A Kiss Before Dying (8/10)
Title: A Kiss Before Dying (8/10)
Rating: R for language
Summary: 15 year old Veronica has never been kissed and Lamb makes her a promise.
Characters/Pairing: Veronica/Lamb, Keith
Spoilers: will eventually be through entire series but AU from 3X14
Word Count: 1276
Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars or the phrase ‘A Kiss Before Dying.’
A/N: This chapter brings us into 3x14
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After Valentine's Day and the night Veronica and I spent together two days afterward, I started being nicer to Keith and even let him into the investigation of the Dean's murder.
In truth I was happy to have the assistance, he had a better rapport with the staff at Hearst than I did and having him involved was making things easier for me. But things weren't just good on a work level, personally our relationship was beginning to almost slightly resemble the one we had pre-Lilly's death. We'd started actually getting along almost and I was thrilled.
But for some reason I still couldn't shake the feeling that he knew I had ulterior motives. I'd always wondered if he knew how I felt about her when she was younger. Sometimes the way he'd smile at me or even just speak to me would raise my suspicions, but he never said anything and he never had a problem with her spending time alone with me. And let's be fair here, I was in my early to mid 20's and she was in her early to mid teens, so if he had known…well let's just say I'm surprised that I still had the equipment needed to make love to her like I had, now on more than one occasion.
But whether or not he knew didn't matter, because she was all that mattered. I was doing what she asked, I was keeping my promise and I was succeeding.
The next thing I knew it had been a month since Valentine's Day and I'd hardly seen her at all other than that one night at my apartment. I would only get to see her for a few seconds on days when she would bring both Keith and I, shocker, lunch. I never even had time to sneak out and steal a kiss, but it didn't matter, seeing her was enough and I knew it was only a matter of time before we were official. We were so close.
In fact it wasn't until the day we got a tip about Steve Botando that I saw her for more than a minute or two.
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I'd walked into my office to grab my gun and she was sitting in my chair waiting for me, I'd smiled at her and she beamed at me.
I closed the door quickly and ran to her, pulling her into my arms and kissing her passionately as she wrapped her arms around me. "Hi, this is a nice surprise."
She smiled and kissed me again. "Thought you'd like it, I've missed you. Do you have a couple of minutes? I was hoping we could talk about..."
There was a knock at my door and we flew apart as it opened and Keith poked his head in. He looked only slightly surprised to see her there and caulked his head questioningly at Veronica before turning back to me. "Did you want some back up Don?"
I nodded. "Yeah, that would be great."
He nodded back. "Ok, I'll see you outside." He closed the door without a second glance and immediately she was back in my arms.
"You have to go don't you?"
I kissed her again. "Yeah, I do, I'm sorry. Come over tonight? We can talk then."
She nodded against my lips. "Ok, I'll be there waiting for you."
I laughed, she had a key, that made so much sense. "I knew I hadn't left that door unlocked."
She smiled impishly and moved back. "Be careful."
"I will."
She went to walk away but I grabbed her hand pulling her back to me. "Hey, I love you."
She giggled a little and kissed me, tugging on my bottom lip slightly. "You too Deputy."
I kissed her one last time before she left my office and I ran to catch up with her father.
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I was distracted, all I had on my mind was Veronica and that last kiss we shared back in my office. Even Keith had noticed the fact that my head was in the clouds.
We'd just arrived at the house and had pulled over when he looked over at me and smiled. "She must be something really special."
I almost choked it caught me so off guard. I turned to him with a total deer in the headlights look and he just continued to smile at me. I had to remind myself that he didn't know who it was, just that it was someone and when I finally regained to ability to form words I just smiled. "Is it that obvious?"
He nodded and chuckled. "Yeah, it really is." He paused for a second and smirked. "Anyone I know?"
Fuck, I was actually pleading with my mouth to listen to my brain and just not say anything. But of course it didn't listen. "Um, yeah." Fuck. Great Don, why don't you just tell him that you could give him a detailed description of every spot on her body that makes her moan, gasp, sigh or spontaneously cum while you're at it. I so had a death wish.
He didn't look angry or curious, so that was good. Honestly he looked more amused than anything and I was really expecting 20 questions and then a bullet to the groin, but I got nothing of the sort. All I got was. "Well I'm happy for you. I hope it works out."
Keith Mars was happy for me? And he wanted things to work out for me? What the fuck…
I really almost told him then, I wanted to, I really did. But I couldn't, that was something that Veronica and I would have to do together. We would have to talk about it and decide on the right time or place to break the news.
Of course I was getting ahead of myself. I didn't even know yet what she'd wanted to talk about and I knew that a real relationship was probably still a long time coming, well at least I thought so. She'd seemed really happy, maybe the wait was finally over for us. But on the other side of that, she did ask me to play nice with him and telling him the truth was the same as playing nice, wasn't it? And, if she wasn't ready to go public, I couldn't help but think that getting him on my side would give me a leg up where she was concerned.
It was that thought that almost had me turning back to him and telling him everything, well almost everything, but the whole 'I'm in love with your daughter' thing would have been the prominent confession. But I didn't. Instead I just smiled and responded with a simple. "Thanks, so do I."
After that we headed into the house, but I was still distracted.
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I shouldn't have gone in, I should have let Keith and Sacks go. I knew my mind was somewhere else but I didn't pay attention and just continued my trek through the house.
And then it happened.
I didn't see him or hear him.
I heard Keith yell my name…it just wasn't in time.
I felt the impact and the pain and I heard the gun shots and Keith's and Sacks' voices.
But I wasn't thinking about it, the only thing on my mind was Veronica and that last kiss.
And as everything went dark, I had one thought.
At least she kissed me before I died.
It's 1 year, 7 months, 1 day, 16 hours, 3 minutes and 7 seconds post 18th birthday when time just stops.
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