Disclaimer: Veronica Mars belongs to Rob Thomas.

Duncan and Veronica were never together the night of Shelly's party. Therefore Veronica does not know how raped her, and Duncan and Meg are still together. Logan and Veronica never kissed at the Camelot, they never dated. So Logan wasn't on the bridge and Felix wasn't murdered. The paternity test results were different, and Keith Mars never survived the fire.

Filling the Void – Ch. 3: Forgetting Your Troubles

DUNCAN POV

I looked up as Veronica came out of her room. She looked okay. As okay as anyone can get after admitting to two people that you were raped. Her eyes were still a little red and swollen and she looked paler than usual. I studied her face as she went to get a bottle of water. I'd never really tried to see the similarities between us before. And there they were – the eyes, the nose, and her blonde hair that was so similar to Lily's. She looked up at me and nervously said "Hey" with a forced smile.

"Hey." I responded with a little wave.

"So, uh, you busy just standing there or do you want to go to Dog Beach with me, Wallace, and Backup?"

"Um, I don't know, I was planning on standing here for another twenty minutes and then standing over there for a good hour." So I'm not the best at witty comments like Logan but I'll do anything to see my sister laugh, which she did.

"Well I'll give you that twenty minutes of standing there but then I'm going to have to force you to give up that hour of standing over there." Then she turned and walked back into her room to get ready.

I was now planning on helping Veronica to have a fun day and forget everything that's bad in her life. And I wasn't going to be the one to tell her the thing that would make it even worse.

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VERONICA POV

The beach is one of those places where I can just be myself and forget about all of my issues. This is greatly helped by Wallace. He's a great BFF. He knows when to be there for me and when he doesn't need to say anything at all, and he even convinced his Mom to let Backup live with them. So far this day at the beach with two of my friends and my dog has been great, until Wallace pointed up to my car. There, Logan was sitting on the hood of my car just as he had done right before he broke my headlights with a crow bar. Luckily a crow bar was absent this time. I told Duncan and Wallace to stay behind and I made my way up to where he sat.

"So are you here for a repeat performance because last time didn't end too well on your part. Don't want you having to get punched in the face or anything."

"Ronnie, Ronnie, Ronnie. I don't exactly see your boy Weevil around. And besides I left my crowbar on the last car whose headlights I knocked out."

"Aww I see. Now is there a reason you're sitting on my car? Other than the obvious of course."

"Which would be?"

"That you like me! That you really really like me!" I said in my perkiest voice.

"Sorry to burst your bubble but no. However I was thinking that you might actually see that all I want to do is have a nice conversation about general everyday things. But no you just assume that I want something –"

"Because you do."

"Fine." He said before looking around to ensure no one was within hearing range.

"Ooh is this some top secret request? Are you gonna ask me to take care of the dead hooker in your pool house? Or track down that crowbar? Smuggle some drugs from Tijuana for ya?"

"What do you remember about Shelley's party?"

I immediately shut up. Taking a deep breath I relayed all the facts. "Getting handed a rum and coke, passing out on a pool chair, waking up in a bedroom searching for my underwear." Then I turned around and walked back to the beach where I told Duncan and Wallace that I wanted to go home.

When I got to the hotel I watched TV, took a hot shower, read a book. Anything to keep my mind off my rape. Then I picked up the newspaper and flipped through the pages but nothing interested me until I got to the obituaries section. And there was the name of someone that was sure to take my mind off anything and everything that I was previously thinking about.

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AN – Sorry about the really short chapter. I promise that I'll make the next one much longer. And the name of the person just might be revealed if you guys give me some reviews!!!