Seeking out the truth
Part 1
Pretty much the same season 1 of Veronica Mars but in this once, Veronica is almost 16 at the end of season 1. She's still the same as in the show and Keith dies at the end of the season when Aaron attacks him. Leanne hasn't left town yet.
The Vampire Diaries: Klaus could reproduce before he broke the curse if he had sex with a willing human that wasn't compelled in any way and whose blood he didn't drink, also he didn't know about it (just go with it). Beginning of season 4 after Klaus is back in his body and before he daggers Rebekah. Elijah and Kol are alive and in the Mystic Fall's house with him when this starts.
Leanne Mars had kept a lot of secrets in her life, such as her problem with alcohol, her several different affairs and her problem with keeping money in her bank account long enough to last the month but the biggest secret she had kept in her entire life was her daughter's paternity.
When Keith, her husband, had started getting doubts about Veronica really being his daughter a few years ago, Leanne simply ignored it and let him think that, maybe, Jake Kane was the biological father of her daughter and she was completely fine with this but now that Keith Mars died (a hero as he saved his daughter's life from the man who had killed her best friend a year ago), she was faced with a new dilemma.
She could simply face all of her problems and try taking care of her own daughter, who by the way was already very smart and independent, but Leanne hated having to face her problems because that would mean having to admit having problems in the first place. No. She couldn't stay with her daughter and she couldn't take Veronica with her somewhere else either.
She could simply let everyone think that Jake Kane was Veronica's father but she knew her 16 years old daughter would be miserable living with Jake and Celeste. Plus, if Celeste convinced Jake to do a paternity test, Veronica would find herself on the street, wondering who her father really is.
She also could tell her daughter the truth about her father…
As hard as it would be to believe, she did have someone she could call, someone that would be able to contact Veronica's biological father.
Surely he could take a while in his eternity and take care of her until she was 18…
She took her phone out and dialed the number she knew by heart.
"Hello?" A male voice answered.
"Derek? It's Leanne Mars… Reynolds I mean… Leanne Reynolds. I need to speak with him." She said seriously, swallowing her saliva.
Back then she had introduced herself with her maiden name, even though she was married with Keith already at the time.
"Are you sure?" The male voice asked her.
"Yes, I am. It's very important…an emergency." Leanne replied.
"Are you reachable at this number?"
"Yes, I am." She replied.
"I'll call him right away." The voice said before he hung up.
Leanne sighted.
She hadn't kept in touch with Klaus after their brief affair together but she did keep the number of one of his witch contacts, just in case. She sought him out after she found out that she was pregnant, when she cut her hand and it healed right up. It had been proof enough for her that Klaus was the father and she had kept the secret until this day because she didn't want to lose Keith at the time, thinking that nobody had to know.
If her fast healing cut hadn't been enough, the fact that Veronica herself always healed much faster than normal human was proof enough. Her daughter very rarely got sick and it never lasted long. It had to have something to do with who her father was.
She knew that one day, she would have no choice but to tell her daughter the truth about who her father was and this phone number was her only way to get in touch with Klaus, the powerful vampire hybrid.
She still remembered the day she met him. It was the early days of her marriage and Keith was at some sort of week-long work convention out of town. She was feeling lonely and since her usual entertainment Jake Kane was busy with his newly born baby, she went in a bar in LA. That's where she met Klaus.
He had immediately understood that she just wanted to have a good time and he seemed to be feeling lonely. They talked. They connected. He told her that he was a thousand year old vampire that was lonely, ready to kill her if she panicked.
She accepted it.
They had sex.
The same ritual repeated for a week and the day Keith came back, Klaus left town. During that week though, she had met a few of Klaus' contacts in LA, along which a male witch that seemed to be very close to Klaus and whose name and phone number she had kept preciously for the past 16 years, just in case.
Now here she was, waiting for the vampire she hadn't talked to in 16 years to call her so she could tell him that the impossible had happened. She knew that he wouldn't be expecting it because when they had sex for the first time, he told her that vampires couldn't reproduce, explaining why using a condom wasn't necessary.
The sudden ringing of her cell phone brought her back to reality, interrupting her memories and she answered the number she didn't recognize, hopping it would all be over soon, that she would be free of her responsibilities and able to leave her daughter and go back to her own life.
"Leanne speaking." She said nervously.
"Leanne, it's been a while… I've been told that you needed to talk to me, that it was an emergency…What can be so important after 16 years?" A voice she hadn't heard in 16 years said with an English accent.
"I… You're not going to believe what I have to tell you but trust me, it's the truth…" She started.
"I'm all ears, Love." Klaus replied, his smile audible in his voice.
"I don't know if you're aware but I have a daughter…"
"I didn't know that, no… I don't exactly keep track of all of my sex partners' lives. Why don't you just tell me what's so important Leanne? I just reunited with Elijah, Rebekah and Kol and I have other fishes to fry at the moment." He told her.
"Well, it's kind of related… Listen, I'm just going to come out and say it how it is… My daughter is almost 16 years old and her father recently died… Well, not her father, my husband, but she thinks he's her father… Anyway, I can't take care of her so I don't have a choice but to tell her who her biological father is in hopes that he'll take care of her, look after her, at least until she turns 18. You are her father." Leanne announced and she heard something fall on Klaus's end of the phone.
"That's very funny Leanne. I'm a vampire remember? I can't procreate." Klaus snapped while he glared at Rebekah who had dropped an ancient and valuable book on the floor when she heard what Leanne told him.
Now all of his siblings were around him, wanting to know the truth.
"I don't know how it's possible but apparently it is Klaus. When I was pregnant I accidentally cut my hand while cooking and it healed right up and Veronica, that's your daughter's name by the way, she barely ever gets sick, she heals super fast when she gets cuts and she's much smarter than your average human, which we both know she didn't get from me." Leanne rushed the words out in fear he would hang up before she could convince him.
"This can't happen!" He snapped as his siblings sat down.
"Well, it did and I'm not taking care of her. You don't have a choice, she's your daughter and if you don't take care of her she'll just end up alone on the street or in a foster home where she'll be nothing more than a meal ticket and a punching bag." Leanne snapped.
"Stay on the phone, wait a minute." Klaus told Leanne before he put the phone down and took a big, calming breath.
"What kind of mother is she? How horrible!" Rebekah exclaimed.
"She gives our mother a run for her money." Kol added.
"Have you ever heard of anything like this? Could it happen?" Klaus asked his siblings, Elijah mainly.
"I… I don't know… We definitely should go over there and check it out… Ask your closest witch contact to do a spell or something." Elijah advised as the other nodded.
"Pack a bag, we're going to California." Klaus told his siblings before he took the phone in his hand and told Leanne:
"I'm on my way, I'll be there by tomorrow morning. You better be there when I arrive. Text me your address right now." Klaus told her before he hung up.
.
As soon as he hung up and received the address, Klaus rushed to his bedroom and packed a bag while Elijah arranged for them to get a private jet as soon as possible. He knew that they all started hoping that it was true, that they had a new family member.
Before Derek called him they all had been on the verge of an argument and now it seemed to be forgotten by them all. They were all united in this small hope that he had a daughter that needed him. Hope for redemption for him, humanity for them all.
He remembered reading somewhere that hope was a powerful thing. He could see it now.
So, this is the first part of this new story... I don't know how long it's going to be. I guess it depends on my inspiration.
I think I know who I'm going to pair Veronica with but I'm open to suggestions. It'll be someone from TVD.
Leave a review behind please, it's important for me to know if you like it or not.
Lorelei Candice Black