will find some other way to hurt himself and the people who love him.

Logan's dressed in gray sweat pants and a t-shirt. He has dried blood on his chin because he keeps nicking his tongue and lips with his new fangs. His can't understand why his skin feels like it's on fire, why his eyes are burning even though the house is still dark. He stands across the room from Gabriel, his stance that of someone ready to fight. His hunger clearly adding fuel to an already overwrote fledgling. If Gabriel can't break though the wall of emotion he's going to have to stand on Logan and pour the blood down his throat. Gabriel realizes that being Logan's sire is going to be even more difficult without a natural blood bond. It's going to be much more difficult to get Logan's cooperation. Logan is going to need a firm hand but Gabriel would like to try everything he can think of before he has to manhandle Logan into doing as he's told.

Gabriel feels the first stirrings of Logan's mental powers. Softly so Logan won't detect the intrusion, Gabriel wraps the part of Logan's mind where his power resides in a soft cocoon, blocking off access. Having Vanessa walk him back through all the mind tricks before she left was a great help. He hasn't used most of these secondary abilities in a long while. He watches Logan warily and the thought of what the boy might be able to do, even in his present weakened condition. The last thing either of them needs is Logan using power he hasn't even fully acknowledged. Gabriel knows he can shield himself from Logan's untried telepathic abilities. The telekinesis, that's a different problem, a problem in the physical world. Gabriel is pretty sure that, at this point, Logan's telekinesis is triggered on instinct, as it was when Logan wanted Veronica and moved her across the room without even knowing what he was doing. With power like that fueling his anger he could inadvertently bring the house down around them both. More than likely neither of them would end up with any permanent damage but Gabriel is sure that his agreement with Josef to allow Gabriel to be the boys sire would be blown apart. At this point, Josef is only allowing this because Vanessa and Veronica pressured Josef into it. Josef doesn't trust him and truthfully Gabriel can't really blame him. He's made a bit of a mess of it where Josef and Serena are both concerned.

The problem right now is the need to test Logan's blood and he isn't in the mood to listen to reason. Gabriel wishes like hell he'd of thought of it before Logan woke up but it hadn't occurred to him until Logan demanded to see Veronica that they were going to have a problem. If Logan bites Veronica before his blood is clean...Gabriel pushes those worries away and goes back to the task at hand because unfortunately right now he needs Logan to do as requested, whether he's in the mood for it or not. From the look on Logan's face easy isn't going to be the answer.

"One more chance." Gabriel states simply.

Logan continues to snarl his reply.

"Just remember I gave you a choice." The next thing Logan knows he's face down on the floor with Gabriel's right knee in the middle of his back. Logan's left arm is trapped between his body and Gabriel's left knee. His right arm is bent back behind him as straight as it will go without wrenching the muscles or bones out of place. His hand splayed out feels like it is in a vice grip and he supposes it is. Logan smiles grimly and tries to buck against the knee in his back but Gabriel lets some of his weight down on the knee and Logan gets the message as the pain finally reaches his mind through the haze of anger.

With his free hand Gabriel takes his phone out of his pocket and flips it open. He speed dials Grant who's standing outside. "You can come in now."

Grant opens the front door. He sets down his bag, opens it and removes a syringe.

Gabriel pushes Logan's shirt sleeve down. He turns to Grant. "I've got him. Come take the sample."

Hesitantly Grant moves forward. He reaches out swabs the area with alcohol and pushes the needle into Logan's arm. The two men watch the vial fills with blood. Once it's full Grant removes the needle and again swabs the area with a swipe of an alcohol wipe. There is of course, no chance of Logan catching anything from the needle but Grant likes to follow protocol and he doesn't want the vial of blood contaminated in any way. He steps back and puts the vial and his equipment back in his case.

Grant glances at Logan still face down in the carpet. "This will give us a base line. We can measure everything against this vial." Grant eyes Logan warily. "I hope we don't have to go to this extreme every week."

"I'm hoping once he has some time to equalize himself he'll come to his senses and it won't be necessary but we'll do what we have to whether he likes it or not. I'll call you later and you can give me the results. Now get going so I can let him up."

Grant nods. "Of course." He says as he turns and leaves.

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