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Chapter 35 The Bomb

"How is she?" Veronica asked rushing out of the elevator and into the waiting room where Logan sat impatiently.

"She's fine. Your dad's in there now." He said standing up and pulling her into him. He hugged her as tightly as he dared in her condition and buried his head into her hair. He steadily breathed the calming scent of her in and out and in and out until he felt the familiar safety and calmness that he associated with Veronica overwhelm him.

"Are you ok?" she asked when he finally loosened his grip on her and led her over to the chair he was sitting in. They sat beside each other, but there was barely any room between them since his arm was wrapped around her shoulders and her arm was draped across his lap. Their hands were clasped together and Veronica felt the familiar warmth that always happened when he touched her. It felt too long since the last time they were so close, minus the dance he'd barely touched her.

"I'm fine. I'm just glad she's awake." He said quietly.

She smiled and tilted her head slightly studying him. "How long has my dad been in there?"

"Since I called you."

She nodded and leaned against him. He untangled their fingers and brought his hand gently to place on her bump.

"How's he doing?" he asked quietly.

She smiled softly looking down at his hand on her. "He's doing good. Kicking a lot, you know. We still have a lot to do, Logan." She said quietly.

"I know."

They sat there for awhile each lost in their own thoughts, but their position never changed each wanting to be as close to the other as possible.

As Veronica dozed beside him waiting to go see Lynn Logan heard a commotion over by the elevators. He looked up just in time to see a man dressed in black with a camera in his hand burst down the hallway security at his heels. The man started snapping pictures of Logan and then without warning he burst into Lynn's room and began to take pictures of her. Without thinking of what he was doing Logan jumped up and stormed over to the paparazzi. He could hear Veronica yelling behind him, but all he could see was red.

He couldn't stand the pap normally. They made money off of other people's woes. He hated them always had. Now when his life was so torn up people were getting off trying to capture the perfect shot of star destruction. They were still chasing him and his family around. He had tried to avoid the tabloids, but now he could see how big the story had gotten because of his murdering psychotic father and the damage he did. With his mother finally coming out of a coma he wasn't in the mood today and he did the first thing that popped into his head.

He punched the guy straight in the face. Logan smiled sardonically when he heard the sickening crunch of the guy's nose breaking and the blood began to rush down his face.

Veronica's voice became louder and he could feel her taking his arm and pulling him away just as security finally got there.

"You asshole! You fucking rich prick!" the paparazzi screamed holding his nose.

"I'm the asshole! You're the one making money off of a woman who just woke up from a coma! Take a look in the mirror you're the fucking asshole!" Logan yelled glaring at the guy.

"You're going to pay for that!" the guy yelled as security began to handcuff him.

"I'd think twice before threatening me. You did just violate some laws by busting in here and then taking pictures of a patient who's in critical condition. I'd think hard about what you say next." Logan said smirking at him.

"I didn't break any laws." The guy said.

"You did actually." Keith said from the doorway. He looked at Logan and then Veronica over his shoulder.

"Lynn just fell asleep. How about you two head home. I'll handle this." He said taking the guy in handcuffs down the hall.

Logan looked over at Veronica and they both headed into Lynn's room. She was indeed sleeping and Veronica watched Logan go over and make sure she was all right before coming back to her. Without speaking they left the hospital and went to Veronica's car.

"Where's your car?" she asked surprised that he was following her.

"I was with your dad." He said massaging his knuckles.

She looked at him while unlocking her door and they climbed in neither ready to speak yet.

"Logan…" she began casting a look over at him.

He continued to stare down at his knuckles and she knew what she was going to say was going to cause another argument so she started the car to ensure that he wasn't going to jump out to avoid speaking with her.

"You can't keep doing this." She said finally as they drove out of the parking lot and towards her apartment.

"Doing what?" he asked playing dumb.

"This! Get angry, lash out, drink your sorrows away! I've been dealing with it for almost a month and I'm not doing it anymore! I want to help you, I want to make everything go away, but I can't if you won't talk to me! Not to mention we're going to have a baby in three months! We need to at least be semi-normal." She ranted staring at the street and glancing over at him every couple of minutes.

"Sorry to be such a burden, Ve-ron-i-ca." he said elongating her name like he used to when he mocked her all those months ago.

She huffed and glared at him at a red light.

"I'm serious, Logan. I've tried to help—"

"How? By forcing me to move in with you and your dad and dragging me to dances? How exactly have you helped?" he spat.

She slammed on the accelerator and sped towards her apartment.

"I asked you to move in with me because I didn't want you to be in that shrine by yourself! I made you go to the dance for a night of teenage normalcy! I want you back, not the obligatory jackass you're being! I'm not raising a kid with you acting like this! Either deal with your issues or we're done." She said without thinking about what she was saying.

He was silent for a long time, "You'd really break up with me after everything? You're pregnant, Veronica! What about the baby?" he asked his voice hard as steel.

"Joint custody. I want to be with you, but I can't be with you if you're pushing me away and acting cold and distant. I get that you're hurting, but so am I! So is your mom! And you can't keep drinking your pain away or punching out people you don't like."

"That pap asked for it!" Logan yelled as they pulled into her apartment complex.

"I'm not saying he didn't I'm just asking you to think before you act. Stop drinking while you're at it and please let me help you." she begged as she pulled into her usual parking spot.

Immediately as she parked Logan jumped out of the car. She followed him as quickly as her extra girth could allow and moved in front of him to block him.

"Logan I lo—care about you and I don't want to see you like this. If we're going to work we need to work through this, together." She said grabbing his hand to get him to understand.

He ripped his hand away and took a step around her. "This is me, Veronica, so if you don't like it maybe we don't have a future together after all." He said before turning and walking away.

"Where are you going?" she shouted after him hurt and confused.

"A place where degenerates go." He said while walking out of the parking lot. She watched him go at a loss and then carried herself upstairs. She understood he was hurting so was she, but they were expecting a baby and had no time to live in the past. They had to look to the future. She was tired of his attitude and she was scared that this was going to continue.

She could feel the tears well up in her eyes as she thought about raising this little boy by herself. The tears started off slow as her mind went back to how Logan said he would be there, but so far he'd proven to be the jackass she had hoped had disappeared. Where was the Logan that promised her he'd be there? Where was the Logan who was excited for the baby? The tears turned into full sobbing and she was glad that her dad was working and proceeded to do a very un-Veronica like behavior and cry until she couldn't anymore.

Veronica was in the office signing out to go to her doctor's appointment. It was a few days after Lynn had woken up and the huge fight that they'd had. They'd barely spoken both skating around the other one. She had noticed he wasn't drinking and she felt that was a sign that maybe he was going to get on the right track.

He spent a lot of time with his mom and she understood that although she wished he would talk to her, but every time she'd tried he turned away. So she was going to the appointment by herself and she told herself she didn't care, but she knew that was a lie.

She was just about to leave when she heard Clemmon's voice filter through the small crack in his open door. She knew he was on the phone she'd seen him on it when she'd walked in and he had closed the door. Or at least thought he'd closed the door. Her ears prickled as she caught wind of his conversation.

"…bomb threats." He was saying.

She paused and inched closer to the door. She made sure that no one else was in the office, which was not as weird as one would think since it was lunch time and the secretaries of Neptune High loved lunch time.

"I'm not sure who's doing it. We have someone investigating into it, but so far he hasn't uncovered anything. If the bomb threats don't stop what should we do?" he paused as the other person spoke on the phone.

"Alright, I'll keep doing the fire drills, but we have to do something soon." He said.

Veronica was so stunned she almost forgot to move away from the door. She quickly went back to her spot by the sign out area and pretended she hadn't heard anything he said. Luckily Clemmons was too preoccupied with his own lunch to see her. She hurried out of there as quickly as possible and called her doctor's office to reschedule her appointment. Nothing was wrong with the baby, the appointment could be put off until week 27, no big deal.

Veronica spent the remainder of the day trying to figure out who was making the bomb threats. She'd found the website , but that was her only solid clue until she was making her way to her car after school and overheard a conversation between Norris Clayton and the new kid, Ben.

She'd known Norris a long time he used to bully kids in middle school, but she also remembered a nicer sweeter time when he'd stood up for her in the few months she was ridiculed.

The good news was she didn't need anyone standing up for her, but she did think their conversation was weird. Talk about guns, hanging out, and uncomfortable. She knew it was a hunch when Ben left, but she had the intuition to follow him. She got into her LeBaron and followed him as he stopped at the Camelot a seedy hotel she'd only driven past a few times before. Now she sat in it's parking lot taking pictures of Ben on her camera. When Ben left so did she and she followed him to a nursery to get fertilizer. Suddenly her phone rang jarring her out of her sleuthing.

"Ronnie where are you?" Logan's voice came over the speaker.

"Out." She said trying to take a picture and talk on the phone all at once.

"When are you coming home?" he asked annoyed that she was being so vague.

Veronica sighed and put down her camera. "Why do you care? You've barely spoken to me."

She heard him copy her sigh and she knew that they were drawing the white flag.

"I'm sorry I just...it's a lot right now, you know."

"It's a lot for me too, Logan and I'm pregnant. Listen if you want to just have some space let me know. I'm not trying to be clingy I just want to make sure you're ok. I worry about you." she said quietly drawing an invisible pattern on the steering wheel. She'd all, but forgotten about Ben.

"I know and I'm sorry. I promise I'll let you know next time when I need some time, but—"

"What are you doing?" Veronica shrieked when Ben opened the door. She dropped her phone immediately and stared at the gun pointed on her.

"Veronica?" Logan yelled anxiously.

"Drive." Ben commanded the gun still on her.

Veronica shakily started the car and began to drive where he told her. She realized they were going back the way they came.

"Where are we going?" she asked loudly hoping Logan was still on the line.

"You followed me there you should know." Ben said tersely.

"The Camelot?" she said in the same loud tone.

"I'll give you this Veronica, I didn't think you were very good at investigating. I guess I'll be eating my own words now. People talk about you, you know. The pregnant teen detective. I just thought they were exaggerating, I'm a bit impressed though." He said making her park the car and leading her up the stairs of the Camelot.

"You know my dad's the Sheriff and my boyfriend's going through a lot right now and if you didn't notice I have a bun in the oven. They get really worried when I don't come home right after school." She said wincing as he dragged her along.

"Just shut up I have to think." He said angrily his grip tightened on her arm.

She let out a high pitched laugh the adrenaline pumping through her system as fear filled her. She was scared not just for her, she was a second thought, but for the baby and Logan going mental when he found out and for her dad who's already lost so much.

She could feel her eyes tearing up as what she thought to be her final moments approached and then suddenly Ben's hands weren't on her anymore and he was being punched out by Logan.

Logan who'd despite everything had come to her rescue. She saw something fall out of Ben's pocket and she bent down to grab it. As she came back up she felt a bit dizzy and held the railing for support.

"Logan." She said blinking to try to focus her vision. She held up the ATF badge right as she stumbled forward and fainted. If Logan's reflexes weren't so good she'd have hit the floor, but luckily he caught her like he always did and always would.

"I'm so sorry. I love you so much. I'm so sorry, Ronnie. I've been acting like an ass. If anything happens…I'm so sorry." A voice kept repeating over and over.

Veronica came to in a white room with a monitor beeping beside her and the voice mumbling in her eat. She was smart enough to realize she was back in the hospital and that Logan was the mumbler.

Who else would tell her he loved her.

Wait!

HE LOVED HER?!

Her eyes snapped open and she looked over at Logan whose face was less than a foot from her face. When her blue eyes met his deep chocolate ones he launched himself at her and hugged her as close as possible to him. She closed her eyes breathing in his comforting scent and she felt safe, warm, and cherished for the first time in awhile. She didn't even realize tears had gathered in her eyes, damn hormones.

"Veronica." He mumbled into her neck and she realized he was crying too. She could feel the wetness on her shoulder and she pulled him even closer.

"I was so scared. I thought…I thought God! I thought everything. Every bad scenario rushed through my head and I've never been so afraid." He mumbled into her neck.

"I know. What happened?" She whispered burying her head in his own chest and enjoying the closeness that had been missing in the last few weeks.

"You fainted. It was scarier than anything even after the whole Ben trying to shoot you thing although that was pretty awful. What was up with that? He's a policeman?" Logan asked confused.

Veronica sighed against him, "I don't know, but we can talk about it later. Is the baby ok? Am I ok?" she asked worriedly.

"Yeah you were dehydrated." He said kissing her neck gently. They fell into silence each relishing the other's comfort.

"I love you." he said again making her pull away to look at him fully in the face. He wanted to look her in the eye when he told her. "When I heard that guy on the phone and then you fainted I thought…God, I thought I'll never get to tell her I love her and I do Veronica I love you so much and I know my actions have been shitty, but I do. I love you." he said staring into her cerulean eyes.

She smiled lovingly back at him and leaned forward to kiss him missing the feel of his lips on hers. The kiss was sweet and long and everything that they both felt for the other. She missed this, the way he kissed her long, hot, and sweet. She missed the feeling of his tongue caressing hers and of the playful nibbles. She just missed him if she got down to it and that's when she knew.

"I love you too." She mumbled against his lips enjoying the warmth that spread through her at the words. She wasn't just telling him because he said it, she realized that she did really love him. She couldn't be without him, the fighting constantly showed her that and no matter how afraid she was of giving Logan her heart she knew that he would take great care of it.

After all he loved her too.

(A/n: The begin and they end in a hospital. I didn't mean for that to happen. Anywho! What did you think? Please review! Next up happier LoVe, and the double date!)