I didn't have a clue then
That a kiss would change my whole life again
She walked into my room when I was all alone
And told me I would dig her
From September till December
---That girl has love, Rooney
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Monday morning Veronica woke up to the ear-piercing scream of her alarm clock and at first she had to wonder if the events of the previous two days had really happened. But as she rolled over she found Logan still in the same shirt that he had been wearing for the past thirty two hours, now blood stained and torn, curled up using a pink teddy bear as a pillow she knew it had happened.
After turning off her clock she sat watching Logan sleep for a moment and then rolled back over thinking about what all had happened.
"What was that?" Veronica asked pulling away
"I---I don't know. I'm sorry." Logan said apologetically as he turned away and started heading back to his car.
"Logan! Don't hit and run. Explain yourself. Please, you owe me that much." Veronica said following him.
"I don't know why I did it. Maybe because it's all I've wanted to do for three months now. I can't look at you without thinking about how beautiful you are and all that I would give up just to have you in my arms for one minute."
"You could have had that Logan but you gave it up."
"I know!" He exclaimed so loudly that the neighborhood dogs started barking.
"Come here." Veronica took Logan's hand and started to lead him back to the house but stopped suddenly when her father pulled up the driveway in his sheriff's car.
"Logan." Keith called as he got out of the car.
"Dad. What's going on?"
"I need to talk to Logan, Veronica."
"It's okay." Logan said crossing his arms, "Whatever you need to tell me you can tell her too."
"I've been trying to get a hold of you all night. Earlier tonight I got a call about a disturbance at your house..."
Veronica's muscles tensed up as she looked up at Logan who knew where this conversation was going.
"How bad is she?" Logan asked, his face turning white.
"Currently she's in a coma."
"Oh god." Veronica whispered running her hands through her hair.
"Can I see her?" Logan asked trying to stay strong, "I want to see her."
"Yeah I'll take---"
"I can drive myself."
"Are you sure---"
"I'll go with him." Veronica said placing a hand on Logan's wrist.
"I'll escort you two."
There had been many uncomfortable car rides in the past three months but this one won hands down. Not a single word was spoken but Veronica knew everything that he was feeling because once upon a time she had felt it. The moment she saw Duncan the night Lilly died she knew how bad it was, just like Logan did when he saw her father.
As they pulled into the hospital parking lot Veronica could see how physically shaken Logan was by everything.
"She's going too alright." Veronica said placing a hand on his wrist.
"I hope you're right. 'Cause if she's not I'm going to kill that son of a bitch I call a father."
As they walked into the hospital and got on the elevator Logan leaned over to Veronica.
"You know I'm probably not going to be in the best shape, emotionally, by the time you leave so I want to say this now. Thank you."
"It's nothing."
"Veronica." Keith whispered nudging her, "Veronica wake up."
"What do you want?" Veronica groaned as she covered her eyes with her arm.
"It's almost seven."
"What?" Veronica shot up in bed, "It's what time?"
"6:55."
"God I fell back asleep."
Veronica climbed out of bed, trying not to wake Logan, and looked her father in the eyes.
"You're probably going to ground me 'cause of the whole boy being asleep in my bed thing, aren't you?"
"I should. But I'm not. I'm sure you've got your reasons. Now come on get dressed. You don't want to be late for your first day back."
As Veronica started to gather her clothes from the closet she continued to think back.
In a small beige colored hospital room Veronica laid on a small couch, fast asleep, as Logan sat watching his mother.
"Logan?" Veronica asked as she woke up, and rolled over.
"Hey Veronica."
"Did you sleep at all?"
"No. I've been too afraid to."
"It's not good I take it?"
"There's been no change. And I guess you could look at that as good, you know, but at the same time..."
"It's not good."
"Exactly." Logan sighed and looked at the large black and white clock that was hanging on the wall above Veronica's head, "It's almost eight. You should probably be taking off. I think I saw your dad roaming the halls if you want to catch a ride with him."
"I can call Lilly and cancel if you--"
"No. You and Lilly deserve to hang out together. Have fun."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I am."
"Okay then. I'll talk to you later."
Veronica left the room and quickly managed to get a ride back home with her dad.
"So, do you think you'll be ready to move in by tomorrow?" Keith asked as he drove down the deserted Neptune streets.
"Probably. I've got a little more packing to do but I can finish that tonight if I don't go visit with Logan for to long."
"He's sticking really close to his mom isn't he? I don't think he slept once all last night."
"He didn't. He cares about her. A lot. I don't even want to think about what'll happen to him if she dies. He'll loose it."
"Can I change to subject to you and Logan for a second?"
"You want to know what you walked in on last night."
"Yeah."
"I really don't know."
"But you guys went out."
"Yeah." Veronica said, realizing for the first time that she was still dressed in the short skirt and fishnets that she had borrowed from Lilly, "But not on a date or anything..."
"It was a group hang."
"Sorta...how'd you..."
"I called Aaron's house seeing if anyone there had seen Logan and Trina said that you two went on a group hang and that he went back to the house. So are you two..."
"Back together? No. At least I don't think so. It's complicated."
"It sounds it."
Veronica stood in front of her bedroom mirror fixing her outfit before she left for school, when Logan woke up.
"Don't tell me I missed you being naked." He joked as he tried to sit up.
"You sure did." Veronica smiled as she picked up the lukewarm cup of coffee that was sitting on her dresser and brought it over to Logan, "Here. I made you a nice cup of morning wake up juice."
"Is it hot?"
"It was when I poured it."
Logan took a sip and tried to hide the look of disgust on his face by asking, "You want to talk about what happened the other night?"
"I really do, but if I don't leave now I'm going to be late for school."
"Oh, you should go then."
"I would, but your car's blocking me in."
"And you want me to move it don't you?"
"Kinda."
Logan tried to get out of bed but fell back in agony.
"I'll tell you what." Logan said trying to get comfortable again, "How about you take my car. The keys are in my jacket."
"Are you sure?"
"Go ahead."
"Okay. You can take my car if you---actually don't. I don't want to get blood on my seats. Speaking of which..."
"I'm not going to a doctor. I'll be fine."
"Logan..."
"Don't you have school to get to?"
"Fine, be that way. I'll see you after okay?"
"See you."
Veronica grabbed the keys to the X-Terra and hurried down the stairs and got into the car. As she started it she caught a glimpse of herself in the rearview mirror and wondered to herself if she was going to be able to keep everything that had happened during the weekend a secret from Lilly.
"Who would want to kill Lynn? I mean, really you know?" Lilly asked as she took a bite of her salad while Veronica poked at her nacho's in the mall's food court, "It's not like she's really did anything to that bad to anyone, right?"
"Yeah." Veronica said monotone, not paying attention to the conversation
"Yeah, and also I heard that you went on a date with Officer Leo and that you had sex with him in the back of his police car and there was this whole thing with his hand cuffs..."Lilly sighed and looked her best friend in the eyes, "Are you even listening to me?"
"Yeah." Veronica said snapping out of her thoughts, "I agree with everything you just said."
"So you did have sex with Leo."
"I guess I wasn't listening." Veronica said blushing.
"I guess not. Where were you just now?"
"I was thinking about Logan, how he's handling all this. You know I was with him last night when he found out."
"How was he?"
"He tried to be strong but I could see right through that."
"Is with her at the hospital?"
"Yeah, he stayed there all night."
"We should do something for him."
"We really should."
That night around seven Veronica made her way past the deputies that were posted outside of Lynn's ICU room and smiled at Logan who was fast asleep on the chair by his mother's bed.
"You had to fall asleep sometime and you pick now of all times." Veronica sighed trying to figure out a place to put the large gift basket that she and Lilly had made. Finally, deciding that the couch was as good a place as any, she set it down and then picked up the pen and pad of paper that was sitting on the bedside table and wrote Logan a note.
"Hey mister sleepy-head." She said as she wrote, "You were asleep so instead of waking you up I left the gift basket that Lilly and I made you on the couch. Hope you like it. Love Veronica. P.S. We need to have that talk. You choose the time."
Thirty hours had past and Veronica had yet to hear anything from Logan, and this was making it very had to sleep. So she decided to stop staring at the ceiling and get out of bed. She walked out of her room and into the living room where she found her dad flipping through channel's on the television.
"Couldn't sleep either, huh?" Veronica yawned as she took a seat on the couch.
"Nope." Keith said shaking his head, "You know I had a talk with Logan. He told me his theory that---"
"His dad tried to kill his mother?"
"Do you believe it?"
"After seeing the things that Aaron has done I wouldn't put it past him."
Keith continued to flip threw the channels and stopped when he came across a movie playing on TNT.
"Malice is on! I love this movie!" He exclaimed as Veronica's cell-phone began to ring from her room.
"Who's calling me at 3:07 in the morning?" Veronica thought to herself as she got up to check it out.
"Veronica you're going to miss the best part!"
"I'll be in there in a second!" She called out as she picked up her phone and saw Logan's number on the caller id.
"Logan?" She asked with a mixture of surprise and terror in her voice, "What's wrong?"
"I'm in the parking lot. Can I come in?"
"Yeah."
"You're going to have to help me 'cause I don't think I can make it up the stairs."
"Okay, I'll be right out." Veronica hit end and hurried back into the living room.
"The more expensive Baldwin just hit the more expensive Kidman! You just missed it!" Keith exclaimed and then looked at Veronica, "What's wrong?"
"I've got to go help Logan up the stairs." she told him as she opened up the door and went outside.
Moments later she was back in with a limping Logan by her side.
"Logan are you okay?" Keith asked standing up.
"Yeah, Sheriff. I'm just a little sore, I messed my back up sleeping on those hospital chairs."
"Okay." Keith said apprehensively.
"Logan and I have to talk about something really fast. It's important."
"Don't take to long. It's late and you have school tomorrow."
"I know dad. And we won't."
"Okay, I'm going to bed."
"Okay see you in the morning."
As Keith made his way into his room Veronica helped Logan sit down on the couch.
"Are you okay?" Veronica whispered.
"Yeah. Just help me take my jacket off okay."
"Yeah."
Veronica began to help him slide the jacket off and she smiled when she saw that he was wearing the same shirt that she had bought him. But that smile quickly faded when she saw the large blood stain from what looked like a knife wound.
"Logan what happened to you?"
"It's not important."
"Logan you've been stabbed. That's important."
"Veronica, not now okay? Can you help me get this cleaned up?"
"Yeah. Let's get you into my room so you can lie down."
Veronica helped Logan into her room and then heard her father's phone ringing. She could hear him talking to someone, from work was her guess, and when he knocked on her door she knew her guess was correct.
"Veronica?" he asked.
"Yeah?" She said opening the door a crack.
"I just got a call from Lamb. Just a few minutes ago we got a call from about Aaron Echoll's being dumped out of a car."
"Is he alright?" Veronica asked, all the pieces starting to come together.
"He's been beaten up pretty badly but he's going to make it. But I have to---"
"Go check it out. I get it. It's cool."
"Don't stay up to late."
"I won't, don't worry. Drive safe."
"I will."
"Night."
Veronica shut the door and looked at Logan.
"You want to tell me what happened? And don't lie to me."
As Veronica pulled into parking lot of Neptune High she could practically hear the entire school talking about everything that had happened over the weekend and as soon as she began walking through the parking lot everyone shut up and looked at her like she was an alien or a strange species being studied at the local zoo.
"Great." She thought as she walked into the school, "It's the Lilly saga all over again."
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Okay, I know this was a little different from the other chapters but tell me what you thought. You're not going to be flogged if you didn't like it.