Keith discovered that the liquid contained in the needle Veronica managed to get to him was a strong sedative that pregnant women were not supposed to take. Veronica had been transferred to the safety of the local hospital where she would spend the remaining five months of her pregnancy bored out of her mind. Keith had managed to stall a few days before telling Veronica the news about her mother. The problem was that it was dangerous for her to get to upset or stressed out and she had already been put through way too much lately. He attempted to tell her a few times, but always ended up losing his nerve. One day he got the unexpected news that Lianne had woken and walked out without doing any paperwork or paying. He had no desire to track her down, and since she wasn't practically dead anymore, he saw no reason to tell Veronica after all.
The months passed by more or less uneventfully. Certainly nothing crime related got any closer to being completely solved and neither did Lianne's strange actions. Veronica stayed in the hospital indescribably bored and driving both Logan and her father crazy for another four and a half months. Then finally one night something worth mentioning happened.
It was raining outside. Veronica was watching it pour through the window beside her bed as Logan lay asleep on the narrow strip of available space beside her. The baby had settled down and seemed to sleep inside of her as she rubbed her hands over her belly contently. She was in a good mood and the rain was soothing; Veronica couldn't remember the last time she had felt so relaxed. It was pitch black outside and around eleven pm when the pains started kicking in. It was two weeks early, but Veronica wasn't really surprised. She was mostly just happy she had kept her in this long. Carrying her this long, Veronica had learned two things about her baby. She was going to be as impatient as her mother and aggressive as her father. Veronica wasn't surprised the baby wanted to hurry up and get out of her mother.
At first she didn't do anything about it, just bore the pains when they came and savored the last moments of having her baby inside her. After a while however, she nudged Logan gently awake and put his hand to her belly while she was having a contraction so he would get the picture. For a moment he just froze and stared at her, his eyes getting bigger by the second while she remained unusually calm and smiled at him.
He kissed his wife thinking this was one of the best moments he had ever had. "I'll go get the doctor," Logan said softly and left. While he was looking, he also went ahead and called Keith, knowing how dead he would be if Keith missed the excitement for not knowing in time.
The labor didn't last long, the baby was born only an hour and a half after the initial pains started kicking in. Logan stayed in the room with Veronica, even as she came close to breaking his hand from squeezing it so hard and yelling out every imaginable curse at him she could think off in the most painful moments. He only smiled at her, angering her more, though they both knew her rancor would go away the second they got to see the baby.
It was a girl, which they had known for a while. A little tiny wriggly pink one that had Logan's eyes and a little wisp of Veronica's blonde hair….and amazing vocal ability. She came into the world screaming and didn't quiet down for a several minutes. They handed her to Logan as Veronica started hemorrhaging and they had to do a procedure on her to make it stop. It had been expected, so Logan wasn't to terrified as they rushed her out, but he did make sure to hold the baby up so she could see her before she was put under. It wasn't an uncommon procedure, but Logan still worried as he took the baby out to her grandpa for him to see and to tell him the update on Veronica.
Keith took her carefully from Logan and stared at her. Logan let him hold her for a while, though he really wanted to get to hold of her again himself and at the moment, Keith had held her longer than him.
"I'm a grandpa." He finally said in an astonished voice as he gave her back to Logan.
She wriggled around a bit and took hold of one of his fingers. She had tiny feet like her mother and stared at Logan intently. He had never felt so strange before in his life.
About an hour later, a nurse came out to tell them that Veronica was fine and in recovery. Logan took the baby in to see her and when they got there, she had already woken up and was holding out her hands for Logan to give the baby to her. He grinned as he handed his daughter to his wife.
"Hey there Lilly," she cooed, smiling uncontrollably. Logan sat down beside her and took hold of her little fist. "She's okay, right?" Veronica asked nervously.
Logan nodded. "Seven pounds. They said she was just fine. What's her middle name?"
They had settled on "Lilly" together but never really could agree on a middle name.
"Lynn. Lilly Lynn is a cute name. Don't you think?"
Logan smiled in response. He appreciated the use of his mother's name. "Lilly Lynn Echolls. Yep, I like it. Let's just hope she doesn't get in as much trouble as her namesakes."
Veronica let out a laugh. "Logan, she's our daughter. You know that, right?"
"Oh God, you're right. This kid's in for it." He bent down closer to the baby. By this time, he was no longer holding her hand but she had one of his fingers in her grasp. "You're gonna be trouble, aren't you?"
Veronica turned to Logan and kissed him chastely on the cheek. "She's so cute. She looks just like you."
Logan turned to his wife seriously. "You know they said you shouldn't have anymore right?"
She nodded solemnly. "They told me."
"I'm going to spoil you rotten. And I'm not going to screw you up, I promise." Logan said, turning his attention back to Lilly.
Veronica smiled. "You're gonna be a good dad."
