Part Four
It was dawn when Veronica heard a thumping sound. Yawning, she was enjoying the warmth of Logan's body close to hers. Her hand slipped down to grasp his. Hearing Logan waking up, she looked up wanting to see his eyes.
When she saw them open and then go from dark brown to a warm milk chocolate as he looked at her. She whispered "Hello."
"Hi." He said with an almost shy smile. Rubbing his chin against her forehead his arms had come around her as he confessed "I want to wake up like this every single day for the rest of my life."
"Will you settle for the rest of our vacation then occasionally for now because otherwise there is a man in Neptune who carries a gun who might just disapprove? Oh man, I forgot to call my dad last night." She said as she tried to sit up but found that Logan refused to let her go. "Logan, stop, he is going to be so worried."
Hearing the thumping sound again, she looked around realized the sound she was hearing wasn't as close as she had thought it was. Looking up at Logan she said "I thought what I was hearing was your heart."
"No, someone is knocking on the door." He said then suggested that they ignore it as he leaned down to press a kiss to her lips. When they heard the sound again, he looked at Veronica then said with a hint of uncertainty "Do you think Mac killed Dick and now needs to escape from Aspen?"
Hearing a distant female voice, worried that he was right, she got up and then grabbing the blanket they had used to cover them, she wrapped it around her and hurried to the door.
Yanking it open, she said "Mac, please tell me that you didn't really kill Dick. A body that large is hard to make disappear and I don't have any mob type contacts."
There was silence, then Veronica looked at who was standing there and saw Madison dressed in heavy winter gear on the threshold looking like she had swallowed a rotten lemon. "Madison? What are you doing here and if you are here, who is babysitting your flying monkeys?"
"Let me in." The blond demanded as she tried to push her way in ignoring the rest of Veronica's nonsensical comment. Flying monkeys, what on earth was she talking about?
Logan who got the Wizard of Oz reference just waited knowing that Madison wouldn't leave until she had bothered them with what was going on in her mind.
"No, I swear I didn't drop a house on your twin and steal her red rhinestone shoes, nor am I looking to meet the Wizard, though, I have heard you are intimately acquainted with him." Veronica said with a wink then hearing Logan's footsteps, turned to see him wearing his jeans now along with his tee shirt.
"What do you want, Madison?" The dark haired boy asked.
"I need to talk to you about Dick, Logan." She said glaring at Veronica. She should have known if one of them was here the other one would be. "I need to talk to Logan. Privately."
"Madison, save me the trouble and just tell us what you want." Logan replied not wanting to bother with the annoying blond, he had much better things to be doing right now.
"Tell her to go away." Madison said glaring at Veronica who was standing there wearing only her socks, Logan's dress shirt and the blanket. "I won't talk as long as she is here."
"Good, then we can go back to bed." Logan said reaching for Madison's arm to escort her out of the cabin.
"No, we need to save Dick." Madison said in a dramatic tone.
"Oh god, do you think Mac really did do him in?" Logan asked mocking Madison as he looked at Veronica. He knew that no matter what, Dick wouldn't harm Mac and he really doubted that a woman who wouldn't eat anything that had ever had eyes would harm anyone, even Dick.
"Where is my purse?" Veronica asked and finding it called Mac's phone number all the while still holding the blanket and realizing with amusement that she wasn't bothered by the furious look on Madison's face at her lack of clothes. Getting voice mail, she looked through her contacts and then asked Logan for Dick's cell phone number.
"I don't know it. I just find his name in my contacts and call him that way." He said then looking at Madison asked her for the number. She reluctantly pulled her own phone out and dictated the number to Veronica who dialed it. Getting voice mail, she left a message for Mac to Madison's annoyance.
"Did you know that she kidnapped him?" Madison accused the blond. Turning to Logan, she said "How can you let them hurt Dick?"
"Madison, don't forget I know your secrets. This coming from the person who cheated on him with Don Lamb." Veronica said fluttering her eyes at Madison. Logan laughed, his mind on Mac doing the same thing to him the day before.
Madison thought that he was laughing at her so she scowled at him. Just as she began to make a sarcastic remark, Veronica's phone rang. Looking at the ID, she showed Logan that it was her dad and went to the kitchen for some privacy carrying her clothes as she began to feel the cool air on her legs.
"How is it going honey?" Keith asked as he sat in front of the tree by himself placing presents underneath to get ready for the holiday.
"Logan and I spent most of the night talking. It's been good, dad." Veronica admitted. "Mac might need your help, apparently Dick Casablancas is missing and Madison Sinclair thinks Mac kidnapped him."
"The Casablancas boy has a good hundred pounds on Mac if less brains. I don't think there is too much to worry about with that." Keith said with a chortle at the mental image of Mac doing in the tall blond boy before asking "Did she give you the present she took from your closet; the one with Logan's name on it."
"I haven't spoken to her since we arrived." Veronica felt a sense of guilt as she realized that she hadn't stayed in contact with her friend. "I better call her. I love you."
"Love you too, sweetie. I have to track down a bail jumper so I might not be home when you arrive." With that Keith hung up. Veronica once again tried to reach Mac but once again ended up leaving a message on her voice mail. Getting dressed, she checked her text messages. When she saw one from Mac she couldn't help laughing at the message.
"Madison, why do you think Mac kidnapped Dick." Veronica heard Logan asking.
"I went to the condo and no one answered. The door was unlocked and when I went inside Dick wasn't there. You weren't there but I knew that you had your own place. So I called Casey and he gave me the address."
Logan was reminding himself to make sure that Casey kept his mouth shut from now on as Madison said that when she went back to the hotel she heard Mac's voice. "I heard her arranging for a private jet for her and a passenger and then she gave them Dick's name. I knew there was no way he would be around that geek who dated his loser brother if he could avoid it."
Going back to the main area, Veronica said "Mac and Dick are flying home at some point this evening. She didn't kidnap anyone. She did say that they left a surprise for us at the house. Two presents. One that she brought from Neptune that I had gotten you and one from you for me."
"Are you sure she didn't steal them?" Madison asked with a condescending tone that got Veronica's attention knowing that Madison wouldn't give a damn unless she was trying to cover her own ass.
"Madison if either of those gifts are missing. I will destroy you. I am not talking about how I have played with you before, no more cat and mouse games. Do you understand me?" Veronica asked coldly when she saw the smug expression on her face.
"Oh, she would be rather foolish to have done so, considering that the present I got for you has a tracking devise in it." Logan added and saw Madison's face turn a nice puce color. "Yes, you tried to take them. Grow the fuck up, Madison and get them back to us."
"They are in the trunk of my car." She muttered as she went outside and retrieved the two packages. Madison left as quickly as she had shown up.
When Logan slammed the door, Veronica walked over and hugged him tightly. "Don't let what she did ruin today for us."
Logan looked at the two boxes, his with the blue wrapping paper with the silver ribbon and hers with the silver wrapping paper and blue ribbon and couldn't help chuckling. Handing the smaller box to Veronica, he asked her to open it now in spite of it not being Christmas yet.
Veronica unwrapped and then opened the box and found the beautiful ring whose design looked vaguely familiar. Once she realized it wasn't an engagement ring, she said "It's beautiful."
He looked at her with a soft expression on his face. "It was my mother's. She gave it to me before she died. She told me that her dad gave it to her mom when they were in college. That she hoped someday to meet the person I would consider special enough to give it to."
"Logan, I love it, thank you for this." Veronica handed him the other box as she found herself looking down at her hand, the weight of the ring on her hand oddly comforting.
"This is the gift I was telling you about." She said leading him over to the sofa. When he saw seated, she said "I got this for you the year Lilly died."
Logan saw how excited Veronica was so he untied the bow and then slid his fingers along the edge of the paper to keep from ripping it.
Finding the book inside, he opened it and saw the signature on the inside. "Veronica, where did you find this?"
"We were in San Diego; I went into this old dusty used bookstore and was just wandering around the shelves." She said with a smile as she saw his hands caressing the leather found first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls. "You used to quote from it, all the time."
"Thank you." He said leaning over to press a kiss on her lips.
"I got you this really cool wet suit for surfing when I thought you were going to Mexico." She confessed. "But when we broke up, I stuck it under my bed."
With a laugh, he said "I want my suit, if it is the one we saw that day at the mall."
"Nope, I am keeping it. I might take up surfing." She teased. After a moment, she suggested that they head over to the condo so that they could make sure things were okay. "Mac said they left a note telling us what is going on."
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Arriving at the condo, Logan went to pack up his clothes, not that he had unpacked much more than his shaving kit. Looking around the professionally decorated Casablancas condo for the note from Mac, he saw the way Veronica was staring intensely at a photo and swore under his breath as he realized it was the broken picture of Beaver.
"Veronica?"
When she felt Logan's arms come around her waist, she looked from the picture of Mac and Beaver and said "Who brought this here?"
Unable to look at her, he admitted "Dick. He has been a bit manic about his brother. One minute hating me for not stopping Beaver then hating his brother for as he called it being selfish in committing suicide."
Unable to answer, Veronica looked at the picture and said "He looks so innocent in this photo but he had already killed eight students and raped me. Its odd but until he arrived on the rooftop that night, there was this sense that I was wrong, that there was no way that it was Cassidy who had planted the bomb."
"Yet it was." Logan said as he escorted her back to the sofa. Looking around, he saw that the condo had been cleaned up and in spite of everything going on, wondered how Dick had gotten someone to come clean it up.
Neither noticed the taller blond walking in with the short brunette who had stopped and tried to get him to leave again.
Veronica gave a sigh. "It was like some sort of twilight zone moment. I had seen his name on the picture of Woody's team, known what had happened to the other young boys, but Logan, until Beaver looked at me and just began talking about how he had to prevent me from telling anyone he was a killer, I just didn't believe it."
Dick refused to let Mac drag him away and covered her mouth to keep her from speaking. He had to hear what Veronica was saying, had to know what had driven his brother to jump.
Logan knew she needed to talk, to say what had been kept bottled inside. "He admitted that he had killed all of them to cover his shame at being a victim of Woody. Then told me how he had gone about making it look like someone else had done so. He told me about the bomb on the airplane. That if I wanted to have one last conversation with my dad, to call him. I just... I looked at him, it was Cassidy, Beaver. Then he got a hold of my taser and asked me if I had ever thought about how it felt to be tasered."
Mac felt sick, to hear Veronica's words, made it all worse. She saw the sick expression on Dick's face as he heard about his brother's last minutes and knew that it was more than he could deal with.
Veronica kept talking, needing to say all of this, needing to get it out as she continued. "When I asked him about Mac, his words about how she would never know. That everyone would blame my death on Aaron; I was so scared he was right."
She suddenly went still then said "When I brought up the Gonorrhea, that Woody had had it, that all of his victims had had it, the look on his face. The smug almost self-satisfied expression look as he bragged about no longer being a virgin, about what he had done to me. He laughed and said that Dick had no idea about any of it, none. This after I had heard about Dick and what had happened at Shelly's party, I wanted to cause him pain, to make him hurt as badly as I did. I no longer felt any pity for what Woody had done to him, Beaver knew the pain and shame you feel as a rape victim and still, still he raped me."
"What!?" All three of them heard Dick's shocked words and felt the disbelief in his voice.
Veronica and Logan turned and saw Dick standing there, his hands tightly clenched in fists. Seeing Mac's pain filled face, Veronica went to help her friend but Logan held her back, worried about how Dick would react to having Veronica near him.
"What did you say?" Dick asked as the world seemed to fade away until all he saw was Veronica and the terrified look on her face. "You are lying, you have to be lying. There is no way, none that Beaver would... No, no, it isn't true."
Veronica just moved forward, standing there glaring at Dick as she said "Yes and you facilitated the rape. I was drugged by you and then you left your sick and twisted brother alone in a room with me after egging him on to rape me. So don't you dare call me a liar! Don't you dare pretend that it didn't happen."
Dick saw the rage in Veronica's eyes and said "You are just using what happened that night to make my brother out to be a sociopath. Yes, he killed people, but there is no way he would ever rape anyone. He just didn't have it in it to do something like that."
"Dick-" Logan moved forward as he realized that somehow Dick had never been told everything that Beaver had done. "Stop, man!"
"No, how could you let her say this shit. It is bad enough that..."
Mac who had frozen when Dick had began speaking, looked at the blond and saw that he truly didn't know the truth. "Dick..."
"No, there is no way..." Logan saw that Dick was starting to let what he heard sink in, as his tone had changed from challenging what he had heard to pleading as he looked from Logan towards Mac. "No, no, you wouldn't love someone who did that. You wouldn't, you're better than that, than us."
Veronica wanted to scream at Dick, to shout and scream accusations but she saw the confusion on his face as he seemed to want to deny everything. Getting that somehow Dick hadn't been told what Beaver had done to her nor his part in it.
"Dick, it's clear you weren't told but it is true. Beaver raped me at Shelly's party after Madison had passed the drink with the ecstasy in it onto me. So..."
"I made my brother into a rapist." The devastated words seemed to silence all of them. Dick looked at Logan who looked at him with a steady expression of pain on his face and said "You knew?"
"Yes, I thought you were told." He replied trying to find the right words to get both Veronica and Dick through this. "Your mother knew. When she took you away for the summer, I just thought you knew the truth."
Looking at Mac, Dick asked. "You knew too?"
Nodding, unable to speak, she saw something get crushed in his eyes before his voice went flat as he said "Yet you helped me today. After what I said to you, this fall? Why?"
"For Logan and Veronica." She said softly unable to look him in the eyes afraid he would see her guilt in hers. "When you called me his beard, I thought you knew all of what he had done including what had happened with Veronica."
"I don't know what to say. Sorry doesn't seem enough." Dick said in a broken tone then looking at Veronica and then his eyes slid away as he felt sick to his stomach as the events of Shelly's party replayed in his mind. "I uh, we came back for our luggage but uh, Mac, I am not going back to Neptune. The jet will still take you back. Veronica... I... If sorry doesn't seem enough to say to Mac... There are no words, none."
With that, Logan found himself pinned from the pain in Dick's eyes as he moved past him and went to grab his weekender bag near the door of his room. When Dick bent to pick it up, he looked at all three of them then said "Bye."
The click of the door galvanized Mac who had been torn between helping Dick and her best friend as she moved towards Veronica who had sank onto her knees as flashbacks of the night she was raped and the night she had thought she had lost her dad played in vivid color in front of her eyes.
Veronica felt arms surrounding her, but her body was frozen in place. When she felt Logan gently pressing her against his body, trying to comfort her, Veronica looked at Mac who was clearly reeling from the argument. "Are you okay?"
"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Mac said with a weak smile on her face. Watching as Veronica took strength from Logan, she decided that the person to help Veronica through was the man holding her close. "I should get going to the airport. Logan, take care of our girl."
"I will." The boy vowed as he held tightly onto the woman he loved. He could feel how hard what had happened had hit Veronica but she seemed to be leaning into him and letting him help her.
Veronica was getting her act together when it hit her how devastated Dick had looked. "No, you need to track down Dick."
Logan felt torn but he knew that Veronica needed him more right now, even if she didn't think so. When he saw her turn to look at him, he said "I am staying right here."
"Besides, I don't think that Logan can help Dick. My guess is that Dick will avoid him for a while. I might be able to, though." Mac said thinking about what Dick and she had spent the day talking about then looking at Dick's best friend asked. "Where would he go?"
"Dick's passport is back in Neptune so he won't leave the country and there aren't too many places he can go without his wallet." Logan said.
"I gave him his wallet already." Mac replied. "So, where would he go to forget?"
"Someplace with lots of alcohol, loose women and no silence." Logan said. "More than likely he would head to Vegas. His dad kept a suite at the Wynn but Dick prefers to go to the Bellagio. He can gamble there."
Hugging Veronica, Mac said "I will go find Dick. Talk to him. I don't know what I will say but hopefully I will by the time I get there. Logan, don't screw this up. Veronica, stop running. Please?"
Returning Mac's hug, Veronica said "Thank you."
"I love you." Mac said with a slightly embarrassed face at the emotions that they normally didn't show. "Oh, and congratulations on taking a chance."
"I love you too." Veronica echoed back in shock as she found herself letting her feelings show as she watched Mac leaving and going towards the main hotel. Looking at Logan, she said "I still think that Dick needs you."
"He might, but you need me more." He said reflectively. "This was the first time other than with the police you discussed all that happened that night isn't it?"
Wanting to run, she found it hard to stay and look at him as she said "Yes. I just wanted to move past it now that I knew the truth, but clearly I am still having problems doing that. I didn't mean what I said to Dick about it being his fault."
"Are you sure you didn't mean it?" He probed needing to know what she was thinking.
"Yes, I just wanted to hurt him, wanted him to be in pain like I was at that moment. Parker has been going to these rape group therapy sessions. I went to one of the sessions to support her but had to run out, it was too much to deal with." She confessed. "I just can't handle the sessions, I tried when Lilly died with Ms. James, but I was too paranoid to be honest. I was too scared that; somehow someone would be listening."
Seeing his eyes widen, she said "I know how easy it is, I bugged Ms. James' office when I was looking into who killed Lilly.
"I guess you weren't kidding when you said you had done everything you could to find the truth were you?" He asked then with a twist to his lips about how he hadn't told her he was seeing someone to get help and said "I am not sure that I like knowing that you bugged Rebecca's office. Did you listen to my visits?"
Swallowing hard, worried he would be angry, she said "Y-yes."
"I am pissed, but I do get it. I mean, you got a hold of Duncan's medical records, you bugged the Kane house. I shouldn't be surprised." He said trying hard not to feel she invaded his privacy.
"I am sorry, Logan." She said.
"But you would do it again." He said thinking on how he had kept it secret he was seeing someone for just that reason then looking at Veronica said "I get that, I do. I know how far you will go for someone you love. I am also getting why suggesting counseling won't work but Veronica, you need to talk to someone about your rape, about things even if it Mac and myself."
Veronica hugged Logan tightly as she looked at the picture that had started all of this. "I still think we should go help Mac with Dick."
"It will be fine. I think that I am even more right today than I was yesterday about the two of them talking." Logan said.
Logan offered to feed Veronica and was soon holding her hand as they walked towards the dining room at the hotel. He saw Veronica's eyes drifting down towards their joined hands, so stopping her, he asked "Is everything okay?"
Looking up at him, she smiled and said "Yes, it's just holding your hand like this, its part of what I tend to describe as normal. Mac wants me to smash my idea of normal."
Leaning down to press another kiss to her lips, he said "There is nothing wrong with wanting normal, Veronica. It's just important to realize that normal is what you want it to be. That normal can be what we want to have. I want normal with you, a family, a future, to grow old together."
Veronica felt her need to run start to overwhelm her, but looking down at the ring she was wearing found that some where deep inside she was able to find the beginning of trust.
With a half smile, she looked into his eyes and said "What if I get wrinkled and snore at night or eat crackers in bed?"
"What if I go bald and get chubby? What if I am the one eating the crackers in our bed?" He tossed back at her. "You wouldn't leave me, I wouldn't leave you. Besides, Fiona will keep us in line."
"Who is Fiona?" She asked suspiciously.
"Fiona is the sassy blond who I apparently will love almost as much as you some day." He said with a smug smirk. "Would you like to hear more about it?"
Veronica was struggling with her jealousy but looking at Logan, knowing that she had to be missing something, she answered "Yes, I want to hear more about it."
Tucking a tense Veronica under his coat to ward off the cold, he whispered in her ear "She is going to be our daughter someday. Lilly haunted you and she decided to haunt me."
Veronica's eyes meet Logan's and saw that he was completely serious. "Our daughter? Yours and mine? Our child?"
"Yes, our daughter. She looked about sixteen when I saw her." He said watching as she counted the years and saw her eyes go wide. "So, what do you think is she an accident or do we decide to have her then?"
Staggering a bit at the idea of being a mom, she looked at Logan then said "We will know in about a few years."
"Yes we will." He said as they began to walk towards the hotel again. Once inside, they checked on reservations and were told that a table was available at one.
Heading back towards the lobby, they were soon seated in the comfortable waiting area. Veronica looked at Logan. "I sometimes wonder what would have happened if we had found your mom alive at the hotel."
Getting what she was talking about, he reached out to tangle his fingers with hers and said "Me too. But it has gotten easier over the last year or so to realize she is dead. That Trina was being Trina."
"Have you talked to her at all since this summer?" She asked curious to know how things had fallen out since Trina had been shocked to find out that legally Logan had inherited all of their father's funds.
"No, other than to be sent an email with what she wanted for Christmas. I chose something from the list and had the hotel send it to her. Got a thank you note back two days before winter break started stating that I seemed to have misunderstood what she wanted and that she would be expecting the rest of the list anytime."
He said with a bitter twist of his lips. "Though of course, I didn't even get a card from her."
"I am sorry that we didn't get this straightened out before the holiday break." Veronica said feeling guilty as she thought about how in spite of being depressed about their breakup, she would still have had her dad.
"It's going to be fine. I have both Dick and you, I received cards from several people, including your good pal Wallace and Weevil's grandmother who also sent me some food at the Grand as an early gift when she found out I was leaving." He added with a wicked grin.
"Aw, Mrs. Navarro is such a sweet lady." Veronica said as she rested her head on his shoulder.
"Too bad we can't say the same thing about her grandson." He grumbled.
"You and Weevil just can't admit you have a mutual admiration society going on." She said with a quiet chuckle that became an outright laugh when he began to tickle her.
Both missed the photographer on the other side of the room taking photos and nodding at his boss who was sitting nearby listening in, hoping to get a good scoop from the late Aaron Echolls scandalous son.
"Let's change the subject." Logan hastily said then had a foolish idea "So, what do you think will happen in Vegas."
"Well, it depends." Veronica said as she realized he was trying to lighten the mood. "Either Cliff ends up with a new client when Mac does away with Dick or my dad gets a new case when the Mackenzies hire him to track down Mac after Dick sells her to the Chinese Intelligence agency as a spy."
"There is a third option." Logan said with a sudden idea. "They get drunk together and end up with matching tattoos and wedding rings."
Unable to help herself, Veronica began laughing almost hysterically as she mentally imagined the look on Mac's face if Logan's speculation were to happen. "Then Cliff would still get a client as Mac divorced Dick and took him for half his money."
"Nah, it would be an annulment." Logan said. "Or maybe not, instead Mac would remove his balls with a spoon if he were to even attempt to kiss her."
"Forget his balls; she would just shove him out in front of a truck." Veronica said as they both looked at each other and began to laugh again.
Realizing the time, they went to the dining room and sat down to eat. Looking at the menu, relieved to see it wasn't the sort of restaurant that gave you tiny portions, Veronica ordered a wrap with fries and asked for a bowl of soup to start off.
Logan just told the waitress to give him the same thing before asking Veronica if she wanted a coke or a tea to drink. Seeing her looking at the bar then at him, he said "I just have other plans for this evening and intend to be completely sober to implement them."
"Oh, really?" She asked as they had their soda and soup delivered. "Am I a part of these other plans?"
"Most definitely you are a part of them; in fact you might say you are the star." He said while giving Veronica a thorough looking over. Slowly eating their lunch, they touched on what their other friends were doing.
"Wallace is going to visit his dad's family this week. His roommate went home too." She said then after a moment asked "Wallace said that Piz has a crush on me, do you think he is right."
"He's right." Logan replied. Seeing her surprise, he added "I think you are the only person at Hearst who doesn't know about it. Even Parker noticed, she mentioned it to me at lunch one day when you walked in with him to the union. Asked me if I was ever jealous of his interest."
"Speaking of people interested in one of us." She said a bit tersely as she recalled what Mac had told her about the blond from Colorado.
"I am not interested in Parker." Logan said as he backed up while their waitress delivered their wraps. When she asked if they wanted ketchup, both said yes then waited for her to deliver it before speaking again.
"I had no idea until she mentioned it. So, I say we make it clear to both of them that we aren't ending and that they are waiting for something that won't happen."
"Okay with me." She said then biting into her wrap moaned at how delicious it was.
Logan went hard as a rock and let out a moan of his own that Veronica noticed. "You didn't even bite into your wrap yet."
"Don't make that sound again unless you want me to drag you up to your room and have my way with you." He said his eyes once again the color of warm chocolate.
Biting again into her wrap, Veronica winked at Logan then stretching her legs, brushed against his calves. Swallowing a few minutes later, she said "This isn't as much fun as at the beach. It's much harder to kick off your shoes when wearing boots."
Recalling when she had done just that and how he had been unable to move from behind the picnic table for a good hour even after spending much of that time trying to imagine Mrs. Navarro naked. Spending the next half hour in state of arousal and yet inaction, Logan was grateful when Veronica rejected the offered dessert menu.
Paying the bill, reaching for her hand as they hurried from the table, they missed seeing the narrowed eyes of Madison as she fumed. She had called Dick only to get his voice mail, then the brush off when she called the pilot for his father's private jet.
"No way in hell." She fumed there was no way that she was going to let Veronica Mars win Logan Echolls when she herself didn't even have Dick to cater to her whims.
After paying her bill, Madison decided to head back to the Echolls cabin to find some speck of a clue as to where he had gone.
Arriving at the cabin, furious to realize that instead of using his own place to sex up the slut Mars girl, he had gone to Dicks. That changed her plans as she made one more last ditch effort to track down her ex boyfriend at the airport.
Calling information to get the number for the private hanger at the airport, she pretended to be Mrs. Casablancas personal secretary and finally was told that the Casablancas jet had returned to Neptune with one passenger. A quick stop back at the hotel hoping to catch Shelly only to hear a voice mail that made it clear her best friend was already on her way home.
Driving to the airport, dumping her rental car as quickly as possible, she wasn't happy to be forced to fly coach if she wanted to return home that very day. Soon seated on the jet, she was casually glancing out the window as they taxied down the runway; she saw that it was beginning to snow.
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At the condo, Logan looked at a half naked Veronica asleep on his side and grimaced a little. He had decided half way through their make out session to call a halt to things much to his lover's surprise.
She had only objected slightly to his suggestion that they wait until the New Year as a symbol of the changes they were intending on making.
When Veronica had pressed a kiss to his cheek, claiming he was the most romantic straight man in the world, Logan had only smirked at first until he had felt her hand cupping him and fought his own urges to finish what he had started.
Now two hour later, listening to her soft breathing he found it difficult not to smile as he began to work through his already formulating plans for their future.