A/N: This chapter is gonna display some LoVe…much different than the HaLo crap UPN is showing currently. And I'm sorry this chapter is so short. It is just easier to write that way.
Noise From The Basement
Chapter Three: Tangled Up in Me
As Veronica exited Neptune High, she looked impatiently for Wallace to drive up in his car. Instinctively, she took her cell phone out of her pocket to check her messages. And instincts be damned, there was a message from Wallace.
'Hey V. I can't give you a ride home today. Darrell act something funky at school and Mom's swamped at work, so I gotta bring him to the doctors. Hang in there. I'll talk to ya later.'
She huffed and sat on the stairs in the front of the school, head cradled in her two hands. She said that way until a familiar voice startled her.
"Veronica?"
She lifted her head up to see Logan Echolls standing on the stair above her looking down.
"Logan?"
"You okay Veronica?" he shuffled on his feet looking very shy and very un-Logan.
"Yeah, guess you heard huh?"
"Hard not too. Your face along with the other girls are plastered on the Neptune Chronicle and the reporters are acting just like they did during the bus crash, Felix's murder and Lilly's murder. Its hard not to suspect something. Plus Beaver filled me in earlier."
"Yeah…" Veronica said softly "I saw you."
"So whats up?" Logan asked, remembering her frustration earlier
"Looks like I'm gonna have to call my dad for a ride, Wallace has to bring his brother to the doctor's."
Logan's face lit up like a light bulb. "No need, I'll give you a ride. I'm heading home so…"
Veronica hesitated then smiled "Thanks Logan." And with that, she followed him to his X-Terra.
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Later that night…A mask figure slinked in and out of Auto Shop, searching for the tools he needed. Outside, there sat a large trailer holding 13 cars, one looking suspiciously like Veronica's LeBaron.
A/N: I thought I'd explore giddy Logan in this chapter. If you feel he's out of character, good, cause he's supposed to be. Let me just point out with Hannah and Logan that in my world, Logan, still sore from his break-up with Veronica, feels betrayed when Hannah dumps him flat on his ass and I'd thought I'd try a vulnerable Logan like the one we saw last season. Let me know what you think.