"Dude, I figured it out.." Dick announced as he sat down in the empty chair beside Logan.
"The square root of pi? Or that the Pi is a mathematical problem and not a desert?" Logan replied wearily as he doodled absently on his notebook.
"No, how to win over the Daddy Mars, you should break up with Veronica, he would totally be ok with your existence." Dick offered. "You are doing his daughter, its the ancient battle line of who gets to be called Daddy, my friend. Its why they invented shotguns, and porches."
Logan frowned and picked up his coffee and started to scroll through the list of games on the console.
"Not helping Dick, you trying to live up to your name today?" Logan informed his best friend and roommate as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Not at all, you asked my advice man, that is my advice, hells you can even give her the ring as a gesture of bygones. I send chicks jewellery all the time, they love it" Dick insisted, his voice was a matter of fact. Logan had known this would probably happen, his girlfriend Veronica wasn't his best friend's favourite person. Starting mostly back in high school after Veronica had destroyed his surfboard under the wheels her craptastic car. Dick Casablanca's had never quite forgiven her for that one, but then his younger brother Beaver had turned out to be a homicidal mass-murdering rapist who had tried to kill Veronica to keep her from revealing his secrets so Dick had learned to let it slide.
The wedding speeches from this if she ever said yes would be Youtube gold… Logan thought bitterly, it was a good thing both of them had rather small families because honestly, that whole "How did you two meet?" question could be rather… awkward.
"Serious though Lo, you got the ring, she loves you, you guys have that whole star-crossed forbidden love crap, her dad can't get in the way of that" Dick told him.
"You just told me you don't think we belong together" Logan reminded him, his voice was raw.
"I don't think you should be driving yourself nuts over trying to tame Martian's" Dick replied simply. "I think you should live your life and surf the world with me dude, but if your heart is set… I will be here for you!"
"Just can't seem to get through to him, Dick" Logan confessed throwing down the controller on the table.
"The plan didn't go well huh?" Dick queried sympathetically, Logan shook his head and stared into the bottom of his mug. This was part of the reason he disliked Veronica, she could reduce his best friend to this shell of himself, and she didn't even have to be around to do it. It was like whatever wires in his friend's soul that made him feel alive and worthy had been re-written from the moment he had first started dating her. Lilly's death had been hard to watch, even when Dick hadn't been sure entirely of Logan's innocence that day she was killed and he had made his brother Cassidy swear that they would keep his alibi, he had known his friend would never have hurt Lilly Kane. Logan was pretty much all in when he fell in love. Hook line and sinker. He watched as Logan buried his head into his hands, this proposal was taking its toll and he wanted to give Keith and Veronica Mars a piece of his mind. Logan was the best person he knew, in the end, it was Logan who had been there for him after Cassidy's death, not his dad, not his mother.
Logan; and he wanted to be there for him. His choice was that simple.
If his bro wanted Veronica Mars, then Dick was just going to have to come out swinging with a plan to soften the old Martian's heart.
Anything to avoid being stuck with more of that pining…
"Worst night of my life… there's no way he is going to say I have his blessing" Logan sighed.
"Well, if you had done it last night, I wouldn't have recommended it, the guy had a firearm." Dick joked.
"At least I'd have been put me out of my misery" he retorted.
"So where is your lady love tonight?" Dick asked him looking at the time on his cell phone.
"I think she was going to be going to a movie with Mac and Piz" Logan sighed, getting up from his seat and putting the mug beside the espresso machine.
KNOCK KNOCK
"Are you expecting someone?" Logan said, puzzled getting up from his seat. Dick shook his head and smiled, reaching for his jacket. Dick had seen Veronica and Mac wandering across campus that afternoon and ambushed their table at lunch, suggesting that he take the night out so she and Logan could have some alone time. Now Dick was joining Mac and the rest of the Nancy Drew club to the a movies and to the student union bar.
"What's going on?" Logan asked, rubbing a hand over the back of his neck.
What was his roommate doing now?
Opening it, his heart flipped over when he revealed Veronica standing in the corridor with a brown bag of something in her arms.
"Ronnie, about time. Mac downstairs?" Dick asked. Veronica gave him a small nod and stepped inside. He gave Logan a reassuring bump on the shoulder as he headed out the door.
Since when did Dick and Mac spend time together?
"We need to talk." Veronica replied ominously as she walked to the couch and sat down to face him, patting the spot beside her.
No No No… He had just gotten her back…
"What is going on Veronica?" he swallowed, his voice careful, cautious.
"That's exactly why I'm here" Veronica told him "I know Logan" she continued.
Oh crap…. He was going to kill Dick… was she here to end things?
"You know?" he repeated, his palms sweating he wiped them on his jeans.
"I know that you have been over-thinking, moping around, working yourself up. The last time you did that… you broke up with me and I am not going through that again" Veronica declared. Opening the bag and pulling out a tub of ice-cream, she held a spoon out towards him. Now he really was confused, relieved, and just damn right bewildered.
"Ice-cream?" he questioned, his honey-brown eyes never leaving hers. She wasn't breaking up with him… but what did this mean? How much did she know?
"You seem to be under the impression that I am not crazy about you Logan Echolls, talk to me Logan, whatever your doubts you are having…" she pleaded. "Let's drown them in ice-cream kisses and let me reassure you that you are exactly what I want… I hate seeing you this way. Just tell me what I need to do to make it better…" she implored, her blue eyes insistent.
"Veronica I-" he began as he took the spoon from her and sat down beside her.
"Don't deny it, I've been watching you the last few weeks and you get this… expression sometimes when my dad talks to Piz and Wallace, and you get kinda far away, and I just need to know where you go" she told him, her voice desperate as she reached for his hand. "Because wherever it is, you don't belong there, you belong right here with me. I love you Logan, and you are enough and I don't want you to ever think anything less" she answered, as he reached his hands to cup her face.
"I love you" he whispered, his eyes began to tear up.
"I know you do" she smiled softly as he pulled her closer to him and kissed her. "So are we ok?" she asked as she pulled him closer to her.
"Yeah, yeah we are" he nodded, his heart swelling with love for the beautiful blonde in his arms.
"We need to communicate better, these red flag moments.. I don't like them, I hate that I might be making you feel insecure or unwanted Logan… I just wanna make you happy" she whispered.
So do I, Veronica… I wanna make you happy for the rest of your life.
"You do Veronica" he kissed her again. "You have no idea how happy you make me…" he breathed his hands reaching for her shoulders.
"So tell me what's been on your mind" Veronica asked him, handing him a spoon and curling up in his lap with the ice-cream in her hand.
"I just want your dad to like me… I care about you so much, and he's important to you.. I just don't know what I keep doing wrong" Logan confessed, the sound of heartbreak in his voice made her ache for him.
"He does like you Logan, things between us… they are complicated.. there's so much history and-" Veronica began.
"and he's worried I'll become my dad" Logan interrupted, the worry causing the tears welling in his eyes to begin to fall.
"No!" she shook her head vehemently "he doesn't think that… he's sorry he couldn't save your Mom.. I think he feels guilty.. that it took us so long to get to the truth, he thinks if he had gotten to the truth sooner, she wouldn't have jumped" Veronica explained softly.
"But that's not his fault.. he didn't know… nobody did… who knew my dad could throw off the tellanovella cheese and actually be a good actor huh?" he sobbed.
"It's like I said, we all have so much history… we just got to go easier on each other.. make more of an effort, I know you have been trying… I'll talk to him.. because you aren't going anywhere" she comforted him.
"I don't want to come between you and your dad…" his voice was small, lost.
"And I won't let him come between you and me" she responded, a stubborn look flashed through her blue eyes, the kind of defiance she would go to war. He stared at her in wonder, the fierceness in her voice, she straddled his hips and pulled him as close to her as possible without them being joined. "You are mine…" she promised, kissing him.
And he would always be hers.
The doubts and the black clouds that had been tormenting him for the last few weeks started to subside, Keith Mars didn't hate him? Keith felt guilty about Logan's mother's death?
He threw his arms around her waist and kissed her hungrily, relief flooding through him, and desire. Veronica's love and admiration for her father was legendary, there was no one in her life she looked up to and emulated more than her dad, and she was willing to defy him to be with Logan. It was a heady fact. She truly loved him. He kissed along her neck and coaxed a sigh from her, her fingers in his hair.
"Logan?" she asked her tone was flirty.
"I'm reassured, Bobcat, just.. don't make me stop…" he rasped "I am finding all this making out very comforting" curling his hands beneath her t shirt to caress her skin.
"I was going to suggest we move this to the bedroom…" she told him playfully as he nibbled her ear. God it drove her wild when he kissed that spot on her neck. He pulled closer and she felt him stiff and eager against her pelvis. His touch was so addictive. She would move heaven and earth to be with him, and that knowledge both invigorated and terrified her.
"Thank you for coming here" he said soberly, his honey brown eyes boring into her soul.. he ran his hand along her upper thigh. "I needed this" he admitted.
"I wish you hadn't, it pains me to think you felt that way.. even for a second" she confessed as she kissed him, her arms wrapped around his neck.
"If I've done anything right in my life Mars, it was the day I gave my heart to you" he told her.
"Loving you is like breathing Logan.. how can I stop?" his face lit up and she hugged him to her, thankful that whatever had been weighing him down, seemed to have been chased away.
"Don't ever start digging into that…" he warned, his hands gripping her hips, his eyes widened.
"So… my dad is on a stakeout tonight…." Veronica explained, guiding his left hand to her breast, a mischievous glint in her eye, biting her lower lip. A ridiculous happy grin spread over his face and he pulled her closer.
He could wake up with her tomorrow.
