AN: I'm officially on winter break come Friday, and I wanted to update before I take off to where I'm escaping the cold. If I do not update before I go back to work, Happy Holiday's and wishing you all an amazing new year! Oh yes, and today is 12/12/12. I can't express how happy this day makes me, and yet how sad we won't see another one from 89 years.

Veronica's phone ringing is what woke Logan up a few hours later. Her ringtone was soft, quieter than the sound of the constant beeping, but it was enough to wake him from his nap.

"Sorry." She mumbled, pulling it from her bag. "It's Mac."

Logan nodded at her, and watched as she got up and moved to the corner of the room, away from him, as though it would mean he couldn't hear her.

"Hey Mac." Veronica answered.

"Veronica." Mac was breathless.

"What's up?"

"Veronica, I'm not losing it, that guy is following me. I saw him again when I went to pick Ryan up from soccer."

"Wait, you saw him again, are you sure?" she asked.

"Yeah, I saw him at the park, and when Ryan and I were going back towards the car, he was sitting in the passenger seat." Mac said. "Ryan went running after the guy, but I called Dick, we couldn't get back in that car."

"Mac, please, please tell me you know what this guy looked like." Veronica could feel the worry build up in her. "Did you call the sheriff?"

"Yeah, we're still at the park, Deputy Sack's is on his way, and Dick too. Veronica, someone was in my car!" Her voice almost broke, and this was the first time that Veronica had ever heard this type of fear in her voice.

"What's going on?" Logan asked from his head. He was able to read her face better than anything in the world, and he could tell something had happened the moment her eyes changed.

Veronica held a hand up to him. "Has anything else happened?" she asked. Nish's words were suddenly coming back to her, someone had tried to get into her car, had opened her mail, had been following her.

"No, just that time I thought someone was following me when we meet for coffee." Mac told her. "Should I be more freaked out, or less?"

"I don't know yet. But stay there. I'm at the hospital, I'll be there soon." She ended the phone call and looked at Logan. "Someone broke into Mac's car, and Ryan chased after him."

"Isn't he like ten?" Logan asked. "He could have been hurt."

"I think he's almost twelve now, and you know how twelve year old boys think, they are invincible." Veronica knew this could be a walk down memory lane with Logan, they had so many past memories together, but Mac was waiting, and something bigger was happening here.

"I wish I could go with you." Logan said looking at the IV in his arm. He was restless of being stuck in a bed.

"It's a break in, Dick is on his way, and so is Sack's. Nothing dangerous." Veronica knew that it was hard for him to let her go, and even harder letting her off after everything. "I'll be back with some news of the outside world." She smiled at him.

Logan used his uncast hand to reach out for her hand before she was out of reach. "Wait." He said pulling her over to the side of the bed. "What else is going on?" he wondered what details she was keeping from him.

"I don't know yet, I haven't really talked to Mac." Veronica told him, brushing the hair out of his face.

"You use to be a better liar." Logan smiled.

"I am an amazing liar." Veronica laughed. "I will be back later." She told him before leaving the hospital room. The smile she left him with was so tender and loving.

The parking lot of the public park was rather empty when Veronica arrived. She could pick out the handful of cars that were there, Dick's beloved car, Mac's mother's, Mac's green beetle, and the police car.

"You made it." Mac said as Veronica got out of her car. "Sack's searched the car, but didn't find anything. He doesn't even know how they got in."

"Did you see the guys face?" Veronica asked, as she followed Mac over to her car.

"No, he was wearing a hoodie, and it all happened so fast."

"Dude, this is like serious shit that's going down." Dick said, his arms crossed in front of him.

"Language." Mac shot him a look before glancing over at her mother who was speaking with one of the officers.

"What?" Dick said confused.

"Don't curse with my mom fifteen feet away." Mac whispered harshly. She turned her attention back to Veronica who was standing next to Sack's.

"There is no sign of forced entry, but the other door is locked." Sack's told her.

"So you think they used a slim jim?" Veronica asked, going to look at the window. It would be hard to tell if someone had gotten in that way, it wouldn't have left much damage.

"There are no scratches on the window, or the paint. It's weird." Sack shrugged. "Almost like they had a key."

"I only have one spare, and my dad has it." Mac said shaking her head.

"It could have been a slim jim, they could have been pros. Weevil's boys use to pick up cars all the time, and no one could ever tell because they were so good at it." Veronica sighed. "I'll talk to him, see if it was a PCHer, he can still get in touch with them."

"You really think that's all it was?" Mac asked.

Veronica thought for a moment, if it was just a PCHer, they wouldn't have ran like that, they wouldn't have been in the passenger seat, they would have been in the front seat, the car wouldn't still be there. She couldn't lie to Mac, so she had to shake her head. "No, but right now it's a place to start."

"This guy has been following Mackie, he knows obviously knows what she drives, and followed her here." Dick said. "You can't go anywhere alone." He told her.

"Really?" Veronica asked. "You want to go down that road?" she wanted to laugh. She could see the look of annoyance on her friends face. Being told what to do wasn't a strong suit for either girl. "Mac will be just fine."

"You don't know that. She's not you, and look at all the shit you've gone through because you wouldn't listen to Logan." Dick threw out at her. "If you would have just listened to him about the whole rape thing, things would have been different." The moment the words left his mouth, he wished he could take them back. He knew that things with him and Veronica were changing, their relationship was evolving. But with 18 simple words, he put them back to where they had been in high school.

"If I had listened to Logan, we might not have found them. Someone else might have been hurt, some other innocent girl would have had to go through that." Veronica's whole body was tight with anger.

"Dick, I think you should go." Mac said turning to look at the boy. "Go visit Logan, go anywhere but here." She knew the impact of his words, and the reaction Veronica would have to them.

"Fine." Dick threw his arms up, rolled his eyes, and left.

"That's who you've been making out with." Veronica said pointing after the blond.

"Let's stay on topic here." Mac shook her head and pointed at the car. "If you really don't think it was PCHers, who do you think it was?"

"I don't know." Veronica whispered, pulling Mac away from everyone else, into the park to the bench. "That day we were at the Java Hut for coffee, I was meeting with Nish."

"Wait, Nish?" Mac asked. "Lilith House, Nish?"

"Yeah, I might have withheld some information from you after you cracked the hard drive." She bite down on the side of her bottom lip. She had kept this from Mac for her own safety, plausible deniability. She cracked the code, and listened to the video, but that was it. She didn't know about the list Veronica had made, she didn't know anything.

"Please don't tell me you gave a copy of it to Nish."

"No!" Veronica said quickly. "Just a list of names, all Castle members." Veronica sighed. So much for protecting her.

"And now you think this has something to do with that?" Mac asked.

"Nish said she felt like someone was following her, and then one day, she saw someone trying to break into her car. She scared them off before they had the chance." Veronica explained. "It's all too similar to not be connected to each other."

"The price I pay for being friends with wonder detective." Mac shook her head with a laugh. "So Bond, how do we find this guy?"

"I don't know." Veronica sighed. "I bugged Nish's place like a mad woman, even set up cameras and got nothing."

"If you really think it's Castle related, why don't we just go straight to the source?" Mac asked. To her it seemed simple enough. To get the answers they wanted, they needed to go to the one person that was sure to have them. But Mac hadn't talked much to Veronica about her last encounter there. She knew that she had gone to see Jake Kane after Logan has turned up at the hospital. Mac wasn't sure how Veronica knew, but she couldn't doubt her friend.

"I suppose this is why you're the Q to my Bond?" Veronica sighed.