AN: Thank you guys so much. I loved reading your reviews, especially those for chapter 7, as I worked really hard on that one. It was re-written three times, and I appreciated the good feedback. A special shout out goes to jacedes, for making me laugh. :D
I've decided that I will continue this story as long as possible, because I love Ms. Mars and the ever-enchanting Logan so much that I can't help but continue. Besides it's so much fun combining my favorite things: the supernatural and VM! However, the more reviews, the faster you get another chapter.
Things are getting crazy again, so try to be nice about length of chapters/time between updates.
Anyone who reads this better review, unless you have a REALLY good excuse, like Mrs. James Lafferty 23 and my friend Theresa, who can't get the message box on her computer.
I don't seem to have any Veronica-Duncan fans as reviewers. It's just as well, as I'm not such a big fan of DK, in case you haven't already figured that out.
For Veronica's mental voice, I've used italics. Just in case there is confusion with the "previously on" excerpt at the beginning, I added something to the sentence, so you will know it is not a flashback or anything, in regular print. In the next chapter I will explain the different types of speech and what a flashback will "look" like.
This one is really short, actually part one of chapter eight, but I'm not sure I'll be able to finish the rest of it today, so take what you can get. :D You know you love me.
REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! please?
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Still falling
Breathless and on again
Inside today
Beside me today
Around broken in two
'till you eyes shed
Into dust
Like two strangers
Turning into dust
'till my hand shook with the way I fear
I could possibly be fading
Or have something more to gain
I could feel myself growing colder
I could feel myself under your fate
Under your fate
It was you breathless and tall
I could feel my eyes turning into dust
And two strangers turning into dust
Turning into dust
"Into Dust" Mazzy Star
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Chapter Eight: Part One
Suddenly, she could breathe again. As the black spots faded from her eyesight, she saw why she had been released. A wooden branch was sticking out of the front of Aaron's shirt. He gazed at the stake protruding from his chest and slowly collapsed next to her. Logan was still staring at the spot his father had been in, taking deep breathes and looking incredibly lost. Aaron looked up at his son with a look of shock and briefly respect.
Then he exploded. Nothing was left but the dust.
She gaped in shock. Aaron Echolls was gone. He had just exploded. Maybe it was a trick of light, because there are no such things as vampires, she desperately thought, wishing it was true. Her practical side won out. After all she had been through, she was starting to believe.
Veronica warily watched the other vampire in front of her. Logan continued to stare into space. She mentally scolded herself. Vampire or not, he was one of her oldest friends, despite the fact that he hadn't acted like it after Lilly died. She would just have to get used to the fact that he was different. Like a whole other species different.
As she shifted slightly, the focus of her musings snapped out of his daze. He looks so broken, Veronica observed. Without another thought, she enveloped him in a hug. At first he stiffened, shocked, but then he returned her gesture, clinging on for dear life. As she soothingly stroked his back, she heard his shuddering breaths. He wouldn't cry over Aaron, despite the fact that now he was all alone.
As if reading his mind, Veronica gently placed her hands on either side of his face and lifted his head so she could look him in the eye.
"You still have me."
TBC
