Title: When life turns out to be a joke
Author: Shanee
Pairing/Characters: LoVe (finally), Veronica, Logan…
Rating: PG-13 (maybe R later)
Spoiler: through Season 2 Finale
Disclaimer: No, no, RT still owns everything.
A/N; So I'm back. Sorry it took so long, but my beta reader vanished and I hoped she would come soon. She didn't. So I'm looking for a second Beta reader (you'll can see, this is not beta).
Thanks for your reviews. And Logan is coming. Finally. I hope you'll enjoy it.
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Part 4: Hopes unfulfilled and something unexpected
She was back from New York for a week and she still had no news from her father. All her researches had failed and she felt powerless.
She was back from the Big Apple for seven full days and she hadn't seen Logan yet. Something he had to do with his father's layers and notaries, kept him in L.A. and he didn't know when it would be over. He had told her he hoped it would happen soon because he missed her and she felt less forsaken.
She had seen Mac one time since the other day and she didn't know when would be the next. She had apologized and they had chatted for the rest of the afternoon. But when she had left, Veronica had realized that they weren't themselves. She knew she had to do it but since, she hesitated to see her, because she wanted to act like before and not to be afraid of the words she could say. She knew Mac thought the same and she felt miserable to not know how to bring everything back.
She was living at Wallace's home for six nights now and the boy still refused to speak to her, except to say "hello" in front of his mother and "give me the salt". They looked like an old couple and Veronica hated that. She wanted her BFF back, but she didn't know how. She had tried to find the words, but Jackie had called her just at the same time and now, Wallace was much angrier and she felt she would slap him if she heard him complain one more time.
She had put his bags on the floor because she didn't know what room chose. When she had explained to Logan her situation, he had urged her to come to his suite, but now, she didn't know where she would sleep. She couldn't choose his room, even if she would. She didn't know what they were, if they were a regular couple or just something else, on the point of leading nowhere. If she slept in his room, it would be like she was okay for the next base with him and she was not sure she was. Even if she was dying to be in his arms, she wasn't ready to accept this fact. She was too often hurt lately and she refused to suffer anymore. She needed to know where they were going.
But on the other hand, she couldn't sleep in Duncan's. This room was filled with some souvenirs she didn't want to see now, when she was on the verge on beginning a new story with Logan. She was sure she would feel weird to sleep chastity in Duncan's bed after their past and probably guilty to think in it about another boy. It would seem to her like a betrayal to Duncan.
If she couldn't sleep in Duncan or Logan's room, she had no other choice but the sofa. At least it was softer than the office's couch.
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She slept in and she didn't notice at time that her phone was ringing. She rushed clumsily to pick it up and her big toe hurt the foot of the low table. She shrieked. She called and listened her voice mail. It was a message from her dad. He came at the airport in the afternoon. She breathed. And she cussed. Damn. She would be lucky if she kept her nail.
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Someone knocked on the door and she flinched. She smiled when she realized it was probably Logan. She hopped until the door and opened it. Her smile disappeared when she saw the blonde stunned girl in front of her.
"Yes?" Was she who she thought she was?
"Is Logan here?" asked finally the girl, trying to look behind Veronica.
"Nope." She heard the cold in her voice but couldn't change it. "It's Hannah, right?"
"Yes" replied Logan's latest ex-girlfriend, while Veronica let her enter in the suite.
She noticed her belief when Hannah saw her bed on the couch. She would say 'it's not what it looks like', but she didn't. She was aware Logan hadn't spoke to her since her father sent her away, and she knew for sure Hannah didn't know about their recent reconciliation, besides, she didn't want to be the one who tell her.
"And you must be Veronica?"
Veronica nodded and sat on the sofa to rub her toe. Hannah sat on the edge on the armchair, ill at ease.
Nobody spoke while a long moment and Veronica ended by breaking this awkward silence.
"Excuse me, but can I ask you why you are here?"
"Sure. I'm here to see Logan."
"I understood. But you weren't locked in some boarding school in Maine, were you?"
"In Vermont, yes. I ran away."
"Oo-kay." Great and that's where she goes, in the hotel room with her ex-boyfriend, a place where her father never thinks she could be.
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The door opened on Logan and Hannah stood up quickly. The astonished look on Logan's face would make Veronica laugh, if she wasn't concerned by the effects Hannah's presence would have on their lives.
"Does your dad know you're here?' asked Logan while Hannah hugged him. His glance to Veronica reassured her a little; he wasn't expected her visit either.
"Of course he doesn't. He's on vacation in Europe with my soon-to-be stepmother. And, by the way, I'm at my roommate's house for a studious summer."
Since Logan was here, Hannah's smile didn't stop to wide. Veronica thought her eyes, nose and forehead would disappear if she continued. She didn't like the way Hannah was holding Logan's arm.
"Yeah right, and when he will discover you lied to him, he will send the sheriff here to arrest Logan, or the Fitzpatrick to kill him. Great plan."
She knew she sounded upset, but she didn't care. Logan didn't need this girl to put him in more trouble.
"Relax, Ronnie. Hannah doesn't intend to spend the summer here." He didn't notice his ex's deception and grabbed Veronica's arm. "Can we talk for a second?"
Veronica nodded and followed him in his room. As soon as the door was closed, he pushed her against the wall and put his lips against hers.
"I missed you." He whispered and Veronica felt her anxiety vanish.
"I missed you, too." She laughed softly and kissed his cheek, his nose and his eyelids. "But Hannah can't stay here."
"I know." He replied seriously, before nibbled at her earlobe.
"Your home is the first place where her father will search her, and you know of what he's capable. Besides she's minor and you're not. You can easily imagine what he would accuse you."
"I know. I didn't imagine she would do this. It's not her type."
"Don't ask me what girls are able to do for handsome not-daddy-type boy."
He laughed and kissed her deeply.
"What do you suggest?"
"I dunno yet. But I will. And she sleep in Duncan's bed until I find out."
He smirked. He loved her jealous.
"Only if you give up this sofa."
"Too late. Dad is coming home." She grinned and he caught her bottom lip with his teeth.
"When I thought I missed a week with you at my entire disposition… My lawyers will pay me this."
"Say 'disposition' another time, and I will not dispose myself to kiss you anymore. Now, we should go back in the dining room or your 'not-to-be-aware-of-being-your-ex' girlfriend will think you hide her something."
A/N: So? Review?
