A/N: So, guys I have to admit something. I have not watched the whole series and when I even started writing this I didn't even finish the first season. I'm not sure how the whole storyline goes, but I did research a little bit of the show and I know the basis on who killed Lilly. I haven't seen the episode so…yeah. I know that Veronica is not actually Jake's daughter, but any details into that I'm not sure. So, I ask you this. If anything seems really weird excuse it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars if I did I would have tried to add another season.


Chapter 2

Veronica glared at the man. He had finally made an appearance and then told her, not even asked that she would be moving in with the Kane family. "What do you mean I'm going to be living with your family," Veronica frowned. "Mr. Kane I don't know what you are-"

"Veronica," Jake stopped her from continuing. "You aren't stupid." He gave her a knowing look. "You and I both know that you aren't the biological child of Keith Mars." He sat in the blue chair against the wall. "I have taken it upon myself to take custody of you."

"Custody of me?" Veronica questioned. "What is this, you suddenly want to take care of me?" she ignored the nodding of his head. "You can't simply just take custody of someone without their say. I can fight this."

"Of course it is," he frowned. "Since, your mother is not able to take care of you I have petitioned the court. I'm the closest thing you have to blood and they will not say 'no' to me, since I am your biological father."

"You're not my father," Veronica snapped. "If you were really my father you would be with me for the past seventeen years. You would have been there when when Duncan broke up with me, or when I became a social pariah! What about those 'oh so wonderful and comforting words' you had when Lilly died? All you are to me is just a sperm donor."

"I will be there for you now," he said and Veronica laughed.

"Why can't you just buy me an apartment or rent one I don't care. I'm not picky," she said glaring at him. "I don't want to live there and your wife doesn't want me to either."

"Veronica," she could tell his patience was lingering. "You are going to live with me and that is final. I will see you tomorrow. The hospital wants to watch you for another day to make sure you made a full recovery. I will give you one day to go to your former residence to pick up your belongings."

"You can't just demand all these things," Veronica frowned. "I wasn't even there to have my say in court. This was all too fast it couldn't be legal. How is that even possible?"

"Money," he simply replied.

Veronica knew what that meant. It seemed that even the 09ers still owned the court system. 'Well,' Veronica thought. 'That was blatantly obvious when Lilly's case had a strange turn of events. The Kane's family of course had to manipulate everything for their advantage.' Veronica gave the man a withering glare. "I don't have to live with you."

"Yes, you do," he replied. "You have nowhere else to go."

"I have friends. You don't even want me," Veronica snapped. "You hate me and I hate you!"

"Even so," Jake stood up and began to leave the room. "You still have to live with me. I'll see you tomorrow." He left the room without looking back. This was going to be a long journey for both of them. She knew it and he knew it. Just how difficult the journey would be was a completely different matter.


"Well," the doctor said. "You seem to be doing well." He smiled at her and Veronica rolled her eyes. "Your father will be here soon to take you home." She grimaced at the thought of Jake coming. Today would be the day when she would be moving into the Kane's house.

"He's not my dad," Veronica snapped at him.

"Oh," the doctor looked uncomfortable. "I thought he was."

"He's my stepdad," she sighed.

"Okay," the doctor said smiling at her again. "You'll be fine." He said after checking the monitor and the charts. Healthy wise she would be fine, but who would be fine living in a house where her 'stepmother' hates her, a brother she had sex with, and a new 'father' who apparently grew a conscience overnight. This seemed liked one of those dreadful soap operas.

"Hey Veronica," she turned towards the voice. "Wallace and Weevil!" She went to stand up, but mumbled in pain. "So, uh, I guess you heard." She took the two boys silence as confirmation. "I just want to go home."

"You can live with me," Wallace said smiling. "Mom loves you and at one point she loved your dad." He winced as she gave him a stricken look. "I didn't mean to bring up…"

"No," she sighed. "I just don't understand how all of this happened."

"What's going to happen now?"

"I'm going to be living with the Kane family," she ignored the look on their faces. "I have never told anyone this," she paused. "You have to promise you will not tell anyone, well it will come out in probably a day or two."

"We promise," Wallace said looking at Weevil and then at Veronica. "What's going on Veronica?"

"Remember, when I was looking up who killed Lilly?" Of course they remembered.

"Yeah," Weevil replied. "What are you getting at?"

"I learned something," she looked down at her lap. She didn't want to look at them. "I'm the illegitimate child of Jake Kane and Lianne Mars."

The room went deathly quiet. She looked at the two boys in front of her 'shock' wouldn't even explain their reactions. Wallace looked like he would explode with questions and then turned a pale color. Weevil stumbled into the blue chairs, his mouth a gaped sounding like he was about to strangle the next person who walked in.

"Are you sure?" Weevil asked.

"Yeah," she realized that she was crying. "I just want to turn back time."

"It's okay," Wallace finally said. "We'll figure this out."

"Oh god," Veronica realized. "I don't even know who killed my father!"

"The two of you can leave now," Veronica heard from the door.


Jake Kane walked in and quickly glared at the two boys. "The two of you can leave now." He was getting aggravated at Veronica's disdain for him. He was preventing her from going into the "system" and she didn't give him one 'thank you'. Instead he walks into a room where these boys seemed to want to take her and she seemed willing to leave with them.

"I want them to stay," Veronica said wiping any traces of tears off her face. "But, you can go."

The two boys smirked at him. "I paid for this room and I will be paying for everything else from here on."

"Listen, white boy," Weevil intervened. "I don't have to listen to anything you say, you don't own me."

"You can always talk to the security guards down the hall," Jake glared at him. "Now leave this room so I can speak to my daughter." Jake emphasized the last word just to spite the two boys, as childish it was. He looked at Veronica and saw her face. It looked like she was about to cry.

"Let's go Weevil," the black boy said as Jake tried to remember what his name was. "We'll see you later Veronica." Weevil put up a fight at first and eventually left the room giving Veronica a hopeful look. "Everything will be okay."

Veronica nodded and frowned as she heard the last trace of footsteps. "I want to go home."

"The maids have already set you up your room," Jake said, trying to act like he didn't know what home she was talking about. "Celeste has made a huge feast for tonight as a welcome to the family." He ignored the disgusted look on Veronica's face.

"I want to go to my home," Veronica said. "I want to go to the place where my real father took care of me."

"I am your real father," he said and Veronica rolled her eyes.

"Can we just leave?" Veronica was getting tired of talking to him.

"Sure," Jake attempted to smile at her. "I just have to fill out some paper work."

He went to leave the room and stopped when he heard her say, 'wait.' "I need to know something," he nodded his head for her to continue. "What about my dad's funeral?" He sighed and knew this would come eventually. "His funeral will be this Saturday. I have arranged everything." He waited for her to say something, but when she didn't he left her to her own thoughts. She was crying and that is something that he did not deal with. Perhaps, what he didn't want to deal with was the fact that Veronica Mars hated him. His remaining daughter hated him and all he could do was live with the fact that it was his fault.


Besides the funeral, Veronica wanted to ask him about who killed her father. She knew that she couldn't trust the Kane family and that feeling stopped her from muttering the question. The nurse and doctor didn't even tell her any news about what happened to her father. The most she gathered was that the man who had hit their car died in the car accident. There had to be more she just knew. "I just wanted to go to my home and snuggle into my bed," she mumbled. She wanted her dad, Keith Mars, to come into the room and tell her that this was just a joke. The car accident was to test her faith and love in him. "I can't believe you died." She didn't speak to anyone specifically. He was a Mars and Mars don't just die, not that easily. She was going to figure out who murdered her father if it killed her.