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Previously on Veronica Mars Meets Her Past REDONE.

Then he just got up from the bench and walked in front of her. After another couple of seconds of silence, Wallace surprised her as he simply opened his arms and said, "Come here Marshmallow."

The two friends were too caught up in their emotional moment to realize they were being watched intently – adoring eyes turned to pure hate as they fell on the small crying blonde. The look in the cold eyes promised pain…

Chapter 10 BFF part 2

The hug continued and neither of the two friends seemed to care one bit. After a long moment Veronica sighed with profound relief. Finally there's one person from my past that knows the truth. Veronica smiled into Wallace's shirt and amended silently, well, besides Mac off course…

Veronica's smile died down when she suddenly remembered the other woman's word from earlier that evening," Hell, I don't think I would have known the truth had I not seen you that night."

Veronica gritted her teeth as she felt the now familiar pull of hated memories struggling to surface. After a short minute, she gave up the fight and as Wallace's' firm, sheltering grip on her never lessened, Veronica dove into another memory.

Veronica stood in her old bedroom at the apartment packing clothes in her suitcase – her insides were burning with anger and big dose of self-pity.

Backup the dog was sitting quietly by the door and eyed his mistress with his head tilted to the side – it seemed confused about her inner turmoil. Veronica hardly noticed as she finished throwing her clothes into her suitcase and stopped mid-movement, right in front of her picture wall.

A picture from the homecoming dance was firmly planted in the middle. Lilly and Veronicas heads against one another, mouthing sloppy kisses with eyes shining with giddiness. Logan and Duncan laughing up in the air - forever caught in the glimpse of happiness.

"Oh Lilly, I really need you here" Veronica whispered as the eyes of her long dead friend once again gave her a jolt of raw sorrow. She looked away from the image of her deceased best friend.

Another picture quickly drew her attention and Veronica sighed heavily and felt another kind of fierce hurt wash over her. On the picture Logan and Veronica was standing at the beach, his strong arms cradled her smaller frame and his eyes looked intently and lovingly down at his girl, while Veronica smiled into the camera and took the picture. Now the picture seemed to mock Veronica and before she knew it, she'd ripped it down from the wall and threw it in the garbage bin – blinking away burning tears.

The third and largest picture, which caught her attention, showed Veronica at her high school graduation standing side by side by a very proud Keith, who was smiling his ears off. It was obvious – even to the devastated onlooker, that Keith Mars loved his daughter and that she – at the point in time where the picture had been taken - knew she was loved.

Veronica tightened her jaw in resentfulness when the thought of her father's love fell into her mind and she simply reached up, grabbed the picture and ripped it into tiny pieces. The things Keith had shouted so unflinchingly were now forever burned into her skull. And before that the silent treatment and bitterness he'd bestowed upon her, had made their relationship rocky to say the least.

As the tiny pieces of the ruined picture fell to the floor, Veronica went to the door and turned for a quick last look at her room. "A clean break" Veronica mumbled softly and went to the front door. Backup followed her closely and Veronica swallowed back the lump in her throat and hugged him for a while in silence. The big dog whined when she eventually got to her feet and told him to stay put.

Outside the apartment tears came again. Veronica sobbed loudly and ran over to her car. Once inside she started the engine and drove away from her life. Suddenly a flood of nausea hit her like a ton of bricks and Veronica stopped her car in the middle of the road and fell to the ground releasing everything from her stomach up till that point.

Afterwards Veronica didn't have the strength to get up and she lay on the ground beside her own vomit. A voice came to her in her self pity and she looked up to find Mac staring very frightened down at her – the friend, who she hadn't thought could break down like that.

"Are you okay, Veronica? Here, let me help you."

The slightly larger girl dragged Veronica to her feet and they went inside the Saturn and it didn't take Mac long to force Veronica to reveal everything. And Veronica – too tired to fight - did.

It ended with Veronica making Mac swear never to tell anyone about her pregnancy or her other plans. "I know Logan will probably think the child is Piz's or go out of his way to get custody and I can't let that happen, Mac. He's with Madison now and goes out of his way to tell me every time I see him how much in love he is and all that crap. Besides," Veronica added bitterly, "He's rich and powerful and I'm just me, no court in Neptune would help me. And you know it."

Mac shook her head in denial," Logan can be an ass; I'll be the first to admit that, but not that big an ass V. No matter how he acts now, you're the love of his life, remember that. And if I should somehow be wrong, then there's always Keith. "

Veronica laughed a laugh which made Mac's skin crawl. "Trust me, Mac; for once dear Mr. Mars will not be coming to my rescue - A teenage pregnancy? Please…Besides he's got a now priority now, didn't you hear? Love, cuddling and the whole nine yards."

Mac sighed and knew that for once Veronica didn't have the upper hand. Without a single drop of doubt in her mind she knew Keith Mars and Logan Echolls would always help Veronica - whether she wanted them to or not. But at the intense look of determination on the exhausted little PI girl, Mac said with defeat etched into every tone, "Fine, but Veronica, let me help you…please."

That night Veronica Mars left Neptune and swore never to return. And when an e-mail came to Mac eight months later she kept her promise about not letting anyone know that the now engaged Logan Echolls had just fathered his firstborn child. "

A sudden sound from the distance brought Veronica back to the present and she sighed deeply. The almost familiar feeling of guilt intensified when she for the first time considered the pressure Mac had been under all this time. I really owe her a favor, Veronica decided and sighed again.

Wallace heard her sighs and pulled her out from his embrace to look her in the eyes. He smiled when he saw the puffiness around her eyes and more importantly the renewed sparkle in her eyes, "Are you feeling better?"

Veronica returned the serious look her friend gave her. Not for the first time that night she noticed his exhaustion and weariness. He's got enough on his plate, she decided and nodded almost truthfully to his question and gave her best valley girl performance, trying to calm her friend, "Yeah, like - it's totally okay again, ya know…"

Wallace didn't buy it for a second, but forced a smile to his lips to make Veronica happy. Then she surprised him and said bluntly, "Okay, I've had my sob moment tonight – now, let me hear yours. And don't bother stalling big guy, I may be blonde, but I ain't blind."

Wallace bit his lip for a moment and looked over at the building where he knew his wife to be and sighed. "Veronica, I…don't – I mean you don't have to know everything tonight, we can do this later." The blonde woman in front of him raised one eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest and said nothing and Wallace knew resisting was futile. He swallowed a lump of fear and gently took hold of Veronica's arm and led her back to the bench for yet another heart to heart.

"I told you I married Jackie two months ago, right?" Veronica's nod urged him on and Wallace continued, "Well, we weren't supposed to get married this young, we're barely out of our teens after all and there's not a lot of people who marry successfully at this age, but…" he stopped for a second and said, "We had to. Jackie was my wife in every way but legal and it worked out fine. Sometimes when I was doing my basketball stuff, she would stay home and study for her legal degree and that suited us both fine…one night I came across a fan, who helped me jumpstart my jeep and I thanked her and offered to buy her a cup of coffee as a thank you thing."

Veronica smiled. Wallace is the only one who'll buy a stranger anything for a thank you no matter how famous he is. "Go on," she pressed softly and Wallace did after a pause. "We talked and hit it off at first – she was funny and I promised to send her free tickets, 'cause she was a NBA nut. Then somehow I began to run into her at all the games and then one time she saw me with Jackie and got all weird. The next week it all started…The late night calls, the threatening letters and the vandalism on her car. One day, Jackie, Billy and I were in the park near my house and there she was - with a bat and she kept saying that no bastard should have a hold on me and went after my kid…" Wallace's narrative stopped and his jaw clenched as he tried to control his emotions.

Veronica sighed and said soothingly, "it's okay – I'm gonna do my best to stop her." Wallace smiled and replied, "I know – It's just, I don't wanna put you into any danger too. This chick is seriously crazy – she feels that I'm everything to her, that she has to own me and my decisions. If there's a woman near me she get's ballistic. I've tried to put restraining orders on her and changing my number only works for a short while and…I just, I'm at the end of my rope here Veronica, I'm scared that she'll really hurt my family. I married Jackie hoping that the legal vows would make her realize she's nothing to me…"

"I promise I'll look into it first thing Monday." Veronica stated and smiled up at Wallace, who returned the smile. "What?" Veronica asked, "You actually thought I'd deny you?" Wallace grinned and turned his head away from her reprimanding mock glare. Suddenly his grin vanished and he tensed tenfold. "Veronica, go inside!" He barked out and Veronica instinctively rose to move, but then reminded herself that she was in fact the only trained operative present and stood her ground.

"Hello Wallace," a sickly sweet voice sounded not far from Veronica's right and she quickly scanned the area. A tall, pretty dark-haired woman was the speaker and Veronica fell into a fighting stance when the woman added, "and hello to you, you bitch."

Veronica smirked, "You kiss your mamma with that mouth? 'Cause if you continue like that, I might just have to bring out the soap." The woman didn't return the smirk. Her blue eyes shone of hate as she looked Veronica over- a moment later she turned to Wallace and the look got extremely idolizing. "I'll just take care of this…person, who thinks she can touch you so freely," she started to say and then jumped in surprise when Veronica's now steel hard voice sounded right behind her, "Rule One in the maniac's handbook honey , "Don't take the eyes of the prize". "

A second later the woman was on the ground, her head slammed into the pavement and she saw stars. She didn't have a chance to try to fight back, because in the next instant Veronica's arms were around her neck and somehow she twisted the obsessed fan around and pulled out a pair of handcuffs, that Wallace really didn't know how she'd kept hidden, and cuffed her. "Not to sound cliché and all, but you're under arrest for threatening an F.B.I. officer and more importantly hurting said officer's best friend."

Wallace stood dumbfounded and watched in something equal to awe as Veronica pulled up her dress and pressed a bare knee on the woman's back and pulled out a cell phone to report the situation to her superiors. For a moment he wondered why she didn't call the Sheriff's department to help and then nearly slapped himself, because the answer was kinda obvious after all. Then the NBA player blinked away his confused thoughts and shook his head in disbelief. I can't believe it, he thought, not two minutes after I finally man up to spill my troubles to her, she's already fixing them. I wish I could repay the favor somehow.

"Wallace?"

Veronica's voice reached his ears and he looked down slowly – only to discover that the woman was gone and they were alone. "Huh?" he asked intelligently and Veronica smiled – looking more like her High School self than ever, "I got a friend and he took her away while you apparently were off in LaLa-land – He's gonna make sure she's not gonna hurt you or your family again…So," Veronica added with a teasing smile, "what have we learned from tonight's experience? " Wallace grinned and could practically feel the month's worth of tension seep through his veins as he replied dutifully, "Always come to Veronica – She'll fix things – like the wonderful and genius BFF she is."

Veronica stopped her teasing and looked up at him and suddenly enveloped him in the second hug that night, "I'll damn well try my hardest Wallace. Now, let's go back inside and make Jackie as happy as you are right now. As a fellow mother, I know she'll be ecstatic to know her child is safe from that lunatic."

Wallace grinned loudly in her ear, tightened his grip on his tiny friend for a second before releasing her and saying happily, "Your wish is my command BFF.

A/N Hi all. I hope this story arch wasn't too stupid or whatever for you. I felt as I went through the original story, that Wallace was somewhat left behind, that his life was too perfect and me being my own masochistic self, off course had to rectify that. I feel I did that - at least to my own satisfaction ;)

Thanks for reading and maybe even reviewing ;)

Ditte Mai