Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Veronica Mars and all the other characters belong to Rob Thomas. He's the Man.Sorry that it took so long...

Mac was standing on the edge of the roof, looking on the ground. What was Dick going to do now? What if he startled her and she fell? How should he approach her? It was then that the door to the roof closed with a noise and Mac nearly jumped in surprise. It was pure luck that she held her balance and didn't fell of the roof. And of course that Dick was at her side the second he saw her swaying. He was faster than he had ever been. The fear that she could fall giving him strength.

Mac was lying in his arms, puzzled, confused and a little afraid but also relieved. He was here. That had to be something good. He wouldn't be here if he didn't want to be, if he didn't care.

They stayed like this for a good ten minutes, he holding her in his arms their eyes looked in some gaze, neither of them daring to speak, because it could ruin the moment until they finally realized where they were and what had just happened. Mac tried to get out of his hold. The first seconds Dick didn't want to let her go but he finally did.

She stumbled out of his embrace and backed several feet away from him.

"Dick?"

"Mac."

"Dick", Mac said in a voice that had a hint of disbelief.

"Duh. Of course it's me. Who'd you expect? Do you want me to repeat your name now too? We could keep this play up for some more time."

"Dick!"

"See."

"Oh shut up! What do you want here?"

"Oh, let me think about that. Oh my god! You're right!", Dick said feigning ignorance, his voice heavy with sarcasm. "What the hell am I doing here? I have no clue. How did I get here? Seriously Mac, what do you think?"

"Why would I ask if I knew?"

This was so not going like Dick had planned it. Well, he hadn't really planned anything but it was not like he expected or wanted it to go. He wanted to hold her in his arms again, make sure she was alright and then kiss the hell out of her. And now they were arguing.

"I wanted t know where you are, make sure you're alright. After your last call, which I didn't understand like at all by the way, I got worried and tried to find you."

"You were worried?"

"Yeah that and I wanted to know what the hell you were talking about. So I went to your house but your mom said that you had left just minutes ago. She told me that you could be at Veronicas and I drove to her. She searched you with her cell tracer and told me that you were here. Well, at first we thought that you were with Logan –" at this point Dicks voice was getting deeper and rougher. Is he jealous? At Logan? "-but after we called he said that you had been there but left like twenty minutes ago. I figured out that you must be here so that's how I got here. Sorry that I cared. You happy know?"

"You did all this to find me? You even went to Veronica?"

"Yeah. I even had to have one of this girly moments when she wanted me to tell her what had happened. She thought it was all my fault. But she helped me figure you out. In some way at least."

"You figured me out?"

"Oh I'm pretty sure now that I understand you."

"You do?"

"You have the attitude to talk yourself into believing things until nobody but you knows what you are talking about. You want to change so that you aren't the person anymore you had been before. With Cassidy. But you aren't always able to do it and that scares you. That's makes you believe that you are crazy which is like the first thing I metioned. You talked yourself into it. You do all these things because you are confused and you're feeling guilty."

"Feel guilty about what?"

Dick took some steps toward her. Mac backed away again, but there was not much space left, because she was getting nearer and nearer to the edge of the roof. Minutes before she hadn't been sure if she had minded to fall, to end it all but she wasn't so sure anymore. And she definitely didn't want to do it in front of Dick. So when Dick took another step she couldn't get away from him and they were now standing right in front of her.

"Moving on?"

"Why should I feel guilty about moving on?"

"Because you think you aren't allowed to. You think that it was your fault what Cassidy did. That you could have stopped him in some way. Not that it's the truth but it's what you believe. You think you don't deserve to move on because you had felt something for him and that makes you a bad person. You still feel something for him despite everything and you hate yourself for that. But that's not all. You feel guilty that I'm the person with whom you are moving on. And you don't want me to be this person.

I know this is fucked up. I am fucked up, we are fucked up, he fucked up but should we let this get between us? I thought there was something connecting us. And even if you don't see it right now I don't want to give up on it yet."

While Dick had been holding his speech,tears had been starting to fall down Macs cheek. She looked him deep into his eyes to see if there was any doubt or lie but she couldn't see anything but sincerety and she knew he meant all he had said. She took a step toward him and it was now his turn to take a step back.

"Don't you want to kiss me right now?", Mac asked somewhat hurt. "'Cause that's what I wanted you to do right now."

"No...Well, yes but first I want you to tell me that you trust me. I want this realtionship to work more than you can think. You mean so much to me but this can't work if you don't trust me."

"I do."

"You sure 'bout that?"

"Yes."

"Well if that's so..." And with that Dick took the last step and crushed his lips on hers. If somebody had seen them he would have thought he had gotten into some kind of love movie. A boy and a girl standing on the roof of a very tall building, the moon shinig upon them so you could only see their silhouttes leaning into each other in a passionate kiss. But nobody was there to watch them. Not that the two of them would have noticed someone else anyway.

After what felt like an eternity they finally broke off, both of them smiling happily.

"Don't you ever dare to scare me like this again, do you understand?"

"You were scared?"

"Of course I was. When I heard that you were here-"

"You'd thought I would jump." It wasn't even a question. She could still see the fear in his eyes when she had stumbled at the edge."

"Well, yeah. In some way."

"I must admit that I thought about it", Mac let out with a sigh.

"Just until you came here though. I couldn't have done it with you standing by. I realized that I didn't want to leave you. It's just that my life is like some fucking soap opera. Each time I think it's going pretty well, something awful happens and I have to start from the bottom again. I thought I'd lost you. I had been irrational with you and then I couldn't find you and-"

"You didn't loose me. And you never will. I'll always be there for you."

"You promise?"

"I promise."

Both of them knew that he would probably not be able to hold his promise but they were happy for now and that was all that mattered. Maybe in some way this was the day were the prince had finally found Mac and lifted the curse. But even if he didn't she would appreciate each and every moment of it until it went bad again. That was all she could do and it just had to be enough for her. For them.

But nevertheless she wasn't going to let it go without a fight. She was going to fight for their relationship -for him- no matter how much it would cost her, because she knew that this was something specia. Not because of their background with Cassidy, but because he was the one. Not that she would tell him that now, but sometime. She just hoped that he felt about her the same way. And there was a very great chance that he did, because after all the time she had spent with him lately she knew that Dick Casablancas was a marshmallow – and he was her marshmallow.

fin

Yeah that's it. I'm so sorry it took so long. This is not nearly as good as I wanted it to be but I hadn't been able to write it better. A writer's block surely is the worst thing imaginable. But I hope that it's not too bad. Anway, thanks for all the readers who stuck with it until the end. I appreciated allthe reviews even if it weren't that much.