Veronica didn't sleep at all on Saturday night when she got home from the hospital, instead she sat curled at her computer after successfully cracking her new password with Cindy "Mac" MacKenzies help. She had blushed when she'd googled the transient global amnesia Dr Holtz had told her about.
According to Google.. Mind Blowing Sex was actually a thing. It wouldn't have happened unless it had been mind-bending, earth shattering sex...
With Logan Echolls...
The last 8 weeks weren't completely missing, but she just got fragments of random events…
a basketball game with Wallace…
Lunch with Natalie and Meg…
Rick Pickett shouting at her in the Mall?
But most of it felt like it had happened to someone else. Nothing about Logan, except the physical reminders of last night… it didn't hurt, she just felt different, oddly relaxed. They'd been together… and she could still feel the intimate awareness of that coupling.
At least we were safe...
Her father's new assistant Daisy was very nice to her on the way to the Neptune Sacred Heart Hospital in a concerned big sister kind of way, but she did confirm Logan's story. They had been dating and her consultant had explained that the sex-induced whatever it was.. had brought back her memories by kind of rebooting her sensory neural pathways or something?
God I don't even want to think about the medical bills from this... not to mention the job we lost out on when he had to come back early from L.A.
"All thanks to Logan and his magical penis" Veronica muttered sarcastically.
What was she supposed to do with this information? One minute she's stressing out about having to spend the afternoon alone with Duncan Kane, her first love… and now…?
Logan was Lilly's boyfriend… Duncan's best friend… her enemy… he's going to want to know what happened... how the hell do I explain that?
"You wanted to be here… I love you… we are dating…" he had begged.
Now that the initial panic had subsided she was stuck replaying this morning in her head, he had been distraught… was she just to supposed to forgive the last year of hell he had put her through?
Are you okay? L
She ignored the text, she couldn't deal with him right now. What was she supposed to say? Did they keep dating? Were they broken up? Were they ever even really together if she couldn't remember it?
Why am I dealing with relationship drama for a relationship I was never in?
That had been some Other Veronica. Some other girl who didn't remember Lilly Kane but continued to try and solve her murder… seems even with no memories intuition was still her superpower…
Some other girl who had gone to Homecoming with "Hottest kiss of her life" Logan Echolls… some other girl who had wrote this journal…
I like me better...
If her powers of deduction were even half of what they had previously been, it seemed like the trend was the more time she had spent with Logan.. the more of her memories had been coming back.
Sucks for Logan.
"Settling back in okay honey?" Keith asked as he brought her a cup of hot chocolate.
"It's 3am, what are you still doing up?" Veronica queried as she stretched in her chair.
"I could say the same thing to you" he replied.
"Nothing like waking up with no memory to make you fear the Sandman" she quipped as she took the cup gratefully and smelled the warm liquid chocolate.
"You can't avoid sleep forever" he warned, concern in his hazel eyes.
"I know… I'm just trying to figure out… where I go from here" she sighed.
How much of Lilly's murder investigation had she discovered but now forgotten?
How could she step into the 09er friendly shoes of a girl who'd built a life without all of her mistrust?
How do I deal with a lovesick Logan?
How would she deal with an angry Logan who knew what it was like to have had sex with her?
"Dr Sorrell is sure that the recent tests show that the risk of another seizure are very low… as for everything else… just take it one day at a time. Everybody else will just have to accept those terms" he reassured her.
Everybody… meaning Logan.
"Thanks dad" she said as he gave her a quick hug.
Sunday morning she surveyed the contents of her wardrobe, despairingly it seemed that Other Veronica had hidden away most of her favourite band t-shirts… and her DM's had been shoved into the back of her wardrobe. There were a lot of new items in there too… things like she had used to wear when she was with Lilly. They would be her camouflage.
"Hey Wallace" she smiled as he arrived at her house later that afternoon.
"Hi Supafly" he smiled weakly as he pulled her into a fierce hug. "You gotta stop doing this…"
"Working on it" she quipped quietly, she was moved, he had been a really good friend.
"Hey Mr Mars" Wallace said as he came in and handed him the small grocery bag.
"Hi Wallace" he smiled.
Gumbo and Game Night. Apparently in the last 8 weeks or so this had become a kind of ritual between the three of them.
"You do know I'm a baseball fan right?" Veronica joked.
"Sheesh… there was less complaining out of you when you couldn't remember you weren't a super basketball fan yet" Wallace joked.
"Yet?" she laughed.
"Oh Honey…" Keith pouted as he pulled out a small San Diego Sails basketball jersey with Mars written on the back.
"No!" she gasped in horror.
They'd turned her into one of those tacky jersey wearing screaming at the tv super fans?
"Yes Mars!" Wallace giggled as he tapped her in the head with a large foam finger.
"No way…." She protested.
"Oh come on Honey.. Embrace it….." her dad laughed as he tugged the jersey over her head.
"My vengeance will be fast and swift" she warned as she tugged her arms into it and watched as Wallace settled up onto the sofa with a bowl of gumbo and her dad joined them.
Gumbo and Basketball she could live with.
If only she didn't have to face whatever changes were coming when she got to school tomorrow.
