Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars or any of the characters, except Cora.

(A/n: Hey everyone. Sorry it took so long for me to update, but I was camping this weekend. So I needed time to get back into my story and then type it. So hopefully this chapter makes up for the time I've missed. Enjoy.)

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Once they made it to the first level, they looked around for a quiet area. They found it by a table on the opposite side of where the pictures were being taken. They sat down and Cora immediately grabbed another napkin and put it up to Logan's mouth. He flinched, but allowed her to press the napkin on his lip.

"So I take it that you and Duncan aren't getting along anymore."

"Aren't you perceptive?" Logan said bitterly.

"You guys used to be friends. How long have you known him?"

"I met him when I moved out here. We were in the same classes. Some of the older kids were picking on him. So I decided to stick up for him."

"You're a loyal friend Logan. You're always there when they need you."

Logan lets out a bitter laugh. "Maybe that's how it used to be. Now everything is screwed up. I don't know what's wrong anymore."

"Do you want to talk about it? I think it would do you some good to let it out. Just like old times. I want to help. Talk to me."

"What can I say? Things started going bad around last year. When Lily died." Logan stops short. "You would have loved her. You guys would have gotten along great."

"So what happened to her?" Cora asked even though she heard about what happened.

"My father..." Logan stops, and laughs bitterly. "Aaron killed her. He slept with her, and then murdered her. He slept with and murdered MY girlfriend!" Logan semi-shouts as he slams his fist onto the table. Cora flinches. Then she stares at his fist clenched on the table. "Your fath...I mean Aaron always scared me. I tried not to show it, to act tough, but he terrified me."

"What did he do to you?"

Cora still doesn't look at him while saying, "Nothing serious. He just always creeped me out."

Logan grabs a hold of her chin and makes her look him in the eye. But not rough enough to hurt her. "Cora tell me what he did to you." Logan gets out while trying to hold in his rage for his father.

'So help me god if he ever laid a hand on her.'

"It's nothing he did to me, it's what I saw." Logan lets go of her chin, and she goes back to staring at the table.

"When I was Six Years Old, this was about a year after we became friends. I got mad at you because you threw mud in my hair. I started to cry, and ran into the house to tell my mother on you. When I finally found her, she was in one of the guest bedrooms. This was weird because she was never near there. Anyway, I opened the door and heard her making some funny noises. I thought someone was hurting her. So I walked into the room to yell at the person for hurting my mom, and..." Cora takes a deep breath. Reminding herself she isn't Six Years Old anymore. "It was your father...I mean Aaron in the bed with my mother. And they were naked. They were obviously having sex, but I didn't know what that was at the time. And he started yelling and screaming at me. I thought he was going to hit me, so I ran out of the room crying. Nobody ever mentioned it again. And every time I saw him, he would give me these looks like he would hurt me if I ever told anyone what I saw." Cora finally looks up at Logan. His jaw is clenched. "I'm sorry Logan I should have said something."

"What could you have done? Aaron was cheating. Who knows what he would have done to you if you told. No wonder my mother killed herself."

Cora snapped her head back to look at Logan. She had started to look away when he said that about his mom. "She what?" Cora shrieks.

Logan looks over at her. "Oh that's right you don't know. Seems your mother and Lily weren't the only ones he slept with. There were loads of them. My mother couldn't deal, so she jumped off a bridge. She's dead. She killed herself." Logan runs his hand across his throat, as if to prove his point even more.

Cora's jaw drops. Her mind is reeling from the bomb he just dropped. She starts to shake her head no.

"Yea, that's kind of the reaction I had. Denial. But once you see the evidence, well..." Logan shrugs.

Cora continues to shake her head no. "But she didn't...I mean she's not...She's still...I can't believe..." Cora stops. Not able to get what she wants to say out.

"I know. I can't believe she would do that either. But I've accepted it. It took me a while, but I'm finally moving on."

"But you don't understand. Logan you're not listening to me." She stares at him intensely. He seems to get that she's trying to tell him something important. Cora takes a deep breath in. "Your mother isn't dead. She's still alive."

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Meanwhile, up on the second level, Mac is trying to calm Veronica down. The crowd was starting to get restless.

Dick walks over to Duncan and says loud enough for everyone to hear, "Dude, are you just going to stand there? Shouldn't you be putting Veronica in her place? Showing her who the MAN is? Who the boss is? You tell her what to do. Not the other way around. Dude, you're not even dating and she still has you whipped. What kind of MAN are you?" The crowds of guys cheer Dick on, while the woman moan.

"She's got you and Logan wrapped around that middle finger of hers."

Veronica pushes Mac to the side. She walks right up to Dick and pulls on his tie. Getting ready to strangle him, when the tie comes off. It's a clip on.

"Aww poor Dick can't even tie his own necktie. What kind of MAN doesn't know how to tie one?" Veronica starts pushing Dick until he was up against the railing. "I didn't want to do this before, but now it would be an honor." Veronica pushes Dick one last time, and he fell overboard. Everyone cheered Veronica on. They leaned over the railing and laughed and pointed at Dick.

As Veronica walked away, she could hear a teacher come over to the crowd and demand to know what was going on. After she spotted Dick, the teacher went running off yelling for them to stop the boat. This caused more laughter. Veronica sat back down at her table.

A few minutes later, and Duncan sits down next to her. She gives him a tired look. Duncan puts his hand on her arm. "Please Veronica, just hear me out."

"I don't want to fight with you anymore. All I've wanted was for us to be friends. What happened?" Veronica asks while she pulls her arm away, but then looks him in the eye looking for an answer.

Duncan sighs. "I know I can't make excuses, but ever since you told me I wasn't your brother, I just went crazy. It's the medicine I'm taking. It makes me do crazy things. I've tried to stop taking it, but you know Celeste, she'll find anyway she can to make sure I still take them."

"When did you start taking the medicine?"

Duncan thinks about it for a minute. "I'd have to say around the time Lily died."

Veronica starts to do the math in her head. "Was that also around the time you were diagnosed with Epilepsy?"

Duncan thinks about it some more. "Yea, it was. What are you getting at?"

"How do you act when you take it, and how do you act when you don't take it?"

"Well when I'm on it, my moods are up and down, and I'm withdrawn. When I don't take it, I'm fine. Veronica, tell me what you're thinking."

"I think that the only thing wrong with you is the fact that you're taking the medication for no reason. I think that your parents believed you killed Lily. So they covered up the murder and had the doctors come up with something that would make it look like you didn't kill your sister, but that you were crazy and didn't do it on purpose. I think they set it up so that if it ever came out that you killed Lily, they could get away with it by saying it was your condition. Duncan, I think you were being set up by your own parents."

Duncan looks shocked. Veronica looks determined.

"You really think they would do something like that?"

"Yea I do. Look at Logan's dad. Did anyone think he was capable of killing? Your parents thought they were doing the right thing, but instead made it worse."

Duncan still looks surprised, but he's starting to digest everything she said, and he believes her.

"I'm gonna go look for Logan now."

"I'm sorry for the way I've been acting. I'll be sure to let you know how I really feel once I find out what's really going on."

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Slippery Dip: Lol well you'll just have to wait and see if she decides to move in with him or not.

Vm1fan225: I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter. I enjoyed writing it. Lmao that would have been fun to have her push Duncan overboard. It would have been fun to write. Come to think of it, I don't know why I didn't. O well nothing I can do about it now.

Kristen: Thank you :) Yea I think I'm trying to have them more honest with each other this time around, that way they can't umm make the same mistakes again. Lol I blanked on what I was talking about. Anyway, yea I thought that there should be some type of action between those too. Yea I loved this song to when it first came out. Wow that really was a long time ago huh? Yea I really love the Mariah album. She went back to how she was when she first came out. Plus it has awesome guests. Umm no other recommendations that I can think of now, but if I think of anything, I'll let you know. Thanks for reading.

Alicia Jo: Hehe yea he did ask her. Lol that is a good reason to like Cora. Hope you get to like her for different reasons.

Cora: Lol I'm glad you love the character Hope you continue to like yourself. Lol

Sara: Aww thank you :P Lol I hope your husband doesn't get jealous.

Twisted3ljw: The song is # 7 on my slow jams 1 cd. It was me and Christine who really loved this song. Lol it was cute huh. I had an awesome time camping. Lol well hope u enjoy this chapter.

Angel6582: Thank you :) Well hopefully Duncan redeems himself this chapter. I would hope it doesn't affect her relationship with her father if she moved in with Logan. Thanks for letting me know about the show. If you found out more, please let me know :P