So it doesnt seem that i have any new readers, but thats ok! i would like them though, hint hint. but anyways since that seems to be the case i will probably post more than one chapter per day. so here is chapter 3, 4 and 5!

The POV for this part will be 3rd person because it's the best way to do this chapter. This chapter follows suit with the last two, which means it revolves around the revelation of meg being alive.

I don't own Veronica Mars

"No Veronica, She's alive." ..."But you already knew that didn't you?"

Two months ago

April of 2007

Australia

Duncan had finally made himself a home in Australia.

Not having to worry about money meant that he was able to spend all of his time with his daughter and Lilly was a everything to him.

She looked so much like Meg that at times it felt like she was still with him and that feeling was a comfort to him.

He had loved Meg, maybe he hadn't realize it then, but he really had and in many ways he still loved her. After all, it's hard to let go of the memory of your child's mother. But as always he was conflicted, much like the summer between his senior and junior year in high school he was still in love with Veronica.

Duncan would be lying if he said he didn't regret the choices he had made back then a little; leaving Meg and returning to Veronica, damaging his already fragile friendship with Logan at the same time. Of course he was glad he had been with Veronica, she was all he had ever wanted. But he had hurt Meg in the process and felt guilty that her death may have been partly his fault.

Of course it's not like he would still be with Meg if she was alive, but she would at least be in his life and Lilly would have her mother.

No, Duncan would be with Veronica.

They were meant for each other, even if she didn't realize it and Duncan knew in his heart that someday he would get her back, no matter what it took. He would make her see the truth, the inevitability of it all.

But waiting for the inevitable took time and so Duncan spent most days on the beach with Lilly.

It was supposed to just be a normal day, the same as always, but things were about to change for him.

As he was pulling Lilly out of her car seat he looked up and gasped at what he saw; Meg was across the street walking out of a hotel and getting into a black town car.

He just stood there for a few moments not knowing if his eyes were playing tricks on him or if Meg truly was 20 feet away from him. Reality set in when he saw her smile, Meg's smile could light up a room that hadn't seen light in a century. He knew that smile, he loved that smile and he knew in that moment that it was her.

Without thinking twice he grabbed Lilly, ran across the street, reaching the car just as it was pulling away and he yelled Meg's name. The car kept going but the girl in the back turned at the sound of his voice. For a split second she stared at Duncan, then at Lilly, and as the car moved farther away from them, she turned away from them as well.

Duncan stood there is shock not knowing what to do or say.

And then as quick as the shock had hit him, anger took its place and he got mad. Meg was alive, she had left them willingly, left him with all the responsibility and took Veronica from him at the same time. He wanted to know why and how and was going get the to the truth no matter what it cost or how long it took.

Forgoing the beach for the afternoon, Duncan walked back to his car put Lilly back in the carseat and headed home. When he arrived he called Clarence Weidman immediately and explained what he had seen, Clarence joined Duncan in Australia two days later.

CW checked the guest list at the hotel but found nothing suspicious and hey spent the next two months searching for anything and everything that could lead to Meg's whereabouts over the past 18 months. But they found nothing and Duncan was beginning to lose hope.

That is until he found the guest list from the hotel that CW had acquired.

But there was something different about this list, it wasn't the same one that CW had shown him two months earlier.

No, this list contained an extra name. A name that made everything so clear.

What Duncan hadn't seen that day on the beach were the tears streaming down Meg's face as she turned away from Duncan and her daughter. He hadn't see the pain in her eyes from having to walk away again or the longing for the family she'd given up.

But most importantly he hadn't seen the look of worry.

She had made a mistake. She knew she never should have gone here. She shouldn't have chanced it but she'd wanted to see them in person, she just needed to check, see for herself that they were ok.

Oh yeah, Meg knew she had screwed up royally and she knew it was only a matter of time before Duncan put the pieces together.

She had just made life a lot harder for some very important people back in Neptune.

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chapter 4 and 5 are up too!