This is the Safest Place You've Found (Veronica Mars fanfic)
Title: This is the Safest Place You've Found
Rating: PG
Pairing: LoVe
Disclaimer: I'm poor, I own nothing, yadayadayada.
AN: I wrote a more lovey, less angsty one. And no, I don’t know why I feel the need to write VM fics like this. Title from Snow Patrols “The Lightning Strikes”
Summary: “We are pages of a journal, ripped out and rearranged, haphazard and yet whole.” Veronica POV
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…This is the Safest Place You’ve Found…
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I.
We are pages of a journal, ripped out and rearranged, haphazard and yet whole.
What came before and comes after we can pretend doesn’t matter, but we won’t, because everything had led us to each other, and we’ve never been shy about hard truths.
(this is the secret i cannot deny you)
I will be here when everyone else has gone.
I will hold you even if you hate me.
Burn the seas and paint the forest black for life gone early, but I will never turn away.
II.
It’s 2a.m. when you call me, drunk and half-crying, but I roll out of bed and drive to pick you up.
You can’t go home, not like this, not with Aaron Echolls as your father, so we drive. Time and distance and sea air fill our lungs and if we’re going out we’re going out in style.
We don’t talk, and the radio is silent, and when we stumble out onto the cold sand on the beach you kiss me, and I let you.
Tonight we are two against the world.
I will never ask you for forever, because we both know nothing lasts.
(i would save you if i could)
All of us need to be saved.
III.
The damsel in distress and the knight in shining armor. We’ll trade off who plays what, we’ll sing a lullaby to the old gods and bring Duncan back to life.
It’s too late for you, Lilly.
We’ll save ourselves last. Hands reaching across the divide that we let widen, but we will find each other.
Nothing need end tonight.
Nothing but yesterday’s grief.
Logan, stay with me tonight.
(i will ask you anything at all)
IV.
Fingernails digging into your palm, and you won’t meet my eyes, won’t answer me.
Lilly wouldn’t have wanted us destroyed.
Your eyes are too dark, but I won’t look away.
I don’t make promises I can’t keep.
(i always loved you more than i should)
The only thing I’ve proven is that I can equal you in strength, that we are equal in pain, that we will never look back without grief and guilt.
There is only forward.
There is only the road ahead.
And I will be there next to you.
V.
We are waiting on a sentence delivered, a case closed, a door shut, a reign ended.
We are waiting on an end to start anew.
No more waiting, Logan.
Tomorrow starts right now.
Everything we have ever been, torn up and thrown back together and it’s left to us to carry on.
Books scatter from my arms, and you stop to pick them up. You take my hand.
I kiss you and you let me.
I have always trusted you with truth.
Everyone has scars, but we’re done pretending.
(this is the end we’ve been waiting to see)
I never needed forever, I just needed you.
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Finis
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AN: More fluffy hopefully? Hugs, Wolfie