Hey everyone! OK so this is my first Veronica Mars story. I currently have stories going for Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl, and Hart of Dixie. This has been bothering me to write this since I saw episode 2.2 though and what Logan said to Veronica in the Neptune Grand hallway. I tried to do some research and I did some stories on this episode but I don't think any of them are exactly like this. If there are, I apologize. Hopefully you like it. I haven't been a fan of the show for long. Just since they started airing reruns on SoapNet but I have a huge LoVe fan! If you get time, please review also. I really love reading them and also I do tend to respond to them.

Veronica wasn't sure what to be more surprised at: meeting her ex-boyfriend Logan Echolls in the hallway of the Neptune Grand Hotel after recently have slept with her on again/off again boyfriend Duncan Kane; or if it was the fact that said ex-boyfriend was apparently the one she heard having head-banging sex in the next room.

She had a deer-in-the-headlights expression cross her face which of course made Logan smirk. He never would have thought that he'd catch Veronica Mars doing a 'walk of shame' but it was more than entertaining.

"Hmm…" He examined her. "What's different about you?"

She wasn't that transparent was she? Could Logan really tell what just happened to her? She stood frozen as he made his way down the hall to her.

"Did you cut your hair or something?" He casually asked as he tugged his coat on.

She couldn't move. She watched him as he finished putting on his shoes. She was trying not to read into what he sounded like but it was resounding: an ex-boyfriend who had, figuratively of course, gotten screwed over.

"And FYI," He looked right at her, "if the cuddling is the best part, he didn't do it right."

The phrase replayed in her mind several times before Veronica rushed down the hall to the elevator. She saw Logan was just getting on the elevator so she slid in. As soon as the door was closed she hit the elevator stop button. It was now halted between floors.

"And what the hell was that supposed to mean?" She demanded as she folded her arms across her chest.

He turned around and looked her straight in the eye. His cold stare sent a tiny shiver down her spine. It wasn't often she saw that look. It mainly had to do with conversations involving his father.

"You're an exceptionally smart girl, Veronica." He hit the release button on the elevator so it began to move again. "You know exactly what that means."

Veronica avoided his gaze and kept it rather on the elevator keypad. She watched as the numbers slowly descended. She shook her head. "I should have guessed." She mumbled.

"Excuse me?" Logan raised a curious eyebrow. "What was that?"

"I said, I should have guessed." She stared at him. "You knew Duncan's room was right next door."

Logan could have passed for bored. That is, if he had actually cared. "And your point?"

"No, the question is what your point is?" Her voice rose. "What are you trying to prove, Logan? That you're louder? That you're better? That it was supposed to be you? Did you want a fucking medal? Or just a medal in fucking? Well congratulations Logan, you got it. You won. Are you happy?"

While he watched her rant, he couldn't help but smirk. He knew he had pissed her off. He didn't have to do much now in days to accomplish that feat. He had to keep that smirk on his face though mainly to shield what he was really feeling: hurt, anger at himself and at her, regret, and sadness. It crushed him that she ran away from him but it really pissed him off when he found out whose arms she ran straight back into.

All it took was some hair and a DNA test and bam, Veronica went back to Duncan. OK, in reality he knew it wasn't exactly that way but it was the way it felt. When she left him, Logan's heart shattered into a thousand pieces. The only thing that was even close to the excruciating pain was Lilly's murder. Well, his mom's death was in there too but Logan had come to terms with it. It was a drastic move on Lynn's part but overall, he figured she was in a better place: away from his father.

He stood here and watched as Veronica worked herself into a frenzy and got all huffy. She always looked extremely hot when she got like this. It didn't help matters that her arms were folded across her chest. His eyes zeroed in there then. They had never slept together so he had never gotten the opportunity but he could imagine what her breasts looked like. Granted he could tell shirt-wise, that they weren't huge but he wouldn't have a problem with that.

"So what? Are you jealous?" He asked as he raised an inquisitive eyebrow.

"Yes, exactly. I'm jealous of whatever married whore you're sleeping with. Don't flatter yourself." She turned away from him then. Seven floors to go according to the keypad.

"Well, I'm just trying to figure out why you even care at all."

"I don't." Her eyes gazed intently at the floor.

"Then why did you bring it up?"

"Quit playing fucking mind games with me, Logan." She yelled. "I didn't bring this up. You did with that damn comment you made. Why do you care about whether or not it was done right?" She air quoted the phrase. "Is it all because of the fact that I slept with Duncan and not you?"

"You and Duncan don't even register remotely on my radar, thank you."

Veronica laughed haughtily. "That's the biggest amount of BS I've ever heard you deal out. That's what this is really about, isn't it?"

"No, what it's really about is how I felt like a fool. I fell in love with you, Veronica and you made it seem like it didn't even matter or it wasn't important." He growled.

"That's not true." She argued.

"Oh, the hell it's not!" He barked. "What the hell am I supposed to go on to prove otherwise? You ran back to your fucking old boyfriend the 1st damn chance you got. You don't deal with problems, you fucking run away Veronica!" He yelled as the doors open. There were a few people standing there. They looked startled by Logan's demeanor. "Excuse me." He told the people waiting and bolted from the hotel. Veronica rushed after him as they were leaving the hotel.

"Is everything alright, Miss Mars?" The concierge asked.

"Swell." She called back to him as she ran into the parking lot. As soon as she got into the parking lot. "I do not run away."

"Oh the hell you don't." Logan argued.

"I didn't just go back to Duncan either, OK? You seemed bound determined that you had a death wish and you didn't even fucking care if you lived or died after that damn fight on the bridge and the drive-by shooting. And apparently you didn't care whether or not I lived or died with you."

"Veronica…"

"No! There seems to be a few fucking things you're confused about so let's clear the air right now. I know this all relates back to the fact that I never slept with you and you're pissed about it. I'm not to blame for us not sleeping together though Logan. That was more or less on you."

Logan's eyes grew wide. "Me? That's rich."

"No, it's the truth. It was in reality both of us but I'm not solely to blame here. I never stopped you. You kept stopping you."

Logan stared at her. "I was trying not to push you."

"Yeah, I know but ask yourself something…when have I ever told you no, Logan? Can you think of a time? Cause I can't. The main reason I even slept with Duncan tonight was the fact that I realized that life is short. I almost died in that bus crash. You remember that?"

"Yes." He mumbled. "That doesn't mean it still doesn't hurt, Veronica. The fact that I have to watch every fucking day the fact that you went back to him. It's like you're trying to rewrite history. It wasn't supposed to be him! You were supposed to stay with me!"

"What do you want from me, Logan?" She was holding back tears. "Never mind. I know what you want and you know what? Fine, you get your wish."

"What the hell are you talking about?" His eyes narrowed.

"You seem bound determined that the only way you're going to let this go is for me to sleep with you. Name the place." She looked around the parking lot. "Hmm…my LeBaron? No, that's too small. Not much room. Your Xterra? Hmm…that's a possibility. You have a huge backseat from what I remember. Definitely worth considering."

"Veronica, don't even fucking joke about that."

"Who said I was? You apparently have something to prove. You seem to think you're so much better than Duncan. I'm gonna need proof. You'll get a night but that's it."

She checked her watch then. "And I'm 20 minutes late for my curfew." She headed towards her car. "You have until 10 o'clock tomorrow to find me at school and tell me. 10:01 the offer is null and void forever, Logan." She warned him as she made her way to her LeBaron and sped away.

As she drove home, her mind was racing. A huge part of her wished she wouldn't have said anything. Another part of her hoped Logan turned her down. The last hidden part of her though secretly wanted him to go for this.

She was only doing this to get Logan off her back. She kept telling herself that. She knew it was wrong on so many levels to proposition him but if it got him to leave her alone, so be it. She knew this would technically qualify as cheating but Duncan had done some questionable things too so she was giving herself a free pass.

Besides, Logan could still say no. He could; but he won't. The part of her that wanted him to go for it made her nervous. She would agree that she was supposed to stay with him but she had gotten scared. Logan had seemed to have a perpetual death wish and she feared for his life…and her own. Duncan was the safe choice. She never had to worry about him. The more she thought about it she didn't like that. She had always known Logan was a bad boy; it was originally what had drawn her to him.

She got home 15 minutes later. Her dad was in the kitchen making a sandwich.

"You're late." He told her in his warning tone.

"I know; I'm sorry. I left Duncan's with enough time to get home on time but I ran into Logan and we had a nice screaming match."

"What were you fighting about?"

Sex. "Oh, he had made some wrong assumptions and I took the time to correct him. Seriously I really don't want to get into it."

"OK." He nodded.

"I promise I won't be late again."

"I'm going to take you at your word on that."

"Please do because I mean it. I'm going to head to bed." She kissed her dad's cheek and patted Backup's head. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight sweetie. I love you."

"I love you too dad."

That night, Veronica couldn't really sleep and when she did, she was having vivid dreams. Vivid dreams about Logan. Vivid erotic dreams about Logan. She had never seen him naked but she had imagined what he looked like. She had seen him shirtless and if his bottom half was impressive as the top half was, she was going to be pretty happy.

She arrived at school three minutes before class. She rushed into the school and immediately saw Logan.

"Veronica."

"Later, Logan." She turned around to face him and began walking backwards. "Between classes. I don't have time to talk right now."

She ran into her English class and took a seat next to Wallace.

"Hey superfly, how's it going?"

Veronica's head plopped down on the desk. "I'm so tired. I didn't sleep good last night."

"A lot on your mind?"

"That's putting it nicely."

"A case?"

"No." She shook her head. "It's more of a personal problem."

"Anything you want to share?"

Veronica pondered for a moment to figure out how to phrase it. "The two guys in my life who like to consider themselves my boyfriend."

Wallace stared at her for a second.

Veronica smirked. "Another way to consider is a newly formed love triangle."

"You/Duncan/Logan?"

"Could there be another?"

"Probably not."

"Definitely not."

"What happened?"

"I won't get into the messy details but there was a nasty fight and a decision made on what to do about it. That's all I'll say for now. Mainly because I'm still clueless on which way this is going to go."

Wallace took a clue and dropped it. The teacher then got their attention and informed them if they weren't paying attention, they'd get detention. They didn't talk the rest of the class.

The class went relatively quickly and as she passed the girl's bathroom, she noticed the 'out of order' sign hanging on the door. She sighed as she pushed the door open. Logan was standing by the sink. She started to check the stalls to see if anyone was in the bathroom.

"I already checked. There's no one else in here." He told her.

That was what she found out a few seconds later. "So you threw up the bat signal. You have an answer for me?"

He stared at her for a second. She was keeping her gaze on him. It didn't seem like she felt she made a mistake making this offer. Which is probably why she looked surprised when he said, "I'm giving you a chance to retract the offer."

Veronica raised a curious eyebrow. "You want me to retract the offer?"

"No, I never said that but it was a rather heated conversation last night and I'm just making sure you're aware of what you're doing."

"I'm fully aware of what I'm doing and the reason I'm doing it too."

"Which is what?"

Veronica smirked. "To get you off my back so you will let this subject die."

Logan smirked too as he stood in front of her. "You realize that more than likely this is going to be getting you on your back more."

She rolled her eyes at his lame attempt at a joke. "Ooo…lame sexual innuendo. Tell me Logan, this is the kind of material you use on girls to lure them into your bed?"

She reached in her bag and pulled out her brush and a ponytail. She quickly brushed her hair up into the ponytail.

"I guess you'll find out won't you?"

"So when?" Veronica said to his reflection in the mirror. "Tonight?"

"Oh no. We're actually not done negotiating yet."

Veronica frowned at him in the mirror. "I never agreed to do any kind of negotiations, Logan."

"Come on, Veronica. I only want one thing."

She sighed. "Fine, what?"

"I don't want a night; I want a week."

She flipped around to stare at him. Her mouth gaped open. "A week? How the hell do you expect me to explain a whole week of not having sex to Duncan?"

"You'll think of something I'm sure." He grinned. He's getting exactly what he wanted.

Veronica's eyes narrowed. OK, he wanted negotiations? Here was one. "Fine if we're negotiating then whatever little slut you slept with last night, that's going to cease to exist too." She told him in a no nonsense tone.

"OK." He shrugged. That reaction surprised her a little. "I have no problem with that."

"Good."

"So…"

"So…fine."

Logan grinned. "So…tonight? Around 8?"

"OK, fine. By the way, FYI, we are not doing any kind of videotaping, you got me?"

"Oh, come on Veronica. You really think I'd do that to you?"

"You've done it before." She reminded him.

Oh, that's right. "That was all Lilly. She was the one who set up the camera. Besides, we watched it once and then burned it. It's no longer in existence."

"OK." Veronica checked her watch then. She was 10 minutes late for her Chemistry class. "I need to go. I'll meet you at your house at 8." She turned to walk away but Logan pulled her back and kissed her softly at first but then let his tongue sweep inside her mouth. Veronica wanted to resist but found it was a losing battle. She pulled away a second later.

She licked her lips. "Logan…"

"It's been a little while." He rationalized. "I just wanted to remember. Besides you realize we'll be doing a lot more than just this tonight."

"I'm well aware of that, thank you." She informed him as she grabbed her brush into her book bag and headed for the door. "See you tonight."

Logan stared at the door after she left. This was the start. This was the week that things were going to change and bring Veronica back to him. Oh, sure he wasn't so dense to believe that sex alone was going to do that. He'd have to work some of his Echolls magic but by the end of the week, he was sure she'd come back to him.

This chapter was so much longer as I had written up to when they were starting to have sex but we're going to pace it here. I want to make sure people like this story. Please review for me. I really enjoy reading them.