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Title: White Dresses and Dead People (4/4)
Author:danniisupernova
P/C: Lamb/Veronica, Keith, Sacks, mentions of Weevil, Dick and Madison
Summary: Veronica's cracking.
Word Count:600
Warnings: Violence, angst, adult subject matter
Spoilers: 3x14
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Yeah, this isn't my show.
is sunlight. The grass around her is wet. She expects to see Dick Casablancas standing over her, yelling back to his friends to look, look over here, look at the fucking junkie and hey whadayaknow it's Veronica Mars!
But instead it's a kind face that greets her, along with a familiar smell. "Lamb?" she smiles up at him. But it's not Lamb, it's Sacks, wearing that ludicrous cologne that seemed to permeate the whole station back before Lamb died. Sacks has one of the K-9 units with him, Lawrence. The dog sniffs at her stitched scalp and licks her face.
"Hey buddy," she says to the dog, smiling. It's amazing what twelve hours of sleep will do for your outlook on life. She smiles up at Sacks as well. "Hey there good-lookin. You look like you've never seen a girl sleeping in a park before."
"Veronica are you okay? " The look he gives her says exactly what he won't: why were you were dreaming about Lamb?
She reaches and he helps her up.
As they walk to the car, Veronica wishes Lamb were here. He would think this was funny.
*****
Keith reads her the riot act. He's furious at her for disappearing. But Veronica doesn't try to explain away the dents in the car or the stitches or why she slept in Franklin Park. She looks for Lamb behind her fathers desk, the desk that used to be his. He's not there.
*****
The diner isn't crowded. She sits in the middle booth. She watches the door. "Honey?" the waitress is waiting for her to order. "Short stack and an orange juice."
Lamb isn't here either.
She sips her orange juice and watches the door, waiting.
*****
Weevil has agreed to fix the dents in her car for less then the body shop would charge. She walks to the beach, taking her shoes off when they start to hurt. She won't find Lamb here and she's not looking. She just thinks about what's happened, knowing she'll never figure this mystery out. She picks up a rock to skip.
Then she sees it on her hand: "Madison is blonde."
She barely has time to register the car as it comes sailing towards her.
*****
She wakes up, her head in Lilly's lap. "Oh Veronica Mars, you and your bad boys," she sighs dreamily. She's glowing. Lilly helps Veronica stand up. Lamb is standing next to her, dressed as the sheriff again. The hole in the back of his head is gone. He takes her hand quietly, neither of them acknowledging it.
"You were my unfinished buisness, the only person who missed me. I fucked you over when I should have helped you."
"So you crashed my car?" She rolls her eyes at him.
"Hey it's not my fault I'm this good looking. And that you drive the way that you look." He pauses for effect. "Like a bimbo."
Veronica clutches her chest. "Wow. Do you write your own material because that.....that was just amazing!"
They're walking together. She stops for a minute and looks back at Lilly. "I thought this was supposed to be a happy ending."
He shrugs and looks at her.
"Close enough."
*****
She's in the hospital, for the second time in two days. She looks at the date on her forms and she starts to cry for the first time in ernest. Keith is sitting in a chair reading a book. He gets up and holds her. "What is sweetie?"
"He's been dead for two weeks today."
Keith looks at her quizzically. "Who?"
"Lamb. I'm sorry, but I miss him and I know that I shouldn't and that he was a bad cop and a jerk, but he was good too and everyone is forgetting that, like it never happened. I'm sorry Dad!" She keeps crying, thinking of Lilly, fading away and Lamb, fading away like they never exsisted.
And Keith isn't mad at her, he tells her it's okay and that maybe, they can go to the funeral if she wants and meet his parents if she wants or not talk to anybody if that's what she needs. He understands why she misses him, he's known how she felt since before she did. She is, after all, his daughter. And now she can sleep, even when he's gone. Because she doesn't have to miss him all the time anymore, because Keith is missing him with her.
FIN
Author:danniisupernova
P/C: Lamb/Veronica, Keith, Sacks, mentions of Weevil, Dick and Madison
Summary: Veronica's cracking.
Word Count:600
Warnings: Violence, angst, adult subject matter
Spoilers: 3x14
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Yeah, this isn't my show.
is sunlight. The grass around her is wet. She expects to see Dick Casablancas standing over her, yelling back to his friends to look, look over here, look at the fucking junkie and hey whadayaknow it's Veronica Mars!
But instead it's a kind face that greets her, along with a familiar smell. "Lamb?" she smiles up at him. But it's not Lamb, it's Sacks, wearing that ludicrous cologne that seemed to permeate the whole station back before Lamb died. Sacks has one of the K-9 units with him, Lawrence. The dog sniffs at her stitched scalp and licks her face.
"Hey buddy," she says to the dog, smiling. It's amazing what twelve hours of sleep will do for your outlook on life. She smiles up at Sacks as well. "Hey there good-lookin. You look like you've never seen a girl sleeping in a park before."
"Veronica are you okay? " The look he gives her says exactly what he won't: why were you were dreaming about Lamb?
She reaches and he helps her up.
As they walk to the car, Veronica wishes Lamb were here. He would think this was funny.
*****
Keith reads her the riot act. He's furious at her for disappearing. But Veronica doesn't try to explain away the dents in the car or the stitches or why she slept in Franklin Park. She looks for Lamb behind her fathers desk, the desk that used to be his. He's not there.
*****
The diner isn't crowded. She sits in the middle booth. She watches the door. "Honey?" the waitress is waiting for her to order. "Short stack and an orange juice."
Lamb isn't here either.
She sips her orange juice and watches the door, waiting.
*****
Weevil has agreed to fix the dents in her car for less then the body shop would charge. She walks to the beach, taking her shoes off when they start to hurt. She won't find Lamb here and she's not looking. She just thinks about what's happened, knowing she'll never figure this mystery out. She picks up a rock to skip.
Then she sees it on her hand: "Madison is blonde."
She barely has time to register the car as it comes sailing towards her.
*****
She wakes up, her head in Lilly's lap. "Oh Veronica Mars, you and your bad boys," she sighs dreamily. She's glowing. Lilly helps Veronica stand up. Lamb is standing next to her, dressed as the sheriff again. The hole in the back of his head is gone. He takes her hand quietly, neither of them acknowledging it.
"You were my unfinished buisness, the only person who missed me. I fucked you over when I should have helped you."
"So you crashed my car?" She rolls her eyes at him.
"Hey it's not my fault I'm this good looking. And that you drive the way that you look." He pauses for effect. "Like a bimbo."
Veronica clutches her chest. "Wow. Do you write your own material because that.....that was just amazing!"
They're walking together. She stops for a minute and looks back at Lilly. "I thought this was supposed to be a happy ending."
He shrugs and looks at her.
"Close enough."
*****
She's in the hospital, for the second time in two days. She looks at the date on her forms and she starts to cry for the first time in ernest. Keith is sitting in a chair reading a book. He gets up and holds her. "What is sweetie?"
"He's been dead for two weeks today."
Keith looks at her quizzically. "Who?"
"Lamb. I'm sorry, but I miss him and I know that I shouldn't and that he was a bad cop and a jerk, but he was good too and everyone is forgetting that, like it never happened. I'm sorry Dad!" She keeps crying, thinking of Lilly, fading away and Lamb, fading away like they never exsisted.
And Keith isn't mad at her, he tells her it's okay and that maybe, they can go to the funeral if she wants and meet his parents if she wants or not talk to anybody if that's what she needs. He understands why she misses him, he's known how she felt since before she did. She is, after all, his daughter. And now she can sleep, even when he's gone. Because she doesn't have to miss him all the time anymore, because Keith is missing him with her.
FIN