Sorry this has taken me so long to update. I don't really have an excuse other that I haven't had the time to write another chapter. Hopefully you will all like this chapter. I have a feeling that you guys thought that this was going to be one of those fanfics that doesn't have any meat to it and its all fluff. Don't get me wrong, I love the fluff, but it can't stand on its own. Thanks for those of you who reviewed! I love hearing your thoughts! Also this is post series but I have added a little AU to make the story the way that I want it. Enjoy and click that pretty review button!
Disclaimer: I do not own Veronica Mars. :(
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Chapter Five: Surprise!
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"Veronica, I need your help"
"What the hell are you doing here?" asks Veronica looking very pissed off. Once Logan realizes who is at the door he immediately runs to Veronica's side with a giant grin
"Can I come in?"
"Who the fuck told you where I live?" says Veronica, blood boiling every second
"I have my sources just as you do, so are you gonna let me in or not?"
"Chill Ronica, let him in" Logan says to Veronica "Hey man it's been a while how are things going" Logan says as he hugs his former best friend
"Well, as you can see I am here begging for Veronica's help after the hell that I put her through at the end of freshmen year" says Duncan as Logan leads him into the living room. Veronica follows and remembers the summer that Duncan Kane once again burst into her life
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5 years ago…
Veronica was sitting in her dad's P.I. office, still pissed that Vinnie had beat Keith for sheriff by 5 % of the popular vote. She and Logan had just gotten back together the weekend before. They were in the beginning of the romance stage and spent all of their time locked up in Logan's suite of wandering around making out and holding hands. Veronica had just finished filing the paperwork and telling Mrs. Hinklebaum that her husband was not cheating on her with his 35 year old secretary, who happened to have a unibrow. And then Duncan comes in the door.
"Veronica, I still love you and I cannot forget it no matter how hard I try" says Duncan almost in tears
"You can't do this you jackass, you know how hard we fought to get you and Lilly out of here without anyone's knowledge. If you are seen with me, people are going to know that I helped you and Lilly escape." Says Veronica looking exasperated
"You can't honestly tell me you don't love me anymore." Pleaded Duncan
"Yes I can, I don't love you and honestly, I was sort of relieved that you and Lilly left. It gave me the chance to realize who my true love is." Says Veronica
"Who is it?" asks Duncan getting angry
Logan walks in the door, it was time for Logan and Veronica to go to a movie, Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde 2 were playing at the megaplex. Veronica hated the blonde jokes but Logan loved it.
"Hey man!" says Logan as he hugs Duncan
"Is this who your 'true love' is?" asks Duncan as he looks toward Veronica as she nods
"Hey man, why are you here?" asks Logan
"Well honestly, I was here to try to get V back. But know that I have found out that you two are together, I realize that you two are meant to be together, I could always see it even when Veronica and I got back together senior year." Says Duncan
"Get out !" says Veronica as she pushes Duncan toward the door
"Wait hold up why?" asks Duncan surprised that such a little girl could push him so hard
"You have no idea what kind of legal situation I've been in lately." Says Veronica "I meddled into an 'incident' that involved me being unknowingly taped. It turns out that the people I got involved with included your father, does the name the castle ring any bells to you?" asks Veronica "Well long story short I got caught breaking into your dads house and my dad had to destroy the evidence so I didn't get locked up. And that lead to him loosing the sheriff's election to Vinnie Van Lowe. So you need to leave before anyone sees you and realizes I helped you and Lilly leave"
"Whatever, it was nice to see you too Veronica. It was good to see you" Duncan says to Logan as he slams the door
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"So what do ya want?" said Veronica "You can be trying to get me into trouble again, if your sources are as good as you say then you know I got a job at the FBI, so I can cover up whatever your trying to bring up"
"Nope, this is more pressing. CW took Lilly and said that I wasn't fit to be a father any longer. He took Lilly in as his own daughter and won't let me see her. She is 6 and a half years old, she's grown attached, hell I've grown attached. I need my daughter back. Please help me" Pleaded Duncan
"I'll help, but on one condition, you come to our wedding" says Veronica
"Yeah man! You can be a groomsman. The wedding is in six months." Says Logan, he is just excited to see his best friend. Throughout all of the crap he's been through he realizes that Duncan's has been worse and he has a daughter that he has been caring for since he was 18.
"Wait. What made you change your mind?" questions Duncan
"Well, honestly, I thought about what's going on, I realized that I really do need to help you, and bring you back into my life. I never told you this, but I made a promise with Meg before she died, that I would help take care of you and Lilly. You did thoroughly piss me off before, but I think that was just because of the shit that happened before then. I have a great job, and I'm getting married soon, so I don't really see any reason for me to still be pissed at you."
"Wow, I'm glad to hear that, you two are my best friends and I'm so glad that you guys are getting married. I'd love to go to the wedding, but I better just be a guest, when Veronica gets Lilly back ill need to sit with her. I've shown her your guys' pictures. She knows who my two best friends are." Says Duncan with a smile "So Halo my man"
"Sure sounds good. Is that okay with you Ronnie?" asks Logan
"Yeah, I'm gonna get started on this case. I hope to have Lilly back within the week. We have a few guest rooms, you are more than welcome to have your pick" says Veronica with a smile
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Two weeks later, June 15th
Veronica had done some searching. Having her new FBI digs made things easier. She loved having a personal mystery to solve. With Mac's help she had found out some info about CW's recent activities. He had been going to the doctor a lot, and had recently moved. There had to be a story behind it, a story that involved why he took Lilly from Duncan.
Veronica and Duncan were in the living room watching House
"I found out where CW lives, he moved recently. He had also been going to the doctor a lot, did he seem sick or hurt when you saw him?" asks Veronica
"No, not really, can you get her back soon, I used to really trust CW, I know she's ok, I just wanna get her back" Says Duncan, almost in tears, so he jokes" This Hugh Laurie guy is a freak show"
"Yeah, I know. I'm gonna go call Mac, she and Dick are coming over for dinner. Apparently they have an announcement. We need to coordinate the meal" says Veronica as she walks into the kitchen and calls Mac
The phone rings 3 times before Mac answers happily "Hello Veronica, how are you today?"
"I'm great Mac Attack, what's gotten into you?" asks Veronica
"Nothing, so whatcha need?" says Mac quickly
"I was wondering what we were gonna do for dinner" says Veronica
"I happen to love your world famous lasagna" Says Mac
"Okay, I can make that. Can you pick up some garlic bread and salad mix. I haven't been to the grocery store in ages. But I always buy my lasagna ingredients in bulk so we can eat it all of the time" says Veronica
"What about dessert?" asks Mac
"Um… could you pick up an apple and cherry pie along with some ice cream" says Veronica
"Ok got it, salad, bread, pie of the apple and cherry variety, and ice cream" says Mac
"Great ill see you at 7" says Veronica as she hangs up the phone
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A few hours later
"Dinner was great ladies, but Veronica, I can tell this is store bought apple pie, yours is much better" say Logan with a wink
"Thanks, you haven't been to the grocery store this week, its your turn. So its all your fault" says Veronica as she sticks her tongue out at Logan
"That's not very lady like. Didn't they ever teach you manners over in the 90902?" Says Logan as he sticks his tongue out at her
"Whatever, so what was your announcement Mac?" asks Veronica
"Well, it's good news, I think, at least I think it is" says Mac "I got offered a lower position at the L.A. office, but in this job I will be allowed to have it until I want to retire, not when the Dell people want me to retire. So I will have the long term security that I want, and we can start planning our futures from here!"
"That's great Mac!" says Veronica "I would have told you about this nice little house next door but someone bought it last week"
"That would be my handy work" said Dick "Mackie and I are going to be your neighbors. We want our kids to be friends with your kids!"
"You know Duncan, the Manning's moved the New York last summer. You could move here and no one would care. Veronica could do some of her FBI'y magic and help you move here!" Says Logan "Then all of the kids could hang out together!"
"That doesn't sound like a half bad idea. Lilly and I move around too much. She doesn't really have very many friends. Other than Hannah Montana she's obsessed" says Logan with a smile
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Once month later
"So I called all of these doctors, of course they wouldn't tell me anything. But they were all physiatrist's offices. And I did a search in all of the newspapers in Australia, because that's where he had been living before moving to his current home in London. It turns out his wife died. I'm still looking into the specifics of the death. But the obituary did indicate that they had a 13 year old daughter named Jane, did you know he had a daughter?" Veronica asks Duncan
"No, I didn't know he was married or that he had a wife either" says Duncan "How close are you to solving this, I've been here for almost two months"
"Well I'm working on the back story right now, I should have why he took Lilly figured out by the end of today, its gonna take a lot of searching because everything is in different names" Says Veronica with a smile "After that I'm not sure how long it will take to put a my plan into motion"
"Try to hurry please" said Duncan "I can help you research"
"That would be fantastic, can you be my writer, write anything I tell you to on that gianormous white board" says Veronica with a smile
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10 hours later
"Duncan, I figured it out" said Veronica "The reason he was going to those doctors was because of the stress of his wife's death, and the hospitalization and eventual death of his daughter. It turns out that his wife Laura was bipolar like you, she forgot to take her meds and snapped one day. She beat her daughter with a golf club. When CW finally got home his daughter was unconscious and his wife had hung herself in the bathroom. His daughter was rushed to the hospital and was in a coma. She died on May 22nd."
"He took Lilly a week and a half later. He said that I couldn't handle being her father, I bet he thought that I would do what his wife did" said Duncan "So what are we going to do to get her"
"Well, here's some bad news, he has booked a flight to New York on August 20th. I think he's going to take Lilly to the Manning's" said Veronica
"How are you going to fix this?" ask Duncan with a worried look
"That's easy, blackmail" said Veronica with a smirk
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Again, I am sorry this took so long. I hope to have another chapter as soon as I finish it, so it could be tomorrow or in two weeks. Thanks for reading, if you have any suggestions or questions, or complaints just click that pretty little review question and I promise to respond, and try to fix what's wrong