"Oh no…" Logan declared as he came up behind his girlfriend Veronica as she stood at the kitchen counter making quick work of chopping up some apples for their fruit salad as he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her neck. "This… this really doesn't work for me.." he pouted as he ran his hands along the fabric beneath his fingers. She had borrowed one of his sister Trina's smaller dresses and used her belt to make it fit better. He ran his hands down her hips and cupped her breasts, pulling her backwards up against his chest. He smelled like deodorant and soap, his hair still damp from the shower and she smiled as the warmth of him wrapped around her. "I think this should come off…" he sulked, his fingers playing with the hem of the skirt.

"You just want me naked" Veronica accused him as she smirked.

"You are so damn cute when you make food for me" he said in a deep gravelly-voice, opening his mouth as she picked up a piece to feed him.

Dammit he was so going to have to research those private islands soon… preferably one they could get with no extradition laws.

"We still need to talk about all the information I've found" she told him solemnly.

"Can't we make me a fake passport instead?" he sighed as he stepped away and walked to the other side of the counter. Reality was breaking its way into their happy little love bubble and he would give anything to avoid it.

"If only it was that simple" she answered as she slid a plate of fruit salad and yoghurt to his side of the table. She would have to call her father Keith Mars soon to check in and she couldn't afford to miss the opportunity at school to speak to Cassidy and Dick Casablanca's about the information she had uncovered about their step mother, the con woman Kendall Casablanca's. They were still in danger and she had to warn them. "I need to have a look at your dad's movie collection" she told him.

"You trying to find something even remotely watchable in that crap pile?" he asked, puzzled.

"No… I need to check the credits information for a movie called The Long Haul" she explained, dipping a strawberry into her yoghurt.

"My dad's… Aaron's… first big hit?" Logan questioned as he walked towards the hallway closet, his father occasionally kept signed copies of his older dvd's in there as parting gifts for the tourists and visitors he wanted to impress. Veronica nodded as he went inside and started to flick through the list of disks and returned with the one she had mentioned. "What's this for?" he asked curiously as he watched her pull out her computer from her small leather bag and took the disk from him.

He watched as she took a deep breath and took out her phone, flicking through pictures to show him a crime scene image, one of a bloated and bruised dead guy lying face down in the sand. She flicked through to the next image and Logan could clearly see her name written on the hand of the dead guy.

"Where did you get this?" he demanded, taking her phone from her.

"David 'Curly' Moran" she told him. "He showed up dead on the Neptune beach a few days ago… he had my name written on his hand.. he was at the site of the school bus crash a few weeks ago while I was there… I don't know if he was there following me, but according to Sheriff Lamb, someone threw him over the edge of the cliff outside the Road Hog" Veronica elaborated, her voice was shaky.

"When did you know about this?" he pressed as he pulled her to him protectively.

"I was called into the Sheriff's Office yesterday during school" she confessed.

"And you didn't tell me?" he asked incredulously. "Some guy was following you and shows up dead with your name on him like some kind of hit list and you didn't think to mention that before now?"

Was she serious? Some deep protective instinct inside him was setting the alarm bells off in his head. He wanted to kill something… to hurt something…

"It's not the only thing I found…" she dismissed as she shook him off and scrolled through to the end of the DVD to start rolling the credits.

"But you think he has something to do with my dad?" Logan insisted. Could that be why Aaron Echolls had been in the same cell as Logan last night? Had he been getting questioned by Sheriff Lamb about the bus crash?

"It's just a theory" she replied and watched as he took a deep breath and trailed his hands through his hair. He looked like he was starting to freak out. If his father was trying to hurt Veronica again…

"Is this why you left those voicemails last night?" he asked, recalling the urgency in her voice as she had pleaded with him to call her back.

"It's not the only reason.." she continued.

"Not the only…? how much else is there that you didn't you think to mention to me last night?" he shouted.

"Calm down!" Veronica scolded.

"HOW CAN I CALM DOWN? He's already tried to kill you once…" Logan retorted.

"And YELLING at me doesn't fix anything!" she snapped back at him, her blue eyes were cross with him now.

"If he ever hurt you…" Logan swore as he took a deep breath. Gathering her up in his arm cupping her face and kissing her.

"I'm okay.." Veronica promised. She understood this fear… Aaron Echolls had already cost Logan the lives of two women that he loved. He hugged her tightly.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked as he kissed her forehead.

"I couldn't deal… there was all that stuff with Kendall… you had been arrested and then you had just spent time in that cell with him… I just didn't want to make the night any worse… I wanted to get it out of my head for a while… and I wanted to take care of you and I just needed you to hold me… this stuff wasn't going anywhere" she informed him softly. "All it would have done would be to get you as worried as you are right now… and I just wanted some peace from it for a few hours"

That part he could understand, she had wanted to delay the horror, he couldn't blame her for that… how he really did wish she would just use that Private Investigator Savvy of hers and make them both new identities so they could just run away together where this stuff couldn't happen to them.

Veronica stared at the credits screen and then paused it, her eyes connected with Logan's.

Signature Chief Stunt Co-ordinator: David Moran

The Signature Stunt for The Long Haul? A truck was crashed and sent veering over a bridge.

He certainly would have known how to make that bus crash.