thanks for the interest in my story guys! just as a wee thank you, here's the second chapter! they won't all be coming at this rate! when i write a a chapter then i'll post a chapter so i don't really catch up with myself! so, no questions to answer so not much more to say! enjoy!

Veronica was walking to her usual lunch table when she saw Wallace sitting there. Raising her eyebrows, she walked over to him.

'You do realise where you are sitting right?' She asked him, sitting her tray down.

'I do now!' Wallace replied. 'The Veronica Mars table. I did wonder why everyone was giving me those strange looks.' He smirked at her.

'So why don't you move?'

'Because I wanted to talk to you. To thank you again for this morning.'

'It's no trouble, I told you.' Veronica shrugged it off, silently glad that she had someone to talk to.

'Well, I owe you one.'

'You do know who I am, you can guarantee I'll hold you to that one.' Veronica smiled. 'So, what do you do with yourself?'

'Not much really, I love basketball, I'm thinking of trying out for the team this year.'

'You should, just don't expect me to come and cheer you for it.'

The pair smiled at each other, and continued talking non-stop for the rest of lunch. Veronica was happy that finally someone had looked past her father's choices and just wanted to get to know her. Wallace was good, he didn't mention Lily or Logan, and he just talked about himself, and asked about Veronica. It all seemed so simple.

--

Veronica sat down at her desk after a long school day. And it was only her second one. Sighing she opened up her laptop and smiled sadly at the picture of her and Lily just before last year's Homecoming dance.

Veronica double-clicked on a folder with no name and it popped open. She scanned down the list of folders, all separately named and neatly arranged. Lily Echolls, Logan Echolls, Duncan Kane, Aaron Echolls, Lynn Echolls, Abel Koontz. The list went on. Alibis, clues and information; everything to do with Lily Echolls' murder was on file, and no one knew Veronica had it all. She knew her dad would kill her if he knew she was still investigating it, he had dropped it a while back, but Veronica couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right.

Lily Echolls, murdered at 4.02pm on July 21st. She was found by her father Aaron Echolls soon after, lying by the pool, already dead, her head caked in blood. Eye witnesses and phone records showed that neither Aaron nor Lynn were nowhere near the house during Lily's time of murder. Logan and Duncan were in Mexico, and were due to drive up the next morning. However they came home that night after receiving the devastating news from Veronica.

No one close to Lily was near during her time of death, and the Sheriff's department had no leads. Keith Mars had accused Aaron Echolls, but an anonymous tip sent the new Sheriff to Abel Koontz house, where Lily's shoes were found along with some other personal items. The man accused Aaron for not treating his fans properly. He was jailed and was now awaiting trial.

But all of this wasn't good enough for Veronica. She needed more.

Veronica decided to run background checks on each person for the millionth time. It never brought anything up that she didn't know already, but Veronica couldn't think of anything else she could do.

She started with the obvious, Lily Echolls. She typed her name into the search bar and soon enough a list containing everything about Lily started to build up on the screen, dating back from the day she was born till the day she died.

Everything was organised into headings, place of birth, places of residence, schools, family, convictions, car licences, parking tickets…

Wait. Something caught Veronica's eye. She had noticed that Lily had received countless parking tickets since she learned to drive, Lily was always parking wherever she wanted, but Veronica had never noted the dates.

Now Veronica was staring at two parking tickets, and a moving violation, both received by Lily on the day she died.

--

Keith Mars sat in his office rearranging his desk. Once he was happy with the state of it, he eyed the drawer at the bottom of his desk. He knew he had to solve this murder crime. He could not accept that an innocent man was sitting awaiting a lifetime in jail for a crime he didn't commit. There must be something out there that can point him in the right direction. This cover up plan can't be flawless, no one is smart enough to create a plan within a few days, since Lily was found and Abel was caught.

Keith was absolutely sure that Aaron Echolls had something to do with Lily's murder. Whether or not he actually committed the murder, Keith was still unsure, but he was positive Aaron was behind some part of it.

Back in July, Keith had said to Aaron in the interrogation room that he was absolutely sure that Aaron had something to do with Lily's murder, and Keith was going to get to the bottom of it.

Aaron Echolls had just smirked back at Keith. The next day he arranged a massive press conference and invited all of the press. He protested his innocence with a hearty speech, including tears and gasps for air. The media were eating out of his hand, a world famous actor, loved by all. He loved his daughter with all his heart, the media were never going to back the local sheriff.

So Keith was forced out of the Sheriff's department, he lost his job and all of his support. And Veronica lost all of her friends.

That's why Keith was still investigating this murder. For Veronica. He needed to prove that he was right that Abel Koontz was innocent, and that he was right to go after Aaron Echolls. That way Veronica would have no need to be ashamed of him, she could be a normal teenager again, without the pressures and harassment from her classmates.

--

Veronica and Wallace were walking down the hallway when Logan started parading towards them.

'So I heard on the grapevine that it was you that untied my little friend here.' Logan sang sarcastically. 'Now why would you do that?'

'Logan you know that everything I do in life is just to spite you.' Veronica smirked back.

Logan ignored her and turned to Wallace. 'I still don't understand why you would want to stick up for this skank, let alone be seen with it.' He growled.

'Now why do you have to go and be so darn mean all the time?' Wallace snapped back. 'What's she ever done to you?'

Logan stood taller, squaring up to Wallace.

'Let's not go into this just now.' Veronica said hastily, pushing Logan back from Wallace. Her hand lingered on his chest for longer than it should have, remembering the feel on Logan's toned body. Logan noticed this, and stared intensely into her eyes. Veronica felt lost for words, and she was almost certain she saw a glimpse of softness in his eyes. But he shook it off immediately and pulled back from Veronica's hand.

'Don't touch me bitch, I don't want rabies.' He snarled, turning back to his old harsh self.

Wallace looked at Veronica carefully as she joined him at their lockers, looking dishevelled. 'Are you okay?'

Veronica shook herself. 'Yeah I'm fine, just formulating a plan to get him back for tying you up.'

'Well, have fun with that, I'm just going to start my new job.'

'What?'

'Well, I'm trying to get extra credit, so I'm helping out in the admin office in my spare time.' Wallace explained.

Veronica smirked to herself. Wallace looked at her, waiting for her to reply.

'So Wallace, about you owing me back for letting you down off that flagpole…'

--

Veronica put on her best smile and walked up to the woman working at the front desk.

'Hi.' She said in a sweet voice. 'I totally forgot that I had some parking tickets to pay off, here's my registration and ID.'

The woman just nodded, wandering into the back and bringing out a brown envelope.

'Here you go Miss Echolls.' She mumbled. 'You fees are listed in there.'

Veronica smiled, walking out of the building. She got into her car, and was about to open up the envelope when she heard Wallace shouting her.

'What are you doing here?' Veronica asked quickly, stuffing the envelope in her glove box.

'I got a parking ticket to pay off.' He replied. 'You?'

'Same…' She smiled back, offering the front seat of her car to Wallace. He jumped in and Veronica drove them back to school.

'So are you going to tell me why you wanted Logan's locker combination?' Wallace asked tentively. He knew he could get him in a lot of trouble, sneaking through files that he wasn't supposed to see. But he wanted to keep Veronica as a friend, and he was happy to return a favour for her.

'You'll see.' Veronica smiled cheekily and raised her eyebrows at him. She parked the car and they both jumped out. Veronica led Wallace down the corridor to where the Principal, the Sheriff and his deputy were doing random locker searches. Logan was the victim, currently opening his locker for them.

A look of shock appeared on his face as the Sheriff took out a bong from his locker. Logan stuttered. 'That's not mine, it's a fix!'

'You're coming with me.' Sheriff Lamb handed the bong to his Deputy and put Logan's hands behind his back, walking him out of the school.

Logan's eyes locked with Veronica's and she smirked, waving at him sarcastically. His expression hardened.

'It was her! The whore! You're going to pay for this Veronica!' He shouted behind him.

Wallace laughed beside Veronica. 'That's the reason you needed his locker combination?'

'Well, I had to get him back for tying you up.' She shrugged. 'But we're not done yet.' She grabbed Wallace's arm and dragged him out the school.

'Life is never boring with you Veronica Mars.' Wallace chuckled as he followed her out.