"Wow," Wallace whistled as he sat back in his chair then leant forward again, his cup of coffee much like Veronica's forgotten and abandoned at the side of the table, "and Logan agreed to all that. Damn, he must still be in love with you. How did your dad take it?"
"Well," Veronica stalled as her phone rang in her pocket again, Wallace rasing his eyebrows at her as she reached for it and held up a finger to signal she'd only be one minute, "this is Veronica."
"Veronica its Logan again," his voice rang out through the phone as Veronica held up a hand to stop Wallace form interrupting, placing the hand over her ear so she could hear better, "I need you to come to the suite."
"I'm busy right now Logan," Veronica sighed as she took a sip of her coffee and screwed up her face against the cold bitter taste, "can't this wait until later?"
"No, Veronica," Logan was almost shouting on the other end of the phone now, making Veronica's anger kick in to shut him down, but holding off as he began to speak again, "this is important."
"Well what I'm doing now is important too, you can wait Logan," she snapped the phone shut and turned to face Wallace, watching him close his own phone and look at her with his raised eyebrows all challenging, "what?"
"That was your father Miss Mars," Wallace nodded form the other side of the table as Veronica's mouth made a surprised little o shape; "it seems he found a few things in your bathroom and is trying to track you down. Do you want me to drive you to Logan's?"
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"God I feel so stupid," Veronica yelled as she rubbed her forehead with her hand as she sat in Wallace's passenger seat on the way to Logan's, "you never leave incriminating evidence where a private eye is involved, basic criminal element one."
"Calm down V," Wallace tried to make her relax as he turned into the parking lot of Logan's hotel suite living space, bypassing the valet and parking his car himself, opening Veronica's door as she slapped her palm against her forehead in mock disaster, "and I don't think that's going to do anything to improve your state of mental health, lets see what Logan wanted."
"I can already guess," Veronica moaned as she pried herself from the car and held her head downcast as Wallace wrapped a hand around her waist to drag her along, not bothering to waste time waiting for the elevator and dragging her up the stairs, "I bet my dad called him, we're all gonna…"
"What?" Wallace asked in confusion as Veronica's head snapped up and she flung herself forward and out of his grip and raced up the stairs, taking them almost three at a time but slowing down to two as Wallace caught up, "Veronica what the hell is going on?"
"My dad, he found, Logan call, Dad called you, Logan called me," she was spitting things out that made no sense in any order but seemed to fit together as a perfect, if jumbled explanation, "dad knows, and is with Logan."
"Oh," Wallace smiled as he got it and then continued walking up the stairs with Veronica, the pair of them realising what they'd just said and beginning to run again, Veronica trying to turn and leave until Wallace swung her around, "oh, no you don't. Time to face the music, Mars."
"I suppose. It was fun living while it lasted," Veronica put on a damsel in distress type voice and made her way up the last few stairs as Wallace stood waiting for her to make a run for it and then moving to follow, "don't try and save me, save yourself."
"Suits me," Wallace laughed as he turned to go and then felt Veronica's hand grip his arm and drag him through the door and into the hallway, "I thought you said to save myself?"
"Suck it up superstar, I'm the one that does the saving round here," Veronica said just before her smile disappeared and they reached Logan's suite door, "what would you do without me? We may just be about to find out."
Wallace lost his own smile as Veronica knocked and Logan answered the door, relief showing in his expression as he kissed her on the forehead and pulled her inside, nodding to Wallace and leaving him to kick the door shut behind himself.
"Hey dad," Wallace heard Veronica say as she tilted her head to the side with more guilt than want evident in her tone, "what's up?"
A/N: hey everyone, I am aware that this is extremely late and even though its holidays I haven't had time to do stuff with my extreme holiday homework overload. I know excuses, excuses, but I am trying my best and will continue to try getting a chapter out at least every month, so bear with me even though I know I'm probably being excessively annoying by not updating frequently. Hope you liked and reviews make for great motivation! Thanks heaps, Ange.