Green-Eyed Monster
Once again she has babysitters.
She knew that Thumper and Felix were outside the office just waiting for her to finish up doing some filing for her dad.
"Yes, I was wondering if Meg Manning has been moved out of ICU. She has. What are the visiting hours." Meg's parents could keep them out of the ICU but in a normal room, hopefully the wouldn't be able to keep Duncan away.
She writes down the room number and times that she can go see her.
She figures she'll go first, maybe she can talk to Lizzie about planning a time Duncan can visit if their parents try to keep him away.
"I need to hire a detective." a women says coming into the office.
"Right office, wrong day but I can take your information and Mr. mars can get back to you."
The woman, Julie says that she needs her dad to investigate whether or not her boyfriend, Collin, is cheating.
As she is leaves, her dad comes in.
"Honey, I don't think that I have the time to take on a new case. Think you could do it. As long as it doesn't interfere with you school."
"No problem." she takes down the information pleased that he is trusting her enough to do this.
She calls Julie and asks her to met her at java Hut to find out more.
A the Hut, Julie tells her about all the signs of cheating that she has noticed.
Man this guy is boring. I think she might be a little off about him cheating.
She takes photos of him running laps when she gets a call from Julie.
Julie tells her about the number that has been calling him at all hours.
The next day at school she bumps into Wallace.
"So did my dad spend the night?" she asks.
"Yeah." he grinned at her.
"Pull the fake donuts run this morning." she asks opening her locker to grab her books.
"Want one." he says showing her the bag.
Jackie slicks up and the two of them start flirting, ignoring the fact that she is standing right there.
"Hey, mama. We going to see Meg after school?" Eli says coming up behind her, throwing his arm over her shoulder and puling her into his side.
'Yeah, I'm hoping that I can get Lizzie alone to talk about trying to set up a plan so that Duncan can sneak in to see her."
He gives her a quick kiss before heading off to class.
They go to the floor that meg is at and find Duncan already there.
"Duncan..." she starts when the door to Meg's room opens.
"What are you doing here again? I told you that we don't want you here." Meg's dad starts yelling at Duncan.
"Dad..." Lizzie says coming out of the room with her and Meg's younger sister, Grace.
"We care about Meg." she starts.
"If you really cared about her, she wouldn't have been on that bus." Meg's mom says deathly quiet.
"Leave now before I call security." Meg's dad says.
"Duncan..come on." she whispers to him.
Eli pulls him out of the seat and drags him down the hall, away from Meg's parents.
"Parents are a piece of work." Eli mumbles as they walk away.
"Yeah." she whispers.
She and Eli follow Collin to some women's house.
She sends the photos to Julie.
Grabbing her camera, she sneaks around the house hoping to get the money shot.
Only to find Collin getting Hebrew lessons from a rabbi.
Hearing the screeching of tires, she notices Julie stalking up to the house.
Luckily Eli is able to grab her before she gets there.
Even with the knowledge that he is taking lessons, Julie wants to be sure that he wont cheat and overs extra cash to make sure.
Knowing that Wallace was spending the afternoon 'studying' with Jackie, she tries calling Felix but when he doesn't answer she tries Thumper to come help her out since Eli is at work. Thumper has no problem coming to help out especially when she offers to pay.
Thumper is already there when she shows up.
"Damn, mama, Weevil let you out dressed lie that."
She was dressed in a shorter skirt than she normally wears, a white tank under a red sweater shrug, red fishnets and boots. Classic slutty sorority girl clothes.
"He is at work, so has no clue what I am wearing. Mic me." she says holding out a hand.
Grabbing a mic out of his pocket, "You do realize that he is going to kill me when he finds out about this outfit right?"
"I wont let him." she says with a smirk.
She pretends to have a flat tire and goes to Collin's house to get him to help her.
She attempts to seduce Collin, while he tapes, only to get turned down.
Thinking on her feet, she convinces him to let her inside the house so that she can check his computer.
She tries to seduce him once again, but he denies her advances.
She copies all of Collin's files onto a hard drive, and Collin tells her that this is not his house-he is house-sitting for Nicolas Cage.
Thumper knocks on the door when he feels that she has been in there too long.
Luckily the download finishes while he pretends to be an annoyed overprotective boyfriend.
She and Eli are cuddling on the couch when Letty gets home.
They go to stay the night at Duncan's when she lets them know that she has noticed him skipping pills.
"Ronnie, what are you doing here?" Duncan asks when she and Eli show up on his door.
"Had this sudden craving for horror movies, Chinese food and spending time with a friend." she says brushing past him.
"Oh, I get it. Your dad is home and Letty wont let you stay the night so you two have come to borrow my spare room." Duncan says sitting down on the other couch, watching her take food out of the bag.
"That's it rich boy.' Eli says covering.
"Umm did you bring me ear plugs." he jokes.
"Ha ha very funny...Did we bring him ear plugs?" she asks innocently.
They are watching one of the movies that she brought when someone starts knocking on the door.
"Who?" she asks looking at Duncan.
"No clue." he gets up to answer the door.
Logan stumbles in, drunk off his ass.
"Ronnie, Paco..." he mumbles before crashing onto the couch that Duncan had been on.
"I think that is our clue for bed. See you in the am." Eli says taking her head and pulling her into the spare room.
Wearing only his shirt she rubs his back, while she looks through Collin'g files.
Well hello there. Seems Collin has been researching Julie's family.
It's around three in the morning when she hears, talking coming out of the other room.
Without waking Eli up she leaves the bedroom and finds Lizzie, holding a laptop talking to Duncan.
Logan is staring at all three of them.
"Lizzie, what's wrong?"
"The school called my parents. You know how nosy than can be."
"Yeah."
"Well, some bright person decided it would be smart to let them know that Meg had a laptop that thye knew nothing about. I was hoping that Duncan could get the files off before tomorrow."
"My father might be a computer genius. me not so much."
"Hold on..I have an idea." she goes back into the room and wakes up Eli when she grabs her phone to call Mac.
He wakes up enough to throw on some pants before he goes into the other room while she talks on the phone.
"Opie, rich boy, Lizzie." he says sitting down.
"Ronnie get you up to date." Duncan asks sitting down.
"Okay.. Mac will be here soon." she shays coming back into the man room sitting down next to Eli.
It doesn't take mac long to get there.
"Been a long time since I snuck out of my house at three in the morning. Glad I still got what it takes."
She places all the files on a flash drive and gives it to Duncan.
The next day she calls Julie and asks her to meet at the office so that she can give her the information that she found.
She tells Julie that his supposed house and car are not actually his and that he was researching her family.
Her dad walks in, in a bad mood and ignores her going straight to his office as Julie leaves.
Looking a the files once more she notices that Collin researched family after he got the ring.
When she calls to tell her, Julie informs her that she broke up with Collin.
She is on the computer finally looking up who the number that called Eli belongs to when her dad comes in and asks for her help around the office.
She sees that the number came from Logan's house.
A number that she doesn't recognize.
At school she stops him.
She asks him to explain.
"My day is complete. Veronica mars has accused me of Evil. Where to start?"
He denies everything but admits that the day of the call he had a 'Life's Short' party.
That Eli and the boys crashed it just before Lamb showed up to take the keg.
Wallace is washing his car when some guy shows up.
Showing him a photo of himself and his mom, the guys tells him that he is his dad.