Hey!

OMG!! Thanx for the reviews!!!

And the b'day wishes! Made my day(s) lol!


I was gonna update on Sunday but my crazy friends (and I'm guessing sister too) threw me a party! So I cudn't exactly get out of it!!!

But I beg for your forgiveness – and I got this up as soon as I could!

Please R&R again!

xXx Tiana

Two days later, it was Saturday. As per usual, Lexi woke up close to midday, only to find the other two guys up and playing on the Play Station, once again.

'Don't you guys get bored of that?' she asked as she headed to the kitchen.

'Nope.' She got a joint reply. She looked around the kitchen, frowned, and then looked back at the other two again.

'You haven't had breakfast?'

'We're waiting for you.' Logan replied without taking his eyes off of the screen. Lexi didn't believe it for a second.

'Maid's day off?' she enquired. The two boys looked at her for a second before turning their attention to the TV again.

'If you're tryna say,' pause. 'that we can't cook.' Another pause as Logan directed on the game. 'then you are mistaken.'

'Really? Then make me breakfast!' she commanded.

'Busy.' He simply said. Duncan sat there, beating Logan at the fighting game as he concentrated on two things at once.

'Oh yeah?' Lexi walked out and "accidentally" stepped on his control's cable lead, to cause it to stop working. 'Oops. My bad.' She said innocently, before turning to go back into the kitchen.

Logan looked at her retreating form, and the TV, in astonishment.

'What just happened?' he asked Duncan.

'I think that I just beat you!' he replied, chuckling, before jumping up off the couch and headed out the door.

'Where you going?' Logan asked.

'To get the mail.' Duncan slammed the door shut. Logan sat in his seat for a minute before getting up and going into the kitchen too.

In there, Lexi was whisking some pancake batter. Logan looked at her confused.

'You can cook?' he stated the obvious.

'Well, you don't go living with Trina for two years without learning how to cook. Unless you wanna be anorexic.'

'Then what the hell was that about!' he waved his hand back to the living room. Lexi shrugged. Logan kept on staring at her.

'What? I expect my breakfast to be made when I get up. Like every other day?' she explained.

'You just said that you made your meals when - ' Logan stopped and shook his head. 'Never mind. Being back in Neptune's pampered you.' He went to grab some chocolate chips, but hi hand was batted away by a stick spoon.

'Don't!' Lexi chided. Logan gave her a glare and licked his hand while staring at her. A mall smirk crept onto his face.

'Hmmm. Yum! Pancake batter.' He licked his lips.

'Urgh! That's gross!' Lexi pulled a face.

'No it's not.'

'Yes it is!'

'Nuh uh.'

'Uh uh!' Lexi made her way around to the stove to switch it on. Logan slowly moved forward and grabbed the wooden spoon. When she turned around, Logan was holding the spoon in a triumphant manner. He looked too innocent, and Lexi had no doubt what he was gonna do.

'Don't you even think about it!' She warned.

'Do what?' he feigned innocence.

'You know what.' She stared at him, almost daring him.

'Oh. You mean this?' with that, Logan flicked the spoon in her direction, causing the batter on it to fly at her. Lexi yelped and moved to get out of the way, but was still hit by a tiny bit.

'You're gonna pay for that!' Lexi exclaimed. She reached into the draw for another spoon and dipped it into the batter. She aimed carefully and hit Logan.

The fight continued until Duncan came back, 10 minutes later, to find the two of them splattered in batter.

As Duncan stood there, both Logan and Lexi stopped and their laughter died down, like kids caught by their parents.

'Hi?' Lexi said, amusement still in her voice.

'Want some pancakes, DK?' Logan asked. Duncan just shook his head.

'I don't think so.' he simply said. The other two nodded.

'Good idea. I don't think there's much batter left.' Lexi explained, causing Logan to grin. Duncan rolled his eyes.

'I think I'll go and get us some breakfast from downstairs.' Duncan explained, before turning around. 'And clean this place up.' He said over his shoulder.

'Yes, dad!' both Lexi and Logan yelled back, causing them to laugh again.

--

2 hours later, after everything was cleaned and everyone had ate, Duncan remembered something.

'Oh, yeah. Lexi, you had some mail.' He told her. Lexi looked up at him from her place on the floor. She was lying there, doing her homework while the other two were once again on the Play Station.

'Really? Who from?' she asked. Duncan shrugged. She got up and went to the other room, where Duncan had put the mail. She opened it and read it through. By the time she was back in her position, she sighed and pulled a face.

'What is it?' Logan asked.

'Doctor's appointment.' She pulled a face, giving Logan the letter as he outstretched a hand for it. They swapped the letter for the controller.

'Did you make this?' Logan asked her.

'Nope. Mom must have. She did it all the time that I was travelling. She would phone up and find some specialist nearby and make an appointment.' Lexi rolled her eyes, still concentrating on the game.

'Mom?' Logan asked her.

'Well, yeah. I don't think that Trina would care about it much. I doubt she even knows I have epilepsy.'

Logan nodded, his mind reeling from the latest piece of evidence that his mom was still alive.

'You still on your medicine?' Duncan asked her. It was on thing that they had in common.

'Nah. I'm good for the moment. But I got this just in case.' She held up her hand with he watch on. The watch looked normal, but the face could open and revealed a place to hold a pill.

'Cool.' He said as they continued to play. A couple of minutes later, Logan got up and headed to the door.

'Where you going, Logan?' Lexi asked him.

'Just out. I forgot I had to meet someone.' before anyone could say something, he was out of the door. Lexi looked at Duncan, who just shrugged.

'He'll be back.' Was all that he said.

--

Logan pulled up outside 'Mars Investigations', hoping that Veronica was there. As he entered the door to the office, he was glad to see her at her desk.

'Logan What are you doing here?' she asked him. They had agreed that she would contact him so they could meet up again at school on Monday.

'I've got something that I thought you might want to know.' He went straight into, placing his sister's letter on her desk. Veronica looked at it and read it.

'Why is this important?' she asked, confused.

'Because Lexi said that Mom use to make her appointments when she was off travelling. And I know that I didn't make this, and neither did she.' He explained sitting down opposite her.

'What about Aaron? He might've made it.' She put forward. Logan laughed.

'I think there's a higher chance of it being Trina than our father.' He snorted. Veronica nodded.

'Alright. Well, I'll search it later.'

'Later?' Logan asked, incredulous.

'Yes, Logan. Later. As in not right now.' Logan rolled his eyes at her usual attitude. 'I've something else to do at the moment. But I did find something about your mom.'

'What?' Logan asked, leaning forward in his chair.

'Well, the reason why she wasn't answering her phone is cos she has disconnected it. The cell network kindly let me know that she had stopped her payment, so they cut her off.'

'Why would she do that for?'

'So she wouldn't be contacted maybe.' Veronica suggested as Logan nodded. 'Something else I found was about your mother's credit cards. Here look at this.' She placed a piece of paper, with the credit card information on it, on the table between them.

'This was the last time that your mom used any of her cards.' Veronica pointed out.

'That's a lot of money.' Logan commented. The last amount withdrawn was for $5000.

'Yes it is. It was done from the bank in person in North Carolina. After then, there has been no activity by any of your mother's cards.'

'What about some secret credit cards? The ones she hid from dad?' Logan asked, desperately.

'Do you know of any?' Logan looked down. 'I can check for some, but I don't think there is.' She warned him. She hated that he looked so down. 'Does Lexi know yet?' Logan laughed dryly.

'Nope. Not yet. By she will figure it out soon.' He nodded leaning back in his seat. He closed his eyes for a second. 'Veronica? Tell me, honestly. Do you think we can find her?'

Veronica's heart broke at his vulnerable tone. She took in a breath.

'I honestly have no idea. Each time it's like taking three steps forward, but then one step back.'

'But in the end we can get there.' Logan reminded her. It was something that one of their teachers use to tell them.

'Yeah.' she smiled warmly. 'Yeah, in the end.' She nodded.

Logan got up and stood be8hind the chair.

'Le me know if you find anything.' Veronica nodded. As Logan exited, Keith Mars entered through the door.

Keith turned to his daughter with a look on his face.

'Logan Echolls?' he asked her in a "do I want to know what's going on?" tone.

Veronica shook her head as she got down back to her work.

--

By Monday lunchtime, Veronica had gotten no information about Lexi's appointment. Each time she tried to get some information, the receptionist would tell her it was 'doctor – patient confidentiality'. Veronica sighed, and argued a lot with them but never got anywhere.

She was now working on whether Lynn had any other credit cards. She was still working on it when Logan came up to her table.

He squinted in ht sunlight as he looked over to his 09ers table, and then looked back at her. She looked at him expectantly, and kind of wearily.

'You find anything then?' Logan said in a low voice so that no one could hear. Veronica shook her head.

'I'm sorry.' Was all she said. Logan nodded. They were in silence for a minute before Logan said something.

'Why isn't she leaving any clues?' he said almost desperate, Veronica could see his mask slipping. It took a lot of strength for her to not just stand up and hug him.

Now, where did that come from? She thought. Hugs are what friends share. She told herself.

'I dunno.' She sighed. 'Why did she dye her hair red?' she countered back.

'Who's got red hair?' Lexi asked as she joined them. She gave Logan a weird look, but dismissed the fact that he was there.

'No-one's got red hair.' Logan told her.

'But she just said someone's got red hair.'

'Who's got red hair?' Veronica asked her.

'I dunno, you said it.'

'Well, I dunno.' Veronica replied.

'I dunno either.' Logan supplied, a small smile appearing on his face.

'Then why did you say it?' Lexi asked Veronica.

'Say what?'

'That someone's got red hair!'

'But you just said it!' Logan told her.

'Who's got red hair?' Veronica asked.

'Trina's got red hair!' Lexi supplied.

'That's true! Trina does have red hair!' Logan commented.

'We were talking about Trina's red hair.' Veronica decided.

'But I just mentioned Trina.' Lexi exclaimed. They all stared at each other. 'My head hurts.' Lexi whined as the other two smiled.

'Never mind. Come and have some brain food, Pix.' Logan told her, slinging an arm around her shoulder. She looked at Veronica.

'I have to go to class.' She frowned and got up.

'Ok. Laters.' She called at her as she was dragged off. Before they got to the 09ers table, Lexi asked Logan.

'What were you and Veronica talking about?'

'Nothing. I was wondering where you were.' Logan said, dismissing the subject by starting another conversation with Dick.

Lexi chose not to believe him.

--

A couple of days later, Veronica was back at her office, when she decided to go back to Aaron's credit card details, failing in finding any for Lynn.

Opening all of his information, Veronica went through all of the latest transactions. And there was one that caught her eye.

At the bottom of the one which had purchased the plane ticket to Florida, there was one more transaction. And it had happened in Florida. It had bought a hotel room for two nights in a 5 place.

Veronica read through more of it, coming to the conclusion that Aaron didn't know that Lynn had the credit card, as the mailing address for the bank to mail the statements and stuff to, had changed from the Echolls' mansion… to one in Florida.

She smiled at the new information.

One step closer to getting her back. One step closer to getting my old Logan back.

Veronica was oblivious to the fact that she had thought of Logan as 'my'.

Man! That's a long chappie!!

I hope it makes up for the wait!

Btw – I can't believe that so many people thought that Lynn was Trina! I never thought of that lol! Veronica's too intelligent for me!

Anyhoo – cos of that – I thought I'd put sumthing in to exclude her!

Please R&R! One more chappie to go! Then you'll see bout Florida!

xXx Tiana