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Chapter 25: makeovers and failed plans

"I swear if you're even thinking about laughing, then I'll hurt you so badly your daddy wont even be able to find you with his keen surveillance abilities!"

Logan Echolls stood in front of a large mirror in his old bedroom in the Grande Suite at the Grande Hotel.

And he was currently extremely busy ogling himself…well, in his new female body that is.

He was wearing a black dress that he'd bought without Veronica knowing.

"And for such a lameass reason," Logan scolded himself. He'd only noticed the dress in the window display due to its likeness to another beautiful black dress Veronica had worn at the original Alterna prom.

"And she looked gorgeous too," Logan muttered when the memory of the young Veronica Mars popped into his mind.

Logan chuckled to himself, but abruptly stopped when Veronica's voice sounded through the firmly closed door:

"I would never laugh; I'm not that kind of person. Besides I'm not down with the whole laugh at yourself thing and that's technically what I'd be doing if I did laugh…you know."

The voice sounded nearer and as the door was slammed open Veronica said:

"And anyhow, I'm not likely to say anything about your attire tonight; with your vanity in your own body I'd reckon you'd storm out and change your clothes if one single little giggle entered my lips. Am I right?"

Veronica stopped dead in her tracks and Logan felt his confidence boost up a bit when she got a very flabbergasted expression on his face.

Finally she seemed to compose herself again and she crossed her arms and said:

"Gotta say, Logan – Not quite as butch as I thought you'd be tonight."

Logan smiled his half smile and turned to look into the mirror again.

He was actually wearing makeup and his mind flew back to the last two hours where he'd been trying to look like his wife with very limited success…well, with none what so ever.

Until Lily Kane had made her reappearance.

Logan still remembered that very ladylike flush he'd gotten, when he'd laid in the Jacuzzi and cursed over the unfairness of the world itself and then Lilly's voice had sounded beside him:

"Jeez Echolls, who'd have known you'd be such a cry-baby?"

Logan had jumped out of the hot water, desperately reaching for one of the soft towels and had instead slipped on the tiled water soaked floor and had landed with his head in Lily's lap, who'd appeared besides the Jacuzzi leaning casually up against the wall.

"Well, hello Logan. Didn't think I'd be seeing you near my lap again anytime soon…" Lily's voice sounded just as teasing and taunting as ever and Logan had tried to regain a bit of his lost dignity by sitting up and gently wrapping the large towel around his small form without a verbal response.

That seemed to have made the blonde laugh harder and Logan had for a moment been scared of Veronica bursting in and discover his troubles and he'd schussed her loudly and hissed:

"What are you doing here anyway? Veronica's still angry at you, you know."

That sobered the Kane girl up immediately and she said with a tired shine in her eyes:

"Yeah I know and I hate it…," she sighed deeply and the still male part of Logan greatly appreciated the way her bosom expanded by the intake of breath and revealed her not so small cleavage.

"That's not my eyes, Lover," Lily said and tore him out of his appreciation of the female gender and then she continued her former sentence:

"I hate Ronnie being mad at me, but hopefully what I intend to do tonight will help fix things between us a bit…"

Logan had stopped trying to dry his hair wit another towel and said exasperated with a twinge of annoyance:

"God, Lils, don't you ever learn? You're not too brilliant at the whole fixing people thing."

Lily simply shrugged the critique off and stood up, while saying:

"Look I don't need your little comments, especially when I'm here to help you."

Logan arched a brow and asked tentatively:" Help me with what?"

Lily laughed her pearly laugh and snapped her fingers, and instantly she was holding a set of tweezers in her slim fingers and then she gently pushed Logan down on the toilet seat and answered with a determined glimpse in her eyes:

"Me? I'm gonna make you look fabulous my Lover."

Logan didn't really like the sound of that and he really really didn't like the next two hours where the dead girl plucked his eyebrows, waxed his legs, dressed him and styled his hair and face.

After the torture session (which Logan would forever remember it for) Lily had admired her job briefly and then without many other words she'd disappeared just as spontaneously as she'd appeared.

"Yuhuu, Logan?"

Veronica's curious voice tore him out of his reminiscing and he looked over at her and really looked for the first time that night.

"Wow, Ronnie, you're actually making that body's former owner rather proud right now."

Veronica smiled and shrugged it off with a shake of her head, but Logan caught the satisfied gleam in her eyes.

She was wearing a black tux with a red tie and the hair was neatly styled looking as though she'd never had any troubles adjusting to being a man.

For one short minute, Logan envied her fiercely.

"You didn't have to wax your legs," he thought inwardly and as though she realised what he was thinking she walked over and padded his arm gently with a mischievous smile and said:

"I'm guessing that you'll never ever think of women as the weaker sex again."

Logan didn't want to dignify that with an answer and luckily he didn't have too, because the door suddenly slammed open and revealed Dick.

"Yo, Yo don't worry! The party can begin now; the man has arrived; Party Pig and all!"

Veronica sat in an armchair in the corner eying Cassidy and Mac carefully through the massive crowd of people dancing and laughing to the loud music.

Well, trying to eye them carefully at least.

Somehow her attention kept leaping over to Logan, who stood with Wallace and Jackie chatting animatedly.

"It's so weird, that I can't keep myself from looking at him," Veronica thought to herself. "Ok, Girl, back to the plan…"

Her eyes darted over to the young happy couple again, but not even ten minutes later Veronica realised that she was busy counting how many times Logan smiled to Wallace.

"What am I doing?" she finally muttered and got up to grab a beer.

Dick was already flat out drunk and was doing his best to embarrass his surroundings.

Veronica actually glared at some sniggering girls, who said with disdain:" What a loser." Both girls stopped immediately at the stare from Dicks "best friend" and they quickly disappeared into the mass of people.

"I can't believe that I actually somewhat like you now," Veronica mumbled to the almost unconscious Dick as she helped his unmoving form into a more comfortable position.

A long while later Veronica, who had successfully not looked at Logan for the last hour, was growing tired of staring at Cassidy and Mac.

"They truly are innocent sweethearts," Veronica thought a bit bitterly as Cassidy blushed crimson when Mac leaned closer to him and gently kissed his nose tip.

"I can't believe that child raped me…" the thought had run through her mind several times already and finally after finishing yet another beer Veronica decided that the plan could go screw itself, because she wouldn't wait one moment longer in confronting her rapist.

"Hey, Cass…mind if I borrow you for a moment. Dick's an embarrassment and I need your help getting him into Duncan's old room."

Cassidy tore his happy eyes from Mac and smiled friendly up at the bigger "man".

"Sure, let's go."

Veronica nodded to Mac and followed Dicks younger brother, who had already begun wrestling a now sleeping Dick up from his chair.

A few moments later they were all three in the room and while Cassidy was occupied with removing his brothers shoes Veronica quietly locked the door.

"So…" She began.

The alcohol in her bloodstream had gotten her this far and now she didn't really knew how to continue.

Cassidy looked up and smiled softly.

"What's up Logan?"

"Well," Veronica then suddenly bursted out through gritted teeth, "I need to know everything."

Cassidy frowned; obviously he was suspicious of the odd tone in her voice.

"Everything about what?"

"Well, all about the Woody Goodman thing, the bus explosion you are so responsible for among other things, but that's not really important to me right now, I'll get that later. No, I want to know why you raped Veronica Mars."

Cassidy Casablancas actually looked like he had died of shock right then and there. His tanned skin looked ghostly pale and entire body was frozen in a mock relaxed pose.

"Wh…what …I don't know what you're on right now Logan, but come on…did you watch one to many of your dads action movies?"

Cassidy tried to laugh it off, but it failed miserably and they both knew it.

Veronica just crossed her arms and ignored the knock on the door behind her and Logan calling his own name with a warning tone in his voice.

"Logan? What's taking you and Cassidy so long? Mac is getting bored out here…"

A flash of the purest agony flew threw Cassidy's eyes and for the first time ever Veronica realised that Mac wasn't just some cover for him. He really cared about her brunette friend.

"We'll be right out, Veronica," Veronica yelled without looking away from the young murderer for a second, "Dick just puked all over and I don't think he would want anyone but me and Cass to see."

Veronica felt the doorknob being touched and Logan's muffled curse sounded in the still silent bedroom, when he realised that the door was locked.

Cassidy knew it too and he broke free of his unmoving stand and sat down on the floor with a thump.

"Oh God," he whimpered in despair. He looked as though he would want nothing more then too curl up in a ball and never leave this room again, but he didn't. He was as trapped looking into Veronica's unforgiving eyes as she was looking down into his.

"Ho…," Cassidy cleared his throat of the whimper and tried again:

"How did you know?"

Veronica smiled briefly and knew that even though she was drunk it wouldn't make a difference. Cassidy would believe everything she said.

Ignoring the little inner voice that for once didn't sound like Lily, but oddly enough Logan, that told her to shut up and keep to the plan, Veronica sighed and walked over and sat down in front of Cassidy.

"Because I was there every step of the way…"

Logan had noticed that Veronica had enlisted Beaver's help in removing Dick from the living room. But he soon realised that something wasn't quite right.

Especially after the closed door wasn't opened after a few minutes.

He cursed inwardly.

"What the fuck's she doing now?" he wondered, and then he froze.

Lily was standing in front of the door with a sad look on her face when she turned her head and looked at him.

Suddenly her voice sounded in his mind as clear as though she was standing next to him.

"She's following her own mind now…and I'm not gonna interfere this time, I've already messed up so bad. Hopefully this time Veronica will get an end she can live with…"

Logan all but ran to the closed wooden door after Lily vanished quietly and forced himself to speak casually through the wood:

""Logan? What's taking you and Cassidy so long? Mac is getting bored out here…"

He listened to her reply, but he recognised that tone. She was breaking all the rules.

"Please let this go down ok," Logan whispered as he set out to distract Mac.

On some level Logan realised he wasn't even surprised by Veronica's actions.

15 or so years of unhandled hate had to burst over eventually.

"Hopefully this time Veronica will get an end she can live with…"

Logan remembered Lily's hopeful remark and he kept that thought in his mind the rest of the evening as he desperately tried to act nonchalant.

But every so often his eyes would wander back to the still closed door.

A/N:

So I finally got to one of my little altered points. And I do have a question. Are you interested in the talk between Cassidy and Veronica or should I just skip it and get on to the next point?

Hope you liked it though…

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