Exchange: Round One // Belief Stole the Light Away (Supernatural/Veronica Mars)
Title: Belief Stole The Light Away
Fandoms: Supernatural / Veronica Mars
Pairing: Dean Winchester/Veronica Mars, (past Sam/Jessica and Veronica/Logan)
Rating: PG-13
Author Notes: Goes AU during Veronica Mars 2.22, and Supernatural 2.17. Thanks to my beta for all of her help; all the mistakes are mine. This isn’t what I had planned. I had more action in mind, but for once Veronica wanted to talk things through. And Dean surprisingly let her. Thanks to hide_r and everything_inme for putting the challenge together.
Mod Notes: This fic was written for intothemorning but, as always, feedback from everyone is appreciated. The author will be revealed after the poll, at which point they can respond to any comments on this post.
Lilly Kane’s official file no longer lists Abel Koontz as her killer. The truth came out a year ago, and Aaron Echolls is now rightfully listed as her murderer, and all of the details of their affair have become public knowledge.
According to the official police records, Jessica Moore’s death was caused by a fire in the apartment that she had shared with her boyfriend of two years, Sam Winchester. While it seemed suspicious, there really wasn’t any evidence of her death being caused by anything else.
Keith Mars official cause of death is largely irrelevant given the fact that the exploding plane effectively killed the entire crew and all of its passengers, including one Woody Goodman who was being transported back to Neptune to begin the criminal proceedings in multiple cases regarding sexual abuse.
Cassidy Casablancas died from internal bleeding, and trauma to the head among other things, not surprising given his fall from the roof of the Neptune Grand to the cars parked below. Surprisingly, it is his file which is almost as incomplete as Jessica’s, with hers giving no explanation as to how the wiring only became as issue then when she had been living in that apartment for a few months already, and his giving no explanation for the dark cloud that left his body moments after his body left the roof of the building.
The research that Veronica Mars had put into solving the murder of her best friend in high school was nothing compared to the attention she had devoted to the murders of her cousin, Jess, and Cassidy, her one-time friend, rapist, and murderer of her father.
Within the year and a half since the deaths of her father and Beaver, which were soon followed by the death of her cousin, Veronica just couldn’t let it go. She threw herself into attempting to solve the cases with more energy and time than she had put into solving Lilly’s murder, and as a result, she had no one left in Neptune to go home to. Logan, Mac, Wallace, and everyone else affected by Cassidy’s plan and death had all begun to move on. Except for her.
Which is why Veronica transferred to Stanford after her first semester at Hearst College, and took a combination of law classes and mythology since her primary research into the black cloud had brought up information on all sorts of demons and strange creatures and beliefs from around the world.
Although she hadn’t believed anything at the time, her future research had more than proven to be true, making her the only one who understood Cassidy’s death. If a demon had possessed Cassidy, then that meant that there hadn’t been anything that she could have done to save him or her father. Jessica’s murder though, was more of mystery. Examinations into the background of the apartment building hadn’t brought any new information to the case, but looking into the background of Sam WInchester, had brought in an astounding amount to makeup for it. From what she had gathered, Sam, his brother, Dean, and John Winchester were all wanted for a variety of suspicious behavior ever since the death of Mary Winchester in a suspicious house fire that sounded just like the fire that killed Jessica.
And by putting her skills to good use, she had turned up even more information on Sam and Dean, from the case where they helped Jess’s old friend Rebecca with an apparent shapeshifting freak, to a case involving a bizarre family who were hunting humans, to a car crash involving a semi, an escape from FBI custody, and most recently, another miraculous escape from the FBI - this time during some sort of attempted bank heist. Regardless of what their real quest or day jobs were, the Winchester brothers had to know something more about what happened to Jessica.
And that is what led to her sitting in her car on a residential street in San Francisco, watching the house of young businesswoman whose boss had just been murdered in a horribly gruesome manner. A horribly gruesome death that resembled something out of one of those old horror movies Wallace used to love. A movie about werewolves of all things. She had been there the day before, but there was someone else there too - an ex-boyfriend of the woman in question, according to her research. But during the night, he had turned up as victim number two, so she wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice. Especially when the Impala was still parked in front of Madison’s building.
When Dean Winchester finally left her building, Veronica had a moment of indecisiveness. Keep watching the house where the possible werewolf lives or follow the hunter who knows what he’s doing? By the time the Impala was moving down the street, her mind was made up. She turned the ignition and set off after the hunter.
In hindsight, dressing up as a hooker to try and spy on Dean hadn’t been the best plan. Then again, it would have been a perfect plan if it weren’t for the second werewolf. When Dean grabbed her away from the other werewolf and told her to run she did so until she heard the gunshot. That’s when she turned and walked slowly back towards him where he was still bending over the body of a human man. “He was the werewolf?” she asked him quietly.
“You know about werewolves? Why the fuck did you come out here without any silver bullets then?”
“Well I didn’t think that part of the mythology was actually accurate. It’s not like I’m a hunter like you. I only got into this mess when my cousin and dad were killed. Besides, I wasn’t out here hunting a werewolf. I thought Madison was the only one, and I figured Sam had her covered in case she tried to get out and kill anyone tonight, so I was following you.”
Veronica nearly stepped back in fright when she suddenly found Dean standing right in front of her. “How the hell do you know about Sam and me?”
She looked up at him and replied evenly, “Jessica Moore was my cousin.”
Hours later, Veronica was with Dean at their motel. “So is Sam coming back here now that Madison is no longer a werewolf?”
“God, I hope not. If he turns Madison down after all of this, I may have to kill him. Anyway, is that really what you want to know?”
“No it isn’t. What happened to Jess? And your mom?”
“It was a demon. I think it took our dad too. We’ve met up with it before. I’m assuming you know about the car crash since you looked so surprised to see the car. Anyway, that night, the demon had us cornered and nearly killed all three of us. It let some information slip, like the fact that he’s got a plan in motion and wants Sam involved in some way. We don’t really know details or anything, but he said Jess was holding Sam back from his full potential or some bullshit like that. So he killed her. What happened to your dad?”
“There was a guy back home who was possessed by a demon. While he was still possessed, he blew up a plane carrying the guy who molested him as a kid. My dad’s a P.I., and he was on the plane. After blowing up the plane, the demon made Cassidy, the guy, jump off a building. I saw a dark cloud leave his body, started researching, and less than six months later Jess died. It just seemed so off, and I just couldn’t let it go. And then I looked into your family, and learned even more. I’m sorry about the FBI thing, by the way.”
“Yeah, it definitely makes our job harder. It’s actually a pretty damn big risk taking a job here, in a place as big as San Francisco. We may be able to blend in, but the cops also pay more attention. I gotta ask you, what are you going to do with all of this, now that you know?”
“That’s what I have spent the last year trying to figure out.”
“What’s wrong?” Veronica asked as Dean hung up the phone.
He looked at her bleakly, before saying, “It didn’t work. Madison’s still a werewolf, and she ran out on Sam.”
“What are you going to do? You can’t kill her can you? I mean she’s still a person.”
“I know that, but she’s more than that too. If she can lock herself up during the full moon for the rest of her life then that’s fine by me. I like her - and Sammy likes her too. I don’t want to do anything to her. But ultimately it’s her call.” He turned away from her and began grabbing things out of his duffle. A gun, bullets, another gun. He was so matter of fact about it that she actually felt sick.
“You cannot be serious.”
He finished tucking things into his pockets and turned to her. “You know last night when I asked you what you were going to do now that you know about all of this? You are never going to look at things the same way. Things are what they are - monsters exist, people get hurt, and monsters have to be stopped. Yes, that sometimes means that an innocent person goes down, but when it’s for the greater good, what are you going to do. I try to save as many people as I can, but I can’t save anyone. Can you live with that?”
“I don’t know…”
“Then I suggest you don’t follow me this time. I already programmed my number into your phone. When you figure things out, let us know.
Madison’s obituary ran in the paper a week later. The case file stated that she had been brutally shot in her home, apparently by someone she knew. There was no sign of her neighbor, and he was currently the chief suspect. Once again, Veronica was one of the only ones who knew the truth. And she had finally made up her mind.
Fandoms: Supernatural / Veronica Mars
Pairing: Dean Winchester/Veronica Mars, (past Sam/Jessica and Veronica/Logan)
Rating: PG-13
Author Notes: Goes AU during Veronica Mars 2.22, and Supernatural 2.17. Thanks to my beta for all of her help; all the mistakes are mine. This isn’t what I had planned. I had more action in mind, but for once Veronica wanted to talk things through. And Dean surprisingly let her. Thanks to hide_r and everything_inme for putting the challenge together.
Mod Notes: This fic was written for intothemorning but, as always, feedback from everyone is appreciated. The author will be revealed after the poll, at which point they can respond to any comments on this post.
Lilly Kane’s official file no longer lists Abel Koontz as her killer. The truth came out a year ago, and Aaron Echolls is now rightfully listed as her murderer, and all of the details of their affair have become public knowledge.
According to the official police records, Jessica Moore’s death was caused by a fire in the apartment that she had shared with her boyfriend of two years, Sam Winchester. While it seemed suspicious, there really wasn’t any evidence of her death being caused by anything else.
Keith Mars official cause of death is largely irrelevant given the fact that the exploding plane effectively killed the entire crew and all of its passengers, including one Woody Goodman who was being transported back to Neptune to begin the criminal proceedings in multiple cases regarding sexual abuse.
Cassidy Casablancas died from internal bleeding, and trauma to the head among other things, not surprising given his fall from the roof of the Neptune Grand to the cars parked below. Surprisingly, it is his file which is almost as incomplete as Jessica’s, with hers giving no explanation as to how the wiring only became as issue then when she had been living in that apartment for a few months already, and his giving no explanation for the dark cloud that left his body moments after his body left the roof of the building.
The research that Veronica Mars had put into solving the murder of her best friend in high school was nothing compared to the attention she had devoted to the murders of her cousin, Jess, and Cassidy, her one-time friend, rapist, and murderer of her father.
Within the year and a half since the deaths of her father and Beaver, which were soon followed by the death of her cousin, Veronica just couldn’t let it go. She threw herself into attempting to solve the cases with more energy and time than she had put into solving Lilly’s murder, and as a result, she had no one left in Neptune to go home to. Logan, Mac, Wallace, and everyone else affected by Cassidy’s plan and death had all begun to move on. Except for her.
Which is why Veronica transferred to Stanford after her first semester at Hearst College, and took a combination of law classes and mythology since her primary research into the black cloud had brought up information on all sorts of demons and strange creatures and beliefs from around the world.
Although she hadn’t believed anything at the time, her future research had more than proven to be true, making her the only one who understood Cassidy’s death. If a demon had possessed Cassidy, then that meant that there hadn’t been anything that she could have done to save him or her father. Jessica’s murder though, was more of mystery. Examinations into the background of the apartment building hadn’t brought any new information to the case, but looking into the background of Sam WInchester, had brought in an astounding amount to makeup for it. From what she had gathered, Sam, his brother, Dean, and John Winchester were all wanted for a variety of suspicious behavior ever since the death of Mary Winchester in a suspicious house fire that sounded just like the fire that killed Jessica.
And by putting her skills to good use, she had turned up even more information on Sam and Dean, from the case where they helped Jess’s old friend Rebecca with an apparent shapeshifting freak, to a case involving a bizarre family who were hunting humans, to a car crash involving a semi, an escape from FBI custody, and most recently, another miraculous escape from the FBI - this time during some sort of attempted bank heist. Regardless of what their real quest or day jobs were, the Winchester brothers had to know something more about what happened to Jessica.
And that is what led to her sitting in her car on a residential street in San Francisco, watching the house of young businesswoman whose boss had just been murdered in a horribly gruesome manner. A horribly gruesome death that resembled something out of one of those old horror movies Wallace used to love. A movie about werewolves of all things. She had been there the day before, but there was someone else there too - an ex-boyfriend of the woman in question, according to her research. But during the night, he had turned up as victim number two, so she wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice. Especially when the Impala was still parked in front of Madison’s building.
When Dean Winchester finally left her building, Veronica had a moment of indecisiveness. Keep watching the house where the possible werewolf lives or follow the hunter who knows what he’s doing? By the time the Impala was moving down the street, her mind was made up. She turned the ignition and set off after the hunter.
In hindsight, dressing up as a hooker to try and spy on Dean hadn’t been the best plan. Then again, it would have been a perfect plan if it weren’t for the second werewolf. When Dean grabbed her away from the other werewolf and told her to run she did so until she heard the gunshot. That’s when she turned and walked slowly back towards him where he was still bending over the body of a human man. “He was the werewolf?” she asked him quietly.
“You know about werewolves? Why the fuck did you come out here without any silver bullets then?”
“Well I didn’t think that part of the mythology was actually accurate. It’s not like I’m a hunter like you. I only got into this mess when my cousin and dad were killed. Besides, I wasn’t out here hunting a werewolf. I thought Madison was the only one, and I figured Sam had her covered in case she tried to get out and kill anyone tonight, so I was following you.”
Veronica nearly stepped back in fright when she suddenly found Dean standing right in front of her. “How the hell do you know about Sam and me?”
She looked up at him and replied evenly, “Jessica Moore was my cousin.”
Hours later, Veronica was with Dean at their motel. “So is Sam coming back here now that Madison is no longer a werewolf?”
“God, I hope not. If he turns Madison down after all of this, I may have to kill him. Anyway, is that really what you want to know?”
“No it isn’t. What happened to Jess? And your mom?”
“It was a demon. I think it took our dad too. We’ve met up with it before. I’m assuming you know about the car crash since you looked so surprised to see the car. Anyway, that night, the demon had us cornered and nearly killed all three of us. It let some information slip, like the fact that he’s got a plan in motion and wants Sam involved in some way. We don’t really know details or anything, but he said Jess was holding Sam back from his full potential or some bullshit like that. So he killed her. What happened to your dad?”
“There was a guy back home who was possessed by a demon. While he was still possessed, he blew up a plane carrying the guy who molested him as a kid. My dad’s a P.I., and he was on the plane. After blowing up the plane, the demon made Cassidy, the guy, jump off a building. I saw a dark cloud leave his body, started researching, and less than six months later Jess died. It just seemed so off, and I just couldn’t let it go. And then I looked into your family, and learned even more. I’m sorry about the FBI thing, by the way.”
“Yeah, it definitely makes our job harder. It’s actually a pretty damn big risk taking a job here, in a place as big as San Francisco. We may be able to blend in, but the cops also pay more attention. I gotta ask you, what are you going to do with all of this, now that you know?”
“That’s what I have spent the last year trying to figure out.”
“What’s wrong?” Veronica asked as Dean hung up the phone.
He looked at her bleakly, before saying, “It didn’t work. Madison’s still a werewolf, and she ran out on Sam.”
“What are you going to do? You can’t kill her can you? I mean she’s still a person.”
“I know that, but she’s more than that too. If she can lock herself up during the full moon for the rest of her life then that’s fine by me. I like her - and Sammy likes her too. I don’t want to do anything to her. But ultimately it’s her call.” He turned away from her and began grabbing things out of his duffle. A gun, bullets, another gun. He was so matter of fact about it that she actually felt sick.
“You cannot be serious.”
He finished tucking things into his pockets and turned to her. “You know last night when I asked you what you were going to do now that you know about all of this? You are never going to look at things the same way. Things are what they are - monsters exist, people get hurt, and monsters have to be stopped. Yes, that sometimes means that an innocent person goes down, but when it’s for the greater good, what are you going to do. I try to save as many people as I can, but I can’t save anyone. Can you live with that?”
“I don’t know…”
“Then I suggest you don’t follow me this time. I already programmed my number into your phone. When you figure things out, let us know.
Madison’s obituary ran in the paper a week later. The case file stated that she had been brutally shot in her home, apparently by someone she knew. There was no sign of her neighbor, and he was currently the chief suspect. Once again, Veronica was one of the only ones who knew the truth. And she had finally made up her mind.