Continuation of the previous chapter. Hope you enjoy!

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When Duncan and Logan came back to Veronica's room, rested, showered and changed, ten hours later, Keith, Lianne, Wallace and Weevil, were already there, sitting by the bed and napping.

Duncan and Logan spotted Lianne and exchanged surprised looks. Where the hell did she come from? Was probably what was going on in their heads. But after everything that happened in the last few days, what did that really matter? They quietly took a seat on the other side of the room, careful not to wake anyone.

But of course, Sheriff Lamb had to ruin everything by stomping into the room with his giant boots a few minutes later. Keith woke up with a grunt and the other three settled with rolling their eyes and glaring at him.

"Good morning, everyone, sleep well?" he asked perkily.

"I think I was just having the weirdest dream," Keith said, "it was about this sheriff who kept going after the wrong guy time after time after time."

Logan couldn't help himself, "you mean one of those self-reflecting dreams?"

Keith grinned as if saying that's-funny-don't-fuck-with-me before turning back to Lamb, "well, if you've come to show your admiration and regret to Veronica, maybe you should come back when she can actually rub your nose in it," he said, pointing at his oblivious daughter.

Sheriff Lamb looked at Veronica for the first time and maybe there actually was a little admiration in his eyes, "that kid of yours," he said, "she's pretty hard boiled, huh?"

Keith looked just as disgusted this time as he did the last time Sheriff Lamb said that. Only this time, the rest of the room mirrored that expression.

"Really," he continued, "from what I've seen in her computer, she suspected about half the town at some point… seriously, there are about a dozen suspect files in here," he handed Keith Veronica's computer back and gave him a sleazing smirk just to make it sure he knew that he only looked at it for the hell of invading her privacy. "And that trick with the tapes, that was pretty smart."

A light bulb lit up in Duncan's brain, "the tapes! You found them?"

Lamb rolled his eyes, "wow, the rumors about the Kane's brains were all true. Who knew?"

"Get to the point," Logan barked, "where were they?"

"One in the drier, one in some plant and one in Aaron's Echolls' pocket… took us forever to find them."

The boys' collective chests all swallowed with pride. "So, what do you want?" Weevil barked.

Lamb shrugged, "I just came to see if the little smarter-than-me princess is awake yet," he said with not a little sincerity, "I still need to question her about what happened." He sighed, "heh, not yet huh? Man, she really doesn't look good."

They sent him dirty looks.

"Anyway, I'll go question Mr. Hamlin, you know, the guy who collided with Echolls' fist?"

A noisy sigh was heard in the room as he finally left and they all turned back to Veronica, expecting, for some reason, to see her awake, shaking her head and rolling her eyes with sympathy, but she was still sleeping, unaware of anything.

They were just settling back in when a nurse came into the room. She yelped with surprise, "wow, it sure filled up in here since the last check in," she murmured to herself. "Hum, I'm sorry, only two people are allowed in the room at once."

The youngsters exchanged looks and left the hospital room, leaving the two parents to watch over their daughter. They were gonna stay close by anyway, so they just settled into a few chairs outside the room and waited for the uncomfortable silence that was inevitably going to ensue.

Fortunately, ten seconds after they left, they heard Lianne angrily asking Keith: "so, you wanna tell me how this happened?"

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"Hey, I'm Veronica Mars and I'm here today to ask anyone who's reading this to REVIEW this nice little story. Yeah, I know, normally I wouldn't be too happy about someone writing into my personal life, inventing tragic tales about me or just trying to kill me, usually only Rob Thomas is allowed to do that. But in this case, I found that I like this story, even though I come off as a pretty passive character in it, plus, it has LoVe in it, which I also like, and also the crazy author has me and the entire cast locked in the basemeant. Yup, she managed to grab us from TV land, build herself a basemeant and put us in it... she says that if I don't get people to REVIEW she'll kill me off, or worse, make this a Duncan-Veronica fic! Please! I can't let that happen! Have you seen Logan? Have you? Please REVIEW before she comes back! Help!"