Recap: Duncan auditions with 'Mad World'. Shelby gives an assignment about perceptiveness and everyone is doubtful about it because they have to sing to each other about how they see or feel about them. Dick and Rachel become sort of friends. Veronica tells Logan that she doesn't believe in hope, she believes in her dad while Duncan doesn't believe in anything but no one knows that. Logan wants Veronica to be hopeful and she tells him that he should be realistic which is ironic because Logan's like the most realistic person ever. And that's what you missed!

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"Veronica..." A female voice sings out.

"Lilly?" Veronica mumbles the name as she slowly opens her eyes to see her blonde haired best friend standing above her, with lips curved in a smile.

"Were you expecting someone else? I'm pretty sure that I'm your only dead best friend," The taller blonde says with a light laugh.

"Lilly, why are you here now?" Veronica emphasises the last word, she's used to seeing her friend in her dreams but it always seems as if she's trying to say something that Veronica just can't quiet get. "You always seem to have a reason."

"Well, yeah but you'll be seeing so much more of me," Lilly brightly says with a smirk, Lilly had always liked knowing more than others and that aspect hasn't seemed to change in her afterlife.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Veronica asks with a frown; she never liked being kept in the dark.

Lilly's features suddenly turn serious, "You saw me Ronica; when you weren't asleep."

"That was real?" Veronica asks as the confusion takes over her and her mind races with a million questions. "That was really you?" Veronica may be confused but at the prospect of actually seeing and talking to her best friend was too amazing for her to not be happy.

"Veronica, let's not get technical but when you sing it kind of connects us," Lilly replies and wonders how is she going to explain the answers to all of Veronica's questions. She never liked explaining things even when she was alive; Veronica mostly just got what she meant and when she didn't Lilly would enjoy toying with her until she did.

"Meaning?"

"You'll find out soon enough," Lilly rolls her eyes and breaks the serious atmosphere around the blonde best friends.

"Lilly, I hate when you speak in riddles," Veronica pouts.

"I know you do but I love it. Though that's not what I wanted to tell you," Lilly says and her voice echoes the worry in her mind.

"What did you want to tell me?" Veronica asks with curious eyes.

"Have a little faith Veronica Mars," Lilly smiles a sad smile, wishing that it wouldn't have come to this point.

"Really?" Veronica asks sceptical of the advice and wonders if Lilly knew about her conversation with Logan or if Lilly was just a part of her subconscious that still had hope, the part she wanted to murder.

"Yeah and you need to put Donut in his place," She says playfully though her eyes are serious.

"What?" The confusion that Veronica feels even Rachel wouldn't be able to put it into words.

"Veronica, I can't help Duncan but you can and the only way that's gonna happen is if you really sing about how he treated you. It's called tough love, Veronica. It might be mean but it might be what it takes to break Duncan out of his slumber. Veronica, you need to help them and let them help you." Lilly's eyes were pleading.

"But..."

"Shin like a star Mars!" The tall blonde says with a high pitched voice and vanishes in a flash.

Veronica jolts awake with shock and pants a little but understands. As crazy as it may sound she is almost confident that the conversation she had with her dead best friend was real.

"Have a little faith? Shine like a star Mars? Seriously can it get anymore sappy?"

Veronica shakes her head and tries not to think about the conversation that she's trying to convince herself that she dreamt.

~~Saturday Dog Beach~~

Veronica and Wallace are on the beach; Wallace plays with his model airplane as Veronica plays fetch with Backup.

"I mean what am I supposed to sing to a person I know nothing about?" Wallace looks at Veronica and sees her blank expression. "Veronica? Are you listening to me?"

Veronica rolls her eyes and says, "Wallace, you're complaining to a person who has to sing to her ex-boyfriend who has basically treated her like a stranger and is blissfully ignorant of my existence. You, my friend, have the better deal." She patted his shoulder with absolutely no sympathy.

"Right, well there are millions of songs that you can sing," Wallace says trying to make her feel better. "I gotta say; Taylor Swift has a wide range of love songs about revenge and stuff."

"Wallace, why do you know the songs of the country singer Taylor Swift?" She added a look of suspicion while biting back a grin.

"She's like everywhere, it's not my fault the world's in love with her," he defended his words and all Veronica could do was laugh.

"Hey Wallace, Veronica," Rachel shouts and waves in greeting at them as she makes her way towards them through the sand.

"Hey Rachel," Both Wallace and Veronica greet.

"How are you both?" Rachel smiles politely at them.

"Fine thanks," Veronica says with a small smile.

"I'm good thanks and you?" Wallace smiles back.

"I'm great thank you," Rachel replies and wonders about what would be an appropriate topic to speak about.

"So what are you doing here?" Veronica breaks the awkward silence that settled between them.

"Oh my dad and daddy wanted to go sightseeing around Neptune to get familiar. I'm not really a beach type of person. Too much of sun can cause hazardous diseases like skin cancer-"

"Yeah, but not enough sun would make you lack in vitamin D," Wallace says, he didn't want to be rude but he had a feeling that Rachel could go on and on.

"Yes but there are several leafy vegetable that can accommodate for the loss and there are vitamins supplements."

"Though nothing beats the natural sun, Neptune's greatest attraction is the beach," Veronica tells her.

Rachel considers her words and nods in understanding. "That makes sense since Neptune is the Roman God of water and the sea. Did you know he is the counterpart of Greek god Poseidon?"

"That's interesting," Veronica says with real interest in her voice. "So you like mythology stuff?" Veronica questions she had once had an interest in the subject but had never really found time to read about it when the subject had sparked an interest to her and then she kind of forgot about researching it up.

Excited to have found some common ground with Veronica she nods, "Yes. I like to have a wide variety of knowledge on whatever subjects I come across. You never know when it can come in handy and there are a lot of good metaphors in mythological stories that could be used in songs. I am all for metaphors."

"Yeah, the star at the end of your name, right?" Veronica asks and her thoughts drift to when Lilly had said 'Shin like a star Mars?' Was that a metaphor? Mars is a star so there's a pun there. She then internally shook her head to get rid of her ridiculous thoughts.

"Yes! Exactly!" Rachel smiles brightly that they understand her. "What were you both up to anyway?"

"He came to play with his plane and I came to walk this big guy," Veronica says as she gestures to Back-Up who is now running towards them.

"Oh my gosh! He is so cute," Rachel says wide eyed. Veronica laughs at the girl's reaction. People usually say 'huge' or are too stunned to comment.

Back-Up immediately realises that he's been talked about. He lets out a bark and wags his tail happily.

"He's usually not accepting or nice to strangers but he seems to like you," Veronica says as she watches the dog lick Rachel's hand.

"And I love him, he's a cutie pie!" Rachel coos at the dog who eagerly accepts the attention. "Have you decided what songs to sing?" Rachel quizzes the two. They both shake their heads no and Rachel frowns. "Oh," A smile spreads on her face. "If you want I could help you."

Wallace looks relieved because he had no idea what to sing to the girl he had never spoken to before. "That would be awesome!" Rachel smiles happily. "Hey, do you know what you're singing to me?"

"Oh, I have a lot of options, I want to reflect my opinion of you with the most effective song after all you and Veronica are the first friends I have made in Neptune. I assure you that I will make my decision by the end of today."

"Take your time," Wallace jokes.

"What about you Veronica?" Rachel smiles brightly as she reminisces on Duncan's performance. "Duncan seems to be an excellent performer, he does need help with his pitch, I haven't seen his dancing skills as yet but his song selection had shown emotional depth-"

Veronica frowns at Rachel, "Rachel, he's my ex-boyfriend." Veronica didn't know how Duncan suddenly became Mr Emotion when for the past year he's been acting like Mr Robot.

Rachel is clearly surprised. "Oh, I wasn't aware of that."

Wallace and Veronica share a look. Veronica wonders why Rachel is that surprised while Wallace wonders if Rachel Berry is crushing on Duncan Kane.

"Yeah, and considering that he's been ignoring me for the past year I can't particularly sing about what a Prince he is."

Wallace feels the comfortableness once again and says, "So what songs are you considering singing to me?"

Rachel smiles one again and Veronica almost laughed at how easily the girl was able to smile, Veronica remembered when she used to be like that.

"Tsk, Tsk, Wallace, it will most definitely be a surprise," Rachel grins at the boy.

~~Berry Residence~~

"Rachel, sweetie, slow down a second, I can't understand what you're saying," Quinn said as slow as possible.

Rachel pouts but repeats herself. "I have recently discovered that there is a man that has potential to be close to my calibre, he is a very attractive young man, with blue eyes and he's not too tall yet he's not what one would call short. He has lovely blue eyes, if he had blonde hair, I assure you he would have been a part of the master race that Hitler had started to create, called the Aryan race, in-"

Quinn interrupts Rachel before the petite brunette girl began a history lesson on Hitler and the Nazi's. "Rachel! I get it; you're crushing on a hottie, what's the problem?" Quinn had honestly thought Rachel would have something with that surfer guy… So much for Casaberry.

"Well while he has potential to become my leading man, he is the ex-boyfriend of my newly acquainted friend Veronica Mars and I would very much like to pursue our friendship."

Quinn rolled her eyes but she knew that Rachel valued her friendships. That is until it got in the way of her dreams or a solo. "You dated my ex's Finn and Puck," the blonde cheerleader pointed out.

Rachel had a thoughtful look grace her face and then corrected her friend. "Actually I had dated Noah before I knew you had coitus with him and you were dating Finn at the time you and Noah participated in coitu-"

Quinn's nostril's flared at the reminder and interrupted the brunette diva, "Okay Rachel! You dated Puck first." Quinn let out a deep breath. "But I still dated Finn before you did."

Rachel shakes her head and explains, "At the time we were not friends Quinn, you considered me your rival therefore the 'dating rules' did not apply."

Quinn sighs and inquires, "So this guy, how well do you know him?"

"Well I have never spoken to Duncan," Rachel confesses.

Frowning with confusion the blonde asks, "How do you know whether you like him or not?"

"I told you his audition song was remarkable, he had conveyed such unfathomable emotions-"

Quinn quickly stopped Rachel from another analyse. "Okay, okay, look Rachel, there are many guys that you connect with on a musical level. I mean take Finn for example-"

This time Rachel interrupted the cheerleader. "Actually my romantic feelings for Finn developed when I heard him sing," A smile curved onto Rachel's face as a dreamy look settles in her eyes. "We sang 'You're The One That I Want' from Greese. He looked so cute when he had no idea what he's doing…"

Quinn internally shook her head, Finn always had the 'I have no idea what I'm doing' look on his face.

"In that moment I knew that Finn would be my leading man."

So is this Duncan kid the new Finn for Rachel? Quinn frowned.

"Rachel sweetie, do you still love Finn?" Quinn knew that it was best if Rachel moved on but how could she move on if she hadn't let go of her past?

"What? Why would you ask me that?" Rachel asks with confusion as she tilts her head but her eyes replied a 'yes.'

"Oh sweetie," Quinn sighed.

"He told me he loved me you know," Rachel admitted in a soft voice. It had been another reason why she didn't want to move.

"What?" Quinn's eyes grew huge. "When?"

"At Regional's we were about to go on stage and sing 'Faithfully' together," Rachel's eyes started to tear up at the events after that. "And then he just said, 'I love you'."

Rachel's breath hitched as she thought of the events that were the reason her dad and daddy forced her to move to Neptune.

"Rachel, you should get to know the guys there before you jump into a relationship, okay? I don't want you to get hurt because the guy was actually a jerk."

Rachel nods but now her thoughts are clouded with thoughts of her life at McKinley, she missed New Directions. She didn't want to be in this nameless group, she really had to talk to Shelby about that.

~~Monday: Glee~~

"I'd like to go," Veronica announces. Duncan freezes in his seat, he hadn't expected Veronica to be prepared and he hadn't even thought that Veronica would volunteer to sing, especially about him.

Logan doesn't know why but he doesn't like the idea of Veronica singing to her ex-boyfriend. It must be the fact that he has to sing to her while she sings to her ex even if her ex is his best friend. It doesn't seem fair.

Rachel fidgets in her seat, she wonders what Veronica had planned, she just hoped it wasn't a love song. Rachel was actually surprised that the petite blonde beat her in volunteering to sing.

Veronica ignores the whispers and she's sure that more rumours will form but frankly she doesn't give a damn. She's doing this because she's hoping that maybe Lilly might be right. Maybe she'd get to see her blonde best friend again.

"If I'm a bad person, you don't like me
Well, I guess I'll make my own way."

Veronica almost laughed at their faces, what were they expecting? That I would sing a song about how perfect he was and how I'm just so in love with him? For once I'm actually taking Lilly's advice. Maybe it surprises them that I pointed out his flaws or that he actually has flaws.

I did nothing wrong yet he just ignored me. He didn't even have the decency to break up with me. Now, I may be classified as a bad person and now he might have a reason to not like me. But last year I was the innocent good girl, and that girl did not deserve his treatment. Either way I don't care anymore. I'm a grown girl who can take care of herself thank you very much.

Logan would have laughed at her song selection if he wasn't so shocked. He didn't expect Veronica to come right out and sing about loving Duncan like others but he didn't expect her to pick a song that would insult Duncan to his face. Veronica Mars has guts and is definitely badass. No one can deny that.

Duncan had not recognized the song and wondered if the song was about their break-up and that she'd thought it was her fault. He hated that he hurt her but what was he supposed to do? He couldn't tell her the truth. He just couldn't. How do you tell the girl you loved that she's your sister? He didn't want her to feel like she was a bad person, if anything she was the best person he knew.

"It's a circle, a mean cycle
I can't excite you anymore"

Veronica never thought that she'd have fun singing this song but she loves the expressions on everyone's face. She looks around trying to spot the person that gave her the push in the first place. A smile spread on her face when she caught a glimpse of her best friend's blonde hair.

Duncan is too embarrassed to make a move or even look away from the petite blonde. This was wrong, his sister was not supposed to sing songs like this about him.

Logan wonders about why Duncan broke up with Veronica, when he had asked, he'd never been given an answer. He now realizes that Veronica does not have even a slight liking to Duncan; that fact makes him slightly relieved for some reason.

"Where's your gravel? Your jury?"

Duncan is now plain confused, what is Veronica trying to say?

Logan can't take his eyes of the fiery blonde ball of fire and her energy makes him love this song. He chuckles when she tilts her head and mixes in a bit of confusion in her voice.

"What's my offence this time?
You're not a judge but if you're gonna judge me
Well, sentence me to another life"

Veronica is now standing in front of Duncan and Logan is beside him. Veronica practically asks Duncan the question and she really does want to know the answer though she's not sure if it will make a difference. Her eyes are hard as she glares, she pushes down the pain she felt when she was punished… punished for what exactly? She didn't know.

Logan's grin fell, she wasn't just talking to Duncan that time, she aimed it at him as well. The playful glint in her eye had fallen and hurt and betrayal set in.

"Don't wanna hear your sad songs
I don't wanna feel your pain
When you swear it's all my fault
'Cause you know we're not the same"

Veronica couldn't be any clearer on her feelings. Her voice was tough and loud yet her emotions poured out.

Lilly nodded at Veronica with a sad smile, this needed to be done.

"No, we're not the same, oh,
We're not the same"

Logan agreed that Duncan and her were not the same anymore but he begged to differ when it came to him and Veronica. Perhaps they weren't the same when they used to be friends but now… they were anything but different.

"Yeah, I've got friends who stuck together
We wrote our names in blood"

The first time Lilly had declared Veronica her best friend was the day they first met. Lilly had poured paint all over the girl that had picked on Veronica. The two girls had quickly developed a friendship.

"Veronica Mars we are gonna be best friends forever!" A six year old Lilly Kane exclaimed with a huge smile showing of her pearly white teeth.

Happiness spread though Veronica's laughed as it filled her eyes as well. "Definitely!"

And before their lunch break was over Lilly had taken the red paint and wrote, 'Lilly and Veronica BFF's!' on a big rock boulder in the playground.

Lilly looked at her work of art with pride while Veronica laughed heartily. "It looks like blood!"

Lilly grinned. "All the more epic!"

The first time Veronica met Duncan they were six and Lilly was seven. "Donut! Get your own bff, Ronica is mine!" Lilly announced as she shoved Duncan away.

"It's true; she even wrote it on stone!" Veronica laughed.

Tears stung Veronica's eyes but she didn't dare break, she refused to cry no matter how sentimental she felt.

"But I guess you can't accept that
The change is good
It's good, it's good"

It hadn't only been Duncan that didn't accept Veronica's friendship to Lilly after her death, it was everyone.

Veronica remembered when she changed. It was the day she awoke, alone without her underwear at Shelly's party.

Tears streamed down Veronica's face as she scrubbed her body as she tried to rid herself of all the disgust she felt with herself.

She choked out in sobs, the Sherriff hadn't believed her. No one would believe her. And even if they did they would say that she deserved it. The drops of hot water from the shower hit against her body, each drop trying to erase the pain she felt but failing miserably.

Veronica had opened only the hot water tap, she tried to burn off her disgust but it hadn't worked, the water hadn't been hot enough.

After what seemed like hours of scrubbing and draining her eyes out Veronica had gotten out of the shower. She looked at herself in her full-body mirror and was revolted at the sight of herself. She was weak. She needed control. She needed to get rid of the girl she used to be. That girl was weak and had been tarnished. With a glare at the mirror, Veronica pulled her draw opened and pulled out a pair of scissor. She vowed to herself that this would be the last time she'd see that girl in her mirror and with that she murdered the Veronica with long blonde locks of golden hair who wore floral and yellow cotton dresses.

The change was definitely good, she was no longer weak or needed anyone to believe her, she found the truth on her own.

"Well, you treat me just like another stranger"

Mallory and Veronica stood by Duncan's desk. It was her first day of newspaper. "Duncan Kane, this is Veronica." Who could blame the teacher for her ignorance when Duncan was the one that set the bars there? He made them strangers to each other. "Veronica's going to be taking pictures tomorrow and I arranged for you to ride with Bodie's parents."

"Well, it's nice to meet you sir"

She brought her hand forward for Duncan to shake but he hadn't moved a muscle, he just stared. She rolled her eyes and smoothed over the back of her hair and moved away from the paralysed boy.

"I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out"

"No, I'll drive." Duncan interjected.

The journalism teacher smiled. "Great, maybe Veronica can-"

"I can drive too." Veronica announced.

Mallory sighed. "Okay. Oil crisis be damned."

"You treat me just like another stranger
Well, it's nice to meet you sir
I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out"

Without missing a beat she continued.

"Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend"

Veronica was walking down the corridor of Neptune High and Duncan had just walked past her, as if she were invisible, at the time it stung her heart like a poisoned arrow.

Logan grinned at her, only Veronica would find a way to insult Logan while singing to Duncan. Veronica's lips curved, she knew that Logan had caught on, yip, Logan Echolls was replaced in the best friend position with a behavioural act. Talk about anti-social.

"This is the best thing that could've happened
Any longer, and I wouldn't have made it
It's not a war, no, it's not a rapture
I'm just a person, but you can't take it."

Veronica's eyes bore into Duncan as Logan's eyes pierces her.

"The same tricks that, that once fooled me
They won't get you anywhere
I'm not the same kid from your memory
Well, now I can fend for myself"

A smiling long haired Veronica with dreamy eyes is wearing a knee length denim skirt with a soft pink colour top and a cute pair of shoes. She is replaced with short choppy haired Veronica, her denim skirt is shortened by what could be a small foot with a hot pink coloured top and her feet are covered with leather combat boots, her lips are pressed in a thin line and her eyes are filled with fire.

Lilly smiled proudly at Veronica as she lingers around her brother.

"Don't wanna hear your sad songs
I don't wanna feel your pain
When you swear it's all my fault
'Cause you know we're not the same
No, we're not the same, oh,
No, we're not the same"

Veronica remembered Duncan's audition, and as much as she would hate to have admitted, her heart broke a little when she realised how damaged he was. In some ways, he was worse than her because he still lingered in the past, he wasn't moving on. Veronica realised that that was why Lilly wanted her to really confront Duncan.

"Yeah, we used to stick together
We wrote our name in blood
But I guess you can't accept that
The change is good
It's good, it's good"

"The Awe4!" Duncan exclaimed brightly as if his suggestion was the solution to everything.

"Dude no," Logan gave his best friend a weird look.

"That's terrible; we are not calling ourselves that!" Lilly grimaced, it sounded like awful.

"Come on! It's the Awesome Four!" Duncan pouted. "Veronica?" He looked at her for help.

Veronica shook her head with a funny face, "No, Duncan, just no."

"Incredible Four!" Logan smirked, his idea was way better than Duncan's.

"You stole that from the movies!" Veronica laughed. "The Incredibles meet Fantastic Four!"

"Yeah, well you have any ideas princess?" He remarked as he playfully glared at her.

"Come on guys! We need a name as fabulous as us!" Lilly sighed with frustration.

"How about Fab4?" Veronica suggested with a slight smile.

"Oh and that's so much different!" Logan retorted. "It's Fantastic Four with Fabulous instead."

Lilly smiled brightly and bounced up. "It's perfect!"

Logan scoffed in disbelief, "Oh sure it is because it's Veronica who suggested it!" Veronica stuck her tongue at him, he showed her a monkey face and she giggled.

Lilly glared at him, "You want it to be Fab2 instead?"

Duncan frowned. "Hey, what I'd do?" He protested.

Lilly shrugged, "He's your bff."

Lilly had proclaimed that they would forever be known as the Fabulous Four, Fab4 for short but when she was gone, the name went with her and apparently so had the memories.

Now Veronica had new friends, Wallace, Meg, Mac and even Rachel. They may not be the Fabulous for but they were amazing in their own right. They were like a slightly different version of 'The Breakfast Club'; The Athlete, The Princess, The Brain, The Diva, The Outcast.

"Well, you treat me just like another stranger
Well, it's nice to meet you sir
Well, I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out
You treat me just like another stranger
Well, it's nice to meet you sir
Well, I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out"

Veronica tapped her feet to the beat of the drum. Duncan had a pained expression on his face. Logan looked relieved that Duncan was actually showing emotions, it had been so long since his best friend reacted to anything. The two boys had recently gotten into an argument, as usual Logan had cared too much whilst Duncan hadn't cared enough, at least that was Logan's opinion.

"Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend
Ignorance is your new best friend"

Veronica swung the guitar around her neck and she rocked out a few chords, she had gone to a few lessons with Lilly, and like the good student she is she learnt something.

"Ronica! Please," An eight year old Lilly pouted. "She's making me take part in some stupid boring music competition!" Lilly whined. "And I have to go for guitar lessons, please come with me, please Ronica?" She tilted her head and gave a full pout.

On the first day of their lesson together an eight year old Lilly Kane and a seven year old Veronica Mars had manipulated a thirty-something year old into teaching them rock music instead of country like Celeste had wanted.

That was the first time Veronica played rock but the two best friends hadn't stopped there, well they did when Lilly reached puberty and started to like boys more than toys.

"Well, you treat me just like another stranger
Well, it's nice to meet you sir
Well, I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out
You treat me just like another stranger
It's nice to meet you sir"

And with that Lilly smiled with a nod, telling Veronica that she had done the right thing and she faded as Veronica sang out the last line.

"I guess I'll go, I best be on my way out"

She was out of breath when she finished, everyone was stunned for a moment at her performance and hadn't known how to react, had she really sung that about Duncan? Mr Prince Charming to every girl?

But before Veronica could breathe in a gulp of air the room roared in applause, except Duncan who still tried to wrap his mind around the new revelation of what Veronica thought about him. Veronica might not have known it but her opinion of him mattered a great deal.

~~VM~~

Song: Ignorance

Artist: Paramore

Question: Any ideas for the name of their Glee Club?