Okay, after the intervention of CloudyDream I edited this first chapter!

Okay, the other day I read this story, "Do you remember?", It was good but it didn't respect canon as much as I would have liked. The author wrote that she was inspired by this song "Do you remember – The Summer Obsession". It's a beautiful song and inspired me too. So this is my own story.

I warn you, I'm Italian and this is my very first English LONG fic so if you'll find errors please write it in the review.

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A Promise

Timeline: After the episode "Betty and Veronica" but before of all the mess with Abel's daughter.

Summary: After Logan finds out that his mom was really dead, the situation in the Echolls house gets very bad. Aaron takes out his anger on his son and the whippings get more vicious and frequent.

Meanwhile, Veronica finds out a new information that turn upside down her world and make her remember of an old promise made to one of her best friends so many years ago.

1. Do you remember?

Logan was late for his journalism class, after four hour of class, in which he was obligated to sit on a very uncomfortable chair, he was thinking of skipping the rest altogether.

Yesterday his daddy dearest had whipped him again after he had answered at his question with a sarcastic comment and Aaron hadn't liked it. His back was killing him.

He was in the corridor, walking toward the door that lead to the parking lot, when he heard someone sobbing in a empty classroom.

He thought for some second to ignore the sound, but something made him turn around. When he looked in the classroom the sight that welcomed him was not a good one.

Veronica Mars was the one crying.

Without a second thought he opened the door and went to her.

"Veronica?"

She stopped to sob instantly and looked up to him.

"What do you want, Logan? Come to make fun of me?" she asked, standing up.

"No," Logan answered.

She stared at him for a long time.

"What happened?" he asked, after a while.

In the past weeks their relationship had started to change, even though they weren't the best of friends. The anger and bitterness of the past weren't there anymore.

"I don't wanna talk about it," her answer was short and maybe a little harsh, but Logan could see that she wasn't angry at him.

"Ronnie, I know that I wasn't here for you for the past year and half but you can trust me like I trusted you with my mom."

Veronica thought about his answer.

In the past year and half Logan had made fun of her at every occasion but he never betrayed her most inner secrets. Even when he was most angry at her he never used her secrets to hurt her, not the truly important ones.

"Ok, but not here," she took his hand and lead him to the parking lot, toward her LeBaron.

Logan followed her without a question and got in the car. She drove toward Dog Beach, parked in her usual spot and walked towards the ocean with Logan at her side.

The beach was empty, there wasn't a living soul around them. Veronica sat down and Logan sat beside her.

"What's up?" he asked after some minutes of silence.

"Do you remember Shelly's party? The one after Lilly's death?"

"Yep..."

"Well, I don't," she said with a sad smile. "I was there to show to all the 09ers that I didn't care for their gossip. Someone gave me a drink. It was drugged. I passed out near the pool and the first thing I remember was waking up in a strange bed the day after without my panties, there was blood on the sheets and when I tried to get up I was incredibly sore," Logan went pale and Veronica could see that he was trying to not cry.

"You were raped?"

Veronica simply nodded.

"But why you didn't report it?"

"I did, Lamb laughed at me."

She could see that Logan first thought was to go to the sheriff's department and beat up the bastard.

"Don't," she stopped him before he could think of standing up.

"I don't understand, Ronnie. You could have proved it! You could have gone to the fucking hospital..."

"Yeah? And after? Even if there was proof of the... the rape, what would happened? At the party there were only 09ers. They would have paid some SOB of a lawyer and got out of the situation with a slap on the wrist and I would had become the slut who lied," tears were running on her cheeks.

Logan's heart broke in that instant. It was true. But what was really killing him was knowing what he did that night to her, directly and non.

"I'm so sorry, Veronica. O God, I didn't know, I swear, Ronnie," he started to sob uncontrollably.

"What?" she asked confused.

"I had the stuff, Ronnie, but I swear I wasn't the one that gave it to you. I'm so sorry."

She looked at him with disgust in her eyes and slapped him with all her strength.

"I'm so sorry..." he said again.

"Why did you have drugs on you? You wanted to drugs someone?" she was clearly disgusted by the thought.

"No, I swear. It wasn't a good period of my life, our life, and I did some very stupid shit. I wanted to have fun, forget my life. So when I went to TJ I brought some GHB. I had two doses. One that I gave to Tad and the other that I split it in half. One for me and the second one I gave it to Duncan. He was like a zombie and I wanted him back, for a night. The dose wasn't enough to take him down, I know cause it was like I was buzzed.

I'm so sorry, you seemed only drunk and I saw you with some 09ers near the pool. They were giving you drinks and made you kiss Shelly. I was so angry at you, I wanted to humiliate you so I did some body shots on you."

"What happened after?" she felt disgusted and angry.

"Duncan came to you rescue. He made us leave. It was the moment I gave him the drugged drink. After I found some chick and I went away with her."

"You saw me?"

"No, after the body shoot no," she could see that he wasn't proud of himself.

"I'm sorry, Veronica. If I had knew..." he looked at his hands. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't made ok for everyone to hurt you, if I stood by your side... I'm so sorry."

Veronica sighed. She wasn't proud of his actions, but he didn't drugged her and he didn't raped her. He humiliated her with the body shots but she could see that he was truly disgusted by his past actions.

"Logan, you're not my favorite person right now, but I know you and I know that you wouldn't hurt me that way."

Logan looked her in the eyes and she almost could hear him saying that he was truly and deeply sorry.

"I believe you, Logan. I'm not saying that it was your fault, you didn't raped me," she lifted her hand to his cheek and whipped away his tears. "You weren't on your best behavior but you can't take all the fault, ok?"

Logan nodded but couldn't stop the tears. They stayed in silence for a while, crying the sorrow out of them.

"Why were you crying at school? We got a little sidetracked with all the confessions," he said, trying to lift the mood.

"I was early for journalism. Duncan was in the class, writing on his PC. Someone from the direction asked him to go to Clemmon's office. He didn't see me. He left his PC there. I opened it, I know his password. He was writing on a sort of diary," she smiled but Logan could see that wasn't an happy one. "I wanted to read what he remembered of the day of Lilly's death. I was scrolling backward and I found an entry dated the day after Shelly's party. It was him. He found me in a room alone. I came around and told him I loved him. We kissed and started to take each other clothes off. He wrote that he know I was drunk but he couldn't stop himself. I think that after some minute I passed out because he wrote that I didn't said anything after... he fell asleep with me. The morning after he woke up, he remembered what happened and was disgusted," Logan tried to stop her but she went on. "He wasn't disgusted by what he did, he still thinks that that wasn't rape, only an error because he thinks that I'm his half-sister, Logan. That why he broke up with me. Celeste told him that there was a good chance that Jake was my father because at the time of my conception he and my mom had a relationship."

Logan was without words. His best friend had dumped Veronica because he thought that she was his sister, but when he and all the 09ers started to treat her badly he hadn't said a thing.

"How can I go to school tomorrow? He'll be there, he took my virginity even knowing that I could be his sister! Every time I'll look at him I'll see it. How can I avoid him? We have two classes together and in these past weeks we were trying to became friends again!" Veronica hugged him and Logan flinched away. She stopped and looked him in the eyes.

Without giving him time to stop her she lifted his shirt and found out his new set of wounds.

"Logan!"

He sighed and let her examine the bruises and the cuts.

"Your dad's behavior worsened..." she whispered.

"Yeah... you know, with my dad at home from work... now he has more time to spend with me," the sarcasm dripped from his words.

"I'm sorry, Logan, I didn't noticed it..."

"You are sorry? I'm the one that fucked up with you and you are sorry for something that you can't control?" he was stupefied.

She smiled at him and shrugged.

"What can I say... Is the way I am."

Logan smiled too and hugged her.

"We are a fucked up duo."

"Yep..."

They stayed in silence for sometime, watching the gulls that flew over the ocean and some surfers that riding the waves.

"Do you remember that promise?" Veronica whispered her question without looking up at him.

"Yes, I do."

"Maybe it's time."

"Are you serious, Ronnie?" he asked stupefied.

"Yes, I'm serious. We need to. Your dad might kill you, Logan. Your mom is not around anymore to try to calm him, Trina doesn't give a shit of you and my dad isn't a sheriff anymore. We need to go."

"But your dad..."

"He will understand," she stopped him. "And is not like we'll go away and never come back. We'll come back after yours birthday, when your dad can't touch you anymore."

"Ronnie, I don't want you to run away for me," she shook her head.

"It's not only for you, Logan. I need it to, I need time away from Duncan, from Lilly's case, from the backstabbing people that give me shit all the time at school."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, Logan,"

"Ok, we'll go."

A.N. This is the first chapter, hope you liked it. if you find mistakes please tell me. This way i can improve myself and correct my work :P

Leave some review pretty pleasee?

This chappy had 1812 words, next one will be a little on the short side.

Spolier... in the next chapter we'll se the promise they made and why they didn't act on it till now...