Veronica awoke from her night of bliss with Logan. Rolling over and expecting him to be at her side, she stretched her arm out but to her surprise he wasn't there. She sat up in her bed with a confused expression.
"Logan?" Veronica called out.
There was no answer.
She called out for him again but no answer like the first time. Veronica checked her phone for any missed calls or text messages from Logan, but there were none. Just a few from Alicia giving her updates on Keith.
Veronica got out of bed and walked into the kitchen, she greeted Backup then turned on the Keurig. She looked around to see if Logan had left a note but he didn't. Strange, she thought. While waiting for her coffee Veronica dialed Logan's familiar number but quickly hung up, she'd just talk to him later.
Dick and Mac decided to have both of their Bachelor and Bachelorette parties in Vegas. The guys and girls would be on their own separate wings of the hotels, and they'd only see eachother for dinner. V digested the hot liquid then grabbed a leash for Backup and went for a run. When she returned from her run she noticed a slim caramel colored woman standing on her porch.
"Can I help you?" Veronica asked walking up the steps. The woman removed her glasses and gave Veronica a phony smile.
"Veronica Mars, just the woman I was looking for." Jackie spoke.
"Jackie Fennel, or is it Jackie Cooke? Being that you know you're divorcing your husband." Veronica said seeing no point in playing nice.
"Cute." Jackie said giving Veronica a look. "So are you going to invite me in or not?"
"Not." Veronica said folding her arms. "So what do you want Jackie?"
"Well then. I want you to butt out of my personal business, I hear you're giving Wallace false hopes of him actually retaining custody of Chloe." Jackie said swaying before taking a seat in the patio chair.
"Well as Wallace's attorney, I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure you never get custody of Chloe. When I'm finished you'll be lucky to get so much as a visitation." Veronica said angrily.
"Wow, Veronica for someone who grew up without a mother I can't believe you'd want the same for your niece." Jackie said mockingly.
Veronica knew what Jackie was doing, she was baiting her.
"It takes more than giving birth to consider yourself a mother. But you're absolutely right Jackie, I know what it's like to grow up without a mother. Which is how I also know what an alcoholic looks like and there's one staring me directly in my face." Veronica smirked observing Jackies body language and the potent stench of bourbon on her breath and clothes.
Jackie's phony smile instantly changed. "What? You're crazy-" She began to speak before Veronica cut her off.
"Save it, you know I'm so glad you decided to stop by. Showing up smashed to verbally assault an attorney alone is leverage. Add that to the fact that you abandoned your first child and passed him off as your mothers child and we in the attorney biz call that an open and shut case. Now get the hell off of porch." Veronica spat walking inside and slamming the door leaving Jackie standing on the porch dumbfounded.
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After Jackie's visit, V called Wallace to give her a lift since her car was at Mac and Dicks. On the ride to Neptune Memorial to see Keith, she filled Wallace in on the drama. Veronica felt bad about going to Vegas while her dad was laying in a hospital bed, but he insisted she go. He'd rather her be with friends then sitting at home worrying over him. After leaving her dad Veronica, got a text from Mac saying a limo was on its way to pick her up from the hospital and drive them to Vegas.
"I can now officially cross being picked up in a limo at the hospital off of my bucket list." Veronica joked sliding into the black vehicle next to Parker.
It was just Mac, Veronica and Parker inside of the spacious limo. It didn't bother Mac that she didn't have many girlfriends, less drama as she would say. She just never seemed to click with most girls and being in the software business she was surrounded by guys ninety percent of the time.
"Toast to a good ass night!" Parker exclaimed popping open a bottle of champagne.
"Parker it's noon." Mac pointed out.
"Yeah well, it's five o'clock somewhere." Parker responded causing Veronica and Mac to chuckle. They grab some glasses and down the bubbly liquid.
"So where's your bff Naomi?" Veronica asked Mac teasingly. Mac and Parker exchange looks.
"What was that?" Veronica asked.
"You haven't heard?" Parker asked.
"Heard what?" Veronica responded.
"Logan broke off their engagement this morning." Parker said.
"Yeah, Naomi called me crying this morning then she obviously blamed me for bringing you back in town. I thought you knew, I mean you were the last one to talk to Logan before he broke it off." Mac explained.
Veronica reminisced about the events that took place last night between she and Logan. The sex was amazing, gentle and passionate.
"Veronica?" Mac said breaking her out of her daydream. "Oh yeah, no he didn't say a word about it." She responded not wanting to let the girls in on her secret love making session.
"You better watch out Veronica that bitch is crazy, I saw it in her eyes last night. She made a scene after you and Logan left the rehersal dinner." Parker informed Veronica.
"Good thing I didn't let her give me the dress free of charge otherwise she might've tried to take it back." Mac said sipping on her drink.
"Okay enough with the crazy bitch talk, this is a bachelorette party." Parker butted in. "Now about the stripper I was thinking..."
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"Dude I can't believe you dumped your fiancée, on second thought I can. I bet you slept with Veronica Mars last night didn't you?" Dick asked. "Of course you did it's written all over your face. Man you two can't make up your minds." Dick added not bothering to wait for Logan to answer.
"It just happened I didn't plan it. I felt extremely bad about it which is why I broke it off with Naomi, she didn't deserve that." Logan said sounding remorseful.
"Whatever you say bro, I'm just glad you're back with Veronica but don't tell her I said that." Dick said.
"I'm not with Veronica, it was a one time thing." Logan spoke.
"Yeah right and I don't love porn." Dick and his groomsman John laughed.
After the five hour journey the wedding party arrived in Sin City. They went to their rooms to get changed and have dinner before a night of shenanigans.
"Looking good Veronica." Parker whistled out as Veronica stepped out of the bathroom. "Red is definitely your color and your boobs my God are you wearing a bra they look phenomenal." Parker added
"Nope. As Lily would say, how many bra-less years do I have left?" Veronica replied laughing.
"Let's go make Vegas our bitch!" Mac exclaimed shocking both Parker and Veronica but nonetheless they were on board and ready for a night on the town.
At dinner everyone was looking forward to the bachelor and bachelorette parties. But they were all in all excited to spend the next two days completely shitfaced. However Veronica noticed Logan avoiding eye contact and giving her the cold shoulder throughout dinner. This caused her to be confused being that spent lastnight making love.
"Come take a walk with me." Veronica said to Logan while Mac and Dick sucked face and Parker flirted with John the groomsman. The went over to a secluded spot near the balcony of the restaurant.
"You seem to be avoiding me, is it because of lastnight?" Veronica asked wanting answers.
"I just have a lot on my mind." Logan answered.
"I heard about you breaking it off with Naomi. Was that because of what we did? Do you regret it?" Veronica told him.
"Veronica lastnight with you was one of the best nights of my life, so no I don't regret it."
"Then I'm really confused because that's not how you're acting. You've been giving me the silent treatment all night and it's like you can't even look me in the face. Why?" Veronica pressed
"Veronica tonight's not the night for this." Logan said turning to walk away.
"No tell me!" She said grabbing his shirt trying to stop him. She struggled to hold onto him but knowing she wouldn't let up Logan decided to come clean.
"I feel like I took advantage of you!" Logan confessed angrily turning around to face the blonde.
"What do you mean?" Veronica asked with a confused look.
"You were dealing with the stuff with your dad and I knew you were vulnerable. So I thought if I showed up as your white knight giving you a shoulder to cry on you'd take me back. Only that was selfish of me because I had a fiancée, a fiancée I only proposed to so that I wouldn't fall back into anything with you." Logan confessed.
"I wanted to, you didn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do." Veronica said reaching up to put her hand to his face but Logan rejected her touch.
"Well If I hadn't laid out the red carpet it wouldn't have happened. I don't regret it Veronica but it can't happen again. We can't happen again, it'll only end up bad and we both know it. I'm just trying to protect my heart it's been through a lot over the years." Logan explains.
Veronica stood there listening to Logans words not believing what she was hearing. It baffled her how they went from making love one night to this. It was unexpected and quite frankly she had to admit it hurt.
"Look we can still be-."
"What friends, is that where you were going with that? No thanks, you're right it wouldn't have worked anyway we failed every other time right? No hard feelings, I'm going to go back to our table."
Veronica said giving Logan a fake smile before turning around not wanting him to see the tears fall that she'd been holding in.
