Title: Losing a part of you

Chapter Title: Prologue
Rating: T
Reasons for rating: nothing too major
Ships: For now Veronica/Duncan, Logan/Lilly, Eventually Logan/Veronica
Summary: What happens when you lose the love of your life? Slight AU.

Word Count: 1550
Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars or any of the Characters.

Author's Note: This idea just came to me, and I let it come. I want to try something new. I hope you like it. This is just the prologue, and then I'll get to the rest of the story. Let me know what you think.

XOXOXOXOXO

October 3rd, 2003 will always be burned into my memory. It was the day my life took a turn for the worst. You see my life used to be all butterflies, daisies, and unicorns. I had the perfect everything. Perfect parent's who loved each other, the best friends a girl could ask for, my first boyfriend/love, and the perfect town. We even had the perfect house with the little white fence outside. It was all very Brady Bunch, and I couldn't have been happier.

Here's where it all went wrong. That day My boyfriend Duncan, his sister Lilly, and her boyfriend Logan and I were spending the day at the beach. Logan and Duncan were surfing with there buddies Dick and his brother Cassidy aka The Beaver. Lilly, Madison, Meg and I were lounging out on the beach soaking up the sun. Now most people would think it's too cold to be lounging on the beach in nothing but bikini's. Lucky for us, we live in sunny California.

That night we stayed at the beach where there was a bonfire. Logan had his arm around Lilly and Duncan had his arm around me as we sat by the fire roasting marshmallows. We were all goofing off and having a great time, until I looked down at my watch and noticed I had 10 minutes to make it home before my 11 o'clock curfew. After all, I was only a sophomore, and my dad was the town sheriff, so he was protective of me. Duncan being the awesome boyfriend he was, offered to take me home. He was 16 and had his own car. That happens when your dad is a software billionaire. We said good-bye to Logan and Lilly and left.

In the car, we were talking and having a great time, until the car behind us turned on there bright lights. Duncan took his arm off of my shoulder, and I lifted my head from his shoulder. He slowed down hoping the driver would pass them, but the other vehicle just slowed down as well. He pressed on the brakes quickly to signal the guy to pass, but he never did. When the other car slowed down even more, we thought it was over. The next thing we know, the car speeds back up and rams us from behind. I yell out as I grab a firm hold on the dashboard. Duncan curses and speeds up hoping to out race the other car. He asks me if I'm ok just as the car behind us rams into us harder causing Duncan to lose control of the car. He swerves trying to gain control, but now the other car was on his side ramming us towards the guardrail that was our only protection from a 30 foot drop into the river. About a half mile in front of us was the Coronado Bridge. If we could have just made it to the bridge, we would have been ok.

Instead the other car rams into us even harder, and our car hit's the guardrail. As we hit the guardrail, the driver slows down and pushes us over the cliff. We go airborne as the view of the river gets closer and closer. All sounds stop and time slows down. Duncan reaches out and grabs my hand, trying to protect me. I hold onto his hand for dear life as my other hand stays firmly on the dashboard and my foot presses on the imaginary break petal hoping to stop the car from hitting the water. It doesn't work. The car smacks into the water and the dashboard goes up to meet my face. My world goes black as I feel Duncan's hand go slack.

I wake up and I'm shivering. My eyes take in the water that's rapidly gushing into the car. Without thinking, I look down and un fasten my seatbelt. Luckily it comes right off, and I look at Duncan. He's unconscious and the water's already up to our waists. I call out his name and shake him. He moves, but only from the force of my pushing him. He just flops around. I panic and grab at his seatbelt. I pull as hard as I can, but at that point the water's up to my elbows and my fingers are numb. I fumble with the latch, and it remains hatched.

I can feel the panic rise up in me as well as the water coming in through the windows. I try to look around outside, but all I see if water surrounding us from all angles. The only way to survive is to get Duncan out and swim to the top. But I can't seem to get him loose. I start to cry as the water comes up to my shoulders. I tilt his head back and as he's facing me, I kiss him on the lips and tell him I love him, and that I'm sorry. Then I turn to my busted window and grab a piece of broken glass. I turn to his seat belt, take a deep breath, and dive under water to his latched seatbelt. I start sawing away at the belt. At first nothing happens. But I keep at it, thankful I can hold my breath for so long. With eyes stinging, and numb fingers, I continue sawing. I get it about half way cut before I surface for more air. I look around and see the water's up to Duncan's chin. Thinking quickly, I drop the piece of glass and grab the seat belt, and yank as hard as I can.

That doesn't work so I get in front of him and bend my knees to either side of him. I look at his face and notice he's waking up. He looks into my face, and as reality starts to sink in, I see the panic start to rise in his eyes. I tell him his seatbelts stuck, but at this time he has to keep his head back in order to breath. I feel his hands over mine, and we pull as hard as we can, but it's no use. It's like it was made of steel. His arms still, and he bend his head enough to look me in the eyes. His eyes are full of determination. He tells me to go. I gape at him, and refuse. We make it out together, or not at all. He puts his hands on my waist and pushes me towards the broken window. He shouts this time for me to go. I'm crying to hard to answer him. I can see the water moving and realize he's still pulling at the seatbelt. The water has reached his mouth that's sticking straight up into the air. He takes a deep breath and ducks under water. I watch in horror as he struggles to pull the seatbelt loose. Without thinking. I take a deep breath and dive under water to look for the piece of glass. I only find it because it cuts my finger. I pick it up and start violently hacking at the seatbelt. Duncan continues to struggle, but not as strong as before. He's starting to loose air.

As hard as I can, I start sawing away at the seatbelt. Finally Duncan's movements start to slow, and panic overcomes me. I resurface for air, and notice there isn't much left. I take in a huge gulp of air, and go back under water. Duncan's eye's are starting to close. He mouths that he loves me. I respond by putting my lips on his mouth and opening it. I blow out all my air out into his mouth. I surface again for more air, and then go back under an pull as hard as I can at the strap. It finally snaps, and we both rush to the surface for air. We breathe out sighs of relief. My whole body is shaking and shivering as I try not to get hysterical. I've made it this far, all we have to do is make it out of the car and to the surface. Duncan tells me this is it. We take a deep breath, and he pushes me out of the window. When I make it through, I turn to him and notice him coming through. Once he is clear, he grabs my hand and we swim as hard and as fast as we can to the surface.

As we get closer to the top, I start to notice a white light. I think it's the moon, but it's too big, and keeps moving. I start to hallucinate and think it's the white light to Heaven. All I have to do is reach it, and everything will be ok again. I notice that my eyes are starting to get tunnel vision, and I know that can't be good. I feel one of my arms is by my side. I look down and remembered Duncan was there with me, only he isn't moving as fast as I am. He's starting to slow down. With all my might I lift up my arm holding him. I put my arm around his waist and try to swim harder. My tunnel vision starts to get smaller, as my lungs burn from lack of oxygen. I open my mouth to scream out in panic, just as my head breaks the surface. I take in a huge gulp of air, and I bob back under. I look to see what's weighing me down, and I realize it's Duncan. As I break the surface again, and try to keep both our balances, the bright light I was focused on before shines in my face. As sound floods back to me, I can hear shouting and splashing all around me. There are men in wet suits making there way towards us. I make sure Duncan's head is leaning back and out of the water. As the men reach us, they try to separate us, but I won't let go of Duncan. They fight me on this, but in the end, I won. Thankfully I didn't have to do anything else as the men did the swimming for me. But as my muscles starting to relax, exhaustion took over.

As soon as we made it to the surface, I lay down on my back and just concentrate on breathing. But being on my back like that, I start to cough and the men help me roll onto my side. As the yelling gets closer, I realize it's my father calling out to me. He reaches me and throws his arms around my shaking shoulders. This whole time my hand still stayed attached to Duncan's limp hand. I look up into my father's tear soaked face as he sobs about how he almost lost me. His words almost seem foreign to me as I fight my exhaustion. I feel a tug my the hand that's Duncan's and notice his parent's are surrounding him as his mother holds him in her arms as she's sobbing and rocking him back and forth. I look up and notice Lilly and Logan were there as well. They were staring at Duncan with tears streaming down there faces as they hug each other with all there strength. They lift there gaze and notice me staring at them. Lilly covers her mouth and runs off crying. Logan looks conflicted, but eventually follows Lilly. I lay my head back down, and finally let the tunnel vision take over as it fades to black.