Where's The Backup?
Veronica sat in Wallace's' and Piz's dorm room. She was still thinking of her dad. She had all of what she needed, the tapes and number to the painters, she would deal with that later. She heard the door open.
"Hey Veronica, I heard what happened, I am really sorry." Piz said he came closer to her and sat next to her. She just nodded and looked down at the paper in front of her. It was the note Lamb had found. Wallace came in.
"Veronica it's been what?" He looked at his watch "three hours and your still looking at that paper," He tired to pull on her arm but she still wouldn't move. "Get up, your starting to smell" Wallace said as he and Piz forced her out of chair. She groaned, but got up. Then she remembered something.
"Wait, where's Back-up?" She asked Wallace.
"Lamb took him since you didn't have a place to put him." Wallace told her.
"I need to go." Veronica told them.
"Veronica you should really stay." Piz told her, but she was already out the door. Veronica walked to her car, got in it and drove away. It took her about 15 minute to get to Sheriff Lambs house. When she got there she walked up to the door and knocked. The door open Lamb had on a plain white T-shirt and some jeans. She ignored the fact that he was blocking the door with his body; she barged inside and stood there, looking around. She looked back at him; he was still shocked at her. She held out her hand out.
"My dog?" She asked.
Lamb finally understood he left her standing there. He came back a seconds with a large dog. She smiled when she saw Back-up. She needed family, and Back-up was all she had. She took the leash out of his hands and walked out of the house. Lamb followed after her. She got in her car, and turned to look at him.
"I'm going to find out who did this." She told him. Lamb looked at the ground and nodded his head. He heard the car pull away and looked up. He stood there for a second and then walked back into the house.
She got done her classes and decided that she would review the information she found. But she would need to go to her apartment. She knew she wasn't allowed there but she need her computer. She drove to the complex. She walked up to the door and took out her tazer. She used her key and opened the door. She quickly grabbed all the things she needed and left.
She drove to Mars Investigations. There she spent two hours going over the tapes. Another hour calling people on the list Parker's dad gave her. She couldn't find anything. She called the number of the painters and it was disconnected. So she looked it up. It was never a real number. That was the only lead. She heard a moan. She looked over at Back-up.
"Sorry boy but you're stuck here until I find dad." She told him.
She was still trying to make sense of all of it. She decided she needed a break. Where would she go? She couldn't go back home, and if she went back to the office she would want to work. And that would just make her madder.
She decided to take Back-up for a walk. She took him to a dog beach. She spent an hour sitting in the sand looking at the waves. She finally decided to leave. Veronica opened the door and let Back-up go in first, but he refused to move, he was sniffing a piece of paper on the ground. Veronica moved him out of the way and bent down to get the paper. She opened it, and read. Veronica dropped the note and began to run to the phone. She stopped when she felt a pressure on her back, she could tell it was a pistol; an arm came over her middle to trap her. Back-up started to bark. A man with a mask came out from her dad's office, and took Back-up from the mussel, Back-up tried to resist but he couldn't. Veronica screamed as the man jammed a needle in Back-up's neck. Veronica tried to squirm out of the man's arm. Back-up slipped to the ground. He was still breathing, but very lightly.
"Don't turn around" a voice said. Veronica sucked in her breath, and breathed out deeply. She started to tear up in fear.
"What do you want?" She asked in a shaky voice. The man with the mask went over to the desk and started looking at files. He grabbed the top one, probably the numbers and information she had gathered.
"We know what you want." He whispered in her ear. It gave her the chills. He whispered again. "But you can't get it until we get what we want" She shuttered. The man in the mask took out a pocket knife and took the wire to the phone and cut it. He put the knife back in his pocket and walked right pass Veronica without saying anything.
The man behind her said one last thing. "There is no place where you can go where we won't find you." She tried to look behind her and at the man. "we are watching you Veronica Mars" He took the butt of his pistol and swung it at her head. It hit her beside her right eye and she collapsed to the ground.
She had to have been out for an hour because when she woke up it was dark. She felt a sting as she tried to move her head. She lifted her hand to her right eye; it came away with blood. She finally pulled her self up and looked around. She saw Back-up laying there. She quickly remembered why, and got up on her feet and went over to him. He was breathing hard, and twitching like he was having a bad dream. She acted fast, since she couldn't call on the phone on the desk she thought of her dads phone and ran into his office, luckily the men didn't see that phone. She called 911. She gave them the address and they said they would be there in 5 minutes.
"Bring a vet" Veronica said and hung up before the officer could respond. She went back over to Back- up's side and stoked his brown coat. She forgot about her own injury until the police came in. She saw Lamb walk in. He went over to her and tried to pull her off the ground, but she wouldn't get up.
"No, just leave me be." Veronica told him. Lamb refused and helped her up, this time she got up. When she was on her feet, she lost her footing. Lamb tried to steady her. She was dizzy from the loss of blood, even though it was only a little, it still did some damage. She didn't want to leave her dog's side. He was all she had, he needed her. A woman who was probably a vet was examining Back-up. Veronica was pulled away by Lamb into her dad's office. A medic followed them and had her sit on the desk while he looked at the wound. Lamb was still in the room when the medic finished.
"Okay you need to take it easy for a little bit okay?" The medic told Veronica as he started to pack up his things. Veronica and Lamb watched him leave. Veronica held an ice pack to the corner of her right eye.
"Veronica what happened?" Lamb asked in a sincere voice.
"I came in and all the sudden these two men came out of nowhere." She started to explain. But right now she wanted to just go home and be with her dad. But she knew she couldn't do that so she kept talking. "One of the put a gun to me and the other put this needle in Back-up, to make him stop barking."
Lamb shook his head. "Veronica." He said in a low voice. She had never really seen him like this, it was like he cared.
"I really want to see Back-up now" she hopped off the desk, which was a bad idea, because she sort of fell right into Lamb. He caught her and steadied her. She looked down at the ground, embarrassed.
"Veronica your dog is fine, why don't you just relax, its ok." He told her.
"Yea?" She looked at up at him, as she shook her head.
"Yes it's going to be..." She cut him off.
"How can you say that?" She asked angrily.
"Veronica." Lamb said her name sternly.
"Just let be with Back-up." Veronica told him as she tried to move pass him. But he blocked her path.
"Why do you want to be with him?" he stared to raise his voice.
"Because" she said as she was still trying to get by him.
"Because why?" He wanted an answer, but he dint know why.
"Just because okay?" she said simply, now raising her voice.
"No not okay, tell me." He said as he didn't believe what she was telling him.
"Because he's the only one I have left alright." She finally told him, letting her guard down.
He had no idea what came over him, he just felt like finally he needed to protect her. He put his face to hers and when she allowed it he gently kissed her. At first she pulled away, and looked at him, confused. Then she realized she was sort of waiting for him to kiss her. When she tried to pull him back someone came into the room. It was Sacks.
"Sheriff." He said simply, which meant he needed to leave. Lamb looked at Veronica, and then left her. Just what she needed, someone else to leave her. He left and someone else came into the room.
Everything was a blur. She was still thinking about whether she really just kissed Lamb as in the sheriff, as in the one who did and said all the mean things to her and her dad, and if she allowed it. She just remembered someone telling her that Back-up was fine, and it was just a sleeping drug the man put in him. But the police still wanted to look around the place. They had her call a friend so she called Mac to pick her up. When Mac came she took Veronica and led her to the car. Veronica's head was throbbing; she still held the ice pack to her face. On their way out she saw Lamb. He was staring at her. Lamb finally broke his concentration when Sacks came over to him with a pile of paper. When he looked back she was gone.
Authors Note Hope you like the story, please review
Tell me what you think about the ending, I changed it a lot, I liked this one the best.
(How does one write about Lamb, and Veronica? sometimes it's hard because you want it to happen, but you know it is not supposed to.)
I personally feel they shouldn't have taken lamb off the show (also they could have given him a better way to die) I think they could have done more with his character, but what can you do?)
Also I wanted to say that sometimes when I am writing I listen to the Veronica Mars soundtrack and get caught up in the music, but that sometimes doesn't work, because the reader are like "what the…" do you know what I mean?( my favorite song to write to is: Momentary Thing, Lost & found, Lily Dreams On, and Sway sometimes Dakota.) But I didn't want to write a song fic. (I don't like those.)
Anyway please review, tell me what you think. :) (: