"Are you sure Wallace won't tell your dad?" Logan asked as he listened to Veronica's voice when she had called him during her free period. He wanted her to just come clean and tell him, to claim him as her boyfriend officially again and he was a little disappointed when she had explained that it would be best to keep their relationship a secret for now but he couldn't really argue with her logic.

After the encounter with Weevil, she had said something had been bothering her and she wanted to talk to him again about the Felix situation. She had suggested they keep up the pretence of being frenemies while at school so she could get the PCHers to drop their guard a little and get more information. Logan had never hesitated to define their relationship, that night when his father had thrown the surprise party, he had stood in front of all of the 09ers and declared that she was his girlfriend and that if anyone had a problem with it they could get the hell out of his life. She had always been that little bit more cautious… she had never been like that with Duncan. It stung, it was an old wound he supposed. The first time he had told her that he was in love with her, she hadn't said it back, she had brushed it off with a quick joke.

"No, after I explained about the whole Curly situation.. and your dad's involvement. He got on board pretty quick. Jackie is pissed at him again but it's not exactly like we can just go around letting any old person know what's going on, it's not safe until we know more information" she told him. Logan thought about that carefully, she had a point… he was just grateful that Dick was still too freaked out by the revelations about Kendall's real identity and her possible murder attempt to go storming off right now. He had omitted the fact that he and Kendall had both been having an affair, but the links to the Fitzpatrick's and the deaths of the other kids on the bus weren't that easy to ignore.

"Is that Ronnie?" Dick asked as he wandered around the kitchen drinking the first bottle of Scotch from the bottle that he had found in the cupboard. Logan nodded.

"Are you sure Dick is going to be able to handle this?" Veronica asked him. Honestly? Logan wasn't sure, Dick was a bit of a ditz sometimes but he knew how to keep his mouth shut and stick to the story.

"I hope so" he replied carefully. He was praying that he could get Dick sort of tipsy in the next hour, so that he could get him to spend the night in the guest house… too drunk to drive at least. Then he could talk him around, buy them time.

"Give me the phone…" Dick demanded as he put the bottle down on the counter.

"Uh… he wants to talk to you" Logan told Veronica as he handed the phone to Dick.

"Ronnie… Sup? So apparently someone's trying to murder me and my little brother… you got any spy gadgets that can help a fella out with that?" He asked sarcastically. "You secretly a little Ninja or something?"

"Where is Cassidy?" Veronica questioned softly.

"With Mr Pope… something about pictures and the Sandpiper hotel… I don't know exactly, its Beave, I don't always know where he is… I'm guessing I should start huh?" Dick confessed.

"Pictures…. The ones from my investigation?" She asked.. what could Beaver possibly have noticed about those pictures? She had erased all the photos she had taken of Logan and Kendall together. She would have to review them again herself and see what was going on… perhaps she had missed something important?

"I don't know.. you don't think this is going to end up like Final Destination do you? That each of us who were supposed to be on that bus before the Crash aren't going to get bumped off?" Dick asked hysterically.

"No… I don't think it works like that…" she rebuffed.

"Because.. I was sitting up near the end of that bus.. so that buys us some time right?" Dick continued as Logan held his hand back out for the phone and handed Dick back the bottle of scotch.

"Hey.." Logan sighed finally.

"He's pretty scared huh?" Veronica sympathised.

"Fucking bitch probably wants to Basic Instinct my dad" Dick swore as he took another swig.

"Just a bit" he agreed. "You okay?" he asked, he was sure that run in with Weevil must have been the last thing she wanted to deal with.

"Yeah… I just have to talk to Duncan soon" she admitted. Logan was glad she couldn't see his knuckles whiten as his gripped tightened around the phone, hells yes he was jealous. Even after the last few days of their making up… he always felt nervous about the power Duncan had held over Veronica.

"Alone?" Logan asked quietly. He trusted her… he did… he just didn't trust Duncan not to try and win her back.

"I've asked him to come down to Java the Hut while I'm working tonight" she told him. At least there they wouldn't be able to get up to anything he supposed.

"Did you tell him why?" he asked softly.

"Not over the phone" she said in a low voice. Clarence Weidman, the Kane's family head of security was known for bugging phones. Veronica had grown paranoid in recent months and had started to sweep for bugs regularly.

"You plan to tell him about us?" Logan asked point blank. He was all for keeping secrets from her father until after they had investigated Felix's case and cleared his name… but he wanted her to be with him on this. Duncan had to know that she was his.

"Not right away" she admitted. He sighed down the phone.

Was it totally possessive of him that he wanted her to declare it to the world that she was His Girlfriend?

"Don't you think it will just be worse for him to find out later?" Logan reasoned. He really hated that he was under house arrest; he wanted to go with her. Even after everything they had shared, he was still insecure, she had left him for Duncan once already.

"I think we need him to hear us out first, that's a lot harder to do if he thinks…" Veronica began.

"That you are in love with me?" he interrupted. He was being petty, and he knew it.

"Yeah… it might make him a little stubborn" she agreed. Logan was jealous, and she knew it. He was jealous by nature, it had used to drive Lilly crazy when he used to start fights with people because he thought they were moving in on his girl.. of course. Lilly was also a massive flirt and had cheated on Logan with his own father so perhaps she should have taken that information with a pinch of salt.

"I'm not sure I feel comfortable with you looking into all of this stuff alone while I'm stuck in here…" he breathed slowly. Ever since he had found out about these possible connections of his dads to the bus crash.. to Kendall Casablanca's and the attempts on Veronica's life he hadn't been able to shake the feeling that he wanted to wrap her up in a bubble and keep her away from everything else in the world. He felt like a Neanderthal, and she was painfully aware of it. Wasn't it this kind of caveman behaviour from him that had driven her away the first time?

"I'm not sure how long we can afford to wait" she reasoned.

"Just… don't.. do anything without me okay?" he pleaded. He needed to be there, to be involved. They were a team now, it wasn't going to be like before, he wasn't going to be hatching plans without her… and she wouldn't be running off and almost getting killed. They would work through things together. "Promise me Veronica… please don't do this alone"

"Okay… I promise" she said finally.

"Call me later?" he asked.

"As soon as I get off work" she said as she hung up.

Logan looked at Dick as he flicked through the file that Veronica had created on Kendall's identity and prayed that she really listened to him.

"Dude… Your Girl should join the CIA" Dick complimented.

"My Girl?" Logan grinned as he put his phone back in his pocket, at least one person knew.