Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me, it all belongs to the wonderful writers of UPN and Rob Thomas, I'm just taking it out of the closet for a walk.

Summary: AU Logan and Veronica find their love again thanks to Duncan.

Ship: LoVe (Logan/Veronica)

A/N: AmandaL originally wrote the first 3 chapters of this story. In a PM, I asked her if she was going to continue this story and when she replied she wasn't, I decided to take it under my wing.

xoxoxoxoxo

Just as Veronica and Logan were sitting down for breakfast, there was a knock on the door. Logan went to answer it and was shocked by who was on the other side.

"Hello Logan," Celeste Kane said icily.

"Mrs. Kane," Logan greeted her.

"Logan who's at-,"Veronica started to say, but stopped when she saw who was standing in the suite.

"Hello Veronica. I was just coming to see my grandchild. I'm assuming that's her, that you're holding," Celeste said.

Veronica looked at Logan, she wasn't sure if they should tell her the truth or not. Logan nodded and Veronica answered Celeste.

"Yes it is, but she's sleeping so I was just going to put her to bed."

"Nonsense let me hold her," Celeste told Veronica.

"See I'm thinking no on that one," Logan interjected. "Because you see Mrs. Kane while this baby has Kane blood, her legal parents are Veronica and I. Your wonderful son hasn't been seen in two days and asked Veronica and I to take care of Rianna."

"Yeah right. Duncan would never leave his child to be raised by a gold digger and the son of a murderer," Celeste said.

Veronica handed Rianna to Logan and went to get her purse. She pulled out the birth certificate and handed it to Celeste. Celeste threw the birth certificate on the ground and stomped out of the suite.

"Well that went great," Logan said sarcastically. "Veronica what's wrong? That was your cue for a sarcastic and witty comment."

"Duncan never told his parents that we were dating again," Veronica said.

"What?" Logan asked, clearly confused.

"Celeste didn't know that Duncan and I were back together. She would've said something," she said.

"Veronica let me go lay Rianna down, and then we need to talk," Logan said.

"Yeah we do," Veronica agreed.

A few seconds later Logan returned, Veronica was waiting on the couch. Logan sat down beside her, neither spoke for a few minutes.

Veronica was first to break the tense silence, "Why wouldn't he tell them?"

Logan hesitated a second before speaking, "Veronica I knew that Celeste and Jake didn't know about the two of you. I also know why, Duncan told me that since his parents didn't like you they had threatened to cut him off financially if he ever dated you again."

"You knew?" Veronica asked, angrily.

"Yeah I knew. I also told Duncan that he needed to tell you," Logan said.

"Sure you did, because you care so damn much about whether mine and Duncan's relationship was going good," Veronica said.

"You're right Veronica, I could give a fuck less about if your's and Duncan's relationship succeeded. I do care about you though. I knew it would hurt you if you found out any other way," Logan told her.

"Like you wouldn't enjoy that?" Veronica mumbled.

"No Ronnie, I wouldn't," Logan answered.

"Yeah right. After our breakup you were ready to hurt me anyway that you could," Veronica said.

"You're right," Logan relented. "I wanted you to feel like your heart had just been ripped out and danced all over, because that's how I felt when you dumped me and every time I saw you with Duncan that's how I felt."

"Well then congratulations Logan, it worked. Every time you made a smartass comment. I was hurt. What hurt the most though was after the bus crash; you didn't even bother to see if I was okay or even if I was alive. Then when I tried to call you, you were to busy screwing Kendall to answer your damn phone," Veronica snapped.

"You had Duncan dammit! As much as I wanted to call you it wouldn't have mattered. You had Prince Charming," Logan said, his voice rising slightly.

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.

"He's your protector," Logan said simply.

"Oh yeah he was always real protective," she scoffed. "Logan I know you remember the night the PCHers shot at the X Terra." At Logan nod she continued, "You threw yourself over me to make sure I wasn't hurt, Duncan never would've done that. As much as I wish it was like that, it wasn't."

'Veronica, I did that because I love you," Logan said.

"I know you did," Veronica said, sadly.

"No not I did, I do," he told her.

Veronica smiled, " I love you too. I tried not to, but I do and no matter what I always will."

Logan leaned in and placed a chaste kiss on Veronica's lips. She pulled him to her and deepened the kiss. Logan shocked both of them, by ending the kiss.

"Things still aren't settled between us," he said, as an explanation.

"I know," she said quietly.