Title: With Time
Author: Cole
Pairing/Character: LoVe
Rating: PG
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: Thanks so much all your reply's here's the last chapter. Let me know what you think.
Chapter 5
It occurred to Veronica how oddly human it was that she and Logan had both lost everything yet they had handled it in completely different ways. Logan Echolls would never be anyone's poster boy for mental health but he wasn't afraid to trust her, or at least he hadn't been. He still wasn't she thought, he was tentative, they both were. When Logan had told her that he would help her learn to trust, he did just that, he attempted to prove himself. Not that Veronica thought he needed to but he had been very serious when they had discussed it. Telling her that it was important he show her who he was and who he wasn't and Veronica knew he was thinking of Aaron when he said this.
They spent time together, Logan would show up at her apartment with breakfast and she would drag him along on her walks with Backup. They went to the Kane estate together to break out Duncan from parental obligations and the three of them drove around ending up at the beach. They toasted Lilly even though there had been so much about her that they hadn't known, that nobody had known. They toasted Lilly even though her death had left them questioning what they did know about her and what they knew about themselves. They toasted to each other realizing that they had all lost too much over the past two years, they were different people and it should be enough for them to move on, but late at night when they were alone it wasn't.
When school started the rumors began. Logan, Veronica, and Duncan were together… in every sense of the word.
Maybe it was because they were always together or because both Duncan and Logan were in love with Veronica and were fiercely protective of her. Or maybe it was because it made people uncomfortable for the son of a murderer to be friends with the brother of the girl he murdered and the daughter of the man he had killed.
They all still did their normal things. Duncan was student council president, still on the paper, still had a bright future. Veronica still worked cases for clients that came to her and she still hung out with Wallace. Logan was still a jackass that mouthed off to too many people to often.
They became even closer during Aaron's trial all of them staying at Veronica's apartment much to Celeste Kane's dismay but by that time both Logan and Duncan had turned 18 and Duncan wasn't nearly as accommodating to his parents as he used to be.
They breathed a sigh of relief when Aaron was found guilty but it was one filled with regret, for Lilly, Keith and Logan.
The rumors that had never really gone away came back full swing when Veronica took both Duncan and Logan as her prom dates. Lilly would have loved it. They danced the night away before escaping into the night in a waiting limo.
Duncan and veronica discussed their relationship just once three weeks before Duncan left for Yale. They sat and talked about the boy and girl they had once been and weren't anymore. Unable to open doors that had been closed so long ago Veronica kissed Duncan on the forehead before going to Logan and letting him know she was ready to trust.
Logan and Veronica left Neptune together both going to attend UCLA both on loans and budgets from the money they had left.
It wasn't until seven years later that they all returned. Veronica an in demand photographer and Logan of all things a stock broke; he had been drawn to it for its similar thrill to gambling. They had married the year before with Duncan as the best man and Wallace giving Veronica away. Wallace who was married himself with two little girls and was himself now a Private investigator having caught the bug from veronica.
They were meeting Duncan to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Lilly's death. Duncan had of course had attended Yale just the way his parents had wanted but surprisingly he had dropped out in his third year. He had traveled aimlessly for over a year often stopping over at Logan and Veronica's before publishing his first book the month that Logan and Veronica graduated.
They met on the beach with champagne because Lilly would have demanded that even ten years after her death the fabulousness of her needed to be celebrated.