Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars. Rob does. He's the man.

A/N: I'm so sorry that it took me so long. I had written this part and even some of the next part when I suddenly decided to rewrote this one. I was getting stuck so I had to change this. Anyway, I'm glad that it is now like it's supossed to be. And I'm again sorry if the timeline isn't like on the show.

A/N2: I'm not a native speaker so I'm truly sorry for any mistakes. I don't have a beta so feel free to correct me. Feedback is much appreciated...

Oh yeah, I don't know if I'll be able to write much more soon (school and life, you know?) but comments will surely help. But now, onto the next part...

Veronica was finally getting along with the Lilly-case again. She had managed to fool Clarence Wiedman into telling her unknowingly what a role Abel Koontz had in the murder and what his motive for admitting to a murder he didn't commit was. Abel Koontz had a daughter named Amelia DeLongpre who was getting the money from the pay-off the Kanes payed her father. Veronica had been able to track her down and hid her in a cheap motel out of town so that Wiedman wouldn't be able to find her.

This part of her life obviously seemed to be getting along.

The other part that included her former exboyfriend and deputy and her former friend then arch-enemy then WTH not so much. She hadn't talked to neither of them since that incident at her apartment and she couldn't say that she minded it in Leos case.

But Logan. She wasn't so sure that she was happy about not having seen him lately. Although she had been pretty busy herself this week, she had somehow thought that she would see him at least once at school but he hadn't been there the whole week since she last saw him. She wouldn't admit it but she missed him. He had been some part in her life for the last few weeks and she had constantly seen him.

It had seemed at first that he was just trying to avoid her but she was getting kind of concerned now. What had happened that he wasn't at school for a whole week? It couldn't have been just because of her, now could it?

She had been so concerned that she had asked Duncan about him. Bad Veronica! Really bad! Now you have a suspicious Duncan after you. Of course he would have been suspicious after you had already known why Logan had been at the Sunset Regent some weeks ago. And now you ask for him? Now Duncan things who knows what about the two of you.

Duncan now seemed to be following her all the time and if she hadn't known him she could have thought that he was a stalker. But even that hadn't helped her to figure out what was going on. Logan didn't answer her calls and never called her back so she had eventually made the decision that she would drive over to his house.

She was surprised that noone besides Logan seemed to be at home. She had knocked several times at the front door but the maid had obviously the day off so Veronica had no other choice but to walk around the house and see if she could somehow sneak inside. But she didn't need to. She could see the lights on in the pool house because it had been dark outside for some hours now ( She had had to check on Amelia in the afternoon before she could look for him). And she knew that Logan never locked it when he was inside. So she just walked inside and was greeted by a sight she hadn't expected. Well maybe she secretly had but she had hoped that she had misheard Trina at the Sunset Regent.

Isn't he the big bad wolf? Cigarette burns and broken noses. Oh, the stories you used to tell.

Well, now she was sure that she hadn't misheard her or that Trina had made it up. Logan was sitting in the corner of the room, his face contorted in pain. She could see from his pose that he had injured his back, that somebody had hurt his back.

As she entered the room Logan looked up and flinched visibly. He tried to hide his pain and stand up but was to weak to do so. He nearly fell over and Veronica rushed over to his side to steady him. He tried to brush her off but she had some unimaginable strength in her little body that didn't let him. Of course, if he hadn't been injured he would have easily gotten her of him but not in the state he was at this moment. And the blond definitely had some strength inside of her.

"Veronica. Just leave me alone." The words came out in a rugged voice but she didn't bother.

"Come on. We have to clean your bruises up or they are going to get infected."

Logan was amazed that she didn't ask him what had happened. Everyone he knew would have asked first but not her. She knew. She was Veronica Mars, she had to know. The question was just if this was good or bad.

The surprise he had seen on her face the moment she entered had left it rather quickly and was replaced by a serious and determined expression. And who was he to get into the way of Veronica Mars? So he just tried to make it to the bathroom where she directed him without leaning too much onto the petite blonde beneath him.

They made it there eventually and Veronica sat him onto the edge of the bathtub. She then started to clean his bruises. It was clearly to be seen that the cuts he had on his back hadn't come naturally. It seemed that they were made by something sharp, maybe a belt. As Veronica looked closer she could make out many more white lines on his skin. There must have been a lot of times like this in his life before and it was very hard for Veronica not to break something because of the rage she felt. But then another feeling reached the surface of her mind. Pity. But she knew that Logan didn't need anything like that right now so she tried to shove it away. Which made place for yet another feeling. Revenge. She had to make Aaron pay for what he did to Logan.

"Why do you let him get away with this?" She caught him by surprise as he had tried to blind out every other feeling than the one of Veronicas hands on his skin.

"Huh?"

"Why haven't you told anybody about this?"

"What do you think Veronica? Who would believe me over the famous Aaron Echolls? Not much more time and I can leave anyway."

"But-"

"No!", he said maybe a little too forceful and loud than he intended. "It's better if this stays a secret. You don't know what he is capable of."

Veronica tried to object but the expression on his face stopped her. Resignation was written all over it but it was his pleading eyes that convinced her to let this slip. For now.

Awkward silence stretched out between them until the quite voice of her broke it again.

"I'm sorry."

"What for? Nothing of this is your fault."

"I should have seen it earlier. As I look back now, there were so many times I could have noticed it. So many times when you weren't at school because you somehow had injured yourself while surfing or you had to leave for who-knows what. I should have... I can't believe..."

"It's okay, Ronnie", he tried to calm her down but achieved the exact opposite.

"It's okay?" She nearly yelled. "It's okay? What the hell are you talking about? This is as okay as Don Lamb being the Sheriff! Your father beats you! How can you say that that's okay?"

She would have gone on like this forever if Logan hadn't tried to calm her down by standing up to reach out for her while opening up his bruises again. She calmed down quickly and tried to help him.

"I'm so sorry Logan. It's just... This all seems to be so unfair."

"Life is unfair. For some of us more, for others less. Let's just forget this, okay? Forget this ever happened."

"Logan. You know I can't do that."

"Then just don't tell anybody. Please Veronica. Promise me you won't tell anybody."

"Fine", she huffed. "I promise."

"And now as it seems that I won't be able to do much more today, how about you stay for a while and we watch a movie or something like that? I could let us deliver some food. What do you say?"

"Sure."

After Logan returned, a thought crossed Veronicas mind.

"Logan? When did Aaron beat you?"

"Jeez, Veronica! I thought that I made it clear that I didn't want to talk about this anymore."

"I was just wondering. It couldn't have happened long ago so why weren't you at school this whole week?"

"I had to clear my mind. Get my thoughts straight." He didn't need to tell her that it was because of her and that this was the reason why Aaron had beaten him.

"And you had to skip school for that?"

"Yeah. School is not the most important part in my life like for other people."

"Are you trying to say that I'm a nerd?"

"I never said anything about being a nerd. You just said so yourself."

Veronica punched him on the arm but immediately regretted it as she saw his expression turning from amused to hurt.

"Ouch!"

"I'm sorry! Did he hurt you on the arm too?"

"No, but you surely know how to punch someone Mars. That hurt!"

"That I do. Now come on. Let's watch this movie. Which one is it anyway?"

"The Big Lebowski."

"OOOH! I so love this movie!", Veronica cried out while jumping up and down.

"I remembered."

It would have been an enjoyable evening for Veronica if her mind hadn't been so occupied with the thoughts of how to help Logan. Sure, she had promised not to tell anybody but that didn't mean that she wasn't allowed to investigate a little bit.

They watched the movie in silence fort most of the time, both of them too wrapped up in their own thoughts that neither of them noticed that they were getting along pretty well despite the things that happened during the last few weeks between them. As disturbingly as it seemed, they both felt very comfortable in each others presence.

"Thanks", Logan said as he accompanied Veronica to her car after the movie ended.

"I was just being a friend." Only seconds after she said this, Veronica regretted it immediately. She saw the hurt in Logans eyes even after he quickly covered it.

"Friends, huh?"

"Logan...", she tried but trailed off. She didn't know what else she could say so she didn't say anything at all.

Logan looked at her expectantly for some moments but nothing came.

"Whatever, Veronica." He hesitated for some seconds then bent down and gave her a little kiss on the cheek. "See you at school tomorrow." He turned around and went away leaving a confused Veronica behind. He had hoped that she would call him back and tell him that she felt the same as him and then they could have these mind-blowing kisses again, but nothing happened. He was nearly at the door again when he finally heard her voice.

"Logan! Wait." Did his hopes come true or was this just one of his dreams of her again where they ended in a very hot situation, and he would wake up any time in his bed, little Logan mockingly greeting him? He turned and saw Veronica running towards him.

"Yeah?" This couldn't be happening. He would wake up any second and see that the whole evening was just a dream and that he passed out after The beating from Aaron.

"I was wondering if you would be interested in listening to the tapes I got from Leo? I wanted to start with it the next weekend. Maybe you'd like to come over and we listen to them together? I mean if I remember correctly you wanted to be involved in the case."

"Uh, sure." Shit! He knew that his fantasy was totally unrealistic but a boy could still hope. At least it wasn't a dream and he would be spending more time with her. If he put it like that, it was nearly like some kind of a date. Maybe then...

"Great! Well, I see you then."

"Yeah, bye."

As he looked at Veronicas retreating form he thought that he had never hated Mondays as much as in this moment.

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