For Better or Worse 3/?
Title: For Better or Worse 3/?
Author: Tigereyes320
Pairing/Character: Logan/Veronica Other character mentions
Word Count:1455
Rating: R for Language, and sexual situations
Summary: When a marriage happens between Logan and Veronica, and love isn’t the reason, do they make it work or do they make each other miserable.
Spoilers: Set at the end of Season 3 (spoilers up to what we have already seen through Episode 3x12)There are also spoilers for future episodes. So if you don’t want to be spoiled don’t read this.
Author's Note: I own nothing of the VM universe. I might have taken a few liberties with the law.
Veronica used the twenty minutes Logan took for his shower and getting changed, to unpack the take out on the balcony and start digging in to her Denver omelette with extra cheese and extra hash browns.
Logan came out rubbing his hair with a towel. He sat down beside her on one of the other chairs on the balcony. “So what did you get me?”
“I got you Eggs Benedict with hash browns. I hope that’s ok?”
“It’s food I’m good.” Logan said as he dug into his own food.
They ate companionable for several minutes. Logan finally paused between bites, “So what exactly are we going to be talking about today. You know we have to pick up the rings before six tonight right?”
“Rings? I thought we agreed no engagement ring.”
“Rings as in one for you and one for me.”
“You want a wear ring?”
“Of course I want to wear a ring, we’ll be married. By the way Cliff called, he’s having the final draft of the pre-nup sent over tomorrow. We only have to sign them and give them back to him. He also says he knows a judge that will give us a special dispensation to leave California for a few days. I thought you might want a honeymoon.”
“Honeymoon?”
“It’s something people usually take after getting married.”
“Where would we go if we only have a few days?”
“I was thinking Maui might be nice. Warm water, beautiful beaches. You can break in your new credit cards. Better yet break a few new bikini’s.” Logan said as he gathered up the dishes and tossed them in the garbage. He grabbed two more botttles of water and made his way back to the balcony.
“Hawaii?”
“If you want. I just figured it would give us a couple of days of just us. Veronica we have to get married and the marriage has to be real. If Lamb suspects for one second we aren’t really married, he’ll force us to get divorced so that I have to testify against you. I just figured if we make this as normal as possible. It’ll make us being together easier. Veronica we agreed we wanted this to work right?”
“Yes I want this to work. It isn’t like I don’t have feelings for you Logan I do. I still love you. I know you still care about me. It just feels like we’re skipping some steps along the way here.”
“You call it skipping, I call it you not being able to run away every time things don’t go your way.”
“I don’t do that!”
“Yeah you do, Veronica.”
“Give me an example.”
“The Madison situation. You tell me after we make love, that you want real intimacy with me and that if we tell everything and can still love each other warts and all, we can make it. Do you remember telling me that?”
“Yes.”
“YOu asked me if there was anyone else during break up. I told you landmine. Tell me how that left any doubt in your head that there wasn’t another woman.”
“You didn’t say-“
“You’re right, that night I realized how much you still despised Madison. I felt cornered. I told you there had been someone and that I regretted it. I didn’t lie about that I did regret. I regretted it the next morning. I couldn’t tell you. I’m sorry for that. Considering your reaction to finding out it was Madison, didn’t exactly inspire trust. You want me to trust you with everything, when you won’t trust me with anything. It can’t be both ways. If you want trust you have to give it.”
“Are you going to tell me I can’t take cases?”
“Veronica solving puzzles is like breathing for you. I’d never ask you to stop doing that. I will ask you to include me if I think there is any danger to your life. A cat has nine lives Veronica. Humans only have one, how many times do you think you’ll be able to walk away breathing. You broke up with me senior year because my behavior scared you. Why do you want to punish me for telling you what you were trying to tell me almost two years ago?”
“We definitely have issues to talk about.”
“Like the fact that I disappoint you.”
“Logan you do not disappoint me. You are just so smart, without trying you could ace all of your classes. You just don’t seem to want to try. I guess I just want you to find something you can be passionate about. Whether it’s film, or business, or law or weaving baskets for that matter. I guess I thought if you could find something you’re good at and that you love, you would find something inside you that is so worthy of asking for what you want. Am I making any sense at all?”
“Yeah you make a lot of sense. Now that I know the reason behind the not so subtle pushing me to expand my horizons. I realize the intent was coming from a good place. Remember our deal originally” We do something you like, you do something I like.”
“Including art shows and foreign movies?”
Logan rolled his eyes, “Even them, You’ll go surfing and skiing with me?”
“Can I be the girl in the bikini on the beach taking pictures of her honey, and the ski bunny waiting in the chalet with the hot toddy?”
“Will you try to do it?”
“Yes I can try it. I think that’s a good idea. We trade off. We’ll get a big calendar and I’ll look up things that I want to do. You’ll do the same and then we can decide when to do what.”
“Okay. I meant to ask, are you taking my name? You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“I do want to, but could I keep my name Veronica Mars for my school records? It would mean a lot to me and my Dad if I could graduate as Veronica Mars.”
“You could change it to Mars-Echolls and just tell them at school you’re using just the Mars.”
“Okay that’s what I’ll do. Let’s go to Hawaii, have those few days just for us.”
“I’ll have Cliff make the arrangements. We still have a lot of talking to do about everything else.”
“Agreed.”
“I made arrangements for you, Mac and Parker to go to a spa right before the wedding to get wrapped scrubbed and rubbed down before the wedding.”
“Isn’t it going to be awkward for you to have Parker at our wedding?”
“Parker and I parted as friends, she’d be hurt if you didn’t include her. In a gesture of full disclosure, you should know I called Jake Kane, so he could hopefully get word to Duncan that we were getting married. I knew you wouldn’t want him to be blindsided with the news.”
Veronica got up out of her chair and and then crawled into Logan’s lap. She would remember that moment forever. “Don’t you ever think you aren’t an incredible man. I can’t think of anyone else who would think of someone else at a time like this. Thank you for doing that.”
Logan moved his hands to cup her face and with a slight hesitation kissed her.
Veronica kissed him back enthusiastically as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
“We’re giving my peeper a show.”
“Then let’s move this into your bedroom.”
“Veronica that isn’t what I meant.”
“It’s what I mean. A real marriage is just that. Take me to your bedroom and help me forget that your hands were ever on Madison.”
“Okay.”
Veronica got off his lap and held out her hand to him. Logan took the proffered hand and stood to follow her into his bedroom.
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Veronica woke to the feeling of someone tracing random designs on her bare back. She took her index finger and began to do the same thing to Logan’s chest.
“Hi.”
“Hi.”
“Any regrets?”
“Are you talking about in general Logan or today.”
“Let’s start with today.”
“I don’t regret being with you here and now.”
“That’s really good, because I don’t regret this either. I still need to give you the key to our new house so you can start moving your stuff in, and the security code so you don’t get arrested. I’ve got a card with the address of the spa.”
“Logan?”
“Yeah?”
“Go back to sleep, I’m not going anywhere today. It’s all you.”
Logan tightened his arms around her. “Good. Because I was going to try hard to persuade you to stay.”
“Well I don’t want you to think I’m easy.”
Author: Tigereyes320
Pairing/Character: Logan/Veronica Other character mentions
Word Count:1455
Rating: R for Language, and sexual situations
Summary: When a marriage happens between Logan and Veronica, and love isn’t the reason, do they make it work or do they make each other miserable.
Spoilers: Set at the end of Season 3 (spoilers up to what we have already seen through Episode 3x12)There are also spoilers for future episodes. So if you don’t want to be spoiled don’t read this.
Author's Note: I own nothing of the VM universe. I might have taken a few liberties with the law.
Veronica used the twenty minutes Logan took for his shower and getting changed, to unpack the take out on the balcony and start digging in to her Denver omelette with extra cheese and extra hash browns.
Logan came out rubbing his hair with a towel. He sat down beside her on one of the other chairs on the balcony. “So what did you get me?”
“I got you Eggs Benedict with hash browns. I hope that’s ok?”
“It’s food I’m good.” Logan said as he dug into his own food.
They ate companionable for several minutes. Logan finally paused between bites, “So what exactly are we going to be talking about today. You know we have to pick up the rings before six tonight right?”
“Rings? I thought we agreed no engagement ring.”
“Rings as in one for you and one for me.”
“You want a wear ring?”
“Of course I want to wear a ring, we’ll be married. By the way Cliff called, he’s having the final draft of the pre-nup sent over tomorrow. We only have to sign them and give them back to him. He also says he knows a judge that will give us a special dispensation to leave California for a few days. I thought you might want a honeymoon.”
“Honeymoon?”
“It’s something people usually take after getting married.”
“Where would we go if we only have a few days?”
“I was thinking Maui might be nice. Warm water, beautiful beaches. You can break in your new credit cards. Better yet break a few new bikini’s.” Logan said as he gathered up the dishes and tossed them in the garbage. He grabbed two more botttles of water and made his way back to the balcony.
“Hawaii?”
“If you want. I just figured it would give us a couple of days of just us. Veronica we have to get married and the marriage has to be real. If Lamb suspects for one second we aren’t really married, he’ll force us to get divorced so that I have to testify against you. I just figured if we make this as normal as possible. It’ll make us being together easier. Veronica we agreed we wanted this to work right?”
“Yes I want this to work. It isn’t like I don’t have feelings for you Logan I do. I still love you. I know you still care about me. It just feels like we’re skipping some steps along the way here.”
“You call it skipping, I call it you not being able to run away every time things don’t go your way.”
“I don’t do that!”
“Yeah you do, Veronica.”
“Give me an example.”
“The Madison situation. You tell me after we make love, that you want real intimacy with me and that if we tell everything and can still love each other warts and all, we can make it. Do you remember telling me that?”
“Yes.”
“YOu asked me if there was anyone else during break up. I told you landmine. Tell me how that left any doubt in your head that there wasn’t another woman.”
“You didn’t say-“
“You’re right, that night I realized how much you still despised Madison. I felt cornered. I told you there had been someone and that I regretted it. I didn’t lie about that I did regret. I regretted it the next morning. I couldn’t tell you. I’m sorry for that. Considering your reaction to finding out it was Madison, didn’t exactly inspire trust. You want me to trust you with everything, when you won’t trust me with anything. It can’t be both ways. If you want trust you have to give it.”
“Are you going to tell me I can’t take cases?”
“Veronica solving puzzles is like breathing for you. I’d never ask you to stop doing that. I will ask you to include me if I think there is any danger to your life. A cat has nine lives Veronica. Humans only have one, how many times do you think you’ll be able to walk away breathing. You broke up with me senior year because my behavior scared you. Why do you want to punish me for telling you what you were trying to tell me almost two years ago?”
“We definitely have issues to talk about.”
“Like the fact that I disappoint you.”
“Logan you do not disappoint me. You are just so smart, without trying you could ace all of your classes. You just don’t seem to want to try. I guess I just want you to find something you can be passionate about. Whether it’s film, or business, or law or weaving baskets for that matter. I guess I thought if you could find something you’re good at and that you love, you would find something inside you that is so worthy of asking for what you want. Am I making any sense at all?”
“Yeah you make a lot of sense. Now that I know the reason behind the not so subtle pushing me to expand my horizons. I realize the intent was coming from a good place. Remember our deal originally” We do something you like, you do something I like.”
“Including art shows and foreign movies?”
Logan rolled his eyes, “Even them, You’ll go surfing and skiing with me?”
“Can I be the girl in the bikini on the beach taking pictures of her honey, and the ski bunny waiting in the chalet with the hot toddy?”
“Will you try to do it?”
“Yes I can try it. I think that’s a good idea. We trade off. We’ll get a big calendar and I’ll look up things that I want to do. You’ll do the same and then we can decide when to do what.”
“Okay. I meant to ask, are you taking my name? You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“I do want to, but could I keep my name Veronica Mars for my school records? It would mean a lot to me and my Dad if I could graduate as Veronica Mars.”
“You could change it to Mars-Echolls and just tell them at school you’re using just the Mars.”
“Okay that’s what I’ll do. Let’s go to Hawaii, have those few days just for us.”
“I’ll have Cliff make the arrangements. We still have a lot of talking to do about everything else.”
“Agreed.”
“I made arrangements for you, Mac and Parker to go to a spa right before the wedding to get wrapped scrubbed and rubbed down before the wedding.”
“Isn’t it going to be awkward for you to have Parker at our wedding?”
“Parker and I parted as friends, she’d be hurt if you didn’t include her. In a gesture of full disclosure, you should know I called Jake Kane, so he could hopefully get word to Duncan that we were getting married. I knew you wouldn’t want him to be blindsided with the news.”
Veronica got up out of her chair and and then crawled into Logan’s lap. She would remember that moment forever. “Don’t you ever think you aren’t an incredible man. I can’t think of anyone else who would think of someone else at a time like this. Thank you for doing that.”
Logan moved his hands to cup her face and with a slight hesitation kissed her.
Veronica kissed him back enthusiastically as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
“We’re giving my peeper a show.”
“Then let’s move this into your bedroom.”
“Veronica that isn’t what I meant.”
“It’s what I mean. A real marriage is just that. Take me to your bedroom and help me forget that your hands were ever on Madison.”
“Okay.”
Veronica got off his lap and held out her hand to him. Logan took the proffered hand and stood to follow her into his bedroom.
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Veronica woke to the feeling of someone tracing random designs on her bare back. She took her index finger and began to do the same thing to Logan’s chest.
“Hi.”
“Hi.”
“Any regrets?”
“Are you talking about in general Logan or today.”
“Let’s start with today.”
“I don’t regret being with you here and now.”
“That’s really good, because I don’t regret this either. I still need to give you the key to our new house so you can start moving your stuff in, and the security code so you don’t get arrested. I’ve got a card with the address of the spa.”
“Logan?”
“Yeah?”
“Go back to sleep, I’m not going anywhere today. It’s all you.”
Logan tightened his arms around her. “Good. Because I was going to try hard to persuade you to stay.”
“Well I don’t want you to think I’m easy.”