AN: First time in a long time that I've written any fanfiction and uploaded it, it's been at least a year. I know there's one pov change that wasn't intentional and any spelling errors or grammar mistakes are my own. I hope you guys like it.

After Lilly Kane was murdered Veronica's life was turned upside down and she knew why. Her father was the sheriff and he was sure that the Kane's were involved in some way at the very least and he was determined to prove it which didn't make it easy on his family. It seemed like most of the town felt that the Kane's had no part of it and that Sheriff Mars was making a big mistake, so big in fact that they had an emergency election and he was replaced by former deputy now Sheriff Lamb. Veronica's family under scrutiny not only with the residents of Neptune but also with the people she thought were friends.

She spent the rest of the school year, a few weeks at most, putting up with the snide comments and anything else the students of Neptune High wanted to throw at her. She didn't care what they said because she would always stand by her father, she believed him and she wanted justice for her best friend. That's why when she heard about Shelly Pomroy's party Veronica decided to go, not to torment herself but to show her former friends that what they were saying wasn't going to bother her. She'd planned on staying for a few hours before heading back to her house, well apartment, but that didn't happen. It was all fuzzy though, all she remembered was being handed a drink though she wished she knew who had handed it to her. After that she didn't know what happened all she knew was she woke up in one of the rooms in Shelly Pomroy's house with her underwear on the floor.

Reporting it to the sheriff hadn't gotten her anywhere in fact it got a good laugh out of Lamb and her being shooed away as if she was making it up. After that she hadn't really told anyone though it didn't seem like it stayed that way. Shelly's party was for the end of the school year which meant that she was doomed to spend the summer alone while her former friends spread rumors about her. She'd ignored the comments when she saw the 09ers but what she couldn't ignore was the group of PCHers that were waiting for her when she was leaving her dad's PI office, the office where she helped her father with his detective agency.

That particular summer day had been rather uneventful up until this point and she couldn't think of anything she had done to piss of the local biker gang but here they were anyway. Her car was surrounded and all she had to defend herself with was her stun gun though she had a feeling one stun gun was going scare them off. Everyone else seemed scared of them but she knew that it was the 09ers that were the real threat, at least that's what she thought after everything they did to her though it didn't mean she wasn't scared of the PCHers and lucky for them she didn't have Backup with her.

With a deep breath she finished locking the the outside door since she was the last to leave before walking over to where her car was, not that she would be able to actually get in it. Her blue eyes were on the leader, Eli Navarro better known as Weevil as she approached, ignoring the cat calls some of his buddies were giving her. "What do I owe the pleasure of having the PCHers waiting for me? Have you been stealing Lambs hubcaps again?" she teased, trying to make this seem less serious than it really was. Veronica knew that her father was going to flip when he heard that the PCHers had been here after he left. Her blue eyes watched as a smirk crossed Weevil's face at her words, her hand slipping into her bag to get her stun gun ready just in case they wanted a fight.

"See I thought about it but didn't feel like disrupting his date with his tv. Nah I'd rather be here, trying to figure out if we can get away with this...car if you can call it that," Eli retorted though he had been thinking about it. The LeBaron that they surrounded had once been a nice car but now it was marred with lines that spelled out the word 'slut' among others. It had been Felix who had come to him and all the rest of the PCHers one day with the rumors that were being said about the blonde. After a few laughs Eli had decided that he wanted to see what was really up with her and now he knew that she was being messed with.

"Lucky me, not only are the 09ers making my life miserable by vandalizing it but they've hired the PCHers to steal it," she sighed and glared at the males that were smirking though they looked rather confused. Part of Veronica hoped that Eli had been joking, that they weren't going to steal her car, she didn't want her dad following her around more than he seemed too.

"It's like you don't even know me at all, V. You really think I'd steal your car because some rich boys paid me? No offense but this car isn't worth it besides you haven't done anything to piss me off. Nah I'm here because a little birdie told me something interesting about you," he smirked again.

"Well if it's about me it's probably true, especially if the 09ers are saying it." She had paled visibly and her voice lacked the sarcasm it normally had. She didn't like what he'd just said or the fact that he, and his gang, were now smirking at her. Veronica also caught how some of them were looking her up and down.

Her blue eyes watched Eli climb off his bike and move towards her, Felix in tow before he turned and the other just stood there. She watched as he walked closer to her then passed her to a spot far enough away for the rest of the PCHers to pretend they didn't hear anything but close enough in case he needed them. "What Weevil? What's so important you had to wait for me with your buddies?" she asked, rather annoyed by the whole ordeal.