here's the next chapter. it's pretty short i think, well i'm not really sure if it is or not. i couldn't find a very good place to stop. and there's a good place i want to stop next chapter and adding them together would have just been too long. thanks for all the reviews guys, keep them coming! :)

Veronica and Wallace sat in her car outside the Sheriff's station.

'Do you want to do the honours?' Veronica asked Wallace, passing him a small black remote.

Wallace looked from her to the remote and back. 'Say what?'

'Just press the button, whenever you feel like it.' Veronica sat back in her chair as Wallace pressed the button slowly.

'So what's happening?' He asked.

'Right now? That bong is about to fake a fire.' Veronica smirked, imagining the bong smoking up in the evidence cupboard. It was likely that it would set of the smoke alarms pretty soon.

Sure enough, the alarms started blaring and fire engines rushed to the scene. The chief got out the car, and Veronica winked at him.

Wallace looked at Veronica. 'What is going on?'

'Well, you needed payback, and I needed a favour.'

The Chief comes out and throws Veronica a package quickly before turning to the Sheriff and explaining that it was a false alarm.

At that moment Logan was being released from the Sheriff's station. He glared at Veronica as she quickly drove away.

'You guys are just so intense.' Wallace commented.

'Shut up.' Veronica snarled.

--

Veronica sat at her desk and opened the envelope, taking out the tickets Lily had received. She and Veronica had applied for fake IDs, and they had arrived a few weeks after Lily died. Now Veronica could actually put Lily's to use.

Veronica's eyed scanned down the ticket. Her mouth fell open. According to the ticket, Lily was caught running a red light at 6.02pm by an automatic surveillance camera. That was two hours after her supposed time of death.

Veronica had her lead. Now nothing added up. No one had alibis that held up now.

Veronica rushed through to her father's office. He looked up at her sharply as she slammed the ticket down on his desk.

'Look at this dad!' She cried. 'It's a parking ticket that Lily got on the day she died, she ran a red light!' She heaved.

Keith looked up at her strangely. 'What?'

'The time! Look at the time!' Keith did as he was told.

'Wait… this means…'

'It means that Lily's time of death wasn't her actual time of death! It was tampered with! You were right dad, you were right!' Veronica beamed, glad that they could finally get a lead and solve this murder.

'Veronica, tell me you haven't been investigating this any further.' Keith sighed.

'Dad I'm sorry but look! I found a lead, we can-'

'I can't believe you would go behind my back and do this!' Keith shouted, making Veronica jump. 'You know what this case did to you, did to our family! How dare you continue with this!'

Keith Mars knew he was being a hypocrite. Veronica had found valuable evidence, he was definitely going to keep it. But he couldn't have her getting hurt again, she needed to rebuild her life with her friends, and doing this wasn't going to solve anything.

'But Dad!' Veronica protested.

'I forbid you to go anywhere near this case again. Now get out!' Keith shouted harshly.

--

Meeting Wallace for class the next day, Veronica tried not to think about Lily, and having to leave the case along for her dad's sake. Last night's fight had been too intense for her. Keith hardly ever got angry, Veronica hadn't seen him that angry for a long time, so she knew it was serious.

She knew for a fact that she wouldn't be able to keep her hands off the case for long, just long enough for her dad to think she had left it alone.

But every second of her day she thought of Lily, she thought of how whoever had found her, had managed to form a complete cover up plan so quickly. They must have found Lily, somehow tampered with her body temperature, and then phoned the police, everyone's alibis in place. The new body temperature would show that Lily was killed hours before she was found.

But now, with this new evidence, it shows that everyone wasn't where they had said they were when Lily really died. Veronica ached to find out where they were, she wanted phone records and CCTV cameras, anything that could point her in the right direction.

Walking further into the school grounds, Veronica noticed that the school was being decorated for tomorrow night's memorial service for Lily. Finally they were doing something. Lily was never the best student in the school, she was forever getting into trouble and flunking her classes, but with her famous family lines, and cleverly timed donations, Lily appeared to do fantastically, and all the teachers loved her. Of course the school was always going to do something for Lily, Veronica just didn't know when, obviously now it was actually happening.

Veronica was going to actually have to say goodbye to Lily. She didn't know f she was ready for this. She would never be ready, until her mind was at peace when Lily's murderer was in jail.

Walking into her computing classroom she saw Logan sitting at a computer, running tapes of Lily back and forwards, and taking notes.

'What are you doing?' Veronica asked softly.

Logan turned round, and for once he didn't insult her. 'Making a video for the service tomorrow, my mom's giving me hundreds of tapes to work with. All the boring stuff, people won't be interested.' He shrugged.

Veronica nodded silently as the tension filled up the room again.

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Veronica and Wallace were walking Backup on the beach after school. Veronica had spent all day trying to avoid people talking about Lily and people asking her to help set up for the next day. She knew she should be involved, but she just couldn't bring herself to do it.

'Uh oh.' Wallace mumbled beside her, breaking her thoughts. Veronica looked where Wallace was looking and spotted Logan and a few of his friends hanging around her car.

Veronica walked towards it, and on approach, she saw that Logan was actually lying a top it. Sighing, she walked faster, this was not what she needed.

'Your car not good enough to sit on?' She commented sarcastically. Logan smirked back at her.

'Well, it's fine, but I can't do this to my car can I?' He said, standing up, jumping into the air and thumping down on her bonnet, creating a massive dent.

'So why did I deserve that today?' Veronica asked, keeping calm.

Logan jumped off the bonnet and back onto the ground, taking a metal pole from one of his friends. 'Let's play a game!' He said happily. 'Do you know what your little stunt yesterday cost me?'

'Well I'm pretty sure you won't be getting your bong back.' She replied sarcastically.

Logan's eyes hardened, and with a swing her smashed one of Veronica's headlights with his pole. Veronica gasped.

'Wrong answer.' He replied. 'Care to guess again?'

'Clearly your sense of humour.' She stood her ground.

Logan smashed her other headlight. 'Nope.' He replied. 'You are usually so good at pop quizzes. The correct answer is, my car!'

Veronica raised her eyebrows.

'That's right, my daddy took my t-bird away, and you know what I won't be having?' He asked, staring Veronica in the eyes.

Veronica didn't want to back down, but something about Logan's eyes still got to her. She stayed silent for a while, just watching his eyes, hating what he had become.

'Funfunfun.' He whispered at her.

Logan felt under pressure by Veronica's eyes, he knew she could read people well. He walked backwards, tearing his eyes away from her gaze. Dropping the pole, he suddenly became uninspired to do any more damage.

Veronica watched the boys drive away, still in shock from what happened. Wallace was inspecting her car.

'This is going to cost a lot to fix.' He murmured.

'It's ok, I know someone who can do it for me.' Veronica replied slowly, walking over to her car.