Drunk Logan

Disclaimer: The characters depicted in this fanfiction belong to Rob Thomas and his creative team at The C.W./U.P.N. The story is my own creative work and my intention is to pay homage to the universe they created, not to profit from it. If I owned these characters, I would be much nicer to them.
A/N: There is a severe lack of LoVe fan fics out there right now. I am in no way an experienced writer. I started this because the talented people out there weren't feeding my VM obsession...you get stuck with me. I will say that I love S1 and the morph from hate to LoVe. This is just another spin on the same old story. Please let me know what you think.

Chapter 1

As Veronica was wading her way through the drunk 09er's, she couldn't help but laugh at herself. There was a time in her life when she thought that this was great. It was the highlight of her week when her, Lilly, Duncan and Logan were drinking and dancing the night away with their friends.

Now it just repulses her. Unfortunately, she did agree to help out a girl at school, Lexi, who wanted to know if her boyfriend, Jack, was cheating on her. Okay, truthfully, she was hired by one of the random 09er bimbos who wanted to know if her boyfriend was cheating on her. Most likely, Lexi just wanted to feel justified about hooking up with some guy at a college frat party last week, but that's beside the point. Veronica could care less. She is being paid to find out information. Nothing more, nothing less.

This party was the perfect setting. Lexi was "out of town" for the weekend, leaving Jack unsupervised and ready for his close-up with the camera, Veronica's camera to be more exact.

Dumped again...cheated on again. As much as he tried to ignore it, he had known that Lilly wasn't all that faithful. Sometimes she would pick a fight with him and cause a big scene just so they could break up long enough for her to indulge in whatever new guy had caught her eye. Other times, she wouldn't even go through the trouble of breaking it off. She would just become distant with him and be unreachable when he would call her at all times of the day and night. Logan figured that Lilly was just too full of life. She was this amazing light with endless energy who really was too much for just one person to handle. Even in her friendships, it took him, Veronica and Duncan just to keep up with her.

Then there was Caitlin. Not only was she cheating on him, but with someone like Chardo. He didn't have money or power or status of any sort, unless you counted local low-rent hoodlum as status. Caitlin wasn't Lilly. Caitlin needed Logan. Certainly not for love, he knew that, but she wasn't the Queen of Neptune High like Lilly had been. She needed Logan for the status and he didn't mind the fringe benefits that came along with that, although, she really was just too skinny. He was never able to fully enjoy sex with her, feeling that he could break her at any given moment.

Logan couldn't figure out when his life had gotten this way. What was it about him that made it so easy for girls to cheat on him and treat him like crap. He had really gotten himself worked up by the time Duncan came to pick him up for the party. They didn't talk much on the way there, Logan was too wrapped up in his thoughts.

When they entered the house, they began heading to the kitchen where the bar was set up. Duncan saw Veronica sitting in a corner just out of notice. He really had been looking forward to a night of just forgetting about her and seeing how great she looked was not helping his quest. He decided he didn't want to deal with it.

"Logan, you know, I'm just not into this tonight, I'm leaving. You can find a ride home, right?" Duncan said, knowing that his friend was the King of Neptune High and would have people begging to be his chauffeur for the night. Logan just nodded to him, not saying anything, and continued toward the kitchen.

A few minutes later, he found his buddies gathered around the keg. He was very emotional, but was trying to hide it as he stood around with his friends while they were drinking and talking about the chicks they were planning on banging at the end of the night.

Dick could tell that something was off with Logan and being Dick, just couldn't leave it alone. He piped up, "Logan, dude, you're already smashed, aren't you? You're supposed to wait until you get here to start drinking. You decide to have your own little party, or something?"

Logan thought about his friend's inquiry for a minute. What was he going to do, cry to all these guys about how nobody loved him? No way. So, he decided to just go along with it and began to really play up being drunk.

"You know how it is, man. Got to get the most out of my party years!" Logan tried to sound as though he couldn't be happier about his situation.

Veronica had stationed herself in a corner that allowed her to stay mostly out of sight while being able to see where most of the kids were dancing and keep an eye on the keg at the same time. That way she would be able to follow Jack's movements, keeping an eye on him on the dance floor and during his drink breaks. So far, it hadn't helped. Jack hadn't done anything yet that spelled out "Kodak moment."

With her location, she was able to learn a few things about her classmates, though. She had seen Madison coming out of the bathroom with Sean Fredrick. She was reapplying her lipstick while he was adjusting his zipper. Of course, Veronica got the distinct pleasure of watching her leave the bathroom and head straight for the bar that the keg was at. Madison picked up a Diet Coke, but before she could drink it was interrupted by Dick's tongue in her mouth.

"Dick, what the heck?" Madison screeched as she pushed him away angrily.

"What, I can't kiss my girlfriend now? Gees, can't you take that stick out of your butt for one night?" Dick was yelling after her as she stormed off.

Veronica bathed in the glory of Madison and Dick's relationship. Okay, maybe it was more of the fact that she got to bathe in the knowledge of where Madison's mouth had been immediately preceding her interlude with Dick's tongue. Dick deserved no less.

While still enjoying the replay in her mind, Veronica was pulled out of her thought's by Dick's annoying voice. When she looked over to the group of guys she noticed that Logan had joined them. 'Great, look who showed up. Even better...he's already drunk off his butt. Hopefully I can avoid him. I definitely am not in the mood to put up with Logan's crap tonight, especially not "Drunk Logan's crap.'

Next thing she knew, there were kids running everywhere yelling something about the cops.

''Oh great, the cops are breaking up the party. This night couldn't get any better!' Veronica started to make her way to the door when she ran right into someone. She would have fallen, but was caught by none other than the boy she was set on avoiding all night. Luckily there was no time to waste or to trade insults. They both stayed quiet and continued to head out the door.

Logan heard the other kids yelling about the cops and rolled his eyes. 'Of course, I'm here for a whole 15 minutes and it's time to leave.' Logan started to make his way outside when he almost ran over a petite little blonde. He was shocked when that little blonde looked up and he realized he was looking into the eyes of none other than Veronica Mars. 'What is she doing here? She hasn't been to one of these in months. Well, no time to harass her now, but I'll think of some way to mess with her at school on Monday.'

As soon as he made his way out of the house, it hit him. He let out an exasperated groan. He had forgotten that he needed a ride home and he hadn't told any of his friends. That might be why, when he looked around, he was seeing all of his friends cars drive off, leaving him stranded. Just then Veronica brushed by him. 'Well, if I'm going to do this, I'd better really turn on the drunk act,' Logan thought to himself.

Veronica had finally made it to her car and just as she was about to turn the key, her passenger door opened and a very intoxicated Logan stumbled into her passenger seat.

"No, no way, Logan. Get out! Get out now!" She was now yelling because he wasn't moving at all. Then, he turned to her and a smirk slowly spread across his face.

He blinked slowly and slurred as he spoke, almost acting surprised that she was there. "Ronnie! Hey, what are you doing here?" He let his eyes wander around the car making sure not to focus them too much on any one thing.

"What am I doing here? This is my car. What are you doing here? No, wait, it doesn't matter. I told you to get out, Logan." Veronica was fuming now. Not only was she not able to avoid Logan, but now he was in her car and wouldn't budge. By the scene playing out in the front of her, with the police beginning to fill the yard, Veronica knew she wouldn't be free of Logan very soon. She had to get out of there if she didn't want to have to explain to her dad why she was partying it up with the 09ers. She was pulled out of her thoughts when Logan leaned in front of her and pointed out the window.

"Looks like we're going to be having a chat with the cops if you don't get this rust bucket moving." He chuckled so that she wouldn't know how anxious he was. He still wasn't sure if she would give in and give him a ride home or if she would stay there and face the cops just to spite him.