Title: With Time
Author: Cole
Pairing/Character: LoVe
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Veronica thinks over what the murder case has cost her which is more than she ever imagined.
Spoilers/Warnings: 1x22 some swearing
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Veronica Mars. Just some clean old fun while I'm waiting with baited breath for next season!
Authors note:
I want to thank everyone for all the feedback. I know I screwed up on some of the names and I fixed it as soon as it was pointed out to me.
Gardener: Thanks especially for your review; I really appreciated the constructive criticism. About the Kane's though, I know it's a major crime, or at least I do now LOL. I just can't see The Kane's going to prison next season, I know some fics have them doing that but I can't see it.
Chapter 2
Logan knew it was a good thing he had walked away from veronica. Trust had been the issue; he had told her that while she stood in front of him with bruises and scratches on various parts of her body. He had told her that knowing her father was in the hospital because his father had tried to kill both veronica and her father a year and a half after his father had killed Lilly. He had told her that she didn't trust him that she didn't know how to trust and all those things were still true. He still kept those thoughts in his head even though the only thing Logan wanted to do every moment of every day was to go to her and be with her. He didn't though because his father had done one last thing for him, he had killed Keith Mars. Screw being able to trust him there was no way that Veronica would ever be able to look at Logan again let alone trust him.
A reporter had stopped him outside the local liquor store. He hadn't left the house for days and never would if he hadn't run out of alcohol. He had worn sunglasses and a hat but it hadn't helped much, everyone knew is car, the only other option had been to drive his dad's and Logan was not about to do that. He had been trained to do two things with the press play to them or ignore them, granted he had never been very good at either but at that moment he had neither the energy nor the presence of mind to tell them exactly what he thought of them so ignoring it was or it was until one of them shouted out.
"Logan! Logan! Can you comment on Keith Mars's death?"
Logan had stopped dead in his tracks three feet from the door of the liquor store, an errand that had seemed so goddamn important only a moment before. He turned and faced the reporter. "What did you just say?"
The reporter, if you could call him that, smiled slightly at having gotten some sort of response from Logan. "Keith Mars died from his injuries this morning. Your father has been charged with his murder. Care to comment?"
Once upon a time Logan would have lunged at the reporter, he would have broken his camera and stomped off. Logan had no idea what if anything had changed but the only thing that came to his mind was Veronica whose father was now dead, murdered by his father. "I hope Aaron Echolls burns in hell." He said it quietly but meant every word. Logan ignored the rest of the reporters and their questions and went back to his car.
That had been over a week ago. Since then he'd been bombarded with phone calls, with paparazzi, and especially with his father's lawyers who wanted him to retract the statement he had made to the press and visibly stand by his father. Logan had told them to go hell and had refused to see them since.
Trina was standing by their father though; playing up to the press and trashing everyone Logan had ever cared about his mother, Duncan, Lilly and especially Veronica.
Logan had gone to Keith Mars's funeral. He had stayed in the background, not wanting to take away from the service. There were already paparazzi there and the last thing Veronica needed was to see him. He had bought another car, something much more understated. The paparazzi hadn't figured out he had a new car yet which helped with his new hobby or more accurately his new obsession, stalking Veronica Mars.
The funeral had been a spectacle. The whole town had turned out supposedly to bid farewell to the man that had not only saved Veronica Mars but had helped catch Lilly Kane's real murderer, Veronica knew though that no one in town save the people that had always stood by her dad didn't care about her father. The Kane's had even come, although Duncan didn't sit with his parents. Veronica had wanted a private service but it was hard to keep anything private in Neptune. The people that mattered most to Veronica and her dad had come and to Veronica that was all that mattered. Her mother didn't show, not that she really expected her to. Veronica knew she was probably still out spending the money she stole. She had sat with Wallace and Alicia and felt bad watching them, wanting to reach out to them but not having the slightest clue how.
She had moved home after the funeral. Alicia had protested, Wallace had protested but she had done it anyway. She needed to be alone, to sort things out but most of all she wanted to be near her dad. She knew various people checked up on her Weevil and Wallace seemed to take turns. She dealt with lawyers, hospital bills which had been mysteriously paid; her father's will and waited for some sort of feeling to return.
He wasn't really stalking her, at least not in your creepy break into your house and try on your clothing kind of way, although watching Veronica that is how he felt sometimes. She was at least getting out; she took Backup for walks on the beach and went to her dad's office. He knew what she was doing functioning but not actually dealing with anything, not that he could say he was any better.
Money wasn't a problem. Not that it had ever been but it surprised him that nothing had really changed. Aaron was in jail without bail; apparently even he was innocent until proven guilty. Trina had taken up permanent residence at the house; Aaron had appointed her his temporary babysitter. The parades of lawyers were extremely well paid and one of their flunkies always seemed to be around.
He saw Wallace and Weevil at various times looking out for Veronica themselves; it made him relieved and jealous all at the same time to know that other people were looking out for her. But most of all he stayed away from her. Or at least he did until the night when Veronica Mars broke.