I'm really, really happy to report that my sister has been getting better after all, for a while there the doctors kept saying that she wouldn't…guess that proves how much they know. So she's finally home again, J J J and believe me, I've never been this relieved in my life, her new heart is finally starting to work! Anyways, she's already gotten bored again and insisted I type for her again, so here is the rest of the chapter! Oh and she said to say thanks for all the nice reviews ya'll sent!

"Daddy?" Veronica called sleepily. She sat up and removed the oxygen line from her nose. She felt woozy, but other than the ugly burns she noticed on one arm and felt on her back and leg, she was fine.

Keith Mars sat up straighter in his seat next to her hospital bed. "Hi, honey."

His voice brought back the events that had caused the burns, and a sense of panic washed over her. She sat up and frantically asked, "Where's Logan? Is he okay? He got out, didn't he?"

Keith nodded quickly. "He got out of the house after getting you out." The fact that a small smile and a blush crossed her face upon hearing that he had been the one to get her out didn't escape Keith's attention.

"Where's Mr. Echolls? He locked me in Logan's room. I found tapes, Dad; Aaron killed Lilly." She knew she wasn't making any sense, but there was so much that had happened and all of it was too important to wait.

"I know. Wallace showed them to me. Aaron has been arrested. You don't need to worry about that."

"But Logan's okay?" Veronica asked, the panic ebbing away.

"He'll be fine. And they say I can take you home in the morning. You were both very lucky."

Veronica smiled and relaxed visibly. Keith tensed up. He hadn't missed the look that had crossed his daughter's face in the moment that Veronica didn't know if Logan was alive or dead. It was the look he used to get around Lianne so many years ago, before all their problems began. That look said more about what his only little girl felt than he was ready to know. He was going to have to get used to Logan whether he liked the boy or not. He patted her hand as he watched her drift back to sleep, still utterly exhausted. His daughter was in love.

Both Logan and Veronica were discharged the next morning. Since Logan didn't exactly have a standing home to go to and he did save his only daughter's life, Keith decided to bring him home with them for a couple days until Logan could find his own place or until his sister came to claim him.

Veronica was already in the car waiting for Keith when Logan slid into the back seat. He scooted in farther and she turned around with to fix him with a strange expression. He wanted to say something, hug her, something, but before he had a chance to do anything at all she slapped him soundly across the face.

He covered the place she had hit with his hand; she'd packed a powerful wallop.

"You are so stupid! Why did you do that? You could've been killed."

"What? Veronica, you almost got yourself burned to death and you're attacking me for going in after you?"

"Yes! How'd you even find me?"

"It wasn't hard, I know you. Besides, you wouldn't have been inside in the first place if you hadn't gone in trying to help me out!" He took her face into his hands and his tone lowered. "You're such a softie, Veronica. Couldn't leave me, could you?"

She leaned forward quickly and pecked him on his lips before he responded by kissing her soundly. They sprang apart when Mr. Mars cleared his throat loudly from outside of the car as he opened his door to sit down in the driver's seat.

"I hope I won't be seeing that again while you're staying with us Logan, I know I owe you, but seeing that just makes me want to get my gun out on you."

Both kids blushed.

"Wouldn't think of it, sir," Logan answered soberly, all the while trying not to grin.

Later that day Veronica took him to get his God awful Xterra, which he greeted by hugging. Literally. Veronica just shook her head at him, wondering just how crazy the man that she was dating was. He had appointments with the many lawyers that he knew to get information from. She went home to talk to her dad about what she knew she needed to, no matter how much she dreaded it.

But when she explained herslef to him, he only gave a face-splitting smile and walked over to pull a large envelope out of a drawer, handing to her. She opened it to see that it was a paternity test. A paternity test that said that there was a ninety nine percent chance that Keith was her father. She looked up at him, relieved beyond any words before running up to him and hugging him close. She silently thanked God for letting Keith be her father. She couldn't have asked for a better one, especially if the other one had turned out to be Jake Kane.

Knowing how awkward it would be for him to stay with Mr. Mars and Veronica in their apartment, Logan drove to the Neptune Grand to check in for an indefinite stay after he left the lawyers. It would be better this way and besides, a suite at the Grand would give him somewhere private to take Veronica when they wanted alone time. His mind wandered to the gutter for a while before returning only to answer his phone that was ringing annoyingly.

Veronica. Well at least it's someone I want to talk to.

Since he'd woken in the hospital the day before, he'd been steadily ignoring a ridiculous amount of calls from Trina. He knew she was just calling about their father. He had no interest in helping Aaron at all, as he suspected she did. In fact, any chance for him to help the prosecution, he'd take in a second.

That was the man that beat me my whole life, who slept with and killed Lilly, who tried to kill Veronica.

Logan sincerely hoped that he'd spend the rest of his life rotting in a jail cell and then burned in hell.

He still hadn't gotten over all the things Keith had explained to him that his father had done.

He answered the phone and walked to his bright yellow Xterra to go pick up the girl he was in love with. Parts of his life really, really sucked…but he was a happy man despite it all anyways. The one thing he really needed, the one that he never wanted to imagine going without again, he had.

Logan sat on the couch in his hotel room with Veronica perched on his lap, her arms wrapped around his neck hugging him close. He wrapped his strong arms tightly around her back and waist, pulling her as close as he could.

"I don't know what I'd do-" Veronica whispered lightly in his ear, her breath tickling his skin.

He let out a deep breath he'd been unaware he was holding. "You have no idea." She pulled away enough to see his face as he tucked her hair behind an ear. He just gazed at her, wondering what it was exactly that was making the giant knot in the back of his throat.

"I love you," Logan choked out, managing to keep direct eye contact despite being terrified of what she would say.

Her eyes grew wide and her face paled as she just stared at him in silence for what seemed like forever.

Finally, she hugged him again and laid her head against his shoulder comfortably, letting him hold her on his lap. After a while he wondered whether she was falling asleep, but she corrected him by burying her head into his shoulder and putting a hand to his chest over his tee shirt.

"I love you, too," Veronica just barely whispered as if she were almost too afraid to say it at all.

Logan smiled to himself and rocked her back and forth, holding her to him.

"There are so many things I need to tell you," Veronica whispered, knowing that for the moment none of it mattered.

"It's okay." He wondered if she was talking about Duncan and whether she'd found out yet or not. But it didn't matter, for the moment he was completely content and knew she was too.

The End.