AN: Hi everyone, this is my first fic. I had an idea, so I thought I'd try my hand at writing it :) Please read and review and let me know what you think :)
Chapter 1 - Back
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey
Veronica Mars was back in Neptune. She'd been gone for a long time. She'd had to leave, it had felt like it was all too much. Veronica Mars had been drowning, she couldn't breath. She had survived her best friend's murder, rape, a bus crash, her mother's betrayal, masterminding a kidnapping, and many ups and downs with Logan. In the end though she had to get out. Her world came crashing down, and this time she didn't have the strength to hold it up. The Russian Mafia was after her, no one was safe, so she fled. She made a deal and she fled. She left her father, Mac, Wallace, even Logan. Veronica had left things very unresolved with Logan. The last contact they had really was that one look in the cafeteria at Heart. By the end of the week she had finished things with Piz, made her plans and fled. For once she was scared when she needed to be, the danger of the Mob was too much. She was also scared, scared of Logan. Well, not of Logan as such, but of Logan's love. That one look, that one act really emphasised what she had known for a long time, Logan Echolls loved her, and loved her a lot. Love, for Veronica had become a forbidden fruit. One by one the people who loved her left, Lilly, Duncan, her mother. She couldn't let herself take another chance on Logan, not then. She had to leave.
So she did, she left letters for Mac and Wallace, it was the easiest way to avoid messy goodbyes. She did however say goodbye to her father. She packed and on her way out the door to the airport told him, "I have to get out of here Dad. I've received a great offer that I can't pass up. Don't worry, I'll come back and visit, and eat all your food. Well, only if you buy me a pony."
She had choked a little on those last words and had thrown her arms around her father. Keith of course knew she wasn't being upfront with him, because really, when was Veronica completely upfront with anyone. He had let her go though, trusting, for the most part, his daughter's instincts. So Veronica left, and seeing as she had to leave she decided she'd do what she'd always done, take on the world. She took on the world and she won, she regained control, and for the first time in many years she felt like she could roll with anything, without resorting to hazardous tactics. She had promised to visit her dad, but she always ended up buying Keith at ticket to visit her wherever she was. She emailed Mac and Wallace from time to time, just so she wouldn't lose them completely. She never contacted Logan. Well, she did, once every year, at the one time of the year that she knew she needed people most. Deep down, she knew he needed her, but instead she sent a poor substitute, normally a note with some humorous symbolistic gift she knew he'd get a laugh out of. She knew he'd probably know it was her, but she let herself believe he wouldn't know. For a world class detective she let herself be fooled by her emotions an absurd amount of the time.
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey
Now she was ready to come back to Neptune, it was safe to do so, both environmentally, and she thought, emotionally. She checked into the Neptune Grand, smiling wryly to herself, thinking over all the history she had there. Really, it was ridiculous to think of staying anywhere else. Her dad had remarried, and mercifully, he had fixed things up with Alicia and married her. She hadn't attended the wedding, seeing as it was in Neptune, but she had spoken to both her dad and Alicia on their wedding day and told them that she was very happy for them. She didn't speak to Wallace, he hadn't wanted to speak to her, owing to her extremely prolonged, and largely unexplained absence. A short reply to and email was really the most that her kind and generous Wallace could manage. She understood, and now she was back, she knew she'd have to fix it. Veronica breezed into the hotel lobby, her walk as purposeful and confident as ever, though now Veronica didn't feel like the world hated her, she had conquered it, and had made peace, with most of it. The rest of it, that's why she was back in Neptune. Her hair was long and blonde as ever and swept up in a high ponytail that swung to and fro a little as the walked. It was summer in Neptune, and summer in SoCal pretty much calls a pretty relaxed and cool wardrobe, shorts, dresses and skirts. Veronica had finally allowed herself to wear what she wanted, she could wear a sundress without thinking of the naive girl who was raped. She didn't have to wear tough clothing to send a message, she wore what she liked, and only because she liked it. So today was wearing a feminine purple sundress, she figured if she was coming back to Neptune to fix things that she might as do what she really wanted, regardless of what her old friends, and enemies, would think.
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey
Logan Echolls stood in the Neptune Grand lobby. He didn't live in Neptune anymore, so when he visited he stayed in the Grand for old times sake, and because there was no where else appropriate for the wealthiest of the wealthy to stay. For Logan Echolls was still very wealthy. He had his inherited money, and then he had the money that he had made from writing, investing, and the producing his books. After finished at Heart, as an English major, Logan decided to leave. He realised that no matter how much he loved Veronica, he couldn't wait around for her to come back, he had to make something of himself, because he knew that's what Veronica was doing, making a difference. He didn't know where she had been, but he knew Veronica, and Veronica left her mark wherever she went. Logan had tried to date, but every girl paled in comparison to Veronica, and one day he just accepted that there was no one else he could spend his life with. So Logan wrote, and he tried to be the kind of man Veronica could love, if she ever returned. He stayed in contact with Dick and Mac, and even Wallace. He invested time in relationships with them even when Veronica bailed. He was there to witness the astonishing relationship that developed between Dick and Mac. He listened to Wallace's stories about his mom and Keith. He even maintained contact with Keith. He knew that Veronica loved her dad more than anything, and even with all their differences, Logan respected Keith, and Keith respected elements of Logan, particularly the changing Logan he saw.
Logan knew that one day he would see Veronica again, they were epic after all. He didn't know when and he didn't know what he would do when he saw her. He felt so many things towards her and he had tried to work through them as best he could, and as best as he could with a therapist, but there were things that could not be resolved, not until he talked to her. And held her, and in all likelihood yelled at her, and kissed her, and told her that he loved her, and heard her say it back. He knew she loved him. They were epic, and that last look they shared had said everything Veronica had never been able to say. He saw the fear, the love, the passion, the hurt, the vulnerability, he saw it all, and he loved all of her, regardless of any frustration he ever felt towards her. So when Logan walked into the Grand lobby and pulled his sunglasses off to survey the familiar surroundings and saw her, it was unmistakably her, he stopped, dead in his tracks. Their eyes locked, and he quickly recovered his composure. They both walked towards each other, neither wavering in their purpose or their confidence, at least outwardly. He took in her hair, long and beautiful, he had always loved it long, it was best to run his hands through. He noticed her feminine dress and appreciated the way it sat on her slight figure. Most of all he noticed her smile. She seemed relaxed and happy almost like the old Veronica, his Ronnie. He knew better though, she was gone forever, but maybe now, there was finally a new Ronnie. Partially Veronica, with only a trace of the bitter 'V' and with a bit of the light hearted girl she use to be.
They finally reached each other and they stopped, with about a foot between them. Suddenly the usually confident Logan Echolls was lost for words. After all this time they were meeting and he didn't know what to say. So it was Veronica who spoke and said quietly, but without reserve, "Hello Logan."
AN: I know this is complete, but feel free to review along the way anyway :)