Thanks as always to my beta 0ldLace 3 I love her.
Okay when she corrected this chapter she pointed out to me two important things.
First that there was a scene with too little blood for her. ;) She was right so I tried to put in more. When you'll reach it you'll understand, so if you find mistakes in that part is because it's not proof read by my beta because I want to post it :)
Second that where I live we have a different meaning for the bases in sexual situation. So I leave you all a little note explaining my bases.
Here first base is any way of kissing. You can use hands but over the clothes.
If you go under the clothes you are in light second base. If you do some manual stimulation you are still in second base.
If you have an oral rapport then you are in third.
And home base is making love.
Okay, that said we can go on with the chapter!
10. Leave it to Beaver, revamped
Wallace, Mac and Weevil were at Mars Investigations, to talk to Mr. Mars.
They had talked about what they found out and had concluded that Keith needed to know the truth, even if Veronica would be against it if she was here.
"Hey, what are you all doing here?" Keith asked when he found the two teens waiting for him in the receiving area of Mars Investigations.
"Mr. Mars, we..." Wallace closed his eyes and sighed. "We found somethin', I think you'll need to sit down."
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"Logan, this is beautiful!" Veronica was awed. Logan took her to a very little beach, hidden between two cliffs, that Bobby said was perfect to surf in peace.
The beach wasn't very big, maybe a little more than 10 meters, but it was empty.
Logan placed their towels on the sand and planted the beach umbrella.
"What are you waiting for? Put on your wetsuit. I wanna try the waves!" Veronica said with a big smile. In the month and half since she had begun to surf. She had started to love it. She finally understood what Logan had tried to explain to her about feeling free and without a worry in the world while he surfed.
"Chill, Ronnie." he smiled at her. "The waves won't disappear in seconds..."
She rolled her eyes and put her wetsuit within seconds.
"Come on, lover boy!" she was almost sure that Logan was doing it on propose to get her angry with him. Some days ago, he had said that she was even more beautiful while she was angry. "If you speed up, I'll give you a kiss." she said doing her head tilt.
"Oh, come on, Veronica! That's not fair and you know it!" Logan was pouting, but she could see that he sped up a little.
In less than five minutes they were in the water.
"I want my kiss." Logan was openly pouting and she thought that he was cute.
"Later, when we aren't on our boards." she smiled and splashed him.
They surfed for a little over two hours and then lay down on the towel.
"Maybe we should put sunscreen on." Veronica mumbled with her eyes closed and a smirk on her lips. She knew that he would love to do it.
Logan got closer to her and started to unzip her wetsuit to take it off. His hands were caressing her back.
"Give me a hand, Vee." she scoffed but sat up to help him.
He smiled when she stood in front of him with only her skimpy bikini then let her lay down, and started to apply the sunscreen on her. Veronica could tell that he liked her bikini very much, and would like her more without it.
"Mmh..." his hands made her moans, he was giving her a sinful back rub while putting the sunscreen on her. "You're so good, I think I'll keep you as my personal slave forever, pookie," Logan groaned, probably because she used the hated nickname.
"Yeah, what a man will do for the woman he loves." his voice trembled a little on the last words.
"Wait. What are you saying?" Veronica turned around and pulls a little away.
Logan stared down at her for a moment, suddenly serious.
"Ah, what I'm trying to say is I'm in love with you."
She looked up at him, her eyes sparkling. A little disbelieving, she laughed and brought her hand up to the back of his neck.
Veronica wasn't ready to say it back, not because she wasn't falling in love with him, she was already halfway there, maybe more, but, after her mom left her, she had problem expressing her feelings, so she tried a joke.
"The things guys will say to get to second base." She pulled him into a kiss, shaking her head a little and trying to let him know what she was feeling with her actions.
In that moment she knew that she was ready to let Logan a little more in, she smiled at him and lay down on the towel, his body over hers.
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Keith closed his eyes, he was trying to not let the tears fall while the kids were in front of him.
"My baby girl..." he whispered. "She is so brave." Wallace and Mac were to far away to hear him but Weevil did.
"What I don't understand is the way she didn't go to the Sheriff's Department, you were working there. You would have helped."
"I wasn't the sheriff at the time, Mac, it was..." and in that second the last piece of the puzzle fell in its place. "She did. That's why she hated him so much..." Keith stood up, took his jacket and put it on. "I need to do something, Wallace, please, close the agency for the night and tell your mom that I need to talk to her about something when I come back."
He exited the building in a rash, got in his car and started it.
The next ten minute or so were a blur of color for Keith, after he would only remember that a second he had been out of MI and the next he was in front of Inga.
"Lamb is here?" he asked her trying to be subtle on his anger.
"Yah, he is in his..." he didn't let her finish and strode towards his previous office.
Lamb looked up when the door opened and frowned at his interruption, he didn't let him even open his mouth before punching him with all his force.
"You fucking son of a bitch!" he was furious. "She told you and you did nothing!"
Lamb moaned from the pain, his nose was probably broken, but Keith could see that he seemed to understand what he was talking about because his eyes were looking anywhere but towards him.
"My daughter was raped, and you did nothing!" he screamed advancing on him. "You were too afraid of the 09ers, of losing your fucking friends to care, didn't you?"
Lamb seemed to understand that it wasn't the time to try to justify himself, he simply looked at Keith and tried to defend himself from his next attack.
The next punch landed on his stomach making the Sheriff lose his breath.
"She was only a little girl in need of help, Don!" Keith was seeing red, he couldn't look at Lamb without think about his little girl, lost, hurt, in need of help and with no one that wanted to listen to her.
"She was big enough to go to the party..." Don whispered while catching his breath.
"You son of a bitch!" Keith punched him again on the face and the man lost his balance and fell down on the floor.
He was ready to kick him, but luckily for Lamb, Deputy D'Amato, chose that moment to knock on the door.
"Problem, sheriff?" Leo D'Amato entered the room.
The two man looked at each other. Keith saw the fear in the other man eyes and for a moment, a single moment, he was content. He couldn't do much more for his girl now.
"No problem, D'Amita." Don answered sitting up.
"D'Amato." he corrected. "If you don't need me..."
"No, stay, I have nothing else to say to him," Keith walked away but stopped at the door at the last second. "Oh, expect me as an opponent for next election. I'll do anything in my power to get you out of here," he threw him a last disgusted glance and went away.
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Keith smiled to Alicia when he saw her waiting for him at the table.
"Bad day?" she asked, giving him a glass of wine.
"One of the worst and sadly, it won't stop," he took a sip of wine and tried to smile a little. "I need to go to Vegas, I found someone that could help me prove that Abel Koontz isn't Lilly's killer."
Alicia smiled and kissed him.
"So that's mean that you won't have dinner with me?"
"I'm sorry, Alicia, but the flight is in less than two hour."
"It's okay," she kissed him again. "You're a good man, Keith Mars."
He smiled and went to their bedroom. He wasn't so sure about that anymore. If only he hadn't went after Jake Kane, he should have been sitting there in that office, and he would have helped his daughter when she needed it.
Sighing he took his overnight bag, and with one last kiss, he went out again.
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Veronica smiled when she woke up. She could feel Logan spooned behind her with his arms around her waist.
She slowly turned around, and kissed him on the lips.
"Morning, sugarpuss," he whispered then kissed her back. "You're even more beautiful this morning."
"What a sweet talker you are."
It wasn't the first time they had slept in the same bed, but after the previous afternoon at the beach, it seemed more special. She blushed a little, thinking about the things they had done yesterday in a very public place.
With Duncan, she had never gone beyond some heavy kissing, or so she had thought until a month and half ago.
Her smile disappeared for a second or two, but Logan saw it and hugged her to him.
"Whatever you are thinking about, Ronnie, stop." he whispered sweetly in her ear. "No one can hurt you here."
She was a little surprised. Logan seemed to always know what to say to make her feel better. Her mind turned on the pleasant memories of the day before.
Logan had been a gentleman and let her set the pace. She had asked him to touch her, and she didn't regret it for a second. He had made her come with his finger more times that she can remember, she had loved it and had happily returned the favor.
Veronica blushed again, the memories were making her horny.
"I can see you blush, sugarpuss, and I'm sure that I know what you are thinking about," he had a wolfish grin on his beautiful face, he looked her up and down, almost like he could see under the sheets, her tank, and shorts. "I would gladly give you a practical demonstration of these thoughts, but we need to go to work." he was pouting by the end of his speech, and she couldn't stop herself from kissing him.
"Darn, you're so cute," she mocked him.
"Men aren't cute," he answered offended. "We are handsome!"
Veronica giggled and used her pillow to smack him on the head.
"Get dressed, handsome one, I'll make you breakfast." she got up and, after a brief kiss, went in the kitchen smiling.
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The car stopped in front of the gates of the Sunset Cliffs.
Lianne Mars got out of it, a little trolley in her hand, she smiled and opened the gate.
She still remembered where Keith used to put the second key for the emergencies; it was under one of their neighbour's vase.
"Keith?" she closed the door behind her. "Veronica? I'm home."
No one answered her so she went in her daughter's room. It was very different from what she remembered; there were a lot of new photo of her daughter with a girl with blue streaks and a black boy with a very kind smile.
Lianne got out of the room and went in the other one.
Keith room was strangely empty. She opened the closet and find only some changes inside, a lot of photos were absent from the dresser. The only one present were the ones with herself. She rubbed a finger on the dresser, it was dusty.
Lianne wasn't stupid. No one had been in the house for days.
She put down her bag and lay on the bed; she needed to find where her family was.
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The next day the front page of Neptune newspaper read: Eyewitness Steps Forward: Escort claims she was with Koontz at time of Kane murder.
The story gave more than one proof.
"There are phone records, man," Cassidy seemed concerned. "An-an-and how do you-how do you explain the shoes, huh?" he asked his brother.
"It doesn't mean jack. You need to chill out, Beav, right now. To the grave, man, that's what we said."
Cassidy didn't seem convinced by his argument and Dick knew that he couldn't easily change his brother mind.
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"Since his removal from office, Keith Mars, the ousted sheriff, has tirelessly and single-handedly continued his own investigation, despite being shunned by the community at large," Wallace was reading from the newspaper.
"That almost is a love letter to Mr Mars," Weevil said grinning. "I would have paid to see the pendejo's face this mornin'."
"Me too," Mac was smiling from ear to ear.
"All I know is if I were him right now, I'd be I-told-you-soing all over Neptune."
The bell rang and the mixed group split to go to their respective classroom.
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Lianne went inside Mars Investigation, she knew that Keith would be at work.
"I'm coming!" his voice came from his office.
She didn't wait for him and knocked on the door of his office.
"I said..." Keith looked up and finally noticed her. "What are you doing here?" his voice became cold.
"We need to talk."
"No, we don't," his voice was devoid of emotions and she shivered under his cold stare.
"We are married Keith," she tried to smile. "We have a daughter."
"I filed a divorce on ground of abandonment, so we're not," she was baffled by his answer.
"What?" she paled when the meaning of his statement got to her brain.
"You heard me." Keith crossed his arms.
"Veronica didn't tell you about the rehab?"
"Yes, she did. That's why I filed it," he could see disappointment in his eyes now.
"I don't understand, Keith."
"You know, I wanted to give you a chance, for Veronica's happiness." he shook his head. "You know, I was ready to break up with Alicia, a woman who I love and who loves me back when Veronica told me about the rehab. Then I remembered about who you are and I asked your sponsor to let me know about your progress," she paled again knowing what he would say. "I wasn't really surprised when he called me and said that you left rehab. I bet that if I ask for your purse, I'll find one bottle of alcohol at least." Lianne couldn't look him in the eyes, he was right.
"It's hard..."
"I know, but that's not an excuse, not anymore," Keith sighed. "If you are here to try to be a mother for Veronica, I'm okay with it. You can live in the old apartment but we won't be together. I love Alicia."
Lianne tried to hide her anger at Keith. She couldn't understand how he could love someone else. He had been in love with her for years, and even after her affair with Jake he hadn't left her. He was her safe port.
"But I love you, Keith," she looked at him trying to let him see her sadness.
"No, you don't," he scoffed. "You love what I can give you. A home, security and love but you don't love me; you can't because you still love Jake."
He was right, but Celeste had cut the monthly income that Jake had given her for the past year. She needed a place and money.
"Where is Veronica? I want to talk with her."
"You can't," he sat on the couch.
"She is my daughter, I have the right to see her!"
"Yes, you have," Keith admitted. "But you can't physically see her. She ran away a month and half ago."
"What?" she exclaimed.
"She run away with Logan. They were in a dark place and needed an out from Neptune."
"And you let her go?" she was furious, he wasn't even her real father and he let her go.
"No, I didn't. They ran away, I tried to find them but Veronica is a very bright PI. She know how to disappear."
"How could you let my daughter do something like this?"
"She is my daughter too!" he screamed back.
"No she isn't!" Lianne knew that she said the wrong thing.
"What?" Keith squeezed her arm a little painfully.
"She is Jake's daughter," she was whispering.
"You did a test?"
"No, but..."
"Then you don't know! And even if I'm not her biological father she is mine, and I'll fight for her if I need to."
Lianne got up and ran out of the door.
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Wallace came back home and found Keith crying on his mom's shoulder.
"What's up? It's Veronica?" he asked concerned.
Alicia looked her partner in the eyes and when he nodded to her she asked him to sit down.
"Lianne, Veronica's mom, is in town."
"You are leaving us?" he asked to Keith.
"No, son," he smiled a little. "I don't love her anymore, I would have gone back to her for Veronica but she didn't even finish rehab, and I love your mother to much. I'm selfish."
"Then what?"
"She... she came to the office, we were fighting and she said that maybe Veronica is Jake's," more tears were running down his cheeks and Wallace felt bad for him.
"What will you do?"
"A test, I already sent a DNA sample to a genetic laboratory. The results will be back in a week."
Wallace walked to him and hugged him.
"I'm sorry," he whispered after letting him go. "But I'm almost sure that she is yours." Keith smiled a little at his affirmation.
"Thank you, son."
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Cassidy looked in front of him, the sheriff's department of Neptune seemed to wait for him.
Things were surely going well. Keith Mars gave him a distraction for that noisy friends of Veronica.
He walked inside and spoke to the old woman at the front desk. She called the sheriff and let him in one of the interrogation rooms.
"So boy, my secretary says that you have new information for me on Lilly Kane's case."
"Yeah, I do." Cassidy started to tell his tale and smiled evilly when the sheriff got out of the room with a new suspect for Lilly's death.
Things were going better.