Weevil woke up, alone and cold. Thinking it was all a dream, he sat up quickly and looked around. It was definitely Veronica Mars' room. His worry turned to curiosity. Where did she go? Weevil stood up and looked around the room. He walked over to the bulletin board full of pictures. There were pictures of random people and places on one side of the bulletin. Wow, these are amazing. If this PI biz doesn't work out, she's got one hell of a photography thing to fall back on. On the other side of the bulletin board, there are pictures for her cases. At least, that's what it looks like. There are pictures of the Casablancas and Kanes. There were several of the Echolls. All of them were of survalance. There were even a few of him and his boys (or rather, his ex-boys).
Weevil moved onto her desk. The first picture he saw in a frame made him frown. Veronica, Duncan, Logan and Lily were all dolled up. Hmm…looks like homecoming. Memories of Lily Kane flooded back, but Weevil quickly pushed them away. I'm with Veronica now. His frown didn't lift when he saw how many pictures she had of her and Lily. It didn't surprise him, seeing as Veronica and Lily were best friends. There was one of just her and Lily on the beach. When he went to pick it up, a picture fell onto the ground. Weevil bent down to pick it up. When he saw what it was of, a smile appeared on his face. It was a picture of the two of them(Weevil and Veronica) and his niece Alfia. It was Alfia's birthday and Veronica had come over to celebrate with them.
Flashback…"VERONICA!" Alfia shouted as she ran towards the petite blonde at the door.
"hey Alfia! Happy Birthday girly girl!" Veronica said as she picked up the little girl and spun her around a little.
Weevil walked over to the two girls. "wow V. I was a afraid for a sec cause I thought you might break when you picked her up." Weevil said sarcastically.
"hey! Are you calling me fat!" Alfia screamed at her uncle. "of course baby girl. What do you expect when you let grandma cook you everything in the house."
Alfia punched her uncle hard on the leg. "ow girl!" Weevil cried out as he rubbed his leg. He looked up and saw Veronica laughing and patting Alfia on the back. "hey! Don't encourage violence with my niece!"
"hey, I wasn't the one that called her fat. You never call a girl fat." Veronica walked over to weevil and bent down and put her arm around his shoulder. "that's why we're the superior sex."
"what's sex?" Alfia asked as she came over to the two who were now sitting on the couch rubbing Weevil's 'injured' leg. Weevil and Veronica looked at each other, not knowing how to answer the little girl.
Before the could answer Alfia, her mother came over and said, "hey you three! Smile!" they all looked up surprised for the first picture, but for the second they all had smiling faces with Weevil and Veronica tickling Alfia like mad.
End flashback…
A slight chuckle left Weevil's lips. That was a great day. It was the day he had asked Veronica to be his girlfriend, well… his secret girlfriend. As he began to think about that day, he heard a grunt of pain and a "damn it" come from the hallway bathroom(A/N: I can't remember if there's a shower in the hallway or if its just Keith's room, but whatever) he recognized the voice as Veronica. Weevil practically ran to the bathroom.
Standing in front of the mirror, Veronica was putting ointment on her arms. "ouch! Damn it!" Veronica yelped as she applied the ointment. Why does the one thing that's supposed to help you heal have to hurt like hell? She looked up as she heard the door open
. "are you okay?" Weevil asked.
"weevil! Its cool. I'm fine. Stop worrying, you're freaking me out." Veronica said with a smile.
"well then maybe you should stop getting yourself hurt. Shit girl, I haven't even been in the hospital in the past year as much as you have in the past month."
After Veronica finished applying the ointment on both her arms(with Weevil's help of course) they both went onto the couch to chill.
They sat in comfortable silence as Weevil flipped through the channels. After going through all of the channels three times, Weevil set down the remote and looked down at Veronica. She sat with his arm around her with his hand rubbing her stomach lightly.
"I like your hair short." He said simply.
"really? I was planning on growing it out."
"no, I like it." She reached up and kissed him lightly. Before she could pull away, Weevil placed his hand behind her head to hold it in place.
Before the kiss could intensify, they heard a single knock on the door before it opened fully.
"hey V! ya up yet…oly shit!" Wallace turned around and shut the door as fast as he could.
"great. That was just great!" Veronica said as she quickly stood up to talk to Wallace.
"hold on V! what are you going to tell Fennel?"
"what am I going to tell him? What do you think I'm going to tell him? I can't lie to him. I promised and I have to stop lying to him about this."
"maybe its time to just tell everyone about 'this'" Weevil said as he turned her around to look at him in the eyes.
"what? You want to be…exclusive?" Veronica asked in complete shock and disbelief.
"why not V? we've been hiding this for a month now and I just don't know if I want to hide it anymore. I really like where 'this' is going and I just want everyone to know that you are mine." Weevil said the last part with a smile.
Veronica looked him in the eyes. She could tell that he really wanted this. She just wasn't sure if she was ready. Could she take the stares and the questioning and the ridicule that they were bound to get at school. She thought that she was done with that.
Weevil saw her contemplating and said, "unless of course you don't want people to know because I'm not an 09er. If your too embarrassed…"
Veronica interrupted him and said, "no! that is so far from the truth Eli! I just wanted to make sure we were good with 'this' before we let everyone in on it. And plus, I would very much appreciate it if you were alive for us to continue our relationship. It's a big possibility that my father will have his shot gun ready when he sees us together."
Weevil laughed at that comment. Knowing Keith Mars, he probably would have a shot gun when they meet 'officially.' At the use of his real name, Weevil knew she was ready for this.
"ok then, maybe you should make sure Fennel didn't have a heart attack after walking into our 'almost make out sesh.'" Weevil said before kissing her lightly and then letting her go to Wallace.
"Wallace? Ya out here?" Veronica said as she walked out of the apartment.
She looked everywhere, until she found him sitting in a chair by the pool.
"hey Wally."
"what the fuck did I walk into V?" Wallace asked without turning his head away from the water.
"we were just chillin' on the couch." She said nervously. How do I say this?
"yeah well you and our parents have a funny way of 'chillin' on the couch'.(A/N: hey, I don't remember if Keith and Alicia got back together or not, but in this story they did so just bare with me please.) I just can't catch a break from walking into people making out." Wallace said with a smile on his face but still not turning around.
"well maybe you just have bad timing." She said as she sat down next to him. Wallace let out a chuckle.
"so whats going on V?" he asked, finally turning to look into her eyes.
"me and Eli…Weevil, we're going out." She said quietly while looking down into the water.
"yeah, I caught onto that. How long have you been hiding it?" he asked.
"one month today."
After a few seconds of silence, Veronica chanced a glance at Wallace. He looked deep in thought, not mad but not happy either.
Wallace let out a long breath and then said, "you didn't have to hide it from me."
"I know."
"then why did you?" he asked as he looked up at her.
"because I wasn't ready for everyone to know. I needed to make sure that this was real and not just some fling, but its not. I really like him. Maybe even more."
Wallace reached over and gave her a tight hug. "aww, my little Veronica is growing up." Veronica laughed and said, "yeah yeah…I get it! You approve! Thanks 'bro', this means a lot to me."
" yeah, anything for you 'sis'. So, do you want me to leave?"
"no, you don't have to. We were just hanging out."
"yeah that's what our parents said last time but…"
"eww! Wallace T.M.I.!"
"hey, if I have to suffer I'm bringing you down with me."
In fits of laughter, they walked to the apartment. When they entered, Weevil was once again flipping through channels. Veronica pushed Wallace to sit next to Weevil while she said, "I'm gonna go change, and then we can do whatever." And she quickly went to her room and shut the door.
"so…" Wallace said nervously. What the hell are we supposed to talk about? The only thing we have in common is Veronica.
"yeah…" Weevil didn't know what to do either. Wait, Fennel was probably the one that picked her up from the hospital last night.
"hey, so I'm guessing you were the one to pick her up from the hospital last night."
"yeah, I was."
"how was she? Was she shaken up at all?"
"no. she never is. She just comes back harder every time."
"oh."
After a few more minutes of akward silence, Wallace decided that it was time for 'the talk' with his 'sister's' new boyfriend.
"look Weevil. I have been noticing that Veronica has been extremely happy. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why. Now that I think about it, it was so obvious. She was always going over to you to ask for 'favors'. Going to your house. But that's not the point. You make her happy and I respect that. But if she ever comes to me for a shoulder to cry on and it was you that made that happen, I will kick your mother fuckin' ass. And yes, I very well realize you could kick my ass, but when it comes to Veronica, I can get a little crazy."
Weevil took a long look at Wallace. This kid really cares about V. I wonder if they ever hooked up. I doubt it. Veronica talks about him like he's her brother.
"its good to know that I'm not the only one who gets a little crazy over that girl. And I respect the fact that you have the balls to tell an ex-gang leader that you will kick his ass." Weevil said this as he patted Wallace on the back. "I won't hurt her Fennel. I would never."
"good. Maybe now she'll take you on her stakeouts. I can't ever get sleep with that girl."
"yeah, I know what you mean. I get into more shit doing all those favors for her than when I used to do shit for my boys."
"wow, I'm glad you two can discuss how impossible I am when I'm in the next room. I feel the love." Veronica said as she entered the room, fully dressed.
"hey can you blame us V? you stick two guys in a living room that have nothing in common except for a petite blond PI, you gotta expect the conversation to take a turn that way." Wallace said as he stood up to go to the kitchen.
"so where to chica? You didn't get dressed just to sit in your living room all day with an overly protective pit bull." Weevil said as he stood up and wrapped his arms around the petite blonde.
"well… beach sounds good. I need to take backup out anyways." Veronica leaves Weevil's embrace to get Backup's leash.
"yeah, typical V. drag us along on your chores. Jeez, the only way I ever get to hang out with you is when you need to walk Backup." Wallace said as he brought a bottle of water to his lips.
"sorry Wally. Maybe when I'm not swamped with cheating husbands/wives or murder cases I'll pencil you in for a movie." Veronica said sarcastically.
"now that's better." Wallace said with a smile.
Veronica throws Wallace the leash and walks over to Weevil.
"baby?" Veronica said softly.
"yes?"
"if we're gonna go exclusive, you're gonna need to be wearing clothes proper for the public eye."
Weevil looked at her curiously before realizing that he had not put his shirt and pants back on after waking up.
After putting on his clothes, Weevil joined Wallace and Veronica at the door. The left her apartment and walked to Veronica's car.
Wallace got into the back with Backup so that Weevil could sit in front with Veronica. As Veronica reached for her car door, Weevil grabbed her hand and turned her around. Veronica gave him a curious look.
"are you sure you're ready for this?" Weevil asked.
"yes." Veronica said simply as she leaned up and kissed him lightly.
"alright then." Weevil said with a smile and he rounded the car to get into the passenger side.