A/N doesn't belong to me just messing around in the sandbox. season 1 au

Meet John Smith

As a couple of guys run past her, they unfortunately cause her to drop all of her books.

Shockingly, Duncan stops to help her pick them up.

The worst thing about going to high school with you ex is you can't escape them.

Dad tells her that he guidance counselor has called to have him meet with her the next day.

After reassuring him that it's more than likely nothing, she debates asking him about her mom and decides that part of her doesn't want to know why her mom was meeting with Jake Kane.

They go to a video store to find a movie for daddy/daughter time.

While he goes to grab a movie they have seen about five times she grabs some candy and the boy behind the counter asks if he could talk to her about something important and private.

She tells him to find her during school.

She drags the kid, Justin, into the women's bathroom.

He asks if she can help him try to find his dad.

The only thing for certain that he can tell her is that his name is John Smith.

She enlists Wallace to help her with stuffing the envelops with the fake atteptance letters that she plans to send to every John Smith, with hopes that one of them is Justin's dad.

He dad seems pleased to see that she is hanging out with someone that isn't Backup.

The instant he closes himself in his office, she asks Wallace to steal he permanent record. She wants to know what their guidance counselor is taking to her dad about.

Troy bumps into he when Justin tries to give her a mix tape.

He barely waits a moment to ask her out on a date.

"Troy, I ummm." she mumbles. Open mouth and say not interested in you that way. You can do it. Speak woman.

"Nevermind Veronica. It was stupid."

"I don't really want to date right now. If you want to hang out as friends that's okay but I.. don't see you.."

"I'll take friendship." he says with a smile before walking away.

Would I have been able to say no if it had been...Nope don't go down that route.

Wallace gabs Justin's guidance counselor file for her and she is beyond pissed when she finds out that his dad died when he was in first grade.

She about to write him off when a janitor gives him a letter from his dad.

She reopens investigations after Justin shows up on he doorstep after talking to his mom, who admits to lying about his dad's death.

She runs into Troy and they are able to go back to the easy talking without the uneasiness of the fact that she turned down his date.

Hearing a crash, they run over to Duncan, who for some reason had flipped over the railing of the bleachers but seemed to miss the mats that would have kept him from getting injured.

She takes Duncan to the hospital.

She shares her pictures of the three John Smiths who live in San Diego to Justin.

Justin possibly recognizes the third picture, and she tells him that he is a petty criminal.

After school, they follow his possible father to his house.

She orders Justin to stay in the car while she sneaks into the garage.

John Smith finds her and denies that he has a son.

She and Justin are in shock when a woman pulls into the driveway in his dad's car.

Justin is angry that his father is in fact the woman, now called Julia.

Driving back, she tells him about her mom after mentioning the amount of miles his dad drives once a week just to see him for a few minutes.

She decides to go try and find her mother in Arizona.

She visits the place that her mom stayed only to find out that she has missed he and an old college friend of her moms has no information to tell her.

She doesn't know why but on the way home she took a different route and found herself outside of Eli's house.

Sitting on the hood of her car, she isn't surprised when someone sits down next to her.

"What's up, V?" he says.

"I thought I found my mom but I missed her."

He doesn't say a word just wraps his arm around her and pulls her into a side hug. She breaths easier as he comforts her.

Who knew that the safest place was in the embrace of the leader of a bike gang.

The Wrath of Con

Wallace and Troy drop her off after hanging out. Troy walks her to the door.

"So homecoming, do you want to go?"

"What?"

"I thought you and I could go to homecoming together."

"As friends, right?"

"Of course."

"Let me get back to you on that." she tells him right before she enters her apartment.

Homecoming...

Lilly laughs at the dress she shows her.

"You are red satin. Strapless red satin. Not this."

Wallace introduces his new friend Georgia to her.

Georgia had gotten a email from asking for help with money due to his gambling problem.

Unfortunately she gave him the money and is staring to get worried since he is late on paying he back.

She calls the number, giving a fake name to catch the person that swindled Georgia.

She soon receives a call from Karl and plans to meet him.

Georgia tells Wallace that she does not recognize the man, but he is dresses excatually the same way as the guy she talked to.

Veronica makes plans to meet the guy the next day since she doesn't have the money.

Wallace plants a tacker on "Karl's" car.

Following the guy, she finds out the guy's real name is Jimmy Spain, who is playing "Karl" in a new project.

She waits for him. He tries to laugh it off.

He looks past her and notices two bikers.

She follows his gaze and isn't shocked to see Weevil and Felix.

Suddenly nervous, Jimmy reveals that he is taking part in a reality show called "Duped". Where he and others con people while it's caught on camera.

He is upset when she reveal that it is a scam and gives her the number of the people that auditioned him.

He walks off and she turns to see that the boys had left.

Wallace tells her it is the number of a video game club.

She dresses up and heads to the club.

She finds a username that matches the email address.

After pissing him off by killing his character, she swipes his ID and finds out that he is a student a San Diego State University.

Wallace and Veronica go to an SDSU party, where the host tells them that "Grrrantastic" or Grant and one other person, Liam, are known as the "Silicon Mafia."

She snatches the key the boys room and posts the picture of the actor on the wall.

She is walking in the hall when she heas Lilly's voice.

Looking in the Journalism classroom, she finds Logan watching old videos of Lilly.

"What part of me ignoring you makes you think that you are wanted?"

"What are you doing?" she asks trying not to cry.

"Assembling the world's most boring memorial video. Full of Celeste's most favorite memories of Lilly."

"It's Lilly as a long-distance commercial."

"Memories both misty and water-colored."

Never have I ever gone skinny dipping.

Logan, Lilly and Duncan all take a drink.

She lets Troy know that she will go to homecoming with him but only as a friend and only if Wallace agrees to go with them. Hopefully with Georgia as his date.

She stops in the journalism class and hands Logan a tape that she had taken of time with Lilly.

"Use is or don't but it pure Lilly." she tells him before walking away.

She convinces he dad to work his way into the "Silicon Mafia" lair to plant a audio recorder.

She finds out the pass code to their alarm system and has her dad trap the "Mafia" by telling them he can give them and advance screening of a new game.

She uses the time to sneak into the dorm and uses the pass code she figured out to keep their alarm from going off.

She along with her dad's help had figured out that the were conning people out of money to create a video game. She takes apart their console and is about to leave when she notices that there are wires going to the closet, she opens it to find a backup hard drive with a better lock than she could pick with the amount of time she has.

Sitting with a drink in her hand she debates on what to do.

She leaves them a note and rushes out.

They meet her, Wallace and Georgia in the same place they conned numerous other people.

They then pay the money back in exchange for knowledge of where their equipment is.

She is walking off while the two boys dig through the trash for their hard ware and Georgia kisses Wallace.

At Lilly's memorial service, Celeste makes a speech before the fountain is revealed and starts the video.

She takes photos of everyone there and brushes tears out of her eyes as she remembers her best friend.

She is surprised when the music stops being sappy and sees that Logan has put footage of the chaotic night of the dance, which everyone enjoy.

She is surprised to see Jake breaking down as the video plays.

She turns after exchanging a slight nod with Logan. Still think you are Satan himself but if you can be nice so can I.

She is surprised to see Felix and Weevil there. She walks over to them and notices that Weevil is crying.

She goes to over to talk to him.

"Hey blondie." Felix says when she gets close to them.

"Boys." she tilts her head at them, not taking her eyes off weevil as he tries to hid that he was crying from her.

"V."

'You okay?"

"Always chica." he tries to hid the emotion in his voice.

"You..." would she have..would he have...

"V? You okay there?"

"You were her secret." she states. Felix tries to hide his shock but she catches it.

"Let's talk." he grabs her arm and the walk away from everyone to an empty hallway. Felix stands a little bit away from them keeping an eye out.

"You were involved with her."

"Yeah."

"How long?"

"Long enough."

"Eli..." she says softly as she places a hand on his leather covered arm.

"It was more to me than it was to her, okay. I know that now but I loved her."

"Okay."

"That's is?" he was a little confused. He debated about telling her about his promise but thought that the knowledge that he had been with her was enough for now. he would tell her everything else some other time.

"You loved her. I loved her. I think I am just happy finally knowing what her secret was."

"What?"

"The day..she..umm. She told me that she had a secret a good one. Knowing that it was you helps."

"She was..I had been asking and hinting for weeks about her at least letting you know about us if she didn't want to let everyone know yet." he felt better than he had in months.

She smiles softly at him and kisses him quickly on the cheek before walking away.

The night of the homecoming dance, she askes the limo driver to stop at Dog Beach. She orders the boys to stay.

She walks to the water and slowly removes her re satin strapless dress and goes skinny dipping. Hoping that she is making Lilly proud.

Weevil's got the beach to himself. Even some of his boys are at the dance with their girls.

He's go it made with a half a bottle of Jack and the crash of the waves.

Sitting down on the sand, he leans against the cliffs and settles in to watch the water.

The wind is gentle tonight, strong enough to sway the branches of some palm trees but not enough to lift the sand from the ground.

When the water starts rippling like crazy, he rubs his eyes.

He's only taken about half a dozen sips from the drink in his hand but he glances down to just to make sure.

When he looks back up, there's something in the ripples.

In the moonlight, he makes out an a head...and a decidedly female chest.

He smirks.

Skinny-dippers in the ocean aren't exactly a rare occurrence.

He stays still not wanting to bring any attention to himself.

Who ever it is swims for about for a few minutes, treading water then leaning back to float.

She returns to shore and retrieves a bright red dress from where it had been splayed across the sand and wiggles into it.

Now that his eyes have adjusted to the light, he can make out a limousine waiting at the road, but the girl is still too far away to figure out anything other than pale skin and a small, slender body.

"Veronica!" a voice cries from inside the limo. "We're gonna be late!"

"You are insane, girl!" he hears Wallace chimes in, while a female voice lets out a whoop in the background.

V..skinny dipping.

She slips her shoes back onto her feet and runs, laughing, back to the car.

"That was all you, Lilly!" she shouts out to the ocean before getting into the limo.

He chuckles, skinny-dipping was such a Lilly move.

He raising his bottle to toast the empty night sky.