Part 4
Kol and Elijah had just gone to get a few pizzas for their dinner while Rebekah and Klaus finished helping Veronica sorting through what she would give Good Will when someone knocked on the door.
"It's a human." Klaus assured her, though he doubted she had any other sort of visitors, besides them.
Veronica nodded and went to open the door. She was surprised to find Duncan Kane on the other side of it and wondered what the Kane's would try to do to her now.
"Duncan? What are you doing here?" She asked him as Klaus and Rebekah stayed hidden in her bedroom so they didn't bother her, giving her the choice to introduce them or not.
She didn't let him in and staying in the middle of the door so he understood that he couldn't come in, that he wasn't welcome anymore, in her house or in her life.
"Veronica… Your mother came by late last night to talk to my father… I heard my parents talking about it… She told them that you weren't my father's daughter." Duncan informed her as he stood on his side of the door with a big smile on his face, as if it had been the best news he had heard in a long time.
"Is the celebratory party over yet then?" Veronica asked him in a sarcastic tone.
She could very well picture Celeste Kane popping open a bottle of Champagne to celebrate the fact that Veronica wasn't a Kane and couldn't possibly take their fortune away.
"Well, mom was pretty happy yes… I… Since you're not my sister… I was wondering… You know… if you wanted to go out with me sometimes?" Duncan asked her nervously.
"Are you kidding me? For the past few months you royally ignored me, you let your friends do horrible things to me. Never once did you stand up for me, defended me. You didn't even break up with me, you simply started ignoring me one day without so much as an explanation… Now you expect us to get back together? After everything your family has done to me and my... Keith?" She snapped at him, her voice rising.
Calling Keith Mars her father just didn't sound right anymore.
"I still love you, Veronica." He replied, pleading.
"What about Meg? Aren't you dating her now?" She asked him.
"I broke up with her this afternoon." Duncan replied.
"Oh, you mean you're actually capable of breaking up or did you just start ignoring her too?" Veronica rolled her eyes.
"Veronica, please…" Duncan pleaded.
"Well, you're out of luck. My biological father and his siblings arrived this morning and I'm leaving tomorrow. I'm moving in with them and am finally getting out of this hellish town." Veronica told him.
"You're leaving? Why?" He asked her, surprise all over his face.
"Because I was given the choice and there is nothing left for me in this town. I'm going away with my father, my aunt and my two uncles. I can't stay here any longer. I need a new start." She told him.
"Will you stay in touch?" He asked her pleadingly.
"Be serious Duncan. I'm not my mother. I'm not going to go back to you every time you call like my mother is doing with your father. I'm leaving tomorrow and I'm leaving this town behind me for good." She shook her head.
"Are you alone? I could spend the evening here and…" He suggested.
"You're not hearing me Duncan. No, I'm not alone. My father and my aunt are here, helping me pack up everything and no, you can't come inside. It's over between us, just like it's been over even since you decided to ignore me instead of telling me what was going on. It's too late, too much has happened. Everything bad that's happened to me in the last year is your family's fault. It's too late. You should have come much sooner, you should have stood up by my side. You should apologize to Meg and get back together with her because there's no chance of anything else happening between us ever again." Veronica replied seriously before she closed the door.
Through the curtain of the glass front door, she watched as Duncan shook his head and finally turned around and left.
"Are you alright Sweetheart?" Klaus asked her.
"I'm fine…" She smiled.
She couldn't call him dad yet, not so soon after losing Keith Mars who had been her father for so long. The title of DAD had to be earned, it would take a few days.
"You know, we could stay here a while longer if you want to try and work things out with him…" Rebekah assured her.
"No, I'm fine. Nothing more can happen between us and I don't want to stay in this town for one moment longer than I have to. I feel like Neptune sits on a Hell Mouth and is about to swallow me whole." Veronica replied as she poured herself a glass of water.
"Good. I didn't like him much. You're too good for him." Klaus nodded as he joined them.
"Because you think you'll ever approve of anyone she's going to date?" Rebekah rolled her eyes.
"We'll see." Klaus chuckled.
"Yeah, I see how you are with me and I'm only your sister. Get ready to give up on men Veronica. Nobody is ever going to be good enough for you to your father or even us." Rebekah said right before the door opened on Kol and Elijah carrying 3 large pizzas, a large bottle of soda and Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
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They waited until the next morning to leave and on the way to Neptune's airport, Veronica decided that there was only one person she wanted to say goodbye to. Someone who had helped her as much as she had helped him during the past year and that's the reason why her father's fancy rental car was now parked in the middle of the PCH, in front of the Navarro house.
"V, what brings you here? You need another favor already?" Weevil asked her.
He had been fixing his bike up when she arrived and he was now wondering what kind of favor she needed this time and why she was getting out of this fancy car instead of her Le Baron. He was hoping she didn't have any big probelms, dealing with the loss of her father was hard enough for her.
"No… I... I came to say goodbye." She replied.
"Going on a vacation with your mother or something?" He asked her as he whipped his hands on a rag.
"No, my mother left… She… Before she left she said that Keith Mars wasn't my father, whiwh I know he suspected… She called my real father, told him he had a 16 years old daughter and now he's taking me home with him, in Virginia." She explained.
"Wow, V… That's something. What do you think of him?" He asked her as he eyed the people in the car, trying to see something through the tainted windows.
"Surprisingly enough, I feel like I can trust him… I feel pretty good about this… A new beginning somewhere new is just what I needed." Veronica told him.
"Well, that's good I guess. Just be careful because I won't be able to come to the rescue if you go this far." Weevil chuckled as he gave her a one handed hug.
"You too. I won't be here to bail you and your boys out." She smiled.
"I'm going to miss that head tilt of yours. You definitely should warn your father about its power." He told her.
"Now, why would I do that?" She chuckled.
"What about the Le Baron?" He asked her.
"My uncle is having it fixed completely by some fancy professional. They're putting a new engine in it. It'll be delivered in Mystic Fall's when it's done." She replied.
"Good then. Keep in touch okay V?" He asked her and she nodded.
"Goodbye Weevil." Veronica told him before they hugged one last time and she walked back to the car.
"That boy likes you Veronica." Rebekah told her niece as soon as she entered the car.
"Nah, he's still hung over Lilly. What he likes in me is the part that was best friend with her, the part she loved." She replied.
"I'm telling you, you'll see him again." Rebekah assured her with a knowing smile.
"So, what's the power of the head tilt he talked about?" Klaus asked her with a smile.
"It's nothing… He realized that every time I asked him to do something for me I tilted my head to the side and he thinks that's why he never could say no to me… It became a joke over time." She explained.
"Well, we shall see if we Originals are impervious to this power then." Klaus replied with humor in his voice.
The car drove by the beach and Veronica glanced out. She could see Duncan and Meg Manning talking seriously together, not far from them was a drunk Logan laughing his ass off with a drunk Dick Casablanca. Cassidy was nowhere to be seen, neither was Madison Sinclair and Veronica briefly wondered if her family had already taken care of things like they said they would. Shaking her head, she forced herself not to think about it.
It didn't matter anymore, neither did all of her old friends, the ones who had turned their backs on her.
Suddenly, she felt a hand over hers and she turned to see that her father, who was sitting in the back seat of the SUV with her, had taken her hand in his and squeezed it. Instinctively, he had felt that she needed his support and had shown it the best way he knew how.
"It'll be okay Veronica, I promise." He whispered to her before he kissed her forehead.
"I know." She smiled.
She wasn't alone and she felt that she never would be ever again.
So... What is your verdict?
Who would you like to see Veronica paired with?
A reminder: She's 16 but in her senior year because she's super smart.
Review please,
Lorelei Candice Black