Chapter 6: I Love You, but You Don't Get Me

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*

-Veronica Point of View-
I guess I am going to have to get used to the fact that both my average best friends have fallen for 09ers. What an example I have been. Okay so Cassie and Mac had been best friends for years and it's completely a different thing to be friends with a 09er and to date one.
"Um Veronica, Can I talk to you for a minute?" I hear Cassidy come up behind me and sit down next to me at the lunch table.
"Sure what's on your mind Beaver?" I ask deciding to humor him
"Well I would like to hire you." He said bluntly. When I gave him a look of pure confusion he continued. "You still do some PI work don't you?"
"Yeah I guess. I mean I haven't really tackled a case since my dad… I mean since Keith Mars left town, but I think I still have the skills to do it. What's up?" I ask him. What could he possible want me to do? And if it was so important why did he come to me and not go to a professional.
"I think that Kendall is up to something." He tells me. Seeing that I am still not understanding what he's talking about he continues. "I want you to see if you can find any dirt on her. I don't feel comfortable with her around and I know that she makes Cassie uncomfortable also."
"What about Dick?" I ask knowing that while the two younger Casablancas children weren't comfortable with their guardian that Dick liked her. "If he isn't up to me helping you over throw Kendall, I can't upset him."
"Because of Logan?" he already knew that was the reason. Logan was always like another brother to Dick and if Dick was upset Logan wouldn't be happy. "Dick is almost 18. He won't be under her guardian ship anymore. It will just me and Cassie. I know she is up to something. Please just help."
"Okay I will. But I am going to tell Logan about this. I don't want him to be completely blindsided when I go after Kendall." I tell him, he nods in agreement and walks away.
Okay Veronica think what is the first thing that you need to do? Go to the office and run a back ground check. So that will be my first stop after school.
"Hello Bobcat." I hear Logan come up behind me "What has you so lost in thought?"
I quickly glance around to make sure no one is around and tell him "Beaver wants me to investigate Kendall."
"Why?" Logan looks like he isn't happy about this. He never was too fond of me going on PI work but this was harmless. Right?
"He and Cassie are uncomfortable. He said that they have pretty much been dealing with her until Dick turns 18, because after that they are the two left in her care and Dick is officially considered independent." I explain to him.
"Well Dick will be 18 soon." Logan says "I want to help." That statement threw me for a loop.
"You want to help? Don't you like Kendall?" I ask
"I do. But she seems like she has an agenda." He tells me as the bell rings. "Okay let's get to class. We can start being super spies after school."

-Wallace's Point of View-
"So Wallace where did you and Cassie disappear to the other night?" I hear Mac ask me. I had been the one question I had been dreading all day. Thankfully anytime I saw Dick or Cassidy coming toward me I was able to duck into an empty classroom.
"What are you talking about Mac? We were at the dance the whole time?" I answered her trying to play stupid.
"I mean after the dance." Mac said knowing I knew exactly what she was referring to. "You two weren't in the limo after the Dance and never made it to V's place afterwards."
Thankfully word was that Dick was so plastered he didn't realize we were gone. So all I had to do was make sure that Cassidy wasn't to upset about it. "Oh you noticed? Who else?"
"Don't worry Cassidy didn't seem to upset about it." Mac tells me "I think being not only the brother but the twin that he wasn't as upset about it as Dick, whom was so drunk he passed out on the couch at the Kane's 10 minutes after we got there."
"What are you doing Mac attack?" I hear my girlfriend come into the room "Hey Wallace" She said as she gave me a kiss on the check and sat down next to me.
"Oh Wallace and I were just have a conversation about where you disappeared to after the dance." She answered Cassie.
Cassie automatically gives her a worried look. "Did Dick notice?" she asks seeming a little worried.
"No. Cassidy did but he didn't say much about it." Mac tells her.
"Well we snuck back to my house. It was pretty awesome. I mean Kendall was there and she didn't even come in a bug us." Cassie tells her as I keep trying to get her attention to stop talking "Did she Wallace?" she turns to me but notice that Dick had been standing behind her for most of the conversation
"Wallo, what did we talk about?" Dick asks me as I realize that I am pretty much dead as I stand up to talk to him. I don't even really have a chance to answer before Dick and punched me and I was sitting back in the chair again.

-Kendall's Point Of View-
"No I don't care how you do it. I just want them all dead." I yelled on the phone. "Yes if you succeed you will be paid, but if you fail you don't get anything. It's as simple as that." I quickly hung up the phone. Seriously what was with people today? Of course you idiot if you don't kill them I don't have any money.
"Dick Seriously you are the worst person ever!" I hear my step daughter come barreling into the house screaming at the top of her lungs at her brother.
"Don't you pull that on me Cassandra! I made it clear to both of you at the dance." Dick yells back.
"Children what is all the fuss about?" I ask trying to play the part of the caring step-mother. Really I never have been very good at it. Why did Big Dick have to leave me with his three bratty children? The best thing that came out of this is if I can have them all meet an untimely demise at the same time I will be rolling in the cash without having to deal with them.
"Cassie and Wallace did the deed after the dance the other night." Cassidy tells me
"Yeah about that Kendall what kind of guardian are you?" Dick turned on me and I began to see a side of him I never had before. The twins had always seemed to not care for me but I had seemed to have some sort of spell of the oldest of the Casablancas children.
"What exactly are you talking about Dick?" I asked completely oblivious to what he could be talking about.
"You are supposed to be our guardian and in case you didn't know most 'parental units' don't allow their underage children to have sex under their roofs, especially when they are home." He tells me bluntly.
Seeing that I was obviously confused Cassie explains to me "Wallace and I came back here after the dance and went straight to my room. You know the one that is only 3 doors and a skip across the hall from yours."
"Oh…. Well to each their own. It's not like any of you really need a baby sitter. You are all nearly adults right." I couldn't stand my step daughter. Like I said before she and Cassidy were always getting on my nerves and never seemed to trust me.
"Get out." Dick yelled at me before I even had a chance to know what hit me.
"Excuse me? In case you have forgotten I am still your step mother and your legal guardian." I tell him
"Yeah well, I will be 18 in a couple of weeks. If the courts throw a fit about Cassie and Beav being without a guardian I will just say I am their guardian. They are almost 17 and we all have our trust funds to live off of, don't we. So really we don't need you. So like I said before get out." With that he disappeared up hall and slammed the door. Well if I was feeling guilty about putting a hit on him before all those feelings are gone. As I walk out the door I quickly call back Liam "Yeah they are home alone now. Let's get rid of them."
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-Cassidy Point of View-
"So there is something I need the two of you to know." I tell my siblings as soon as Kendall walked out the door. She thought that Dick was kidding that she could come back in a couple of hours and everything would be fine. The minute she left Dick asked the maids to start packing all of her cloths but none of her jewelry. 'She's not going to get anything but the cloths' was Dick's exact words.
"What's up Beav?" Dick asked as he walked over and poured himself a small drink "I am really not in the mood"
"Well I thought you two should know that I hired Veronica to track down some dirt on Kendall." I tell them half thinking that Dick is going to be upset.
"You hired Veronica and didn't tell me?" Cassie asks. "So how much are you paying her, because honestly I will more be more than happy to pitch in."
" Me too." I hear Dick say just above a mumble. As Cassie and I both give him questionable looks he continues. "It's partially my fault that she was her as long as she was. We have to get rid of her."
"So I am safe to assume that you are fine with this? Because Veronica was a little hesitant to help because she was afraid it would upset you." I tell him.
"She seriously took me into consideration?" Dick says half surprised. "I didn't realize that she carried that much."
"I think she was more worried with Logan's reaction." Cassie says before I can even get out the words.
"Exactly. You know he is like the 4th kid in this family." I said. "So we cool? Can I text her and tell her not to worry about your reaction?"
"Go for it." Dick said as he sulked back up the stairs. "I am going to lose myself in my room, maybe go for a swim a in a bit." He said as he shut his door.
"You think he's okay?" Cassie asked me "I mean I have seen him upset but right now he looks like someone took his T-bird away."
"He'll be okay." I say as I pull out my phone to text Veronica.

-Veronica's Point of View-
'Dick is on board' that's all my text said from Cassidy. "I think you might want to head to the Casablancas' honey" I tell Logan as I show him the text I just got.
"Why would he suddenly have a change of heart?" Logan looks at me "I will just drop you off here and then head over there." He said as we pulled up to the house and leaned over and gave me a quick kiss. "I will see you later."
I quickly got out of the car and ran into the house as Logan drove away. Okay let's see I need to first run a background check on her. 'Kendall Casablancas' as I hit enter I get the surprise of my life. "Her name isn't Kendall?" I look at the screen "Priscilla Banks" okay let's see what we can find out about you Priscilla. "Oh no…. oh no… no!" I can't believe what I am reading she is in with the Fitzpatrick's and if they all die at the same time she gets the insurance money. As quick as I can I hurry out to my car and race to the Casablancas house.
"Pick up Logan." I yell at the phone. I had to warn him. If she was in with the Fitzpatrick's and she could benefit from them being dead I don't think she would care if she had them murdered. As I reach the gate I quickly type in the gate code. "Thank God I know that one." I say to myself as I see Logan, Dick, Cassie, and Cassidy's cars in the drive but no sight of Kendall's. I rush up to the door and soon Monica their maid answers the door.
"Hello Ms. Veronica. How are you?" she asked as she let me in the door.
"I am okay…. Um where is everyone?" I ask her.
"Well Ms. Cassie went out to the pool and the boys are in Mr. Cassidy's room playing video games." She tells me.
"Could you go get Cassie and have her meet me in the living room I need to talk to all four of them." I tell her as I start to race up the stairs toward Beaver's room. I don't knock and I just barge in.
"What the hell Ronnie?" Dick asks as I had startled him when I burst in. "What are you doing here?"
Logan could tell that there was something bothering me "I need to talk to all of you. Let's go down stairs, Monica went to get Cassie." I said as a turned and ran out of the room.
"What's up V?" Cassie asked as she walked in from the pool wrapped in a towel.
"Just a second I am waiting for the guys" I tell her "Hurry up." I yell up to them as they start coming down the stairs.
"Okay we are all here, what's up Ronnie?" Dick asks me.
"This." I say as I throw the file from my bag. "Kendall is an impostor, and she's in with the Fitzpatrick's" I tell them as I sit down next to Logan.
"Is this serious?" Cassidy looked at the file. "You are good V. But what is this mean?" he asked me as he looked at the outline of the insurance policy.
"I already turned this information over to Sheriff Lamb and he is looking for Kend… I mean Priscilla." I tell them. "That paper right there explains that if you three were to all die at the same time she would receive that amount" I say pointing to the 8 figure number "for each of your deaths."
"That is ridicules." Dick yells. "Do you think she is crazy enough to have us all killed?" he asked me.
"Yes I do. Where is she anyway. Why did you agree to this Dick. I wasn't expecting it." I tell him
"I kicked Kendall or whatever her name is earlier today. I am tired of her bull." He tells me just as my phone rings.
"Hello." I say as I answer my phone. "Are you sure?" "Okay. Thank you Lamb." As I hang up my phone they can tell that I am unhappy.
"What did the good sheriff have to say Bobcat?" Logan asks me.
"They caught her. She was with Liam Fitzpatrick and they plotting to have all of you killed… tonight." I look between all of their faces. "They got her though. She is out of your lives." Before I knew what had hit me Cassie was sobbing and Dick gave me a big bear hug.
"I believe this belongs to you." Cassidy says as he hands me a 1,000 in cash. I push it back toward him and tell him "I can't take it Beaver. It's not like I need the money and at least you are all safe.

AN: Okay there is Chapter 6. Hopefully everything makes sense. Read and Review please