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The person that opened the door wasn't the one Dick expected. It wasn't Mac like he had hoped.
In front of him was Macs mother.
"Dick! Why, hello. What are you doing here?"
"Hello Mrs McKenzie. I'm sorry to bother you but I wanted to see Mac, can I come in?"
"Oh , I'm sorry dear. Mac had left the house just minutes ago. She didn't tell me where she was heading. I thought she was going to visit you but she obviously didn't do that."
"Oh", was all Dick could reply. It was then that he noticed the lack of Macs car in the drive-way. The car Dick thought was ridiculous, but of which he knew that Mac loved it. Why hadn't he noticed it before? Oh yeah, he had been in this idiotic stupor where his mind went black.
"I'm not sure but maybe Mac is at Veronicas. You should try to find her there."
"Thanks Mrs McKenzie. Have a nice day!" Dick thought that it would be better if he just left. His impression on her was already not the best. Dude, she doesn't think I'm like a stalker or something? I'm not! But she probably thinks now that I'm an idiot. You are doing this stare thing again. Stop it dude. She had definitely seen this before when she opened the door and if you keep looking like that she might think that this is your thing and we don't want that now, do we? Way to impress the mother of your girlfriend. That is if she still wants to be your girlfriend. Since she said that, some pretty awful things happened. You have to find her!
Dick looked at Mrs McKenzie again. He saw pitiful eyes staring back at him, waiting for some kind of reaction.
"Sorry Mrs McKenzie. What did you just say?"
"I said you too, Dick! I hope you can find her."
"Me too", Dick mumbled. He turned and went to get into his car again. Off to Veronica!
Dick wasn't at home. That was what Mac knew. What she didn't knew was where he was.
She had knocked for over five minutes before she finally gave up. She had at first thought that he just didn't want to see her but after she was now still standing in front of a closed door she had to accept the fact that he wasn't home.
Now she had to find him. But where should she start to search?
After some minutes thinking she came to the conclusion that he was likely to be found at Logans. He was his friend after all.
When Veronica opened the door she was shocked. In front of her was Dick Csablancas, a rather desperate and sad expression on his face. He actually looked quite pitiable if Veronica hadn't known better.
"Dick! What do you want?"
"Hey Veronica. I was hoping you could tell me were Mac is. She's not at home and I need to see her."
"What have you done now? What did you do to her?" Veronicas voice was getting angry. She had known it all along that the relationship between Mac and Dick was a stupid idea. Had known all along that Dick was a jackass and would hurt Mac someday. The day had arrived sooner than she had thought.
"I didn't do anything! Why do I have to be the person that did something wrong? Why can't this be Macs fault?"
"Mmm, let me think about that. Whose fault could it be? I think yours. I mean you are the guy that's standing in the door of the friend's girl which you desperately want to find. I think thw situation is rather clear. "
"Sorry to disappoint you Ronnie but it seems your not that good at this detective stuff as you think you are. Anyway, that's none of your business. Just tell me if you know where she is and then I'm outta here!"
"Of course it's my business if you did something to Mac. She's my friend! If you don't tell me what happened then I'm not going to tell you where she might be."
"So you don't know either where she is. I'm wasting my time."
"No, you're not. I might now where she is. Now tell me!"
"You want to know what happened? Fine! I'll tell you! Mac called me and said that she was mad at me for getting a hard-on. Happy?", Dick yelled.
Veronica was shocked. That was not what she expected.
"Maybe you should come in and tell me exactly what happened. I believe that that's not the whole story, is it?"
"But of course! Let's get inside! Hand me some tissues and get some ice-cream and I'll pour you my heart out!", Dick said with fake enthusiasm.
"No way dude! I'm not a chick and definitely not gay!"
"Whatever, Dick. Just come inside and tell me everything. It might help me to find out where Mac is if I know the whole picture."
"Fine. If this makes you tell me were I can find her!"
They went into her apartment and Dick let himself fall onto the couch.
"You sure about the ice-cream and the tissues?", Veronica asked jokingly, but Dick just gave her a stare and Veronica knew that this was going to be a serious conversation.
"So tell me what happened. Start at the beginning", Veronica said seriously.
"Well..."
"Mac! What are you doing here? Veronica's not here. She isn't going to be for the next few hours to be precisely." Logan was standing in the door, looking rather tired, like he had just got out of bed only a few minutes ago, a puzzled expression on his face.
"Hey Logan", Mac said somewhat shyly. She still hadn't gotten to the fact that he was dating Veronica again and was treating her civilly. Veronica surely had some power over him if she could turn him from being a jackass to everyone to a somewhat friendly and caring person.
"I was hoping to find Dick here. He isn't, is he?"
"Uh no, sorry. But why don't you come in?"
Without waiting for an answer Logan got back into the hotel suite. Mac followed him.
She saw his playstation in front of the tv – he had obviously wanted to play before Mac got there because she could see the credits of the game still running over the tv screen– and some old pizzas sprayed over the floor.
Maybe Veronica hasn't that much power over him after all
Logan sat in front of the tv again and held out a controller to her.
"You wanna play?"
"No thanks. I just need to find Dick. I don't have that much time. Do you know where he might be?" She wouldn't admit it but being at the Neptune Grand again was scaring her. She headn't been here since-
"So you and Dick, huh?"
"What about me and Dick?"
"Come on Mac. I'm not stupid. First I see you two leaving the party together and now you want to find him. So you and Dick? I'm surprised. First Beav- Cassidy and now Dick? I mean although they were brothers they didn't have much in common. I never thought that you and Dick-"
"Even if there is a me and Dick", Mac interrupted him, "I think that's none of your business. Now could you please tell me where I can find him or should I tell Veronica how
you treated her friend? I'm sure she would like to know."
"That's mean Mac. Don't play dirty! I didn't want to insult you. I'm sorry but I haven't seen Dick since he left the party with you. I don't know where he might be. I'm really sorry."
"Don't be. I should go now."
Mac was about to leave when she heard his voice one more time.
"Are you planning on telling Veronica? Please don't. She wants me to get along with her friends and if you tell her she's going to be mad at me. I mean I didn't insult you or something."
"It's okay Logan. I won't tell her. See ya!"
"Yeah and good luck with Dick. You'll find him."
"I hope so", Mac muttered under her breath as she exited the suite. "I hope so."
"...and then I went straight to you 'cause Macs mom said she might be here", Dick finished his story.
"I think it was all just a big mistake, that's all", Veronica contemplated. "She thought you were confused that she could have such an influence on your body. She thought that you hadn't expected that and she got angry. I think she was just embarrassed at first. You two should have talked earlier. She wouldn't have had time to interpret it all wrong then."
"That's it? She just talked herself into believeing that I was ashamed?"
"I think so. I wonder why she didn't talk to me though. Probably because she was embarrassed."
"So now that you know everything can we come to the part were you do your PI-thing and tell me where I can find her?"
"Just give me a minute." Veronica walked into her room. When she returned she had her notebook with her. She sat down next to Dick and started typing something.
"What do you do?"
"You know when we were at that party to find the rapist? I put a tracer into Macs cell phone. If something had went wrong I would have known where she was. I'm just checking it now."
"So where is she?"
Veronicas eyes widened.
"Where is she?", Dick asked forcefully. Something was wrong. Why didn't Veronica just tell him. What was it?
"She's...she's at the Neptune Grand", She said disbelievingly.
"She's at Logans?", Dick yelled. "What's she doing there?" Veronica could nearly see the jealousy dropping from his words.
"Calm down."
"No! I have to leave. I have to go there. Thanks Ronnie." i What is Mac doing at Logans? She wouldn't...he wouldn't. No way! Not Mac. But what the hell is she doing there? She and Logan definitely aren't buddies or something. Ronnie is as surprised as I am and she would know if there was something going on between them. She is Veronica Mars. But she had also been wrong when she had accused you of having done something wrong. Dick could hear this voice in his head saying again.So maybe she doesn't know everything after all. Maybe-? Stop it. I'm going crazy! I have to find Mac, I have to go now!
"Wait!" The voice of Veronica brought him back into reality. "Let me first call Logan. Let's see if she really is there, okay?"
"Whatever." Dick was fuming. He was going crazy. This girl was going to get him into the nuthouse, he was sure. He had to find her before his mind was a total wreck. He had to find her as long as his mind was still properly working.
Veronica went to the phone and dialed Logans number. She held out her forefinger to Dick as an indication for him to remain silent during her call.
"Hey sugarpuss!", Dick could hear Logans voice talking over the loudspeakers Veronica had turned on. Dick had to supress the urge to snort. Sugarpuss
"Logan."
"What's wrong?", Logan asked his voice sounding concerned. He had obviously caught on the serious tone Veronica talked to him.
"Nothing big. If you could just hand the phone over to Mac so I could speak to her?"
"Mac? She's not here."
"I know she's with you so just give her the phone."
"I don't now what you are talking about. Yeah she was here but she left at least twenty minutes ago."
"That's weird. Do you know if she had her cell with her when she left?"
"How the hell should I know that. What have you done now Mars?"
"Nothing."
"Come on. I know you. Tell me. And how do you know that Mac would be here anyway?"
"I might have put a tracer in her cell", she admitted softly.
"You are sometimes impossible you know that?"
"Maybe. Is there any chance that she left her cell at your suite?"
"No, she was only some minutes here. Asked if I knew where Dick was but I didn't know so she left. Why do you want to find her."
Veronica didn't listen to Logans last sentence. "She must still be somewhere at the Neptune Grand", she murmured.
"What did you just say?", Logan asked.
"I just figured out that she must be still somewhere at the hotel."
Dick thought about what Veronica had just said. Mac is still somewhere at the hotel but Logan said that she left twenty minutes ago, so she can't be in his suite. If she isn't with Logan then maybe...
"Huh so why do you want to find her?"
"Dick-", Veronica started but was interrupted by the sound of the door closing.
"Veronica? What was that sound?"
"Dick just left. He had wanted me to find out where Mac was."
"Dick came to you? He really must like Mac if he did. I didn't thought they were that serious. Well that Dick was this serious."
"Neither did I."
The moment Mac was in her car again, she broke down. She had messed everything up. She couldn't find Dick and even if she did, that didn't mean that everything would be good again. Her life wasn't a fairytale. No happy-ends for her. The one time she had thought her life could be somewhat near a fairytale it had ended the worst way possible. She couldn't have gotten a worse ending than the one with Cassidy. He was a murderer and he comitted suicide after attempting to kill her friends and stealing her clothes leaving her naked and lost in a hotelrooom. What a nice happy-end!
Mac gave up. She didn't give a damn anymore if she was weak again. If she was the person that she never wanted to be again. Fuck the world! Her life sucked and whatever she did it never got better. Everytime it seemed to get better, everything fell into pieces.
It all had started when she had gotten the bike she wanted for her birthday. Well that's the first memory where she knew that she could never be entirely happy for once. She loved her bike and was never seen without it for the next days after her birthday. Only one week after, the bike was destroyed. She had bought herself ice-cream and left the bike on the street. The garbage-collection-car drove over it. This was the first time she noticed that she couldn't be happy for a long time. She had been very little at that time and thought that she maybe got cursed by a mean witch but someday a prince would come and rescue her. But she wasn't little anymore. She knew that there were no princes, no knights who had to rescue the damsel in distress.
There were many other times, like when she had gotten all the money of the purity-test-homepage to buy her car. She had been so happy that she had been able to take advantage of the stupidity of the 09ers and shortly afterwards found out that she should have been one of them. That she wasn't with her real familiy. That she got switched at birth. Something like that i had /i to happen to her.
And last but not least the Cassidy-incident.
Way to go Mac! You live the fucking life of a soap opera!
She wanted to see where her life had once more turned bad. She had to see the place where he had turned her life once more from good to bad. Where he had made the decision that led her into being a sobbing mess for a long time. Where he had decided to jump.
Mac was going to go to the roof of the Neptune Grand.
AN: Okay so I started posting this at LJ and because I always need feedback I posted it here as well. I'm still writing on it and I would really appreaciate it if you could just click on that purple button that says review...(It's not that difficult you know?)TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!!