"What's her name?" Logan asked. They had sat on the couch in silence.
Veronica looked up at her daughter's father. "Lynn" Veronica said with a smile.
Logan smiled "What does she look like?" was the next question.
Before Veronica could answer the door opened to reveal Keith and Lynn.
"Hi Mommy" Lynn said cheerfully as she walked into the apartment, "Hi mister"
Logan and Veronica got off the couch. "Hi sweetie" Veronica said, "Can you do me a favor?" The little girl nodded in response. "Can you go into my room and play for a little bit? Mommy, Grandpa, and Mr. Echolls need to speak for a minute" Veronica asked. The little girl just nodded and walked to the room.
Veronica turned around to face her father and Logan again. Both had a shocked look on their faces. Logan was shocked because the little girl that had been in the room for five minutes had been his daughter who looked just like him except for the eyes, those were Veronica's. Keith was shocked because he had finally realized who is granddaughter looked like, Logan.
"Would you like me to explain everything that's happened over the last six years?" Veronica asked pulling both men out of their thoughts.
"Yes. Please" Keith answered while Logan nodded.
Veronica nodded then started her story. "When I left for New York I was pregnant but I hadn't known. I went and did everything I would have done if I hadn't been pregnant one of those things ended up with me sleeping with Brian Donnell. A month later I found out I was pregnant
"I thought the baby was Brian's so I told him and we were happy through the pregnancy. I had continued to go to school and everything was great. On May 19 Lynn was born. The second I saw her I knew she wasn't Brian's. She looked just like you Logan so I named her Lynn in remembrance of your mother."
Veronica stopped for a minute to let this sink in then started again. "Brian still thought that Lynn was his daughter until he found a picture I had of me and Logan. He started hitting me because he thought I cheated on him. I didn't do anything about it; I figured it was better he take out his anger on me than on Lynn. So I took it but it didn't stay like that.
"When Lynn turned 4 he started hitting her. Whenever he came home angry I knew I had to stay close to Lynn or send her over to the neighbors, who also had a little girl a couple of months older than Lynn. A few months after Lynn turned 5 the neighbors moved. After that Brian was worse, he started hitting both me and Lynn. We took it for a year. The night Lynn and I flew in Brian had beaten us. I decided I couldn't let this keep happening so we left" Veronica stopped there. She couldn't continue, she felt if she did she would burst into tear and neither Logan nor Keith made her.
Logan got up and pulled Veronica into his arms. Keith also got up and got Lynn. He brought her to the couch and sat her on his lap. He lifted the back of her shirt and saw the bruises. Lynn looked up at him and started to cry.
They stayed that way until both Veronica and Lynn had cried themselves to sleep. Keith took Lynn to Veronica's room and laid her down then sat on the corner of the bed and watched her sleep.
In the living room Logan had laid Veronica down on the couch and did the same thing as Keith, sat and watched.
Meanwhile
Brian was buying a plane ticket to Los Angeles, California. He was going to California to get his wife back.