Title: Under My Skin
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or mostly anything in this. Or anything at all. Sad but true.
Authors Note: I'm sorry about how long this took me. I would start and have no clue how I could realistically do an intervention that would be humorous and somewhat based on something that could happen on the show. For those who reviewed THANKS! You pushed me to do this. And also for my school for making my education a joke, and making me resort to immerging myself in Veronica Mars once again. Hope you had a great vacay.
Also… this may not be the most grammatically correct part.. Even worse than my usual mistakes. My grasp is extremely limited as of late.
Mac and Dick tried to come up with an idea of how to get the two back together. The problem was that they were both too smart to do something that was slightly obvious. No parent trap scenario, no trapping them in a small room together, and definitely not some sort of knight in shining armor scenario. This was definitely going to be hard. Dick insisted that they needed some mood music, and so he switched to one of his favorite song on his ipod's in the car on their way to get something to eat. Styx came on, and dick began to drum manically while driving while Mac looked at her boyfriend in awe. She didn't picture Richard Casablancas Jr. as a Styx man.
'Our plan must be flawless Mackenzie!' Dick said over the booming electrical guitars in the chorus. Mac just laughed at him, his hair glowing and he seemed to be the most happy when listening to songs like this one. 'Our plan must be the king of all other plans, and thank god we have you on our team, because I have never met anyone more devious and smart than you.' Mac blushed and she knew it wasn't exactly true, but it was sweet of him to say something like that.
Over dinner they discussed their mutual best friends, and tried to come up with common ground. 'Dude, Logan is the most agreeable when he is drunk. Alcohol must be apart of this plan.' Mac tried to figure out exactly what made Veronica tick. What would be enough to make all the hurt that she had suffered under from the last few weeks go away? At first she tried to guess what made Veronica forget about the pain, but knowing veronica, assured her that there really wasn't a case of that. Instead she tried to think about what made Veronica decide to forgive Logan for whatever particular hurt he had caused.
Mac knew that Veronica was not innocent in all of their problems but there were instances that she knew about and she was sure there were things that she didn't know that had caused some of the friction. There were things about the two of them that no one but the two involved knew about. Instead she tried to think as a girl, and not as a cynical tiny PI. Veronica was a great friend, but she didn't volunteer information and even though she was trying, it was still hard to get the whole story to anything that she was involved in.
So as a girl what would make her forgive and forget? Dick had done a great job of making the problem disappear with a gesture. And that's when it hit her, A grand gesture. She remembered Veronica telling her when they were both drunk off of coffee crisp ice cream that Logan had told her that they were epic and that made her rethink how done they were. So that was the key. She didn't say anything to dick yet, since he was about doing not thinking, and they needed to act very carefully.
The rest of the dinner was spent together and Dick was very entertaining and Mac found herself laughing all the time with him, and she couldn't begin to tell anyone how great that was. Instead of worrying about her differences, she just worried about how she would try not to have a stomachache from all the laughing she did. She knew they had to act fast, the holidays were almost over and soon it would be harder to bring them together.
She looked at Dick as he ate his salmon and she couldn't help but sigh at how cute he was. What she didn't know was that dick was thinking the same.
It took them almost three days before they realized that getting Logan on board on the burgeoning plan was probably the best thing. Dick had said that Logan was the most agreeable when he was drunk, and so that was the first step. So she managed to convince Dick that getting some tequila was a good idea. She waited in Dick's room until she could hear Logan's voice slur and that's when she knew it was time.
When Logan saw that Mac had walked into the room, he had a sense of dread and even in his state of mind, he knew that she was up to something. 'Logan welcome to your intervention.' Mac said and Dick just giggled. Logan scratched his head in confusion. 'What kind of intervention?' he said warily. Mac simply laughed. 'We are going to make sure you stop making the biggest mistake, and get Veronica to take you back!'
Logan just burst out laughing. 'Are you kidding me? I'm free from the torment. Why would I want to go back?' Logan said but neither Dick or Mac believed him. (Or Logan himself, for that matter.) Logan looks at the two people in front of him and he suddenly felt very suspicious. Of course his mind was a little slow with the alcohol in his system.
Mac just crossed her arms and gave him the glare that Veronica had perfected over the years. Call Mac an anthropologist, for picking it up. Observing the almost unobservable. Logan looked up blurrily and groaned.
'Even if I knew I had made the biggest mistake as you said, Ronnie would never take me back. I'm not perfect like her precious Duncan.'
Dick had to laugh at that. Sure he was somewhat clueless when it came to women and most definitely Veronica Mars but he wasn't completely blind. 'Dude, the guy knocked up his comatose ex girlfriend and didn't tell her. He ran away like a little bitch, plus your totally hotter than DK.'
Mac had to smile at her boyfriend for putting such a delicate argument so Dick like. 'He's right you know. Duncan never saved her time after time.'
Logan put down the bottle that he had been holding, and even if he was three sheets to the wind, he was thinking clearly. 'If I agree and join this little cute bandwagon, how in the hell are you going to get Ronnie to forgive me?'
Mac and Dick looked at each other. There was the clinch in their plan for the intervention. Mac knew that the grand gesture was important, but deciding which gesture would be the grand was hard. Veronica was hard to read most of the times, and trying to gauge her reaction would be tough. They would need some help from someone who knew Veronica very well. It was time to go to Wallace.
Dick was left to baby-sit Logan, with the strict instructions to not let Logan have any more alcohol. They might need some information out of him. Wallace was playing some basketball at a court that was a few blocks from his house, and Mac smiled at Wallace cheering on some kids who were having a game.
Mac hoped that Wallace had the perspective that she needed. Veronica was reluctant at best on revealing what was going on. It had been a shock, that Veronica had all out told Wallace, Piz and herself about her break up, but Veronica felt she could reveal certain things to Wallace, that she just wasn't comfortable telling anyone else.
'Hey girl.' Wallace said and flashed her a classic Fennel grin that would make any girl blush. 'Hey, can we talk?' Wallace waved to the kids and walked with Mac. 'So what's up?'
'Dick and I have been working at bringing V and Logan together again.' Wallace laughed. 'Really? Let me know how that goes; cause I am not touching that.' Wallace begins to walk away and then Mac says the one thing that she knows will get to him. 'I just want her to be happy.' And Wallace stops. He huffs and he almost whines. 'She will maim me!' He says and sighs and puts his arm around Mac. 'Fine, I'll help. But please note my extreme objections. Especially with surfer boy.'
Wallace came back to the suite and sighed at the horrible smell of stale alcohol and the rank smell of misery and pain. The last time he had seen V, she had been in her bathrobe, and she had been staring at the wall. He had been amazed that his usual very together best friend was just a shell.
He had never been a huge fan of Logan. Something about seeing this incredibly strong and kind person having her car beaten with a crow bar makes a man not feel all warm and fuzzy. He did see a different side, when they were paired together for their physics project. Logan wasn't all good, and he wasn't all bad. But a happy V was a happier Wallace.
So Wallace and Mac began to think on something that would make their friend even consider forgiving Logan. At first the suggestions had some merit, but none of them were a sure thing, and that's what they needed. Dick got frustrated first and started moaning about how it was never going to work, but Logan looked determined. It seemed that whatever doubts he had when the idea had come up, had all but disappeared.
After some time and a lot of time between the ideas, Logan finally came up with something that would work. He had been avoiding getting ready for a meeting with his accountant and the TV was on in the background as he was about to go get his shower when he saw a commercial. An ad for the happiest place on earth. And suddenly, Logan knew exactly what would bring him and Ronnie closer together. A little impromptu visit to Orlando Florida.
