Veronica Mars sat staring at the office case schedule, her phone chirped again.. he had left a voicemail this time. The option for dial 901 for voicemail taunted her from the small screen of her smartphone; her thumb toyed over the button.

"Hi.. its me" Logan's voice announced when she had finally given in to the need to hear his voice. "I don't know where you are…" he sounded lost, and tone was so melancholy that it coiled around her heart and squeezed. "I need to talk to you about something… can you please call me back?" he pleaded. He hadn't confessed or made any excuses about anything.. he had just told her he needed to speak to her.

"Please call me back..?"

If he had ended the call there she may have had the strength to just hang up and avoid the conversation until she saw him back at school in a few days… but he hadn't.

"I Love you" he whispered before the recording ended.

What was she doing? Surely this was just falling back into old habits? Had she not made this same mistake 7 months ago when she had failed to talk to him about the day she had discovered he had been the one with GHB the night of Shelly Pomeroys party? Was this not the same behaviour that led to him being alone on that bridge? Oh God what was she doing?

"I love you Veronica…" he had whispered with his lips pressed against her neck. His liquid chocolate eyes had been so sincere… surely that couldn't be faked? She sat there like that for several minutes, replaying the message again.

"What do you want Veronica?" he had whispered before she had removed his towel last night.

She knew what she wanted… the question was… after she gathered all the ugly facts and had them all settled around in front of her flashing along the computer screen like the photos she was looking at of him and Kendall Casablanca's.. did she still want it badly enough to fight for it?

After everything they had been through together… he deserved to have the opportunity for her to hear him out.

9.13pm.

Resolute that she owed him the chance to offer her an explanation she closed her computer and headed to her car.