Chapter 34

"I want to make a phone call." Veronica said, after Lamb put her behind the bars. He smiled at her and put his index finger on the corner of his mouth, as if he were in deep thought. "Don't be an ass, it's how law works, you arrested me and I have the right to make a call."

"Sacks bring her the phone before she starts crying."

"I'm not the one who's going to cry."

"Sacks? No, he's not that much of a woman."

"Shut up!" she said angry, "Give my cell." She took the phone from his hands and started to dial Jake's number, hoping he would not be too worried to see she was not home, not at Logan's. "Hey dad, it's me."

"Where the hell are you?"

"You have to promise not to yell."

"You're still at Logan's?"

"No, I'm not at The Grand, where I'm right now is less luxurious, but if you put some curtains, a table, and maybe a king size…"

"Veronica, where are you?"

"I might be at the police station."

"You might be or you are at the police station? There's no inbetween."

"Okay, then it's the latter."

"What happened?" he asked, with a sigh.

"Lamb, he arrested me since I had no papers to prove the car is mine and since I had made a joke about how I stole the car, he, of course, thought I had stolen it."

"Don't move, I'm com…"

"It's not like I could leave."

"I will be there in ten minutes and Veronica from now on, please keep your mouth shut, who knows what he might accuse you of next time."

"Mr Kane!" Lamb said, getting from his seat, he threw his sandwich in the trash and went to shake his head, but Jake did not shake his hand, he just looked at him. "What can I do for you?"

"Release my daughter."

"Your daughter? I thought she was dea…"

"Lilly is dead, but my other daughter is in a cell right now."

"The only person who's in a cell is Veronica Mars."

"I know who's my daughter, could you please get her out of it?" he asked him, then after a minute, not getting any answer from him, he decided to shake him a little, hoping to get something out of him. "I'm waiting."

"Sorry." He quickly grabbed the keys and almost ran towards the cells when he found Duncan Kane taking pictures of a pissed off Veronica Mars.

"You'd better give me these pictures when I get out of here!"

"Please, smile a little, you wouldn't want Logan to see these pictures without you smiling, you know how much he loves it when you smile on a picture."

"You're free to go, I'm really sorry…"

"You meet my father, so tell me how pissed was he, from what Duncan told me, he didn't really seem happy in the car, he even said something about how incompetent you're. Well, I guess we now know who was right and who wasn't."

"Veronica." Jake said from the doorway.

"Thanks for getting me out, and it was so not my fault. The car's papers weren't in the car and Lamb didn't believe me, at least we now know that I don't want to end up behind bars later."

"Are you ready to go home, I'd like to go home and try to forget what happened."

"Try to forget, I'm going to need a therapist to help me to forget this horrible night."

"You spent only one hour in that cell."

"Well, it seemed more like an hour, believe me."

"I'm sure it seemed more, I will even ask Keith."

"No you won't! If you tell him about what happened tonight, he won't be happy, because I'll be forced to explain why I was out at midnight on a school day and then Logan might be as good as dead."

"We're telling him."

"You're no fun."

"I know, you and Duncan get in the limo, I will take your car."

"No need, Logan can drop me off tomo…"

"it's going to be okay, I need to talk to the sheriff."

"okay, but don't be too harsh, he may be a pain in the ass."

"Veronica! You and Duncan out of here now."

"Don't worry dad, I will keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't end up back in that cell, I got really great pictures for the newspaper and Keith."

"Shut up dork!"

"You're the dork! I'm the smart one in the family."

"Wrong, I've got a better average than you." She said, they carried on teasing each other until they reached the car.

"Sheriff Lamb, I'd like to make something clear, don't ever put my daughter behind bars like a criminal if you want to keep your job."

"I'm sorry sir, I didn't know she is your daughter."

"Now you do, make sure not to repeat that mistake, I'm sure you don't want to lose your job, I'm this close to ask Keith to take over you, which shouldn't be hard, since you do such a lousy job. You're lucky he doesn't want to work here, otherwise you would be out of that office back there. Stay away from my kids." He said before leaving.