Chapter 9—Hitting the Fan
Veronica arrived home at 430 and went directly to her room, taking out the box Logan had collected from Lilly's air vent. She looked at the three tapes with a sigh of relief and set them aside. Next she pulled out the letter she had read from Weevil, as she opened it and read it again, a smile crossed her lips.
"What's wrong with Weevil, its not like he's diseased, just misunderstood" Lilly asked as she lazily jumped onto her bed.
"What's wrong with him is that you have a boyfriend." Veronica stated as she took a seat at Lillie's feet. "A boyfriend who happens to be my best friend." Lilly pouted for a moment, knowing she would get her own way, she always did.
"Veronica Mars, I thought I was your best friend." Veronica can't help but roll her eyes at her friend.
"You are Lil but so is Logan, and what am I supposed to say to him?"
"Nothing, Weevil is just a fling it will be over in a few weeks. You don't always have to do the right thing Veronica." Lilly lightly tapped Veronica with her foot, and they both giggled.
"Fine, but you get one more week of fun and I'm telling Logan."
"Tough Bargain, but I agree."
As Veronica finished rummaging through the box she took out a shot glass with a note from Logan. A note mentioning the car wash, suddenly realization hit her like a thousand bricks. Logan had been home that day; he had lied about his alibi. Picking up her cell phone she dialed Logan's number feeling that her hands could not be any slower at that moment.
"Ello?" His voice was groggy and it was obvious that Logan had been asleep. Using it to her advantage she didn't skip a beat. "What time did you get home from Tijuana the day Lilly was killed?"
She heard Logan sigh as she took in a breath awaiting his answer.
"1030" He said quietly. He had known this was going to happen since he had given her the box from Lilly's vent. "I saw you two at the carwash, and I knew it was over for good. I wrote her the note and left in her car." Veronica sighed and told him she would leave the note out of the box when she gave it to her dad.
The next morning Veronica woke early and took the tapes to her father, she figured if she was going to leave Logan out of it, she might as well leave Weevil out of it as well. She actually laughed about it for a moment as she thought about the stupidity of the situation. Lilly had died trying to put the tape into the press, while Paris Hilton and some b-list celebrity who nobody knows the name of other than from his early 90's sitcom, would have done anything to keep their sex tapes out of the media.
She walked to the Living room handing her father the tapes. "So this is the end right?" she asked as her father eyed the tapes with a smile on his face. "Yes honey this is the end."
Keith pulled his daughter into a comforting hug. He was so proud of what she had done in the past week. She had helped solve a case that he had been working for months, and she had been able to forgive those who had hurt her. He figured she got that from her mother, because he had never been the forgiving type as much as he had tried.
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"Do you honestly think I could do that to my own daughter?" Jake asked as he paced the interrogation room. "What Kind of parent do you think I am?"
"Come on Jake, even the most honest suspects have changes in their stories, but not you, nope you have your story down pat, and it doesn't make sense." Keith is looking at him with a large amount of distain.
"We both know that isn't what this is about, Keith." Jake leans against Keith's desk leaving his face about two feet from Keith's. "You can't stand the fact that you're little girl might be mine. If you do this, I will make your life miserable." Jake turned and walked from the room.
(A week later)
"Keith, there has been an emergency revote, they want you out." The Mayor says through the phone.
"Who will be replacing me?"
"Lamb." Keith almost drops the phone.
"You have to be kidding me; the case will never be solved that way." He is now pacing his office in the same manner Jake Kane had been the week before.
"You went after the wealthiest man in Neptune; there is nothing I can do." The line goes dead and Keith throws the phone against the wall.
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"Why did Abel Koontz confess dad?" Veronica asks, as she sits in the station waiting for their meeting with Lamb. "Why would he willingly be a scapegoat?"
"I'm assuming he was paid off by either the Kane's or Echoll's." Her father stated as he placed a hand over her's gently squeezing it to comfort her.
"But why would the Kane's cover up for Aaron?" Veronica looked at her fathers face for answers, knowing she would most likely find none. "We will find out, why they did what they did, I promise."
"Dad what if the tapes aren't enough of a motive?" Veronica said as she started pacing. "I mean as far as everyone is concerned Abel Koontz confessed, innocent people don't take the fall without a reason right?"
"You're right, honey, now all we have to do is figure out his reasoning." Veronica stopped pacing as lamb came out of his office to great them.
"Not that I actually care, but what crazy accusations are you about to make."
"We found new evidence in the Lilly Kane murder investigation." Keith stands up pushing passed lamb into the office. "These are more sex tapes, of Aaron, with Lilly Kane."
"Ummm you do realize we have the confessed killer behind bars? I need more to go on than sex tapes to convict him of murder." Keith rolls his eyes at the sheriff as Veronica sits quietly in the corner with tears in her eyes. The last time she had been in this office she had been mocked also. "Give my father two weeks and we will have proof."
Lamb took a few minutes to think about it "Two weeks, but only because your conspiracy theories amuse me, and if this pans out your name will not end up on the case."
"Fine"
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"Hey what's wrong with you?" Veronica plopped down into the sand next to her boyfriend.
"Nothing really, its just that our maid apparently registered one of my mother's pre-approved credit cards and maxed them out."
"Your maid as in Mrs. Navarro?" Veronica questioned.
"That would be her."
"But she has been with your family since you moved here. Exactly my mother thinks it was her Nephew but we can't prove it." Veronica nod's as he pulls her closer.
"Tell her to call my dad, he will help." Logan smiles as he slowly reaches for her sides, tickling her.
"Logan!" She exclaims as she wiggles around in the sand trying to escape.
"No more shop talk"