Title: With Time
Author: Cole
Pairing/Character: LoVe
Word Count: 1,132
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Veronica thinks over what the murder case has cost her which is more than she ever imagined.
Spoilers/Warnings: 1x22 some swearing
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Veronica Mars. Just some clean old fun while I'm waiting with baited breath for next season!

Authors note: This is my first Veronica Mars Fanfic so let me know if it's all right. I will defiantly continue this story if you guys like it.

With Time

Veronica rolled over in bed trying desperately to get comfortable and unable to. There were factors against her though, it was a typical hot California summer night and air conditioning was something for rich people. There was also the fact that it wasn't her bed or even her home. That probably had much more to do with it than the weather.

Veronica looked around the room that her best friend had given up for her. Basketball posters layered the walls along with occasional trophy. Her eyes kept being drawn to the picture of Wallace with his mom and brother. They looked so normal, whatever normal was.

Alicia had insisted that she had come to stay with them and then insisted that Veronica take Wallace's room. Wallace hadn't even argued a sure sign that something was wrong. But then Wallace hadn't spoken to her very much since they found out. He had just hovered, watching her, making sure she was alright, or as alright as she could be.

It wasn't that the room was uncomfortable it was that she was. It didn't matter much though; she couldn't imagine herself staying for very long. Veronica always had a thousand things going on, she was always moving in a million different directions. It made her uncomfortable to stay in one place to not be able to move freely, to be watched so closely.

She hadn't seen many people since the first few days after they had found out who really killed Lilly. Duncan had visited and they had talked, sort of. Neither really knew how to act now that the sibling barrier had been removed, not to mention the legal problems his parents were having. Neither Duncan nor Veronica was really worried about that though, they were Kane's they would be fine. A fine here, some community service there and it would all go away.

Weevil had visited also just making sure she was alright. He hadn't asked of course but she could tell form the way his eyes looked her over looking for all her bruises the reason he was there.

The one person that had affected her the most was of course Logan. He had come over as soon as he heard not even caring that it was the middle of the night.

"I was hoping it would be you." Veronica smiled but then stopped, seeing the devastated look on Logan's face.

He was standing in front of her in the same clothes he had been wearing the day before and he reeked of alcohol but that wasn't what caught her attention. Logan's face looked pale and drawn but even that didn't compare to eyes. They stared at her hard and desperate begging for the truth, begging for comfort.

Veronica immediately wrapped her arms around him. Logan buried his face in her shoulder. She had no idea how long they stood like that before he pulled away to look her over, his eyes searching her, making sure she was alright.

"Did he hurt you? The radio… It said he… hurt you." Logan's eyes landed on her face were her forehead was sporting quite the bruise.

Veronica brought her hand up to it trying to cover it. "Most of them are just from when I crashed my car. They'll heal. I'm fine, really."

"You're fine? Well you look like hell. What about your dad? Is he fine?" Logan yelled.

"The doctor said he'll be fine in time." She told him quietly. "Logan… I'm so sorry… I know I hurt you."

Logan didn't say anything instead he leaned in close to Veronica bringing his hands to her head and gently kissing her forehead where her bruise lay. After a moment he stepped back and looked at her. "You told me you trusted me, and you didn't, you don't. I don't think you know how to trust."

Veronica tired to say something, anything but there was nothing to say because it was the truth. Instead she just watched as Logan walked away.

"I used to think that solving the case was the key to our happiness. Solve the case and my reputation is restored. Solve the case and your mom comes home. Solve the case and you go back to being a normal teenage girl."

It was less than a year ago that her dad had said that and even with everything that had happened in the year and a half after Lilly had died Veronica couldn't believe that she had been still naive enough to believe that everything would be fixed by solving the case. Well she had solved the case. Murderer in jail. End of story. Cue the trumpets. Except that wasn't the end of the story, nothing had worked out like she had thought it would.

Her mom come and gone taking with her the fifty grand that was suppose to put her through college. Well she was done with her. As the old saying went "Fool me once same on you, fool me twice shame on me."

Her dad's reputation hadn't just been restored; he was the misunderstood underdog sheriff that never gave up in his pursuit of justice. Sheriff Lamb had of course put his own personal spin on it saying Keith Mars was the best Sheriff Neptune had ever had and it had been such a sad day when he was voted out." Her dad was practically a saint but there would be no recall election this time.

As for being a normal teenage girl? That would never happen, at first because when all the statements had been made. Aaron Echolls in jail and the Kane's out on bail it was just in time for the story to break. Veronica Mars social pariah was now the girl Aaron Echolls tried to kill. Best friend to Lilly Kane, the girl he had killed. How did she figure it out? Was it true she was sleeping with Logan Echolls? Was she sleeping with Aaron Echolls like Lilly had? The questions and rumors made Veronica's head spin.

Of course all that had been before Keith Mars died from complications from his injuries, So much for the doctor who had said he would be fine with time. Now that's what they were saying Veronica needed, time.