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Veronica
When I heard him unlock the door I stood up.
I was ready, I had the towel bar in my hand, all I needed was to be patient.
When the door opened I flew around it and swung the bar at him hitting him in the chest, he didn't even seen me until it connected with his body.
As he doubled over in pain, I rushed through the now open door and I just ran, I didn't even know where I was going, but I ran as fast as I could.
When I reached the stairs and flew down them 2 at a time, I could hear him yelling my name behind me, but I couldn't tell how far away he was.
And then I saw the door, it was so close I just had to get there, open it and run. I just needed to keep running, it didn't matter what direction I went, I just needed to get away from him, get some distance between us.
When I finally reached the door I could hear his footsteps upstairs running after me, I grabbed the handle and tried to turn it, but it didn't budge, it was locked. I looked for a dead bolt or a latch but I couldn't find one, it was locked from the inside by a key.
I turned around and screamed when I saw him at the top of the stairs.
I turned back to the door and noticed the large window to the right side of it. Realizing I still had the bar in my hand, I pulled the it back like a baseball bat and started to hit the window. Nothing happened the first time so I hit it again and this time a small crack formed. I knew I was running out of time, so I hit it one last time and a section of glass broke open.
But before I could try and push the rest of the glass through, I felt my arm yank back and I found myself face to face with a very angry Duncan Kane.
All I could think about was Logan.
Duncan
He hadn't seen her when he had opened the door, she'd surprised him and hit him with something hard in the chest, it hurt and he stumbled back in pain.
He watched her run through the door, but he couldn't seem to follow, she had nearly knocked the wind out of him.
He started yelling her name and when he was finally able to run after her, he did so at warp speed.
He ran down the hall straight to the stairs and when he reached the top he saw her trying to open the door and he smiled because he knew it was a fruitless effort, the door was locked from the inside.
He saw her turn to look at him and as she screamed he started down the stairs. He watched her hit the window with a metal bar three times before the glass began to give way, but it was too late for her because he caught up to her just as she went to push the glass away.
He pulled on her arm and spun her around to face him as he smiled viciously...
He was going to enjoy this.
Logan
Logan had finally fallen asleep around 5 am, but it had been a restless sleep. He'd woken up completely around 8AM and had turned to find Weevil still asleep in the driver seat.
Logan checked his phone and saw that he didn't have any missed messages or texts so he just sat there.
He decided to give Weevil a few more minutes of rest, so he got out of the car quietly and called CW and Mac for an update, neither of them had heard anything yet.
CW and Wallace were on their way to the 5th location, but they weren't alone, Meg and Leo had joined them. Logan wasn't thrilled that Meg had been allowed to come on board, but he knew that they needed all the help they could get, so he decided to let it slide.
Dick was still sleeping, but Mac was busy going through the Kane's files. She still hadn't found anything incriminating, but she had found some legal documents on Celeste and Jake, they were apparently legally separated and heading towards divorce. Logan didn't know if it was useful, but it definitely made sense since no one had seen Celeste around lately.
When he finished the call he climbed back into the car and laid his head back against the head rest, letting his thoughts drift to Veronica.
It was like he could feel her, it was like they had some kind of supernatural connection, like they were soul mates, in truth he had always felt that way.
So he sat there trying to transfer all of his strength to her, because she needed it more and as he sat there thinking of her he started to pray again.
Duncan
He just couldn't stop himself.
He hadn't realized what he had done until it was over.
When he had spun her around she'd just looked at him, she hadn't even see it coming, she hadn't had the chance to get scared, or to cry, or to defend herself, because he hit her square in the nose this time, the pain clouding her vision.
He yanked her by her arm, throwing her against the wall and he just kept swinging at her, each punch connecting with another part of her body.
She couldn't even fight back because he had broken her left arm when he threw her at the wall.
He just kept wailing on her small form and when she started to slump to the ground, he placed his hands around her throat and began to squeeze.
He kept telling her that it was her fault, that she never should have tried to get away.
And when she began to lose consciousness, he let go and she dropped to the ground.
But before she passed out from the pain and lack of oxygen he heard her say something.
The last word out of Veronica's mouth...was, "Logan."
Weevil and Logan
30 miles away Logan shot straight up out of the passenger seat waking Weevil in the process.
Weevil stared at Logan in confusion as he sat there grasping at his heart and crying.
Weevil didn't understand what was happening.
He didn't know that in the exact moment Veronica said Logan's name and collapsed, that Logan's heart had nearly broken in two.
He didn't know that Logan had felt everything she had felt in that moment and he didn't know that Veronica didn't have much time left.
He didn't know any of this until Logan looked over at him with his hand still on his heart and tears streaming down his face and said.
"We're gonna be too late."
Duncan
He stared down at her limp body, the bloody and broken mess that he had turned Veronica into.
She was alive, he hadn't killed her, but he had been close.
He hadn't meant to take it that far.
This hadn't even been his intention, he'd had something else in mind when he grabbed her, but his rage had made the decision for him.
He stood there for awhile before he finally bent down and picked her up in his arms.
He told himself that she would be ok, he just needed to clean her up, she would heal and he would just pick up where he left off.
He carried her up the stairs, took her back into the master bedroom and continued into the bathroom where he laid her out on the floor.
He returned to the bedroom, retrieving more clothes from the dresser and when he got back to the bathroom, he grabbed a towel, ran some water over it, pulled her into his arms and started to wipe the blood away. After he finished cleaning the visible wounds he removed her clothes; she was nearly covered from head to toe in welts and lesions and he could tell that she would be black and blue all over in a few hours but he paid it no attention as he went to work removing the bloody reminants of the attack from her now naked body.
He wasn't shocked by the damage he had done, he wasn't even remorseful, it had been her fault, she never should have tried to run away.
After he was finished, he redressed her and carried her back out to the bed.
He found her ripped shirt on the floor, made a sling for her arm and then he laid her down and left the room.
Weevil
Logan had been nearly inconsolable.
Weevil didn't know what to do so he'd called CW and told him what Logan had said.
CW told Weevil to stay put, that they were on their way and when the call ended Weevil walked back to the car.
He just stood there watching Logan shake.
He didn't know if he believed in soul mates or that someone could really feel something that was happening to another person who knows where.
But what he did know…
He did know that if soul mates did exist Logan and Veronica were the poster couple.
And he also knew that for the first time, in all the years he had known Logan Echolls, he felt sorry for him.
Dick
Have you ever had one of those dreams where its actually a memory?
You know, like a memory of something you want to forget or have forgotten. Something that you try to keep way down deep inside, but your brain just like won't let go or something and you wake up wishing you could just forget about it, but you can't.
Well, I have those a lot, I have for years.
I first started getting them when my mom left. I would wake up crying almost every night because my dreams would just replay that day over and over. It was like I refused to show how upset I was on the outside, so my brain dealt with it by making me relive it. I turned into a jerk during the day so people wouldn't know what I was going through at night.
Well that was the dream memory I dealt with for years, that is until Lilly was murdered.
The day after she was killed I started having a new dream. Every night I would relive the moment I'd heard she was dead and every morning I would wake up wishing it wasn't true, hoping it really had been a dream. But it wasn't, so I continued to act like a jackass and then when Logan started ragging on Ronnie, I joined in as a way to hide my sadness again.
That dream only stuck around for a couple years, because when my brother Beaver, I mean Cassidy, jumped off the roof of The Grand my mind found a new playground.
Every night it was a new memory, it seemed to re-run every horrible thing I ever did to him, every terrible thing I had ever said.
But the worst memory was the one of his body on the ground. Those were the ones that woke me up crying, something that hadn't been connected to my dream memories since the first year my mom had been gone.
I hadn't had one in a while, since this thing with Mac had started my guilty feelings over Cassidy had seemed to leave me alone and no new ones had shown up yet.
Well at least until last night, but with this dream I didn't wake up crying or upset.
I didn't want to forget this memory, I didn't feel guilty about it, or sad.
I needed to remember this one.
Because when I woke up, I realized that I knew how to find Veronica.
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