Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars or any of the characters (unless you don't recognize them). Rob Thomas owns them. (Though if he ever wants to give me Logan I wouldn't complain)

Chapter 2

Mars apartment

"Hi Dad. How was your day?" Veronica asks, seeing Keith pulling the lasagna for out of the oven for dinner.

"Fine. I spent all day lounging here watching some skinmax, ya know?" at that moment Veronica wrinkled her nose clearly telling Keith she was grossed out.

Keith smiled and chuckled a bit then continued on "And then I got a call from the hospital a few minutes ago. Meg gave birth to a healthy baby girl. She named her Arianna Marie Manning-Kane."

"How is Meg doing? And why did they call you of all people Dad?" Veronica asked in curious tone

"I guess Meg asked them to call you. She also would like to see you."

"I don't know why she would want to see me. It is my fault that the bus crashed and that Duncan dumped her. I wonder if Duncan told her that we broke up." Veronica said in a small voice while looking at the floor.

"I don't know Sweetie. Wait, you and Duncan broke up, why?"

"I think he should be with Meg and honestly, I know that neither one of us love each other the way we used to. I just thought that it needed to end before things got bad."

"Well I think that is a wise choice. You should always follow your heart honey."

"Just like you did with Alicia. I am really glad that you two were able to work things out and are together again. She has been more of a mother to me than Lianne ever was."

"Speaking of Alicia, I uh, was wondering how you would feel if I were to uh, ask her to go house hunting?"

"Dad, are you planning on asking the nice Ms. Fennel to marry you?"

"Not yet, I figure we can try to live together for a little bit first. But how would you feel if we did get married Veronica?"

"I love it! Like I said, she has been more of a mother to me and she makes you happy. And as an added bonus, I would get Wallace as a brotha." Veronica said as they both laughed.

Veronica is sitting in a hospital room, visiting Meg.

"I am so sorry Meg. I never had a clue that you were pregnant."

"Veronica, what would it have changed? He won't leave you just because of this baby girl." She says as she looks down at the sleeping infant in her arms.

"Doesn't mean that I wouldn't and didn't break up with him. And before you say anything, it wasn't just because of Arianna. I don't love him like I used to. Too many things have changed including both Duncan and I. I just wanted everything to be normal, and I thought he was it. I realized that me pretending to be something I am not, is definitely not normal."

"Veronica, when will you learn that nothing is normal in Neptune?"

"So what are you going to do?"

"My parents want to put Arianna up for adoption, but I don't want to. They were telling me about the kind of people that would be adopting her, totally religious. After what happened with Grace…" Meg says with a frown.

"I know. Can they force you to give her up though?"

"They can kick me out if I don't and then I would have no where to live, unless I stayed with my Aunt Kris. And I would rather stay here in Neptune where my friends are."

"You are definitely going to need friends. I will talk to my Dad, see if he has any ideas. He says congratulations by the way. He was the one that told me you wanted to see me. I thought that you would want nothing to do with me after everything that has happened."

"Veronica, I still think of you as my friend. The only reason I was such a witch to you was that I had just found out I was pregnant and when I told Duncan he said that he would never leave you and wanted nothing to do with me or the baby. I am sorry I took it out on you."

"Meg, it's fine" Veronica smiled then walked out of the room.

Mars Apartment

"Dad?" Veronica calls as she enters the apartment. Looking around she notices a note on the kitchen counter.

'Veronica,

Got a lead on that bail jumper, hope to be back in a few days. If you need anything, call Alicia. Love you!

Dad'

"Well, I guess I will have to wait to talk to dad. Maybe I should call Wallace and see if he wants to do a pizza and movie night." She says as she grabs her cell phone from her pocket to call her best friend.

About a half hour later there is a knock on the front door.

"Come on in Wallace." Veronica calls from the kitchen where she is grabbing a skist from the refrigerator.

When she turns around she sees Duncan.

"What are you doing here Duncan? I thought I said we needed some time."

"I just needed to see you Veronica. I really do love you. I just wish that I could understand why you are leaving me."
"Duncan, I told you earlier, we don't love each other. We aren't meant to be. I see it and I know that, in time so will you. Now, if you will please leave, I have company coming over."

"Already running back to Logan?" Duncan says with a snarl.

"No…" Veronica says with a agitated tone

"Hey Superfly!" Wallace says from the door, which Duncan left open when he came in.

"Hey Wallace, come on in. I believe that Duncan here was just leaving. Right Duncan?" She says as she looks pointedly at her ex-boyfriend.

"Whatever Veronica." He says as he storms out of the mars apartment, slamming the door.

"Damn girl, what was that all about?" Wallace asks.

"Duncan doesn't want to accept that it is over apparently. But let's forget it. I want some quality time with my BFF here watching movies and eating pizza." She says as she grabs the pizza from his hands and heads to the couch.

"So do you know if my dad has talked to your mom yet?" Veronica asks Wallace as she wipes her hands on a napkin.

"About the house hunting?"

"Yeah. What do you think?"

"As long as we don't have to share a room I think it's cool. At least then I won't have to drive over here to see you and I'll know what you look like with bed head." Wallace snarks with a chuckle.

"Thanks Wallace". Veronica said in a sarcastic tone. "I like the idea myself. Your mom is such a wonderful person and she makes my dad happy. However, I think I am going to ask my Dad if I can stay here and have Meg move in with me. Her parents want her to give the baby up and she doesn't want to. This way she can keep the baby, but that doesn't mean I can't come over and have my very own life sized Barbie doll" Veronica finished with a smile and nudged Wallace with her elbow.