Bus Crash Bonding Chapter 4: Logan and Wallace

A/N: Sorry it has taken so long for an update! But here it is! :) This is a chapter focused on Logan and Wallace bonding, so enjoy! :)

Alicia arrives soon after Wallace's call. She grabs another chair and sits next to Keith, gripping one of his hands, while the other is on Veronica's arm. Logan, Wallace and Mac sit in their seats opposite Keith and Alicia, with the silent form of Veronica in between them. They sit there in silence, watching, hoping, wishing, and waiting for signs of life from Veronica, well into the night.

At 10pm Alicia had to go home to look after Darrell, who was at a friends house for a while, but promised that she would be back in the morning. At midnight Mac's parents came to get her from the hospital to make her get some sleep. She said she would be back around lunchtime tomorrow. At about two in the morning Keith crashed and fell asleep in his chair. He was exhausted. That just left Logan and Wallace alone to watch over their blond detective.

"I can't remember the last time Veronica was this quiet?" Logan says, trying to lighten the mood of the hospital room.

"Yeah, any minute now she'll wake up and yell at us for worrying about her." Wallace jokes, making Logan chuckle softly.

"I don't think we've ever really had a conversation before." Logan says, after a pause.

"The time you smashed in Veronica's headlights didn't really count, did it?" Wallace says sarcastically, smiling at the memory of Veronica's prank on Logan that led to the incident.

"Well, she did plant a bong in my locker." Logan grins, also remembering the event. "Pretty damn good prank!"

"She hit three birds with one stone with that. Piss you off, save my butt from the PCHers, and piss off Sheriff Lamb." Wallace grins.

"She would of loved pissing off both me and Lamb." Logan says, after another pause.

"That's when Veronica and I became friends. Ya know, I never really got the story of how you and her became friends?"

"That was a long time ago. We were twelve, and she was playing soccer at the oval and I was playing in the playground with my older sister Trina. Trina made me go get her shoes so that she didn't have to get sand on her feet as she got off the playground. So I was walking back to where we left our stuff and out of nowhere a soccer ball hits me in the face." Logan chuckles. "Veronica came running over to me. I was crying because it hurt like hell, she had one hell of a kick, and she was crying when she got to me because she felt so bad for hitting me. Her Dad came over, as well as half the team, and he helped me to sit up. He held an ice pack to my forehead and asked me some questions to see if I had a concussion, while Veronica was sitting next to me still tearful. I gave her a hug to make her feel better and we both started laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation. And that was the story of how Veronica and I met. After the game Mr. Mars took Veronica, Trina and me for ice cream and then drove Trina and me home."

"Seems like you've both been through hell since then."

"Yeah." Logan says sadly. "She was one of my best friends."

"You guys really hurt her last year." Wallace says, grinding his teeth. Logan didn't reply. He knew he had hurt Veronica, and he could never really make it up to her.

A long pause follows Wallace's words where the only sounds in the quite hospital room were the beeping of the machines next to Veronica and the sounds of everyone's breathing.

"Why did you do it?" Wallace says after a while. "Why did you turn your back on her?"

"It's complicated." Logan says, trying to end the conversation. Wallace looks at his friend sadly lying in the hospital bed and sighs, remembering the time she came to his house and told him everything about Lily, Logan, Duncan and herself.

"She told me everything." Wallace says, slowly, trying to see if Logan knew what he meant about the whole story.

"She did?" He says, looking at Wallace incredulously. "She must really trust you."

"It took her a year to tell me about it though. She came to my house in tears and told me all about it." Wallace says; the vulnerability in Veronica's voice had crushed him. Logan looks shamefully down at his hands, which were shaking slightly from rage about what happened to Veronica.

"She doesn't blame you for what happened. You know at Shelly's party. She told me." Wallace says, not sure why he was protecting Logan from himself.

"She should. I was the one with the drugs."

"Yeah, but you didn't give it to her directly, and you were one of the only people who didn't take advantage of her. Wow."

"What?" Logan asks, looking up at Wallace.

"I never thought I would be defending Logan Echolls from himself. I don't even know you, only what Veronica has told me about you." Wallace says, frowning slightly.

"Yeah, well. I never thought I would be talking to you about Veronica Mars. And she knows be the best so you've got a pretty good source for your information." Logan says, smiling slightly at the girl in question.

"She's my best friend, my whole life changed when she cut me down from that flag pole."

"She used to be one of my best friends, then I blamed her for Lily's death, then I hated her for changing, then I started liking her again, then I hired for her PI skills, then we were acquaintances, then we were sort of friends, then she kissed me, then we dated, then she accused me of killing Lily and broke my heart, the I loved her, and then she broke my heart again."

"It really is complicated." Wallace says, taken aback at how much Logan has told him tonight.

"You don't say."

"If it makes you feel any better, I think she was happier at the start of ths summer than any time I've ever seen her." Wallace says, smiling encouragingly at Logan, who was looking at him with a glimmer of hope in his chocolate brown eyes, which turn to despair again.

"Yeah, well. She also seemed pretty happy with Duncan at the end of the summer." He says sadly. Wallace just shrugs.

"I will never understand the full extent of what goes on in Veronica Mars' head, but I do know that she really did like you and that she was with Duncan for a bit of normality in her life. 'Normal is the watch word.'"

"I don't think anyone will ever really know what is going on in her head." Logan says.

"True dat."

"Hey, I'm going to grab a coffee did you want one?" Logan asks, getting up from his seat.

"Yeah, thanks." Wallace replies, smiling slightly.

"No probs." Logan says, glancing at Veronica one last time, before leaving the room.

Wallace leans back in his chair and sighs.

"Veronica, he's kinda a nice guy. I finally understand why you liked him, but why did you have to break his heart?" He asks his best friend lying in the hospital bed next to him, with which she replies with silence.

A/N: Hope you liked this chapter, remember to review! :)

The title of the next chapter will be "There has to be a Morning after" that's not much of a spoiler for the next chapter, so I'll just say that this was a Wallace and Logan focused chapter and the next one will be leaning towards Mac. So keep reading/reviewing! :D