My secret
Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars, it is all property of Rob Thomas…
Ships: LoVe, MacDick, oc/oc
Season 3 spoilers,
Takes place after the spit & eggs, goes AU after that..
Summary: Veronica has run off to LA, hiding out from everyone, because of her pregnancy, Parker and Logan are dating, but Logan ended things.. But Parker had an accident and is in a coma, the doctor also tells Logan that she is crazy.. Wallace thinks about the friendship with Veronica and is sad she is gone... And Weevil is just being Weevil, V's personal avenger... Keith finds Yolanda and realizes that it was a dead-end and Mac decides that she doesn't like Parker after what she has done and besides Mac got the feeling that Parker is up to something...
CHAPTER 8
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Keith heard a knock on the door and got up. It was Wallace.
For the last month Wallace had been by almost everyday to make sure that Keith got up. Not knowing where his daughter was and what had happened with her, had done something to Keith.
"Hey Sheriff. You gotta go to work now, I brought you a bagel. Now go and get ready and I'll make coffee."
Keith nodded and went into the shower. Today it was precisely 5 months since Veronica had run of and God he missed her. His precious little girl had hidden so well, that he couldn't find her.
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"Logan, Honey.." Parker yelled from the kitchen.
"Yes?"
"Would you rather have chicken or fish?"
"Hmm.. Chicken.. Have you taken your pills?"
"No…"
"Then do it now…"
"It's really not necessary..."
Logan walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water and one of hers pills.
"Parker..."
The girl took the pill and swallowed it along with some water.
"Now show me.."
The girl opened up her mouth and he made sure she hadn't hidden it underneath her tongue.
"I'll be in the living room, making some homework."
He was tired, it had been a long day at school and he was tired of fighting with Parker about whether or not she needed pills.
He looked around the small apartment, he had rented for about a month ago.
He couldn't make himself bring Parker into the suite anymore. He had thought of it as his and Veronica's place and when Mac had approached him two months ago, telling him that she couldn't live with Parker anymore, she felt she was letting Veronica down, the decision was made. He knew that Parker up till then had tried to make him ask her to move into the suite with him, but he was not ready. In his heart he had not given up the hope of finding Veronica. But he could not forget the look on Mac's face when they had talked about it. So after he had bought the apartment, he had asked Parker to move in. Not for him, but for sake of Mac. He hoped Veronica would be happy to know he thought of her friends.
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Veronica looked at her calendar. It was precisely 5 months since she had left Neptune and that life behind. She looked at her stomach, where the baby was moving around and Veronica thought once again that she really didn't had any other choice. The baby was her life now. But she had to go to classes. She was almost ready to take the finals in English and Communication. Veronica packed her bag again and fought to get up, she was getting really big, even though she was only 7 months pregnant. Jadrien Powell came up to her and gave her a hand.
"Verona, you need to take it a bit easier soon."
"I know. I just need to take the two finals and I can relax again and concentrate on the baby."
"Perhaps I should try to make them move your finals till after the birth?"
Veronica smiled. "Well, my doctor said I was doing fine and we didn't have to worry for the next month. But you know a lot about this too, what do you think?"
"Well, when are your finals?"
"In a week.."
"Okay, take them and then you can take fewer classes afterwards, okay?"
Veronica nodded.
"Sure. Gotta go now, I have English now."
Veronica walked towards Kappa Motherhood after an hour of listing of A. Pope and Shakespeare. Just as she saw the house she began to feel strange, it almost felt like the times she was ruffied. She dropped her books and bag as her vision began to disappear. She faintly saw Phoebe, who came running out of the house with Ashley right behind her.
"Someone call 911, she's losing the baby… Hurry!"
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Jadrien was on his way to his car when he saw Verona collapse in the middle of the street and a girl yelled to call 911. Jadrien took out his phone and called, while he ran over to Verona. She was bleeding heavily and her pants was soaked with blood.
"Fuck!" He said just as the phone was answered.
"Hurry to UCLA, we have a student here who is about to lose her baby, hurry."
"We have an ambulance on it's way. It will be there in 2 minutes."
Jadrien hung up and heard Verona whispering:
"Not my baby, let me keep my baby, it's all I got left."
Tears were silently falling down her chin. A little boy came running from the Kappa Motherhood house, yelling to the girl sitting next to Verona.
"Mommy, mommy, what's wrong with Rona?"
His mother – whose name was Phoebe, if Jadrien remembered it correctly – took him up and moved him as two lifesavers came with a stretcher which Verona was put onto.
"Let us come with, we're all she got.." Phoebe pleaded with one of the lifesaver.
Jadrien came over to them. "Yeah, please. Let us come with."
The lifesaver looked at them and nodded. They jumped into the ambulance.
Jadrien looked at Veronica in the ambulance. She was completely passed out by now. He turned to the lifesaver.
"Take her to the best hospital, money is not a problem, the fond will pay." He said. The driver nodded and they drove to LA Saint Helena.
"Hang in there, Verona." Phoebe whispered.
As they reached the hospital the lifesavers carried Veronica onto a carriage instead and a doctor came out and looked at Veronica.
"We need to bring her to delivery now or else she or the baby will die." The lifesavers nodded and hurried down the corridors with the doctor right behind them.
"Excuse me, if you will follow me to the waiting room, the doctor will come to inform you if there is any news." A nurse said to Jadrien, Phoebe and Casey, who followed her down another corridor and into a waiting room. They all sat down and the nurse left again.
5 hours later nothing had happened and Jadrien was walking back and forward in anger.
"I feel so responsible.. I should have told her sooner to take things slow, it was me who encouraged her to take more classes."
He sat down and Phoebe took his hand.
"it's not your fault."
They looked at each other as the door to the waiting room opened and a doctor entered. They both got up, Casey was fast asleep in a chair.
"They are both alive." The doctor said and gestured for them to sit down again.
"That was the good news. The bad news is that the placenta was lose and we had complications during the delivery. The baby is alive but just hardly. She is put into a incubator and Verona is sleeping. She lost a lot of blood, but she will be okay again, she has been given a blood transfer, but she will need a lot of rest. The baby on the other hand.." The doctor became quiet. "It's not certain she will survive, there's only a 30 percent chance she'll live."
Phoebe nodded and her voice was trembling when she asked: "Did Verona see the baby?"
"No, she passed out again, just at the baby came out and she won't wake up in the next couples of hours."
Jadrien and Phoebe looked at each other, and Jadrien nodded.
"Can we sit with her until she wakes up?"
The doctor thought a bit and finally nodded. Phoebe motioned to pick up the sleeping boy, when Jadrien stopped her.
"Let me carry him." She smiled and nodded and Jadrien picked Casey up. The doctor followed them into the private room, where Veronica was laying, fast asleep. Jadrien put down Casey in a chair, and Phoebe put her jacket under his head and Jadrien grabbed a blanket laying at the chair and put over the boy.
3 hours later Veronica opened her eyes.
"Verona, are you okay?" Phoebe came over to the bed and took Veronica's hand.
Veronica looked up at Phoebe. "Where am I?... I had this really weird dream, where I gave birth."
Phoebe caressed her chin. "Honey, it was not a dream.."
Veronica sat up. "Where's my baby?"
Phoebe called the doctor who quickly entered. "Can we take Verona to her baby?"
"Of course." The doctor left for a short while and returned with a nurse and a wheelchair, which the nurse helped Veronica into. Phoebe woke up Casey and they drove Veronica into the room with incubators. The doctor stopped by a small incubator where a pink stick said: Jupiter, Verona – babygirl
Inside the tiniest girl was laying on a pink blanket. She had her eyes closed and a tube in her mouth.Small cords connected the baby to the machine, which watched the rhythm of the heart. She was wearing small pink socks, a white sweater and a small pink hat. Under the small hat a small tuft of blonde hair was hanging out. Veronica cried.
"Oh my God, she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen... She's just so pretty... Will... Will she survive?"
Phoebe took her hand as the doctor sighed. "Actually, the chances are very slim, I'm afraid, but it could go both ways..."
Casey crawled onto Veronica's lap. "Don't cry, Rona. You know, mommy read a story for me once, and it was about this girl that was dying but then she didn't." He hugged her and kissed her on the cheek. "Her name was Leslee.."
"Leslee?" Veronica asked.
Casey nodded and touched the incubator. "She looks like a Leslee too."
Veronica smiled. "Then we will call her Leslee."
Casey snuggled close to Veronica again and said quietly: "You know, I'll help you to look out for her, and so will mommy." He looked serious now.
"Thank you Case."
The doctor opened a slush, so Veronica could touch her baby and Veronica took her hand.
"I'll get the priest, so she can be bapised just in case." the doctor said and the others nodded.
"She's perfect, Rona, I'm sure she will be okay." Phoebe said.
The doctor returned with the priest and the girl was named Leslee Lynn Jupiter.
The doctor motioned the others to leave. "We will be outside, so you can be alone with her for awhile. But we'll be back and then you'll have to return to your bed."
When they others left, Veronica moved closer to the incubator and very cautious squeezed Leslee's hand.
"My beautiful girl, if only Logan could see you. I'm sure he would like that you were named after his mother." With her free hand she dried away the tears running down her chin. "I really did the right thing, Sweetheart, I wouldn't trade you for the life I had." She whispered.
Leslee opened up her eyes and she could see the similarities to the eyes of Logan Echolls. Then the machine began to ring and Leslee closed her eyes as her heartbeat fell.
Veronica screamed as the doctor returned followed by nurses. A nurse grabbed the wheelchair and dragged Veronica out and as the door closed she heard the complete stopping of her child's heart and the doctor saying: "We're losing her..."
