Veronica bit her lip nervously and ducked her head, just a little. Casey was having trouble reconciling this Veronica with the fearless girl he'd known in high school. Waiting for her to tell him what favor she could possibly need after all these years was enough to drive him crazy. "Out with it Mars, the curiosity is killing me." He told her, tone teasing.
"Logan is getting married." She blurted out suddenly and Casey felt his heart sink, just a little. He should have known that this would involve Echolls... or Kane. After all, with Veronica, it always had, one way or the other. He was such a loser to still be pining after this woman after all these years.
"I know," he told her, forcing down his disappointment, "I got the invitation in the mail yesterday." He walked back behind his desk and settled into his seat to watch as Veronica paced the room. He could feel the energy and tension rolling off of her in waves.
"Look, I checked into this woman's, Kara's, history, and Casey, something isn't right there. She's been widowed twice and has a fiancé that killed himself. Now maybe her luck in love is rotten to epic proportions," Casey didn't understand the somewhat bitter smirk that crossed her face or the way spat out the word epic like it was some sort of profanity and he wasn't sure that he wanted too. "and I'm just being a paranoid ex girlfriend," she continued, "Or maybe she a gold digger who might be out to hurt our friend."
"Alright, I'll admit, it sounds a little suspicious," He was thinking to himself that it sounded like the plot of some crappy movie but he still trusted Veronica's instincts enough to listen, " but what the hell does that have to do with me?" Casey asked, confused and impatient.
Veronica took a breath, steeling herself. "Well, if I took this information to Logan, he'd just blow it off. He'll think that its jealousy or something and he won't listen. We have too much history for him to take me at my word on this."
"Okay…"Casey said, his voice trailing off and making it clear that he still didn't understand what that had to do with him. "And you need what from me? You want me to talk to him?"
"Well, I sort of told Logan that we were together… romantically." She told him, the words coming quickly, like she expected him to blow up at any minute and wanted to explain as fast as possible.
"I found all of this out and I knew that if Logan found out that I was single right now, he'd never listen, he'd just think that it was a ploy to get him back, and before you ask, yes his ego is that big. So I told him that you and I were dating and that things had started to get pretty serious." She stopped talking, clearly need to catch her breath and looked at him like she was amazed he hadn't started yelling. "I told him it was you because I know that you're still friends. I was hoping that you'd believe me and want to help me because you care about Logan. If this woman is out to hurt him, maybe the two of us presenting a united front will get his attention and make him take it seriously."
She looked at him hopefully, doing the head tilt she was famous for and he knew he was a goner, he'd do what she asked but he still needed answers. "Why me?" He couldn't help but ask, "Why not Duncan or Dick?"
She grimaced before responding. "Logan would never believe anything romantic could happen between Dick and me." She told him and there was enough anger in her tone that he had no trouble believing her. "And Jake Kane may have gotten the Mannings to drop the charges against Duncan but he's still out of the country. Logan would never buy my being in a relationship with him either. But you…he knows that we were friends in high school," She began to count off her reasons on her fingers, "He knows that you're definitely my "type", and he wouldn't be surprised that if there was something between us, you wouldn't say something to him until you were sure that it was real. Plus, you know what his temper is like."
At that Casey couldn't help but nod his head in agreement, thinking back to some of the more violent explosions of anger he'd witnessed in high school.
"I couldn't just ask some unsuspecting fool to pretend to be in love with me, not when they would have no idea what Logan is capable of. But, you're his friend, he knows that you wouldn't hurt me, and if push came to shove…I think you could hold your own against him." The last bit was an obvious attempt to flatter him but she still smiled at him, blue eyes wide, "So Case…what do you say? Willing to help out a former Mooncalf in need of help?"