Note: I don't own the characters just the storyline, this is not as smooth as I would like and updates might take awhile but I promise to try and produce a story worthy of the two characters and still fulfill my desire to see these two together. Please review, wide open to criticism.
Veronica walked into the door of Mars Investigations, planning on stopping by and grabbing a set of keys she needed to access a file cabinet at her college. Typical of Veronica she would have several keys that belonged to several staff members at Hearst college, and she really needed to check some details for Wallace who had received some cryptic messages from an obsessed fan who told him to watch out for the Dean of Students because the Dean was out to get Wallace. At first Wallace had brushed it off but after the same message came from another source he had told his good friend about the messages and asked her to look into it. Good thing about checking into a campus murder was Veronica's ability to find ways to open doors and other spaces that were off limits to most people were suddenly mysteriously easily accessible to her.
But she needed a place to keep said keys that wasn't on her person at all times. After Clemons caught her she had made sure to only carry her car keys unless it was absolutely necessary, like last week when a professor had contacted her about a grade hacking scheme that could effect everyone at Hearst, including herself. That computer lab had been easy and simple to find, but her current 'inquiry' felt like a wild goose chase. This fan kept sending these messages to Wallace as if she knew him, talking to him as if she were Veronica, the best of friends. But Wallace didn't know her, so he had pushed it aside until the warning messages had started and he had to wonder if she was telling the truth.
Going to the desk she used to regularly occupy she reached in the top drawer and found her large key ring and the keys she was looking for. It wasn't until then that she realized that she was being watched from the main office, the office that was technically hers, at least that's what the township of Neptune thought, because she was a certified private investigator and the place had her last name on it. But on the surface one Eli Navarro was still custodial staff at Hearst college but few were privileged to the knowledge that he was actually their new detective and street eyes for Sheriff Mars. It was an arrangement that worked for everyone, especially after Weevil had entered anger management, and after three months was proving an asset to both Mars Investigation and the town of Neptune. Weevil and Keith were the stuff of comic books, but only Veronica knew their true identities.
"Well if it isn't the infamous Veronica Mars, putting those keys I got for you to good use I hope." She turned and smiled at Weevil, knowing that she would probably walk away smiling from their conversation.
Weevil had really grown used to having two jobs, the extra income was good for his family, and he was really enjoying the detective work, especially since it included his banter with Veronica. Sure he was learning a lot about himself and the way he thought. He had spent a lot of time in the mindset of someone trying to skirt the law and that gave him a perfect viewpoint for seeing the worst in others. Now he was trying to build a career out of this so that his kids would have something to look up to. Not that he had any chance of having children any time soon, but he wanted to put the wheels in motion for a different life, and maybe he'd eventually move to the other side of the tracks.
Seeing Veronica just waltz into the office like she still felt comfortable being around him made Weevil smile. No matter how much they had said tense words to each other, and even sometimes dirty glares she still get a smile from her, and she had to be one of the few people he trusted in this town, screw it the world. She had done so much to him and if he wasn't such a hard ass he would have confessed every times she gave him one of those classic stares that said 'I know what you've been up to'. Instead he answered it with sarcasm just so that he didn't let her get close. A girl like Veronica was the type that could cause some serious heartbreak and he had learned his lesson with the last blonde girl with irresistible eyes.
"Well Weevil I can't be letting these babies go to waste, it's just to tempting to sneak into the office and make a hundred copies of my butt." Veronica said with each word dripping with her wit. Weevil enjoyed that wit a little too much, that's why he prodded her, to see what snarky comment would come out of her mouth next. They weren't the best of friends, and had the you scratch my back and I scratch yours, but he could say that he looked forward to spending time with her . Which was why he was going to do something he never done before, he was going to actually ask to spend time with her, without having a favor to ask her.
"Sounds great, just make sure I get a copy, actually make that two, I have a cousin who is still a virgin and he'd really 'appreciate' me for giving me a picture of such a lovely example of healthy female body." Weevil said with a slight chuckle, bluffing just as much as she was but pushing aside the image it brought to his mind. "I don't know if you have to get to your espionage right away or not, but I'm going to get something to eat. You should come along, I know a place that has large portions and cheap prices, the best combination in my book. You in V?"
