A Kiss Before Dying (10/10) Parts One and Two
Title: A Kiss Before Dying (10/10) Parts one and two
Rating: R for language
Summary: 15 year old Veronica has never been kissed and Lamb makes her a promise.
Characters/Pairing: Veronica/Lamb, Keith, Sacks
Spoilers: will eventually be through entire series but AU from 3X14
Word Count: 4750
Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars or the phrase ‘A Kiss Before Dying.’
A/N: This is the final chapter of the story and it is very fluffy in parts....you've been forewarned.
Here are the links to the first 9 chapters in case you need to catch up!!!
Chapter One http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/51777.html
Chapter Two http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/52892.html
Chapter three http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/53632.html
Chapter Four http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/53976.html
Chapter Five http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/54742.html
Chapter Six http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/55408.html
Chapter Seven http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/56051.html
Chapter Eight http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/56402.html
Chapter Nine http://community.livejournal.com/veronica_lamb/57021.html
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It's like they were on repeat in my brain. All the most important moments.
("You can't do that to me. You can't die on me. You're not allowed to die on me."
"You either."
"I won't."
"Promise?"
"Of course.")
("Veronica, I promise you that someday someone will kiss you. And if they do or don't, I promise that I will kiss you before you die.")
("I love you, Veronica Mars."
. "You too, deputy.")
("Everything I do is about you, just remember that.")
("What if I said that I wanted you?")
("Whether it be 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day or week or month or year I'll take it Mars. I will take anything you are willing to give me.")
( "I don't break my promises Mars; you should know that by now. And I don't intend to start anytime soon. This definitely won't be the last time I kiss you and I f I have anything to say about it. We are gonna have this, you and me, a lot more and for a very long time. You're mine Mars, you better get used to it."
("Come over tonight? We can talk then?"
"Ok, I'll be there waiting for you."
"I knew I hadn't left that door unlocked."
"Be careful."
"I will."
"Hey, I love you."
"You too Deputy.")
For the longest time it was just on a loop. But soon there were new ones, ones I didn't remember.
"You can't leave me."
"Please come back to me."
"You promised you wouldn't die."
"You don't break your promises Deputy."
I think it's what brought me back.
No, I don't think. I know.
It was her, her voice, her body, her love.
She brought me back.
When I opened my eyes I felt hazy and groggy, my vision was blurry and I almost felt dizzy. I went to speak but there was something in my throat, it felt scratchy and uncomfortable. It was a long tube. When my vision cleared I looked around. Machines, white walls, antiseptic smell. Hospital. How long had I been here? Why was I here? What the fuck was going on? What… oh my god.
Veronica!
I shot straight up in bed and I must have knocked something loose because suddenly there were doctors and nurses in my room swarming me, poking me, running tests, all talking to me at once and answering only a few of my questions. And then suddenly they left me alone. It was by far one of the weirdest experiences of my life.
I laid back trying to understand it all. I'd been in a coma, they didn't say how long, but they did say why. Fucking Botando.
And they told me that despite the injury, it looked like I might make a full recovery, I might have some cognitive issues and maybe muscles seizures and tremors but that was it. To be honest I felt pretty damn good for having been hit in the back of the head by a baseball bat. A little sore and stiff but that was about it.
Of course that might have had something to do with the fact that all I could think about was Veronica. Did she know? Was she waiting for me at my house still? No, probably not, I was sure someone had told her. Of course I didn't even know how long I'd been in the coma, so for all I knew she'd given up on me completely. She wasn't there, no one was.
Fuck.
At least they took the fucking tube out. I tried to grab for the phone on the table to call her but my hand was shaking and I couldn't reach it. I pushed the blankets off of my legs and was about to try and move them so I could get out of the bed when a nurse walked in and smiled at me. "Oh honey, I wouldn't suggest that."
I stopped and stared a little, she seemed….friendly. Probably mid 40's, brown hair showing a little bit of gray, skinny but not too skinny, but over all she had a warm feel, a typical nurse, like I said friendly. I wasn't so sure how in the mood I was for friendly unless it came in the form of a 5'1", 100 pound, pixie blonde and even then, 'friendly' wasn't the term I would have used for my interest. "Why not?"
She walked over to me and threw the blankets back over my legs. "Well, you haven't moved them in awhile and you probably won't have a lot of control over your muscles for a few days, maybe more, you might even need physical therapy. Best not to move too fast."
I sat back begrudgingly and just watched her as she checked machines and just chatted away. She was already starting to get on my nerves and I was about to ask her to shut up and hand me the phone when something caught my eye. The white board on the wall with the nurse's name, Jeanie, yeah she looked like a Jeanie, doctor's name, paging numbers and the date. The date which in no possible way could be correct.
June 2nd 2007. What. The. Fuck.
I was pretty sure that the last time I was awake it was March 16th. Two and a half months. "I was asleep for two and a half months." I didn't realize I'd said it out loud until she looked up at me again.
"Yes, that's right. We were beginning to think that you'd never wake up. But that girlfriend of yours… she refused to let us think it. They tried to take you off life support twice and she raised hell, got court orders, hired lawyers, she knows some powerful people that girl. She's gonna be so upset she wasn't here when you woke up. She's always here."
Huh? She must have the wrong person. "Girlfriend?"
"Yeah, tiny little blonde thing. Spunky, real mouth on her, but pretty as they come. Could be on the cover of a magazine that one. Vanessa, Victoria. Valerie?"
"Veronica?"
She smiled again and nodded. "Yeah, that's it. She's a keeper, you hold on to her."
Oh my god, I'm dead. Veronica's my girlfriend, she visits me all the time and she wouldn't let them unplug me. This must be heaven. Yep, I was dead. And fuck she was gonna kill me, I promised her I wouldn't die. And I know that didn't make much sense but she's my Veronica Mars, even if I was already dead she'd find a way to do it again. "You said she's here all the time?"
Jeanie laughed a little. "Everyday, all day and night usually. Hardly leaves your side. Sits there." She pointed to a table with 4 chairs. "Does her homework, reads, visits with your friends, her dad's here a lot too. They've all been so worried about you. Nothing like her, but still pretty worried."
Ok, maybe I'm not dead. Maybe I've just slipped into an alternate universe. "Who's they?"
"I think I've heard the names Wallace and Parker a few times and a computer girl."
"Mac?"
"Yeah, that's it and then of course there's the Deputy and Aaron Echolls' son."
Pretty sure my jaw hit the floor on that one. Echolls, visiting me? There was definitely something weird going on. Was I being Punk'd? I was definitely not in the mood for that.
I didn't realize she was still talking until she said Veronica's name. "…only leaves to go to class, though that's over for the year now I think. Showers here and everything. That dresser over there." She pointed again. "Full of clothes for both of you. She even sleeps here most of the time, just crawls right in bed with you. It's probably a good thing you woke up. That's gonna be hard for her soon. Couldn't be too comfortable now anyways."
Veronica has been sleeping in bed with me for two plus months and Keith hasn't unplugged me himself. Holy shit, that just lended to my alternate universe theory. I felt a hand on my arm all of a sudden and realized that Jeanie was taking blood. "So if she's always here, where is she now?"
She smiled again but this time it seemed almost sneaky. "She had a doctor's appointment this morning."
"What kind of doctor's appointment?"
She shrugged and I could tell she was lying when she said. "Not sure, she didn't say." Interesting. "But like I said, she's gonna be so upset when she gets here and you woke up while she was gone. She's been reading to you, talking to you and begging you to come back to her like crazy. I'm not even sure they thought to call her. She should be back soon though."
I just sat there in shock as she kept talking. Maybe I wasn't dreaming. She'd said she wanted to talk to me before the, um accident. Maybe she wanted to tell me she wanted to be with me. It sure felt like that was what she wanted. She'd been so receptive to me and so excited to see me and things had definitely been moving in that direction.
I was completely lost in thought until I heard Jeanie talk to someone else. "Oh, there you are honey."
follow link to part two http://ellavee.livejournal.com/2534.html