A/N: Time for a new VMars fic!! I read a couple of fics a while ago where Logan and Veronica (and many others from the show) are all grown up and married with teen kids, and they inspired me to want to write my own. I'm finally getting around to doing this and I really hope you like it! Please note, this fic assumes that Seasons 1 and 2 happened but Season 3 did not!

Summary : Futurefic - Happily married Logan and Veronica return to Neptune with their teenage twins after almost 20 years away. Nothing could've prepared them for what or whom they and their kids would face! LoVe and more.

Disclaimer : All recognisable characters belong to Rob Thomas and other important people who aren't me. Unrecognisable characters belong to me.

Chapter 1

"I still can't believe we're doing this" Veronica sighed as she looked out of the passenger side window and watched the scenery fly by.

"You didn't think one day we'd be coming home?" her husband checked as he glanced from the road to her face and back, "C'mon, Veronica. It was always going to happen"

"After all this time, you still think of it as home" she said thoughtfully as she turned to stare at him.

"Like you don't" he rolled his eyes as he briefly took them off the road, "We both did more growing up in Neptune than anywhere else" he reminded her, "And besides, for all the heartache and crap that town threw at us, we got one good thing out of it" he grinned at her, "It's the place I met you and made you mine, Mrs Echolls"

Veronica grinned too at that. All that she'd been through in Neptune, most of it had led to badness, but Logan was right. If not for the town that had brought with it pain and death and suffering, there would not have been the joy of meeting and marrying her husband, or giving birth to their children, or watching them grow into the two teens that sat in the back seat, staring out of opposite windows, with the headphones of their respective I-Pods jammed in their ears.

'Welcome to Neptune' said the sign as she glanced out the window once more and Veronica took a deep breath. This was the strangest experience, returning here after so many years of being gone. She hadn't even visited, not in almost twenty years. It was too difficult to face her past all the time.

Of course, Keith hated that his daughter had moved away, but he certainly understood it. He'd regularly visited his daughter and her family at their first new home, and the subsequent places they moved to, but not once had Veronica and Logan come back to Neptune to see him. At first it was simply more sensible for one man to travel in one direction than try to transport a young couple and their twin babies the other way. After that, work and school had been blamed for making it impossible for the family to make the trip, but Keith knew that the real reason was always very clear in all their minds. His baby girl had grown up and moved on from the town where too much loss and pain had occurred.

They moved around quite regularly, for the work of both Veronica and Logan. She was a big shot PI, quite famous for her ability to crack cases that other detectives as well as the police struggled with. Logan was prestigisouly proud of her, if not still freaked out on occasion when she went diving into a dangerous situation without a thought. He had chosen not to follow in his parents footsteps, though he'd made a tidy sum off occasional interviews and photo ops. Twenty years on, it was crazy how many magazines and TV shows still wanted a piece of Logan Echolls, orphan son of the great Aaron and Lynn Echolls, who had so tragically been torn from him when he was so young.

Veronica was often amazed at how her husband had coped with the loss of first his girlfriend and then his parents, before moving away from the town he'd called home so long to start over with her. He often told her she was the reason, the answer to all the questions about how he coped and how he'd managed to carry on without so many who he had loved before. It was flattering but in a way also felt like pressure to Veronica, to know that without her Logan might just fall apart, not that she had any intention of ever leaving him, she loved him far too much for that.

"Hey, kids" Logan suddenly called into the back at considerable volume so as to be heard over the music they both had thumping in their ears, "See that? That's where your Dad grew up" he told them, gesturing vaguely out of the side window, before putting his hand firmly back on the wheel as they came to a bend in the road.

"Man, that place is huge!" his son gasped, "You really lived there?"

"Pretty much" Logan agreed, finding the enthusiasm over the house so amusing, after all it had just been home to him.

After his father was killed, of course, Logan lost everything to his adopted sister, Trina. Clearly the fued between father and son had gone far enough that somehow Aaron had got his will changed. Everything was ripped out from under Logan's feet and the poor little rich boy was rich no more. It hit him hard initally, but he soon realised he had far from lost everything. He still had Veronica, she was all he really needed. He could cope with anything else so long as she was here at his side, and she always had been.

"I can't believe you had a house that big" his daughter shook her head, and Logan smiled.

"Well, half of it's my old house, a lot had to be rebuilt" he explained, before sharing a pained expression with Veronica, the both of them suddenly wishing that he'd never started this conversation now.

"So" his wife cut in with a clap of her hands and a bright but forced smile, "Who's excited to see Grandpa Mars?" she asked as she turned to look at her kids.

"Mom" her daughter rolled her eyes, "As much as I love Grandpa, we're not five anymore" she explained, "The idea of a hug and a dollar to buy candy being the highlights of the day are kinda lacking in excitement"

"Spoken like a true Miss Mars" Logan said mostly to himself, a grin taking over his face as he kept his eyes on the road, whilst Veronica tried to hide her own smile.

Amelia protested she was not a Mars but an Echolls, whilst Joel tried to explain to her that wasn't the point, it was her character that was important, not her name. The noisy family didn't exactly sound like they got along very well as they continued to yell and talk over each other all the way into town, but that's just the way it was with them.

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"You have no idea how good it is to see you, sweetheart" Keith grinned as he hugged his daughter tight to him once again.

Logan and the kids had gone on to their new house, whilst Veronica had stayed at her old home to talk with her father who she missed so much between visits.

"I'm not going to lie, it's weird being back here" she admitted when they parted and she cast her eyes around the room, "but it's not all bad" she smiled.

"The kids might enjoy seeing the places where their parents met and stuff" Keith told her, "Y'know they seem to grow every time I see them" he shook his head.

"Tell me about it" Veronica rolled her eyes, "Keeping them in clothes and food is challenge enough, but at seventeen they've discovered all kinds of other expensive stuff they want. It's lucky our line of work keeps the money rolling in"

"Hey, that's my old line of work" her father pointed out, "I've been Sheriff long enough now, you should remember, Veronica"
"Of course I remember" she rolled her eyes, "I was practically your campaign manager" she recalled, before realising it was just days after her Dad's election that she'd left town, never to return, at least, not until today.

Knowing where her mind had drifted to, Keith did the decent and fatherly thing; he changed the subject.

"So, the kids start their Senior year next week, huh?" he said, knowing it was true, "How'd they cope with the idea of moving for their final year?"

"Pretty well, actually" Veronica nodded, "They're used to moving for the sake of mine and Logan's work, and they weren't exactly having a great time at their last school anyway so it's all good"

"I'm sure they'll do fine at Neptune High" Keith assured her, "It's a good school, even if you don't have the best memories of your time there"
"It wasn't exactly the school's fault that everybody decided I wasn't worth the time of day, unless they were telling me I was a slut or a bitch" she shrugged her shoulders, "I'm sure Mia and Joel will be fine there" Veronica nodded, though honestly, she had her doubts.

Its not like the twins were bad kids, on the contrary, she and Logan had brought them up it be decent and honest, to handle themselves when situations got out of hand, but never to go looking for a fight. They understood the value of money, they studied hard, and yet knew how to have a good time. All in all, they were pretty much all the best qualities of their parents combined, except for a couple of things.

Mia had a tendency to be a little too like her mother, or rather, like Veronica used to be when she was seventeen. She could be strong-willed and opinionated, and with that wonderful quality of never backing down form anything!

Joel, on the other hand, was more quiet and sensible. Unfortunately, he was on occasion a little too quiet for Veronica's liking. As well as sharing Logan's eyes and smile, he also had his tendency to bottle things up sometimes. Though he had a reputation for being out-spoken at the most inappropriate of times, Veronica knew that Logan sometimes liked to hide the important things away inside. A little coaxing and he would tell her everything, and whilst Joel took a little more working on, he too would eventually spill all to her.

How the two kids would cope at Neptune High, Veronica hadn't a clue. She'd like to think they would come through it relatively unscathed, and much less mixed up than she and Logan had been. Of course they wouldn't have the problems she did, the obstacles of a murdered best friend, epileptic possible-half-brother boyfriend, and 09ers friends that turned on her all at once. Besides, even if things weren't great for them here, it was only one school year. Nothing could go seriously wrong in so short a space of time, at least that was what Veronica told herself, even if she did know, deep down inside, that it was entirely possible for things to go very wrong, especially in Neptune.

To Be Continued...