I don't own VM or the characters. I make no money of this – I only lay claim to the plot.

A/N So I know you're all thinking; What is she doing posting another story? This is gonna be a little extra thing I'm gonna work on In between other stuff. I had this vision one night and decided to write it down. To those of you who've read Veronica Mars Fights Back – I'm currently working on it too. It's going slow, but I will eventually repost the thing and finish it. This however will not be taken down no matter what, so don't worry. I hope you'll like it and all the usual rambling regarding reviews and such still applies ;) Enjoy!

Intro

"No…"

The word escaped her lips before her mind even understood she'd wanted to say something. She blinked and shook her head firmly from side to side. "No," she repeated – a bit louder this time.

The doctor looked concerned down at her. Down? Oh, I'm on the floor now, how did that happen?

"Miss Mars," that annoyingly solemn doctor said again, "I've already called your father and he's on his way now, but until then it would be good for you to allow me to check out your injuries."

"I'm fine – it's them I'm worried about and after what you've just told me I don't know what you're standing talking and wasting time with me for."

The doctor sighed and eyed the young girl – woman in front of him. The look in her eyes was blank but he could easily see by the clenched jaw that it was taking all of what she had to keep it all reined in. There were numerous blood spatters on her face and a lot more blood on what he could see of her bare arms. She was embracing herself around her midriff, holding a jacket, which was obviously not one of hers.

If he wasn't such a good doctor, he would probably have ignored the teenager's protective stance and pained expression and walked away to concentrate on the tree other injured, she'd driven to hospital in a stolen car from the crash site. But it just so happened, that he was a great doctor and knew that at the moment there were several other talented people working on the other teenagers. So he decided that he wasn't about to be scared away from a mere child and said, "I need to check you out Miss Mars – Your friends although severely injured, are in fact receiving the best care possible and you're not. Now, come along, you've been pacing these halls for over an hour now and Lord only knows what kind of state your body is really in."

The girl in front of him straightened up an inch and sneered icily, "Doctor, I'm fine – Let me…"

They were interrupted by a frantic call from a quickly arriving male. "Veronica!"

Veronica Mars closed her eyes briefly and turned towards her approaching father. "Dad, I'm fine – I promise -I was just making sure that the doctor took good care of Lily, Duncan and Logan – which he assures me he did. Right?"

Somehow the tone in Veronica's voice forced the much older doctor to stand straight and nod affirmatively. "Yes Sheriff Mars." All thoughts of forcing the ill tempered Sheriff's daughter to a psychical exam fled the doctor's mind.

Sheriff Keith Mars took a deep – deep breath and enveloped his only child in his arms but quickly released her, when Veronica gently resisted. "I'm okay Dad – go talk to the doctors, maybe they'll be more forthcoming with you around. Also, I couldn't get a hold of the Kane's, but Logan's mom is on her way – Mr. Echolls in on location somewhere and…Dad I think I facing charges…"

Keith's concern was replaced with confusion and he furrowed his brow, "what for honey? After what I saw at the scene of the accident, it was the other cars that resulted in the crash and I know you kids weren't drinking – at least you and Duncan weren't." The realistic father amended and smiled sheepishly. Veronica shook her head; the pounding in her head was almost unbearable. "No it's not that Dad – I forced some guy to give me his car, so I could drive them all to the hospital – it would've taken too long to wait for an ambulance. Logan…there was so much blood Dad."

Veronica blinked away the burning tears and turned slowly away. Keith gently stroked her hair and then winced when he realized it was full of blood. "Are you okay honey?" Veronica didn't respond and Keith sighed and turned to the still waiting doctor to get the rest of the information.

Veronica didn't hear her dad walk a bit away to speak softly to the other male; she was too caught up in a frantic replay of the night's accident.

Lily, Logan, Duncan and she had been leaving one of Shelley Pomroy's infamous parties due to boredom and they'd all been goofing around as always when suddenly another car had sped past them with music blazing out the windows.

"That looks like fun," Lily stated and beamed at the driving Veronica, who rolled her eyes. "What?" she asked and sighed, "you're no fun Mars – next thing I know you're gonna escort us all home so we can get to school on time tomorrow. I swear even Celeste knows how to party harder than you do."

Veronica laughed and shook her head in denial. Duncan smiled too and kissed her cheek. Logan's deep chuckle had distracted her for a split second and she'd glanced up in the rearview mirror where his dark eyes had met hers with a smile. "Ronnie, you know I love you, but you are so innocent – if it wasn't for you we'd still be at Pomroy's party."

Veronica shook her head again but before she could respond, Lily had stuck her head out the window and screamed after the still visible car in front of them. "Whoo hoo!" Duncan yelled at his sister to calm down and Veronica caught a glimpse of a smirking Logan, before suddenly she saw another car race by them and in the next moment everything went terribly wrong and she'd woken up with the car flipped on the side.

Lily still had half her body out the window and Duncan looked pale beside her, where he'd been trying to pull his sister in. Veronica blinked and her heartbeat raced in fear when they didn't move. No one but her was moving.

"Oh my God," she whimpered and quickly got out of her seatbelt and opened the car door. She crawled over to Lily's side. The Kane heir was already covered in blood and there were numerous scrapes on her arms and face. It was easy to see that she'd broken at least one arm. "Oh, Lily." Veronica whispered and reached out to find a pulse.

"Oh my God." A male drunken voice sounded behind her and Veronica didn't even turn around as she demanded that he should call an ambulance. Suddenly another – more familiar male voice sounded, just as she found a slow pulse in Lily, "Argh…shit it hurts."

"Logan?" Veronica managed to say and peeked over Lily's still frame. Logan hadn't been wearing a seatbelt and he was lying sprawled around and to her shock Veronica saw a piece of what looked like tree stick through his abdomen. "Don't move…I'm gonna get you all out of this, I promise!" Veronica said and was about to turn to yell at the boy from before, when she saw something horrible. Gasoline was dripping from the car and Veronica knew enough to know that it was an explosion waiting to happen and her body reacted before her mind had come up with a plan.

She grabbed Lily and pulled her out of the car as gently as she could and went back inside to free her boyfriend and his best friend, who was still conscious.

Once out of the car Veronica stumbled in exhaustion, but she beat it down, when she realized the boy from earlier stood immobile not ten feet away. He hadn't even pulled out his phone yet – all his friends sat in his car looking dumbstruck out at the disaster. Apparently none of them or the vehicle had gotten hurt in the accident.

"It's gonna take too long for the ambulance to get her," Veronica mumbled and marched over to the car and within minutes she'd terrorized them enough to leave her the car so she could drive her friends to the hospital. As she'd loaded her unconscious friends inside – how, she still didn't know – she'd driven faster than ever. And just as she'd pulled up in front of the hospital, Logan had muttered sadly, "I don't wanna die Ronnie…" She hadn't gotten a chance to reply before several paramedics were all over them...

Now a long while later Veronica didn't know if her friends were gonna live. Her earlier exhaustion returned when she finally allowed herself to relax. And with the exhaustion came a sudden almost unbearable pain and she moaned softly and touched her belly over Duncan's jacket in her arms. The pain intensified and before she knew it, the jacket was on the linoleum floor and Veronica looked down on her stomach and gasped almost inaudible. No wonder I'm still covered in fresh blood, was the first thing on her mind. The second thought was filled with puzzlement. Why am I on the floor again? And as she watched her dad in the blurry distance straighten up at the sight of her on the floor and the doctor beside him hurrying towards her, Veronica thought one last thing, at least Logan's not gonna die alone tonight…

TBC…

Thanks for reading and reviewing!

Ditte Mai