Veronica Mars:

Young, P.I. and In Love

This is the sequel of Lilly Kane: Young, Fabulous and Dead, I hope you'll enjoy it.

Pairing: Kol and Veronica

There will be traces of Klaus and Lilly, along with the nice people of Mystic Fall's and the Mickealson's.

Finn and Sage are alive.

Since Elena wasn't held up in the caves, nobody saw that the white oak was saved and turned into a bridge. Nobody tried to kill them. Even if Elena still wants Klaus to die, she can't do anything about it.

Klaus and Lilly are back in New Orleans. Elijah and Rebekah are still in Mystic Fall's. Sage and Finn are traveling.

Since Esther died like they decided, Alaric is still alive and human.

It will be short.

When she went back home after the eventful few days she had spent in Mystic Fall's, Veronica wondered what would happen next. After so many supernatural filled days, would she be able to go back to a normal life of P.I work, school and friends? Wouldn't it all seem boring after that?

As she settled back into her bedroom, telling her father the official version of her trip, she wondered if things were going well for Kol in the house of the 09'ers neighborhood his brother let him use. Wouldn't he be bored in this town? She hoped he would like it and stay, she didn't want to spend too much time away from him.

She couldn't wait for the next day so she could see him again. Indeed, she was supposed to go with him on campus and help him sign up. They had faked a lot of papers and with all the money he had, on top of his compelling power, he wouldn't have a problem signing up for the classes he wanted (strangely, they were the same Veronica had signed up to.).

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"So, are you happy to be back home?" Kol asked Veronica the next day as they left the College administration building.

Kol had come to pick her up early, giving him time to meet her father as her official boyfriend. Veronica had been glad to see that even without any compulsion, Kol managed to win over her father pretty quickly.

"I don't know... I mean, yes, of course I am but I'm going to miss Lilly... I tend to get used to having her around pretty quickly. It's hard going back to pretending that she's dead." Veronica replied as Kol put his arm around her waist protectively.

They hadn't had THE TALK yet but they knew where they were heading. They were on their way to getting together and there was no point in denying it. Like Kol told her on the way to Neptune, why bother with titles when they would spend eternity together? It had surprised Veronica who was used to people leaving her behind but she couldn't help but believing him. She didn't have any trust issues with him, which in itself was a sign that he was special.

As they walked towards the cafeteria for lunch, Veronica showed him the different buildings and introduced him to a few people, including a few frat boys that didn't like her very much. When they arrived, Wallace, Piz, Mac and Parker were waiting for them at a table and Veronica happily introduced her new boyfriend to her friends.

"Look, Logan and Dick just arrived too." Parker said excitedly as they all sat down with their food.

It wasn't a secret that she had a crush on Logan and thought the world of him. Veronica considered talking to her and bursting her bubbles but she gave up. Parker was free to make her own mistakes.

"Great, just what I need!" Veronica replied rolling her eyes as Kol softly said:

"Don't worry, it will all be fine." She nodded and before anyone could say anything else, Logan was standing right next to them.

"Well, look who's back from her mysterious vacation location. Where were you Ronnie, nobody knew." Logan said, not bothering to greet anybody else.

"Not that it's any of your concern but I was at a friend's house. Logan, this is Kol, my boyfriend." Veronica said bravely, hoping Kol wouldn't mind this presentation.

Gracing Kol with the boyfriend title allowed her to keep Logan at bay without having to work too much for it, or at least she hoped it would.

"Kol? What kind of name is that?" Dick chuckled.

"What kind of name is Dick?" Mac replied, still unable to get herself to like the 09'er that she held responsible for what his brother had done to her at the hotel at their high school graduation party before he killed himself.

Dick simply rolled his eyes, ignoring the remark Mac had thrown his way and went back to observing the man who was his best friend's rival in Veronica Mars' heart. Dick couldn't personally see what the big deal was with this girl but everyone seemed to want to be with her, to date her or to simply be her friend. Couldn't they see that she was just a pain in the ass? Well, he had to admit that she was pretty hot and that her sparkiness turned him on too sometimes but still...

"So Kol, what are you doing in here? It's not like you're enrolled here or anything..." Logan asked his rival.

"Actually I am. Veronica just helped me enroll. I didn't want to be away from her for too long. We share the same passion so why not share classes as well?" Kol replied, deciding on acting nicely toward the boy until he gave him a reason not to.

"What does daddy Mars thinks of this then?" Dick asked.

"He seemed very nice to me..." Kol replied.

"Dad loves Kol. He told me that he's the best boyfriend I've had yet..." Veronica replied smugly.

"Not a very hard thing to do considering your history V." Wallace replied with an amused smile, earning himself a glare from Logan.

"Gee, thanks." Logan said as he kept on glaring at Wallace and Kol.

"Just saying it how it is." Wallace replied before Veronica changed the subject to Mac and her boyfriend.

After lunch, Kol went to throw his and Veronica's tray away and Logan joined him at the trashcans with his own tray.

"I don't like you and you won't make it with Ronnie. She's mine." Logan told the vampire.

"I don't think so." Kol replied before he compelled Logan "Stop bothering Veronica. You don't love her anymore. She doesn't love you. It's time for you to move on."

Logan nodded and left the cafeteria, ignoring Dick calling out to him.

"Where is he going?" Dick asked Kol when he came back to Veronica.

"I think I heard him say something about moving on." Kol replied, a smirk fighting to leave the corner of his mouth.

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The next few weeks together went perfectly. Kol got close to all of Veronica's friends and even went to a few games with Keith. Everything was good until Veronica decided that she wanted to investigate the Dean's murder on her own. Kol decided to help her, which made him win more good points in Keith's eyes.

Veronica didn't doubt her sheriff's father capability for solving this case but Neptune was a town with a lot of crime and he had a lot of work. Plus, she wanted to prove herself to him and so she worked hard on it with Kol's help. It was Kol who found out that the murder looked a lot like Veronica's perfect murder paper and it got them looking to her teacher. Looking into Professor Landry got them looking into the Dean's wife, then her ex boyfriend. When the TA that didn't like her started acting nice and tried to help her and see what she had already found out, Veronica became suspicious of him. With the help of Kol and of his vampire skills, they managed to prove that he was the one who had killed the Dean in hopes of being the one who cracked the case and of getting all the glory.

When Keith Mars and his deputies arrested Veronica's criminology class' TA in the middle of her class, everyone was impressed to know that she was the one who had solved this case and her criminology teacher offered Veronica a possibility to spend her summer interning at the FBI.

She had had her doubts at first but both Kol and Keith convinced her to take it. Keith would be fine on his own and Kol would go with her wherever she went. Knowing that, Veronica filled out the form and waited, knowing that waiting to be picked out was like waiting for a winning lottery ticket.

As she kept on going to classes with Kol and solving random cases with him, she ended up coming across some sort of secret society that tried to recruit Wallace. With a bit of work, she found out that Jake Kane had something to do with it, that he was actually the head of this secret society and Veronica decided to break into his house to get some proof. Of course Kol went with her to make sure they didn't leave any traces behind.

"Shouldn't we tell Lilly first?" Kol asked her as they were about to enter the house.

"I called her last night and told her. She said to go for it. Neither Jake nor Celeste were ever good parents for her and since Duncan isn't there anymore... She doesn't see a reason not to go after them if we have some proof." Veronica replied.

"Good to know." he nodded.

They managed to make their way into his office without being spotted, probably because Kol had taken his girlfriend in his arms and carried them both through the house where Veronica decided to take the hard drive before they left, leaving no traces of there presence except for the fact that the hard drive was missing.

Before she could do anything against the powerful man, Veronica had her friend Mac decode the hard drive and once that was done, they watched a few of the files. It was enough for her to know that a lot of powerful men would be in trouble once these files got out.

"If we simply give your father the hard rive they can steal it or have someone destroy it in the sheriff's department..." Kol told her when she mentioned bringing it to her father right away.

"You're right. Re-elections are around the corner and we can't do anything that could jeopardize his re-election. The last thing this town need s to have Deputy Don Lamb be elected. The guy is a baboon who likes the Wizard of Oz way too much." Veronica replied.

"We could leak it on the internet... Create a website, put everything on it..." Kol suggested.

"They could take the website down quickly... We need to make sure it goes big... Putting them on Internet is a good idea but we need to let it be shared... We need to send a copy of this to every newspaper and channel in the country, to the Sheriff's department... It doesn't matter if they destroy it if we can get millions of people to see everything that's on it." Veronica declared with excitement.

"Well, we have work to do then." Kol nodded.

"You don't think it's a bad idea? that it's too dangerous?" She asked him.

"I do think that it's dangerous and I'd like it better if you could stay away from danger but I know you enough to know that you won't stay away from it so I might as well embrace it and make sure you're safe and that nobody can ever find out you had anything to do with it!" Kol told her as he took her in his arms and kissed her softly.

"What is it exactly that you two are talking about?" Keith asked as he appeared in the doorway.

"Dad? How long have you been listening?" Veronica asked as she jumped to her feet and out of Kol's comfortable lap.

"Long enough to know that you have something big that could put you in danger. What is it?" He asked once more.

"Promise that right now I'm talking with my dad and not the sheriff?" Veronica asked and Keith nodded, knowing that his daughter wouldn't break the law for fun.

"Come here and look at what we got our hands on." She motioned and when he was close enough, she showed him a few of the videos and recordings there was.

"I suppose that this is what Jake Kane is missing?" He asked her.

"He reported it?" Kol asked, surprised.

"Yes, but he said that it was all just new revolutionary software... So, you're going to diffuse it?" He asked his daughter.

"That's what we thought would be best... We were going to give you a copy too... We just wanted to make sure enough people had seen if in case they try something to have it destroyed... If there are copies all around, it doesn't matter how powerful they are..." Veronica explained.

"You might be right... You're going to be the big wolf who huffs and puffs to blow their perfect sand castle... I'll let you do it on one condition." Keith declared.

"What is it?" She asked him.

"Nobody an know that you're the one who diffused it. You have to stay in the shadows." Keith asked of her.

"Deal." She smiled and shook his hand.

"Good. In this case I'm going to let you two work on this and pretend I don't know anything. Dinner will be ready in half an hour. You're staying Kol, right?" He asked.

"Of course I am." The vampire nodded, loving the fact that Keith was to him the father figure he would have loved or Mickeal to be.

Once Keith was out of the room, Veronica and Kol started planning.

"We'll go and buy enough portable hard drives tomorrow and start making copies. How will you stay hidden while diffusing it though?" Kol asked her.

"I was thinking of involving Lilly." Veronica said.

"How?"

"By using her name and, why not, her face. It will hit the Kane's were it hurts and since they're at the head of this boat we're trying to sink..." Veronica started.

"They'll be too confused and hurt to be able to fight back. I like how you think Mars. Come on, let's call Klaus and Lilly, they might want to come in town for this." Kol nodded and they quickly called the couple to informed them of everything.

Of course they agreed to come and help as much as they could.

Unfortunately, vampire speed couldn't do anything to speed up the downloading speed of data from one hard drive to the other so it took them several weeks before they were able to successfully start their plan. It gave time for Klaus and Lilly to get to town and help them with it. Klaus even called his hybrids to town with the mission to personally deliver the hard drives to make sure they didn't get lost or broken in the mail.

"They're going to dust those drives for prints you know..." Klaus told them.

"That's why I didn't touch them, neither did Kol... However I was thinking that maybe Lilly could touch them all... Just to confuse them even more..." Veronica suggested.

"I like how you think Veronica! Give'en to me!" Lilly exclaimed before she made a point of holding each hard drive one by one in several places.

It had taken them so long to put their plan into action that the elections had passed already and Keith Mars had unsurprisingly won.

When the Sheriff's department received the 'anonymous' hard rive, everyone was shocked. Keith pretended to want to keep it on the down low for a while, at least until they knew more but a few hours later, several of the videos and recording in this hard drive started popping up on several web site on internet and on TV.

It was like a tornado taking over the news feed because for the next few months, they wouldn't talk of anything else. The Kane's were once more at the center off all the attention but this time, there was no escaping it, especially since Lilly's prints had been successfully discovered on all the hard drives.

"Do I want to know how you two managed to do this?" Keith asked them as he got home one night a few days after the summer vacations had started.

"I... Actually dad, I think it's time you learned something important..." Veronica started before she told him all about vampires, Lilly, Kol and everything else.

Of course Keith had a hard time believing it but Kol proved it and then Lilly and Klaus came over. It took them the entire night to explain everything and to reassure Keith. The man agreed to keep the secret and he reassured Veronica that this didn't change anything about the way he saw Kol. He still liked the boy and he still liked him with his daughter.

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In the end, Veronica talked with her father about moving on and he assured her that he'd be fine on his own, that she should get to live her life and that if she wanted to become a vampire, he'd let her. He trusted her to be a good person and he knew now that as long as Veronica was alive, human or vampire, she'd be protected because she was now a member of the oldest and most powerful family of vampires.

So, what did you think of the first part of this sequel? I know you've waiting a long time to have it and it might not be as good as it could be... I'll work on it some more later.

Don't forget to tell me everything in a review.

Lorelei Candice Black