This is my first Veronica Mars story, let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Veronica kept hazing in and out between dreams and reality she didn't know what was real anymore. She felt a soft touch on her shoulder and rolled over onto her back. She looked up, Duncan was leaning over her "Veronica…" he whispered. For a moment all the thoughts in her head cleared.

"Kane" she sighed back and beckoned her to him. She pushed her hands through his hair and moaned when his lips touched hers.

"I love you" Kane said kissing her neck.

Her world blurred again and everything went fuzzy.

Veronica blinked a couple of times, her brain felt fuzzy. She pushed herself up, off of the white crinkled sheets. 'What happened last night?' she thought to herself 'why am I here?' She swung her feet over the edge of the bed, her body felt sore. She looked down and saw her white underwear lying discarded on the floor. 'Oh my god!' her brain searched frantically for answers but there were none. "No no no" she muttered and felt the tears slide down her cheeks.

The walk to her car was not only physically painful with her hangover but mentally too. She got to her car and unlocked the door. As she got into the drivers seat she winced. She took one last look at the large house and then drove herself home.

As she took out her key to her apartment she took in a deep breath, her father being the man that he was, could smell a lie from a mile away. How was she going to explain why she was getting home at eight the next morning when she was supposed to be home at eleven the night before? Or more importantly the fact that she had just been raped. She was surprised her father hadn't already sent out the entire police force looking for her.

She slowly opened the door, looking for the sight of her father waiting on the couch with a scowl on his face but he wasn't there. Veronica looked around and noticed a piece of paper stuck to the fridge. She walked over and took it off the fridge. It was a note from her dad saying that he was sorry he couldn't be home for supper but he had gotten a call from a friend who needed some help and that he would see her in the morning.

Veronica was almost disappointed, on one hand even though she didn't want to tell her dad about what had happened she wished she was wrapped in his arms right now. He always knew what to do to make her feel better.

She went to the bathroom and took a warm shower, when she was finished she got into her pyjamas, rolled her white dress from the night before into a ball and shoved it into the back of her closet. She lay down on her bed and shoved her head into her pillow, letting her emotions over take her and she cried. Soon she was fast asleep.

Keith opened the door to the apartment and was almost knocked over by the force of Back-up jumping on him.

"Whoa Buddy" Keith said patting his head and moving into the living room. It was just after noon, later than he had expected to be home but he had run into some difficulties the night before.

He took off his jacket ready for a good nap, he supposed that Veronica was out but when he went to go into his room he saw through the crack between the doors that Veronica was curled up on her side fast asleep.

He opened the door to her room and went to sit beside her on the bed. It wasn't normal for her to sleep in so late; she was normally up at seven when she would take Back-up for a walk. Now he understood the dog's eagerness when he had seen him. He hadn't been out for his walk yet that morning. Keith looked over to the door, where Back-up stood whimpering.

Keith wasn't sure, but he had a feeling that not all was right in Veronica's world. Well at least more so than when he last checked. He knew that the whole Lilly Kane death was hard on Veronica and he also knew that the only times that Veronica slept in past seven was when she had gotten barley any sleep at all.

"Veronica" he said nudging her side. He put his hand on her arm and squeezed gently. Veronica jumped awake and he saw fear in her eyes before her mask fell and she realised it was him.

"Hey dad" she said quietly "you're home late."

"Yeah" Keith said "Things took longer than I thought they would." Her reaction to his hand on her arm had surprised him. Something was definitely off and he was determined to find out.

Veronica was slightly nervous he could tell, though she did cover it up very well. "How was the party last night?" he asked "Everything go alright?"

"Yeah it was fine." Veronica said, she looked over to the door like she was trying to plan her escape root.

"That's good to hear. What time did you get back?" Keith asked.

"Oh just around eleven maybe a little later." Veronica said not giving anything away.

"Really?" Keith asked "Well that's hard for me to believe when I left here at eleven thirty." Keith felt bad, he knew that was a lie, he left right after ten but he had to know what had happened.

Veronica shook her head "Okay so I had a little bit too much rum and coke, Veronica left out the part about the ruffie, and had to wait till I sobered up before I could drive home." Veronica gave him a 'just drop it' look "I'm sorry okay?" she said.

Keith knew that couldn't be the whole story but Back-up took that moment to bark at them and cry.

"Listen dad I gotta take Back-up for a walk before he pees on the carpet." Veronica said standing up and walking over to the pitbull.

Keith knew that Veronica wasn't gonna say anything more at the moment; he would have to bring it up again later.

"Alright" he said standing up "I need to take a nap anyways." he walked past Veronica and went to go into his room.

"Dad?" Veronica said behind him and he turned back around before he was completely out of the room.

Veronica walked over to him and gave him a hug, Keith hugged her back as he felt her let out a deep breath she had been holding in. He wished he knew what was wrong.