Blast from the Past

Wallace, after Nathan leaves, stalks inside to talk to his mom.

He angrily confronts her about Nathan being his father.

She tells him that Nathan betrayed her while supposedly going on a police case and Hank Fennel is his legal father.

Seeing that Wallace seems to be in a funk in class, she nominates him for homecoming king.

She is sitting with Felix when Wallace comes over and seeing his face, she motions for Felix to leave.

"What's going on?"

"My dad showed up.."

"Ummm, did the zombie..." she tries to joke.

"No, my real dad."

"I don't know what to say. Are you okay?"

"I'm not sure. My whole life..V...my mom has been keeping this from me."

"Did she give you a reason?"

"Yeah but I don't know what to think.."

"Do you want me to look into him, make sure there isn't a reason why she kept you from him."

"I'm not sure. Do you think we can keep this between you and me for now?"

"Of course." she is about to say more when Jackie appears.

None of them speak.

Glaring at them, Jackie stalks off.

"I need to go deal with that." he says getting up and chases after her.

"I'm not going to be told what that was am I?" Eli asks sitting down and wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Sorry, mi amor. Best friend stuff." she says brushing a kiss against his mouth.

"Te amo, querida."

"Te amo." she whispers.

At the office her dad tells her that he has a 12-point lead in the sheriff race.

He leaves and she starts work on organizing the files.

Suddenly feeling sick, she runs to the bathroom and throws up most of what she has eaten that day.

There's another clue Veronica...your late and throwing up. Time to get a test.

At school the next day, Jackie comes into the bathroom, after feeling sick again.

"I need your help." Jackie says trying to look at everything but her. Hates asking for help and having to ask me must suck.

"What's up?"

"Somehow my card was maxed out. I thought I missed placed it the other day. I couldn't find it all day and than suddenly it was in my car."

"You think someone swiped your card, maxed it out than gave it back."

"I know it sounds far-fetched.."

"Not really, this is Neptune. Stranger things have happened."

"The thing is it went missing after i went shopping with a friend, Cora. I don't want to accuse her without proof. Besides from Wallace she is my only firend."

"So, you want me to prove she did it?"

"No, prove she didn't do it."

"You have the list of charges."

She hands her the list of charges and they look it over.

Nathan talks to Wallace, and tells him that he's tried for years to find Wallace and hands him letters that he sent.

Wallace is shocked when his name is called for the nominating pool for homecoming royalty.

"Okay how many people did you have to bribe with snicker-doodles?" he asks turning to her.

"Only Eli and the boys but that mostly because they don't vote. The people have spoken." she smiles.

"So you and 'Eli' have plans for Homecoming?"

"You would think. Other than voting for you, it hasn't come up." she says with a small frown.

"Supafly, do you want to go?" he seems a little surprised.

"Okay, I'm being a girl but I want him to ask okay?" she tries to wave it off.

"Hmmmm, should I as your best friend tell your man that?" he puffs up his chest.

She just laughs.

She talks to Cora and the two plan a trip to shop for homecoming dresses.

She hopes by getting access to her house, she can see if Cora has any of the things that were bought with Jackie's card.

She sitting with Marisol and Mac when Eli, Thumper and Felix join them.

"Hey mama." Thumper says kissing Marisol as he sits down.

"So what's the plan for Friday? Are you going on his bike or what?" Mac asks.

"I am so not getting on the back of your bike in my dress, I'm sure V will agree with me on that one?" Marisol says.

"Don't worry, I'm borrowing a car. Not sure what Weevil is doing."

"Que?" Eli asks.

"Homecoming vato, it's this Friday. Have you gotten your dress yet V?" Mac asks.

"I'm going dress shopping this afternoon. So I'll have a dress, not sure about a date though." she says getting up and leaving all of them staring after her.

"You haven't asked her?" Mac nearly screams. "Oh, I so don't want to be in your shoes." she grabs her stuff and runs after V.

Marisol just glares at him, gives Thumper a kiss and follows.

"Homecoming..big deal to a lot of girls and you forgot to see if your woman wanted to go." Felix just shakes his head.

"She's going to kill me, isn't she?" Eli asks looking at his boys as the rest of them join him, Felix and Thumper.

"Grovel...big time." Hector says.

During a Sheriff's race debate, Lamb brings up the fact that Keith would have arrested Ed Doyle for a DUI.

She and Cora go outlet shopping.

It becomes clear that she could not have stolen the card.

Square one, dammit.

She sitting at home, watching a movie with Backup when Eli comes in.

"I am a idiot."

She just looks at him.

"I din't even think, I'm sorry querida." he sits down nest to her and hands her a folded piced of paper.

Opening it slowly, she finds a drawing of her, from last year's homecoming, standing in front of the water just after she had gotten out of the water.

"Eli..."

"Would you go to with me to Homecoming?" he asks.

"Yeah..." she moves over to him and straddles his lap.

Brushing her hair out of her eyes, he kisses her softly.

After the debate her dad loses his lead in the Sheriff's race.

Annoyed she plants a listening device in Lamb's office.

She goes to the first place the credit card was spent, the psychic shop and finds most of the stuff that has been bought with Jackie's card.

"I just don't know how she got a hold of your card." she says while she and Jackie relax in her room.

"From me..."

"Jackie.."

"I lost my gram and even someone pretending to be her, helps. It's my dirty little secret. Don't you have something that you don't want anyone to know about?"

"Yeah.."

"What?" Jackie turns to look at her.

"I'm late."

"Late for what?"

"No, I'm late. I haven't told anyone yet and the thought of buying a test scares me."

"Veronica..."

"Okay, so how are we going to get back at this card stealing psychic." she says trying to change the subject.

"Oh you should go on her show and prove to everyone how much of a fake she is."

Jackie shows her the show and on it is a girl that says she got a message from one of her friends that was one the bus crash.

Talking to the girl the next day, she listens to the message and forwards it to her answering machine.

She goes on the show and isn't surprised when she is called up.

What does shock her is the message the psychic has from Lilly.

"She says you should have stayed away from her boyfriend. Wait a minute there is something else. She says that she knows you are late, that you need to swallow your pride and go buy a pregnancy test. It will be better to find out now before you start showing."

Wallace goes to see her.

"Supafly, you okay?"

Keeping her anger in check, "Yeah..I.. Listen, Wallace, I don't want to accuse her but Jackie is the only person that knew about me being late. Unless someone has bugged my bedroom again."

"Veronica...please.."

"If she did that, this is her freebie. You have more important things to worry about right now, okay." I'm not going to add that everything you know is a lie by having your best friend and girlfriend at each others throats.

"Thanks.." he whispers and pulls her into a hug.

"V..." Eli says just walking into the house with Felix, holding a paper bag.

"That's my clue to go." he says rubbing the few tears that escaped out of his eyes.

"Wallace..." she whispers.

"It's okay supafly. I'll talk to you at the dance."

She watches him brush past Eli and Felix.

"Ah Blondie, I um got this for you. I'll talk to you guys later." Felix says handing her the bag before he leaves.

"You were watching."

"No, umm abuela was. She was ready to go to that station and beat that psychic for bringing up Lilly and for letting it out that you were late. Umm how late are you?"

"A couple weeks, I didn't know how..."

"It's okay querida. We will figure this out okay. First we need to find out if you are."

She open the bag that Felix gave her and inside is a handful of tests, different brands.

"Oh boy." she looks him in the eye, scared about about they are going to find out.

"Wallace, I..." Jackie starts the instant he calls her.

"I'm going to ask you this once, did you set that up?" he demands pacing his hallway.

"It was suppose to be a joke..."

He hangs his head.

"Let me make it up to you at the dance. I can explain.."

"I'm not going to the dance with you. If it wasn't for that damn nomination I wouldn't be going at all." he tells her hanging up and silently screams.

She stared at the three tests on her desk, one positive, one negative and one dud. She hides them in the bottom of her trash just to be safe.

She had already called her doctor and set up an appointment for that Monday to go in during lunch to find out.

She had sent Eli away after the second test came back negative, promising him to call her doctor to get checked out.

They would go to Homecoming and hopefully not a lot of people watched that damn show.

"Wow, honey. You look amazing." her dad said as she came out of her room.

"Thanks, there's something that I want you to hear."

She plays him the message before the bus crash and both hear the explosion.

"Dad, you need to win. Lamb is not going to solve this."

"I know honey I know."

Eli knocks on the door, looking uncomfortable in his suit.

"Sheriff." he says. Hasn't killed me so hopefully has no idea about...

"Eli, honey your date is here."

"Bye dad." she gives him a quick kiss goodbye.

She and Eli are slow dancing when she notices Jackie looking unsteady on her feet dancing with Logan.

"Oh god." she whispers. She pulls herself away from Eli and nearly plows through the couples to get to Jackie, praying that Wallace hasn't noticed.

"Ronnie.." Logan starts the instant she gets there and pulls Jackie away from him.

"No talking, Opie." Eli mutters.

"Jackie, what are you doing?" she whispers trying to get Jackie to focus on her.

"God, Veronica. Don't you have enough men. Does every guy need to love Veronica mars." Jackie explains pulling herself away from her.

She about to suggest that they sit down and see if Logan can go grab her some coffee or something when she notices Wallace.

"Wallace..." she whispers and tries to run after him.

She makes it outside but see no sign of Wallace.

"Hey mama, everything okay?" Thumper asks as he and Marisol follow her.

"You see Wallace leave?" she asks.

"Yeah, headed out only a couple minutes ago."

"Damn." she whispers.

"Come on querida, you know he'll be fine. Just give him the night to cool off and we'll go see him tomorrow." Eli said coming out to join her.

""Yeah, now let's go sober up his girlfriend."

She and Eli are placing food on the counter when her dad walks into the house.

"Dad, were you out all night?" she asks.

"Honey, Wallace never came home last night, did either of you see him?"

Eli doesn't even wait for her to ask, he gives V a quick kiss and grabs his phone as he call his boys.

They are going to see if they can find Wallace.

She grabs her phone and dials his number when the call goes straight to voicemail.

she leaves him a message, just asking for him to call her so that she knows that he is okay.

Wallace looks out the window of his dad's car, ignoring the ringing phone in his hand.

Sorry, supafly. I need to do this.