AN: Okay, I'm going to explain the symbolism I'm using in this story.

/...blah.../ signifies a flashback (without the ...).

...blah... is mental voice. You can clearly hear others speak to you but the words are not spoken outloud. Yes, this is for the non-humans.

So I hit the big 5-0 reviews. I'm so proud! Thank you guys so much!

I have always loved the supernatural, especially vampires and witches, and I love VM, so I thought, why not combine them? I had the idea for a while but I didn't write it down right away. It was kind of funny that people always compared VM to Buffy, though I had this idea before I found out that Cordy would be a guest star and Joss Whedon liked the show and might direct an episode. I was encouraged to write after seeing how many reviews the (very few) other stories got after they had a sort of crossover with BtVS. But I wanted some of the main characters to be non-humans and not just the OCs, so I borrowed a few ideas from L. J. Smith's Nightworld, where the vampires can go out into the sun and use telepathy and telekinesis, but I didn't want them to be that powerful, so my idea of vamps are kind of a mix of both worlds. Anyway, glad that (most) people like it!

To those of you who faithfully review, I'm sorry if you guys are slightly inconvienced. However, it seems like I only get a lot of reviews when I threaten to stop or not update. I promise you that in the future you will not be punished in any way for those readers who are not as nice as you guys and don't leave me any reviews. :(

I am going to try to update ASAP, but as school is approaching, it might be once a week at best during fencing season. However, as I said before, reviews motivate me to write/post faster. So, please leave one or more. Thanks. :D

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Honey you are a rock

Upon which I stand

And I come here to talk

I hope you understand

That green eyes

Yeah the spotlight shines upon you

And how could anybody deny you

I came here with a load

And it feels so much lighter

Now I met you

And honey you should know

That I could never go on without you

Green eyes

Honey you are the sea

Upon which I float

And I came here to talk

I think you should know

That green eyes

You're the one that I wanted to find

And anyone who tried to deny you

Must be out of their mind

Because I came here with a load

And it feels so much lighter

Since I met you

And honey you should know

That I could never go on without you

"Green Eyes" Coldplay

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Chapter Nine:

It was bright out. Veronica blinked a couple of times as her eyes adjusted to the sunlight. She cautiously looked around. She was standing in the middle of a deserted field. Lilly walked up from behind to stand next to her. Veronica's best friend continued to watch a young, blonde girl in a uniform near the bleachers, facing the opposite direction.

"Lilly, what's going on? Where are we and why are we here?" Veronica asked her, but received a secretive smile and no answer. She sighed and walked up to the younger girl, who might actually help her. She was about to tap her shoulder when the girl turned around, clearly looking for someone but did not seem to see the other girls. Veronica gasped. The girl was her.

Her younger self noticed a small commotion in the parking lot, but she ignored it, searching for something else. She obviously didn't find it, because after a few more minutes she trudged dejectedly over to the bleachers and sat down, pulling her knees up to her chin and staring into space.

Veronica grew curious about the crowd and headed over to check it out. Unfortunately a crowd blocked her view and as she tried to maneuver around a couple, she accidentally went right through them as if they were made of air. It was an eerie sensation and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. Her inquisitive nature won out and she hesitantly continued through the people. Finally she reached the front.

It was Aaron Echolls. Trina and Lynn were there too, signing autographs and even posing for a few pictures. A much younger (but still adorable) Logan stood near the back, trying to look as inconspicuous as possible, clearly uncomfortable with the situation. While his father was talking he quietly slipped away and slunk toward the bleachers. He made his way to the top and sat down.

The younger Veronica had finally noticed him and climbed up to stand in front of him, hands on hips and smiling shyly.

"Go away. I'm not giving out autographs," he coldly remarked, not even looking at her. He finally glanced up when she didn't move. "What's the matter, don't speak English?"

"You don't have to be so mean just because you're in a bad mood, I'm just trying to be nice." she told him, resolutely, but slightly hurt. Then she tilted her head and scrunched up her nose, thinking back to his previous remark. "Are you famous?" she asked, curiously.

"You seriously don't know who I am?" he asked, in an astonished and slightly hopeful tone.

"No, should I? I'm Veronica," she continued as she sat down next to him and held out her hand for him to shake.

"Logan," he replied as he grasped her outstretched hand. She noticed that his hands were a little colder than hers were, but extremely soft. He smiled for the first time and she inwardly thought, he looks good when he smiles. As they continued to talk, the older Veronica smiled fondly as she watched them together. It faltered slightly as she suddenly remembered the talk they had had while playing truth or dare.

/"What did you think of Veronica the first time you saw her?" Lilly asked Logan.

"I don't know, I thought she was hot," he said, mumbling with embarrassment.

Veronica gasped. "I was 12 when you moved here!"

"Oh, and, like you weren't working it in your shorts and your kneesocks," he shot back.

"That was my soccer uniform!" she exclaimed as she punched him in the shoulder.

"So, whatever! It totally worked!" Duncan and Lilly laughed at them./

She watched as a very late Lianne finally arrived, calling up to the younger Veronica. Logan waved goodbye to her as Veronica turned around one last time to look at him before she left. The scene changed from the soccer field to a school corridor, the next day. Lilly was discussing Veronica's new cute guy friend, when Duncan came from the opposite direction with Logan in tow. As they were introduced she noticed Lilly checking him out, as he was her.

"You were right," Lilly, who immediately knew who he was, whispered to her best friend before she walked forward, took Logan's hand and lead him away, leaving Duncan and Veronica behind.

Veronica frowned as she looked back on these memories as her dreamscape changed once again to a dark and unbearably hot area. What would things have been like if Lilly wasn't in the way, she wondered. Would she and Logan have become a couple much earlier? Would things be better if Lilly had never been around to cause such heartbreak? Veronica didn't like where these questions were going.

She turned to face her best friend, the only thing left in the new dismal surroundings, which sort of reminded her of her awful experience in the refrigerator.

"I'm hurt, Veronica. I thought we were BFFs, I thought you loved me," Lilly teased as she leaned back against the wall.

"I do love you, Lilly," Veronica reassured her. "But I thought best friends told each other everything."

"It was for your own good. You didn't need to know all my dirty little secrets back then, because now it's so much more fun when you figure them out for yourself."

"You didn't tell me about your "heritage" or even about the other guys. Didn't you trust me?" she asked, upset.

"Of course, I trusted you. Like I said, it was better off that way. You were always different from the rest of us, with your sweet innocence, though I must say I prefer the Veronica 2.0 version; you kick ass now. I liked that you were and still kind of are, naïve, as it kind of gave us hope. You wouldn't have wanted to know about our world then, and I'm not sure you even do now."

"What about your flings? Why didn't you tell me about them?"

"They didn't really matter. Besides, you were close with Logan and that would have put you in a bad position. By the way, you and Logan are hot together. I'm so proud!"

"Why'd you do it Lilly?" Veronica wanted answers and she wasn't going to let anything distract her from getting them. "Why Aaron, when you already knew that he was a monster? How could you?"

Lilly just smiled sadly. Then she was gone.

TBC