Who Am I? Logan/Veronica 3/?
Title: Who Am I 3/?
Author:Brandee
Pairing/Character:Logan/Veronica
Word Count:2,024
Rating:PG
Summary:AU, A twist on the what if Lilly had lived idea... Logan and Veronica outcasts together, yeah that's the idea...
Spoilers/Warnings:Season 2
A/N: Big huge thanks to my awesome beta Bklyangel for all her wonderful help!
Chapter 1, Chapter 2
As they walked down the hall Veronica could see people gathering to whisper. She clutched tighter to her books and was surprised when she felt Logan’s arm tighten around her. Why did her locker have to be so far away she wondered as they made there way through crowds of people. She heard the whispering, some people calling her names she was sure Lilly had whispered in their ears. Other’s just pointed and stared; she really wasn’t sure which annoyed her more.
“Echolls and Lilly’s clone? Dude when did that happen?”
“Wonder how long it’s been going on?”
“Her hair? What happened to her hair?"
“They’re both… like so pathetic! I heard Lilly totally ditched them, she’s way better off without them! Logan’s dad is a total psycho.”
“Oh totally! And I never understood what Duncan Kane saw in her"
“Uh hello isn’t it obvious?”
“Enough of this.” Logan finally spoke stopping in the hall. Both sides of the hallway were filled with people who couldn’t keep their eyes off of them.
“Logan?” Veronica whispered, before he removed his arm from her side and stepped forward.
“Geez I know you people have no lives but come on! You have seen two people in love before haven’t you?” He spoke loudly causing everyone in the hall to freeze. He took time to look around at everyone, making sure they all knew he was speaking. Then he turned back to face Veronica and threw her a wink.
Veronica coughed at his words but she could see by his smirk he was far from done. “Logan!” She hissed as she looked down at the floor wondering if there was anyway it could open so she could just disappear.
“I want everyone here to know that I, Logan Echolls, love Veronica Mars!” He spoke lifting his arms in the air. His voice was proud and the smile on his face was larger than life. Logan was actually enjoying his performance. He was after all the son of a has been movie star. Acting was in his blood and he planned to make use of the one thing he had inherited from his psychopathic father. “That’s right you heard me!”
“Oh my…..” Veronica whimpered to herself feeling the blood rush to her cheeks. She looked around and saw mouths gapping. This was not her day, not her day at all.
“Now carry on children, there is nothing for you to see here.” He spoke making hand movements as to usher everyone away.
He looked around to realize that everyone was frozen in place, their jaws on the floor. “Huh that used to work for me.” He muttered as Veronica suddenly grabbed his arm and yanked him down the hall and into a small storage room that only held two copy machines and a few old printers. She shut the door behind her and looked up at him with large eyes.
“If you wanted to be alone, all you had to do was ask.” He winked.
“What was that?” She questioned, not amused by his comment, “What did you just do?” Her voice almost squeaked out the last sentence as she threw her arms up in the air. “Do you know that they’re all going to think now? They’ll think that you and me… that we’re… LOGAN!”
“We’re what Veronica?” He purred watching as she rolled her eyes and tapped her foot nervously. “Having our way with each other in the storage room right now?” He laughed. “I had to do something; it’s not that bad. It’s not like anyone actually believes that we’ve got the warm fuzzys for each other. You, my tiny friend, need to relax.”
“What I need is to wake up from the nightmare that is my life!” Veronica shrieked. “It’s one thing to let Lilly wonder what’s going on, but to tell everyone in the school that your in love with me? People will believe it, and they’ll tell other people who weren’t here to see and then they’ll believe it. Everyone will believe that we have some weird thing going on, and before we know it people will be saying that Duncan dumped me because I was cheating on him with you!”
“Well you could do a lot worse.” He smirked.
“Logan!”
Logan tried not to laugh, in fact he actually turned his head while she was rambling hoping he could hold back the laughter that was trying to explode all through him. He really didn’t want to, but some things couldn’t be helped and before he knew it he was laughing so hard he was doubling over. He wasn’t sure if it was all her wild hand gestures or the horrified look on her face. It could have been a mixture of those things combined with the cute way she spoke during her mild freak out. Veronica Mars was definitely adorable when she was ranting; he just wondered why he had never noticed that before.
“Stop laughing at me!” She instructed crossing her arms against her chest. “It’s NOT funny Logan!”
“No it’s hysterical.” Logan spoke trying to compose himself. “You think too much, that’s your problem, you overanalyze everything and it leads you to nothing but worry and torment. What I just did was nothing, you know me Veronica, I do these things all the time. People expect it from me; it’s the Echolls way of coping.” He shrugged. “So what if a few mindless nitwits believe that you and I are in love, it doesn’t matter.”
“Now, are you done with your rant?” She asked with a sigh, “Because I’m pretty sure the bell rang already and we’re pretty much late for class.”
“The bell rang?” Logan questioned. “Hmm didn’t hear it.” He shrugged. “Oh well, guess we should get to class then huh?”
“Ummm I’m going with yes on that one.” Veronica nodded.
“I’ll go first; you can follow in a few.” He motioned toward the door.
“Fine.” She murmured.
“See you after class Ronnie my love.” He smirked. “And please try not to think so much.”
“Don’t think in class, got it.” Veronica smiled. “I’ll just tell dad when I bring home the F on my test that Logan told me not to think!”
“He’ll be so proud.” Logan laughed.
“Get to class Logan!” Veronica ordered.
“Yes ma’am.” He spoke waving as he backed away from her and put his hand on the doorknob.
“And Logan thanks.” Veronica smiled. “For everything.”
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Veronica hated sitting alone. She hated the feeling of eyes peering at her and people whispering about things they knew nothing about. She had dreaded lunch all day, and it was pretty much everything she had expected it to be. “Where’s Logan?” She muttered to herself looking around. When did she become so dependent on Logan Echolls? She hated feeling so vulnerable, but the situation with Lilly had made her weak. She had been watching Lilly and Madison laughing and talking and part of her was jealous. She knew she shouldn’t be, but still, Madison as her replacement? Please.
“I come bearing gifts of pizza and my delightful personality.” Logan’s voice suddenly rang out. “Sorry I’m late darling; I hope you didn’t miss me too much.”
Veronica looked up at Logan and smiled, “It better have pepperoni.” She spoke looking at the pizza box. There was relief written on her face at the mere sight of Logan Echolls. Suddenly she wasn’t alone and that made her very happy.
“Of course.” He nodded sitting down. “And how has your day been going?”
“Dick and Sean gave me the spit-wad treatment during History class.” She frowned. “It took me forever to get all those things out of my hair.” She cringed.
“I got whacked in the back of the head by a basketball on the way out of gym.” He shrugged. “Still not sure what genius pulled that one,” He muttered touching the back of his head as he winced. “But it was someone with good aim.”
“Fun times.” Veronica frowned.
“Absolutely!” Logan chimed his voice bordering on disgust. “Anything else happen?”
“A couple people actually asked me what happened in the storage room.” She spoke rolling her eyes. “Apparently, to some people, making out in there is hot.”
“Because it is,” Logan snickered. “So that’s it?”
“Oooooh!” Veronica spoke with a grin on her face. “I found out a lot of people actually dislike Lilly!”
Logan almost laughed at Veronica’s words. Could she really be that naïve? Even he realized most people disliked the 09ers. Sure most people wanted to be one, but he knew exactly what the other side of the school thought about him and the others. He wasn’t stupid; in fact he actually didn’t blame them.
“Nooooo.” He spoke with a fake gasp. “You mean they don’t realize that the Kane’s own us all?”
“Guess not.” Veronica spoke shaking her head. “People thought it was cool that I stood up to her.”
“So you made friends?” He questioned.
“I didn’t say that,” Veronica sighed. “Just that they appreciate the gesture.”
“So it’s still just you and me?” He laughed. “Sorry about that.”
“Logan, have you talked to Duncan?” Veronica suddenly questioned out of no where. Her eyes went over to the table where her ex-boyfriend sat and she frowned. “He isn’t mad at you is he?”
“He isn’t showering me with love.” Logan shrugged. “I suspect mama and papa Kane have instructed him to stay away from the likes of me.”
“And of course he’s listening.”
“He is Duncan.” Logan nodded. “Pity I always liked the lad.” He smiled honestly.
“He’s your best friend! This is all just crazy.”
“Speaking of crazy have you met my father? The great Aaron Echolls? It’s also possible that my dear friend Duncan has yet to separate me from his sister’s mentally unstable lover.”
“Do you always use sarcasm when things are going wrong in your life?” She questioned tilting her head slightly.
“Yes.”
“Is there a reason?”
“My therapist once said it’s an avoidance tactic.” He spoke watching as Veronica rolled her eyes at him.
“You do it all the time!”
“I have a lot I want to avoid.”
“Maybe I need to learn how to be more sarcastic.” Veronica sighed looking over at Lilly’s table. “Think you could teach me?”
“Veronica, there are a lot of things I would love to teach you.” Logan whispered his voice low and sexy as he rested his hand on Veronica’s, “Sarcasm, yeah that’s not one of them.”
“Do you ever quit?” Veronica laughed.
“Nope.” Logan chuckled, “Isn’t this what friends do?”
“Actually, I’m more accustomed to painting nails and shopping.”
“Shopping? I can shop!” Logan declared. “I have a remarkable fashion sense,” He spoke proudly. “I do however draw the line at painting nails.”
“Can’t win em’ all I guess.” Veronica shrugged with a laugh. “Like you’d actually go shopping with me.”
Logan smiled, “I would, for a price.”
“And that would be?”
“A video game marathon at my house, I need a little competition.” He smirked.
“Those creepy fighting ones?” Veronica questioned with a pout.
“Yes, those.”
“The ones that I totally suck at?”
“Again with the yes,” Logan nodded. “And man do you suck at those.” He laughed.
“So how would I be competition?” Veronica questioned thinking it over in her head.
“Ok, so actually it would be for my own sick amusement. You’re so bad, it’s just funny.”
“You really know how to win a girl’s heart.” Veronica mumbled.
“I try,” Logan laughed, “So do we have a deal?”
“I was joking about shopping.” Veronica spoke.
“Well I wasn’t.” Logan shrugged. “My calendar is pretty much empty right now. You know other than the occasional trip to jail to visit dear ole’ dad.”
“Well then I guess you’ve got yourself a deal.” Veronica smiled.
“So it’s a date,” Logan spoke and then suddenly realized his wording, “Between friends, a date between friends.” He managed, all the words piling out at once.
“Logan?” Veronica smiled.
“Yeah?”
“You’re cute when you stutter.”
Author:Brandee
Pairing/Character:Logan/Veronica
Word Count:2,024
Rating:PG
Summary:AU, A twist on the what if Lilly had lived idea... Logan and Veronica outcasts together, yeah that's the idea...
Spoilers/Warnings:Season 2
A/N: Big huge thanks to my awesome beta Bklyangel for all her wonderful help!
Chapter 1, Chapter 2
As they walked down the hall Veronica could see people gathering to whisper. She clutched tighter to her books and was surprised when she felt Logan’s arm tighten around her. Why did her locker have to be so far away she wondered as they made there way through crowds of people. She heard the whispering, some people calling her names she was sure Lilly had whispered in their ears. Other’s just pointed and stared; she really wasn’t sure which annoyed her more.
“Echolls and Lilly’s clone? Dude when did that happen?”
“Wonder how long it’s been going on?”
“Her hair? What happened to her hair?"
“They’re both… like so pathetic! I heard Lilly totally ditched them, she’s way better off without them! Logan’s dad is a total psycho.”
“Oh totally! And I never understood what Duncan Kane saw in her"
“Uh hello isn’t it obvious?”
“Enough of this.” Logan finally spoke stopping in the hall. Both sides of the hallway were filled with people who couldn’t keep their eyes off of them.
“Logan?” Veronica whispered, before he removed his arm from her side and stepped forward.
“Geez I know you people have no lives but come on! You have seen two people in love before haven’t you?” He spoke loudly causing everyone in the hall to freeze. He took time to look around at everyone, making sure they all knew he was speaking. Then he turned back to face Veronica and threw her a wink.
Veronica coughed at his words but she could see by his smirk he was far from done. “Logan!” She hissed as she looked down at the floor wondering if there was anyway it could open so she could just disappear.
“I want everyone here to know that I, Logan Echolls, love Veronica Mars!” He spoke lifting his arms in the air. His voice was proud and the smile on his face was larger than life. Logan was actually enjoying his performance. He was after all the son of a has been movie star. Acting was in his blood and he planned to make use of the one thing he had inherited from his psychopathic father. “That’s right you heard me!”
“Oh my…..” Veronica whimpered to herself feeling the blood rush to her cheeks. She looked around and saw mouths gapping. This was not her day, not her day at all.
“Now carry on children, there is nothing for you to see here.” He spoke making hand movements as to usher everyone away.
He looked around to realize that everyone was frozen in place, their jaws on the floor. “Huh that used to work for me.” He muttered as Veronica suddenly grabbed his arm and yanked him down the hall and into a small storage room that only held two copy machines and a few old printers. She shut the door behind her and looked up at him with large eyes.
“If you wanted to be alone, all you had to do was ask.” He winked.
“What was that?” She questioned, not amused by his comment, “What did you just do?” Her voice almost squeaked out the last sentence as she threw her arms up in the air. “Do you know that they’re all going to think now? They’ll think that you and me… that we’re… LOGAN!”
“We’re what Veronica?” He purred watching as she rolled her eyes and tapped her foot nervously. “Having our way with each other in the storage room right now?” He laughed. “I had to do something; it’s not that bad. It’s not like anyone actually believes that we’ve got the warm fuzzys for each other. You, my tiny friend, need to relax.”
“What I need is to wake up from the nightmare that is my life!” Veronica shrieked. “It’s one thing to let Lilly wonder what’s going on, but to tell everyone in the school that your in love with me? People will believe it, and they’ll tell other people who weren’t here to see and then they’ll believe it. Everyone will believe that we have some weird thing going on, and before we know it people will be saying that Duncan dumped me because I was cheating on him with you!”
“Well you could do a lot worse.” He smirked.
“Logan!”
Logan tried not to laugh, in fact he actually turned his head while she was rambling hoping he could hold back the laughter that was trying to explode all through him. He really didn’t want to, but some things couldn’t be helped and before he knew it he was laughing so hard he was doubling over. He wasn’t sure if it was all her wild hand gestures or the horrified look on her face. It could have been a mixture of those things combined with the cute way she spoke during her mild freak out. Veronica Mars was definitely adorable when she was ranting; he just wondered why he had never noticed that before.
“Stop laughing at me!” She instructed crossing her arms against her chest. “It’s NOT funny Logan!”
“No it’s hysterical.” Logan spoke trying to compose himself. “You think too much, that’s your problem, you overanalyze everything and it leads you to nothing but worry and torment. What I just did was nothing, you know me Veronica, I do these things all the time. People expect it from me; it’s the Echolls way of coping.” He shrugged. “So what if a few mindless nitwits believe that you and I are in love, it doesn’t matter.”
“Now, are you done with your rant?” She asked with a sigh, “Because I’m pretty sure the bell rang already and we’re pretty much late for class.”
“The bell rang?” Logan questioned. “Hmm didn’t hear it.” He shrugged. “Oh well, guess we should get to class then huh?”
“Ummm I’m going with yes on that one.” Veronica nodded.
“I’ll go first; you can follow in a few.” He motioned toward the door.
“Fine.” She murmured.
“See you after class Ronnie my love.” He smirked. “And please try not to think so much.”
“Don’t think in class, got it.” Veronica smiled. “I’ll just tell dad when I bring home the F on my test that Logan told me not to think!”
“He’ll be so proud.” Logan laughed.
“Get to class Logan!” Veronica ordered.
“Yes ma’am.” He spoke waving as he backed away from her and put his hand on the doorknob.
“And Logan thanks.” Veronica smiled. “For everything.”
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Veronica hated sitting alone. She hated the feeling of eyes peering at her and people whispering about things they knew nothing about. She had dreaded lunch all day, and it was pretty much everything she had expected it to be. “Where’s Logan?” She muttered to herself looking around. When did she become so dependent on Logan Echolls? She hated feeling so vulnerable, but the situation with Lilly had made her weak. She had been watching Lilly and Madison laughing and talking and part of her was jealous. She knew she shouldn’t be, but still, Madison as her replacement? Please.
“I come bearing gifts of pizza and my delightful personality.” Logan’s voice suddenly rang out. “Sorry I’m late darling; I hope you didn’t miss me too much.”
Veronica looked up at Logan and smiled, “It better have pepperoni.” She spoke looking at the pizza box. There was relief written on her face at the mere sight of Logan Echolls. Suddenly she wasn’t alone and that made her very happy.
“Of course.” He nodded sitting down. “And how has your day been going?”
“Dick and Sean gave me the spit-wad treatment during History class.” She frowned. “It took me forever to get all those things out of my hair.” She cringed.
“I got whacked in the back of the head by a basketball on the way out of gym.” He shrugged. “Still not sure what genius pulled that one,” He muttered touching the back of his head as he winced. “But it was someone with good aim.”
“Fun times.” Veronica frowned.
“Absolutely!” Logan chimed his voice bordering on disgust. “Anything else happen?”
“A couple people actually asked me what happened in the storage room.” She spoke rolling her eyes. “Apparently, to some people, making out in there is hot.”
“Because it is,” Logan snickered. “So that’s it?”
“Oooooh!” Veronica spoke with a grin on her face. “I found out a lot of people actually dislike Lilly!”
Logan almost laughed at Veronica’s words. Could she really be that naïve? Even he realized most people disliked the 09ers. Sure most people wanted to be one, but he knew exactly what the other side of the school thought about him and the others. He wasn’t stupid; in fact he actually didn’t blame them.
“Nooooo.” He spoke with a fake gasp. “You mean they don’t realize that the Kane’s own us all?”
“Guess not.” Veronica spoke shaking her head. “People thought it was cool that I stood up to her.”
“So you made friends?” He questioned.
“I didn’t say that,” Veronica sighed. “Just that they appreciate the gesture.”
“So it’s still just you and me?” He laughed. “Sorry about that.”
“Logan, have you talked to Duncan?” Veronica suddenly questioned out of no where. Her eyes went over to the table where her ex-boyfriend sat and she frowned. “He isn’t mad at you is he?”
“He isn’t showering me with love.” Logan shrugged. “I suspect mama and papa Kane have instructed him to stay away from the likes of me.”
“And of course he’s listening.”
“He is Duncan.” Logan nodded. “Pity I always liked the lad.” He smiled honestly.
“He’s your best friend! This is all just crazy.”
“Speaking of crazy have you met my father? The great Aaron Echolls? It’s also possible that my dear friend Duncan has yet to separate me from his sister’s mentally unstable lover.”
“Do you always use sarcasm when things are going wrong in your life?” She questioned tilting her head slightly.
“Yes.”
“Is there a reason?”
“My therapist once said it’s an avoidance tactic.” He spoke watching as Veronica rolled her eyes at him.
“You do it all the time!”
“I have a lot I want to avoid.”
“Maybe I need to learn how to be more sarcastic.” Veronica sighed looking over at Lilly’s table. “Think you could teach me?”
“Veronica, there are a lot of things I would love to teach you.” Logan whispered his voice low and sexy as he rested his hand on Veronica’s, “Sarcasm, yeah that’s not one of them.”
“Do you ever quit?” Veronica laughed.
“Nope.” Logan chuckled, “Isn’t this what friends do?”
“Actually, I’m more accustomed to painting nails and shopping.”
“Shopping? I can shop!” Logan declared. “I have a remarkable fashion sense,” He spoke proudly. “I do however draw the line at painting nails.”
“Can’t win em’ all I guess.” Veronica shrugged with a laugh. “Like you’d actually go shopping with me.”
Logan smiled, “I would, for a price.”
“And that would be?”
“A video game marathon at my house, I need a little competition.” He smirked.
“Those creepy fighting ones?” Veronica questioned with a pout.
“Yes, those.”
“The ones that I totally suck at?”
“Again with the yes,” Logan nodded. “And man do you suck at those.” He laughed.
“So how would I be competition?” Veronica questioned thinking it over in her head.
“Ok, so actually it would be for my own sick amusement. You’re so bad, it’s just funny.”
“You really know how to win a girl’s heart.” Veronica mumbled.
“I try,” Logan laughed, “So do we have a deal?”
“I was joking about shopping.” Veronica spoke.
“Well I wasn’t.” Logan shrugged. “My calendar is pretty much empty right now. You know other than the occasional trip to jail to visit dear ole’ dad.”
“Well then I guess you’ve got yourself a deal.” Veronica smiled.
“So it’s a date,” Logan spoke and then suddenly realized his wording, “Between friends, a date between friends.” He managed, all the words piling out at once.
“Logan?” Veronica smiled.
“Yeah?”
“You’re cute when you stutter.”