A/N We are coming to the end. I think only one more after this. It has been amazing ride. Thank you so much to everyone that has read, reviewed, Favorited or followed the story. You have no idea how much your feedback helped motivate me
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She stares at the newspaper, with an article about Aaron, in front of her as she feeds Gabriel.
"Okay, this needs to go. We are not going to obsess over this. It's done and we have more important things going on in our lives." her dad says taking the paper from her and throwing it away in his office.
"Don't worry Blondie. Echolls will get his one way or another. Karma." Hector says from the couch.
He was there as a bodyguard while Eli was working with his uncle. No one liked the fact that Echolls got off and as long as he was walking around Eli was sticking with the PCHers, even her dad demanded that he stay even with a newborn. Felix was sticking to Logan and when Eli and Thumper were busy Hector was with her and Gabriel.
"I'm trying to think that but..." she says.
"But nothing. I believe it. Now we have a business to run." her dad says sitting done at his desk.
She finishes feeding Gabriel and places him the bassinet that Letty had given her that could go from work to home.
"Hey, fax coming in." Hector says getting up to get it. He whistles looking at it before handing it to her.
"Posted today: Meg's dad offering twenty grand for the capture of Woody Goodman." she says handing her dad the fax.
"Well, I'm sure someone'll get him." Kieth says barely looking at it.
"Didn't you say something about 'we have a business to run'? Shouldn't you be out hunting him down like the dog he is?" she says staring at him.
"I also said something about us having more important things going on in our lives. See, I have this kid who's gonna graduate from high school, I don't want to miss it."
"Dad. This is Woody Goodman. He blew up a bus and molested children."
He just nods.
She sits with Wallace at the Hut.
"I thought that you were prepared for Jackie leaving." she says. She was there to let her manager know that she wouldn't be coming back. College, working part time for her dad and Gabriel were going to take up most of her time. She was still a little shocked that her dad gave her the okay to move into the apartment that Eli had found for them after graduation.
"Never figured that it would go down like this."
"She left you a note? Right?"
"But I was afraid if I saw you, I wouldn't be able get on the plane. I'll always..." Well, then it's just a bunch of private stuff. What can you do about that?" Wallace says visibly upset.
"You could use a method time-tested by women throughout the ages.. gorge on cake." she says as Hector joins them with three pieces of cake.
"Where's Gabriel?" Wallace asks cluing in that the baby isn't there.
"Letty has him." she says with a smile. She notices one of the guys she sent the mass email to come in.
"I'll be right back." she says getting up and going over to him.
Johnny Ludden asks about the free gelato she used to entice him there.
"Just have to answer one thing and you will get it. Are you in this photo?" she asks showing the photo of the Little League.
"Yeah, that me." he says pointing.
She adds him name to the others that she had gotten so far.
She and a hungry Gabriel walk in with Hector, her dad not that far behind them just as the phone starts ringing.
"Hello." she says. Hector watches as her eyes go wide.
She passes the phone to Keith as he walks in behind her.
"It's Vinnie Van Lowe." she tells him.
He puts the phone on speaker.
"So, 'course you know about the bounty on this Goodman guy." Vinnie says.
"I'm aware of it, yes." he says taking Gabriel from Veronica as she gets a bottle ready.
"Twenty G's. That's big boy money. Gonna be a lot of top guys out there for it. I had a thought: we team up. Mars and Van Lowe, pool our resources, split the cash."
"Whatta you got?" Keith asks rocking his grandson as his whimper starts to turn into a cry.
"All his records. Tax, medical, corporate, the whole enchilada. We nail him, we split sixty-forty. I'm the sixty, by the way."
She rolls her eyes and hands her dad the bottle and her son greedily starts sucking it down. She runs into the bedroom to get a burp-cloth when her dad is unable to find one in the diaper-bag.
"Fifty-fifty. If the stuff you got pans out, and no action until after my daughter's graduation." he says giving her a glare when she opens her mouth to argue.
"Fine." Vinnie says annoyed. "BY the way think you could come bail me out, partner."
Her dad hangs up the phone.
Vinnie drops the files off as she and Eli are making supper. Her dad is relaxing in his chair watching TV on low with the baby monitor right next to him. Logan is laying out on the couch, which was his bed for the time being, having given up the hotel room so that Aaron couldn't claim he was using his money.
"Isn't this cozy." Vinnie snarks.
"Bye Vinnie." Keith says all but pushing him out of the house.
"We'll go through those after supper." she says.
They all nod and sit down to eat.
Once supper and the dishes are down they spread out the files to go through them.
"Woody has ten credit cards in different corporate names." Logan says looking at the sheet in front of him.
"Seasonal allergies, bad arches...and he had the clap. Hm. Treated twice for chlamydia. Didn't see that in his campaign material. Bingo: heart arrhythmia." Keith says going through his medical history.
"So that's our strategy? Just wait for him to drop dead?" Eli says looking up from the stuff he is looking through.
"He has to take a pill every day. There any way you could find out Gia Goodman's cell phone access code?" he asks looking at all three of them.
"Gia's cell?" she asks getting up when she hears Gabriel starting to cry over the monitor.
"I got 'em, mama." Eli says getting to his feet first and goes to their bedroom.
"Woody's lawyer's also an old college buddy of his. If he'd call anyone, it'd be him. If we had Gia's code and could forward her calls..." Keith says.
"Knowing Gia. I guarantee you she hasn't changed it from the factory default." she says with a smirk.
Her alarm starts to beep at 6:30 a.m.
She pulls a pillow over her head.
There is a knock on her door. Wallace walks in and starts shaking the bed.
"Get up supafly. The big day is finally here." he says before walking back out.
She gets dressed and heads into the kitchen.
Keith is sitting at the table in his sheriff's uniform. Alicia puts pancakes on her plate.
Wallace and Darrel are already at the table.
"Come on sis." Darrel say with a grin.
Keith pulls Alicia onto his lap when she gets close.
"This is where you start gagging or tell us to get a room." her dad jokes.
"It's nice." she says with a small smile.
Wallace places a hand on her forehead.
"You feeling okay, supafly."
She ignores him and turns to her dad. "How the sheriff's business is going?"
"It's going well, we have Otis in cell one and Lamb has to wear the Clete the Crime-Fighting Canine costume to all the elementary schools for the week." he laughs.
Alicia sits back on her husband's lap. "You better not run off with that boy." she says looking at her. "I want photos."
She brings the camera up to take a photo when suddenly she is at school.
All the students are in green graduation gowns.
Holding her gown she joins Logan, Duncan, Meg and Mac.
"Guess who's going commando?" Dick says joining them as she gets there.
He makes Mac stand up so that he can sit down only to pull her into his lap and wrap his arms around her.
"Please tell me you are joking?" Mac says with a mock glare.
She laughs when suddenly arms wrap around her.
She turns to find Eli smiling at her, already in his cap and gown.
"Hey querida." he says before kissing her softly.
"Get a room." Thumper says as he and Felix pass them to join the others.
"They have one. They just have to wait." Meg says grinning.
She turns to yell at them only to spot Lilly byt the memorial fountain in the wall.
"Be right back." she says kissing Eli.
She rushes over to Lilly and wraps her arms around her in a hug.
"Tell me about everything! Tell me about this new guy, tell me about Vasser..."
"Guy is gone. There was a little disagreement about fooling around with his ex."
"That bastard, it won't take much for me to have Eli beat him up if you want." she says.
"Oh, no no, it was um, it was me. I kinda fooled around with his ex. I mean, you'd think that guys would dig that, right?"
She mock glares at her.
"...What? It's college, it's expected. You'll see. Well maybe you wont." Lilly says shrugging her shoulders and sends a smile to Eli and the others.
"It's good to see you." she says.
"What's this?" Lilly asks looking at the memorial. "Do you smell bacon?"
She stirs and Eli tightens his arms around her, pulling her into him.
Her dad knocks as he opens the door.
"Time to get up, you two. Gabriel has been fed and changed. Now you two need to eat. It's a big day." he says before closing the door.
Eli drops a kiss on her shoulder before sitting up.
"How did we not hear him get Gabriel?" she asks getting out of bed and grabbing stuff to take a quick shower before breakfast.
"No idea." he says laughing silently as she rushes around the room.
From his car, Keith watches Woody's lawyer arrive at his office.
"Get ready." he tells her over the phone.
With Mac's help she answers the phone with the lawyer tries to call Gia.
She tells him that she's trying to get in touch with her dad, who didn't leave a forwarding address.
She tells the lawyer that they got a call from Woody's doctor. That Woody has to take double the number of his pills.
Lee tells that he'll see what he can do.
Keith, sitting outside with a receiver, picks up the phone's tones and converts them into a number when Lee calls and leaves a message for a Mr. Underhill.
Graduation
The gym is beginning to fill with students in green gowns.
A massive yellow and green balloon arch stretches across the front.
She walks in with her dad, holding Gabriel.
"He's at some place called Quail Creek Lodge in Nevada. Its a hunting ranch for the rich. I checked and there is a landing strip and building big enough for Woody's plane. I'm going to be heading out after graduation." he tells her as they join Eli, Letty, Angel and Ophelia. Hector stands with them, unfortunately he was unable to get his grades up so he is going to have to repeat his senior year.
Giving Gabriel a kiss, she hands him to Letty and she and Eli go to their seats.
The band starts to play 'Pomp and Circumstance' as other take their seats.
After some boring speeches, Clemmons starts to call them up, including Wallace.
Alicia stands, clapping, while she, Mac, Eli, Thumper and Felix whoop from their seats. Even Dick and Logan make some catcalls.
Mac turns around, ignoring the kid between them.
"Dick asked me to go to his party as his date." she tells her.
"Are you going with him?" she asks.
"I think so. I know about his idea to get Cassidy to try to take me back but...it might be fun to go out with someone that I wasn't blackmailed or forced to be with." she says shrugging her shoulders.
"Do what you think is best. Who knows you might have fun." she says with a smile as their row stands up.
Mac is called up and her eyes go wide when she sees Dick stand up and clap for her.
She whistles along with all of their friends.
Her name is called and her dad leaps to his feet, cheering loudly. Shockingly, the entire class stands and cheers for her.
She notices Mac, Wallace, Eli, Thumper, Marisol, Felix, Logan and Dick all clapping and whistling for her.
Hector, Angel, Letty holding Gabril and Ophelia are cheering from the stands with her dad. Even Alicia and Darrel are cheering for her.
Clemmons puts his hand over the microphone, "You expecting a different reaction?"
She doesn't say anything just brushes the stray tears out of her eyes. Damn baby hormones.
"I'm not sure if my life is going to be easier or harder with you gone. Any advise in case I get another one like you?"
She takes her diploma and with a grin, "Don't keep all your passwords tapes to the bottom of your stapler."
She moves her tassel to the other side. "Stay cool, Mr. C."
She bypasses going back to her seat and goes straight to Letty and takes Gabriel from her. With a grin, she goes back to her row and sits with her son watching as the man she loves graduates.
Angel, Letty, Ophelia, her dad, the PCHers, Mac, Dick, Wallace and even Logan all cheer with her when he moves his tassel to the other side.
She and Eli meets with with her dad and the others outside when graduation ends.
With a smile he, hands her an envelope. She hands Gabriel to Eli and takes it.
She shakes it, rattles it, and smells it before excitedly saying, "It's a pony."
"You and that damn pony." he mutters only loud enough for her to hear.
Keith laughs and Letty smiles knowingly.
She opens it up to find two tickets to New York.
"Dad..." she whispers.
"You and Eli need to have some fun."
"But New York?"
"The two of you leave Tuesday. Letty and I will watch Gabriel while you are gone. You deserve to act like kids, at least for a couple days."
"Dad..." speechless she just hugs him.
"Thanks Sheriff." Eli says and Keith gives him a one-armed 'man' hug.
"Go. Catch Woody." Letty says as she hugs the two of them.
"Please, it gives me the creeps knowing that he is out there." she says softly.
Mac joins them as her dad walks off.
Angel leaves with Letty, Ophelia and Gabriel.
"No little man tonight?" Mac asks.
Eli shakes his head no and wraps his arms around her and pulls her flush against him.
They stand there talking for a few when Dick comes up behind Mac and picks her up causing her to scream.
"Come on Mac-attack. Tonight we are gonna up-chuck the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie to beat." Dick says putting Mac back on her feet.
"Up...chuck?" she says staring at him like he has gone crazy.
"You heard me." Dick says with a grin and steers Mac away.
She heads to her car while Eli and the boys head to their bikes, stripping the green gown as she goes.
She places her stuff in the car when Alicia comes up to her.
"Did you know about this?" she asks handing her the letter that Wallace left.
He has gone to Paris to look for Jackie.
"He didn't tell me about this. Don't worry. I'll take care of it." she says grabbing her phone. She opens her notebook and dials the number she had gotten for emergencies.
Brooklyn
Jackie enters Brooklyn Dan's, a coffee shop, with a small toddler.
"Mommy" the little boy yells out and runs to the woman who is working behind the counter.
"You're ten minutes late." the woman tells her.
"Cut me some slack, ma, I haven't even been back that long." Jackie says taking off her jacket that she had on over her uniform.
"Jackie, you are not in Neptune. Terrence Cook fantasy camp is over. This is real life." the woman tells her.
The phone starts to ring.
Jackie's mom answers.
"It's for you." she says holding it out to her.
"Hello?" she says a little confused.
"What, no "bonjour"?" Veronica Mars.
"Veronica? How did you know?"
"Well, first, three point one GPA? Doesn't scream Sorbonne. And the Java job, you're a pretty good service industry worker for the daughter of a model living on the Upper West Side who never held a job before. I've known for a while."
"Look, I might've lied about my life, but I swear I never lied to Wallace about how I felt."
"Whatever you told him, it really did the trick, because he just got on a plane to Paris."
"Oh god." she mutters.
"There is hope. It seems he has a four-hour layover at JFK, so you can go tell him the truth before he's forced to endure several ugly days of rude waiters for nothing."
"What are you doing here?" Logan asks as he finds his father at the reception desk. He was there to make sure his bill was completely paid up.
"Well, I need a place to stay. Seems the house is deemed unfit for some reason. How are the suites?" Aaron asks.
"Well, probably an improvement over your previous digs. Might be a little weird, though. I don't think any of the other guests killed anyone."
"You know you should be nicer to me." Aaron says with a smirk.
"Doubt it." Logan snarks.
"Well I hold the purse strings, at least until you twenty first birthday."
"Oh, I didn't tell you. I am currently staying with Keith Mars. Since Ronnie is moving out he has a free room. I don't need anything from you." Logan says with a smirk as he walks off.
Woody is watching TV. He gets up to go to the bathroom.
At the toilet, he looks concerned about the open window in the bathroom.
Keith suddenly jumps out from where he is hiding in the shower.
Woody throws a large deer head at him, which he is able to evade.
Woody tries to escape out of the window, when he tasers him to the floor.
He calls for the local sheriff.
Later, Woody is sitting outside, handcuffed on a bench as policemen mill around.
"I know that you used me. That thing with the girl at the hotel was to kill off incorporation plan and keep your dirty secrets hidden."
"I didn't crash the bus. I could never have hurt all those kids." Woody says trying to defend himself.
"I don't know, Woody, the welfare of children doesn't seem to have been terribly high on your list."
"It wasn't like that Keith. Those boys' fathers ignored them. I was there, to listen and take care of them."
Keith feels like his stomach wants to revolt at the bullshit coming out of Woody's mouth.
A police officer tells Keith that they are ready.
"You get him?" she asks as she and Eli walk into Woody's Burgers. They had already gone home to change, she just wanted to make a stop before they headed to Dick's party.
"They are loading him into the plane as we speak. The instant the pilot gets here we will be Neptune bound."
"Did he confess to the crash?" Eli asks taking the phone from her and she heads over to the display of Little League pictures.
"No, we will need more evidence to get him on that."
"V is still trying to figure out the idenity of the kid on the tape. She has gotten all but one kid figured out."
"The pilot is here. I might get back to the house late. Don't let her wait up for me."
"Alright." he says hanging up and going over to V.
She looks and finds the right team just as Eli joins her and checks the caption.
"The uone I couldn't find is named Derek Applegate."
"Who's he?"
"I don't..." she breaks off as she notices the last line of the caption. "Not Pictured Cassidy Casablancas."
"What?" Eli says shocked.
"Oh god...Mac." she whispers and takes out her phone as they rush back to the bike.
"Mac, Cassidy is the one from the recording. I don't know what it means but don't go off with him, please. Stay with Dick until I get there." she says on a voicemail when Mac doesn't pick up.
"Chug! Chug! Chug! Oh!" Dick yells as Cassidy chugs a beer.
"That's what I'm talkin' about!" Enbom jokes from his seat. "Feels good to be a man from time to time, does it not?"
Cassidy doesn't even respond, just watches as his brother throws his arm over Mac's shoulder.
"Mac, could we talk?" he asks looking at her.
She glances between the brothers before nodding. "I'll be right back." she tells Dick.
He nods with a grin as Enbom hands him a beer.
"So was that liquid courage?" she asks as she follows him to the elevator.
"There's nothing I need courage for. I have a room."
"Umm..."
"Just so we can talk and actually hear each other."
"Hey did you hear?" Corny says coming up to them. "V's dad got Woody."
She and Eli rush into the room.
"Have you seen Mac or Cassidy?" she asks when she finds Logan.
"Not for a while. What's up?" he asks but she is already walking off.
"Beaver was the other person on that tape that was sent to Woody." Eli tells him before heading in the other direction.
"Shit." he mumbles and starts to search himself.
"Where's Mac?" she asks finding Dick.
"She went to talk to Beaver." he tells her standing up.
"Where?" she asks.
"I wanted to explain." he says sitting down on the bed.
She drops her bag down on the floor and sits on a chair across from the bed. "Explain what?"
"There is something wrong with me..."
"Cassidy..."
"No, please let me say this. I tried..I tried so hard but I couldn't. Being with you helped make me feel whole but when it came to..."
"Sex." she states.
"Yeah. There was nothing. Mac, I... I helped Woody." he says finally looking at her.
She and Dick try to convince the receptionist to give up what room Cassidy might be in.
"I'm sorry..." the woman starts.
"This is my brother. You will tell me his room number." Dick demands opening up his wallet and showing his ID and flashing some of his cash at the same time.
"A grande or more?" she asks noticing how the woman's eyes widened at the sight of the cash.
"Excuse me?"
"A grande or more for the room number." she states as Logan and Eli join them.
"You helped Woody? Cass what are you talking about?" she asks wishing she hadn't dropped her bag on the floor.
"Years, for years he...I was his favorite you know? I didn't know until too late that I wasn't the only one or the first. Lucky came to me..so did Peter and Marco. They trusted me and I betrayed them by telling Woody everything."
The receptionist finally gives up the room number for three grande. Which Dick and Logan all but threw at her. They rushed to the elevator.
The doors close.
"Hello, Veronica. Son." Aaron says when they notice that he is there with them. Eli moves her behind him and Dick stand in front of Logan. "Well, don't look so surprised. It's a small town. Now that I'm no longer in jail, we might just run into each other from time to time."
"Not if I can help it." Eli snarls.
"Well, it's a free country. Those founding fathers were really onto something. Freedom. Ah, it's pretty damn sweet. I like it."
"So did Lilly. Bummer you murdered her." she snarks.
"You know, I can see why the two of you were such good friends. You're so much alike. Not afraid to speak your minds. You know, that just might be the best part about the day I smashed her head in with an ashtray. Knowing that once and for all, she would finally shut the hell up." Aaron says and the elevator dings and he gets out, not before telling them to have a nice night.
"You have twenty four hour protection." Eli states.
"Who you talking too, Logan or Ronnie?" Dick asks shuttering.
"Both." he states.
The elevator dings to Cassidy's floor and they rush to the room. Luckily Logan had conned a key so they could get right in.
"Mac." she says rushing in to find Mac sitting with tears going down her face and Cassidy sitting in a ball on the bed crying.
"Beav..." Dick says coming into the room and sitting down next to his brother.
"It's my fault. It's all my fault." he whimpers.
"Mac?" she asks sitting next to her and wrapping a arm around her.
"Woody...Woody molested him. Has for years." she whimpers out.
Flashback
Peter and Marcos are trying to convince Beaver to come forward.
Talking about what Woody did to them.
They call him sick and a pervert and say they were just kids.
"Some of the Sharks had to have known. Things like this don't remain secret." Peter says.
"Do you really want people to know about this though?" Cassidy asks.
"'He' is a pervert and what he did was wrong." Marcos tells him.
The computer next to them is recording their conversation.
"Please don't bring me into this." Cassidy pleads with a shaky voice.
"You're already in it and that you'll thank us later." Peter tells him.
"You told Woody that they were going to come forward?" she asks.
Cassidy just nods.
"What did he have you do?"
"He said that if I didn't help he would kill Dick and my dad. That he could do it and no one would suspect him." he mutters. "I got the explosives from Curly. He was dad's mechanic. I said that it was for a movie I was helping a friend with and he got it for me."
"How did Lucky get involved?" Logan asks.
"Overheard me talking with Curly about the explosives. As long as I gave him some he would keep quiet about me." he whispered.
"You planted the bomb on the bus?" Dick asks in slight shock.
"Woody said that he would kill you if I didn't do what he wanted."
Flashback
The limo follows the school bus. Dick teases Duncan, and Duncan ribs him back.
Cassidy stares at his brother says a quick prayer for forgiveness, whispers 'I'm sorry' and hits send on his phone.
"Why did you tell Eli that Curly blew up the bus?" she asks.
"Curly had figured it out. He was going to tell Lamb that he gave me the explosives and Woody got nervous. I knew that Cervando had bragged about hustling a Fitzpatrick so Woody thought that if we made the PCHers think they did it, it would be two birds one stone."
Flashback
Eli beat up Curly as Cassidy and Woody watch from his car.
Thumper steps towards the car, and Woody turns on the engine and lights.
The PCHers run off.
Woody speeds towards Curly, who is trying to get up, and knocks him onto the front of the car.
Woody gets out of the car while Cassidy watches.
Woody starts hitting him until Curly passes out.
Pulling our a sharpie, he writes Veronica Mars across Curly's hand and with Cassidy's help places him onto the hood of the car.
Woody then drives to the edge of the cliff and maneuvers the car so Curly falls over the edge.
"Cassidy..why didn't you come to me or dad?" Dick asks.
Cassidy just scoffs.
"Cass, did you plant the bomb on Woody's car?" Eli asks remembering Kieth telling him about it.
"No, that was Lucky."
"Why didn't you come to me...after the crash? I would have helped." she says softly.
"I can't get free of him, Ronnie. No matter what, I never seem to be able to get free." he says taking out his phone.
"Cassidy?" Mac asks.
"You know Lucky showed me how to make the bomb. The last time Woody wanted me, it was on his plane. It was so easy to place one there." he says his voice scratchy from crying. "All I have to do is press this button and he's gone."
All of their eyes go wide but Dick is the first to react and takes the phone out of his hands.
"He's already gone." Dick says pulling his brother into his arms as both break down. Mac goes over and sits next to Cassidy, placing a hand on his back, tears running down her face. She reaches over and holds Dick's hand.
With a shaky breath, she calls her dad.
"Daddy..." she whispers when he answers and she is unable to say anything as she starts to cry.
Logan takes the phone out of her hand and leaves the room, telling Keith what they just heard.
"Have I told you how much I love...freedom?" Aaron tells Kendall as they lie on the couch. Both covered in sweat.
"I like it too. And any more freedoming tonight and I'm gonna need a wheelchair." she says and gets up. "I'm going to take a shower."
He sits up and starts flicking through the channels on the TV and finds one of his old movies on.
He's so engrossed in watching himself that he doesn't hear the door open behind him.
Kendall comes out of the bathroom and starts screaming when she finds Aaron slumped over the coffee table, a pool of blood under him and splattered over the TV screen
Duncan sits on a warm, sunny beach with baby Lilly.
His phone rings and he answers.
"CW?"
"It's a done deal." Weidman tells him.
He smirks and hangs up.
Wallace is looking at the arrivals/departures screens when Jackie comes up behind him.
"Hey. What are you doing here?" he asks.
"Veronica called me. I was never going to Paris. My moms not a model. I'm not rich. Mom had a one night stand with Terrance. i'm just another scewed up kid from Booklyn who messed up on drugs and booze." she tells him as she starts to cry.
"Your past doesn't matter to me." he tells her
"I have a two year old son, Wallace." she tells him.
He looks at her dumbstruck.
"My mom made contact with my dad so that I could start over. My mom would raise my son. I realized when my dad was pushing me out of his life that I was being a hypocrite. I was upset that I wasn't the center of his world but my mom was raising my little boy. I can't be that person. I have to stay and do what Veronica has the courage to do. Raise my child and you need to go back to Neptune."
She sits in the living room with Gabriel in her arms. Eli sits next to her while Logan sits on the floor, all of them trying to make sense of the last few hours. Letty had been confused when she and Eli had showed up but once they let her know what was going on she just said a soft prayer.
"Honey, I'm home." her dad says when he walks in.
"Dad.""Sheriff.""Mr. Mars." all of them say standing.
"Woody is now in Lamb custody, with everything that Cassidy told him along with the evidence he provided. I don't think Woody will ever see freedom again." he tells them.
"Dad...you didn't hear?" she asks as he sits down in his seat.
"About Aaron being shot and Kendall is the prime subject. That and Cassidy are the hottest topic at the station right now."
"What's going to happen to Cassidy?" Logan asks.
"I don't know. No matter what he has been a victim of Woody's for years. He did help cause the crash and Curly's death..."
"But he thought Woody would kill Dick." she exclaims causing Gabriel to whimper.
"I know. From what I saw Dick was already trying to find a lawyer to help. I was little surprised to see Mac and her parents there though."
"Que?" they all say.
"Looked like they were there supporting both boys."
"Even if he doesn't know it Cassidy has more friends than he thought." Logan says softly.
Eli just nods at him. Cassidy might have helped cause the crash but the real demon, the real danger was where he belonged.
"I love you." he whispers in her ear.
"Always." she whispers back kissing him softly before placing a kiss on their son's head.
"Is it over?" Logan asks. "Lilly's killer has finally got his justice and now everyone on the bus plus Cassidy have gotten theirs."
"Yeah, it's done." she, Eli and her dad tell him.