Disclaimer: Not mine….Owned by CBS….WB and I think a few others….Love both shows…just want to have some fun.

This is a crossover between Moonlight and Veronica Mars. In my world, VM ended after the 2nd Season because I think that was when Veronica and Logan were the happiest and they are all that really mattered in that show anyway. :)

I've had some enquiries as to if I'm going to repost my stories and this series is always the one their looking for.

I'm fixing this entire series. I'll post one section at a time as I get it done. I wrote these so long ago the errors are embarrassing. I'm sure it's not perfect but it has to better than before. I'm not changing the overall plot but I am adding and subtracting things that were skipped over in the beginning or should have been edited out to start with. Hope everyone still enjoys it.

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Mick is in his office after having returned from a weeklong case that took him out of town. He opens the file and stares at the pictures. If he hadn't seen it for himself, he wouldn't have believed it. He thinks back to the start of the week and how a single phone call from the other side of the country changed so much.

1 week ago

It's early evening and Mick is going over his messages to see if he needs to make any appointments with prospective clients. He's just gotten up and as his routine, he listens to his messages, makes notes on what needs to be done, and has a tall glass of A positive. He smiles as he listens to a message from Beth telling him she hopes to get her work done early so she can come by and see him. It's nice to see her enjoying life again. Losing Josh took a lot out of her. It was hard for him seeing her so unhappy. He's glad she's forgiven him for not turning Josh and forgiven herself for, well for not loving Josh as much as he loved her. In the end, Mick is counting himself lucky she's coming back into his life. He could easily have lost her for good.

Next comes a call from a woman named Griffith who says she's calling from Vermont. She doesn't explain what her problem is, but he can hear the worry and fear, edging towards panic in her voice. Whatever it turns out to be he would bet even money it has something to do with someone she loves. She insists that he call her day or night whenever he gets her message. He glances at the clock and realizes if he's going to make the call he better do it now, as the time is creeping towards midnight in Vermont.

"Mrs. Griffith? This is Mick St. John; I'm a private investigator in California. You left a message for me to call you?" He can hear her quietly crying through the phone.

"Yes, thank you so much for getting back to me. I'm at my wits end. I just don't know what else to do."

"Why don't you tell me the problem and I'll see if I can help." He says gently.

Yes, yes. I'm sure you can." She says.

Mrs. Griffith tells him that she and her husband moved from California a few months ago. The family moved away because her husband was trying to kick a cocaine habit and her daughter had a boyfriend that was a bad influence on her. So the family moved across country to get a clean start. The clean start didn't work exactly as she hoped. Her husband couldn't kick his coke habit and their divorce is final in two weeks. "Mr. St. John this whole thing, the move, my husband's problems, our divorce, has all been a lot for my daughter to deal with and now she's gone."

"Are you sure she's not with her father?" Mick asks quietly.

"No, that's the one thing I am sure of. He's in court ordered rehab, again. I've checked with the people in charge and they assure me he is in the facility, and she is most certainly not there with him. They have no reason to lie. Hanna hasn't adjusted well. Since the move she hasn't made many friends and the few she has made aren't close enough they would hide her. I'm fairly certain she's on her way to California to see that miserable, spoiled, rich trust fund trash of a boyfriend."

Mick thinks about it for a minute. He doesn't usually go after runaways. It's too damned heartbreaking when you have to tell their parents you couldn't find them, or their child is dead. This might be a bit easier though, if the boyfriend has money, he almost certainly has a paper trail. It shouldn't be too hard to follow it and see if Hanna has hooked up with him. With any luck, he should be able to find Hanna if she has come back to California. "Alright Mrs. Griffith I'll see what I can do. Give me everything you know about the boyfriend and I'll check and see if there is any sign of Hanna."

"Oh, thank goodness. I don't have a picture of him but you shouldn't have much trouble finding him." She rushes on hoping he won't change his mind. "His name is Logan Echolls. He lives south of L.A. in Neptune. He's always in trouble. I'm sure he has a record with the local police. I don't know if he still has it but when we lived there he drove a yellow X-Terra."

Mick swings around to his computer and brings up his document folder. "I'll also need some documentation I can show the local cops so they'll know I'm looking for your minor daughter on your behalf. Do you have an email account?"

"Yes, I do." She rattles off her email address.

"That's good. I have forms I will email you. Print them out, fill them out, and then fax them back to me. I'll give you the number. Hopefully the cops will be a little more receptive to my snooping if I have a hard copy showing I'm working at your behest. Also could you fax or email to me the most recent picture you have of Hanna? It's better to have a complete picture of her that's a couple years old than one that doesn't show all of her face. Is she likely to color her hair or cut it?"

"No, I don't think so. She said one thing Logan always liked about her was her long blond hair."

Mick nods. "Good. It will make it easier to spot her if she hasn't altered her appearance. You should report her missing to your local police and ask them to send an alert to the Neptune police. All those things will make my job easier and hopefully I'll be able to find her faster."

"Oh, thank you Mr. St. John. I don't have a fax here, but the post office does and I'll be waiting for Hank to open first thing in the morning. I'll get the paperwork back to you. Right after that, I'll go see the police chief. This is a small town and he knows the kinds of problems I've been having. I'm sure he'll do exactly as you request. Please call me if there is anything more I can do."

"I will and Mrs. Griffin, it will probably take a day or two for me to find anything out, but I will call you one way or the other as soon as I know anything." Mick hangs up the phone. He looks up and smiles at Beth as she walks through the office door.

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The next afternoon Mick looks over the picture of the 17-year-old girl. Cute kid. Hope she's okay. He replaces the picture in the file and calls Josef. He told Beth the night before he's leaving town for a day or two but he always like to touch base with Josef. He never knows when the shit might hit the fan, and he might need a helping hand. Josef has connections in the most interesting places and then there's Beth. He hears the click as the ringing stops and the phone goes to voice mail. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I've got a case out of town. I shouldn't be but a couple days. I don't expect any trouble but….you know, ah…sometimes Beth gets in over her head. If you could kind of keeps tabs on her, but maybe not let her know, I'd sure appreciate it."

Two hours later Josef finishes his business and listens to his messages. He rolls his eyes and shakes his head. He doesn't know why Mick didn't just take Blondie with him. The woman is head over heels in love with him.

Mick has a contact just outside Neptune that will let him use an extra freezer if the case turns into something that lasts longer than a couple days. He packs the Benz and he's on his way. He idly thinks it might be nice to get Beth down there for a nice holiday if he gets lucky and Hanna shows up right away. He and Beth could spend some time on a moonlit beach. He's sure she'd like that, and he knows he would.

Later that night Mick walks into the sheriff's office to do his duty and report in that he's in the area. With the money that flows through these little seaside towns he doesn't need to get cross wise with the sheriff's office this far from home with no backup. In a town this size, the populous usually votes the sheriff into office and cops have a vested interest in keeping local money happy. He also wonders if maybe he can see if this Echolls kid has a rap sheet.

Mick looks down at the nameplate for the deputy who seems to be in charge of the night shift, Deputy Leo D'Amato. Mick pulls out his wallet and removes his P.I. License and a business card. "Officer D'Amato, I'm Mick St. John, this is a copy of my P.I. license. I'm in town on a case and thought it best to check in." The two men shake hands.

Leo takes Mick's P.I. license and business card and writes down some numbers. He hands the I.D. back to Mick. "Mr. St. John if you could sit over there for a couple minutes I'll be right with you."

Mick nods and takes a seat. "Sure."

Leo turns his back to Mick and makes a call. He has no way of knowing that Mick can hear the call just fine from where he's sitting. Leo calls Carl Davis on the LAPD and asks him about Mick. Luckily, after Mick tried his best to save Josh's life he's in pretty good with Carl and Carl gives him the thumbs up to Leo. Leo hangs up and motions Mick over. "That was a friend of mine on the LAPD. He says you're a good guy so maybe I can help you with whatever brings you to Neptune. If you don't mind, is what your working on involve one of our 09ers?" Mick looks at the deputy rather confused.

"09ers?" Mick asks.

"Sorry, local slang for the rich people who live in that zip code. The town is divided kind of up the middle poor people on one side and 09ers on the other."

Mick thinks about it for a minute. "Yes, I've been told the kid I'm looking for has money, a trust fund."

Leo sighs. "Can you tell me which one? At least maybe we can keep things from getting out of hand, which means from getting the sheriff in trouble with his benefactors."

"I can tell you but I want something in return."

"What's that?" Leo asks.

Mick smiles grimly. "The kids rap sheet if he has one."

Leo sighs. Oh good. This is one of the good 09ers. Leo laughs but there is no humor in it. "I'll do what I can but unlike the poor kids in this town the 09ers tend to get their records scrubbed. It depends on who it is."

"The kids name is Logan Echolls." Mick watches the deputy's face change.

Leo runs his hand through his hair. "Great, that's just great. What's Logan done now? I hope that it's nothing dangerous or so illegal even his money can't get him out of it. If he's dragged Veronica into some damn felony…."

Mick looks at him quizzically. "Veronica?"

"She's Logan's girlfriend, but not a 09er. Her father is a local P.I. and she works for him quite a bit and tends to get herself into…difficult situations."

"As far as I know neither one has done anything. I got a call from a woman in Vermont trying to track her daughter. She thinks the girl maybe running back here to see Echolls. Apparently they had a thing when she lived here."

Leo lets out a sigh of relief. "Oh, yea, Hannah. Nice kid and she seemed to keep Logan in check. We got an advisory fax on her this morning. I hope she isn't coming back for Logan. She's going to be disappointed if she makes it this far."

"I take it this kid, Logan, gets in a fair amount of trouble." Mick says

Leo looks a bit embarrassed. "First, I have to give you full disclosure. I dated his current girlfriend before they got together. My concern about Logan getting into trouble has more to do with how it affects Veronica. To be fair to Logan the one time I had to bust him for murder he was innocent and even if he hadn't been it would certainly have been self-defense. He has a temper but it's getting better over time."

Leo gets up, and pulls a file out of the cabinet. He tosses it down on the desk in front of Mick. "You won't find much there. Most of Logan's trouble started after his first girlfriend was murdered. He kind of went of the tracks for about 18 months and most of that was before his 18th birthday so it won't be in there. His juvenile records are sealed. Prior to Lily Kane getting killed we broke up a party at their place now and then but mostly he wasn't such a bad kid."

"He's straightened up?" Mick asks

Leo leans back in his chair. "More like all the shoes have dropped on him that can and he can breathe again. Logan's a strange kid. One minute he's doing stupid stuff like burning down the community pool. We didn't get him for that but I'm sure he was responsible. Then 6 months later, he's charging a kid with a gun that is trying to kill his girlfriend. From what I've seen Logan has a temper but he'd go to the mat for you if you were someone he cared for."

"You don't think he's going to be happy to see Hannah? Is he likely to do something to hurt her?" Mick asks

Leo shakes his head "It's not that he won't be happy to see her, it's just that well…. you'd have to know Logan and Veronica to understand. I can probably say without much reservation that Veronica is the love of his life. He'll try like hell not to do anything that will hurt her. On the other hand if Veronica thinks that Hannah needs their help she'll do it because at one time Hannah was important enough to Logan that she would travel the country to get to see him." Leo leans forward. "I mentioned that Veronica's dad is a P.I. He was the sheriff here for quite some time and he's good. He taught Veronica pretty much everything he knows. She's smart and she's about as stubborn a woman as you're likely to meet and she has a curiosity streak a mile wide."

"She's not blond is she?" Mick thinks of Beth.

"Yea, she is. Why do you ask?"

Mick smiles "I've got one just like her at home."

"It's hard to imagine another one like Veronica. If I were you, I'd call her dad's office, and make an appointment with her to give her the heads up. She and Logan may see that Hannah getting here and getting hurt isn't in anyone's interest and help you head her off. If not, you haven't lost anything because you'll never get close to them any other way. If you ask around town about either of them, Veronica will know it 10 minutes after you've asked your first question. It's a small city and she has it wired pretty well, on both sides of the tracks. Even the leader of the local biker gang owes her more than one favor."

Mick nods. "I'll think about it. One last thing, do you have a picture of Logan from a booking or something?"

"It's not in the file?" Leo asks surprised.

Mick picks up the single sheet of paper from the file and waves it back and forth. "Nope."

Leo turns to his computer. He taps the keys for a moment and pulls up Logan's booking picture. He turns the monitor around for Mick to see. Mick recovers fast but he's amazed. This kid is almost a dead ringer for Josef. "Could you…could you print a copy of that up for me?"

Leo senses more than sees that something is off. "Sure. You ok?"

"Yea, he just reminds me of someone and I can't think who it is." Mick hedges not wanting to mention Josef.

"Maybe it's his mom or dad. They were both on TV and in the movies, although I've never seen any real family resemblance."

"Yea, maybe that's it." Mick says.

Leo hands Mick the print out and Mick gets up to leave. "You wouldn't know where I could get a decent hotel room with good internet access?"

Leo nods. "Your best bet is the Neptune Grand. We have some small chains that are clean but they don't have reliable internet access yet. The Grand is kind of upscale but it's worth it if you like a good meal and internet access that doesn't drop off every five minutes. Go straight out the main drag towards the water, you can't miss it."

Mick and Leo shake hands. "Thanks for all your help."

"No problem. Let me know if there's anything else I can do." Leo says.

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So here you have it the first redo.