Title: Of Ruined Lives, Responsibilities, and Epic Romance

Summary: The sequel to Of Bloodshed, Babies, and Epic Love. Veronica and Logan navigate their way through life with a new baby during their Junior year of high school. Meanwhile Lamb has been murdered and Weevil has been accused of committing it. Can Veronica help him before it's too late?

Couples: LoVe, MaDi, Wallace/OC, & Alicia/Keith

Disclaimer: No one belongs to me except baby Marsden and Wallace's love interest because he needs a love interest. As always if they belonged to me there would be more LoVe in the world.

Author's Note: Here is the sequel to Of Bloodshed, Babies, and Epic LoVe. It's my first original mystery, so we'll see how it goes. Hopefully well. This chapter is pretty much setting everything up, but we'll get on the road soon. This will take place during season 1 so if anyone has anything they want to see let me know! I hope you guys like it! Please review!

Enjoy!

Chapter 1 The First Day

Veronica was late. It was the first day of High School of their Junior year, but it wasn't going at all like how she wanted. Marsden had a check up that morning so she told Logan to go to school without her and she would be late.

After dropping the three month old off with Lynn she broke the speed limit trying to get to her first class on time. She made it to English fifteen minutes into the class period and slid into a back seat as Mrs. Pope began to lecture them on what they were going to learn that semester. As she talked Veronica took a minute to look around the room to see who was in her class this semester. She saw Duncan and Meg and a few other people she knew, but that was it. Mrs. Pope handed them their syllabi and then shortly after, the bell rang. As she gathered her books Veronica saw Meg come over to her a smile on her face.

"How was your summer?" Meg asked.

"Fine and yours?" Veronica asked leading her out to the hallway and to their next class.

"Good. I officially met Duncan's parents." Meg said quietly.

Veronica raised her eyebrows. "Oh? And how was that? Did the King and Queen of Darkness behave themselves?"

Meg shrugged, "they were ok, but there's a new guy transferring in. I met him over the summer too. His name is Troy Vandegraff." Meg said wiggling her eyebrows at her.

Veronica laughed, "and you're telling me this, why? I have my hands full with enough boys as is."

Just then one of her favorite men came saddling up beside her giving her a soft full kiss on the lips and wrapping an arm around her waist.

"And here's one now." She said curling into his side.

Meg looked at the both of them. "How's the baby?" she asked.

"Marsden is good. Growing and all that. He has his mother's appetite." Logan said smirking.

Veronica elbowed him in the side and they made a stop at her new locker so she could try out the combination and put some of her things down since she didn't get to earlier.

"How's uh Duncan?" Logan asked trying for casual.

Meg bit her lip. "He's…Duncan. He's still pretty catatonic, honestly. I think he's on Depression medication." Meg revealed.

Logan and Veronica exchanged a look not knowing what to say.

"Depression meds?" Logan asked being the first to recover. They had both known Duncan for a long time and neither one of them ever knew he had Depression, but considering the circumstances it wasn't all that surprising.

"Yeah, I only know because I accidentally found them." She said sheepishly.

Veronica nodded and opened her mouth to respond when the bell rang.

"It seems I'm going to be late to all my classes today." She mumbled closing her locker and looking down at her schedule to see what she had next.

"Chemistry." She read out loud making an icky face.

Logan smirked and kissed her, "I'll walk you." he volunteered.

She grinned and let him loop an arm around her shoulders before guiding her to the science wing.

"Such a gentlemen." She said to Meg who watched them with amused eyes.

As they walked Veronica took a moment to thing about the summer they had, had together. By any means it wasn't perfect, they were taking care of a newborn, but Logan had been extremely helpful and she wouldn't even know where she'd be without him. They had, had a nice summer until her birthday and her father got the call about Lamb.

So far no arrests had been made within the two weeks since the phone call, but she'd barely seen her father since and knew he was working overtime to figure out who killed his deputy sheriff. Logan had been supportive when she got moody about it too and always tried to distract her in different ways whether it was with the baby or deliciously physical ones. She was appreciative towards him and loved him all the more for it.

"How was the doctor's appointment?" he asked breaking her reverie.

"He's healthy and I'm healthy. We're both two healthy humans." She said coming to a stop at her Chemistry classroom.

"Good to hear." He said kissing her followed by untangling themselves from each other and making his way to his next class.

She watched him go for a minute before going into the classroom and looking around for a seat. She was just about to sit at one of the lab tables when the teacher told them there would be assigned alphabetical seating and who they sat with at the table would be their lab partner. Veronica breathed a sigh of relief with Mac came into the classroom. Naturally they were partnered together because of their last names.

"How've you been since your birthday? I'm sorry I haven't called or anything, but Dick took me on a trip to San Diego for a week and we just got back a few days ago." Mac rambled blushing deeply.

Veronica grinned, "and how are Mac and Dick the unlikely couple?"

"Good, better than good. We're awesome. He's even started to warm up to vegetarian foods." She said happily.

"And how was the trip?" Veronica whispered as the teacher began to start talking.

"Great we finally…finally did. It." She said quietly.

Veronica grinned, "That's awesome! Congrats." She said a little too loudly causing the teacher to glare at her.

Mac and Veronica exchanged looks and tried to pay attention for the rest of the period.

The rest of the morning went similarly to how her first two classes went. She went to each of them becoming more and more discouraged about Logan not being in any of them, until the period before lunch she had Journalism. She had been put into the Journalism class because Ms. James thought it would be a good idea and keep her out of trouble. Veronica didn't mind since she enjoyed taking pictures and then when she saw Logan sitting at one of the back computers she was for once thankful for Ms. James' suggestion. She took a seat in the computer beside Logan and grinned at him.

"What are you doing in here?" he asked in amazement.

"I wanted to be closer to you." she said snarkily.

"Really?"

"No. Ms. James put me in here. Thought it would keep me on the right path." She said rolling her eyes.

"Score one for Ms. James." Logan said grinning happily.

Ms. Dent began to talk to them about Journalism and the assignments for the week. Once she was done Veronica went up to her and asked her if she could take pictures. Ms. Dent readily agreed showing her one of the school camera, but Veronica being Veronica began to explain to her why she wanted to use her own. Before Ms. Dent could give her an assignment the bell rang for lunch and the couple made their way to the Quad. They easily found their table with Wallace and Mac already there.

"Hey." Wallace said grinning at them. He hugged Veronica and made some Bro-moves with Logan.

"How's the little guy?" Wallace asked curiously.

"The same. Still not sleeping through the night and terrorizing mommy and daddy." Veronica joked.

"That's probably not a bad thing. At least it keeps you two from giving him a sibling." Wallace joked.

Veronica glared at him and Logan chortled before getting up and grabbing the pizza he had ordered.

"Where's Georgia?" Veronica asked.

"We broke up." Wallace said quietly.

"I'm sorry." Veronica said sympathetically.

Wallace shrugged, "it's fine. I saw Lindsey Mathers giving me the eyes in English. I think I'll be ok."

Veronica smiled and looked over at Mac who was eating her veggie burger. "And where is your prince charming?"

Mac snorted and nodded to where Logan stood. "Grabbing his meat lovers pizza."

Veronica smiled at the disgusted tone in her voice. The three friends began to talk about their classes until Logan came and set the pizza down at their table followed by Dick who made sure to set it far away from Mac so she wouldn't make any noises about smelling the meat.

"So I was thinking of having a back to school party." Dick said through a mouthful of meat, bread, cheese, and sauce.

"Only 09ers, right?" Veronica asked skeptically.

"Well it would be on the beach. Kegs, girls, sand, ocean, dude, you know the works. What's not to love?" He said ignoring the glare from Mac at the mention of girls.

"I just mean maybe we could try inviting other people." Veronica said pointedly.

"Like who? The PCHers? That would be fun." Dick said sarcastically and then noticed something behind Veronica and Logan.

"Hey, Ronnie. You're dad's here." Dick said nodding his head in that direction.

Veronica looked behind her and saw her dad in full uniform with Sacks, Leo, and a few other officers walking across the quad. He noticed her staring and gave a subtle nod before continuing his way into the corner of outdoor area to where the PCHers sat.

"Oh no." she whispered watching as her dad stopped in front of Eli Navarro and began to talk to him. She saw Weevil glare at her dad and they began a heated argument. When it seemed like Weevil wasn't going to win her dad made a gesture and Sacks cuffed him leading him out of the quad. She noticed her dad studiously avoided looking at her on the way out of the school.

"What was that about?" Mac asked quietly.

Veronica shrugged and glanced at her boyfriend. "I have no idea." She said.

"If I had to guess though I'm thinking it has something to do with Lamb's death." She added quietly.

Logan frowned, "why would Weevil kill Lamb?" he asked.

Veronica sighed. "I don't know. How about because he's an asshat? What more of a reason do you need?"

Logan gave her a look and she rolled her eyes. "That was mean."

"Naw, dude, Lamb was a dick. He tried to arrest me once for mooning him." Dick said taking another piece of pizza.

"Why did you moon him?" Mac asked incredulously.

"Why wouldn't I moon him? Like I said he's a dick." Dick said scoffing.

"Do you think Weevil killed him?" Wallace asked looking over at Veronica.

Veronica debated the question and then shook her head. "Stealing, yes, murder, no."

"The guys in a gang." Logan pointed out.

"So? That doesn't make him a murderer. Maybe it doesn't have anything to even do with Lamb's death. Maybe it has to do with something else." She pointed out.

The others shrugged and went back to eating their pizza. Dick changed the subject back to his beach party and Veronica wondered if her dad was doing the right thing.

Lunch passed by too quickly for their liking after Weevil's arrest and then Veronica and Wallace made their way to History, Dick and Mac to Computer Lab, and Logan to Math.

After two more periods the end of the day was finally here and Veronica hurried back to the mansion so she could see how Marsden was doing. She hadn't been away from him for more than a few hours since he was born and by three o'clock she missed him terribly. She smiled when she saw that Logan had beat her there and took the baby from the nanny who Lynn had hired to watch him during the day.

Initially Veronica had been against it, but both Lynn and Logan were against him going to daycare so they got a nanny.

"You got here fast." She said stretching out beside Logan and tickling Marsden's little tummy. Marsden chortled and reached for her. She picked him up and cradled him to her chest.

"It's weird being away from him for so long." Logan mused watching them.

She nodded amazed at how easily he could read her thoughts. She bent down and pressed a soft kiss to Marsden's forehead and then leaned into Logan.

"I missed him too." She whispered enjoying the feel of being wrapped in the arms of one man she loved while the other rested in her own arms.

Later that night after Marsden had been put down Veronica had crawled into bed beside Logan and was ready to drift off. Since they had a newborn sleep was very seldom and they both took it when they could.

It felt like only minutes before there was a loud sound coming from the bedside table. It took her a minute to realize it was her cell phone buzzing and she grabbed it angrily ready to tell whomever it was to fuck off. She glanced over at Logan noting jealously how he could sleep through anything and then whipped the phone open.

"Who—"

"Veronica, it's me. I need your help."

(A/n: so what did you think? Next chapter will be more Weevil/V friendship and help, plus Keith, and of course LoVe and baby time! More soon!)