A/N: I'm sorry this update has taken me sooo long. I've been struggling with major writer's block as well as working on another story, as well as being basically swamped outside of my fan fiction life. Anyways, hope you enjoy this next update, and I'll try to work on my timeliness! Reviews are highly welcomed.
A/N: I'm very unknowledgeable about being pregnant and things that come with it. I've looked up certain facts, but other than that, I'm at a loss, so please ignore any blaring mistakes I make. This is going on around the beginning/middle of October, leading me to calculate Lilly's due date is around April, which is therefore what I'm going with.
Chapter 17: Finishing the Job
Veronica marched out to Logan's car after school, both excited and nervous for their secret mission. Logan was nowhere to be seen, but Veronica had come to expect this, as he almost always had to talk to a teacher or administrator about some altercation that had taken place that day. What she was not expecting was to see Lilly standing by Logan's car clearly waiting for someone.
"Hey Lilly. Were you waiting for Logan?" Veronica asked, trying her best to keep the jealously from leaking into her voice. Lilly obviously saw right past her though.
"No, silly Ronnie. I was waiting for you!" Lilly laughed, and Veronica felt her shoulders lower as she relaxed.
"Oh, how…silly of me." Veronica replied lamely. She hated repeating Lilly's word choice, but it did seem the best descriptive word of her assumptions. She had to remember Lilly was happily dating Weevil now, and that she didn't have anyone to compete with for him.
"Anyways, as we near the passing of my third month, I find it is time for another doctor's check up. We are closing in on the 2nd trimester." Lilly whispered this news quietly, as no one besides Duncan, Logan, Veronica, Weevil and herself knew about her pregnancy, and she intended on keeping it that way for a while.
"This is true. Would you like me to come with you?" Veronica filled in the blanks in Lilly's statement.
"If you wouldn't mind. I won't find out the gender or anything, it's still too early. I'm only on my 12th week, anyways. You can't do a gender ultrasound till about 18-22 weeks, so we've got a ways to go." Lilly explained, and Veronica look around quickly to make sure there were no eavesdroppers.
"Sounds good. When is it?" Veronica asked, turning to see if Logan was nearby. She could make out his silhouette about 30 feet away, and figured Lilly had just enough time to fill her in on dates before she and Logan went speeding off on their spy mission.
"Saturday. That's in 2 days. Okay?" Lilly reminded Veronica, as she saw Logan approaching.
"Don't worry, I won't forget." Veronica assured her as Logan walked up next to Veronica.
"If it isn't my two lovely lady friends. Shouldn't you be off buying a crib or some diapers there, Angelina?" Logan said to Lilly, who smirked at him. Logan had recently taken to calling Lilly Angelina, as he found it an effective way to annoy her. The reference to having many babies was lost on Duncan, but not Veronica or Lilly.
"Shut the hell up, Ben." Lilly shot back. She had taken to calling him Ben Affleck, in reference to him leaving the fabulous Lilly (Jennifer Lopez in her scenario) for sweeter Veronica (Jennifer Garner).
"Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but Miss Veronica and I could be having way more fun elsewhere." Logan smiled at Veronica before full out grinning at Lilly. She sneered at him.
"Wear a condom, kids. Don't want to have a Juno situation around here." Lilly giggled, strutting away from the car in her signature walk.
"You think she'll be able to do that when she's huge in a few months?" Logan asked, watching Lilly walk away.
"If anyone could find a way, it sure is Lilly Kane." Veronica reminded him, her eyes also focused on Lilly.
"Anyways, off to the massive mansion of Mr. Aaron Echolls, maker of the world's crappiest action films. Are you sure you can handle to excitement?" Logan joked, trying to make Veronica more comfortable. She smiled widely at him.
"I can totally handle it. I just might steal a used tissue or something, make a couple hundred of E-Bay. You know." She giggled, and Logan smiled at her.
They pulled into the driveway, and Logan parked the car. His joking manner had faded quickly as they arrived at the house.
"I can still do this by myself. You can chicken out. I won't tell anyone big bad Veronica was scared of a drunk, angry actor twice her size who knocked up her best friend." Logan told her, and Veronica looked at him, sizing up his mood.
"Weevil knocked her up." Veronica replied, deciding she could go with a joke, as he didn't seem that angry at the moment.
"Very funny. You and I both know how true that statement may or may not be." Logan was still heavily doubting that Weevil had been the one to get Lilly pregnant, although there was no evidence for or against the contrary.
"Let's go. The sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can go home." Veronica climbed out the car, bugs in hand. Logan followed still looking doubtful at the mission at hand.
"You should stop worrying." Veronica told him, as she entered the house through the front door, which was unlocked, as it was the day the maids came by to clean up.
The mission quite honestly went by ridiculously quickly, as Veronica moved swiftly through the house bugging each phone, except for Logan's private phone.
"I've missed this room." Logan confessed as Veronica passed it on the way to the master bedroom.
"As soon as we catch Aaron, you can move back here. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and help me." Veronica told him, and he did as he was told.
She had just finished putting the last bug on that phone when she remembered something.
"We should grab the sex tapes. So Aaron doesn't destroy them. It'll only take a second." Veronica promised as she saw the look on Logan's face. He obliged her, following her out to the pool house, quickly checking to make sure his mother or father hadn't arrived home early.
Veronica walked over to the drawer and was just opening it to grab the tapes when Logan heard the crunch of gravel outside.
"Get under the bed." He commanded, as he realized the car was intending to go into the pool house, not the main house." Veronica started to argue, but he quickly pushed her under and climbed under there with her. The drawer with the tapes remained open, but Logan knew it was too late to fix that mistake.
"Can't believe you were this stupid…if they'd gotten a hold of those tapes, it would've been a disaster." They heard a voice trailing in from the outside as someone entered the pool house. Logan could see two pairs of feet from under the bed, and he prayed they would come and go quickly. Veronica's face was screwed up as she tried to place the voice. She knew she recognized it, but she couldn't figure out who it was.
"I'm sorry, it was an honest mistake. You already took care of that tape with your name on it, I thought…" Logan's fists clenched as he heard his father trying to defend himself.
"Why is this drawer open?" The second voice asked, anger shaking within the tone.
"One of the maids, probably. A mistake." Aaron repeated that word, and Logan recognized he was looking to be forgiven for his past oversight.
"Well, the tapes are still here…did you hear that?" The voice asked, and Logan watched as the feet spun around. Veronica had accidentally brushed his thigh, and Logan had involuntarily gasped at the contact. She looked at him, her face apologetic, as the feet neared the bed.
"No." Aaron also turned, trying to figure out what was going on.
"Someone is in here." The voice told him, walking around the room. They opened up the closet, and the bathroom, but found no one.
"Can anyone fit under the bed?" They asked, and Logan prayed Aaron would be too stupid to realize it was bigger under here than it looked.
"Only someone tiny." He replied, shrugging. The other person's face lit up in recognition, and they bent down to look under the bed, smiling as they saw Logan curled up with Veronica.
"Well, well, well, what have we here?" They asked, smiling, and Veronica was pulled out from under the bed. When she saw who the mastermind behind it all was, her face contorted in disbelief and shock.
"It was…you?" Logan asked, crawling out from under. His face was also disbelieving, and the person they'd been trying to catch smiled widely.
"Surprised, aren't you? Well, now you're going to help me." They said, pulling Veronica out of the room as Aaron followed behind with Logan.
A/N: Dun, dun, dun! I promise you will discover all in the next chapter. Only about 2 or 3 chapters left, and then an epilogue, and the curtain will fall! Hope you've enjoyed!
