"You forget your way to class?" Logan joked as he found Veronica sitting by herself outside the Lilly Kane Memorial Fountain site, it wasn't finished yet but the letters could be seen clearly. He'd just finished a phone call with his mother informing him that Chardo Navarro had just been arrested for the theft of the identity fraud of the credit card. Veronica was alone, it was a rare moment, just the two of them.
"Do I come here often?" she retorted sarcastically, before she looked over her shoulder at him and her demeanour changed. "Amnesia humour… sorry" her blue eyes looked away nervously.
"Really? I couldn't quite recall.." he replied as he swallowed hard. Since when did Veronica Mars ever say sorry?
"I had a really good one once…. Or was that twice?" she smiled as he slid into the seat beside her. "I can't remember if that's supposed to be funny" she added as she turned to regard him carefully. Weevil had confirmed Wallace's story about the whole headlights incident on the beach, but then she'd heard a story from Dick Casablanca's about how she pulled a prank and gotten him suspended?
"Well at least you didn't forget your terrible sense of humour" he sighed.
"Couldn't quite seize onto that one" she joked and he raised his eyebrows again. "Sorry…" she repeated as she fiddle with something in her hands, being around him seemed to put her on edge.
Again with the apologizing?
"Is that..?" Logan asked as he looked at the photograph she was holding.
"I don't know" she admitted as she placed it onto the table.
"This was homecoming" Logan said as he inhaled deeply and picked it up, the edges of it looked like it had been refolded several times.
What was she doing with this?
"I was just trying to remember… something.." she told him, frustration in her tone. "I'm not sure I want to… but it just feels, wrong… to not know anything about her… after what happened… she doesn't deserve to be forgotten like that"
Logan looked at the four smiling faces in the picture, there were so young here.
Neither did you…
"Yeah, well good luck with that" Logan replied as he slid the picture back towards her and stood up to leave. Talking to this Imposter Veronica was a mistake.
"I'm only asking because no one else will tell me anything" she pleaded. "Why are we like this? Why won't you talk to me?"
It was true, most of the other 09ers had embraced Veronica back into their little clique but he hadn't made any effort to get to see her if he didn't have to.
"Because I have nothing to say to you… it wouldn't matter any way… the girl I'm angry with? She's not you… she's gone" Logan declared coldly.
"No I am not!" Veronica said angrily as she stood up. "I am right here… and the only thing that feels familiar in this entire upside down world I'm in where my best friends dead and my dad's some kind of conspiracy nutcase, is you!" her blue eyes felt like they were pouring themselves into him.
"Familiar… familiar how?" he demanded. Familiar like you abandoned me?
"I can't put it into words… it's just a feeling.." she told him.
"So you have feelings for me?" he snorted and laughed as he turned to walk away.
"Kind of… yes" Veronica confessed and Logan felt like she had just slapped him.
"You should get to class" Logan told her finally as he turned and headed towards his car.
This was just great… freaking perfect… he was grieving the loss of his friend and this pod-person was developing feelings for him? Kind of…
What did he care that she was suddenly trying to remember Lilly?
She's trying to remember…
Logan pulled down the glovebox and took out the small leather book he kept there. It was the one he stored his favourite photographs in, he kept it close encase his dad decided to go off on one and he needed to get out of the house.
She'd just yelled at him…
"I am right here… and the only thing that feels familiar… is you!"
Familiar could mean a lot of things…
So why did the thought make him feel like he was having a panic attack?
Lilly's smiling face looked up from the photograph like she was taunting him.
"What kind of feeling?" Logan demanded as he cornered Veronica as she was walking with Meg Manning to her car for her ride home.
"What?" Meg asked but Logan ignored her.
"Describe it to me" he demanded.
"I-I can't" Veronica told him.
She had no point of reference for what it was… she had no experience of anything similar…
"Then try harder" he ordered as he backed her up against the car window.
"Logan… I think you should back up a little" Meg told him.
"You want me to tell you something? You want to know why we don't talk?" he said as his brown eyes flashed angrily at her.
Veronica nodded slowly, her submissive blue eyes were wide.
"You abandoned your friends when they needed you… that's the kind of person you are" he said coldly.
"Logan that's enough!" Meg shouted at him.
"Don't worry… I'm done" he replied calmly as he turned and walked away again.
"Did I abandon my friends?" Veronica asked her father while they sat at dinner that evening in the small two bedroom apartment in Sunset Crescent Apartments.
"No honey… no. I think certain individuals think that you did, but everything that happened… it was a rough time for all of you" Keith told her simply.
Mac delivered her laptop into school the following morning, with all the passwords changed and the hard-drive was backed up. Wallace was currently in the administration office with Meg, seems that weirdness she had been sensing was that Wallace had a little crush on Meg, the two had been doing an awkward little dance ever since it was discovered that Cole had cheated on her with Shelley Pomoroy a few weeks ago.
"Thanks for this" Veronica smiled as she placed it safely into her locker.
"It's no problem… your new password is Amnesia123, just so you don't forget" Mac smiled.
"I'll have to remember that one" Veronica giggled, but stopped as she noticed Logan wandering down the corridor ahead of them. "Thanks again Max, I'll have to catch you later"
"It's Mac" she corrected.
"I know" Veronica said as she winked.
"Memory humorous!" Mac giggled.
Logan was on his way to Physics when the blond petite Imposter Veronica grabbed him painfully by the arm and dragged him into the girls bathroom.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"This" Veronica declared before she grabbed his shirt and pulled his mouth towards hers and kissed him.
