OMG! I'm so SORRY that it's been weeks since I've updated – but life has been hell!!!

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I'm gonna stop babbling and get on with the chappie!!

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xXx Tiana

It had been two days since Logan and Veronica had gone to Florida, and Lexi was becoming suspicious to where the two of them were. She weren't sure if they were together, but come on, there were no coincidences when her brother was involved.

She walked over to Wallace, who was sitting with Mac on the centre table.

'Heya guys.' She said, sitting down.

'Hey.' They both replied. She looked at then both and decided to get straight into it.

'Do you know where Veronica is?' she saw the other two faces change from subtle to confusion, and then back to subtly. But she saw it.

'Um… no not really. She called on Monday, told me that she was gonna be busy and that she wasn't gonna come school for a week or so. Why?' Wallace answered.

'On Monday?' Things started to click in her head. 'Did she say where she was going?' They both shook their heads. 'Alright…' she sighed.

'Why? What are you thinking Lexi?' Mac asked carefully. She had found out that Lexi had a mind alike of a certain P.I. Lexi had been looking off into the distance at some other people that she had become friends with, much to Logan's dismay.

'Huh?' she turned to face them. 'Nothing. I'll back in a second.' She got up and walked over to the guy she had been staring at, hoping to catch him alone. Now that he finally was, she wished for some answers.

'Hey, Eli.' She said as she fell into step next to him. He looked at her.

'Hey, Ania.' He replied. The two of them got on pretty well, and he chose to call her Ania. 'What's happenin'?'

'So, I was wondering. Have you seen Veronica around?' she asked him.

'Now, girl, you know I haven't. Just like how you haven't either.' He answered. Lexi smiled. He always knew what she was getting at.

'Do you know anything?' she asked, turning to face him. He looked at her, then looked off into the distance, squinting in the sunlight.

'I know that she hasn't been here for as long as your brother. But you already knew that too.' Weevil told her. She nodded. 'You think they're together?'

'There are no coincidences in this world.' She stated as Weevil agreed. 'Can you do something for me?'

'You're turning into V more and more everyday.' He joked. She flashed him a smile. 'Shoot.'

'Call her.'

'What?' Weevil was confused.

'Call her. See what story she gives you. Unless you wanna call Logan instead.' She teased.

'Fine, I'll call her.' he sighed. When Lexi looked at him expectantly, he quirked an eyebrow. 'You want me to call her now?'

'Uh… yeah.' she told him. Weevil sighed, pulling out his phone. He speed dialled Veronica's cell.

--

Veronica and Logan were in their suite. In the last two days, they had been out and about, checking out the places where Lynn Echolls may have gone. There wasn't much of a trail to follow, but Veronica didn't have the heart to tell Logan that.

Logan had spent the first day around the hotel; making sure that she was actually still there. In the end, Veronica had to reason with him to go out for dinner and tell him that she wasn't in the hotel. He knew that, but hearing her saying it made it more real.

As her cell rang, Veronica drew her eyebrows together when she read who it was. Logan had been sitting in front of the TV while she was on her laptop. Turning to face her, he noticed her face.

'Who is it?' he asked. For the past few days, the only calls that Veronica got were from her Dad, which she had transferred from her home phone to hers, and some from Wallace.

'Weevil.' She said, before answering it. Logan turned the TV onto mute. 'Hello?'

'Hey, V, my girl.' The voice on the other end came. 'Where have you been?'

'Um… I've been a bit busy. What's up?' she asked cautiously.

'Nothing really. I kinda got worried. You know, you not being in school for the past coupla days. No-one knowing where you are.' He made up. Veronica listened to him all the while trying to think up of an excuse.

'Yeah, about that. I just had a… a… case to follow up on.' She came up with. She heard Weevil sigh, and could almost ear him roll his eyes.

'How long you gonna be gone for?'

'Another coupla days. I'll be back soon.' She told him.

'Alright. Just don't get yourself into trouble.'

'Now, why would you say that for?' she asked in her normal teasing voice.

'Yeah, well you know. There is no way I can save you if you're not in California.' Weevil tried to get some information from her.

'Who said that I wasn't in California?' Veronica answered a bit too quickly.

'Just be careful.' Weevil said before hanging up.

Veronica looked at Logan suspiciously.

'That was weird.' He told him. Logan just nodded.

'What does he know?'

'Just that I'm not in California. I think.' She said, a bit confused.

'You think?' Logan asked uncertain. Veronica nodded. 'Tut tut tut. A proper PI should know.' He mocked.

'Oh yeah? Well, a proper PI might know, but I'm the one helping you. So you wanna say that again?' she challenged him. Logan pretended to zip his mouth and throw away the key. 'Good.'

--

'What did she say?' Lexi asked Weevil as soon as he hung up.

'She's on a case. And she's not in this state.'

'She say that?'

'No, but she implied it. Are we done?' He asked her.

'Yeah sure.' She told him. Weevil made to walk away, but turned back a the last second.

'What about your brother?' he asked.

'I rang him last night.' Weevil lifted his eyebrows. 'Yeah, he said he was on a 'road trip' and be back as soon as possible.' She paused. 'He was lying.' And with that, she walked off, leaving Weevil wondering why she thought that.

--

'Here. Take the first left after the lights.' Veronica directed Logan. He nodded. They were heading to the house of Christina McDuffy, one of Lynn's friends, which she had emailed before leaving.

'So what's the plan?' he asked her, trying to beak the silence.

'We go in and ask her if she's talked to your mom lately. If she says no, I'll prove she's lying.'

'You say it as if it's so simple.' Logan chuckled.

'Ah, but you see my dear Logan, it is simple.' She winked at him as he laughed, intertwining their hands and kissing hers. Veronica smiled at him.

As they pulled up in front of the house, Logan eyed the place. It looked pretty big, but not as big as his place in Neptune.

'Ready?' Veronica asked him, gently squeezing his hand. This could be the clue that they needed. That he needed.

'When you are.' He replied. They both exited the car and walked up to the door. Veronica rang he bell while Logan looked up at the house once more. When no-one answered the door, Logan rang the bell again, but this time for longer. This time, the door opened almost immediately.

'Yes?' the woman asked, annoyed.

'Christina McDuffy?' Veronica asked her. She eyes her, and then Logan, carefully.

'Who's asking?'

'I'm Logan Echolls and this is my girlfriend Veronica Mars. I think you might know my mother.' Although she was here to help Logan, at that moment, everything went blank.

He called me his girlfriend she thought, over the moon. Then reality came back.

'Come in.' she said after a moments pause.

The three of them were sitting in the plush living room.

'How do you know my mother?' Logan asked her. Veronica had told him that he was not to go straight into the reason why they were there, and if possible, to not let her know at all.

'We…uh… we met a couple of years back. When your father was shooting a film nearby. My husband's a stunt co-ordinator. Your mother and I got…uh… talking about various things.' She explained.

'What kinda things?' Veronica asked, the PI in her showing through.

'Just things.' When she saw that the other two weren't so happy with this answer, she continued. 'Family, Aaron, life in particular. We just have a normal girly relationship.'

'When was the last time you saw or heard from her?' Veronica began with.

'Um… it wasn't long ago. A couple of months I think. She called me.' She replied. Logan looked at Veronica, wanting to tell Christina that he knew that she was lying. But Veronica put a hand on his leg and went on with her line of questions.

'What did you talk about?'

'Nothing much really. Just what we were doing. She told me that she was going on holiday.' Veronica nodded.

'Did she mention Aaron? Or her family?'

'Well, of course. We always spoke about our family to each other. Not much about Aaron though. It seemed like anytime we talked about him, it was all negative.'

'And that was the last time you had contact with her?' Veronica asked once more. Christina nodded.

'You're lying.' Logan simply stated. Veronica took in a breath. She saw, and heard, his mask, the one with no emotion, was back on again. She had gotten it off since they had came here, but now it was back.

'Excuse me?' Christina asked, perplexed.

'We know you're lying. My mom emailed you after that. While she was on her holiday. Remember?'

'Yes. But they aren't relevant.' Christina murmured, knowing she was caught out.

'Ok, look. I'm gonna tell you what I think is happening. Ok?' Veronica said. Before anyone got to answer, she continued. 'You got a call from Lynn a couple of months ago, telling you that she was going to North Carolina for a vacation. However, she also told you that she was planning to leave Aaron. So the two of you made a plan to make it happen. That when she sent you the emails.' She looked at Logan. 'They weren't about trying to kill herself, they were about leaving your dad.' She turned back to Christina. 'Is that correct?'

'Yes.' Was all that she said.

'And when she got here,' Veronica paused, 'I don't know how that goes.' She stated.

Logan stared at Christina, but he wasn't really seeing her. He was thinking about everything. His mom was going leave them. Leave him. But she was here now. She was alive.

Wasn't she?

OK- so that didn't end like I wanted it to- but I hope u liked it!

I PROMISE the next chappie will be up V SOON!! I'm gonna start wrting it now – and unless something major comes up – then it should be up by Tuesday the latest!!!

PLEASE R&R!!

xXx Tiana