Nevermind the Buttocks
30 weeks
Cliff pours himself a glass of water before pouring one for her as Aaron's lawyer watches them with his beady eyes.
"You claim that you saw Mr. Echolls and Miss Kane having sex on the videotape." the lawyer asks.
"That's right." she says taking a sip of water.
"The actual act of intercourse?"
"A sheet was covering them, but they were having sex."
"Since a sheet was covering them is it possible that it only looked like sex?"
"If it looks and sounds like an orgasm..." she begins to snarl at him causing Cliff to place his hand on her shoulder.
"Is this an area you have a particular knowledge in, Miss Mars?" the lawyer asks.
She laughs softly and places a hand on her stomach.
"Mr. Lavoie..." Cliff starts trying not to laugh as he looks at her stomach.
"Well, she said it looked as though they were having sex. I need to make sure she knows what sex looks like." Mr. Lavoie says.
Maybe if you had bothered to look at me...
"On top of getting an A in Sex Ed. I am around thirty weeks pregnant, Mr. Lavoie. I am sure that I have knowledge." she snarks as the lawyer finally looks at her.
Mr. Lavoie just stares at her stomach.
Clearing his throat. "Miss Mars, have you had any contact with Duncan Kane?"
She just glares at him.
After dealing with that lawyer, she's wanting to relax and spend time with her friends. She had invited Logan, Wallace and Jackie over but they had other plans.
She and Eli were cuddling on the couch watching Felix and Thumper play a game against Mac, who was winning, while Marisol is making something in the kitchen.
She's still hurting but trying to get back to normal. Luckily she has a good group of friends.
"Prepare to have your mind blown...Oh didn't know we had tons of company." her dad says bursting into the house.
"Sorry, kinda needed some family time." she tells him.
"Hey daddy-o." Thumper, Felix, Mac and Marisol say with smirks. He just shakes his head and smiles at 'his' kids.
"I'm cooking supper. You got here just in time." Marisol says dishing out the food.
"What's up?" Eli asks grabbing a bowl for the two of them.
"Are you sure that you are ready?" Keith jokes.
"Think back eighteen years... small, blonde, baby. Born ready." she jokes.
"Richard Casablancas was using the life insurance they'd taken out for Dick and Cassidy as a tax shelter. The payout on their policies is over eight figures, and here's the kicker: the beneficiary should both brothers die simultaneously? Kendall Casablancas."
All of them just look at him in slight shock.
"The wicked stepmother trying to bump off her rich husband's spawn." she says shaking her head.
"That's a Disney movie, isn't it?" Mac jokes taking a bite of food to hide her frown.
"Just because she had motive doesn't mean she is capable." Keith remarks before starting to eat.
"That woman went from spandex to cashmere in less than a year, right." Marisol says.
"Never underestimate a gold digger." Mac says quietly.
"I'll take a look into what she was doing the day of the crash." Keith says putting an end to the conversation.
At school, she ignores the sound of Clemmons and others doing locker searches.
"Eli, can you feed Buddy?" the teacher asks.
He gets up and grabs a rat to feed the python.
"Someone was hungry, huh?" he says softly.
"Someone is baby talking a python." she says looking at him with a smile.
"Don't worry, querida, I'll baby talk you later. Buddy and I, we got this special connection, top of the food chain." he tells her with a smirk.
"Uh huh. We are not getting one, no mater what you say or do ." she says causing him to come over and wrap his arms around her, to the annoyance of the teacher.
"Please, querida." he whispers brushing a soft kiss on her neck.
"No. Go." she says with a smile pushing him back to his seat.
She and Eli head over to Mac, who is banging her head against her locker, when she notices someone staring at her. Luckily, Eli doesn't notice him.
"Q, what's ..." she starts.
"I got mugged... By my own principal. They took my cell phone interceptor, and apparently plan on keeping it until the end of the year. What happened to 'end of the day'? Why wasn't that working?"
"Ummm..." he says looking between the two of them. "I'll see you later, querida." he says escaping to head to auto shop.
"Is there any chance you can get it back for me? Or have one of the boys get it back for me?" Mac starts. "I borrowed it from my buddy at Radio Shack because apparently, I've become a psycho ex-girlfriend and I wanted to listen to Beaver's cell phone calls. ...You're judging me." she rants.
"No. I'm judging myself. Why don't I have a cell phone interceptor?" she says with a smile.
"Please, respect the business model, Bond. I do the gadgets; you do the actual espionage."
"Let me see what I can do." she tells her and they walk towards their next class.
She watches as the only person in Clemmons office rushes out with her keys. She smirks as she heads over to his office door.
I don't know if waiting for Clemmons to go to lunch qualifies as espionage, but convincing Felix and Thumper to set off his secretary's car alarm? Pure Bond.
She tries to unlock the door but finds that he changed the lock.
"Dammit." she whispers. Grabbing her stuff she rushes out of the office.
She groans but heads to the one person she knows can get her and Mac into the office.
"Vincent, can we talk?" she says coming up to him at his locker.
"What do you want, Veronica?"
"I need to get into your dad's office. To get something out of the box of confiscated items."
"What do I get for getting you into the office?" Vincent asks.
"What do you want?" she groans as her loving son started jumping on her bladder. Now I need to pee.
"A date for Prom."
"Que?"
"Your friend Mac, she's single right. I want to go with her."
Mac is going to kill me. "That can be arranged."
"Dad has bus duty, meet me in his office then." he says closing his locker and leaving her standing there.
She and Mac check to make sure the coast is clear before she knocks on the door.
"That was your knock." Vincent says sarcastically letting them in.
She just rolls her eyes at him.
"You have eleven minutes before he gets back. Everything is in a box under his desk." he says pointing it out to them.
She rushes over and begins to dig around.
"Wow, Butters, this is..well this is way cool of you." Mac tells him.
"Just so you know, I'm an excellent dancer, so...don't worry about that." he says blushing lightly.
"...Oh. Okay." Mac replies confused.
"Well, I don't have to dance, though. I enjoy it, but I also enjoy a good conversation." he says filling up the silence.
"Look! Fake vomit. Courtesy of locker...213." she says trying to keep Vincent from talking anymore. Your mommy is about to die.
"So, Mac, what color dress are you wearing?" Vincent asks.
Mac just stares at him.
"I just don't want the corsage to be, like, blue, and your dress is red, and you think I'm an idiot." he continues.
"Veronica?" Mac says turning to her. Yup, dead woman walking.
"Oh, your cell phone interceptor!" she says pulling it out of the box. "Do you mind if I give this Anarchist Cookbook back to Eli?"
"Eli...oh Weevil. You know his locker...never mind." he stops talking as his eyes drop down.
"Even if I didn't know it. Who else would brag about meeting Satan halfway?" she jokes pointing to the number 333.
"Okay..so I was thinking about getting a limo."
Mac grabs her arm and the leave with Vincent calling after them that he'll call her.
"Veronica..."
"He wanted a date for Prom in exchange for getting us into the office. He wanted it to be you but we got your cell phone interceptor back." she says trying to make light of it.
Mac just glares at her, grabbing the bag out of her hands and heads to her car.
She looks down at the cookbook in her hands a little worried.
She finds him on his bike, waiting for her.
"We might have a slight problem unless you have something to tell me." she says handing him The Anarchist Cookbook. "This was found in your locker, during the first week of school. Funny thing I never saw you with it."
"That's Hectors. He stashed it in my locker."
"So he had this when he was working for them. You know that this is a manual for making bombs."
"Whoa...querida, where are you going with this?"
"Unfortunately, thinking the way that Lamb would... That Hector, you or a PCHer set the bomb that blew up the bus."
"Cervando was on the bus and so were you." he points out pulling her into his arms.
"I know but this is Lamb. I wouldn't put it past him to think this or for someone to hope that is what he would think it." she says dropping her head onto his chest as he wraps his arms around her.
"V..."
"What's to stop him from saying that you were following us, that you didn't just happen to be at the gas station. That you were there to make sure I wasn't on the bus. The explosion isn't what killed them, it was the fall from the cliff. Lamb could say that since you were following you timed it just right."
He just rubs her back, letting her rant and cry softly out of fear that someone could be trying to frame him.
After a long night of crying, she was not completely ready when the boy that had been watching her sits down at the table with her.
"You help people, right?" the kid asks.
"I try." she tells him. She's not surprised when Thumper sits down next to her, glaring at the kid.
"She ain't cheap kid. There is a fee." Thumper snarks
"Could you find the owner of the car that ran over my dog?" the kid says trying not to cry.
"Oh...I'm sorry." she breathes trying not to whimper.
"I caught a glimpse of the back of the car. How much will it be to track it down?"
She rubs her stomach, "Fifty if its an easy search, but if I need to get more it could run you up to two hundred and fifty."
"Do you take meat?"
She and Thumper just look at him in confusion. "Que? Meat?" both of them say.
Harry, the kid, follows her to the newspaper classroom.
"The best times of my life have been with my dog." Harry tells her as they sit down.
Thumper comes into the room and joins them with a car book for Harry to look through to find the car.
Harry finds the right one, a Plymouth Barracuda, but it was green.
"I doubt there are many of those in Neptune." she says going to the computer to see if any are registered in town. "Dammit." she whispers when none come up. "I'll keep looking."
"Thanks." Harry says gabbing his stuff and leaving.
"Where is Patten?" the editor yells coming into the classroom.
No one answers him.
"He was suppose to get me a story about graduation and now I have a hole to fill. Veronica, can you get me some photo to fill this up?" he asks coming over to her.
Bingo
"How much would it cost to put an ad there?"
"Forty." the editor tells her.
Glancing at Thumper, she smiles.
"Veronica? I've got a, uh, favor to ask." Jackie asks coming up to her as she is putting some books into her locker.
"What's up?"
"Are you still doing shifts at the Hut?"
"Some."
"I was hoping you could put in a good word for me. I already dropped off an application."
"Jackie... Is everything okay?"
"The Cook family assets have been frozen and um..."
"I can see what I can do."
"Thank you."
She goes to the Hut to do a couple of hours. She is able to find a couple minutes to talk to her manager and after some slight begging and agreeing to do the firing if she sucks, Jackie is able to start the next day.
She walks through the door to find her dad looking through some papers on the sofa. Backup barely lifts his head to acknowledge her from his spot on the floor.
"No Eli tonight?" he asks as she sits down.
"Nope, Letty needs him and the boys to help her with something."
"Can you think of any reason why Logan would've gotten three calls from Kendall on the day of the crash?" he asks handing her the remote.
"Well, let's see. I believe the Latin term is coitus sordidus."
"They were sleeping together? That was weeks before Kendall's husband fled the country."
"Logan may be a little fuzzy on the commandments."
"You knew about this?" he asks surprised.
"Cassidy hired me because he thought that Kendall was breaking her prenup and I found out about them."
"That boy. Have I told you how happy I am about who you are dating?"
"More than once." she says with a smile.
"Think you or one of the boys could find out if he was with her at the time of the crash."
"No problem."
"As a rule, I like to start every school day with a hot blonde waiting for me in the parking lot." Logan jokes when he finds her and Eli waiting for him.
"Me too, Opie." Eli says with a smirk.
"I'm not blonde." Logan says with a smile.
She just shakes her head at the two of them.
"Got a question for you... remember back when you were doing Dick's stepmom?" she asks as they start walking towards the building.
"Mm, vaguely. I'm trying to forget." he snarks.
"By any chance, were you with her on the day of the crash?My dad is checking an angle." she asks.
"You're so cute, being obsessed with my sex life." he says throwing his arm over her shoulder and leaning close to her.
"Logan!" "Opie." she yells laughing, pushing him away as Eli snarls.
"Man, can no one take a joke this morning." he laughs.
"Kendall stood to make millions by sending Dick and Beaver over that cliff. There was an insurance policy." Eli says.
"Kendall requires a domestic staff to make cereal. You think she could really plot a murder?" he asks.
"That woman... Yes. Were you with her at 7:03?" she scoffs.
"No actually, she kicked me out before the sheets were even dry. But considering her husband's fondness for handguns and the fact that Dick and Beaver could come home any minute, who could blame her?" he tells them.
"Dammit." she whispers and walks away from them.
He grabs Eli when he starts after her. "What's going on?"
"She thinks that someone might be trying to frame me and the PCHers for the crash."
"Fu..." he just looks at him in slight shock and fear.
"Yeah. Talk to you later." Eli says running after her.
Annoyed, it takes her a moment that someone is calling her name. She turns to see Gia rushing towards her.
"Did you do this ad?" Gia asks showing her the ad about the car that ran over Harry's dog.
She just nods.
"I've seen this car. Some guy in it mooned me."
"When?"
"September 13 at 7:00pm on the Highway."
"What?" she asks stopping in the middles of the hallway.
"It passed the limo just before the bus..."
"What did the guy look like?"
"I only saw his butt. I was the only one facing that direction. I just thought that it was some college kids by the leprechaun on the window."
"How sure are you that it was around seven?"
"Very, I was on the phone with my dad. He wanted to know where I was and to make sure that I could pick up Rodney from his piano lesson."
"Thanks." she says walking away from Gia.
Seeing that V is lost in her head he passes her and stops in front of Jackie.
"You want us to do this platonic thing, you gonna have to make some adjustments." Wallace tells her.
"Like what?" Jackie says with a smile.
"Like...that. And...this." he says pointing at her outfit, which shows off her assets very well.
"What do you want me to do, Wallace?" she asks with a laugh.
"Let me drop this dumb 'pals' act." he says as Thumper and Marisol stop at her locker next to them.
"Wallace..."
"It's been weeks. That's like a decade in high school years. I mean, Jane is already dating again." he jokes causing Thumper to hide a smile and laugh as Marisol hits him. "Come on, Jackie. Why you so worried about what other people think? I mean, you're already that girl whose dad blew up the kids. Think anyone's out there saying, "Yeah, but at least she keeps her hands off of other girls' ex-boyfriends"?" he says.
Marisol quickly grabs Jackie and with a glare at Wallace they walk away.
"SHIT! Did I really just say that out loud?" he asks looking at Thumper.
"You, my man, are lucky. If V heard that come out of you mouth right now..." Thumper says walking away to head to class.
Eli waits in the car while she goes to talk to Harry, to update him.
"Hi, I'm Veronica." she says to the kid that answers.
"Yeah, you go to Neptune, right? You're Weevil Navarro's baby mama right?" he says looking at her stomach. "What are you doing here?"
"Can you tell me where I can find Harry?" she asks glaring at the kid.
"What'll you give me?" he says blocking her from entering.
"Hmmm, A dollar and I won't beat you silly."
"I might like that." he leers just before she flicks him in the eye. "OW!"
"No, I don't think you would. Harry?" she says.
"Out back." he tells her holding his eye.
With a nod to Eli, she heads out back to find Harry shooting a stuffed deer with a crossbow.
"Do you have some deep-seated deer issues you wanna talk about?" she asks.
"Nope. I love animals. How's it going?" Harry asks.
"Might have a lead. Do you remember seeing a decal on the car?"
"It was dark." he tells her lining up another shot. "I want this guy found." he says shooting the deer, bullseye.
"I'll look into the lead."
He is under Letty's car, fixing it when his phone starts going off.
He slides out and wiping his hands open his phone to see that it was just a text from a number he doesn't recognize.
Annoyed, he opens it..to find a photo of Hector. Beaten and hanging from the ceiling.
"Weevil..you here man?" Felix yells as he, Thumper and a few PCHers enter the garage. "Hey..Weevs what's up?"
He throws the phone at Felix, luckily he catches it. He clenches a wrench in his hand, wanting to beat something.
"SON OF A BITCH!" his boys exclaim.
"I don't care how you do it but find who sent that to me. I need to have a talk with 'em."
"I know this place." Felix says.
Everyone stares at him.
"Speak." he snarls.
"It's a room that Molly would have me meet her at when we were sneaking around."
"Fitzpatricks." all of them snarl.
"Let's go." Thumper says.
"Wait, we does this smart. We need to make sure that it is them before we storm in."
They all just nod, reluctantly.
"Okay, honey. Now prepare to be impressed." Keith says entering the office and placing a yearbook on the desk.
"Dad, you've shown me your yearbook. The whole Rick Springfield feathered hair thing, it looked awesome on you. But..."
"Go to page eighty seven." he tells her.
She does. "That's not Kendall." pointing to the photo.
"Go to the Senior pages and look for Priscillia Banks."
With a smile, "Hello Kendall."
"Seems the real Kendall Shiflett was killed in a car crash, Priscilla was behind the wheel. She also spent six months in jail for fraud."
The laptop starts dinging letting them know that she just got a instant message.
"Now what is more interesting than my amazing PI skills." he asks when she starts writing something down.
"A lead on a car that an over this kid's dog."
"Take someone with you." he tells her as she starts packing up her stuff.
She just smiles at him.
She is about to get in the car when she notices Dick walking towards her.
"Dick."
"Hey Ronnie. Ummm...Could I talk to you?"
Dad did say to take someone with me.
"I need to check something out. Come with and we can talk."
He nods and gets into the car and she drives to the address.
"I'm worried about Beaver." Dick says.
"Que?"
"He's been being an idiot since he dumped Ghost World. He's...I know that he still likes her but he's not trying to get her back. She was good for him and I don't know how to explain it but I am worried about him."
"Okay..what do you want me to do?"
"Any advice on how to knock him out of this funk and maybe get him back with Ghost Wor... sorry Mac." he says noticing the side glare that she sends him
She pulls up in front of the house that she was sent the address for and turns off the car. "Help me with this. I'll figure out something...if you are asking for help it must be bad."
"Okay what are we doing?"
"This is the address of a suspect that ran over this kid, Harry, dog. I need to find proof that he did or didn't do it. While I am keeping the person inside distracted can you search the garage." She pulls out the information that she got from Harry and Gia. "See if any of this matches, if it does put this on the car." she says handing him a tracker.
He nods and waits for her to get out of the car and go knock on the door.
While she is talking to some old lady, he sneaks into the garage.
He finds the car and looking it over, he notices a nearly taken off leprechaun, where Gia had said there was one. He is in luck when he finds the door unlocked, he opens the glove box to plant the tracker only to find a gun.
Son of a bitch.
Knowing Ronnie, he grabs the gun and removes the bullets making sure that there isn't any more in the glove box, he plants the tracker and puts the gun back where it was and quietly gets the hell out of the garage.
"Hey querida. Opie 2.0." Eli says entering the office to find V and Dick talking in front of her laptop.
"Weevil." Dick says. "I think it might work. Let me know if you need help again." he says placing his hand on her shoulder as he gets up to leave.
Eli narrows his eyes at him as he comes over to him. Dick reaches into his pocket and places bullets in his hand. "She needs a bloody guard on her all the time." he says softly making sure not to let her see the hand off.
He just nods as Dick leaves the office.
"Need your help." he says walking over and sitting down next to her. He takes out his phone and shows her the photo.
"Oh... Hector." she whispers.
"I need to get into Clemmons office. Hector had this paddle that I found in his locker when I was putting in the money at the carnival. It had license plates numbers or something on it, I think, engraved on it. I'm guessing that those numbers belong to the people he was delivering product to for the Fitzpatricks. He probably made it as some kind of insurance or something. Felix knows where this place is. Its in Molly's house which means the Fitzpatricks have him. I think that paddle might be something that I can use to get him out."
"Why were you following the bus? I know there is more to it." she asks softly.
"Cervando was book smart, but street dumb. You know about him hustling Liam out of some money, and that he was bragging about it to anyone that would listen. I heard that Liam was out looking for him. I was looking out for both of you because I know that you would have put yourself between Liam and Cervando if need be."
She pulls him forward and kisses him softly.
"Hands where I can see them." her dad says coming out of his office. "Will you be home soon?"
"Just going to check on Jackie at the hut for a bit. We'll lock up."
"Eli, make sure she gets home safe."
"Always Sheriff."
Keith leaves.
"You don't need to get into the office." she says reaching into one of the drawers.
"Really?"
She pulls out the photo copy that she made weeks ago. "You weren't the only one that thought this might be important."
"You are unbelievable." he says dropping a kiss on her neck.
"Let's figure out who some of the people on the list are and get our boy home."
Jackie is efficiently serving different customers when she walks in.
Guess I won't have to fire her.
She turns, noticing a certain person sitting in Jackie's section. With a soft smile, she goes over to Jackie.
"Hey, you have someone waiting for you at table eight." she tells her.
"Alright. Veronica..?" Jackie says getting her attention as she turned to leave.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks, for giving me a chance." she says motioning to her uniform.
She just smiles and heads to the exit, she sends table eight a smile and wave as she leaves.
Jackie goes to table eight and finds Wallace.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean fo it to come out that way. I like you but if you don't like me the same way I like you, I can respect that and back off. Just be your friend."
"I do like you...maybe more than I should. I got accepted to a school in Paris. I'm set to leave the day after graduation. That's only five weeks."
He just looks at her dumbfounded.
Keith moves into the kitchen, keeping to the shadows as he hears footsteps.
He looks around before making a dart for the door when a voice calls out to him.
Liam Fitzpatrick steps out of the shadows with a gun in his hand, pointing at him. "Well, well." he laughs. "Looks like the former Sheriff is on the wrong end of a robbery."
Keith looks at a window that faces the street.
"Make a run for it. It will make my story more believable." Liam says.
Keith turns and just glares at him, refusing to give him the pleasure of begging.
He pulls the trigger and fires, and Keith flinches, then realizes there was no bullet in there.
He tackles Liam quickly as Liam continues to try and fire.
"Dick!" Kendall screams noticing him and Logan parked in front of the house. "What are you doing here?! Who is in my house?"
Liam and Keith suddenly fly out the window, still fighting.
"Sheriff! Mr. Mars!" Dick and Logan yell getting Keith's attention.
Keith elbows Liam in the stomach and makes a run for it to Logan's car.
Dick shouts at Kendall to move, and revving the engine until she does and speeds off.
"What were you doing there?" Keith asks.
"I convinced Ronnie to let us to follow that guy. His car was involved in running over this kid's dog. It wasn't hard to convinced her it might be safer if Logan and I followed him, since Weevil would have the boys following her if she tried."
"What were you doing there?" Logan asked.
"That house belongs to Kendall. Sorry, Dick but its possible that your step mom was behind the bus crash."
"I can see it."
"Either of you know why there wasn't any bullets in his gun?"
"That would be me. I gave them to Weevil after finding the gun when I was planting the tracker."
"Find anything?" Logan asks.
Keith holds up a hard drive.
Keith lets them into the office. Logan had called Ronnie who called Mac. Mac was waiting for them when they got there.
Mac connects the hard drive to her laptop when Ronnie and Weevil burst through the door.
Logan moves from helping her dad with the cuts so that she can take over.
"You just had to go though the window, huh?" she tries to joke.
"All right, you guys are in." Mac says tuning to see that she had a large audience.
"Thanks, Mac." Dick says sitting down next to her.
"Anything else I can do?" she asks.
"Can you print out everything, every email and document?"
"Your wish is my Shift-Command. Little computer humor for you, there." she jokes.
Ronnie just shakes her head and goes back to fixing up her dad.
"Oh before I forget I am not speaking to you." Mac says looking at her.
She just looks at her in confusion.
"Butters asked if he should rent a room for Prom night...A room."
"Mac, I can tell him to back off if you want." Dick tells her.
"Bond, did Dick Casablancas just offer to do something nice and use my name?" Mac says looking over at her with wide eyes.
"Yes Q, he did." she says with a laugh.
Dick just looks at each of them in confusion.
"Querida, I need to go." Eli says dropping a kiss on her shoulder before leaving the office.
She waits barely a moment, "Logan...follow him and keep him safe."
"Come on, Dick." Logan says leaving Ronnie, Mac and her dad in the office.
"Sweetie?" her dad asks.
"I'll explain later just not...not right now." she says placing a bandage on his head.
The rest of the PCHers join him as they ride to where he knows that Hector is. He isn't surprised when he notices Logan's car following the bikes.
She can't be here so sends her other boys to watch out for us.
"Where is it, boy?" one of the Fizpatricks demands bunching him in the gut again.
Hector just sneers at him.
He looks up when the door opens and the kid from before comes in and gives Liam some money.
"Not bad kid. See this one knows the score. Supply and demand. Get out of here." Liam says pushing the kid out the door before turning back to him.
Liam moves over to him and grabs him by the hair to make him look at him in the eye.
He just sneers and spits in his face. Liam backhands him causing his head to explode with pain.
He thinks he might have passed out because the next thing he knows, someone is helping him down. He opens his eyes as much as he can to see Logan and Cassidy's brother with their hands on him, helping him stay upright.
"How do I know this is the only copy?" Liam asks a pissed off Weevil in front of him.
"You don't. My woman is Veronica Mars, remember that. Anything happens to me or any of my boys...and that includes those two fuckers right there." he says pointing at the two 09ers helping him. "She will make you wish that you never heard my name. Anything hapens to her or anyone she cares about. I will make you pray for death after her and that's only if anything is left once her father is done with you."
He knows he blacked out again or he hoped he did because he wakes up in a hospital bed to find Weevil and his mom sitting by his bed.
"Hey..." he croaks out.
"Welcome back." Weevil says with a smile.
Keith takes her phone and turns it off when he keeps seeing her glance at it.
"Dad!"
"They will be fine. The boys will get him out of there. Wishing I had hit Liam a little harder now." he mutters the last part.
To keep her distracted, she and her dad go through everything that Mac printed off.
"Well, the woman that I talked to is Liam's grandmother." she says showing him the paper she found. "Eli thought that Liam and the Fitzpaticks were after Cervando because he hustle him in a game of pool and was bagging about it. Liam did have access to explosives through Danny."
"I think I may have found a link between Liam and Kendall. Kendall has been getting emails from Cormick Fitzpatrick, Liam's older both and is currently doing time in San Quentin for fraud."
"Didn't you say that Kendall has a history with fraud?"
"I did. Looks like Cormick and Kendall were partners, working the long con and she was the roper. The stint she did, was when she took the rap for Cormick, to save him a third strike, so the Fitzpatrick's owe her."
"Gia saw the car just before the crash. Liam could have been following the bus. He might have been her lookout so that she could easily call from the comfort of lounging by the pool."
"Did you talk to Logan?"
"Yeah, he was with her but she kicked him out before the crash."
Whatever he was going to say is cut off when the office phone starts ringing. He nods at her to pick it up.
Jackie is leaving the Hut when she finds Wallace waiting for her by the door.
"I've been thinking about what you said and I don't care. If all we have is five weeks than lets make the most of them."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah. We should live in the now and be happy. I don't know think I am ever going to find another girl like you."
"I don't think I could find another Wallace either." she whispers.
"Go with me to Prom?"
"Of course."
They just look at each other a smile.
"Hey Sheriff." Eli says letting himself into the apartment the next morning.
"Eli, how is Hector?" he asks watching the news, not looking happy.
"He's okay. Gonna have to be in the hospital for a few days for observation but otherwise okay." he says.
"Honey, could you come out here." Keith calls, turning off the TV.
She is pulling her hair up as she enters the living room. "Mi amour, when did you get here?"
"Not long ago." he says wrapping a am around her waist as she comes over to him.
"Kids, it looks like they might have found the murder weapon that was used on Lilly." her dad says.
"What about the glass ashtray that was found?" she asks.
"We assumed that was used, sine it was in the pool."
"Does finding a different weapon change anything?" Eli asks pulling V closer to him.
"The new weapon was found buried at the Kane's when the new owners were moving the swimming pool and came across Aaron's Oscar statue."
"That should help the case."
Keith frowns, "In addition to Lilly's blood, Duncan's hair was found on it."
She suddenly has a hard time breathing.
She and Eli head over to Harry's to tell him what she has found out.
She knocks on the door and Harry's brother answers with fresh bruises.
Eli narrows his eyes at the kid.
"Harry is in his room." the kid says quickly.
Eli grabs his arm before he can leave.
"YOU were there last night." he snarls.
"You know exactly who killed you brother's dog and had my friend hanging from the ceiling." he says tightening his hold on the kid.
"I sent you the photo of him the instant I was able too."
"You knew that he had Hector and kept quiet." she says deathly quietly. "You were selling for Liam Fitzpatrick, were you late and he took it out on the dog."
"Listen, just don't tell Harry. He finds out what happened..."
"Cry to someone else. This beating, you've got coming." she says trying to brush past him.
"Please, Harry will go after Liam and end up in jail for murder."
Eli looks torn and she knows how he feels.
"Billy, who is it?" Harry calls out.
"Please." Billy begs as she heads up the stairs.
I could give Harry his name, the man that would have murdered my dad if Dick hadn't removed the bullets, who has killed other people, who has spent the past few weeks beating and torturing my friend, not to mention might have had something to do with death of everyone on the bus. No one would miss him.
She finds Harry sharpening his weapons.
"You find out who ran over my dog?" Harry asks looking up at her.
Swallowing hard and taking a deep breath, "No."