CHAPTER 2: Moving on In, Moving on Up

Disclaimer: I don't own VM if I did then Logan and Veronica wouldn't have broken up at all along with Lilly and Cassidy would still be alive.

*Thoughts are in italics *

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-Duncan's Point of View-

"I didn't think they were ever going to leave." I told Meg as I crashed down on to the couch "Did you?"
"No, but what do you expect. We did spring this on them and until 3 hours ago Logan was living here." She told me as she came to lay on the couch with me. "So we haven't decided how are we going to tell my parents?" She asked me
"Well we could always let Ronnie tell them." I suggested. " I mean she did kind of tell herself and Lilly. Besides I think that she is taking it better than anyone else we have told."
"We can't send your sister to tell my parents that we made a mistake and ended up pregnant." She said.
"Do you think that this baby is a mistake?" I asked. We hadn't really discussed the baby a lot. Anytime the subject would come up one of us would quickly change the subject.
"Do I think that we are ready to be parents?" Meg asked me. "No I don't think that's the perfect time for us to be parents but I don't think that we are going to be screw ups like Logan's dad or my parents." She explained quietly.
"Meg what happened in that house?" I asked her. We hadn't ever really discussed the reason why she was so worried about her little sisters being left there.
"It's complicated." She began to explain. "I mean they never hit any of us like Logan's dad did to him but they were emotionally abusive to us. It's got worse over the years. I mean with me it would be writing something 10 times. Then when it came to Lizzie they got really bad, but Liz was the hell child. But now with Grace, I am scared Duncan, she has probably 200 notebooks full of these writings." She was starting to cry now and I didn't know what to do so I just laid there and held her. "You know they…" She didn't get a chance to finish because a second later there was someone pounding on the door.
"Open this door now Echolls. I know that my daughter is in there with you. Come on open up!"
"Dear calm down, you are making a scene"
"That's my parents." Meg whispered to me
"I guess we are going to have to tell them now. Go into the room get one of my big T-Shirts put it on. Also send a text to Logan or V and let them know what is going on. I am worried about how they are going to react after what I just heard." I told her as I made my way to the door and she snuck into the room. " Can I help you Mr. Manning?" I asked as I opened the door and gave Mrs. Manning a small smile in acknowledgement.
"You're not Logan Echolls." He said kind of shocked "The front desk said this was his room."
"No Logan moved out earlier today. I live here now…."before I could finish Meg came out in one of my T-Shits and clung to my side.
"And I live her with him." She explains as she slips her hand into mine.
"Megan what is this about?" Her mother asked starting to lose her cool herself. From what I could tell her parents thought what I expected. The T-Shirt was just long enough to cover her shorts she had been wearing.
"Duncan and I are living here together." She explained as she cuddled into my side even more.
"You are doing no such thing. It's obvious that this boy has you not thinking straight, I mean look at what you are wearing." Her mother said thinking that the only thing Meg had on was one of my T Shirts.
"Oh grow up mother you didn't interrupt an afternoon of sex between us." What Meg did next shocked even me she lifted up the shirt to reveal she was still in her tank top and shorts which showed her baby bump clearly. "I am pregnant."
The next thing I knew was I was on the ground with a throbbing headache.
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-Meg's Point of View-

I knew Duncan wasn't really prepared to deal with her parents. I knew that I was going to have to take matters into my own hands as I grab one of his t-shirts and throw it on over my tank top and shorts I quickly grab my phone and send a text to Veronica as he had instructed. What he didn't know was that it was a part of the plan.
"Can I help you Mr. Manning?" I can here Duncan greet my father in the next room
Okay here goes nothing. Hopefully Ronnie understands my message and follows through with the plan we had discussed earlier when Duncan and Logan were transferring boxes.
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-Logan's Point of view-
" So tell me again why I agreed to move from the Neptune Grand to the pool house?" I asked my girlfriend Veronica.
"Because I promised you that if you did that you wouldn't soon forget the benefits of living so close to the girl you are crazy about." She reminded me as she gave me a quick kiss. We had spent the majority of the morning working on moving all of my belongings out of my suite at the hotel and into the pool house at the Kane Estate. Truthfully it wasn't all that hard to move my stuff, I really didn't have all that much only what I could fit into the 10 or so boxes I took when I left my parents' house last year. After my mom committed suicide and my dad was hauled off to jail where he belonged I couldn't handle that house anymore. I had to escape the demons of my father abusing me and especially the pool house where my dad would have sex with Lilly behind everyone's back. That's why he was in jail, Veronica had caught him and Lilly in a compromising situation. He was pretty much screwed by time it went to trail, with the video proof that the sick bastard had of the tryst and Veronica testifying that she saw it he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the statutory rape of Lilly and the Child Abuse I had withstood for years. After that everyone was made a Veronica for one reason or another. Lilly was mad because she had ruined all her fun, Duncan was made for putting his sister through the trail, and I was made at her for taking the only parent I had left away. This also all happened when the truth came out about Jake and Leanne's affair and Ronnie's paternity. Two months later when all of the adults jumped ship we banded together and promised to watch out for each other. I got emancipated and no one would question why the three Kane kids were left alone. They had permission to stay here from their parents to finish school is what we told everyone and CW, the head of security at Kane Software backed the story.
"Earth to Logan" Veronica said as she was jumping up and down in front of me "hey you zoned out on me for a minute. You okay?"
"Yeah I was just thinking how lucky I am to have you in my life." I told her as I pulled her toward me. "You know, you should just move out here with me, because I am never going to let you out of this bed." I told her with a wink.
"Sorry Romeo, I am not living in the pool house. I have grown slightly accustomed to the luxuries of that place." She said as she pointed to the main house. "Another thing is if I move into the Pool house with you, we would never leave this bed, and we have to maintain our grades at school for no one will question the lack of adult supervision around her. I mean we are already going to have issues when everyone figures out that there is a new Kane heir on the way."
"Yeah about that, still have some troubles wrapping my head around the idea of Duncan and Meg having a baby." I told her. "When is she due?"
"Just after the new year, we will have a niece or nephew to spoil by Valentine's Day." She said as she cuddled into my side as we lie on the bed in my new room. I lean over and give her a kiss, we are starting to make-out heavily when her cell phone goes off.
'Parents R here! Go 2 Plan B! Call Now!' I read over her shoulder and then give her a questioning look.
"Call the Grand have Security sent to the pent house… We have to go!" She said as she grabs my hand and my car keys and races out the door.
"Ronnie what's going on?" I ask as I am trying to catch up with her. She quickly jumps into the car and starts it before I have a chance to even get in.
"We have to save my brother. Let's go." She said as I peeled out of the drive trusting she knew what she was doing.

-Veronica's Point of View-
"Hurry up Logan" I yelled back at him as I stop the elevator and punch the button to go up to the Pent House Suite.
"So let me get this straight. You think that Duncan would be stupid enough to tell Meg's Parents that she is pregnant in a private room where he could get killed?" He asked me.
"Not Duncan Meg." I tried to explain to him "When you and Duncan were loading boxes earlier into the car Meg told me that if her parents showed she would tell them and that if they reacted the way that she thought that Duncan was going to need a doctor. So we came up with the code text. If I was to get this text I was to get to where every they are and call for backup." I explain as the door to the elevator opened. I was relieved to see that George, the head of the Security team had made it to the room already. That was the good thing about Logan being so influential when he called and asked for the security they didn't question him the just went. When we stepped into the room we saw that Mr. Manning was being restrained by another member of the Security team and Meg was cradling Duncan's head in her lap with an ice pack on his eye.
"What happened?" I asked as I walked in to see that the security was too late
"My dad punched him when I did the big reveal." Meg whispered to me "I am sorry V. I thought that I had waited long enough.
"Don't you dare apologize for what your father did. That boy deserves much worse. We are going to fix this…" Mrs. Manning didn't have a chance to finish before I was launching at her in full attack mode.
"You aren't going to do anything to that baby. That baby is going to be loved more than any other baby in this world by me, and my sister, and my brother, and Meg, and Logan and all of our friends you hypocritical bitch." At that I pulled my fist back to go to punch her. Lucky for her Logan knew what was about to happen and he pulled me back before I could make contact.
"Let me go Logan, Let me at her, she deserves this." I said
" Ms. Mars please calm down or I will have to remove you from the hotel just like I did Mr. Manning." I hear George say as I look around and notice that Mr. Manning is gone.
"It's Kane." I said without even thinking.
"Excuse me?" George is confused now as I take a quick glance around I realize that everyone is a bit dumb founded.
"It's Ms. Kane. And would you please remove this woman before I do something that I will regret. But first, Ms. Manning you are going to stay away from me and everyone in my family. That includes Meg because the minute she found out she was pregnant she became my sister and I will protect my family. If you or your husband hurt her again or my brother so help me god I will put some of my daddy's money to good use." With that I looked at George and they left.
"Wow, V I don't think I have ever seen you like that." Duncan said as he sat up not feeling quite ready to stand up.
"Me either. But it kind of rocked. I wish that I could find the courage to do that." Meg said as she cuddled into Duncan's side.
"There is one thing that I would like to ask you about though." Duncan said as he pulled his sister down to his side.
"Sure what's up?" I asked not really understanding what Duncan was getting at.
"You accepted the family." Duncan says to me as I give him a very confused look he continues. "You corrected George when he said Ms. Mars. You told him it was Ms. Kane" Duncan said.
"So does this mean you are ready to accept the family as it is Ronnie?" Logan asked me as he sat down on the other side of me.
"I guess I am. We are after all one big dysfunctional family." I told them. "I have 2 great sisters, a wonderful brother, and a guy that any girl would kill me for. I guess my life isn't so bad after all."
"So does that mean you are ready to change your name?" Duncan asks me with a questionable look in his eyes.
"Yeah I guess I am. I mean I know that Keith is never coming back and my mom really never was around." I told them as I made a decision that I knew would be the right one.

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AN: So there is Chapter Two. Please Review. We get to look at some other characters next chapter.