Veronica is tied up in the corner of a dark concrete room alone. Her hands are bound behind her back with a rope that is attached to another rope tying her to the wall. She has a gag in her mouth. She has some scrapes and bruises scattered over her face and arms, and looks terrified.

'You're probably wondering how I got here... Well lets just say this is what happens when I try to do the right thing.'

3 Days Earlier...

'Its lunch I'm sitting by my self eating. Its mystery noodle day, the day where they make strange food that has noodles in it. Which was the reason why I'm currently eating an apple. I'm reading up on some of cases that dad can't take, wife suspects that husband is cheating, the usual. Dad can't take it because he's working on a case that's paying more and its taking up all of his time... and I'm really not aloud to know anything about it, he's changed the code on the safe again, never talks to any one involved in the case while I'm there-...'

"Hey...um Veronica?" A kid who looks around 15 or 16, brown hair, green eyes, 5' 8", kinda nerdy, and currently looking scared out of his mind, interrupts her thoughts.

Veronica looks at him questioningly. "I'm sorry but do I know you?" she asks

"Not personally but your dad is working on a case for my parents." he pauses seeing if she has any recognition "The one with the Fitzpatrick's"

"Oh right" 'So that's what he's been working on...' "Sorry I'm like really tired. I had to stay up studying for a test later today. I've been trying not to forget like everything I learned for the test, so instead I forget everything else. But I did learn like one thing, cramming is never good. I already forgot like half of what I studied." Veronica says trying to sound a kinda ditzy.

Yeah I know" he pauses and shifts uncomfortably "I think they had a show on that a few weeks ago."

"So whats up?" Veronica asks.

" I think they might know." He says shortly.

" The Fitzpatrick's?"

"Yeah. On my way here I swear I seen one of them following me. When I stopped to get gas there was one of them there too. He was starring at me like he knows." He says panicked then turns and rushes away.

'Sorry lovely couple you guys are going to have to wait.' Putting down the folder she was looking at. 'I need to go to to the library.'

Veronica enters the library 'Schools are so nice, if you ever want to know someones name that goes here you don't even have to ask, just go find a yearbook look for the picture and you can pretend to know who some one is. It makes my life so much easier.'

She finds the picture. "Nathan Brown" Veronica mumbles to her self.

Veronica is at the school newspaper on one of the computers 'Nathan appears to be a good kid. his parents, Michael and Janet brown not even a parking ticket. His older sister goes to some college in Minnesota, apparently likes her boys and booze, but nothing serious enough for dad to work this hard for me not to find out. He has a little sister also, she's 7. For some reason i don't think that she's the cause of Nathans fear and sudden suspicion that the Fitzpatrick's are after him. His father works at a shipping company...'

"Whatcha doin'?" A voice brakes her out of her thoughts.

Veronica quickly maximizes a fan site for linkin' park and looks to see Logan sitting at one of the desks down the row, luckily he couldn't see the monitor so he didn't notice any of that. "Just looking to see the next time they play near here." she points at the screen.

"You must be really in to Linkin' Park to be staring at the front page so intently. "Logan says skeptically, after walking over behind her.

"Well you know their front page is just so pretty and so well done." She lies poorly with a sigh of admiration.

Logan smiles and walks away knowing that he won't get her to tell him.

She goes back to pryingeyez . com and writes down the name of the shipping company Michael Brown works at.

Veronica sits in her LeBaron ducking so the car will look like its empty to any on lookers. Its about 5. Michael brown works loading boxes into trucks. 'Why would the typical perfect family need a P.I. for something other then cheating spouses, suspicion of fraud, and the other usual?' Veronica sits up a little bit and looks around..

Veronica approaches Weeval the next day at school "Hey Weeval what can you tell me about the shipping yard up town?"

"They receive and send out boxes." Weeval pauses as if to think about it. "I think they might use trucks too." he says sarcastically.

"I mean do the Fitzpatrick's ever use it for shipping anything illegal?"

"No, they don't use it for shipping."

"Then what do they use it for?" Veronica asks.

Weeval raises his eyebrows. "Its quiet and deserted at night. no cops ever patrol it, there's no one anywhere near it." He looks at her to see if she has put the pieces together. "They could pound someones head in and leave them there and no one would even know anything about it till they opened up the next day."

A/n. so thats it... my first VM story. I was reading some of the ones already up there and I thought there isn't enough... plus I was in the mood for a story like this so I figured if they don't have one then I'll write one. I will finish this story but it won't be very long and if any of my gg readers are reading this I will get the next chapter of when the shoot they score up. its almost finished I'm just stuck right now... sadly I don't know what she should wear... and thats all I'm saying... I'm trying to get my sister/beta to help me but she hasn't gotten around to it but I'll try to convince her XD.

Disclamer: I don't own it. I just have fun with it.

And I'd also like to thank my beta and sister Holly (Dream-Of-A-Rose). she had to suffer through my horrid spelling and grammer but she said that I was getting better... of course she said I was really good when I first started...

I'd normaly put all of this stuff at the begining of the story but I don't wanna go up and put it there...

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