Title: Waiting All My Life
Author: LoVeAngel97
Word Count: 3,795
Pairing: LoVe, Friendship with Dick
Rating: PG-13 (Some bad language, not much)
Spoilers: All episodes to be safe, but if you haven't seen the season 2 finale don't read this.
A/N – Ok so I've been working on this for a while, tonight I was listening to my media player on random and this song came on and I thought 'Hey that's a perfect title for the fic.' And so that's why I included the lyrics here…
Many thanks go out to Jennafied for being my beta (an extremely speedy one at that too)… It's my first attempt at a fic so please be nice…
Sadly I own nothing that comes from the world of Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas is a god among men, and thank goodness the CW picked up season 3…
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Waiting All My Life – Rascal Flatts
Everybody
needs it
Everybody wants it
Everybody's searching for
someone
Been down a thousand highways
I never thought would
end
Baby, I've been
Chorus
Waiting all my life
to find you
Always been one step behind you
Your love babe
I've
been waiting all my life
I was tired of waiting
Every night
was praying
Everyday would be the day I'd find you
I grew so
impatient, how long would it take
To know you were out there
somewhere
Somewhere waiting, wondering just like me
Second
Chorus
I've been waiting all my life to love you
All that
time I was dreaming of you
Your love babe
I've been waiting all
my life
And did I lose faith, did I lose heart
Maybe I did,
but I never lost my way
To where you are-I've been
Repeat
Chorus
Repeat Second Chorus
Your
love I've been waiting
your love I've been waiting all my life
all
my life, all my life
The last week has been insane, and that is putting it mildly. So let me start at the beginning...
Prologue
Graduation, it's supposed to be the best day of my teenage life. I'm having this wonderfully blissful dream that my parents are still together, then I'm at school and Duncan and Dick are messing with my head what else is new and then Logan is my boyfriend God I missed being kissed by him, Wallace and I never met, and yet somehow the dream brings us together if only for a moment. Then there is Lilly, she's alive and 'experimenting' at college with her sexuality and honestly it's totally something Lilly would have done. Yet she's standing in front of her memorial and asking why its there, then the alarm goes off and I'm forced to awake from this alternate reality where I was, for all intents and purposes, happy...
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In the gym the seniors are in their seats and parents and friends are in the bleachers. 15 minutes ago Dad gave me my graduation gift, a trip to NYC. I'm psyched to say the least, but I was hoping for that pony he's been promising. The thing about graduation is that it means all this is over, high school is done, no more taunts, no more 09ers making my life miserable, no more making Mr. Clemmons life a living hell. However, it also means no more seeing my friends and those who used to be my friends on a daily basis and it's scary; I mean here it's like a safe bubble, well as safe as it gets for me.
My row has just stood up and Lamb walks over to Weevil. He starts to read him his rights and it makes me really mad because I know how much he wanted to walk across the stage. Of course Lamb doesn't care, he just goes ahead and slaps the cuffs on Weevil anyways. Lamb is such an ass, he could just have easily have waited till after graduation to cause a scene, but NO leave it to him to ruin a good day.
Then I hear people cheering my name and I'm stunned. I of course expected Dad, Wallace, and Mac, but the place erupted. I glance over at Logan and even he is clapping, with the trademark smirk but still. Insert some witty banter with Van and then I walk off the stage.
Outside Mac comes up to me and tells me that Beaver and her are back together, and she looks so happy. Then out of nowhere Dick slaps me on the ass and tells me he expects to see me tonight at the party. I'm thinking to myself why can't he be normal like Cassidy, but then Dick is that way for a reason. My dad already left to go track down Woody and so I head off to do some detective work. I need to look at the baseball team pictures at Woody's fast food place. I get there and beeline to the pictures, then I read 'not pictured Cassidy Casablancas'. I wretch at the thought as all of the dots finally connect and I wonder why the common thread was not visible before. Cassidy is after all the one thing that all the events had in common, and now Mac is with him.
I rush into the class of 06 grad party at the Neptune Grand looking everywhere for Mac's trademark fuchsia streaks but I don't see anything. Finally I spot Logan and ask him if he knows where Cassidy is, he says he saw him and Mac earlier but now he doesn't know. Dick pops up and says that Cassidy got a room well in Dick speak of course, I think he actually said something about them making love or playing D&D or both at the same time and well I'm now thinking the worse. I still can't get a hold of Mac on her sidekick and I panic. The woman at the front desk won't tell me what the room number is and I'm frantic. Then I get a text from Mac to meet her on the roof. Looking back I really should have questioned why Mac wanted to meet me on the roof but like I said I'm frantic and just want to make sure she's ok. I get into the elevator so consumed in my own world I don't see him in the small enclosed space with me...
'Hello Veronica' he says.
Aaron always did know how to make my skin crawl. I try really hard not to jump and show the fear that I have towards him, but my adrenalin is pumping and my focus is on Mac so I do banter with him and then he admits to killing Lilly, and that's when the doors open and he gets out, I don't really even have time to process what just happened I have to get to the roof and find Mac.
Up on the roof I run around calling for Mac but then Cassidy steps out, he has a gun. It's not the same Cassidy I used to know, he's different, but I guess given the circumstances I can understand. He tells me that there is a bomb on Woody's plane, the same plane my dad is on bringing Woody back to justice. Cassidy allows me to try to call Dad but there is no answer and I'm bawling at this point. The explosion in the sky a few minutes later is Cassidy doing and now he is going to kill me. He uses my stun gun on me and asks how it feels having 3000 volts go through my body. I'm crumpled on the ground and while he is distracted I forward the text he sent from Mac's phone to Logan. A few minutes later Cassidy tells me to stand up, he is still pointing the gun at me saying something about how he could pin my death on Aaron. That's when I hear Logan yell 'NO'. Cassidy turns at Logan and shoots, its wide thank God, but that gives me a chance to tackle Cassidy. He pushes me off and reaches for the gun but Logan has already gotten to his feet and knocks him down and the gun goes flying. The boys are struggling when Cassidy uses my stun gun on Logan, then I fire a shot in the air, they both freeze as I point the gun at Cassidy and tell Logan to get out of the way.
'You're not a killer Veronica, give me the gun.' Logan says trying to calm me down but its no good.
'He killed my father, he killed everyone on the bus, he raped me!' I yell as tears are streaming down my face.
Logan had been shocked at the first two but then when he hears that Cassidy had raped me he looks at him wide eyed and all Cassidy can do is look sheepish and I swear he shrugged. Logan has reached me and taken the gun out of my hands, then he hugs me to him and lets out a breath then he looks back at Cassidy who is climbing onto the edge of the roof.
'Beaver don't.' he yelled.
'My name is Cassidy.' Cassidy yelled.
'Cassidy don't.' Logan said a bit softer.
'Why not?' Cassidy demands, Logan tries but honestly cant think of something to say, 'That's what I thought' he says before he steps backwards off the roof.
Logan is just staring wide-eyed and his mouth hanging open as I walk up and wrap myself around him. We stay like that for a few moments then I remember
'Mac!' I exclaim as I pull him towards the stairs.
We get into the room and she is huddled in the corner wrapped in the shower curtain.
'He took my clothes, he took everything.' she says crying and shaking. I look around and see that all the bed sheets are gone as well as anything else she could have used to cover herself to leave the room.
'Why?' she asked. I want to tell her but I can't. I just pull her into a hug and let her cry.
The next bit is all a blur to be honest. I think I passed out from exhaustion in Logan's X-terra. I'm dreaming again, of my dad and me as a little kid. In my dream dad is doing a sock puppet theater for me and then I smell bacon.
I jump out of bed and rush to the kitchen, calling for my dad, but it's Logan who turns and walks over to me wrapping his arms around me and kissing the top of my head.
'I'm sorry.' he keeps whispering.
'Do I smell bacon?' I hear from behind me.
'Dad?' I say as I rush to hug him 'I love you so much.' I babble as I tell him the details of what happened.
'Well I got in at about 3am and thought it was a little odd to see Logan here sleeping on the couch, but better the couch than elsewhere. Lamb didn't want me to be on the plane when they landed in Neptune so at the last minute I got off and rented a car to drive home.' Keith explained as he hugged me to him.
The next thing we heard was the door closing and Logan was gone. I wanted to go after him to thank him for… well for everything but I couldn't let go of my Dad.
