Disturbing Behavior

About an hour had passed since Mac was trying to hack into Veronica's locked down computer. While Mac was working on the computer Veronica was going through pictures on Mac's laptop asking her questions every few minutes.

"Veronica, I'm never going to finish if you keep on asking questions," Mac said only half seriously.

"Well how does anyone expect me to get my memory back if no one wants to tell me who everyone is," she said pretending to be exasperated.

"Hey for a private detective, I think you're losing your touch. The folder name tells you where and when, the file name is usually the who…so if you just open your eyes and look then you'll get a better feel of everything," Mac said while feverishly typing something into the computer. "Hey I'm almost there Veronica!"

Veronica jumped off of the desk and rushed over to where Mac was sitting. She couldn't hide the excitement in her voice or her face. "Oh Mac if you do this I will worship you forever," she said.

"Didn't you tell me the same thing when I managed to figure out who was behind the purity test?" Mac said with a smile as she turned the computer around to face Veronica. "Volia, computer officially hacked, by the way your password was insanely stupid," Mac laughed.

"Purity test," she asked looking confused, apparently there were a lot of things she still had to learn about her past and that was one thing she'd make sure to ask more questions about. "Oh my god, you did it?" she said looking at her computer's desktop. It was the same picture she had on her digital camera that she looked at the night before. Her and Logan on the boat. "What was the password," she asked trying to not think about why her desktop image was what it was since her and Logan were broken up.

"Love Echmars," Mac said rolling her eyes. It was beyond obvious at this point that even though Veronica had dated Piz she was clearly not over Logan. "It's a mixture of yours and Logan's name," she said to Veronica.

"Thanks Queen of the Obvious, I figured that much when you spoke the words," she said getting upset with Mac although she wasn't actually upset with Mac. She was just upset with the world and how she wasn't exactly understanding how it worked. She knew that she had to get her life together, she had to figure out everything and she knew that her laptop would help her find some pieces to the puzzle.

"Do you want to change it, its really simple," Mac asked already getting to the admin part of the laptop.

"No that's okay. Keep it the way it is," she said. Veronica sat on the bed and used the touch pad to navigate the computer. She saw a filed called Cases and she double clicked it and looked at the various folders in confusion. "Lily's Murder, Bus Crash, Dean Hess Murder, Fitzpatrick Dealers, Campus Rapes…what is all of this stuff," she asked Mac.

"Those are your cases," she said seriously, "Like we all told you, you worked for your dad who was a private detective and often times you'd take on some small cases for your friends but you had a few big ones. All of those crimes are solved, with your help. You kept a file of everything on your computer. The police details, suspects, alibis, everything, and oh….before you start opening everything. Lily's murder…. It was a big deal to you. She was your best friend and everyone was suspected of the murder….everyone from her father to her brother to her boyfriend, umm, that like, includes Duncan and Logan but they were cleared of everything. You solved the crime and had Aaron Echoll's put behind bar for that."

Veronica was more confused than ever. Wallace had told her bits and pieces about Lily and her murder. She knew that her and Lily were best friend and that her murder was actually what got Veronica to be the outcast of the school. She was never told that Duncan and Logan were implicated in the murder. Veronica found that very strange and actually unsettling. She was dating two guys that were suspects in murder cases. "Did you say Echolls, as in Logan's last name" she asked.

"Veronica, for the love of God and all things Holy, please let the past remain in the past. Logan was suspected of being involved, Duncan was involved, Lily's parents, your father, EVERYONE was accused. Hell even Weevil was accused. Everyone was cleared but Logan's father. Logan's dad was a crazed psychopath who slept with his son's girlfriend and gave his son the beats until he was black and blue. Don't stir up the past. This isn't going to help you figure anything out. It's three years in the past and everyone was cleared." Mac said getting defensive and it wasn't just because she didn't want Veronica to view Logan and Duncan in a different way but she didn't want Veronica to dig too much into the past cases and find the information on Beaver Casablanca's again and remind Mac of everything she had spent forever trying to forget. Losing her virginity to a homicidal freak was scarring enough, she didn't need to rehash that.

"What do you mean 'was,'" she asked Mac. When she mentioned how Aaron Echolls behaved she used the past tense. "You mean all of a sudden Aaron isn't a crazed psychopath," she asked, "And I promise Mac, I won't dig up the past. I'll have a look through my most recent cases to see if I can figure anything out. My dad said that maybe my accident wasn't an accident. What if I was getting close to something and someone tried to kill me," she said.

"First of all, it wouldn't be the first time someone tried to off you,"she said in a semi-serious tone. Veronica didn't know if she should take it as a joke or not. "Secondly, Aaron was murdered in his hotel room one night after he managed to turn attention away from his crime and put the blame on everyone else. Oddly enough, it's the only unsolved murder the Mars family never decided to take on. I guess that has something to do with him trying to kill you," she said looking at Veronica with pleading eyes. Veronica was able to read them right away. She would let the past remain in the past. Apparently digging up old information wasn't gonna be good for anyone, herself included.

"Are we talking about Veronica being offed again," said a tall blond boy as he burst into the room and walked over to kiss Mac on the lips. "Hey Ronnie, how ya doing," he said giving her one of the goofiest grins she had ever seen.

"Uh, hello," she said doing a quick inventory of everyone she had met since she left the hospital and he wasn't registering. Then she remembered seeing pictures of him on Mac's computer. "Dick right," she asked.

"Well yes, I have one….oh wait, you mean is that my name. Yes it is." He walked up to Veronica and gave her a big bear hug. "It's great to see you out and about. Mac here was really worried about you but no where near as much as Logan. He was all 'woe is me, veronica wont wake up, oh woe is me, Veronica doesn't remember me'," he said doing a horrible impersonation of Logan.

"After that lame act I can't really tell, are the two of you friends or something," she said shooting him a look and suddenly feeling very protective of Logan and people making fun of him.

"Only the best friends to ever exist. I totally have his back and he has mine," he turned his attention to Mac, "So babe, are we going for lunch or what," he asked Mac and Veronica had to stifle a laugh. Mac was all computer genius, school oriented girl and this guy looked like a huge sufer dude. Maybe opposites really do attract. "Is there a problem Ronnie," he asked when he noticed her facial expression.

"No, everything is fine," she said smiling. She was really happy to see a functional couple around her. After everything she had learnt over the past few days she didn't think that normal people existed in Neptune. "I didn't know you had plans today Mac. I'll just go grab something in the cafeteria and then look for Wallace."

"No you can join us if you want," Mac quipped and Dick gave Mac a strange look. Veronica noticed the look and just smiled at the them.

"It's okay. It's a beautiful day, the walk and fresh air will do me good," she picked up her laptop and thanked Mac for everything and walked out of the girls dorm and walked towards the courtyard.

************Author's Note***************

Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank you all for your comments/reviews/emails. To be honest with you I hadn't had time to write in the longest time and this chapter feels a bit rushed to me only because I wanted to move on to the next chapter which will be soon…but…. People adding my story to their favorites list really inspired me to write so thank you very much for your support  I hope you enjoy the update and stay tuned because more will be coming from me soon!