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Ten Truths about Logan Echolls
1. He was thirteen when he tried his first cigarette. Lilly had managed to get a couple of packets from God knows where and had given a pack to him. He smoked most of the pack by himself but Aaron caught him smoking one day by the pool.
The rest of the packet was used to create a line of cigarette burns around his upper arm.
2. His favourite movie is Easy Rider. Lilly always refused to watch it with him while Hannah said yes to one viewing but no more. He was always surprised that Veronica actually watched the movie as many times as she did with him.
3. He lost his virginity when he was fifteen. He and Lilly had gone to see a movie and on the way home they had pulled into an empty car park. They had fumbled their way through the act in the backseat of Lilly's car.
One year later Lilly was dead.
4. Duncan isn't the only one that Lilly visited after she died. Logan knows that she follows him everywhere she goes. He can't actually see her, not the way Duncan does, but he can hear her. All the time. Lilly is always there, whispering in his ear, berating him, laughing at him.
He remembers that she got pissed at him the first time she saw how he got the 09ers to turn on Veronica. He had a complete yelling match with her in his backyard about it. His mother had watched him in concern when he came back into the house afterwards.
Two days later he was booked in for his first appointment with a psychiatrist.
5. The first time he told Veronica that he loved her they were sitting in his yellow beast of a car, about to get shot at. Not that he knew the shooting was coming at the time.
He'll never let anyone know but it hurt when Veronica laughed it off, saying that it was just to get in her pants. It hurt that she hadn't believed the truth behind his words.
6. The day he turned ten was the day Daddy started beating him. A birthday present to go with the new bike, the Playstation and the new computer. The day Daddy progressed to using belts was the day Daddy turned into Aaron rather than Father.
7. He gets his alcoholic tendencies from his mother. The only thing he ever learnt from her was that if you drank enough the alcohol could drown out anything.
8. When Logan thought his mother was still alive everyone told him he was crazy. Or they laughed at him. The only one who didn't was Veronica. He asked for help and she gave it to him, despite everything he had done to her over the previous year. And then, when he realised that Lynn was really gone and broke down and cried, she held him.
He never let anyone else see him cry after that day.
9. He has never felt completely comfortable around Keith Mars, not even when he was twelve years old and the Sheriff had kindly invited him into his home.
He doubts he ever will.
10. He always used to think that he was in love with Lilly and that he always would be. Their relationship was always tumultuous and rocky and impetuous (just like Lilly). It was passion and lust and games and anger. It wasn't love.
But he didn't realise that until he fell in love with the no longer pink (broken) Veronica Mars.
