A/N This is a continuation of One Drunk Veronica hence One Drunk Veronica Part Two. I ended the previous chapter there because that was how the episode had ended, with the elevator door closing. But as a LoVe shipper, I understand your sorrow at them not being a couple at the end so I wrote this. When I began writing, it just flew out of me. Anyway I hope you enjoy reading, it's a really long chapter!

~~VM~~

Logan raced down the staircase with hope to catch her. Not only was she crying but she was in no condition to drive and as far as he knew all her friends were inside his suite.

He sprinted down and thanked the heavens for his elongated legs. When he'd reached the lobby, he saw the elevator door open with people entering in but there was no sight of Veronica. He cursed as he ran outside as an attempt to stop her from leaving.

When he'd gotten outside he spotted his 'fun-sized' as she liked to call herself ex-girlfriend seated on the bench with her hands drowning her face out of the world.

"Veronica," he whispered softly as he squatted on the ground beside her.

Veronica's head flew up; she hadn't expected him to follow her out. Her eyes widened when she noticed they were face to face because of his lowered position. His face was so close to her that if she leaned in a few centimetres they would kiss. She felt her stomach cringe and the vomit come up once more, she hurried away and in the process she knocked Logan over.

He fell to the ground in shock but had quickly gotten to his feet to help Veronica, who had just thrown up in one of the outdoor bins.

"Babe? Baby? Are you okay?" He leaned over and brushed her hair out of her face.

She grunted. "I'm gonna kill Dick Casablancas," she muttered before she puked once more.

"You can't drive like this," he said concerned.

"No duh Shitlock," she mumbled while hunched over.

"Come on," he tried to get her to stand up.

"No, I don't wanna go back there," she refused as she stumbled up and away from him. "I wanna go home," she declared as she started to walk away from him.

"Okay, I'll take you home," he suggested.

"No!" She pushed him away. "Go back to your party Logan; just-just leave me alone."

Logan refused to obey her words. He knew that she needed him and there was no way he was about to leave her. "I'm not gonna do that Veronica, I don't care about the stupid party okay?"

Without missing a beat Veronica retorted, "And what about your stupid girlfriend?" Her eyes widened and she clamped a hand over her mouth in shock of the words that came out. "I didn't mean that," she briskly said as she began to walk away from him.

"Logan!" Parker shouted for his attention and walked closer toward them. "What are you doing?" She demanded to know.

"Veronica's sick," he simply stated.

Parker snorted as she retorted, "Veronica's drunk."

"Veronica's fine," Veronica grunted at the two giants that were silently huffing at each other.

"You threw up, three times," Logan pointed out, obviously disagreeing with her statement.

"She says she's fine Logan, whereas I am not."

"Did you drink off Dick's flask too?" Veronica tilted her head as she asked the question with seriousness.

"No," Parker looked at her in confusion.

Logan sighed, he already felt tired of this conversation. "I'm gonna take her home, she's not in any shape to wonder off by herself."

Parker pouted. "Logan, it's my birthday." She then glared. "And you're ditching me for your ex-girlfriend?"

"She's my friend, she's your friend and she's our guest. It's our responsibility-"

"Yeah? When have you ever been responsible? If this were anybody else from our guest list you wouldn't give a damn about them."

"She's our friend!"

Unbeknown to the couple who was now yelling at each other, Veronica slipped away.

~~Logan's Suite~~

"I like Veronica," Miranda said while she pouted at Veronica's absence.

Piz's eyes widened as he gave Wallace a look, 'I told you! Veronica was stealing my date!'

Wallace rolled his eyes and tried to ignore how ridiculous his roommate sounded when he stated, "I'm gonna go after Vee."

"I'll go with you," Mac stated.

"Dude, Logan's already gone after her," Dick told them like they had nothing to worry about because Logan Echolls was on the job.

Wallace snorted. "Logan? He's the reason she got drunk, threw up and ran away in the first place," Wallace snarled.

Dick shook his head in disagreement. "Nah-uh she totally downed my flask all on her own, and Logan was beating up," he turned around and pointed to the guy with a bleeding nose, "that guy and she ran away 'cause she puked all over herself."

"Shut up Dick," Mac growled.

"Make me," Dick mocked.

Mac threw him a look of disgust as she pushed past him to follow Veronica. Dick looked at the party go-ers and frowned, this party blows. "Dude, will I get booze if I come with?"

~~Outside Neptune Grand~~

Logan glanced at Veronica and was shocked to see that the petite woman in question was nowhere in sight.

"Where the fuck is Veronica?" His eyes widened when he looked at the empty space as he ran a hand through his hair.

"Same thing I'd like to know," Wallace glared at Logan.

"You didn't get in an argument with Veronica, right?" Mac quizzed Parker who'd looked at the whiz in disbelief. Mac shrugged as if to say, 'I'm just asking.'

"Yeah, Logan's so got Veronica," Piz remarked sarcastically.

"Dude, you lost Veronica?" Dick's eyes were wide in disbelief and his express as a child watching their favourite hero dropped their favourite leading lady.

Logan swallowed hard.

"Hey Logan!" Tina called. "You might want to get your girlfriend from the bar. I tried to take her away but she tried to get me to dance with her."

Parker's mouth dropped open and she looked at Logan with disbelief, they were broken up for barely a minute and that woman referred to Veronica as Logan's girlfriend already.

Dick's mouth dropped open in excitement. Logan totally turned Veronica gay! He laughed.

~~Inside Neptune Grand Bar~~

"Who wants to paaaaaaarty toniiiiight?" Veronica's slurry voice boomed through the speakers as she held the microphone tightly in her grasp. The crowd yelled in chorus that they wanted to and Veronica was very happy with their response as she shouted, "I wanna party tonight! Whoa!" She laughed and the voices around her seemed to do so as well. "I wanna sing! I loooove singing!"

The crowd cheered her on and she began to sing – more like shout out the words. "Ah was workin' in a waitress by the cocktail bar! I think it's true!" The words were off and made the song mean something else entirely.

The crowd seemed to enjoy Veronica's version as she shouted and jumped up and down while she bobbed her head to the beat.

"'Pick cha up and shook 'em up and turned ya around oohh," Veronica badly pronounced the words as she swayed her hips. "Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oooh?"

"I want you! I do!" One of the guys yelled.

Logan came on stage and threw Veronica over his shoulder but Veronica still had the microphone in her hand as she laughed. "I think he wants me toooo ohhh." Logan grabbed it from her hand and handed it to Tina, who'd come in with him. But Veronica still shouted out her song. "'Cause he didn't believe me when I said we're through oooh. He said I didn't need 'em but I didn't believe 'em 'cause we're like gluuuueee. Say you want me baby! Say you want me ooooh," Veronica giggled as everyone in the bar cheered for her.

Logan had taken her outside the hotel, the whole crew followed except Parker and Piz. They debated for a few minutes before deciding that they would all go with Veronica. Logan decided to drive, Dick called shotgun so Wallace, Veronica and Mac sat in the back in that order.

"What in the freakin' name of hell made you think it was a good idea to drink more?" Logan snapped at the blonde.

Veronica pouted like a child caught sneakin' off to her friends party while she was grounded but after a few minutes she beamed and said, "You duh!"

"I never told you that," he glanced at her with a frown as he started his SUV.

Wallace glared at Logan for yelling at his BFF and snapped, "What makes you think that it's a good idea to yell at a drunken person? I doubt she's gonna remember it in the mornin'."

"I never forget things!" Veronica exclaimed astonished. "Y'know back when you liked me?" Her wide eyes and Logan wondered which time she was referring to as he stopped himself from remarking that he still liked her, actually loved her. "And we were like friends?" Her slurry drunken voice sounded drowsy. Logan sighed; she was referring to when Lilly was alive. They never spoke much about the past. "You told me, that the best way to cure a hangover was to drink more!" She shouted in a child-like way in order to prove her point.

She then leaned over to Mac and whispered quite loudly, "he's the one that forgets things y'know. He said I was his epic love, spanning years and continents, lives ruined, bloodshed. Epic. B-but he forgot about that the next mornin'." She forwent the faked whispering tone. Logan always wondered what he had said on the night of alternate prom, Veronica teased him about it but she never told him what she'd said. Now, that he'd heard it he felt as though he'd always known it, like it was always there.

"And-and he forgot about that when he dumped me!" Veronica looked as though she was about to cry. "He dumped me." She leaned away from Mac and into Wallace's chest. "It still hurts Papa Bear," she nuzzled her face into his jacket, hiding it away from the rest of the world. Wallace wrapped his arms around his best friend with concern washing over him.

"It'll be okay Vee," he whispered into her hair as he tried to calm her down. No one except Wallace knew that the petite blonde had started to cry. Wallace protected her, he made sure to cover her up with his arms so that they didn't notice because he knew Veronica wouldn't want Logan and Dick see her cry. Hell, he rarely got to see her cry. He regretted not making her deal with her break up with Logan because when she'd told him she was okay, he knew that she was lying.

"I want the Logan that loves me back," she murmured into Wallace's chest and he was certain that he was the only one that heard it and as much as he hated to admit it he knew that Logan was the only one that could fix Veronica's broken heart.

~~Mars Residence: Next Morning~~

"Oh my god, oh my god, please tell me that I slept my yesterday away and me, drinking, singing and dancing was just a terrible nightmare!" She exclaimed.

Mac felt bad for her friend as she drawled out, "Veronica…"

Veronica started to pace around her room and mumble to herself, "Oh God, this is bad. This is very bad."

"You had your college girl experience and post-break-up melt down. It happens, so I've heard," Mac tried to calm down Veronica.

Logan came into the room with a bright smile and cheery expression. "Good morning Sugarpuss."

Veronica glared at him before her eyes widened and she questioned, "What are you doing here?"

"I brought over your hangover cure," he handed it to her. It smelt terrible and tasted just as bad but it always did the trick. Veronica made a grossed out face but downed the horrible 'cure'.

"He stayed over last night," Mac said when Veronica had finished her drink.

"You knew he was here and you didn't tell me!" She exclaimed. "Why did you stay here anyway?" She questioned Logan.

"Well, I couldn't throw him out, Backup likes him more," Mac complained as her lips settled in a pout.

Veronica's gaze went to Wallace who shrugged and simply said, "You wanted him to stay."

"True, you were like, 'don't you want me baby? Stay with me oooh' and then you kissed me!" Logan stated and looked rather smug about it.

Veronica frowned, "It wasn't a kiss. It was a peck, on the side of your mouth!"

Logan grinned, happy that she remembered that.

"I do not need to hear this," Wallace stated. "I'm taking Backup for a walk while y'all finish your girl talk."

Mac glared at Wallace for leaving her alone with them. "I'll go with you!" She blurted out.

"No!" Veronica objected. "You have to back me up here."

"It's not like I saw it besides I do have to get back to the dorm, Parker's alone and after the break-up," Mac bit her lip. "I'll call ya later."

"Dude! Where's my pants?" Dick shouted from the Mars lounge.

Veronica's mouth dropped open. "What the hell happened last night?" Veronica yelled and all of her friends froze in their positions.

Wallace had Backup's leach in his hand while Backup looked at his owner with eyes of innocence with hope that she'd not be angry with him for fighting with the boy with the shaggy hair. Then Backup glared at Dick and swore that he'd never reveal the whereabouts of the torn pants.

Mac had her hand on the door knob, ready to bolt.

Dick stood in front of the sofa with only his boxer shorts on and a bewildered expression on his face.

Logan stood beside Veronica and he's expression portrayed the expression 'it wasn't me.'

"Well aren't you gonna find out who did it?" Dick looked at Veronica expectantly.

Veronica looked at him weirdly for a second and then sighed when he continued to give her that look. "Did what Dick?"

"Took my pants, duh."

Veronica sighed. "Who took Dick's pants?" Everyone turned to Logan which Dick noticed and then glared at his best friend.

"This is payback for the lesbian thing isn't it?" Dick accused. "Totally isn't my fault if you turned Ronnie gay dude!"

Logan scoffed as he glared back at Dick. "Dude! I didn't take your damned pants!"

"I'm not gay," Veronica denied and sounded offended at Dick's words. Not that she had a problem with lesbians and gays; she just wasn't one of them. Her life would be easier if she were one though.

"I didn't take the pants," Wallace said.

"I'd be scared to even touch his pants," Mac shuddered.

"Did you even come with pants?" Veronica quizzed.

"Did I?" He asked to no one in particular. And then he glared at Backup. "It was him." Dick pointed in accusation. Backup grunted and turned his head away.

"Oh my god Dick, my dog didn't take your pants!" She rolled her eyes at the blonde surfer. Backup wagged his tail, pleased that his mistress was on his side.

"Now, all of you sit!" Veronica commanded. She then pointed at Dick and ordered, "You, put newspaper under your butt!" Dick pouted but grabbed the paper and then sat on the coach. "Explain what happened last night. I remember run-" she corrected herself, "leaving Parker's party and then Logan came after me and then him and Parker started arguing so I went back in and-"

"Got more drunk?" Logan interjected.

"Whatever," Veronica gave him a dirty look. "That's all I remember. There's parts in between but it's kind of fuzzy."

"Well we found you and you were singing 'Don't you want me baby," Wallace provided.

"Way off key, and note, and words, you basically made up your own song," Mac inputted.

"At least it rhymed," Logan complimented with a half-shrug. He'd have to get that video from Dick.

"And Logan was like that Fred and totally picked you up and threw you over his shoulders and like totally saved you from more embarrassment," Dick said proudly and then gave Logan a wink as to say, 'I totally got you covered dude.' Which Logan returned with a glare, he knew Veronica was not going to be happy with that bit off information.

"Who the hell is Fred?" Veronica gritted.

Dick gave her a bizarre look and said, "Flintstone, Fred Flintstone. Dude's awesome."

"Wow, Dick watches something other than porn," Mac remarked.

"You threw me over shoulder!" She fired at Logan.

"Totally caveman style, he's rockin' the rock age!" Dick laughed.

Dick really wasn't Logan's favourite person at the moment. He smirked and countered, "You seemed to like it last night, you were like, 'say you like me baby'."

Veronica huffed.

"Anyway we took you home after that."

"So how did this happen?" She gestured to everyone.

"Well, Logan wanted to take you home and I wouldn't let you go home alone with him," Wallace answered.

"I wanted to make sure you didn't die while they killed each other," Mac explained which Veronica lifted an eyebrow to.

"Dude, you're a fun drunk!" Dick exclaimed excitedly. "And my promised threesome was a total scam to get back at me."

Veronica didn't even want to ask about that. "And when we got here?" Veronica inquired.

"Logan refused to let anyone drive his car and he didn't want to leave your side," Dick said sourly. He'd really wanted to go back to the Grand because Veronica's dog clearly wanted to kill him in his sleep. If the dog hadn't been locked in Veronica's room, he'd have walked to the Grand or something.

"And I wasn't gonna leave you alone with him," Wallace announced.

"I wasn't gonna leave you alone with three guys. Who'd stop Logan and Wallace from killing each other or Logan from killing Dick? Dick would probably cheer Logan on. And Wallace would probably be happy if there was one less of them. Oh yeah and Dick wanted to kill your dog and was then scared of Backup killing him, thankfully Logan stopped Backup."

"And what was I doing?"

"Sleeping," Mac briskly answered.

"I didn't do anything else?"

"Nope, you were pretty wasted," Wallace stated.

"Oh, okay." Veronica breathed out a sigh of relief. "Well thank you for taking care of me and bringing me home and staying with me and thank you Mac for being peacemaker." She truly was thankful to have them in her life, Dick not so much but he was there for her as well apparently, and it counted for something but she wasn't about to tell him that.

"No problem, Vee, you know I always got your back," Wallace smiled.

"Yeah Bond, we're a team, we stick together."

"Dude, I'm hungry!" Dick exclaimed, he wasn't into the mushy stuff and he was starving.

Veronica sighed. "There's-"

"There's pancakes on the kitchen table," Logan provided, he'd initially wanted to make them for Veronica only but he knew that she'd share hers because she'd feel bad if she were eating and they weren't so he'd made extra.

"Sweet!" Dick grinned as he sprinted to the kitchen.

"Okay, I'll see ya in a bit," Wallace said with a soft smile as he headed out with Backup.

"I'll see you later Vee," Mac told her as she followed Wallace.

"I'll drop you off," Logan offered, after all he was the only one with a vehicle here.

"Can you take Dick too before he eats all my pancakes?" Veronica whispered pleadingly.

Logan nodded. "I'll be back after I shower."

Veronica did a double take at him words. "Why?"

"We need to talk," he said, his face serious but his eyes sincere.

"N-no we don't," she argued. She didn't want to deal with anything that may or may not have happened last night. Couldn't they just block it out as one of those things that didn't happen?

"Yeah we do," he sighed. "And Dick will probably make sure he eats all the pancakes he sets his sights on. I left some in the oven for you."

Logan leaned over and pressed a kiss on her cheek which made the spot burn. She was so stunned at not only his words but his tone. It was clear that he was coming back and it didn't matter if she'd said yes or no.

"I'll see you in a while," he gave her a soft smile and leaned away and called on, "Dick! Come on man, let's go."

Dick looked at Logan; his mouth stuffed with pancakes and then carries the rest of the pancakes in the plate with him.

~~Logan's SUV~~

"I called shotgun! It's only fair that I sit shotgun!" Dick argued with the petite brunette that had red streaks in her hair.

"You called shotgun last night! You can't call shotgun again!" Mac fired back.

"That's not the rules!" Dick glared at her as he held his pancakes tightly in his hand.

"Oh yeah? And how would you know?" She challenged him.

"'Cause the only rule to shotgun is the first person to call shotgun, gets to sit shotgun!"

"What about when two people call shotgun at the same time? Then it's the person who didn't get to sit shotgun last!"

"No! We duel it out in rock, paper, scissors!"

"Then let's go, surfer boy," Mac dared him.

Dick held his pancakes in one hand and then narrowed his eyes on Mac's as he leaned forward and held his hand out in a fist, "Let's go!"

Logan rolled his eyes at their childishness. Sure he'd expected this from Dick but Mac?

"Rock, paper, scissors!" They counted and both of them hand scissors. Logan drummed his fingers on the stirring wheel with an irritated expression settling on his face. They had done it once more and both had chosen rock.

Logan called out, "Both of you get in the back." He narrowed his eyes and his strict tone was parental. "Neither of you get shotgun."

"But-" They started to object but Logan cut them off with a 'you don't wanna mess with me look.'

Reluctantly Mac and Dick sat in the backseat. Mac pouted while Dick glared at Logan while he chewed on his pancakes. Logan rolled his eyes. The apocalypse had to have been near; Veronica got drunk – not just drunk but drunk dancing and singing, Dick and Mac were- he didn't even know how to label it but he knew it was anything but hateful, Wallace kind of warmed up to him when they reached to Mars apartment and Veronica's behaviour last night ignited his hope once more.

~~Mars Residence~~

When Wallace returned Veronica had already showered, changed and was now eating the pancakes that Logan had left for her.

"Hey," Wallace said as he let Backup out of his leach.

"Hey," Veronica smiled and woke up to get a plate for Wallace. Backup ran to Veronica and groaned as he wagged his tail happily. "Heya boy," she leaned down and petted him as she made funny faces in greeting.

"Veronica, last night-" Wallace started but was interrupted.

"Was a total disaster?" She supplied with a sigh. "Alcohol and me? Never again."

"Listen Veronica, I'm worried about you." Veronica met Wallace's concerned pair of dark brown eyes.

"I'm fine Wallace," she assured her best friend with a slight smile.

"No, you're really not," he wearily said which caused Veronica to frown. "I usually don't push you but last night I realised that maybe I was wrong to let you think you're fine."

"Wallace-"

"Veronica, I don't want you to look back ten years from now and regret something and I don't wanna look back and think about how I should've said something."

"I-"

"You're not fine; you're not even a little bit okay. And last night you were honest about that."

Worry filled her as she whispered her question, "What'd I say?"

Wallace gave her a gentle look. "That it hurt. And that you wanted the Logan that loves you back."

"Oh my god," horror seeped through each word as her eyes widened with dread.

Wallace shook his head and corrected Veronica's mislead thoughts. "No, you didn't say it to him. You said it to me."

"Oh." She felt a huge wave of relief but there was a part in her that felt unsettling because she knew she shouldn't have said those words at all.

"Veronica, I won't pretend that I get your weird relationship with Logan but even a blind person could see that he loves you. I think that's why Parker broke up with him."

His words did not make her feel any better, she actually felt worse. "Great, now I'm a home wrecker."

"What?"

"I'm becoming like her Wallace. I can't be her," Veronica shook her head with emotion laced in her voice.

"Like who?" He quizzed, unable to make any connections.

"My mother," she choked out. "I got the running trait down, and I prayed that that was all but I realised I'm a lot more like her than I ever wanted to be. I cheated on Leo with Logan, and apparently I'm the cause of Logan and Parker's break up, and I crossed the limit yesterday Wallace. I promised myself that I wouldn't get drunk, especially not to numb the hurt but I did and it helped."

Normally Wallace would have comforted his best friend, assured her that what she did was understandable given her situation, that she didn't mean to hurt anyone, that she was a good person and that's what counted but he decided to use her analyses as a way to help him get through to her, to make her open up more, like she had done last night minus the booze.

"So you agree that something needs to change?" Wallace asked.

Veronica frowned, "What are you saying?"

"When did you first run?"

Veronica's eyebrow furrowed at the question. "Probably two, I guess."

"Not learned to run. You're the type of girl that takes the bull by the horns so what got you to run?"

Veronica considered the question as she scanned her brain for the answer. "When Logan and I kissed after he saved me from the Fed Agent."

"Why'd you run?"

Veronica quirked an eyebrow at her best friend and retorted, "Are we having girl talk? Do you want me to get my nail polish out and a bunch of pillows for our pillow fight?"

Her sarcasm did not roll well with him as he for the first time in a long time he'd given the petite blonde a stern look. "Veronica."

Veronica pouted. She'd let him spend too much time with her father. "Because kissing him was like everything I never knew I wanted. It was like a fire ignited in the depth of my soul. It was all consuming-passion blazing-"

Wallace cringed and quickly stopped her, "Okay, enough with imagery. If you liked it why'd you run?"

Veronica gave him a pained expression. "Because I wasn't supposed to like it; he was Logan Echolls. The guy that bashed my headlights, remember?"

"How can I forget? He called it foreplay," Wallace shuddered.

"Yeah, I guess that's why I ran then."

"Why'd you run now?"

"Because, he's still Logan Echolls but now he's the guy that can break my heart, he is the guy that broke my heart." Sorrow filled her ocean blue eyes and Wallace knew that he'd been right to intervene. Veronica frowned wondered out loud, "Did he spike my pancakes with truth syrup?"

Wallace kindly ignored her last remarked and advised, "Veronica, you run because you feel like you're gonna get hurt but aren't you still getting hurt?"

"I haven't thought about it like that," she breathed out and let a thoughtful expression grace her features.

"That's why you got me. Point number two, why'd you cheat on Leo?"

"I didn't mean too, when Logan kissed me, it's like everything else fades and he's the only one there and I can't stop it because it feels so good."

Wallace looked at her with a lifted eyebrow. "It all boils down to kissing Logan?"

Veronica's mouth hung agape as she swatted Wallace's shoulder. "You kiss Logan and then talk!"

"I'll pass," he felt as though he puked a little in his mouth.

"Why'd you drink last night?"

"I couldn't deal with seeing Parker with Logan," she whispered ashamed at her behaviour.

"Why?"

"I don't know," her lie didn't go undetected by Wallace.

"Veronica," he urged her to be honest.

"I can't say it Wallace," her mouth felt dry.

"Why?"

"Because I can't take it back once it's out. I can't pretend that I feel nothing when he's with someone else. I can't-"

"You wouldn't have to because if he knew he wouldn't be with anybody but you. And last night you still couldn't handle it."

Veronica let out a teary laugh. "Great, so every logical explanation of my actions have now been disproven. I'm a mess with no reasons!"

"No," he shook his head. "You're a girl that's trying to figure it out." He gave her a reassuring smile.

Veronica blinked as though she'd had an idea. "Yeah I am. And you're right. I have to make some changes." Her confident tone made Wallace nervous when she'd stood up and headed to her room.

He followed her to her room and she opened her draws and pulled out a pair of scissors. "What are you doing?"

Veronica didn't glance away from the mirror as she took her pair of scissors in her hand. She bit her lip and hoped that it came out as nice as it had the first time. Maybe she was being drastic but she felt that this is what she needed to gain control over her messed up life. "I'm being me. I'm being the girl that cut you out of that flag pole. I'm being the girl that didn't care what people thought of her. I'm being the girl that Logan Echolls fell in love with. I'm being the girl that is nothing like her mother. I'm being the girl that's gonna get it right this time."

Wallace stood in shock as he watched her cut her long, blonde golden locks of hair.

Unlike the first time, Veronica had a smile as she watched herself in the mirror.

"Veronica?"

Her hair was the same length the day he'd first met her.

"The bitch is back baby," Veronica laughed and then turned to her BFF and quizzed, "What do you think?"

"I think you're one crazy chick Veronica Mars," he laughed and she smiled. "I think it looks badass."

She walked over to him and pulled him into a hug. "Thank you Wallace, for helping me find myself again."

~~Mac and Parker's Dorm room~~

"I'm such an idiot!" Parker cried as she stuffed her face in chocolate ice cream.

"You're not an idiot," Mac tried to comfort her.

"I kept thinking I meant something to him but it'll always be Veronica, it's always been Veronica!" Parker sniffed as blew her nose on a tissue as she continued to shove the ice cream in her mouth.

"They've been through a lot," Mac said with uncertainty of how to approach this subject. It was inevitable that Veronica and Logan got back together so how could she tell Parker otherwise?

"Yeah! B-but if he loves her so much why'd he get me involved?"

Because he wanted to make Veronica jealous. "I don't know"

Parker sniffed. "Why can't he be like Piz? At least when he liked Veronica he didn't use me to make her jealous!"

Mac was afraid that Parker could read minds for a moment. "Wait, Piz likes Veronica?"

"I doubt he does anymore. He's sure that she tried to steal his date last night with her Britney dance." Parker explained and then started to cry again. "But she stole mine instead!"

"She didn't steal him Parker," she sighed at Parker's ridiculous words. "She wasn't even in her right state of mind."

"Why can't you like stop defending her for a minute?" Parker snapped. "I'm trying to move on here!" She huffed in frustration. "And moving on consists of ice cream, tears, yelling, bashing on your ex and if there's another girl, her too!" Mac started at Parker with disbelief and she really wanted to start laughing because it seemed as though Parker was going through the motions for the sake of it. "And then you hook up with someone else!" Parker exclaimed. "You're messing up the process." Parker pouted.

"Parker, you saw this coming didn't you?" Mac stared her roommate down. Parker avoided her gaze. "Why'd you go out with him when you knew he wanted to make Veronica jealous? That he still loved Veronica?"

"Because he's hot! And sweet. And he was like the perfect boyfriend to Veronica. I have no idea why she broke up with him. If he loved me I'd marry him."

Mac was shocked. "You thought about marrying him?"

"No!" Parker exclaimed. "I just thought that if a guy loved me like that- any guy I'd want to keep him around forever."

"Okay."

"Hey, you really think Piz is over Veronica?"

"I didn't even know he liked her, you just told-"

"Because I still find him attractive. And I'm like sure he'd have sex with me. Logan never went past second base because of what happened to me. I kind of felt like a porcelain doll that he's afraid to break, you think Veronica felt like that, that's why she broke up with him?"

Mac's mouth dropped open; she did not want to discuss Logan and Veronica's sex life but from what Veronica said the bedroom was definitely not one of their problems. And Logan definitely did not treat her like a doll but Mac didn't dare say that to Parker.

"Who am I kidding?" Parker cried. "He adores her! I bet they had sex every night!"

~~Mars Residence~~

"Wow," Logan stood at the Mars door with his mouth in an 'o' as he took in her new haircut. She looked like the badass check that put a bong in his locker.

"Is it terrible?" She asked, a little self-conscious as she let Logan in and closed the door.

Logan shook his head. He loved Veronica's long hair but her short hair was even hotter. He never thought he'd see her with this haircut again, it sent a shot of thrill within him. He couldn't help himself, he kissed her. "I love it," he whispered into her mouth. As always Veronica could never not kiss Logan back, she pushed, pulled and sucked back.

When they broke apart Veronica took a step back and started to object to his advances, "Logan-"

He knew what she wanted to say so he interrupted her, "Your short hair always turned me on."

Veronica's eyebrows lifted quizzing. "But you hated me then."

"But he didn't," he looked down with a grin and Veronica's face flushed.

"Oh," she breathed out and tried her best not to look down.

"May I ask why you cut it?" His soft voice asked.

Veronica was sure that she'd sound crazy if she explained. A normal person would simply go to the salon to get their hair cut but she needed the control that's why she had to cut it, herself. "I needed control of my life, I didn't like where I was headed." She let herself be honest. Wallace was right, she needed to take a different approach.

"So you cut your hair?" He eyed her as he flickered a few strands away from her eyes.

"Yeah," she sounded out and tried to not lean into his touch.

"By yourself?"

"Wallace helped."

A grin curved on his lips, "So apart from being your sidekick, he's a part time stylist. Good to know."

Veronica glared at him alas it came of too playful but she still defended, "Hey, don't be dissing on my BFF."

"So last night-" He tried to get back to the matter at hand.

Veronica wasn't sure she wanted to hear what he had to say so she interrupted him, "I'm sorry I ruined Parker's birthday party, I tried calling her to apologise or explain but she wouldn't answer. I think she hates me."

"No one can hate you," when the words past his lips he realised what a complete lie that was.

"Have you met me?" She lifted her eyebrow. "Everyone hates me at some point in their life."

"I don't hate you," he whispered.

"Seriously Logan, no matter what you say bashing my headlights was not foreplay. But it's okay. I wasn't referring to you, I meant in general. Most people, who meet me, resent me because of the information I have access to and my naturally 'I don't give a damn' attitude."

"People liked you last night," he pointed out and held back a growl at the sleezy men that thought they had a right to even watch her. She was his, no matter their relationship status.

"I'm trying to push that away as one of those things that didn't happen."

"But it did and I'm glad it did or I wouldn't be here right now. You wouldn't have cut your hair. You wouldn't even be talking to me."

"But I ruined Parker's birthday, I'm the reason she broke up with you-sorry about that by the way, I think Piz kind of dislikes me too- I have no idea why, I have that Britney Spears song in my head and it just won't go away, I puked like all over the hotel so I'm pretty sure Jeff is mad at m-"

Logan kissed her, efficiently stopping her rambling. "Shut up," he chuckled when he pulled away.

Veronica pulled away from him and glared, her voice enraged, "What the hell?"

Logan looked at her with eyes of innocence and pulled her toward him and kissed her once again.

Veronica huffed. "You say that I need to share more and now when I am you don't want me too! You're such-"

He kissed her again. "A jackass?"

"Logan-"

And there came another kiss.

"Stop, stop kissing me," she sputtered out.

Logan grinned; he loved watching her face flush because of him. "Are you getting hot and bothered?"

Veronica glared at him. "Yes I am, and I'd like you to leave now," her hard tone made Logan's grin drop.

"What?" He swallowed hard.

Veronica blew out a breath and snapped, "I'm not gonna be your rebound Logan, so go have sex with someone else and then get wasted in your hotel room and then when you're single for a least three months then come see me."

He blinked at her with confusion. She looked serious but he wasn't sure. "What?"

She looked him dead in the eye. "I'm serious."

"You're not a rebound." It hurt him that she'd even think that.

"I don't care. That's your MO and if you don't follow it that's what it's gonna feel like."

"You can never be my rebound," he grabbed a hold of her. "Look me in the eye and say that you're my rebound," his heart ached, he held her firmly in his grasp, afraid that she'd slip away through his fingers once again.

"Logan, you broke up with Parker just last night. I don't want to be that girl-"

Logan shook his head, urgency in his voice he blurted, "The last person I had sex with was you." Veronica looked at him in shock. He needed her to believe him. He couldn't let this opportunity slip away, he wouldn't let her slip away, not again. "You got the mopey-ing part right but I don't want to have meaningless sex anymore."

"Wait, you didn't sleep with Parker?" She wouldn't tell him but that bit off information made her feel a lot better.

"No," he whispered in desperation.

"Why?" She tilted her head.

"She should do it with someone who makes her feel special and that person couldn't be me because all I could think about was you."

"If you knew that then why would you date her? Why would you do that?" She quizzed him. It destroyed her when he asked her permission to date Parker and it broke her heart a little more when she had to give her okay.

Logan looked down ashamed at the answer.

"To make me jealous?" Veronica's mouth hung agape but it curved up just a little which didn't go unnoticed by Logan. "What are we? In grade school?"

"Yeah?" He challenged. "Then why'd your lip curve? Why'd you wanna smile?"

"It did not!" She denied with a pout.

"You're happy that I wanted to make you jealous instead of actually moving on," he accused and he felt relieved to know that she wasn't slipping from him.

"But you were moving on," she sighed. "I saw you Logan. You were happy with Parker. You did have feelings for her. Your relationship with her wasn't about me. Your world doesn't revolve around me, I've learnt that."

He wanted to say that she was his world but instead explained, "I tried moving on but I couldn't. You're it for me. You're my endgame."

"What if I'd moved on?" Her eyes lingered on his as he shook his head.

"It wouldn't have worked, we're epic."

"You remember?" She gasped in surprise but he heard the hint of hopefulness in her voice. The truth was that the night of alternate prom was still foggy but she'd let it slip last night. Apparently she didn't remember he little slip of the tongue.

Instead of answering her question he quoted her quoting himself, "Lives ruined bloodshed, spanning years and continents apart. Epic."

"You're wrong," she whispered and he gave her a look of confusion. "Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined, bloodshed. Epic." He was still confused and she had a soft smile play on her lips as she pointed out, "You said it wrong." She knew because each word was ingrained in her brain ever since that night.

"We're endgame," he confidently stated.

"How can you be so sure?"

He gave her a smouldering look and she felt her breath hitch. He leaned forward and grazed his lips against hers. She felt an aching within her; she pursed her lips forward to touch his. He didn't close the gap, he just let their breaths mix and hearts pound in anticipation. Veronica swallowed as he eyes flickered from his lips to his eyes. His eyes never left hers, their bodies almost pressed against each other. Veronica couldn't take it anymore; she pushed forward and smashed their mouths together. Logan felt his body relax at the feel of her lips, his hands on her back pulling her tightly against him. Veronica's hands ran through his hair as she wrapped her legs around his waist.

For a moment they broke apart, still entangled in each other but heavily panting. Veronica's eyes glistened as Logan's shone in happiness.

"Because I love you and I know you love me too," he confessed the answer to her question.

Veronica withdrew her arms from his shoulders but Logan firmly held her waist. Veronica knew that Wallace said that she had to take a chance but she was scared and for once Veronica admitted it, "I'm scared."

"I'm never going to leave you," he whispered and tightened his grasp on her to emphasis his point.

"That's what it says on the marriage vows too," she remarked. "What if one day you stop loving me?" Her was shaky and Logan was surprised by her openness but was pleased that she was opening up to him.

Logan cupped her chin and promised, "That day's never going to come. Not even when I'm dead."

"How do you know?"

"I've loved you since I was seventeen years old Veronica," he confessed.

"You hated me when you were eighteen," she pointed out.

He shook his head, "No, I loved you then too."

Veronica frowned, slightly leaning away from him as she tried to think of their senior year. "But you was with Kendell and Hannah and I don't even know who else."

Logan felt her move but didn't allow her to escape. "But I only loved you"

"I don't understand," she whispered as she looked into his eyes. He was being honest.

"Veronica, sex to me wasn't about expressing my emotions, it was about forgetting about my emotions," he explained and she tried to move away again, clearly uncomfortable with the topic but he didn't allow her to.

She didn't understand that either because when he made love to her there was so much of passion, so much emotion. "But with me you're-"

He leaned in forward and pressed his forehead against hers. "With you. Only you. I've never given my emotions to anyone but you." He leaned back slightly and explained, "When I was with Kendell it was because it took away the hurt I endured when I saw you with Duncan."

"I thought you hated me, I didn't know you were hurting," her voice carried a tone of sadness and remorse.

"I didn't want you to know. Just like you didn't want me to know you that it hurt you to see me with Parker."

She understood that but she still was confused and so she questioned, "How do you differentiate between sex with them and sex with me?"

"I fuck them. I make love to you."

"What does that mean?" She tilted her head, still unable to see the difference.

Logan knew he had to lay it all out for her. "I don't take my time with them," he started ad Veronica looked away from his gaze. He cupped her chin so that she looked at him. "I don't kiss or worship every inch of their body. I don't memorise the parts that makes them turned on. I don't remember which kiss, touch, bite or act makes them moan my name in a certain tone. I don't cry out their names in ecstasy and whisper romantic notions in their ear. I don't let them trace or pep kisses on the scars on my back. I don't look in their eyes or even their faces sometimes. I don't cuddle with them when it's over. I don't I don't look into their eyes and declare my love for them. I don't wake up to them when it's over."

Veronica felt tingles at his description and a smile formed on her lips, "You do that with me." Her eyes glistened.

"And that's the difference," he murmured. Veronica pulled him by his shirt a few inches and kissed him. In the kiss she poured out her emotions and Logan sucked it all up, he took in every inch that she gave him.

When they broke apart, she had a sort of a smug look. "So with Madison…"

"I fucked her, barely, I didn't even kiss her. It meant less than nothing."

"Oh," she bit her lip.

"Yeah," he whispered.

"But why her?" She needed to know. It haunted her.

"I was drunk, hurting and I wanted to feel nothing," he admitted, he still felt disgusted with himself for that.

"Oh." Words couldn't describe how happy she was to hear that.

"You say that a lot," he pointed out because he was unsure of her thought process.

"I'm taking it in." She means that in her mind, she's snubbing Madison Sinclair.

"Yeah?" He looked at her with hopefulness.

"Yeah," she smiled.

"Where does this leave us?"

"At a new beginning," she smiled let her arms stretch over his shoulders. "I think it'd go well with my new haircut, don't you think?"

"Logan Echolls always goes well with Veronica Mars," Logan declared as he dipped in for a kiss.

Veronica grinned, she didn't bother telling him that it wasn't always true she just leaned in and met his kiss. Even if they didn't always go well, they'd always be epic.