She was still in tears from the emotional form the night that had just unfolded before her. Her father's near death experience (and her own), running for her life, cops, but the most important part-finally exposing and catching Lily's true murderer. At the end of the night, everything that had happened couldn't have been more worth it.

After hearing that her father was going to be okay, and politely being kicked out of his hospital room, she had planned on driving straight home, showering and then going to bed-but having a near death experience tends to put things into perspective.

So here she was, with things in perspective, standing outside Logan's door. It felt like an eternity since she had knocked-maybe he wasn't awake, maybe he was busy moving on, or maybe she should just go home-blame this all on the adrenaline rush. But almost as if he had read her mind, Logan opened the door as she was about to make up her mind to leave. Convenient.

"Veronica?" Logan asked in disbelief, clearly just waking up from sleeping off a minor boozing binge. "What are you-"

She didn't let him finish. Had another second past she might have chickened out, instead she collided her lips against his, wrapping her arms around his neck. He responded instantly, pulling her closer against his body and kicked shut the door.

"Not that I'm complaining," Logan started as he reluctantly broke away from their kiss. "But what are you doing here?"

"I-there's so much I need to tell you about tonight, Logan." A flicker of guilt for his lack of parental state now flashed through her momentarily. "Things you need to know. But when I almost died tonight I couldn't help but think-"

"What? Veronica, what happened? Are you alright?" Concern overcame anything else he had previously been feeling. Looking closer now he noticed her rough appearance and tear streaked face.

Veronica held her finger against his lips to silence him and pulled him down onto the bed with her.

"Let me finish. I'll fill you in on all the specifics tomorrow, but what I'm trying to say is, I couldn't help but think that there's going to be things in my life I'll regret-that's inevitable. But I don't want not giving this-us, a real chance to be one of them. So basically, I want to say. . .I'm sorry, Logan. Is there any chance you can forgive me?" She could feel her rapid heart beat all throughout her body as she nervously waited for his answer. Every second he took to answer seemed like forever.

Rather than just telling her that he had forgiven her since the moment he opened the door, Logan gently pulled her close to him again and kissed her as tenderly and lovingly as he had once dreamed of.

"Consider yourself forgiven," he whispered just before the heated portion of the night began.

They woke up together in nothing more than each other's arms and a tangle of blankets. Logan, having woken up before Veronica, was running his hand gently through her silky hair-enjoying the beautiful simplicity of just having her in his arms.

"Mmm," Veronica yawned as she slowly emerged out of her sleep. "Morning."

"Morning to you too sleepy head," he kissed the top of her head softly to complete his morning greeting. "Did you sleep okay?"

"Better than I have in a long time," she admitted, snuggling closer to him with secret hopes of catching an extra hour or so of sleep.

It didn't seem like that was likely to happen at all. Just outside of Logan's door they could both hear the faint rustle of voices and clicks of cameras.

"What the hell!" Logan groaned as he climbed out of bed and pulled on a pair of pants. "I still stand by my idea of needing attack dogs," he mumbled irritatedly.

Veronica sat up, clutching the sheet closely to herself as she tried to get a good view of who was outside.

The second he opened the door a mob of reporters and cameras attacked.

"Logan! What are you going to do now?"

"Did you have any idea about your father and Lily?"

"Do you believe he is guilty?"

"Is that Veronica Mars?"

"Are you two together?"

"Did the two of you work together on the Kane investigation?"

"Are you going to stay in Neptune now?"

"Logan!"

They just continued shouting out questions and tripping over each other even after he had slammed the door shut on all of them.

"Something you want to tell me?" Logan asked slowly as he turned to face Veronica.