Title: In Dreams
Rating: PG
Summary: Post-finale crap. Veronica. Logan. Duncan mentions.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

The images come to her in dreams, never when she is awake. So blurry at first, she doesn't pay attention and tries to hold on to that extra ten minutes of sleep, before the alarm goes off and she has to face another day at that school with those people.

But soon the dreams get longer, grow more vivid, until she can almost make a picture in her head when she's awake.

The feel of hot flesh… Hands moving up her thighs...

And everything is still so messed up, it's the last thing she needs. Duncan won't look her in the eye and she's not ready to deal with Logan yet. Her Mom's gone and with her the fifty grand from the Kane's. Her Dad's still recovering and they're broke. But this, this is what she has to focus on.

These…dreams.

She has Wallace and she has Weevil and it's enough for now. Even though she can't help wishing that she had Lilly. She needs a girl to talk to, someone that can understand.

She doesn't want to believe that what she sees is real. She dismisses the images as just something she saw on TV. Though she can't explain the way they make her feel…

She shrugs it off until she can't deny it anymore.

When she sees him at school, she walks the other way. She needs something—someone—to erase what she now admits is real.

If anyone can make her forget, it's Logan. But Logan's face becomes Duncan's… Logan's hands become Duncan's…

She closes her eyes tight and kisses with intensity, clawing at Logan's skin, trying to draw him closer, help her demolish memories of Duncan.

"Whoa, slow down."

"Can't," she breathes, clutching to him, trying to keep Logan's face in her mind, not Duncan's.

"Hey. Watch the merchandise, it's non-refundable, you know. Something else on your mind?"

She pulls back too fast; she knows it the instant she looks into his eyes. "What! No."

And that settles it for Logan. She watches his face drop and he knows. "It's Duncan, isn't it?"

"I-I… Logan."

"No, I get it. Let's be honest here, neither one of us thought this was true love."

"You don't understand."

"What's to understand? You're thinking about Duncan and I'm thinking about you. When half the equation in a relationship would rather be with someone else… I was never good at math, but I do believe that poses a problem."

"It's not that I want to be with Duncan. I just… I don't know what I want."

"Spare me, Veronica. Maybe you better figure it out, huh?" It's unusually harsh, even for Logan.

And later that night, laying in bed awake, she does try to figure it out, but the images mix in her head and she can't separate what she wants to be true from what actually is.