Part 2
I entered the Sheriff's Department at a near fun, I hadn't met the deputy behind the desk, but he seemed to know me.
"The sheriff's in interrogation." The deputy seemed to think that would stop me, he was wrong.
"Oh, good, then I'm right on tome." I walked right past the deputy to the closed interrogation room door. "Logan Echolls?" The deputy nodded weakly and I pushed the door open as my cell phone rang.
"Ask and you shall receive." Logan grinned at me and closed his cell phone, which prompted mine to stop ringing.
"Logan didn't do it." I started to tell Lamb.
"Your father seems to think you disagree." Lamb just looked annoyed, Logan looked confused.
"You turned me in? Wait, you where investigating me?" He looked hurt and I was sorry I had caused it, but I was also unsure whether or not I could trust him.
"Not until your alibi fell though and the shot glass you bought Lilly turned out to have been in her car the day she died, but the point is moot, you didn't do it."
"I know that, I don't understand how you could even think that I would be capable of that." Logan was no longer just hurt, he was angry, shoving his hands though his hair and pacing the room.
"I found something that made me not trust you, I'll tell you all about it on the way home, I have to show these video's to Lamb, I'll meet you outside." As I said this Duncan came into the room with a TV and the deputy in tow.
"Does Duncan get to watch?" Logan almost sounded jealous.
"Trust me man, you do not want to see these." Duncan looked a bit green at the memory.
I was about to protest when Logan took the first video out of my hand and popped it in the player. Lilly's face came onto the screen. "Is that my pool house?"
"Yeah, I found the recording equipment, that's why I took off."
"It's not mine."
"Trust me," I pointed at the screen where Mr. Echolls was now visible, "I know."
Logan's jaw dropped and he steadily turned more and more white. "Oh, God."
Three hours later the three of us had left the Sheriff's Department and where sitting in the living room of my apartment.
"So, its all really over?" Logan twirled the glass in his hand slowly, watching the ice in his drink.
"Except for the trial, yeah, its over." None of us really knew what to do. "Oh, in other news, I'm a Kane."
"I really screwed up that much that you not only turned me into the police, but married Duncan?" Logan looked like he was about to get angry again.
"That would be illegal for way too many reasons." Duncan chuckled a bit then looked kind of green.
"Okay, I'll bite, how are you a Kane?" I handed the genetics test results over to Logan. "Oh, god."
"Yep, that's what I said." Duncan tried to smile, but settled on not looking sick.
"Wait, did you say that you had sex with Duncan at Shelley's Party?" Logan looked confused and Duncan bolted for the bathroom, from the living room we could hear him vomiting.
"Maybe its best if we pretend that Shelley's party never happened."
"Okay. I have another hard question." Logan started watching the ice in his glass again. "What are we going to do about us?"
"I think we need to have trust before there can ever really be an us."
"So what? Are we
going to be friends or something?"
"Can't we go back to
how it was when Lilly was alive; can it be the three of us as
friends?"
"Without the awkward coupleness, we can try." Logan looked sad, but at the same time relieved, I think that our relationship was taking as much out of him as it was me. "Do you think we should check on Duncan?"
"He'll come out when he gets images of Shelley's party out of his head."
"How are you so
calm about it?"
"I don't remember any of it."
Logan placed his free hand on my shoulder and looked pained.
"I'm relay sorry for my part in all of that."
"And I told you I forgive you. Now let's concentrate on this friend thing."
"I'm game, but first, what am I going to do on Monday?"
"The same thing I did after my dad was kicked out of office, hold you head up, and ignore the fact that people who you thought where your friends are now tormenting you. Only you will have Duncan and I at your side."
"It's amazing how much you've changed in all of this; you really are a wonderful friend."
"You're just saying that cuz you want to get back to the groping."
"True, but I think you and I are a long way from that if we want to work on this trust and friendship thing."
Duncan stumbled out of the bathroom at that point, looking a bit less green. "I think its about time we head out Veronica, my parents are going to be worried."
"Yeah, I can see why, take care of Logan this weekend."
"Will do, see you at school Monday."
"Oh, give the contract to you mom, I want that check. And can you give me a ride to school on Monday; I La Baron's going to get a tune up."
"Sounds good, we should present a united front anyway, Monday will be brutal, and we can take the Yellow Monster."
"Hey, I like my car!" Logan pretended to look offended. "Thanks Ronnie. See you Monday."
The apartment was too quite after the boys left. Dad was at the office putting the Lilly Kane file into some what usable order for Lamb, mom had taken off as soon as Aaron was arrested, probably not wanting to be in the spotlight again, and Backup was sleeping on the couch. All I had to keep me company where my thoughts. It all kept coming back to one thing, Duncan was my brother, it was beyond a disturbing thought. Suddenly all of my wonderful memories with him became disturbing and wrong. My mind bulked at the knowledge that I had had sex with him; that I had lost my virginity to my brother, this was Southern California, that just didn't happen here.
I took off for the bathroom and repeated Duncan's scene from earlier, I threw up, trying to vomit out the memories of this touches and his kisses, trying to purge my body of all of the things he made me feel. I tried to block it out with memories of Logan's touch, his kisses, but to some degree that felt incestuous to me as well.
I rinsed my mouth out and turned on the shower as hot as I could stand it. Today had gone by so quickly and now, standing in the near scalding water, watching my skin turn pink, it hit me. It was over, I solved Lilly's murder, Aaron Echolls was in jail and I suddenly didn't have leads to follow, people to question, checks to run; I was completely at a loss as of what to do.
The door bell rang right when I was about to put shampoo in my hair. I rinsed the soap from my hands and turned off the water. It seemed that people only wanted to visit when I was in the shower home alone. I would analyze that later.
The air outside the bathroom was like ice and I was shivering when I answered the door. "I was wondering when you would get here." My visitor just nodded and pushed off the railing.
